Although he is not going, his reward is that he should be pleased because the Creator has given him a desire and yearning to observe Torah and Mitzvot. He does not see any merit in himself compared to other people, to whom the Creator did not give this desire and yearning, while he did receive from the Creator this desire. He believes that everything happens through private Providence (Rabash, “What Are the Four Qualities of Those Who Go to the Seminary, in the Work?”).

A person feels that beyond this he is incapable of anything more; he cannot add anything. Yet the Creator gives him something to do, for example, simply to come here and sit. He sees that he has no intention, that he is incapable of self-sacrifice, cannot invest anything more, but at least he performs these actions, like a parrot.

After all, there are people to whom even this is not given. A person comes, sits, and listens, and is incapable of anything beyond that. But in this, he sees a gift from above that the Creator gives him. This is called “the reward for the action is in his hands.” He is grateful to the Creator for this. As for intentions, he measures them and sees that he has none.

All these are intermediate states that everyone passes through, at times in one state, at times in another.
[355440]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/11/26, Rabash, “What Are the Four Qualities of Those Who Go to the Seminary, in the Work?”

Related Material:
According to a Person’s Aspiration
An Action Without An Intention
Don’t Let Your Spark Be Extinguished

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

On the spiritual path there are three states: ascent, descent, and a constant state. In a state of ascent, I receive an awakening from above; whether I want it or not, I “wake up” and begin to work. I am awakened in one way or another: I am given some yearning and shown that there is some goal that can be attained and enjoyed, that it is great and pleasant.

Then I reach out toward it, work, and make efforts, as a result, I attain something. I see something, feel something, and am in contact with something higher. This is called an ascent.

Once the connection has been established, a state ensues that is similar to eating a meal. A person may have been very hungry, but once they begin to eat that’s it, their appetite gradually subsides and accordingly the pleasure disappears. What happens next? One has to add Kelim, that is, appetite, a sensation of lacking enjoyment.

When I begin to receive new Kelim, until I go further and fill them, the sensation I experience is called a descent. In general, it is an addition of appetite, an addition of empty Kelim. Now go and fill them! But following the pleasures I experienced, I feel empty.

If I am inside my Hisaron (feeling of lack) and not in the understanding that I now have new Kelim that I can fill, then I define this state as a descent. But in essence, it is not a descent.

Once I stayed at a health resort. There they fed us five times a day. People deliberately went for walks or engaged in other physical activities before meals specifically to induce hunger and come to the dining room with a hearty appetite so they could savor every nuance of the food’s flavor, to eat more, and to enjoy the meal. They did not regard that walk to increase the appetite as a descent.

If you know that pleasure awaits you and you undertake an action specifically to create a Kli for it, then the Kli itself is part of the pleasure. You are glad that you are hungry now: “I am about to receive such exquisite delights!”

In other words, everything depends on how a person relates to ups and downs, what those state signify for them. All this is highly relative and must be evaluated in relation to the goal.

If my goal is to attain pleasure, and I know that it is impossible to attain them without the prerequisites of hunger and appetite, then hunger and appetite become a source of a joy for me. They are not a descent, but rather an integral part of the ascent, the very Kli that enables that ascent. Therefore, our task is to see the process as a whole, to step back and observe it objectively, to fully comprehend its nature, and to ascribe profound significance to every state in this process, recognizing each one as the necessary cause leading to the next, even finer more exalted state.

If adopt this perspective, I will never experience descents. I will always be able to discern between the two phases: this is the time when I actively cultivate my appetite, and this is the time when I satisfy my appetite, filling myself with pleasures. That is all.

As for the constant state, that is very bad! One cannot remain in such a state for long, because in it I receive neither pleasures nor the Kelim for pleasures. It is a dead state. One must remain in it as little as possible. What does that mean?

If I detach from the intention, from the goal, if I follow the desires of the body and am not in actions aimed at attaining the goal, it means that I am in a dead state. One must try as much as possible to be in the most extreme states, only these are useful.
[355495]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/26, Rabash, “What It Means that the Generations of the Righteous are Good Deeds, in the Work”

Related Material:
Falling For The Sake Of Rising
Spiritual Sine Wave
Descent – Ascent

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: You said that if there are no ascents and descents, it is a dead state, and that as much as possible we should try to be in the most extreme states. Does this depend on us, or do we not decide anything here?

