Question: Can the desire for the Creator arise in me only during the study?

Answer: In our current state, it is only during study and through performing good deeds. This is called Torah and good deeds.

What does advancement through Torah and good deeds mean? Through the Torah, you study, and during the study you awaken the surrounding light. Good deeds are various actions that you perform, which also bring you to the surrounding light.

Love your neighbor as yourself, love for those around you, and the unity of the group—all these are actions that you perform that, at the moment, awaken the surrounding light because you are acting in order to connect with other souls for the sake of advancing toward the Creator. This is called observing the commandments.

All the means that the sages spoke about are called study and our group actions. If you ask what is more important: group actions or study, the group activity is more important because it pushes you toward study and prepares you for correct intentions. But if you simply sit and study, it may happen that the result of your work will be negative.

Everything depends on the intention, on what you are asking from the study. Your demands arise through performing the actions surrounding the study. Therefore, group work is more important than anything else.

Even if you do not study but only engage in dissemination, translations, and other work for the group, from this, correct, good desires for the Creator will come to you, and then this will be enough for you to receive an answer. Of course, it is not only this, but the preparatory work is very important.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Oil Is Called “Good Deeds” in the Work?”

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Question: How should one work during an acute realization of one’s own evil?

Answer: When I experience the awareness of evil, there are states in which I am simply unable to move, as if I were dead, “free among the dead.” I cannot do anything. It is as though I am free from the commandments, from any action that I am incapable of performing. We do not even discuss such states when a person is at the lowest point of their descent.

Likewise, when a person ascends to a higher degree, he too can lose his head. This is clear.

But in all other states, he can more or less control himself; there is a connection between his feeling and his reason. Only in these two states does feeling prevail, and a person can lose his reason, his judgment. If, however, you can function even to some degree, if you have two forces, feeling and reason, then somehow you can still begin the work.

What am I lacking at these two points: at the peak of ascent and at the bottom of despair? When feeling is at its maximum and reason is at zero, I need to add reason. Where will I get this reason? From the group. In this way, I will enlarge my vessel and will not become confused.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/26, Rabash, “What Is, “Return, O Israel, Unto the Lord Your God,” in the Work?”

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Question: How is it possible to obtain the ability to “love your neighbor”?

Answer: It is impossible to acquire love for your neighbor without coming out of yourself. Desire is one thing. It can be directed either toward myself or toward that which is outside of me. And outside of me is the Creator. But in order not to deceive myself as if I want the Creator, I must, instead of the Creator, think about my environment, my friends.

If I can relate to them with love, it is a sign that I relate the same way to the Creator. After all, what is outside of a person’s body, whether it is the Creator or his friends, or something foreign that provides no immediate benefit, does not actually exist for him. “Does not exist” means that he does not think about it.

When do I begin to care about someone? When I see that in some case, state, in some connection, I depend on him. And if I do not depend on him, it would never even occur to me to care about him.

Do you really care about life in Australia? What is happening there? Who will be the prime minister there? You barely remember about it once a year. Why? Because you do not depend on it. But if we in Israel could receive, say, water only from Australia, imagine what the news would be talking about, what we would be thinking about all the time? Only about Australia: is everything all right there, and how can we settle everything with it.

That is, what does not relate to me is not in my field of vision at all. It is the same as well now with my friends: They are outside of my field of vision, and this is a sure sign, showing 100% that the Creator is in the same status for me.

I can imagine Him as “good who does good, bestowing to me,” and so on. That is all true, that is how He is in relation to me. But how I relate to Him, I can check only by how I relate to friends. This is the real test.

Baal HaSulam says that as a person grows, at first, he cares a little about the group, then about society, then about the country, and finally about the whole world. Based on this, it is possible to see how you relate to the Creator, because He is that, what is outside of you. This is a very simple, quick verification.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/26, Rabash, “Who Testifies to a Person”

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Question: Are ten souls the ten Sefirot?

Answer: Souls are not Sefirot. The people who are called souls are the people who are around me, who need the same thing I do, and who can help me in the work. Therefore, I need the group. But I can turn to the group only on the condition that I know the goal: to come to adhesion with the Creator. Then my appeal will be correct.

Otherwise, it will be harmful to me. I will start building some kind of kibbutz or collective farm that would eventually collapse because it is all egoistic. “The end of the action is in the initial thought.” First, I have to think through where I need to arrive, and only then, based on the goal, do I begin to work to unite with the other souls.

If I simply want to unite with people, for example, with one because he is strong, with another because he is intelligent, a third because he knows how to get ahead and will help me do the same, a fourth because he is wealthy, a fifth because he is calm and will calm me down, and another because he is cheerful and can amuse me, if I pursue this kind of path in uniting with people, I will not end up in the right group, the group that will help me push the heavy burden toward the goal.

Perhaps I will reach another goal, but not a spiritual one. Therefore, according to this, I should choose like-minded people who are moving in the same direction as I am.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Oil Is Called ‘Good Deeds’ in the Work?”

