Question: Is there any hierarchy in women’s advancement? Is it built in a special way?

Answer: There is no hierarchy at all. Women are not like men who have to constantly rise up and forward.

Question: It turns out that a woman is focused on herself: home, clothes, etc. Is that why you often say that women’s work is to put some kind of pressure on men?

Answer: Yes, not only to put pressure on her husband, but also to raise children, especially boys, to encourage them to study, and so on.

This, in fact, is her spiritual work despite her down-to-earth nature.
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From KabTV’s “Men and Women” 8/20/24

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It may seem that love for one’s neighbor is something simple and insignificant, like advising a child to be friends with others instead of fighting. But in fact, it is the borderline that separates our corporeal world, where we live in love for ourselves, from the upper reality where only those who have attained love for others exist.

We need to understand that this border above the corporeal world is very clear and strictly guarded from the spiritual world. Standing guard at this border are immense forces, stern and highly demanding, which precisely determine who must remain in our lower reality and who is worthy of existence in the upper reality, in the future, spiritual world.

Therefore our entire work consists of exiting the lower reality that we perceive now. Moreover, we do not even realize how low and limited it is, because it is just our life and our world; it is us.

In fact, Kabbalists explain that the main thing is to cross the border and enter the upper world, and from there continue to ascend higher and higher. We must not let the forces of nature influence us and confuse us, which pulls us back under the control of the egoistic laws of this world.

This is the main purpose of the wisdom of Kabbalah: to teach us how to cross this border, to familiarize us with the laws of the upper world, and to begin using them. In other words, Kabbalah’s task is to save us and prepare us for existence in the world of the Creator who dwells on the highest degree of the spiritual world.

That is why Kabbalah does not deal with this world or anything below the border with the upper world. Only those who transition into the upper spiritual world begin to study its laws, to reveal these laws within themselves, and to learn how to use them correctly.

Before a person crosses into the spiritual world, they can understand little from the wisdom of Kabbalah, because it is entirely devoted to the laws of the upper world. Therefore all our efforts should be focused on this transition from our world to the upper world—in our feelings, perceptions, understanding, and awareness.

Everything that relates solely to this world does not pertain to the reality where we should remain. The soul, which is present in each of us, is a divine particle from above, and it strives to return to the same state, the same reality where the Creator is, meaning to the upper world. Only in relation to this upper world do we assess ourselves, not in relation to anything below the border between worlds.

Everything worth doing in this life should only be for the sake of rising from this world to the upper world.
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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: At a convention, we will not always have the technical ability to be with our ten. It feels like we have to maintain an internal connection. How can we internally maintain this point of unity?

Answer: I do not think that we will always gather in the form we are doing today.

After all, you will not gather the ten that you will gather at the convention today every time, because next time others will come, and then others. Therefore we need to do something so that all this does not fall apart. I do not know how much it helps that we hold conventions. Maybe it does the opposite.

The thing is that people are used to working in their place, from their city, from their country. And here, everyone is mixing. Once upon a time, many years ago, this was good. And now we need to think carefully about what to do with conventions in the future.

Question: We are now virtually connected with our ten. What am I adding to the fact that now, while here, I want the friends in my ten to advance toward the Creator?

Answer: You transmit all this through your internal connection between hearts.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/8/24, Writings of Rabash, “You Stand Today, All of You”

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Question: Everything I see comes from my Kelim; therefore, I do not see the complete picture of the universe. How can I rely on what I see?

Answer: The thing is that only at the beginning should you try to unite more and more. Later you will have an inner sense of unity that will guide you by itself. Then you will not need any effort to get closer to each other.

But in general, to the extent you get closer to each other, you will be able to get closer to the Creator and begin to attain Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Writings of Rabash, “The Point in the Heart”

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Question: Has each of us who studies at Bnei Baruch in one way or another heard the Creator at least once? Can this be said?

Answer: No, we are only preparing to hear Him.

Question: How do we hear the Creator in the ten?

Answer: If you are united with each other in the ten, then the quality of hearing will manifest in you. In other words, no one will hear the Creator individually, only together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Writings of Rabash “The Point in the Heart”

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Question: You said we should either work on our own flaws or the flaws of our friends. Which is more beneficial?

Answer: When a person works on his or herself.

Question: How is a heart of stone different from a heart of flesh?

Answer: The heart of flesh is actually the heart of stone.

Question: If I try to feel my friends as myself, how should I deal with their egoistic desires?

Answer: You should not take on the egoistic desires of your friends. You should distance yourself from them and allow them the opportunity to understand and correct their own qualities. A person cannot correct someone else’s desires.

Question: Is a pure heart the heart of the group and a heart of flesh a personal heart? Or are they the same?

Answer: No, a pure heart is a heart completely corrected of egoism, even in one person, while an egoistic heart is filled with egoistic desires. These are two opposite states.

Question: There is always a contradiction between body and spirit. How can one strengthen the spirit?

Answer: By being connected with good friends.

Question: If I constantly, many times a day, reveal my own evil, where in this endless prayer for my own correction should I include a prayer for my friends, and what should it be like?

Answer: It should be one united prayer where you care both for the correction of your own heart and the correction of your friend’s heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/8/24, Writings of Rabash “One Learns Only Where One’s Heart Desires”

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Question: We have a healthy egoism that drives us, and there is also what is called the evil inclination. How can we learn to distinguish between them?

Answer: Try to discern this based on your connection with one another. You should be in a state of maximum closeness with each other, and then you will begin to notice various nuances in your relationships. At that point, it will become easier for you to turn to the Creator and ask for His assistance.

Question: What will allow us to speak with the Creator directly?

Answer: Being in the same qualities and aspirations as He is.

Question: How important is it to have the desire to reveal the Creator?

Answer: This is the most important reason for you to engage in the wisdom of drawing closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Internality and Externality”

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Question: Can we say Zeir Anpin is like a Rosh (head) in relation to Aba ve Ima?

Answer: No. Zeir Anpin (ZA) defines Aba ve Ima‘s actions by raising MAN to it, but ZA is not a Rosh.
It starts the action like a small child screaming and asking, which affects the adults who care about him and give him what he needs.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Sulam Commentary, Item 50″

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Question: You said that we should not allow the forces of nature to confuse us. How can a person make an internal choice to understand that they are not confusing, but helping him?

Answer: If he places himself in the most neutral state possible, he can correctly assess what influences him, why he reacts in a certain way, and will be able to choose the right path.

A neutral state begins with one nullifying one’s ego before one’s friends. This is the most important alignment. Without it, a person will have no reference point for how to position oneself neutrally in relation to one’s friends and to perceive them as upper ones with regard to oneself.
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From the 1^st part of 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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