Our spiritual advancement must proceed according to the law of the spiritual world in which one-tenth is given outward rather than spent on oneself.

The Torah states this very simply: every person, even a poor person, regardless of who they are, must set aside Maaser, one-tenth of their net income; no more and no less. There is no getting around it. This is a rule of the upper world.

Therefore, we must give one-tenth of our income to the dissemination of Kabbalah, which is called giving to the Creator, because this portion belongs to Him: He corrects our Malchut; not we ourselves.

We correct the first nine Sefirot ourselves, and therefore, in our world, we keep 90% for us with regard to them. According to the correspondence between root and branch, I can properly use 90% of my resources for the sake of spirituality.

But I cannot correct the tenth part in the spiritual world in any way; the Creator corrects it. Accordingly, in this world, if I do not use this tenth part for myself but give it to dissemination. The Creator corrects it.

Moreover, a person who does not engage in spiritual work but sets aside Maaser is included in the spiritual work, because this is truly his contribution to spirituality according to the correspondence between root and branch. Conversely, whoever withholds this tenth from the dissemination of Kabbalah in any way, spiritually robs himself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson for the holiday of Sukkot 10/1/26

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Question: How can there be a dispute between Kabbalists?

Answer: A Kabbalist is someone who is in the spiritual world and feels the spiritual. You are asking how they can perceive things differently? In exactly the same way as in our world.

There are so many scholars in this world who have disputes among themselves! One sees reality one way, another sees it another way. It is not that they see reality differently, but rather that their opinions diverge regarding the laws by which this reality behaves. It is a somewhat hidden thing, yet also somewhat revealed.

Let’s say we see some phenomenon. You think that the source of this phenomenon is such-and-such, and that is why it manifests itself in this way before us. However, what manifests itself before our eyes, we see the same way. But neither you nor I see what lies behind it.

These are already higher levels. It is quite possible that this is not even the next level but two hundred levels higher. We see reality as it is in our world, but the reason for what we see may be two hundred levels higher than what we have comprehended. And then we begin to reason: “Is it this way or that way?”

This dispute was between Baal HaSulam and Rashash. Baal HaSulam writes a little about it at the end of the book “The Gates of Intentions.” But what he writes is only a small fraction of the picture. This dispute is very fundamental for them, but not so much for us, because Rashash is truly a saint. What he achieved is holy, divine words for us.

But what he points to as the reasons for what he sees is actually two hundred steps higher. And since he has not yet reached that level, Baal HaSulam does not agree with him, because Baal HaSulam has achieved more and writes from the level he has attained. In his opinion, Rashash is not mistaken in what he presents to him as a fact. The facts are correct, but when he speaks about the reasons for what is happening, he is mistaken.

It is like in our world: there are two physicists whose debates are endless because they are discussing a cause that is hidden and may be very high and very far away. That is why there are many disagreements and differences of opinion among the Kabbalists.

And this is fair, for they are merely researchers. They study the Creator’s actions, and to the extent that they can align themselves with those actions, they comprehend them; to the extent that they cannot align themselves with them, they do not comprehend them. But the causes are always higher than what they comprehend. Moreover, they may also be mistaken in their interpretation of the causes, since it is impossible to give names to what has not been comprehended.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/10/26, Rabash, “What Is the Gift that a Person Asks of the Creator?”

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The world remains unchanged; only we change within ourselves. It depends entirely on me, how I experience the Creator: in His “double concealment,” in “single concealment,” or in His direct relationship with me, “face to face.”

For His part, He is always present in the Kli (vessel), in a direct relationship with me. I perceive this according to the level of my correction. If all my qualities are corrected and I sense the Creator’s complete manifestation, then we are “face to face.” This state is called “adhesion,” (Dvekut) the “end of correction” (Gmar Tikkun), or the “world of infinity,” (Ein Sof) where no limitations exist.

