Every commandment is a correction of a particular desire in the soul in which I reveal the Creator.

There is no connection here with the commandments that a religious Jew performs in this world. He is simply working with his hands and feet; whereas, we are speaking about actions that we carry out within the desire, even if there is no body, only the desire without the body.

If I carry out actions in this desire, they are called spiritual. If I perform actions with the body, this is a different work called “the opinion of the common people,” which is opposite to “the opinion of the Torah.” One is completely opposite to the other.

The only thing we need to do is to come to connection with the Creator and constantly apply efforts for this. “He and His Name are one,” “There is None else besides Him”—only this. If, despite all the disturbances, we try to be connected with this with the help of the environment, the group, the books through which we study, then this is called that we are fulfilling the commandments.

What else must a person do? What other external actions? The Torah does not speak about this. It speaks about the inner development of a person, about the revelation of the Creator to the creatures in this world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/23/26, Rabash, “The Measure of Practicing Mitzvot [Commandments]”

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