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The Independence Given to Us by the Creator

Posted on March 13th, 2026 at 7:40 am

Question: Why doesn’t the Creator give us the ability to check whether our actions are correct?

Answer: It is very simple. If I truly see myself as the only one in the world and relate this to the Creator and to the fact that I must work in relation to Him, then I really have no way to know who I am, what I am, who the Creator is, or what He does, because He is concealed.

If He is concealed, then I myself am in concealment. I have nothing against which I could check myself.

If only the Creator and the created being exist, then nothing can be done. Imagine that there is the Creator and there is the creature. And then what? How can you raise the creature to the level of the Creator? If the Creator were revealed, the creature would be completely under His power and would be forced to perform acts of bestowal without knowing why it does so. It would be just like now when we are dominated by the desire to receive.

We must be under the influence of two types of nature. But how can both this happen simultaneously? Whichever one has the greater influence is the one I will choose. Since I myself am made of the desire to enjoy, I take pleasure either from receiving or from giving. I would also perceive the presence of the Creator as pleasure, and then I would either be in impurity or in holiness, because pleasure can be received from both.

In order for a person to be independent, the Creator must conceal Himself. Then there is a question of how a person for whom the Creator is hidden can check oneself? If a person has no reference point by which to measure himself, orient himself, and determine who he is and what he is, how could he possibly advance?

Therefore, the Creator, in concealing Himself so as not to bribe a person with pleasures, gave the group in His place, something a person cannot sell himself to. On one hand, the group does not give him pleasure the way the Creator does, nor does it give him life the way the Creator does. On the other hand, it is an external force, something outside of him.

Therefore, if a person wants to cling to the Creator by connecting himself with the group and giving to it, then in relation to the group he acquires true intention for the sake of bestowal and becomes similar to the Creator in a genuine way. In essence, he uses bestowal to the other in order to become like the Creator.
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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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Ideological Obstacles

Posted on March 13th, 2026 at 7:29 am

Question: If there is a group in which I introduce spiritual laws to the extent I understand them, do I check every time to what extent I do not conform to them?

Answer: It turns out that we build the spiritual form of a group by each one imagining it as a society that works with relationships among friends as a means to achieve the Creator. In other words, a group is not just some bodies but a shared concept we construct in our thoughts.

The calculation is simple. There is a certain amount of striving for the Creator awakened in these people. Maybe they do not even feel it yet. They are looking for the meaning of life and so on. This is a hidden yearning for the root from which they receive obstacles, blows, and suffering.

Then they ask the same question: “What is the meaning of my life?” But now it is addressed to the root. They do not know this, but initially, this question is addressed at the Creator, as at the root of suffering, at His reverse side (Achoraim), since He is currently activating concealment through His reverse side.

Then, if they already have a direction toward the Creator, given by Him initially, they must grasp this direction and develop it amidst all the obstacles that come to them, especially in matters concerning building a group.

There are obstacles on the corporeal level: inanimate, vegetative, and animate. And there are obstacles on the human level, which act between friends. Here, I am already reach a state where the obstacles interference as if become “ideological.”
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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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Let Us Exclaim, Let Us Marvel

Posted on March 13th, 2026 at 7:17 am

Let’s remind each other and be inspired by the greatness of our spiritual goal, by the environment that aspires to it, and by the unique opportunity of freedom of choice that has been given to us. How many people in the world truly have the possibility to act freely? If all people act according to the dictates of their nature, then there is no one who is truly “acting.”

If I am completely governed from above, then there is no “me.” It is said: “I came, and there was no man.”

There are many people, yet it is as though they do not exist, for not one of them is free in their actions. If there is no human being who possesses freewill, then there are no worlds, nothing at all except the world of infinity (Olam Ein Sof).

With respect to the Creator, nothing else exists. Only the one who performs a free action exists.

Imagine this picture of reality: complete emptiness! And within it, only a few desires are visible, which have risen and are capable of performing free actions.

And you have the opportunity to be just as free and to become Man (Adam)! Therefore, let us realize the greatness of this unique opportunity.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/10, Baal HaSulam, Preface “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 3/13/26

Posted on March 13th, 2026 at 7:00 am

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Winning the War” (3.2.2022)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 5, “Ohr Pnimi,” Item 41

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3rd part of the Lesson — A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar

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Audio Version Of The Blog – 3/12/26

Posted on March 12th, 2026 at 10:55 pm

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Everything Is Entrusted to Man

Posted on March 12th, 2026 at 7:48 am

We must prioritize the greatness of the friends and the greatness of the group as one. “One” means something whole. It is not a digit followed by two, three, and four, but the collective of all. I perceive myself as zero. Then, according to the number of zeroes that in my sensation separate me from the one, I raise my level.

After all, I may consist of 613 corrected desires directed toward the Creator, and this would be the smallest complete degree. The point is that here I have the opportunity, not only to correct my desires, but to increase them immeasurably. Then a vessel opens for a person, one that is without limit.

This is what the commandment “Love your neighbor as yourself” gives.

Thus, through establishing such relations in the group, we receive spiritual forces from the first vessel to the last. Everything is entrusted to the individual according to one’s free choice. And what is interesting is that this implies that the magnitude of the vessel a person develops does not depend on the size of the group or on the greatness of the friends, but only on how many zeroes a person places between himself and the unit, that is, between oneself and the complete image of the group in one’s eyes.

