So Pleasure Doesn’t Annul the Intention

237Question: Do Kabbalists bestow to the Creator without any conditions regardless of whether they have pleasure or not? How can someone rise to such a level where there is no difference?

Answer: Ask the Creator for the opportunity to bestow even in the worst states.

Question: What about the best states?

Answer: In the best states it is natural.

Comment: In the article “The Creator Is Meticulous with the Righteous,” Rabash writes that in the best states, it is difficult to bestow because when you feel good, you are bribed.

My Response: That is true. What do you suggest?

Question: To find some way to rise above this. After all, it turns out that you are striving for pleasure from the connection with the Creator, which is wrong. How do you act correctly?

Answer: Strive to ensure that pleasure does not take away the correct intention—to bestow to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/1/24, Writings of Rabash “The Creator Is Meticulous with the Righteous”

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How Do We Pray Correctly?

239Question: If we renew ourselves daily and start from a clean slate, what is the correct prayer for everything that was, is, and will be? Or should we focus on the present moment and ask for corrections now?

Answer: When we speak of what was, is, and will be, it reflects our attitude to the Creator as the source of everything. But if we ask Him to change us at the present moment, then we are talking about our immediate, moment-by-moment connection, and we turn to Him with this request.

Question: What is more important: to pray for your longevity or for the connection with you not to be broken?

Answer: Do not pray for my longevity or connection with me, but for your connection within the group and with the Creator.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/19/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Things that Come from the Heart”

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Avoid Spiritual Exile

120Question: How can I develop a fear that I will be unable to bestow to my friend?

Answer: You should think about this, depict it, and you will acquire the attitude.

Question: What are the consequences if I do not bestow to my friends on time?

Answer: The worst possible consequences are spiritual descent, spiritual exile, or, in general, obstruction of the path.
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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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A System of Many Desires

938.05All creations in the world are many organs standing one atop the other, and when they are all corrected, they will truly become one body (Zohar for All, Toldot [Generations], “These Are the Generations of Isaac”).

Question: Is each ten an organ of the common Partzuf?

Answer: You could say that it is part of some organ.

Question: How can we become spiritual organs?

Answer: That is not your task. Your task is to strive for connection within your ten, then in your hundred, your thousand, and so on. In other words, keep ascending in your connection.

Question: What is a created being in the world?

Answer: A created being in the world is an individual desire to enjoy, to feel that you are alive, egoism.

The Creator created man, meaning a system consisting of many desires and subsystems, all of which are directed toward correcting themselves.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/10/24, “Growing Stronger in the Ten”

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Don’t Steal from Each Other

224Question: How can we develop sensitivity to the recognition of evil within ourselves?

Answer: See that there is so much of it in you that you can’t do anything about it.

Comment: Sometimes I see that there is too much of it.

My Response: That is good. Suffer from it, hate it, and try to understand why the Creator made you the most egoistic one.

Question: Should we help our friends in the ten come to the recognition of evil?

Answer: You can, but very carefully; otherwise, you will be stealing from them.

Question: How do we avoid stealing from them?

Answer: Do not tell them what is bad or good about them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/11/24, “Growing Stronger in the Ten”

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Become Similar to the Creator

608.02Question: What does bestowal mean?

Answer: Bestowal is when a person thinks about how to accomplish the task that the Creator has set for him: to become similar to Him, to become a human.

The fact is that our world consists of four levels: inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature, and man.

Man is called “Adam,” which is translated as “similar to the Creator”(Edomeh). This is the state we must achieve. Kabbalah tells you how to do it. It is a method of attaining the Creator on the basis of similarity to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—179

234Question: How can one stay focused on the source while suppressing one’s ego to achieve at least minimal contact?

Answer: It is by turning to the Creator and asking for the force of bestowal rather than the force of reception.

Question: I understand a prayer directed outside of me. We say, “Give me this, give me that.” But what should a  prayer “inside me” be? What is it?

Answer: Inside me is egoistic and outside me is altruistic, for the sake of others.

Question: Against the background of strength gained from the convention, I did not feel small; on the contrary, I felt like I was as great as our friends. Is it good to remain in such a state or should I humble myself a bit?

Answer: It is good to stay in that state. Do not be afraid to feel great. Just as a hen covers its eggs with its body to hatch them, you can act similarly toward others.
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From  the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/16/24, “Continuing the Congress With an Ascent”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 10/9/24

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The Land of Israel Will Be Ours

933As the holiday season and the start of the new year approach, a question arises: “How should we best prepare for it?”

I believe that all the people of Israel living in this land understand the unique situation we are going through. It demands unity and solidarity from us as well as the strength to withstand our enemies who surround us from all sides. We must be prepared for this and confident that if we act in this way, we will succeed.

Everything depends on us. If we desire it, the land of Israel will be ours. These two states—our breakthrough into the spiritual world and our physical resistance to the enemies of the people of Israel are interconnected and are drawing closer together.

The more prepared we are for spiritual revelation, the more likely we are to secure the physical land of Israel. One influences the other. This connection is very positive and clear and is becoming more evident with each passing day as we can see in the recent series of successful military operations.

Baal HaSulam explains in detail in the “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” the connection between internality and externality. Therefore, the more unity and solidarity we have, the more success we will achieve in the corporeal realm. This is a very favorable situation, and the most important thing is not to miss this opportunity, not to show weakness toward our enemies, or hostility toward one another.

If we establish open, heartfelt relationships filled with love and unity among us, we can conquer the entire world through the force of good. Forces of kindness, unity, and togetherness will emanate from us, and the world will gladly accept and use them. This is a very favorable time for such a transformation.

The correction that we have been unable to achieve for thousands of years is now possible. Let’s hope, with God’s help, that we succeed.

What is this opportunity that is opening now that was not available before? Previously we did not have such a dedicated and tangible form of connection that determines both our current existence and our future. But now we can rise, and with our unique force we can compel nature, the Creator, to bring us to the pinnacle of existence.

We just need to desire for this to happen and bring order to our relationships as they should be: between individuals, between tens, between men’s and women’s groups, and between children as much as possible. The strengthening of the unity we achieve between us will inevitably change reality. The entire people of Israel united around our group will implement this connection in practice.

We must become the center of unity, not for the sake of being central, but for the sake of the connection itself. Everyone will be ready to give all their light for this. To break through into spirituality, each person must have only one thought—how to fill their friend’s heart. Entering a friend’s heart means conquering the land of Israel. In this way, we will achieve complete correction. After all, a friend’s heart for me is the land of Israel.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/24, “Questions and Answers about the Spiritual Path”

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