Question: The evil inclination takes away the taste for work. And if a person still does daily actions of working in the ten and in the world Kli, what happens to the evil inclination? Is it annulled?

Answer: It is changing but very slowly.

Question: How can we speed up this process?

Answer: To do this, you need to work against the evil inclination and be in the right intention.

Question: How can you correctly direct your ten to such an intention?

Answer: By setting an example.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/24, Writings of Rabash “One Who Restrains Himself in Strife”

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Comment: In the article “You Stand Today-2,” Rabash writes that one cannot form a covenant alone because individuals are like reeds, but together, like in a bundle, they are strong.

My Response: Yes, one person alone cannot connect with the Creator. It is simply impossible. In the past, there were special souls that were different from ours. But now, a person must be within a group of people that aim toward the Creator.

Question: We did an exercise where our entire ten prayed for the advancement of one friend. But is it possible that this is an egoistic prayer when we pray for just one person?

Answer: Praying for the advancement of one friend is not egoism. But in principle, you should all advance together, and the Creator should move you forward. Therefore, the main thing is that you should try to connect among yourselves so that the Creator is revealed in your feelings.

Question: What is the law of equality between us by which all the goodness cloths upon us?

Answer: Each of you receives the goodness of the Creator in your own way and your own measure. Not everyone receives the same; each person feels it differently.

Question: What does it mean for the Creator to be revealed to us?

Answer: A person receives a feeling of closeness to the Creator.

Question: Before making a covenant, should we clarify the intentions of each friend so that we can build one common intention from individual ones?

Answer: Yes, we are obliged to do this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Today – 2”

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Question: In his notes “The Last Generation,” Baal HaSulam says that nothing can be done by force, it must be through public opinion. He explains why the altruistic system did not work in the Soviet Union. That social system collapsed because it lacked an element of the upper force. How can this be explained to people so everyone has a common understanding?

Answer: Only through gradual learning.

Comment: Baal HaSulam says that education will not help either. We saw what positive education there was in the Soviet Union.

My Response: No, it should be different. Education should be based on what people feel, where it leads, and how all layers of society support it.

In other words, education and public opinion are tools. But there must be a higher value: why we want to build such a society.

We must understand that humanity’s development has a purpose, which, as Baal HaSulam writes, is to achieve adhesion with the Creator. That is our work. If we do not explain this to people, we will not be able to accomplish anything.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 8/8/24

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Their desire [husband and wife] must be as one, without coercion (Rashbi, Zohar for All, Beresheet – 2, “Reconciliation and Receiving Permission”).

Question: What is one whole desire? After all, we are so different, and our desires are different.

Answer: The Book of Zohar means husband’s request to stay the night with his wife. Therefore he ensures that this desire is for them as one whole.

Question: Still men and women are very different. I always try to understand how to come to the same desire in our everyday life. It this not about fighting less, but to achieve a single movement in our relationship?

Answer: Now we are talking about daily practice. Life itself directs you so you would treat each other more correctly.

Question: What is it based on: respect, compromises, love?

Answer: On respect. I do not know how appropriate it is here to say “respect,” although it has to be such an attitude. But in general, one has to consider the desires of the other.
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From KabTV’s “Man and Women” 7/30/24

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Question: How do I connect my intention with the intention of the group?

Answer: Look at your friends and think about how to adhere to them with one intention, toward one goal, and support each other. Then you will have a wonderful group directed toward the Creator.

Question: Is it similar to making a covenant when the merging of intentions takes place?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Question: What should I do when my intention toward the group is almost always egoistic? How can I not lose faith and what can I do besides praying?

Answer: Besides prayer, there really isn’t much else. But to clarify your attitude to the group and the group’s attitude to you, you need to be closer to it. Then, you will understand where you still need to make efforts, add connections, etc.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/21/24, Writings of Rabash “The Concealed Things Belong to the Lord Our God”

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Question: Baal HaSulam, in the article “The Last Generation,” writes that all of humanity should come to an altruistic society, not just one country, because today we are all interconnected in a global system. But some countries adhere to a nationalist trend, separate themselves from others, and try to create an independent economy, and some of society wants to have a global system. How do you see it?

Answer: I believe everything will gradually become a global system. Our interdependence will lead us to this.

Question: Does it mean cosmopolitanism is the correct form?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But if you look at the body’s structure, each organ still has its properties. How can we avoid losing the national values inherent in every nation?

Answer: Each nation will keep its own, and no one will interfere there. We are referring only to the proper redistribution of income and wealth between segments of the population and between countries.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 8/8/24

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Thus, those who agreed among them to unite into a group understood that there isn’t such a great distance between them in the sense that they recognize the necessity to work in love of others. Therefore, each of them will be able to make concessions in favor of the others, and they can unite around that (Rabash, Article 8, “Make Yourself Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend -2”).

Of the many desires that exist in each of us, there is one desire that is the same for everyone. It is the desire to attain the Creator, to direct all our gaze toward Him. Each person who agrees to engage in love of others feels that there is no great difference of opinion between them.

If we want to reveal the Creator, but we are all egoists and we all have about the same work to do on ourselves, then by uniting in our efforts, we are able to yield to each other, and then we will be able to unite and reach the Creator.

However, there is a small contradiction here. We can reach the Creator only together, and in order to be together, we need to unite, and in order to unite, we must yield to each other.

Therefore, it is necessary to make a calculation about what is more important: my “I,” a small egoist with his worthless, petty, temporary life, or attainment of the Creator, my future state of eternity, perfection.

And then by throwing my life on the scales to decide what to do, I will be able to yield everything in favor of others in order to achieve similarity to the Creator. Thus, unification will be the most important achievement in my life, my only dream.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: If a person is told about his arrogance, but does not see it in himself even though he understands that it separates him from the group and the Creator, what can help him escape the influence of this trait?

Answer: He should consider this and pray to the Creator to correct this trait within him.

Question: What is arrogance? What is its corrected side?

Answer: Arrogance is the negative side and the positive side is humility, the act of lowering oneself before others.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Here Today – 1”

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