The correct desire (Hisaron) is built through invested efforts, even if initially a person has no desire for spirituality. The main issue is not even the absence of such a need. Perhaps the desire exists, but it is still incorrect, not directed toward the one true goal to which we must aspire. However, if a person works and invests effort, everything gradually changes.

If he gives his strength, but receives nothing in return, if he constantly exerts efforts, yet again and again remains with nothing, without any reward, then from one time to the next the nature of his work changes. And the nature of the lack of response to his efforts also changes, until he feels the correct Hisaron for the correct goal. This is called the formation of MAN within him.

At first, a person supposedly “aspires to spirituality” because he still does not know what he is truly drawn to or what spirituality actually is. Therefore, his aspiration is very general, undefined, and unclear. He is tossed from one state to another, from one thought to another. He tries to connect concepts such as spirituality and corporeality now with one thing, now with another, and his understanding of both spirituality and corporeality constantly changes.

And so gradually, through this instability, through the inability to hold onto any stable state, and through efforts, as it is said, “Whatever is in your power to do, that do,” a person performs a certain work, and then many things begin to clarify.

He acquires a more precise perception of such concepts as “altruism” and “bestowal,” which do not belong to our world but exist above it. By connecting these concepts with bestowal to the Creator, he understands that this quality is opposite to the nature embedded within him.

Previously, he was completely unaware of all these things. He was not troubled by the fact that the quality of bestowal contradicts his nature. He thought it was possible to desire spirituality while remaining exactly as he was. He simply wanted spirituality, nothing more. He still did not connect spirituality with the nature of selfless bestowal, which is opposite to human nature.

But as he continues working, his understanding gradually changes until his Hisaron takes on the correct form. Years may pass before the correct prayer, MAN, is formed within him; only then will he undoubtedly receive the correct answer (response) from above. The upper one will raise him to a higher degree, “on the wings of eagles.”

Then the person completes the preparatory period, becomes similar in qualities to the AHP of the upper one, and his Kli raises MAN. From that point onward, he already performs spiritual actions.

But all the time during which he invested effort, energy, and thought in order to attain spirituality was not time wasted. This period was necessary for him in order to clarify what he should aspire to and what he should truly desire.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/19/26, Rabash, “The Difference Between Charity and Gift”

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What motivates us to seek the desire to bestow? It is the surrounding light. There is no other way. We have only two forces: the desire to receive and the light opposite it. Do not look for any additional details.

We are just unwilling to agree with it. We do not understand it because we are only a desire to receive; it is our nature. If we had even a small fraction of the qualities of the Creator, everything would fall into place. We would gain an understanding of the system of spiritual development. Otherwise, it is unclear because we lack the force of bestowal.

Question: How can I strive for spirituality if I have no idea of the upper world? What example should I use?

Answer: You have no example. Only based on proper work in a group, studying, disseminating, and working with friends will you gradually build up some kind of an idea of spirituality, which will constantly undergo changes, improve, and approach the truth.

What is spirituality? With each state, the answer to this question will be ever more accurate. Sometimes, there can be extremely drastic changes in our understanding of spirituality. You will literally feel a turnaround in your understanding of the upper world: “So, this is not it at all! My ideas about spirituality were completely wrong!”

Some people are already familiar with such states. Such is the process.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/26, Rabash, “What Is, “If a Woman Inseminates First, She Delivers a Male Child,” in the Work?”

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 5 “Go Forth from Your Land” (1985) (1.11.2002)

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Question: How does a person discern the true Hisaron (lack) for which he raises a prayer?

Answer: A person alone is unable to determine this because it is impossible to truly want bestowal while existing separately from others (without a society or group). You simply do not have the necessary conditions for attaining a Hisaron for spirituality, or even a Hisaron for a Hisaron. These conditions simply do not exist within you.

Only by working in a group, with friends, do you begin to see that you have no real concern for them and do not understand what benefit there is in them. Then you say to yourself: “Very well, I will tolerate them. At least the group gives me some framework for work.”

