Question: How does one gather all their aspirations toward the Creator?

Answer: A person cannot gather all their aspirations toward the Creator alone. If we have a certain reservoir of constantly replenished efforts and we make sure that it is constantly preserved and grows, then we can do this.

Take an ordinary prayer book and you will see that it is arranged as though one among many is addressing the Creator. Everywhere it says “we,” “we,” “we”… This is how the Kabbalists, members of the Sanhedrin (Great Assembly) composed it for us before the exile. It sets forth the correct attitude, in the correct form, and according to these stages, an appeal to the Creator.

Thus, all of this is the work of a person from the collective toward the Creator. Otherwise it is impossible. There are certain very specific prayers in which a person addresses the Creator alone. But even in this case, he addresses Him as a representative of society as, what is called, a messenger of the society. It cannot be so that he makes an address entirely on his own.

There is no other nation so unified by its animalistic nature as the Jews. Any other nation can live separately, one part here, another part there. But this nation, by its very nature, even when scattered throughout the world, preserves the ties between its parts.

The same applies to the matter of their own country and of unification. There are many nations whose countries barely manage to sustain their existence, nations who do not feel connection to all the institutions of the state. But for us, this is ingrained in our nature.

We simply cannot do without it: without organization, without unity, without being bound together into a certain mechanism, truly as a nation. And all this is because, at the very core, lies a spiritual nature.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/22/26, Rabash, Letter 59

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When a person seems to be on the verge of reaching the goal, surprisingly he experiences weakness appears. “Why bother? What is the point? I’m tired. I’m fed up. It is hopeless.” At precisely this moment that one must understand that they are being tested in their aspiration toward the goal.

To actually attain it, a person needs to add even greater aspiration here, a new drive, to inject even more momentum, enthusiasm, reassessment of values, and importance of the goal, and then they will achieve it.

Question: So in practical terms, a person has come close, but in front of them stands a tall mountain that appears insurmountable?

Answer: Yes, it is precisely now that they must add importance to the goal in order to jump up, climb, and run up this mountain.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/2/26

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A person generally determines what is a necessity and what is excess for himself. It is between these two discernments (Avchanot) that we live our lives. The problem is that the conditions given to us are perceived either as a necessity or as an excess, and accordingly we carry out our subsequent actions.

Suppose that I feel fine right now, nothing is pressuring me, and I continue existing this way since I am satisfied with the current state of affairs. But if I  now hear that this is a bad state that brings me harm, that I am in danger, about to lose my soul, and to lose the meaning of life, then I will begin to relate to this calm state as a call to action.

That is, I change the definition of my attitude toward the given situation from “excess” to “necessity,” and act accordingly.

Thus, a person’s free choice always stands before the dilemma of how to perceive the present state. One may leave everything as it is, run away, or close one’s eyes, and for this same purpose the Klipot (impure forces), our body, external conditions, and an improper environment act as well, confuse me, and produce a feeling of weariness. All of this is depicted to me as conditions sent from above, and I may relate to them as excess, meaning as a state that satisfies my desire.

Therefore, here I must exert effort, and explain to myself that this is a special state: I am in danger. Then I will begin to perceive my life in such a way that it obligates me toward necessary actions. All of this undoubtedly depends on the books, their authors, and the group, and to what extent my friends burn with the desire for spirituality, and to what extent I am capable of absorbing their aspiration toward the Creator, and am capable of receiving an impression from them. This will compel me to change my inner sensation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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When a person exerts effort, and feels that he receives no response, it is precisely this feeling that there is no reaction from above to his actions that is a sign of advancement.

If he were to feel that everything is going well, that he is advancing, this is a bad sign that indicates that he is not exerting any effort. For true, correct effort toward the goal consists in the fact that he does not know, yet he “presses the correct button,” meaning that he receives no reward in the form of honor, power, wealth, or any other temptations in the form of gifts or payment from this material world.

If he truly invests effort toward the goal, and not for the sake of the pleasures of this world, then he develops the feeling that there is no response from above to his actions. And this is the most correct sign that he is being guided precisely toward the goal without the slightest deviation, that exact definitions are being awakened of what spiritual is and what goal he must be thinking about. The correct response to efforts is helplessness, despair, and loss of orientation.

When do we feel helplessness and disorientation within our desire to receive? It is when a person enters a more advanced state, when he does not receive fulfillment. This is a sign that he has advanced a little closer to the goal, toward spirituality.

If he feels worse within the desire to receive from one state to another, this means that he has advanced in the direction of spirituality, that dissatisfaction within the desire to receive is growing.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/19/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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