Whatever a person does during the day in relation to the people around him through his body and human desire, simply as a person living in this world, has nothing to do with the Torah. It does not relate to spiritual advancement or to the Creator.

Ten thousand years ago, there were also people in our world who knew nothing about the Torah or Commandments. They had lives, a wife, children, a home, and food. Does this relate to spirituality or not? Similarly, our ordinary life, which is not related to Kabbalah, does not belong to spirituality. This is an animal-like existence in this world.

We cannot say that it is completely disconnected from the spiritual world, as everything here is a branch. However, we are talking about the desire to receive on the still, vegetative, animate, and human levels of this world, which gradually progresses toward the final correction at its own pace, in accordance with the general pace of reality.

Then, the general desire to receive of all people reached a state in which parts of the soul began to descend from above. A light began to descend, revealing the desire to receive, clothed in all people.

When light descends from above, a point in the heart appears. This point entered someone named Avram (after which he was given the name Abraham), who marked the beginning of the group. He was the first to reveal the Creator and initiate a chain of disciples. Had it not occurred, all of humanity would have continued living without spiritual revelation, according to the general clock of the universe and reality.

From Abraham onward, a person gains the freedom to choose. As the light descends upon a person, he has the opportunity to take further action on his own. However, this can only be done in connection with other souls.

Therefore, I need someone else by my side. It is not enough to have someone in America or Australia; after all, there were Native Americans at the time of Abraham. I have no connection with them; I need someone near me, a friend from whom I can gain insight and acquire something.

Free choice consists of receiving additional Hisaron (lack or desire) from an equal, both in the time of Abraham and in our time. The Creator told Abraham: “I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky,” that is, I gave you the conditions for free choice. Therefore, a close group was required so that one, while receiving perception from another, could acquire that person’s desire.

It does not work for one Kabbalist to be here and another someplace else, a group was required, a group that came to be called the Jews (Yehudim). They were ordinary Iraqis and Persians who began to be called Jews Yehudim and Ivrim (Hebrews from the root “Avru,” meaning those who transitioned to the desire of the Creator). We must distinguish between the soul that clothes itself in a person that requires correction, and the body.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/2/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that the Torah Was Given Out of the Darkness in the Work?”

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Question: If I descend to the level of the cause, but cannot discern whether it is positive or negative, what should I do?

Answer: There is no need to discern if the cause is negative or positive, because there are no negative or positive states. It is simply that I perceive “bad” or “good” in my feelings. But this is completely incorrect. Each state has only one purpose: to awaken me to seek a deeper inner state.

Why do we perceive some states as positive and others as negative? This is something that humans cannot understand. Since we are at the beginning of our path, most states are perceived as negative. We are affected by these so-called negative feelings because humans tend to seek a cause: “Why do I feel bad?” No one will ask, “Why do I feel good?”

The fact is that we are made of the desire to receive, so no one asks: “Why do I feel good?” If a person asks such a question, it means he is afraid that he feels too good. Life experience tells him that something this good does not just happen. He fears that he will have to pay for it.

You can awaken a person only through bad states, and only later through good feelings, but this is already a Klipa. This is even more difficult, because one is given many good things but no spirituality. However, this is for more advanced states, so that a person can ask the question “What is the meaning of my life?” from a good state.

I have everything except the Creator, but I need only Him, I need nothing except spirituality. It is like a curse: I have a lot of food before me, but no taste or appetite for it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/26, Rabash, “What Is the Importance of the Groom, that His Iniquities Are Forgiven?”

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When a person feels a certain heaviness in the work, the Sitra Achra arrives and starts to toy with them, leading them astray so they do not know whether they should turn to the Creator or not. In truth, it is worthwhile to turn to Him in every state.

But if the request is not genuine, why do I need to turn to the Creator? Am I simply crying out for the Creator to do the work for me? If I do not feel a need for His help but I still cry and ask for it, then this appeal does not come from the bottom of my heart. What should I do?

Baal HaSulam says there is no better state in a person’s life than the moment that he feels despair of his own forces. He feels that he has tried everything, and that nothing can help him. Such a person is truly worthy to raise his prayer to the Creator, and only such a prayer will receive a response from above.

When does the despair of my own forces come? One can try all kinds of things, making efforts for 20 or 30 years, and who knows when it will end and if it ever ends or not?

Perhaps it is not a matter of quantity, but of quality. It does not matter how many years you spend, but rather how you spent them. What matters is your attitude toward your situation. A person might exert just a small amount of effort, but it is sufficient to turn to the Creator with a true appeal, without a doubt that only the Creator can help him and he cannot do it by himself.

How can one figure this out? At the end of the article “What Is the Importance of the Groom, that His Iniquities Are Forgiven?”, Rabash gives a simple answer that a person needs to see these states one stage deeper. Then he will recognize that the Creator gives them this state. After that, they will discover that they must turn to the Creator for help without delay.

This is very important. All the efforts a person makes by himself without turning to the Creator, are all empty. They lack spiritual significance regardless of how much effort was invested in them. Such actions simply do not count. A person does not even have to perform them as they are merely a waste of time and energy.

I only have to discover that every state that go through comes from the Creator in order for me to turn to Him. If there is some delay between my sensing my state and turning to the Creator as a result of that state, that is already the Sitra Achra (the other side or impure force). That is where confusion and bewilderment set in and where extraneous thoughts and calculations creep in when I try to resolve a difficult situation by myself.

This point is very important; it is like the foundation. It is very difficult to have a hold on that point without the pressure and influence of the group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/26, Rabash, “What Is the Importance of the Groom, that His Iniquities Are Forgiven?”

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We view spiritual work as a means to achieve a goal. The goal is described as good, beautiful, and pleasant. The goal is eternal life and eternal rest.

Is everything written by the Kabbalists meant for lazy people? “Work now, and afterward, thank God, you will rest”? There is no end to the interpretations on this topic.

Do I really have to die in order to attain the goal? What exactly must I attain in order to rest? It is like in the joke: a man is lying under a tree, and he is told: “Go work.”

“What for?”

“You will earn a lot of money and you will rest, lying under the tree!”

And he answers: “But I am already lying under the tree!”

It is the same here: What does it mean that now I must work and afterward I will rest, rest will come later? After all, it is said that rest is the goal of creation.

We study that reality is unchanging. The upper light is in absolute rest within His Kli. This state is prepared from the outset, and we are already in it, although for now it is hidden from us.

Baal HaSulam brings many examples of this. For instance, the story about the son of a wealthy man who sits in the basement until he grows up and understands where he is, or about people running to the King’s palace to reach Him. Yet ultimately, as it is said: “And you shall eat that which has long been stored up”; meaning, we are already in this state, but we must prepare the Kelim (vessels) in order to feel it.

The preparation of the vessels is called applying effort or work. After a person has prepared his Kelim, he attains equivalence of form with the light: the light is in absolute rest, and the person also comes to this state. This is a partial explanation of why the goal is called rest.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/5/26, Rabash, “What Does, ‘Everything that Comes to Be a Burnt Offering Is Male,’ Mean in the Work?”

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