What is the connection between us? To the extent that we have a connection with one another and we safeguard it, then from within this connection we connect with someone from the outside. Moreover, it may be that only one of us connects with someone external, but he does it from within the connection that the entire group created.

To connect from within the connection between the friends means that each friend feels himself this way, presents himself as a representative of the whole group, and connects with someone as the entire group.

Question: What does it mean that I feel myself as the entire group?

Answer: These are already inner sensations. But if there is a connection between the friends in the group, then in each of them, instead of his “I,” there is the notion of “the group,” and the “I” is erased. If the “I” is erased and instead “the group” appears, then with this quality, which is called “the group,” he connects with someone external.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/26, Rabash “Concerning Fear and Joy”

The Creator created the desire to receive pleasure, whose fulfillment is the Creator Himself. And if the desire were to feel the Creator, we would feel good; that is, we would receive pleasure. So what is it that we lack? We lack a true desire. Because the desire created by the Creator is not a true one; that is, the creature does not feel this desire as its own.

So how can a true desire appear within the creature? How can we compel ourselves to seek a desire that did not previously exist within us? This is possible only from the opposite direction. The Creator created the desire and gave it to the creature. And now, from these two components—from the desire and the light—the creature must build a new desire.

It turns out that the creature seemingly “creates,” builds itself from zero, from this world to the world of Infinity. That is why a person is called a creature. But until he gives birth to his new desire, he is not yet called a creature, and this is simply nature: still, vegetative, animate, and human. All of this is nature, created by the expansion from above downward.

And the ascent from below upward is the development of the desire toward the spiritual, toward the Creator, that is, a desire that previously did not exist at all within the creature. This new desire is born only now, from a person’s work of clarification between his point in the heart and his natural, instinctive desire, that is, between the light and the darkness.

The surrounding light helps us clarify the essence of the collision between these two entities within us: light and darkness, the spiritual point in the heart and our egoistic nature. And if we conclude that spirituality is more important than corporeality, and we choose spirituality from between these two, then this is already a desire that did not exist before. It is precisely this that is called a creature.

We need to work only on this new desire. And all the other desires that originally existed within us (still, vegetative, animate, human), that is, desires for pleasures, wealth, power, knowledge, this is simply nature, which does not require correction.

We are not required to earn money for the sake of bestowal to the Creator, to strive for power for His sake, or to study sciences for His sake. One must direct only the desire that is above all these material desires toward the Creator, the desire for spirituality.

The wisdom of Kabbalah does not deal with correcting human character, because this relates to animate qualities. One person is born hot-tempered, another phlegmatic; neither one nor the other needs correction, nor is it possible. What must be corrected is only the attitude toward the Creator, that is, the new desire that is born in the ascent from below upward.

This desire is called true desire. It is not given by the Creator by nature; rather, the creature itself gives birth to it from the collision of thoughts, contradictions, doubts, and its own lack of understanding.

This desire is born through a person’s efforts from three components:

• the spiritual spark implanted in us, called the point in the heart;
• the heart itself, that is, our egoism, our entire nature;
• the surrounding light that illuminates us.

If not for the surrounding light, which we draw through study in a group, we would not be able to clarify this desire and give birth to it each time on ever higher degrees.

We increasingly strive for spirituality, but for ourselves. And only when this egoistic desire for spirituality fills a person’s entire being, that is, when it outweighs all of a person’s natural desires for pleasures, wealth, power, knowledge, and suppresses them so that a person lives by one aspiration alone: for spirituality, for the Creator, which is called “losing sleep,” then he receives correction by the screen: the first corrected desire in his soul.

The main thing is to care for the correct desire. For now, it does not matter whether it is for oneself or for bestowal, only that it does not clothe itself in the garments of this world, but is directed upward. And then we will receive an answer upon it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/5/26, Rabash, Article 11, “A Real Prayer Is over a Real Deficiency”

Question: How will society be transformed when Kabbalah is used correctly? How will it be expressed internally and externally?

Answer: First of all, all mass media should change their direction in a single decision of the majority of countries. Everything should be aimed at explaining to the masses that only our unity will save the world and restore nature’s positive influence on us.

