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Question: Now is the period when the lights of Pesach (Passover) influence everyone. But if there is no Kli, you may miss this opportunity. The fear that I will miss it, is this the Kli for the light of faith?
Answer: This is one of the components of the desire to attain the light of Pesach, the light of the Creator.
Question: How can you become that maximum component so that on one hand it does not interfere with the influence of the light, and manage in this short period to become necessary to the Creator?
Answer: For this, you need to study together with us, not necessarily physically, to understand what is written in the articles that turn us correctly toward the Creator.
And then it will turn out that all of us are standing before Him with open hearts.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson on 4/14/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is Greatness and Smallness in Faith?”
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From Rabash’s Article, “The Duty to Convey the Story of Exodus from Egypt”: The Book of Zohar explains why one shouldn’t eat matzah during the year, but only during Pesach. It is similar to the king who appointed one of his subjects to be a minister and on the day of his appointment dressed him in luxurious clothes.
Later, the subject took off these beautiful clothes. He was wearing them only for one day when he took a position of a Minister to celebrate the event. Afterward, every year he commemorated his appointment and dressed in his festive, solemn clothes. This example explains why we eat matzah only during Pesach to honor the exodus from Egypt.
Each spiritual root has a corporeal branch. The entire universe represents a single will to receive, “something out of nothing.” Besides it, nothing has ever been created. The light impacts the matter and leaves its imprint on it.
Only because of its imprint and due to the four stages of HaVaYaH can we explore the Light. If we manage to change our desire, we will attain the Light that created the matter and left its imprint on it.
Exiting from the egoistic forces (Klipot) is just one of the stages that lead us to the attainment of the Light. If we manage to achieve this stage, we will detach from our nature that was made out of nothing and begin connecting with the imprint of the Light that is present inside the desire. We will learn what the Light is, what It does, how did It create everything, and what happened to all fragments of the Creation long before this world and man emerged.
In other words, we rise to our root and learn that there was a special point called the “exodus from Egypt” in the program of creation of the desire and in the Light’s impact on it. The desire stops sensing only itself and is no longer confined to its nature; it goes out and begins feeling the Light, its origin, the Root.
From this moment on, the desire has already established a mutual connection with the Light and they begin acting as partners. The upper root that allows us to approach it and work together with it is very important since it is the point where a Man (Adam)—(Domeh) the one who is similar to the Creator—appears. It’s like a birth! That’s why the exodus from Egypt is called a spiritual birth of every individual soul. This explains why we honor this state.
There is a correlation of the spiritual root of the material branch that is imprinted in the categories named world, year, and soul. This world was made as a projection of the spiritual world, that’s why for each spiritual action or event, there is a corresponding material branch in this world. This is why we celebrate the entire spiritual process that we go through in the branches; it is called a yearly cycle.
All our traditions are a material reflection of spiritual actions that we hope to attain and implement. Exiting from the will to receive and attaining the very first sign of the similarity with the Light, i.e., spiritual birth, is called the exodus from Egypt. It is the initial step for all of us. This month is called the first among all other months. It denotes the beginning of the spiritual growth of a human being.
By all means, we advance for many years before arriving to a sensation called Egypt and realizing that it’s impossible for us to stay at this level. Although this state is very hard to reach since for that we have to experience more pressure, undergo unpleasant sensations, acknowledge that we are unable to exercise self-control, and divulge our slavish dependence on our egoistic nature.
The fact that we live in this material world is of great help to us. It’s a spiritual state in which we completely depend on the will to receive, and thus have no connection with the Light. This step allows us to experience material sensations. It seems to us that we live in the materiality, at the last level of sensations that manifest inside the will to receive.
Due to materiality, we can organize our lives in a way that we get a chance to exit from it and begin sensing spirituality.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/13/14, Writings of Rabash
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At this time, we approach a state when humanity faces a need to change its attitude to life, to itself, to its developmental goals. Humans have to realize that there is a purpose in life and that nature leads us to achieve it.
