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Why Is the Force of the Group Needed?

931.02Question: There is the force of the group. We know that if the friends do not pray for me, I will not rise. My spirit is lifted only by them thinking about me. That is how I use it. But what for?

Answer: In order to rise and pull them along with you; just like today maybe they are pulling you along with them. After all, everyone helps the other and thus we achieve the goal.

We must unite into one single system called Adam from which we all scattered by our egoism and return again to this single desire where everyone supports everyone, holds on and clings to each other, and thus unite in one heart. Then we will begin to feel only one force between us and around us—the Creator.
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From the 2nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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What Does the Creator Want?

934Question: Everything that happens in the tens means that the Creator is talking to us in this way. How do we learn to understand what He wants from us? By leading us either on the left line or on the right, what is He telling us in this way?

Answer: The Creator wants us to feel mutual love for each other within which we would prepare a place for Him so that He could be revealed in us. Our relationship of love for each other will be called Shechina—a place for the revelation of the Creator.

Everything that happens comes from our qualities, and therefore, we must change them to love, connection, and reciprocity.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/28/23, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Importance of Friends”

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Building a Group—A Common Spiritual Sensor

933Question: In spiritual understanding, is money a covering, a screen?

Answer: The screen is not a covering for your earthly properties, but the main means of getting out of yourself.

At first, you have purely egoistic desires for the spiritual world. They are called bad qualities because you want to consume and experience spirituality in the same way as this material world. Practically, this is implemented through your attitude toward the group and toward your friends.

That is, when I begin to get closer to them, I try to come out of myself into some common structure where we rise above ourselves and build some kind of external platform, a common external sensor, a mutual organ of perception, called a group (a group is not our bodies, but our common desire). We build it together outside of ourselves, then if I treat this construction as a consumer and I want to sense it the same way as I perceive this material world, then my wrong perception of our common sensor, i.e., the group, is called Yetser Ra—evil inclination.

It is specially created in me this way. It starts to manifest in me. It is not present in an ordinary person. Then, I try to change it not in my own favor, but specifically against myself.

It is not simple. I am constantly building a consumer attitude toward this common sensor, and then I am trying to overturn it into the property of bestowal, but I cannot change it.

To transform it into bestowal, I also need a special external force that is above the joint sensor that we are building. This force is called the Creator.

Therefore, this is what happens: I, the group (a common property), and the Creator are united together as the necessary three components without which it is impossible to find a way out of myself.

When you start doing this, you slowly begin to realize these mechanics. This is Kabbalah. It is the same for everyone and is ready for everyone.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Spiritual dollars” 11/29/11

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Connect to Your “Incubator”

931.02Comment: There are people who when they start to study Kabbalah first light up, stay high for a while, and then slowly cool down or even leave. They are sucked into corporeal life and the importance of spirituality fades into the background.

My Response: This is a natural phase in everyone’s life. I see how my students are sometimes asleep for months and barely come to class, which they serve as a duty. And there are those who disappear and later come back again.

A person must fully work through his system, each stage like a rocket launcher; otherwise, he will not enter the orbit.

Moreover, one goes through very complex processes and internal and external discernments. This is a difficult path and there is no need to hide it. This is a search for oneself, a path to yourself you do not know yet and are creating on your own.

You have a drop of spiritual seed in you, but making an “incubator” for it to grow is your job. The incubator is the group, the atmosphere, an environment that will give you the importance of spiritual growth and supply material for it. It is the connection with others that will manifest in you like a connection with the umbilical cord from your mother’s body, from the large environment.

Therefore, in our dissemination, we must first of all create the right environment for every person on earth who would in this way be able to connect to his “incubator,” to his “womb,” and thus grow. Otherwise, he will not be able to grow. He must see himself connected to the great desire of others like him.

By connecting to them, he will add “meat” on his drop of seed, on virtually bare information, and receive a revitalizing force from the group. They will supply him with the importance of bestowal, connection, mutual love, and mutual guarantee.

The feeling that will come to him both from the connection with others in one system and from the feeling of a mutual, massive, benevolent force moving in this system, will enable him to be at the level of man, Adam, from the word “Domeh” (similar to the Creator). He will feel that together with others he holds a system within which a force called the Creator operates.

This is the environment, the atmosphere we must create for the world. We know how to do it, but we still have a lot of work ahead.

