Question: How can I know that my intention or the intention of a friend is correct?

Answer: First of all, we do not speak about someone else’s intention. Intention is my attitude to the purpose of creation, to the Creator. I cannot enter another person and begin to examine how he relates to this, nor is it important to me. What matters is myself.

How can I examine my own intention? What I feel is, in essence, what I must relate to. A person never truly knows what is in one’s heart; it is concealed from us.

Even now, you may see that you think about yourself as being relatively fine, almost righteous. But if you were to look a little deeper into your heart, you might think somewhat differently.

We must advance according to our sensations. It is said: “A judge has only what his eyes see.” And only after such an examination should one build one’s attitude toward what needs to be done.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/14/26, Rabash, “Why the Speech of Shabbat Must Not Be as the Speech of a Weekday, in the Work”

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How can we change states quickly? How can we minimize the time we linger in each state and make that as beneficial as possible so it leads not to errors, but to the goal via the shortest and best path? This will not happen simply because we know what to do. We do not know. This will not happen because I know my next state. I do not know it.

I do not choose the shortest path, one way over the other. But if I work on transcending myself and abiding within the group, then, as much as I try to do so, my inner effort means I am doing the most useful thing for my advancement and the group.

Accordingly, I can immediately discover that I am not in it, that I do not want it, and will see how much it repels me, while also receiving my friends’ reactions. There is no more useful action, and it is so simple that anyone can do it. It does not take much intellect.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/11/26, Rabash, “What Are Day and Night in the Work?”

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Question: How can you check how much you have advanced after a lesson?

Answer: The main thing is to clarify: What do I want—for my own sake or for the sake of bestowal? Do I have a connection with my friends in this? Do I need them or not? Do I work from my egoistic desire or from the intention to bestow, from the side of the Creator or the creation, above my egoism or within it? All advancement is based on such self-analysis.

It may be that after a good lesson, these clarifications reveal my bad state to me, but they will be more precise, and that means that I am advancing.

Every day should bring a simple result: tomorrow or by the next lesson, I must come with a more clarified desire.

It does not matter whether I have a desire or not; it is given from above. The question is whether this state becomes clearer.

It is possible that the clarification will lead me to a dead end where everything becomes unclear, as if shrouded in a fog. But this also means greater clarity and a more precise clarification.

The light that comes to me during the lesson provides me with discernments; it does not matter whether they are positive or negative. It allows me to make a more precise analysis in order to evaluate myself, my state in relation to the Creator and the goal in all directions.

The light affects the desire; when it illuminates the desire for me, I see more within it.

Even if I suddenly stop distinguishing anything in it at all, and I feel complete confusion and fog descends unlike anything I have ever experienced before, this is also called seeing more. These are also degrees of understanding.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/10, The Book of Zohar

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Question: What is the meaning of the concept: “For the commandments are our life and the length of our days”?

Answer: It means that a person must come to feel that everything he receives in life is measured by the amount of light that descends from above, and that his life force depends on his connection with the spiritual, because it is from there that he draws it.

A person’s life is not measured in calories or in any other units, such as the size of his salary, but only by his connection with the Creator. Longevity is the extent to which he values his life, its spiritual height.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/14/26, Rabash, “Why the Speech of Shabbat Must Not Be as the Speech of a Weekday, in the Work”

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