Comment: Suppose someone in my environment outside the group has a Hisaron (deficiency or need), and I want to help them, to fulfill their need. We are supposed to help people, aren’t we?

My Response: By advancing toward spirituality, we draw the upper light upon ourselves, and through us, it spreads to the entire world; that is where true help lies. Everything else is harm.

How can you help? You can see how welfare benefits can sometimes undermine a person. You can see how prisons often make those inside worse than before. A prison becomes a school for criminals or terrorists, depending on who is there.

Where have you seen society truly benefit from good intentions alone? For you, “doing good” means giving. But giving, when it relates only to egoism, can become harmful. Then you create various systems that simply drain resources without correcting anything.

Why do you assume that the desire to receive should simply receive? This contradicts the fundamental law of nature. If you merely fulfill the desire to receive, you only worsen the situation. You cause harm and lower it into the Klipot. In doing so, you bring troubles upon the whole world.

Take a child, for example, and indulge him in everything, fulfill all his desires. What will become of him? You will simply ruin him.

The upper governance operates through the right and left lines in order to guide a person correctly and teach him how to use both forces and maintain the correct balance between them. But to simply give without discernment can be very damaging; it is a disservice.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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How can the group feel that it needs the effort of every friend? It is much easier to work on the principle of “myself in relation to the group,” and much harder to work from the side of the group relative to each person.

Baal HaSulam writes that a person must be concerned with spiritual flourishing and feeling gratitude to the Creator for twenty-three and a half hours a day, and only after this to dedicate half an hour to critical analysis.

It is the same here. We must analyze the contribution of the friends to the group only after we have unequivocally made efforts to understand the concept known as the “group.”

Once we perceive it as a spiritual concept and share a mutual understanding of what it entails, then we can discuss, at a gathering of the friends, how to evoke an extra measure of effort from everyone and how we can lift up the group.

Ultimately, we will not make demands of any individual: “Why are you not bringing benefit to the group?” Instead, we will hold ourselves, the group as a whole, accountable for failing to bring people come to the correct understanding that they contribute to the group and integrate with it heart and soul, or they see that they are outside the group.

In that case, if they remain present despite clearly standing outside and opposite to the group, then either they leave on their own or they are removed.

In spirituality, when you look at a person from the group’s perspective, the group is upper relative to that individual. And the upper must awaken the lower. If he cannot awaken the lower, then he leaves him be; and if he leaves him, it means the lower does not belong to the upper.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/22/26, Rabash, Letter 59

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How can one begin to feel a Hisaron (lack) for the Creator again while in a state of descent (if you have fallen into a bad state and lost contact with Him and no longer feel the connection? The only way is to persist in your study with the group, and through by coming to the friends and including yourself in them, you again return to yourself the connection with the group, your connection with the Creator.

We have the opportunity to accelerate this process. Above all, one must not fall due to slipping into the sensation of animalistic pleasures, that is, enjoying the ascent rather than the connection with the Creator. One must not commit a sin in the ascent.

And how does one avoid sinning during an ascent? It is by constantly striving to increase one’s awareness of the greatness of the Creator with the help of the group. In this way, it is as if you are constantly maintaining a sense of Hisaron; you add a yearning for the Creator through the group that allows you to advance further.

And if a descent does occur, as it inevitably will, it is not your fault because you were constantly striving to receive an increase in desire from your environment. You were increasingly motivated to ascend, and to ascend not merely in terms of sensation, but in unification with the Creator.

Then your descent is not experienced simply as the loss of a “good state”; rather, you define the descent as a loss of connection and contact with the Creator. That is why it is painful for you. You measure ascents and descents no longer according to sensations, but according to the measure of connection with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/22/26, Rabash, Letter 59, 1962

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Question: Is it possible to give something to the group while in a state of descent?

Answer: If you are in a descent without completely losing your connection to the Creator, meaning, that even in the descent you know that you have lost connection with Him and it is precisely this that you lack, then in such a state you add a Hissaron (deficiency) to the group for contact with the Creator, and the group benefits from your descent. It now has unfulfilled desires.

If, however, you have fallen like an animal, simply feel bad, and are only under the influence of this sensation, this is also an addition. It means that soon you will have a recognition of evil.

But still, this addition is not spiritual. Through the group and through efforts, you will gradually rework this addition into a spiritual Hisaron, a Hisaron for the Creator. But that is a long journey.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/22/26, Rabash, Letter 59

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