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There is an action called bestowal, and the Creator’s position as the giver. By performing acts of bestowal within the group and thus building one’s Kli, perfecting oneself in this action, and becoming similar to the Creator in this action, a person attains the status of the Creator.
In one of his letters, Baal HaSulam gives the example of a king who wished to elevate a servant, so he subjected the servant to various trials so that, through all these actions, the servant would learn what it means to be a king; and then, in his attained state he would become like a king. Bestowal as such is not the goal either. Bestowal is a form of external equivalence to the Creator.
Therefore, if we work in the group in order to bestow, because this form is the Creator’s external form in relation to us, then we merit becoming like Him in our inner qualities. And what those inner qualities are, we cannot even express, but one eventually reaches them. If the Creator were revealed, we would not be able to perform this, because in that case, He would have dominion over us.
But here we are in a state where there are no pleasures, bestowal does not attract, it repels. To counter this, we must intensify the greatness of the Creator, this ideal of becoming equal to Him. In order to carry out an act of bestowal within the group, we need the revelation of the Creator, not in the form where He is revealed as pleasure, but in the form where He is great as a goal. Then we gain strength to work with the group; it gives us fuel for bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/25/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that the Creation of the World Was by Largess?”
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Question: In the process of building the group, each of its members and the group as a whole receives obstacles. Is the purpose of these obstacles to increase the aspiration toward the Creator and the feeling of the need for Him?
Answer: You must imagine that a certain vessel is suspended in the air, and this vessel is the most important thing for us. Wie will reveal the Creator in it, at first as if it is outside of us and later perhaps in a more internal form when we feel that all our hearts together are building this vessel. Why do I speak about an external form? Because one must direct attention outward, beyond oneself. Under no circumstances should we relate to one another as to a closed society that needs no purpose beyond itself.
Question: I am asking about the tool called the group. In building it, a person receives obstacles. What is their purpose?
Answer: The purpose of the obstacles a person receives while building the group or while shaping his attitude toward it, is precisely so that he will establish the correct attitude. How do I know what that attitude should be? In other words, what should the final vessel look like? I attain this through the obstacles that I constantly receive and correct.
To overcome obstacles means to acquire them and integrate them within oneself as a beneficial force. Through this, I become wiser and more experienced, and next time, I will receive a greater obstacle. Each obstacle, once corrected, becomes within me an effective operating force.
Our problem is that we hardly feel that next time we will be stronger, because the next time we fall even deeper. And yet, every detail joins the whole. That is why I fall more deeply.
Without these obstacles, how would I build myself? It is the same in our corporeal life: another exam, another test, another assignment, and so on. Through this, a person grows.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/26, Rabash, “According to What Is Explained Concerning ‘Love Thy Friend as Thyself’”
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When a person works with the greatness of the group, he works against his desire to receive. I want the Creator to be as great as possible because this gives me more confidence, more peace; I belong to something great!
But when I work on the greatness of the group, what is its greatness? It strives more toward bestowal; it wants to invest more; this is what the greatness of my group is.
That is, I value the group according to its inclination to bestow, and this does not provide any fulfillment for my desire to receive. When the desire to receive gains no fulfillment, I have no choice, I must begin to value these qualities themselves.
By placing the group before me instead of Him, the Creator gave me the opportunity to completely disregard my desire to receive and to exit it.
Therefore, He shattered the vessel of Adam HaRishon and gave each person the environment as a means to attain bestowal. Without this, we would be able to do nothing.
The group is the means for attaining the greatness of the Creator, for recognizing Him as the good that does good.
If I detach the group from the Creator, I will never come close to performing even the smallest action that leads to coming out of myself.
As an example, Baal HaSulam brings up Soviet Russia, which detached itself from the Creator and attempted to build a beautiful society independently; the Kibbutzes did the same. There were other similar examples in history, and they all ended in failure.
In our work, we must connect the group and the Creator with one another so that the group becomes the means. Rabash writes about this very clearly in all his articles on the group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Saboteur Was in the Flood, and Was Putting to Death,’ in the Work?”
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Comment: You say that it is impossible to give up self-gratification, impossible to love your neighbor, and impossible to bestow to another. Impossible!
My Response: Yes.
Question: If a person reaches such a sharp, bitter realization inside himself is this good?
Answer: This is the recognition of evil, of one’s nature! And from there you must still say that I need to rise above it, above this nature. What do I need to do for this? Where can I find such a remedy?
People haven’t found it yet. They have already stopped hoping, on one hand. But on the other hand, they are gradually understanding more and more that if such a remedy does not exist, then there is no happiness, nothing good, no future either.
