Question: There are situations when a friend makes great efforts to come to a congress, invests himself in duty, and is faced with a situation where he does not feel mutual care from another friend. And then he cannot justify the friend. What one do in such cases?

Answer: If a person cannot justify another, then this is his problem. We must perceive any friend as an ideal one who does absolutely everything and strives with all his might toward the spiritual goal. If we see him not quite like this but worse, it means that we need to correct ourselves and rise to a level where we begin to see everyone as absolutely righteous, and to the same extent see ourselves with them.

Question: How can I participate in this, how can I help, justify, or do something to raise a person?

Answer: How can you justify yourself? I do not know how to justify myself in such a case. I can see some flaws in others, but they point to what I need to correct in myself. Then I am grateful to the Creator and the friend for revealing my flaws to me.

And in general, the world before me should appear to me absolutely corrected, that the Shechina, the presence of the Creator, is clothed in everyone, and everyone fulfills all the desires, all the conditions of the Creator. And if I do not see this, then in fact I need to correct myself to a level where I will see everyone completely corrected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/15/24, “Continuing the Congress With an Ascent”

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Question: What is the independent measure of receiving pleasure in the vessel of bestowal?

Answer: The independent measure of pleasure in bestowal is a question with an underlying meaning. If we resolve this question correctly, the task before us will transform from a general one into a specific one, and from a specific one into a general one.

At that point, the distinction between me and the general vessel will disappear. Through being interconnected, we will perceive ourselves as a single united whole.

Pleasure is the result of our actions toward one another and toward the Creator.

Question: While receiving pleasure, how can one maintain the intention for His sake?

Answer: Continuously think about the possibility of receiving for the sake of the Creator in order to become one whole with Him.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Writings of Rabash “A Congregation Is No Less than Ten”

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Question: When a friend falls and it is extremely difficult to get out of the state. How can the group help?

Answer: The group should descend to the friend’s level, connect with him, then draw the Creator’s strength upon themselves and begin to rise together with the friend, like an elevator. We take the fallen friend “into ourselves,” and he rises together with us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/14/24, “Continuing the Congress With an Ascent”

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Question: When I read our sources before bed, sometimes I find myself deeply immersed in a single sentence. On the other hand, I push myself to finish reading the entire article. Which is preferable: the quality of immersion or the effort to read as much as possible?

Answer: It depends on a person’s state. Sometimes just one paragraph can explain more to you than reading the entire article. Therefore it is impossible to say exactly how much you need to read.

However, as a rule it is better to read the article that we are going to study the next day. In this way, you gradually get used to absorbing large volumes of material.

We would typically receive an article from Rabash that he had written the day before, and we would read it together at a gathering. The next morning, he would explain the article, expand on it, and answer questions. We should do the same; there is no need to rush forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/15/24, “Continuing the Congress With an Ascent”

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Question: Baal HaSulam writes there is nothing more natural or necessary than connection with the Creator because He is nature. Is it possible to convey this to the world, not through faith below knowledge or religion, but rather in or above knowledge?

Answer: No, imagine we are in a state where the Creator sends us some signals from His level, from His height. We cannot recognize them correctly. The only thing we can do is ask Him to draw us to Him. Only then will we begin to feel and understand Him more and come into contact with Him.

The feeling of the Creator can only be obtained through the path Kabbalah offers. All other paths are built on accustoming oneself to believing there is some kind of power.

Question: So without uniting people into tens, without a practical methodology, it is not possible to give it to the world?

Answer: No, nature is designed so that only through tens can we draw closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/15/24, “Continuing the Congress With an Ascent”

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Question: How can I stop viewing my friends as rivals and start seeing them as partners on the path to the Creator? How can I seem them as parts of my soul, without jealousy, comparison, or anger?

Answer: It is a challenge to move from hatred to love. It cannot be done in one leap, but it can be done gradually.

First of all, constantly ask the Creator to give you the ability to see only positive qualities in your friends. In this way, you will appreciate them for the good that is revealed to you.

Every person has both good and bad qualities, but you want to see only the good. It is like parents who see only the good in their little child, but if you ask others, what will they say about this child? Only negative things.

So it all depends on how we look at things. We should try to see everyone completely independently of our personal feelings, and then we will be able to see correctly. That is all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/11/24, Writings of Rabash “According to What Is Explained Concerning “Love Thy Friend as Thyself”

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Question: Right now, we feel that we have received the upper light and are searching for how to act for the sake of the Creator so it does not leave us. What should our unified action be to convey this attitude to Him?

Answer: For this, we must feel the Creator, connect with Him, and transmit to Him what is within us: our desires, our hearts. And then, everything will work out.

This can be broken down into several steps. First we need to unite all our hearts together. Then we connect our heart with the Creator and transmit our attitude from it to the heart of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/14/24, “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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Question: How can one learn to understand the signals of the Creator?

Answer: You need to reveal it all within yourself: what you feel, what you think, and what you see.

The Creator speaks to each of us every moment in a new way. We just need to tune ourselves to reveal the appeal of the Creator to us.

Question: How can we instantly establish contact with Him?

Answer: It depends on how much we desire to be connected with Him, to rise to Him, and to understand Him, so that He feels us more and is revealed within us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/15/24, “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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