The difficulty of our work lies in the fact that as we advance toward entering spirituality, or exiting this world, “Egypt” (this world is called “Egypt,” and the spiritual is “the Land of Israel”), we encounter a major problem: This entire process does not unfold according to our reason and this greatly weakens us.

Right now, many people are sitting here, and each of them once “burned” with a desire for the goal, but over time, they have calmed down. They settled into their place, fell asleep, and weakened. Why does this happen?

According to reason and feeling, a person does not receive what they expect. One wants to advance in such a way that there will be clear results within the desire to receive. A person is built so that moving forward means understanding more, gaining experience and strength, acquiring wisdom, and being better prepared for each new stage.

But here it seems the opposite happens. The more a person advances (yet does not see their progress), the weaker they become, the less they understand, and the more they fear what may happen to them. They have already experienced unpleasant states, and therefore are afraid, they don’t know what awaits them ahead, and they give up in advance.

The main thing here is to rely on reason. When we read the story of the exodus from Egypt, it seems beautiful to us. But when it happens within us, “and the children of Israel cried out from the work,” each time it becomes harder with fewer visible results, and a person raises their hands. They are tired and exhausted. What should be done?

Therefore, one who does not constantly work on building a system of support for themselves cannot advance. For example, how do miners work? They go underground, drill tunnels, and install supports. These are not simple tasks. To move forward even one more meter, one must install another support, and another, not just dig and move on.

So it is with us, if a person advances and wants everything they have done not to collapse upon them with such weight that they cannot rise, justify it in their heart or mind, or turn to the Creator, then they must maintain themselves in a certain state.

If there are disturbances against reason, they turn to feeling. If there are disturbances against feeling, they go according to reason. And if there are disturbances in both, what then? Then one immerses oneself in reading, in the articles; and if that does not help, the friends obligate them, and this is already a more advanced state.

Therefore, in order to advance, one must constantly sustain oneself by building a system of support so that there is truly a guarantee, a confidence that one will not fall. This is not just something that keeps a person on the path, these guarantees are built within the soul through work and study. One constructs them as if proving to oneself, to the parts of one’s soul, preparing its entire structure. This is very important work.

This is necessary not only in order to be able to advance and not fall, this structure remains forever.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/22/26, Rabash, “What Is the ‘Bread of an Evil-Eyed Man’ in the Work?”

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There is a path that Kabbalists call the path of Torah. They did not write their books by chance. These books are meant for a person who asks about the meaning of life. If you find yourself in a state where you feel no taste in life, that feeling is worse than death.

Yet you can do nothing about it. You are completely powerless. You cannot even take your own life, because you are required to “work” eternally. And that is precisely the purpose.

Therefore, you will not be allowed to die. Work will continue on you until you desire entering eternity. You will simply have no choice; you will have to pass beyond the point of death. In this way, the Creator awakens you to search for the meaning and purpose of life.

But what should we do when we go through states of darkness, when it feels like everything is collapsing and all is lost? We are under the influence of the masses, and the masses have enormous power. They affect us and transmit their total helplessness. They have no solution; they are like animals led to slaughter.

People in the street are simply unhappy. At least we have an inner refuge to retreat into. Even those who have not yet crossed the Machsom already possess a kind of inner shelter: When I remember the Creator, I feel that I can justify my state. My condition gains purpose, I understand that it is useful, desirable, and brings me closer to correction.

At times, I even begin to feel states of darkness as advancing me forward, as necessary and desirable. That is, while in darkness, the Creator reveals Himself to me from concealment, giving me a sense of calm, allowing me to glimpse a ray of light at the end of the tunnel. In this way, the Creator directs me toward Him.

A question arises: Why is it that when we hear about terrible tragedies and see that the people are in complete confusion, no one knows what to do? This is a fundamental question: “Why does it always happen to us this way? Why do we suffer?”

The situation is intensified by pressure from the entire world, we feel as though there is nowhere to run. The whole world seems against us. Everyone experiences this, and the people collectively radiate despair, which spreads to you. As a result, you descend together with them.

But this descent is temporary. Its purpose is to teach you to renew your connection with the Creator at every moment. You must constantly re-establish contact with the Divine, because through repeated entrances and exits of the Light, your inner connection to spirituality is renewed.

Try to relate all states to the Creator, to connect everything that happens with Him, and then you will feel better.

In other words, the Creator deliberately sends you different situations so that you will need Him as the source of life, so that you will turn to Him and remember Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/31/26, Rabash, “Show Me Your Glory”

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The light is the feeling of the divine, the Creator. The Creator and the light are synonymous terms. That is, my perception of the Creator is what is called light.

When the Creator filled me, as though a mother was holding me by the hands, this was the feeling of direct light, the light of Hochma, of knowledge.

