A Deluge Of Questions About The Convention In St. Petersburg

Question: What do the  groups of tens need to do in the framework of preparation for the convention?

Answer: First of all, you need the materials for the convention so you can create a connection with what is happening there with all your might.

Question: What kind of environment, what kind of an atmosphere, do we need to create in the World Kli to help every friend have ready access to the convention, to raise all of us together to a new level?

Answer: Remember how you prepared for the birth of your child or your wedding, externally and internally. Understandably, the main thing here is inner preparation: “Where are we going? Towards connection. What else can we do to succeed in connecting and with this connection discover the Light, the characteristic of bestowal, which is discovered to the degree that we become equal to it?”

Ultimately I need to come to the convention completely ready, without expecting any surprises except for one, our connection, and nothing more. I don’t need new wisdom, I want connection. And with this I will feel the text with a new depth and in general everything will seem new to me, sparkling, and bright.

And on the contrary, if there won’t be connection, I must feel that I am left with nothing.

That is, we must see and understand that everything depends on connection, and connection depends on preparation.

Question: About whose connection should I be more concerned, my preparation or that of the friends in the  group of ten?

Answer: That of the friends. If we are speaking about spirituality, first of all I need to be concerned about the spiritual needs of the friends. This is called the “prayer of the many,” a prayer for the friends. It is said, “Whoever prays for his friend is answered first.”

Question: What will we require at the convention for a transition to a complete inner scream?

Answer: The preparation. Specifically we don’t scream because we are not prepared, we don’t add a “penny and another penny,” so that they will combine into one great scream. Instead of this we wait: “So, when will the breakthrough come already?” This will never happen without preparation.

Question: How can we avoid falling into a lack of participation at the convention?

Answer: This again depends on the atmosphere and the preparation. If the person is ready, then he apparently sinks into a force field that won’t readily let him go.

Question: Do we need to see a passage through the “Red Sea” at the convention in St. Petersburg?

Answer: And even Arvut standing before “Mount Sinai.”
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/25/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Peace in the World”

From The Group To The World

Question: When we work with people who don’t have a point in the hart, we feel that it brings them joy. Is this feeling spiritual work?

Answer: On the whole I transfer myself into the other. I transfer my point in the heart into the desires called “my soul.” Everything that is external to me among the seven billion people is all my soul, one desire, and if I discover all of I will reach the end of correction.

In other words, I fill my soul and what fills it is called the “Creator” in its infinite form. So my goal is to exit myself and enter the other and at the same time to feel everyone. This is impossible in our current state!

We need a group in order to allow us and to give us the means, the skilled work of exiting ourselves and entering the other. This means that the group is our first tool. In Kabbalstic terms it is called GE.

We have to study the “Introduction to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” in order to understand these terms correctly. We have to take the courses in our campus since otherwise we will have no common language and you will even find it difficult to understand what you attain.

Thus you will get to know what is revealed to you and will understand what each attainment is called. You will integrate everything that is in you with what is revealed to you in spirituality.

We have to reach adhesion with all of humanity, to exit ourselves and enter the world. So we have to first organize our vessel, our tool, in order to prepare it for working with the world. In order to do that we were given a group of Kabbalists and the method of the wisdom of Kabbalah, and we have to study this work in the group and then advance from the group to everyone else.

The main work is done in the group, and with the help of the group, we work on everything else. This is the place where all the fears, the assumptions, and just a little bit of knowledge are revealed since it is only now that everything begins to develop and is ready for work. It is there that totally different worlds are revealed, full of the Light ofHochma, which means with the deep attainment of the Creator.

In the group, we attain the vessels for working with the Creator. With His help we begin to understand Him a little, but only externally since in our global group we only process the desire to bestow, GE, the attributes of bestowal. These are very small egoistic attributes on the root level, level one, and part of level two.

When the whole global group begins to work for the benefit of the global vessel, we will begin to work with great egoistic desires that cannot be revealed now since they are much greater and stronger than ours and are therefore so distant from spiritual advancement.

It seems that many people like the Europeans, Africans, and others are impossible to reach. It is impossible to reach them since they have the greatest spiritual ego. But when we begin to work for their sake, we begin to connect their huge desires to our desires, to fill them, to rejoice for them about their state. So this is where we work not just in order to attain actions of bestowal but the Creator’s attribute of bestowal in its depth.

I don’t know what I can compare it to. There are people who enjoy listening to music. I remember I had a subscription to the philharmonic orchestra of Leningrad but since I am not an expert I asked some young musicians to tell me a little about how they perceive “Swan Lake” for example, or Rachmaninov.

