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The Only Free Action

942Question: It is written that The Creator does not make [false] claims against His creations. What does this mean?

Answer: It means that He does not deceive them or intentionally cause them harm. He is not a source of evil for you. So where do bad sensations come from if not from Him? You feel that way solely due to the disparity of form between your qualities and His. It is a mark of great wisdom to realize that all heaviness is caused by the disparity of qualities.

We are prepared to overcome obstacles, dissent, and fight to the death—anything to achieve a what we desire. You see how people burn through their lives trying to achieve something. But here a person can be seized by such weakness that they cannot budge, even under the threat of death.

There are states where others can do whatever they want to me, but I am powerless to lift a finger. This is a spiritual matter. Such a state is caused by the disparity between the lights and Kelim (vessels), where the Kli is unable to make any movement whatsoever in relation to the light.

There are even worse states. A person must gather these experiences and use them to build the correct attitude toward the Creator. Only then do they establish a connection. However, one has to understand that in all these states we do not have any free choice other than to use the group.

Above the Machsom (barrier) we have free choice: lights, vessels, states, Klipa (impurity), and holiness, everything is in front of the person. When a person acquires the screen, they become free of the desire to receive, and they gain power. Let’s say that he has acquired a screen of ten kilograms, then he is free from at least ten kilograms of the desire to receive, and no longer feels the heaviness.

The sensation of heaviness arises from the fact that the desire to receive that has control over us, and at the same time we can compare it with the light. If it were not for the light, we would not sense this dominion and we would live like everybody else. However, now that we are under the power of the desire to receive, we feel it as intolerable coercion since the light has shone upon it. We have no choice; we need either the light or the desire to receive to disappear. It is impossible to exist with both.

Such a state is worse than death. When a person comes out of it with faith above reason, gets rid of his ego, and stops thinking about himself, he becomes free. Then he really has an ability to act freely, and instead of a burden, he feels lightness, and everything becomes open in front of him.

However, in our state, below the Machsom where there is no screen that gives us freedom, we have only one freedom. As Rabash writes, from all the actions that you can do in your life, you have only one free action.

You exist at the center of a sphere of your own possibilities, of all the things that you want to do; there is only one line, one direction that allows you to really determine something; it is not dictated by others, by society, by your education, or by your nature. There is one thing that depends on you: to experience the influence of the good society that advances you to the goal or not. There is no reality in everything else; it only seems to you that you decide something there.

Why does it only seem to you? This is because you act only according to your desire to receive. Its Reshimot constantly float to the surface from inside, and push you toward certain things. At one point I want something. After that I want something different. I do it, and it seems to me that I act according to my own program, and for my own goals.

When I look at people from the side, I see that every one of them is programmed, and has nothing that is called “human being” (Adam). All are like animals that run around and bustle about. And what is the result? Nothing. But one cannot observe this in himself.

That is why our teachers who show us the way tell us that it is futile. Do you want to perform the only real action in your life, an act that defines you as you rather than merely a programmed executor? Then choose a society that will help you become closer to the goal, to the Creator.

When you choose such a society, you act in a unprogrammed way. However, if you cannot do this, it means that in this life you have not done anything outside of the animalistic nature. Whether you exist or do not exist, there is no use or difference. You simply are executing a program, but you are not truly yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/28/26, Rabash, “What Is the Prohibition to Teach Torah to Idol-Worshippers in the Work?”

When a New Desire Is Born

232.09Question: What does “spending half an hour in the left line” mean?

Answer: Spending half an hour in the left line (and the rest of the time in the right line) demonstrates how challenging it is for us to connect with the right line, that is, to absorb and gain an impression of the greatness of the Creator, the importance of the goal and of His work because He is good that does good, and He truly wants us to know this. There are many different nuances here. Yet everything is clear—half an hour versus 23.5 hours.

Question: What if a person is unable to maintain that connection?

Answer: If a person cannot properly work on maintaining themselves between two lines—right and left—it means that they do not have sufficient control over themselves and are under the influence of their own nature. This is called “kaf ha kela” (the sling), where you are abruptly thrown from one state to another. One moment you are thrown to the right: “How amazing and grand everything is!” The next moment, you are in complete despair—who or what am I, everything is worthless, and so on.

