Entries in the 'Spiritual Work' Category

The Power of Purification

239Question: Why is the desire to bestow called the power of purification?

Answer: It purifies our egoistic desire and completely orients it toward bestowal.

Question: Now we are praying out of selfishness. What will help us move on to true prayer so that it comes from the quality of bestowal?

Answer: The Creator gradually, imperceptibly to us, changes our desires and sensations so we move from one part of understanding our nature to another.

In the ten this transition is carried out individually for everyone: for one sooner, for another later, depending on one’s qualities and actions.

However, we do not need anything but an urgent request to the Creator, tenacity, and perseverance.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Those of Little Faith”

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263Question: How can a ten give everyone the strength to act above reason?

Answer: Personal example is the most effective.

Question: When a person overcomes the body and feels joy, doesn’t he come to some measure of the body’s consent to act above reason? How can we go even higher in this case?

Answer: In this case, try to bypass this condition and still go by faith above reason. If not this time, then next time. Or change the basis a bit.

Question: If everything comes from the Creator, what are alien thoughts?

Answer: All our thoughts are alien, except for moving toward a common goal.

Question: How can you share your Hisaron in the ten so your friends will gladly accept it?

Answer: That is why you communicate all the time. Your friends feel and understand you and are permeated with your actions.

Question: What is the active bestowal during workshops, tens’ meetings, and actions for connection?

Answer: It is to support the friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith Is Called Action”

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What Gives the Desire to Ascend?

233Question: I used to think that faith above reason leads to an ascent.

Answer: Of course, that is the way it is.

Question: Then how do you understand that faith above reason is only possible in ascents?

Answer: When you strive to ascend, you have faith above reason. First, there is an ascent, then faith, not the opposite.

Question: Does the ascent depend on us, or do we give only intention and effort, and then the Creator lifts us?

Answer: Yes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Knowledge and Faith”

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Don’t Stray from the Goal

541Question: When we read the articles, I have a growing regret that I cannot go beyond the boundaries of egoism. The text pulls you up because there is a completely different quality of existence. Is regret the beginning of a correct prayer?

Answer: Yes, this is already the beginning. Therefore, one should not leave the smallest awakening, but try to develop it all the time.

Small articles can be read many times a day. And in this way you will not allow yourself to stray far from the goal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Those of Little Faith”

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It Depends on Devotion

562.01Question: In prayer, should we ask for the level of faith and bestowal the Creator wants to give us?

Answer: Preferably. We do not know the level the Creator requires of us, but we can imagine it based on our feelings.

Question: What does this level depend on and how can we present it in order to give the Creator what we are asking?

Answer: It depends on devotion. If you sincerely intend to bestow through your actions, you will start to feel what you are doing concerning the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Those of Little Faith”

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The Essence Of Anger

622.01Question: What is the essence of anger? What is this manifestation?

Answer: Anger is uncontrolled egoism. It absorbs many negative actions and emotions that result in a loss of self-control.

Question: Is there any point in sharing this state within the ten and asking for help in practical work?

Answer: Yes that is very beneficial.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Power of Thought”

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Think about Your Friends

942Question: When should we pray for our correction and when for a friend?

Answer: First pray for your friends and then for yourself.

Question: Besides asking the Creator for a friend, can I help him with the power of my thought?

Answer: Of course you can. It will be better than asking the Creator for him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Power of Thought”

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Absolute Evil and Absolute Good

448.1Question: What does it mean to be in a natural connection with the Creator? What does this give a person?

Answer: This gives a person the opportunity to see the whole world as the Creator sees it, to influence others as the Creator, and so on.

When a person is in some kind of contact with the Creator, it gives him fuel for the next stage called “love your neighbor.” A person receives such an ability and can already love by being in connection with Him.

Question: What is the difference between the altruistic quality of bestowing to one’s neighbor and loving one’s neighbor?

Answer: The altruistic property of bestowing to one’s neighbor is not based on universal laws. It is just that society, as a result of its development, concludes that this is better, more convenient, and safer. Therefore, it accepts this condition or agrees that it is good. But in fact, this property is opposite to our nature.

After all, if we want to come to absolute unity among us, to “love your neighbor as yourself,” we must change our nature. It is not enough for us to say that the law of the Creator is an altruistic attitude toward each other. Everyone needs to be internally convinced that our current nature is absolute evil and that that the similarity to the Creator offered to us is absolute good.
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Questions about Spiritual Work—129

566.01Question: Why did the Creator let us be born in a physical body without a soul? After all, if there were no body, there would be no evil inclination.

Answer: No, the evil inclination is not related to our body, to our flesh. The evil inclination is our egoistic desires.

Question: What does it mean: “I thank You for returning my soul with compassion”?

Answer: It means thanking the Creator for wanting to advance you under any circumstances.

Question: How can we not lose the work that the Creator gives us?

Answer: Engage in it all the time and try to move forward.

Question: If the Creator gave me a chance and a gift to do an action of bestowal and then emptiness comes, what should my work be?

Answer: Ask the Creator to give you more such states.

Question: Can automatic gratitude to the Creator become heartfelt, and how does this happen?

Answer: How this happens, I do not know, but it can happen.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reason for the Faith”

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Help from the Creator

625.02Question: Is it possible to call your powerlessness in front of the evil inclination a punishment?

Answer: It is possible, but it is not necessarily a punishment because the Creator helps you through this.

Question: Which is better to do right now: to ask the Creator for mercy or to be grateful and be glad that He is working with me?

Answer: It is always good to give thanks, but sometimes you have to ask.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Knowledge and Faith”

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