Question: One needs to train oneself to rejoice. They say that rejoicing is a habit. What do you think?

Answer: I think this is very correct.

Question: Can one train oneself to rejoice despite the fact that one is being battered from all sides?

Answer: You are being battered, so what? Some circumstances come, some forces come and batter you. And you sing. Just sing! This is the most important thing for a person. Because in truth, he does not know what is good and what is bad, or how to relate correctly to life, or how to change his life—whether what comes to him is for his benefit or to his detriment.

Therefore he must accept all of this as good and relate to everything that happens as to necessary good. And so, how can he relate to it? Sing!

Question: Just like that?

Answer: The answer is a simple yes.

Question: Whatever comes, right? Whatever is inside you, like “There is only a moment between the past and the future”?

Answer: No, that’s not it! Better: “Rise and shine! Rise and shine! Try it at least once in your life.”

Comment: Yes. Exactly.

My Response: That is how they used to sing once.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 2/1/26

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Both during an ascent and during a descent, a person must make sure that it is the Creator who governs all ones actions, prayers, and states. A person needs only see that he or she is ready to receive any state that comes.

And if a person tries to see each state as coming from the Creator and agrees with them, then to that extent one begins to understand the thoughts and intentions of the Creator, about which it is said: “From Your actions we shall know You.”

In this way, one achieves adhesion with the Creator due to the fact that they not only makes themselves similar to Him in their actions, but also receives the same head (Rosh), the same “way of thinking.” This means that the way the light comes to a person from above, one builds the same reaction to it from below.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/9/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Before the Egyptian Minister Fell, Their Outcry Was Not Answered, in the Work?”

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Comment: You say that tension is needed to accelerate the data processing. It seems to me that I would do it much better if I were in a peaceful state and not under the group’s pressure.

My Response: So, you are saying this: “If the group pressures me, I will get confused and run away; I cannot function under pressure.” There must be pressure. The group should obligate a person.

Comment: But still, I need some free time to process the information.

My Response: Data is not processed by sitting quietly with a mug of beer and pondering life. Data is processed in critical, stressful states. Don’t think you will get a moment of rest, and then you will sit down, focus, and solve everything, nothing of the sort! On the contrary, the faster your pace, the greater your ability to make calculations will become. It is precisely in such states that you make the correct calculations within fractions of a second.

Of course, there is study; there is a time when one truly needs to study in order to feel some connection with the structure of the worlds, with the structure of the soul, to understand how it is built, and how I can at least somewhat mentally connect myself to it, verify it, and see it. A person must divide their time, but even then be on their toes.

What is tension? Tension is a lack, a deficiency in achieving the goal. That is called stress, tension, and pressure.

When I want something and cannot attain it, it puts pressure on me, it makes me tense. I am not talking about suffering that puts pressure on me so I run away from it. Our state must be that I am stressed because I have not reached what lies ahead, not because I must flee from something pressing on me from behind.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/26, Rabash, “And There Was Evening and There Was Morning”

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The group must ensure that a person’s thoughts are constantly connected to it. There are no compromises here—all 24 hours.

How can this be checked? By whether you do not leave the feeling that you are in the group, that the friends are around you, that all of you together are directed toward one goal. If this is not constantly present within you, then the group has not programmed itself correctly for spirituality.

Only after we program ourselves to feel like we are in the group and in an attack 24 hours a day, and this becomes routine and habitual for us, will we begin to experience a different life, a spiritual life. This is called becoming a nation, not individuals, a nation that demands the Torah. And then we merit receiving it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/26, Rabash, “And There Was Evening and There Was Morning?”

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