Rather, it is one’s friend who can lift his spirit through faith above reason. This means that one’s friend raises him from his state into a state of liveliness. Then, one begins to reacquire strength and confidence of life and wealth, and he begins as though his goal is now near him (Rabash, “They Helped Every One His Friend”).

We need to lead each other in such a way that everyone feels uplifted and that the strength, confidence, and approach to the goal can be obtained from our mutual connection.

I begin to feel that my friends are taking care of me, and this creates very interesting sensations in me. On one hand, I am pleased, on the other hand, it makes me anxious and obliges me.

When I feel this attitude of my friends, I can no longer take care of myself. But, on the other hand, how can I, based on this, do the same with respect to them? This is where mutual action begins, when everyone wants to be a guarantor, help each other and be with each other.

If we build our relationships in this way, then we will quickly have a spiritual Kli, and the Creator will begin to reveal Himself in it. Because the inclusion of everyone in everyone in a small group, even in the ten, even less than ten, is enough to reveal the Creator.

This task is now before us. Unity, mutual guarantee, mutual penetration, and complementation of each other should give us the inclusion of ten Sefirot in ten, ten, and ten. As a result, a “field blessed by the Creator,” divinity, is formed. It is in this field that the Creator is revealed.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Working in Mutual Responsibility” Lesson 6

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In order to reach greater importance of the mutual guarantee and to be filled with love of friends, we must feel how much we are interconnected, interdependent, and responsible for each other and that we are getting closer and closer to each other.

There is me and the Creator, and all the people on earth connect me to Him. Basically, this is my group, this is the ten, which, as a central thread, connects me to the Creator. And all the others join in more and more. Thus, my connection with the Creator becomes broad, infinite, and unlimited.

The Creator gave us only one small point of connection with the group, and by this He inspires each of us to connect with Him. All the rest we have to do ourselves.

This is the meaning of mutual guarantee: We begin to feel that we are all tied together for one spiritual action, connection between us, and from between us to the Creator.
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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 much can we worry about the quality of reception when we are in the quality of bestowal?

Answer: There is no need to worry about the quality of reception. You should care only about the quality of bestowal, about the connection between you. Reception in the required form and amount will be revealed between you anyway.

Question: What is the highest degree above us that we can rise to now?

Answer: I cannot tell you that, it is up to you. But, in principle, this is unlimited.

Question: Is it possible to achieve in the ten an equal attitude of each friend to work?

Answer: It is impossible to achieve an equal attitude. Everyone has their own initial conditions in the group, in the work, psychological and corporeal ones. In no way can we treat people equally! We just need to understand that everyone is in their own state.

Question: Why is all the rest of nature, inanimate, vegetative, and animate, not created in evil? These levels of desire should not resist evil, but a person should.

Answer: These levels are included in the person. We consist of all four levels of nature, and when we correct the highest level (human) in ourselves, then all other levels get connected to it and participate with it.

Question: What is mutual incorporation? What do I incorporate in me?

Answer: When we want to be with the same intention, then, as a result of turning to the upper light, it influences us and mutual incorporation of Sefirot into Sefirot, Partzufim into Partzufim takes place. Thus, we begin to really connect on the spiritual level.

Question: How does one measure the force of connection?

Answer: We do not yet know how to measure the force of connection because it will be revealed only as a result of attaining spiritual degrees.

Question: What kind of desire can I fill society with?

Answer: With the desire to come closer to each other so that the quality called t he Creator begins to be revealed between us.

Question: Is it possible to reach love for others only by using the power of prayer?

Answer: Only by aiming for the connection between us. From this connection we raise a request to the Creator, that is, to the common quality of bestowal, love, and connection, which originally created everyone.

Question: Do we have to sacrifice all our desires in order to reach the correct form of connection?

Answer: We must act as much as we can for the quality of bestowal, the quality of connection between us. That is all!

Question: Why does it happen that friends become better, more directed to the goal, and I become worse and more distant from yearning for the Creator?

Answer: Well, this is wonderful! If you can appreciate them better, it means that you are rising. Conversely, if you can evaluate yourself as worse, you also rise. Perfect! Congratulations!

Question: If we have risen above some contradictions in the ten, have we already corrected some connection between us?

Answer: Of course.

Question: We are at the great Kabbalistic convention. How can we really go through every lesson, every question, every answer, and not just sit on a chair for three hours?

Answer: To sit on a chair for three hours is also good, on the one hand. But, on the other hand, the more we get incorporated in each other, feel every question, try to answer it, and try to incorporate into our friends, then, of course, to this extent we participate in the convention. Participation depends on adhesion, connection, empathy, mutual assistance, and incorporation into each other.
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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: During the congress, there were 10 to 11 people in the ten all the time. What can I do to support my friends so that we constantly have the same number of people at daily Kabbalah lessons?

Answer: Pray. Pray for your friends so that the Creator will give them the desire to systematically attend the morning lesson.

Of course, it means a great deal to be in the daily lesson. I cannot imagine how a person can advance without attending it. There is only one condition that frees him from this: if he is in captivity, that is, he has to work at this time or do something special that he cannot do at other times. But not in any other case.

The morning lesson [in Israel] is very important, especially when a person makes a special effort to attend it. It is these efforts that will advance him.
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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: What in essence is prayer? And how can the ten bring forth a common prayer to the Creator in order to give Him contentment?

Answer: Prayer is a request in the heart when I raise my real request to the Creator. Like a child who cries to his mother although he does not even know who he is turning to. But he came out of her, he is connected with her, and he turns to her crying. And she hears him.

