The entire mission of a person that exists in the special reality called this world is to reveal that he or she is under the complete authority of the upper force and to identify oneself with it.

In order for a person to discover oneself as existing, one has been given the evil inclination, that is, thoughts and desires opposite to the upper force, given deliberately so that he himself may affirm the oneness of the Creator in all of creation and desire to be merged with Him.

A person must reveal that in him, in his thoughts and in his desires, the upper force reigns, and that it is precisely this force that arranges all the data from which he perceives the entire reality: himself and the surrounding world. And likewise, outside of him, in what he perceives as external, it is the same force that determines everything and paints the picture of the world for him.

And in this too, there is none else besides Him, while the Creator presents Himself to a person in all kinds of forms, in millions of details that compose this picture.

A person must, through great and very difficult efforts that require much time, reveal that there is none outside but the Creator, including all of the still, vegetative, and animate nature, and human beings.

And the person himself is under the complete authority of the Creator, apart from that single point from which he observes everything and affirms the oneness of the Creator in all of reality. This point must be outside the Creator, although it too is artificial and exists only because the Creator created it so. And yet, since it exists, a person can decree that indeed there is none else besides the Creator.

This is our entire work. And we have no other commandment than to decree and to reveal that the Creator is One in all possible forms, states, actions, names: Adonai, Elochim, and others. All of them speak only of the upper force that arranges the whole of reality for us. And we, by revealing this force as “There is none else besides Him” in each state, attain a certain rung of the spiritual ladder.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/4/17, The Writings of Rabash

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When we begin to study the wisdom of Kabbalah, at first, we do not understand the inner meaning of each word, nor do we reveal the upper force that stands behind it. But gradually, we begin to uncover deeper meaning.

That is, I am no longer simply reading a word, but I start to feel and reveal the spiritual object that stands behind it, gradually emerging as if from a fog.

This is how we slowly reach spiritual attainment. It turns out that there are two stages: education and attainment. Education means that we are studying, but have not yet attained, we are only approaching the meaning. And later, we begin to truly attain it.

The point is that attainment does not depend on how well a person has studied or how thoroughly they know everything written in the book. That is not important at all. What matters most is that one corrects one’s egoistic quality and transforms it from reception to bestowal, to love for others.

It may even happen that one is not very knowledgeable about the material, not particularly clever. But if they have corrected their attitude toward others, then within this corrected relationship they will sense spiritual concepts and attain them.

Question: How can I study if I cannot rely on my own mind, do not understand the meaning of what is written, and have never experienced spiritual attainment? For example, if I were learning Chinese, I would learn new words every day and gradually begin to understand what is written.

Answer: That is because, in the case of Chinese, you are dealing with a reality that you perceive. But Kabbalah speaks of a reality that you do not yet feel. Therefore, you can read these books for a thousand years and still not understand what they are talking about.

The whole question is: How can one attain the sensation of what one is reading about?

And this sensation is possible only on the condition that we acquire the quality of bestowal in addition to the quality of reception we were born with. We spend our entire lives developing these inborn receiving qualities, learning more and more about how to receive. All our thoughts in this world are only about how to obtain as much benefit as possible and avoid harm.

But now we need to unite with other people and start working for them, caring about giving them what benefits them and protecting them from harm, as if they were our own babies. However, when it comes to our own babies, we are driven by instinctive, natural love, the kind that parents in this world naturally possess. But regarding other people, we must develop such an attitude in opposition to our egoism and against its resistance. And this is not simple at all.

Yet, if we succeed in doing this, we will build a connection on a new level, above rejection. Below remains egoism, aversion to others, separation, but above all that, I build a connection with them.

Then between the minus below and the plus above, we create various forms of connection within which circulation begins and a new force emerges, a force called the upper force.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/14/16, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: What should I do if I can barely continue studying and feel as though I am simply being pushed out?

Answer: From above, we are sent a burdening of the heart with disappointment and egoistic complaints. One must lower one’s demands. When you are lying on the ground, there is nowhere further to fall.

If a person decides that he needs nothing except to remain in the quality of bestowal, then from this state, he cannot be thrown out. He has annulled his Malchut (egoistic desires) and adhered to Bina (to bestowal).

He is like an embryo in his mother’s womb that agrees that the upper one will continue to do with him whatever He wishes!

Then the upper one begins to develop an ever-greater quality of bestowal within him until spiritual birth.
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From the preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/7/09

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Question: It is written that the desire to receive is absent from our root. But you say that as a result of our correction we are rewarded with the opening of our eyes. What does it mean?

