“Turn away from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it” (Psalms 34).

There are two forces in the world that give man the motivating force that will compel him to revoke his rest force. That is, the force of rest, which is in the qualities of the soul, yields to two other forces, meaning become revoked, and by this the soul takes upon itself the force of movement: 1) the rejecting force, 2) the attracting force.

The rejecting force is from something bad and loathsome that compels one to run away. The attracting force is good and nice things that one is compelled to chase. However, a single force, whether attracting or rejecting, is insufficient to revoke the force of rest.

“Turn away from evil” is called the “rejecting force,” if a person feels that it is bad. “Do good” is called the “attracting force” if a person feels that this is good and he must chase it and obtain it.

“Seek peace and pursue it.” (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 219, “Seek Peace and Puruse It“)

Question: How can we rely on these feelings if we are not yet corrected? Should we experience them somehow?

Answer: You should experience them. You should explore them. You should understand where they lead you and what the Creator wants from you when He gives you such desires.

When you know this, then all your desires will become very clear, and you will move only toward the right goal.

Question: What helps us not get confused between the traditional choice of “pleasant—unpleasant” and the true choice of “striving for good and avoiding evil”?

Answer: It helps that we strive to get out of the control of good and evil, which we want to feel instead of “good—bad.” We must realize this aspiration in our connections and help each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/9/24, Writings of Rabash “Seek Peace and Pursue It”

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Question: What is the internal movement where you can switch yourself to connection with the Creator, although you do not clearly feel Him?

Answer: It happens when a person realizes that everything that has happened to him, has happened by the Creator’s will, and now it is time for him to make his movement toward the Creator. And that is how he acts.

Question: How can one force himself into a state of connection with the Creator?

Answer: Through the same exercises we always do. The Creator purposely gives us these exercises to confuse and cool us. And we, on the contrary, strive to rise up to Him.

Therefore, create strength, ask Him in unison with the whole ten that He raise you to Himself, that you want to take hold of each other and Him.
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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: When I face an obstacle, can I ask the Creator what response He expects from me?

Answer: You can ask not only during obstacles but at any time.

Question: How can I clearly catch the Creator’s response and not just the response of my mind?

Answer: Ask to understand His obstacles correctly, to draw the right conclusions, and to discover the Creator’s joy in your proper response to the obstacle.
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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: Rabash writes those who have a point in the heart are given the opportunity to know they can enjoy spiritual things. Therefore, we look at those who enjoy material things as small children. Such a state can lead to arrogance. What should we do about it?

Answer: Nothing can be done about it. You just need to understand what I enjoy and what I strive for. Then, everything will fall into place.

Question: If joy is the illumination of the Creator and fulfillment, can we turn judgments into joy, and how can we do it?

Answer: For now it is enough to determine whether you are in a state of connection or similarity with the Creator or not. The rest will come.

Question: Through our prayers, requests, and appeals, we hold on to the Creator. We feel that we are growing in our own eyes all the time, and this gives us joy. On what point should all our attention and thoughts be concentrated?

Answer: On what I am doing for the Creator at the moment. Just because I feel good doesn’t mean anything.

Question: What is there to rejoice about on the day of judgment?

Answer: About the fact that we have tried during this year, as in prior years, maybe even more successfully, to raise ourselves to the level of the highest court. This is a very high level.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/8/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is Joy?”

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Question: Who reveals Hisaron (deficiency) to a friend: one’s evil inclination or the Creator?

Answer: The Creator.

Question: Can a person raise his own Hisaron to the Creator or do his friends have to?

Answer: He does it with them together.

Question: We often raise our friend’s Hisaron to the Creator so He would connect us on a new level. But there is a fear that a person’s condition could change, and he would be filled in his egoistic Kelim; for example, he will be cured, find a job, etc. How do we work with that?

Answer: We do not consider the side effects because the most important thing for us is to feel united in a single intention in which the Creator would be revealed.

Question: How can we wish to come to a single prayer? Is it very hard?

Answer: It is not very hard. You must start from afar and gradually narrow the field of view so the Creator is in its center.

Question: So we don’t have to wait for some abstract Hisaron, but should work with one the Creator reveals to us now?

Answer: Of course. At any given moment, you can manifest it.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/5/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 34

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Question: How can we make our prayer truly effective?

Answer: You need to encourage each other so that everyone feels a desire to rise higher and pull everyone else along, like when climbing a mountain. Then you will receive the Creator’s response, which will definitely satisfy you.

Question: Can Kabbalists encourage each other like this to make a collective ascent during a lesson or a congress?

Answer: Of course, they can. That is exactly what they do. It only seems to us that an ascent can happen in one move, but that is not true. Here we encounter problems that we must solve at every moment and divide our spiritual progress strictly according to our capacities; meaning, we need to give it more attention in order to remain in the quality of bestowal and constantly ask the Creator to fulfill us.

Question: We say that we do not strive for suffering but for unity. But if there is no suffering, I would not want to ascend. How do we break this cycle?

Answer: Your friends will help you with that. When you feel yourself in an ascent, through your connection with them, you will also feel yourself in a descent. This will create the desire in you to connect with them and rise together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/24, Writings of Rabash “The Godliness Made the Concealment”

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On the last day of the Sukkot holiday, we must combine all our requests into one big cry for salvation—Hoshana Rabbah. If we talked about it all the days of the holiday, studied, and wanted to feel what was happening to us, then, of course, at the end of the holiday we can collect all these occurrences and come to great salvation.

