MAN is an acronym for Mei Nukvin (female waters). A woman in Kabbalah is always associated with desire, a man with bestowal. A woman is a desire to receive, a man is a desire to give. Therefore, female waters means the rise of desire from the bottom up to the Creator. Moreover, they encourage the Creator to begin creation, correction, and fulfillment of these desires. In this case, requests from the bottom up are called prayer or MAN.

Question: Is that the MAN (manna) mentioned in the desert?

Answer: This is the MAN (manna), which the Torah says that every morning people picked up and fed on it.

Question: Very often in Kabbalah the term Machsom [barrier] is used. What does it mean?

Answer: Machsom is a state that a person must go through along the path from the sensation of only our world to the sensation of the upper world. In other words, this is the borderline between ours and the spiritual world, a kind of psychological barrier.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 6/17/19

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For the Sake of Correcting the Feminine

In one of the articles, Rabash writes: “Who is an acceptable wife? She who fulfills her husband’s desires.”

“It is known that a person is called a woman, Nukva, when he receives light from the master. The Creator bestows pleasure to His creatures. When is a person called a pleasing wife? When he fulfills desires. that is, when for everything he enjoys, he creates an intention to fulfill the master’s desire without any desire for the sake of self.”

If an ordinary person reads this passage, he might mistake Kabbalists for medieval slave owners. But when studying Kabbalah, we begin to understand that this refers to our desire, which is called “woman.” In Kabbalah, the desire to receive is called the female desire, and the desire to give is called the male desire.

This has nothing to do with gender or gender definitions in our world. Therefore, we, by no means mean women or men, we simply want to say that the female spiritual roots are not only different from the male, but also more important. After all, everything that is being done in the world for the sake of correction is done in the name of correcting the feminine.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 3/8/20

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Yesterday, we opened our souls to each other and felt together in one heart. And this morning, no one feels any connection with friends in the higher ten any longer, feels no need for the science of Kabbalah, the Creator, unity, and the spiritual path, and wants only to sleep like an animal.

Now I need to accept by faith above reason that I received this state from the Creator; there is none else besides Him. It is only the Creator playing with me, sending me all kinds of states, and now He has made me feel like an animal.

Moreover, the animal state is the best of all because it is from it that we need to rise to the degree of man. And if now I am on the stage of an animal it is a sign that I have finished working on my previous state and corrected it. Now I am falling into the state of an animal in order to raise myself again to the step of a person with new qualities.

Therefore I rejoice that I became an animal because now I am starting work anew at a new level. And so penny by penny accumulates a large sum. Therefore, I start the day in a good mood, full of strength, and declare to the whole world: “Watch how I the animal will make myself a man!”
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From a Kabbalah Lesson 5/9/20

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Question: Is the intensity of the impact of the light the same on each level or does the intensity increase according to the height of the level?

Answer: Of course. The point in the heart awakens a stronger impact of the light unto itself according to its need to develop, which is determined by its environment.

We study in Talmud Eser Sefirot about this in a very accurate manner. The five lights NRNHY change on each level according to its intensity and the need to nourish the soul.

Question: How can we determine whether the point in the heart has awakened? What does a person feel?

Answer: If a person feels a very strong desire to understand what he is living for, what there is beyond his own life and death, how the world and the universe are organized and built, who manages it, why, how and for what purpose, if he feels that without an answer to such questions he cannot continue to live a quiet peaceful life and that he cannot enjoy anything in life, then such a serious attitude to the meaning of life should bring him to the wisdom of Kabbalah and show him where he can find the answers to these questions.

Question: We know what it means to receive in the corporeal world. In what sense does this receiving differ from spirituality?

Answer: Spiritual receiving is filling in altruistic attributes. To the extent that I am in the state of love and bestowal, I begin to feel the attributes that fill me.

Question: We gather in a ten and begin to raise our soul in it until we feel ascent and adhesion and as a result the one soul of this ten is created. What’s next?

Answer: Next, these tens will begin to gather, and thus you will begin to increase and unite the general soul until it reaches its ideal initial state in which everyone comes together into one general structure where the Creator is revealed in a perfect manner.

Question: Is it true that the Torah is a book of codes that has four levels of study?

Answer: Yes, that’s true. The Torah is a book that is not understood at all. It does describe everything as a historic story, but in fact it is not a historic story. There are four levels of attaining the Torah and each is deeper than the other. The wisdom of Kabbalah engages in the revelation of all these levels, of the gradual entry to the code of the Torah.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 2/9/20

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Belief in the greatness of the Creator depends on the environment. If the environment constantly speaks of the greatness of the Creator and conveys the feeling that only this force exists and determines my whole future to me, that it alone rules in the world and in all reality, then this is how I will relate to it.

If the environment doesn’t convey such a feeling to me, I won’t be able to appreciate the Creator. Only if the environment treads on me by inspiring the greatness of the Creator and the need for His revelation can I awaken and continue my path along the path to understanding the Creator.

The only thing we lack is an environment that inspires us with the greatness of the Creator that constantly treads on me and awakens me. Beginners still receive the greatness of the Creator individually, but in the future it will increasingly depend on the environment. If the environment doesn’t take care of me, then I will fade. If it takes care of me, I will grow like a plant after the rain.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/19/20, Writings of Rabash, “The Main Thing We Need”

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Question: What can a man give to the Creator through his friends?

Answer: First, all friends must agree with him on this action of surrendering themselves to the Creator.

