Question: You said we must perform actions to cling to the teacher. What other actions can we perform in the ten? We pray, attend lessons, and try to fulfill…

Answer: If you unite with each other and want to gain strength in the connection, with the help of which you can go against your decision, against your ideas, then you can already rise to the degree of faith above reason and thus move forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith and Reason”

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Question: How can we overcome the distance between the calculation of the mind that the Creator is kind and loving and our true feelings in the heart if they are different?

Answer: It will come to you. In the meantime, make calculations above the heart.

Question: Is faith a goal or a means?

Answer: Faith is a means of attainment, of feeling, the Creator.

Question: Not believing your feelings and your knowledge, but seeing and feeling everything through the perception of your friends is faith above reason. What happens to us if we succeed?

Answer: You will form a Kli with which you can ascend to the Creator.

Question: What does the force of faith depend on?

Answer: On your desire for unity in which you strive together toward the Creator.

Question: Who is the righteous of the generation, and how does he manage to receive knowledge directly from the light of Hochma?

Answer: A righteous person is one who reaches such a connection with the Creator when he receives light directly from the Creator, and we all connect to him together.

Question: How do you learn to turn off the first egoistic reaction of the heart?

Answer: Only by prayer. With any words, turn to the Creator to correct your heart.

Question: You often advise the whole ten, but we do not know how everyone heard you. Is the desired state of the ten when everyone has an opinion as we figure out how to implement Rav’s words?

Answer: It does not matter if the opinions are different or the same. The main thing is that you learn to work together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith and Reason”

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Question: When we follow you, we periodically receive the light of knowledge. How can the ten achieve such a state without interruption? What do we have to do?

Answer: Friends in the ten must follow the teacher’s instructions as if they know, understand, and see that this is how we do everything.

Together they support each other and thus follow their leader. Then gradually they begin to understand what they are lacking and how to obtain knowledge within faith so that faith will bring them knowledge.

Question: What should I demand from myself?

Answer: You must demand only one thing from yourselves and the friends: that all of you connect with the group in the center of our circle. From the center of the circle, you would look at the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith and Reason”

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Question: If the Creator is good and does good, then does punishment exist at all in spirituality?

Answer: Of course everything exists in spirituality, both help and punishment. It may not exist in this world, but it definitely exists in the spiritual realm.

Punishment is intended to make us realize that we are obliged to fulfill spiritual conditions for our own good.

For example, if you now lack spiritual importance, then this is a punishment. You should not accept such a situation. If you do not agree with such a thing, you will be able to justify it and rise higher.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Knowledge and Faith”

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Question: In the articles of Kabbalists it is written that there is complete and partial faith. What is the difference between them?

Answer: You do not know what will be revealed to you at the next level, but what has now been revealed in all your Kelim, when they are all filled with the light of Hassadim it means that you are in complete faith.

Partial faith manifests itself when not all of your Kelim are filled with Ohr Hassadim.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reason for the Faith”

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Question: Any object that is perceived by a person as external consists of combinatorics: inanimate, vegetative, animate. All these objects are simply drawn to us like this, but they consist of 613 pixels. And what is the difference between them and the person I see?

Answer: Each person has a different set of desires. That is, there are 613 desires in each one, but in a different arrangement, in a different combination.

Question: But if I see a person outside of myself?

Answer: What do you mean you see him outside of you? In fact, you see him within yourself, you depict him in your feelings. It seems to you that he is outside of you; we have such an idea that supposedly all this exists outside of us. I can touch it and feel it that these objects can affect me positively or negatively from the outside, and all this is inside me. That is the illusion.

Question: Where is the boundary between the fact that I need to perceive the world as a part of myself and as a world that exists separately?

Answer: When you work on yourself and try to get “out of yourself,” this boundary constantly expands. You work on expanding this boundary. You see where the feeling of the world inside you ends and the world that you perceive outside of you begins.

By working on your qualities, on getting out of yourself, on developing ever broader altruistic qualities, fields, you increasingly include in yourself what seemed to you before to be outside of you, clearly feeling it.

It becomes your world. You see everything outside of yourself, and you clearly feel that it is yours, it is within you. And you play with this duality.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World as We Don’t Know It” 1/12/12

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Question: It is written in the sources that we fill the void between us with the greatness of the Creator. What is this empty space?

Answer: We fill such voids in our hearts where we previously felt nothing and never thought that there was something there with the greatness of the Creator.

The Creator grants us the opportunity to fill the empty space by the property of bestowal.

Question: Is it necessary to maintain material emptiness, that is, the desire to be content with only what is necessary in order to correctly realize spiritual emptiness?

Answer: You need to be in balance. A person must have both. One must calmly work with all one’s desires.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Pomegranate”

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Question: We must learn how to use our receiving Kelim for bestowal, but in fact we are the ones who get corrected. In this case, how should we deal with shame?

Answer: Shame is a good quality. It corrects us and gradually turns us in a way that we stop receiving for our own sake.

Question: For me, the Creator is so great that for His sake I am ready to bestow to everyone. But at the same time, I no longer want His revelation.

On the contrary, I am ashamed if He reveals Himself. I want to hide before Him because He is so great in my eyes. What is this faith called?

Answer: It is called simple faith; when you do not desire anything other than all the opportunities that the Creator gives you to help others, to support and encourage them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reason for the Faith”

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Question: Among your students, there are certain layers: the so-called “light cavalry” and the “core.” Each occupies their own place, and no one should replace anyone else. But how can a person determine their place?

Answer: They determine it themselves. In the process of studying, everyone finds their place.

It is like, for example, balls floating in a thick layer of liquid, where each ball occupies a certain place according to its specific gravity, density, and the density of the liquid. One floats on the surface, another closer to the bottom, and so on. Similarly, the students are distributed according to the properties, qualities of their desire, and intention.

And none of them interfere with each other. They are all in a relatively suspended state: above is the Creator, below is our world, and they are in between these two boundaries. Therefore, it depends on each individual at what level they will hang in this thickness. Just as when a hot air balloon is heated, it rises, and when it cools down, it descends.

Comment: But every person by nature wants to be the best.

My Response: Yes, that’s true. But the thing is, they must work against their egoism, and that’s not so simple. Not everyone can be the best. To achieve that, one must apply a lot of effort directed against oneself.

Question: Still, everyone wants to become a great Kabbalist. But does it depend not on the person, but on their properties?

Answer: Yes and no. Even throughout history, there have been Kabbalists who initially had very few abilities for this.

We’re not talking about such great Kabbalists as the Ari. They are special souls placed from above as cornerstones on the common path of humanity.

But if we’re talking simply about a person, here there are absolutely no limitations for anyone.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Find Yourself?” 1/27/12

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Question: From the egoistic point of view, it seems wrong that building a connection with the Creator and afterward with our friends is easier than the other way around. How do you really build connection?

Answer: Building connection correctly means constantly inspiring your friends to reach a higher state together with them.

Question: So the connection is built with the Creator first?

Answer: There is no need to build anything with the Creator. With the Creator, everything will work out for you anyway. The main thing is to connect with the friends.

Question: The primary sources state that one needs to ask for the Creator’s help. If I ask for help from my friends, does it replace appealing to the Creator?

Answer: Those are not the same thing, but one does not interfere with the other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Pomegranate”

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