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Question: Why should the group supply me with a good mood?

Answer: Parallel to the greatness of the Creator, you must receive an uplifted spirit from the group. Without an uplifted mood, greatness is not greatness.

One could say that where the Creator is hidden, the group must perform His function. In other words, the Creator has hidden Himself, but in His place, He has given you the group. Why? Because you cannot connect with Him except for the sake of bestowal. But with the group you can play however you wish. Yet true play can also be only for the sake of bestowal. That is, in this world, in your egoistic state, you have the opportunity to perform spiritual work.

The problem with our group is that we do not concern ourselves with building the group. One must begin with this.

If I want the group to influence me and build me, then I must ensure that it is strong, that it possess the correct intention, that it operates on the right “frequency,” that it maintains an uplifted mood, and that it embodies everything that I wish to receive from it.

For it to possess these qualities, I must provide them to it. Where can I get what I give to it? Anyone can provide this! Anyone can do it, provided it is not for oneself, but for someone else.

It is just like during a lecture. You arrive, and your students think: “What a righteous one! How corrected he is!” Why? Because you pour out upon them everything that you have read and even what you haven’t. You work on their desire to receive, and give them a level of upliftment that you do not possess yourself.

Sometimes you come depressed, but you begin to speak, and you ignite yourself. You see that when you want to give to the group, your own state does not matter.

You can uplift people, truly inspire them, with your words, even those that might not seem to come straight from the heart. A person listening to you will think that this came to him from above, directly from the prophet Elijah. You must do the same thing deliberately and intentionally with your group, so that it becomes mutual.

You cannot imagine what forces you will be able to receive! You will not be able to sleep! It will be like those first days when you encountered the idea of Kabbalah. There are such days of ascent on the holidays of Sukkot or Passover when that uplifted spirit stays with you around the clock. You will see that this is how you will live.

Whether you want it to or not, your friends will act upon you in this way. However, the problem is that they do not yet wish to influence you. They do not yet understand that this is the crucial point.

You will feel that you are living and “burning” every moment. Where does come from within you and in what form? A whole group is sitting there and working, and you are with them for hours. When you are outside looking in, you often hear that this is important, that this is something special, and you yourself “catch fire.” What else is there to stir such excitement? This is what spirituality is about.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/26, Rabash, “Who Testifies to a Person”

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Until the final correction, we do not touch the “stony heart.” We only build a readiness for its correction in the form of negation.

Let’s imagine that the same process occurs even before the Machsom (barrier). We build a readiness to correct the Masach (screen) over our desire to receive through a form of negation. What qualities do we need to examine so that later we will be able to receive the light of Messiah from above, the light that will pull us out of this world into the spiritual world?

Later at the final correction, we receive the light of Messiah, which pulls us from the second restriction to the first restriction. That is it! Go figure it out! What do you need? What conditions are required? It takes many years of effort to bring you to this. It is as though you are “chewing over” the same articles and letters again and again.

In my time, none of this existed. When Rabash began writing his articles, it was already 1983 – 1984. His first articles were published in 1984. Before that, there was only the book Sefer HaHakdamot (The Book of Introductions), and that was it, nothing else. Moreover, we did not study it. We studied only The Study of the Ten Sefirot. If you wanted to, you could read the introductions on your own!

The fact that we “chew over” all these texts is very beneficial for making clarifications. However, we must try to bring them into the heart, that is, to read in such a way that they touch our revealed, exposed desires. As Rabash said: “They give you medicine, a bottle of medicine. But instead of drinking it, you rub it on your leg. You did not understand what the doctor told you, and you get the corresponding result.”

We need to perceive all these things as closely as possible in relation to our desires. While we are reading and listening, we should try to connect what we are reading with what is happening inside us. Then, gradually, it penetrates the heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Oil Is Called ‘Good Deeds’ in the Work?”

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Question: Our task is to increase the awareness of the importance of the Creator in others. I am obliged to do this toward the friends. But what about myself?

Answer: You are obliged to increase the awareness of the importance of the Creator in others. But you cannot do this for yourself, only in relation to others.

And the friends, in turn, will do the same for you. You are not the master of your desire. We are not speaking about whether you want to, but about your performing such actions in relation to the friends, even if feigned or reluctantly, since in relation to them you are able to do this.

You might ask sharp questions concerning us and our path here, and while conducting lessons in your external group be full of enthusiasm. These are two poles, but this is possible. This is how each of us must act. I too sometimes have states that are not noticeable from the outside.

Comment: When you are in front of a group, it is easier.

My Response: Of course, in relation to others you can do anything, for here your pride and honor come into play. Your ego works; the desire to receive helps you. And so, you are told: use the desire to receive in such a form; give society your “lie” and society will give you its own, and then you react to the falsehood of society as though it were true. You will accept it as the truth.

Question: And still, is it possible to establish some laws?

