What Is Required of Us?

276.01Question: In the article “What Are the Times of Prayer and Gratitude in the Work?” Rabash writes that “even if this mouth is unimportant, still, the Creator hears it.” What does it mean that the mouth is not important?

Answer: It is written: “Even if this mouth is unimportant, still, the Creator hears it.” It does not matter how much understanding a person possesses. What matters is the extent to which he strives toward the goal.

It is similar to our attitude toward a child. The result of the child’s action is not what matters most to me. What matters is his effort, his expression of desire, his aspiration. Because of that, I encourage him.

However, as a person grows older, we pay less attention to their desire alone. Now the result, the product of his actions, becomes important.

We need to understand this correlation. We are not required to be clever; we are required to make an effort. What will come out of it, how correctly will a person be able to perform what he is trying to do? That is not important. You desired, you acted, and according to that you are rewarded.

A person receives a response from above only according to the measure of the effort he has invested. It is not said that you must reach a particular result, on the contrary: “It is not upon you to complete the work.”
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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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A Ruler for Measuring Spirituality

613Our work is to rise above evaluation according to the principle of “sweet–bitter” to evaluation according to the principle of “true–false.” After all, the Creator is called Truth.

The word “truth” (Emet) consists of the letters “Alef–Mem–Tav.” “Alef” and “Tav” (the first and the last letters of the alphabet) are the desires at the two extreme poles.

And “Mem” in the middle is the quality of Bina, by which one can connect these poles and come to correction, that is, to truth.

Determining where truth lies and where falsehood lies is possible only in relation to a group of Kabbalists, the environment. By myself, within myself, I lack the necessary conditions for this; I possess only one parameter: my ego. To measure I absolutely need one more parameter outside of myself.

After long study and many clarifications in the group, a beginning Kabbalist starts to feel himself in the general (global) system of desires, among other “points in the heart.” Relative to this particular environment, I am given the opportunity to acquire new sensory concepts: drawing closer to it and distancing from it, sensing its global system, my inclusion in it, the necessity of its support, the realization of it as the place in which I will reveal for myself the upper world and the Creator.

Meanwhile, within me, an interaction of two forces —myself and the environment—takes shape within me. The environment gains weight and acts as a counter force to my “I,” my ego. Another authority emerges, one outside of me, which I will begin to take into account and view as a source of salvation, a lever that can pull me out of my current state, out of this world.

I measure the “self – environment” dynamic, and as a result of my measurements I obtain quantitative and qualitative measures for measuring spiritual relations, forces. I build a measuring ruler: on one end is me and on the other is the group. With this ruler I can already research, measure, and depict the upper world.

From the “I – group” relationships a spiritual cell is formed within me with which I can measure all of reality above myself. In this way I build a soul within myself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/15/9, Baal HaSulam, Letters 41 & 42

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One Chance for Life

294.4Question: What if I were able to say that I have only today? I want to live it as if it were my last day. Is that the right approach?

Answer: Yes, certainly.

Question: How can a person do something that seems impossible?

Answer: By convincing yourself that when you think positively about the world, you improve the world and help bring it to a better state. This is your responsibility toward the world.

Comment: How did the world suddenly enter our discussion? We were talking about my life.

My Response: You were born for this: to think about how you can improve the world. You and only you. By wishing to improve the world, you ask for it to change.

Question: Do you realize that we are speaking about ordinary people?

Answer: Ordinary people. If we want to change our world, then we must think only about one thing: that we want it to change.

Question: And is that what it means to truly live life?

Answer: Of course. It means understanding that everything must be done now, without waiting.

Question: And where is my “I” in all this? Where is my personal decision?

Answer: In the present moment.

Question: Right now?

Answer: Right now. That is where your “I” exists. Beyond that, it does not exist. If you do not stop and decide, “Now, only now!” then you are no longer truly present.

Question: You once studied human capabilities. I think you even worked on research involving hypothermia and how much a person can endure.

