Entries in the 'Spiritual Work' Category

Overcome the Resistance of Egoism

528.02Question: Why is it that the biggest resistance of egoism arise when studying the Torah and making scrutinies in the ten?

Answer: It is specially arranged from above so that egoism does not allow you to engage in your correction because this work is directed against it.

To practice the Torah means to engage in your egoistic properties and gradually cause them to be affected by the upper light, the Creator.

In this way, you will change from egoist to altruist. And every person and the whole world will change also.

Question: How can we influence each other and inspire the ten to study the Torah with joy?

Answer: Only by example, there is no other way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/14/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is Hanukkah”

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Master the Machine of Material Thoughts

599.02Question: Rabash writes that the machine of the material world crashes into a person’s spiritual desire and you need to protect yourself from this collision. Then a person will be sure that he will not lose what he was given, i.e., the elevation that he received.

How can you protect yourself from this accident every time?

Answer: It is only through the fact that you have the same desire as your friends. It will keep you safe. Therefore you need to get closer to each other and put the connection between you above everything else.

Comment: But the machine of material thoughts and desires still crashes into you.

My Response: What does “crashes” mean? The fact is that you have to somehow master it, connect with your friends, and control this machine together. It is like being on a ship during a storm when two or three people hold the helm and thus steer the ship to the right course against the waves.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/17/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Reason for which Israel Were Rewarded with Inheritance of the Land, in the Work?”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—48

282.02Question: To what extent can a person thank and bless the Creator?

Answer: Until complete, perfect adhesion.

Question: Should we come to the feeling of one single Hissaron (Desire)?

Answer: Everyone should have a Hissaron regarding the Creator. But it may become united and closer to final correction.

Question: You said there are simply descents and descents with an illumination from above. What is the connection between a person’s sensitivity in spiritual work and the illumination from above during the descent?

Answer: One determines the other.

Question: How can we, the ten, correct the place for receiving the upper blessing?

Answer: This place becomes corrected through the mutual connection of all the friends in the ten.

Question: It is hard to live in this world. Why should we, Kabbalists, give birth to children because they will not be happy? If we stop breeding, will the Creator’s game with us end?

Answer: No, according to Kabbalah, we must give birth, raise children, and teach them the correct fulfillment of the Creator’s will.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/16/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Prohibition to Bless on an Empty Table, in the Work?”

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Complete Fulfillment of a Commandment

509Question: What does it mean to fulfill a commandment completely?

Answer: It means annulling yourself and elevating the Creator above everything else in the world.

Question: If we fulfill a commandment without the greatness of the Creator, is this fulfillment incomplete?

Answer: This is not considered fulfillment at all because any commandment is in elevating the Creator and following Him yourself.

The higher we raise the Creator in our eyes, the higher the level from which His attitude descends toward us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/15/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Place Where You Find His Greatness“

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Not an Easy Job

565.01Question: What is the difference between a pause and detachment in a person’s inner work?
How do I find out which of these states I am in if I continue to do the same things externally, but inside do not know what state I am in?

Answer: Ask yourself whether you are in internal tension and whether you are working against your egoism all the time or just forget about it. We have to be constantly against the ego.

Question: When I try to be at the point that there is none else besides Him and the good and does good and I ask the Creator to stay at this point, where is the bestowal to the Creator here?

Answer: The fact is, you want to reveal the upper light to correct your group’s egoistic desires, connect with the rest of the ten, and thus work for the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/14/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is Hanukkah”

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Different Degrees of Attainment

627.2Question: In his articles, Rabash refers to Rambam, then to his father and teacher, Baal HaSulam. Why doesn’t he speak for himself? It’s as if he relies on someone else. Has he not attained these degrees?

Answer: He cites the arguments and reasons of the great Kabbalists, on whom he can rely, and so can we.

Comment: But he went through these states anyway.

My Response: It is in your eyes that he has gone through everything, but not in his. For him, in any case, there is a difference between, say, Rambam and himself. These are different degrees of attainment.

Question: So should we study what the Rambam tells us?

Answer: In principle, what we read from Rabash’s writings is enough for us.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/17/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Reason for which Israel Were Rewarded with Inheritance of the Land, in the Work?”

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Finish the Work of Previous Generations

962.4Question: To what extent does how deeply we can understand the teacher and accept his methodology depend on us?

Answer: You need to accept that the implementation of the methodology you are studying depends on you and only on you.

Therefore, as long as you get closer to each other and unite more strongly with each other, you will be able to rise above the conditions that are set for you in order to achieve the goal of creation.

We are not that far from it. We just need to put our hearts and minds in order. We do not have much work left after what the previous great generations have already done.

In order to organize the heart and mind, we must overcome the little natural rejection that still remains in us and ensure that our hearts connect. Then the upper light will enter into them, and from this feeling we will attain everything.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/17/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot“

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What Is the Greatness of the Creator?

610.2Question: The fact that everything comes from the Creator is clear; this is the law: He created the universe and rules in it. But what is the greatness of the Creator?

Answer: The greatness of the Creator is that He restricted Himself in all cases and reveals Himself to us from such low, small, lowly states in our eyes so that we can raise Him in our imagination and thoughts to the highest degree.

But the further we go, the more we see how insignificant He seems to us. Therefore we forget about Him and neglect Him.

The main thing for us is just to raise Him to the highest degree, the degree where He really is and which we are able to see.

Question: If we reveal the greatness of the Creator, will we be able to love Him without egoism?

Answer: Yes, we will. Only the greatness of the Creator, which we wish to reach, will raise us to the highest degree. As it is said: He will raise a beggar from the dust. That is, He will be able to lift us from the lowest depths.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/15/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Place Where You Find His Greatness“

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Connection in One Heart

929Question: When I am in a state where I need nothing but unification, does my ego automatically annul?

Answer: The ego never automatically annuls. It is only due to consistent actions carried out by all of you that are specifically based on the unity that you find yourselves in one heart.

Question: Is the connection between friends a connection between souls?

Answer: Yes, the Creator provides this connection. He glues together parts of souls that were dismantled after the breakage of Adam’s soul, and gives them the opportunity to reconnect.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/6/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Revealed and the Concealed“

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What Was Commanded to Us

566.02To reveal the Creator, it is necessary to fulfill the commandment “Love your neighbor” because thus we coincide with Him in properties.

And when the Creator reveals himself to a person, he can directly fulfill all 613 commandments on a spiritual level. These are the laws of communication because we cannot be in touch with the Creator if we do not feel Him.

Nevertheless, in our world, as a consequence of root and branch, there are also some specific actions that sometimes we can perform and sometimes not depending on the historical period.

Question: Why is it that what we must do is called a commandment and not an action?

Answer: Because these actions were commanded to us. Kabbalists who feel the upper world (the world of forces and influences on us) combine these forces into one common whole, into one system, and call it a commandment. And “It is commanded” because we, as people, must fulfill 613 commandments.

These are the laws of a higher nature.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/21/23

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