Question: Is the revelation of the Creator, in fact, the revelation of a new form in oneself?

Answer: The revelation of the Creator’s face is called the manifestation of His importance because, in fact, this is what I seek. This is not the revelation of pleasure, but the revelation of His superiority, His properties, and His perfection. It helps me to respect the Creator more than my desire to receive.

This desire constantly grows in a person. More and more Reshimot (spiritual records) surface. In other words, more and more of the left line is added to a person. Then he needs to reveal the face of the Creator as a greater, more exalted one who affects him more so that he can resist the desire to receive, and respect the Creator more than his selfish desire. This means that a person has the strength to work for the sake of giving.

It follows that the desire to receive was originally created in the size of the Creator; both are equal in magnitude. However, a person feels the magnitude of the desire to receive only in accordance with how much he is able to overcome it, and at the same time, to reveal the Creator as important and great.

Each time it is like a game. At first, the desire to receive is hidden from us; we feel only a small part of it in the form of reality of this world. In fact, this is the same general reality, only it is called “this world” because we perceive it without taking the Creator into account.

All else, apart from this level, we already perceive in accordance with the reality of the Creator, meaning, we actually feel the Creator, which is called the upper world. “All else” means that we already consider the importance of the Creator relative to the importance of the desire to receive.

This desire gradually grows, starting from the lowest, smallest state, until it reaches the level of the Creator. It helps us to ask the Creator time and again to show us more and more of His importance, greatness, and superiority. And when we reveal the Creator and prefer to bring Him pleasure rather than serve our ego, then we adhere to the Creator’s form, absorb it, adopt it, and it truly becomes our form.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/26/26, Rabash, Article 29 “Lishma and Lo Lishma”

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However, we were given one place on which we can work without any reward. That is, even when we still do not have a taste for Torah and Mitzvot due to the Tzimtzum, there is one advice, which is to work in greatness of the Creator, how privileged we are to be serving the King (RABASH, Article 29, “Lishma and Lo Lishma“).

Question: Do these words apply to us who are in this world?

Answer: I want to enjoy. This is how I am. My desire to receive perceives nothing in any other way. There is something before me; I receive it and enjoy it. How can I work differently? I am able to work in another form only if I nevertheless receive some pleasure.

Without pleasure it is impossible to live, impossible to move. I can enjoy only from what I receive. We are confused about this because this is our foundation, which has not yet been clarified. Clarifying it takes years of persistent, serious work.

The question is this: can I move from the place where I am now in any direction by even one meter? My answer is: yes, I can, but only on the condition that you fill me with, say, a liter of fuel, or a hundred calories. Then I will be able to move from one place to another. Where will I get the hundred calories from? In various ways, but I must receive them.

Thus, I have two possibilities. Either I receive the hundred calories from all kinds of pleasures that supposedly exist around me or from seeing how great the Creator is. I have two fueling stations with which to set my desire to receive into motion at my disposal, and that is all.

If I am able to work due to the greatness of the Creator, then I become a perpetual motion machine, and I depend on nothing. In that case, my machine can operate without stopping; it no longer depends on any external, insignificant factors. This is our entire goal!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/26/26, Rabash, Article 29, “Lishma and Lo Lishma”

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Before the invention of road-signs as a means to put order in traffic, police officers would stand and streamline traffic. At that time, many people were angry and had grievances against the officers for not doing their job right, and that they were not noticing the line of cars.

But today, the streamliner of traffic has become inanimate, mindless. So, now each one accepts the verdict of the road-sign (traffic light), and no one gets angry with it or asks it for favors (RABASH, Article 28, “What Is, His Guidance Is Concealed and Revealed?“).

On the one hand, the Creator places a traffic light before us, and these laws of nature are absolute. You can curse the traffic light, but it will not help, except perhaps only in the case that you turn to the cause, to the one who operates it. In our days, sometimes when traffic is heavy, you can see a police officer directing traffic. Then you have someone you can shout at.

But if this cause is unknown, you do not see the police officer, the traffic light works according to an internal mechanism, and you do not yell. You have no one to turn to because the governance is concealed. Nature! From this example it is clear how much understanding the cause raises you to a different level in relation to the situation.

If I know that it is the Creator who arranges everything for me, then I immediately turn to Him. I do not look at the traffic light; I look at the police officer. If I see both the police officer and the traffic light, I look at the one who directs the traffic because salvation will come from there. Then all the laws of nature lose their importance.

That is why the Creator does not reveal Himself. Because if He were revealed, I would cling to Him because of my will to receive, and I would never be able to come out from under its control. This is what originally happened with Malchut of the world of infinity. In order to free oneself from this, there must be a restriction, a distancing, and the desire to receive must be corrected into a desire to bestow.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/25/26, Rabash, Article 28, “What Is, His Guidance Is Concealed and Revealed?”

