Question: The main prayer is the only one and it is different everywhere. Somewhere it is to have complete faith; somewhere it is to love your neighbor as yourself or to be as one person with one heart, or to raise Shechina from the dust. Can a student somehow connect all these things with himself?

Answer: In general, yes. They are the same thing.

Question: In the ten, do we need to come to an understanding of what is important for us and where we are going?

Answer: In the ten you must come to the understanding that all your aspirations, intentions, prayers, and requests should be aimed at asking the Creator to connect all of you and fill you like a vessel. Then, as the components of this vessel, you will reach your purpose.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/24, Writings of Rabash “A Person Builds a Building”

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We have only one prayer to pray—to raise the Shechina [Divinity] from the dust, and by this all the salvations will come. (Rabash, Notes 36 “Who Hears a Prayer”)

The Shechina in the dust is our common desire to unite with each other in order to reveal the Creator in this unity according to our qualities.

“Shechina” comes from the word “Shochen” (Dweller), which is called the Creator. Therefore, the state of the general desire that remains in a state of breakage, in a lack of understanding of where and how it is located, is called Shechina in the dust.

But gradually we unite the disparate desires, raise them, exalt them in our eyes, and the Shechina as if rises from the dust, and is able to contain the Creator in its new state.

In this case, the Shechina becomes the Temple, and it is filled with the light of the Creator or, it is possible to say, the Creator Himself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Who Hears a Prayer”

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Question: You said that if there is no desire to bestow to the Creator, bestowing to friends is impossible. On the other hand, we say that it is from bestowing to the creations that we transition to bestowing to the Creator. So is the effort to love a friend without a prior desire to bestow to the Creator an incorrect effort?

Answer: It is incorrect. What are you directing your effort to? As it is said: “The end of an action is in its initial thought.”

Therefore, you should first direct yourself toward an action for the Creator, and then consider how you can begin this action.

It is quite possible that you will need to start by working with friends and then draw closer to bestowing to the Creator.

Question: What helps us build the correct intention?

Answer: An appropriate attitude toward friends. If you desire to give to them, this will lead you to the correct intention regarding the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/29/24, Writings of Rabash “He Who Comes to Purify Is Aided – 1”

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Question: The Hisaron (deficiency) of a sinner is in justifying the actions of the Creator, but what is the deficiency of a righteous person?

Answer: The Hisaron of a righteous person is in fulfilling the actions of the Creator.

Question: Can the feeling of being righteous be given by certain forces that further hinder a person from transitioning to faith above reason?

Answer: On the path, anything is possible. The main thing is to not  be afraid and keep moving forward, keep asking, keep questioning. When will I receive it? When will I have strength? When will I have knowledge? When will I be above reason? And so on.

Question: If the right line represents a righteous person and the left line represents a sinner, then what is called the middle line?

Answer: It is when I work above reason.

Question: What is the proper feeling in a person’s egoism after he has nullified himself before his friends?

Answer: It is the feeling that you have created a place where you can feel the Creator.

Question: Sometimes, after annulment, there is a feeling of being lowered and sometimes of inspiration. Are both correct, or is one preferable?

Answer: Annulment is best.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/24, Writings of Rabash “Righteous and Wicked”

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Question: A question about prayer. When you want to ask for something, do the words have any limits? How can I expand my request?

Answer: First of all, you can talk about this with your friends. Secondly, there are texts written by Kabbalists that are considered canonical prayers. There is nothing particularly special about them, just requests to the Creator for various kinds of help, identification of connection, development, and so on.

Any such appeal develops a person if they reflect on these words written by the Kabbalists. All prayers were written by great Kabbalists.

More than 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem, there was a group of Kabbalists called the Great Assembly (Knesset HaGadola). Before their time, there were no prayers at all because everyone knew how they should ask the Creator to establish their connection with others. Therefore, there was no need for any prayer books.

But these Kabbalists felt that people were on the verge of falling from the spiritual level, so they wrote a collection of prayers. This is what we use now.

What are these prayers about essentially? Only about the connection between us. We need to understand these words. But in general, they praise the Creator as the quality of bestowal, love, the highest quality of nature. They talk about how He does not forget us and strives to bring us closer to each other so that He can dwell within us. And we try to realize all of this, to bring joy to our parent just like good children. That is all; there is nothing else.

