Entries in the 'Spiritual Work' Category

How Do We Build the Top of the Spiritual Ladder?

283.02Our entire work is as “a ladder set on the earth with its top reaching the heaven” (Rabash, Article 10, “Jacob Went Out”).

Question: It says that the ladder stands on the ground; it is clear that this is our desire with which we have a constant connection. How do we build the top of the ladder going up into the heaven, the Rosh?

Answer: First a person faces difficulties, and if he copes with them, he rises. Second, in order to rise, he must solve all the problems that arise with his friends.
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From the 1st part of  the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Jacob Went Out”

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Based on the Purpose of Creation

959Question: On one hand you say that we develop a value for the desired state, and this causes fear and suffering in the current one.

On the other hand you advised us to check what is stopping us and, on this side, to develop the fear of remaining in our current state. In which direction do you need to work more?

Answer: Try to reason not from your egoism, which is afraid of losing something, but from the perspective of how much closer you can get to the goal of creation.

All the states we go through lead us to the goal. There is nothing that is really against it.

Therefore, there is no need to think about any low states, only about high ones, and pull everyone toward them.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/24, Writings of Rabash “But the More They Afflicted Them”

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How to Get Out of a State of Bitterness?

934That the merciful one had mercy on us and showed us our true state, which is bitter, and then we can be awarded salvation and redemption (Rabash, Letter 72)

Comment: After we left Egypt and entered the Land of Israel, we were still adapt to the people surrounding us. We did not try to escape from Egypt and preferred someone else’s work to work for the Creator.

My Response: You prefer foreign work because you stayed in Egypt.

First, you must feel you are in exile and that this buries you in the sand. Then, gradually, by helping one another, you should begin to pull yourself out of the sand, i.e., from Egypt.

Question: What does it mean that the ten agree to go without any conditions, and this is what leads them to real prayer, which the Creator will hear?

Answer: No matter what happens, the ten agree to be together and rise above your egoism together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/24/24, Writings of Rabash Letter 72

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Assemble the Common Puzzle of Souls

264.01Question: When we talk about the shattering of Adam HaRishon‘s soul into 600 thousand souls, do we mean those souls who came out of Egypt and those who are now going to be corrected and are going to the final correction?

Answer: A constant number of souls exist in the world, which need to be corrected. They are broken into parts, corrected, and reconnected into one common part. And so it continues like a puzzle assembling itself.

Therefore, we want to be attracted to a common goal, rise, and together raise several thousand more people related to us. There are more than a few thousand, more like hundreds of thousands. We will soon see that this is what will happen.

Then by uniting more and more, we will be able to get information about our connections. So let us move forward and increasingly feel the movement toward complete correction.

We will reveal what Adam, Hava, angels (Malachim) and so on are because we will begin to reveal the entire system of governance of the universe in the highest form.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/21/24, Writings of Rabash “When Pharaoh Sent the People”

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Receive an Answer in Faith above Reason

237The Romemut [exaltedness, sublimity] of the Creator means that one should ask the Creator for the strength to go above reason. This means that there are two interpretations to the Romemut of the Creator:

When you turn to the Creator to answer the questions arising within you, you learn the correct responses.

Question: What does it mean to receive an answer in faith above reason? The answer would be what you perceive within reason.

Answer: A person can understand the Creator’s answers only at the same, even minimal level, at which the Creator speaks to him, and this is faith above reason.

The Creator responds to their questions, meaning His excitations within them, in any form. There is no condition that He answers only in one particular way. Essentially, the answers come in the form of the upper light. Then we assimilate them in a way we can perceive them both in breadth and depth.

Question: I am doing my best to rise above myself, unite with my friends, and ask the Creator a question from this state, for example, how to act in a particular situation. What does it mean that He answers me? In what form can this be?

Answer: If you tune yourself to the Creator, you will hear His response in the form you can perceive.

Question: Does this mean I have received an answer in faith above reason?

Answer: Yes, depending on how you reveal it for yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/5/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is the Exaltedness of the Creator?”

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The Creed of Kabbalists

219.01Question: You have dedicated your life to disseminating information to the world. What is this dissemination for you?

Answer: It is the dissemination of the methodology for raising individuals and humanity to the level of their highest potential development called the Creator. My creed, my goal, is to tell the whole of humanity about this possibility and explain as simply as possible how to achieve it.

I follow the footsteps of Baal HaSulam and Rabash. The purpose of my life is to create a certain system in which this would be implemented—an international, universal system detached from religions, from everything that can limit a person.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What will Remain after Laitman?” 1/26/12

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Atonement for a Thought

281.01This is so because when discussing the thought, the filth of the serpent will be corrected through the offering that atones for the thought (Baal HaSulam, Letter 10).

Question: What does it mean that offering atones for the thought?

Answer: Offering is the absolute neutralization of what prevents one from taking a step forward toward the Creator.

Question: How can I avoid these thoughts?

Answer: You cannot. Whatever a person goes through, he must go through.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter 10

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The Reason for Appealing to the Upper Force

294.4Then, when he sees that he is powerless to do anything for society, there is room for prayer to the Creator to help him and give him strength and desire to engage in love of others (Rabash, Article 17, “The Agenda of the Assembly”).

As a rule, a person does not have the strength to do something for the sake of others because it is against his nature. We are egoists, inherently focused only on ourselves. And here you must incorporate into your friends, think about them, and envision yourself merging with them.

Therefore Rabash says you must exert efforts, then you will see that you do not have the strength to get closer to them, and then you will turn to the upper force.

Question: It turns out that all this is just to appeal to the upper force?

Answer: Yes, this is important because only from there can you get help.

Question: And why is it arranged in such a way that a person cannot, through his own efforts, achieve the importance of his friends for himself?

Answer: Because we can only exert efforts in egoistic actions. But here, it means rising above egoistic forces into the realm where only altruism, bestowal, and the importance of others reign. All these qualities must develop among us and prevail.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 4/4/24

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Realize Love

942Question: What should I consider the point of no return, that this is my friend and I am going with him to the end until I fully realize my love for him?

Answer: The point of no return is your ultimate goal.

Question: In the process of spiritual work will I always find out if this is the friend with whom I should build love?

Answer: Yes, you can agree with each other that you will go to the end together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/2/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Love of God and the Love of Man“

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Toward a Stable Connection with the Creator

935Question: What does it mean to connect with the Creator in a supernatural way?

Answer: It means that you use everything you have at your disposal, in all your senses.

To strengthen a stable connection with the Creator, first and foremost you must be in a strong connection that leads to unity. To the extent that you are united with each other, the Creator will listen to you; otherwise, He will not.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/5/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is the Exaltedness of the Creator?”

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