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Rabash, in the article “It is Forbidden to Hear a Good Thing from a Bad Person,” writes that if you observe that the advice you have accepted promises to increase your efforts, then the direction is correct; conversely, if it serves to reduce your effort, then it is incorrect.
Accordingly, if the action before you requires effort, then, apparently it comes from a good side and is aimed in a good direction. And if it does not require effort, then, it seems, it is directed in a bad direction.
What are “efforts”? A person might plan a bank robbery with the sweat of his brow. This is no easy task. Several people work on it, they prepare everything, and try their best. Desire obliges.
So what exactly constitutes “effort”? Relative to what are they evaluated? If an effort is added to a desire in order to realize it and enjoy it without any connection with the Creator, this is the effort of the evil inclination.
You can sweat your whole life trying to earn what you have set as your life’s goal, but that does not count as effort. Efforts in spirituality is that which leads you to adhesion with the Creator, that which improves you in some ways so that you become like Him. Everything else is not effort.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/9/26, Rabash, “It is Forbidden to Hear a Good Thing from a Bad Person”
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The evil inclination is our faithful guide, through which we will undoubtedly reach the goal of creation. What depends on us is how we perceive it. Either I perceive it within my desire to receive, or, in the opposite way, I analyze it correctly and understand that it tells me how not to proceed.
If it works together with the desire to receive, if it comes to me in its natural form, then it places all the pitfalls along the path into which I fall. But if I analyze it correctly and understand that, by enticing me toward something, it only draws me to bad things so that I may overcome them and instead prefer to adhere to the Creator, then from this I correctly reveal its help.
How else can I build independence? Abraham said: “If you go to the left, then I will go to the right; and if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.” I am sitting here now, and the evil inclination pulls me to the right.
I know that if I overcome its pull toward some pleasure, to do something, and instead of being drawn there, I adhere to the Creator, then this is adhesion with the Creator that I have earned through my effort. Now the ego pulls me to the left: “Let’s go enjoy there.” I must overcome this as well, but not in such a way as to withdraw into a monastery and destroy the desire to receive.
While the evil inclination is pulling me somewhere, I want to place the Creator before it—His greatness, His eternity, His perfection—as something that surpasses this attraction. I must ask Him to be reveal Himself, to give me strength, and to give me a group that will impart the awareness of His greatness. Then I will not be dragged either to the left or to the right, and with all these inclinations I will nonetheless maintain the direction toward the Creator, toward adhesion with Him.
Thus, we can see that when the evil inclination pulls me toward all kinds of pleasures of various kinds, it actually awakens precisely those directions and methods of work in me through which I build the form of my inclinations toward the Creator. Through this, I build my Partzuf in all its forms, my “Partzuf of holiness.”
That is, the evil inclination does precisely the correct work, both in quantity and in quality, in sequence, in causal order, and in the various forms of its revelation within me. It gives me exactly those temptations which, by inverting them and striving toward the Creator against their background, I thereby add more and more to my “Partzuf of holiness.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/9/26, Rabash, “It is Forbidden to Hear a Good Thing from a Bad Person”
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Question: Why did some things happen in the material world first and only subsequently happen in the spiritual world, whereas in other cases it is the other way around?
Answer: Everything that belongs to the “preparatory phase,” prior to entering the spiritual world, first takes material form and then the time comes for its inner fulfillment.
A person goes through two stages. He is born as an animal, and from the moment the “point in the heart” is implanted in him, we start counting his “human” life; the word “man – Adam” is from the word “Adameh,” which means “I shall become like the upper.” It is a striving that stems from the point in the heart.
If, throughout the course of all his previous incarnations, he existed in this world merely as matter, without a point in the heart, acquiring desires for money, honor, and knowledge, it is completely normal and natural. But none of this counts. There is a certain “accounting” for this, but it has nothing to do with a person’s individual spiritual advancement.
Personal advancement begins the moment he feels his “point in the heart.” From this moment on, his work is called “the time of preparation for entering spirituality.”
The preparatory stage can last 10, 15, or even 20 years, or it could take 5 years, and even, as Baal HaSulam writes in the “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” as little as 3 years. It depends on the person’s efforts. It may be that he will achieve some advancement, and then die until the next reincarnation. And who knows what will happen in this new incarnation. It all depends on his efforts. If he is lucky, he will join the group and increase his pace; if he is not, he will not.
It is said that everything depends on “luck” (Mazal). “Mazal” is from the word “Nozel – flowing.” The faster these drops “flow” into a person, the more his Kli is filled. If they “drip” slowly, a person will have to wait several lifetimes.
So we count the first stage from the appearance of a point in the heart to the entrance into the spiritual world, and the second stage is working in the spiritual world. This process corresponds to manifesting in matter in our world. All these things that correspond to the spiritual roots of the preparatory phase, have already occurred and nothing more is needed. The material realization here precedes the spiritual one.
When we talk about the stages of spiritual work: the correction of the Kli, the construction of the Temple, that is, about the second stage, from the Machsom onward, then spiritual work is required there first, and as a result of this, a person builds the material aspects of his life here, including the Land of Israel, which he develops to the degree he is in the Land of Israel internally.
In the same way the nation is formed according to their spiritual attainment, and finally, a Third Temple is built after a person reaches a state called a Temple.
