Question: What does it mean to fulfill the law or advice of the Kabbalists: “Love your neighbor as yourself”? How is its inner fulfillment expressed?

Answer: It means that I try to find the importance of the Creator, and I begin precisely with this.

We must always begin with the Creator and end with the Creator. And in between is the group as a means of achieving the goal. Thus, I must have such an awareness of His importance that I am ready to accept upon myself the condition of loving others as a means of drawing closer to Him, of connecting with Him.

Then, as Baal HaSulam writes in “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar,” I am ready to stop thinking about myself, to leave my desire, to pull myself out of my concern for myself and my thoughts about my own existence, and together with all the other similar desires, aspirations, and thoughts, to unite with the Creator.

What is the game? Why did I use this word? The game is that we as if love another and are ready to give up ourselves; we as if are ready for anything, and the Creator is as if important to us. Everything is “as if.”

Nevertheless, we are capable of attaining such a flash of feeling only for moments. Usually, we think about our lives: “Here is food, here is money, here are pleasures, here is rest, here is family; these are the things in which I exist. But what are the Creator, aspiration, and the group? They are something virtual. They exist somewhere, but they constantly disappear and remain unreal.”

Therefore, when I force myself, by faith above reason, nevertheless to enter such an inner state above all this tangible, seemingly existing reality, such a state is very unstable. It resembles a game; it is not solid. I have no sensory organs or evidence for it. It is unreal.

Therefore, it is as though we are playing this game. We have no other conditions, no other foundation on which to do this. The force that I receive in order to enter this as though it were a real world is called the surrounding light. It somehow acts upon me from the outside and gradually brings me there.

How it works, I do not know. Whether it works at all, I do not know. Suddenly, I receive some blows, and then I am told that this is the result of the influence of the surrounding light. Fine. But do people not receive all kinds of ascents and descents even without that?

Thus, we must be sensitive to all our states, meaning that we must give everything its proper weight and evaluation. Engaging in spirituality in our present state in this world is called engaging in something unreal, unclear, perhaps nonexistent. “Maybe it exists, but who knows?” Go and talk to people. For them, it is not even… .

Little by little, you acquire some feelings for it, some awareness of its importance. But when you enter something “imaginary” and see that only this truly exists, then it is precisely all reality below this level that appears to you to be an imaginary world. But everything depends on your realization. And when will this happen?

Therefore, we call all our preparation a game. Then we will see that this game remains and continues until the end of correction, about which it is said: “The Creator plays with Leviathan, which He created.”

All states before or below the highest state in which the creation and the Creator are united with one another are called unreal or games. Because the only state that was truly created and truly exists is the state in which the Creator and the creation are united and exist in one perfection. Everything besides this exists only in relation to the creation, as imagination, as a game.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson for the holiday of Sukkot, 10/5/26

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Question: What should I do if the friends in the group just sit there and do not elevate the goal?

Answer: If people do not speak about it and you do not see based on their actions how important the goal is to them, then the question arises: “Did you want to see it?” If you wanted to, you would see it.

Suppose that during Sukkot, the friends built a hut on the roof. Go up there and think: What makes them build it? Something must make them, right? Yes. The Creator gave them a desire for spirituality; they are here, and therefore they are building it.

It is not their desire; they did not attain it and are not in full awareness of the importance of the goal. But the Creator gave this desire precisely to them. Therefore, there is something in them received from Him, and that something acts within them. Therefore, there is already something for which to value a person, and what is in him is already important to you. It turns out that it depends on you whether you see this or not.

Let a person simply come here, sit, and laugh; it doesn’t matter at what. But he came here. It turns out that either he found the fuel himself to come here or the Creator gave him this fuel. But in the end, there is something spiritual within him that pulls him out of bed and brings him here. There is a part of the spiritual from above in him, and that is what you value.

It is impossible to speak about this all the time. Your problem is that you do not want to work on yourself in order to see this with your own eyes even when people do not show it very much. You want to hear about it constantly, but after five minutes you are already tired of it. You must elevate your feelings in order to see this in other people. It was generally not customary to speak about this, only a little here and there.

The main thing is that we must see an example in others and, as it says in the articles of Rabash, speak about the importance of the Creator. I hope we will move from curse to blessing.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson on 8/18/26, Rabash, “What Are “Blessing” and “Curse” in the Work?”

