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Posted on March 31st, 2026
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Question: If a person has free choice, can I, look at my past and say that I could have done something differently then, that I had freedom of choice?
Answer: No. Why would you think so? And regarding the future, also no. And in the present? In what do I at this moment have freedom of choice? Only in strengthening myself, agreeing, desiring the quality of bestowal, striving for this to happen as quickly as possible, and exactly as the Creator desires.
I have freedom of choice, not in the action itself, but in its implementation. Let it be realized, not in such a way that I agree to it under the pressure of threats and misfortunes, but so that of my own will, moving forward, I want its realization.
The Creator has everything planned in advance. In regard to the actions, in regard to what will happen to us, we are not free at all. Everything that I must go through is predetermined.
But if I do not want these states, do not want to advance toward greater bestowal each time, after having decided that from this moment on at every next stage I will be even more giving, then I inevitably reveal these states as suffering. I have no way out: I advance, but suffer more and more.
Or, on the contrary, if I convince myself that these states are good and effective, that I want them in advance, then they are revealed to me as goodness, as bliss, abundance, and eternity.
However, the stages that I go through are obligatory. I can determine the pace, but I cannot avoid being in each of these states.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/16/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Good Deeds of the Righteous Are the Generations,’ in the Work?”
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We must always cut down the bad weeds around us, as they affect us—we must keep away from bad environments, from people who do not favor the path of truth. We need a careful watch so as to not be drawn to follow them.
This is called “isolation,” when one has thoughts of the “single authority,” called “bestowal,” and not “public authority,” which is self-love. This is called “two authorities”—the Creator’s authority and one’s own authority (Rabash, “Concerning the Importance of Society”).
All of this is clear; the problem arises only with the implementation. Each of us is under our own authority, and we do not understand what it means to be under someone else’s authority. “Does it mean I must become a slave? If there is authority, then there is an owner?”
In fact, we must be under the authority of the altruistic desire, instead of the egoistic one. It is very difficult for us to understand these things. We simply do not see where and how all this takes place.
But over time, through study and participation in the life of the group, if a person draws upon himself the influence of the small light, he gradually begins to awaken. Then he becomes capable of discerning the true nature of the distinction between public authority and single authority, the authority of the Creator and the authority of the creature, the quality of bestowal and the quality of reception. These details are revealed with great difficulty, yet once they are discerned, a person begins to understand what is unfolding before him.
“It is a long path,” said the sages, “but you can shorten it if you follow several pieces of advice.” The advice is simple. If you want to perceive yourself on a higher degree, in the next dimension, then build it, form it. Unite with those who desire the same, and together evoke the upper force, so that between you, in your common understanding and feeling, it will create a network that will become the next degree.
Everything takes place in a person’s perception. The Creator in Himself is unattainable; we perceive Him only in the relationships between all the parts of reality that are within our perception. If you change your attitude to reality, that very attitude will become your Creator (Boreh), from the words “Bo” (come) and “Reh” (see).
Right now, for you the Creator is the egoistic force that governs all of the reality you see. In this form you perceive and feel it. So change it through the reforming light. There is such a force that you awaken; it is your next degree.
All the degrees already exist in that dimension, in that “informational-force channel” from which you can receive everything. Connect and receive. If you want to know what will be tomorrow, you will know it. If you want to know how to carry out changes, you will know how. Just connect. This is the reforming light.
In general, our approach is this: unite with one another and evoke the light that will correctly realize this unity. We must demonstrate our readiness commensurate with the state we are in, and ask for correction.
For implementation, it is very, very simple. That is why the articles of Rabash about the group are so simple and straightforward. There are few in number, and all these materials can fit into a few dozen pages. In them is the entire method. Everything else are only additions that help attract the light. To describe how to organize the group in which we draw this light, ten pages are enough.
Thus, today our work is first of all to organize ourselves into the correct structure, and then to turn with a request for correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/15/12, Rabash, “Concerning the Importance of Society”
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In the article “On the Night of the Bride” (Introduction of The Book of Zohar), it is said that the law (a condition of the spiritual order) is such that the creature cannot perceive the Creator openly if it is in a state or quality opposite to Him.