A you progress, you discover that the friends provide you not only with a framework for work but also with various blows. They awaken sensations within you that, at the very least, jolt you, shake you up, and anger you. With time, you realize that if it were not for this treatment, the reaction and the stimulation from the group, you would have remained asleep for several more cycles of incarnations.

Then you begin to appreciate them, at least a little, and you discover that through a friend you can understand and feel something, that he can, in some way, serve as a supportive tool for you.

And so it continues until, somehow, it finally dawns on you that unless you take what exists in the friend from him, you will have no vessel in which to receive spirituality. Because spiritual attainment is received only through inclusion within the friend. Within you, there will never arise a Hisaron in which you can feel spirituality. Your true vessel is in the friend.

If you were to live like a hermit in some cave or jungle, you would not be able to attain spirituality on your own. You need a group for this. How many people? It does not matter; it could be a group of five, ten people.

At first, you hate the fact that your spiritual progress depends on other people. But eventually, you come to understand and accept this condition. Gradually, you even begin to desire it; you even make efforts for it and work within the group.

To the extent of your contribution to the group and your acceptance of dependence on the friends, you see how much you are or are not able to connect with them. It is revealed to you that you are unable to unite with anyone at all. And this is a direct indication that you are unable to achieve closeness and adhesion with the Creator. It is one and the same thing.

Now you understand that the group constitutes the revelation of the Creator in this world; in any other form His manifestation in the material world is impossible. The group is given to us as a compass, a unit of measurement, and a map that allows us to determine our location relative to the Creator and to recognize Him. Society acts as a kind of instrument indicating where you stand in relation to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/26, Rabash, “What Is, “If a Woman Inseminates First, She Delivers a Male Child,” in the Work?”

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We are incapable of transcending ourselves, so the group, the Creator, and those around us are indistinguishable in our sensations; to us, they are one and the same. In other words, if we did not work in a group, we would imagine ourselves to be angels.

But by working in it, you see how detestable your friends are to you. You fail to grasp how necessary they truly are, and you would gladly cast them aside.

Young people often come to me and say: “Why do I need a group? I only want to be your student.” Wonderful, this is a good desire. But they do not understand one thing: without the group, the teacher cannot help them in any real way. He can point out the path, assist and support, much like you support a small child, so that you do not fall. But you yourself must walk this path.

The path to spirituality itself consists of your actions with the group. From the side of the Creator, there may be a certain revelation meant to help you in this world. But your vessels of bestowal are located in other souls, which are also parts of Adam HaRishon (the common soul).

Therefore, before you reach the Machsom, you must complete this entire process and acquire the correct Hisaron through the group. The Egyptian exile, Moses, Pharaoh, the plagues, and all the other states symbolize our work in the group.

Bestowal to the Creator and bestowal to the group are one and the same. Work in the group is divided in stages in which a person builds his Kli: to bestow to the group, to exalt the Creator, and to lower oneself before the group as before the Creator.

By working in the group, a person goes through processes symbolizing various spiritual states: bestowing Keter, receiving Malchut, and so on. A person literally builds his spiritual vessel; there is no other foundation for this.

It is impossible to build one’s Hisaron through one’s attitude toward the Creator, toward oneself, or even toward the teacher. The only means available to us is the group. It is like a laboratory where we learn and prepare ourselves for true spiritual birth, that is, for acquiring the desire to pray for the external Kli, the vessel of bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/26, Rabash, “What Is, “If a Woman Inseminates First, She Delivers a Male Child,” in the Work?”

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It is written: This is the meaning of the words “Malchut is filled with the Hassadim of the male from the right side.” By this we can interpret “If a woman inseminates first, she delivers a male child,” meaning that the awakening came from the person (Rabash,”What Is, ‘If a Woman Inseminates First, She Delivers a Male Child,’ in the Work?”).

The Hisaron (deficiency) awakened in a person from the point in the heart is felt within him as a desire that is still not correctly directed. In other words, it is simply a desire to attain the entire future world or what I imagine the future world to be. Such a desire is not yet truly called “a woman.”