We want all the requests we raised during the holiday to come together and make us feel an immense need for great salvation.

We ask the Creator for salvation, that is for conditions under which the light can be revealed through us. We have been preparing for this all the days of Sukkot; otherwise, we would have neither the right desire nor the right shade. The cry comes through as a reward for the effort.

The Creator conceals how close we are to salvation with this shade if we turn to Him with this exalted and powerful request: “Creator, save us!”

Just as the Creator creates a shade for His light and gradually raises us stage by stage, we need to accept this shade and try to see it as a means to rise above reason, above the shade, to come to the light of faith. When we come to such a need, it is already the beginning of salvation.

The state when a person comes to the desire to live in the light of faith is called the night of Hoshana Rabbah. During all the days of the holiday, he revealed an ever-stronger inner desire for salvation, because every day, more and more light of correction was revealed to him. And he rejoices that he has reached a realization and a feeling that only the Creator can and is ready to save him.

The light of faith is revealed in the Kli that a person prepares by his refusal to receive the light directly and by his desire to remain in the shade. We need to achieve such a connection with the Creator when He shines on us, but we do not want to receive this light directly and push it away, wishing to resemble the action of the light in relation to the Creator.

Thus, our correct attitude toward the Creator is also called light. This is how we begin to feel the light completing all our work. The Creator gives us an example of how we can give to Him in the same way He gives to us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/23/24, “Hoshana Rabbah”

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Question: A year has passed since the catastrophe on October 7^th when the war began.

Terrorists from Gaza broke into Israeli territory and killed 1,432 people including 341 women and 36 children, one of whom was a 10-month-old baby.

251 people were taken hostage and transported to Gaza and 97 of them are still in captivity.

The phrase that had been said before: “Quiet for quiet”—if you’re quiet with us, we will be quiet with you did not work. On October 7^th they started killing us.

A year has passed. What should we understand about ourselves and our society after these events?

Answer: We need to understand that we must not fear anyone. We must not show anyone that we can forgive when they come to kill us. We should not do that.

We must clearly understand that our salvation is only in our own hands, only in our weapons, and in nothing else.

Question: Do you think the events of October 7^th changed how we perceive ourselves as a nation?

Answer: I think they did. They changed us.

Before October 7^th we had hoped for some semblance of mutual, humane relations with others. After this we understand that such a thing is no longer possible, not in any way! Therefore, we now have greater confidence that we will not be dragged into another mess of egoism, bloodlust, and so on, as we were on October 7^th.

Question: How can we ensure that the pain from these events stays with us? And should it?

Answer: It should. It is forever! For as long as we live on this Earth, we must remember that our neighbors are our most bitter enemies. We must never allow ourselves any weakness in this regard.

Question: How will we achieve peace?

Answer: That is when peace will come.

Question: So when we talk about peace, at the same time, do we always know that they do not want it? Is that how it works?

Answer: Yes, that they do not want it and do not even think about it. But when you think about war, then they will strive for peace.

Question: So if I ask you what steps we should take toward peace, are these the steps you are talking about?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Think about peace but at the same time?

Answer: Arm yourself.

Question: You always talk about unity, the unity of the people, and you say that this is our main weapon. It is clear to most people that unity is probably the most important thing. So why can’t we unite? Please explain.

Answer: Because we still do not truly understand within ourselves how necessary it is.

Question: Do we not have that understanding yet?

Answer: No.

Question: Does it come through suffering or what?

Answer: Gradually, through blows, we begin to realize that unity is in fact the most important thing.

Question: But through blows?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So if we do not realize it now, do you expect more to come?

Answer: Definitely.

Question: How can we realize this in a peaceful way, as they say, through light and not through darkness?

Answer: We must become such a strong light that they will fear us.

Question: When you say “we must become a light,” what do you mean?

Answer: That in our desire for peace, we are willing to do everything necessary so that those who oppose it cease to exist.

Question: When you talk about our desire for peace, do you mean peace with our neighbors? Or peace in general?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And at the same time, you say that we must always be preemptive.

My Response: Of course.

Question: So Israel should always have a policy of preempting strikes.

But how did it happen that for 20 years we lived knowing that in the south they were digging underground Gaza and in the north Hezbollah was arming itself? We knew all this, and yet we somehow lived on. Can you explain this to me? I am trying to understand the mindset of the leadership or even of ourselves.

Something terrible was brewing nearby, and we did not act. Why? Can you tell me what this kind of complacency was about?

Answer: We wanted to appear kind, good, and peace-loving to each other and to the whole world. But this is a terrible delusion.

Question: Really? Should we not care about the world, about the world’s opinion?

Answer: Not at all!

Question: What should we care about?

Answer: Only about the necessity of our existence as the people of Israel because our existence is aimed at achieving the highest state of humanity.

Question: So you call our position, even a corporeal one, the center of the world?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Today this is becoming more and more apparent. You have always said this actually, that this is the central problem, the central point of the world.

My Response: Yes.

Question: What healing process must we go through?

Answer: We must explain to everyone that the world exists for the purpose of bringing all nations together, uniting them around the most important thing in the world, which is to love your neighbor as yourself.

Question: Are you saying that the whole world should somehow push us toward that?

Answer: Yes.

Question: The world should constantly signal to us that we need to do that?

Answer: Yes.

Question: For them?

Answer: For everyone. This is the central point of the entire existence of the universe.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/7/24

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