Answer: Yes.

Question: What are the limits of human potential? Can a person actually reach such a state? Is it possible to live for the sake of the world in this way?

Answer: I think so. We simply need to speak to people about it.

Question: Do you believe that what we say actually enters people?

Answer: Yes, it helps.

Question: How does that happen? Where does it enter a person so that he suddenly changes?

Answer: Into the air.

Question: So, to summarize: how does a person live life with “one arrow,” with one chance?

Answer: One must constantly think about improving the world. Nothing else is required. Only thoughts, only our desires.

Question: And what do you mean by improving the world?

Answer: Good relations between people.

Question: As simple as that?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/11/26

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Where to Run?

564Question: What is the inner wisdom I arrive at as the years go by?

Answer: Where to run and for what purpose?

Question: Should I answer that question or not?

Answer: You do not have an answer.

Question: Should I be searching for it?

Answer: You will search. As long as you search, you will keep running. Then gradually, as you become convinced that there is nowhere to run, you will stop. And that is correct.

Question: Then what am I waiting for? I have stopped.

Answer: You are waiting for nothing. You simply see that no movement can replace tranquility.

Question: So I am arriving at a state of peace?

Answer: Yes, both inner and outer peace.

Question: What do you call the peace that I am arriving at?

Answer: The absence of an impulse to move.

Question: Then what is movement?

Answer: The desire to change your state.

Question: So, the right thought is not to change my state, to accept whatever is?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And what about the phrase, “Peace to the madman who will lull humanity a golden dream”? What about that?

Answer: Why do you want to drive the world mad? Let people simply understand that nullifying one’s ego before the Creator is the highest movement we can make.

Question: Is this what we ultimately come to? Is this peace?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this what is meant by bringing the Creator into this world?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/29/26

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 6/28/26

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 8 “What It Means that Esau Was Called ‘A Man of the Field,’ in the Work” (1990)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah)”

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How Can We Convey the Key to Solving Problems to the World?

214Question: You say the rest of the world does not possess the key to solving problems. How can we convey this key to the world?

Answer: I think that even if we all started shouting about this from every corner and I continued writing articles about the threat of annihilation, the people will still not wake up. After all, we know the stage of development the masses are at. Even in a developed society, people are unable to perceive the spiritual idea embedded in this. We cannot expect any response from them.

In other words, I must act regardless of the reaction. After all, I am the one acting, not them! I am activating the law of advancement according to which all mankind must make its qualities resemble the qualities of the Creator and attain His level. I activate this law because I have received this knowledge from above. A few dozen other people here also received it.

Why do they possess this understanding and awareness? Because they have reached this level in their own development. If a person has not yet developed to the necessary level, no matter what we tell him, it will be a meaningless mantra to him, one of many.

Even if such people hear about it, write it down, and repeat it, what good would it do? There is nothing more foolish. Can they possibly act in this direction? Of course not! If they are psychologically attracted to it, that is great. On an ordinary human level, this is a good thing, just like many other things.

Therefore, although we undoubtedly need to work on dissemination, our primary work is internal rather than external.

In that case, one might say: “If so, let’s curtail our dissemination efforts and pour all our energy into working in the group!” But the fact is, we cannot do without external support or without drawing in new forces from outside. Therefore, we cannot do without dissemination. In addition, lifting all the students of the outer groups by just one millimeter is equivalent to lifting ourselves by ten meters!

Therefore, we need both components of our work. Baal HaSulam writes about this that we need to spread Kabbalah among the masses. But, of course, in this environment, we cannot expect the specific reaction we desire from that environment. Things unfold there according to the laws governing the masses; whereas we operate under the laws that apply to the individual. Therefore, it is our responsibility to act.

From the masses, there will only be support; they will follow you, but to make this happen, you must distribute our material among them. Yet it is you who must lead the way. You yourself must constantly adjust and refine the direction of the goal, and pull everyone along with you! There is no other way.

