Question: What is the greatness of the Creator?

Answer: The greatness of the Creator is when the goal is more important to me than myself, when the Creator is more important to me than what is happening to me at the moment or what comes to me from the depths of myself. The Creator and the goal—the essence is one and the same.

I must come to an inner balance so the greatness of the goal, the greatness of the Creator, which I have now received, would give me additional strength compared to the forces I possess and use to advance in material life.

In this way, I will be able to rise a little more, turn to the Creator, and make myself dependent on Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/5/26, Rabash, “What Does, ‘Everything that Comes to Be a Burnt Offering Is Male,’ Mean in the Work?”

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Question: Can a person identify any internal discernments before crossing the Machsom?

Answer: A person who has not yet crossed the Machsom receives illuminations from above that provide a certain sensation and understanding that enable them to identify various states within themselves and to advance.

We see that this path may take, for example, ten years. As one traverses through it, a person realizes that they are becoming wiser and begins to understand various states better, becomes familiar with them, and comes to know them.

These definitions, these revealed differences between all kinds of states, will be necessary in the future, and the years spent on this are not an empty pastime, they don’t pass in vain. This period, which indeed spans several years, is necessary, because a person will have to work with all the variations of these states later when revealing the face of the Creator.

By gathering all these Hisaronot, called transgressions and mistakes, he will continue to work with them afterward, and then he will see what state he was in previously. In the meantime, he does not see any difference between them. Only after crossing the Machsom will he be able to distinguish them, because now he is like a child whose degree of awareness is too small.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/20/26, Rabash, “The Creator and Israel Went into Exile”

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Question: How can I clarify what a particular state is sent to me for?

Answer: You see there are many people in the world who turn to the upper force. I remember a visit to San Francisco where statues of Christian saints, the Madonna and child, etc., stand right on the streets. People worship these statues, they come up right on the street and kiss them. We see pure idolatry in a modern American city. This is a clear example for you.

Or consider Baal HaSulam’s example about the kibbutz members in the Negev desert that suffer from drought and, without realizing it, turn to the Creator with a request for rain. This request comes from the heart. Whether they want it or not, they ask the upper force for help, because it is precisely the Creator who arranges this situation for them, although they do not know it.

That is, people all over the world turn to the Creator for help. Even a little flea that suffers because it has nothing to eat  does; its suffering is also an appeal to the source of its suffering, to the Creator.

The question is how to correctly turn to the Creator, starting from the little flea up to the big animals, up to the person worshipping statues, up to the kibbutzniks of the Negev, up to religious Jews on the inanimate level of holiness, and up to those who already truly wish to turn to the source and to know to whom they are turning. Yet the appeal of the latter has a completely different goal.

The request of a flea or of a person who asks for his own good in this world and in the world to come remains within the framework of the material world. But when a person begins to ask not that he should feel good in the future world, because in his request there is already some feeling toward the Creator (meaning it is simultaneously a mix of Lo Lishma and Lishma), then becomes a targeted request.

This is the essential difference between our request and the request of a flea or an idol‑worshipper, because it is truly an appeal to the Creator. After all, we do not ask like the kibbutzniks, who pray because there is no rain and suffer from drought, and we do not cry out to the Creator that we feel bad so that it will become good. We speak of an appeal that is difficult to express in words.

If I ask the Creator for correction so as to become like Him, this too is a request “on my own account,” it is also Lo Lishma. Lishma is a feeling that we are not even able to put into words. How can I turn with such a request that will be as if disconnected from myself and directed exclusively toward the Creator?

Therefore, our entire work passes through various relations with the upper force, in order to finally come to “Israel, the Creator, and the Torah are one.” That is, the steps I take in the process of my clarifications in relation to the Creator are called “Torah”; it is about how I relate to Him so that these steps, instead of being directed toward myself, will be more and more directed toward Him.

Making a reversal in the direction of my actions is the work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/3/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘There Is None as Holy as the Lord, for There Is None Besides You,’ in the Work?”

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There are many actions one must perform as he prepares for spirituality. After crossing the Machsom, there are also various spiritual actions: “Ibur” (the embryo state), “Leida” (spiritual birth), “Enika” (feeding), “Mochin” (big state)—that is, big (Gadlut) and small (Katnut) states.

When a person is already in spirituality and senses the Divine, he also goes through various stages. They are called the “24 hours of the spiritual day,” the days of the spiritual week, Shabbat, the months, Rosh Chodesh (the beginning of the month), and various holidays—all these are special spiritual states in which a person must work.

In the 12th part of the TES, we study how prayer is continuously divided into 24 spiritual hours, and there is even a state of sleep in it. Spiritual sleep is a special preparation for the next stage of spiritual ascent, which also constitutes a lot of work.

There is work in all spiritual states, experiencing which a person must exert to make corrections at a given degree. But Rabash’s article, which we are currently studying, says otherwise: “There Is None as Holy as the Lord, for There Is None Besides You” in spiritual work. That is, we are told that it is the Creator who does all the work for us, this is His work, and the person has nothing to do.

What can a person do if the Creator does all the work for him? He must come to the feeling and realization that there really is “None as holy as the Creator,” and “There is none else besides Him” who performs all actions, does everything, and plans everything. The beginning of an action, the process of its execution, and its results are all the work of the Creator.

But we also have a job to do and an effort to make us feel what is really happening to us, and to sense what is happening in the most correct way, to perceive it the right way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/3/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘There Is None as Holy as the Lord, for There Is None Besides You,’ in the Work?”

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