Question: How should I relate to what is happening in this difficult time for our people?

Answer: What can I tell you? I will give an example from the life of Rabash. About a year after I came to him, the Lebanon war “Peace for Galilee” began. I saw how he listened to the news from the front, how he worried and grieved over the victims of the war. He suffered greatly and felt profound empathy.

But there are those who are completely devoid of feeling. We see many people like that. Sometimes people come to me to ask advice about what business they should start. And then another person comes in and asks when it is better to leave the country, in one month or two.

It is simply unbelievable how some people absolutely do not feel what is happening around them. But there are also those who feel the danger so subtly and acutely that fear drives them mad. This is hard to explain. This is individual providence.

Everything depends on a person’s reaction to the blows, on how capable he is of becoming wiser from the sufferings he experiences. We must seek their source, because by this we reduce the amount of suffering. After all, sending a blow is not the problem; the problem is how a person reacts to it, how he begins to grow wiser and seek the source of the blows, the Creator.

A blow comes only in order to awaken us to seek the Maker. If, after a small hint from above, I set out to search for the Creator, then there is no need at all for a heavy and painful blow.

The Creator wants that for every moment I spend disconnected from spirituality I should feel as though I have lost my life, as if I were dead. This is what is known as a great state. If even for a fraction of a second I stop thinking about Him, seeking Him, feeling Him, and yearning for Him, it is like the end of the world for me.

If I feel and act this way, then I do not need terrible blows. All I need is a small reminder of the Creator. Now I receive 100 kg of blows, and only one gram of them reminds me that the blow was sent to me by the Creator and that I should seek connection with the upper. Later, having become wiser, 1 gram of a blow will be enough for me, and I will add the remaining 99.999 kg myself through the sher horror that I could forget about the Maker or sever my connection with Him.

I have a point in the heart, which is a desire for the Creator that the Creator Himself gave me. And to this point I must add desire from myself, build a desire for spirituality from my own striving toward the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/31/26, Rabash, “Show Me Your Glory”

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