Through a Chain of Difficult States

Posted on September 4th, 2026 at 7:55 am

294.2Question: Could the reason for the feeling of heaviness in the work be that a person reveals the Creator as the main active player, and refuses to accept this?

Answer: All the states, from the initial one until the moment of revealing the Creator, are difficult states. A sense of lightness, ascent, strength, confidence, potential, and realization can be felt only from the presence of the Creator.

Only when He appears before you will “our heart rejoice in Him.” Everything that happens before this (no matter in what form) will always be difficult, heavy, and sorrowful. This is intentional, but if a person agrees with these uncorrected states…

Question: But he cannot agree. Does the feeling of heaviness come as a result of a person’s inability to accept that the Creator governs all of reality? And the further a person advances, does it become more difficult for him to accept this?

Answer: I do not know how to express it. In any case, until a person has passed the barrier, it is difficult for him; only each time we feel the heaviness and powerlessness differently. It is impossible to express this in words. We are speaking about a transforming perception; the concepts of heaviness, sorrow, and laziness change.

And nevertheless, it is difficult in the sense that it is difficult to work with anything in the desire to bestow. We feel as though it is difficult for us to work in the will to receive, but in fact we are not speaking about this desire because, if we felt the goal in the will to receive, we would work with full strength. We lack nothing except the sense of the goal.

Each of us at least once in our life experienced enthusiasm in business, or in the pursuit of something interesting or useful, or in attempts to obtain something very necessary. And so it is now. Just show us some worthwhile goal, and we will run after it.

However, this time the goal is in the desire to bestow, the higher degree that reveals its reverse side to us. Therefore this is how we feel it.
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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?”

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How Can I Come to Feel Sorrow for the State of the Entire World?

Posted on September 4th, 2026 at 7:48 am

115.05Question: How can I move from regretting my own situation to feeling sorrow for the state of the whole world?

Answer: This is not the right question. Just as sorrow about my own state accumulates in me, so does sorrow about the state of the entire world. It all depends on a person’s inner work. The development of one’s Kli gradually leads to a state where one feels that one’s Kli is not only what is in one’s own belly, but also what is within others.

Just as parents feel dependent on their children, where what ultimately happens to the child also happens to their parents, so too does a person begin to feel like a father toward his children, that what is happening in the whole world, with all of humanity, is essentially what is happening to him.

He perceives this naturally; other people’s desires become joined to his own, and nothing can be done about it. This is how the Kli grows. You can’t artificially start taking an interest in someone else’s affairs. You suddenly remember something about it, then you forget, but that is all artificial, driven by self-benefit.

But a state arrives when you suddenly begin to feel, to some extent, concern for all of humanity, truly as if they were your own children. This happens in accordance with the degree of correction within the desire to receive. And there is no way around it, just as parents cannot free themselves from caring for their children.
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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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Don’t Turn Suffering Into an Idol

Posted on September 4th, 2026 at 7:41 am

963.5Question: The articles speak a lot about suffering and a sense of heaviness, and a person begins to take this for granted, justifying it by saying that the surrounding light is shining upon him. How can we prevent such an attitude from turning into an escape from the real difficult questions?

Answer: A person begins to experience heaviness and suffering, and they seem to turn into his idol. He begins to worship this state, coming to think that if he suffers, it means that he is superior to all of humanity. After all, humanity suffers from a lack of money, honor, and so on, while he suffers because he has not yet attained spirituality.

If a person wants to remain in this state even for a moment, it means that he is no longer suffering, but is enjoying his suffering, much like a masochist. This is a Klipa (shell, impurity) that has latched onto the person whispering: “Now you are truly working for the Creator. Look at the lofty ideals you are suffering for.”

Every moment of a person’s suffering is directed against the Creator, against the goal of bringing good to His creations. I know from my experience that it is very difficult to get break free from this, and impossible to do so alone. It requires a form of brainwashing by the group. Let your friends constantly tell you that this is wrong.

