Question: Should the examination of the concept of bestowal be carried out from the perspective of an observer or from that of a participant who wishes to advance in a particular direction?

Answer: Examining the concept of bestowal should reveal whether my life, my destiny, and my very self are truly contained within it. There is nothing else in this world that I need to investigate.

Whatever level I may be at, I simply take my life and examine, moment by moment, how I relate to the quality of bestowal at every stage. I do this not for the sake of results or conclusions that I must subsequently put into practice but solely for the sake of the examination itself.

As a result, we will come to recognize the importance of the concept of bestowal. It will gain depth and substance through the various situations in which my desire to receive develops its attitude toward it, and we will begin to live within this concept. Ultimately, this is about exploring the Creator and my attitude toward Him, toward this quality.

Question: When conducting this investigation, do you observe the situation from the outside or are you immersed in it?

Answer: Both from within and from the outside. It does not matter. Ultimately, we need to examine the system of relationships between me and the Creator. There is no other work.

If a person does not distinguish between himself and his body, that is, his desire to receive, then how can he investigate the concept of bestowal and form an attitude toward it? Where should he begin? From separating himself from his desire to receive. To the extent that he is able to detach himself from this desire, he can investigate it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/11/26, Rabash, “The Rosh Hashanah Prayer”

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Question: A person works; later on, he loses energy, becomes disappointed, and asks for help from the Creator. Where in this chain is room for restriction? What makes one ask for power to restrict their desire?

Answer: A person asks for power perform restriction if they can see one step ahead. One needs to step back and check what state precedes the one they desire.

It is similar to a computer when one can open a few windows one after another one: It is possible to navigate to one window ahead, and it is possible to navigate back to the preceding window. You go to the preceding one in order to find out what parameters are required in order to reach restriction in the next state.

You will receive this power from above on condition that you prepare yourself, ask for power, reveal this power, and have a need for it. What should be your preceding state in order for this to happen with you? It is the state when you will be like Moses standing up to Pharaoh.

When you accurately reveal that your desire to receive is so bad and brings you such blows and calamities that you do not have any way to save yourself, but to escape and hide from it.

You cannot truly escape it. Perhaps you try to flee, but it does not help you detach yourself from the underlying intention since Pharaoh is not the desire to receive itself, but rather the intention to derive pleasure for one’s own sake. The only thing that is considered positive or negative is our intention based on its direction: for the Creator or one’s own benefit.

The desire to receive itself is only discussed in terms of its magnitude. The right line, the attributes of the Creator and the intention to bestow is built upon the magnitude of the desire to receive. The left line, the intention for the sake of oneself, is built upon that same desire to receive.

Both lines must correspond to the full extent of the entire desire to receive in this world and be opposite one to another inside of you to the extent that you would be ready for everything, but only to exit from the power of the left line while you reveal the right line. This is the meaning of the phrase “Let’s go to Pharaoh!”

Moses by himself is unable to do anything, since Pharaoh controls the desire to receive “he rules in Egypt.” Only because the Creator comes together with Moses, He shines through the point “Moses” to all of Egypt and therefore there appears such a notion as the people of Israel, meaning there come additional forces and properties that desire to exit from Egypt. They are the ones that go through the restriction: separating them from Pharaoh, from Egypt.

The people of Israel are the ones who exit Egypt, but not the Egyptians. Therefore, nothing changes in Egypt. All blows, all plagues in Egypt are needed only to take out Galgalta ve Eynaim that is included in AHP there.

Question: Does the restriction occur only after the recognition of evil?

Answer: The restriction follows the phase of recognition of evil: the recognition that any contact with the desire to receive is death. In essence, it is scrutinized after the ten plagues.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/17/26, Rabash, “What Are Commandments that a Person Tramples with His Feet”

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Question: If there is a program for the development of creation, known as Reshimot, how should we relate to attempts to correct spiritual genetic defects?

Answer: Today, science has reached the point where it can correct genetic defects. If so, are we not interfering with the inner properties of the soul, which were formed by the Creator?

After all, our work should be focused only on the group, on choosing the best possible environment each time. But if we work with the spiritual gene, study what it consists of and what is damaged in it, and try to correct it on the material level, are we not affecting our spiritual development? After all, one is clothed within the other.

This question arose even before genetics, biology, and all the possibilities of correcting genes, DNA, and everything related to our genetic information came into being. Essentially, the question is: “Is a doctor given the right to heal?”

Suppose I was born with some defect, or I have developed one now. What should I do about it? Should I correct it only on the spiritual level, through the light that reforms? Or am I allowed to use what this world offers within the limits of its possibilities?

