Question: Can people come to the group just to feel good?

Answer: You say that in our group there are people who come for the sake of the goal, while others simply do not want to sit at home. Sometimes I come here in the evening and find people sitting here late into the night. What are they doing? They are running away from home. There is a wife, small children, noise, shouting, and they sit here and do something. Maybe that is the case. So perhaps we are all like that?

Indeed, we are all like that. We run away from problems. You might argue that they are not thinking about spirituality. That is correct; they aren’t. But you should regard this as a correct starting point. After all, you, too, are simply running away from troubles when you ask yourself, “What is the meaning of my life?” That is why you came here, and that is why you continue.

If you think this is wrong, it means that you have not yet clarified the depth of the reason why you yourself are here. Ultimately, everyone who is here is running away from something bad. And that is good.

This is a worthy foundation to begin with. “No!” you think. “There must be an aspiration for spirituality, bestowal, altruism!” All this is nonsense! There is no aspiration for anything other than one thing: to escape suffering.

Question: Then perhaps it would be better to go to Eilat for a vacation?

Answer: What is the difference between a group that helps me stop thinking about my problems and some hotel in Eilat where I am also offered the opportunity not to think about my problems for a week?

The difference is obvious! If these sufferings are truly directed toward the goal, you will not be able to escape them even in Eilat. You will sit in a luxurious hotel and torment yourself. Nothing will help. Only here will you truly be able to escape your problems.

It is very good if you come here and forget all your problems, both material and spiritual. Don’t dwell on them. You should not wait for the recognition of evil to come to you. This will happen only as a result of the influence of the light.

If you do not draw a greater influence of the light upon yourself, an ever greater evil will not be revealed to you. And someone who wants to feel evil before drawing the light will simply devour himself. This is not the revelation of new concepts or inner discernments.

This is called: “The fool sits with folded hands and consumes himself.” He sits instead of advancing. In many of his articles, Rabash writes that you need only connect yourself to the source of the light, to the Creator. Everything else will come to you only as a result of this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/26, Rabash, “Who Testifies to a Person”

Question: Why is it so difficult to work on recognizing the greatness of a friend? It is easier to recognize someone from the outside as great, whereas here, it takes years of effort.

Answer: Any external society imposes demands on people according to which it demonstrates care for its members and educates them. Within humanity, there are many types of societies. We can also include specific institutions like the department of education, the government, the police, various mutual aid associations, social organizations, schools, and kindergartens; all of these serve as an environment for the individual.

The question is how demanding this environment is of a person. Our group does not demand enough from each one. Therefore, a person does not feel that if the requirements are not met, this will cause him harm: that he will be ashamed, and his self-esteem will be hurt. He finds all sorts of excuses for himself in order not to do what the group, in essence, sets as its goal.

It defines a mandatory standard to be implemented, but does not sufficiently insist on it in the demands it places on each of its members. And then it fades out, like a small fire, without providing a strong impulse for advancement.

I have to know that if I do not do this and that, I will not be able to live with my friends; they will shame me and treat me in such a way that I will feel harmed by it. We need to use those qualities that are truly very important to us so that a person can fight with himself.

Comment: But a person has been investing effort in a friend for years and does not succeed as much as he does in the outside world.

My Response: You are saying that our work in the outside society is much more effective than it is here in the group.

There, outside, you work with your Kelim, which do not change. When you work in relation to the external society, they remain constant. Here, however, changes are constantly taking place in your vessels. Time after time, you reveal more and more how materialistic you are, how deeply you are immersed in your own egoism, and how little you care about the group.

Everything in you changes in order to advance you in this. You feel like you are constantly experiencing failures. But these are not failures. It is simply that more and more of what is called the “hardening of the heart” is added to you. There is no way around it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/26, Rabash, “Go Forth from Your Land”

During our studies, we have the intention of attaining spirituality through our studies. But this is not the same intention that we attach when performing a Mitzva. We can say that this is the fulfillment of the Mitzva of studying the Torah.

How does it differ from the Mitzvot of washing the hands, reciting a blessing over food, putting on Tefillin, wearing a Tallit, and so on? Through it, you simply draw the general light of correction upon yourself.

In other words, there are actions through which I evoke the influence of the light of AB-SAG and correct myself. The intention here is that I want the upper force to come to me and correct me. It is precisely through this correction that I prepare myself for the Mitzva.

Then, when I receive some strength of the screen from above, I acquire a different intention. At first, my intention was to be corrected, but now my intention is to perform this action for the sake of bestowal.

In the prayer books of Kabbalists, they usually do not speak about the corrections you must make before performing a Mitzva, that is, before a spiritual action, prior to working with the screen. Kabbalists speak about the pure work with screens.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/20/26, Rabash, “A Prayer of Many”

Question: Is restriction the most important thing?

Answer: No, restriction is not the most important thing. The point is that a person fears an empty Kli. Therefore, they are willing to work and give up various things if they sense that their Kli might remain unfilled.

And for the sake of this empty Kli, regardless of whether it is for the sake of receiving or for the sake of bestowal, and whether it relates to the past, present, or future, they are willing to work as long as they do not feel emptiness.

There are people who are afraid of poverty: “What will I have tomorrow? What will I have in ten years?” A person thinks, “I must provide for myself and leave a little for my children.” This is generally what concerns him. He is afraid.

Let us say that he has already planned what he needs and what his children need, made his calculations, and decided that he needs savings of one million dollars. He already perceives this Kli, the one million dollars, and a fear arises within him that this Kli might remain unfilled.

Then he begins to work on his sensation of the empty Kli that he has constructed within himself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/26, Rabash, “What Is the Work of Man, in the Work that Is Attributed to the Creator?”