Question: What should we do if we delay a prayer and slow it down? How can we remove this inhibition?

Answer: Set for each other an example even if you do not feel like it. But if you show others that you have what to turn to the Creator with and how, they will take it seriously, even though it will be a game on your part. That is how it is done.

Comment: You say that prayer should come from the bottom of the heart. But with us, when we make a prayer from the entire ten, it appears purely mechanically.

My Response: I am not saying you should do that. This is incorrect. You cannot mechanically take a sentence from everyone and make up the text of the prayer. You will only hurt each other.

You must collect, analyze your desires, aspirations, and goals, and make one common whole out of them. This is called a common prayer. There is no other way.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Asking the Creator to Fill the Place Between Us” Lesson 7

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You lack nothing but to go out to a field that the Lord has blessed (Baal HaSulam, Letter 4).

This field is called Shechina or the connection between us in which the Creator reveals Himself. But when this field was shattered, the Creator disappeared from it.

All our work is to connect with each other and to restore the network of communication between us, and to the extent we do, the Creator will gradually reveal Himself in it. Such a revelation of the Creator is called spiritual degrees or worlds.

“Peace” – “Shalom (שלום)” is from the word “world” = “olam (עוֹלָם),” “alum (עָלוּם)” – “hidden.” The relative concealment and revelation of the Creator at each degree will show us what kind of world we are in.

Therefore, we need to collect all those flaccid organs that have drooped from your soul, and join them into a single body, – into one connected system. In that complete body, the Creator will instill His Shechina incessantly, that is, absolutely completely without any gaps and reductions.

And the fountain of intelligence (Tvuna), which is that lower part of Bina that transmits the light to Malchut (in us) and high streams of light (Keter, Hochma, Bina) will be as a never ending fountain.

What do we need to do? We need to restore the connection between us, which is called Shechina. It was the Creator who broke it, so that we ourselves could create it from a broken state. This is called raising the Shechinah from the dust. This is what we have to do.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/6/22, “Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us” Lesson 1

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Question: You said that we should ask as clearly as possible for our friends. Does this mean inviting the Creator to act in the heart and mind in order to feel the friends closer to oneself?

Answer: I want the Creator to act in my heart, in my head, in my mind, in my whole body so that He would guide my movements, thoughts, and heart, so that He would be in me in everything, organizing and doing it all!

In fact, this is what the Creator does, but we need to reveal Him! This is what I want—to feel that He penetrates my whole being in my mind and in my heart, that He guides everything, and that He determines everything.

I want to go according to what the Creator wants to accomplish in me. And I only give myself to Him, i.e., I restrict my egoism and want Him to do whatever He wants with me.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Asking the Creator to Fill the Place Between Us” Lesson 7

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You must always stand guard, all day and all night, when you feel a state of day or feel a state of night. …

It follows that you must awaken the heart of the friends until the flame rises by itself (Rabash, Letter 24).

If we are in mutual guarantee in the group, then each of us steps in and out of it in order to move to a new state, to a new desire. So, this is a gradual process.

Even maintaining a flame is a fickle process because it involves oxidation, ignition, etc. This comes precisely from a spiritual foundation.

Therefore, constant concern for mutual support gradually leads to the fact that the flame in our hearts will be burning on its own.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Working in Mutual Responsibility” Lesson 6

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Question: Can I check for myself whether I am fulfilling the mutual guarantee? Or can only my friends assess it?

Answer: The group can assess whether you are fulfilling the mutual guarantee or not. You cannot do it yourself. Only your connection in the group makes it possible to feel how much you are in the mutual guarantee.

Question: How can I be sure that the mutual guarantee ship is sailing in the right direction?

Answer: From what you feel in your friends. If you feel that you can cheer them up, connect them together, direct them to the goal, and give them inspiration, then you draw conclusions based on this.

When you can see the result of your actions in your friends, then you will definitely have an indication of whether you are doing the right thing and to what extent.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Working in Mutual Responsibility” Lesson 6

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Question: How can we connect and annul in front of friends who do not adhere to our method?

Answer: There is no need to connect with them or annul before them. What will you annul and connect? You must have a common goal and a common methodology to achieve this goal.

Rabash writes: “We have gathered here to establish a society for all who wish to follow the path and method of Baal HaSulam, the way by which to climb the degrees of man and not remain as a beast…”

That is, we take upon ourselves the condition that we are going to approach the Creator according to the method that Baal HaSulam and Rabash describe to us. You can say: “It is possible to do it through other techniques.” Please, you can be with them, but not with us. You cannot combine one with the other! With anything! No way!

The science of Kabbalah is not philosophy and not any other science or methodology! You cannot come in here and start figuring out how to diet, how to do some exercise or whatever!

There is nothing in Kabbalah that concerns the earthly body. And there is nothing in it to do with your spirit! Because it does not exist either. It deals only with attainment of the Creator and that’s it! Discard everything else. You can do it, of course, but know that it is at the corporeal level, which is at the level of your body and nothing more! Not a spiritual body but an animal.

Question: Is there a difference between partnership and spiritual connection?

Answer: Of course there is!

But partnership is like a company. And spiritual connection is inner unification that can occur only under the influence of the upper light over which I do not have control. At the same time, my friends and I ask the Creator to unite us.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/6/22, “Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us” Lesson 1

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Question: You said that we should advance to the next degree. Can you describe it so we can aim ourselves at it?

Answer: The next degree is very simple to describe: it is the revelation of the Creator’s qualities in the good connections between us. After all, what we strive for—the quality of connection, warmth, and support—does exist.

The Creator was concealed and now He becomes revealed in us to the extent that we can create and attain this quality among ourselves. He is revealed according to the law of similarity of form.

Therefore, there is nothing unexpected here. Perhaps this is what is unexpected, but in general it always ends up with us tuning ourselves to perceive the Creator, which results in attaining Him. Thus, it is said: “My sons have defeated me.” We force Him to be revealed in us.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Deriving the Greatness of the Goal from the Friends” Lesson 4

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Question: What is the correct way to ask the ten for mutual guarantee?

Answer: You can simply express in words that you do not have enough strength to reach the quality of bestowal and ask the friends to help you in this.

There also should be an example. But the most important thing is to have it in feeling, in the heart. If the request is correct, then the Creator will make the friends feel how much you want to be their guarantor.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Working in Mutual Responsibility” Lesson 6

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Question: You said that we should fill the empty space in the ten with ourselves, and now I have heard that this space is filled by the Creator. Who am I and what is my role?

Answer: Our role is to determine what empty space there is between us. I can’t reach my friend and get close to him, my egoism does not allow it.

Therefore, I ask the Creator to unite us through Himself. The Creator binds us with Himself. This is what we need to feel and to ask the Creator.

The most important moment in spiritual work is when we determine how far we are from each other, and at the same time we have the opportunity to get closer through the Creator.

We ask, demand, and beg Him to unite us. This is the most critical, the most necessary point in our advancement. Because it is this point that corrects us, unites the broken Kli (vessel).
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Asking the Creator to Fill the Place Between Us” Lesson 7

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Question: I cannot be a guarantor for my friends in different situations because I limit my freedom by doing this. What do I need to do in order to come to the desire to commit to the mutual guarantee?

Answer: Close your eyes and get incorporated in the group. Do everything they do. Try to get into their spirit.

Question: In the ten we are all making great efforts to unite. Sometimes I feel closer to one or two friends. I do not know if this is right or not and what to do about it? But I feel guilty about it.

Answer: You just continue and you will understand how to act more correctly. I cannot say anything because I will be stealing from you if I do. The search is a very important part of spiritual work.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Working in Mutual Responsibility” Lesson 6

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