When a person does some corporeal lust, the lust is not regarded as a construction because it is only temporary. When the lust passes away, nothing is left of it, such as eating and drinking, and so forth. But when one learns or prays, this exists after the action, too (Rabash, Notes 690 “This World and the Future”).

Question: What remains after our spiritual action, study, and prayer?

Answer: The overall impact on our relationship system remains. After all, the fact that we were in prayer for unification and uplift is all the impact on the system.

Question: How can we build the right intention so that the system really changes and we correct something in our prayer, in our studies?

Answer: This is what Rabash writes about. If a person means that through his actions and prayers he wants to rise, then gradually this affects the system, and it lifts him up.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/11/24, Writings of Rabash “This World and the Future”

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Question: Is the perception of all the Creator’s actions as rewards one of the spiritual goals?

Answer: In general, yes. The Creator does only good and treats us as His children.

Just as we punish children when we want them to be better and remember some things cannot be done, so does He.

Question: I really don’t want to get punished. What main corrections should I make so as not to suffer?

Answer: Treat everyone around you kindly and pray to the Creator that you want to be closer to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/16/24, Writings of Rabash “Concealed and Revealed in His Providence”

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Entering any world, the period of adaptation to it, the accumulation of initial knowledge with which we further develop, is the same in our and in the spiritual world. It is the same nature.

There is nothing unnatural about it. On the contrary, it is as natural as the development of infants to the level of little people. We are just the same. We have no other way but to learn from them.

Here he lies, just born: people start cooing to him, and he responds; they try to stir him up somehow, and he gradually responds; the adult smiles, he smiles.

He learns literally everything. And in this way, he programs himself from the adult, because in fact he is an empty desire in which there is nothing yet. He needs to be filled with knowledge, skills, impressions, and to create some connections inside. You can make anything out of him.

Similarly, with our desire for spirituality, we free up a certain area for ourselves and say: “This is the area I want to program now and fill with spiritual impressions, not of our world.” And if you want this, you have to act like a newborn baby who hasn’t become a little human being yet.

This is precisely what Kabbalah offers us. And we can do this because you don’t need to be smart here! You just need to understand that in this way you will enter the upper world.

Therefore, it is necessary to consciously go through the stage again that you went through in this world unconsciously when you were born. Nature pushed you there. And now nature demands that you consciously do so, consciously place yourself as a newborn relative to the upper world, and want to adopt all the impressions and properties from it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. We Are Thinking About Our Friend!” 3/11/10

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Question: What does it mean to inform the Creator about an action I do for bestowal?

Answer: You can inform Him about any action you did for His sake. It does not matter that the Creator knows, understands, and accepts your thoughts; when you also inform Him, it stays with you for a long time.

Question: How should I inform Him about my actions?

Answer: Like a friend.

Question: What does a good deed mean in general?

Answer: If you want to bring contentment to the Creator as a result of your action, that action is good.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Action and Thought”

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Question: Why are Reshimot called “the past”? In my perception, Reshimot are what is being revealed to me now. For me, it is kind of the future.

Answer: Reshimot are impressions and records of my past states. They may currently determine my tastes, actions, and choices, but they originate from the past.

Question: I am unaware of the many Reshimot I have yet to discover. So does it mean that I always return and encounter the past?

Answer: Reshimot are the light that was in us and disappeared. Its impressions are called informational, spiritual records.

Question: These are Kelim (vessels) for me. But right now, I cannot use, for example, the Kelim that I do not feel. Am I, as if, expanding my perception to enjoy these Kelim? Is this what I still need to do?

Answer: You still have much to do.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/10/24, Writings of Rabash “Receiving Pleasure from Three Kelim [Vessels]”

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Question: We learn that when my Kelim (Vessels) are corrected, I will see my friends as corrected, right?

Answer: Yes. Everything negative you perceive in the world—people, the group, yourself, or anything else—is yours. These are all your negative qualities.

Question: When my Kelim are corrected, will the light pass through these corrections further, and will something outside also change? Should I see that this is happening?

Answer: Not necessarily, not immediately, and not according to what you want to be corrected. Otherwise, you will be working for a reward.

Question: There is another point; it is said that one who prays for the collective receives correction first. Is there a catch here? Every time I encounter this, it does not sit well with me. I want the correction to be outside.

