Question: How can I prepare myself for the next degree?

Answer: You can prepare yourself for the next degree only through complete agreement to be raised from above. You say, “I must become that way.” But how can you arrive at such a desire? How can you want it?

For this, you must reach the awareness of evil and understand that your present state is the worst possible in comparison with the next degree. The next degree is goodness, while you are entirely evil. Otherwise, you will not want to get rid of your present state. Turn your thoughts in the opposite direction, and you will see where you must begin now.

Comment: But I do not feel that the next degree is good.

My Response: You will sense the next degree through the surrounding light that will shine upon you. You will experience something like vibrations coming from it, and that will be enough to become aware of the evil. I am speaking about our state in the material world, that is, below the Machsom (barrier).

Above the Machsom, everything happens differently. There, the upper one lowers His NHY toward you, gives you various examples, and shows you how to act. You are told in advance what to do and are prepared for it.

In any case, you will still have to make a great effort. But don’t worry; you are never abandoned, and there is always a desire to help you in any good intention. And if your desire is not yet sufficiently good, it is corrected so that it becomes better.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/30/26, Rabash, “What Is, “He Who Is Without Sons,” in the Work?”

Prayer is a desire, Hisaron, that is already present in a person. This desire has already been analyzed, it is ready to receive fulfillment, an answer. And the effort is in attaining such a desire. The desire itself, the prayer itself, is secondary. The whole essence is in the work beforehand.

Question: Is prayer my deepest intention? Is it about what I am looking for?

Answer: You do not know what you are looking for. You have what we call a “spiritual gene”: a chain of Reshimot (reminiscences or spiritual records) that resides in you because your soul has descended from above to its present low, corrupted state. All the degrees that it passes through are now present within it, but only in the form of Reshimot, in the form of information about each degree.

You can acquire this degree if to this information you add the strength for the conquest of the degree. The force with which the attainment of the degree takes place is called a screen or an intention for the sake of bestowal.

Our work consists of using various actions to reveal the next Reshimo. If I have realized it and continue onward, then the next Reshimo is revealed, a higher one, then an even higher one, and another. And in this way I return to the place from where the soul descended.

I cannot foresee the next desire that will arise when I reveal the next Reshimo: what I will look then, what my thoughts, my desires will be, who I will become. It is simply foolish to imagine now the state I am not in yet. On what basis would I do so?

We see that all the states we go through are such that it is impossible to even guess what the next one will be like. Therefore, I should not think about future desires, future thoughts. It is not without reason that it is written regarding spiritual work: “As an ox to the burden and a donkey to the load.” It is exactly in this most primitive form that I want to come to something greater. But what is something greater? If I begin to imagine something myself, it is already wrong.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/26, Rabash, “Who Testifies to a Person”

Question: What does preparation for sensing the difference between the Creator and me entail?

Answer: The preparation consists only in acquiring the desire to know Him. When a person wants to get to know the Creator and begins to do so, one sees that the Creator is the opposite to them.

A person cannot prepare themselves to know the Creator on their own, since they do not know exactly what constitutes opposite and what does not. They want to reveal the point in the heart (something higher) and so they begin to strive to understand, know, and reveal Him or the higher reality.

It does not matter what we call or define this higher entity. We are still confused, and it seems to us that everything we talk about are different concepts. We think that the spiritual world, the Creator, the worlds, and the higher reality are different concepts and not the same thing.

In fact, it is not like that. Everything that a person reveals is the Creator. The connection of a person with the Creator is called worlds or levels. It is like between people: today we are close to each other; tomorrow the opposite is true. Today one asks, the other answers; tomorrow everything changes. The connection is what is called worlds.

The sensation of the Creator within creation is constantly changing. Left line, right line, middle line, influences, Reshimot, awakening from above, there are many reasons for the change of sensations.

Our sensations are constantly rocking us. If it were not for the internal Reshimot, which are influenced by the external light, setting everything in motion, we would not change.

We cannot change by ourselves. The Kli cannot move by itself. The lights, that is, the Reshimot, set the Kelim in motion.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/26, Rabash, “What Is ‘The Concealed Things Belong to the Lord, and the Revealed Things Belong to Us,’ in the Work?”

Question: Must I personally experience that there is evil in me? Is it mandatory? Is it impossible to skip this stage?

Answer: No, it is impossible to slip past this. Nature will rake us over and tear our living flesh. There is nothing we can do about this. It won’t help us to simply agree, as if we agree are trained dogs ready to sit up and beg.

Because here we must realize the entire depth of our nature, our terrible, egoistic nature, and acknowledge it, and even voluntarily, without pressure from nature, want to change ourselves.

In other words, it must be a transformation. Even though it will occur under the influence of external suffering, we must realize this inwardly, within our minds, in our inner qualities. We must ask nature to change us.

Question: But is it still possible to avoid reaching that point? You started very harshly: “Man must go through this.”

Answer: The more I get to know people, the more I love animals.

Question: So, you see, man is so stiff-necked, right?

Answer: Worse than all.

Question: Man is the worst of all. He won’t do it on his own?

Answer: No, he won’t do it on his own, he cannot do it. The system is designed that way… The only question is why does nature drive us into such a trap? It is because one can realize the deficiency of one’s nature relatively easily and draw conclusions from it.

And practically everyone will agree with this: from terrible villains, murderers, and so on, to normal people. Everyone will agree that our nature is cruel, that we cannot in any way get along with each other.

What, then, can we do? “Let us be good!”

No, we cannot! Systematic Kabbalistic education is needed that will explain how to draw the good forces of nature upon us. And these good forces will gradually change us over many years.

Question: So your conclusion is this: we cannot change ourselves; we can only draw the positive forces of nature upon ourselves, and they will change us. Is this unequivocal?

Answer: By ourselves we certainly cannot. Nature can, but depending on how much we are able to attract it to ourselves, to implore it to change us.

Comment: I would like to end this topic a little more optimistically.

My Response: There is a happy ending, but one cannot skip straight to it.

But what can we do? We can view what is happening realistically and try, nevertheless, again and again, through small increments, small injections, try to add to human consciousness with a level of suprahuman awareness.

Comment: This is your constant nudging in this direction, in the good sense. You are nudging, nudging.

My Response: There is nothing else.

Question: Do you want to drip this message into humanity so that it understands that there is no other path?

Answer: Yes. This will take root. But it requires a great deal of time and effort.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/3/26