Question: How can one logically explain what it is about bestowal that causes one to value it more than reception?

Answer: How does it come about that the will to receive suddenly begins to value what is opposite to it? The will to receive wants to enjoy. If it understands from the influence of the upper light that one can enjoy from bestowal more than from reception, it begins to perceive this.

There is no trickery here, no supernatural act. It only appears to be supernatural to us.

In fact, this is not the case, because the will to receive at this stage preparing to operate in what is termed “Lo Lishma” (for one’s own sake): I want the spiritual because it contains pleasure.

Yet, by doing so, it draws the surrounding light. This surrounding light gradually exerts its influence upon the desire to receive through its very nature, a nature that comes from the giver. Consequently, a person begins to value the giver as a higher, more exalted degree.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/23/26, Rabash, “All of Israel Have a Part in the Next World”

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Question: What should I do if a terrorist wants to kill me?

Answer: It is said in the Torah that if someone comes to kill you, you must kill him first. The Torah speaks a lot about how people came out of Egypt and how many enemies they killed. How many did King David, who was constantly at war, kill? Warfare back then was not what it is today.

In those days tens of thousands of people were killed in face to face combat. This is not like modern warfare where a few bombs are dropped merely to pave the way for peace negotiations. Back then, how many men actually returned from the battlefield? In those times when there was a battle, it was a real battle!

Yet, even in those times, there were individuals who had attained high spiritual degrees, and a profound and accurate perception of reality. This was especially true in the times of the First Temple, and to some extent during the era of the Second Temple.

Did they not fight, did they not kill? What did the Maccabees do? They were Kabbalists of the highest caliber; they certainly perceived the spiritual dimension, the reverse side of our world.

The source of confusion lies in the fact that we do not see the spiritual world, and are merely attempting to imagine what it looks like from the reverse side.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/26, Rabash, “What It Means that the Generations of the Righteous are Good Deeds, in the Work”

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In creation, there is only the Creator and the creation. When the shattering occurred, the Creator, as it were, shattered Himself, and took on the negative qualities of the creation.

It is as though He contracted Himself, placed veils of concealments over His governance, and hid that it is good and does only good; He as if corrupted Himself in order to correspond to the future creation, which is destined to grow from a state of zero until it attains His level.

The Creator diminished Himself, His light; this is what is referred to as the entry of Malchut into the first nine Sefirot. This was only a preparatory stage. Subsequently Adam HaRishon emerges; he undergoes a shattering and a descent, and at this point the process of discernment and correction begins. This process must originate from us, from below upward.

Adam HaRishon, by correcting himself, thereby builds the correct governance with respect to himself.

Question: Why was Adam HaRishon not able to clarify this immediately? Why must we discern something that already exists?

Answer: We are discerning it because we are Adam HaRishon!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/26, Rabash, “Peace After a Dispute Is More Important than Having No Disputes At All”

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There is a science concerning how a Kli (spiritual vessel) senses the upper force acting on it. If this study involves perception at the lowest level, it is referred to as the knowledge of this world, the sciences that exist in this world.

However, everything we study within these sciences is merely the impact of the upper force on the Kli without any change whatsoever in the properties of the Kli itself.

Yet, there is a method that enables one to change the properties of the Kli and bring them into correspondence with the upper force, and consequently the Kli will begin to reveal and perceive the upper force with greater intensity. This method is called the science of Kabbalah, a discipline in which the Kli, by transforming itself, studies what it feels and explores its sensations.

The difference between the science of Kabbalah and the sciences of this world is that the sciences of this world, while indeed studying the sensations resulting from the influence of the upper force on us, do not change the properties of the Kli to align with the upper force; that is, they do not engage in what we term “attainment of equivalence of qualities.”

If, however, the Kli begins to change its qualities, assimilating them to those of the upper force, then the entirety of this process, encompassing both the internal transformation itself and what the Kli perceives and receives from the upper force, is collectively what is known as the science of Kabbalah. This constitutes its fundamental difference from other sciences.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/27/26, Rabash, “Peace After a Dispute Is More Important than Having No Disputes At All”

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Question: What is bestowal?

Answer: Bestowal is a likeness to the upper force. The upper one gives to me and I to Him. I always learn from what He does for me, and from this I find out what I must do for Him. I do not know what this should be. I am in complete emptiness. I understand nothing, and I feel nothing.

I need to receive an example because in fact I do not know what is bitter and what is sweet, what is truth and what is false. Now everything is completely new for me. Nothing remains in me from what was before. I have risen above this world; that is, all my animal sense organs no longer operate at such a height.

I have gone out somewhere into a void, an empty space, where I possess absolutely nothing. I must acquire entirely new internal definitions and discernible qualities. It is like an uncalibrated instrument. Now it is necessary to input all the parameters to establish the foundation of its operation. I derive this data from the upper force. The upper one teaches me what is right and left, up and down, bitter and  sweet,  high and low, etc.

I begin to adopt His qualities, His understanding, His intellect; I acquire everything from Him, and in accordance with this, I exercise dominion and govern the desire that resides within me. The desire itself is merely raw, unrefined material.

Those qualities that remain unchanged in a person relate to the animate level, to my physical body, within which I must continue to function in a manner consistent with its nature. My human qualities, as it were, seem to completely disappear. Now I begin to relate to everything from the animal level upward as a true Human (Adam).