Therefore, in the time of Abraham, a Kabbalistic group was created, which later, like all of mankind, fell into this world in order to recreate itself today according to the methodology that was stored and developed in it all along and to explain to the whole world what we should be like.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Leave Kabbalah” 9/29/11

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The Only Thing Missing Is a Vessel for Light

534The true reward is the power of bestowal for which I only lack a vessel, a desire, but the light is always there. That is, I only lack the desire to surrender to the Creator, and for this, I want to receive strength and intention.

I want to have the desire to rise to the right spiritual level and use my strength and intelligence correctly on it. And this is what I ask the Creator: give me the opportunities and strength that will help me build such a correct connection.

I want my desire to be more and more precisely directed towards the true goal, and for this goal to be more and more clearly visible to me as if manifesting itself from the fog.

The main thing is to receive the right desire, and then I will try to use it in the right form, that is, to turn to the Creator and ask for its realization. And the right desire is the one that leads me to unity with everyone, to one power of bestowal, within which I will reveal the Creator.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/23, “Concerning Bestowal”

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Problems on the Path

528.01Question: When a friend sees a flaw in me and even starts talking to me about it, I understand that I am low in his eyes and he puts himself above me. I see this as a bad example on his part and a violation of the love of friends. How can I untangle it? How can we find a connection with the Creator here and relate everything to Him?

Answer: There is no need to untangle anything. You just need to move from your understanding of what Kabbalists write. Everything is going well. I do not see any problems. We just need more time and more desire to be connected with the Creator.

He sets up all this for us. We still have a lot of problems on the path, up to huge hatred between us.

There is no getting away from it. We will hate each other; we will be ready to kill each other. So it was written by the Kabbalists. This is how we will move forward. But the main thing is to still hold on to each other, despite the fact that there are such relationships.

We must understand that on one hand, the Creator reveals a special relationship between us: hatred, opposition, distancing. And on the other hand, no matter what, we must be in love with each other, although we are ready to kill each other.

This is how it is written about the ancient Kabbalistic disciples that when gathering together hated each other so much they were ready to kill each other. When they slowly began to enter their studies and attract the upper light on themselves, all this ended with the fact that they hugged and united in their hearts.

Therefore, in no case should we rely on what we feel today.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/28/23, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Importance of Friends”

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Ask for Unity

167Question: My inner ten is in my heart, and I also want to bring everyone I meet at the convention into my heart and to keep them there. With what prayer for the group should I combine my inner work?

Answer: To unite all in one group as much as possible. No matter how many of you there are, five, ten, fifty, or a hundred people, no matter how many, you should not limit yourself in this. Everyone who wants to join each other during the convention can be together.

Question: What should we ask for the group at this time?

Answer: Connection of everyone into one single heart without any differences between us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/28/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Keep the Main Goal

557Question: We have gathered, all of us so different, for one purpose. When for example a dish is prepared, all the ingredients combine to create a common taste.

Is it correct to keep the main goal in focus or gradually on intermediate goals that we reveal in our connection in order to acquire the quality of reception for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: It is best to keep the main goal in front of you and strive for it all the time because intermediate goals can confuse you. They will manifest, but still as intermediary.

Keep the main goal.
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From the 2nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”

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Physical Congress – Spiritual Unity

947Question: What should be the perception of the physical group when we try to connect the three components: me, the group, and the Creator?

Answer: There is no physical group! In no way are you in a physical group!

What difference does it make who is where and at what distance from each other?! Do we have to sniff each other like dogs, or do we have to touch each other? What for?!

We rise above our senses. Why should I care what you look like and in general who and what you are?!

Of course we must have some initial common opportunities for exchanging desires, properties, and information. There has to be something there to start this process.

But when we begin this movement and exit the framework of our corporeal sensation, we yearn toward the general structure that we want to create from our inclinations to ascend, to find the meaning of life, and so on. And then that is it, it no longer matters who is who.

We see that people all over the world are studying with us: from Chile, Mexico, North America, England, Romania, Russia, etc.

During these days before the congress we will see 1,500 to 2,000 people here.

There is no stronger convention in the world than ours where people from all countries come here! They come to do serious work! This is amazing!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Spiritual Dollars” 11/29/11

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When to Pray in Silence?

237Question: You said that it is beneficial to say a prayer out loud both in the ten and in person. Why is it important to pronounce, and when is it better to pray in silence?

Answer: When you speak your prayer, you connect with your friends, and there is nothing closer than that.

On the other hand if you are not in connection with them, it is better not to speak aloud. That is, a person who speaks reveals his soul so to say, and this can harm him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/18/23, “On the Merits of Silence”

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