Question: What is a naive prayer?

Answer: A naive prayer is an unfinished, vague desire. It differs from the prayer of the poor in that the poor have a very clearly expressed desire. The property of the highest Malchut is called “poor and needy” because it is empty and cannot fill itself or take a single step forward. It is Malchut’s nature.

It wants to correct its Kli and fill it. The naive still need to understand how to act.

Question: How can we all reach the state of the poor together so that our prayer is heard?

Answer: In general, it is not complicated. At least it is not difficult to understand what it is. We have no understanding and feeling of what a person or indeed all of humanity should achieve.

Therefore we must imagine ourselves as one person with one heart and desire—imagine ourselves and all the world’s people living together and feeling common desires that we all direct to the Creator. It is called “being in one heart.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Exodus from Egypt”

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Question: What are the initial steps to liberate faith from reason and raise it to the level of love?

Answer: Perform actions that do not gratify egoism; train yourself to do everything not in egoism, but in faith above reason. And then everything will start to work out for you. If you keep checking yourself like this, we can gradually emerge from egoism.

Question: Is hatred of unification the sensation of one’s evil nature?

Answer: Yes and no. If a person simply hates connection, then it is his nature. He loves only himself. But if he strives for connection against his nature, then this is already spiritual work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith Within Reason”

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Question: It is written that you can come to the Creator only by hating your body, but the body is a spiritual shell. What does the body have to do with it?

Answer: By “body” in Kabbalah, we mean egoism, not our flesh.

Question: How can the Creator hate what He created?

Answer: He hates egoism and wants us to get rid of it.

Comment: But we have no choice. In any case, He will lead us to the goal of creation, either by an accelerated path (Achishena) or the path of suffering (Beito). It turns out that He does not give us a choice.

My Response: No. He gives us a little blow, and if we rush toward the goal of not getting rid of the blows, but rising above egoism and becoming like the Creator, He helps us.

So we pray that He will change, lift, push, and support us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith Within Reason”

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Question: We must come to merging with the Creator through merging with the ten. And if the ten is female, but it has some masculine qualities—striving, achieving, or even jealousy—is everything correct here?

Answer: What difference does it make if you are a woman or a man? The main thing is that you want to be in connection, to reveal the Creator, to bestow to Him, and to feel yourself in this state because it will be similar to the Creator in you.

When I look at you all, I see more women here than men, and I hear their questions about how to move forward. And suddenly you tell me that these are not at all female desires. But they are indeed female.

It is said that thanks to righteous women the sons of Israel came out of Egypt. How can this be? But that is exactly what is said. So let us take this more seriously.

If you believe that women do not need these qualities, then you are cutting yourself off from revealing the upper world. You have received such a gift from the Creator; not to use it is a crime.
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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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The story of Moses and Pharaoh is about the people who accompany them. In inner work, they symbolize different desires, forces, and aspirations that help us advance to even greater bestowal.

We must gather all these desires and intentions and increase them as if extending them to the Creator. Gradually we will become convinced of how much the Creator helps us develop them.

Question: How can we be worthy of the properties of Moses, and what depends on us here?

Answer: It is up to us to keep the direction of bestowal at every moment.

We can achieve the quality of Moses if we understand that our mutual bestowal and mutual assistance should lead us to bestowal upon 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: It is said that the order of exile and liberation must be maintained. What does it mean?

Answer: Gradually by alternating one action after another, we raise our egoism, scrutinize, check, and correct it. That is our job.

Question: Without the restriction of the body, it is impossible to leave Egypt. Are these restrictions lifted when clarity comes?

Answer: All restrictions go away when the Creator shines His light on us.

Question: In Rabash’s article “Concerning the Exodus from Egypt,” it is written, “I awaken the dawn, and the dawn does not awaken me.” How do we understand that the Creator guides us, and when do we awaken the dawn?

Answer: The problem is if you do not feel it. So you have to put more effort into feeling the Creator.

Question: If we do not come to the morning lesson, does that mean we do not awaken the dawn and influence what is happening in the world now?

Answer: Of course it does. Every person influences, and even more so, the group that does not come to the lesson and does not use the opportunity to unite and influence the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Exodus from Egypt”

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So it is that each “source” that had taken off the preliminary shape of the progenitor and had taken on a new shape as a result of the three factors that were added to it, and which change it significantly, the general shape of the progenitor still remains, and will never assume the shape of another person who resembles him, just as oat will never resemble wheat.

This is so because each and every source has its own long sequence of generations comprised of several hundred generations, and the source includes the conceptions of them all. However, they are not revealed in it in the same ways they appeared in the ancestors, that is, in the form of ideas, but only as abstract forms. Therefore, they exist in him in the form of abstract forces called “tendencies,” “nature,” and “instincts,” without knowing their reason or why he does what he does. Thus, there can never be two people with the same attribute (Baal HaSulam, “The Freedom”).

Question: In order to mix with all the properties of the world, do we don’t have to decompose in the earth, like wheat, right?

Answer: To decompose means that I decompose myself and associate with all the people in the world.

Question: Do we just need to shift the focus from ourselves to the desires of the world in order to make a common Kli out of the world?

Answer: No, you need to not only change your focus, but also to throw your desire into the world and get the desire of the world instead. This is what is called “decomposing.” Nothing will work out until you can absorb all the desires of the world.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/14/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Freedom”

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Question: When the Creator reveals the feeling of the quality of bestowal to us, the answer is that to preserve it, we need to ask only for connection or that He gives us the strength to pray for our neighbor. This is unclear. Why should we ask for anything other than this?

Answer: It is like asking for strength. Strength for what? This question remains open. Therefore, it is necessary to find out the ultimate goal.

Question: But we will never know it. We say that our goal is connection. Can we take this as the ultimate goal?

Answer: No, this is not an end, but a means. The goal is to attain the Creator—connection with Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 48

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Question: We have a strong desire in the ten to get out of Egypt, and prayer flows all day; we have the intention to give, the desire to unite, and the desire to merge all together. What else is needed to get out?

Answer: There is not enough connection between you. It is like you are standing in a square with thousands of people shouting, shouting to the Creator.

If you had joined forces at the same time, He would have immediately heard you and answered. You are still not connected. Therefore, alone, He cannot hear everyone.

Question: To unite, do we need to get out of egoism first?

Answer: Sure, one who is still in egoism cannot connect with anyone. And to get out of the quagmire of egoism, you need to lean on each other and grab hold of the Creator together.

Strive for contact with the Creator by addressing Him from the depths of your heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/10/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Beginning of the Month”

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Question: What does it mean that person who studies Torah and Mitzvot for the sake of reward has an evil inclination that is concealed?

Answer: He does not feel that he is in a state of egoism, and his ego is constantly developing. At the same time, he does not move forward at all, not only positively, but also negatively.

Question: How can we turn evil into good in a correct way? How should we work with egoism?

Answer: If evil tells you that you are disconnected from the Creator, and you ask the Creator for strength and knowledge to correct it and to be closer to the Creator, then you will succeed in working with evil.

Question: Who reveals one’s evil inclination to a person?

Answer: The Creator does everything. The question is whether it is by the person’s request or contrary to it. Therefore, ask the Creator to reveal the evil inclination and give you the strength to correct it.
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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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