Answer: This whole process is predetermined, signed, and stamped in my soul. I cannot change anything. When I will fall and when I will rise, what will happen to me in each state, all this is inside my qualities. With them, I must attain a certain state.

That is, the whole path is clear; all states are known in advance. In my sensation, I can only go through them, feeling joy instead of hunger and suffering, because now I am preparing the Kli for pleasure. You could say that this is a psychological difference, but it is very significant and depends on the degree of closeness to the Creator, whether in all states I know that I am in a process of development, constant ascent, and advancement toward adhesion with the Creator.

If, in addition to the states I go through, I have connection with the goal, then none of them can be bad for me. On the contrary, I see each state as beneficial, since nothing is created “just like that,” not for the sake of attaining the goal.

We cannot change the process of our development, but by changing our attitude toward it, our awareness of it, and its value, we change our impression, our feeling, and the depiction of our state. In this way, I perceive the reality surrounding me differently, as diametrically opposite.

Life, which seemed worse than death and full of enormous sufferings, will look different; I will begin to feel unceasing, indescribable pleasure. I am already connected with the goal, and it shines for me. I already rejoice as if I were there.
[355501]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/26, Rabash, “What It Means that the Generations of the Righteous are Good Deeds, in the Work”

Related Material:
Life Is Motion
When Your Ups And Downs End
A Smooth Path Without Any Ups And Downs

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: If I am in a state where I cannot do anything, could interactions with me harm my friends?

Answer: If your state really stems from striving for the goal, there is nothing in you that could harm your friends. You are always adding to others because our states are not up to us. In bad states, we can share with others and add to them.

I do not want to say you should be proud of going through a bad period right now, but if you are connected to a friend at this time, he will not take on your bad state, because there are different types of interconnection.
[355434]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/11/26, Rabash, “What Are the Four Qualities of Those Who Go to the Seminary, in the Work?”

Related Material:
Two Prohibitions In Relations With Friends
Fear Of Harming The Group
Do Not Hurt A Friend

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

One who wants to walk on the path of Kedusha is called holy.

A person is named according to what he aspires to be. Why? Perhaps he will never reach it? No. If he aspires, he will certainly reach it because the Creator acts according to a person’s aspiration. The actual action is never in our hands, but the desire to attain the goal is within our power. The realization comes from above.

“Holy” means as it is written, “You will be holy,” which means that they retire from self-reception. For this reason, he is holy, since he intends to reach holiness. This is the meaning of the words, “Israel are holy; there is he who wants but does not have.” And there are also those who have but do not want. This means that he has Mitzvot and good deeds, but he does not want to walk on the path that leads to “in order to bestow.” Instead, he settles for Lo Lishma [not for Her sake]. He, too, is called “holy,” since the act is fine and he has nothing to add in actions (Rabash, “What Are the Four Qualities of Those Who Go to the Seminary, in the Work?”).

Later, together with the actions, intentions will also come. What does this mean? Let’s say I use my group, but I do not yet have the correct intention in the heart. Still, I use the group, the books, the study, everything possible, so that they bring me to the correct intention. Am I called holy then? Am I called “Israel” or not?

Let’s say I have just joined a group. I simply have a desire to reach some goal. My goal is not to be freed from the will to receive and come to bestowal. Certainly not. My goal is to attain something, to receive something more, to acquire something. I am told that this brings eternity and perfection. I am willing, give it to me.

Am I called holy now, according to my thoughts and desires? No. One who is called holy is at least one who desires holiness, and I do not even desire that.

However, I begin with the desire I have, and I use the group. I am told that one must humble oneself before the friends, do something for them, “buy yourself a friend,” and I invest in them. Thus, the whole group begins to invest in me and influence me positively. And by doing something practical, without any intention, without lofty ideas, I begin to act.

What does it mean to act? I know that they have something that I do not have. In any case, I do not simply want to serve them and bring them a cup of coffee, but through that cup of coffee I want to receive something from them. There is something in them that is slightly more elevated. Then, instead of my immediate desire and intention, something higher comes to me from them. Thus, by aspiring to this holy goal, I am already called “Israel” and “holy.”

That is, according to my initial action, even when I did not yet have the thought or intention for it, I am still called “holy.” Why? Because at least through the actions I perform, I am advancing.

