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If you want to achieve a corrected state, in accordance with the plan of the Creator, according to how He would do it, and you are not concerned in what form it will happen to you, as long as it is similar to Him, then you must demand an example and instructions from Him, and He will give them to you.

But this is on the condition that you do not demand any compensation before you even begin the work. You must demand knowledge: how to work.

Such a demand for correction is called raising MAN. And then from above we receive a plan for how to perform even the smallest action. Of course, a person himself cannot find it. By himself he can only organize his environment for it to provide him with the correct request that is aimed only at correction. If this succeeds, then everything will be fine.

Through the environment, we organize a demand to the Creator so that He gives us an example. By ourselves we are incapable, confused, unable to resist our nature, and unable to fulfill the rule “Love your neighbor as yourself,” but if we ask, we receive such an opportunity. This is the only free action, and to perform it is our duty.

Only for this do we have reward and punishment. Either force comes to us at the right time, in the right place, and a person grows in the right direction. Or he makes mistakes, and then the forces are not distributed in the correct way in order to bear fruit, and a person misses the opportunity.

The mistake is that he does not prepare himself to reach the correct request so that the Creator will give him a program of correction. Usually a person asks for fulfillment, not for correction. He must ask the Creator for correction in order to be able to achieve love for one’s neighbor, that is, to acquire the quality of bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/2/26, Rabash, “For Man Is the Tree of the Field—1”

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Our work is to be constantly in adhesion with the Creator. We are given a point, something that does not depend on us, and from it we begin our work.

The point is our reality in the state of infinity, perfection, and eternity. But from the state of infinity, we sense only this point; we passionately desire something and feel that something is missing. But we are missing only a point, and this is not a real desire. From within this state, a person must reach the emptiness in their vessels in order to be filled with all the light of NRNHY in the final correction.

All our work is an effort to remain constantly focused on the revelation of infinity. This means complete adhesion with the Creator, contained in the words “There is none else besides Him,” and this is what we must aspire to. All obstacles are intended only to push us in various directions of our spiritual character: pride and fear, various sensations and thoughts brought to us by the Klipot.

The Klipot seem to want to pull us away from this point. And we must strive to return to it despite the contradictions that pull us in different directions. Suppose a Klipa pulls me ten centimeters to the  right,that is, it gives me a foreign thought, a lack of confidence. Despite this, I must return to the central point, because there is the point of adhesion with the Creator. If I do this, I already expand my state by ten centimeters to the right.

Then I have a disturbance ten centimeters to the left, or downward, or upward—it doesn’t matter how, in different directions from this center—and in this way I build a Sefira. It is precisely the Klipot that give me the matter from which I build an empty vessel out of the point. And together with receiving the disturbance, I fill this emptiness with adhesion.

It turns out that from that point I begin to expand into a small Sefira, then more and more, until I receive all the disturbances, overcome them, and adhere—despite them or together with them—in uninterrupted adhesion (Zivug) with the Creator. And this will be called that I have completed my work and reached final correction.

It follows that the Klipa helps me grow and also guards me during my growth. Therefore, we should not be afraid of foreign thoughts and all kinds of disturbances. They awaken in us in accordance with our current state, and with their help we advance and build future states—our future. It is not that these disturbances pull us backward; on the contrary, they give us the opportunity to advance forward to the same degree.

This is the difference between working for the sake of the Creator and working for one’s own sake. All the wisdom lies in how to use the desire to receive. Kabbalah is the science of using the desire to receive, that is, the Klipot, the disturbances, whereas other methods fear them, teaching a person to prevent disturbances, to run away from them, rather than to use them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/31/26, Rabash, “Three Times in the Work”

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Question: When I call a plumber, I tell him what needs to be fixed. He tells me the price, we agree, and now I have the right to demand quality work from him.

In the case of the Creator, we think that He will carry out our corrections for free. Maybe that is why it does not work out? Maybe we need to arrange some kind of payment? What kind of payment is required for His work, for the corrections we need?

Answer: If you need them, ask Him.

Question: Why “ask”? Why should He do it for free?

Answer: He does not do it for free.

Question: Then what is the payment for His work?

Answer: In the fact that you ask Him.

Question: Is this indeed the payment?

Answer: Of course! And in our world, if you ask someone well, they will do it for you.

Question: Does the Creator work on credit?

Answer: He does not need it; everything is in His hands.
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From the Congress in Moldova 9/7/19, Lesson 5

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Question: A man is inherently unstable in relation to a woman. Let’s say he meets a woman, but after a while, the initial attraction fades. Why does he want another, and another, and another?

Answer: This stems from the spiritual root because he constantly wants to fill and fill, but feels no novelty in the same state.

A woman, it is the opposite; she “sticks” to him because she receives 90% of her desires from him, and only 10% of her own. A man receives 90% of his own desires and 10% from the woman. This is how they exchange their desires through contact.

Of the ten Sefirot, nine are Zeir Anpin and one is Malchut. Therefore, for a woman, it is enough to attach herself to a man; with that, she receives both the desire and the fulfillment. But for a man, this is not enough; he needs constant renewal in Malchut so that new souls can enter her, giving him an opportunity to fill them. If Malchut does not renew, then he has nothing to do with her.

The same happens in our world. If a man does not feel novelty, change in a woman, or flirtation, he quickly loses interest. Psychologists explain our relationships exactly this way and try to help with their renewal.

In our time, when all of this is revealed and completely accessible, fulfillment is disappearing even more. On one hand, this is a common problem on the material level; on the other hand, it leads us toward the need to truly rise to the resolution of different problems.

I think our generation is going through exactly this. It is not just experiencing it, but moving forward. Gradually, it will give this a very simple place to fill its needs, and everything will move to a higher realm.

Question: But why does society condemn a man for adultery if this is a natural, innate impulse that comes from above?

Answer: In terms of global understanding, this comes from religion, particularly Christianity. But in all previous cultures, this was not the case.

On the other hand, we are not saying that salvation lies in total freedom: do whatever you want. We say that a person should “keep his head in the heavens,” and if they have needs, they should satisfy them in a normal, more or less socially accepted manner.

Question: But if a person is in spirituality, does that mean he must have one “spiritual” woman?

Answer: No, that could be even worse. He undergoes all kinds of inner upheavals and changes, and anything can happen in those states.

But that is not the main point; this is not how we evaluate a person. We evaluate him by where his head is, what his goal in life is, not by how he handles his animalistic needs.

This is the fundamental difference between a man and a woman. A woman needs only her man; she must know: he is mine. In principle, this is embedded in her by nature. This is how it descends to us from Zeir Anpin and Malchut of Atzilut.

But a man has no particular attachment here. If he does, then it is for the family, his own place, children, and a household, but this, so to speak, is general; it is not aimed specifically at a woman. This also comes from the higher structure of ZON of Atzilut.

Comment: But initially, at the first contact, a man behaves simply like a Don Juan. And then women always get offended: why are men such scoundrels?

My Response: We see this also among animals. There is nothing different here. In the animal world, the male is very beautiful. Look at lions, peacocks, and swans! They are made that way precisely to attract the female, to bring her into contact, to subjugate her. That is why the male needs such external attributes.

And here lies a contradiction, because a woman, in principle, does not need these external attributes at all. She does not see external beauty in a man; it does not interest her; she simply does not notice it.

On the contrary, she may like a man with a bit of a belly rather than some “Hercules.” She has a different perspective. She looks at a man from the standpoint of genetics; she sees in him a potential father, husband, provider; she evaluates him by completely different criteria than those by which a man wants to present himself.

All of this comes from spiritual roots.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Male betrayal” 8/28/10

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