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27 אוג׳ 2026 05:38 -

712.03Question: Why does spiritual work take so much time? If it originates from infinity, shouldn’t it continue infinitely?

Answer: Everything has an end. Scientists say that this world has existed for twenty billion years. How long has man existed? Let us say a million years.

How long has the point in the heart that is in a person’s body existed? It first manifested in man more than 5,700 years ago, and counting from Abraham, it has been more than 3,700 years. You can see that development is very slow. But the closer to the end of correction, the faster the pace of development grows; it increases exponentially.

We can see how over the course of 120 years, the world has advanced more  in a than it did in the preceding thousand years. And in our time, a decade will bring as much advancement as in the previous 2,000 years. But in any case, it takes a long time because our collective structure is incredibly complex, and we do not know it.

We do not realize that we are all included in the infinite Kli (vessel), each of us. Within it, there is only one point—mine. All the others are not mine but originate from the rest of the Malchut of the world of infinity. I need to connect all these points to myself for the sake of bestowal to the Creator, incorporate them in myself, and get to know them, because I do not even know my own point. I have to annul it and connect it with all the other points, build a Kli from this, turn with it to the Creator, and begin to merge with Him (Zivug) for the sake of bestowal to Him.

In short, these are very slow actions. Not because they are slow in themselves. The corrections are very fast—billions of actions per second, so to speak. There is no way to count the movements, and there does not apply; I am simply citing specific numbers as an example.

But even though we are talking about billions of operations per second, it is like a computer: despite performing countless operations per second, we sometimes have to wait and wait to retrieve some information from it. Sometimes we have to wait half an hour for data to travel along a thin wire from a massive storage system.

It is the same with us. That is why it seems to us that we are standing still. We are advancing at a very fast pace; much faster than in the material world. No matter how swift the changes in the material world may be, in the spiritual world, they are even faster. Compared to the millions and billions of years of our development at different levels (inanimate, vegetative, animate, and speaking), our current rate of progress in the spiritual is accelerating tremendously.

You will soon see how the world will change over the course of a year or two.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/10/26, Rabash, “What Is the Gift that a Person Asks of the Creator?”

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27 אוג׳ 2026 05:33 -

243.05People do not understand that working for the Creator is Kabbalah. There is talk about working for the Creator everywhere. Both religious and secular people know that a religious person engages in work for the Creator. Yet no one knows what this actually entails.

For most people, it means observing the Torah and Mitzvot every day, and nothing more. No one understands that in reality working for the Creator is Kabbalah. Kabbalah is considered something superfluous. “Kabbalah is pursued by people who cannot do otherwise, who have a different mindset, people who are slightly “off,” in short, not normal people.”

In reality, genuine work for the Creator, in its purest form, is Kabbalah. Whoever wants to work for the Creator strives to gradually fulfill what the Creator desires; they imitate the Creator.

In Pri Hacham (A Sage’s Fruit), Baal HaSulam states: “The scrutiny of the educated in creation, in the first concept, is defined as emulating the work of the Creator.” Those who are “educated in creation” are those who truly want to understand creation, to acquire the wisdom of Kabbalah and the wisdom in general.

“The work of the Creator is called “providence,” or “the nature of creation.” By emulating Him, we become those who work for the Creator. As it is written: “Know the God of your father and worship Him.”

We learn from His actions toward creation, from the way He watches over and governs everything. We take this entire system of supervision and governance from Him, and begin to govern ourselves instead of Him. After all, what does He govern, if not us and our desire? Creation is us, “something from nothing.”

Thus, through all the ascents and descents, through everything He does, we gradually learn from the way that He treats us, and aspire to become masters of ourselves instead of Him. To the extent that we become capable of doing this, we acquire a screen, and truly become this way.

This is what the question of the work of the Creator is about. There is nothing else. And whoever thinks that there is something more simply does not understand what this is about.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/12/26, Rabash, “One Should Always Sell Everything He Has and Marry a Wise Disciple’s Daughter”

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27 אוג׳ 2026 05:30 -

624.06The root of the soul each of us possessed in Adam HaRishon lost its screen after the shattering, yet it continued to exist without it. In any case, even without the screen, it consists of Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey, the four stages of direct light, that must be present in every element of creation, in every desire.

Neither the individual stages nor their combination can be changed. This is impossible because this root represents my origin in Adam HaRishon—the essence of my “self,” my foundation. Anyone who attempts to fight this merely suppresses these elements. The most I can do is not use them.

All philosophies and other ancient methods that persist to this day teach a person how to forcibly master their natural properties so they might feel heroic in their own eyes. But this does not make them a true human being, because they are suppressing their natural qualities rather than transforming them.

These traits cannot be changed, as they lie beyond our control and are embedded in the very foundation of creation. In the past, people tried to change our natural qualities through upbringing, but now they are coming to the conclusion that upbringing should be free of excessive pressure and coercion. Although they proper application of this approach remains elusive, there is a growing understanding that force is ineffective.

When we observe negative traits in a young adult such as outbursts against society or hostility toward everyone and everything, it is often the result of their being pressured at an early age. Now all the “experts” recognize this, but they still have no method for dealing with it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/16/26, Rabash, “What Should One Do If He Was Born With Bad Qualities?”

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27 אוג׳ 2026 05:26 -

255Question: What should I do if laziness prevents me get up in the morning to go to the lesson?

Answer: If I don’t want to get up in the morning, it is a sign that the time has come to think about why I am doing this.

All our animalistic qualities are given to us, not without reason, but for the purpose of spiritual advancement. We must use them in relation to the Creator, not toward other people, and not in order to change them, but in order to connect with the Creator through them.

When I am lying in bed at three in the morning, and it is time to get up, here I must activate different calculations. Is it worth getting up? What for? If I direct them toward spiritual advancement, then it means I am using them correctly.

But if I apply them to the world around me, what will I gain from it? These properties were not given to me simply to sit in a desk drawer somewhere. They are mine, and through them, I must build my connection with the Creator. And after they become spiritual properties, that becomes a different kind of work.

But for now, I exist within them with my extravagance, pride, and impatience, and I advance through all these qualities. I direct them toward the Creator without factoring them into my dealings or directing them toward other people. I should have no calculation regarding that aspect.

Question: On one hand, we say that there should be no calculation regarding them, and on the other hand that we use them?

Answer: Of course, we use them in relation to the Creator, in relation to spiritual work. How could I not use them when they exist and operate within me? I cannot ignore them. Both in relation to the Creator and in relation to the environment, I can only determine in what form, to what extent, in what relation, and in what direction I use them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/16/26, Rabash, “What Should One Do If He Was Born With Bad Qualities?”

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