Intention is the possibility of existing in the spiritual realm. Suppose I am putting on tefillin. At that moment, I think: “What is the putting on of tefillin in the spiritual?” It is the intention for bestowal at the level of receiving the light of Hochma in the Rosh of ZA when it is in a great state. This is a very high level.

It turns out that if you regret not having such an intention, then at that very moment you already want to have it and are in some way striving toward it. This is already the beginning of the spiritual performance of this commandment. You already have the hope that one day you will reach it. And if you also connect your intention with an action in our world, then this performance becomes complete. And so it is with everything.

With prayer, we have a problem, since the heart does not always agree with what is written in the prayer book. We are in different states: ascents and descents, such states in which I do not even belong to myself.

Suppose you are reading about something; what matters is the extent to which you identify yourself with the text. You must put your soul into it, your personal attitude toward what you are reading. In any case, the Kabbalists wrote all of this. You perform it purely mechanically, but the body is dead, and one must explain how to revive it. But if you know that you are dead with respect to what they wrote, this is already work.

With prayer, it is a little different. It may happen that your prayer does not coincide with the one you are reading. Therefore, it is impossible to demand the performance of what is written in the book every time. Therefore, do not force your heart. It is entirely acceptable if it is saying something else at the moment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/20/26, Rabash, “A Prayer of Many”

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The root of all the commandments lies in the fact that the Kabbalists attained the upper worlds. This began with the forefather Abraham. In accordance with the roots that the Kabbalists attained in the spiritual worlds, they began to perform certain actions in the material world, similar to how this occurs in the spiritual worlds.

What is the difference between an action in the material world, that we call a commandment and an action that we do not call a commandment?

An action in our world that is not called a commandment has a spiritual root that descends into the material world, as it were, forming a material branch. But none of the actions called a commandment, which is a spiritual action, has a material continuation, a material branch. These are purely spiritual actions.

Do tefillin grow on a tree or exist in the nature of the material world? Absolutely any commandment, whether a blessing before a meal or after it, and so on, has no branch in this world, no embodiment of this phenomenon.

The Kabbalists simply took them from the spiritual world and decreed that they be performed. Therefore, all of this appears irrational in our world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/20/26, Rabash, “A Prayer of Many”

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 283

Should We Not Even Mention the Existence of the Creator and His Greatness?

It is better to reveal as little as possible outwardly and not even mention the existence of the great Creator. An advanced stage is a stage in which we should conceal more and reveal less. It is written that one who reveals the secrets of their heart thereby gives a hold to the external forces. There is such a concept as the evil eye, although no one knows what it is. It is written that ninety-nine cases of illness and death take place due to the evil eye.

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