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Posted on May 15th, 2026
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A covenant (“Brit”) is a correction that consists in distinguishing the vessels of bestowal from the vessels of reception and utilizing vessels of bestowal, to the greatest extent possible, according to the level and state. It is a form of work in all states, on all degrees, not a one‑time correction granted once and for all.
Each time I extract the vessels of bestowal from this mixture of vessels and each time I join to them the vessels of AHP deAliyah, all these corrections, in principle, are what are called the 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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Before we enter the spiritual world and before it becomes clear to us exactly which desires we are able to work with at the present moment and what the direction of work with each of them is, we can only follow what the Kabbalists say; at this stage there is no other work than this general work. I cannot engage in any actions that I might imagine (erroneously) that I am already in the spiritual world.
I am obligated to follow the method precisely: through the group and through the study, I must draw the surrounding light in a sufficient and effective measure to begin perceiving the true reality, the reality where I actually exist. This is not merely within the material world because the spiritual world also surrounds me; I live in two worlds simultaneously.
The in accordance with what is revealed to me, I will begin to practically clarify my attitude to the spiritual and the material, to both worlds. This constitutes the work of clarification.
But before a person attains such inner vision, one, undoubtedly, has no possibility of knowing what they are doing and where they are.
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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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Question: How can one logically explain what it is about bestowal that causes one to value it more than reception?
Answer: How does it come about that the will to receive suddenly begins to value what is opposite to it? The will to receive wants to enjoy. If it understands from the influence of the upper light that one can enjoy from bestowal more than from reception, it begins to perceive this.
There is no trickery here, no supernatural act. It only appears to be supernatural to us.
In fact, this is not the case, because the will to receive at this stage preparing to operate in what is termed “Lo Lishma” (for one’s own sake): I want the spiritual because it contains pleasure.
Yet, by doing so, it draws the surrounding light. This surrounding light gradually exerts its influence upon the desire to receive through its very nature, a nature that comes from the giver. Consequently, a person begins to value the giver as a higher, more exalted degree.
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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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Question: What should I do if a terrorist wants to kill me?
Answer: It is said in the Torah that if someone comes to kill you, you must kill him first. The Torah speaks a lot about how people came out of Egypt and how many enemies they killed. How many did King David, who was constantly at war, kill? Warfare back then was not what it is today.
In those days tens of thousands of people were killed in face to face combat. This is not like modern warfare where a few bombs are dropped merely to pave the way for peace negotiations. Back then, how many men actually returned from the battlefield? In those times when there was a battle, it was a real battle!
Yet, even in those times, there were individuals who had attained high spiritual degrees, and a profound and accurate perception of reality. This was especially true in the times of the First Temple, and to some extent during the era of the Second Temple.
Did they not fight, did they not kill? What did the Maccabees do? They were Kabbalists of the highest caliber; they certainly perceived the spiritual dimension, the reverse side of our world.
The source of confusion lies in the fact that we do not see the spiritual world, and are merely attempting to imagine what it looks like from the reverse side.
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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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In order to come to the state of “Israel,” we pass through several levels.
At first, a person who wants to be “Israel” does not understand or think about it. It is precisely because he is completely disconnected from the Creator that he begins to feel his lack of desire.
Then, after some time, he begins to feel that although it is important, he has no strength. Then he is called Nekeva (female aspect). And if he follows the advice of the Kabbalists, he joins a group that can provide him with the strength to go above reason and fortify the awareness of the importance of the goal above that desire which he had in him.
Desires begin to accumulate in a person to truly attain adhesion with the Creator, unification, and making a covenant with Him. Then instead of Nekeva, he is called Zachar (male aspect).
On this path, it happens that he again falls from the level of Zachar to the level of Nekeva where once more he has no strength. But time passes, the group influences him, and he returns to the level of Zachar.
Sometimes this happens thanks to his own efforts and sometimes due to “What the mind does not do, time does.” And so, he advances.
That person, who advances through his own efforts, who always takes care that the importance of the goal leads him forward, is called “Israel”—Yashar‑El (straight to the Creator). He defines this direction as a way of life, as a process that he must realize over the course of his life.
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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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In creation, there is only the Creator and the creation. When the shattering occurred, the Creator, as it were, shattered Himself, and took on the negative qualities of the creation.
It is as though He contracted Himself, placed veils of concealments over His governance, and hid that it is good and does only good; He as if corrupted Himself in order to correspond to the future creation, which is destined to grow from a state of zero until it attains His level.
The Creator diminished Himself, His light; this is what is referred to as the entry of Malchut into the first nine Sefirot. This was only a preparatory stage. Subsequently Adam HaRishon emerges; he undergoes a shattering and a descent, and at this point the process of discernment and correction begins. This process must originate from us, from below upward.
Adam HaRishon, by correcting himself, thereby builds the correct governance with respect to himself.
Question: Why was Adam HaRishon not able to clarify this immediately? Why must we discern something that already exists?
Answer: We are discerning it because we are Adam HaRishon!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/26, Rabash, “Peace After a Dispute Is More Important than Having No Disputes At All”
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 39 “What Is, ‘Anyone Who Mourns forJerusalem Is Rewarded with Seeing Its Joy,’ in the Work?” (1990) (2.6.2003)
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2nd part of the Lesson — Conversations of a Kabbalist with His Students
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