Question: Why is the concealment of the Creator called a contradiction? Does it mean we will live increasingly in contradictions if we do nothing?

Answer: Yes that is correct. Therefore, as soon as we feel that we are in a state of descent, distanced from the Creator, we must make efforts, climb out of the descent, and approach the Creator to draw closer to Him.

Question: How can we always move from destruction to creation within the group of ten? In other words, is annulment before friends the right path to creation?

Answer: Yes, annulling oneself before friends is one of the correct actions.

Question: How can we measure our approach and faith in the Creator during contradictions?

Answer: We cannot do this yet. The most we can determine is whether we are turning to the Creator or not. Later, all this will take concrete forms.

Question: How can one make an effort toward faith above reason during a descent when a person wavers and does not feel the light?

Answer: Only by holding on to friends, the group, and the articles we study.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/1/24, Writings of Rabash “Ruin by Elders—Construction; Construction by Youths—Ruin”

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Question: Is there a difference in the impact on the Creator when we pray out of suffering or joy and gratitude?

Answer: Of course there is. When we thank the Creator, we are closer to Him, and if we ask to cancel the suffering, we are far from Him.

We must not be grateful for suffering. It is unnatural. We must correct ourselves and be thankful for the correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/30/24, Writings of Rabash “A Request for Help”

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Question: It is said that the contradiction by elders is when they believe that the Creator is tending to them, and from this they derive vitality. How can we derive vitality the way the elders do?

Answer: The contradiction by elders is like a connection. The connection among the young is like rejection. To derive vitality like the elders, we must be in a state of connection with friends and with the Creator and constantly think about strengthening this connection. Nothing else.

Question: Can we find both elders and young within ourselves?

Answer: Yes, these are our desires. Gradually you will begin to understand who is against, who is in favor, and so on.

Question: How can we determine that a desire has reached the level of an “elder”?

Answer: This does not happen immediately. Gradually you will see it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/1/24, Writings of Rabash “Ruin by Elders—Construction; Construction by Youths—Ruin”

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Question: Should a person regret that they cannot delight the Creator as much as He wants to delight everyone?

Answer: Yes, one should think about this and ask the Creator to give us such vessels of bestowal (Kelim de Hashpa’a) when we can gather everything we reveal and receive, collect it together, and pass it on to the Creator.

Question: Is there a difference between prayer and a request to the Creator?

Answer: No, essentially it is the same thing.

Question: We should ask the Creator to awaken love for others in all of humanity. To achieve this, should we make calculations based on the quality or the quantity of our unity?

Answer: Both quantity and quality. Ideally, there should be ten friends aiming for the highest quality of connection between them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/26/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is Truth?”

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Question: At conventions we usually gather in random tens. What is the path that I should I take with it? What should I strive for?

Answer: To annul yourself in order to connect with the ten in one integral, small system where each of us practically disappears and we feel something common: integrality, mutual complementing of everyone in everything.

Sometimes we go from the perspective that we need to bestow to the Creator, and for this, we must connect. Or we can take another path: first think about the friends, not to mention the fact that this is necessary for establishing contact with the Creator. Both ways are valid. This is called “commandments between people and the Creator.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for convention”

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Question: How can we develop the habit of mind that everything comes from the Creator and everything is the Creator in our senses?

Answer: Forcibly keep yourself in it all the time.

Question: Do habits of mind have to go through a certain cycle?

Answer: Yes, but it is all close to us. We must understand that what seems spiritual to us—the Creator, and so on—is much, much closer than we think.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/1/24, Writings of Rabash “Ruin by Elders—Construction; Construction by Youths—Ruin”

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Question: Does our joy and gratitude from playing spirituality depend on how well we fulfill the Torah and commandments?

Answer: It depends on how you strive for connection with the Creator.

Question: It is said that the Creator wishes to delight creation not because of a lack (Hisaron). Does this mean that we too should act without Hisaron?

Answer: The Creator has a great Hisaron in drawing us to Him. We need Hisaron for the connection of friends and then for the collective ascent to the Creator.

Question: Does the fire of shame draw us closer to Him or repel us?

Answer: The fire of shame only brings you closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/27/24, Writings of Rabash “Woe unto You Who Await the Day of the Lord”

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Question: When I sit in a lesson with my ten, a lot of unrelated thoughts run through my head. I understand that during the lesson I should pray for my friends to be able to bestow to them. How can I succeed in this?

Answer: First of all, during the lesson, we should initially think about how to help everyone unite. I was brought here by various egoistic goals and rewards. But now that I am here, I should think about how to do what will benefit others, and I do not need any personal gain. My benefit will be only in bestowing to others. Then I will truly exist in the spiritual space.

Question: But what is the process itself? I understand that I need to ask the Creator for my friends. How do I do this? How can I check whether I have asked or not?

Answer: This will manifest in gestures, words, thoughts—in everything within you. If you do it only for others and not for yourself, it is felt. A person kind of floats in the air; at this time, he is considered an angel. An angel is a natural altruistic force.

Question: What should I do with the resistance that increases?

Answer: Work on it. This is how you acquire the screen, meaning you ask the Creator to give you the ability to act correctly.

Comment: But the resistance stops me.

My Response: No, you must ask. Ask and act. Act and ask.

Question: Is it enough to just remember this?

Answer: Try not to leave this state. If you do, return immediately! Meanwhile, ask the Creator not to throw you out of it again. After all, it was He who made you forget and leave the thought about your friends.

Start working, and you will see how a different order of thoughts will gradually form within you; you will begin to exist outside yourself. This will slowly allow you to distance yourself from your “I,” from your egoism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for Convention”

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Question: Are the souls that are here today the same souls from past generations or are they, as it were, new awakenings?

Answer: A soul is a desire aimed at attaining the quality of bestowal, at connecting with others. Each time it is new because it goes through all sorts of changes. So it cannot be said that it is the same soul as before. There is no such thing.

You can rise to the same level that Abraham was on, and then you will literally feel everything that he felt as if you dwell in him. It is not the same soul, but what is called Ibur Neshamot—the impregnation of souls.

Question: When people awaken spiritually, must they necessarily have a Reshimo from a previous state, or is it a new awakening?

Answer: There is nothing new. The Creator created one unified soul called Adam from the word “Domeh (similar), that is, similar to the Creator. Then it shattered into many parts, each of which is a private soul that is in each of us and in general in all people in all generations.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/20, “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”

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