But when I myself take a step forward toward the Creator, I fill the Kli with my own light, my own efforts, the light of Hassadim. This is no longer the light of Hochma. In other words, I come to the same feeling of the light, but through my own effort. And after that, I have both the light of Hassadim and the light of Hochma.

If I am already in spirituality, I even feel how the “mother” rejoices that I have connected with her. The very union with the mother takes on a completely different meaning for me. Now I have returned to her after feeling longing for her, I felt bad being far from her. I made tremendous efforts for this.

A person who takes an independent step becomes as if filled with life. This can be seen even in a child: how he rejoices as he falls into his mother’s embrace. In a state of darkness, we are filled with the light of faith.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/31/26, Rabash, “Show Me Your Glory”

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Is there a guarantee that on the next degree I will feel better? Perhaps, in the spiritual sense, yes. But as for the body…

There are a lot of questions that are connected with a person’s state and with his advancement. First of all, a person is not an isolated animal in this world.

Souls are connected with one another; there is a connection of souls and embryos of souls. I may at this moment be acting while carrying out tasks that are not connected with my own soul, but are serving other souls.

We all belong to the assembly of souls that make up the soul of Adam HaRishon, and accordingly we have a common lot, a common destiny. And each of us, or together with certain other souls, has his own individual, private destiny.

I cannot say that I will feel better in all respects by rising to any higher degree. The most vivid example that can be given here is what physical suffering Baal HaSulam experienced before his passing. He suffered from severe joint disease, pains in his heart, and besides that, cancer. He suffered immensely.

And as for everything concerning ordinary life: he lacked money, food, and the most necessary things for existence. Family problems… It was as if he had no peace in anything.

What is the source of this? We study that a person is merely a fragment of the collective soul, the soul comprised of all the other individual souls. There are numerous examples of great Kabbalist enduring physical suffering. Consider, for example, Rabbi Akiva and his death. But we cannot determine what the lot of each person is.

Our task is to rise along the degrees of the spiritual ladder, that is all. As for what may happen to the physical body, or even on the spiritual plane, to each individual soul, is all entwined with the action of the general system called Adam HaRishon. Certain phenomena and interconnections exist that can give rise to seemingly contradictory states: a righteous one who nonetheless suffers misfortune.

It is futile to dwell on this question. First of all, this is not in our power and is not revealed in advance. On our present level of understanding we do not know where they originate and why they come.

This belongs to much higher degrees. There a person begins to understand why and how events unfold, what their underlying cause is, and why one is interwoven into specific interconnections. These are very exalted matters. To understand them one must rise into the general part of Adam HaRishon.

But in whatever state we may be, it does not matter, reality does not change because of this. Only how we perceive it changes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/7/26, Rabash, “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror”

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There is only one means of spiritual advancement: the surrounding light that returns one to the source, which comes as a result of study with an intention as close as possible to the light. This advances a person from degree to degree. The higher the degree, the better its “climate,” its conditions.

It is similar to a person climbing mountains, who at each level feels a different state: the wind, the sun, everything becomes different. Therefore, a person who does not wish to rise higher should not expect that anything will change at the current degree. Nothing can change, such is the nature of that degree and nothing will ever change on it.

Only the souls that ascend and descend, that is, a person who rises and descends within their inner part, can feel changes. Then the inner degree that they have attained is projected onto their body, since spiritual desires are far stronger than material ones, and they certainly suppress all bodily desires.

Rabash writes that when speaking of the sensation of hunger, it is not about how much empty space a person has in their stomach, but about the feeling of hunger that one experiences, about their “Hisaron” (a lack that demands fulfillment), which does not depend on the empty space in the belly. This is a spiritual concept that cannot be measured and whose magnitude does not depend on physical emptiness.

Therefore, when a person acquires some spiritual sensation, all the lower feelings, of course, receive inspiration and a life-giving force from it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/7/26, Rabash, “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror”

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Question: What are we missing now?

Answer: We lack quality of intention. I do not want to say more. From here on seek for yourselves. Using this as your starting point, look deeper into what it really is.

That is what our work is about. If I reveal it, I would steal the opportunity for you to figure it out on your own.

Let us say I would give a short explanation in three or four words now. This explanation will have no basis; it will not enter into your flesh. You will just memorize it, know it, and thus you will go past this concept.

Whereas it should dwell deep inside. When you search, the Kelim are revealed, and the definition one ultimately discovers becomes imprinted, like an impression, within those very vessels.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/7/26, Rabash, “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror”

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Question: Should I make an effort to justify the Creator?

Answer: The effort on my part must be equal in magnitude to the feeling of darkness. I must reach a state where I justify any condition sent to me from above.

Then I fill the sensation of darkness with the light of Hassadim, and I need nothing from the Creator. I myself have filled the entire emptiness.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/31/26, Rabash, “Show Me Your Glory”

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