We should understand why there cannot be an upper blessing on an empty table. After all, the blessing is that the Creator wants to give to the created beings delight and pleasure. Thus, why must the receivers first prepare in order to make room for the blessing to be, meaning that they must set up a suitable place to receive the upper blessing? (What Is the Prohibition to Bless on an Empty Table, in the Work? Rabash, Article No. 16 (1989)).

Question: If the table we are supposed to bless is empty, then is this an opportunity to ask?

Answer: The table is all that we receive from the Creator. If it is empty, then the Creator does not offer us anything. We must feel that we are always at the set table, i.e., everything we receive comes from Him.

Comment: But you said that the Creator enjoys it when we turn to Him. And if the table is set, I don’t turn to Him.

My Response: In this case, your prayer is gratitude, not a request—because everything is in front of you.

Question: How do you arouse the appetite for a set table every time you reveal that it is set?

Answer: You don’t immediately reveal that the table is set. First you have to make contact with your friends, connect with them, develop a feeling of hunger, and only then you will see a set table in front of you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/16/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Prohibition to Bless on an Empty Table, in the Work?”

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Question: When a person receives an addition of desire, his goal changes. Does it mean that a person is now striving to rise above his friends and he does not need the greatness of the Creator?

Answer: A person constantly receives an addition of egoism, pride, etc. from above, and he must work on this all the time.

Then he will begin to understand how high the Creator is because He annuls Himself more than anyone by concealing Himself from our world.

Thus, you can only see Him to the extent that you are annulling yourself by feeling smaller than others.

Therefore, by annulling yourself as much as possible before your friends and raising them in your eyes, you will gradually establish the right relationships with each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/5/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Man’s Pride Shall Bring Him Low“

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Question: In the last decade, a branch was created in the theoretical exact sciences called the science of dark data.

It explores what the scientific approach should be to data sets that we are unable to comprehend but know that they exist and somehow, not very clearly how, affect us.

Here arises the following question. Throughout its development, humanity has not been able to precisely determine the boundary of what it can know up to a certain limit and what it cannot. It seems to move with blindfolded eyes. Why is it half-erased in human perception?

Answer: The reason is that we truly do not know ourselves and to the same extent we do not know the space, the volume, of information in which we exist. Therefore, only all kinds of speculation can take place here, and this is no longer science.

We just need to keep going with the same small steps that we are taking, and the future will gradually unfold more, and more, and more to us. Every day we still learn something new. So, although I am talking about the unknowable, I assume that this unknowable is knowable.

Question: Is cognition a sensation or some other sensation?

Answer: Cognition is the sensation of merging our inner world with something external, i.e., the connection of two planes, two perceptions.

Question: Is ideal cognition the inclusion of all reality in oneself or oneself in all reality?

Answer: But we have not realized this yet, so we are only talking about it theoretically.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 11/27/23

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Question: My correction is a difficult and long path. I do not want to wait another 20 years to get to that. ​​What efforts should be made to hasten the process of correction?

Answer: If you think that the correction concerns only you, then you may have to wait another 2,000 years.

But if you think that the correction should be between you in the group, then you will very quickly feel what you need to do, and you will have time for everything.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/11/23, Writings of Rabash “The Meaning of Sins Becoming as Merits”

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Comment: You say that the criteria of spiritual work is my good attitude toward my friends. For example, I rarely come to the group. It suits me as everyone is very nice to me. It turns out, a good attitude is an insufficient criterion.

My Response: This is because you are putting yourself in the position of a guest in this way.

Come to the group regularly and try to connect to your friends between lessons and get closer to the Creator through them. If you miss this opportunity, it goes to your disadvantage.

You must be connected to the ten and be ready to perceive any states you feel for the approval of the Creator. Then, you will constantly feel you can come closer to Him every minute.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/11/23, Writings of Rabash “The Meaning of Sins Becoming as Merits”

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Question: When I am in a group, everything is fine. I feel a state of sublimity, gratitude, love, and the presence of the Creator. But outside the group, in the surrounding world, everything is completely different. What is this condition?

Answer: This is how it should be in the world around us.

Comment: I feel that I am becoming angry, unresponsive to others, closed, and constrained.

My Response: At first this is the correct state. But you need to understand that this is the way this world is, and you are being shown its real quality. Yet, you still have to show your good attitude not only to your friends in the group, but also to everyone around you.

Question: Should this relationship be mutual or only the way the Creator wants them to be?

Answer: It must be good.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/11/23, Writings of Rabash “The Meaning of Sins Becoming as Merits”

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Question: In our group, everyone is very involved in the study of Pticha (Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah). But I personally do not feel it because this is the study of mechanics; I want some feelings and strengthening of the connection. If I have an aversion to Pticha, is it a state of descent or is it just not suitable for me?

Answer: Slowly return to Pticha and you will see that one day it will capture you and begin to reveal to you such things that you would like to listen to.

The fact that it is repelling you now does not matter. Try to experience the feelings behind these mechanics, and then it will capture you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/13/23, Writings of Rabash “Greeks Have Gathered Around Me”

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Question: What is Shabbat in our inner work at each degree?

Answer: The Sabbath (Shabbat) is a spiritual state when we rise above all our egoistic actions and intentions and reach a completely different level of relations with each other. Therefore, Shabbat is considered a day of rest from work, since we are no longer connected with egoism, but rise above it.

On Shabbat our spiritual work is completed by the Creator, from whom we receive the force of bestowal and love.

Question: What do we do on the Sabbath by ourselves?

Answer: We only ask the Creator to help us to be in bestowal and love. The state of Shabbat does not cancel our inner work. We must be careful not to fall from this level.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/12/23, Writings of Rabash “Letter No. 44”

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