Thus, you are neither here nor there; you can neither be under the force of the Creator’s nature, nor under the dominion of the nature of creation. These are simply two angels that rule over you. You yourself become such an angel.

The moment that you sit and cry, you are an angel. The left line rules over you, and you are sitting immersed in it, stuck in it. Or conversely, there is the right line, where you are just missing wings or you would already be flying. Neither of these is what we need.

You can only be at the intersection of these two lines to advance and create something completely new. You take part from the animal nature (the desire to receive) and part from the nature of the Creator (the desire to bestow), and you want to build something else, something new, something that has never existed before.

The desire that exists in spirituality is the desire to receive that was created by the Creator. But here, a completely new desire is born; it originates from the merging of the two previous ones, yet it is itself new. It turns out that you are, in effect, giving birth to your own soul, your new state. You are the master of the action.

Naturally, the Creator gives you the strength and all the components of this new Kli (vessel), but you build it yourself. After that, you no longer feel shame because you initiated the process, acted, and brought it to fruition.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/26, Rabash, “What Is Do Not Add and Do Not Take Away in the Work?”

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Is the Degree of Receiving in Order to Bestow Higher Than the Degree of the Creator?

The Creator has no problem with bestowal. He bestows according to His nature. We, however, must be those who bestow in order to bestow, which is a rather strange combination of words. The created being is a desire to enjoy, and if together with the pleasure it feels, it intends to give pleasure to the Giver of that pleasure, to the Creator, then it is bestowing. This is the sum total of the nature and essence of the action. However, in practice, it always receives; it has no other possibility. We always use our desire to receive, our appetite, and the foods set before us in order to connect with the Host. We have no connection with the Host except through the foods and through his hunger. These are the means of connection.

We cannot speak about the Creator, who bestows according to His nature. Certainly, He makes no effort to bestow. Bestowal is His desire, and it is what He carries out. We do not speak about the upper force or about the degree of His separation from us. We cannot say what He is, only what we receive and feel from Him, whether they be good or bad things, shame or pleasures. We cannot imagine what the Creator is, what the desire to bestow is in itself, even if we were a created being on the highest degree. Although on such a degree we receive certain kinds of gifts from the Creator, hints that somehow make it possible to understand what the desire to bestow is.

What we understand, we understand within our vessels of reception, and then through the act of reception we can describe our understanding. We cannot understand beyond what our vessels allow. We can never step outside our vessels. Stepping outside the vessels means abstract light, which is something that has not been created. Nor do we perceive this abstract light. If we perceive abstract light, it is simply because we have reached a state in which we feel that the light is abstract, and even this takes place in our vessels of reception.

Therefore, we do not engage in what exists above the created being, because that is merely philosophy. No one has any experience of it, nor is it possible for the created being to attain it. The sole kind of attainment possible takes place when the Creator grants a kind of understanding that is above the vessels of the created being, on very high spiritual degrees. But Kabbalists do not even write about this. It has no significance.

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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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Emulate the Creator

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”

Upbringing without Pressure

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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If I Don’t Want to Get Up for the Lesson…

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?”

Avoid the Klipa of the Right Line

255Question: Is there a feeling of Hisaron (lack) in the desire to bestow?

Answer: The desire to bestow also has its own Hisaron: the need to ensure a person does not fall into the Klipa (shell, impurity) of the right line. After all, it is said that there must be a correct connection between the two lines.

In each line there is a danger that a person will come under the influence of its qualities, the danger of imagining oneself to be in a state of complete perfection. Each line can, in its own way, give a person a feeling of perfection.

What is a Klipa? It is when you commit yourself to a single direction. The issue is not merely that you are in it, but that while there you are convinced you are in the correct state.

You seem to be in a state of perfection, and in doing so, you lose any possibility of emerging from that state.

The Klipa of the right line consists of thoughts telling you that everything is great for you, simply wonderful; that you are perfection itself, that you are doing good deeds, and that what you are today is quite enough for you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/26, Rabash, “What Is Do Not Add and Do Not Take Away in the Work?”