It is easy for us to lecture one another and to play a role in each others’ eyes is quite simple; the will to receive itself supports such an approach, when I present myself to you as being steadfast in my convictions. However, this does not prevent you from taking everything seriously, so why not make use of this?

We were given a foolish nature whereby another person’s external manifestation makes an impression on us, because outwardly my friend can project whatever outward image he chooses. And so, through his false “external self,” he defines my true “inner self.”

And there is nothing to be done about it—I am simply constructed in such a way that I am susceptible to the impressions made by the actions of the people around me. Just like an infant, who can be frightened by a scary facial expression and amused by laughter. We are exactly the same and no different from an infant in this respect, except that our reactions are not in such an obvious form. It is impossible to leave this state alone.

A person can suffer for years, justifying his suffering by telling himself he is a hero. Why is he a hero? Because he suffers. Some even go to prison and suffer there for all of humanity, feeling that they are special in their suffering. This manifests as a Klipa (shell) at various levels—both in connection with spirituality and outside of it.

After all, the purpose of creation stemming from the Good Who Does Good is to bestow goodness to His creations and for them to exist in goodness. Anything contrary to this, no matter how you justify it, is not suitable.

Even if you observe the most terrible things in the world, if you begin to suffer, it means that you are implicitly justifying what is taking place. You are not justifying the fact that the Creator is the one causing these things—although, of course, that is indeed so—but rather, the very fact that these things are happening to people; consequently your suffering stems from something other than their current state.

Here you may ask, what does meant by “suffering together with society,” as it is written in the books? It means relating to people from the perspective of the Creator and regretting the absence of the Shechina (Divine Presence) among them.

Regret over the exile of the Shechina is a purposeful state that drives a person to help others reach a state of revelation, and not at all to go and weep alongside them. This is completely different from the state toward which our body tries to incline us.
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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?”

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“Human Walker” Wanted

Posted on September 4th, 2026 at 7:32 am

737.01In the News (“Loneliness will be the next great money spinner,” The Guardian):

 

“Isolation among young people is increasing, spawning a new industry in companionship. Soon paying for walks, dinners and dates will feel normal

“Chuck McCarthy, we heard last week, is an LA man who charges a per-mile rate to walk and talk with customers. Billed as a novel form of social interaction, his business is expanding – he now has five assistant walkers – and the service he offers is part of an emerging trend. Like others in what might be called the companionship industry, McCarthy is packaging up social connection into something we can buy.”

My Response: Indeed, even young people are becoming lonely, not to mention the elderly.

Once, we went to the cinema and to theaters. We went out into the street, and children grew up in the courtyard. Everything was completely different. We communicated with each other. I remember how I would jump out of bed in the morning and run outside to see my friends.

Today none of this exists, and it never will again. There are no courtyards; even in sandboxes, children play alone.

Question: So will there be an increasing demand for people-walkers?

Answer: I think that the “walker” will be needed by twenty-year-olds and thirty-year-olds, not by pensioners.

We are all becoming disabled by loneliness and will have a great need for human connection. Eventually, we will reach a state where we are forced to engage in direct face-to-face interaction because electronic contact cannot replace normal human emotional connection. And that is when we will finally have something to say to people.

Question: Do you think things will come full circle and physical interaction will return?

Answer: It will return, but not at same level. Now, it will be up to Kabbalists to “walk” people, to organize them into large circles.

This is the profession of the future: gathering large numbers of people in big halls, and working with them. Together they dance, sing, and discuss the nature of the world is and what they can learn and comprehend in their unity.

The most important thing is unity. This is precisely what people lack. But when one person walks another, it is all irrational and will quickly pass.

Such temporary fulfillment immediately disappears and leaves a void because people remain without the support of the next generation.

In general, everyone needs communication. That is our current program we are developing. It is intended for training specialists in communication; I would even say in unifying people.

