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There is No One Closer to a Child than His Mother

919RABASH said that his father, Baal HaSulam, promised that by following his path and following his advice, we would be granted eternal life by the Creator in order to adhere to Him.

RABASH himself achieved high spiritual attainment using only the works and advice of his father. There is no other practical means of revealing the upper world to our generation except for the works of Baal HaSulam.

That is why his soul is especially close to us. After all, we evaluate everything by its benefit to ourselves. We do not compare the stature of the Kabbalists: Moses, RASHBI, the ARI, Baal HaSulam, and  RABASH.

Just as the most important thing for a child is his mother, so do I depend on receiving spiritual eternal life from the soul that preceded me: RABASH and Baal HaSulam. Of course, there are still many high souls, but we can only connect with the spiritual system through RABASH and Baal HaSulam.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/16/2010, The Memorial Day of Baal HaSulam

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Seek Fertile Soil for Your Growth

764.2Question: If a person is above their environment, can they influence and correct it?

Answer: A person cannot rise above one’s environment! They are completely dependent on it. Even if they are ordinary people, and he is a great Kabbalist, they will still influence him.

Imagine that you take a beautiful tree full of fruit, pull it out of the ground and plant it in the middle of the desert. What will happen to it? Will it turn the desert into a blooming garden?

Our soul depends on the environment in the same way.

The purpose of creation is both the group and my personal work, and the Creator within at this one point. Imagine that your whole life depends on this one point that you need to figure out. Right now whether you will live or not depends on it! And so it is every moment.

For example, you can’t breathe if you don’t press this point, and then oxygen comes to you from there. And if I didn’t press it, I didn’t join it, there is no oxygen.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/18/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Freedom”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 11/19/25

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Work with Faith Above Reason” (9.11.2020)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot, Item 17″

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3rd part of the Lesson — The Book of Zohar,Beresheet – 1, ‘And the Land Was Tohu (Chaos) – 1′”

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How To Transition to The Upper Reality

237To move from the sensations of the current reality of this world to the upper reality, which is called the world to come, means to move from reason to faith above reason, from reception to bestowal. Although it is impossible to explain anything here with words, it is like describing the existence of different sounds of music to a deaf person.

But there are exercises that can help us awaken the light that returns to the source, and it gives us the force of bestowal. Then we gradually begin to think about existence with this force of bestowal, instead of the force of reception. It is possible.

When we try to unite, that is, to annul our personal egoistic desire and move to the common desire of bestowal to the group, then gradually the foundations in us change.

This is how we come to faith above reason, to the spiritual approach that allows us to feel, understand, make decisions, and perform actions that begin and end, not inside our desire to get pleasure, but above it, that is, in the spiritual world.

When we lose the taste for working, we get angry and blame fate, the Creator, the wisdom of Kabbalah, and the teacher. We do not understand that the loss of taste for studying and for the group is an invitation to rise to a spiritual degree, where we work not for the sake of animate, material, egoistic pleasure, but to bring contentment to the Creator.

Gradually, step by step, we get used to such work. The main thing is to realize that the loss of taste and mood comes from above, from the Creator personally to an individual in order to tear them from egoism and grant them some freedom from egoistic pleasures, and to make them feel independent from personal interest.

I feel as if I am hanging between heaven and earth because no pleasure attracts me, there is no strength to move and no reason to, life promises no fulfillment. This is enormous help from the Creator that tears a person away from egoistic intention, from this entire world.

Then the only option left is to work without any fuel, without egoistic motivation, but only for the sake of the greatness of the Creator: to come to lessons, to events, to live in general! I try to exchange the previous pleasures that gave me egoistic hope for a new state, in which I do not want to imagine the future and future reward, but I strive only to cling to the Creator at every moment.

This feeling that I am doing something for the Creator gives me fuel for work, and in this moment I am alive. And in the next second, I have to make another effort, and so on again and again, every moment. In this form, I will advance; the Creator will help disconnect me and cleanse me from my desire for pleasure, and then I will be able to act for His contentment. For this, I will exist.

These moments, states in which we feel that we have no strength to live and to act, when the world grows dim and plunges into darkness, promising no hope and fulfillment, this is a huge help from the Creator. This is how He detaches us from our reality, from this world, and gives us the opportunity to work for Him.

If the Creator did not disconnect us from the pleasures and fulfillments of this world, we would have no chance whatsoever of reaching a spiritual degree. We would remain forever enslaved to Pharaoh, who would faithfully pay us, and we would obediently work for the sake of this reward. This is our life in egoism.

Therefore, detachment from egoism, when the feeling of emptiness, powerlessness, hopelessness, and loss comes, is precisely the state in which there is a possibility to transition from reason to faith above reason, to the degree of bestowal, when I decide that I will do everything for the sake of heaven, for the contentment of the Creator.

It is necessary, time after time, to perform such exercises organized by the Creator, and thank Him for this, rejoice that you are finally rising from this world into the spiritual world and are in the transition. We need to accelerate and strengthen such actions so that each will become a leap forward for us, and it all depends on our connection with the environment, with the ten.
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From Daily Kabbalah 12/2/19, “Work with Faith Above Reason”

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The Principle of Spiritual Unity

938.02The condition for connection in the upper world is the condition of “not for one’s own sake,” but “for others.” This is a principle that we are simply unable to understand.

