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Posted on May 31st, 2026
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How can I unite with a friend if he strikes me as somewhat foolish and constantly cheerful, which I perceive as frivolity? Inside him a fire may be burning, yet outwardly there are just jokes and silliness.
Moreover, the issue isn’t how I can be impressed by this, but simply that he lowers me from my level of appreciating the importance of the goal, and I too begin speaking nonsense. Can a group really bring me to something serious this way?
Rabash writes that, on the one hand, outwardly there should even be jokes, something light but not frivolous, while on the other hand, inside you everything should be burning. How can these be combined? These are very fundamental questions!
Of course, outwardly the group may say all kinds of things, but I am impressed by external expressions, not by what is internal. How do I know what is inside them? If I am influenced by the external, then I too begin speaking nonsense, willingly or unwillingly falling under its influence. On the animate level, this is exactly what happens. So, what should be done? Let us think about it!
Question: But how does a person clarify this? After all, only one thing matters: how the group can increase our desire.
Answer: Yes, that is the answer to the question! Increase the speed. Again, you are not paying attention to Baal HaSulam’s words. He writes two words, and that is all. There is no need to look for additions here. Pace!! That is all! You have no other possibility. Do not think that for every bad or good situation there is some special solution. Bad and good are all a matter of the same pace.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/26, Rabash, “The Meaning of the Strict Prohibition to Teach Idol Worshippers the Torah”
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Question: When do I establish a connection with the whole world?
Answer: To the extent that you acquire a screen, you turn not inward, but outward, beyond yourself. Baal HaSulam clarifies this in his article Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah] and uses the example that as a person grows, so do his worries.
At first a person cares only about himself, then about his family and his surroundings. Later, he begins to worry about the whole country, and as a result, the whole world becomes the subject of his thoughts. Here, Baal HaSulam describes a great man in terms of his human qualities. However, this surely also works in spiritual development.
Just imagine that everything we attain in our desire through the five senses, as well as all our spiritual attainments, is included in our common desire, called “Adam HaRishon,” the common soul.
I am a part of this common soul, one of six hundred thousand, and all my attainments—all that I can absorb inside myself to fill my part—are called “this world.” Whatever I perceive as I enter the sensation of external Kelim is called my external world, that is, my spiritual world. As a soul, I already reside in these external spiritual vessels.
Question: How can this be implemented during the lesson?
Answer: If the Creator has charged you with the initial Hisaron, you will continue to work on it until you gain a true desire for spiritual things. You just have to want it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘If a Woman Inseminates First, She Delivers a Male Child,’ in the Work?”
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In the spiritual realm, there are concepts that relate to roots. And in our world, in the material realm, there are also names, concepts, and results that stem from those roots. These are two domains: the spiritual domain, and below it, the material domain.
Baal HaSulam explains the concepts of root and branch in the section “Inner Observation” of the first part of The Study of the Ten Sefirot. He cites the saying that there is not a blade of grass on earth that does not have an angel above it that strikes it and tells it, “Grow!”
That is, in this world, every object, quality, force, or desire—anything that exists in any form on the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking levels—has a spiritual root from which it originates.
This root gives life to the created being and, as it is said, strikes it and says, “Grow!” By increasing the sensation of lack of fulfillment within it in various ways each time, it intentionally drives it toward growth.
Since this is determined by the spiritual realm, where the roots reside and from which all pressure of governance and control descends, everything below is compelled to grow. The wisdom of Kabbalah deals with showing a person how they can change their destiny, how, without waiting for the “blow,” they can rise and perform all the necessary actions themselves, and thus grow more efficiently and quickly.
This personal participation is called “Israel.” A person, on their own, strives directly toward the Creator, since in any case they are “growing.” But the question is whether they wish to do so independently. In that case, they transition from the state called “the nations of the world” to the state called “Israel.”
The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about these qualities from a spiritual perspective. But of course, in the material realm as well, as a result that is manifested in matter, we acquire the same concepts. First, we correct the vessels of GE, which are called “Israel” and are “few among the nations of the world.” Then comes AHP de Aliyah, and only afterward the true AHP.
When Israel (GE) from all the shattered vessels correct themselves, they must completely exit all the vessels. These actions are called “holiness” and “purification,” the making of a covenant.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/23/26, Rabash, “All of Israel Have a Part in the Next World”
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Prayer is the desire to acquire the correct Hisaron (deficiency). There are many inner discernments here.
Our entire path—from the moment we receive the point in the heart until crossing the Machsom, when we work in double and then single concealment and while committing intentional transgressions and then errors—all these states are traversed in order to form a desire, a need, for vessels of bestowal within us.
