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Posted on May 18th, 2026
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Question: How can one learn to feel the point of contact with the Creator and use it for good while being in a group?
Answer: To use the point of contact with the Creator for evil means that I begin to enjoy it for myself. The moment I start taking pleasure in it, I am immediately allowed to feel: “How wonderful this is; it is worth engaging in spirituality. Now I am better than everyone else in the world. I feel good and comfortable with everyone, the sensations are amazing!” And then, I become empty.
What should I do instead when I discover this point? I need to build all kinds of systems around me in advance that will help me rise in the future. But right now, I should channel all my excitement and inspiration into progress.
Question: When I’m inspired, I pass that energy on to the group, but when I have nothing to give, can that harm it?
Answer: When you have something to give, you give it to the group. Also, when you are full of inspiration, it is a good time to study more. Then you will better understand what you are learning, connect more deeply with the books, notice things you did not see before, and develop a kind of connection with spirituality.
But when you fall again, failing to hold onto the connection at the point of contact with the Creator, right at the peak of your choice, and unable to use it for the sake of giving, you will see that the group is indeed capable of supporting you in a state of emptiness caused by misusing the excitement and inspiration that came to you. It can happen both ways. However, from every state we must draw a lesson.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/26, Rabash, “What Is the Difference between Law and Judgment in the Work?”
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The group should always provide me with the strength on the path toward the goals I have chosen to achieve.
I have to be constantly told: “Listen, we are going to tell you something now! There are people among us who have already achieved this, and you know, it is so wonderful, so marvelous!” And then, believe me, everyone will run there, and we will all achieve this together.
I have the opportunity to measure the extent to which my goal corresponds to the Creator. At every level, there are states where you feel that you are more connected with Him. In addition, if I cannot become aware of myself in relation to the goal, then I can become aware of my growing egoism within me or some other negative states. This is also a preparation, part of our path.
If I do not pay attention to my feelings, whether I feel good or bad, but I examine them as some kind of outside observer, then I can say whether I am actually advancing or not, no matter whether these things are negative or positive.
The problem is that the spiritual path is a path of feelings, and feelings shut off the mind. A person can only say that he feels bad, and that is all. But this is not a test, not a measurement, not research. No matter how smart he is, if you take away two hundred grams of pleasure from him now, he, despite all his wisdom, will not be able to do anything. So the problem is not in measuring how much our goal corresponds to the Creator, but in being able to accomplish it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/19/26, Rabash, “Moses Went”
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Comment: Sometimes it is a pity that a person cannot endure the spiritual work and leaves.
My Response: There are very few such people. In the time of Baal HaSulam and Rabash, the dropout rate was very high. I estimate that throughout Rabash’s entire lifetime, between 3,000 to 5,000 people passed through his hands. And how many remained? Probably somewhere around 70 to 80 people. And even that is a generous estimate. In other words, there was a very high dropout rate. Today, it is much lower.
And where can people go? Our time is completely different. Today, it is clear to a person what Kabbalah gives him. We explain this in plain language.
People think that in Kabbalah, you have to penetrate somewhere with your mind and operate there just as one does with everything in our world. Suppose I am a physicist. They teach me how to work at a nuclear reactor, and I do it. That is all. Do I have to change myself for that? No. I received a degree, clearance, and went to work.
But here, no. Here, you must begin to change yourself. The whole science is built on changing yourself and never anyone else. Therefore, Kabbalah is a completely different method.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Sufferings of the Kabbalists.” 10/8/10
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Comment: You say that if a person does not cross into the spiritual world in this life, then they will in the next one. But surely this is a waste of time.
My Response: And what can you do about it? A waste of time. So what? When I look at my children, my parents or other loved ones, of course, they will have to return to this world once again. But am I myself in complete correction? No I am not. We will meet again as well. I have not yet finished all my corrections.
Question: Do you think that you will not be a Kabbalist in your next incarnation but simply as an ordinary person?
Answer: I do not know. And maybe I will be born as my own grandson.
Question: Are you afraid that you might have to change your current ?
Answer: If I were afraid of what the Creator does, I would not be who I am.
Question: Aren’t you even afraid that you will lose your present spiritual sensation?
Answer: Well, let it vanish! This is entirely in His power. He could take all this away from me even now.
Do you imagine that my strength, my position, or some personal means hold me in the state in I am currently in? It is only that the upper light has raised me a little and sustains me.
Question: How can one make a contract with the upper light?
Answer: “You do this for me, I’ll do that for you”? “Save me a spot”? In spirituality, this cannot be.
On the contrary, I completely give myself over to the power of this force, and only in this way do I receive the possibility of being in contact with it. I want it to rule within me for me to become a part of it and for it to become a part of me.
