What Drives a Person to Spirituality?

249.01Question: It is said that when a person enters spirituality, he no longer feels suffering from corporeal needs. What drives a person then?

Answer: The spiritual goal.

Question: How does this manifest in life?

Answer: In what they feel is lacking.

Question: And what does a person lack in spirituality?

Answer: Try to think what you lack when you come to a Kabbalah lesson.

Question: And what drives you personally?

Answer: The fact that I must teach you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Happy Is the Man”

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The Connection between the Body and Spiritual Advancement

559Question: If a person constantly falls ill after participating in physical congresses,  is there any connection between his physical body and spiritual advancement?

Answer: Yes, this may be because he enters a particular environment where all sorts of forces influence him, which he is not yet able to tolerate without going beyond the boundaries of health.

Thus, some people complain that after the congresses they feel like they are out of the ordinary framework of life. Not because something bad happens to them, but precisely because they receive the impact of the reward for seeking closeness with other friends.

Therefore, they experience severe deviations in different directions, which do not harm them. On the contrary, it makes them healthier.

After all, we learn from Kabbalah that every recovery is associated with an even greater sensitivity to illness.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/24, Writings of Rabash, “The Lack Is the Kli [Vessel]”

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Desire Before the Lesson

294.2Question: We say that we are correcting the connection between us. If I do not feel a Hisaron (deficiency) in my friend even though he has problems, should I work on my feelings and use shame? Is it correct not to wait for the Creator to reveal it to me but to somehow activate these forces within myself?

Answer: You wish to connect with your friends and find a new source of energy in your unity that will bind you together, reveal new qualities in you, and push you to make a collective step forward, which was not the case before. This is what you want to achieve.

Question: So should I simply disconnect from personal interests and focus on the collective desire to reveal the Creator?

Answer: Of course. You should have this desire even before the lesson.

Comment: But my friend’s corporeal concerns are my spiritual concerns. He may be facing problems right now.

Answer: Do not take that into account, it will only distract us from the goal.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/5/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 34

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What Did the Fall of Adam Lead To?

938.04Question: Could Adam HaRishon have revealed the Creator as the good that does good if he had not eaten from the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil?

Answer: That is correct. That is why the Creator orchestrated a specific fall for Adam so he would descend into his egoism and through this egoism come to understand the qualities of giving and love and transform it into altruism. It turns out that the Creator created the evil, and from this evil man makes good. And although we do not perceive it this way, in the end, we achieve this result.

It turns out that the Creator, who created us and our world, made us fall from our initial level and lose the attribute of faith. Nevertheless, we keep moving forward, unite with one another, and we thus reach a state of return where we can draw closer to the Creator and say with an open heart that we wish to be connected to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/2/24, “Rosh HaShana”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 10/25/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Parashat Beresheet“

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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The Condition for Attaining the Creator

938.02Question: What does the revelation of the Creator between us mean? How do we feel it?

Answer: The attainment of the Creator between us occurs when each person sees the Creator, who is revealed before him in others.

Question: While not on spiritual levels, can we reveal Him or not?

Answer: No. How could we? He is revealed only on condition that we unite and desire that our unity reveals the Creator to each of us.

Question: So are all the ideas that those who come to Kabbalah have about some connection with the Creator false?

Answer: In general, yes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/24, Writings of Rabash “The Godliness Made the Concealment”

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How Can I Balance Spiritual and Corporeal Life?

627.2Question: I am growing and developing as a person on the animal level, and my animal desires are constantly growing. But if I engage in spirituality, my spiritual desires also constantly grow. In the end, I can’t focus on anything, and I keep getting pulled from one thing to another. How can I balance spiritual and material life?

Answer: This is not balanced by us. A person should take care of their animal life reasonably, and dedicate all the rest of the time and effort to spiritual attainment, which means striving for connection with others in the ten to become more like the Creator.

I can’t tell a woman that she must get married and have children, that is her personal decision. As for men, they are, in principle, more obligated to be married than women. We strongly encourage men to marry because they become more stable, diligent, and consistent. But a woman is stable on her own, so there aren’t such strict requirements for her.

Ultimately, whether or not a woman marries is her choice. But the goal is to devote as much time as possible to spirituality, and to material things, let me quote the original source, only the necessary amount.

And add a bit more joy to your life; this is very necessary. If you don’t feel joy in life, it means you are blaming the Creator for your discomfort.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Everything Will Be Revealed to You

935Question: It is said that if a person does not believe that there is something divine present within the concealment, then he flees from the battlefield. We seem to understand this, but why is it so difficult to believe in practice that there is something divine present within the concealment?

Answer: I don’t think it’s difficult. And who creates this concealment? It is a special action of the Creator, and another special action is His revelation. Both are done by Him.

We need nothing but the right prayer, the right request to the Creator to remove this concealment. And when you feel that everything is revealed before you, you will simply be amazed at what you can see, feel, and be filled with. It will lift you up as if you have become a balloon.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/24, Writings of Rabash “The Godliness Made the Concealment”

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The Difference between a Descent and Exile

77Question: What is the difference between a descent and exile, and how can we avoid confusing them?

Answer: A descent is the loss of the importance of spirituality in my eyes. I feel that compared to what I had before, I have now fallen and no longer value spirituality as I once did. A descent is necessary to lead me to a subsequent ascent.

Exile is a state where I have no connection to spirituality at all, not with descents nor with ascents. I am simply disconnected from spirituality, meaning I don’t feel more or less connected to it, and it doesn’t concern me.

If it does concern me, if I feel much worse than I did yesterday, then it is not exile, but a descent through which the Creator is urging me to return to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”

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