Support from Above

962.5Question: Who makes up the spiritual directorate?

Answer: I brought the people in the spiritual directorate together precisely because they have a predisposition to finding a common ground, and none of them wants to stand out. For this reason alone!

They understand that a joint decision is the correct one. And not because it is correct in itself, but because when it is shared, collective, it draws a blessing from above, from the Creator.

In fact, it may be absolutely wrong compared to what some smart students of ours might come up with. But he is alone and therefore, he will not receive spiritual support from above. They, however, are together, and therefore, they will receive spiritual support. In the end, they will win.

There is a saying: “What the young build leads to destruction, and what the old destroy leads to construction.” And this is truly so.

Compared to all the smart people of our world, I am worth nothing. But I say what I think at my level, and it comes true. Why? Because only support exists. Only this support determines and organizes everything.

According to logic, you can say: “This should not be so.” And still nothing will work out for you, while it will work out for me. Therefore, if the spiritual directorate makes collective decisions, the others can safely follow it with their eyes closed. Under no circumstances should lone “smart guys” be part of it!
In my place there can only be a collective, and that is why I chose it in advance.

Question: And how does the upper force clothe itself in this collective in the process of decision-making?

Answer: They themselves do not know. I do this through them by means of the upper force. They have nothing to do with it. It passes through them purely automatically, and that is all.

Who are they? They are at the same level as you, or even lower. What difference does it make?! You can see for yourself, are there special people there? They are simply people who understand that a collective decision prevails over a private one—over any private one! Bring in the strongest, the smartest, the most exceptional, whatever you like, it makes absolutely no difference.

Question: How can one prevent the “smart guys” from seizing power?

Answer: If everything remains as it is now, only with the spiritual directorate in my place, and anyone who begins to oppose is immediately removed from “Bnei Baruch”; let them go wherever they want, in any direction, then our community will continue to exist in the correct form.

Only the collective! No one in my place. No one. Everything stays where it is, everyone remains in their positions. No one commands, no one stands out, and everything in the organization proceeds according to the same hierarchy as now. Only the spiritual directorate leads. No one has the right to make decisions or do anything without it.

Question: But can people argue with the directorate in order to stimulate it?

Answer: No, that is not called arguing, but proposing. And if the directorate finds it necessary, it will accept the proposal. But it is best not to propose anything at all. Who can propose what? The one who proposes must understand who he is.

Suppose we are now preparing for a congress. There may be proposals to organize it one way or another, but only on the purely technical level of this world. Everything that concerns decision-making on a higher level, no.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Destruction of Laitman” 9/18/10

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 2/25/26

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 5 “What Does It Mean that the Creation of the World Was by Largess?” (1989) (10.23.2003)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,”  Vol. 2, Part 5, Item 38

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3rd part of the Lesson — Continuing the Convention With an Ascent

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Reveal the Actions of the Creator

278.03Question: When does the change of intention from Lo Lishma to Lishma (for the sake of the Creator) take place? Does my “fuel” change after the Machsom or do I still operate from the intention “for my own sake”?

Answer: After the Machsom, a person’s “fuel” changes. They emerge from the double and single concealments in which they existed prior to the Machsom and come to the revelation of the Creator. What is the difference between redemption and exile?

Redemption is the sensation of the Creator’s presence, the higher governance over all of reality. But if you do not feel this, then you are in exile (which is actually where you are now). You may listen, think, and imagine Him, but you do not truly feel Him. Therefore, this sensation does not determine the course of your life.

But when you begin to feel the Creator, you feel that there is no other force acting besides Him. And Pharaoh and all the other “characters” are factors through which the Creator determines and arranges everything that happens to you, both within and without. And all of this is so that, through discerning these changes, the single point in your heart may develop. The point in the heart is the beginning of the soul (Nefesh).

Regarding how you reveal that everything happening to you, both internally and externally, is only His actions, it is said: “Two lights, the inner and the surrounding, polish the Kli like water. Thus, the Kli is built.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/9/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Before the Egyptian Minister Fell, Their Outcry Was Not Answered, in the Work?”

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Based on the Level of Audience

234Question: Often the person asking a question is actually asking for the benefit of others. So they realize that they, too, have this question. How can we extract deeper information from you? How should a person be attuned when asking a question?

Answer: It does not depend on me or the person asking, but on the general level of those present, even those far away, on the Internet. When I feel the audience, I work for it; it determines the level at which I speak and even the style of presenting the material.

If there are more women sitting before me, I talk to them differently from how I talk to men. If the audience consists of new students, I naturally give a lecture as if for small children, using a soft, accessible language. For a more prepared audience, such as my longstanding students, the conversation will be brief, clear, and sharp.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Answer to Any Question” 9/12/10

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How Can I Become Similar to the Creator?

232.01Question: How can one clearly demonstrate “From Your actions we know You”?

Answer: It is very simple. For example, I see someone performing a certain action. I don’t know why or what their purpose is. I come to them with my mind, because I don’t have their “head,” and only the action is revealed to me. And so, through my desire, my capabilities, my own “mind,” I begin to emulate them in their actions; I want to act together with them.

There are such examples in our world. We see it in education when children gradually become like us, they wish to be like us. In spiritual action, it looks like this: the Creator gives to me, and I want to delight Him, to do the same for Him. By asking Him for strength, I become similar to Him in this action: He gives, and I act toward Him in the same way; that is, I reach a state where I receive His intentions, His “head” (Rosh).

What am I doing, trying to be like Him? I study the material (the desire) He works on, His attitude toward it, the form in which He is revealed in the material. In reality, I progress from bottom to top, from effect to cause.

It is said: “There is no blade of grass below without an angel above, striking it and saying: ‘Grow.’” By understanding the blade of grass, its material and how the angel acts upon it to grow, I begin to know the angel, through the processes he employs.

