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Initially, our soul is “wrapped” in an animalistic desire to receive, a craving for animalistic pleasures: money, honor, and knowledge. This is how we reincarnate over the course of many cycles of life until this outer shell, the husk of this world and of this desire, becomes pure and refined through the suffering a person undergoes from generation to generation, driven by the development of humanity as a whole.

This desire grows and becomes immense: for animalistic pleasures, money, honor, and knowledge. Just look at the variety in our world! Five thousand years ago, there weren’t so many people striving for power. People were content to remain slaves as long as they were fed.

How many people craved money back then? If you just let him live in peace, sitting under a tree, and that is enough for him. Throughout the generations, how many people thirsted for knowledge and wisdom? The situation improved from generation to generation, but it cannot be said that in our generation the desire for animalistic pleasures, food, and sex is fading. These desires increase along with a growing desire for power and knowledge.

Humanity is coming to a state where it wants everything! Yet amidst all these desires, a “point” is revealed in a person’s heart, and the poor soul suddenly realizes that he cannot fill this vast desire for all these pleasures! The point in the heart nullifies the sense of fulfillment, no matter how much he receives.

A person can have a huge desire and every possible advantage, wealth like Rothschild’s, power like a president’s, and knowledge like Einstein’s. But if the point in the heart is present, no amount of worldly fulfillment will prevent a feeling of profound emptiness.  The point in the heart gives a person the sensation that they possess nothing spiritual. They do not yet know what spirituality is, but suddenly they feel a sense of total lack. They feel deficient in every respect; this is the conclusion people gradually reach.

Never in thousands of years have people been as desperate as they are than in our generation. Consider the sheer number of psychological and emotional issues that exist now! The whole world is depressed. A mere century ago, people were content with what they had, but today contentment has become a problem.

Did drugs exist a thousand years ago? They did, yet almost no one needed them. Even a hundred years ago, there use was rare. It was only in the 60s that this trend began, triggered by the emergence of the point in the heart alongside all other desires, even those desires that were already being fulfilled!

Typically such phenomena originate in developed countries. Where is drug use most prevalent? In Europe, America, and Russia, places where people have the opportunity to more or less fulfill themselves with something, but are unable to. Learn, do whatever you want! But a person does not want anything, he does not feel fulfilled.

In other countries that are at a preliminary stage of development where the point in the heart is not yet shining enough for them to see their emptiness, they produce drugs and sell them. They find fulfillment in money, food, and everything that precedes European development. They do not need drugs themselves. They sell them to get food. In the developed world, they do not want food, they want drugs.

This situation arose for a reason: the point in the heart was revealed, exposing emptiness in all other desires. The rest of the desires are strong but hollow; they offer no tangible sense of fulfillment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/1/26, Rabash, “These Are the Generations of Noah”

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On the spiritual path, I am constantly clarifying, not with my intellect, but through an inner sense, where I am: on the battlefield facing danger where my life is hanging by a thread or am I free to drift through life, waste my time, and think: “It’s no big deal; I’m not the only one; everything will work itself out”?

But time and again, it all comes down to a single point: the importance of the goal. Only by increasing its significance can save ourselves from the obstacles that entangle us, and that bring us feelings of weariness. In reality, there is no fatigue; everything depends on necessity.

Ultimately, all our feelings are determined by the desire to receive. We are not speaking about physical matters, but spiritual ones. We know from our own experience that if the body, even a very tired one, felt that there was a worthwhile goal that justified the effort, it would immediately set itself to the task.

Therefore everything depends on how much we increase the importance of what we can attain in our own eyes. Our work consists solely of strengthening the importance of the goal. The awareness of its importance stands against every disturbance on the path, and nullifies them.

No obstacle can withstand the pressure of the importance of the goal. They simply disappear; we no longer feel them. Then we see that they stood in our way only in order to confuse us. We increase the importance of the goal, and things that once seemed significant—“Oh, this is not working, and that is not working out!”—vanish instantly.

This happens because all these disturbances are artificial, not real. They exist only as a counterweight to the importance of the goal. But as soon as I acquire an awareness of the importance of spirituality, the need for these disturbances disappears. They simply vanish and are cancelled.

This is the only thing we must work on: constantly increasing our awareness of the importance of the Creator, and the importance of attaining Him. In this lies the solution to every problem that arises on our path.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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At present, the point in the heart within the more developed nations reveals a sense of emptiness to them, the inability to fulfill their lives through the five senses. In their despair and confusion, they turn to drugs and other escapes, seeking only to flee from reality.

We will see how Europe gradually descends into a state where even development itself comes to a halt, because there will no longer be any stimulus, any desire driving it forward. The same will become evident among Americans who speak so passionately about progress, work, and money. Gradually, we will see an entire society that no longer wishes to do anything, and this, too, is part of the process of development.

Why, then, do they not come to Kabbalah? Because their time has not yet arrived. For now, they are only beginning to discover the futility of seeking fulfillment within this world. The signs are everywhere: culture is no longer important, literature is no longer important, and even progress itself no longer seems important.

Were it not for the fear of physical survival, the world would long ago have ceased to develop altogether. Such is the path of both the individual and humanity as a whole. A person begins to feel that he cannot fulfill himself. He has no strength and no desire to do anything. He does not know what he is working for. He is confused, unable to find a direction, unable to understand what is worth striving for or searching for. He abandons everything and, naturally, loses all desire to work.

Gradually, this process will encompass the entire world until humanity discovers the pointlessness of all its development. Are we truly happier today than those who once lived in caves? In what way? Because we have a hundred television channels? Who even watches them? A person will come to feel, in every aspect of life, that nothing truly fulfills him.

All of this takes place before the point in the heart is revealed in an open and tangible form. Yet even these states are beneficial; they are stages of advancement. They are very distinct stages. Just look at how humanity has progressed over the past hundred years in its understanding of the reality it lives in.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/1/26, Rabash, “These Are the Generations of Noah”

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Comment: We talked about the idea of striving to work for the sake of bestowal, and to focus on this only in relation to the group.

My Response: I am not saying that you should strive to work for the sake of bestowal outside the group. No, you should do this within the framework of the group. However, the structure of your soul encompasses a much broader spectrum. You must not forget that the mission entrusted to you is not merely to “bestow to the group,” but to lead to universal correction.

It is not a matter of working for the sake of bestowal for all humanity, you have nothing to give them! Nevertheless, you must realize that you bear responsibility for what is happening to humanity and to your people.

You are looking for something to ask for, something to think about. Read the end of the “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” and you will see that all troubles stem from you, and then you will have something to ask for. I hear that you do not know what request to turn to the Creator with! If things are so good for you, look at what is happening outside.

By yourself, you may be righteous and be in a state of Hafetz Hesed (desiring nothing for yourself), but know that you bear guilt for any misfortune that happens in the world! It is your fault because you received the key to solving problems, and other people do not know anything about it, they did not receive anything like that.

Therefore instead of thinking that you are righteous, and that you are entitled to a reward, you can come to a truer realization: that you are wicked, and that you deserve the same suffering that all humanity experiences. For in the end, since you have received this knowledge, the responsibility rests upon you. As Baal HaSulam writes that we cannot save ourselves from judgment.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/7/26, Rabash, “What Are the Times of Prayer and Gratitude in the Work? ”

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