Question: Is restriction the most important thing?

Answer: No, restriction is not the most important thing. The point is that a person fears an empty Kli. Therefore, they are willing to work and give up various things if they sense that their Kli might remain unfilled.

And for the sake of this empty Kli, regardless of whether it is for the sake of receiving or for the sake of bestowal, and whether it relates to the past, present, or future, they are willing to work as long as they do not feel emptiness.

There are people who are afraid of poverty: “What will I have tomorrow? What will I have in ten years?” A person thinks, “I must provide for myself and leave a little for my children.” This is generally what concerns him. He is afraid.

Let us say that he has already planned what he needs and what his children need, made his calculations, and decided that he needs savings of one million dollars. He already perceives this Kli, the one million dollars, and a fear arises within him that this Kli might remain unfilled.

Then he begins to work on his sensation of the empty Kli that he has constructed within himself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/26, Rabash, “What Is the Work of Man, in the Work that Is Attributed to the Creator?”

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The point a person is born with remains just a point because it contains no source from which it can acquire additional desires that could be revealed in it. But when a person begins to connect with everyone else, going against the bodily shell that the Creator places over the soul, this gives the soul the opportunity to expand.

This adds more desires and needs to the soul until it incorporates all 600,000 desires. This is the state of the final correction (Gmar Tikkun).

The point itself does not grow. It grows only through connecting with all the other 600,000 points. The soul is a Kli made up of many desires that seem to belong to others. But the soul incorporates them, and they become its own desires. Then its demand, its united desire, becomes the prayer of many.
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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 285

What Attitude Should We Develop Toward the State While We Are in It?

When we are in a bad state, we cannot do anything if we did not take care beforehand to prepare a soft place for us to land. However, “what the mind does not do, time does.” The descent continues until mercy is shown to us from above, because after all, we have some merits there that we acquired through previous actions or by sitting among people who have merits, and then we are pulled out of this state.

Nevertheless, we must secure ourselves in advance with friends, a group, and a schedule. The schedule is very important. Why is it so important to record who comes to the group and when? It is because order is very important. We can come to the lesson and sleep through it, we all understand that, but not coming at all is out of the question. We can be absent when we have planned and decided it in advance, when we have obligations, but not because we failed to overcome weakness or out of negligence and forgetfulness.

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