There are many details here to clarify, but the crucial point is how a person annuls oneself and by what one magnifies the group. The greatness of the society in one’s eyes and this entire matter of self-nullification (when a person as if submits to the power of the group) must be determined solely by connection with the Creator and nothing else.

If a person gathers all these factors together, then they direct themself toward the goal.
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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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The Correct Attitude Toward the Group

Posted on March 12th, 2026 at 7:40 am

How should I relate to the group correctly? The group must help me understand this and give me the strength to change myself. The group must do everything. It is like the Creator.

But the group must hold one more idea. It demands this from me not so that we would give to one another and live well like in a hobby club.

It must have a clear goal; we do all this not for the convenience of our stay here but in order to become similar to the Creator, to achieve adhesion with Him. Then everything will succeed.

But if we do not have this goal, we will fail as it happened in Soviet Russia and in our Kibbutzim. Baal HaSulam writes about this in the article “The Peace.”

To the extent that we are able to build a group and establish it in the correct form in relation to ourselves, to that extent it will serve us in place of all the means we lack for attaining the goal.
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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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Abraham’s Revolution

Posted on March 12th, 2026 at 7:24 am

Question: Can we say that Abraham changed world history?

Answer: Yes, because Abraham was the first to call on the Babylonians to resist their growing egoism that was flourishing in Ancient Babylon. Egoism prevented them from developing and gradually led the state into a huge crisis, what we call the Tower of Babel.

At that time, Ancient Babylon, located between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, was home to 3 million people. By modern standards, this is not a large population, but for the ancient world, it was quite substantial, practically the entire civilization of that time.

People lived peacefully and calmly. They had everything in abundance. They sowed grains—wheat, rye, buckwheat—planted onions and garlic, raised sheep, and caught plenty of fish. Historical evidence of this can be found in preserved frescoes with dedicatory inscriptions: “I present you with a kilogram of garlic,” and so on.

People lived simple, ordinary lives and everything was fine. But suddenly, competition flared up among them, and they began to “measure” one another by egoistic standards: I give him this much and he gives me that much. While previously one person was like a brother, a friend, and a neighbor to another, now completely different criteria for relationships appeared.

Thus the Babylonians entered a wild, terrible crisis from which they could not escape. They began to build the Tower of Babel, a symbol of egoism striving to reach the heavens, because they believed that in this way they could conquer the Creator and make Him work for them.

The belief that the sky had a solid firmament persisted in humanity for thousands of years. I have even read in Russian manuscripts that people thought if they lived near the horizon, they could dry their grain to prevent it from spoiling. That was their way of imagining things, and this notion only began to fade gradually only in the Middle Ages, with the emergence of various sciences in the 17^th to 18^th centuries.

Our entire civilization began with Ancient Babylon. Abraham carried out huge revolution in the world, one could even say the only one. All other revolutions were carried out “from an armored vehicle,” but he carried out a real revolution. He gave humanity the key to influencing our world, our own destiny, and through our world, other worlds as well. What he did was incredible.

Of course, there were Kabbalists before him; after all, he lived in the 20^th generation after Adam. But it was precisely his generation that managed to bring a method for affecting all of humanity to our world, a method urgently needed in times of crisis, and that the world can make use of it.

Question: Noah lived in the 10^th generation, yet it was Abraham who became a revolutionary?

Answer: Noah carried out his own revolution. One could say that he saved humanity, but he did it alone. He did not need a group like Abraham did. He fulfilled his mission by taking his loved ones into the ark. They weren’t actually relatives in the usual sense, but simply people who lived together like one large, close-knit family. In those days, everyone lived that way.

Noah raised this entire group of people above earthly egoism; that is, he saved them from the flood of egoism in the ark, which symbolizes the quality of Bina.

Abraham did the same thing 10 generations after Noah, but in a different state, in a different civilization. He revealed that it was possible to act differently, not through the familial but still egoistic ties as in Noah’s time.

The point is that by Abraham’s time, egoism had already corroded all of humanity. And although it consisted of many different large clans (typical of the ancient world), Abraham managed to convince them that drawing closer into a single family in spite of the egoism ruling over them was precisely their salvation.

They were still not far from understanding this because they had recently lived in peace and friendship, when suddenly egoism flared up among them and they began to hate one another. Therefore, they readily believed him, came together, and realized that this was salvation from the problems they had created for themselves.

In order to return to normal life, Abraham united them into a group in which they began to discover the correct relationships between themselves.
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From a Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/29/16

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What Is a Disturbance?

Posted on March 12th, 2026 at 7:17 am

A disturbance is a divine force that appears to me as a disturbance because of its intention for the sake of bestowal.

If I correct myself for the sake of bestowal, this obstructive force no longer appears as an obstacle to me, I see it as salvation, as something positive.

This means that I transform the disturbance into a positive form. But in truth, I do not change it; rather, I change my intention, and by this, I perceive the obstacle differently.

In other words, I justify the governance of the Creator. It comes to me in a negative form because I perceive it through an egoistic perspective, and I correct my perspective precisely through this obstacle. It serves as my yardstick.

Then I begin to see the Creator’s influence upon me as the good who does good.
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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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