Question: What should the quality of our prayer be?

Answer: The quality is very simple; it is from the heart. Open your hearts and the Creator will feel what is in them. Everything is attained only by the power of prayer to unite, to rise, and to kill egoism in us.

Question: How can we literally wrap everyone in one blanket of love and how can we connect everyone with one prayer?

Answer: You should discuss this among yourselves and ask the Creator to join in your request, your prayer. Then everything will work out.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Two Labors”

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Question: How can the sufferings of love for others and for the Creator help us shorten the time of our advancement?

Answer: Through suffering we do not shorten anything. Suffering is not a means for acceleration and correction. Happiness, joy, and unity are the means for accelerating correction.

Question: Even the sufferings of love can help us?

Answer: The suffering of love is very personal. Therefore, it all depends on how a person experiences it and how he correctly perceives it.

Question: You say that happiness and joy are means for accelerating correction. What is happiness for a Kabbalist?

Answer: It is hastening the movement toward the Creator. Being happy means feeling that you are getting closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Love of God and the Love of Man“

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Question: In all circumstances a person reveals that he needs faith. Can we talk about it and somehow transfer it?

Answer: No, transferring the quality of faith from one person to another is impossible.

Question: How can we properly work with the bitterness of egoism in the ten and literally chew it up? And what impressions should we receive to want to ask the Creator for a way out of the ego?

Answer: Show our friends how much the Creator reveals Himself in us as a bitter part of our work. That is how we will reach out to Him.

Question: You said that it is not worth getting stuck in a high state of suffering of love. Where is the right place to be?

Answer: If you love, you cannot dictate what you want, one way or another. The feeling of suffering of love itself determines your state. Let us get closer to it, feel it, and then we will see what we are supposed to do.

Question: How can we determine that access to the upper world is not a substitute of one illusion for another?

Answer: When you enter the upper world, you will see that it is felt with more clarity than our world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/24/24, Writings of Rabash Letter 72

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Question: How do we add faith? Do we do this ourselves?

Answer: The Creator does it, but thanks to the fact that we all together want to increase faith. Each in their our way, but, in principle, together. We want to be in perfect faith.

It is a perfect faith that completely replaces knowledge, sensation, and everything we can receive from the Creator.

Question: How can we help each other achieve a permanent lack of faith that will ultimately replace our knowledge and feelings?

Answer: Friends can show an example and support, and then you will see what you lack to gain complete faith.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/19/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is Greatness and Smallness in Faith?”

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Question: Can we in the ten unknowingly become workers of Pharaoh? Or by being involved in Bnei Baruch, do we have some protection, some guarantee that we will not stray away?

Answer: You have no guarantees. None whatsoever. Even though Bnei Baruch is a unique organization, everyone must constantly examine themselves, examine where they are heading and what they want to achieve.

It is only about each individual’s work. Each one separately.

Question: Can a ten deviate from the path? Have some tens in the world group already deviated, but are unaware themselves?

Answer: Of course such a risk always exists. But at the same time, tens can examine and correct themselves.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Environment”

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Question: What kind of fuel allows us to rise above reason?

Answer: It is the fact that we begin to feel a state above reason—an altruistic state without any connection with egoism—as the most important thing, and thus we rise.

Question: As a rule we burn leavened bread before Passover. What is spiritual leaven?

Answer: Leaven is that evil inclination, our uncorrected egoism, which we cannot use correctly.

Question: Why does an egoistic question asked by a sinner kill him? And how does faith appear in this place?

Answer: If a person wants to defeat his egoism, instead of that, he begins to feel the power of faith that develops in him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Two Labors”

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Question: After Passover, we plan to hold a congress in Uzbekistan. Many friends will come to elevate this region.

What do you recommend for us in preparation for this?

Answer: The only thing I recommend to you is the unity of hearts. Not in words, but in your heart to feel you have friends with you, that you want to connect your hearts together, and that this common heart will already be filled by the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/21/24, Writings of Rabash “When Pharaoh Sent the People”

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Question: When a person hears the same constant question of the sinner in himself, what should he do to advance from this repeated question?

Answer: Turn to the Creator so that He can help him rise above egoism and see his condition from this height. Then he will advance correctly.

Question: It turns out that he constantly fails to reach the measure of this request.

Answer: There is a saying: God, grant that a person prays day and night.

Question: Can we help a friend kill the sinner within himself? Or is this an independent work for everyone?

Answer: Everyone must do this independently, but with the help of the environment. You can help a person, but he must act independently.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Two Labors”

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That is, while the Klipa of Pharaoh has dominion, and a mouth and speech in the exile, still, if they believed in the faithful shepherd properly, the children of Israel would be able to listen to Moses, who is above the mouth and speech.

To be in exile means to be under the rule of Pharaoh, i.e., under the control of universal egoism (Baal HaSulam, Letter 10).

The article discusses a transformation that occurs with the children of Israel when they can break free from this rule and become free from the power of Pharaoh. Practically only connection into one single desire can help one get out of Egypt and draw closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter 10

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We should interpret that the order of one’s work in Torah and Mitzvot [commandments] when he wants to work for the sake of the Creator is that one must fight and defeat the evil inclination.

That is, it is human nature to toil when there is self-benefit. But when he sees that no self-benefit will emerge from this work, he cannot work. Instead, he complains and asks, “What is this work for you?” meaning what will you gain from exerting? …

Thus, through the question he asks, he takes upon himself the commandment of faith above reason (Rabash, Notes 572 “Two Labors”).

To work for the sake of heaven, you need to accept feelings and understanding in the light of faith. This means that we must reach a state where we will rely on faith and not on the reason that we rely on now.

To get an answer to your question in faith above reason and not in reason means to get a direction of thoughts, movements, and actions that will depend not on the ego, but on the quality of bestowal.

Thus a person must rise to a degree above reason and get an answer there to the question that is asked out of egoism, because the answer always comes from a degree above reason.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Two Labors”

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