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Question: Is it permissible to conduct experiments on myself, imagining as if I am already in the spiritual world?
Answer: No, we must not imagine these states. We must strive for them. Strive and not imagine how this actually takes place.
On the basis of imagination, according to your animate part, you begin to build up conceptions that this is already happening.
I am speaking about striving. People ask: “What should one strive for?” Baal HaSulam, in the article “There is None Else Besides Him,” writes that we should strive for the revelation of the Shechina, which is clothed in the whole world. Until you reveal this, you will not have a true picture of the world.
Question: Is it possible to search for this?
Answer: To search means to strive for it to be revealed and not to construct all sorts of fantasies as if you already imagine what it is.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/16/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Good Deeds of the Righteous Are the Generations,’” in the Work?”
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Question: Is it considered that I myself chose my past pace of advancement, or did I not have a choice then?
Answer: You had a choice, but you did not exercise it. Regarding the pace of advancement, you are free. We must believe that in the current state, our feeling of how we advance and our attitude to the Creator depend on our efforts.
If you apply efforts, then in the end, you will relate well to all these things. You will justify Him, you will attain love for Him; and if not, then you will go through the same states in a bad feeling.
Question: For example, if in the past I could choose two directions: to the right or to the left, then even if I made a mistake, by now, has the Creator arranged it so that everything turned out correctly?
Answer: Regarding the past, you did not make a mistake in anything.
Question: Is it worthwhile to recall previous good states in order to receive reinforcement for the present and the future?
Answer: Yes. That is what you are doing. It does not matter whether it is worthwhile or not, whether it is permitted or not. That is what people do. But when a person advances a bit further, he does not want to receive reinforcement from the past; he always seeks reinforcement in the Creator, in disconnecting himself from the past.
This is called “Every day will be as new in your eyes.” Everything is new. You do not want to receive support from what was before. You want to receive support from your search for a connection with the Creator each time. However, if for the time being the body demands this kind of reinforcement, that is also normal. Nothing can be done; such are the stages of the path.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/16/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Good Deeds of the Righteous Are the Generations,’ in the Work?”
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Comment: I keep revealing the desire to receive, and there is no end to this.
My Response: We agree with you that your request to be rid of the desire to receive comes from the bottom of your heart. You suffer and want to get rid of it. However, there are still several factors here.
First of all, not all your “crimes” have been revealed to you yet. There are still many “cases” against you each of which must be revealed and shown to you, and then you will confess to each of them, and accordingly, each case will be closed.
In addition, seeing the depth of your desire to receive, seeing how much you are still an egoist although you previously thought that this was no longer so, at the same time you reveal that you did not ask in a pure form to be rid of the desire to receive. You asked to get rid of it because you felt bad from it, and not because, setting yourself aside, you desired to be rid of this quality.
You must hate it because it is against the Creator, and this is revealed gradually, together with the exposure of the desire. The greater the quantitative depth of your ego into which you descend, the more qualitatively you see that you did not at all ask to be detached from the desire to receive as from a distinct, isolated quality, apart from the fact that you feel bad because of it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/16/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Good Deeds of the Righteous Are the Generations,’ in the Work?”
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Question: Where is the boundary regarding clarifications carried out in the group?
Answer: There is no boundary! You might ask: “If I am on level number ten and the group is on level number two, can it awaken me to rise to the eleventh level? What does it mean that they ‘wash my brain’? Who are they compared to me that they could arouse me, given such a difference in our levels?”
This is not a question. They can awaken you and help your ascent regardless of who they are. That is why it is written: “From all my students I have learned.”
You can take a group of beginners who understand the spiritual idea only a little, and through them receive such an ascent and such a “brain-washing” that you will rise from the world of Yetzira to the world of Beria. I am speaking completely seriously. This has nothing to do with what a person represents, what he feels, or what he clarifies. It relates only to your effort in relation to the group.
If you were now to enter the group of the students of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, you would receive from them exactly as much as you receive here in your own group. Everything depends on what you demand and what you invest. What matters here is the effort of each person.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘There Is Nothing that Has No Place,’ in the Work?”
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Question: If a person has free choice, can I, look at my past and say that I could have done something differently then, that I had freedom of choice?
Answer: No. Why would you think so? And regarding the future, also no. And in the present? In what do I at this moment have freedom of choice? Only in strengthening myself, agreeing, desiring the quality of bestowal, striving for this to happen as quickly as possible, and exactly as the Creator desires.
I have freedom of choice, not in the action itself, but in its implementation. Let it be realized, not in such a way that I agree to it under the pressure of threats and misfortunes, but so that of my own will, moving forward, I want its realization.
The Creator has everything planned in advance. In regard to the actions, in regard to what will happen to us, we are not free at all. Everything that I must go through is predetermined.
But if I do not want these states, do not want to advance toward greater bestowal each time, after having decided that from this moment on at every next stage I will be even more giving, then I inevitably reveal these states as suffering. I have no way out: I advance, but suffer more and more.
Or, on the contrary, if I convince myself that these states are good and effective, that I want them in advance, then they are revealed to me as goodness, as bliss, abundance, and eternity.