The mass media is a system that can be rapidly changed for the benefit of the global community, and thus reverse the direction of our development.

We will immediately see positive effects across everything: health, end of terror, weather conditions, society, and more. You will suddenly see that everything calms down, balances out, and becomes peaceful: children’s relationships with their parents, problems with the younger generation, everything instantly calms in each of these manifestations. Enormous egoism, great evil, and resistance to each other suddenly disappear. It is not that angels will walk on earth, no; people are beginning to understand this system, become imbued with it, and feel they can rise above death.

This is what we need to show humanity: “You have the opportunity to rise above death, to achieve a sense of eternity and perfection! This is what is offered to you in addition to life on this earth, which will become truly heavenly, unlike going outside and not knowing if you will return or whether you will have anything to breathe tomorrow.”
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Rise above death” 10/1/10

Question: Was Ancient Rome, or more precisely, were the Romans Italians?

Answer: No, of course not. Rome was an ancient civilization that gradually dissolved and disappeared. As is usually the case, any civilization that begins to expand outward and conquer everyone else eventually buries itself.

This is a natural process that constantly repeats itself in the development of humanity. Any conquest leads to the conqueror’s gradual downfall.

This is how expansion takes place. By invading other people’s territories, you inevitably have to develop them, because you yourself want to use them. As you develop them, you begin to perceive them as your own. And they, in turn, begin to influence you and little by little to “kill” you. This is the gradual circulation between conquerors and the conquered. But in the end, it is always the conquered who gradually absorb the conqueror.

For example, this is what happened in the USSR, when they tried to create a single Soviet person. It was a good idea. All the plans of the Soviet authorities were correct, except for the method of correction. They did not have the force to apply this method, because for that one must take the upper force, which alone can change our nature. Not by terror, not by hunger, or by any other methods, but precisely by using the upper force. There are many works about this, both by Marx and by Baal HaSulam.

Nevertheless, all of this ultimately leads to the recognition of evil.

Comment: Still, it seems to me that nothing can be achieved in a totalitarian way anymore.

My Response: Now it is already over, we have passed those stages. Today, everything can be corrected only through Kabbalah. I am simply speaking about the past.

The future is very simple. Today, nature is inevitably driving us forward! No one is capable of doing anything about it. Nature will press on us very clearly, and we will be forced to develop, driven by nature, putting out fires, saving ourselves from floods, tsunamis, volcanoes, from heat, and from everything else.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Rise Above Death” 10/1/10

A person must see the friends as parts of his own Kli, which the Creator has gathered for him. He is given the opportunity to carry out this action precisely with those who are next to him, and they truly are the field of his work.

If he connects with them, then each of his friends is like a representative of millions or billions of other people in the world. We do not see this, but when it becomes evident, we will understand that this is indeed the case.

Therefore, we must relate this way to the friends, to the group, to the importance of the gathering of friends. This is exactly what we must demand from ourselves and from the environment we are building.

I must see myself as if I have received everything I have, and I lack nothing. For if I truly realize my connection with the friends according to the rule “love your neighbor,” then I will have a Kli in which, by the law of equivalence of form, the light will immediately appear, and everything will be revealed.

That is, everything depends only on the Kli that I must build. This is the only thing that is placed upon me.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/26, Rabash, “The Agenda of the Assembly – 2”

Question: Can you tell us point by point what the development of the next year will be?

Let’s say that first we come to such an understanding, to such training, then we do this, then that, and so on.

Answer: On the one hand, yes, on the other hand, no.

I have a general understanding of what might be, but it means absolutely nothing, because we are at a completely new stage of development, within a movement that has never existed.

There is an external description, but how it manifests itself in us depends on our freewill, on what these movements will be in their external form: more successful or less, slow or fast, in various forms, styles, sensations.

So I can’t say for sure. I know what should happen mathematically, I know the wording, but it can stretch with all the caveats. Like the “+ C” in an integral. And this “+ C” depending on the level of solving the integral can be anything. Everything depends on our freewill, on our decisions and realizations.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. 2011” 9/11/10

Question: How can you give children the right direction if they do not want to listen to you at all?

