We must infuse every action we perform with the principle “There is none else besides Him.” By doing so, we are already in unity with the Creator, albeit on a certain level, but nonetheless it is a true state of unity.

We will come to know Him in a more sensory form with greater awareness until He is revealed in His complete fullness, a state known as final correction (Gmar Tikkun), the world of infinity, which is our goal.

But how will this be revealed? Precisely through small actions. What am I doing right now? Do I understand that what I am doing now comes either from the absence of connection with the Creator or from the presence of this connection?

Even if you have to lie to yourself to convince yourself that you must do it. For example, I am forced to steal. If I do not steal, I will have nothing to eat, I will have no strength, no energy, I will not be able to satisfy my needs, I will not be able to study. A person constructs all kinds of justifications even for not very good actions.

But for now, this is of no consequence because one cannot act otherwise. Even through such means one is connecting oneself with the Creator. It is essential to internalize the Creator, that you bring Him within.  Do not attempt to conceal these matters from yourselves.

Otherwise it is as though you were erasing the Creator from some part of your life, banishing Him from there. No! He is always present within all my actions, even the ones that are least praiseworthy.

Question: What does it mean to internalize the Creator? Does it simply mean thinking about Him?

Answer: Yes! Think! And you will see how suddenly, within these very actions, you will begin to behave differently. The Creator agrees that instead of being concealed from you, you should search for Him in every place where you may be. There is nothing more terrible than erasing Him from your field of vision. Invite Him into the worst, the most indecent, the most dishonest action.

Rabash writes about this: When a person regrets having left holiness, they decide that from that moment onward they will try with all their strength to ensure that it does not happen again.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/26, Rabash, “The Meaning of the Strict Prohibition to Teach Idol Worshippers the Torah”

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Question: How do we connect material (animalistic) actions to the goal?

Answer: It is very simple! Which of my animalistic actions can I not connect to the goal? I examine that there are some things I must do: work, sleep, eat, wash, and care for my body. I need a family, a wife, and children. I have to provide them with everything because that is how the Creator arranged it.

So if He arranged everything this way and I am executing it, then on one hand, it is a necessity. On the other hand, I must perceive all this as coming from Him, He obliges me to do this; therefore, all these actions are linked to holiness.

It turns out that I spend 20 hours a day doing what the Creator forces me to do. So how much do I devote to spirituality? Two and a half hours in the morning here in class, another half hour to get here, and another half hour back. This amounts to three and a half hours. In addition, maybe half an hour during the day in the evening or at lunchtime. That is it! Meaning, I spend 20 hours a day doing things that are not directly related to spirituality.

But if I know I do this because it is the will of the Creator so that in these actions I feel that everything comes from Him, that He obliges me to draw closer to Him with their help, then all these 20 hours turn into a means of moving toward the goal.

That is how I go to sleep, and through it I advance. I eat, and advance through it. In this way, any action turns into something that brings me closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/26, Rabash, “The Meaning of the Strict Prohibition to Teach Idol Worshippers the Torah”

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Question: What constitutes the maximum state of Lo Lishma (for the sake of receiving) from which we move transition into the altruistic state of Lishma (for the sake of bestowal)?

Answer: A person achieves 99% of bestowing and only 1% receiving. This is the maximum state of Lo Lishma; the final 1% of reception feels like 100% for them. This is how a person sees it, this is how one is calibrated so that sensitivity to this last percentage surpasses everything else.

It is written that “the Creator is exacting with the righteous to the hair’s breadth.” The evil inclination appears first like a strand of a spider’s web and later as cart ropes. To the righteous, it seems like a high mountain, but to sinners it seems like something insignificant. It would seem that all that is needed is to jump over a ten-centimeter groove, but for the righteous, it feels like a leap over an abyss. In reality, the opposite is true; the righteous have only a hair’s breadth to overcome, while sinners still face a towering mountain.

Question: Is there suffering involved in the sensation of Lo Lishma?

Answer: Of course. A person has invested much effort, studied, and worked in a group only to suddenly see an unassailable summit looming before him. The higher we ascend as we correct our egoism, the larger the egoism seems.

After all, we acquire a subtle sensitivity to it, see even a small flaw as if under a magnifying glass. This happens in any profession a person masters.

As for suffering, at the beginning of the journey it has a more material character, and then it becomes purposeful, or spiritual.

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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/10/12, Baal HaSulam “The Peace”

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Question: Who is called an idol worshipper in Kabbalah?

Answer: You! Because every minute, even without sensing it, you are sculpting idols right out of thin air.

If you do not connect everything that happens to you with the one force called “One, Unified, and Unique,” if you do not always relate these events back to a single cause and regard everything else (save it) merely as manifestations of that one force, then you are engaged in idol worship.

Suppose your wife says something unpleasant to you. You must understand that this came from the Creator, and she is only a puppet through whom the Creator demonstrates His attitude toward you.

But if you attribute everything to her, you are “making an idol.” You should relate it to her, and through her to the Creator. There must be two here.

One should understand that the director of this entire play is the Creator, and that in this way He presents Himself to us precisely so that we may unite all His various and even opposite manifestations into one form, into one source, the Creator.

But this is possible only on condition that you use the entire world in order to unite it within your perception into one whole and connect it to a single source.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/6/9, Baal HaSulam “Characteristics of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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