Question: What kind of fuel allows us to rise above reason?

Answer: It is the fact that we begin to feel a state above reason—an altruistic state without any connection with egoism—as the most important thing, and thus we rise.

Question: As a rule we burn leavened bread before Passover. What is spiritual leaven?

Answer: Leaven is that evil inclination, our uncorrected egoism, which we cannot use correctly.

Question: Why does an egoistic question asked by a sinner kill him? And how does faith appear in this place?

Answer: If a person wants to defeat his egoism, instead of that, he begins to feel the power of faith that develops in him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Two Labors”

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Question: After Passover, we plan to hold a congress in Uzbekistan. Many friends will come to elevate this region.

What do you recommend for us in preparation for this?

Answer: The only thing I recommend to you is the unity of hearts. Not in words, but in your heart to feel you have friends with you, that you want to connect your hearts together, and that this common heart will already be filled by the Creator.
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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: When a person hears the same constant question of the sinner in himself, what should he do to advance from this repeated question?

Answer: Turn to the Creator so that He can help him rise above egoism and see his condition from this height. Then he will advance correctly.

Question: It turns out that he constantly fails to reach the measure of this request.

Answer: There is a saying: God, grant that a person prays day and night.

Question: Can we help a friend kill the sinner within himself? Or is this an independent work for everyone?

Answer: Everyone must do this independently, but with the help of the environment. You can help a person, but he must act independently.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Two Labors”

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That is, while the Klipa of Pharaoh has dominion, and a mouth and speech in the exile, still, if they believed in the faithful shepherd properly, the children of Israel would be able to listen to Moses, who is above the mouth and speech.

To be in exile means to be under the rule of Pharaoh, i.e., under the control of universal egoism (Baal HaSulam, Letter 10).

The article discusses a transformation that occurs with the children of Israel when they can break free from this rule and become free from the power of Pharaoh. Practically only connection into one single desire can help one get out of Egypt and draw closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter 10

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We should interpret that the order of one’s work in Torah and Mitzvot [commandments] when he wants to work for the sake of the Creator is that one must fight and defeat the evil inclination.

That is, it is human nature to toil when there is self-benefit. But when he sees that no self-benefit will emerge from this work, he cannot work. Instead, he complains and asks, “What is this work for you?” meaning what will you gain from exerting? …

Thus, through the question he asks, he takes upon himself the commandment of faith above reason (Rabash, Notes 572 “Two Labors”).

To work for the sake of heaven, you need to accept feelings and understanding in the light of faith. This means that we must reach a state where we will rely on faith and not on the reason that we rely on now.

To get an answer to your question in faith above reason and not in reason means to get a direction of thoughts, movements, and actions that will depend not on the ego, but on the quality of bestowal.

Thus a person must rise to a degree above reason and get an answer there to the question that is asked out of egoism, because the answer always comes from a degree above reason.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Two Labors”

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Question: Should we learn to differentiate between the people of Israel and all other peoples in the world?

Answer: There is a much easier path to correcting their souls for the peoples of the world than for the people of Israel. Therefore we do not need to separate these categories. To the extent that we feel the need for correction in our movement toward the Creator, in drawing closer to Him, that is how we will act.

Comment: But we still must awaken this need for adhesion with the Creator.

My Response: If you have a predisposition to this, then you can join and help in the general correction of the nations of the world. Gradually you will begin to feel their souls and will be able to elevate them.

That is a great responsibility that falls on the people of Israel or on those who join in the correction so that they can spread the methodology of correcting souls and unite.
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From the 2^nd part of  the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/6/24, “The Holocaust Remembrance Day“

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Question: There are people among us who long for the Creator as for a beloved; they want to adhere with Him. And some want to fulfill His will, to take their place in the common system regardless of their state. What should the desire really be?

Answer: Everything is good. A person will still come to their original desire. But in the beginning, let them go the way that attracts them the most.

The main thing is not to stop studying and to constantly communicate with the friends. After all, it is through them that one receives the general direction toward the purpose of creation. Otherwise, nothing else can help here.
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From the 2^nd part of  the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/6/24, “The Holocaust Remembrance Day“

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Question: Pharaoh can dress in beautiful clothes, and to us it seems that he is the Creator, but in the end, all the work was for Pharaoh. How do we check our intention to bestow, and how do we develop it?

Answer: Through the friends, then we will avoid mistakes.

Question: What is the root of repentance from love?

Answer: It means that we turn to the Creator, not out of what we lack, but out of our desire to express love for Him.

Question: What does it mean to grab the serpent by its tail?

Answer: Grabbing the serpent by the head or tail signifies the right and wrong attitude toward what the Creator does with us.

Question: What is the blood of Passover and the circumcision blood, and what is the difference between them?

Answer: The blood of Passover and the circumcision blood are the final manifestations of egoism. If a person overcomes them, they help him break free from the rule of egoism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter 10

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