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Day and Night—The Actions of the Light

Posted on March 23rd, 2026

As there cannot be a day without a night, there cannot be light without darkness. Darkness is the Kli [vessel] and the light is the filling of the Kli, following the rule, “there is no light without a Kli.”

…if a person says that both light and darkness come from God, this is “And God called.” At that time, both the light and the darkness make one day. That is, as there cannot be a complete day without evening and morning, so the light and darkness serve one role—both together are called “day” (Rabash, “What Are Day and Night in the Work?”).

“Day” and “night” in spiritual work are actions of the light; these are the same steps that lead to the goal of creation: adhesion with the Creator. Therefore, it is said that our goal is to reach a state in which there is no day or night, and everything is revealed as one light, when night is revealed as part of day.

Regarding what do I feel darkness? In relation to the goal of creation, as a lack of adhesion.

If a person has already reached a state where he checks himself and sees that he is in darkness because there is a desire to receive in him that separates him from the goal, he checks it in the dark, with only the light of a small illumination, light that he attracted from above through great efforts. Thus, he reaches a state where he is truly ready to come out of Egypt, out of his desire to receive, and into the spiritual world.

Therefore, first of all, we must remember that the feeling of night and darkness is necessary. This is a feeling of the real Kli, of our true nature. It is achieved in relation to the goal of creation, to the fact that we are in properties opposite to the Creator.

We must see why we are opposite to Him, why we cannot integrate into the Creator, that is, into the property of bestowal, and determine that precisely this is darkness.

But the reason for this should not be the desire for spirituality in order to feel good, avoid trouble, and experience various pleasures.

If a person realizes that his spirituality is a property of bestowal, while he is the opposite of this property, and he is unable to integrate into it, to adhere to it, then he decides this is a true night. And by regretting, he reaches a state where he turns this fall, this darkness, into day.

Then the darkness begins to bring him light, the Kli begins to change; it receives an intention for the sake of bestowal, and becomes like the light. This means that the state of final correction is neither day nor night.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/11/26, Rabash, “What Are Day and Night in the Work?”

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We Exist Out of Nothing

Posted on March 23rd, 2026

The Creator is only one quality—bestowal, absolute goodness. But the creation was made by the Creator as opposite to Him, as the desire to receive (pleasure).

Therefore, in order to come to similarity with the Creator, the creation must go through many opposite states.

In order not just to change the desire to receive into the desire to give and adhere to the Creator, but to remain independent yet similar to the Creator, the creation includes two components: the desire to enjoy and the sensation of the giver.

Our entire sense of the world and our existence is built from these two opposites: Yesh mi Ain (existence out of nothing), only then does the creation feel that it exists.

We cannot exist only in Yesh (in the reality of the Creator) or only in Ain (in the reality of creation); therefore, we undergo consecutive changes in ourselves so the light (Yesh), which created me from nothing (Mi Ain), brings the desire (Ain) to the form of Yesh, the form of the Creator.

This is how it leads me along this chain: from cause to effect, from cause to effect, where each previous
result becomes the cause of the next state.

So far I am starting to feel His attitude toward me as someone external, an outsider, the force that created and controls me.

In addition to the fulfillment that I feel within reason, there is also the force of the Creator that develops me, shows me an example and a goal, and here I must act by faith.

I am in my current state like an animal acting only on what it has, but I also take into account the next state, the next degree; although I do not yet have it, I accept its existence by faith because it is the opposite my present state.

The nature of spiritual degrees is such that the next degree is the opposite of the previous one because it is a greater bestowal than the previous one.

Therefore, in order to ascend to it, I must accept its conditions of “bestowal contrary to egoism,” faith above reason.

Otherwise, I will forever remain on the current, animate degree and will receive everything in the same desire to enjoy rather than climbing the spiritual degrees, the degrees of bestowal.

Therefore, we must prepare ourselves to accept the next degree as desirable and not push it away.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/2/10, Rabash, “The Meaning of Truth and Faith”

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Not to Remain Between Heaven and Earth

Posted on March 23rd, 2026

In my material life I generally act in my own interests rather than the common good; primarily, I think about my own benefit, rather than about relatives or friends. To what extent do I see this as evil? Only to the degree that it is revealed to me. If it were not revealed, I would not see it. And had even more been revealed, I would not have been able to bear it, I would jump out of my skin, somehow break out of myself, just to leave all these qualities behind. But even this is not given.

Perhaps if I were granted such a revelation just once, no matter how agonizing it might be to endure (and it would be sheer hell), I would cry out with such intensity that I would be liberated of these qualities. But again, it is not granted. It is as if I am being kept over a low flame, constantly being turned from one side to the other; this is what is happening to me in this life.

This gives rise to the question: How will this end? I am granted a glimpse, a small revelation, of who I am, but this is not enough to enable me to break free from this state. On the one hand, it no longer lets me live the “good” material life that I once had when I busied myself with all sorts of nonsense and thought that, that was what life was about.

“Let them allow me to come into the spiritual realm already! Let me go through this stage, this period of suffering that is caused by my own nature and want another one, to reach a state when I am not in an intention for the sake of receiving. Perhaps that is the way? Let it be revealed to me! Yes, this period may be hard until I perceive and feel the suffering from what I have compared to what the Creator has. It seems this contrast is difficult to sense clearly, but I have to go through this stage, and that is all.”