It consists of the fact that they connect with each other and turn into one vessel where they feel Creator, where He can be clothed.

We turn into Nukva, the female property, relative to the Creator, who is the masculine property, and we want the Creator to cloth in us, fill us, and rule over us. We are ready to surrender ourselves to the power of bestowal.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/18/20, Writings of Rabash, “The Agenda of the Assembly – 2,”

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Comment: In the spiritual world there are only objects with independent, conscious desire. For example, a pencil does not exist there because it does not have that desire.

My Response: As with all inanimate matter, it has the common desire of this matter: to maintain its form. In the spiritual world there is no still, vegetative, or animate nature because all the desires of these levels are directed only to self-preservation.

An ordinary person does not exist there either. This is all imaginary nature because it does not emanate, does not produce anything from itself. It is busy only in order to maintain its existence in the most comfortable form and nothing more.

Question: It turns out that the entire spiritual world is exclusively in our brains?

Answer: Of course. Where else? After all, there really is no space. The spiritual desire is called space.

Question: But do the roots of all material objects and phenomena exist?

Answer: That is mandatory. They are in our desire and therefore are reproduced in it.

Question: Can you tell what, for example, is a table in the spiritual? What is being done to it, how is it being used?

Answer: There is a certain force or, as we call it, Reshimo (information record), which draws this table in us.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 6/10/19

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Question: How does the game mechanism work? Do we attract some energy from it by playing a future more corrected state?

Answer: Of course. We attract upper energy. After all, our thoughts and desires act in the surrounding space.

Question: Does it mean that there is some kind of corrected state where we are in the correct connections?

Answer: Definitely! Up to our most final, best state. And it exists not somewhere up there but within me. I as if unconsciously turn to this state and draw energy and strength from it.

Question: Does a child also play in the same way?

Answer: Absolutely everyone! Even a little bug plays something. This happens at any degree. This is the only way the desire changes. Everyone is affected by the same light to a greater or lesser extent.

Question: Does it mean that the Creator created millions of these states?

Answer: Everything from the beginning to the end is created by one light, one thought.

Question: It is strange that from two to three atoms the universe appeared including people with their entire spectrum of feelings. How is this possible?

Answer: The main thing is the final state. Everything is built from the end and not from the beginning. Therefore it is written, “The end of the action is in its initial thought”

Question: So this is not about a gram of light and a gram of desire, which are enough for everything to develop, but about the program itself. It develops everything. Is the program the Creator?

Answer: It is the thought of creation. And above it there is the force that is called the Creator.

As for a gram of light and a gram of desire, these are two forces, plus and minus, that exist in nature in order to develop the desire so it becomes a suitable equivalent for the light.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 3/25/20

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Question: You say that someone has great egoism, someone has small egoism, and in accordance with this, different conditions are given for correcting it by the Creator. But how do I know what my egoism is: big or small?

Answer: Why do you need to know this? There is no need. It is what it is. As they say: “The Creator gives a vicious cow no horns.”

Each person has some specific properties, and he works with them. So do not envy anyone. Each has his own set of corporeal and spiritual qualities that will help him reach the root of his soul.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 3/8/20

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It makes no difference who we are, since wherever we live, each of us has a record of data, Reshimo, of where he is, and his state in the general soul of Adam. This is the reason that the Reshimo is called the point in the heart.

Taamim means one who wants to taste a good taste in life, should pay attention to his point in the heart, to the embryo of the soul, the spiritual drop of semen.

Every person has a point in the heart, except it does not shine. Rather, it is like a black dot. The point in the heart is the discernment of Nefesh (soul) of Kedusha (holiness), whose nature is a vessel of bestowal.

However, she is in a state of Shechina (Divinty), in the dust, meaning that a person regards her as nothing. Instead, to him she is as important as dust. This is called Nekudot (dots/ points).

The solution is to increase her importance and make its importance as Tagin (crowns), like “a Crown in his head.” That is, instead of being dust, as before, he should raise her importance to be as a Keter (crown) on his head.

At that time the Nefesh of Kedusha expands in Otiot (letters), meaning in the Guf (body), for the Guf is called Otiot. In other words, the Kedusha spreads from potential to actual, called Otiot and Guf.” (The Writings of Rabash vol. 3, article 34, “TANTA” (Taamim, Nekudot, Tagin, Otiot)

…except it does not shine. Rather, it is like a black dot. A person doesn’t even feel that he belongs to something or to someone. But if he does begin to feel this, it is already a step forward. A person is given some basis of a feeling that he lacks something, and if he begins to develop his yearning, he can move forward.

The point in the heart is the discernment of Nefesh (soul) of Kedusha (holiness), whose nature is a vessel of bestowal. As long as a person does not develop the desire to bestow internally, he feels his yearning as a black point. This is how we begin our spiritual path in this world, when we feel that we are at a dead end because of the circumstances that have led us there, and nothing attracts us and nothing pushes us. The black point pushes us forward, but it is by sufferings and doubts and not by yearning or the light that shines ahead.

However, she is in a state of Shechina (Divinity), in the dust, which means that the Creator is wrapped in black, in a cover that we don’t understand, and do not find attractive, and which a person doesn’t value at all, meaning that a person regards her as nothing. He doesn’t see anything in it, and quite the opposite, his whole life begins to seem pointless, tasteless, and meaningless. Eventually he is pushed forward as a result of uncertainty and emptiness, and he wants to find a meaning in life, but nothing illuminates for him in the meantime. This is how the in utero development of a person’s soul begins.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 2/16/20

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