Answer: It only seems that way to you because there is really nothing you can tell them. How can you convince them? With your tattoos, your gadgets? They have all that too. Only something that is above this world will attract them, and nothing else. Look how many young people are coming to lectures and Kabbalah lessons; look how they are drawn to it.

Comment: But I am talking about small children who grow up in our community. It seems to me that Kabbalah does not interest them at all, and they are just obliged to stay in this environment.

My Response: Go to their classes and see how they think and reason. They just do not fit into your rigid mentality. For them you are a dinosaur, you cannot understand them. And I cannot either.

But we need to understand them. There is no other detector here except if a child of fifteen to seventeen years of age stays here and does not go to any other community. This environment is the most suitable for him. 

Have you ever seen sixteen-year-old boys sitting next to their fathers, organizing groups similar to those their fathers are in? This existed a few hundred years ago when we were on a primitive level of development. But now, after the turning point that we went through in the twentieth century, look what is happening.

But the goal is different now. Back then it was just an animal imitation of parents: father is a blacksmith, I will be a blacksmith too; father is a farmer, I will be a farmer, and so on. But now it is different. My father is engaged in spirituality, and I am too because in principle, I cannot find anything else. Would you be able to keep these sixteen-year-old boys next to you if they were not interested? No one could. It is obvious that they come by themselves and sit next to their fathers.

For me, this is clear proof that the example we set for them and the material we give them truly stand above the entire nature of man.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Children of Israel, Part 1” 10/1/10

Question: Is the aspiration to relate everything to the single force that created everything the correct desire?

Answer: Yes, it is the correct intention. Everything I see around me is a picture of the world deliberately presented to me only so that I may discover the Creator through it.

Question: How will I understand that I have discovered the Creator? Are there any signs?

Answer: Behind all phenomena and objects, you must see the quality of goodness and love that surrounds you.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 5/13/18

Striving for spirituality means striving for connection with all other souls, because this is our spiritual state. It is impossible to imagine spirituality outside of this action. All other depictions and states we can imagine are not spiritual.

As it is written, “Love your neighbor as yourself” is a great rule of the Torah. This is the building of a vessel into which the light, the Torah, and the Creator can surely enter.

In the article “The Agenda of the Assembly,” Rabash outlines the expectations one should have when coming to the group, as well as the thoughts he should have, and the outcome he aims to achieve from the meeting. All desires, all the greatness one feels, he must “plant” in the soil of the group so it bears fruit. Therefore, we must ensure that the meeting of friends provides strength for all other hours of the day and week.

The greatness one feels for the group leads to praise of the group and to praise and greatness of the Creator. A person should leave a group meeting with the sense that he has gained the strength that will help him achieve the goal of creation.

A person has no source of strength other than the group. He must work on building his Kli, and his Kli must necessarily include all other souls.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/26, Rabash “The Agenda of the Assembly – 2”

Question: If I choose a friend based on the measure of the greatness of the goal that he gives me, can I rely on him along the way?

Answer: We unite together according to only one criterion—the degree to which we understand each other in the desire to merge with the Creator. I have no demands toward you. I choose you despite your appearance, education, and everything else.

I choose the group solely according to their desire for the Creator. This desire also has various external expressions. If we ignore them and consider only the pure desire for the Creator, can they all be the same for me? No!

In fact, each person has a certain character that manifests outwardly in different ways. One expresses himself more calmly, another frivolously, a third with anger, a fourth in joy and even with laughter.

But I should find such friends in whom there is not only a yearning for the Creator, but in whom it manifests in a form close to me, because I am only beginning to connect with them, at the beginning of the path. I cannot break external stereotypes and see the friend’s warm heart.

That is, the yearning for the Creator and the form in which it is expressed are the two factors in choosing friends.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/26, Rabash, “The Agenda of the Assembly – 2”

If a person studies the science of Kabbalah correctly, he begins to receive continuous pleasure, moves from victory to victory, ascends the steps of spiritual elevation, and gains ever greater Hisaron.

He corrects it more and more with the intention to bestow and fills it more and more. Even more Hisaron, more intention to give, more filling, and so one progresses to unlimited fulfillment, which is called the final correction (Gmar Tikkun).

