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Posted on May 2nd, 2026
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Question: What does it mean to annul oneself in our present state?
Answer: What does it mean to annul oneself before the group in our current state? Self-annulment means that you do not make calculations in your own favor. To the extent that you are capable of doing this, do it. This is called “in your state.”
Not making calculations in your own favor means that the benefit will not come directly to you.
Comment: By doing that, I am deceiving myself.
My Response: Deceiving yourself is not the problem. You do not intend to lie to yourself; you are trying as much as possible to make the correct calculation.
Question: What would be an example of me not making a calculation in my own benefit?
Answer: Acting for the sake of the group. Undoubtedly a benefit for oneself is hidden within in, but…
Baal HaSulam writes that people who do not dedicate themselves to the group, who do not invest their whole heart in it, and who do not work with complete self-sacrifice for its sake, are a burden to it. This raises the question: where is the group and where is the burden?
There are people now who can hardly be called a part of the group. There is a core within it that advances; it consists of those who truly want to be in the group. The rest come to study, to participate with a half or a quarter of their strength, to whatever extent. And this too is welcomed and is treated with special consideration. How many such people are there in the world?
Each person must make a calculation: do they truly want to belong to the advancing group? A person must assess how much they are investing in the group, because this, in essence, is their very advancement.
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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: What is the recognition of evil at the level of the entire group?
Answer: If we discuss this and study together, then naturally, we reach the recognition of evil even without words.
In general, you should not speak about negative things with each other. Under no circumstances should a person dwell on their own personal recognition of evil. We are obligated to talk only about the
positive, sharing nothing bad with a friend, but only good.
It does not matter how bad your state is; you are obligated to radiate goodness to another. Otherwise, nothing good will come back from them. That is the only way you work for him and for yourself. Therefore, the common recognition of evil is transmitted from one another without words, through spiritual channels.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/7/26, Rabash, “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror”
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The Creator did not create anything except the final correction. We are in it even now. Everything depends only on our inner development—that’s all! By adopting a different attitude to reality, I will see a different reality. It is not that I will see it as merely a bit more pleasant, a bit more palatable, or perhaps worse, no. I will perceive it as fundamentally something else through all my sensory organs.
Our attitude to reality is called “intention.” To transcend the perception of reality as something existing independently to the understanding that it does not exist by itself, but rather, it is the result of my attitude to it. This signifies the transition from this world into the spiritual world.
In other words, one must rise above matter, above the assumption that “this exists and that’s it.” This does not exist! It is I, who, through my attitude and my intention, determine what truly exists. This is known as shifting from the external to the internal, engaging in the internal. The internal is defined as intentions.
We tend to take intentions for granted. What does it mean “to work with intentions”? “I will relate to this differently and then I will feel better” That is what psychologists say. Therefore, people often advise each other: “Take it more calmly, accept it as a fact.”
In reality, we are speaking of something completely different, something distinct from the conventional human attitude. If I relate to the reality I find myself in from the level of the final correction, it does not simply mean that I relate to it more calmly or passively accept it as doctors and neighbors might advise. Rather, I relate to it differently in its essence: the reality I am in operates according to different laws, not the laws of reception, but the laws of bestowal.
Consequently, I begin to perceive it in an entirely different form, I discern completely different connections between its parts. I see that the whole world, all people, only bestow to one another in absolute similarity to the Creator, and the Creator is clothed in each one and fills them; all are absolute righteous and are in the final correction.
Everything depends on how I perceive the picture of the state, whether I look through the prism of the laws of bestowal or through the prism of the laws of reception.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/26, Rabash, “What It Means that the Generations of the Righteous are Good Deeds, in the Work”
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Although he is not going, his reward is that he should be pleased because the Creator has given him a desire and yearning to observe Torah and Mitzvot. He does not see any merit in himself compared to other people, to whom the Creator did not give this desire and yearning, while he did receive from the Creator this desire. He believes that everything happens through private Providence (Rabash, “What Are the Four Qualities of Those Who Go to the Seminary, in the Work?”).
A person feels that beyond this he is incapable of anything more; he cannot add anything. Yet the Creator gives him something to do, for example, simply to come here and sit. He sees that he has no intention, that he is incapable of self-sacrifice, cannot invest anything more, but at least he performs these actions, like a parrot.
After all, there are people to whom even this is not given. A person comes, sits, and listens, and is incapable of anything beyond that. But in this, he sees a gift from above that the Creator gives him. This is called “the reward for the action is in his hands.” He is grateful to the Creator for this. As for intentions, he measures them and sees that he has none.
All these are intermediate states that everyone passes through, at times in one state, at times in another.
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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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