It is as our sages said about Abraham, who asked, “Is there a city without a leader? Promptly, the leader of the city appeared before him and said to him, ‘I am the leader of the city.’” That is, he saw a city lit up, meaning he saw the world, which is called ‘a city,’ where everyone was suffering. He said about this, “Is there a city without a leader?” (Rabash, “What Is the Work of Man, in the Work that Is Attributed to the Creator?”).

Is there someone who sends these sufferings? Apparently, there must be some reason and purpose behind them. It cannot be that everything simply happens for no reason. Abraham was a person who came to the Creator through his own investigation of nature. He was the first who, as it were, attained the Creator from below. The phrase “Can there be a capital without a ruler?” was his credo, his approach, his very essence.

In other words, he reached this conclusion through investigating nature and understood that there must be a reason for everything that happens around us. It was simply a rational approach.

Certainly, nature does not afflict the world without a leader to nature.

Everything depends on how we relate to nature. Either it seems to us that nature is blind, or nature is something greater than us and apparently possesses intelligence. And indeed, today major scientists seem to feel that behind all the actions taking place around us there is some kind of universal intelligence.

Thus, he began to search for the leader. Promptly, the leader appeared before him and said, “I am the landlord of the world.”

Question: How did he achieve this?

Answer: After Abraham asked the question. To “ask” means that the Kli is complete.

What does it mean to “ask for rain”? A person raises such a request, MAN, that rain must necessarily come as a result. What is “rain”? It is when corrections descend from Bina to Malchut, causing Malchut, the earth, to blossom.

Thus, one can ask whether there can be a capital without a leader only after all the investigations you have carried out within yourself. You investigate yourself, and only afterward do you ask: “Is there some upper force behind all my thoughts, desires, passions, and sufferings, a force that is doing all this, governing everything, and leading me toward some goal?” In reality, you are asking about yourself. And if you ask such a question, you will certainly be called Abram, before you come to be called Abraham.

A “question” means that the Kli is truly ready. Everyone asks something. But that is not yet called a question. For example, when a child is hit, he asks; when he is not being hit, he does not ask.

When a question burns within a person to such an extent that there is nothing else besides it, this is a sign of a completed Kli.

For comparison, imagine the difference between a crying child and a crying adult. A child forgets everything within a moment and runs around happily again. But if an adult is crying, it is clear that something serious has happened. Or compare a crying woman and a crying man. A woman may cry over something that is not particularly serious. But if a man cries, then it is truly serious.

Therefore, to ask the question “Can there be a capital without a leader?”, to which the answer is “I am the leader of the capital,” means to ask about the one who governs, the very source of governance. Such an answer comes to a person only after all the sufferings and all the examinations he has undergone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/26, Rabash, “What Is the Work of Man, in the Work that Is Attributed to the Creator?”

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