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Feel the Giver of Pleasure

276.02Question: What is the condition for adopting the Creator’s perspective?

Answer: The condition is a correction that a person receives from above, when the Kli (vessel) of the desire to receive, in which fulfillment is absent, receives pleasure even if it is not the natural fulfillment that the Kli wants. The Kli wants to receive the light of Hochma, but instead receives the light of Hassadim and calms down.

This is a special action. I want to experience pleasure. My Kli feels only the presence or absence of the desired pleasure. Suddenly, instead of receiving the pleasure that the Kli wanted, instead of the light of Hochma, I sense the giver of pleasure within it. And this fills me. I need nothing else.

This can be compared to the transition from stage one to stage two where the vessel desires nothing more. If, within my desire to receive, I feel the Creator instead of the fulfillment I previously wanted (instead of animalistic pleasures, money, honor, or knowledge) if I perceive the sensation the Creator through all my senses, then that is it! I need nothing else.

I do not receive pleasure itself; rather, I sense the giver of the pleasure. And this is enough for me. Why? An animal would find this insufficient, but a human being, developed according to the four stages of desire, can be satisfied with Hassadim—the sensation of the Creator.

And now, when I am filled not by my natural pleasure, but by another kind of fulfillment, one that enables me to break free from the domination of Hisaron (the sensation of lack), I gain the possibility of becoming independent. Now I can examine, measure, and determine what kind of fulfillment I want: fulfillment according to my nature or fulfillment that I give to Him, according to another nature.

There are many nuances here, but this is the transition. You ask: “How can one cross from one side to the other?” We have everything needed for this except the sensation of the Creator. This is the correction of the Kli. For there are only two parameters: either the pleasure that fills me when I sense what lies before me on the table, or the sensation of the host standing beside the table. There are only these two possibilities.

I do not have many choices. It is either one or the other. One could say that I am always under the influence and dominion of one or the other. But there is nothing besides these two things.

I am a Kli facing two possibilities. Through suffering, by not giving me direct fulfillment from the table, the Creator teaches me that I must think about another fulfillment: filling myself with the sensation of His presence, and this will give me what is known as “independence.”

After that, I receive the same fulfillment from the table, but in a different form. I use my Kli as a means, not as a goal. The goal is no longer to fill the Kli, but through filling it, to attain something above it. The concept is very simple.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/26, Rabash, “What Is the Work of Man, in the Work that Is Attributed to the Creator?”

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Can One Return from the End of Correction?

571.03Question: Is it possible to return from the end of correction and begin everything from the start?

Answer: If we have corrected everything into the intention for the sake of bestowal, acquired all the inner discernments, can fill ourselves with the presence of the Creator, and have become similar to Him in qualities, then why would we need another incarnation?

The entire path we undergo is needed only so that we can unite our inner discernments and build a Kli from all kinds of impressions.

After I have felt everything, clarified everything, decided everything, and correctly connected it all, I then possess a true Kli (vessel). Into this Kli I now receive the revelation of the Creator in its full measure, since it is completely similar to the Creator; that is, the intention of the Kli coincides with the Creator’s intentions.

Everything has cause and effect. What reason could there be afterward to force me to enter the shattering and fall, and then correct myself again?
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/26, Rabash, “What Is ‘The Concealed Things Belong to the Lord, and the Revealed Things Belong to Us,’ in the Work?”

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After the Final Correction

743Question: What will happen when the whole world reaches the end of correction (Gmar Tikun)?

Answer: The end of correction means that all the souls will attain their final correction and become equal in their properties to the light of infinity, as they were in the beginning.

They do not become the light of infinity, but through their actions they become equivalent to the light, which is called the Creator.

After that, everything only begins, because until this point you were merely correcting your Kelim (vessels), whereas afterward you already have all the inner definitions necessary to continue the work.

Now you can be called an adult, equal to the Creator. You become equivalent to Him in your properties, and He takes you as an absolutely equal partner for something that we do not know about at present. These are already the secrets of the Torah.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/26, Rabash, “What Is ‘The Concealed Things Belong to the Lord, and the Revealed Things Belong to Us,’ in the Work?”

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What Is a “Transgression”?

630.2Question: Must I first commit a sin in order to build a Kli?

Answer: In the second part of Study of the Ten Sefirot, in “Inner Observation,” we study that there are the concepts of “possible” and “intending,” and from these arise four combinations: “possible and intending,” “not possible and not intending,” “not possible and intending,” and “possible and not intending.”

In short, these are four possibilities. Therefore, we see that not everything, not always, and not immediately is interpreted as a sin. In fact, a sin is when you could refrain from enjoying, yet still intend to enjoy. Of all four degrees, this occurs only in Malchut.

All of this is not so simple. But we do not need to think about it or examine whether I intended it or not. This is not for us, who are below the Machsom. This is absolutely not our work.

Simply, from what is given to us, we need to try to understand something and carry it out. The main thing is not to run away from the “battlefield.” What matters is the process of study, the work in the group, conducting lessons, and other things of this kind that we carry out. Everything else that happens to us is completely unimportant.