We will advance towards mutual understanding, benevolent attainment, and comfortable existence to the extent of our correspondence with the program that guides us.
The goal we must reach is above this world, beyond life and death. Eventually, we will transition to the level of immortality. This world gradually will dissolve and we will enter a totally new dimension. By the way, nowadays all worldly sciences confirm this fact. We are going through this process as we speak.
Everything starts with Pesach (Passover), i.e., when we realize that we are capable of rising above our egoism and we shift to unity and reciprocity by observing the rule of “loving our neighbor as ourselves,” or at least following the rule of “not doing to others what we do not wish for ourselves.” In other words, when we feel like brothers and maintain mutual guarantee. This holiday is about realizing that exiting from the ego is possible.
When one “leaves Egypt” and rises to the next level one regards the prior state as absolute wickedness and clearly sees how it can be used correctly. This explains why it is said that attainment happens at the foot of Mount Sinai (derived from “Sina,” hatred) when all human properties “stand around the mountain,” whereas our aspirations, the point of Moses, rise to its peak.
Mount Sinai represents a huge egoism and it is absolutely essential to make us rise above our qualities that stand for the entire nation gathered around the Mountain.
The final goal of human advancement is to reach the peak of the Mountain where Moses and the Creator are.
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From KabTV’s “A Talk About Passover” 3/18/15
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Question: The night of the Passover Seder is a special night for the people of Israel. It is thought that on this night this people was born and began its new way. So really, in what way is this night of the exodus from Egypt so unique?
Answer: A person begins to feel that he is in the Egyptian exile, in slavery to his ego, which is called Pharaoh, and that it is necessary to depart from under its dominance, to flee; yet he cannot do this. He begins to scream internally, he is no longer prepared to endure a life like this. He invests effort in regard to the group, the environment, the teacher, and the books. He really feels that he is in prison, in darkness.
Gradually he sinks into a state that is called the “darkness of Egypt,” the night of the exodus from Egypt. This night is absolute darkness; no hope is left for him, no chance in life. He doesn’t feel that he is prepared to continue to live within his ego, since he hates everyone, and he is unable to relate well to anyone.
He strives to love the friends, to love the other as himself, but he sees the opposite, he becomes worse and worse. The Pharaoh in him, his ego, becomes stronger and more brutal. So in the end the person is broken, for he sees that he has no chance of leaving this servitude.
He passes through very difficult inner states, which ultimately are amassed together: all of his attempts to flee from his ego, to rise above it, all the victories of the ego that show a person how strongly this Pharaoh is holding him from within. He really finds himself in the middle of the struggle of two forces: On the one hand the person pushes since he yearns to go free, and on the other hand the ego hangs on to his legs not letting him flee.
Ultimately, these two forces reach the peak of the struggle between them, and the person finds himself between them, feels absolute darkness. This state is called the night of exodus, the darkness of Egypt. And so suddenly he hears a call from within this darkness: “You must leave! You are ready to do this! You can get up and flee from your ego, here and now, at midnight, that is, from the darkest state. Don’t take anything with you to the new state, except those things that you really need for bestowal, the attainment of unity, the connection, the love”.
In this case the person is ready to leave and flee from his ego; he wants to rise above it. This is called his spiritual birth.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalists Write: The Night of Passover Seder,” 3/4/13
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The Torah, “Leviticus,” 23:4 – 23:8: These are the Lord’s appointed [holy days], holy occasions, which you shall designate in their appointed time: In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, in the afternoon, [you shall sacrifice] the Passover offering to the Lord. And on the fifteenth day of that month is the Festival of Unleavened Cakes to the Lord; you shall eat unleavened cakes for a seven day period. On the first day, there shall be a holy occasion for you; you shall not perform any work of labor. And you shall bring a fire offering to the Lord for a seven day period. On the seventh day, there shall be a holy occasion; you shall not perform any work of labor.