It is a totally different world, a different feeling including feelings and a process that go together when people understand everything in depth. You have a totally different feeling. By the way, in Kabbalah you don’t know this feeling, you don’t penetrate it, but live in it; you become the feeling. So the goal of the whole correction of humanity is the deepest attainment of the Creator that ends in absolute adhesion to Him.
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From the Conventions in Krasnoyarsk 6/16/13, Lesson 5 

I Wish For You…

Question: In order to reach the “point in the heart” of a friend, it is necessary to open the heart and in order to open it, I need to feel the person. Why does fear appear regarding opening the heart? What creates this? After all, in the past as children we knew how to trust each other and now we don’t.

Answer: We do not have to open our hearts to others not even to a friend. You simply need to be within him and this is all.

Question: And if his heart is closed?

Answer: This is not important. He cannot shut out anything from you. It makes no difference how he reacts, how he behaves, you must be within his heart, within his desires, within his longings. You must help him, wish him well, and identify with him. You want him always to be happy that things will be good for him. This is how a relationship should be in regard to the other. This is a purely spiritual movement.
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From the Convention In Krasnoyarsk 6/16/13, Lesson 5

Resuscitation According To The Advice Of Kabbalists

Question: What is love of the Creator? What is the difference between love of the Creator and love of friends?

Answer: Love of friends is the work that is done by the Light that Reforms in order to connect our vessels. It seems as if they are distant from one another and that we have to bring them together, but in spirituality there are no distances. By working on our vessels, we acquire attributes that are similar to the attributes of the Light, and so we can discover what is already in us.

It is like a person who has lost his sight and by certain healing methods can rehabilitate it. This means that Kabbalists give us advice as to how to revive and rehabilitate ourselves in our current state.

This means that you remain at the same level and nothing changes but your ability to feel. This level of sensitivity is called the spiritual ladder, the levels of attainment, revelation.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/19/13, Writings of Rabash

Can We Buy Love?

Question: Why does it say that love is bought by actions? What about the intention or is it only with regard to corporeal love and not spiritual love?

Answer: Both spiritual love and corporeal love are bought by actions; our world is the world of actions. If we perform actions, even if we don’t have the right intention and the right feeling, these actions draw the Light that Reforms that changes our feeling and our understanding.

There is no other means! If our matter, our desire, and our intention are focused only on ourselves, we cannot do anything that is the opposite. The opposite is done by the same means that is called “this world” in which we can perform actions. Although these actions stem from our desire to receive and from the intention to receive for ourselves, on the level of this world, it is like bestowal, which means that I give to the other.

I want to receive for myself and I also give to the other because I want to receive for myself, but if I arrange and organize the giving according to the advice of Kabbalists, then the giving works! It is said that the sages of the Talmud made a certain preparation that allows us to use the means of the Light that Reforms instead of torturing ourselves physically, instead of working directly against our desire and our intention.

This Light operates on us if we perform actions according to the advice of Kabbalists: yearning for the love of friends, giving presents to the friends, trying to connect between us, and studying together from Kabbalistic sources.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/19/13, Writings of Rabash

The Summit Which Will Not Yield Without Preparation

We have been organizing conventions for over ten years. The first convention that was held in Israel was initiated by the Moscow group and since then the tradition developed when friends from different countries come together. So, we are more familiar with our brothers who live around the world.

However, so far, we have not used these conventions in the form that should be revealed in the end. A convention is a general gathering, the place of the revelation of the general desire, the collective intention and the interaction (Zivug) with the upper Light to which we are drawn.

We must consider the next convention in St. Petersburg as new, the first of its kind. Its feature is full-fledged preparation. We are not going to a festival, not on a holiday with an easy and enjoyable program. Of course, I am not against “lightness,” but I am against frivolity.

We must prepare for this event extremely seriously. This does not mean that you should walk with grim faces. On the contrary, we all need to be in great spirits but at the same time together feeling that we are just about to gather the forces needed for that general special power by means of which we will be able to realize unity with the upper Light to the extent of our similarity with it, even minimally.

We want to generate at least a bit of bestowal from our part, which the upper Light will be able to correct by giving it the correct form. Then, after the correcting light of AB-SAG, the filling light will be revealed, and we will know the Creator, and all this is in order to bring Him contentment.

The main thing we need to build in ourselves is confidence. It all depends on the preparation, and the result of the preparation and during the action itself, so to speak, there is nothing to do. Figuratively speaking, you have for dinner what you have prepared. It is said, “He who did not labor on the eve of the Sabbath, from whence shall he eat on the Sabbath day?” That is why the main work is carried out not at the convention but before it.

Eighteen days are left before the convention in St. Petersburg. It promises to bring a record number of participants. In addition, it follows right after the convention in Krasnoyarsk, and never before have we had such a dramatic difference between the properties of vessels that are revealed by these two meetings.

