This is why it is called “evil inclination,” for it argues that if one wants to engage in Torah and Mitzvot, he must first of all be completely white, without any stains or dirt, meaning that everything will be for the sake of the Creator. If he cannot aim for the sake of the Creator, it is not worthwhile to exert in vain (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 375, “Jacob Sent”).

Question: Why does the evil inclination in the image of Laban use the requirement of absolute purity of intention to stop a person? How can one understand that even imperfect actions have value in spiritual work?

Answer: The fact is that Laban is the highest purity. Therefore, we can use this property to whiten our black thoughts.

To work correctly with whitening actions, you need to try to check at least the actions you should do, compare them with the correct actions, and whiten them, including the wrong actions into the right ones.

Question: When is the best time to clarify the purity of your intention: in class, in a group, or on your own?

Answer: These are your internal actions, which you should immediately begin to separate when reading articles: this refers to Esau, this refers to Jacob, this refers to the Creator, this relates to man, and so on.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Jacob Sent”

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Question: What does “a perfect building in which the Creator dwells” mean? How can we build it in the ten, in the connections between us?

Answer: Through complete bestowal to one another, we can reach a state where we will be only in bestowal. From this state, we will build a house of holiness, a temple.

Question: What needs to be added to our work every day in order to build, not a traditional egoistic unification, but instead a house of holiness for the Creator in the ten?

Answer: When rereading the primary sources, you must try to do as they instruct, and each time you will feel something new. Then everything will be alright.

Question: Do Kabbalists somehow envision this building in the heart?

Answer: The building in the heart is Malchut, because the heart is desire. What we want to build in our heart is a palace for Malchut.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/6/24, Writings of Rabash “Delight Them with a Complete Building – 2”

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Question: How can we begin to derive pleasure in the ten from truth and not just from what is clothed in a lie?

Answer: Pray, ask. We have no other means.

Question: What does it mean to acquire “clothing” for pleasure, and how can we do this?

Answer: The clothing for pleasure is the reflected light, which is obtained through working with the screen. Therefore, the first step is to acquire the screen.

Question: The intention to bestow is built over the desire to receive, but the essence of the desire to receive remains. Thus, intention exists as a thought and thought serves desire, the essence of which is only reception. Then how does the desire to bestow awaken?

Answer: The desire to bestow awakens gradually. It comes from the Creator, through the group, and from the friends.

Question: How does intention differ from the Creator’s light?

Answer: Intention exists in us only in potential, within the desire, but not yet in its realization.

Question: Why would a spirit place itself in the confined space of matter?

Answer: So that the person in whom this spirit resides would desire to attain the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/6/24, Writings of Rabash “Delight Them with a Complete Building – 2”

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Question: Praying for a friend lifts a person above their body and frees them from egoism. Engaging in prayer for a friend feels like the highest reward. However, my ego puts up a wall in front of me that prevents me from entering this prayer, and it insists that I am unworthy. What should I do in this case?

Answer: What does it matter whether you are worthy or not. You simply desire to enter this state, and that’s it.

Even if you have not earned this reward, demand it anyway. None of us have earned anything. Absolutely nothing. That applies to everyone. So just demand it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/2/24, Writings of Rabash “A Ladder Set on the Earth”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Love of God and the Love of Man”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “On the Verge of Lishma“

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Question: How can we develop faith in the greatness of the Creator?

Answer: We can develop faith in the greatness of the Creator through the support of our friends, group, and lessons and by striving to implement everything we study within the group and in our mutual connection.

We must continuously bless the Creator and aim to come closer to Him. That will be the outcome of our efforts.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/2/24, Writings of Rabash “A Ladder Set on the Earth”

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Question: Some friends have been on the path for 20 years, but I have been there for over a year. You say we will all come together to “give for the sake of giving.”

How can I understand this if I have neither the experience nor my friends’ feelings?

Answer: You have to place yourself among people who are involved; study and strive for this, and then you will feel the current will pick you up and carry you forward.

Question: We have a global ideological group. How will their support help us reach the level of “bestowing for the sake of bestowal” at the upcoming congress?

Answer: You must hold on to them, and then they will support you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/7/24, “To Bestow in Order to Bestow”

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Question: The more I cry, the more I realize that these are tears for myself, and I want to cry for the Creator. How can I do this?

Answer: To do this, you need to change your heart, your desire. Only then can you cry for someone else. Otherwise, all your tears will be for yourself.

Question: How can I change my heart?

Answer: You must ask the Creator for that. But here you have an advantage because the Creator especially hears those who want to change their hearts. That is what you need to ask for! Only for that!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/24, Writings of Rabash “Isaac Sowed in That Land”

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In the process of correction, souls ascend the degrees of the spiritual ladder in the upper worlds. This means that the desire to receive, which has been clothed in the form of bestowal, ascends upward through correction.

The upper light descends to the degree where the desire resides. If the desire can align itself with the light by annulling itself to such an extent that they merge into a single whole, the light lifts it to a higher degree.

Thus, a soul can be described as a corrected desire to receive that has united with the light and aspires to ascend further upward.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/9/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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