But Gmar Tikkun does not mean we completed everything. There can be no constant bestowal. Bestowal must constantly increase; otherwise, it is not giving. Therefore, a person gradually reaches a state called Ein Sof, infinity, when he has no limitations on his ability to continually increase his Kelim with intentions and filling.

Then a person reaches what is called the real, true awe. This awe comes from the concern of whether he can bestow, that is, to what extent he can take on additional needs, whether he will be able to correct himself through them, add a screen, and receive for the sake of giving. This is the meaning of true awe.

As a result, he receives filling from above—the light of the Torah. This light and awe that fill him, together create a feeling called the joy of the Torah. Of this, it is written that being in joy is a great commandment. After all, a person who has corrected his Kelim, received the filling and the upper light called Torah, reaches joy.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/26, Rabash, Article 23, “Concerning Fear and Joy”

Question: How can I check that, while advancing toward the Creator, I am not mistaken in how I imagine Him?

Answer: The fact that a person gets confused and nothing is clear to him are states that must be overcome. In other words, these are corrections that are indispensable; they must be made one after another along one’s path. Do not try to jump over several degrees at once; in any case, you will not be able to do it.

Advancement is possible only gradually, like ascending stairs, one step after another. This takes years because the path we traverse before the Machsom returns, repeats itself after the Machsom, and so on until complete adhesion with the Creator. We study that the same transgressions and mistakes as a result of double and single concealment later turn into commandments, and then lead to eternal love.

Allow yourself to absorb these things. Without including all the particulars and details that exist in you before the Machsom, you will not cross it. They will be necessary later.

This does not mean that we must try to skip all the intermediate states. A “jump” means to make an effort, to go through it quickly, because speed depends on us. We can only apply efforts to advance even faster, because the speed is in our hands.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/26, Rabash, Article 32, “Concerning the Reward of the Receivers”

How can we imagine what bestowal is? You have a group. When you are in it, you are told that loving your friends will lead you to love the Creator. Bestowing to your friends will lead to giving to the Creator.

Why? Because when you act among them as if you are actually on the level of souls, in final correction, you attract the surrounding light from the upper world (Ohr Makif) to yourself.

The upper, that is, the higher degree, called the “upper Partzuf,” shows a person a glimpse of bestowal in a form it exists at a higher level. It manifests in two stages. First, the upper shows you a little of the light in it, of the pleasure in it. If you are inspired by it, want it, are drawn to it, we call it ascent.

After that, it brings you descent and gives you a slight sense of its Kelim. And what are its Kelim? Its Kelim are for the sake of bestowal.

These two kinds of impressions of the upper, give you two extremes. What kind of light is there? Suppose there is light there, but that is not exactly what is there. And what kind of Kli is there? Then you realize how much you love the light, and how much you dislike that Kli.

Between these two extremes, through study and effort, a person performs a series of actions and arrives at a state in which he attains the upper.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/26, Rabash “Concerning Fear and Joy”

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Question: What are the permitted things, the forbidden things, the commandments, and the necessary actions for us in the preparation period?

Answer: Forbidden actions are those that can distance us from attaining the true goal: hatred toward a friend, laziness in the group, neglect of our duties, neglect of the greatness of the Creator, the greatness of the group, that is, everything that can be very important for us and is our support, something we must hold on to. This is forbidden because it throws a person in the opposite direction from attaining the goal.

Commandments are what the Kabbalists have prescribed for us. It is even better not to say commandments, but advice. If you want to attain the goal, you must do such-and-such. What does it mean, “you must”? The Kabbalists do not command you; they explain that this is how reality is arranged; this is how the law works. The general law of reality is if you want to enter the spiritual world, you must live according to certain laws.

Here there is no such thing as simply someone’s desire, or the Creator’s, or the Kabbalist who teaches us, or an angel who opens the entrance for you. In spirituality, it doesn’t work like that.

Actions on different levels, with different intentions, and even physical actions of the body that help you in attaining the spiritual goal for the sake of bestowal, are called commandments or advice (Eitzot). By following this advice, you can attain spiritual qualities, and then they will already be called decrees (Pkudim).

All commandments, in principle, are divided into two parts: the part in which you try to come to a spiritual quality, and when you internally acquire it, it becomes yours. You are already consist of it, and then more, and more.