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Is There Spiritual Value in Intention Without Action?

First, we need to be concerned with the intention. That is, first we must find the Creator, establish some kind of connection with the Creator. Then we examine what kind of connection exists with the Creator. Maybe it is for the sake of receiving, or maybe there is no connection at all? Also, when a connection exists, we check whether that connection is for the sake of bestowal. Suppose we reach a state where we can truly be in a restriction (Tzimtzum), restricting our desires so that our entire attitude to the Creator is for the sake of bestowal.

What does “for the sake of bestowal” mean? What degree of strength is required for it? Consider eating a salad, a piece of bread, fish, or even meat. This represents the difference between five portions, five degrees of Aviut (coarseness of desire). For which portion, both quantitatively and qualitatively, can we confidently calculate that this pleasure is being received for the sake of bestowal? This is called “the calculation made in the Rosh of the Partzuf.” Only afterward does the action take place.

However, in spirituality, the calculation made in the Rosh of the Partzuf is considered the action itself, because the actual operation follows immediately afterward. There is undoubtedly a calculation in the Rosh. In other words, when we examine and determine in the Rosh that we are already capable of building the Rosh of the Partzuf, this testifies to everything that will follow. This is called the intention in the Rosh for the sake of bestowal. According to the action that we examine and prepare, we prepare everything for reception in the vessel.

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How Does the Greatness of the Creator Become a Reality?

963.3Question: Should the feeling of the greatness of the Creator always be above reason, or can it also be within reason?

Answer: The importance of the Creator is always above reason, because at present, I have no possibility to see Him, feel Him, or verify that I am completely filled with Him.

But I can acquire a feeling of His greatness through the friends and use it. In return, however, I also have to invest in the friends. Only in this way does it become a force that can be used.

Question: And after crossing the Machsom?

Answer: After the Machsom, a person truly acquires an understanding of the greatness of the Creator, because he actually receives this feeling. This gives a person a feeling of His greatness, which is called faith, and as a result, he acquires the strength to bestow.

Then, when his faith becomes complete, he already has the ability to receive in order to bestow, and the greatness of the Creator becomes a reality.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/26, Rabash, “What Is Do Not Add and Do Not Take Away in the Work?”

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Restore the Network of Connection Between Us

942Question:  When we meet a person for the first time, we form an impression of them, and it may change.

Speaking about the spiritual and the material, how do we avoid falling into the standard set of human experiences when a person enters a new environment, meets new people, sees only the good in them, and over time begins to criticize them?

Where specifically is the spiritual and material work here? In the material world, I can push such a person away from me and never meet him again, whereas here I overcome myself and continue communicating with him. Is that where the difference lies?

Answer: You do not pay attention to anything material; you rise above it because through your connection with this person you can build a common spiritual aspiration toward the Creator. Therefore, the friend is infinitely important to you, because without him, you will not have a purposeful aspiration toward spirituality, and you will remain without a soul.

Comment: Essentially, we are speaking about a screen with the Creator that I gradually build. But I build it independently, with respect to myself.

My Response: With respect to the common connection with everyone. You can never build anything directly! It is only through connection with others, because we are one shattered soul.

If I do not connect with others, I have nowhere to feel the Creator. The Creator is between us, but He disappeared, fell into the shattered network between us. Restore the network, and you will see Him again.

What is unclear here? There was a “fishing net” between us in which the Creator was felt. The net was torn, the connections between us broke down and became egoistic, and the Creator disappeared. Restore this network, like a web, and as it is restored, a radiance will appear in it—the Creator, the property of bestowal and love.

Comment: But all the examples that you give, I understand at first, and then I do not.

My Response: That is because your egoism changes instantly, and in the new egoism, you can no longer accept this; you do not feel it.

Comment: But it is impossible to repeat this a hundred times.

My Response: Of course it is possible; even a thousand times! The point is that it is not repeated, because each time a new degree is being worked through. I never repeat myself.

Comment: Yes, I know. But it sounds as though it is the same subject.

My Response: There is nothing else.

Comment: Let us say you speak about mutual guarantee, but there are so many different aspects there. You look at lessons from previous years, where you revealed certain things, and now you reveal other things. And it seems that they are being revealed, but at the same time, they are not.

