Those two kinds of fear—fear of punishment in this world and fear of punishment in the next world—are not the essence of fear and its root” (Rabash, “Lishma and Lo Lishma”).

Fear is what propels us forward. Modern medicine lists 780 types of fear. They say there are all kinds of techniques that further distinguish its types. But what is fear?

In essence, fear is a feeling of not being fulfilled. There can be fear of the past, present, and future. The fear that I will feel bad now and later, in this world and in the world to come. What else could there be besides that? Only the fear of pain and suffering.

In the article “Lishma and Lo Lishma,” Rabash states there is also another fear—fear not for oneself. But, nevertheless, I still fear. When I want to do something good for someone I love, it is as if I am buying their desire to receive; it becomes like my own, and I care about filling it. Thus, I have a fear related to the desire to receive that belongs to a loved one, whether it will be fulfilled or not.

It is similar to a mother’s fear for her children. She worries both about whether she will be happy now or in the world to come, and for her child so that he will be happy now and in the world to come. The fact that a person is worried about himself and about another “animal” next to him because he is related to him and a part of him is the same kind of fear.

However, there is also the fear regarding the giver, the Creator. If I acquire His desire to give, if I feel Him, if I have formed some kind of relationship with Him, if I begin to love Him, then I begin to care about what He feels to the same extent. As I understand it, I am worried about what it will be like for Him.

Of course, you can say, “This is the Creator, what is there to talk about? What does it mean, ‘What is it like for Him?’ He is the only one, the first, the beginning of all beginnings, He is perfect, He is everything!”

But since I buy Kelim from Him, Inside me I feel as if He depends on me. And once He depends on me, I worry about how to fulfill Him. Thus, I have a different kind of worry; instead of worrying about what will happen to me now and after this life ends, I care about what He gets from me.

These things contradict each other. If I think about the Creator, I do not think about myself. This is called replacing animalistic fear, human fear, with the fear of love, called the suffering of love. Instead of caring about my own fulfillment, I think about fulfilling the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/26/26, Rabash, “Lishma and Lo Lishma”

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Question: What can I understand about the action of the Creator from an obstacle sent to me?

Answer: If I understand the state in which the Creator sends me a desire with the intention for receiving, then from this action of His, I learn about His love for me. He gives me the material, the desire itself, and gives me the opportunity to become like Him, to be as He is, to reach the same sensation that He has.

This is His attitude toward me; it is the best possible. It is impossible to create a greater state of love and sincerity, and a better attitude than this. In this way, He gives me the possibility to become similar to Himself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 2/10/26, Rabash, “What Are the Two Actions During a Descent?”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 7, “According to What Is Explained Concerning ‘Love Thy Friend as Thyself'” (1984)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Recording of Rabash, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” “Table of Questions for Topics,” Vol. 2, Part 5

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3rd part of the Lesson — Preparing to Attack at the Congress

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Question: How can one use the law “Love your neighbor as yourself” in order to choose the right environment?

Answer: Baal HaSulam writes about this in the article “The Freedom.” A person must find an environment that exactly corresponds to the Hisaron (deficiency) he would like to acquire.

You see that in our lives society dictates what to do to us. Since we already have desires to enjoy, society can impose on me what to enjoy, for example, Coca-Cola. I don’t know what it is, but according to what society instills in me, I go and buy a bottle of Coca-Cola, in which there are a certain number of grams of pleasure.

In a Kabbalistic society, it is different. I must build an environment that will correspond to my expectations. If I want the spiritual world, something sublime, and society tells me that it is worth desiring, then it will thereby force me to constantly think about spirituality, and I will study the method for eight hours a day, but my request will still be in order to receive. I want spirituality, give it to me! Such a demand is not answered from above.

Of course, this is an intermediate stage, and it also exists. But the demand that is answered from above is a demand for the forces of bestowal.

Therefore, I must look for a society that will value this Hisaron. Even if I do not know what it is (I do not yet have this desire), when society begins to “brainwash me” with the message that this is very important and that this is exactly what I lack, I will receive this desire from them; there is bestowal, something that is above my nature, and that it is precisely this that I should demand.

I begin to study books that speak about spirituality, and through them I want to reveal what it is. I want it to make me feel good. When I receive this desire from the group, the surrounding light begins to shine on me and changes me.

Slowly and gradually, the group must show me what I should demand during the study, and then I will reach the desired result.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson on 2/2/26, Rabash, “For Man Is the Tree of the Field – 1”

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Rains means water, and there is no water but Torah.

When Israel were complete wicked in the beginning of the year, they were allotted few rains, but in the end they repented. It is impossible to add, since the sentence has already been given, but the Creator brings them down on time on the soil that needs them (and RASHI interpreted, “On the soil that needs them: on the fields and on the vineyards and on the gardens”) …

Torah gives him strength and power to perform Mitzvot and good deeds… (Rabash, “For Man Is the Tree of the Field – 1”).

We exist in a certain reality in which we must grow. We do not choose how to be born, to whom, or with what qualities. We do not choose our environment or how it will influence us. In this world, essentially, we cannot change anything about our destiny. Therefore, a person living within this world, confined to animalistic life, has no free choice, and consequently there is neither reward nor punishment. They do not perform a single action independently, and therefore it is not said about them that they have Rosh HaShanah.

Rosh HaShanah belongs to one who wants to be a Jew, that is, who desires to attain adhesion with the Creator. Then a person feels that he has a point in the heart, which relates to the realm of the spiritual. This desire is determined from above, and there is nothing to change within it; it contains everything necessary for this point, including the stages of its development. What it lacks is an environment, a group, since the Creator is concealed.