To the extent that my 620 senses, sensations, desires, and qualities are uncorrected (they may be partially corrected and partially uncorrected, forming a spectrum of all 620 desires), each must be raised to the full height of all its ten particular Sefirot. Only then will all 620 desires reach their maximum height.

They may also be at different levels, one lower and another higher, like a spectral image or like the visual representation of sound on an equalizer, organized by frequencies. Suppose there are twenty selected frequencies, and we see how high or low each one is.

Similarly, we have 620 qualities, and each reaches a height of up to ten Sefirot. The height of each one determines the picture of the world presented to us. Our qualities are precisely those sensors into which the Creator enters. The more corrected they are, the more the Creator enters them; the less corrected they are, the less He enters them.

These degrees of the Creator’s manifestation in the 620 qualities draw the picture of the world for us. In the part of the 620 desires that is corrected, the Creator is present; this is called the “measure of the revelation of the Creator.” In the lower, still uncorrected part of the 620 desires, the Creator is not manifested; this is called the “measure of the concealment of the Creator.”

Thus, the word “world” (Olam) comes from the word “concealment.” It is the measure of the revelation and concealment of the Creator. Our lowest world is the complete concealment of the Creator. All the spiritual worlds exist according to a certain measure of the Creator’s revelation: in a particular combination and arrangement of my 620 desires, I already sense the Creator.

Why are these desires not all corrected equally? Because they differ both in quality and in their Aviut (egoism). This is why there is a world called Assiya.

The world of Assiya, characterized by the quality of Malchut, differs from the world of Yetzira, whose quality is Zeir Anpin; from the world of Beria, the quality of Binah; from the world of Atzilut, the quality of Hochma; and from Adam Kadmon, the quality of Keter. In addition to each world being a greater sensation and reception of the Creator, the quality of each of the 620 desires rises to one degree or another.

In other words, when ascending from degree to degree, not all 620 of my desires improve by, say, 10 percent: one may improve by only 1 percent, while another may improve by 8 percent.

Moreover, attainment changes not only through the general intensification of the sensation of the force in which I exist, but also in quality, in the way it affects me. It is the same in our world. We experience it not only as stronger or weaker in its manifestation toward us, but also by the character of that manifestation as more pleasant or unpleasant.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/24/26, Sitrin Convention, Sukkot 2003

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Question: In the article “One Should Always Sell Everything He Has and Marry a Wise Disciple’s Daughter,” Rabash writes: “It is said in The [Book of] Zohar about the verse, ‘The leech has two daughters’—who cry out like dogs, saying: ‘Give, Hav, us the happiness of this world; give, Hav, us the happiness of the world to come.’”

That is, there are two daughters who cry out like dogs: “Give us the happiness of this world; give us the happiness of the world to come.” Does a person want both this world and the world to come?

Answer: There is not a single state that a person does not go through on the path toward the goal. The Creator created everything in one Kli, and every vessel consists of all the desires. Regardless of a person’s character, his natural disposition, or which part of Adam HaRishon his soul belongs to, he must nevertheless pass through all the obstacles.

Of course, each person goes through them in his own way, but everyone must pass through all these desires, including the state described in The Book of Zohar: two daughters who cry out like dogs, “Give us the happiness of this world; give us the happiness of the world to come.” This means wanting only to receive rather than to bestow.

When there is a desire for both this world and the world to come, that is good. At the next stage, a person comes to desire only the world to come, and this is a true Klipa.

Sometimes Rabash uses “this world” to mean the intention to receive for oneself, and “the world to come” to mean the intention to bestow. When speaking about “dogs,” he means that even regarding the world to come there is an intention to receive for oneself, that is, Klipot.

One must look at the context to understand what is being discussed, because in different cases the same words can have different meanings.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/12/26, Rabash, “One Should Always Sell Everything He Has and Marry a Wise Disciple’s Daughter”

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Question: What is the spiritual community that we are currently like “unripe fruit”? On the other hand, you said that the task of each person today is to pull their “I” out of themselves and dissolve it into the members of the group.

