Question: It is written that one who comes to purify is aided in thought because one can only overcome in action, not in intention. What actions are we talking about? After all, we always say that the hardest thing is to maintain the right intention.

Answer: Indeed, the hardest thing is to maintain the right intention. A person’s actions involve giving something to someone or helping someone in some way.

But they can only do this when they see some benefit for themselves. If they don’t see any benefit, then accordingly they can’t do anything.

However, in spiritual work, everything is the opposite. A person must perform the act of bestowal in everything, regardless of whether they feel any benefit from it or not.

Question: Does it mean that we choose the act of bestowal and pray to the Creator to give us the right intention?

Answer: Yes, the action doesn’t necessarily have to be directed at bestowal; it can also involve receiving. The main thing is that the intention is for bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/29/24, Writings of Rabash “He Who Comes to Purify Is Aided – 1”

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Question: If we intend to bestow to our friends, but overlook bestowing to the Creator, is such an intention considered pure and correct?

Answer: This is an incorrect intention because we must achieve the desire to bestow to  the Creator. We can realize this desire only through bestowing to the friends, and then what we bestow to them, the Creator feels.

Question: How can we also include the required direction to the Creator in this action?

Answer: First we must attain the desire to bestow to the Creator, and then, for the sake of this, we will be able to bestow to our friends as well.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/29/24, Writings of Rabash “He Who Comes to Purify Is Aided – 1”

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Question: How can there be action in overcoming the attribute of reception without an intention? Why isn’t the intention primary?

Answer: We can perform actions under compulsion because we are forced or scared. However, intentions can only be changed if the light of the Creator descends upon us and corrects them from receiving to bestowing.

Question: At what stage in the group should we emphasize intention by checking to ensure that it is directed toward giving?

Answer: From the very beginning.

Question: How can I verify through the ten that I am correctly forming my intention and that I am fully immersed in it?

Answer: For this, you must be connected with one another and feel to what extent you want to help your friends, to bestow to them, to pray to the Creator for them. Then you will see how much you yearn to bestow.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/29/24, Writings of Rabash “He Who Comes to Purify Is Aided – 1”

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Question: Is the Shechina in the dust the uncorrected parts we must correct? Is this what the Torah is?

Answer: No, the Torah is our corrected desires filled with the light of the Creator. We are talking about our desires as they are now in the process of correction, completely opposite, shattered, distant from each other, and disconnected. But we desire to bind them together.

By rising above the dust of the Shechina, we appeal to it to raise it out of the dust, to elevate it, and thereby illuminate it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Who Hears a Prayer”

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Question: Why are women so different and individualistic in our world?

Answer: Because in our world a woman is more varied in her corporeal properties, and a man is more diverse in his spiritual properties.

He has a greater craving for spirituality than a woman. Women have it in greater quantity but lesser quality. A woman begins to engage in something spiritual and quickly weakens and gets filled, but a man does not.

Question: At the same time, we see that most of your students are women. How can you explain this?

Answer: Because they rush toward spirituality, but they close-off very quickly.

Comment: I hope one day I will be able to understand myself, this soaring that jolts up and cools down. Even in everyday life, some leaps of desire are characteristic for me: choosing clothes, doing this and that. Of course, I am exaggerating now. But these are like impulses that I do not know how to curb.

My Response: In general, all these impulses, of course, are more inherent in women. This is due to their cycles and other characteristics. Even women’s suffering is more outwardly visible, while men’s is deep inside.

Question: When you see women suffering, you do not always know how to help. There are even dead-end situations when you want to help, but it is impossible. Is there any advice?

Answer: I cannot give you any advice. You can show some sympathy and limit yourself to this; otherwise, you will drown in this and be pulled into it yourself. A woman likes to perform. She wants sympathy and involvement; that is why she behaves like this.
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From KabTV’s “Men and Women” 8/20/24

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Question: How is prayer formed in the heart?

Answer: A prayer is formed in the heart when I begin to feel that my friends and I have a common connection but something is not moving forward. This is the state you are in right now. Something is not moving forward.