The most important thing is that you do not violate anything that should be part of your daily schedule. If you have a daily schedule, then everything else will fall into place, and you do not need to pay attention to it. There are things to which you simply need to turn a blind eye. Let them happen to me, and that is that.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/26, Rabash, “The Klipa [Shell/Peel] that Precedes the Fruit”

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What We Must Attain

235Comment: The feeling that the Creator helps me seems to cancel my sense of “I.”

My Response: No, this is incorrect. Today you think you are a “macho” man: “What Creator? Why do I need Him? Am I supposed to ask Him for something?” A small child reasons this way. We are all small children, not you alone.

Men tend to have this. A man thinks: “How can it be that someone is stronger than me? I must reveal a force greater than me, one that decides everything, does everything with me, and puts everything into me?!” Women are different. They have a readiness for this, and therefore a woman is not obligated to perform the commandments or undergo such direct corrections as a man.

For men, everything proceeds from the point: “I will rule.” This is the entire force of the shattering, the whole essence of the desire to receive.

From this, we can understand what we must attain. I must come to joint action with the others on the path toward humility, on the path toward love. But this happens gradually: first, one annuls oneself, and then enters into connection with the Creator. Not in the sense that I immediately enter into contact with Him, saying, “Let us unite and be partners,” but in the sense that, through the process of development, a person feels how he annuls his “I” before the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/30/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘He Who Is Without Sons,’ in the Work?”

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The Spiritual Is Incomparable to the Corporeal

631.1Question: In Rabash’s article, “The Klipa [Shell/Peel] that Precedes the Fruit,” he speaks about receiving Kelim (vessels), whereas our greatest work should be in the realm of bestowal. How should we understand this?

Answer: Rabash’s article speaks about how to increase the receiving Kelim, and how they are given to us from above. After all, initially our receiving Kelim are inadequate even for receiving pleasures in the corporeal world, let alone in the spiritual world.

An ordinary person does not even have developed desires for corporeal pleasures. Are his desires rich and vivid? Does he really want to earn more money, become great and famous, enjoy food and sex, live in a palace? How many such people are there?

Why, as a rule, is a person satisfied with little? The desire to receive does not want to experience suffering, and therefore, according to a person’s capabilities, it does not allow him to desire more than he can attain.

If we continued this way, we would constantly descend lower and lower, because the desire to receive generally operates in such a way that I seek peace and quiet. The Creator wants to bring all of humanity to the goal, and for this we need Kelim of infinite capacity. But if there were no development from above, we would not develop at all.

We would increasingly enter a state of dormancy and lack of movement, until complete inactivity. It is only because we have Reshimot (informational records) from the entire path that the soul went through from above downward, and these Reshimot are within us and constantly awaken in order to be realized, that each time I desire new and different things: one thing, another, a third —“I want, I want, I want… .”

Therefore, if this is simply an ordinary person, and the surrounding light does not particularly influence him because he does nothing to draw it, then until the light begins to act upon him, the person simply develops “on his own.”

Nevertheless, look at the difference between the development of humanity before the twentieth century and throughout the twentieth century. What a difference in everything! New technologies, a new way of life, revolutions, everything imaginable. There were two world wars. Wait, you will see what else is going to happen now, in the twenty-first century. It would be better if we did not have to witness it.

And all of this is because of the Reshimot that compel and push a person forward. But for someone who has entered our path and begun to draw the surrounding light toward himself with greater force, the Reshimot are realized very quickly, not over 20 to 30 years, but within one or two days, and even less! It only seems to us that this cannot be so, but that is precisely how it is. It is a fact.

Look at what 2,000 years are compared with a single twentieth century! They amount to nothing. The same is true of our one day compared with another person’s 30 years of life. What does an ordinary person usually do throughout his life? Practically nothing. But what about us? How many nuances do you consciously work through in your perception of the spiritual?! You do not know. Your minute (or even less than that!), can be equivalent to someone else’s entire lifetime.

And now the question is how to accelerate this even further. We do not understand to what degree the spiritual is incomparable with the corporeal. If, over the course of 30 years, you work intensely so that one second becomes like a thousand years, then there is a possibility that you will complete this life well. Now do you understand how much greater the spiritual is than the corporeal? By an infinite number of times.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/26, Rabash, “The Klipa [Shell/Peel] that Precedes the Fruit”

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“We Will Do”— Action, “We Will Hear”— Correction

629.4Question: What does “we will do and we will hear” mean?

Answer: “We will do” means performing actions above reason, and then “we will hear,” meaning we will receive correction, after which we will be able to hear in the Kelim of Bina what the Creator actually wants to tell us. But before performing the action, before creating the Kli, it is impossible to receive lights and understand what it is about.

You want to feel spirituality, to do something in spirituality, but you are told: You do not have the Kelim (vessels) for this. What does it mean that you do not have Kelim? You do not understand at all what spirituality is. It only seems to you that you want it. Spirituality is completely different from what you imagine it to be.

It is like saying that you want a glass of water, when in fact you want not ordinary water but Coca-Cola, only you do not know what it is actually called. We do not know what “for the sake of bestowal” means.

