Question: What does it mean that I overcome desires?

Answer: Our desires are arranged so that in the beginning their intention is reception for oneself, which gives me only the feeling of pleasure and not the feeling of the giver of the pleasure. In order to attain the feeling of the giver, I must make a restriction on the desire, that is, become dependent not on the pleasure but on the one who gives it.

For example if I sit in front of refreshments next to the host, I must reach a state in which the connection with the host will be more important to me than the refreshments. If I succeed, this is called passing the restriction (Tzimtzum). Everything depends on my desire.

If my desire for the refreshments is not very great, then the connection with the host is important to me; but if I am very hungry, then I see only what is in front of me on the plates.

That is, my desire determines what is more important to me: the pleasures or the host. Through my efforts, by various tactics, I must depict a picture in which the host is more important than the food.

The devices, as Rabash says, are the teacher, who gives direction, the books, and the group. With the help of the group, one attains a strong aspiration, a desire, and with the help of the books, one receives the light that correct the Kelim and return one to the source.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/23/26, Rabash, “The Measure of Practicing Mitzvot [Commandments]”

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Question: If I try to convey the awareness of the importance of the goal, the Creator, to a friend ,what am I actually doing?

Answer: You come to the group and say: “Friends, you must constantly give me a sense of the greatness of the Creator.” Saying this is not difficult and costs nothing. From your ego you pressure them. They are an external force from which you can demand.

From yourself you cannot demand, but from them you can. “I want you to give me the awareness of the greatness of the Creator.” They begin to give it to you, and then you yield to their influence.

Question: But then  am I again moving toward pleasure?

Answer: Yes, because the group convinces you, since you are built in such a way that you submit to the opinion of society. Naturally, you derive pleasure from joining the common opinion. It gives you confidence, a sense of belonging, but all this is still measured within vessels of reception.

And then you begin to strive after the greatness of the Creator: “It is worthwhile for me to be near Him.” But you do not see these pleasures, because if you did, you would strive for them yourself. Since you do not see them, you need the group to tell you that it is worthwhile.

Gradually, through this, you evoke the surrounding light, which indeed changes you. The action is not performed by us, but we must provide the means for it. The Creator is concealed and not needed by me, yet the group says that He is needed, and it seems to me that it is so. I do not know who He is or what He is, but somehow, I perform an action, according to which the surrounding light comes to me, and it is what performs the work.

Everything is done detached from the desire to receive, which, during these actions, feels nothing. There is no concrete benefit. If someone from the outside asks you: “What do you gain from this?”, you can answer: “Your life is no better.” Or say: “I receive pleasure from exploring reality. I have something beyond your animal level.” But do you have anything tangible? No.

This is a sign that we are advancing correctly without the interference of the desire to receive, until the surrounding light changes us. There is no other way, no other means. Therefore, each time we find ourselves in a kind of despair, we have nothing to be proud of, the end is unknown, and where that Machsom is, is unclear.

On one hand, we accumulate some experience, but on the other hand, it gives us no foundation. And all of this is necessary in order to disconnect the desire to receive from the result, which in fact does not belong to it.

And so, it continues until I become satisfied with the existence of a certain “charm of holiness,” received from the surrounding light. I cannot do otherwise; I want it. The light builds this yearning within me.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/19/26, Rabash, “Concerning Hesed [Mercy]”

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Question: What does the Kli (vessel) between us mean?

Answer: The Kli between us is the relation of one person to another, the glue between them. If such glue exists, it is built from the intention for the sake of bestowal.

How can I “adhere” to you so that we become one Kli? My intention to bestow to you and your intention to bestow to me bring us closer and bind us together so that we become as one Kli.

This intention between all of us must be asked for from above, we must receive the light that will correct us and give it to us. Then, by uniting, we will become one Kli. It is precisely in these intentions of each one toward the other that the light will dwell because these intentions are similar to the light, not the Kelim (vessels) themselves.

The Kelim themselves exist only in order to generate intentions toward one another. This can be imagined as follows: We are all within one Kli, and each of us is Malchut. And if one, in relation to another, works with an intention for the sake of bestowal, then this relation itself becomes the Kli. It is into this that the light enters according to equivalence of form.

Thus, in our Malchut (mine and yours), we never receive the light, since they are vessels of reception. We know that reception occurs in the nine first Sefirot, which are the qualities of the Creator.

If there is a relation between us, then your desires become my first nine Sefirot, and my desires become your first nine Sefirot. In these mutual relations we build the Kli.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/11/26, Rabash, “What Are Day and Night in the Work?”

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Question: Software engineer Steve Wozniak, who together with Steve Jobs created the Apple empire, when answering the question, “Has a human being become happier after the invention of the personal computer?” said: “This is a very complex question. At one time I thought that if we made people’s lives easier, it would bring them happiness. They would work less. However, they began to work even more. Now a family must be supported by two working people, not one. I think that if we compare ourselves with primitive people by the level of happiness, it will be approximately the same.

At one time Steve Jobs and I dreamed of creating a gadget that would make blind people able to see. But now when I enter the subway and see that everyone is sitting with their faces buried in their phones, I understand that we have made all sighted people blind.”

Do you agree that we are a blind humanity?

Answer: We still have to realize that all innovations in electronics are intended only to limit us in sensations, in the perception of the world, in the sensation of life.

I look at a small screen that fits into the palm of my hand, and for me nothing else exists. Through it I supposedly connect with the world. But whom do I actually connect with? With some office, some intermediary that “pushes” everything it wishes onto me. A person has not become free, but more dependent. We are becoming bigger and bigger slaves.

Moreover, with the help of electronics and everything else, many normal professions have disappeared. A profession is not only something that gives people the opportunity to earn money. The most important thing in a profession is that a person feels that they are suitable for coexistence with others. A profession is a method of communication between people. I am a tailor, you are a shoemaker, a doctor, a lawyer, and so on.

It does not matter who or how, but we communicate; we need one another.

And if we will not need one another and will only stare into mobile phones, then it is the same as giving an injection or a pill. People will fall asleep, and all kinds of movies will be spun in their heads, or they will be removed from life altogether.

Question: What scenario is laid down by the upper force?

Answer: This scenario is very simple; it is called “recognition of evil.”

We will be obliged to recognize the evil of our egoistic development and to understand that it leads us into a dead end, and that we must get rid of it, break out of it in a leap, rush away from it anywhere, headlong. I hope that someday we will do this.

For now we are trying to explain this to people. But how much they listen, that is a question. Still, here and there the first shots are already beginning to break through.

Question: That is, will we advance further and further in technologies in order to understand that they will lead us nowhere?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is that why they are developing?

Answer: No, development must be internal. External development is not necessary at all.

But if we do not develop internally, then external electronic development reveals emptiness, and nevertheless brings us back to the beginning.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/9/2025

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