My Response: Because this must be revealed in you. And in whom else? Do not wait for favors from the Creator! There will be none! Take it yourself.

Question: From where?

Answer: From Him. But demand it!

Comment: How to demand correctly is a very big problem. Because the usual idea of demanding is to shout, or clench your fists, or swear.

My Response: That helps too. Go ahead!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call.First impression of a person ” 9/25/10

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The Spiritual Chip and the Corporeal Chip

219.03We see that nature is preparing traps for us that we will inevitably have to change, whether we want to or not. Moreover, we will have to change ourselves! Or at very least we will be compelled to recognize how we need to change, even if we might ultimately fail to do so.

Question: Can we reach what you call a “spiritual chip”? Is that what we are being led toward?

Answer: The spiritual chip is about unity. Nothing else. It is just like a chip operates—zero and one. That is all.

Question: Does the chip also work through this, through connection?

Answer: Only through that. Through the connection of duality, meaning through opposites.

Question: Is the spiritual chip the same thing? The connection of opposites?

Answer: Yes, above both opposing phenomena.

Comment: So one way or another the conclusion is still the same. We are being led toward this.

My Response: We are being led in such a way that we will simply lie down and agree to be “chipped,” that is, to be connected with one another in such a way that something intelligent is formed.

Just as chips are the center, the brain, and heart of a device, so too will we be ready for this.

Question: So is our unity also the brain and center of the device?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Of the entire universe?

Answer: Of everything!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 7/20/26

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How to Accelerate Spiritual Development

198Question: If a person has already embarked on the path of bestowal, how can they accelerate their development?

Answer: Read a lot. At first, they do not understand what the friends are, what the work is, or what is required of them at all. Sometimes people grasp this thanks to their nature, but for some, their nature is not suited to uniting and working with other people. There are people who are simply not adapted to this; by their character, they are more contemplative. Therefore, in the first stage, one needs to read a lot.

Nowadays, the process of development is accelerating, but nevertheless, during the first year a person should grind up various articles and letters of Baal HaSulam and Rabash within himself, , like a meat grinder, and absorb them and repeat them, in order to take in as much material as possible.

Let the person forget, not understand, and not reflect on it; he will reflect on it later, but at first, he is not capable of this. He simply needs to read what is written, open himself up, and fill himself with knowledge. Then it will begin to work within him. Through his initial aspiration, while reading the material, he already establishes a connection with the surrounding light, and when he gains sufficient experience in this—several months, half a year, a year—then he will begin to work well.

For some, it is better instead of all this reading to work in the society, but one is impossible without the other. It is necessary to vary them, and in what proportion depends on the person’s character. Both work for the benefit of the group and study should constitute a certain proportion with each other.

So development can be accelerated, especially at the beginning, by reading a great deal, and then, on the contrary, by working more and reflecting on why I am doing this. At later stages, one needs to work more for the society, because then we encounter difficult questions and problems, the overcoming of which helps us advance.
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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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One Devoted to the Perfect Becomes Perfect

200.01Question: How can we constantly preserve the greatness of the Creator?

Answer: A person grows through the Creator’s Kelim (vessels). He wants to feel what the Creator is preparing, what He takes pleasure in, and how He manifests Himself toward him. A person acquires the Creator’s Kelim, because regarding his own Kelim, he only has the point in the heart.

All of Malchut’s greatness beyond the point in the heart is only through the Giver.

What is the greatness of the first stage (Behina Aleph) of the four stages of the development of the direct light? It is awareness of the giver; it is qualitative growth, the growth of understanding, rather than physical volume. In spirituality, it cannot be that I want one or two grams of the same thing.

“I want something” is a point, just pleasure. Beyond this, I want a deeper pleasure, one more connected to the giver, because besides the bodily and human pleasures contained in the point, all other pleasures are due to the giver, due to my connection with Him. They come because I am close to Him.

It is as if you were taken on as a cleaner in a palace and given a minimum reward, just enough so that you would not starve to death, while all the other pleasures come only to the extent that you realize where you are. We see something similar in our world. There are people who are close to power, and their pleasure is not in their salary, but in the feeling of being connected to power.

