Question: You say the rest of the world does not possess the key to solving problems. How can we convey this key to the world?

Answer: I think that even if we all started shouting about this from every corner and I continued writing articles about the threat of annihilation, the people will still not wake up. After all, we know the stage of development the masses are at. Even in a developed society, people are unable to perceive the spiritual idea embedded in this. We cannot expect any response from them.

In other words, I must act regardless of the reaction. After all, I am the one acting, not them! I am activating the law of advancement according to which all mankind must make its qualities resemble the qualities of the Creator and attain His level. I activate this law because I have received this knowledge from above. A few dozen other people here also received it.

Why do they possess this understanding and awareness? Because they have reached this level in their own development. If a person has not yet developed to the necessary level, no matter what we tell him, it will be a meaningless mantra to him, one of many.

Even if such people hear about it, write it down, and repeat it, what good would it do? There is nothing more foolish. Can they possibly act in this direction? Of course not! If they are psychologically attracted to it, that is great. On an ordinary human level, this is a good thing, just like many other things.

Therefore, although we undoubtedly need to work on dissemination, our primary work is internal rather than external.

In that case, one might say: “If so, let’s curtail our dissemination efforts and pour all our energy into working in the group!” But the fact is, we cannot do without external support or without drawing in new forces from outside. Therefore, we cannot do without dissemination. In addition, lifting all the students of the outer groups by just one millimeter is equivalent to lifting ourselves by ten meters!

Therefore, we need both components of our work. Baal HaSulam writes about this that we need to spread Kabbalah among the masses. But, of course, in this environment, we cannot expect the specific reaction we desire from that environment. Things unfold there according to the laws governing the masses; whereas we operate under the laws that apply to the individual. Therefore, it is our responsibility to act.

From the masses, there will only be support; they will follow you, but to make this happen, you must distribute our material among them. Yet it is you who must lead the way. You yourself must constantly adjust and refine the direction of the goal, and pull everyone along with you! There is no other way.

Therefore, you should not shift the responsibility onto someone else. It is written that those who deal with the external aspects of the Torah instead of the internal are to blame for everything, but what difference does it make to me? Can I afford to wait for them? They will not do anything, they are incapable of it. I am duty-bound to act! That is how everyone must think.

We must also teach this in external groups: a person who receives knowledge becomes an active participant in the work. Therefore, we must lead them to sense the obligation that rests upon them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/7/26, Rabash, “What Are the Times of Prayer and Gratitude in the Work? ”

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Question: If the surrounding light begins to enter the Kli, why do the descents become increasingly difficult?

Answer: The surrounding light cannot enter the Kli; that is impossible. It enters the Kli only when it becomes inner light.

The surrounding light constantly shines upon a person: sometimes from the front, during a state of ascent, and sometimes from the back, during a state of descent.

The state itself is always the same. The only difference is what is being revealed at that moment: the light or the Kli. Everything depends on the side from which you are viewing the state—from the side of the Kli or from the side of the light. This is how it is experienced in one’s perception.

When the Kli becomes like the light, there is no longer a distinction between ascents and descents; everything is light. A Kli with a screen is felt as the light itself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/13/26, Rabash, “And the Lord Appeared to Him at the Oaks of Mamre”

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Question: We say that ascents and descents yield two results. On one hand, a person is shown how far he is from the goal, and on the other hand, it becomes more important to him. Where does this feeling of importance come from?

Answer: The goal becomes more important to us because a person invests himself, his efforts, in it. This happens just as it does in our ordinary lives.

If I invest a lot in something, I bring a part of myself into it. And because I love myself, I cannot give it up anymore. I sacrificed so much for it, tried so hard, worked so hard, cared for it so much, I cannot just abandon it. Thus, the goal and the whole undertaking become very important to a person.

Moreover, as he advances, an increasingly strong surrounding light influences him according to his investment and his work. This light fills a new Kli, the point in the heart, and a person feels that true life comes from there. And he feels the rest of his animate life as temporary and of having less and less importance for him.

A person comes to the realization that spirituality is more important than corporeality, while still here, when he enters simple concealment. He already begins to sense that the upper force exists, and in some way feels the presence of the Creator. Then all events that happen to him in life, and everything that happens in the world around him, lose their significance. The surrounding light radiates eternity.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/13/26, Rabash, “And the Lord Appeared to Him at the Oaks of Mamre”

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At present, we are in a state where development begins from a point that is simply a desire to receive. What is this Partzuf that begins from a point? It is the degree of the intention for the sake of bestowal.

The question is: What is desire and what is intention? In spirituality, it is not the desire that is taken into account, but only the intention for the sake of bestowal. The magnitude of a Partzuf is the height of its intention, and according to the degree of that intention, it already receives for the sake of bestowal.

Therefore, in our domain, below the Machsom, “there is no judgment and there is no judge”; everyone does what pleases them. Indeed, there are neither commandments nor transgressions here, because all commandments and transgressions exist only in the intention. “For the sake of receiving” is called a transgression, and “for the sake of bestowal” is called a commandment.

We are still below, in what is called the imaginary world, beneath the line of life and the line of death. Above the Machsom, when the soul is immersed in the Klipot, this is called the line of death, the state of death; and when it is immersed in the right line, this is called the line of life. But we are below all of that.

From this, we must understand that intention, direction, connection, and a passionate yearning for the Creator are, in essence, the measure of a person in spirituality.

What is meant is not the desire itself, but the degree of one’s orientation toward the Creator, the extent to which a person’s heart passionately strives for and longs for the Creator. One’s spiritual state is measured accordingly.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/6/26, Rabash, “Why Is the Torah Called ‘Middle Line’ in the Work? – 1”

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