Is there a guarantee that on the next degree I will feel better? Perhaps, in the spiritual sense, yes. But as for the body…

There are a lot of questions that are connected with a person’s state and with his advancement. First of all, a person is not an isolated animal in this world.

Souls are connected with one another; there is a connection of souls and embryos of souls. I may at this moment be acting while carrying out tasks that are not connected with my own soul, but are serving other souls.

We all belong to the assembly of souls that make up the soul of Adam HaRishon, and accordingly we have a common lot, a common destiny. And each of us, or together with certain other souls, has his own individual, private destiny.

I cannot say that I will feel better in all respects by rising to any higher degree. The most vivid example that can be given here is what physical suffering Baal HaSulam experienced before his passing. He suffered from severe joint disease, pains in his heart, and besides that, cancer. He suffered immensely.

And as for everything concerning ordinary life: he lacked money, food, and the most necessary things for existence. Family problems… It was as if he had no peace in anything.

What is the source of this? We study that a person is merely a fragment of the collective soul, the soul comprised of all the other individual souls. There are numerous examples of great Kabbalist enduring physical suffering. Consider, for example, Rabbi Akiva and his death. But we cannot determine what the lot of each person is.

Our task is to rise along the degrees of the spiritual ladder, that is all. As for what may happen to the physical body, or even on the spiritual plane, to each individual soul, is all entwined with the action of the general system called Adam HaRishon. Certain phenomena and interconnections exist that can give rise to seemingly contradictory states: a righteous one who nonetheless suffers misfortune.

It is futile to dwell on this question. First of all, this is not in our power and is not revealed in advance. On our present level of understanding we do not know where they originate and why they come.

This belongs to much higher degrees. There a person begins to understand why and how events unfold, what their underlying cause is, and why one is interwoven into specific interconnections. These are very exalted matters. To understand them one must rise into the general part of Adam HaRishon.

But in whatever state we may be, it does not matter, reality does not change because of this. Only how we perceive it changes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/7/26, Rabash, “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror”

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There is only one means of spiritual advancement: the surrounding light that returns one to the source, which comes as a result of study with an intention as close as possible to the light. This advances a person from degree to degree. The higher the degree, the better its “climate,” its conditions.

It is similar to a person climbing mountains, who at each level feels a different state: the wind, the sun, everything becomes different. Therefore, a person who does not wish to rise higher should not expect that anything will change at the current degree. Nothing can change, such is the nature of that degree and nothing will ever change on it.

Only the souls that ascend and descend, that is, a person who rises and descends within their inner part, can feel changes. Then the inner degree that they have attained is projected onto their body, since spiritual desires are far stronger than material ones, and they certainly suppress all bodily desires.

Rabash writes that when speaking of the sensation of hunger, it is not about how much empty space a person has in their stomach, but about the feeling of hunger that one experiences, about their “Hisaron” (a lack that demands fulfillment), which does not depend on the empty space in the belly. This is a spiritual concept that cannot be measured and whose magnitude does not depend on physical emptiness.

Therefore, when a person acquires some spiritual sensation, all the lower feelings, of course, receive inspiration and a life-giving force from it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/7/26, Rabash, “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror”

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Question: What are we missing now?

Answer: We lack quality of intention. I do not want to say more. From here on seek for yourselves. Using this as your starting point, look deeper into what it really is.

That is what our work is about. If I reveal it, I would steal the opportunity for you to figure it out on your own.

Let us say I would give a short explanation in three or four words now. This explanation will have no basis; it will not enter into your flesh. You will just memorize it, know it, and thus you will go past this concept.

Whereas it should dwell deep inside. When you search, the Kelim are revealed, and the definition one ultimately discovers becomes imprinted, like an impression, within those very vessels.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/7/26, Rabash, “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror”

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Question: Should I make an effort to justify the Creator?

Answer: The effort on my part must be equal in magnitude to the feeling of darkness. I must reach a state where I justify any condition sent to me from above.

Then I fill the sensation of darkness with the light of Hassadim, and I need nothing from the Creator. I myself have filled the entire emptiness.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/31/26, Rabash, “Show Me Your Glory”

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