The pleasures that exist above this world are similar to this. They are all due to the greatness of the Creator in our eyes. And all the other pleasures that we receive through the body or through the environment of this world are like a point, like the hundred dollars that you receive and that are enough for you; you do not demand more. But the demand for more is due to the greatness of that to which you are connected.

Here you can truly increase the importance of this to such an extent that you will receive infinite pleasure. Everything depends only on the importance you attribute to it. You can be next to a king, and the hundred dollars will mean nothing to you; His greatness fills you. “He who is devoted to the perfect becomes perfect.”

We see this at work in the material world as well, within our ego, and that a greater reward is not necessary. But even in this world, devotion is required of a person. This is his payment for being given the awareness of belonging to great things, for example, to power. The laws are opposite in their use, but they are the same laws.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/23/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘Anyone Who Mourns for Jerusalem Is Rewarded with Seeing Its Joy,’ in the Work?”

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 212

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Chapter 20. Intention and Action

Kedusha (holiness) is called “in order to bestow,” meaning intention. The action itself is not important, except insofar as it testifies that the intention is indeed in order to bestow. Therefore, all Kedusha—from the barrier onward, up to the soul’s final correction—consists entirely of degrees of “in order to bestow,” intentions aimed at bestowal.

It depends on the particular desire to receive, on the receiving vessels, and on which actions can be joined to that intention. To the extent that we can increasingly attach our very selves to the intention to bestow, we ascend to higher and higher degrees.

Therefore, the intention is of utmost importance. The path begins and ends with it. All of spirituality is intention, and the desire upon which the intention rides determines our degree. There is a certain gradation in this. Our level is measured according to the coarseness (Aviut) of the desire and according to the coarseness of the screen (Masach) that we can place upon that desire.

If the intention to bestow is used with a desire to receive of Aviut Shoresh, Aleph, and Bet (root, first, and second degrees of coarseness), we do not receive in order to bestow, but only bestow in order to bestow. Why? This is because bestowal in order to bestow does not actually exist as an action that belongs to the created being; a created being is a vessel of reception. However, since the desire to receive in the degrees of Aviut Shoresh, Aleph, and Bet is still unfelt as receiving pleasure, the work with it is called the work of bestowing in order to bestow.

Only when the intention to bestow rides upon a desire to receive of Aviut Gimel and Dalet (third and fourth degrees of coarseness) is it called “receiving in order to bestow.” This is because in Aviut Gimel and Dalet there are already sensations of reception, pleasure, and shame. Then we begin to receive in order to bestow, and the feeling of being a receiver who bestows begins.

Therefore, every soul, every vessel, is divided into Galgalta ve Eynaim (GE) and AHP, and the work of each part is different:

The work of Galgalta ve Eynaim—the work of conception (Ibur), birth, and nursing (Yenika), up to the state of smallness (Katnut).

The work of AHP—work with the vessels of reception of Aviut Gimel and Dalet, the vessels of greatness (Gadlut), meaning that we begin to work with the AHP.

These are the two discernments in Kedusha. However, Kedusha is not measured according to desire, but according to intention. The minimal intention to bestow that we acquire immediately places us in the spiritual realm, in the spiritual world.

What does it mean to cross the barrier (Machsom)? It means acquiring an intention to bestow that is called “Lishma” (“for Her sake” or “for the sake of bestowal”).

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In the Balance Between the Two Lines

243.05It is written (Deuteronomy 4:2), “You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, to keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you” (Rabash, “What Is Do Not Add and Do Not Take Away in the Work?”).

“You shall not add, nor take away” means advancing in the balance between the two lines. This is not a quantitative principle or a matter of the intensity of the work, that is, it does not mean do not hurry too much or do not be lazy. Rather, it means that one must always maintain oneself in a balanced state.

What does it mean to be in a state of balance? It means to facilitate the formation of the middle line, to prepare it so that the Creator can correct you.

How? First of all, try to remain in the right line at all times and not allow the left line to grow stronger and rule over you.

