Question: The article says we have to give the ox everything it needs or it cannot work. But if the ox is the quality of receiving for oneself, what can we give it from the spiritual work so that it does not receive for itself?

Answer: I do not know. But the Creator must know. I cannot set conditions.

It simply states that it is in our power to fulfill everything we need to do to start working for the Creator and to give Him as much as we can. The rest is up to the Creator.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/8/2025, “To be as an Ox to the Burden and as a Donkey to the Load”

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Question: What helps a person consciously, through the path of light, come to the absolute annulment before the Creator?

Answer: Efforts are needed when a person sees that all of one’s properties repel one from the connection with the Creator. Then a person gets a desire to break away from the forces that act upon him and create such a state within him. In this case, by breaking away from the Creator he finds himself.

Such a moment is necessary here, because before he had states when he thought that he was winning. In reality, it was simply distancing, and he had a good feeling about it.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/3/2025, “Devotion”

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Question: The significance of Baal HaSulam and RABASH comes through you. It is clear that they have written very deep and serious texts. There are also other writers or works in Judaism and other sciences. But you give importance to these particular Kabbalists. After all, Baal HaSulam is not known much in the world. Only now is he becoming popular. How can we know about their greatness apart from you?

Answer: You cannot know them in any way. It happens gradually. Let’s say that you are coming to a family celebration that has both little children and adults. You see how adults stand sedately with an aperitif in hand, talk and nod to each other, and so forth. At the same time little children don’t pay attention to anyone. They run around, bump into people, and push everyone. They do not care that some adult is talking to someone.

The same is happening with us. We are like little children who do not understand these adults who are talking to one another. We push them around. But accordingly, we are forgiven. Later on when we grow past the silly age of infancy, we acquire different thoughts about them that not the same as now.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Links of the Chain of Kabbalists from ARI to Rabash” 9/4/10

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Comment: In the process of human evolution, many concepts of design, appearance, and everything else changes.  For example, what occurred in the seventies now looks ridiculous.

My Response: I am not afraid to seem ridiculous if I create something. I create it in my time, based on the desire and the properties that are revealed in egoism at a given time. Since I am a product of my era, then naturally I create what corresponds to it.

Of course if we watch old movies, we see how naive they seem. But they were relevant for that time, for that level of egoism.

For our time, when egoism develops in its overt negative form—I would say, undisguised, impudent, and naked—when it completely exposes your naked nature to everyone without a drop of shame or embarrassment, I think that this is wonderful! I think people will finally understand who they really are.

When I see your impudence, assertiveness, and selfishness in everything, your unwillingness to openly take anyone or anything into account, I see you, and not some beautiful cosmetic picture, and therefore I am glad that such things are revealed in our time.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Evolution of Ego” 9/22/10

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Question: I noticed that people and animals from different countries are very different from each other. For example, in India, everything is about the same size, both animals and people, and they move slower than here. When you come to another country, there are certain qualities there. In Israel, cats are so arrogant that they are not afraid of dogs, and they chase them.

How much does geography affect people?

Answer: Undoubtedly geography has a very strong influence on us!

It is best to trace this through the example of the Jews, as an experimental people in the history of mankind, who settled all over the earth. If you take Jews from the Baltic States, or from Germany, or Asia, they are just different people, different nations. They are not similar to each other! The mentality is completely different.

They were once exactly the same since they came from the same territory. Look at what happened to them! Now they have different facial features, different personalities; everything is different.

This shows how much a geographical place, its nature, and the surrounding society affect people, which in turn is also a product of geography.

Question: Are animals also a purely geographical consequence?

Answer: Certainly, naturally, animals too.

They were influenced by the environment in the same way as their common primitive ancestor, who went to Germany or Central Asia. You can see how dogs differ after settling all over the earth.

Comment: Nevertheless, the language of animals is approximately the same, and that of humans is different.

Answer: It just seems this way to us. No! There are also a lot of differences in the language of animals.

Of course not as much as in humans, because this is a consequence of our internal emotional, physiological, and general development. But of course it is different because it expresses feelings in a slightly different way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Geography Influences…” 9/13/10

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #34 “The Advantage of a Land” (10.25.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 63, 64 (7.9.2006)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 9 “One Should Always Sell the Beams of His House” (1984)

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “You Are in Partnership with Me”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #34 “The Advantage of a Land” (10.25.21)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” 63-64 (07.09.2006)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 9 “One Should Always Sell the Beams of His House” 1984

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “You Are in Partnership with Me”

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Question: How can we in the ten obtain faith in the sages? Right now our motivation is mostly envy or shame before our friends.

Answer: That is true, but we have to start with something, and it does not matter with what.

Therefore, it is better to begin with what everyone already has and gradually connect your mind and thoughts to what RABASH writes.

Question: Can we say that at first we work for the sake of our friends, the next stage is faith in the sages, and then it is for the love of the Creator? Let’s say we make efforts, and those efforts hold us. How do we then rise from “for the sake of friends” to faith in the sages, with which we can “blunt the teeth” of our egoism so that the body works under the yoke?

Answer: Here you need a slightly different approach. Wait, we will see.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/9/2025, “To be as an Ox to the Burden and as a Donkey to the Load”

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Question: Should a correctly formed desire and correctly directed work ultimately give a feeling of heaviness in the work?

Answer: In principle, it should not be like that. We should reach a state where all the work is a gift to us, and in this way move forward.

Question: But does a person still experience some sense of burden, or does one really move with ease? Or does a person consciously make an effort and therefore feel some heaviness?

Answer: No, the feeling of heaviness is an indication that you have not yet attained the quality of bestowal.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/8/2025, “To be as an Ox to the Burden and as a Donkey to the Load”

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We must work in faith above reason, ignoring our own feelings “like an ox to the burden and a donkey to the load.” Once domestic animals like the ox and donkey were free, living their own lives in nature with their own family, their herd. But now their entire life is devoted to fulfilling the master’s demands. They sold themselves for a feeding trough and are ready to do whatever work the master requires.

In the same way we must agree to do all the work according to the Creator’s will, “like an ox to the burden and a donkey to the load.” But for what reward? For nothing but the bare minimum needed to exist. I want nothing for myself, only to exist, and for what purpose? Only to fulfill the Master’s will so that He would love me as His ox or donkey.

Why does the master feed and clean his animals? Because they work. That is exactly what I want and nothing more. I need to humble myself to pure intention.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/13/19, “Burden of the Heart – An Invitation to Build a Striving for the Creator”

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