Spirituality means that there is no “me.” My “I” is completely annulled; it works with another person’s desire and serves only them. This is called spirituality. Do you want this?

Even if you try to imagine it to the extent that your degree allows, you will see that you do not really suffer from not having it, and a moment later you will abandon this thought and never return to it.

It is said: “We will do and we will hear.” Even if you do not yet want spirituality, but strive to attain it, first you need to undergo correction for the sake of bestowal. This is called an action: “We will do.”

Of course, it is not you who performs this action, but the Creator, yet you must make a certain effort, and in return you will receive something opposite to your egoistic desire. But not what you asked for, what you wanted and intended to receive. You could not even imagine that this is what you would receive.

But this does not mean that He is deceiving you. According to your Kelim and desires, you make efforts, wanting to swallow both this world and the future world. You want all of this, and suddenly He gives you something completely opposite; He erases all desires for both this world and the future world within you, and makes you completely different.

However, this does not mean that He is making some deceptive maneuver. It is simply that at the end of the path, you yourself want Him to correct you, as it is written: “And the children of Israel cried out.” For you no longer identify yourself with your desire to receive, but truly want Him to correct it.

You see that you have nothing else, but the point in the heart has grown so much against the background of the desire to receive that from it you can already judge your desire to receive, and truly want it to change.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/30/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘He Who Is Without Sons,’ in the Work?”

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A Leap in Awareness

263Question: When studying Kabbalah, we look at the final goal, rather than at the middle of the process. If the final goal is a state in which I want to run away from myself and no longer think about myself since all my desires bring me suffering, then why, in the middle of the process, can I not choose such an environment that will “brainwash” me from morning until night?

Answer: Wonderful! Now you understand what the exodus from Egypt is. It is when you want to run away from yourself, from the land of Egypt, from Pharaoh, from suffering, from absolutely everything. This is no longer simply suffering, but real horror. You are ready to run away, and that’s it. This is the end of our development within the framework of the material world. From this state, it is already possible to emerge into spirituality.

How can you accelerate the path? You say: “Okay, now I am in the middle of my development in Egypt. I have gone through seven years of plenty and am beginning to enter the seven years of famine. It no longer seems pleasant and nice to me. I want to accelerate the development.” Please do! You are told that this is possible.

What does it mean to accelerate it? I means going through the same stages more quickly. But they are the same stages; you are not capable of jumping over even one of them. When we speak about shortening the path, we mean shortening it in time, not shortening the distance, not skipping degrees. The leap occurs in awareness, in the speed with which states are recognized.

They say that with the help of the group you can do this very quickly. Do it! You are given this opportunity. If this opportunity did not exist, if acceleration were impossible, you would not have been given this wisdom at all. Then development would proceed under the influence of forces from above, and that would be all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/26, Rabash, “What Is the Work of Man, in the Work that Is Attributed to the Creator?”

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Torah—The Light of Correction

167Torah is the force that corrects and fills a person. Torah is the light that comes as the light of correction and fulfillment of the Kelim. A person performs the preparation called a commandment, and the light that consequently fills one is called Torah.

The Creator gives a person the strength to correct oneself to the extent that one reveals the need to receive this strength specifically from the Creator. This is called the “raising of MAN.”

Raising MAN is a combination of conditions, inner definitions, sensations, and experience. All of this together is called a “Reshimo,” which prompts the upper one to help the lower one.

We cannot say that the upper one does not want this, but He is on a higher degree, and if a person has a desire to awaken this higher degree, it means that he can become part of that degree. This is the meaning of a request.

In truth, it is not simply a request, but the Kli (vessel) becoming equivalent to that of the upper one. Then the upper one fills the person’s Kli, and by receiving this fulfillment, one becomes similar to the upper one. This means that one has risen to the degree of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/26, Rabash, “What Is ‘The Concealed Things Belong to the Lord, and the Revealed Things Belong to Us,’ in the Work?”

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All the Creator’s Qualities in One Word

276.02Question: How can one best visualize the concept of bestowal?

Answer: Only by making efforts in this direction. How else can one clarify what bestowal is? Invest effort in it; show diligence. In short, do this from the moment you hear that such a thing as bestowal exists.

Know that within this bestowal are the Creator, the concept of the “neighbor” (who is outside you), the group, study, and the upper worlds—everything you can imagine, except your ego. It is not something small. On the contrary, it is everything outside you.

Your ability to relate to and feel something as though it exists outside you is called bestowal. Begin clarifying this. Then, at least, you will not be mistaken. When “Creator” is mentioned, it means the quality of bestowal. If you invest precisely this meaning into the words each time, it will immediately become clear how much you are lying to yourself and to what extent you imagine Him incorrectly.

Instead of any concept, term, or action that you want to discuss in relation to the Creator, you can use the word “bestowal.” You say, “Great, mighty, and awesome,” this is how the concept of bestowal appears opposite the desire to receive.

This is the essence of Rosh Hashanah (“Head of the Year”): to clarify this concept and place it at the head of the path.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/11/26, Rabash, “The Rosh Hashanah Prayer”

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