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Posted on May 4th, 2024 at 10:55 pm
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During the preparation period, all the work is in the no’s, that is, in the “no” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 204, “The Purpose of the Work – 2”)
Question: What desires are we not allowed to use?
Answer: Check it out for yourself, see, and try to limit yourself from all sides so that you build your personal connection space with your friends.
In the articles there is a general direction, and then everyone, based on one’s feelings, decides how to get around some obstacles to push away the state of receiving for one’s own sake.
Question: If a person does not have the Kelim of bestowal, can he do the work of restriction?
Answer: Maybe. In any state a person can do what he needs to, give, and connect with his friends.
Comment: But his original nature is always strong and, in essence, does not change. A person invests in and still remains in reception.
My Response: This means that he has not yet done any good deeds.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/11/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Purpose of the Work – 2”
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Question: How can we develop sensitivity to the constant influence of the Creator and cling to each Hisaron in a timely manner in order to develop an even greater need for bestowal and realize it through prayer?
Answer: It depends only on a person. If one is constantly focused on how much egoism prevents one from getting closer to the Creator, then he feels an urgent need to get out of the ego.
Then he cries out to the Creator, and He hears him. This is how a person reaches the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Spoke Regarding Four Sons”
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Question: At what point does the state of Lishma begin?
Answer: Lishma (not for oneself) is a state where a person receives such reinforcement from above that he can already aim for a connection with the Creator and only this is his goal.
Question: In which quality can we bring contentment to the Creator more through our efforts: in Lishma (for the sake of others) or in Lo Lishma (for oneself)?
Answer: In both states. We should strive to be as kind, good, and bestowing as possible in the eyes of the Creator. Then we will see how precisely our desires are fulfilled.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Three Prayers – 2”
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Question: What does it mean to implement connection correctly in a world group to be as one ten?
Answer: It means trying to help everyone, coming together around a single center, gathering together, uniting, turning to the Creator, and waiting for His help.
Question: What is striving to see the Creator before me?
Answer: It means seeing the force that pulls you forward, that guides you through Egypt, exiles, and various difficulties with your friends.
Question: Does Pharaoh die naturally or is he killed by the Creator when it is time to leave Egypt?
Answer: I do not think we can witness Pharaoh’s death yet. It means the death of all egoism existing in all people on Earth. Can you imagine what we will come to then? Complete correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And It Came to Pass in the Course of Those Many Days”
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Question: What is happening in the world now, wars, earthquakes, natural disasters, are these the plagues that our collective egoism must experience before the common exit from Egypt?
Answer: Yes and no. Imagine that, to put it mildly, these troubles that we have received over all the past centuries are necessary to correct our egoism.
Therefore, the Creator delayed the tribe of Israelites and did not allow them to immediately approach complete correction; this is because they did not yet have a complete Kli, i.e. regret and atonement.
Now it seems that we already have this. I think that if today our people rose up as in those days, we would certainly reach the place of the holy Temple and quickly erect it.
Question: What prevents us from rising? Lack of unity?
Answer: We lack everything. Absolutely everything. The most important thing is the connections between us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/21/24, Writings of Rabash “When Pharaoh Sent the People”
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Question: On one hand there is a union of language, silence. On the other hand, there is a great desire to speak, to spread. How can we combine these two great desires?
Answer: First there should be a desire to unite in tens, then in hundreds, in thousands.
If people have such an opportunity, then they should expand the circle in which they are more and more, wider and wider, until this whole circle includes all of humanity.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Three Prayers – 2”
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Question: How can you change an egoistic prayer into a correct one so the Creator begins to act?
Answer: The desires we feel in our impulses are neither egoistic nor altruistic. It is just a feeling of being created as I am, and this is my desire.
Afterward, through our development, we give the desire a vector when we direct it at the ten, the whole of humanity, and the Creator.
That is how we want to see the whole system: man, the ten, humanity, that is, the entire world Kli, and the Creator together. That is the main focus and goal of our efforts.
Therefore, we must imagine the picture we want to achieve during prayer.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Three Prayers – 2”
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Question: The physical body does not let go of the desire to receive for its own sake. What can be effective here in order to still be able to get out of it?
Answer: Connect with your friends and perform this action together with them.
It will not work out if you are alone because everything is built so that a person learns to neglect himself for the sake of connection with others and can connect with them.
Question: Which is more important: the effort to find out the conditions or the effort to make them change faster?
Answer: Both are hard. But first you need to clarify the state itself, get disgusted with it, rise above it, contact the Creator, and ask Him from there to allow you to raise all your qualities to this degree.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/25/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Haman from the Torah, from Where?”
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