Entries in the 'Spiritual Work' Category

Our Work Is to Beseech the Creator

534Question: It is said that when a person gets used to the path of the Torah, he should regret the smallness of his attainment. How do we train the body for this and not stray from the spiritual path?

Answer: Through imagination, a person must imagine this.

Does he already feel that he contains the whole world within himself? Of course not. And therefore he continues to pursue the light, to pursue the Creator. He tries to ask, and implores the Creator not to abandon him, to draw him closer.

We must regret that there was some understanding and it disappeared. And so on and on until we reach a greater desire.

Question: What if some friends lose this regret? How does a group of ten not deviate and continue this work?

Answer: You must pray for the Creator to attract them.

This can happen to anyone. When you see that friends are cooling down, you must ask the Creator to worry about them. Our work is to turn to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Rewarded—I Will Hasten It”

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Bless the Creator

276.01Question: How and in what ways can we bless the Creator?

Answer: We give the Creator all our intentions and desires and bless Him so that He can use them, unite us, and, through our desires bring His light to the whole world.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/14/24, Writings of Rabash “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”

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How Is the Tree of Life Formed?

938.02Question: How is the Tree of Life formed from the Kelim (Vessels) of the friends that I feel?

Answer: When you try to come closer to your friends and connect to their roots so that you can bestow to each other together, then the real Tree of Life is formed from which you feed, receive vital juices for fruits, and move forward in this way.

To do this, you must connect with your friends.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is Eating Their Fruits in This World and Keeping the Principal for the Next World, in the Work?”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—83

557Question: How do we increase our desire (Hisaron)?

Answer: You can increase Hisaron (desire) only by connecting with your friends because then they show you to what extent Hisaron (desire) can be even greater.

Question: Will we ever come to the point where the property of faith will no longer be necessary for us?

Answer: No, on the contrary, you will have a greater and greater need for faith, even at the final correction. It is a spiritual force that makes us similar to the Creator.

Question: In the corporeal world, we get old and physical strength diminishes. What will compensate for our strength in spirituality?

Answer: New strength that you will receive.

Question: How can we fulfill you?

Answer: Only by the fact that you will be connected with each other and will fulfill the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Rewarded—I Will Hasten It”

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Criteria for Evaluating Friends

528.01Question: If I see that my friends have deviated from efforts to attract light and have forgotten about the goal, in what case do I work with this assessment and in what case do I look for a way to remind, give importance, and continue the search for how to attract more light? Are there any criteria?

Answer: There are criteria, but they are still unknown to us. We cannot pinpoint them.

We must always think about how to approach our friends and through them approach the Creator. That is all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/14/24, Writings of Rabash “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”

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The Intention to Love

527.02Question: What kind of intention should love have?

Answer: Love has only one intention: to love.

Question: But I love everyone egoistically. How do we come to true love with a good intention?

Answer: Here you already have work to do—to transform love from egoistic to altruistic. Try it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/11/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Joy with Trembling”

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Think More about Love

294.4Question: I have a desire to love, and when I come to the point where I can express this love, a strong fear appears and I feel I am afraid to love. Why does this fear appear?

Answer: Fear appears from the fact that you are afraid that you will not get an answer. But the fact is that we always get an answer.

The most important thing is not even an answer, but the fact that we have a question to the Creator, some kind of appeal to Him. Basically, this is what the Creator awakens in us.

Question: How do you tear yourself away from fear in order to go toward love?

Answer: Think more about love, and you will see that gradually the fear disappears. It is necessary only in order to further develop love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Joy with Trembling”

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How Can We Awaken Trembling?

261Question: It feels that when we work in a group, we only feel love. How can we awaken trembling?

Answer: You should think about how you will be more connected with each other so much so that no circumstances will separate you, and be afraid that love will disappear, that you will break it, that you will forget about it.

Question: How do we use fear correctly?

Answer: Use it so that it does not allow you to approach things you do not need on the spiritual path and does not tear you away from things that help you to move toward the goal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/11/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Joy with Trembling”

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622.02Question: What is special about fear that only together with it will the state of love be perfect?

Answer: The fact is that we are egoists and love only ourselves. Therefore we must add fear to where we turn with love.

Each of us should understand that even if he loves someone, it is still desirable that fear and anxiety join this love: What if I do not love enough? What if I do something for him that will make him neglect me? It is not because your egoism is afraid of it, but because you do not want such a relationship between you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/11/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Joy with Trembling”

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Correct the Sin of the Tree of Knowledge

232.06The correction of the sin of the Tree of Knowledge is that we must correct Malchut, which originally received the light of Hochma for its own sake.

Now it has to return to the first restriction (Tzimtzum Aleph) or nothing will work.

To make a restriction, we agree to receive nothing until we earn the screen. Only as we form the screen can we begin to receive light.

Question: Why did the Creator give Adam to taste the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge?

Answer: To raise him to His level.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is ‘He Drove the Man Out of the Garden of Eden so He Would Not Take from the Tree of Life’?”

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