I always have to look for ways to go against my ego. If I address the group properly, I feel rejection. It is not coming from the group itself, it’s inside me. I feel that I don’t want to connect with them or participate in the gatherings of friends; I don’t want to embrace them or see them at all. I do it because everyone else is doing it, and I feel uncomfortable.

In reality, I’m fed up with this. I want to quit studying and leave the group. I see that this doesn’t yield any result. But it doesn’t yield any result for my ego, that’s true! When the truth starts unfolding, I see that I will not get any profit for my ego.

And after this revelation many people run away because they can’t perceive this correctly or understand that they are weighing this on the egoistic scale. This is the place in which they have to make up for this lack with faith above reason, connect with the environment no matter what, and open themselves up to it, demanding a spiritual awakening.

This is the exact point at which our spiritual work begins, and those destined to run away do it here. Those who stay are those who either have a special role in the general system, or those who can truly exert themselves. A person doesn’t know what’s happening to him yet, but will later reach a correct spiritual calculation.

That’s why it is said that in the place where sinners will stumble, fall, and disappear from the horizon, the righteous will rise and go on.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/22/2011, Shamati #240

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Question: Is there a way to check what effect the environment has on my inner state?

Answer: You can judge this by the extent to which you want to connect to them. This is called the influence of the environment. After all, I reveal spirituality through my connection with them. I exist in them, in the connection between us, and not in my animal body.

It is said that one finds spirituality “within himself.” Not within the animal, but within the system of connections that I build and am connected to. Through my inclusion into all of them, I reveal the general quality of bestowal, which constitutes the revelation of the Creator.

Based on this I check to what measure the environment inspires me towards the importance of the connection, unity, greatness of the Creator (which dwells between us), and love towards friends as a fundamental law of the Torah? If I clarify this state and this reality more and more, I’m advancing correctly.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/28/2011, Writings Of Rabash

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Question: How should I relate to material pleasures?

Answer: You need to think about nothing else but how to bow your head and become included in the correct environment. After all, we are designed particularly for this; we were born and exist in this world only for this purpose. And this is especially true in our time! Therefore, in our life there is no other goal, action, or calculation except to adhere to the environment that can lead me to a connection called mutual bestowal and guarantee.

If I suddenly find such an environment and I am brought into it, it is organized from Above. This is how the Creator helped Abraham to gather people and create a nation. We receive this example of building the environment and society from our teachers, from Kabbalists; however, it is built from Above as we cannot do it ourselves. But once there is some initial state, we need to strengthen it and invest our effort into this society.

We evaluate and check ourselves according to this criterion. All our work is only relative to the society: To what extent do I want to get the force of bestowal out of it, which will change me?

A person cannot change anything in himself. The problem is that we get confused and hope to change ourselves. A person thinks: “Now, I will check myself, I will gather all my strength and change!” But this is impure work called idol worshipping because I see in myself the Creator’s forces and believe that I will be able to do something without Him.

In reality, I have only one freedom: to stick to the right environment.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/28/2011, Writings Of Rabash

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When we aspire to connect to become a corrected Shechina (Divinity), where every member must be linked with everyone else in one desire, one vessel, in harmony, unity, and a final, global, integrated state, then to the extent of our connection, every one of us goes through 125 degrees of correction and unity. Every time, we reveal a greater strength and the Light that fulfills us to the extent of the bond between us.

Together, these Lights are called Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, and Yechida (NRNHY). Every one of them divides into another five Lights of Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, and Yechida. Again, every one of these five, in its turn, divides into the five Lights of Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, and Yechida.

Thus, we divide our corrections, revelations, proximity to the corrected state, into 125 degrees, where we reveal a greater strength of our connection and a greater Light of fulfillment on every degree.
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From the 6th lesson at the Toronto Convention 9/18/11

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If we wish each other happy New Year and the “inscription in the book of life,” our words contain the upper force. After all, we are connected to each other by mutual preparation, by the correct recording, whereby we described all of our properties on the white background.

The white background we write on is that same mutual guarantee that we can picture as “whiteness” of the group against which I scrutinize my desires, attributes, and see how opposite they are to the group, how unfit they are for unity with it. Nevertheless, I complete this writing and I don’t surrender. I continue, more and more, to scrutinize the contradictions.

We write all of these “records” on our own hearts, each on his or her own. Man’s heart is a total of “613” desires that are uncorrected for the time being; it is the evil, corrupted, and broken heart. It is this heart that we long to correct. And its correction is made by connecting our hearts together.

In the future state, all of our hearts and all of our thoughts will be connected in such a way that the mind and heart will merge into one, and all of us will be as one. From within the hope to reach this state, each one of us writes his letter….