And what else do I possess other than the capacity to nullify myself and thereby acquire all the qualities of the Creator?
Comment: I do not know. You have a different perception; therefore, you make different calculations.
My Response: A person indeed must make a calculation. What is there in us besides foolishness, arrogance, and the desire to dominate? Why should I cherish what is in me? What is there in me that would be worth keeping?
After I begin to examine myself, I see that there is absolutely nothing, except for one thing—that spark that tells me that everything else must be changed. It is this spark that I cherish deeply. Everything else in me is flawed.
And I am feel no shame. Therefore, I do not hide anything, I do not try to be good, kind, corrected, or beautiful in the eyes of others. In reality, who am I? I am even worse than others, because I see more in myself due to the influence of the upper light. And it is not that this is pleasant to me. What is pleasant to me is that this is being revealed, and that I can replace my qualities with the opposite ones.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Cycles of life…” 10/8/10
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Question: If a Kabbalist absorbs the illnesses of all people into himself and corrects them within himself, then where is the joy of his life?
Answer: You cannot imagine how much joy that is for him, because by this, he corrects a great deal. He does not simply suffer like a little man in our world who does not know the cause, reason, or purpose of his suffering, through whom suffering simply passes as he moves forward mechanically. A Kabbalist does this consciously; he senses these sufferings, understands their source, and corrects them. Internally, he is happy.
Question: So all the Kabbalists who died tragically were happy?
Answer: Yes, undoubtedly. My teacher passed away in my arms. The point is that all these sufferings come at the level of our world in the form of all kinds of illnesses. The illness runs its course by itself as in any animate body, and he corrects the world by his attitude to the source, to the Creator, to the light, by rising above this.
He does not become healthy, nor does it make him immortal. He still falls ill and dies. But during the course of this illness and death, he carries out enormous corrections and perceives himself as existing within the upper world; that is what it means to be a Kabbalist.
Question: So he must go through sufferings?
Answer: No, in our time, that is absolutely not necessary. All this was in past centuries, when Kabbalists simply performed corrections and thus prepared all humanity for its present state.
Today we look at ourselves and at the world in a completely different way, and we together take part in the general correction. Therefore, a Kabbalist does not need to correct billions of people but only to disseminate Kabbalah and help them so that they will correct themselves. In this way, we will carry out corrections together with them in one group.
Question: How did the method change? If earlier a person had to suffer…
Answer: This was still before the start of our era when the general egoism developing in humanity was at such a level that sufferings themselves pushed a person toward spirituality. And now this can be done by attracting the light through the study of the primary sources and working in a group. The path of light is not the path of suffering.
Question: On the other hand, a person engaged in Kabbalah goes through difficult states, does he not?
Answer: Naturally, these are unpleasant states. But the point is that they are not so much physical as ethical, moral in nature. Serious work and strong nerves are needed here, although in a group, all this happens relatively smoothly.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Sufferings of the Kabbalists.” 10/8/10
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Question: Why is it that all Kabbalists who were attained high spiritual degrees suffered from severe illnesses at the end of their lives?
Answer: Because they suffer for the sake of society and not for themselves.
After all, in our world, we are used to viewing a person as a solitary, separate individual, and therefore we pass such judgments on them: this one is bad, that one is good, this one is such‑and‑such, that one is so‑and‑so, and so on. We fail to take into account the system surrounding the individual that undergoes transformations alongside them that he exists within.
With ordinary people, this perspective is understandable. But a Kabbalist goes through everything not for his own sake. He operates outside of himself, within the surrounding society, and he exists “inside” it. Therefore, the calculation he carries out is a calculation of how to advance society forward.
All his sufferings are also for the sake of society. That is to say, his illnesses and his problems, all of this, does not stem from his own personal nature, but because he gathers all the desires of society within himself; He acts like Bina who gathers all the aspirations from below, from Malchut through Zeir Anpin, and begins to correct and give birth all this. Like a mother who suffers when her children are ill even more than they do and bears the burden of all of them collectively.
Therefore, we cannot interpret a Kabbalist’s sufferings as an indication of his personal problems. These are not his problems at all. Look at what happened with Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Shimon, and at how young the ARI was when he died! However, in our time, everything is changing; we are advancing forward en masse; so everything can change.
But in past centuries, Kabbalists took a great deal of suffering upon themselves. These were sufferings not for faith, not for God, but for humanity. A Kabbalist absorbs into himself the illnesses of all the other people and corrects them within himself, and therefore, for the time being, they go through him. This must be understood. There is nothing religious here!
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Sufferings of the Kabbalists.” 10/8/10
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 33 “What Is ‘The Earth Feared and Was Still,’ in the Work?” (1990) (1.16.2003)
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