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Posted on August 6th, 2026
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The states that a person goes through are not so important in and of themselves. Of course, it is possible to say that they are analogous to receiving a blow one moment, candy the next, then a stronger blow, and again a candy. But the “carrot and stick” do not form a Kli (vessel) in a person. Its continuous strengthening on the path toward the goal is exactly what is building the Kli.
The Kli is the intention. Neither the blows, nor Malchut, nor Keter form the Kli. The intention that you define, when you truly decide what it is, is called the Kli. Only in choosing the intention does freedom of choice exist.
Look at how the whole world spins and what it does: We seek peace and we seek happiness, nothing helps because the search is conducted in the wrong direction, and we only become more confused, spend money, and drown in a sea of blood. And so it is all over the world.
Look at what an enormous process of development the world needs to undergo in order to finally come to the conclusion that development must be in only one direction. All the achievements of science, engineering, technology, medicine, culture, and education are simply a mistake.
We made a mistake; we followed our egoistic desires and developed all sorts of things that are absolutely unnecessary. No matter how magnificent, grandiose, and fulfilling all the achievements of civilization may seem to us, it is Klipot.
We could have lived peacefully in caves and, being connected to the Creator, enjoy life. What difference does it make where you live?
The point of choice is in the direction toward the Creator. When this question awakens in me, I must strengthen myself so as not to turn in another direction. It is like a pointer rotating in a circle, at each of the 360 degrees, it seems to point to 360 targets, yet it aligns with the direction toward the Creator only once.
It is precisely here that I must “step on the gas.” This is where I must break out of the vicious circle. If I do not do this, all kinds of desires start spinning inside me again in this circle.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/20/26, Rabash, “The Creator and Israel Went into Exile”
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Question: What are the various tricks that help a person reach the goal of creation?
Answer: Suppose I look at something and become consumed with a strong desire for it. To change my desire, I begin to listen to music. The music awakens a different desire within me, perhaps a subtler, a more elevated one, yet still not truly directed toward the goal.
Then I open a book. From the Kabbalah books that I usually study, I choose the one that can influence me at that moment by awakening a more elevated desire, a more conscious and purposefully directed one. In this way, by using the external means that surround me, I bring about a change in my desire. But by myself, I am unable to change the desire to receive.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/14/26, Rabash, “What It Means that “Law and Ordinance” Is the Name of the Creator in the Work”
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Question: How do we develop sensors that perceive spiritual pleasure?
Answer: The Creator influences us by constantly pouring out absolute goodness and benevolence. We are always under the influence of the Creator who abundantly bestows bliss and delight. Yet, we feel nothing because this sense has not been developed within us. We are like infants who neither understand nor feel what He is giving them.
This is called concealment. In other words, the concealment exists within us, in the sixth sense that has not yet been developed. The method for developing the sixth sense is called the wisdom of Kabbalah. It is the science of receiving what the Creator gives us. As of now, however, we still do not know how to receive.
How can this be done? Only with the help of the light that reforms. During the lessons, we awaken the surrounding lights that purify a person. What does “purify” mean? They make one’s perception pure and refined. A person becomes far more sensitive, and then one truly begins to feel spirituality.
As the surrounding light purifies me, it gradually enriches me with ever new and diverse states, sensations, and understanding. It teaches me little by little, just as infants are taught. The only difference is that I want to go through this process quickly rather than wait.
It takes twenty years to raise a child, and the development of a human being sometimes takes thousands of years before they reach perfection. But if I want this to happen quickly, I must awaken the surrounding light upon myself so that it performs this work on me as rapidly as possible rather than at the pace at which human history has developed over thousands of years. I want to go through this path in five to ten years. Perhaps even faster, although for now it is not yet possible. It is too difficult.
Thus, all I really want is to accelerate the development of my sixth sense, and the greatest thing required of me is to draw the surrounding light upon myself. That is all my work.
The faster the light teaches me, the more rapidly all kinds of states change within me, the sooner I will complete my learning. The expansion of the light and its departure form the vessel (Kli) that is fit for its purpose.
This means that I must pass as quickly as possible from one state to another, from one change to the next, ascents and descents, every kind of sensation and impression received from the group, from the books, from everything. Then I will more quickly reach the state in which enough different discernments have accumulated within me, and I will accordingly begin to feel and perceive what exists outside of me.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/14/26, Rabash, “What It Means that “Law and Ordinance” Is the Name of the Creator in the Work”
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Our sages said (Taanit, p 30b), “Anyone who mourns for Jerusalem is rewarded with seeing its joy” (Rabash, “What Is, ‘Anyone Who Mourns for Jerusalem Is Rewarded with Seeing Its Joy,’ in the Work?”).