And if we write it that way, we don’t just write a letter. We write the book of Torah on our hearts. This is because essentially, the entire Torah tells us about the revelation of evil in us and the corrections that we then receive from Above, from the upper “whiteness.” This is why we differentiate the black from the white so that we could write with the former on the latter. But we also need to examine the properties of the the white itself, of the Surrounding Light. And for us, learning to “write” is only the preparation for the Surrounding Light to come and illuminate us within.

Thus, the black remains black and the white remains white. They are the foundations of our structure. But we already include both within us and delve deeper within, into the so-called “secrets of the Torah,” the place where both the black and the white merge into a single whole. But it is not possible to express this adhesion in writing.

In written language, we do not indicate Taamim (tastes), Nekudot (vowels, dots accompanying the letters), and Tagin (crowns above the letters), the exact form or writing. This is because a person must attain them by way of inner work and then add them to the letters.

We can thus summarize: We discover our blackness in relation to the group when we picture it being in the final, complete, “white” state. And when we finish this work, we feel that we really have reached a state when the Creator needs to complete it, “to sign” on it.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/25/2011, Writings of Rabash

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According to the Hebrew calendar, a new year is approaching. I think that it will be a special year. For the first time ever, the system of mutual guarantee is becoming revealed, and we have to bring it to the world and let them know that this is the system of interconnection that has to be established between people. This is the only way we can advance toward goodness.

For this reason, it will be a good year. After all, the word of goodness will spread around the world and, along with the escalating crisis, will shake people up and lead them to our materials. People will recognize that there’s only one method that can bring good to people on the corporeal level, and most importantly, an enormous, eternal, and absolute benefit in spirituality.

I’m certain that we’re entering a good state. Everything depends upon the balance between the forces of good and evil, and our advancement is wonderful and correct. All we need is to keep getting stronger.

We have to build a strong Internet system of dissemination in all languages so that it will reach all people with all sorts of mentalities. By doing this, we won’t allow any negative force to be revealed in the world. I have a good feeling about this. This is the happy new year that I wish to everyone!
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From the 5th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/28/2011, “The Nation”

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The still level of nature has existed for billions of years, the vegetative level of nature for hundreds of millions of years, the animate world has been developing for millions of years, and then finally, only 200 to 300 thousand years ago, humans appeared. For a long period of time, humans have been developing the same way as animals. Man was driven by the force of nature that created him and left him no choice. As if involuntary, we went through the still, vegetative, and animate forms of the human level, until we reached the level of human within human.

What is it that separates a human from the preceding level? The difference between a human and an animal is that a human doesn’t act only instinctively, blindly obeying nature. The life of an animal is entirely governed by instincts, which are passed on from generation to generation. Only days after being born, an animal stands up and is ready for an independent existence.

However, a human needs an environment for his growth. If a person is left in the woods, he’ll grow up like a real animal and will only vaguely resemble a human. He won’t speak or walk upright. That is, a person is fully dependent on his environment. The kind of environment he develops in will determine what he will be because his development isn’t programmed definitively in nature, but requires a social implementation.

A person doesn’t possess the instincts necessary to survive. He can’t discern a medicinal plant like a dog can or how to avoid what’s harmful. Unlike an animal, a person can’t act according to inner instinctive programming that would ensure his well-being.

We all know what would happen if we granted freedom to a newborn. An animal is much smarter than a baby; it makes no mistakes, whereas humans make mistakes all the time. That is, an animal is endowed with all necessary instincts, while a person only has the minimum.

On the other hand, an animal can’t learn a lot of things. It only can be trained or tamed. Even after living for hundreds of thousands of years alongside humans, a dog still remains a dog because it acts according to its instincts.

A person doesn’t possess these instincts. He has to acquire a form of behavior from his environment, and precisely as a result of this, he develops. This is why people have achieved such great development in comparison to the animals that have lived alongside them and practically remained unchanged.

In essence, a person used to be an animal as well, but something very important was instilled in him: the ability to develop by means of his environment. If he uses his environment for his development, he can achieve great success.

This is why the still, vegetative, and animate levels have no freedom of choice. A person, on the other hand, can induce additional development through a specific environment, and this constitutes his free will. After all, a person can change his environment and thereby change himself.

For this reason, judgment and higher calculation exist only in regard to a person: Who he is and how he used the opportunities given to him by nature and whether he realized the freedom of will that determines his entire development.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/2011, Writings of Rabash

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Baal HaSulam, “One Commandment”: There are two parts to the Torah: one concerns man and God; the other concerns man and man. And I call upon you to, at any rate, engage and assume that which concerns man and man since thus you will also learn the part that concerns man and God.

Throughout history we developed under the dictate of nature, the Creator, the informational genes (Reshimot), the program instilled in us. We developed instinctively, by means of different internal urges that appeared in us. Today this phase is coming to an end.

It happens in everyone’s personal life. Today it also happens globally and manifests as an integral global crisis. We don’t know how to manage our lives. Suddenly, all of humanity is discovering that it is losing control of what is happening. Incomprehensible processes are taking place in the world, and we no longer hold the reins.