This will be the most important profession—an instructor for uniting people into the system of “Adam”—because everything else will be done by machines. And this is what must be done by people.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/27/24

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What Is the Difficulty in Working for the Creator?

Posted on September 4th, 2026 at 7:23 am

276.03Question: If I am going to perform an action of “If I am not for me, who is for me?”, where can I get the confidence that I will not enjoy it to the extent that I will disconnect from Him?

Answer: In his book A Sages Fruit, Baal HaSulam gives an example that in the morning a person should say: “If I am not for me, who is for me?” and in the evening, “There is none else besides Him.”

What does this mean? Suppose I am going to work now, and I am working hard; meaning, I am going to immerse myself in the desire to receive, sweat, and think that thanks to this effort I will get paid. Afterward, I examine the situation and realize that it is not me who is sweating and receiving payment, but rather, the Creator gives me the work and the earnings. In other words, the work lies not in what I actually do, but in how I relate to it.

If I change my attitude toward what I must do in life by recognizing that He is the one sending it to me, then I will feel neither the difficulty of connecting with Him nor the difficulty of performing any work because the “work” as such ceases to exist. Our difficulty lies in the challenge of forging a connection between ourselves, the purpose of creation, and the work that exists before me.

It is not difficult for a person to dig a hole all the way to the center of the earth. If through this action they remain connected with the Creator, they will receive endless energy and motivation. We do not understand that the problem is not the physical difficulties, but the fact that the action is not connected to the light, to the Creator.

If you connect with the Creator in every task, if the work becomes a purposeful action and begins to bring you the light from above and adhesion, then the light of adhesion will serve as your payment; and then instead of sweating during the action, you will be in the designated goal. The action itself will become the goal.

Therefore, our work embodied in the phrase“If I am not for me, who is for me?” lies in drawing closer to the one who is the cause of our work. In that state the work ceases to feel like labor. That is why, in the evening, after you have succeeded in unifying all this, you declare: “If I am not for me, who is for me?”

Of course, this does not refer to our literal mornings and evenings. Morning represents the intention where you act as Hafetz Hesed (desiring nothing for yourself), in Hassadim (Mercy) without Hochma (Wisdom). And in the evening, when there is no light, you receive Hochma and say: “If I am not for me, who is for me.” This signifies that you have brought this light to yourself, through your own effort.

In the morning the light comes through the Creator, while in the evening, even in darkness, light becomes possible through your own effort.

In life we often find it difficult to perform a task, perhaps we are weary or harbor some resistance to it and find it burdensome. Yet, if I attach a sense of purpose to this action, it becomes easy to perform. I sort of forget about the action itself; it becomes merely a means to connect with what I am currently united with—a means for achieving the goal.

Therefore, we should not pay attention to what is happening to us; rather, we should concentrate on our attitude toward what is happening.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/17/26, Rabash, “Who Needs to Know that a Person Withstood the Test?”

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 221

Posted on September 4th, 2026 at 7:18 am

Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 221

Does the Creator Bestow Upon Us the State of Final Correction?

The Creator bestows upon us as though we were already in the state of final correction, and indeed we are in the state of final correction. It only seems to us that we are not. In other words, the “as though we were” applies to our perception, not to the state of final correction itself. Final correction is the only state that actually exists, and we deceive ourselves into thinking that we are outside of final correction. This illusion stems from the numbness of our senses. Therefore, we need to correct our senses in order to feel the place in which we already exist.

RABASH compares this to an unconscious person who gradually rises and regains consciousness. This “return to consciousness” consists of the 125 degrees, through which the states gradually become clarified to him, until he reaches the state in which he truly exists. It continues until his awareness and the state in which he exists become one and the same.

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 9/4/26

Posted on September 4th, 2026 at 7:00 am

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 34 “What Is Eating Their Fruits in This World and Keeping the Principal for the Next World, in the Work?” 34 (1991) (7.17.2002)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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The Flip Side of the Light

Posted on September 3rd, 2026 at 7:57 am

222Comment: It seems that there is a certain atmosphere of glorifying suffering in our group. Even in the articles, it is not emphasized enough that suffering is a Klipa.