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Baal HaSulam’s “There Is None Else Besides Him” is a special article that addresses our relationship with the higher force, that is, with our lives, with what happens to us, how we can understand this life, and how we can form a more correct perception of it.

It is said that there is no other force besides the Creator, and that only He governs everything. If a person feels that there are many different, contradictory forces, this is done deliberately in order to knock us off the correct intention that only one force exists, and thereby, on the contrary, to strengthen our orientation exclusively toward it.

Precisely through being directed toward the Creator and being pushed away from Him through rejection by all kinds of means, a person begins to understand that everything comes from the Creator and in this way completely binds himself to Him.

This is not achieved easily; it takes many years. After all, our entire life is structured in such a way as to reveal the oneness of the Creator. Therefore we must constantly remember that “there is none else besides Him.” This is the main commandment for a person in our world, where everything is arranged solely to divert him from the direction toward this single force that governs him.

The benefit of these rejections is that a person begins to understand that he cannot be connected to the Creator by himself, he cannot hold onto the thought that all disturbances come from the Creator, and that everything happening to him directs him toward the Creator.

In the end, he becomes despairing, does not know what to do, and precisely through the Creator’s “negative help” (which exhausts him and tosses him from side to side as if there were other qualities, forces, problems, or illnesses in a person, anything at all except the Creator), he reaches such a state that, despite all these actions, he nevertheless rises above them and clings to the Creator.

Only through correct overcoming of all obstacles can a person cope with these disturbances. Yet one sees that there are always more obstacles. Rarely in our lives do we feel that everything comes from the Creator and that we are directed toward Him.

Usually such thoughts occupy only a few minutes a day, and only if we think about it at all. If we do not, days, weeks, perhaps even years, or an entire lifetime can pass in such a state.

But if a person constantly tries to create a community, conditions, and an environment around himself that will inevitably push him toward the Creator, then he can truly grasp Him, not let go, and beg that the Creator holds him, so that through all the events of life he may be directed toward the Creator.

Everything depends on the extent to which one can implore the Creator to open one’s eyes and heart, so that he may feel in his heart and see clearly that he has a connection only with the Creator, and that only the Creator directs him, turns him, and guides him.

In general, everything that happens to us is done by only one force. It is neither good nor bad. First and foremost, it is simply one force. And when a person begins to understand the plan of creation, he already evaluates this force as positive.

It becomes clear to him that all the rejections were necessary only so that he would not be satisfied with a small connection to the Creator, but would truly reach states in which nothing else remains for him in the world; it is either death or adhesion with the Creator.

Then one develops a very clear appeal to the Creator, and asks Him to truly help and give him the strength that would unite him with the Creator forever.

Now he understands that all the obstacles that seemed insurmountable to him and that he hated were sent by the Creator Himself, and that arose within him only in order to push him away, and at the same time to truly draw him closer to the Creator. For precisely through the obstacles was he obliged to go against them and thus connect with the Creator more and more until complete adhesion.

And the Creator very precisely measured the obstacles given to a person. Knowing human nature, He sent absolutely correct, exact obstacles to each person individually, so that by pushing off from them, the person would again draw closer to the Creator.

This was done so that a person would realize that everything is carried out by only one positive force, and that there is no other force in the world besides the Creator. In other words, there are no negative forces in the world.

The negative force is the person himself, his egoism, and around him there is only the Creator, who directs only positive force toward us. And if we evaluate this correctly, then no problems arise, and we move forward solely along the path of drawing closer to the Creator.

In Kabbalah, unlike all other philosophies, methods, and sciences, there is another special aspect: a person begins to understand that he has no freewill at all. Various thoughts arise in his mind and desires in his heart, and he has no control over them since this is all governed by the Creator. That is, the Creator is within a person, and governs his mind and heart, his thoughts and desires.

And we can do nothing about this. From all the events that happen to us, we must only establish that there is a single source: one unique, unified, higher force.

And no matter how we act, correctly or incorrectly, we must understand that it is the Creator who leads us through all kinds of actions. Therefore there are neither crimes nor punishments in the world. There is only one thing: everything was created in order to reveal the oneness of the Creator. We must reach this state.

And all our worries that “if everything comes from the Creator, then what depends on us?” are mistaken. We must be careful not to worry about ourselves, be detached from our “I,” and feel ourselves above it. Only then, by correctly distancing ourselves from ourselves, can we recognize the oneness of the Creator’s governance.
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From a Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/1/19

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