In the past, we could always do something in order to cope with the situation, but not so today. It gradually transpires that we don’t know how to get along with one another: One person says something, and another doesn’t understand him. We cannot reach any agreement, although we see that without common agreement, even if minimal, we will not survive.

The development under nature’s dictate, when everything was obvious, when we did whatever we felt like and obeyed our inner urges is over. The information genes continue to appear in us, of course, but we don’t know what to do with them and can’t identify the external system in which we live. The world has become a confusing place.

Therefore, the method that explains what to do in these new conditions, what to do with ourselves is being revealed today. However, we don’t feel yet how vital the teaching called the Torah is.

In the past, we used to develop by means of an internal force that constantly operated us and complied with its orders unknowingly. Having no will of our own, we weren’t even the ones who carried them out. We were simply puppets on a string.

Now, these internal manipulations are ceasing gradually. Our internal software as if frozen and doesn’t run anymore. What do the forces of nature want of us? Why have they stopped operating and developing us?

The forces of nature want us to consciously participate in our development from now on. This is the phase we have reached.

But how will we know how to participate in our development correctly? After all, without knowing this we won’t find our bearings in the new reality and as a result, will receive blows. Now we have to complete what Nature used to do.

This is why the method of Kabbalah that shows us the way is being revealed now. It tells us how we should operate in order to internally complete Nature’s orders that used to develop us previously. We can get an impulse for that by connecting with others. It is precisely for this reason that we should seek the connection with others—in order to find the deficiencies and urges for the corrections we have to introduce into the program ourselves.

It is as if we throw wood into the fire and provide the fuel for our development—and thus we advance. The fuel can be either positive or negative. In a furnace, along with the heat of burning wood, there has to be oxygen and a cooling air duct. We, too, should have the two sides of the coin: on one hand, deficiencies, frustrations, and darkness, and on the other, the Light, the connection between us, and a demand for reciprocity.

We have to discover all that in order to create the new component necessary for our development. If we add it, the force of development will change our situation, and our evolution will continue. But if we don’t find the deficiencies, the goals, the frustrations, and the right aspirations, the “wheel of development” will not turn.

Until now, when our participation was not required, the informational genes turned the wheel automatically starting from the shattering of the souls, at the still, vegetative, and animate levels. But now, our participation has become a necessary condition. We must add our desire to the shattered Reshimot so that they will be realized correctly.

The realization consists of two parts: building the vessels and filling them. Building the vessels, as Baal HaSulam says, relates to one’s attitude to other people, while filling the vessels relates to one’s attitude to the Creator. This is what we have to engage in. Of course, we must first think about the vessels and only then about filling them.

This is why it says that the love of the created beings brings to love of the Creator. First, we must care about the right connection between us. Then, our common attribute of bestowal will surely manifest in it and in this attribute, the upper force called “the Creator” will be revealed.
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From the 5th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/2011, “One Commandment”

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Question: How can I check if I exert myself enough?

Answer: Examine whether you feel energetic and enthusiastic, whether you have a strong desire called yearning for spirituality, in addition to the usual desire. Do you feel that this desire stimulates in you the need to connect to the environment and to advance in it?

Advancement is a result of a stronger connection, bonding with all others. Check whether you see that it is namely the place where you can attain spirituality.

We have to unite to such an extent that from the pressure between us this power of unity will begin to shine. This pressure is created as we work together against our egoism, above which we want to unite. The pressure between these two opposite forces creates a spark that turns on the Light, lights the fire.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/21/2011, Shamati #232

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All our work is opposite to the correction since it is namely to discover the lack of our correction, our opposition to the world of Atzilut. The “inscription” in the book of life that we receive at the beginning of the new year symbolizes that we truly yearned for the world of Atzilut, tried to discover our opposition to it, and showed an earnest desire.

If we yearn to be in the world of Atzilut and discover the corruptions in us, it means that we examine ourselves and desire to get back there (“to repent”) during the period of repentance (Selichot).

Renewal means that we examine ourselves and see how opposite we are to a new beginning. If we yearn for it and, having revealed our opposition, still don’t renounce it or give up, but rather continue until we fully discover our egoistic form that is opposite to the first spiritual degree of Atzilut, then it means that we have completed our “inscription” in the book of life.

This inscription is opposite, it is black letters on a white background. But by this we have discerned our exact form and expressed our great desire to connect to and be absorbed in the white Light. This means that we have passed the period of repentance and reached the beginning of the new year. Then we ask the Creator to end our writing and to “seal” it.

Here we cannot do anything but to wish each other to be inscribed and sealed in the book of life. It is only by the connection between us that we can bring about a happy new year and be signed and sealed in the book of life. A person cannot wish that for himself and ask the Creator to do it for him. We can only wish it for one another and bring the Creator to seal the inscription for each of us.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/25/2011, Writings of Rabash

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