Think Only Good Things

198Question: Is it important for our progress to scrutinize the nuances of good feelings between us?

Answer: Yes, it is important to clarify these feelings, not just between you, but within yourself. Then you will see that each friend occupies a specific place in your heart.

Question: In my soul I want to love everyone in the group. But as soon as I feel I love everyone, a friend’s ego is revealed and he “drills a hole in the boat.” Should I pray for my correction, my friends, or the whole group?

Answer: Pray for each friend individually, for all of them, and for the entire group. In addition, pray for yourself so you do not harbor negative thoughts about them and will always think well of them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Today – 2”

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Ask the Creator to Open Your Eyes

216.01Question: Intellectually I understand that all the evil is within me. But how can I reach a state where this recognition causes me pain and I begin to hate the evil? How can I turn the recognition of evil into a feeling?

Answer: Ask the Creator to open your eyes so that you begin to feel whether you are in reception or bestowal or coming closer to Him or moving away from Him. Pray for Him to do this.

Question: How can one transform from impure to pure, from wicked to righteous? Essentially, I am wicked. Even if the Creator corrects me, I will still remember that there was evil within me.

Answer: That is true. Try and you will see the result. You do not have to wait for it for thousands of years; you can achieve it in your current life.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/24, Writings of Rabash “A Near Road and a Faraway Road”

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Corporeal and Spiritual Union

599.02Question: What is the difference between forming a union of love and connection in the material world and in the spiritual?

Answer: A material union is based only on material benefits and promises, while a spiritual union depends solely on a shared aspiration toward a common goal.

Question: So does this mean there is no light from the Creator when people form a union in the material world?

Answer: No, there is nothing from the Creator. For that, there are lawyers, judges, and so on. They can be consulted.

Question: If our group has the sole desire to attain love for the Creator, but we are still in the material world, how can we determine that we have formed a spiritual union in the group and that the Creator is the guarantor for us?

Answer: The Creator is not a guarantor for anyone. We must be guarantors for each other. You should thoroughly study the article on mutual responsibility.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Today – 2”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—167

290Question: Can we ask for elevated spiritual things even if we are not yet similar to the Creator?

Answer: The thing is that when you engage in this, you draw upon yourself the upper light, which corrects and elevates you.

Question: Can it be said that a vessel of bestowal is compassion, which can attract the light of Hassadim and can the light of Hochma be received in a vessel of compassion?

Answer: No, that is impossible. These are entirely different levels of desire. Level two is a vessel of bestowal. Level four is a vessel of reception.

Question: Eternity is adhesion. It is written in TES that if there were no line (Kav), creation would be merged with infinity. Why must the light enter through the Kav step by step and gradually?

Answer: This is necessary for the development of creation so that it becomes similar to the Creator and capable of receiving the light from Him and then giving the light back, thus becoming equal to the Creator. So, gradually, we will begin to perceive all of this correctly.

Question: Is there a difference between organizing a common desire in a ten, a group, or all of Bnei Baruch? Is it one vessel or different vessels?

Answer: These are similar vessels, but it all depends on the number of units in each vessel—whether a ten, a group, or a global vessel. There is, of course, a difference.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Run My Beloved”

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Work in the Society of the Future

268.01In the article “The Last Generation” Baal HaSulam explains that the biblical principle of love your neighbor as yourself will manifest itself in our world in the future in a social system called communist altruism in which most people will become altruists—not naturally, but after correcting their egoism.

This will be manifested in the fact that they will work for society 12 hours a day and enjoy it.

Question: Actually the picture is not very cheerful. It is hard to imagine that people will work so many hours. On the contrary, they say that, in principle, people will work less, a couple of times a week for three or four hours or even less than that. Perhaps it all depends on what will be considered work?

Answer: Yes, the fact is that there will indeed be much less work, people will work less, but they will have other activities. They will engage in self-improvement. This will be considered their work.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 8/8/24

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 9/10/24

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Toward a New Social System

269Question: In several articles Baal HaSulam analyzes and criticizes the communist system, which, in principle, corresponds to a primitive communal system, that is, life in communes. He says that we will return to this state anyway. How can you explain this?

Answer: The thing is that in primitive communities people were governed by completely different forces. People felt equal and no one had any surplus.

What they extracted from nature in the form of food or plants, they used immediately.

They had no desire to hoard because everything would spoil, and if there was any excess, they would simply give it to the common fund.

According to Kabbalists the kind of social system that should exist in the last generation is that everyone works, everyone understands that they depend on everyone, and no one runs away from their responsibilities; on the contrary, everyone strives to contribute what they can.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 8/8/24

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Make Peace with the Wife

294.2Thus, one who connects with his wife should make peace with her and sweeten her with words. If he does not appease her, he will not stay the night with her because their desire must be as one, without coercion (Rashbi, Zohar for All, Beresheet – 2, “Reconciliation and Receiving Permission”).

The Book of Zohar talks about the kind of relationship a husband should have with his wife and how to earn her favor.

Question: Why does The Zohar specifically write that a man can earn his wife’s favor through his words?

Answer: How else? There is even a popular saying that a woman loves with her ears.

Comment: But on the other hand, a man proves his masculinity through actions and not words. They say that if you just talk, you are not a man.

My Response: You should act in a way that is comfortable and acceptable to her.

Question: What does The Zohar mean by “make peace with the wife”?

Answer: It means that a husband should seek to win her over, endear himself to her, lift her spirits, and then she will be favorable disposed toward him. The Book of Zohar and the Torah in general have much to say about how one should love their wife.
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From KabTV’s “Man and Women” 7/30/24

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Revive the Connection

947Question: How can we properly revive the state of connection between friends?

Answer: You must strive for the same state you are already in and for even greater ones. Then you will feel that your connection is not broken but that it is being restored more and more.

You must constantly maintain the connection between you and your friends and between you and the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/20/24, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Today – 2”

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