Convert Material Pleasures into Spiritual Ones

963.5Question: How can we work so that all our actions and feelings become spiritual? How can we transform material pleasures into spiritual enjoyment?

Answer: Transforming material pleasures into spiritual ones is possible only if you think about what to do with the pleasure you receive. Suppose you experience some pleasure. First, consider from whom, why, and for what purpose.

In this way, you can somehow direct it, focus on something, and then you will understand what you are doing with that pleasure. It is not about the pleasure itself, but how we use it.

Question: How can we transition from enjoying false things to true, genuine fulfillment?

Answer: It is by connecting with our friends and helping each other understand what true enjoyment is, which we can receive from the Creator and then give back to Him.

Every moment we can examine ourselves and sharpen our focus on the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/9/24, Writings of Rabash “Man and His Role”

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Connection is a Tool for Affecting the Creator

938.05Question: It is said connection with the Creator as a result of prayer due to suffering is a greater correction than suffering itself, which is also a correction. What kind of connection should there be with the Creator to overcome suffering?

Answer: You should feel this, attract the Creator to yourself, unite with your friends, and do everything possible to be in the same desire, in the same connection with your friends and with the Creator.

Thus, you gradually form an instrument of influence upon the Creator and draw closer to Him.

Question: The whole world is suffering. We see this as a patent giving us a remedy for suffering. Is it possible to explain to people, including beginners, that they can overcome suffering by connecting with the Creator?

Answer: Of course, you can if only they would listen. There are no secrets here.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/30/24, Writings of Rabash “A Request for Help

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The Degree of Bestowal to the Creator

632.1Question: We want to reveal the Creator in the degree that we can bestow to Him. What does this degree depend on? How can I know that I gave Him everything that I have received?

Answer: How can I measure it? We ask the Creator to reveal Himself to us in the degree that we can raise His greatness and bestow to Him. Then we will be able to do that.

Question: What is this desire that we have to present to Him so He would be revealed within it?

Answer: This is our desire to receive everything that He wishes to give us with the intention to give contentment to Him.

For now, we have to be ready to reveal the Creator in the degree of our understanding of how to do that. Gradually we will learn how to receive not for my own sake, but only for Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/2/24, Writings of Rabash “The Whole Earth Is Full of His Glory”

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Mutual Guarantee Is the Connection between Us

935Question: How can we create the importance of mutual guarantee, concern, and the need to implement it between us?

Answer: In fact, the mutual guarantee is the connection between us. Without it, there will be no spiritual Kli (vessel) or Partzuf. Then, naturally, each of us will gain nothing. We will remain as shattered fragments of a single soul.

Therefore, the only thing we need to do is to ask for our unity. But this is only possible to the extent that we desire to rise above our egoism and unite with the friends. This is our work.

We just need to rise above our egoism, make a restriction (Tzimtzum) on it, create a screen (Masach) and reflected light (Ohr Hozer), and work with it, as with Aviut (coarseness), for the sake of bestowal. To this extent, we connect with others, form one common Kli, and act in bestowal together with the Creator.

He is above us as the general light, and to the extent of our equivalence of qualities, we contact Him and thus gain the ability to receive Him into ourselves. In this way, the creation and the Creator become one common whole.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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How Can We Bring Our Friends Closer to the Creator?

938.02Question: How can we find the correct prayer if this requires a very large Hisaron? Should I ask for my friend to have a larger Hisaron or for me to?

Answer: It is a difficult question. First of all, I must ask for Hisaron for myself and for the fulfillment of my friends, because by asking for their fulfillment, I again turn to the Creator with my Hisaron.

When can we ask Him to give more Hisaron to our friends? In practice, we do not ask for it. We only want to join them and give them all our Hisaron, because if we pass it on, it immediately turns into reflected light (Or Hozer) to help. This is how we bring our friends closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Come Out of False Pleasures

528.01Question: What determines that we are playing with false pleasures in the ten?

Answer: It is the fact that instead of engaging in bestowal to the Creator from your unity, you engage in reception.

To replace these pleasures with real ones, find out how to begin connecting with the Creator in the Kli of bestowal.

Question: How important is it to come out of false pleasures? How important is reaching complete unity in the ten?

Answer: It is very important. How do you achieve this? Think about it and strive for it. Try to connect with each other and create a common Kli together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/9/24, Writings of Rabash “Man and His Role”

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Use the Sources of Fulfillment

572.02Question: How should we correctly use two sources of pleasure the past and the future for current correction in the present?

Answer: We must feel all our past and future enjoyments in the present and strive to always be in this state. From this, we should thank the Creator and seek connection with Him.

Question: The more I try to cling to the Creator, the more my past and future enjoyments unite in the present. The problem is that I cannot sustain this enjoyment, which causes me immense shame before the Creator and my friends. Hence, my prayer to the Creator for help arises. Is this the correct prayer?

Answer: I think the state is generally good, but it can stop you and lead you in the wrong direction. You should always consider the love of the Creator and your desire for love of friends, and based on this build the present and the future.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/10/24, Writings of Rabash “Receiving Pleasure from Three Kelim [Vessels]”

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Fear of Moving toward the Creator

525Question: Is fear a desire?

Answer: No, fear is a state.

Question: What should we do with the fear of moving toward the Creator?

Answer: The fear of moving toward the Creator is the absence of movement, an unwillingness to approach Him, to feel Him, to talk to Him.

In this case, you should take some prayers, in any language, read them, and turn them to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/2/24, Writings of Rabash “The Whole Earth Is Full of His Glory”

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