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Posted on March 22nd, 2026
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How can we change states quickly? How can we minimize the time we linger in each state and make that as beneficial as possible so it leads not to errors, but to the goal via the shortest and best path? This will not happen simply because we know what to do. We do not know. This will not happen because I know my next state. I do not know it.
I do not choose the shortest path, one way over the other. But if I work on transcending myself and abiding within the group, then, as much as I try to do so, my inner effort means I am doing the most useful thing for my advancement and the group.
Accordingly, I can immediately discover that I am not in it, that I do not want it, and will see how much it repels me, while also receiving my friends’ reactions. There is no more useful action, and it is so simple that anyone can do it. It does not take much intellect.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/11/26, Rabash, “What Are Day and Night in the Work?”
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Question: How can you check how much you have advanced after a lesson?
Answer: The main thing is to clarify: What do I want—for my own sake or for the sake of bestowal? Do I have a connection with my friends in this? Do I need them or not? Do I work from my egoistic desire or from the intention to bestow, from the side of the Creator or the creation, above my egoism or within it? All advancement is based on such self-analysis.
It may be that after a good lesson, these clarifications reveal my bad state to me, but they will be more precise, and that means that I am advancing.
Every day should bring a simple result: tomorrow or by the next lesson, I must come with a more clarified desire.
It does not matter whether I have a desire or not; it is given from above. The question is whether this state becomes clearer.
It is possible that the clarification will lead me to a dead end where everything becomes unclear, as if shrouded in a fog. But this also means greater clarity and a more precise clarification.
The light that comes to me during the lesson provides me with discernments; it does not matter whether they are positive or negative. It allows me to make a more precise analysis in order to evaluate myself, my state in relation to the Creator and the goal in all directions.
The light affects the desire; when it illuminates the desire for me, I see more within it.
Even if I suddenly stop distinguishing anything in it at all, and I feel complete confusion and fog descends unlike anything I have ever experienced before, this is also called seeing more. These are also degrees of understanding.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/10, The Book of Zohar
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Question: What is the meaning of the concept: “For the commandments are our life and the length of our days”?
Answer: It means that a person must come to feel that everything he receives in life is measured by the amount of light that descends from above, and that his life force depends on his connection with the spiritual, because it is from there that he draws it.
A person’s life is not measured in calories or in any other units, such as the size of his salary, but only by his connection with the Creator. Longevity is the extent to which he values his life, its spiritual height.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/14/26, Rabash, “Why the Speech of Shabbat Must Not Be as the Speech of a Weekday, in the Work”
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Any action a person performs without an inner intention, without a sense of why one is doing it, is an inanimate action at the level of “Domem” (still). Yet the actions themselves prepare intentions in a person.
This is not to say that someone who does something in a group does not advance, because he is included in the group, and the group influences him with its intentions. We cannot measure and say, “This is just an action that carries nothing for me, there is no advancement in it.”
The thing is, if you are doing an action now and working with intention later, they connect. You do not always use intention while performing an action.
For example, if I am currently busy translating or creating a program and need to fully immerse myself in it, I have almost no opportunity to use my intention while doing so. But there is a general preparation, a background context, that defines why am I doing this and how I came to this. That is, in many cases, it is impossible to combine intention and action, and yet, they accompany each other.
It is important, however, that they align at the time of study. As Baal HaSulam writes in item 4 of the “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” it is very important that the intention and the study itself come together. This is called a united effort. Realizing the reason for studying is very important; without it, all learning yields no results.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/14/26, Rabash, “Why the Speech of Shabbat Must Not Be as the Speech of a Weekday, in the Work”
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Question: How can I demand anything from the group if I can only give what is in me?
Answer: It is quite simple. This is what the group is for, for you to demand the greatness of the idea of bestowal and the idea of adhesion with the Creator from.
But on what basis do you make this demand? It is according to your contribution to the group. What does this mean? In essence, you are the one investing in this idea. Only you cannot change or educate yourself on your own, only a group can.
You choose a group based on an idea, so the group can reflect the idea back to you.
But if you come to the group with some other demand, then it turns out you have not actually made a choice. This is not called a choice.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘There Is Nothing that Has No Place,’ in the Work?”
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 13 “What Is the ‘Bread of an Evil-Eyed Man,’ in the Work?” (1989) (4.16.2002)
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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of the Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 6, Part 15, Item 2 (4.7.2016)
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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of Religion and Its Purpose”
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