The right line is called “the importance of spirituality.” Spirituality, the goal, the quality of bestowal, the Creator, who possesses the quality of bestowal, and this does not mean simply someone great, but the force of bestowal, all of this must be important to me. And only after all this has truly become important to me can I enter the left line.

The right line, the importance of spirituality, is acquired only through faith above reason, not within reason. Within reason, the importance of spirituality can be attained only after crossing the Machsom. This is called complete, perfect faith: the light of Hassadim with the illumination of the light of Hochma.

Below the Machsom, we have as though the same state, a branch of that same root of faith. We are as though in a state of corrected faith and as though feel the Creator’s presence with our senses. This “as though” is attained through effort, and especially through our investment in the group.

When we complete this work and acquire faith according to our degree through the work in the right line, we then move to the left line and see that within reason we have nothing: our qualities are uncorrected, our thoughts are foreign, and the right line is diminished. It is then that we come to prayer and ask the Creator to help us.

If I have prepared the right line, raised the importance of spirituality, the importance of the goal, and faith that everything has been prepared for me from above, and then see in the left line that I myself am in a completely opposite state, not in perfection, but, on the contrary, in deficiencies and lowly desires, then, as a result of these two lines, the force of prayer arises. And then an answer to the prayer comes from above, the middle line.

In this work, we must constantly remain in balance between the right and left lines so that “his wisdom does not exceed his deeds.” That is, a person should not find himself in a state where he says, “I am incapable of doing anything,” or “I have no strength,” or “everything is in the hands of the Creator,” or, “Just leave me alone and do not tell me that everything depends on me. Nothing depends on me,” and so on.

This means that the left line must not become greater than the right, when I have no strength and think that all of this is impossible, or even that none of it exists at all. Nor should the right line dominate when I think, “Everything is in the hands of Heaven, and everything is decided there. I am nobody here. I do not exist; I am an empty place. Nothing depends on me; I am always entirely under His authority.” This is called the Klipa of the right line.

No! Both of these lines must be balanced. This is what has been given to us, and we must make every effort not to fall into either of the two kinds of Klipa, the right or the left. Rather, we must balance the two lines so that they contribute to the formation of the middle line.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/26, Rabash, “What Is Do Not Add and Do Not Take Away in the Work?”

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The Game of the Light and the Vessels

232.01The only thing that was created is the desire to receive. Over thousands of years of the existence of humanity, the desire to receive in a person has grown both on the corporeal and spiritual level, and when it reached the third and then the fourth stage of the development of Aviut (the depth of the desire to receive), it underwent shattering during that stage.

Everything necessary is contained within the shattering. What is missing is only the upper light, the reference point by which we can measure all the fragments that survived within us in the shattering and give them their correct form; that is, see their proper use, which is opposite to the way they currently exist within us.

While remaining within one’s nature, a person cannot escape it because he is inside nature, and it determines his thoughts, behavior, desires, and direction: what he will be drawn to and in what way. And the light that comes from afar as surrounding light affects the shattered vessels and gives them understanding of the difference between them and the surrounding light.

At first, this understanding passes through stages of development called Shoresh, Aleph, Bet, Gimel, and Dalet. Initially, a person strives toward the light. He thinks that with its help he can fill himself, using spirituality for his own benefit in his usual way, just as he previously tried to obtain all corporeal and human pleasures for himself using his surroundings for this purpose.

Now he intends to use the spiritual environment in the same way, for his own benefit. But the light affects him in two opposite forms: sometimes it awakens a passionate desire for the spiritual world and increases his desire to receive inside him, while at other times it shows him to what extent this passionate desire is unattainable for him.

Through this game of the light with the Kelim (vessels), a person begins to feel that his attitude toward spirituality must be different from the way he used to relate to his previous desires of this world when he used them openly, with both the vessels of his fellow person and the pleasures contained in his fellow person before him.

The light teaches him that the true form of pleasure lies within the quality of the light itself. It means that a person begins to receive the charm of holiness. In other words, he sees how much his Kelim have grown and, consequently, how much his suffering has increased. Then he seeks salvation from this suffering.

