Continuing the Convention with an Ascent

We know that the Creator sometimes awakens in us deficiencies for money, food, health, etc. So of course we pray for those things. But it turns out that praying for a friend, or that the Creator will give us the attribute of bestowal - is not something that I'm missing. It's also impossible and unnatural to miss those things. This is why we work on the deficiency. And this is also a very, very strange thing. Meaning we don't work on the filling. We work on having a deficiency. Because the moment we have the right deficiency, the filling is already there.

We exist in a world of filling. The Creator's world is a world of filling. So what's the problem? We have no deficiency for it. It's like a little boy receiving ten kilos of gold. He has no idea what to do with it. All he wants is a little racecar. Of course he has a deficiency for that because he an enjoy that toy. Later on he may understand that he can sell the gold and buy himself things and enjoy all kinds of pleasures. Here we're being told you need to bestow. In our world we think that giving is about taking something out of your pocket and giving it to someone. That's bestowal. But that's not what we're talking about at all.

Any person in the world can do that. Take something out of their pocket or do something for someone else. But for us - those who study the authentic wisdom of Kabbalah - it's about knowing how to receive from the Creator. We're always talking about bestowal. This is about receiving from the Creator. (Let's not forget that the Hebrew word "Kabbalah" means reception.) But who is the Creator? How do we receive from Him? This is a process we can't explain because it's an emotional process. So we're taught to start by bestowing to a friend. This is somewhat clear to us. We also need to check precisely what I'm bestowing to a friend. We're told that bestowing to a friend is boosting their mood, and in boosting the importance of the goal. That's a clear way to lift the friend. So it turns out that we can't bestow to the Creator because He's hidden. But we can bestow to the friend by making sure the goal is always important to them. That's all. That is the entire wisdom of Kabbalah in a nutshell.

So how you do it and where do you take strength to do it? To lift others on the path? It turns out that by raising the importance of the goal to the friend - which you're doing to reveal the upper force - in this way you're awakening all kinds of forces that are embedded in nature. And they're gradually raising you to a state where you can be in contact with the Creator. They're preparing you to be in contact with Him.

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The source in this lesson - What Is, “Praise the Lord, All Nations,” in the Work?

Here is an excerpt from the beginning of this article by Rabash -

Article No. 25, 1990

The writing says (Psalms 117), “Praise the Lord, all nations; laud Him, all the peoples, for His mercy has prevailed over us, and the truth of the Lord is everlasting, Hallelujah.” We should understand why all the nations must praise the Creator, since it is written, “for His mercy has prevailed over us.” It would seem that it should be to the contrary, that by being merciful with the people of Israel, the nations should be angry with the Creator. Yet, here the writing says, “Laud Him, all the peoples, for His mercy has prevailed over us.” Can this be?