Comment: So here we have a dilemma. I understand that one cannot live like this, that I am like this, my nature is like this, and at the same time I understand that I cannot move forward.
My Response: I can’t.
Question: I’ve reach this point that there is no going back and no moving forward. What should one do in this case?
Answer: When we reach such a state, we begin to understand that if nature has set this task for us, then obviously nature also has a solution.
Question: That is logical. So the solution is not around me, not in my friends, not anywhere here, but in nature itself. And thus, I slowly begin to communicate with nature?
Answer: Yes. This is communication with nature.
Question: So, I say: “The solution is inside you. Give me this solution.”
Answer: Yes. It must reach the point where a person is truly compelled to turn to nature in such a way.
Question: And at what moment will nature give answers and respond?
Answer: When a person is in complete despair, when he truly needs only this.
Question: If we generalize all this, are we now being led exactly to this state? We cannot bypass it, cannot avoid it?
Answer: In no way.
Question: So you have a clear sense that we are being led precisely to this?
Answer: Yes. We only need to understand and feel that the inner inversion is based at this point. It is necessary; otherwise you will not transition into another mode of existence.
Question: And tell me, if a person hears you, what are his actions at that moment? Even if he begins to mechanically communicate with nature, with the Creator.
Answer: Only to strengthen himself in this paradigm.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 2/23/26
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 12 “Concerning the Importance of Society” (1984) (5.22.2003)
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2nd part of the Lesson — Recording of Rabash, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 5, “Ohr Pnimi,” Item 41
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Question: If there is none else besides Him, then to whom does the Creator bestow?
Answer: It is a closed system, part of which was intentionally given an egoistic addition opposite to the Creator in order to reveal Him more clearly. This part plays everything out within itself.
Imagine that you have an orchestra with no minor or major tones. What would you do? Harmony is necessary.
To create this harmony and emphasize His unity and perfection, the Creator made an opposite system, one that contradicts Him. From this you can freely investigate Him and, most importantly, crown Him.
It is precisely thanks to the egoism He created and over which you work, that you decipher the Creator who hides within this system, reveal Him, and discover that He is the only one and the perfect one.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 9/2/18
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We study that attaining adhesion with the Creator is the goal. The means to this end is the building of a vessel (Kli). Adhesion with the Creator is a vessel filled with light, the final state when the qualities of the vessel become the same as the qualities of the Creator. Then a person fills this vessel with reflected light, with their attitude toward the Creator, and the Creator fills the vessel with His attitude toward the person, with direct light.
A person can build this vessel only with the help of the group because the parts within the vessel can be bonded together solely through the intention “love thy friend as thyself.”
The common intention that a person must attain can be obtained only in the group.
This does not mean that the group gives him the force of bestowal itself. Rather, it gives him the desire to attain the force of bestowal and the understanding that he is incapable of reaching it on his own.
It gives him the awareness that the Creator desires, awaits, and is ready to correct him. A person receives all this from the group to the extent that he relates to the friends and demands these forces from them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/26, Rabash, “According to What Is Explained Concerning ‘Love Thy Friend as Thyself’”
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Question: In his perception, a person divides time into three notions: past, present, and future. What are these?
Answer: The present is the sensation that comes from the influence of the inner light. This is more complex than Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Einstein described a special perception of the external world, while Kabbalah describes a special perception of a person’s inner world, which is much harder to grasp. After all, one must overturn one’s entire self to understand it, whereas to understand the theory of relativity one needs to overturn only the mind.
The sensation of the past is determined by the light—that is, by the fulfillment that was in the desire and has left it. The fulfillment that is inside the soul is the present. And the fulfillment that stands before the soul, ready to enter it in the next moment, is called the future.
Question: And what is the “soul”?
Answer: The soul is the system through which we sense that we exist and which becomes filled with the upper light. If we develop ourselves through the method of Kabbalah, we begin to feel these fulfillments, and the past, present, and future that are associated with them.
Past, present, and future are the influence of the light that was, is, and will be upon me. My desire to enjoy becomes filled with the upper light, called the Creator.
The sensation of past, present, and future depends on a person’s level of development. Some people are not concerned with the future at all, and others immediately forget the past. Many perceive only a narrow slice of the present. The sense of time is individual for every person.
Question: And where do I exist, in the past, present, or future?
Answer: You exist in the past, the present, and the future because time does not exist by itself; it exists only within your sensation. All your future states already exist, right up to the very last one where you and the Creator merge in equivalence of form and you reveal how the upper force fills you, the light that previously remained outside.
Upon reaching this final state, which is called the end of correction, we become filled with all the light that is now still outside of us.
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From KabTV’s New Life 934 – What Is “The Future?”, 12/19/17
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