These things are commanded to us. They are surely worth performing, just as it is not worth doing anything that distances you from fulfilling the spiritual laws.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/26, Rabash “Concerning the Reward of the Receivers”

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There are recommendations that are neither forbidden nor permitted. It is precisely there, as Baal HaSulam writes, that the battlefield lies between holiness (Kedusha) and the impure forces (Sitra Achra).

We don’t quite distinguish this yet, but after a person determines what is Klipa and what is holiness for himself, he checks: I do not do these things because there is a screen against them, and these things I perform because I already have clear intentions.

He discovers that within him there is something that cannot be divided and assigned to a specific part. It is neither the Creator’s quality, nor the quality opposite to Him, creation, Klipa. But what else exists in reality besides this? For there are the Creator’s qualities and their imprint, the qualities of creation.

So what is there between them that would not belong to one or the other? In the middle is the free choice of a person. This does not mean that there are some additional desires that the Creator created that supposedly do not belong either to Him or to what is opposite to Him.

In the choice between holiness and Klipa there are such things where you are free to do what you want, without any negative result for yourself. And there it is truly a choice.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/26, Rabash “Concerning the Reward of the Receivers”

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It is said: “‘I have created the evil inclination, and I created the means for its correction, in which the light that returns to the source is hidden.”  From this it is clear that nothing can be achieved on one’s own, but only through a request, through prayer.

The striving to move toward the intention to bestow, for the benefit of others, even if it is not sincere and even if it completely contrary to the desires that currently rule us, is called prayer, or the raising of MAN.

We have received a tiny spark of spirituality, and in order to break through the boundary of the spiritual world and enter the second part of reality, we lack only the desire. Therefore, all our prayers are solely for one thing: to acquire desire.

But there are states when a person desires nothing at all. One must understand that this, too, is a state given to us from above and not merely our laziness or indifference. A person is a kind of “black box” awakened by signals from above. The light that acts on our material, on the desire to be attuned, awakens it more or less, or leaves it completely indifferent.

Depending on this, we awaken and reach out, like a flower toward sunlight or rain, or we wither and fall, without receiving vital forces. Therefore, if there is no strength or desire for spiritual work, one must understand that just as at one time you received inspiration from above and rushed forward, burned with zeal, and worked, the desire is also taken away from above.

This state is given intentionally and measured precisely according to each person’s individual qualities and preparation in order to create a place for prayer for you. And you must try, with the help of the group, the books, the teacher, and the environment, to mobilize all your strength for a request.

Prayer is born from powerlessness, from lack of desire, or, on the contrary, from an intense longing, it does not matter how; all of these are conditions given from above. Likewise, from above our environment is arranged for us: a group, a teacher, books. And we, through joint study and the group, must find the light that will return us to the source.

When we study together, this is the very time for prayer. For we are then in connection with the higher system, with Malchut and Zeir Anpin of the world of Atzilut, that is, with the Creator and His Shechina. We become included in them, not each one individually, but all together, and thus give birth to a collective prayer. And through this we demand and draw to ourselves the power of change.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/6/11, Rabash “What Does It Mean that Charity to the Poor Makes the Holy Name, in the Work?”

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There is no connection between the work of physically performing commandments and the inner work that we study, because the latter can be done only when I acquire forces from above, when I have a connection with the Creator. To the extent that I receive illumination and enlightenment from Him from above, I understand what to do with myself, how to do it in relation to Him, how to address Him, and how to draw closer to Him.

My inner work is my approach to the Creator according to the principle of equivalence of form, as if a connecting thread exists between me and Him. And I, like on a tightrope in a circus, climb along this thread.

The actions that help in this are called commandments; those that interfere are called transgressions; and there are permitted things, that is, recommendations.

These are all inner actions as I rise within myself toward the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/26, Rabash, “Concerning the Reward of the Receivers”

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Question: Fear for life in this world arises in us instinctively, uncontrollably. How can we achieve the same panic and fear of not attaining bestowal?

Answer: We are not powerless before the fear of this world. When a person begins to advance spiritually, he is sent such strange fears that a person begins to understand that this is not real fear, but a game.

