Question: When does the change of intention from Lo Lishma to Lishma (for the sake of the Creator) take place? Does my “fuel” change after the Machsom or do I still operate from the intention “for my own sake”?

Answer: After the Machsom, a person’s “fuel” changes. They emerge from the double and single concealments in which they existed prior to the Machsom and come to the revelation of the Creator. What is the difference between redemption and exile?

Redemption is the sensation of the Creator’s presence, the higher governance over all of reality. But if you do not feel this, then you are in exile (which is actually where you are now). You may listen, think, and imagine Him, but you do not truly feel Him. Therefore, this sensation does not determine the course of your life.

But when you begin to feel the Creator, you feel that there is no other force acting besides Him. And Pharaoh and all the other “characters” are factors through which the Creator determines and arranges everything that happens to you, both within and without. And all of this is so that, through discerning these changes, the single point in your heart may develop. The point in the heart is the beginning of the soul (Nefesh).

Regarding how you reveal that everything happening to you, both internally and externally, is only His actions, it is said: “Two lights, the inner and the surrounding, polish the Kli like water. Thus, the Kli is built.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/9/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Before the Egyptian Minister Fell, Their Outcry Was Not Answered, in the Work?”

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Question: Often the person asking a question is actually asking for the benefit of others. So they realize that they, too, have this question. How can we extract deeper information from you? How should a person be attuned when asking a question?

Answer: It does not depend on me or the person asking, but on the general level of those present, even those far away, on the Internet. When I feel the audience, I work for it; it determines the level at which I speak and even the style of presenting the material.

If there are more women sitting before me, I talk to them differently from how I talk to men. If the audience consists of new students, I naturally give a lecture as if for small children, using a soft, accessible language. For a more prepared audience, such as my longstanding students, the conversation will be brief, clear, and sharp.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Answer to Any Question” 9/12/10

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Question: How can one clearly demonstrate “From Your actions we know You”?

Answer: It is very simple. For example, I see someone performing a certain action. I don’t know why or what their purpose is. I come to them with my mind, because I don’t have their “head,” and only the action is revealed to me. And so, through my desire, my capabilities, my own “mind,” I begin to emulate them in their actions; I want to act together with them.

There are such examples in our world. We see it in education when children gradually become like us, they wish to be like us. In spiritual action, it looks like this: the Creator gives to me, and I want to delight Him, to do the same for Him. By asking Him for strength, I become similar to Him in this action: He gives, and I act toward Him in the same way; that is, I reach a state where I receive His intentions, His “head” (Rosh).

What am I doing, trying to be like Him? I study the material (the desire) He works on, His attitude toward it, the form in which He is revealed in the material. In reality, I progress from bottom to top, from effect to cause.

It is said: “There is no blade of grass below without an angel above, striking it and saying: ‘Grow.’” By understanding the blade of grass, its material and how the angel acts upon it to grow, I begin to know the angel, through the processes he employs.

I associate myself with his actions, I want to be exactly like him, and through this, the same “head” (Rosh) is formed within me. Thus, we become equal in the action he performs.

What is common between us is the relationship to the material He created and the desire He realizes within it. That is, I already relate to my own desires as a laboratory experiment, beginning to separate my “self” from my body and regarding it as the place where we can be similar and merged.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/10/26, Rabash, “What Are the Two Actions During a Descent?”

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Question: I am discovering the evil in the very use of desire to receive. Why is it revealed in this way?

Answer: I receive the desire and intention to enjoy for myself from above, as a given. Now I need to see what the reason is. What kind of desire did I get? It can be a desire that brings me great pleasure or an opportunity to enjoy in order to achieve a goal.

Therefore, I make an effort to reveal that what is important to me is, not the fulfillment of the desire, but the intention for it. Even if I enjoy myself within the desire, as I do now, and remain in an unfilled Hisaron (deficiency), the intention I have received for the sake of receiving is still, in essence, evil for me. The fact is that the Creator becomes greater in my eyes than the intended fulfillment of desire.

Thus, I must value the greatness of the Creator more than the pleasure that can be obtained in the desire. When I achieve this, I have come to the realization of evil.

But this happens only because we work in a group and try to get inspired by everyone with the importance of the goal, of the Creator. Then I develop a need to do this, and I pray to the Creator that He must reveal Himself to me as something greater than the desire He gave me before.

In other words, the following happens in the actions of the Creator toward me: He gives me a desire with the intention of receiving for myself, and I have to reveal through the group, through books, that this desire is evil because the desire itself is higher in my eyes than the greatness of the Creator. Then I will ask the Creator to reveal Himself to me as great and not as a source of pleasure, so that His greatness will help me use my desire with the opposite intention—to bestow to Him.

When I achieve this, my prayer becomes a prayer for giving. That is, I am not praying for the filling of the Kli but for the opportunity to work for the sake of giving.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/10/26, Rabash, “What Are the Two Actions During a Descent?”

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