Question: Sometimes there is a feeling that you want to pour out what is within you into the group. It overwhelms you; you want to give it to someone, and by pouring it out, you become filled. Does this relate to the vessel of bestowal?

Answer: You are describing the following: my attitude toward the friends in the group is that I want to bring them benefit. By bringing them benefit, I feel good and become filled with a certain good sensation. Is this sensation called the Creator?

I would say: yes. When you feel inspiration from bestowing upon others, the illumination you receive is called spiritual. Although it exists within vessels of reception and all these concepts still belong to the intention for reception, they nevertheless stem from belonging to some correction, to some spiritual quality. Therefore, in return, you receive a small illumination from above.

You might say that such an elevation can occur altogether without a group, without study, without anything else. For example, in a football team, one player also wants to give to another for the sake of the common benefit, and they experience elevation.

In general, in any group whose members are capable of thinking about love for it, there will be an elevation corresponding to the spiritual concept. However, in our case, we are speaking of a genuine illumination from above, because we are ultimately advancing toward the true concept of bestowal.

Thus, the work of a football team, for instance, does not lead them to correction, whereas our work does. We see that the more we begin to delve into these concepts and agree with them, the more precious they become to us, and we are willing to endure and accept them upon ourselves.

What is it that we are hoping for, and why do we make efforts? So that the concept of bestowal will somehow become acceptable to us. For this, we are ready to pay, and that is why we make so many efforts now.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/11/26, Rabash, “The Rosh Hashanah Prayer”

Question: Why did the breaking occur specifically in the intention to bestow?

Answer: The Creator created the desire to receive. It is simply a sensation that enjoys the presence of the Creator and nothing more. If I feel the Creator, then I feel good; if I do not feel Him, I feel bad. Moreover, this feeling can manifest in various variations, from the smallest to the strongest blows. That is, the sensation of whether I feel good or bad depends accordingly either on the revelation or on the concealment of the Creator.

There is nothing besides that. In other words, by restricting Himself, the Creator created the desire. And so this desire would not simply be revealed or wither like a flower under the scorching rays of the sun, but would be capable of actively seeking revelation, attracting the light of the sun to itself, and determining when the sun’s rays would act upon it and when not, it is necessary to give this desire some additional properties besides the sensation of good or bad. This is so that a person can become the master of his action.

Therefore, the Creator embedded within this desire the capacity to govern it, to rise above it.

This was achieved through the breaking of the vessels. Thanks to this action, a person receives the Creator’s property of bestowal. And then, if he wants to bestow and the Creator is revealed to him, he immediately feels the light, because the desire to bestow in itself becomes light.

It turns out that a person no longer depends on what the Creator sends him. This is called, “My sons have defeated Me.” He is freed from the rule of the Creator, from the rule of the desire to receive, which, in essence, is one and the same. And now everything depends on his desire for bestowal. And the Creator gives him the measure of the desire to bestow in accordance with the measure of his desire to receive.

That is, now a person can be completely independent of the desire to receive and be only in the desire to bestow. And even more than that, develop and use the desire to receive not only for revelation but also for bestowal. From this, he becomes a source of light like the Creator. This is called “two great lights.”

Of course, initially a person receives both the desire to receive and the sparks of bestowal from the Creator. This comes from above, from one source. But besides receiving these sparks, all the rest of the work belongs to him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/23/26, Rabash, “What Is the Meaning of Failure in the Work?”

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Question: Can physically observing the commandments help our spiritual advancement?

Answer: Mechanically observing the commandments in the corporeal world cannot help with spiritual advancement. Please understand this correctly! It is a very subtle point.

However, if you accompany the observance of a commandment with the right intention, then it helps. Otherwise, performing the commandment does not advance you spiritually in any way. On the contrary, by being satisfied with simply carrying out the action in the corporeal world, you begin to feel that you are righteous.

The external becomes more important to you than the internal. In this way, you are destroying yourself, the whole world, and the entire nation, and you become the cause of all the troubles and suffering that exist in the world.

All these things must go together. Moreover, the internal must occupy a much greater place than the external.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/20/26, Rabash, “A Prayer of Many”

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Question: How can the group develop the intention to “love your neighbour as yourself” in me?

Answer: How can the group enter your heart and change its intention from receiving for yourself to bestowing so that you want to love your friends? We cannot do this, and you cannot do it either.

Only the upper light can bring about this change and correct you, provided you truly want to be corrected. However, the group can set a chain of causes and conditions in motion that somehow lead to this. That is what the group should do. This is where your free choice lies.

Whether you want it or not, the group adds to your desire because you value it. We are made in such a way that the opinion of society matters to us. In terms of a person’s ego and their sense of existence, there is nothing more important to them than their own “I,” something that has emerged from nothing. This “I” is more important to them than life itself. They are ready to do anything to preserve it. That is how a person is made, and the group must learn to use this correctly.

For example, advertisements tell us that a real man is someone who drinks Coca-Cola or beer. In this way, they are already appealing to something built into our nature. Our group should be structured in the same way: it should use that same power of the “I” that exists in everyone, but instil our values in it. The approach is the same.

In his article “The Freedom,” Baal HaSulam gives very simple examples from everyday life. They are given to us for practical application.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/12/26, Rabash , “Rosh Hashanah”

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