Therefore, only in equivalence of qualities with the Creator can we perceive Him, in those qualities in which we are similar to Him in quantity and quality. For it is a flaw in the glory of the Creator for the creature to perceive Him as an evildoer, and the created being would no longer be able to remain connected with Him.
For this reason, the Creator acts in concealment. He must awaken negative states within us, yet we do not feel that they come from Him. Although naturally, “there is none else besides Him,” and only He does this. As it is said: “Who makes darkness and creates light.”
We must feel the darkness more and more. It must constantly be revealed within us so that we can correct it and reveal the light, the Creator, in its place.
Thus, our work always consists of concealment and revelation, concealment and revelation. The concealment of the Creator produces darkness; revelation produces light. These two states must necessarily alternate. Our awareness must be directed toward the understanding that both states are good, that they come from love and are directed precisely toward us so that we may attain perfection.
If a person is not prepared, then the state of the Creator’s concealment is felt by him as darkness and evil, as if the Creator is hiding from him. This is the greatest punishment in the world.
Thus, His guidance of good and evil has been prescribed for us, with guidance of reward and punishment. One who makes efforts not to lose faith in the Creator, that is, in every situation, whatever may happen, if I try to constantly direct myself to the thought that everything happening now with me, within me, outside me, and in the whole world is the Creator’s governance, and I try to remain in this awareness despite feeling unpleasant states, then I attain the reward: eventually the Creator is revealed to me.
But if I do not wish to constantly hold myself in the thought that everything comes from the Creator, that everything around me is only the Creator, who through friends, through strangers, through those close to me, through anyone and in any way, through billions of different influences upon me, is playing with me, then in the end He disappears from my feelings, and I part with faith in the Creator, with the feeling of Him.
Only the ten can keep each of us in constant faith in the Creator, in a constant direction toward Him, in constant connection with Him, in the constant thought that everything comes from the Creator: He does everything, He governs me, and even my thoughts about Him are also from Him.
That is, whether I want or do not want to be connected with Him, this too comes from Him. And it does not matter whether my thoughts are good or bad, whether my actions are good or bad. The main thing is that I attribute them to Him. This is the most important thing.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 9/7/19, Moldova, Lesson 4
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We were given the path of faith, which is above reason (Rabash, “The Meaning of Truth and Faith”).
Reason is what we feel and understand, whereas faith is what we must rise to and accept above reason. Namely not to take our sensations and reason into account when we sense whether something is good or bad for us, but instead accept that the Creator knows better what is good for us and what is not.
For example, in our world we go to a doctor. Personally, I am very afraid of injections. I have undergone many operations and have been cut many times, yet I am still afraid. Any form of correction or healing is done upon living flesh. We must strive to reach a state in which we can endure any changes, any corrections, joyfully and without pain.
When the Creator begins to heal us, it will be pleasant, joyful, and sweet for us that this is happening to us, provided that we perceive the importance of the goal as greater than the importance of our animal body.
This has been absolutely verified; it is completely certain!
If a person connects to the goal, then it does not matter what sufferings pass through the body because he will not feel them as suffering at all, but only as joy. This is not masochism; it is simply a law of nature, because thought is higher than desire, higher than the flesh.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 9/7/19, Moldova, Lesson 4
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 26 “Show Me Glory” (1985) (4.10.2002)
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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 6, Part 15, Item 13 (4.17.2016)
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Question: When should I analyze whether my actions are correct or not?
Answer: The correct analysis is made in the case when every second of your life you “attach” yourself to the Creator. “Life” means awareness. I am alive; I feel myself and I have some mission. As the song says: “There is only a moment between the past and the future; it is this moment that is called life.” In this moment you must merge with the Creator. This is what He allows you to do.
In this way you analyze the Reshimo (the spiritual informational gene). There is no other work here. If you concentrate only on this, it is very good. For the past and the future are like Klipot since they come to us from invented things. They generate various calculations and fears in us that have no relation to reality.
Comment: But a person has to deal with a combination of many factors.
My Response: I am not speaking about what you do at your work. There you work with the inanimate level: with people, with plans, and so on; there you must know how to work. I am speaking about your inner definitions, spiritual qualities, about what is connected with the Creator.
