Question: How can I hold on to “There is none else besides Him” when I am engaged in various things that distract and confuse me by bringing either pleasure or suffering?

Answer: First of all, one must believe that all these things are given to me so that through them I will gradually determine that “There is none else besides Him.” This must be the goal.

You should make reminders for yourself, create a system, strict frameworks, so that all of this compels you every 15 or 30 minutes to return to the same state. Everything should mechanically remind you of the Creator. After that, you will already be able to work independently.

Naturally, at first there is no taste in this, but over time it comes. Through these actions, which seem to have “no benefit,” you draw the surrounding light, and it influences you in a general way, so that you remember and constantly remain in this awareness.

Gradually, you come to a state where you feel that you are, at least, no longer in double concealment but in simple, single concealment, where the Creator is constantly present in the background, yet you feel that He is concealed.

With my teacher, Rabash, one could feel that he was never disconnected from the Creator, and this made a very powerful impression.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/17/26, Rabash, “Who Needs to Know that a Person Withstood the Test?”

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The purpose of creation is to bring a person to a state of absolute goodness and eternal bliss. This is, without question, the Creator’s degree. In order to attain such a state, a person must first of all desire it.

But in order to desire it, while still existing in the opposite state, he must gradually reveal that very opposition within himself, feel more and more deeply how bad it is, and how good it is to possess a desire for spirituality.

All the work on the desire is performed by the light, by the Creator, not by the person himself. Therefore, all he has to do is reveal his true state each time, the state in which he presently exists, from there strive toward the next state, and draw one degree closer to the Creator.

Everything that is required of a person is to determine the direction of his desire, the aim of his aspiration. This is what is called intention (Kavana). The word “Kavana” comes from the Hebrew “Lechaven” (to direct), that is, to determine the direction in which I want to advance.

What does it mean to ask, “What is your intention?” It means: Where are you striving to advance? What do you want to attain? What is your goal? A person needs to determine only this. Everything else is done by the Creator.

The light corrects the Kelim. If necessary, it first spoils them, then corrects them, fills them, and empties them. Through its expansion and departure, the light builds the Kli. The light does everything.

The Kli, however, possesses a kind of point of awareness that enables it to determine and discern the state in which it exists, recognize the evil of its present condition and the state it wishes to attain: what its direction is, what its intention is, in other words, what the next desired place is.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/20/26, Rabash, “The Creator and Israel Went into Exile”

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Question: Which criterion can we use to constantly check whether we are in the right environment?

Answer: The right environment is an environment that guides a person’s thoughts and desires to connect with the Creator with maximal force.

The right environment is all my inner qualities relative to my point in the heart, which connects me with the Creator. Everything else in me must contribute to this point of connection with the Creator.

My properties, desires, and aspirations are called my environment. My “I,” which is called “Moses” in me, that is, the point where the formation of the soul begins, can grow only in the right environment.

Rabash writes that there must be an initial state, stages of development of this state, the environment, and stages of development of this environment. If all this works together for the connection with the Creator, optimal conditions are created for the development of the soul.

I have to check which of these four parameters I can influence and which I cannot. It is a pity to waste time, for this is our work. There are many people who waste their breath, unable to see that their pursuits are empty. Of course, they will understand this over time, but it is a shame to make an effort only to realize the mistakes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/26, Rabash, “What Is ‘Do Not Slight the Blessing of a Layperson’ in the Work?”

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Question: Why is it necessary to put pressure on the group so that it is more precisely directed toward the goal? What does it mean to put pressure? It seems as though the group is constantly resisting this.

Answer: No, the group simply consists of people just like you. Putting pressure on them is also part of your free choice.

By placing yourself under the influence of your friends, as if standing under a shower so that they may influence you and cleanse you, you must also examine exactly how they are influencing you. Maybe they are being frivolous; maybe you are sitting in the “company of mockers.”

You must constantly demand that the group improve.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/14/26, Rabash, “What It Means that ‘Law and Ordinance’ Is the Name of the Creator in the Work”

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