Therefore, you should not shift the responsibility onto someone else. It is written that those who deal with the external aspects of the Torah instead of the internal are to blame for everything, but what difference does it make to me? Can I afford to wait for them? They will not do anything, they are incapable of it. I am duty-bound to act! That is how everyone must think.

We must also teach this in external groups: a person who receives knowledge becomes an active participant in the work. Therefore, we must lead them to sense the obligation that rests upon them.
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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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When the Kli Becomes like the Light

232.08Question: If the surrounding light begins to enter the Kli, why do the descents become increasingly difficult?

Answer: The surrounding light cannot enter the Kli; that is impossible. It enters the Kli only when it becomes inner light.

The surrounding light constantly shines upon a person: sometimes from the front, during a state of ascent, and sometimes from the back, during a state of descent.

The state itself is always the same. The only difference is what is being revealed at that moment: the light or the Kli. Everything depends on the side from which you are viewing the state—from the side of the Kli or from the side of the light. This is how it is experienced in one’s perception.

When the Kli becomes like the light, there is no longer a distinction between ascents and descents; everything is light. A Kli with a screen is felt as the light itself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/13/26, Rabash, “And the Lord Appeared to Him at the Oaks of Mamre”

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Where Does the Sense of the Goal’s Importance Come From?

237Question: We say that ascents and descents yield two results. On one hand, a person is shown how far he is from the goal, and on the other hand, it becomes more important to him. Where does this feeling of importance come from?

Answer: The goal becomes more important to us because a person invests himself, his efforts, in it. This happens just as it does in our ordinary lives.

If I invest a lot in something, I bring a part of myself into it. And because I love myself, I cannot give it up anymore. I sacrificed so much for it, tried so hard, worked so hard, cared for it so much, I cannot just abandon it. Thus, the goal and the whole undertaking become very important to a person.

Moreover, as he advances, an increasingly strong surrounding light influences him according to his investment and his work. This light fills a new Kli, the point in the heart, and a person feels that true life comes from there. And he feels the rest of his animate life as temporary and of having less and less importance for him.

A person comes to the realization that spirituality is more important than corporeality, while still here, when he enters simple concealment. He already begins to sense that the upper force exists, and in some way feels the presence of the Creator. Then all events that happen to him in life, and everything that happens in the world around him, lose their significance. The surrounding light radiates eternity.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/13/26, Rabash, “And the Lord Appeared to Him at the Oaks of Mamre”

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Below the Line of Life and Death

232.05At present, we are in a state where development begins from a point that is simply a desire to receive. What is this Partzuf that begins from a point? It is the degree of the intention for the sake of bestowal.

The question is: What is desire and what is intention? In spirituality, it is not the desire that is taken into account, but only the intention for the sake of bestowal. The magnitude of a Partzuf is the height of its intention, and according to the degree of that intention, it already receives for the sake of bestowal.

Therefore, in our domain, below the Machsom, “there is no judgment and there is no judge”; everyone does what pleases them. Indeed, there are neither commandments nor transgressions here, because all commandments and transgressions exist only in the intention. “For the sake of receiving” is called a transgression, and “for the sake of bestowal” is called a commandment.

We are still below, in what is called the imaginary world, beneath the line of life and the line of death. Above the Machsom, when the soul is immersed in the Klipot, this is called the line of death, the state of death; and when it is immersed in the right line, this is called the line of life. But we are below all of that.

From this, we must understand that intention, direction, connection, and a passionate yearning for the Creator are, in essence, the measure of a person in spirituality.

What is meant is not the desire itself, but the degree of one’s orientation toward the Creator, the extent to which a person’s heart passionately strives for and longs for the Creator. One’s spiritual state is measured accordingly.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/6/26, Rabash, “Why Is the Torah Called ‘Middle Line’ in the Work? – 1”

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