Comment: Sometimes a person’s perception becomes so sharpened that it seems to them that they have adhered to the upper one and truly feel it. But they do not know whether they have actually adhered to the upper one or simply has “closed their eyes.”

My Response: Until the Creator is revealed, we will always have doubts. And if someone else resolves these doubts for you, you will only lose from it. Therefore, let everyone remain with their own disturbances, while we should give each person the opportunity to resolve their problems more effectively and more quickly, so that they will have more strength and energy.

But in truth, everyone must resolve their own problems. This is precisely the reason why we are in darkness.

I understand that you want me to answer all your questions. Do you know how many years I came to Rabash and asked him questions, and he answered: “I am sorry, but I cannot help you”? I would feel like tearing him to pieces! I thought: “What is this?! Don’t you see how I am suffering?! Is this what it means that I am your student, that you love me?!”

But as it is said: “Salvation comes from the Creator in the blink of an eye.” I heard this phrase for years. Wait for it every single moment, and it will come.

I remember that once, when I had some first illumination, I came to M., who lived not far from our old location, and I asked him: “Well? What do I do now?” He answered me: “Just wait, everything will be fine, now everything is open before you.” But after some time, everything closed again, disappeared, and for a long time nothing happened.

I came to him again. He said: “Well what did you expect? That is exactly how it happens.” It was so difficult to speak with those elders. Nothing helped. There was no choice! Alongside Rabash there were two others who, of course, could not be compared to him in greatness, but they also had spiritual attainment. None of them gave any answers.

Simply, nothing can be done. A student must personally go through all the vicissitudes and receive their own impressions from them. Otherwise, if you were to tell them everything, they would perceive it only with the intellect, through knowledge. But with knowledge it is here today and tomorrow it is gone. That is not spirituality. The intellect is merely a machine.

Everything must pass through a person’s feelings, in which, according to their desires, there will be attainments, failures, disappointments, and discoveries. But all this must happen specifically within their desires. It is forbidden to replace feelings and sensations with intellect and knowledge.
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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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