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Question: Is the realization of the greatness of the Creator that I receive from the group a desire to annul myself before Him? Is this what awareness of His greatness means?

Answer: The environment must provide me with all kinds of forms of connection. The entire spectrum of my connections with the Creator can be described in many words.

The group must convey that without awareness of the greatness of the Creator, I will not attain the goal, and that the greatness of the Creator opens a new Kli for me. It must direct me toward the Creator.

Question: What is the greatness of the Creator?

Answer: First and foremost, it is the fact that He rules over me in everything. Look inside yourself; in every corner, you will find Him. The group should give hints this about this, and subsequently you will discover it yourself. Once you hear this from the group, you will begin to truly realize it.

What does it mean to be great? It is being stronger than I am. I must receive  the impression that He is stronger than me from the group. If He simply strikes me because He is stronger, there is nothing I can do about it. I curse Him, despair, and fall.

By “stronger,” we mean the measure of His greatness.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/26, Rabash, “Who Testifies to a Person”

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After a person receives from above the “charm of holiness” (Chen de Kedusha) through study and investing effort in various actions, as it is written, “Whatever is in your power to do, do,” they begin to understand that actions of bestowal are apparently indeed the most exalted and the best, but they themselves are unable to perform them.

To perform them, he lacks the sensation of the greatness of the Creator, that is, faith, that grants the heart strength to overcome the intention to receive and to acquire the intention to bestow. The sensation of the Creator shifts a person from thoughts about oneself to thoughts about the Creator.

Where can one obtain this faith? Rabash says that only the environment can help a person in this. According to what we have studied and what is written in the articles, this is the only thing that truly depends on a person. If he engages in this, he receives the strength of faith through work in the group and is then rewarded with acquiring the intention for the sake of bestowal. This is called crossing the Machsom.

At every stage, in every state that a person goes through, it is necessary to distinguish between lights and Kelim. If a person is in a certain state, it must contain both a Hissaron (desire) and fulfillment. He wants to attain the next state, which also contains both a Hissaron and fulfillment.

But one should be concerned not with the fulfillment, but with the desire. This is our entire work: to be concerned about the Kli and to think about it, because it is precisely the Kli that determines the state we are in.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/26, Rabash, “Who Testifies to a Person”

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Question: Must we look for strength to counter the desire to receive?

Answer: If I make any corporeal, material action, it means I have found a justification for it in my desire to receive. Otherwise, I would not be able to carry it out.

By material action, I mean an action within the desire to receive. It is considered material not because it is connected to matter, to substances the five senses perceive, but because I can realize or “materialize” it. It is material in the sense that I can feel it inside my desire to receive.

To any such action, I can attach some reward or advantage, which gives me the ability to do it. But if I am really facing a spiritual action, I cannot do it. “And the children of Israel sighed from the work,” that is, I cannot stand it, I am unable to do anything about it because it is against my nature.

What should I do? Since I am unable to act with the intent to bestow within my nature, I must convince myself through various means, mainly by engaging with my environment, books, and authors, that nothing is more important than taking such an action. In return, I will have a connection with the upper force.

Two opposing conclusions are necessary. On one hand, I am not capable of acting for the sake of bestowing, and on the other hand, that it is of the utmost importance. If I come to this, then, because of the tension between them, an inner cry is born in me: “Why can I not have this?” If this cry is genuine, I get the opportunity to perform such an action, and through it feel the Creator and establish a connection with Him.

This happens through the action itself. Without doing it, I will not have the Kli (vessel) to experience the Creator, spirituality.

Spirituality comes into the Kli I have built; that is, it is revealed inside the action I performed for the sake of bestowal.

Consider how much I have to internalize the importance of spirituality. I cannot find it anywhere else; a little in books, but even more in the environment. After several years of reading books, we can already see they do not really help us: this stage is over, we no longer react to books. But we react to the environment all the time whether we want to or not. This means we must form it at work, at home, and here [during the lesson], so in the end we only feel the importance of spirituality.

Of course, nobody talks about spirituality at work. This means that at work I have to “plug my ears” in a certain sense, to talk with colleagues only about professional topics, not about politics, fashion, etc. At home, I have to discuss only what is relevant and important for the family so that there are no problems. But most importantly, here—the only place where I can hear about the importance of the upper one—I have to “prick up my ears” while demanding that the group talks about what I need.

