Question: Does coming out of self-love mean caring about the environment?

Answer: You cannot simply come out of self-love. If you come out of it, you must instead “enter” into love for your neighbor. There is no intermediate state between the two. There are only two authorities: either the authority of creation or the authority of the Creator, either the desire to receive or the desire to bestow. So make your choice.

If a person ultimately decides that they must come out toward bestowal, then the consequence of this decision should be the realization of the need to engage with their friends because this is the only means, the only lever, by which they will come to a connection with the Creator. What kind of connection is this? It is the equivalence of qualities!

Therefore, if you have not yet arrived at the need to connect with the environment, it means that you do not feel a real pressure to connect with the Creator. It is literally one and the same. Based on this, you will be able to see how far you are from spirituality and how you lack any points of contact with it; you have no approach or desire for it.

By environment, we mean people who share the same desires as yours, no worse and no better, who seemingly desire spirituality just like you do. Do they really want it? You see that you do not yet truly want it, so perhaps they do not want it either. But to some extent they have the same direction; after all, the Creator gave them the same thoughts and desires.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/26, Rabash, “Who Testifies to a Person”

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Question: How can one engage in making clarifications while in a state of uplifted spirits?

Answer: Are you saying that if you receive inspiration from the group, it will interfere with your clarifications and self-analysis? Why? Do you think you can analyze only when you are in a state of depression? You should know that in a bad state, there is no analysis, you are only tormenting yourself!

Clarification occurs mainly when the light acts upon you, and you begin to sense the difference between it and yourself. The group will never disconnect you from your self-analysis. On the contrary, be in the greatest possible upliftment at all times. Do not worry, the clarifications will come.

If you fall into a certain thought or become immersed in self-analysis, it will happen only for a moment. And that will be enough. This is what is called “shortening the time.”

You seem to think that analysis means falling into a descent for several days and being unable to get out of it, realizing the depth of your fall and the terrible state you have uncovered within yourself.

No! It can happen in such a way that it takes place within a single moment and you will not even feel it. In spirituality, you do not even know how or when all of this will come together.

Never worry about attaining a bad state! You should care only about constantly being in a state of ascent and in thought of the Creator. The clarification will come from this.

The light clarifies the Kli (vessel) and gives it the ability to conduct an analysis.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/26, Rabash, “Who Testifies to a Person”

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We must create a group in which each of us will inevitably become impressed by the laws of the upper world. We need to brainwash ourselves, so to speak, completely artificially, understanding that we do not want this, but doing it nevertheless, like a child who repeats everything after an adult.

This is called going above reason, above oneself. It is impossible to cross the Machsom with our egoistic qualities. Only by artificially becoming similar to the spiritual world can we create an environment in which it is as though we are already there.

When on this side of the Machsom we create this environment through playing, to the same extent we draw the surrounding light upon ourselves and it pulls us into the spiritual world. There, we attain the revelation of the Creator. As soon as we feel the upper one, we immediately want to be included in Him and become completely similar to Him.

In other words, all our freewill consists of placing ourselves under the influence of the surrounding light. And this is what we must do each time.

After the Machsom, at every spiritual degree, we will have to evoke the illumination from the higher spiritual degree upon ourselves, from the AHP of the upper one, which will act upon us as the surrounding light and pull us upward.

The light as if draws us into the next, more advanced state in which the Creator is revealed. And there, we are already under His authority and become like Him.

In other words, the light builds the Kli, corrects it, and carries out absolutely all the changes within the Kli. We only need, like a child, to adjust ourselves so that the light can pull us inside. But this is our action: it is artificial, acted out, directed against our egoism, and we must understand this and act accordingly.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/24/26, Sitrin Convention, Sukkot 2003

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The group is something spiritual that exists between us. It is our common conception, our common thought, our common idea. However, the group is not simply my attitude toward each person but also my attitude toward what will manifest within us as the Creator.

If we begin to relate to one another in this way, a feeling will arise between us that will be called the Creator. Then we will feel the light, the good attitude, and this is how the Creator will manifest within us.