My Response: We are obliged to fight against suffering. We must emphasize that suffering is the opposite of the light and comes as a result of our seeing its reverse side (Achoraim).

We are not corrected enough to see the light, and when a little more light is poured upon us, we feel only its reverse side. Because a vessel that is opposite to the light experiences its opposite. If the light were truly to come to me now, I would feel such darkness that it would be impossible to escape from it.

This can be compared to a starving person who suddenly finds himself at a feast given by wealthy people. He has not seen even a crust of bread for a week, and here there is such an abundance of food that it is almost lying underfoot. Would he experience pleasure from it? No, he would feel even greater suffering. Previously, he thought that everyone in the world lived as he did, that it was not so terrible and could somehow be endured. But when he sees such abundance, his own life suddenly appears horrible to him.

Therefore, we must understand that all these opposite impressions come to us because of the lack of correction of our vessels. However, in any case, I do not think that the articles fail to explain that one must not sink into gloom, give in to states of despair, heaviness, or a feeling of helplessness. I think this is written about in all the articles.

And these reminders seem insufficient to you because you want to see them constantly before your eyes precisely because this is the state into which you are continually being drawn.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/28/26, Rabash, 1989 “What Is the Prohibition to Teach Torah to Idol-Worshippers in the Work?”

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An Attitude Conditioned by the Greatness of the Creator

Posted on September 3rd, 2026 at 7:52 am

938.02Question: How can I know whether the attitude I bring into the group is correct? If my future depends on what I contribute to it, how can I be sure that I am contributing something correct?

Answer: You are asking: what actions toward the group on your part will be unequivocally good? How can you avoid leading it astray? Even from an egoistic point of view, this can affect you in unpredictable ways. If only you make a mistake, is one thing; but if you mislead a thousand people, it all comes back to you, and how it returns! Is that the question?

Comment: It is not so much that I am misleading them, but rather that I am doing anything useful.

My Response: Doing nothing is tantamount to misleading them. Baal HaSulam writes about this in “The Giving of the Torah,” and there is nothing more to say on the matter.

How might I mislead or not lead my friends or avoid doing so? If I evoke enthusiasm in them based on things other than the greatness of the Creator, this is a sign that I am misleading them. Then the question arises: Does it mean I shouldn’t say a word to them other than, “The Creator is great,” “Glory to God,” or “With God’s help”? Shall we speak only like that?

No. However, it must be clear to all my friends that my attitude toward them is conditioned by the greatness of the Creator, and I want this to be present in them, in me, and in the group. Otherwise, I wouldn’t address them, wouldn’t demand anything from them, and I wouldn’t be here at all.

Question: How can this be clear?

Answer: Let them feel it. Let them feel. It is very simple. It need not even be expressed in words, no. If only between the lines in messages and telephone conversations, that is perfectly normal.

However, you understand that a certain transmission of force, of enthusiasm, is necessary; a certain message of bestowal from one to another, when, regardless of my desire, I as if spread my attitude toward the Creator onto the friend, and the friend feels this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/26, Rabash, “What Is, “Return, O Israel, Unto the Lord Your God,” in the Work?”

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As One Advances Spiritually

Posted on September 3rd, 2026 at 7:44 am

237Question: As a person advances, do their natural qualities grow, hindering them and forcing them to overcome them?

Answer: Egoism grows in a person who is advancing. All of their natural qualities remain within them, but as their desire to receive increases, another factor also grows within them—their connection with the Creator.

Therefore, one begins to use all of their natural qualities in relation to the Creator.

Depending on this, these qualities change, and then the way their pride, impatience, and laziness are expressed becomes completely different.

Question: But do they increase as obstacles?

Answer: I do not perceive them as obstacles. Why do you think that laziness is an obstacle? Laziness is an exact calculation within the desire to receive: what is worth making an effort for?
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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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