There is a law that applies here: As human beings develop and our desire, our egoism, grows, we expand our ability to intervene in the external world and in its inner world, meaning the human being himself. We are allowed to do this, and that is why these possibilities are being revealed. The fact that these discoveries emerge as a result of the growing desire to receive means that they reveal bad things, not good ones, because egoism cannot bring us anything better.

Is it good that today I crave a thousand and one pleasures, cannot live in peace with anyone, including myself, and am never satisfied with anything? Perhaps this leads me toward correction, toward recognizing how unbearable my state has become. But in themselves, these are bad things, because they result from the development of the ego.

Nevertheless, we are allowed to use what our egoism forces us to develop. This is a defect arising in response to another defect, and a correction in response to another correction. We are permitted to act in this way.

For example, the ego may lead to the development of a particular disease. My ego has grown from one incarnation to the next and reached a new level. As a result, this new level in the current incarnation is accompanied by new diseases.

As egoism grows, new misfortunes arise, including new physical illnesses. If, in response, I invest enormous amounts of effort, money, and resources in trying to improve the world in some way and manage to achieve a certain correction through these great efforts, then I am allowed to benefit from that correction at the same level.

In other words, the law that a doctor is given the right to heal does not go beyond the framework of natural corrections. I invest effort in the area where a defect exists and correct it. The size of the defect corresponds to the degree of egoism that has developed. If I invest effort, money, and other resources, dedicating myself to fighting this misfortune and being prepared to give everything to overcome it, then in this way I bring about a correction.

In other words, it is not the doctor who heals me, but my own investment of effort at the level represented by the doctor on the animate level.

The same applies to our intervention in genes and all the related issues. We must explore every question that arises, wherever we live, and investigate matter in whatever ways we can, developing our knowledge and using it correctly for the benefit of people. If my ego pushes me toward development, and I advance because of this push, then it happens involuntarily, not because of my conscious decision.

People around the world are shouting, “We must stop genetic cloning experiments!” But who can really stop them? Do you believe that no one is working on this? Everyone is working on it. People shout, but in reality, their protests achieve nothing.

It is clear that our ego will push us in this direction. Will we develop an even more sophisticated bomb? Of course we will. All the bad things will inevitably come to light. Whether we want it or not, our ego will lead us there. We see that all the latest technologies and scientific advances, including those in biology and other sciences, are used primarily for military purposes, while only a small part benefits ordinary people.

We will also see that this, too, is certainly programmed into the desire to receive and into our development. The more the desire to receive grows and forces us to reveal more of our nature, the more it exposes all the filth, sores, and abscesses within us. Through this process, we come to recognize evil more quickly.

This corporeal development may seem to show that we can somehow protect ourselves from diseases, and indeed, such possibilities exist. We recognize evil in the form of a particular disease and can treat it by investing enormous effort. But this must not interfere with our spiritual correction. Later, we will see this entire picture in its complete and perfect form.

Therefore, we are allowed to use the latest technologies, but we will not achieve true correction through them. Ultimately, all corrections will come from above, through the light.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/12/26, Rabash, Notes 882 “Rosh Hashanah”

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Intention is the possibility of existing in the spiritual realm. Suppose I am putting on tefillin. At that moment, I think: “What is the putting on of tefillin in the spiritual?” It is the intention for bestowal at the level of receiving the light of Hochma in the Rosh of ZA when it is in a great state. This is a very high level.

It turns out that if you regret not having such an intention, then at that very moment you already want to have it and are in some way striving toward it. This is already the beginning of the spiritual performance of this commandment. You already have the hope that one day you will reach it. And if you also connect your intention with an action in our world, then this performance becomes complete. And so it is with everything.

With prayer, we have a problem, since the heart does not always agree with what is written in the prayer book. We are in different states: ascents and descents, such states in which I do not even belong to myself.

Suppose you are reading about something; what matters is the extent to which you identify yourself with the text. You must put your soul into it, your personal attitude toward what you are reading. In any case, the Kabbalists wrote all of this. You perform it purely mechanically, but the body is dead, and one must explain how to revive it. But if you know that you are dead with respect to what they wrote, this is already work.

With prayer, it is a little different. It may happen that your prayer does not coincide with the one you are reading. Therefore, it is impossible to demand the performance of what is written in the book every time. Therefore, do not force your heart. It is entirely acceptable if it is saying something else at the moment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/20/26, Rabash, “A Prayer of Many”

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