Answer: Yes, a person must pull their “I” out of themselves and dissolve themselves in the group.

The group is a circle into which we try to throw ourselves, leaving our “I” outside the circle. We do this only in our inner efforts. We do not, under any circumstances, applying this to everyday life. We do not establish a common treasury, as in the kibbutzim or some other communal life; we do not try to create one common family, some kind of community in our world; this all relates to the problem of the last generation. God willing, we will approach it someday as well.

We are not building a Kabbalistic society, but a Kabbalistic group that engages only in inner efforts (each person within themselves) and in combining all these efforts with one another, in order to reach a critical mass and cause the revelation of the Creator, which will immediately raise us all to the next degree.

As soon as, at the next degree, we again reach a critical desire and prepare ourselves through our inner efforts for a common Kli, the Creator will immediately reveal Himself again, correct us again, and in this way, we will again be filled with Him at the next degree. And so it is every time. The method is practically the same at every degree.

We are not engaged now in correcting our lives. Each of us continues to live in their family, continues to work at their job. We only create our spiritual community, an invisible one, where our common desires, our aspirations toward the Creator, come together and cause a great surrounding light to act upon us. This is the only thing we are doing now.

But for this, if necessary, perform some joint actions. However, joint does not mean relating to all our everyday problems and way of life. What we do together is, for example, build a Sukkah, some work in dissemination, or create our common center, that is, everything that relates to the spiritual, but at the same time is some external shell of it.

This can be done, but nothing more. This is what it means not to eat the “unripe fruit,” not to climb onto the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.” We are not yet allowed to climb onto it, but later we will have to.

From this time onward, you will begin to see how much faster your development will go, and how much faster the states will begin to change one after another. You will see how what previously had to take months and years and was generally so difficult, somehow dragging along, will fly forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson for the Holiday of Sukkot, 9/30/26

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 255

Why Do the States Disappear and Return?

The discernments of Lishma and Lo Lishma toward the Creator and toward this world change each time according to the surrounding lights that descend upon us from the world of Atzilut. We exist in the world of Atzilut in potential, that is, in the corrected state, in the corrupted state, and in all the in-between states. The upper light that descends from Ein Sof through the world of Atzilut performs a kind of scan through all these states, from the lowest state, gradually, up to the highest state, to our roots in the world of Atzilut, and accordingly we receive changing surrounding lights. According to what the upper light passes through there, through our states in potential, we change here in actuality. We do not know how we are supposed to change, but we simply change.

After the barrier, in our initial acquisition of a screen, we begin to identify with, desire, understand, and recognize these changes. We even begin to anticipate them, and to such an extent that we already think in advance that we now want to do something, and indeed we do it. We begin to recognize the Creator’s thoughts and identify with them to such an extent that our thought and desire, and the Creator’s desire, unite. This is truly called “Lishma.”

In our present state, we certainly do not know how we change, but we need to believe that we change according to our root in the world of Atzilut. The pace depends on us, on our awareness, on our state, but the changes of states do not depend on us. Our awareness is what changes our inner sensation: we can feel that we are being struck, or we can feel that the blows are not really blows, but a force through which we enter correction. The restrictions can be pleasant if the goal stands before our eyes. This is how we are forcibly compressed into this “pipe,” but with joy that we attain something. Also, if we do not see the goal before us and we are compressed into some “pipe,” we experience it like death.

Therefore, our awareness, our own work, is to change our sensation from one extreme to the other regarding the very same action that is performed on us from above. However, as a result, it is not only our inner sensation of good or bad that changes, nor only the pace. The content changes as well. This is because, from these states we receive lights, and our world changes. It is difficult to explain the extent to which our own intelligent and independent participation in the work of correction, which we ourselves also desire, changes the entire picture. Even though the states that descend from above are predetermined, we determine everything below.

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