In short, we have precise work. We must do the same thing as in Krasnoyarsk but in different internal and external conditions in another layer of the general desire. The difference is clear to us and we understand that we need to neutralize it. If we manage to create the same atmosphere in St. Petersburg, the same unity, the same transparency, as in Krasnoyarsk, we will be awarded a great revelation.

However, I repeat: Preparatory work from every individual and all together is required. If we had a device that measured the level of preparation, I would have put it at the entrance to the convention hall and would allow inside only those who meet the requirements and would send the others home. Everyone should understand that; if he does not participate correctly in a common effort, he causes harm that comes back to him to the extent that he prevents everyone else.

This is a very harsh law. So first of all, we must thoroughly check all the participants as to whether they are prepared for the convention.

Besides that, from this day forward, we constantly need to discuss the upcoming meeting, to prepare and distribute materials to create a general online territory where everyone will be able to ask questions in various languages. We will translate these questions and answer them. We need a committee to deal with all the concerns in the framework of the spiritual preparation for the convention. The groups of St. Petersburg and Moscow take care of the physical and organizational preparation, sparing no effort, and that is why we need to help them in other areas.
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From the Talk About the Convention in St. Petersburg 6/23/13

About Healthy Tasty Food…

“We must chew food slowly, enjoy it and thank the Lord for that, we must eat silently, among friends or family, and feel constant gratitude for it.” (Rambam).

This postulate is confirmed by any modern dietitian.

But it is fine if I have half-hour lunch break, ten minutes to run out for fast food and ten minutes to get back. There I will be given a burger made of horse meat in a roll with a lettuce leaf and I will have to chew all this feeling grateful, among good people, feeling comfortable, listening to music, leaning on my left side.

Today this doesn’t sound practical in our reality; it is like reading a book about healthy delicious food that has lots of advice and suggestions, but who can follow them? Who can engage in them?

I hope that people will get a balance diet in the future, suitable rational products with the necessary minerals and vitamins for our body, and moreover, that there will be enough time to consume it properly.

By the way, my teacher, Rabash, did so. We never spoke during our meals and they lasted half an hour and sometimes forty minutes. Interestingly, he never drank anything during the meal and never spoke, and if he did say something it was very short.

During meals, he was always silent and focused and chewed his food slowly because he was always in a specific mental process. I am sure that he was constantly trying to balance his spiritual state with his physical state.

I saw it on him: Now he received energy, food, it connects him with the source from which he receives energy, what did he receive it for, what does he exist for, what sustains this whole existence? Thus he used to connect to a certain system. With this constant attitude, he would begin to feel that he exists in some gigantic system, like in a cobweb, from which he receives and to which he passes. The food was a natural mediator between him and this whole system, he related to it very seriously!
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From KabTV’s “Medicine of the Future,” 4/7/2013

A “Miscarriage” Is Going Back

Rabash, “The Matter of Ibur (Gestation) and Yenika (Suckling)”: And wherever there is a deficiency in Holiness, there is a hold of the Sitra Achra, and it can spoil the phase of Ibur and not allow it reach its wholeness, and by that lead to miscarriage since it is born before it has completed its phase of Ibur.

It is because in Ibur there are 25 Partzufim which means NRNHY, and in each one there is also NRNHY and so there has to be the delaying force, which means that even in smallness there should be wholeness. It receives this through its mother although the embryo has no vessels on the part of his mother in order to receive greatness in order to bestow, but still by annulling himself before the mother, he can receive greatness from the vessels of his mother, which is called gestation of the thigh of his mother, the food that his mother eats.

There it is about the upper Lights and the same is true during the time of preparation when he wants to enter the King’s palace, since the same applies there. Just as there are many phases and the Ibur doesn’t end at one time, and we say that there are nine months of pregnancy, until the 25 Partzufim are attained, so during the Preparation there are also many phases until one attains the complete phase of Ibur during the time of preparation. Therefore, there are many ascents and descents and sometimes the Ibur is corrupted which is also called a miscarriage and then we have to start the whole work over again.

There are many defined stages and many sub-stages: 25 Partzufim—made of a head, body, and an end—take part in every Zivug (coupling). Every new Zivug creates a whole world and brings a change for everyone. For those who directly fulfill the Zivug, these are inner changes, and for all the rest, these are surrounding changes, but there are many details in every step that the created being makes, and it is so even during the time of preparation and the time of Ibur (gestation), before the birth, during the birth itself, and onward.

Every state should be completed in order to move on to the next state. A person must hate the current state and see that it is flawed and that he cannot remain in it anymore, and to rise above it to a more sublime state. The question is according to what criteria he chooses in the state where his mind and heart are, both in quality and in quantity.

We should be careful to avoid a “miscarriage” at every step, which means going back, which is already a state of a Klipa (shell). Then, our advancement already will be along the path of suffering.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/2/13, Writings of Rabash