Question: The exodus from Egypt is the last material frontier of the egoistic world. Beyond it there is a conditional line, where after crossing, a person begins to feel love and bestowal of the Creator.

What is this transformation that we are undergoing?

Answer: This is the last correction, which is called the final correction (Gmar Tikkun).

It occurred when a group of Kabbalists led by Moses exited Egypt, united with the Creator, received the Torah on Mount Sinai, and thus attained their final correction.

In other words, all this has already happened. Today, we, under no circumstances, need to go to Mount Sinai and climb it. The only thing we have to do is to be internally and spiritually ready for unity in the movement from heart to heart.

Then, we will feel the state called one nation in one heart. That is where history leads us. Everything that happens in the world is only necessary for us to complete it. We live in the happiest time.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/21/24, Writings of Rabash “When Pharaoh Sent the People”

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Question: In the war against egoism, there are situations where my strength is taken from me. I give more strength, but even more is taken from me. Where can I find strength?

Answer: Indeed, you are lying there and cannot do anything. Only friends can come to your aid, lift you up, and revive you.

They can feel you because you interact with them in some form. This means they are connected to you by receiving some signals from the Creator through you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/24/24, Writings of Rabash “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror”

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Question: What stops a person most from coming out of Egypt?

Answer: A person forgets that we acquire spirituality by connecting. So this becomes the work in Egypt. If you work alone, you are called Pharaoh’s slave.

We should always check ourselves with regard to the group because there is no other scale we can use. We were given vessels, shattered deficiencies that are scattered among all of us since everyone is incorporated in everyone else. Therefore, we don’t understand what is happening. We need to start arranging ourselves in the group and to bring it to the form of a spiritual Partzuf.

It should be a form in which the upper force, the Creator, is revealed. This is all our work: building ten Sefirot, not nine and not eleven, no more no less. All of creation is made of ten Sefirot.

We have to find our place in the Partzuf, the place of those who want to connect in bestowal. This matches GE, the phase of Israel, and rest are AHP that join us and help us. How can we grow? We grow by the AHP, with its help. The bigger the AHP is, the bigger our part of the GE above it can be. Thus we build Aviut (thickness) in GE too, and then the work with the real AHP begins.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/16/14, Writings of Rabash

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The holiday of Passover symbolizes the beginning of correction. Everything begins with the exodus from Egypt after which the giving of the Torah takes place.

Corrections are possible only in a person who has already gone through the Egyptian exile. The creation begins with the sin of the Tree of Knowledge and the shattering of the soul, and then the process of its correction begins.

Therefore, it is clear that first of all, we need to recognize the evil, to clarify the state in which we found ourselves after the shattering at the Tree of Knowledge where the soul was divided into many parts that we now need to assemble together. And this is despite the egoistic will to receive, which so far rules between us.

Thus, we add to the soul, which we are restoring, all of the revealed evil inclination, that is, the force of the light that once filled the soul and caused the separation of each part from the rest. When we connect them together again, working against the force of the light that was filling the soul and now has become hostile to it, we attain the qualities of the Creator and the qualities of the corrected creation.

However, all this begins with the recognition of the wickedness of the state in which we are now, with the revelation of the egoism that reigns between us: rejection, hatred, misunderstanding, and clarification to what extent everyone is immersed only in himself and is not able to get out of there. All this is the very first and necessary stage on the path of studying the Creator.

All the articles about Passover we should perceive only in relation to our separation and connection. When we move away from each other, evil forces rise up and reveal the feeling of exile in us.

Then immediately we can talk about connection and correction, and redemption begins. That is, we need to see everything in the light of exile and redemption, distancing and coming closer to each other, the revelation of the shattering and its correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/8/18

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We do not go through the stage of the forefathers, through what happened in the beginning: Adam HaRishon, Babylon, the land of Canaan, Jacob and his twelve sons, and the descent into Egypt. We begin to reveal ourselves already in Egypt. The earlier period refers to the “forefathers” and is included within us as spiritual genes (Reshimot), inner qualities.

Our actual work starts in Egypt where we eventually realize that we are in an egoistic desire and must escape from it since it gives us less and less life forces. It takes years to recognize this and to flee.

If we are together in a group during this process, we help one another. It is written: “And the children of Israel sighed from the work,” meaning “all together.” The entire exodus from Egypt happens together.

The Exodus is the departure from separation toward connection. It is not a physical departure from a geographical location. In Egypt, we discover that we are separated by our egoism. All the work during Egyptian slavery is in the fact that we attempt to connect to one another and fail. We come to see that Pharaoh stands between us and prevents our connection.

We keep working on our connection, and each time we reveal that it is impossible. Then Moses appears, kills the Egyptian, and flees to the desert for 40 years. All of this is constant ongoing work toward connection until Moses returns, goes to Pharaoh, and demands: “Let my people go”; that is, “allow us to connect.”

I want to connect with those who now seem alien to me. It is Pharaoh who shows them to me as strangers, and makes them appear as though they are not part of me. But I ask for the ability to unite with them. Let Pharaoh remain; I want to unite above him. Therefore I need a greater force, stronger than all his vast desire and egoism that twists me any way it wants.

It turns out that I need to ask for my egoism to shrink, to stop ruling over me. This is what I ask of Pharaoh. And Pharaoh replies: “Should I descend from my height, from my throne?!” He only hardens his heart, and so I need the Creator to be even stronger than Pharaoh.

This is Pharaoh’s role: to elevate the Creator in my eyes so I am forced to increasingly value the general force of bestowal that governs nature. Only it can give us the ability to connect with one another.