We cannot judge a person according to what he has in each state, because whatever he has is given to him from above according to his aspiration. If I aspired to reach the goal but instead received a descent, then I also cannot be judged for that. It was given to me from above; perhaps I needed to fall. I do not know the upper calculations regarding me.

Therefore, one is never judged according to actions, that is, according to the current state, but only according to the direction, the aspiration of a person, because every state is arranged for him from above.
[355393]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/11/26, Rabash, “What Are the Four Qualities of Those Who Go to the Seminary, in the Work?”

Related Material:
Many Roads Lead To The Creator
“Holy” Means To Bestow
Newspaper Publishing Is No Longer Profitable

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: What does it mean “to hear nature”?

Answer: To hear nature means to be close to it.

Question: Close to nature, what is that?

Answer: A person close to nature is one who perceives everything around him as the attitude of the Creator toward him. Therefore, he does not see anything bad in it, right up to his own death. He also does not see anything bad in this: when it comes, it comes, and I go.

Question: Is it possible to live like this, in warmth and calm?

Answer: Yes, why not? Of course. It is an inner voice within oneself that simply has to be revealed.

Comment: But we have been deprived of this hearing, of hearing nature.

My Response: It is our egoism that locks us inside ourselves and does not let us turn anywhere.

Question: So, is it better for it that we do not hear nature?

Answer: It is an evil force that acts in parallel with the good force, but we give preference to this evil force.

Question: And how can we begin to yearn for nature, for this hearing?

Answer: Try to penetrate inside nature; this is a connection with the Creator. We must try to draw closer to Him. And then everything will work out for us.

Question: But this requires clarification. For a person, what is the Creator?

Answer: Everything that is around us.

Question: Is it all the Creator?

Answer: Yes. And even everything that is within us is all the Creator.

To come closer to Him means to reveal your sensations so that there would be no borders, no barriers, between you and Him. And then you will feel that in general, the whole world is filled with a subtle singing. That is how I would put it.

Question: Beautiful! I will not even try to clarify what that is. Let this feeling remain. Tell me, is this necessary for our survival?

Answer: The point is not to survive in this world, but to be in harmony with it. And that is how this harmony comes.
[354262]
From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 3/16/26

Related Material:
Superhumans or People Who Feel Nature?
Being Close To Nature
Getting Acquainted With The Universal Mind

Filed under: News, Perception, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

If a person feels bad, like an ordinary person from the street, this still does not prompt them to think that there is some special solution. They do not think about where this bad state came from, for what purpose, how it can be avoided, and what one can come to.

Why doesn’t such awareness arise in them? The reason is that the surrounding light of the higher degree is, for now, illuminating the person’s opposite Kelim, Kelim that wish only to receive, to enjoy without any connection to bestowal, to the Creator, and this state does not change.

However, if these Kelim (even if a person is still completely immersed in egoism, in self-enjoyment) begin to study Kabbalistic books, then, as Baal HaSulam writes, even through a single desire to know (not to purify, but simply to know), they will draw the surrounding light upon themselves, which will attract the “charm of holiness” upon them. Then a person will gradually begin to understand that something called “bestowal” exists and perhaps it is something good.

It is the surrounding light that brings a person to the thought that it is something good. Precisely because this correction already exists within them (the thought that bestowal is something good), a person becomes closer to the surrounding light and to some extent connects with it. Their direction already coincides.

Then a person can receive the forces from the surrounding light that will develop this quality within them, the “charm of holiness,” the quality of bestowal.  In this way, by making efforts in the same direction, they ascend.

Therefore no preliminary knowledge is required from us, no special qualities. Any person can open a book and wish to rid themselves of all their troubles by the fact that, without understanding anything, they will read it. And that is all. One can begin from zero.

Gradually, as one advances, their intention is refined, and they begin to better understand where that sharp point is, the point toward which they must direct their thoughts each time more clearly and more precisely. Thus, with each time, they become more and more experienced.
[355109]
From Daily Kabbalah Lesson on 4/7/26, Rabash, “The Connection Between Passover, Matza, and Maror”

Related Material:
125 Degrees Of Drawing Closer To The Light
The Whole Truth About The Surrounding Light
The Imperceptible Influence Of The Surrounding Light

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

The more we reach out to the right goal, the more we shorten the time, as it is said: “Israel sanctifies the times,” and we come to the state we must attain. All sufferings and pleasures revolve around the fact that only with their help can a person direct oneself to the goal.

