Question: To be awarded the clothing of the Creator, one must feel like they are below everyone.

What kind of lowness is this? I can just be in low thoughts, meaning, not think about the Creator at all.

Answer: No, it is not about low thoughts. The point is, what is your assessment of yourself relative to the world and everyone?

Comment: I can feel small about all the great ones of this world and their values. But that is not the point.

My Response: And about that too. A person who wants to reach the Creator must dissolve into the whole world, to feel below everyone, and then he will begin to understand the state of the upper. As it is said: from the low I recognize the Creator.
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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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Question: What is the difference between bestowing for the sake of bestowing and receiving for the sake of bestowing?

Answer: Bestowing for the sake of bestowing is the level of Bina, and receiving for the sake of bestowing is the level of Hochma. There is a very big difference between them.

Question: Can it always be Hanukkah when you hope for the Creator’s help?

Answer: Yes, in this case you are in the state called Hanukkah.

Question: When a person finally comes to the realization that if the Creator does not help him, he is lost, is this a state of victory over the Greeks?

Answer: This is a very good state for a person because now he knows for sure that he needs the Creator.

Question: Is it possible, based on the realization that “there is none else besides Him” and faith above reason, to accept a peace agreement with egoism, and not break it, but to move further together with it along a path that would suit both?

Answer: No, it is impossible. Until you break it, nothing will happen. You must defeat egoism—each one within himself and all together in the whole world. Otherwise we are finished.

Question: We say that on Hanukkah a person has already overcome his evil inclination, the Din (judgment) has stopped, and he can work for bestowal. Why can we not just wait for the light of Shabbat to come, but we need to continue the fight?

Answer: The lights do not come automatically, but only after your struggle and your victory.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/13/23, Writings of Rabash “Greeks Have Gathered Around Me”

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“Greeks” are a person’s egoistic properties that do not allow him to advance to the properties of the Creator—love and bestowal. At the same time, they help us by the fact that in their opposition, they force us to strengthen our movement toward the Creator, ask Him for help, and rise higher and higher.

Question: But what if the “Greeks” come from the group? Still, it is unclear whether to ask a friend to correct this desire or to raise it?

Answer: And what if the Greeks come from you? What do you do? There are egotistic desires in each of us.

They are called Greeks without any connection with that nation. Therefore, it is necessary to separate the properties of bestowal and love from the egoistic properties that have been called the Greeks for several thousand years.

Question: Is there any kind of a universal answer to all the smart questions of the Greeks so as not to fall into this abyss together with them every time?

Answer: Yes, there is one universal answer, it is the connection between us when, as a result of our spiritual work, we attain one single force of bestowal, fight with the Greeks, and win.

Question: What happens to the Greeks afterward? Do we destroy them, or do they turn into some kind of force?

Answer: We do not destroy anyone. In our wars, we only change our intentions from receiving for ourselves to bestowing to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/13/23, Writings of Rabash “Greeks Have Gathered Around Me”

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Question: How can we be honored with the hidden part of the Torah? What should be the main task in spiritual work?

Answer: We should attempt to unite between us until we feel a connection with each other. This connection is our common desire, directed toward the Creator.

We try to feel our striving for the Creator in it and try to give Him this common desire in which He could manifest Himself as a desire to bestow. It is called soul.

Question: If we can only act in the revealed part of the Torah for now, how can we get closer to performing the right actions if many people are confused about that part?

Answer: It is simple. If I want to open my heart and soul to my friends, I am ready to be with them in one desire, in one movement toward each other, to unite, to merge. That is my work.
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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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Question: The article “The Night of the Bride” talks about King David committing adultery with the wife of his military commander, Uriah. Why exactly did King David, a righteous man, perform such an act?

Answer: King David was truly an absolutely righteous man in everything. What is described in the Torah is interpreted by us from a corporeal point of view.

During the reign of King David, his friend Uriah, who led the regiment, was forced to go to war. After this, David began a relationship with his wife and thereby greatly harmed himself and others.

Many questions arise here. First, you cannot get involved with a married woman especially if you sent her husband to war.

It is further explained that, in fact, she was no longer Uriah’s wife because those who went off to war got divorced beforehand so that if they died, the divorced wives could remarry.

