Question: By canceling our egoism, do we cancel reality?

Answer: No. What does it mean, “I annul egoism”? Can I not enjoy it? Can I not feel anything in it? Do I just cancel it?

Even if we work on annulling every day, do we see that it does anything? It depends on how much you feel like zero, that is, nothing, worthless, compared to the Creator.

Question: But what is our reality? The more we learn, the more it seems that this is an unreal reality.

Answer: No, reality is real. Only we must understand that everything depends on our appeal to the Creator. To this extent, the Creator will make everything become real.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/25/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Must Be Received with Both Hands”

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When one’s intention is for the sake of the Creator, he wants the annulment of reality. That is, he agrees to serve the Creator without any vitality or pleasure, a complete annulment of the spiritual reality (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 97, “The Torah Must Be Received with Both Hands”).

Question: What kind of work is this without pleasure and strength?

Answer: Pleasure and strength come and go, but we must think about how to serve the Creator and want to work for Him. We must tune in to direct all our desires, thoughts, and intentions to the Creator. Only based on the connection we restore in this way can we consider ourselves in a desire that He welcomes.

Comment: But we learn that it is impossible to perform even the slightest action without pleasure.

My Response: The point is that it does not matter whether He gives us pleasure for fulfilling His desires or not. It does not matter because the main thing is that we fulfill them.

Question: In principle, I should enjoy what the Creator bestows. And if I agree to annul all kinds of pleasure, do I not annul approaching the goal by this?

Answer: No, you reveal that in this case you work for the sake of elevated pleasures, but you address them to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/25/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Must Be Received with Both Hands”

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Question: What is the happiness of a Kabbalist?

Answer: The happiness of a Kabbalist is that he knows which of his actions can be desirable in the eyes of the Creator and he can perform them.

Question: Where and how does a person find the deficiency (Hisaron) for a constant connection with the Creator that makes him happy?

Answer: I do not think that a person can be in a state of constant Hisaron. This is a very high state.

But if he desires this and always pursues the goal of being able to always bestow to the Creator, then the Creator meets him halfway, and the person receives such conditions that he can constantly bring contentment to the Creator.

Question: Should he be afraid of losing this connection?

Answer: Yes, there should be fear, a great fear.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/24, Rabash, “Happy Is the Man”

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Question: Every day in the ten’s prayers we praise the Creator and believe that He is good and does good. We annul ourselves and want to serve Him. Is this considered spiritual attainment?

Answer: This is not yet a spiritual attainment, but it is a certain spiritual force that you strive for and accumulate among you in your connections. Ultimately it will turn into a powerful collective force that will push you out of egoism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/24, Writings of Rabash “The Godliness Made the Concealment”

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Question: Is our task not to try to solve anything ourselves but to once again ask the Creator to come closer to us and thereby accept any of His decisions?

Answer: Our work comes down to the fact that we want to be connected to the Creator, to adhere to Him, and that is it. After all, any other action would always be incomplete and imperfect except for the one that leads us to adhere to the Creator.

Therefore, we need to think about it, which is the easiest thing because we should not interfere with the Creator’s care for us.

Question: How do we interfere with Him taking care of us?

Answer: Perhaps with your wrong requests.

We must always strive to be as close to each other as possible, to help each other as much as possible, and to imagine as much as possible that we are in a continuous and great connection with each other. And to the extent of the quality of this connection, we can reveal the Creator. Attaining the Creator is our most significant task—something that the world lacks so much.

As a result, we will reveal the Creator to the whole world and thereby give Him maximum pleasure, since His property of good that does good is revealed to both sinners and righteous. Then the entire world Kli will be filled with the light of the Creator.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/2/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Question: We say that the Torah is light, the Torah is a description of the system of the upper worlds, the system of the Creator. How do we attain this system?

Answer: By revealing the spiritual system, we attain it through our feelings. A person will not be able to enter the sensation of the system of governance if he does not reveal it within himself.

Then it becomes clear where we are, what shines for us, what we are limited in, and so on.

Question: Can you study the Torah by reading any Kabbalistic source? The question is only about the intention, not the material, right?

Answer: Of course. If you want to correct yourself, it does not matter which Kabbalistic text you study; it will still affect you.
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From the 1^st the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Question: Can we take our desire, which we wish to use for the Creator, and apply it to the group? By channeling this desire toward the group, can we bring contentment to the Creator by doing it for Him?

Answer: Don’t you have your own desires?

Comment: All my desires are for the group.

My Response: Then you should proceed in that way. Channel all your desires toward your friends and connect with their calculations and intentions so that all your impulses are solely for them.

Comment: It seems to me that we lack focus on the Creator. The group is near, we see it, and we feel it. If we do something for it, we bring contentment to the Creator through that.

My Response: Wonderful! I agree with you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/24/24, Writings of Rabash “A Horse to Ride On”

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Question: Who are we to the Creator—His sons or merely “horses” for realizing His plan?

Answer: We are like riders who can guide their horses toward the right goal.

Question: Why is the horse larger than the rider?

Answer: Our desires are typically much bigger. With these large desires, we can eventually achieve their fulfillment.

Question: If taming the “horse” is difficult, how can we gain control over it?

Answer: You must check all your intentions, and filter out the ones you recognize as egoistic. By doing so, you will keep the Creator separate from those desires.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/24/24, Writings of Rabash “A Horse to Ride On”

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