We must prepare our work not only on the spiritual plane, but also on the plane of this corporeal world, whose levels were also shattered. When a person works with the Shoresh, Aleph, and Bet levels with the intention of correction, it means that he uses his life in its corporeal form, and in its human level only insofar as it is necessary to sustain his existence. All his other actions are directed solely toward drawing closer to the Creator.
As for animalistic pleasures, we understand what the human body requires. With regard to the pleasures of wealth, honor, and knowledge, our work lies in relation to society. This is the work through which a person must properly arrange his attitude toward these pleasures.
For example, regarding money, at first, he may give only one tenth of his earnings, but later he keeps for himself only what is essential. As Baal HaSulam writes in the article “The Giving of the Torah,” he uses the rest in order to bring the world to a corrected state, to bring it closer to the Creator, that is, for the dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah.
With regard to honor, he realizes this within the group by lowering himself and elevating the image of the group in his eyes, so as to receive from it the greatness of the Creator. As for knowledge, he strives to attain the spiritual world, the upper world, the Creator, and His nature. He arranges this desire so that he wishes to engage in it in order to truly come to bestowal upon the Creator through the upper light, which is awakened as a result of the study.
Thus, a person’s spirituality becomes clothed in this world, in everything that surrounds him, either through his animate level, by giving the animal within him only what it truly requires and paying no attention to its other demands, or through the human within him, through his relationship with the environment, where he seeks to use everything around him in order to direct all his powers and qualities toward attaining a two-way connection with the Creator.
This means that the result of the shattering that exists within him in the form of “for one’s own sake” is transformed into “for the sake of bestowal.” This is what is meant by: “Whoever mourns the destruction of Jerusalem.”
Jerusalem means “the perfect city” and “perfect awe,” when Malchut rises to the height of Bina, undergoes shattering, and the connection between Bina and Malchut acquires the opposite intention: for one’s own sake. But through his sorrow and through his work, a person attains the joy of Jerusalem, when he corrects the Kelim and fills them with the lights.
A Kli with the intention to bestow, filled with the light, is bestowal to the Creator. This is the “joy of Jerusalem,” the perfect city, the perfect Kli, in perfect awe and faith: the quality of Bina spread throughout the whole of Malchut.
All these discernments: the destroyed Jerusalem and the rebuilt Jerusalem, are, in essence, two opposite extremes that a person must pass through on his path while still living in this world, in this lifetime, clothed in his corporeal body.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/23/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘Anyone Who Mourns for Jerusalem Is Rewarded with Seeing Its Joy,’ in the Work?”
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Why Is It Not Always Possible to Understand an Action or a Thought?
We never know why we acted one way or another, why we are tossed from thought to thought, from state to state, because these all depend on the inner structure of the soul. We must scrutinize this desire now, afterward another desire, following the structure of their soul. We do not know with which souls and in which matters we are connected within the structure of Adam HaRishon. We do not know ourselves, all the more so we do not know the souls with which we are connected or the type of connection. There is no way for us to know this based on the physical bodies of the people connected to us.
Therefore, various situations and states are brought to us that appear to us as coincidences, because if we were to see the structure of the entire Adam HaRishon, from within it we would know what we must do now, what we will do in the next moment, and what will be given to us in the future.
For this reason, Kabbalists give us simple advice on this matter, in every situation we find ourselves in, do not calculate with the other souls how to act. We are in a body, and even the body does not need to think about how all the cells in the body operate at every moment, how each cell is planned and functions in order to know how it should act. In the end, the body indeed operates as it was designed, as a closed system with all its parts, even the smallest one, but we are not at the degree where we can recognize this. In our present state we are completely incapable of comprehending it. Only later, at the end of correction, when we are included in this system without any disturbances, does the entire structure with all its functions become revealed.
Therefore, the most correct and simple general advice given to us is that we, our action, and our goal must be one. We descended from the root where we were adhered to the Creator. Who is the Creator? The Creator is all the other souls we are incorporated in, and all together they receive the upper light within them. This sensation within us is called “the Creator.” We do not know what is outside us. Outside us is His essence. What we receive in connection with all the other souls in the corrected state at the end of correction in our root, is called “the Creator.” “From Your actions we know You.” We know Him through our sensation. We need to long for this from within the action we now perform. If we constantly push ourselves in this way, pressing only on this point, then in the end we will reach it in a precise manner.
It is impossible to give someone this entire great program so that before performing even the smallest action they would understand it fully and wisely in complete control, that they would understand it from beginning to end. How could we know the entire system in advance before we are adhered to all the souls, with all the parts of the system, as one structure? Therefore, we are given a solution. If we wish to be included in this system as good and active parts, we must intend that we, our action, and our state of adhesion with the Creator will all be one. We must already now want to be at the end of correction as we imagine it, to want to realize and create the state of the end of correction.
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Preparation to the Lesson
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 34 “What Is Peace in the Work?” (1989) (8.8.2002)
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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 1, Chapter 1, Item 3 (8.13.2007)
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