Question: How does a person determine whether their pain stems from distancing from the Creator or from lacking fulfillment of desires? After all, there is confusion that occurs in the descent.

Answer: Everyone should integrate with their ten and reveal their reaction to what the Creator does. Then all the friends will have a clearer picture of what is happening to them.

Question: If someone in the ten experiences suffering from a lack of fulfillment, can we build a true spiritual deficiency above this? Or is it the individual work of each?

Answer: No, this can be a group effort.

Question: What should our prayer be about?

Answer: Prayer should always be about coming closer to the Creator. Then suffering will disappear.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/24, Writings of Rabash “But the More They Afflicted Them”

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Question: In the article “Jacob Went Out,” Rabash writes that when a person rises to a higher degree and feels it, this feeling violates the principle of faith above reason. And through violation of this principle, a person is thrown back down.

Is it possible to feel the upper degree without violating the principle of faith above reason?

Answer: Yes, that is how we rise. When we receive information from an upper degree, we try to ascend to it, hold ourselves in faith above reason, and simultaneously receive whatever is possible within reason. And so we continue.

Question: Am I working with a sense of the upper degree but with a sense of where I want to go in the next moment?

Answer: One must feel this since one can understand everything only in action.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Jacob Went Out”

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Question: How can we consciously go through all the states as corrections that bring us closer to the Creator?

Answer: If we relate everything to the Creator, want to understand what is happening to us, and ask Him to bring us closer to Him, then we act correctly.

Question: If we begin to translate all negative states into the idea that He is sending them to us, then is this a correction and not a punishment?

Answer: There are no punishments at all. Correction is not a punishment. The Creator always straightens us up.

The correction of Kelim is a state when, after the work done, in those places where we have experienced troubles, suffering and blows, we feel gratitude and love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/21/24, Writings of Rabash “It Is All Corrections”

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In spirituality, there are no letters, as I have already elaborated on before. All the multiplication in spirituality relies on the letters derived from the materiality of this world (Baal HaSulam, Letter 14).

Letters are a record of the forces that a person must evoke when reading Kabbalistic texts. That is why Kabbalists when they work on texts, relate their feelings to words and letters and at the same time, can change their powers and impact the environment.

Question: What letters do we need?

Answer: We need practically all letters. And there are only a few of them in Hebrew, only twenty-two. It is said that it is the shortest alphabet of all.

Some alphabets include forty-seven letters and close to sixty, but here are only twenty-two.

Therefore, we need to understand what each letter suggests, what it implies, and what combinations of forces are in it. This is very serious.

When a person begins to approach the meaning of the letters, he feels how they are playing in him. And then he reads them differently. He is no longer in a hurry because each letter evokes a resonance, a reaction in him. In such a way, he gradually begins to feel what the text wants to convey to him.

It is said: there is no renewal in the light, but there is creation, that is, when it is necessary to convey movement over the letters, and the form of the higher ones is revealed.

The form of the higher ones is the following degree. And movement atop the letters means that a person, desiring to reach the next degree, forms an intention above his interests, i.e., not for himself.

In principle, we need to connect with letters in our feelings. Then we can understand what the Kabbalists want to convey to us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter 14

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All the sicknesses that I have visited upon Egypt I will not visit upon you” (Exodus 15:26).

Question: In Egypt we feel that we are suffering from illnesses. What do we feel and what do we ask for after leaving Egypt?

Answer: We ask the Creator first of all to heal us from egoism, and everything else is secondary.

Question: But at the moment of illness when it consumes me, how can I see the Creator and direct myself toward love?

Answer: Only with the help of the friends. If they support you, then you will be able to rise above your state to love, to adhesion with the Creator, and to feel the same attitude from Him.

Therefore, the entire group must be in a common intention, directed at the fact that such states are given in order to come closer to the Creator. Then, even if someone goes beyond the intention, they still do not let him stray far.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/27/24, Writings of Rabash “And God Spoke to Moses”

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Question: You mentioned that if the Creator did not send troubles, a person would not need to seek Him correctly. How do you properly contact the Creator over troubles to use them effectively?

Answer: To do this we must rise above all troubles, be independent of them, arouse them one by one, and through this build our states.

Question: What does it mean to rise above and then arouse them?

Answer: You rise above troubles so they do not seem to touch you, and then you awaken them from your spiritual state.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Jacob Dwelled in the Land Where His Father Had Lived”

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We have reason to rejoice! It lies in the fact that we are approaching the point where we can rise above egoistic desire and connect with the desire for bestowal, that is, with the Creator. Then we will receive all the upper light that will bring us joy.

That is how we are designed. Therefore, anyone who wants to attain true joy must connect himself with friends and with the Creator, and from there he will receive the light of joy that will fill him. Joy can be a material matter, and it can be spiritual. It all depends on what desires we fill. With material joy, we fill our desires to receive pleasure. But with spiritual joy, we reveal and fill the desires to bestow. And the difference between these two types of desires is like between heaven and earth.

By receiving spiritual pleasure, we feel ourselves above time, space, and movement. There is no time, no place, no movement, no changes.

We simply rise above matter, above our material world, even above our material selves, and this gives us tremendous strength to continue our journey further toward the Creator.

Let us hope that we all succeed in attaining such spiritual joy.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 3/23/24, Unity Day for Purim, Lesson 1, “The Joy of Unity“

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Question: What should we feel ashamed of before the Creator?

Answer: That He expects one thing from you, but you bring Him another.

Question: How can we feel exactly what He needs?

Answer: Kabbalists write that the Creator desires nothing but for us to love one another. Try to love each other in a way that allows you to feel the state of the Creator.

Currently, He is concealed from you because He does not want to upset you, He does not want to show you how dissatisfied He is with you. But you should behave in a way that your actions could bring Him contentment. Then He will not need to conceal Himself from you, and you will not need to conceal yourself from Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/27/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is, If He Swallows the Bitter Herb, He Will Not Come Out, in the Work?”

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Every moment when I am in the ten, I feel how our connection is strengthening more and more in one form or another. I feel I am moving toward a state where we all will be in the same heart.

And the closer I get to this one heart, the more joyful I feel. I feel the Creator and the whole global soul above our world. That is the feeling we must try to achieve as soon as possible.

We are in constant motion, from the current point to the next, until the end of correction. Kabbalists promise us that we will achieve it.

Therefore, you need to be happy that you are on the path and have a goal in life that is above everything that lifts you to the top of the universe. The state of final correction is prepared for us and awaits us.

We should realize yet how lucky we are. But in fact, everyone has a record in the soul that distinguishes them from millions and billions of people who do not have this in their lives. They will start and end this life without achieving anything. And we, during this life, climb the spiritual ladder from degree to degree.

Therefore, we need to be joyful on this holiday of Purim, which symbolizes all our ascents. I am thrilled that more and more people are joining us daily, and the understanding is growing that we have a lucky ticket.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 3/23/24, Unity Day for Purim, Lesson 1, “The Joy of Unity“

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Question: In the war against egoism, there are situations where my strength is taken from me. I give more strength, but even more is taken from me. Where can I find strength?

Answer: Indeed, you are lying there and cannot do anything. Only friends can come to your aid, lift you up, and revive you.

They can feel you because you interact with them in some form. This means they are connected to you by receiving some signals from the Creator through you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/24/24, Writings of Rabash “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror”

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