In Rabash’s article, “What is, ‘If a Woman Inseminates First, She Delivers a Male Child,’ in the Work?,” the terms “male child,” “man” (Zachar), and “female child,” woman (Nekeva) refer to spiritual states.

From this, it becomes clear that a Hisaron for the forces of bestowal, for the intention for the sake of bestowal, is called “a woman” (Nekeva).

When this Hisaron (this woman) truly demands vessels of bestowal, forces of bestowal, from the Creator, this is called “a woman who inseminates first.” That is, she insists on receiving vessels of bestowal. As a result of this request, “a woman who inseminates first” ultimately gives birth to a male (Zachar). The person truly receives the vessels of bestowal they ask for and that cannot come without the prayer preceding them.

Rabash writes that in order to acquire true vessels of bestowal, one must raise a prayer for society, a prayer for the friend. This is precisely how vessels of bestowal are tested within us. A correct Hisaron is felt in a person as a deficiency directed toward something outside his body (egoism). Only this is considered a genuine prayer and not what existed before. That is, a prayer is only a request for true vessels of bestowal.

Then, since the awakening toward the desire to bestow comes from the side of the person, we say that “a woman who inseminates first gives birth to a male.” From the fact that a person himself longs to acquire vessels of bestowal, the Creator comes toward him and gives him the strength to bestow. This is similar to our path from below upward: first, we must enter Malchut in order to absorb its desire to resemble the root phase (Keter), to become bestowing. And by acquiring the forces needed to become bestowing, we rise to the degree of Keter, the Creator. Malchut ascends to Keter.

The first impulse toward spirituality is given to us by the Creator Himself, but the second awakening must come from the side of the person, and then he will attain spirituality.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/26, Rabash, “What Is, “If a Woman Inseminates First, She Delivers a Male Child,” in the Work?”

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Obstacles are help against egoism because when a person connects them to the Creator, they become effective.

When I receive blows, it seems like something scary to me. But if I receive blows and perceive the one sending them to me, I think, “There must be some justification for this, and I will receive a reward for it; I will begin to advance.”

This is how we perceive it, not because blows become something sweet for me, but simply because there is a connection with the truth.
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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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Question: Can we enter spirituality without correct prayer?

Answer: Until the proper prayer is formed, nothing can take place. People cry out, “Save me!” because their desire for spirituality is not genuine. It is an animalistic desire. “Give it me! Why won’t You give it me?! After all, You gave me the need, so where is the fulfillment?”

The Creator has endowed you with Hisaron, but His plans do not include filling this need. The Creator has provided you with Hisaron that is not aimed at spirituality. You must shape this desire correctly yourself and build a true spiritual need on its basis.

In essence, He gave you a corrupted Hisaron, a desire for something more than the pleasures of this world. Through your work, you attract the light from above. We call this the surrounding light, the light descending from the Sefirot Netzach, Hod, and Yesod of Partzuf Atik of the world of Atzilut. You attract an illumination to yourself, which gradually builds the right Hisaron in you, and to the extent of your efforts spent on finding the right Hisaron, you feel this illumination.

Otherwise, you will feel other illuminations that shine on you in a non-selective form, just unsorted pleasures from the upper world. But you want to attract a special illumination, a light that returns to the source. To do this, you must want to return to its source (the Creator), i.e., a person must develop his own Hisaron. As it is written: “the woman who conceived first will give birth to a boy.” For this, we have been given a group.

Gradually, this will be revealed to us; there is no other way. You look at the faces of people at the lesson, and see only the outer shell; you do not understand what you have in common, what binds you. But if you penetrate deep within each of them, you will see the souls that are your Kelim. In essence, the souls of your friends are the organs of your spiritual body.

Our initial desire for spirituality is called a point in the heart. We must build a new Kli around this point: instead of a stony heart (Lev haEven), a heart made of flesh (Lev Basar). It is built by joining the other Kelim, the Kelim of your friends, to your black point. As it is written, “I will take away your heart of stone, and create a heart of flesh in you.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘If a Woman Inseminates First, She Delivers a Male Child,’ in the Work?”

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 4 “These Are the Generations of Noah” (1985)

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