Question: Joy from faith above reason manifests itself when a person goes above his doubts and only relies on trust in the Creator. So I need to make even more efforts to distinguish where my joy comes from bestowal, and where it is simply comfort from my depictions?

Answer: We must always solve such problems where we do not know how to develop and how to answer them by increasing our aspiration, our effort. If I increase my efforts and feel joy, confidence, and strength, then I am on the right path.

Question: Why may an increase in aspiration not be felt as joy?

Answer: Because you increase your aspiration for the goal, but the goal in accordance with your aspiration does not come closer, and this makes you feel burdened.

Question: How can I keep joy while working for bestowal?

Answer: You need to accustom yourself to this slowly, gradually, in small portions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Joy that Comes from Dancing”

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Question: There are friends for whom you even feel love and before whom you are ready to annul yourself and to care for them. But there are also friends for whom you feel unfounded hatred that you do not understand. Where can you find the strength to cover this hatred with love?

Answer: Only by asking the Creator to show you that everything you feel toward anyone is aroused in you by Him, personally by Him.

And then you will see that the person has absolutely nothing to do with it. The Creator simply awakens such feelings in you toward this person in order to educate you.

Question: Sometimes during meetings in the ten we achieve some kind of unity, and in such moments, I feel love for a friend I used to hate. But then it passes. How can I hold on to this moment?

Answer: You do not need to hold on to anything! Just thank the Creator for replacing your hatred with love for that person, and ask Him to give you the same love for everyone in the ten, and then for everyone in the world. It does not matter who—ask for an equal attitude toward all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: How can one receive the Creator’s blessing and reach perfection in the relationships between a man and a woman who are engaged in Kabbalah?

Answer: I think that it does not necessarily have to be between a man and a woman. Between women, between men, it does not matter who and with whom. This is how we need to understand relationships in Kabbalah.

In principle, this is the same work; you just divide it into several parts. Try to combine all your requests into one, and then everything will work out perfectly.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/24, Writings of Rabash “The Discernment of ‘In Everything’”

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Question: You said that in every movement coming from the Creator, we need to study whatever comes from Him. What does it mean that we see the Creator’s movements and study them?

Answer: We see how the Creator guides us. Maybe now we do not see it very consciously, but this is how it will be revealed to us. We must imagine that this work is not in us, but in the Creator who creates certain conditions around us and within us so that we move correctly toward the goal.

Question: We work with His manifestations. That is, does movement from His side cause some kind of reaction in us?

Answer: Absolutely, the Creator constantly makes changes and thus our qualities change, and what we see in front of us. This is how we move forward.

Question: When He influences me and reactions arise in me, which of them should I look at and what should I do with them?

Answer: They should all be directed in only one direction so that we unite with each other and unite with the Creator, and so that this global connection between us and the Creator would elevate us to the goal of creation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Generations”

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Question: What does it mean to be a partner with the Creator in the act of creation?

Answer: It means that through your efforts, you strive to achieve a connection among all the friends and then between them and the Creator.

Question: Can we say that the material level of the group’s unity fills our minds while the spiritual level of unity fills our hearts?

Answer: Yes, we can say that.

Question: When a person begins to work for the sake of bestowal, does he have any support other than faith?

Answer: He has no other support. Only the connection with the friends and faith in what he attains through that connection.

Question: In my inner work or in the group’s work, should there be no sense of humiliation?

Answer: Absolutely not! On the contrary, we should take pride in being engaged in the work of the Creator.

Question: What should we ask for to transform foolishness into holiness?

Answer: Ask for a proper, normal, and healthy connection among all the friends. This is the most important thing, and it will keep you on the right path.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Generations”

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 23

How Can We Reach the Creator from a Middle Prayer?

The middle prayer is called “recognition of evil.” It expresses the extent to which we see our heart’s qualities. The external prayer is our ideal vision of ourselves, even if we do not fully agree with it. Yet, according to the middle prayer, we agree or deceive ourselves into wanting to be as we envision.

If we dwell in our heart, we can gradually see the connection between all such elements, discern where the Creator arranges them, and thus know how we can relate to the Creator.

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But the lower ones cannot receive the illumination of the left before it is clothed in Hassadim from the right line.

This is why Esau was weary and said, “Behold, I am at the point to die; and what profit shall the birthright do to me?” (Rashbi, Zohar for All, Vol. 3,  “About the Revival of the Dead“)

After all, he wanted to receive the light of Hochma in his egoistic desires, his receiving Kelim, and he is not able to do this.

It is like our whole life. We want to enjoy life; we chase after all the pleasures and want to receive them, but as soon as I am about to achieve some pleasure, it immediately disappears. And so it has been my entire life.

That is why Esau was weary and said: “I cannot continue like this any longer. I am tired. I have despaired of all this. I am ready to unite with Jacob.”

Today all of humanity stands on the threshold of such awareness. And that is why the wisdom of Kabbalah is revealed—the method of Jacob. After all, this is the science of how to build a middle line.

Before such despair came, there was no need for the wisdom of Kabbalah. The need for it has appeared now. After all, the Torah is revealed from the middle line, the correction of egoism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/10/10, Zohar for All, Chayei Sara [The Life of Sarah]

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Question: There is division in our ten. Some of the ten are only for joy and some are in different states. So the ten set a condition that everyone should gather together only in joy, and if you are in a descent, you should turn off the camera. Is this correct?

Answer: When a person goes to a meeting in the ten, he must be in an elevated mood. This is a mandatory condition; otherwise, the Creator will not accept his prayer.

Question: The more I study, the feeling of joy in me calms down more and more. It is as if it is hiding inside.

What should joy be like? Is it a feeling that you hide inside or should everyone see that you are happy to serve the Creator?

Answer: Joy should be common and all-encompassing in that you and your friends express your common desire to reach the Creator in order to bring Him your desire and fill Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/20/24, Writings of Rabash “Serve the Creator with Joy”

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