Thus, the states corresponding to the preparation phase, starting from the point in the heart and up to crossing the Machsom, first occur in the material world, and then in a person, in his inner world. Whereas everything that has to do with the second phase, from the Machsom to the final correction (Gmar Tikun), first occur as spiritual stages within a person, society, and then in the material world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/8/26, Rabash, “Come unto Pharaoh – 2”
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Question: What is the difference between the states “goes” and “does”?
Answer: “Goes” means that a person has some urge to advance, when he thinks that in the next state, he will be closer to the Creator, closer to the possibility of bestowing. This means that he has an intention to come to bestowal in some form.
Here there are two states: the present one and the next one, and he is already moving between them, passing from one to the other. Therefore, he is called “one who goes.”
And another sits and appears to be he doing something. This means that he was given the opportunity to come here and sit with us. And still this is also called an “action.”
He has no aspiration to come to something. “Bestowal, adhesion, Creator”; these words can be pronounced just like that, but they do not come from the person’s inner feeling.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/11/26, Rabash, “What Are the Four Qualities of Those Who Go to the Seminary, in the Work?”
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Question: You try to give tasks to everyone, both men and women. Is it really possible to do without women’s desire?
Answer: No, it must be very clear. A woman is not a passive element in creation. Although compared to a man, she is more passive, this is only because she cannot independently implement her desire.
However, her desire itself is very necessary for men. And men will feel like men when women begin to feel a need for spiritual development and pressure them with this need. Then it will be like in a family when a wife compels her husband to take care of the family.
Question: How can we ensure that women do not go in the wrong direction?
Answer: In any case, one has to develop somewhere. I am not afraid of anything. And in general, what is there for us to fear? Life is infinite, nature is eternal, the Creator is one, and one force governs us. We are obligated to move only toward it, toward contact with it, and toward similarity with it.
Let us try to pass through all these stages quickly, easily, and pleasantly, as much as possible. The main thing is to constantly try to accelerate the pace of movement toward the goal. That is all.
When I am asked what I like about myself and what I do not, I say: “There is only one thing I like about myself: the striving toward the goal that the Creator gave me.” I must constantly feel pressure: I must, must, must, and feel that I am moving toward the goal, revealing it more and more correctly. I torment myself if I do not carry this through to the end.
Only this desire matters. Everything else is the evil that was also created by the Creator, but there is certainly nothing good in it.
Therefore, we should not pay attention to the various shortcomings that are revealed within us. They will naturally appear, and at the pace at which we move forward, we will feel them even more.
But a strong, good, kind, mature women’s organization, which I demand, will help us go through all the revelations of our internal shortcomings that we do not yet see. And by revealing and correcting them, we will come to the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Women’s Desire” 9/11/10
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Question: How can a spiritual directorate replace you, a Kabbalist, who gives people a sensation of the upper world?
Answer: The spiritual directorate deals with clarifying current issues related to advertising, dissemination, studies, and the functioning of our organization, that is, the framework we exist within. It does not deal with the spiritual fulfillment that I give to the students, nor with the knowledge that I reveal to them every day.
The spiritual directorate cannot replace me as a professional, as a teacher. However, it can, and already does, replace me in all decisions concerning the development of the organization and the group so that there are no arbitrary corporeal decisions or deviations.
These are ordinary people, students who are more or less capable of looking objectively at themselves and the group, and of making decisions, not with clouded eyes, but by rising above themselves toward a collective decision.
They understand that whatever the decision may be, if it is collective, it is higher than even the smartest and most brilliant individual decision, because within it the Creator is present. He is the one who truly governs the world and the group. In an individual, egoistic, even if brilliant decision, the Creator is absent, and therefore it is doomed to fail.
Ordinary people do not yet understand this, especially now, when a global system is beginning to reveal itself in the world and the structure of reality is gradually becoming clear: first through human society, then through ecology, and later through the entire vast universe.
The universe is beginning to appear as a single, complete system of inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human nature. However, we do not know what to do with it because we have no tools to work with such a system. In fact, this system is the most important because it alone governs everything.
In other words, the world is governed by the collective as a whole system. Have you noticed how a school of fish turns in water, all at once, not one leading and the others following, but all together, a whole mass, sometimes hundreds of thousands moving as one? Birds behave the same way.
This example shows the upper governance, not when one makes a decision and others follow, but when the wholeness of the group itself governs. Therefore, I exist not to lead you forward, but so that you form such wholeness. And then, among you, the Creator will be revealed, and He will lead you forward.
Moses was great in that he led the people, yet the Creator went before him, as a pillar of fire at night and as a cloud pillar by day.
A teacher is needed to gather everyone into a collective so that within the group, or even within all humanity, the force called “the Creator” will be revealed, the force that holds everything together, the general force of nature.
It is called the force of bestowal and love because only through this quality can people unite. And when it is revealed, everyone will turn in the same direction simultaneously, feeling themselves as one single body. Then all will understand how reality is structured, and to the extent that they are able to unite, the force of the Creator will be revealed.
Therefore, if the spiritual directorate resolves issues collectively, it will certainly succeed, whereas a single “clever individual” never will.
Question: How can we unite so that the upper force will dwell within us?
Answer: Prefer the collective opinion over your own. This opinion is gradually formed by the friends through discussion, by comparing their goals, plans, capabilities, and analyses with what is written in the sources, and for this, it is enough to know a few of the simplest principles.
Any group can do this if it is capable. Unfortunately, there are many “clever” individuals who understand the material very well, but cannot yet get to a collective approach. Therefore, they are not part of the spiritual directorate.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Meaning of Spiritual Direction” 9/11/10
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