Answer: Then pray for that.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reward for Work in Spirituality”

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Question: What do the future world and this world mean?

Answer: The future world is the one you do not feel right now, but it will soon reveal itself within you. This world is what you experience at the moment.

Question: It says that the masses can only receive rewards in the world to come, while those who work individually can receive rewards even in this world. What does it mean to work individually, and how can one receive in this world?

Answer: By studying the wisdom of Kabbalah in a group and trying to address the Creator, you do individual work.

With the help of the group, you elevate yourself and address Him. Then, in this world, you receive the reward—the revelation of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reward for Work in Spirituality”

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Question: You often say that spiritual sensations cannot be conveyed and can only be felt. In our world, we understand everything only in relation to its opposite, but in the spiritual world a completely different logic includes everything and all opposites are united.

The problem is that it is impossible to understand or talk about. What should we do with it?

Answer: Just do what you can and ask the Creator to open your heart.

Question: If I have some sense of what truth is, how can this influence my friends to get closer to it too?

Answer: You should pray for everyone, at least for your friends.

Question: If I do this, it would still correct me; then when I am corrected, would I be able to influence my friends correctly?

Answer: Yes, the whole world.

Question: Can there be influence coming from me, even without words, just through my prayer? How does this happen?

Answer: I cannot say how it happens, but it happens even without words, only by virtue of your desire. But it is best with words. We are made so that the more we express our feelings, the more effective they are.

Question: When I express my feelings, they often seem corrupt and impure and bring only harm. I do not know what to do about it. Should I stay quiet?

Answer: Do not worry; the Creator knows what is happening to us and who we are. So do what works best for you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/24, Writings of Rabash “Affliction Precedes Mercy”

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Question: An elder was asked: “What is sadness?” “Being sad means always thinking about yourself,” the elder replied.

How simple it really is, and how complicated it is at the same time. Can a person not be sad?

Answer: I do not know; I keep myself occupied.

Question: You keep yourself occupied, but not to avoid sadness, right? Not for that?

Answer: No. Even if I did nothing, I would not be sad.

Question: Do you ever feel sadness at all?

Answer: No.

Question: Why? Everyone feels it, but you do not.

Answer: I do not let this feeling develop within me. That is the first thing.

Second, I find more information about development than I can absorb or encompass. Because of that, I do not feel sad.

Comment: So you always have horizons—more and more.

My Response: Yes, you could say that.

Question: The opposite of sadness is joy. Can one be joyful all the time?

Answer: No.

Question: So one way or another, should such a movement be there?

Answer: Yes, it is natural for a person.

Question: To reach joy, do you need to feel sad?

Answer: To reach joy, you need to realize that what you have is just ordinary life. Therefore, you cannot be in constant joy or some kind of euphoria. But, in principle, you cannot be sad either. You can be in a neutral state and thus feel that you are floating.

Question: And then there will be joy, and then all these states? Joy will come, and then you float again, and so on?

Answer: Yes, in small doses.

Question: Why does the Creator give us these states, including joy and sadness? Why does He give us all this?

Answer: Without this, we would not be able to notice time at all. Only through these opposing feelings: from joy to sadness, from fear to happiness…

Question: Is that why we feel that time is passing?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So what is time?

Answer: It is the alternation of such feelings.

Question: So is time the alternation of these states?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is that all?

Answer: What else could there be for a person?
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/17/24

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This is the great revelation that will be revealed in full only in the days of the Messiah (Baal Hasulam, The Writings of the Last Generation).

Question: What revelation is Baal HaSulam talking about? What period of time is this, the days of Messiah?

Answer: The time in which we will be able to suppress, annul, our egoistic properties and replace them with the properties of bestowal and love in order to be like the Creator is called the time of Messiah.

This is not a specific time with a date that can now be named, but a period when humanity begins to strive to change itself from the properties of reception to the property of bestowal.

Question: Should a certain mass of people come to this or is it just a few people?

Answer: There must be a certain mass of people who understand that this is necessary.

Naturally, in accordance with this, some external forces will act to push humanity forward, but not those that are influencing us today. We will have to continue teaching Kabbalah so that it will help people get closer to the Creator by means of similarity of properties.

That is, the idea is, in principle, simple. The Creator, who is altruistic by nature, created us as egoists, and we ourselves must want to acquire His altruistic properties.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 7/11/24

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