In the article “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Baal HaSulam describes the state of “not for the sake of the Creator” (Lo Lishma) where I passionately desire to attain spirituality for my own sake and at the same time, I want to bestow upon the Creator.
Both these desires must exist within me simultaneously, and this state is called Lo Lishma. Consequently, by having the desire to bestow upon the Creator within me, I feel that all my other desires are simply egoistic, for my own benefit. Existing within these two desires simultaneously allows me to see the difference between bestowal and reception.
Baal HaSulam writes that a person must realize that if they were to discover that they would receive only vessels of bestowal and absolutely nothing for oneself, such a state would not satisfy them, they are simply incapable of it. This is the true state of Lo Lishma, and from it, one comes to the state “for the sake of the Creator” (Lishma). In the book A Sages Fruit, it is stated that we must attune ourselves only toward striving to reach the state of Lishma day and night.
Our initial Hisaron, the point in the heart, signifies the state wherein “the Creator inseminates first, she gives birth to a female (Nekeva).” This primary Hisaron (Nekeva) implanted within us must be increased to its greatest possible measure in this world.
In other words, despite the earthly desires within me, which I seek to fulfill and realize, I want even more to have the desire to bestow upon the Creator. It is precisely this state that is represented by the sages’ saying: “A woman (Nekeva) who conceives first gives birth to a male (Zachar).” Zachar represents the first screen, the force of bestowal. This state may rightfully be called an infant born in spirituality.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/26, Rabash, “What Is, “If a Woman Inseminates First, She Delivers a Male Child,” in the Work?”
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Question: Can a Hisaron become a filling? How does this happen?
Answer: A person who is created from the will to receive, can never exist solely on the basis of a Hisaron. The very nature of creation demands fulfillment. The only question is what shall I enjoy? What kind of pleasures will fill my will to receive?
I know that my Hisaron is directed toward something great, something I have not yet attained. However, this unfilled desire itself brings me a certain illumination from this “greatest” from afar because I otherwise would not have a need for it. In such a case, my Hisaron can actually become my fulfillment.
This means that I find satisfaction with this Hisaron, it suffices for me, and I desire nothing more. If I were to possess anything in addition to this Hisaron, it would no longer be a lack for the highest pleasure. Even the act of receiving fulfillment would only distance me from the goal I strive for. Therefore, I prefer to remain with the Hisaron, which itself serves as my fulfillment. I am happy simply in the fact that I desire this greatest pleasure.
Is this sufficient for attaining the goal of creation? No, it is not. This is similar to the state of bestowal for the sake of bestowal, which undoubtedly is not our ultimate goal. And yet, in this situation, I find pleasure and justification for my current state. Such a state is certainly desirable for a person in this world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/26, Rabash, “What Is, “If a Woman Inseminates First, She Delivers a Male Child,” in the Work?”
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Question: If nothing shines to me from afar, does it mean I cannot develop a need for the upper goal?
Answer: Our desire depends on several factors: an illumination from above, an awakening of the Reshimo (spiritual gene) from below, and so on. We can demand the conditions we need.
There are no problems here, because I ask the Creator for a Kli (vessel) and not for the filling itself. And even later, when “a woman will conceive and give birth to a boy,” there too I am asking for a Kli, for the desire to bestow. I do not ask: “Fill me.” I say: “Give me the possibility to bestow so that bestowal to You will serve as filling for me.”
What filling does a mother receive when she gives love and care to her child? She enjoys the very act, her bestowal to him. To the extent that the child enjoys, she enjoys. In giving to the child, the mother does not think about personal benefit; there is no self enjoyment here. We speak about this superficially, because inside maternal love there is an egoistic nature. But whatever it may be, this example is like an imprint from spirituality.
“For what do you suffer, why do you constantly think and worry about your child? We will give you a pill so that you forget him.” Will a mother agree to such a thing? Never! Because in the child lies her whole life, the source of fulfillment and joy. Therefore, when one asks for the desire to bestow, one asks precisely for it and not for something outside of it.
You cannot say: “Once I have the desire to bestow, with that, I will fill myself.” That would be bestowal for the sake of reception. Of course, the Creator will not reward such a request with an answer. But if a person has the desire to bestow even though it contains a mixture of the desire to receive, of self enjoyment, then this is already the state of Lo Lishma from which one comes to Lishma.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/26, Rabash, “What Is, “If a Woman Inseminates First, She Delivers a Male Child,” in the Work?”
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