We will see that He is there, within this group, in the relationships between us. And by entering into these relationships, I draw closer to Him and unite with Him to such an extent that I lose my “I.” This is what is called crossing the Machsom. It is as though you jump over to the other side, while your “I” (egoism) remains outside, on the other side.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/24/26, Sitrin Convention, Sukkot 2003

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Question: Is the group a law just like the Creator is?

Answer: The way a person imagines the group and the Creator is how it is for him. The Creator is not something outside of us. It is the way we imagine this property.

Question: The Creator is a property of bestowal. So what is a group?

Answer: The Creator is a property of bestowal, and a group is people like you whom you perceive as an example. In some ways, as far as your life and existence are concerned, they serve as an example to you.

Because the Creator is concealed and you cannot imagine Him no matter how hard you try, you try to build an image but cannot.

Instead, you decide to make the group a binding force for you, a higher force that will lead you to the attainment of the Creator who is concealed and inaccessible to your imagination. If you could picture Him, you would not need a group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/26, Rabash, “Go Forth from Your Land”

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Question: During Sukkot, we must strengthen our strength of purpose and focus on it. Does this mean that the exchange of Reshimot (spiritual records) must reach its peak during this period?

Answer: We still have to go through many states. In principle, these states should serve only to connect us for the sake of one goal. In other words, we need only think: “We are all together—toward the Creator!” That is all. This is the only thing. That is why we chose our slogan: “We are all one Kli!”

If we constantly think about this and focus on it, then I hope that many will feel it clearly, while the rest will feel it subtly. This will be a sensation of being “above the Machsom.” It will create the conditions within us that will enable us to advance further, at least during the coming months until Passover. Or perhaps at Passover we will add something more (some now and others later), but it will be a group on an entirely different level.

Everything has been given to us for this purpose. We see how all of it comes to us from above. We even feel how we are being pulled. Whether we want it or not, today we are already being regarded above as people fulfilling their duty. And if we speak about what it means to be the chosen people, we can say that we are the chosen people. We have been chosen today (and this is what “being chosen” means) in order to raise ourselves and then raise everyone else.

There are people who, practically speaking, are capable and ready today, have exerted sufficient effort, and can at least sense these states, pass through them, and then, after some time, actually realize them.

There can be no leaps. Everything depends on how much you accelerate the events. In any case, you must pass through everything; otherwise, you will not have a Kli. You must scrutinize everything, feel it, and live through it inwardly. Of course, it is possible to live through this in a second. There are states in which a single second already gives you an impression.

But you must pass through all these states. Therefore, those who have more or less passed through them are ready today, while the others will sense them from a distance and imagine them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson for the holiday of Sukkot, 9/25/26

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A person is constantly influenced by society and reality as a whole, the universe and their surroundings. At the same time, one must constantly strive to connect the three points together: I, the Creator, and my actions (my present state), as if they form a unified whole.

The balance between the right and left lines needs to be reestablished every minute, renewed at every moment. In fact, you can never simply be in a state of balance. Spirituality is a constantly changing substance.

There are no moment in spirituality where you can reach a point and say to yourself, “Ah! That is it, I’m done!” There is no such thing. If you utter that “Ah!”, then you are already no longer in the state that you had attained. In order to find the strength to remain in balance, you need a group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/26, Rabash, “What Is Do Not Add and Do Not Take Away in the Work?”

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Comment: We say that the group is the most significant factor that drives a person forward.

My Response: The group gives a person an understanding of many different things, both positive and negative. Perhaps you are asking whether I can buy friends with money.

Let us say that I am a rich and have a lot of money. Then I can buy ten, or even better, a million people who will constantly tell me about the importance of the goal.

Will this work or not? Yes, it will. After all, right now I am in my desire to receive, in a state of animalistic urgency, and that is what gets impressed by what it hears and sees. If I could buy a million people with money, people who would tell me about the importance of working for the Creator, and perform in front of me as if they were one with the Creator, and so on…

That is, I direct a grand production, and I immerse myself in the action. And even though I myself paid for it and gave the order to act, and I know that all the actors are acting for the sake of earning money (the desire to receive), nevertheless, a minute later I am already under their influence. They give me strength, impressions, and elevation, and I advance and gain spiritual value. And they receive their salary.

This is because I must be under their influence, based on my desire to receive. And there is nothing wrong with this desire. It receives from this impression. This is exactly what we demand from the group. Otherwise, I will need a different kind of society, people like Rabbi Shimon, Baal HaSulam, and others like them.