On the material level I remain simply an animal like everyone else. Just like everyone, I must receive medical treatment, go to the doctor, and fulfill a host of other requirements to sustain my body. But above the animate level, where I already begin to be as Adam (human), my calculations naturally shift in accordance with the degree of my similarity to the upper force.

These calculations may seem strange to those around me. Therefore Kabbalists know how to conceal them, or they separate themselves and hide from society.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/26, Rabash, “Peace after a Dispute Is More Important than Having No Disputes At All”

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How can one determine what is really true and what is false? What, exactly constitutes  truth and falsehood? Perhaps the true is something soft and gentle, and the false is something hard and rigid? Or perhaps the truth is defined by whether something feels heavy or light?

I do not know what truth and falsehood are. These are completely relative things. You can simply give them some names, for example call one “A” and the other “B.” But I call truth and falsehood two distinct directions. The direction toward the upper force, toward bestowal, I call truth, and that natural, innate direction that existed within me, aimed inward toward my own desire, I call falsehood.

It is very simple. We just give two names to these two notions. You can refrain from calling them truth and falsehood and simply give them numbers: “one” and “two.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/27/26, Rabash, “Peace After a Dispute Is More Important than Having No Disputes at All”

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A Kabbalist must make calculations at every moment, and these calculations are above his sensations. Therefore, the head of the Partzuf is above its body.

First and foremost, he performs a calculation with the help of the screen by pushing his own sensations aside and deciding solely in favor of equivalence and unity with the upper force, in order to become similar to the upper one.

To the extent that he is able to do this, he begins to carry out this action.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/26, Rabash, “Peace After a Dispute Is More Important than Having No Disputes at All”

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Do the nations of the world (AHP) agree to correction? Yes, but this consent emerges under the influence of the upper light on them. The AHP itself cannot draw down the light. Therefore, it is said that Israel serves as the light unto the nations of the world.

If Israel (Galgalta veEinaim) draws down the light and examines itself, then accordingly those parts that cannot be corrected in this form feel how they can really be corrected.

There are parts that attract light and there are parts that will be corrected when these lights come together. The GE, Israel, attract the lights, and when these lights assemble, they will correct the AHP.

Is there a place for mutual work here? I think so. What does mutual work mean? Perhaps it is the work of overcoming the resistance of the desire to receive to the process that is taking place inside us.

We see it from the outside, in the material world. The peoples of the world are opposed to the existence of Israel; they do not desire it. They perceive the GE as a superfluous element that dominates them, and does nothing to benefit them. This necessitates analysis.

Since the most crude Kelim require correction, vessels of reception, they feel the need for correction more than Israel does. Of course, the pressure comes from them.

What is the fundamental problem of our world? It lies in understanding and internalizing what is really taking place, in perceiving reality correctly and participating in the process in the proper manner, specifically by compelling the people of Israel to do what they are charged with. In essence, the nations of the world are already engaged in doing this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/23/26, Rabash, “All of Israel Have a Part in the Next World”

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Question: If the resolution of wars is the main work, then what should we strive for: peace or wars?

Answer: Of course, we must strive for peace and never desire war. We should rejoice in the fact that we are under the authority of the Creator, under His governance of the world, and in the sensation that He is Good and does good toward us and that we belong to Him nd are included in His governance.

These are things we should not run away from. We must strengthen ourselves in them, because in those states we are closer to the Creator if we accept them for the sake of bestowal and not for our own pleasure.

It is a great commandment to abide in joy, but not from being distant from the Creator; rather, from adhesion with Him. This is true joy, the joy of a commandment. However, if you simply feel good, this is the prosperity of the wicked, as it is said: “the wicked, yet it is good for him.”

Therefore, if you have been granted some state in which you feel that there is a certain mutual connection according to equivalence of form, and not because you feel good according to material sensations (although even an “animal” joy is not forbidden and is not a transgression), yet if, in accordance with your intention, you have equivalence and you maintain the intention, and to that extent feel joy, you should not run away from it and seek wars.

But at the very moment you reach this, a state of war will come to you, because the Creator wants to increase the connection between you. And this is possible only through the revelation of additional Kelim that require correction.

But what does it mean “the Creator wants”? It means that new Reshimot are immediately revealed, and you enter a new degree with the purpose of attaining it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/26, Rabash, “Peace After a Dispute Is More Important than Having No Disputes at All”

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Question: Can there be a state where the soul, while ascending from bottom up during the process of correction, finds itself at a level more complex than that of the worlds?

Answer: As the shattered soul of Adam HaRishon undergoes corrections, it effectively refines the worlds, bringing its Aviut into them.

What does it mean? With the help of Partzuf  Adam HaRishon, the worlds become deeper, richer, and more attuned to him. He draws them into himself. He gives them light and abundance by adding the Aviut of his Partzuf. If earlier these worlds were some kind of inanimate system compared to Adam HaRishon, now he brings his soul into them and uses them as a part that clothes onto his soul.

This is similar to the organs of hearing, for example. The ears, clothed in my desire, give me some kind of feeling, but this feeling is not in the ears but in the heart. After all, the ears are connected to the heart, the eyes are connected to the heart, and then I turn them into my Kelim.

Similarly, when Adam HaRishon connects himself to the worlds, the worlds become part of something alive (Chai). While before they were inanimate (Domem). It turns out that Aviut seems to enter the worlds. Or you can say in reverse, that a person incorporates the worlds into himself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/26, Rabash, “Peace After a Dispute Is More Important than Having No Disputes at All”

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