If a person makes decisions of this kind, then he is already on the right track, since he shows his readiness to tackle this situation as quickly as possible and move through it, rather than remaining suspended between heaven and earth. And here he needs those who will support him, the Creator and the group, in order to apply the required sum of efforts and quickly pass through this stage.

But each time you experience a particular state, whether you feel good or not so good, and sometimes very bad because you are using others, this is not under your control. Rather it is a means for a glimpse of the truth to be revealed to you. Based on what happens to you, each time ask yourself the question of who benefits from this. In other words, what is the Creator doing with me? What does He want from me by this?
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/16/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Good Deeds of the Righteous Are the Generations,’ in the Work?”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 3/23/26

Posted on March 23rd, 2026

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 25 “The Measure of Practicing Mitzvot [Commandments]” (1986) (4.28.2003)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of the Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 6, Part 15, Item 1 (4.7.2016)

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3rd part of the Lesson — The Klipa of Egypt

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The Most Useful Action

Posted on March 22nd, 2026

How can we change states quickly? How can we minimize the time we linger in each state and make that as beneficial as possible so it leads not to errors, but to the goal via the shortest and best path? This will not happen simply because we know what to do. We do not know. This will not happen because I know my next state. I do not know it.

I do not choose the shortest path, one way over the other. But if I work on transcending myself and abiding within the group, then, as much as I try to do so, my inner effort means I am doing the most useful thing for my advancement and the group.

Accordingly, I can immediately discover that I am not in it, that I do not want it, and will see how much it repels me, while also receiving my friends’ reactions. There is no more useful action, and it is so simple that anyone can do it. It does not take much intellect.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/11/26, Rabash, “What Are Day and Night in the Work?”

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All the Work Is in Clarifications

Posted on March 22nd, 2026

Question: How can you check how much you have advanced after a lesson?

Answer: The main thing is to clarify: What do I want—for my own sake or for the sake of bestowal? Do I have a connection with my friends in this? Do I need them or not? Do I work from my egoistic desire or from the intention to bestow, from the side of the Creator or the creation, above my egoism or within it? All advancement is based on such self-analysis.

It may be that after a good lesson, these clarifications reveal my bad state to me, but they will be more precise, and that means that I am advancing.

Every day should bring a simple result: tomorrow or by the next lesson, I must come with a more clarified desire.

It does not matter whether I have a desire or not; it is given from above. The question is whether this state becomes clearer.

It is possible that the clarification will lead me to a dead end where everything becomes unclear, as if shrouded in a fog. But this also means greater clarity and a more precise clarification.

The light that comes to me during the lesson provides me with discernments; it does not matter whether they are positive or negative. It allows me to make a more precise analysis in order to evaluate myself, my state in relation to the Creator and the goal in all directions.

The light affects the desire; when it illuminates the desire for me, I see more within it.

Even if I suddenly stop distinguishing anything in it at all, and I feel complete confusion and fog descends unlike anything I have ever experienced before, this is also called seeing more. These are also degrees of understanding.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/10, The Book of Zohar

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What Is a Person’s Life Measured By?

Posted on March 22nd, 2026

Question: What is the meaning of the concept: “For the commandments are our life and the length of our days”?

Answer: It means that a person must come to feel that everything he receives in life is measured by the amount of light that descends from above, and that his life force depends on his connection with the spiritual, because it is from there that he draws it.

A person’s life is not measured in calories or in any other units, such as the size of his salary, but only by his connection with the Creator. Longevity is the extent to which he values his life, its spiritual height.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/14/26, Rabash, “Why the Speech of Shabbat Must Not Be as the Speech of a Weekday, in the Work”

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Actions to Prepare Intentions

Posted on March 22nd, 2026

Any action a person performs without an inner intention, without a sense of why one is doing it, is an inanimate action at the level of “Domem” (still). Yet the actions themselves prepare intentions in a person.

This is not to say that someone who does something in a group does not advance, because he is included in the group, and the group influences him with its intentions. We cannot measure and say, “This is just an action that carries nothing for me, there is no advancement in it.”

The thing is, if you are doing an action now and working with intention later, they connect. You do not always use intention while performing an action.

For example, if I am currently busy translating or creating a program and need to fully immerse myself in it, I have almost no opportunity to use my intention while doing so. But there is a general preparation, a background context, that defines why am I doing this and how I came to this. That is, in many cases, it is impossible to combine intention and action, and yet, they accompany each other.

It is important, however, that they align at the time of study. As Baal HaSulam writes in item 4 of the “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” it is very important that the intention and the study itself come together. This is called a united effort. Realizing the reason for studying is very important; without it, all learning yields no results.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/14/26, Rabash, “Why the Speech of Shabbat Must Not Be as the Speech of a Weekday, in the Work”

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For The Sake of Bestowal

Posted on March 22nd, 2026

Question: How can I demand anything from the group if I can only give what is in me?

Answer: It is quite simple. This is what the group is for, for you to demand the greatness of the idea of bestowal and the idea of adhesion with the Creator from.

But on what basis do you make this demand? It is according to your contribution to the group. What does this mean? In essence, you are the one investing in this idea. Only you cannot change or educate yourself on your own, only a group can.

You choose a group based on an idea, so the group can reflect the idea back to you.

But if you come to the group with some other demand, then it turns out you have not actually made a choice. This is not called a choice.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘There Is Nothing that Has No Place,’ in the Work?”

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