Question: What is faith in spiritual work during the period of preparation?

Answer: We are not talking about ordinary people, the masses. The society from which I can receive influence is our group.

What is faith before the Machsom for us? Rabash writes in his articles that before the Machsom, there is faith in books and in those who wrote them, the sages. These things come to a person only through a group. That is, the group’s “brainwashing” creates knowledge in me that I do not really attain, but since an external force controls me, it brings it to me as a fact.

We see this in the masses, on the outside, and should also take advantage of it here, inside. That is, if we decide to talk about Baal HaSulam, Rabash, ARI, and Rashbi as people who are our teachers, leading us forward, and what they said is sacred to us and above all else, then the group should “brainwash” me with this, so the power I get from this is called faith.

I myself have not yet attained this with my five senses in such a way that it becomes a fact for me. I am not at the end of correction when I can say that everything is for the good and that the Creator does only good. All of this is nothing more than words to me.

But because I have a group, I get it from them in a way that turns words into facts for me. The power that turns this into facts is called faith. Thus, instead of knowledge, instead of attainment, I use the power of faith.

Let us say I have a glass of tea before me, and I am willing to pay ten shekels for it. In the same way, by the power of faith, I can be willing to pay ten shekels for something I do not see or know. For example, they tell me to have a glass of beer, but I know nothing about beer; they tell me it is very good, and I believe them, so I will pay ten shekels for it.

I can believe so much that I will give a million, I will give my whole life just to achieve this. It all depends on the strength of the faith I receive from the group. That is, faith is instead of knowledge.

When I am below Machsom, I have no other force to reach the goal. Although I do not feel this goal, I do not see or hear it, only the power of faith I receive from my friends can help me. Nothing else can serve as a driving force for me.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/9/26, Rabash, “Man Is Rewarded with Righteousness and Peace through the Torah”

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Question: You say that the situation in Israel depends on us. But no matter how much I have tried to concentrate on this thought, I cannot feel that such responsibility truly rests on me. Apparently, I lack the force of faith?

Answer: This can come either as a result of a positive force, the force of faith given from above, or due to the influence of a negative force from below, the feeling that there is no other way out. One of the two. A person will see that nothing else can be done, that no one has a clear idea of how to emerge from the situation that has been created. Meanwhile, the problems keep growing endlessly; things become worse and worse.

Therefore, to the extent that he is able, a person draws strength from the Torah, but otherwise, such a decision matures within him out of despair because he finds himself in an absolute dead end! Even ending your life will not solve these problems. We will still face eternity: our problems will not end with the arrival of death; they are above that transition!

We will see this wall not only from our world; we will see that this wall rises even in the upper world and separates us from the solution to the problem. For our existence is not only in this world, and a bullet to the temple is by no means the solution to all problems.

A person will feel all these problems above the life in this world as well, he will perceive them in their eternal, spiritual form. Life and death are not such significant concepts, and a person will come to feel something far greater.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/7/26, Rabash, “What Are the Times of Prayer and Gratitude in the Work?”

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“These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man. He was complete in his generations. Noah walked with God.”

RASHI interprets, to teach you that the generations of the righteous are primarily good deeds. RASHI explains why he says, “These are the generations of Noah.” It should have said the names of his sons, meaning Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And why does it say, “These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man?” He explains that it is because the generations of the righteous are primarily good deeds (Rabash, “These Are the Generations of Noah”).

What is meant by a lineage or offspring? First of all, Noah was a “righteous man, complete in his generations” on his degree, and he “walked with God,” meaning with the qualities of the Creator, the qualities of Bina “Complete,” “righteous,” and “God” all refer to Bina.

“Noah” signifies a vessel of bestowal, a stage of preparation, whereas “Abraham” represents one who already works with the vessels of reception. First, we acquire vessels of bestowal, the qualities of the Creator, and then, by means of those qualities, we correct the qualities of the created being. Such is the process.

In order to bring creation to this state, it was necessary to mix the vessels of reception with the vessels of bestowal. The Creator had to enter the creation, become embedded within it, and shatter it.

The created being, from a state of feeling complete, strong, intelligent, capable of achieving things, and controlling life, must come to feel like a shattered vessel, with everything mixed together. In every action and every thought, he feels torn between two opposing parts struggling within him, one prevailing and then the other.

When a person reaches such a state, he no longer feels strong or righteous. On the contrary, he begins to feel that he can start the work of correction precisely from this mixture of vessels of reception and vessels of bestowal.

As he accumulates experience, he sees that he is nothing but a vessel of reception and possesses no power of his own. Only if vessels of bestowal come from above will he receive the help and support needed to do something with his nature.

Then he sees that there is no connection between himself and the desire to bestow, no connection with the forces of the Creator. In this way, he arrives at a state in which he begins to hate his own vessels and to love that which is above him, above the Machsom.

This continues until the feeling becomes so intense that he truly cannot exist without receiving the qualities of bestowal in place of his own qualities. Then he is given strength from above to make a Tzimtzum (restriction) on his own qualities and begin acquiring the qualities of bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/1/26, Rabash, “These Are the Generations of Noah”

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We wait for positive changes to happen on the outside. They won’t! We have to come to the conclusion that changes for the better can occur only if we change from within ourselves. That is when we will begin to depict our world the way we want to see it! That is what we have to do.

Question: Does our nature depict the world now? Does our egoism depict the world?

Answer: Yes

Comment: You are supposed to be enjoying yourself, but I am not. This is my state right now.

My Response: Egoism has finished its development. It shows you the entire world you exist in. That is all it can give you. Ultimately it will press down on you and crush you to the point that you cannot exist in this world. You will feel so bad, nauseous, fearful, uncomfortable, in other words, in any possible way.

This is solely so you understand that there are no more changes to be made on the outside. We have gone through all stages of our egoistic development; we have reached a state where the next step is simply to slaughter one another. This is it, there is nothing else.

Question: What should I say to my egoism now that I have understood that my egoism has depicted the entire picture for me?

Answer: You should say that egoism is right, that it has done its job; it brought you to the state where you are in complete disappointment and have to understand that you must not exist in such a paradigm. Must not!

What should you do? You have to correct yourself and then the world will be corrected too. This is a totally different methodology.

Comment: I should not correct the world, but correct myself…

My Response: You should correct the world by correcting yourself.

Comment: Yes, this is not easy!

My Response: It’s not easy, but this is a good moment in history when we indeed have to change the source of our development, the system, the methodology of our development. Our development will depend not on breaking nature that surrounds us, but on how we will be changing ourselves. As a result, the world will be changing.

Question: You keep saying: “Change yourself.” What exactly do you imply by “changing yourself?”

Answer: This is simple: change my evil attitude to everything that surrounds me from an exploitive and egoistic attitude to a kind and altruistic one.

Comment: A warm, kind attitude.

My Response: Yes. Then I will begin to see the world differently. I will start to see through it a different system of governance.

Question: And what will I receive pleasure from? After all, it is a person who receives pleasure.

Answer: I will be bonding with this world, will be attaining its eternity, infinity, perfection, something that I do not see now because I look with my limited egoistic eyes.

This is what lies ahead of us.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/15/26

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