If that is the case, then when I hear words about the importance of spirituality, it feels like I should do some kind of spiritual action, and I see that I am not capable of it. Otherwise, we cannot see it; we do not know what real effort is when a person is stuck in an action and unable to perform it.

We do not know this because we have no drive for it; we do not have the awareness of importance to think about such an action. However, without reaching such a state, we simply do not move from curse to blessing and remain in the curse without even realizing it.
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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: Can a Kabbalist know what the next degree consists of?

Answer: What is the next degree? It is an even stronger mutual inclusion in one another than the one we had before.

In other words, despite the distances, the differences, and all the disturbances that each of us and each of our groups will experience, including disturbances in relation to another group, we must strengthen the connection between us. This is what the next degree is.

If we manage to build such a connection between us that nothing can interfere with it, we will acquire a screen.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson for the holiday of Sukkot, 10/5/26

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Question: Are there specific exercises for exiting one’s “I,” or does everyone find their own path independently?

Answer: In fact, this is a person’s personal work, his inner work, in relation to the group and to the world.

One can also use exercises. For example, in the morning we agree on a particular motto and work in accordance with it throughout the day.

This helps because it unites us, allowing us to strengthen our collective efforts, and direct our intentions more precisely. It is worth doing.

However, here too, the work remains a personal work of each individual. A person’s connection with the Creator is, after all, a personal connection. Everyone attains their own personal adhesion with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson for the holiday of Sukkot, 10/5/26

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Question: What should my intentions be during work when I spend eight to ten hours away from the group?

Answer: All your intentions during work are within the group that you carry inside you, in your heart. You are with it.

A person must become accustomed to the fact that he consists of several layers. The innermost layer is the Creator, above it is the group, the next layer is the family, and beyond that are work and the entire surrounding world.

A person must live in all these layers simultaneously and feel that, inwardly, he is divided and separated.

But gradually, as he advances in his inner work, he will discover that all these layers are actually one. He will see that one force unites everything and acts within everything, and then he will have no problems.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson for the holiday of Sukkot, 10/3/26

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Question: How can one remember the Creator throughout the entire day? How can one bring Him into every moment?

Answer: We are in Malchut of the world of infinity, which is entirely filled with light. However, instead of this eternal, perfect state, we see and feel our own properties, which paint the material world for us.

So, if we want to direct ourselves toward the goal, toward feeling the world of infinity, we need mutual guarantee from the environment. Friends must give us strength, desire, persistence, diligence, and awareness of the importance of the goal.

After all, my only goal is to acquire the right desire and nothing more. Even if I constantly lack the concern to bring contentment to the Creator, just as He bestows it upon me, that is the focus.

One might object here: I don’t know what He gives me. Judging by my life, one could argue that it might have been better if He gave me nothing.

That is true. Of course, everyone’s denial is according to their own flaw. Therefore, my attitude toward the Creator can be defined as follows: I want to reach a state in which I will wish to bestow upon Him.

The result itself will come through the influence of the light, through the efforts we make time and again. The light pours down again and again, and suddenly these illuminations create a desire in a person.

We do not know what Lishma is or what awakening from above is. But when it comes, a person can say: “Now I know; now I understand.” We must make efforts, like a small child—and from these efforts, a sensation will emerge. Not before.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/5/11, Baal HaSulam, “Lishma Is an Awakening From Above, And Why Do We Need an Awakening From Below”

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How can a group set an example for me if it consists of people just like me? The fact is, I am initially made to depend on them. I have an ego, envy, a sense of self-worth, and I depend on my friends to fill these Kelim.

Question: What is it that envy in them?

Answer: You are afraid they might have more than you. This is called envy. It is as if you are comparing what is in your Kelim with what is in theirs. Since you remain in similar qualities and feel Hisarons (unfulfilled desires), it hurts to see the other is well.

On the other hand, “a shared trouble is half a consolation.” If everyone is feeling bad, the situation is not so terrible; you are not increasing your Kli at others’ expense.

But if you have a little less than others, it feels like a nightmare, because your vessels include both your Hisaron and others’.

From the very beginning, since the breaking of the vessels, you have this preparatory foundation: a sense of your friend. Only humans have it. The inanimate (Domem), vegetative (Tsomeah), and animate (Chai) levels lack this; they do not have envy. They experience no such feeling.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/26, Rabash, “Go Forth from Your Land”

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