Question: When the light comes, it fills us. How can we resist enjoying it? Where can we find the strength to resist the pleasure?

Answer: Imagine that you must direct the received light toward the Creator.
Even if joy and pleasure do not go away, you do not need to avoid them. You just need to use them correctly.

Question: How can one reach awe?

Answer: Reaching awe depends on how you relate to what you receive from the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/21/24, Writings of Rabash “Man’s Inclination”

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Question: How do Kabbalists protect themselves from the negative influences of detractors?

Answer: Not in any way! Why should I protect myself from them? At what level do they work? They run around, shout “cock-a-doodle-doo” like little roosters, and that is it. Nothing else. What can they do? They will not jump to my level, but let them cluck at their level.

This was the case in the time of all Kabbalists. I do not take it to heart. How many detractors did my teacher have with whom, among others, I fought! So what?

The Creator specifically does this to distance the Kabbalist from this rubbish, from this world, so that he does not even think to deal with them and does his inner work. It is a help when you are hated.

Question: Does this “rooster” rise?

Answer: He is gradually changing! He is becoming a man!

In that case, I am ready to hug him! It does not matter what happened before! We all used to be like this! But now he has changed! Now he is rising, trying to get closer to everyone, to unite, to study the program of creation, implement it, and help others. I will accept him with pleasure!

The past does not matter at all! We all get our diapers dirty in our early childhood. But now we are growing. Everyone who goes higher used to be worse, more harmful, nastier, more obnoxious than others. I understand that perfectly well.

I am ready to accept anyone, and it does not matter to me what happened before. Therefore, I do not pay attention to who has gone where, whether he returns or not, what he thought before he came to us. I am not interested in that. When you come back, you are welcome. The door is always open in and out.

Question: Does it harm that he brings thoughts from outside?

Answer: No, it is a clarification. It is a correction.

Comment: You have a category of students who are constantly in an unstable state: here and there.

My Response: Well what can we do? It is not me but the Creator who controls them. Such are the qualities of these students. I have to endure like any parent who suffers from the pranks of their youngsters.

Question: But you have so many students. How can you tolerate everyone? Where does the strength come from?

Answer: But I do not suffer. I know that is how it should be. My every day starts in a new way. I am not angry with anyone. I can scream, lose my temper, but this is just an outburst of energy, nothing else. Inside, I love them all.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Difference between Kabbalah, Science and New Age” 1/28/12

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “Letter 23”

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Question: What saturation threshold in the material is characteristic of those people who come to Kabbalah? Is it low or high?

Answer: All people who study Kabbalah are different, but, as a rule, they are not very eager to fulfill the desires of our world.

Question: Do material needs decrease or increase in the process of spiritual advancement?

Answer: It is impossible to say for sure. Some people stumble on the small selfish desires of our world and must first overcome them and then grow. And some do not care: “Let the desires of this world remain next to me, and I will deal with spiritual desires.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Desire for Spirituality”

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Question: What will help a person feel the need for faith? As a result of what does it arise?

Answer: The need for faith is given to a person from above. And by virtue of feeling this lack in oneself, one goes further.

Question: How can I make room in my heart to accept the power of faith?

Answer: Where you used to have a place to feel the Creator, you now want to create a place for faith.

The place to feel the Creator is the place where your attitude to the ten, to the entire world Kli, manifests itself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/21/24, Writings of Rabash “Man’s Inclination”

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Question: What kind of miracle can we ask the Creator for?

Answer: The miracle of obtaining the force of light above reason.

Question: You said that a person should give what comes to him from the Creator to everyone. Is my good intention alone enough to pass on what comes from the Creator to my friends? Or is it a prerequisite to include their desires in yourself?

Answer: The inclusion of friends is very important. This is the only way to unite in the ten.

Question: How can a person evoke the need for faith himself, so that there is a true prayer?

Answer: Ask the Creator for this.

Question: Can a person feel love for his neighbor only by being rewarded with complete faith?

Answer: No, not necessarily. Even at the very beginning, when one begins to climb the steps a little, a person can already ask for another and connect with him.

Question: How can you not enjoy bestowal? Where should this pleasure be directed?

Answer: You should not keep the pleasure of giving to yourself. At the same time, you work within your desires and see how your desires receive this energy and exist thanks to it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/21/24, Writings of Rabash “Man’s Inclination”

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I started studying Kabbalah in 1976 when I was 30 years old. Three years later, I came to Rabash. But even before coming to Rabash, I started to read The Book of Zohar with the Sulam Commentary, studied the Introduction to the Wisdom of Kabbalah and other sources. I could not understand anything, but I was already trying to figure them out.

When I came to Rabash, then everything went along the same line. Before that, I sort of went through everything myself: science, philosophy, religion, and I saw that all that was just a delusion, absolutely everything, including science!

They lead a person astray from the right path to the goal of creation, to the meaning of life. So what if I find out how two solutions mix and what happens as a result? Nature around us is a huge sphere; I will scrape some properties, some knowledge, from it a little bit and study what I have scraped together. Am I going to do this all my life? Well, I will scrape together a little. And why? As Einstein said: “Like a little boy, I collect pebbles on the ocean shore.”

All great people have also asked these questions. And the most important thing that pushed them forward was the comprehension of the basis of the universe, its integral formula, that is, the connection between all its parts—what it is for. The whole connection: these X’s, Y’s, Z’s, and so on, what is inside the formula, equal to what? The meaning of life!

“What is it? Will I comprehend it or not?” Science will not give man an answer because he works with his brains and his properties like an animal that begins to scratch the ground with its hoof and sniff what it has found there. So much for science!

Moreover, I do not detract from its importance at all, but simply say that it is necessary to understand its limitations.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Difference between Kabbalah, Science and New Age” 1/28/12

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When …he sees that for himself he cannot receive the above-mentioned, then he makes a true prayer that the Creator will help him, and then the Creator makes a miracle for him and gives him the light of faith (Rabash, Notes 638 “Man’s Inclination”).

Question: How can one receive faith not for the sake of miracles, but for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: How can we share the light that descends to us in order to see what it comes for? Is it to give me the power of faith or just to lift me up so that I can see more of what is going on?

I think we need to have a better understanding of what it means to be in faith. We have no idea how great a force this is.

In our world, “faith,” “believer,” “believes” are all somehow lost. But in fact, the power of faith is the power that lifts a person above everything. And then one can control oneself.

Faith above reason does not belong to our earthly level; therefore, it is called a miracle. It is above the laws of nature.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/21/24, Writings of Rabash “Man’s Inclination”

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Sometimes people complain that the spiritual path takes such a long time—years. But the only advice is to be patient and continue scrutinizing what exactly is necessary and the result will be revealed. Again and again, we should try to connect with the friends and turn to the Creator in order to ask once more.

A person alone cannot do much; the acceleration of time depends only on the group. If we unite, we can hasten time.

Therefore, one should calm down. If a person already understands that it is impossible to change their nature by their own efforts and that it can only be received from the Creator, then they must seek the right means that will lead them to the goal. Then he comes to the wisdom of Kabbalah, performs the actions advised by Kabbalists, and thus breaks through.

I think that very soon we will feel how we all are rising on the wings of an eagle.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/19/24, “Praying to Go Above Reason”

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