Question: What does it mean to treat what the Creator has sent me correctly in the same way He treats it?

Answer: The Creator always gives us a step forward toward Him and helps us move forward.

Therefore, we must try to use each state, realize that it comes to us from the Creator, not leave it without any reaction, and take another step forward.

Question: How do you begin to clothe yourself in the Creator and see reality as He sees it?

Answer: We need to get to this gradually, and then we will see how we are progressing. In the meantime, we need to convince ourselves all the time that we should ask the Creator to bring us closer to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/3/24, Writings of Rabash “The Meaning of Exile”

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Question: Your teacher Rabash wrote an article, “Make yourself a Rav and buy yourself a friend.” For the title, he took a saying from the Mishnah, a book by our sages about 2,000 years ago.

It gives the following advice: to acquire the property of bestowal (the property of the Creator), three conditions must be met. The first is to make yourself a Rav (Rav comes from the word “great,” teacher). The second is to buy yourself a friend. The third is to judge every person to the scale of merit.

I would like you to explain all three actions. Why do we need to fulfill them?

Answer: The point is that although we are connected with the Creator, we do not have mutual feelings with Him. Therefore, we cannot be with Him directly in such a relationship as with a friend, a teacher, or other people.

A person wishing to connect with the Creator must first acquire a friend. People who come to study Kabbalah and whose goal is to reveal the Creator must be in a group of like-minded individuals and develop mutual connection among themselves. Moreover, this connection should be higher than anything else for them. That is the first condition for a person striving to attain the upper world.

Question: But why specifically “buy” a friend? What does this mean?

Answer: It means using all opportunities to bring a person like you who is striving for the same goal closer to you, and being able to unite with them like with no one else. After all, in this connection, you are considered as one whole.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 4/11/24

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Question: It is said: first, make yourself a Rav. What does that mean?

Answer: Rav, from the word “great,” a teacher. “Make” means approaching him with gifts, participation, friendliness, etc.

Comment: I remember you explained that if we talk about the Creator, “make” means I must accept the upper governance. That is, I agree that He requires the quality of bestowal from me.

My Response: Yes, you will come to that eventually but not at the beginning of your relationship.

In principle, making yourself a Rav and buying a friend relates more to the friend. If you have a group of friends before you, you should “buy” them, meaning invest in them, “buy” their attention so they can respond to you similarly and there is a mutual guarantee between you. That is mutual work.

To make a Rav out of a friend, you must see him as great, and then you will acquire all spiritual qualities through him. It is precisely in connection with friends and rising above yourself that you can acquire spiritual qualities through them.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 4/11/24

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Question: You wrote your book Attaining The Worlds Beyond 30 years ago if not more.

This book is also published in audio format. This means it will be even more accessible. This is the most accessible format today—people do not read. They prefer to listen in the subway or the car.

This book became book number one for many. Thanks to this book, many people came to Kabbalah and thought about the meaning of life.

Please tell me what you put into this book. What is the secret?

Answer: It seems to me that I simply tried to express my impressions of my encounter with Kabbalah there. Maybe it is because this book is so direct that people respond to it so much.

Comment: You also said that you wrote it in just about two weeks.

My Response: Correct.

Question: At what point does it happen that a person delivers it in such a way?

Answer: When it accumulates and pressures him from within, then that person just pours it all on paper.

Question: Did you feel like you were obligated to pour it out?

Answer: Yes; otherwise, it would weigh on me. It is like giving birth.

Question: Does this book sound like a child?

Answer: Yes.

Question: The audio version of this book is coming out now. People will listen. How is listening different from reading? What works more or less here?

Answer: Reading is still more intimate, and listening to someone is no substitute for reading.

Comment: Recently humanity has been listening to audiobooks more and more. But you still encourage reading in the old-fashioned way.

My Response: I am for reading. It is very intimate. I would not replace one with the other.

Comment: But you can combine it somehow. Listen while driving when there is no opportunity to read. And then come home and read it.

My Response: If I listen to something like that internally, I cannot drive a car and listen. I am in it with all my senses.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/25/24

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Question: In Rabash’s articles, it says that on one hand friends should be equal to me, then I can unite with them. On the other hand I must see the same friend as equal to myself, and another time higher than myself. When and how is this regulated?

Answer: To the extent a person can combine these two approaches within himself, he does that. It all balances out mutually. A friend relates to me as I relate to him, and we unite and move toward the Creator.

Comment: It is not clear where to find the energy for this. Your teacher Rabash writes that although we have no commandment to love our children, from nature there is a natural love for them; otherwise, there would be no continuation of the species. But here, it turns out that we must perform some unnatural actions.

My Response: Yes, these actions are not natural, and few people have the ability, impulse, and understanding to carry them out.

Question: So where do we get the energy to perform them?

Answer: From friends who initially have some inclination toward this. These are individuals who have this inclination. If they gather together under the guidance of an instructor or teacher who correctly directs them toward unity, they connect into one group and move forward in this way.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 4/11/24

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Question: At the moment the Creator allows me to see the misuse of a desire given to me, what is my inner state?

Answer: It depends on the person. Either you are glad that the Creator has answered you or you see Him as bad.

In this case, everyone must weigh their condition.

If you were truly allowed to see the evil in you or the misuse of a desire, then you should thank the Creator for this.

If your friend reveals evil in himself, then you must help him by joining him and working with him to transform this evil into good.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Spoke Regarding Four Sons”

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Implementing unity to the extent desired by the Creator means achieving unity without any limitations.

And in order to feel what He wants from us, we must ask Him, bother Him, and request from Him. And then we will understand the connection with Him and will develop in this connection.

Question: Since we are constantly striving to unite and our external actions always seem the same, how can we check our intention to bestow?

Answer: Look not at the actions, but at the intention. That is all you need to check: for what, for whom, in the name of what?

A sign of a correct intention is that it is directed toward the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/18/24, Writings of Rabash “And he said, ‘When You Deliver the Hebrew Women’”

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Question: What is a higher request to the Creator?

Answer: A higher request to the Creator means that I include in my request all the higher desires of the group or, perhaps, of the entire world Kli.

Question: What happens is that you cannot formulate anything, and it feels like you are mooing like a cow, but cannot say anything. Is this also a form of prayer?

Answer: Yes, this is also a form of prayer. Do not worry. The Creator also responds to the mooing of a cow.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 48

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Our sages said: Open for me one cleft in repentance, as the tip of a needle, and I will open for you gates for wagons and carts to enter. (Writings of Rabash, Letter No. 48).

That means that the Creator expands our vessel, i.e., expands our desires and gives us additional ones. These are the actions of the Creator, and we should only ask Him for them.

A desire the size of the tip of a needle is a small initial desire with which a person can turn to the Creator. That is sufficient. The Creator does everything else.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 48

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Question: We realize the greatness of the Creator. How can one evoke love for Him?

Answer: This is a gift from the Creator. But we still need to invest more to show the Creator how much we desire a connection with Him. So we just need to keep going.

You must talk about this and ask that all your work will be spiritual, that is, for His sake. Desiring this, turn to Him so that He will help you rise above egoism so that you can think and ask for spiritual insight only for the sake of His contentment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith Within Reason”

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