Question: How should one work in charity below the Machsom (barrier)?

Answer: Very simply. I want to come to a state where all my actions are in no way connected with thoughts about myself.

Rabash says that this manifests in us in relation to the group. The more a person invests in the group, the more it returns to him as the acquisition of the power of charity. There is no other form of donation in this world.

It is said that charity saves one from death. This refers to charity as a spiritual action because death is reception for the sake of reception, whereas charity is the correction for the sake of bestowal that saves one from death. In Kabbalah they do not speak of life and death in the sense that is accepted on the material level. Everything is eternal; there is nothing temporary.

What is death? Death is separation from the upper one, and charity is the correction of Bina, which connects you with the upper one. Therefore it is said that charity (Tzedaka) saves one from death. If you acquire the power of charity, you enter the spiritual, and begin to live. And if you are not giving charity every second, that is, if you have no powers of bestowal, this is called death.

If it were not written that charity (Tzedaka) saves one from death, then no one would give donations. And it is good that they would not.

I must perform actions with an intention through which I merit life. Why do I need the powers of Bina, of bestowal? Baal HaSulam writes in the Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot that a person must not simply stumble upon the power of charity, the power of bestowal. I must not bestow aimlessly.

What is the purpose of creation? That I will enjoy spiritual life. Therefore at the time when I give charity, I must think that I am passing from Bina to Keter, that I receive everything for the sake of bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/9/26, Rabash, “Man Is Rewarded with Righteousness and Peace through the Torah”

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