Answer: This means that we get the desire to give instead of the desire to receive. It develops in us, teaches us to see reality in the quality of bestowal, and thus we begin to attain a different reality than the one we were born in.

Question: I have a desire to receive, which is my nature, and there is something that gives me the study of the Torah and the commandments, and develops the desire to give. What does it mean that I can feel reality in the desire to give?

Answer: These are two properties in a person that can be replaced with one another. Therefore there is no need to stick to any one definition now. We will study all this and gradually change it in ourselves.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Because the light of Ein Sof was even, the restriction was also even. 

It is known in the wisdom of geometry that there is none so even an image as the image of the circle.

However, this is not the case with the image of the square, with the bulging perpendicular angle, the image of the triangle, and likewise all the other images. For this reason, the restriction of Ein Sof had to be in the form of a circle (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Vol. 1, Part 1, Item 5).

Explanation. If there were a difference between top and bottom, right and left, it would be expressed in the form of a rectangle with 4 sides as an expression of the 4 stages. While the triangle indicates a degree with only 3 stages, where the 4^th stage is missing. That is, there are only three sides: top, right, left, but no bottom (the last 4th stage, “Dalet“).

There are no more “images”—all other shapes are already “letters.”
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/2/11, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: You said that we have the possibility of attracting the force that will correct us.

But we study that this force comes by itself and gives us the possibility to raise MAN, to make certain actions. How can we attract it?

Answer: What is required from us are clarifications, which is what we must do besides study, and how to be interconnected with one another so that our forces will join and strengthen. This is what we must study and realize.

Question: How do we check whether our intention is directed to ourselves or for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: Keep checking and constantly ask yourself this question, and you will see how it will gradually be revealed within you.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/26/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: When a person corrects quality of receiving something with the intention “for the sake of bestowal,” is it possible that he might come to a feeling of discomfort that the Creator had to carry out such a procedure?

Answer: No, there is no such thing. Don’t make it up.

When the desire in a person changes, he sees the whole reality through his new desire, and no questions remain in him, he fully agrees with it.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: In order to correct the state of shame, the Creator placed us in such a distant world where we don’t even feel that He is the source of life. How can we feel and imagine what life is from the perspective of the spiritual world?

Answer: Gradually, we will feel it. For now, try to think about it as much as possible and strive to feel it.

Question: What clothes the action with the intention “for the sake of giving contentment to the Creator” when we want to hold on to the fact that we wish to do it for Him?

Answer: Your intention, that which you think about, is what causes this action within you.

Question: Is the feeling of shame some kind of safeguard against “not yearning to receive eternal delight”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What should we do if we discover in the ten that we do not feel the Creator? What practical actions can be applied?

Answer: Everything that is prescribed for us in the study of TES (The Study of the Ten Sefirot), we must accept and try to implement in practice.

Question: Should we strive for shame to appear in us, or is it a gift from the Creator?

Answer: Shame is the feeling that you do not correspond to the plans of the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: What does the principle “To that which we do not attain, we do not give a name” mean?

Answer: We do not run ahead and claim to understand what we have not yet attained since it is still in the process of clarification. Any spiritual object or phenomenon is given a name according to its action, according to what it produces in the worlds. If we do not yet know all its consequences precisely, we cannot give it a true name that defines the very essence of the spiritual phenomenon.

Question: What is the name of the Creator? The Creator has many names. What does that mean?

Answer: The name of the Creator is the consequences we feel upon ourselves from His influence. Moreover, a name is a desire filled with light, and by the kind of light that is there, one can determine the name of the Creator. Thus, it turns out that I am the one who gives Him a name.

Comment: We often use names given by others. That is, someone gave the name, and other people use it.

My Response: If a name is given by a Kabbalist who has truly determined the designation of an object or phenomenon, then in studying the material we use it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 11/19/17

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Question: Many of your students use their material qualities for the dissemination of Kabbalah. They are told that first they must rise out of their egoistic attitude, but they don’t want to listen to anyone. What should be done about this?

Answer: In Kabbalah, as in our world, this is called the suffering of parents: “If youth only knew, if old age only could.” You can’t do anything with such a person except try to educate him as much as possible. But, in principle, everything depends on him.

You give the students what you can, you soften and accelerate their development, but nothing more than that. And then, gradually, they begin to absorb it.

To this day, I am nourished by what I went through with my teacher during twelve years of being by his side. Education is when you give a student the beginning of a connection with you, and then through this connection between souls—whether on the level of our world or from world to world, it doesn’t matter—his further development takes place.

We must look not at bodily interactions within the framework of this world, but at the fact that we exist in the system of souls, and everything happens there.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. If Youth Only Knew, If Old Age Only Could” 10/4/10

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