Question: What does “thou shalt not commit adultery” mean in spiritual work?

Answer: Those are very difficult things when a person is left alone with his thoughts, feelings, and decisions.

From a spiritual point of view, a man’s wife is his will to receive, i.e., his intention for his own sake. The prohibition of having a relationship with the wife of another means that you cannot use the desire of your neighbor for your own sake.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 11/12/23

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Question: The spies and the 70 nations of the world are opposed to the spiritual path in different ways. The nations of the world do not want to go in this direction at all. What about the spies?

Answer: The spies seem to want to, but they are afraid, dissuade others, and use all sorts of techniques in order to lead them off the right path.

Question: How can the spies try to lead me away from the goal? Are they foreign thoughts or intentions for my own sake?

Answer: They are not entirely foreign thoughts. Spies use your interest in the spiritual path and try to fit it into actions that lead you away from the goal: “You want to go toward this goal, but go to a different one, and there you will find what you want.”

A person must discover this in himself. It is not that easy to do, but it is not hard either.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 12/4/23, Writings of Rabash “The Spies“

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The root of all the sins is the will to receive in order to receive, which is what a person receives from the Creator, meaning from His domain, and lets everything into his own domain, which is called “theft.” That is, he extracts from the domain of the Creator, and he takes the pleasures from the Creator’s domain into his own. It follows that he is not regarded as a thief but as a robber, for although the Creator sees him taking, his will to receive is so strong that he cannot resist it, which is why he is considered a robber and not a thief (Rabash. Article No. 20, 1986. Should One Sin and Be Guilty).

Question: How can we resist a thief and a robber? What is the difference?

Answer: We can only catch the thief and take from him what was stolen. How does one do this? We still have to learn this.

However, we have to catch the robber in order to take the loot from him, scare him, and fight with him because he wants to take everything. He already has a clearer understanding of what we are taking from him or what he has stolen from us.

Question: What helps in the war with myself when I realize that I am a robber?

Answer: Only connection with the friends; there is nothing else. From there, you will receive an answer for any state.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 11/30/23, Writings of Rabash “Should One Sin and Be Guilty“

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Question: How beneficial is it for my ten if I feel that my friends have been working in Lishma for a long time and only I am in Lo Lishma?

Answer: This is not right. You should treat them as standing on a higher degree than you but not perceive them as being in Lishma because this will confuse you on the spiritual path.

Question: When a ten is rewarded with raising MAN for the sake of the Creator and receives the force of bestowal, where should it direct this force correctly?

Answer: If you have the force, you should use it only to connect friends and share it with everyone in the ten.

Question: How does the Creator decide who to reward with Lishma and who not?

Answer: Are you asking me? Ask the Creator.

Question: Of all the feelings that we have, what is the most valuable quality to accurately focus on for a gradual transition from Lo Lishma to Lishma?

Answer: Love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/4/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “From Lo Lishma, We Come to Lishma“

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Question: Is it correct to say that the spiritual miracle of Hanukkah is that the Kelim break the connection with evil inclination, stop working in order to receive, and, as it were, generate the light of bestowal themselves?

Answer: Everything is correct except for one thing: Kelim do not generate the light of bestowal. We are not capable of generating anything.

We can only rise above our egoism by connecting with each other, and then the light of bestowal will begin to manifest within us.

Question: Do the Hanukkah candles symbolize the revelation of the opposite world, which is attained not only in faith above reason, but at the level of feelings in the degree of reason?

Answer: The Hanukkah candle symbolizes the light of bestowal when we desire it to shine in every heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/12/23, Writings of Rabash “Letter No. 44”

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Question: If our main job is to connect, then what is the stop during Hanukkah?

Answer: When we fight with our egoism, we begin to feel how weak we are; we cannot cope with it and feel that we need some kind of stop or break.

If we stop and ask the Creator to help us find the right approach to the war against our common egoism in the ten and in the world, then there is hope that the Creator will help us.

This is what Hanukkah symbolizes; it is the week when we stop the war and do not run away; we realize that we need to get stronger and unite even more with each other.

In this case we will be able to return to the fight against egoism and defeat it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/13/23, Writings of Rabash “Greeks Have Gathered Around Me”

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