It is the same with us. We must turn to the Creator because we were born from Him; we fell from the quality of Bina into the quality of Malchut, and now we want to rise again into the quality of Bina. But we want to rise consciously!

This ascent will be called spiritual because we must rise above our egoistic desire (Malchut) into the qualities of the Creator (Bina). This is what we must do and ask for.

Question: If we must cry like babies to ask the Creator, then will we never grow up? Will we always be like children?

Answer: Of course. We will always be creatures and not the Creator. But we want to rise to the level of the Creator Himself. This is the purpose of our development. So, let’s try. He wants us to achieve this.
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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: 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: Should we try to increase the importance of the environment and annul ourselves in front of friends outside the group as well? What should be the list of priorities in working with self-annulment?

Answer: There can be no self-annulment outside the group. Only before the friends in the group and only for the sake of connection.

Question: If I ask the Creator to give strength to the friends in the ten to feel Him and His greatness, will this also mean annulling before the friends?

Answer: Of course. After all, you are not asking for yourself but for your friends.

Question: Should self-annulment be a permanent state? Or is it there for a
moment and then disappears?

Answer: It must appear and disappear and so constantly on higher and higher
degrees.

Question: How can we raise the greatness of the Creator among us if we do
not feel Him and do not sense Him?

Answer: We depict Him from within ourselves. “We do not feel, we do not sense…” Start to feel and sense your attitude toward another as toward the Creator. And the Creator will appear in you, and you will begin to feel Him.

Question: What qualities do we need to build in a women’s ten in order to approach
the Creator?

Answer: A very simple quality—bestowal and love.

Question: How to properly take the initiative to unite in a group?

Answer: Show your friends that you love them, respect them, and always want to see them successful, prosperous, and great.

Question: Are the importance of the Creator and the greatness of the Creator consecutive states or the same thing?

Answer: The greatness of the Creator relates more to sensation in the mind, and the importance of the Creator is perceived more in the feelings.
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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 does it mean “not to eat the bread of shame”?

Answer: The bread of shame is when I receive for my own sake.

Question: If I manage to annul myself, can I give fulfillment to a friend?

Answer: Yes. If you annul before your friends, you can already start fulfilling them.

Question: Is it possible to use the state where I am higher than my friends to pray for them?

Answer: Yes. But we need to check that it does not come from my arrogant attitude toward them.

Question: How does the group help us bring ourselves to the greatness of the Creator?

Answer: It helps in a lot of states. I must take an example from my friends, implement my properties of bestowal on them, etc. This is our job.

Question: Will self-annulment of everyone in the ten eliminate the friction between us that we myust rise above in order to advance on the path?

Answer: It will happen.

Question: Can the ten exhausts its strength as a result of a strong desire for connection?

Answer: Maybe, and then it must ask for strength from the Creator.

Question: I understand and even feel that I must annul myself in front of my friends for spiritual advancement, but it is not so easy to annul. So how do I pray to the Creator?

Answer: Try to annul yourself. If you cannot annul, pray; the Creator will help. That is it. May God help you!

Question: It is unclear how to give an example to others without hiding my flaws?

Answer: The fact that you have flaws and you still want to give a good example—this is a perfect example.
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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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Rabash, Article 6 (1984), “Love of Friends – 2”:By each joining the society and annulling oneself before it, they become one body.

For example, if there are ten people in that body, it has ten times more power (when united) than a single person does. However, there is a condition: When they gather, each of them should think that he has now come for the purpose of annulling self-love. It means that he will not consider how to satisfy his will to receive now, but will think as much as possible only of the love of others (about uniting with and filling the friend). This is the only way to acquire the desire and the need to acquire a new quality, called “the will to bestow.”

And from love of friends one can reach love of the Creator, meaning wanting to give contentment to the Creator. 

Look how many colors there are in this passage.

By annulling oneself in front of the group, each one forms a group, a single whole.

In this unified whole, each one has ten times more strength than he has alone.

Imagine if you had ten times more spiritual powers, the qualities of bestowal, than you do now, you would have had already jumped into the upper world.

Just imagine, if I get incorporated in others and take from each of them literally a grain of what is in them of the desire for spirituality that the Creator planted in them, and I annul before them, I already have ten such parts—I immediately find myself in the spiritual world, rise above myself, above egoism. I have the strength for this; I got it from my friends.

Therefore, if this whole (group) consists of ten people, then each of us has ten times more strength than each one individually.

However, there is a condition: When they gather, each of them should think that he has now come for the purpose of annulling self-love. It means that he will not consider how to satisfy his will to receive now, but will think as much as possible only of the love of others. This is the only way to acquire the desire and the need to acquire a new quality, called “the will to bestow.”

However, there is a condition: When they gather, each of them should think that he has now come for the purpose of annulling self-love (the abolition of selfishness). It means that he will not consider (think about) how to satisfy his will to receive now (their own egoistic desires), but will think as much as possible only of the love of others (only about the possibility of bestowing to one’s neighbor).

This is practically the realization of love—to give to another. This is the only way to acquire the desire and the need to acquire a new quality, called “the will to bestow.”

By including oneself in others and trying to somehow connect with them enough to wish to give to them, I acquire a new quality, the desire to bestow. So from the love of friends, we come to the love of the Creator.

The Creator is the final common goal, the sum of all our relationships to each other. And if I want to give to the whole group, then I begin to feel that my attitude toward them is love for the Creator.
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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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