That is, the desire to receive buries itself (its own ordinary method of seeking fulfillment) and sees that the suffering it experiences corresponds to the magnitude of the desire to receive. A person begins to see that the desire to bestow can become his salvation: “Better death than such a life.” He cannot free himself from this desire, which is constantly increasing, and he cannot obtain any pleasure through it. Therefore, he begins to desire vessels of bestowal.

We awaken to connection with the Creator from within the great Kelim of reception which, precisely in our time, are beginning to rise from the shattering and demand correction and fulfillment. And what we have in addition is the reforming light—the light that brings us back to the source.

This gives us the opportunity to use the power of the light itself and strive toward the Kelim of bestowal, not because we want to escape trouble, but because of the importance and unity that we perceive in the quality of bestowal. In other words, the light conveys to us the greatness of the source.

It follows that what we must correct now is our attitude toward the Creator. We must draw closer to Him and adhere to Him, which is possible only through equivalence of form. And we can accomplish this only with the help of the reforming light. For this, we need to study from correct books within a group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/23/26, Rabash, “What Is ‘Anyone Who Mourns for Jerusalem Is Rewarded with Seeing Its Joy” in the Work?”

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Some Have One Torah, Others Have Another

137After the destruction of the Second Temple, a few people remained, such as Rabbi Shimon, who began writing books and advising the nation on what they should do. They directed this nation that had disconnected from its spiritual level to adhere to a system based on physical actions corresponding to spiritual ones.

Previously, everyone prayed with a prayer of the heart; now,  a prayer book was written for them. Many things that did not exist before were now defined by instructions on how to act at the material level. It was necessary to define the boundaries of the “animal,” which no longer sensed the limits set by the spiritual world and was seeking its own enclosure—to provide a framework for its existence. This was done through the book Shulchan Aruch and other texts.

Thus, the situation that persisted for millennia can be described as the lesser evil. A person existing on the material level, who has no contact with spirituality and no perception of the surrounding light, naturally believes that nothing else is possible.

He thinks that by observing the Torah and the commandments, he is doing everything possible. Indeed, in a way, he is doing everything possible. He has no sense that any further correction is possible. Correction of what if the point in the heart has not yet manifested itself?

That is why some have one Torah and others have another. For some it is external, for others it is internal. When we speak about the inner part of the Torah, we are talking about why a person needs the Torah in the first place: either for internal correction, which is triggered by a point in the heart, or for external correction, which is prompted by the desire to know what to do with one’s hands and feet, and what words to say.

For example, you have a book about slander. Let us take just one stipulation: “Love your neighbor as yourself,” and suddenly you need all these books and encyclopedias to know exactly what can be said in connection with this and what cannot.

The law, however, states one thing: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Make an effort to do this, that is all. What books could we be talking about? However, when moving from inner work to outer work, you must give each thing an external definition so that you know which forms of its manifestation are prohibited, then the amendments begin to multiply. Internally, there is only one law: the law of adhesion, of similarity of form.
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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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Influenced by the Desires of the Environment

424.01A person is constantly influenced by the desires around him, even without radio or television advertising. Our thoughts move from place to place, from one thing to another.

You can go somewhere without even knowing where you are and feel the character of that place by the change in a certain tension compared to the place you were in before.

That is, a person does not exist as an isolated individual. On the contrary, he has nothing of his own except a point that catches and everything he perceives is received from the environment around him.

All thoughts, all desires, everything a person has, comes from his environment. Everything depends on how far one distances oneself from what harms and moves closer to beneficial influences.

This, too, depends on the environment a person is in: how much it awakens him to this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/23/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘Anyone Who Mourns for Jerusalem Is Rewarded with Seeing Its Joy,’ in the Work?”

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Can Eternity Be Felt Only at the End of the Spiritual Path?

Eternity can be felt starting from the very first spiritual degree where we already sense a part of the end of correction. Why? It is because that lowest degree, degree 125, is the same end of correction, but reduced 125 times. That is, we feel what exists in the end of correction, but through many screens. We have a kind of awareness of it, in all of its details, but in a vague way.

Nevertheless, we are within that sensation and begin to identify with the soul instead of with the body. Our life changes. Even our attitude to life and death changes completely. When we begin to identify with the soul, we feel something of eternity.

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