Question: Why is it forbidden to work on the first and last days of Passover?
Answer: It is because we distinguish between two states in the spiritual work: awakening from below and awakening from above.
During the awakening from below we evoke the cooperation between the light and the vessel by our yearning. The light corrects the vessel and gives it the right intention. During the awakening from above, this work is fulfilled from above but only because we have created all the right conditions for it in advance.
We make efforts, and thus create the right conditions for the first and last days of the holiday since the week of Passover has to be closed at its ends by states in which we don’t do anything since the upper light does all the work. The first day of the holiday is the beginning of the exodus from Egypt. The last day is the end of the exodus that seals it.
It is important to say that the nations of the world have different calendars. The Christian calendar is based on the movement of the sun. The Muslim calendar is based on the movement of the moon. While the Jewish calendar takes the movement of the sun, the moon, and the earth into account since the earth is the central object between the sun and the moon.
On one hand we take the year into account, which means the revolution of the earth around the sun, and on the other hand we take the month into account, the revolution of the moon around the earth, and compare the two. Thus the Jewish calendar doesn’t change and so, for example, we can calculate in advance which day of the week will be the first day of Passover in another 35 years.
What is more, based on the comparison between the movement of the sun, the earth, and the moon, we can say that Passover cannot be on certain days of the month. This means that everything is accurately related to the general astrological system.
Question: The Torah refers to holy assemblies several times. Why do we have to gather in Passover?
Answer: Holy assemblies during Passover are the most important thing for the Israeli nation since it is actually thanks to their desire to unite that they need to come out of Egypt.
A person’s union with a group of people, with the society, with the nation, or with the whole world is actually different levels of the exodus from Egypt (from the ego). When we attain the force of unity, a certain tension, this exodus, the detachment from the ego, takes place.
It is always among us, separating us and making us feel repulsed by one another. If we begin to compress and condense it, try to unite and connect to one another, then the exit from the ego begins the moment we first attain unity.
On the first day of Passover (the exodus from Egypt) we begin to tighten this connection. Then we work on it during the week and totally unite on the last day of the exodus from Egypt. From that moment on we are a united nation.
But in the meantime, people don’t understand what they should do, although there is a direction that spurs the desire to escape from the ego, it is merely an animalistic instinct without the proper awareness. People will acquire the recognition when they gather at the foot of Mount Sinai.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/28/14
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Spiritual roots also have an influence on their material branches. Everything is determined by the order of dissemination of the forces of light, which affect our material, the desire to receive pleasure. There is a special periodicity and causality in the affect of these lights.
They have a mechanism, which puts into gear and controls everything from the head of the World of Atzilut. From there, from Arich Anpin, Aba ve Ima, YESHSUT, and ZON, which exist in special relationships to each other, we receive changes, which are called: year, month, week, days, minutes, nights, as well as many different more internal states. We are talking about qualities and the combination of qualities, which have a great influence on this world.
If a person wishes to connect himself to the spiritual root and to place himself under a greater influence of the upper light, in order to become closer to it, then one must use these periods of a special influence on us from above. If one wishes to ascend spiritually, then during such periods in our world, which are called holidays, he needs to unite with the intentions that pertain to such influences.
In ARI’s book, The Gates of Intentions, he explains how a person should act during such special periods of influence on our world, as Rosh HaShana, Sukkot, Pesach (Passover), Shavuot, and so on. If we are talking about Pesach (Passover), then its most significant characteristic is the light of Hassadim. When a person receives the light of Hassadim for the first time in his life, he acquires the quality of bestowal and rises above his ego.
Therefore, it pays for us to think more about the upper light, which, at this time, has a greater power to raise us above our egoism and to keep us above it, in the quality of bestowal. Subsequently, we will already be able to advance further and to feel the spiritual world with all its details.