We must understand correctly what Egypt is. The Creator must constantly grow in my eyes or I will never be able to unite with my friends, which is what the Exodus means, and I will remain in slavery forever.

Egypt is separation. But where am I fleeing to? I want to unite above that separation, above the hatred, that is revealed to me, Mount Sinai (“the mountain of hatred”), and that is why I leave Egypt. This act is called the Exodus.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson on 2/05/12, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And It Came to Pass in the Course of Those Many Days”

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Question: What are the “vessels of the Egyptians?”

Answer: They are egoistic desires in their purest form. The golden vessels symbolize the degree of Behina Dalet, the silver ones symbolize Behina Gimel.

Question: We are learning that I should rise above my egoistic desires as much as possible, not use them, and unite with my friends. What does it mean that I borrow these desires from the Egyptians?

Answer: You ask the Egyptians for desires and intentions to bestow, and you use the little light they have.

You use it in your egoistic desires that go through the stage of recognition of evil, your oppositeness to the Creator. Thus you begin to rise above egoism by gradually rejecting it. This is when your exit from Egypt begins.

Question: The vessels the children of Israel borrow from the Egyptians, do they bring them along into the desert or do they later bring them into the land of Israel?

Answer: These are very good Kelim (vessels); they keep them. Later, at each stage, we can delve into what happens to them.
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From the 1^st part of the the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/16/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Need to Borrow Vessels from the Egyptians?”

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Question: How do we correct the Kelim (vessels) of the Egyptians in practice?

Each of us lives in our own “Egypt” and at the same time we strive to connect with our friends during the lessons. And it is like two different worlds. How can we correct these Kelim?

Answer: Try to connect with other friends with your Kelim and thus feel the common Kli in your unity. And it will already pull you up.

Question: It is said that the best way to increase the desire is to fall into egoism. Where is the guarantee that when I fall Moses and Aaron will come and get me out of there with my big desires?

Answer: It depends on how you work. You must descend into egoism with the intention, with the hope of, pulling out new Kelim from there with which you can move forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/2/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Need to Borrow Vessels from the Egyptians?”

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Our goal is to achieve infinity, that is, an endless, unlimited adhesion with each other and with the upper force that connects and fills us.

I don’t see anything in this idea that a person couldn’t imagine. You could even animate this topic with little dots trying to come together, to connect, but they can’t because at micro-distances, there are forces of mutual repulsion.

On the surface, it looks like they are connecting, everything seems fine, but they can’t get any closer. When they try to come into real, close contact, special forces arise (well known to physicists), and at that point, the Creator is needed.

That is when they begin to feel that they need a special upper force that can help them overcome the barrier between them. Only then do they genuinely feel the need for this force, the Creator, feel its presence in nature, and call upon it.

It becomes clear to them that it has to be this way, and a request to the Creator arises. Then this force is revealed within them and connects them from within.

Such an animation could illustrate this process very clearly.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Properties of a Friend” 7/18/10

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Question: I have noticed that when I study material at the lesson, even if it is very logical and clear, it gets muddled in my mind. I cannot hear the whole sequence of sentences the same way as when I read or listen on my own.

For example, when I listen to the same lesson during the day, I have a sensation that everything is clear and makes sense. Why do I get this chaos during the lesson and what should I do with it?

Answer: During the lesson there are many inner processes going on, all kinds of searches, even interferences, because you are included in the lesson together with other people. Your inner network becomes too overloaded. It is quite possible.

Of course when you are sitting separately, and if it is in the afternoon rather than in the morning, after you have become stabilized somehow, then you can better absorb the lesson. In general there are different times. It depends on the person.

Question: Usually when people study together they either read or listen. But how is it possible to read and hear at the same time? Is it possible only when you are explaining?

Answer: I do not know. This is a matter of a habit. When I came to Rabash I too used to be very surprised: people were sitting together, reading aloud like school kids, everyone followed the text in his book, and some of them were moving their lips.

It is a commonly acceptable method where they take any source, read it together, and then begin to use their minds. This is the way people studied Torah at all times since it has been written.

However, we study in a slightly different way: we study in a semi-university, lecture-like approach where we read and I explain. In addition, these explanations could be long, with questions and answers, and with discussions.

In the past people studied Torah predominantly in pairs. It did not involve so many people as we have now, where 300 people sit in front of me.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Interference in Studies” 7/13/10

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Question: Rabash and Baal HaSulam were great Kabbalists who reached high levels of attainment. If a person advances along the spiritual degrees, does he also reach their level or are they completely different souls?

Answer: I have not reached it yet.

Question: But can any person do this?

Answer: Of course, he can rise even higher to complete correction. I do not know who is at which degree, but everyone must reach the final correction (Gmar Tikkun).

Rabash and Baal HaSulam were certainly great. I just haven’t attained their height yet and therefore can’t say how great they are. In our world, a small person looking at a tall one can say: he is one meter eighty centimetres or two meters tall.

But in the spiritual world, you only perceive the degree that is directly above you and no more. You can’t feel beyond that. You can’t measure and say, “He reached this or that level in the spiritual worlds.” How would you know those worlds? You don’t know anything.

In our world, too, we don’t realize how limited we are. We think we grasp a lot. But each person grasps only what they’re able to grasp and thus forms a picture of this small world based on their sensations, understanding, and maybe just a bit beyond themselves: “If I were a bit more developed, what would I then feel?” In truth, we only feel to the extent we are capable of feeling.

Question: But did Rabash complete the correction of his soul?

Answer: Most likely. I don’t know. I have not reached this level, so I can’t say anything.

Question: But you still hope to reach it too?

Answer: I hope so. But I speak only about what I truly see and feel.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Levels of Attainment” 7/6/10

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