Entries in the 'Spiritual Work' Category

Baal HaSulam’s Special Method

961.2Question: What is special about Baal HaSulam’s method?

Answer: This is a practical method that he developed for our generation and described in all his works. Therefore, we study his writings and strive to become similar to the image he described.

The main principle of this method is connection between people, such closeness between them that each person feels the other as himself. Through this connection, they can rise to the attainment of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 12/5/23

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What Should We Think and Ask For?

243.07Hence, one needs to pray pleadingly that the Creator will show him the truth by adding to him the light of the Torah (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 47 “In the Place Where You Find His Greatness”).

Question: It turns out that a person asks the Creator to reveal the truth to him, meaning, his evil inclination. This is a prayer from the left line. Is such a prayer correct?

Answer: No, we must ask the Creator to reveal the truth to us and shed light on our present state.

We need to relate all states, whatever they may be, to the Creator and try to see through them how the Creator wants to bring us closer to Him.

We need to reveal a constant connection with the Creator. That is what we have to think about and ask for.
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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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Questions about Spiritual Work—47

165Question: Where is the low place where the Creator is hiding?

Answer: The Creator hides between friends where there is some kind of mismatch between them.

Question: When I have already prayed for my friends, for the Creator, and for Him to advance us, what else can I pray for?

Answer: You can pray for you to get closer to your friends and through them to the Creator.

Question: What is annulment in desires, intentions, and actions?

Answer: Annulment means that I don’t want anything for myself, but I really want to get closer to the Creator and fill everyone with love.

Question: What is more important in the search for connection with the Creator and His greatness: paying attention to what is revealed through the inner circle in the group, or to internal states, thoughts and feelings?

Answer: Whatever is revealed in the connection between friends.
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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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The Creator Loves Us

294.4Question: What can we learn by checking whether the Creator loves us before we appeal to Him?

Answer: This is not even a test because we must constantly be sure that He loves us.

The Creator has no other attitude toward us because everything He does to us comes from absolute love.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/15/23, Writings of Rabash “What Does It Mean that Oil Is Called “Good Deeds” in the Work?”

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It Is Commanded to Be in Joy in Spirituality

572.02Question: It is said that a person should pray to the Creator to help him be above reason, and his work should be in joy as if he had been awarded spiritual reason.

But when I am in joy there is some fear that I will start to receive for myself.

How can I overcome the fear of being in joy?

Answer: Why are you afraid to be in joy? On the contrary, it is a huge commandment. It is necessary to be in this state all the time and not fall from the level of joy that the Creator created you. It brings you closer to Him, and gives you a feeling of coming closer and connecting with Him.
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From the 1st psrt of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/13/23, Writings of Rabash “These Candles Are Sacred”

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The Spiritual World Is Love of Everyone for Everyone

4Question: What is the spiritual world, where is it, what is it, and what kind of picture should we imagine in order to yearn for it?

Answer: The spiritual world is the attitude of love of everyone for everyone. As far as we can correspond to it, we will rise to it.

Question: Can we already feel the spiritual world at least a little bit?

Answer: Try to love your friends and feel the attitude to the Creator within this quality. This will be the feeling of the upper world for now.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/12/23, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 44

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To Let a Friend into Your Heart

938.04Question: How does one not let the will to receive break into the heart?

Answer: Actively resist it. By cultivating love for others in your heart, mainly for your ten, you will be able to reach a state of connection with the friends.

Question: But where can I get the strength to pray?

Answer: From each other. Everyone should help others through their correct example, and then you will never have problems with a lack of strength to show love.

Question: When we work on our connection, we ask the Creator that the heart really lets a friend in and starts sincerely loving him. But it is said that we need to connect with each other and with the Creator.

What is this addition of with the Creator?

Answer: The fact is that through the connection between you, you connect with the Creator. This is exactly what you have to reveal. In your unity, you will begin to feel the spiritual world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/12/23, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 44

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At the Set Table

506.3We should understand why there cannot be an upper blessing on an empty table. After all, the blessing is that the Creator wants to give to the created beings delight and pleasure. Thus, why must the receivers first prepare in order to make room for the blessing to be, meaning that they must set up a suitable place to receive the upper blessing? (What Is the Prohibition to Bless on an Empty Table, in the Work? Rabash, Article No. 16 (1989)).

Question: If the table we are supposed to bless is empty, then is this an opportunity to ask?

Answer: The table is all that we receive from the Creator. If it is empty, then the Creator does not offer us anything. We must feel that we are always at the set table, i.e., everything we receive comes from Him.

Comment: But you said that the Creator enjoys it when we turn to Him. And if the table is set, I don’t turn to Him.

My Response: In this case, your prayer is gratitude, not a request—because everything is in front of you.

Question: How do you arouse the appetite for a set table every time you reveal that it is set?

Answer: You don’t immediately reveal that the table is set. First you have to make contact with your friends, connect with them, develop a feeling of hunger, and only then you will see a set table in front of you.
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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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How Can We Establish Correct Relationships

528.03Question: When a person receives an addition of desire, his goal changes. Does it mean that a person is now striving to rise above his friends and he does not need the greatness of the Creator?

Answer: A person constantly receives an addition of egoism, pride, etc. from above, and he must work on this all the time.

Then he will begin to understand how high the Creator is because He annuls Himself more than anyone by concealing Himself from our world.

Thus, you can only see Him to the extent that you are annulling yourself by feeling smaller than others.

Therefore, by annulling yourself as much as possible before your friends and raising them in your eyes, you will gradually establish the right relationships with each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/5/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Man’s Pride Shall Bring Him Low“

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Hasten the Process of Correction

527.03Question: My correction is a difficult and long path. I do not want to wait another 20 years to get to that. ​​What efforts should be made to hasten the process of correction?

Answer: If you think that the correction concerns only you, then you may have to wait another 2,000 years.

But if you think that the correction should be between you in the group, then you will very quickly feel what you need to do, and you will have time for everything.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/11/23, Writings of Rabash “The Meaning of Sins Becoming as Merits”

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