And here they say: “No, be in a group with ordinary people just like you, people who just want to move toward their goal, and make efforts in the game together.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/24/26, Rabash, “What ‘Israel Do the Creator’s Will’ Means in the Work”

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Question: I do not have a button I can press to start this process. I must go through all the stages you described. When I examine myself and see that everything I do is not for bestowal but for my own sake, what comes next? Awareness of evil does not arise through the intellect.

Answer: The practical awareness of evil, that is, awareness of whether one’s intention is aimed at receiving or at bestowal—arises mainly through efforts in the group, study, and dissemination. The more a person invests in these activities while simultaneously wanting to perceive his intention, the more clearly one begins to see it thanks to those efforts. Without such an investment, one would have no way to recognize one’s intention.

After the shattering of the Kelim, fragments of the shattered screens remained within us. We need to feel them. How is this possible?

Once there was a screen opposite the light, and the screen and the light were equal. Now the screen and the light are opposites. I must feel this opposition so that it will push me to replace the shattered screen with a corrected one.

How can this be done? I must perform actions that I would carry out using with corrected screens. These actions are study, work in the group, and dissemination. We have no other actions at our disposal that are connected with the screen. I am not speaking about eating more, drinking more, or receiving more pleasures. We still have many stages to pass before reaching those matters; those are actions of reception.

The actions of bestowal that can be connected with screens of bestowal are study, interaction in the group, and dissemination. If, while performing these actions, I think about my attitude toward myself, my friends, or the Creator, I immediately see how far I am from bestowal.

With other actions, I quickly fall into an illusion and can somehow justify myself. But with these actions, I cannot. That is why the sages advise us to act. Otherwise, I too might sit in a corner like some great Kabbalist, going nowhere and doing nothing (although, in reality, they all worked, but let’s suppose otherwise) and perform the Yihudim (“unifications”) associated with Kabbalists.

Yihudim means that, through the screen, a person connects himself with the upper light. Therefore, in this world, only these actions remain for us to perform. I must make sure that every day includes study, dissemination, and work in the group, while simultaneously focusing on the intention, the purpose, behind everything I do.

It is said that even if my desire to draw closer to the Creator through this actions stems from wanting my own well-being, yet I still remember the Creator and recognize that I do not think about Him very much, this constitutes the state known as  Lo Li­shma. From this state, I grow and draw closer to the goal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson on 9/8/26, Rabash, Article 40, 1989 “What Is, “Every Day They Will Be as New in Your Eyes,” in the Work?”

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Question: What actions can we do for a friend in order to bestow?

Answer: Let’s say I like flowers, then bring me flowers. If I cannot get up to study, you will wake me up and you will bring me here to study. If you know I will feel good to hear from you, call me! If it is important for you that I too will think about the goal now, and this will also come back to you later in some form (an egoistic form, which is okay ), then call me. Remind me about it. Anything that can be beneficial in the context of the goal is good.

Comment: We see that egoism is what drives it.

My Response: Yes, now I want to reach the goal through my egoism, so what? If I don’t use egoism, what am I left with? Only this and I should not be ashamed about it; rather, I need to use it to the fullest and direct it correctly, as far as I understand. Then gradually,  the direction and power of my ego will be revealed to me, as well as its readiness (or not) to move forward. This is called Lo Lishma.

Lo Lishma means that my goal to acquire the intention to bestow is the spiritual goal. But I am going to do it with the intention to receive, meaning I want to acquire the intention to bestow with the help of the intention to receive. Do you understand how opposite it is? But I have no choice, so this is how I go.

This is what Rabash wrote about. Do you want spirituality? You want to work in this world and gain something in this world. Later you come to regret it and see that there is no point in working for that in our whole world, and then you develop even greater egoism. You look at other people and ask yourself: “Is this really a life? Is this what you live for?” Why finish this whole life and burn it away, what for? Even if you make millions, what is in the end? Will they build a statue out of gold for you?
You are aiming to acquire something greater. In other words, the ego grows, it gets bigger and bigger. That is good.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/24/26, Rabash, “What ‘Israel Do the Creator’s Will’ Means in the Work”

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