Therefore, a person must build an environment for the point in the heart, through which it will develop. On the corporeal level, a person’s qualities, desires, and environment are predetermined. On the spiritual level, they are given a germ of the soul, the point in the heart, but they are not given the external environment. How a person builds the environment for one’s point in the heart is how one will advance.

If they use this correctly, then all the forces given to them will contribute to the development of this point, and they will begin to develop and grow spiritually. They will find the right path and each of their steps will be very beneficial—in study, in dissemination, in all their actions—on condition that they devote all their forces to creating the right environment.

But if they do not make sufficient efforts to create such an environment and invest their efforts only in study, then even if they study the correct books, it will not help. It will rain heavily, but on a desert instead of a small rain watering a field or garden that needs it. By the way, heavy rains can even be harmful. Everything must be balanced, both the place and the amount.

At the same time, a person should not examine what is determined for him from above: the number of hours of study, his “difficult” life in which he must have a family, earn a living, and take care of his health. The Creator determines how much each one needs, absolutely precisely and in the most beneficial form.

And a person must put in order what is determined for him: the awakening forces, the friends who are near him and placed at his disposal, and so on. If he organizes this correctly, in accordance with the goal, then he advances in the most effective way.

This is the calculation a person must make on Rosh Hashanah. He must crown the Creator as King and bless Him for having provided him with all the necessary conditions.

A person crowns the Creator as the goal he must attain. And then he begins the year knowing that throughout the entire year everything has been predetermined at the beginning, except for his work. And if he fulfills it, he will attain the goal; but if not, then despite the fact that all the conditions were given to him in advance on Rosh Hashanah, he misses this cycle, which is called a year.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson on 2/2/26, Rabash, “For Man Is the Tree of the Field – 1”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 8, “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 2” (1985) (4.7.2003)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Recording of Rabash, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” “Ohr Pnimi,” Vol. 2, Part 5, Item 35

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3rd part of the Lesson — Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress

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Both during an ascent and during a descent, a person must make sure that it is the Creator who governs all ones actions, prayers, and states. A person needs only see that he or she is ready to receive any state that comes.

And if a person tries to see each state as coming from the Creator and agrees with them, then to that extent one begins to understand the thoughts and intentions of the Creator, about which it is said: “From Your actions we shall know You.”

In this way, one achieves adhesion with the Creator due to the fact that they not only makes themselves similar to Him in their actions, but also receives the same head (Rosh), the same “way of thinking.” This means that the way the light comes to a person from above, one builds the same reaction to it from below.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/9/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Before the Egyptian Minister Fell, Their Outcry Was Not Answered, in the Work?”

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Comment: You say that tension is needed to accelerate the data processing. It seems to me that I would do it much better if I were in a peaceful state and not under the group’s pressure.

My Response: So, you are saying this: “If the group pressures me, I will get confused and run away; I cannot function under pressure.” There must be pressure. The group should obligate a person.

Comment: But still, I need some free time to process the information.

My Response: Data is not processed by sitting quietly with a mug of beer and pondering life. Data is processed in critical, stressful states. Don’t think you will get a moment of rest, and then you will sit down, focus, and solve everything, nothing of the sort! On the contrary, the faster your pace, the greater your ability to make calculations will become. It is precisely in such states that you make the correct calculations within fractions of a second.

Of course, there is study; there is a time when one truly needs to study in order to feel some connection with the structure of the worlds, with the structure of the soul, to understand how it is built, and how I can at least somewhat mentally connect myself to it, verify it, and see it. A person must divide their time, but even then be on their toes.

What is tension? Tension is a lack, a deficiency in achieving the goal. That is called stress, tension, and pressure.

When I want something and cannot attain it, it puts pressure on me, it makes me tense. I am not talking about suffering that puts pressure on me so I run away from it. Our state must be that I am stressed because I have not reached what lies ahead, not because I must flee from something pressing on me from behind.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/26, Rabash, “And There Was Evening and There Was Morning”

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The group must ensure that a person’s thoughts are constantly connected to it. There are no compromises here—all 24 hours.

How can this be checked? By whether you do not leave the feeling that you are in the group, that the friends are around you, that all of you together are directed toward one goal. If this is not constantly present within you, then the group has not programmed itself correctly for spirituality.

Only after we program ourselves to feel like we are in the group and in an attack 24 hours a day, and this becomes routine and habitual for us, will we begin to experience a different life, a spiritual life. This is called becoming a nation, not individuals, a nation that demands the Torah. And then we merit receiving it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/26, Rabash, “And There Was Evening and There Was Morning?”

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Question: How can one make use of the help of the group or the Creator in order to reach the beginning of spiritual work as quickly as possible?

Answer: The fact is that a person by oneself, alone, without a group, is practically unable to come to a definition of their state as darkness, as evil.

Without such external factors as environment and group, one will never be able to know which states are more advanced, more correct—those that truly advance him toward the spiritual—and which are merely those that seem so to him and appear that way to him.

Therefore, if a person is ready, with the help of the group, to define one’s parameters in a more correct form, independent of one’s personal feeling and dependent only on the definition of truth and falsehood, and not on “bitter–sweet”; if he is ready to withstand this despite the fact that it is bitter for him or her to determine that this is truth and therefore preferable (and only the group, the books, and the teacher can make this clear to one), then one’s darkness turns into day.

A person’s definition of what is called darkness and light changes. It is not that there was a change in his or her state, in the surrounding reality, or in the Creator’s attitude toward the person. What changed was one’s inner definition, and this is called that one corrected one’s vessel. That is, now a person examines their sensations by a different vessel, which is called the vessel of faith above reason.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/26, Rabash, “And There Was Evening and There Was Morning?”

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