Question: Is it important for our progress to scrutinize the nuances of good feelings between us?

Answer: Yes, it is important to clarify these feelings, not just between you, but within yourself. Then you will see that each friend occupies a specific place in your heart.

Question: In my soul I want to love everyone in the group. But as soon as I feel I love everyone, a friend’s ego is revealed and he “drills a hole in the boat.” Should I pray for my correction, my friends, or the whole group?

Answer: Pray for each friend individually, for all of them, and for the entire group. In addition, pray for yourself so you do not harbor negative thoughts about them and will always think well of them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Today – 2”

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Question: Intellectually I understand that all the evil is within me. But how can I reach a state where this recognition causes me pain and I begin to hate the evil? How can I turn the recognition of evil into a feeling?

Answer: Ask the Creator to open your eyes so that you begin to feel whether you are in reception or bestowal or coming closer to Him or moving away from Him. Pray for Him to do this.

Question: How can one transform from impure to pure, from wicked to righteous? Essentially, I am wicked. Even if the Creator corrects me, I will still remember that there was evil within me.

Answer: That is true. Try and you will see the result. You do not have to wait for it for thousands of years; you can achieve it in your current life.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/24, Writings of Rabash “A Near Road and a Faraway Road”

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Question: What is the difference between forming a union of love and connection in the material world and in the spiritual?

Answer: A material union is based only on material benefits and promises, while a spiritual union depends solely on a shared aspiration toward a common goal.

Question: So does this mean there is no light from the Creator when people form a union in the material world?

Answer: No, there is nothing from the Creator. For that, there are lawyers, judges, and so on. They can be consulted.

Question: If our group has the sole desire to attain love for the Creator, but we are still in the material world, how can we determine that we have formed a spiritual union in the group and that the Creator is the guarantor for us?

Answer: The Creator is not a guarantor for anyone. We must be guarantors for each other. You should thoroughly study the article on mutual responsibility.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Today – 2”

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Question: Can we ask for elevated spiritual things even if we are not yet similar to the Creator?

Answer: The thing is that when you engage in this, you draw upon yourself the upper light, which corrects and elevates you.

Question: Can it be said that a vessel of bestowal is compassion, which can attract the light of Hassadim and can the light of Hochma be received in a vessel of compassion?

Answer: No, that is impossible. These are entirely different levels of desire. Level two is a vessel of bestowal. Level four is a vessel of reception.

Question: Eternity is adhesion. It is written in TES that if there were no line (Kav), creation would be merged with infinity. Why must the light enter through the Kav step by step and gradually?

Answer: This is necessary for the development of creation so that it becomes similar to the Creator and capable of receiving the light from Him and then giving the light back, thus becoming equal to the Creator. So, gradually, we will begin to perceive all of this correctly.

Question: Is there a difference between organizing a common desire in a ten, a group, or all of Bnei Baruch? Is it one vessel or different vessels?

Answer: These are similar vessels, but it all depends on the number of units in each vessel—whether a ten, a group, or a global vessel. There is, of course, a difference.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Run My Beloved”

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Question: In several articles Baal HaSulam analyzes and criticizes the communist system, which, in principle, corresponds to a primitive communal system, that is, life in communes. He says that we will return to this state anyway. How can you explain this?

Answer: The thing is that in primitive communities people were governed by completely different forces. People felt equal and no one had any surplus.

What they extracted from nature in the form of food or plants, they used immediately.

They had no desire to hoard because everything would spoil, and if there was any excess, they would simply give it to the common fund.

According to Kabbalists the kind of social system that should exist in the last generation is that everyone works, everyone understands that they depend on everyone, and no one runs away from their responsibilities; on the contrary, everyone strives to contribute what they can.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 8/8/24

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Question: How can we properly revive the state of connection between friends?

Answer: You must strive for the same state you are already in and for even greater ones. Then you will feel that your connection is not broken but that it is being restored more and more.

You must constantly maintain the connection between you and your friends and between you and the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Today – 2”

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A person must try not to want anything, and that his only desire will be to bestow contentment upon the Creator and not for his self-love, but for the love of the Creator. This is a great effort because it is against the nature with which he was created (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 545, “Laboring and Finding“).

Question: What is this state where a Kabbalist is always in the desire to bestow?

Answer: It is a state where the Creator is great in their eyes. Because of this, they want to bestow to Him. This is our attitude toward someone who is above us.

Question: What does it mean: I want to bestow to Him? Do I look for some ways, or do I do this through connection with the ten?

Answer: In any way possible.

Question: But isn’t this some kind of intimate, tangible connection with someone you feel?

Answer: At first it may not be so personal or intimate.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/11/24, Writings of Rabash “Laboring and Finding”

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Question: What is the difference between love and friendship between friends?

Answer: The difference is significant. Love binds people very closely. And friendship can be at a distance, cooler, because they do not need to be directly connected to each other.

Friendship and love are difficult to define although the differences between them can be pointed out. Love is when I feel such a connection with another person that we cannot be separated; we are as if glued together. Each of us understands friendship well because many people have such relationships.

Question: How do you maintain friendship between friends in a state of hatred?

Answer: We must not allow ourselves to be in a state of hatred; we must always maintain a connection to the point of love. And if hatred does appear, you need to convince yourself that it is necessary to check whether this feeling is correct or is just an indicator to the person, like some kind of disease that you need to get rid of as soon as possible.

Question: How do you get rid of hatred? What is the most effective way?

Answer: I think that there is no a single recipe for all cases. But you can remember the good days you had, how you loved each other, forgave each other, wanted to feel closer, and now you lack precisely this.

We must understand that love can be achieved with a only few in the world, so it must be protected. Even friendship is not just about having a warm relationship because it comes and goes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Today – 2”

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Question: Why do we need connection and mutual guarantee? We came to the group, love each other, and unite; it seems to last forever.

Answer: So stay in the state that it seems to you. What do you want from me?

People come to me who, despite getting together and organizing something together, feel that they are still not connected.

Question: Does the feeling that they cannot unite with each other remain with them forever?

Answer: You have to turn this feeling into the quality of connection, bestowal, and love, and then immerse yourself in it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Here Today – 1”

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Question: What is the state when the Creator gives you the importance of spirituality as if it is more important than life? What should we actually ask for?

Answer: Ask that we have the strength to overcome all obstacles, to begin to feel the Creator, and to adhere to Him.

Question: We know from your example that from the very beginning you had a tremendous importance of the Creator, and this helped you fully dedicate your life to spirituality. Is this something that the Creator gives, or is it something that can be earned or built?

Answer: It depends on both the Creator and the person, meaning on the person’s request and the Creator’s response. You must ask.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/15/24, Writings of Rabash “What to Ask of the Creator—to Be His Servant”

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