However, the stages that I go through are obligatory. I can determine the pace, but I cannot avoid being in each of these states.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/16/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Good Deeds of the Righteous Are the Generations,’ in the Work?”
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We must always cut down the bad weeds around us, as they affect us—we must keep away from bad environments, from people who do not favor the path of truth. We need a careful watch so as to not be drawn to follow them.
This is called “isolation,” when one has thoughts of the “single authority,” called “bestowal,” and not “public authority,” which is self-love. This is called “two authorities”—the Creator’s authority and one’s own authority (Rabash, “Concerning the Importance of Society”).
All of this is clear; the problem arises only with the implementation. Each of us is under our own authority, and we do not understand what it means to be under someone else’s authority. “Does it mean I must become a slave? If there is authority, then there is an owner?”
In fact, we must be under the authority of the altruistic desire, instead of the egoistic one. It is very difficult for us to understand these things. We simply do not see where and how all this takes place.
But over time, through study and participation in the life of the group, if a person draws upon himself the influence of the small light, he gradually begins to awaken. Then he becomes capable of discerning the true nature of the distinction between public authority and single authority, the authority of the Creator and the authority of the creature, the quality of bestowal and the quality of reception. These details are revealed with great difficulty, yet once they are discerned, a person begins to understand what is unfolding before him.
“It is a long path,” said the sages, “but you can shorten it if you follow several pieces of advice.” The advice is simple. If you want to perceive yourself on a higher degree, in the next dimension, then build it, form it. Unite with those who desire the same, and together evoke the upper force, so that between you, in your common understanding and feeling, it will create a network that will become the next degree.
Everything takes place in a person’s perception. The Creator in Himself is unattainable; we perceive Him only in the relationships between all the parts of reality that are within our perception. If you change your attitude to reality, that very attitude will become your Creator (Boreh), from the words “Bo” (come) and “Reh” (see).
Right now, for you the Creator is the egoistic force that governs all of the reality you see. In this form you perceive and feel it. So change it through the reforming light. There is such a force that you awaken; it is your next degree.
All the degrees already exist in that dimension, in that “informational-force channel” from which you can receive everything. Connect and receive. If you want to know what will be tomorrow, you will know it. If you want to know how to carry out changes, you will know how. Just connect. This is the reforming light.
In general, our approach is this: unite with one another and evoke the light that will correctly realize this unity. We must demonstrate our readiness commensurate with the state we are in, and ask for correction.
For implementation, it is very, very simple. That is why the articles of Rabash about the group are so simple and straightforward. There are few in number, and all these materials can fit into a few dozen pages. In them is the entire method. Everything else are only additions that help attract the light. To describe how to organize the group in which we draw this light, ten pages are enough.
Thus, today our work is first of all to organize ourselves into the correct structure, and then to turn with a request for correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/15/12, Rabash, “Concerning the Importance of Society”
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In the article “On the Night of the Bride” (Introduction of The Book of Zohar), it is said that the law (a condition of the spiritual order) is such that the creature cannot perceive the Creator openly if it is in a state or quality opposite to Him.
Therefore, only in equivalence of qualities with the Creator can we perceive Him, in those qualities in which we are similar to Him in quantity and quality. For it is a flaw in the glory of the Creator for the creature to perceive Him as an evildoer, and the created being would no longer be able to remain connected with Him.
For this reason, the Creator acts in concealment. He must awaken negative states within us, yet we do not feel that they come from Him. Although naturally, “there is none else besides Him,” and only He does this. As it is said: “Who makes darkness and creates light.”
We must feel the darkness more and more. It must constantly be revealed within us so that we can correct it and reveal the light, the Creator, in its place.
Thus, our work always consists of concealment and revelation, concealment and revelation. The concealment of the Creator produces darkness; revelation produces light. These two states must necessarily alternate. Our awareness must be directed toward the understanding that both states are good, that they come from love and are directed precisely toward us so that we may attain perfection.
If a person is not prepared, then the state of the Creator’s concealment is felt by him as darkness and evil, as if the Creator is hiding from him. This is the greatest punishment in the world.
Thus, His guidance of good and evil has been prescribed for us, with guidance of reward and punishment. One who makes efforts not to lose faith in the Creator, that is, in every situation, whatever may happen, if I try to constantly direct myself to the thought that everything happening now with me, within me, outside me, and in the whole world is the Creator’s governance, and I try to remain in this awareness despite feeling unpleasant states, then I attain the reward: eventually the Creator is revealed to me.
But if I do not wish to constantly hold myself in the thought that everything comes from the Creator, that everything around me is only the Creator, who through friends, through strangers, through those close to me, through anyone and in any way, through billions of different influences upon me, is playing with me, then in the end He disappears from my feelings, and I part with faith in the Creator, with the feeling of Him.
Only the ten can keep each of us in constant faith in the Creator, in a constant direction toward Him, in constant connection with Him, in the constant thought that everything comes from the Creator: He does everything, He governs me, and even my thoughts about Him are also from Him.
That is, whether I want or do not want to be connected with Him, this too comes from Him. And it does not matter whether my thoughts are good or bad, whether my actions are good or bad. The main thing is that I attribute them to Him. This is the most important thing.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 9/7/19, Moldova, Lesson 4
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