Thus we should spend all the days of Pesach thinking about the unification between us and the upper light, which raises every one of us above his personal egoism. This needs to be our main intention over the course of the whole holiday.
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From a lesson on Rabash’s article “The Connection Between Pesach, Matza, and Maror“
The holiday of Pesach stands at the head of all holidays and all times in the spiritual process because it symbolizes the transition from the desire to receive for oneself to the desire to bestow, or more precisely, from the desire to receive for one’s own sake to the desire to receive for the sake of bestowing. This is why Pesach is so important. It marks the entry into the spiritual world, into the sensation and understanding of spirituality.
Before this, a person goes through many stages starting from his natural state of being immersed in the desire to enjoy, often without even realizing it. Then, he begins to ask, “What am I living for?” That is, mere animalistic existence no longer satisfies him, and he wants to understand the meaning of life, its source, cause, and purpose. An animal does not ask such questions; this is the beginning of the birth of a human being.
The entrance into spirituality begins when a person suddenly feels that he can no longer think only about himself and wants to act outside his egoism. Pesach (Passover) symbolizes the entry into a new world, the start of a new stage—Lishma—the beginning of bestowal, faith, and attaining the quality of Bina, according to which we begin to work.
Only when a person feels and understands that he is incapable of acting for the sake of bestowal can he be considered to be in exile. This is exile from the quality of bestowal, which he wants to attain but cannot. Only this determines the measure and severity of the exile.
Humanity is divided into three parts. The first part consists of those in whom the point in the heart has already awakened which leads a person to Kabbalah or compels them to seek it. The second part still does not understand the purpose of any of this.
And the third part fights solely for material actions without touching the intention; meaning, they strive to preserve the intention for their own sake. Based on this, humanity can be divided into many groups, nations, and various movements.
The Egyptian within me convinces me that the main thing is to perform the actions that the Torah demands without paying attention to the intention, i.e., to focus solely on material commandments.
If I do not question the results of my work, it means I am an Egyptian; that is, I am acting according to the Egyptian within me. But if I begin to care about the intention, then I discover that I am in Egypt as a slave, in exile from the spiritual world.
There is a spiritual reality where everything is done for the sake of giving, while I remain in my egoism. The extent to which this troubles me, more or less determines my place in the spiritual process. Until I reach a state where such a life feels worse than death, and I feel I must escape from the egoistic intention. That means I am already on the threshold of liberation, on the way out of Egyptian exile.
My inner Egyptians hold me back and persuade me to keep going as before, saying everything is fine: the action is what matters, and intention is irrelevant. If I agree with this, I become an Egyptian.
But if an inner struggle over intention begins within me, I realize I am under the control of the Egyptians, and I want to break free from this slavery. I understand that what matters is not the action but the intention, and that I must rid myself of the intention for my own sake. This means I need the light that brings back to the source (the reforming light) and an escape from Egypt.
I am ready for anything as long as I do not remain in the egoistic intention. I need nothing but the ability to carry out this act. I have already detached from the intention for myself although I have not yet reached the intention to bestow. I still don’t know what true bestowal is or to whom to bestow, but I am already on the way out.
The transition from being an Egyptian to becoming Israel means that I no longer have the strength to act. I don’t want to act for the sake of egoism, but I do not yet know how to act for the sake of bestowing, and so I am left not knowing what to do.
This is how the exodus from Egypt happens. It is in total darkness, when we are lost and unsure of our next step, and then salvation comes.
It is said that the work of the Egyptians is done with white bricks, spotless, without a single blemish or speck of dirt. If each day I egoistically add another brick to my work, I build a beautiful, snow-white structure, without any impurity or trace of doubt, and feel completely righteous.
Egyptians in Egypt cannot have any awareness of evil because they simply follow the example set by the rest of the world. What more could a person need?
These are the seven years of plenty, when a person is fully engaged in the work of Egypt, confident in their own righteousness and success. He does not even realize he is acting out of egoism. That realization only comes as a result of the influence of the reforming light, which subtly illuminates bit by bit, gradually advancing the person.