So you can use these prayer books. But, in principle, prayer is what a person feels in their heart. That is the first thing. Secondly, prayer is also considered correct self-assessment. After all, the verb “to pray” (Lehitpalel) means “to judge oneself.” This is what a prayer is all about, that I judge my actions, the circumstances I find myself in, and how I can rise above them.

It is important to understand that an ascent follows an unbreakable rule: “From love for the creations to love for the Creator.” It is only through this sequence and no other. We can appeal to Him only if we have a ten, only if we strive to gather all of humanity into a ten and offer the Creator the opportunity to fill them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”

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Question: In one of your answers, I heard that the reward will come as a desire to bestow. But my evil inclination finds it painful to bestow. Does this mean there is no reward for me yet?

Answer: You must understand that the desire to bestow in a person is directed from above, and in some way it raises one to the level of the Creator. Therefore there is no need to reason, based on our earthly standards here.

Question: I understand that you are talking about spiritual bestowal. But how can I stop expecting this reward? Or how can I know there is some kind of connection between me, the ten, and the Creator?

Answer: To do this, one must include oneself in the group and the group must strive to unite with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/24, Writings of Rabash “One Who Restrains Himself in Strife”

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We are at the final stage of the development and correction of humanity called the last generation. This is a special mission of the souls that are now undergoing correction and must enter the sensation and revelation of the upper world of the Creator and take all of humanity with them.

Before our time, there were many Kabbalists, but they attained the Creator individually, except for the special group of Rabbi Shimon. There were no other groups at all, just a few individuals who passed on the chain of this knowledge further and further.

Today, there are small Kabbalistic groups here and there working in different ways. Of course, I wish them success since any action is a joint action that awakens the common soul and leads us to complete correction. So individual successes still affect the overall success; therefore, it is very joyful to see the emergence of such groups.

But we are the first group that works for general dissemination within Israel and throughout the world for the sake of all of humanity. We represent, as it were, the brightest part of all souls, called the last generation.

Therefore, new properties are revealed in us according to the conditions we must fulfill to correct the whole Kli—the entire soul of Adam.

So we have a special account with the Creator. But for this, we must expand our ranks and disseminate more and more because dissemination is one of the conditions for our spiritual elevation.

In other words, the group is built in such a way that without dissemination, it immediately narrows and falls. Our whole life is only in dissemination, in growing, in constantly attracting new friends to us, and thus lead all of humanity to overall correction.

Moreover, this process is exponential. So, it does not matter to us how far we are from the goal today, as it seems to us. The main thing is to achieve the goal, and everyone else will gradually join us. They will begin to raise us to the extent that we start to rise.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: Can we feel which actions are prompted by reason and which by faith above reason?

Answer: If we could do something against reason, in faith, we would feel it. But for now, we cannot determine what we should have by faith above reason. Therefore, whatever we do is always within reason.

Question: How does work in faith above reason differ between a righteous person and a sinner?

Answer: A righteous person acts in bestowal despite reason and above reason and a sinner acts within reason when he sees that it is worthwhile to do so. The righteous person gradually develops the intention to be in faith above reason through requests and prayers. He attempts to turn to the Creator, sees that it does not work, and asks the Creator to help him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/24, Writings of Rabash “Righteous and Wicked”

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Question: What should I focus on in my work in the ten?

Answer: Focus on making the ten more precious to you than yourself because it is your spiritual vessel, your soul. Consider how your soul, the eternal spiritual level, should be more valuable to you than your body. The body is the temporary animalistic level, but the soul is the eternal spiritual level and through it you enter attainment of the Creator.

Therefore, the most important thing is to have several friends within whom you feel your soul resides. Let’s say there are a few people, maybe five or six, and in them your soul exists. This is crucial. You feel that without them, you have no soul.

If you constantly depict yourself in relation to your ten in this way, you will soon notice the changes that are occurring between you. It will be the Creator Himself who starts to speak with you in this way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”

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Question: When I think that it is advantageous for me to follow the Kabbalists or that I have no other choice, I immediately fall below reason. How can I constantly stay in a point above reason?

Answer: Engage in study with any intention; the main thing is to study, and later it will change.

During the study, the upper light will influence you, which will gradually transform you.

Question: The ability to tell your body “do it,” and it obeys—is this some special quality? Suppose I do not feel that I can do this. Is this a certain degree in bestowal?

Answer: This is a degree where you receive light from above, and it helps you perform actions in which you do not even feel anything.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/24, Writings of Rabash “Righteous and Wicked”

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