Question: On one hand, it is said that one should not despair, and on the other hand, that one must necessarily come to despair. Is it necessary or not?

Answer: It is both necessary and forbidden at the same time. On the one hand, I myself am not allowed to bring myself into a state of despair. On the other hand, it is necessary to reach a state in which you are weakened from above to such an extent that you despair and feel powerless, disillusioned in your own strength, and then you are able to raise a prayer.

It is difficult to explain this in a few words. In order to describe the states that we go through before the Machsom (spiritual barrier), Rabash wrote five volumes. Our language is incapable of conveying this, and in that sense it is dead. We lack the means to express it. Only the light that fills the Kli can do this; it gives everything.

For us, this filling is divided into mental, emotional, spiritual, and so on. The true filling of the desire to receive, the net amount received from the light, is the ultimate answer. Without this, nothing will help. A person can strive to attain more and more, but there will be no attainment.

It is as though we want to achieve inner fulfillment by multiplying our external clothing’s. However, it does not happen that way. You can tell me endlessly about some delicious dish, but if I have not tasted it, have not enjoyed it, or have not filled myself with it, all the descriptions are worthless.

Later, I can tell someone else about it using your descriptions, and he will pass it on further, and so on. This is precisely what we do in our world. But what is all of that worth?
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/29/26, Rabash, “One’s Greatness Depends on the Measure of One’s Faith in the Future”

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