“Penny by penny, a great fortune accumulates.”
When there is no strength left to work, only one thing remains—prayer. Turning to the Creator solves all problems. After all, the purpose of everything that happens to us is to compel us to connect with the Creator.
In Egypt, we acquire all kinds of means and methods of connection with the Creator. For every difficulty that Egypt places before us, we must find the answer through a new form of connection with the Creator.
The heaviness of the work depends solely on the intention. If the intention is for the Creator, for the sake of bestowal, then you soar as if on wings and feel no burden in the work. It is as if you have left Earth’s gravitational pull and are floating in space.
But if the work feels heavy, it means you are carrying the wrong suitcase and are not aimed toward the Creator.
We receive the influence of the Creator through the entire shattered soul of Adam HaRishon. The Creator perceives the whole soul as one. For now, I may have a personal, very limited connection with the Creator, but even that comes to me through the collective soul.
“The upper light is in absolute rest,” meaning it fills the collective Kli. But I receive connection with the Creator to the extent that I am connected with the collective soul.
Let’s say I connect with one out of twenty billion souls, then to that extent I receive contact, which always flows through the common connection.
The Creator is within all creations in a perfect state since all have already reached the end of correction, and I connect to that state.
What is the difference between Matza and bread? Matza is also bread, but it is called the “bread of poverty” and is made only from flour and water. And even the water is added in minimal amounts. You cannot make bread without water, so just enough is used to knead the dough without letting it ferment.
This is a sign that we are not yet capable of working with our desires for the sake of bestowal, but we also no longer want to work for the sake of receiving. It is an in-between state neither here nor there.
Matza symbolizes filling in order to escape.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/21/19, Writings of Rabash “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror”
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Question: Sometimes you say that people are ready to hear us, but we are not yet ready to properly convey the Kabbalistic information. Are people really ready to hear us?
Answer: No, they are not ready yet. If they were, they would hear. However, it is a dual problem: both on my side and theirs. I am not yet able to convey everything in the way that is most accessible and close to them, and they are not yet capable of grasping it with their inner qualities. So we both still need to move toward each other.
That is why I say that maybe I have a few years left in my life to make the Kabbalah method closer, clearer, and easier for everyone to understand. On the other hand, humanity is gradually approaching me because it is being pushed from behind by crises.
Of course I do not wish any misfortunes upon anyone, but I hope that blows will affect people, and they will come to the goal faster. I see these crises as a manifestation of the disease that is choking and oppressing us but is still hidden inside.
What did they do with the previous wave of crisis? They suppressed it, pushed it inward with “antibiotics” like they usually treat a disease. It seems like it is gone, but it is smoldering inside, everything is already rotting, but you do not feel it yet. And then suddenly, a person gets an X-ray, is opened up, and they say: That’s it, we are sewing you up—and off to the cemetery.
But I do not want things to get to this point. That is why it would be better if humanity gains awareness of the evil of its state at the same time as we provide the method. People will realize that they have nowhere to turn, that they must correct their state, and right there beside them there will be a method showing how to correct it and attain confidence, peace, and a normal life.
We at least speak to them about that, not even about the world to come. At least in this world, they can achieve a good life, for themselves and for their children in everything.
Our task is to bring humanity to this. That will be the first stage of correction, the first stage of accepting Kabbalah as a method of correction. This is my dream.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Berg and Laitman” 8/9/10
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We must constantly work with great precision to not waste a single minute. This is the formula for success. It’s not that each minute is so important in itself, but that you don’t let yourself go.
You push yourself in this race to the point of exhaustion and leave yourself no opportunity, not even a moment, to slip away from spiritual work.
Only then do you begin to feel the impossibility of reaching the goal through your own efforts and the right request for the Creator’s help arises within you, and He responds without delay.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Kabbalist is Out of It” 7/30/10
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