What is the reason that we are not progressing? And here we have a very clear realization that everything depends not on us, but on the Creator. And the prayer is very simple: we want to unite with each other so that by our unification, by rising above our individual egos, we can bring Him contentment because in this way we become like Him.

It is by our similarity to the Creator that we bring Him contentment. What does it consist of? It consists of efforts on our part to unite so that He can fill our unity with Himself, dwell within us, and thus enjoy that He is within the soul, within creation.

And then there are many different feelings and studies, which represent a clear revelation of the science of Kabbalah. That is, the dependencies between Aviut, Massach, Partzuf, the connection between the parts in the Partzuf: Bina, Malchut, Keter, and so on.

The connections between us and with the Creator are just like novels, symphonies. Moreover, they are simultaneously both sensory and mental, and one complements the other.

This does not exist in our world. And if it does, it is only partially, when a person understands music and at the same time understands its foundation, its relationships, the influence on hearing, on the adaptation of our internal sensations to sounds, even to frequencies, in what conjugation they can be, and so on. I have not seen such an example in our world like music.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”

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Question: What does it mean to be in union with the Creator in a state of lowliness?

Answer: Despite not having any prerequisites to rise, I am ready to be with the Creator in any state, even the lowest ones.

Question: When I read the study material, if there is a desire to give in the heart but the mind does not understand what is studied, does it mean that I am not disconnecting from myself and not connecting with the Creator?

Answer: It does not matter. The main thing is that you are aware of this. From here the correction will begin.

Question: Who can plead with the Creator to pull a person out of the filth, himself or his ten?

Answer: The person himself. And if he cannot ask for himself, he asks his ten to do so.

Question: What does it mean not to doubt the greatness of the Creator?

Answer: It means feeling that there is no one higher than Him, and in fact, there is none else beside Him.

Question: Where is the truth if some friends feel progress and others do not?

Answer: The truth is with those who feel progress.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Raises the Poor from the Dust – 2”

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A person raises the lack that he has and asks the Creator to satisfy his lack (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 579, “I Will Remove the Stony Heart”).

In order to awaken the Creator and achieve a true deficiency in the ten, we must come together in a single circle, as one vessel (Kli), and turn to Him with a request to help us feel Him, and thus bind all of us into one unified Kli.

The realization of the true deficiency of the ten will occur when we feel that we are connected with each other like the particles of Malchut and elevate a collective desire upward so that the Creator will manifest within it. That is when He will reveal Himself within us and fill us. This is called connection with the Creator.

Question: Can we call it a true deficiency when there is a desire to bestow, but no strength to do so?

Answer: No, that means there is no desire. If there is a desire, there is strength. If there is no desire, there is no strength.

Question: How can the ten always be ready to remain in the same awakening as the Creator?

Answer: The ten doesn’t know this. We simply need to try to ascend to the Creator and unite with Him through our collective efforts, and it will gradually happen. The Creator will approach us, reveal Himself within us, and allow us to attain Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/24, Writings of Rabash “I Will Remove the Stony Heart”

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Question: We talk a lot about caring for humanity and becoming a transmission link between the Creator and the world. Can we do this work at our current stage or are we just preparing the groundwork for the future?

Answer: We are still in a state that even if we do not ask for the whole of humanity, but only for our ten, it will be enough. Although a complete prayer is when we ask for the entire chain, the whole Kli, the whole soul of Adam. Then it definitely works.

However, asking means feeling a desire, a need, an intention. Therefore, first you need to think about it and then turn to the Creator. And if we ask in the following way—I ask for ten, the ten asks to be included in the whole global Bnei Baruch, the global Bnei Baruch asks to be included in all of humanity—this is a complete prayer.

Question: How can we raise this sensitivity? Is it only by a demand to the Creator?

Answer: No, we can raise it mainly by discussing it among ourselves, listening to our friends, and thus increasing its importance.

Question: So is our task at this stage only to ask for humanity in this chain?

Answer: What other task is there? Practically we have one request: help us create such a desire, called a Kli, that You could fill and bring to similarity to You.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”

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