Answer: It is possible. Do what you want. The main thing is—do. Let us introduce the position of a duty head of the group, and let them change every day. Throughout today’s day, you take care to determine for us the importance of the Creator, how we must think and act. Begin; today you are responsible. Try it.

In fact, this is how everyone must act, and every day.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘Return, O Israel, Unto the Lord Your God,’ in the Work?”

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Each one believes that it is impossible to be a perfect human being, so in general, he thinks that he is complete, and when he looks at his friends he sees their faults, that they are not all right.

He, on the other hand, is fine (Rabash, “What Is, ‘Return, O Israel, Unto the Lord Your God,’ in the Work?”).

Whatever we do here is still part of the corporeal world, and there is only one path by which a person rises into spirituality: love of friends. Many articles have been written and many words have been spoken about the love of friends. What, in the current state of our group, should a person focus on now as something that will actually be beneficial?

I need only one thing. Not now and not later, but always, because even a month from now nothing will have changed compared with today. The work will be the same: recognizing the greatness of the goal, the greatness of connection with the Creator, the only thing worth living for and worth paying any price for.

On Saturday, when you made a toast at the meal, you said: “There is nothing left to give to the Creator, only my soul. I have already given everything and have seen that none of it is worth anything, that it has not even reached its destination. The only thing I have left is my soul. It is mine, and I give it.”

This is the awareness that the group must instill in me. Everything begins and ends with awareness of the importance of the Creator, because our entire path is directed toward Him. If He is not important to me, I will begin to turn in every direction—through 359 of the 360 degrees, excluding that one true direction.

Only one direction leads to Him. All the other directions are my “domain of the many,” where I turn toward fulfilling my own desires, cravings, passions, and deficiencies. Therefore, if I want to leave the central point, the “stony heart,” my point in the heart, and move toward Him and attain Him, then from the very beginning I must set the goal in my sights. And I will be able to keep it in my awareness, my attention, and my focus only if it is important to me.

How can it become important to me? It can become important only if the group tells me that it is important, tells me a thousand times over, because I do not see its importance. I will never start looking for it, because how can I search for something that I do not see, do not feel, and cannot perceive?

The group must give this to me. Here are both the beginning and the end of the work. Nothing changes: one must constantly raise the importance of the Creator through all the degrees, in this world and in the future. There is nothing besides this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘Return, O Israel, Unto the Lord Your God,’ in the Work?”

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Question: What should you do if a friend does not elevate you, but humiliates you? After all, there should be mutual relations in the group. It turns out that you invest effort, and he… .

Answer: Let’s suppose that the whole group is in a certain state where it does not awaken or uplift me in any way. In such a case, it is worthwhile to take several people from the group, work only with them, and together with them set an example for everyone else. But without unnecessary words—simply set an example.

If the others want to listen, then also tell them: “We are tired of sitting in the ‘assembly of the frivolous,’ and we have decided that we want to get out of this state. If you want, join us, and if not, then don’t. We can no longer continue like this.”

A person can do this alone, or take several like-minded friends with whom it will be easier. That is all. For this, there is no need to unite into groups; this can be done freely, so that everyone has the opportunity to join.

In any case, one needs somehow to look for a way to break the existing situation. And here, I think, it is not even worth giving advice. Seek advice yourselves, and that itself will be a blessed work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/26, Rabash, “What Are ‘Blessing’ and ‘Curse’ in the Work?”

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Question: We have been hearing about inspiration and importance for many years. If we put this into practice, rather than just talking about it, must we force our advancement?

Answer: We must engage the group in a game through a kind of forced, feigned “advertising.” Everyone here is obliged to play out the importance of the Creator and to lift their friend’s spirits. Do I really care, do I really want it? Yet I am obligated to do it, by force, artificially, and by pretending, rising above my feelings and understanding, rising above my reason.

From this moment on, everyone starts to play the game: the sensation of the Creator is important to us, knowing the Creator is important to us, the greatness of the Creator is important to us. We must not forget about Him or engage in empty chatter that lead away from the goal; this must become a burning topic for everyone. Apart from this, we have nothing in common. And we must do so forcibly, artificially, and by pretending, knowing full well that it is all a lie and a game.

If He is concealed, yet you have to perform actions stemming from the realization of His greatness, how do you go about it? You have no other way but to imagine His properties instead, to the best of your ability, and advance in that direction.

Comment: Everyone can justify such an approach.

My Response: So start playing! From this moment on, we begin to act.

Question: What if I am a bad actor?

Answer: If we all decide to do this, it means we are taking on the “burden of the kingdom of heaven” (Ol Malchut Shamayim). No one wants to, and yet we accept it. That is all.

There are descents and states of despair; this is understandable, but in general, everyone, as Rabash says, “take the leap.” Everyone is advancing, and a friend’s descent, along with my ascent and everything else, counts as a positive. And then time just races forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘Return, O Israel, Unto the Lord Your God,’ in the Work?”

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