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Hi Katherine,
The students here will be your group. You’ll get a focus group, called a ten, in the Grad Program.
It’s enough that a person speaks to the Creator more and more, with the belief that the Creator hears it. The words of the prayer weave the connection between the person and the Creator. Though we don’t understand how, this is what is happening. Then, the more one prays, the more changes occur upon us, and our prayer changes accordingly.
Hi AspiringAltruist,
That’s almost the entire work in the group so I can’t give a complete answer. A short one is that we need to become sensitive to the friends, so that we will learn what will inspire them. It’s an art. At the same time, we should always see them as the greatest of the generation, and envy them like a father envies that his son becomes greater than him while also wishing for this success (as opposed to wishing to lower him). This causes us to lust for the goal in the proper and required way.
That’s right. Think of how open to all sorts of requests a parent is if they’re coming from their baby. The Creator accepts all our requests. If they’re correct they’re answered. If they’re not right, they’re still answered in the form of a correction. That’s why all we need is to ask and ask.
Good question, Sheila (sorry I missed this). Simple answer: with Lishma, the Intention precedes the act. Now, explore this and you’ll come to see the problem.
Hi Zorica,
It’s in line, if you’re attracted to it, since it was written by holy Kabbalists, though it’s not explored much in our writings. As you know, it’s not that each excerpt from the ancient sources – such as the Siddur, the Talmud, and so on – finds commentary in Kabbalistic sources. Why? Firstly, those should be taken as-is, even though there are deeper interpretations we discover on the way. The Kabbalists wrote them that way, in that language, even though they could have written them in Kabbalistic language. The second reason is that their Kabbalistic interpretations may not relate to our zone of proximal development, even if they seem interesting to us. But we can still read them in a more literal way. The passages that Baal HaSulam and Rabash do want to put in front of us, they interpret, sometimes expansively, in their writings.
This post is somewhat related though:
https://laitman.com/2024/06/what-is-the-creators-name/