And with the Creator you have a simple calculation: I have no power over the past, the present, or the future. My work is only with what I have now. Whatever Reshimo He gives me, that I must now realize. And my realization of this Reshimo is adhesion with the Creator in the given second. Period! That is all.
I am not saying that this is how one should relate to life in general, this is how one should relate to our spiritual states. And in the material, I can plan my work a month ahead, a year ahead. One is not connected with the other. At work I deal with the inanimate level.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/16/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Good Deeds of the Righteous Are the Generations,’ in the Work?”
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Question: Why is Eastern meditation so popular?
Answer: Eastern meditation is very popular in the world. I once visited a group of Americans in North Carolina in an extraordinarily beautiful place in the Smoky Mountains. They have a huge area of land at their disposal.
They receive donations from various sources that allow them to live very modestly, eat, have a roof over their heads, and meditate all the time. They asked us not to drive by car or even pass under their windows so as not to disturb them.
People sit for hours without the slightest movement; a person is completely immersed in oneself. The question is, what tools does he use to analyze it? As far as I understand from the science of Kabbalah, these people suppress their egoism, that is, they stop using it and want to achieve complete peace.
Of course, this is an egoistic desire, but it belongs to the lowest, smallest level of egoism, and therefore a person feels some freedom from the usual press of a huge thickness of egoism. Meditation lowers everyone to a level of egoism to which they can descend to.
Therefore, it seems to a person that he is achieving spiritual revelation. But this definition of the spiritual world differs from that given by the science of Kabbalah. People are able to invest a lot of effort and time with such meditation because it provides a powerful source of nourishment for the ego and brings a sense of comfort and fulfillment.
It is not an easy undertaking; it requires a person to step away from active life, but it offers substantial reward. The group I saw in North Carolina numbered hundreds of people, men and women. Moreover, there was a ban on any physical intimacy between men and women, sex was strictly prohibited.
Man had to rise above all material things and only provide the body with the nourishment necessary for its existence, and devote everything else to inner contemplation.
I have seen other such groups and met with Sufis in England and the USA. I had meetings with people who had a regular audience of thirty million radio listeners in America.
It is quite clear to me what happens during Eastern meditation. People suppress their egoism so much that it almost ceases to be felt. And then they have the feeling that they are floating in the air, above all nature. Therefore, they consider themselves to already be in the spiritual world.
Interestingly, many people use Kabbalistic symbols for their exercises: for example, letters of the Hebrew alphabet, special words (mantras), the names of the Creator “HaVaYaH.” There are even many churches with “HaVaYaH” and the Star of David engraved on them. The Star of David is a symbol of the union of matter and spirit.
This meditation is most successful for Hindus who can disconnect from life to such an extent that they almost stop breathing. The body goes into internal hibernation, all its systems slow down so much that a person can live for many days without food and water and almost without oxygen.
Question: In what world does a person exist at this time?
Answer: He almost doesn’t exist. There is barely any life in the body, metabolism almost stops, so it doesn’t need anything.
Question: Does this not count as rising above matter?
Answer: This is not a spiritual elevation. Elevation requires that a person get out from under the power of the body, that is, the desire to receive egoistic fulfillment, and achieve the desire for bestowal. All Eastern techniques would like to achieve this, but they are not able to because they do not have the strength to rise to the next level.
They only suppress the vital force in a person so that he feels as if he has risen a little above the physical material life, above the animal level. And although it already seems to him that this is a spiritual stage, the science of Kabbalah speaks about a completely different spiritual world.
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From KabTV’s conversation “New Life 509 – Meditation And Contemplation, Part 1,” 1/25/15
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Question: You once said that a Jew and a Roman are simply two forces trying to clarify the third force. That is, they develop not without purpose. Is the third force born independently or from these two?
Answer: The third force is intermediary between them, which we must now restore and bring into existence.
Everything that has happened up to this moment has only been preparation for what we must do now: correct the world. Not the Jews and not the other nations, but specifically us, which we do by taking Kabbalah as the source of correction.
Question: Does this third force already exist or do we simply not perceive it?
Answer: We must create this third force together because it does not exist; it does not descend from above. Only two forces come from above: the force of the Creator and the force of creation, the property of bestowal and the property of reception.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Truth About Reality” 10/8/10
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