He feels that from above, as if by a beam, this fear is being projected to him, and the only thing that can be done is to rise above it by “faith above reason,” in bestowal. After all, if he is in bestowal, he has nothing to fear! He can calmly close his eyes to all the fears that come only in order to force us to rise above concern for ourselves, to teach us to live in the yearning toward bestowal.

This is not just an animalistic, unconscious fear, but rather a state that a person perceives consciously, with some “illumination from the source,” that his feelings are being projected to him from some source with a purpose to advance him. Therefore, he understands that nothing can be without reason, there are no fears for nothing.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/17/10, Rabash, “Concerning Fear and Joy”

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In the wisdom of Kabbalah, a student has a problem; in order to understand what the teacher is speaking about, the student must be on a spiritual level. The teacher may be speaking from very high degrees, but since by their nature all degrees are similar to each other and each contains the same details, a student can at least understand what is said according to the spiritual degree he is currently on. But if the student has not yet ascended to any spiritual degree and exists only in this world, he is unable to understand the language of branches.

The language of branches means that I perceive what exists in this world, the “branches,” and I perceive them on the spiritual level, the “roots.” Then the connection between them is clear to me, and I am able to grasp what the teacher is saying. But if I do not attain the roots, I cannot grasp what he is telling me, because the teacher speaks words that I can recognize nothing behind.

By perceiving our world, I do not actually perceive the branches, because I do not know their roots.
Branches are that which descend from the roots. There is no branch without a root, and no root without a branch. There is not even the beginning of the language of branches if we do not attain their spiritual essence, their roots.

Therefore, a student is unable to understand the teacher until he attains the spiritual roots. Only then can he grasp from the teacher all the connections between roots and branches. Unfortunately, this is how it is.

And therefore, the wisdom of Kabbalah and its study is only for those who possess spiritual attainment. As long as we have not acquired spiritual attainment, it should be clear to us that we are not studying the wisdom of Kabbalah, but only using its “miraculous property” (Segula) in order to reveal the “roots.” This is the sole reason we study.

Hence, one should not become confused by accumulating knowledge about “something we do not know what,” but should focus only on the fact that we need the light that returns us to the source (reforming light) and as quickly as possible. If I attain the roots through this light, I will begin to comprehend the wisdom; if I do not attain them, I will remain in darkness.

And do not entertain the illusion that you understand what is being discussed, that by studying the definitions written in a book you are studying this wisdom. You are not studying it because you do not know the connection between the branch and the root; you have not yet attained the roots.

Therefore, the wisdom of Kabbalah begins with spiritual attainment, and not before. Prior to that, it is only an aspiration to draw upon oneself the influence of the light (Segula).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/29/09, Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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It seems like we must pray for fulfillment: “Fill me, fill me!” But the spiritual world is the opposite, the anti-world, because in it the fulfillment is the work itself, the effort, the striving for a goal, the desire to love!

This very desire fills a person. He gets filled with the desire for bestowal, not even from the action itself.

A person is filled with the Creator, and the Creator is the force of bestowal. If we attain the force of bestowal and are filled with the desire to give without even performing the action itself, this is called the stage of Bina. When we realize the act of bestowal, we have reached the stage of Keter, the degree of love. This is the filling.

In our world, it works differently. I perform some action and expect to be paid, so the payment is my fulfillment. But this is not the case in the spiritual world. There, the action itself serves as fulfillment. As it says, “The reward for a mitzvah is the mitzvah itself.”

But there is another addition: “The reward for a commandment is to attain the One who commanded.” That is, we reveal someone inside who is in adhesion with you.…

There is no such thing as requiring payment for the act of giving; otherwise, it is not giving! Therefore, our fulfillment lies in our efforts, in our work, in the very pursuit of spirituality. Like a mother who loves a baby and does not demand his love in return, she is filled with her love for him and her giving alone.

Therefore, we pray only for the desire for bestowal, we need nothing else. If I have such a desire for the Creator, for love, for giving, there is nothing more to ask! This is enough to feel completely fulfilled.

I will be filled with my desires for bestowal, while egoistic desires for enjoyment will never be filled.
They can only be filled with a very weak spark, which is called a “thin candle” (Ner Dakik), a very limited life in this world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/6/11, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Charity to the Poor Makes the Holy Name, in the Work?”

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