Question: 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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Question: What kind of effort is it in our work when faith constantly protects us from the entry of strangers into holiness?

Answer: This effort is aimed at preventing egoistic thoughts from interfering with us. We must protect ourselves from egoistic attitudes toward each other.

If everyone in the ten pays attention to this, then you will succeed.

Question: So we can assume that in the end this effort will benefit us?

Answer: This will be of benefit only when you selflessly love others and do not pay attention to whether they love you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/12/23, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 44

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However, one should know that he was given this abundance only so as to gain new strength and be able to grow stronger in the work, that he will engage in the battle of the war of the inclination. Then, each time he is given a temporary rest, meaning upper abundance (Rabash, Letter 26).

Question: What should our main actions be during the rest so we can succeed at the following stage of the war against the evil inclination?

Answer: We need to know exactly what we are stopping for, what goal we choose, how to be connected, and how to move forward.

At the same time, we have the same goal at all stages—merging with the Creator through connecting with each other. But the fact is that we need constantly to check how we are advancing.

The main thing is to get as close to your friends as possible. And when you feel like one man with one heart, then you will be able to turn to the Creator and receive any help from Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/23, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 26

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Question: If I have some kind of problem that lasts a very long time, related, say, to my health, I concentrate on myself and break away from the ten.

What should I do in this case? Do I accept it as the best from the Creator and ask for the strength to cope with it? Or ask the Creator so that my friends will not have such situations?

Answer: No, get incorporated in your friends and arrange yourself among them so that you are not visible. Melt into them, and you will see how it will affect you, your problems, and everyone.
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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: Rabash writes that in proportion to the multiplication of good deeds, the Creator gives us gifts, as is customary between lovers. What kind of gifts are these?

Answer: Gifts are the revelation of the Creator’s actions. From them, we will understand the system we are in between us and the Creator.

Question: What are the actions of Maase Merkava (action of creation) and Maase Bereshit (primary action)?

Answer: These are actions of our assembly as we connect in the ten: men, women, and then all together we help each other. There are a lot of different nuances here.

Question: What volume should a friend’s prayer take up in my prayer?

Answer: I do not think it can be measured. You have to make sure that your friend’s heart is together with your heart.

Question: How do we hold on to the Creator in the group?

Answer: By holding on to Him together.

Question: How do I keep my friends in the group?

Answer: Hold on to the Creator and your friends and be a conduit between the Creator and them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/9/23, Writings if Rabash Letter No. 43

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Question: How are the qualities of “father,” “mother,” and “embryo” implemented in the ten?

Answer: All your inner movements toward each other add up together, and you form one single mother and one single father.

By connecting your desires, you reach a state called the “uterus,” the place where the embryo develops, i.e., interconnection, mutual bestowal, and love. In it, the Creator is revealed between you.

Parents in spirituality are your friends who help you and pull you up.
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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: People who know the concealed part of the Torah are Kabbalists. But does a Kabbalist also have a part he has not yet attained?

Answer: Each person, even those who have already revealed the Creator, has a part that they attain and a part that they have not. We are not yet in the final correction.

Therefore, we always go in faith above reason, remove a small portion from the concealed part of the Torah, and turn it into revealed to us.

Question: The concealed part of the spiritual action is called a “candle commandment.” How should one act in the ten to reveal the light of the Torah?

Answer: By coming closer to each other with your hearts until you discover that fire and light are revealed inside them.
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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: A person fights with his ego for connection with the friends. I just do not understand why I should pause here, and what happens at this pause. Will I fall if I pause?

Answer: No, at this pause neither retreat nor cessation of military activities take place.

You simply begin to better understand where you are, who you are fighting with, and why. This is a forced pause to reassess your strengths and goals. This is Hanukkah.

You must realize that with the understanding that you are now gaining, you again need to connect with the Creator and with all your friends in one single desire for love, bestowal, and mutual assistance, and with this go to war against our common egoism.

Question: What if you do not fight the war, but pray constantly?

Answer: This is, in fact, conducting the war, because we choose between two forces of nature: egoistic and altruistic. Any fight occurs only in our desires, intentions, and internal and spiritual actions.
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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: Due to what in Hanukkah do we get additional strength to work with the vessels of reception?

Answer: It is due to the fact that once people fought for it, and now we use it. We try to connect and rely on the upper light that our ancestors were honored with during their Hanukkah. Therefore, no special actions are required of us.

We continue our usual work in the ten, remembering that we are in the days of Hanukkah, and thus attract the upper light that they revealed at the time.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/14/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is Hanukkah?”

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Question: Hanukkah is a break in the war against the ego, when we set ourselves up for victory. But if we don’t win this war, what can we expect next?

Answer: We will definitely win the war against the evil inclination because everything has already been calculated from above. So, there’s no problem.

But to do this, we must come together in one heart, connect with each other, work together, and support each other only out of a common, mutually united desire. Then we will defeat egoism. There are no other options.

Question: Can we consider that in fact our job is easy, and thus calm ourselves down in order to go into battle?

Answer: We can. It is said that this is not hard work. Only those who develop a love for their friends see how easy it is.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/14/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is Hanukkah?”

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