Question: Why did the Creator let us be born in a physical body without a soul? After all, if there were no body, there would be no evil inclination.

Answer: No, the evil inclination is not related to our body, to our flesh. The evil inclination is our egoistic desires.

Question: What does it mean: “I thank You for returning my soul with compassion”?

Answer: It means thanking the Creator for wanting to advance you under any circumstances.

Question: How can we not lose the work that the Creator gives us?

Answer: Engage in it all the time and try to move forward.

Question: If the Creator gave me a chance and a gift to do an action of bestowal and then emptiness comes, what should my work be?

Answer: Ask the Creator to give you more such states.

Question: Can automatic gratitude to the Creator become heartfelt, and how does this happen?

Answer: How this happens, I do not know, but it can happen.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reason for the Faith”

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Question: Can we say that at some point in history humanity took the wrong path?

Answer: Of course! Since the time of Aristotle and Plato.

At one point they shouted: “Under no circumstances give science away to the ignorant! They will misuse it, they will sell it to the rich, they will put it at the service of progress!

But we need spiritual progress, not technological progress! We cannot open universities to everyone!

Science should be pursued only by people who with its help want to understand the meaning of life, the lofty matters that lie beyond the boundaries of our world!”

Science should develop only in the form in which it raises a person above our world! Anyone who might use it for evil purposes has no right to engage in it!

Even the invention of, say, a special meat grinder is also evil. You do not need it, and you can live without it! After all, in the end, it is by adapting science to our world that you begin its development.

There is no other way, either external development or internal. The world followed the external path of development. Historically, this happened 3,000 years ago.

Question: But was there another option for development? Or did we still have to go through this stage?

Answer: It is hard to say because in order to understand the answer to this question, you need to be in two worlds, in the duality that we are talking about.

Everything comes from the Creator, and at the same time depends on our freewill, on our choice.

We are not able to compare these two free functions; our mind is not adapted to this. To understand this, you need to be in both worlds: the spiritual one and ours at the same time. Then you will not have contradictions; you can perceive absolutely opposite facts and information as complementary and not mutually exclusive.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Dead-End Path of Human Development” 1/24/12

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Question: Is it possible to call your powerlessness in front of the evil inclination a punishment?

Answer: It is possible, but it is not necessarily a punishment because the Creator helps you through this.

Question: Which is better to do right now: to ask the Creator for mercy or to be grateful and be glad that He is working with me?

Answer: It is always good to give thanks, but sometimes you have to ask.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Knowledge and Faith”

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Question: How can we reveal the force of thought above reason in the ten?

Answer: By acting in faith above reason, we grasp the higher degree with this faith.

Reason comes later and is clothed in the faith that we have achieved in this way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Power of Thought”

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Question: When we try to annul ourselves in front of our friends, criticism immediately arises about what we see in them. How can we work with it?

Answer: We have a desire to criticize everyone and not leave any actions we see without criticism.

This quality is inherent in us initially in the form of desire. But if we do not want to agree with it, then we gradually eradicate this desire from ourselves.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/18/24, “Receiving from the Friends the Force of Faith Above Reason”

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Question: For thousands of years all religions have been saying that there is no knowledge, there is only faith. Many of us came to Kabbalah to comprehend the Creator, that is, to gain knowledge. It seems there is some contradiction here.

Should we have both knowledge and faith or is faith only above knowledge?

Answer: The point is that the faith we practice in the wisdom of Kabbalah is not an ordinary faith, but faith in the fact that the Creator is the upper force of nature.

It is precisely Him that we attain in our mind and feelings by becoming like Him in the measure of bestowal. In this way, we begin to understand the Creator and the world He created.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/18/24, “Working In Faith Above Reason”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “Letter 16”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Sulam Commentary,” Item 17

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Question: What does it mean to be in the properties of bestowal, in the properties of faith based on reason, above reason?

Answer: This means that you do not take into account reason, knowledge, but only faith above reason and act in this property.

You need to clearly understand what your egoism requires of you, limit it, and include only those properties that are higher than the ego.

Question: Does the ten receive faith first and then each receives private faith from it? Or do we add up our private faiths into the ten and get the faith of the ten on a different level?

Answer: We receive a common faith, and we share it among us according to our efforts.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reason for the Faith”

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Comment: You say that dissemination depends on our internal unity. In theory, we want to convey some information. We gather together to do this.

My Response: We gather together for dissemination in order to unite and to find between us precisely the properties that connect us: mutual bestowal, mutual support, mutual guarantee, flexibility, connection, common bonding, even love.

We wish to clarify these properties. Why do we need all this? In order to then reveal the same properties in the rest of the world because the rest of the entire world (inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human nature), the entire mass represents the huge desire that must be completely, organically connected into one whole.

Then in this unified desire that is connected through common efforts, we will feel the property of bestowal and love, which we implement together. And this property of bestowal and love implemented jointly by us is called the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Meaning of Kabbalah Dissemination” 2/12/12

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Question: Based on our discussions, it seems important for us to reveal the Creator because we were chosen for this.

We should simply accept this as a fact and from this state form a prayer. What is special about such a prayer?

Answer: The fact that you want to find contact with the Creator and only through this contact, connection with Him.

Question: If I send a prayer to the Creator every morning after having united the hearts of all my friends by name into one heart, does this prayer have the power of the ten? How strong is this prayer even though I do it alone?

Answer: Ideally you should try to feel the response of the Creator in your common connection in the ten. If you persistently try to do this, you will start to feel it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Those of Little Faith”

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