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How to Move Toward the Truth?

49.01Question: If a lie is wrapped in sweetness and truth in bitterness, why can’t we advance based on these feelings?

Answer: How will you advance? What will pull you forward? You cannot move toward bitterness with your own properties and feelings.

Question: But I cannot move toward sweetness either. Does this mean that through feelings we cannot accurately distinguish truth from lie?

Answer: Yes we can. If you feel that truth is sweet, then you can move toward it. But nothing will help you move toward truth if it is bitter, you will not be able to advance.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/26/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is Truth?”

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What Are We Missing?

566.01Question: Why is it so difficult for us to support each other?

Answer: We do not feel connected to each other. Kabbalah explains that we are interconnected, integral, and in the same system.

Look at the ways in which all misfortunes that befall humanity teach us about integral interconnectedness.

What are people missing today? We have science, technology, everything you could want. The only thing we lack is a good connection between ourselves. It is so obvious! After all, if you look at humanity, what are people occupied with? They have everything except the awareness of how to make their lives normal. Yes, it is just to suffer less, not to mention that we can achieve anything!

The same applies to us in our tens. But why? We know what needs to be done to be correctly interconnected so that I can reveal the upper world in the ten so that my ten transforms into ten Sefirot and I begin to attain all 125 degrees within it.

To leave this world like that, to ascend to any degree as on a spaceship and simply look at this nature as nothing, why don’t we do it? It seems that we have everything, we know everything, we understand everything, there is a place, there is time, there is strength, there is everything.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/20, “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”

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Attack on Egoistic Thoughts

947Question: All day I have been intensely working on the thought of how to ask for my friends in order to bring them closer to the state of Ibur (conception). How can I exert more effort in order to create a real state of attack to reach this level?

Answer: I see no other way than to act on my own, to ask for myself, and to ask for others so that we can all annul ourselves and become one common spiritual body that only thinks about annulling its egoism at the very first stage.

To annul oneself means to fully integrate into each other, to think only about others and not about oneself. In this way, we perform the most productive spiritual action that we are capable of today.

And further, based on the fact that we will go “out of ourselves” and as if entering others, a completely new state will arise—altruistic egoism, which we will apply for the sake of others, not for ourselves. This is what we need to do.

But right now, we really need an attack on our egoistic thoughts and calculations so that all of them are only for the purpose of getting included in others and working as if in the body of our friends, helping them. Therefore, it is said: “Let each one help his friend.” After all, each one cannot ask and pray for himself; only for others.

Question: When we turn to the Creator for our friends, how do we annul our own participation in this?

Answer: When I ask for my friends, I try to make it so that I do not think about myself, as if I do not exist, but only they do. And where is my personal involvement? My personal involvement is only in that I ask for them, that I extend my request on their behalf, but no more than that.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for The convention”

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Conclusions from an Axiom

962.3Question: The Creator has no desire to receive; He created it out of nothing. How can the Creator feel the creation that is only in the desire to receive? How can a creature invite Him into its desire to receive?

Answer: We start from the axiom and then discover: everything a person does concerning the Creator is revealed in relation to Him. There is nothing to hide here.

Question: So does the Creator feel the creation both in reception and in bestowal 100%?

Answer: Of course, because we exist in Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Will to Receive – 1”

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Establish a Connection with the Creator

229Question: I am about to get married soon and I am in such joy that I constantly thank the Creator for this gift. What else can I do to bring Him contentment?

Answer: Ask Him. I am not His secretary or someone especially close to Him. Find out from Him what you can do to bring Him joy and pleasure. Just ask Him that.

Question: You mean establish a direct connection with Him?

Answer: Yes, of course.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Will to Receive – 1”

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The Cure for Fear

528.02Comment: You told a friend that if he feels fear, he should come to the group and the fear will pass. I know this from my own experience. But when I leave the group, the fear returns with new strength.

My Response: Come back to the group again.

Comment: I cannot be in the group 24 hours a day.

My Response: Try to stay connected with them non-physically. Spend some time with your friends, and afterward, you will be able to imagine that you are among them.

Question: Are the states I go through and those the group goes through the same?

Answer: It does not matter. The main thing is that you want to be with them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Turn to the Group for Support

938.01Question: What is the right way to resolve disagreements in the group? Where should we start?

Answer: Start with wanting to replace your current relationship with love.

Question: What is the importance of turning to the group for support?

Answer: By turning to the group you develop your connection with it, and it begins to act on you through the Creator.

This is very important.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/30/24, Writings of Rabash “A Request for Help”

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A Game of Life

294.4Question: In Rabash’s article, “Woe unto You Who Await the Day of the Lord,” it is written that the Creator has no lack, and therefore no desire—only a game. But isn’t the purpose of creation to delight His creatures, isn’t that the Creator’s desire?

Answer: For the Creator, this is considered a game, but a game does not mean it is not serious. It is said that the Creator sits and plays with the Leviathan. For the Creator, it is a game, but for a person, it should be the game of life.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/27/24, Writings of Rabash “Woe unto You Who Await the Day of the Lord”

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Feel the Heart of a Friend

938.02To feel the heart of a friend means that I feel not my own heart but his. I live with his thoughts, aspirations, and intentions so that only they speak within me.

And I have nothing of my own. I have only one desire—to feel theirs.

This is the quality of Malchut, which is called the main Sefira because it receives everything from the first nine Sefirot. Each of us in relation to our friends is Malchut.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for The Convention”

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Veiled Intention

559Question: If a person perceives pleasure egoistically, like a harmful habit he can’t get rid of, and he suffers from the need to enjoy for himself and wants to get rid of this suffering, is this still aimed at his own benefit in order to ease his own suffering?

Answer: It all depends on the intention. Why do I want to get rid of receiving? Is it to make me feel nicer, pleasant, warmer, or more comfortable? Or do I want to stop receiving to be closer to the Creator?

And here, too, there are several questions. How egoistic is your desire to get closer to the Creator? Maybe you genuinely want to pay attention to Him and at the same time a favor.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Will to Receive – 1”

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