We must build such an environment, such a group, around us that, with the greatness of the goal, with the awareness of the baseness of our present state in this world, will direct us so that without preliminary sufferings we will strive to this goal even before the forces of nature act upon us and begin to press, forcing us to advance toward it.

Of course, no one can know what is happening in another since each comes from a different point of the soul. Each must pass the degrees in a different form. All 620 corrections on 620 desires, which are called 620 degrees, each of us must pass in a different form.

And here, only the person’s individual work is taken into account: how sensitive one is to his present state in relation to the goal standing before them. Only one’s inner attitude, one’s awareness of the importance gives one motivation to move and work.

That is, in every state, the person himself, or the society that he defines around himself must remind him what is the most important thing in life and accordingly oblige him and give him also the strength to advance.

And then he goes through the still, vegetative, and animate levels. Rabash gives examples: one sits at home with his family, he is still on the still level of development; another already runs around meetings, working for the benefit of society, this is the vegetative level of development; and a third already thinks not only about how to arrange the world together with the people who fill it. He must already move to a degree that is above humanity, to where decisions are made, where actions are truly carried out.

And then he already works not with his family, not with society, not with humanity, but with what is above humanity: with forces and goals that are higher than nature. Naturally, none of them can understand the other.

But, as Rabash says, in whatever state a person may be, he must always reach out to those who are better, greater, more exalted, and in any state place before him the goal of attaining them.
[355491]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/26, Rabash, “What It Means that the Generations of the Righteous are Good Deeds, in the Work”

Related Material:
The Main Thing: Yearning For The Goal
The Purpose Of Life – The Core Of All
Spiritual Surgery

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

“Righteous,” “sinners,” “teachers,” and “students” are what all man’s states are called. We study that the whole world is inside man. What a person reveals in his sensations is his world. And if so, then he has a connection with the Creator. It follows that both righteous and sinners and teachers and students are his states.

In each state a person goes through, one must learn to investigate and evaluate the states so that they become closer to the goal, to tune oneself to them even if the person is in a descent, to study and find support in the state one reached during an ascent. The main thing is to single out what is essential and, as far as possible, direct oneself to it.

If a person strives for this, one passes through all the states quickly and in the most beneficial form. As Rabash writes, each of us has a point called the root of the soul and in our material reality, by means of the disturbances we receive through this world, we can increase this point 620 times. And then, instead of a point, we will merit to become a soul with a filling that is called the Creator, the light.

Then a state will come in which the soul, its Kli, together with the light, will be in adhesion, in equivalence of form, and this is the final state we must attain.

To strive for this state, to feel ourselves in ascents as close to it as possible, and when in descents nevertheless not to run away and not to fall into despair and inactivity but to constantly reach for it with the help of study and friends, this is our entire goal.
[355488]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/26, Rabash, “What It Means that the Generations of the Righteous are Good Deeds, in the Work”

Related Material:
The Total of All States
Purposefulness Of Spiritual States
Wisdom Comes With Experience

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: How can a person in descent make use of the group?

Answer: Let us say I am in such a deep fall that the group repulses me, I cannot bear to look at their faces, nor do I believe there is anything special about my friends, and I absolutely have no desire to adopt anything from them at all. I am in despair, I have no strength, and no hope. This state is called “dead.” Where should I turn and from whom should I seek help?

There are states you go through simply by inertia, but even in these instances, we must rely on the group. There is a commandment to bury the dead. In other words, your friends should come and help you. “A prisoner cannot free himself from imprisonment.” It is impossible. This is a group task.

First of all, the group should have a schedule, a fixed routine. We must establish rotations in tasks, roles, work, in all kinds of activities.

If, for example, a meal is held twice a week or some other event is held once a week that gives everyone a spiritual jolt, it helps to change a friend’s state where it is not feasible to approach him directly, but it is clear he has fallen.
[355430]
From Daily Kabbalah Lesson on 4/11/26, Rabash, Article 10, 1988 “What Are the Four Qualities of Those Who Go to the Seminary, in the Work?”

Related Material:
Equalize The Descents With The Ascents
Now Do It Yourself!
A Thousand Times You Will Fall And Rise

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Group Work, Spiritual Work - No Comments →