In our world, we build systems of healthcare, education, fire safety, and so on, but all of it is done for ourselves. Otherwise, we would not take part in it. That is our world. That is our nature. We should not delude ourselves into thinking we are different.

But spiritual unity is built on the exact opposite principle: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

If I wish to attain that, I connect with others, not because I feel good with them, not because together we will achieve something better like confidence, safety, and successful development, but because I accept their desires and realize them with my own strength. That is all!

In other words, it is as if I myself do not exist. There exists only a mechanism that works to fulfill the desires of others. This is the fulfillment of the principle: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
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From the International Kabbalah Congress in Moscow 5/2/16, Lesson 1

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 11/18/25

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Work with Faith Above Reason” (9.10.2020)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 4, Chapter 5, Item 4

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3rd part of the Lesson — Conversations of a Kabbalist with His Students During the Day

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4th part of the Lesson — The Book of Zohar,Beresheet – 1, ‘Taamim, Nekudot (Points), and Otiot (Letters)'”

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How To Rise to Faith Above Reason

231.01Faith above reason means that I accept the view of the upper one even when it clashes with my own understanding, as it is written: “They have eyes but do not see; they have ears but do not hear.” This means that I can lift myself to a higher level each time, as though pulling myself upward to the next rung, by choosing the upper one’s opinion over my own, even when it contradicts everything I know.

If a friend hands me an envelope with $1,000 and I do not check the amount because I trust him—this is faith below reason. My trust does not contradict what I know, and therefore it does not demand faith.

Knowledge is the mind and perception I possess within this material world, like a judge who relies solely on what his eyes can see. Faith, however, is what stands above this knowledge, as Bina stands above Malchut. And to rise from the degree of Malchut to that of Bina, I must advance through faith above reason.

If I count the money and find that there are $999 instead of $1,000, then $999 is my knowledge, and the remaining “$1” is the measure of my faith. But if the envelope contains only $1, or is completely empty, and still I believe the higher one, considering his view to be true, then I elevate myself above my own reason and begin to see from the vantage point of the upper one.

The mind of the upper one is the opinion of the group or the teacher. If I strive each time to rise to faith above reason, this means I am ascending spiritual degrees. If I make no effort to accept the mind of the upper one, I neither enter nor approach the spiritual world.

Faith above reason is the only point of free choice granted to a person in this world.

If I accept the upper one’s view and agree that the envelope holds $1,000, although I counted only $999, then I rise to his degree. And then I myself witness how the envelope becomes filled to the full measure, not with money, but with the greatness of the Creator.

Faith above reason is a special mechanism, a unique method that lifts us from the material degree to the spiritual one, and from a lower spiritual degree to a higher one. This is the only way to ascend: by taking on the opinion of the higher one.

Each time I am as if born anew on the next degree, again and again. I enter the new state like a newborn who carries nothing from the previous one; I cling to the mind of the upper one and proceed with it.

With my own senses I see only $1 in the envelope. Yet above my senses I must accept that it is $1,000. I do not nullify my knowledge, I leave it as it is. I clearly see the gap between what I know and what stands above knowledge.

This gap defines the difference between Malchut and Bina. On one hand, “the judge has only what his eyes see”—this is Malchut. Yet I must go against this knowledge and prefer the knowledge of the higher one—Bina, faith.

And within this interval—this divergence between Malchut and Bina, between knowledge and faith above knowledge—the upper world and spiritual reality begin to reveal themselves.

All the work in the ten proceeds by faith above reason. I may see no love among the friends; on the contrary, we seem ready to devour one another. Yet we work to love each other. In the eyes of the upper one our ten is perfect and stands in complete unity; in our own eyes it appears entirely otherwise. This difference is what we must examine and rise above.

And this contradiction remains. I cannot reconcile one with the other, for this distance is the very gap between Bina and Malchut, it cannot close; in fact, it continues to widen.

This is the difference between the Creator and the created being as it awakens within me. And the more I follow faith, the more I cleave to the Creator instead of clinging to my own mind and animal body. This is how spiritual advancement unfolds.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/23/20, “Work with Faith Above Reason”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 11/17/25

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Work with Faith Above Reason” (9.9.2020)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 4, Chapter 5, Item 3

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3rd part of the Lesson — Conversations of a Kabbalist with His Students During the Day

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4th part of the Lesson — The Book of Zohar,Beresheet – 1, ‘Taamim, Nekudot (Points), and Otiot (Letters)'”

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Without Connection We Cannot Advance

527Question: How can we verify that we are bringing contentment to the Creator? What should we feel?

Answer: We should feel that we have an inner connection with the Creator, that is, feel His presence in my heart, His attitude toward me, and my attitude toward Him. In essence, this is the foundation of connection.

Question: I will feel it internally with my heart, but is there any external indication, relative to the environment, that I am correctly directed toward the Creator?

Answer: We constantly learn from the sources that it depends on love for friends, on connection with them, and on mutual help.

All of this relates to the connection within the group. Without it, we cannot advance.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/10/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 11/16/25

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Work with Faith Above Reason” (9.8.2020)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 4, Chapter 5, Item 1

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3rd part of the Lesson — Conversations of a Kabbalist with His Students During the Day

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