I associate myself with his actions, I want to be exactly like him, and through this, the same “head” (Rosh) is formed within me. Thus, we become equal in the action he performs.

What is common between us is the relationship to the material He created and the desire He realizes within it. That is, I already relate to my own desires as a laboratory experiment, beginning to separate my “self” from my body and regarding it as the place where we can be similar and merged.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/10/26, Rabash, “What Are the Two Actions During a Descent?”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 2/24/26

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “Purpose of Society – 2,” Article 1-2 (1984) (12.26.2002)

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Reversal of the Intention to Receive

261Question: I am discovering the evil in the very use of desire to receive. Why is it revealed in this way?

Answer: I receive the desire and intention to enjoy for myself from above, as a given. Now I need to see what the reason is. What kind of desire did I get? It can be a desire that brings me great pleasure or an opportunity to enjoy in order to achieve a goal.

Therefore, I make an effort to reveal that what is important to me is, not the fulfillment of the desire, but the intention for it. Even if I enjoy myself within the desire, as I do now, and remain in an unfilled Hisaron (deficiency), the intention I have received for the sake of receiving is still, in essence, evil for me. The fact is that the Creator becomes greater in my eyes than the intended fulfillment of desire.

Thus, I must value the greatness of the Creator more than the pleasure that can be obtained in the desire. When I achieve this, I have come to the realization of evil.

But this happens only because we work in a group and try to get inspired by everyone with the importance of the goal, of the Creator. Then I develop a need to do this, and I pray to the Creator that He must reveal Himself to me as something greater than the desire He gave me before.

In other words, the following happens in the actions of the Creator toward me: He gives me a desire with the intention of receiving for myself, and I have to reveal through the group, through books, that this desire is evil because the desire itself is higher in my eyes than the greatness of the Creator. Then I will ask the Creator to reveal Himself to me as great and not as a source of pleasure, so that His greatness will help me use my desire with the opposite intention—to bestow to Him.

When I achieve this, my prayer becomes a prayer for giving. That is, I am not praying for the filling of the Kli but for the opportunity to work for the sake of giving.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/10/26, Rabash, “What Are the Two Actions During a Descent?”

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Kabbalah and World Religions

589.02Liars are those who say that idealism is either inherent or a result of education. Rather, it is a direct result of religion. As long as religion did not sufficiently expand throughout the world, the entire world was barbaric, without an ounce of conscientiousness.

Only after servants of the Creator expanded did the posterity of the agnostics become idealists. Thus, the idealist is only so because of his ancestry’s commandment. However, it is an orphaned commandment, meaning without a commander (Baal HaSulam, The Writings of the Last Generation).

Initially, Baal HaSulam speaks about the spread of primitive idol worship in the world where people worshipped trees, stones, and the sun. Much later, the three major world religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) emerged; all of which arose from Kabbalah. If it weren’t for Kabbalah, from which all of its adherents, with the exception of a few, rolled down the hill and began to convert it into ordinary earthly practices, then today there would be neither the three main or all other religions.

Question: So when Baal HaSulam speaks about religion, does he mean the one that existed before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?

Answer: The Torah states that before the emergence of Kabbalah in ancient Babylon, there were various beliefs; each person worshipped his own family idol, and this was purely a psychological practice.

Later, King Nimrod wished to unite all the tribes that inhabited the state (the so-called seventy nations of the world) into one nation. For this, he needed something unifying, a single supreme spiritual image.

This is what Abraham, a resident of Babylon, began to work on. Abraham’s father, Terah, not only worshiped idols but also manufactured and sold idols. Abraham, unlike Terah, came under the influence of King Nimrod and understood that a single force was needed to unite people since egoism was growing, and dividing and increasingly alienating them.

To create a state and a single nation, a consolidating force was required. Nimrod stood for state authority, while Abraham fulfilled these functions as a spiritual priest.

But when Abraham began to develop the concept of a single spiritual creation and a supreme force that would govern everything, he came to the conclusion that this force already existed. He discovered it by trying to harmonize the many totems to one common source.

By generalizing this idea and turning all the deities into a single force, he understood that it has no image. It is so universal that it is devoid of any form.

Thus, the single idol they wanted to create suddenly “came to life” and became real. After discovering that one good force of nature exists that contains everything, unites everything, generalizes everything, and governs everything, Abraham began to teach this to the people.

This suited Nimrod because now he was the single ruler, king, and authority on earth, while God was in heaven. Practically all rulers used this model up until our time.

But Abraham gradually began to annul Nimrod’s authority: “Who is he? We must worship the Creator and deal directly with Him.” A strong confrontation arose between him and Nimrod, and Abraham was forced to leave Babylon with his followers who understood him and agreed with him.

Those who had not yet reached this understanding and wished for a normal, secure, egoistic existence decided to remain with Nimrod. But they could not do so because without the single unifying force that Abraham preached, egoism began to separate them, divide them, and set them against one another.

They realized that they had to disperse, otherwise they would destroy each other in an internecine war. This was a rational decision. Thus, they scattered throughout the world with their idols, while the servants of the Creator left with Abraham.

Question: What did Abraham and his like-minded followers teach? Was it the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: Yes, a method for uniting people, for enabling them to rise to the level of the Creator.

Question: Do Kabbalists call this a religion?

Answer: In principle, what Abraham revealed is called Daat (“religion”).

Therefore, Baal HaSulam writes that the meaning of the one true religion is the attainment of the single force of nature that governs everything. A person can reveal this force if he follows the correct path toward its attainment, through which he acquires absolute knowledge of all the laws of reality.

Baal HaSulam does not pay attention to anything else.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 7/3/17

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