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From Degree to Degree

527.01Each spiritual degree determines a person’s content (filling): their intellect, feelings, and abilities. What remains unchanged within a person are the ten primordial Sefirot, which are identical for everyone.

Therefore one never needs to worry about preserving what one currently possesses or remaining in a particular state because apart from the constant structure of the soul,  all of one’s fulfillments are subject to change.

Regardless of the filling I currently possess, I must strive to advance from degree to degree as quickly as possible because at each higher degree I will receive even greater delight, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

However, in order to move from one degree to another, I must let go of the previous degree, wish to be emptied of it, and become ready to receive a higher fulfillment. And this is precisely where the problem arises. If I am still filled by the degree I presently stand on, how can I desire a higher fulfillment? It appears to me as something different, alien, and even opposite to me, to such an extent that I simply do not agree to it.

It is like a child who wants to play and enjoy what seems good to him, while his parents compel him to change, to work hard, and tell him: “Look, you need to become this way, act this way, this is good for you.”

But the child neither sees nor feels that studying for twenty years, acquiring a profession, and then working is good for him. The parents see this as something good, but they do not understand his life because his life consists of games, that they have no interest in whatsoever.

So it is with us on every degree in relation to the higher one. In fact, it is even more so because in spirituality the difference between degrees is a genuine opposition. Nothing from the lower degree is suitable for the higher one. Everything must be renewed.

The difficulty of spiritual ascent lies precisely in this. Every higher degree is perceived by the lower one as something undesirable, incomprehensible, and contrary to its nature. Therefore, the transition from degree to degree requires a willingness to relinquish what presently feels right, true, and fulfilling, in order to receive something that cannot yet be appreciated from the perspective of the current state.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/24/26, Rabash, “What Is a Flood of Water in the Work?”

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Connect Your Desires to the Creator

268.02How can you accelerate the transition between states? Only by clarifying in every situation that all the circumstances depend on me. This is a very simple psychological method.

I am facing some kind of problem, a different one every time, so I have to identify my desire and clarify within it which aspects depend on me and which do not; what is within my power and what is not, how to realize this desire, and understand what exactly I need from it.

If I have conducted a correct analysis and clarified my state, I should ultimately conclude that a desire has been revealed in me in its natural form. But I, in turn, must connect this desire to the Creator. That is precisely what our job is.

Because I connect my desire to the Creator, the right intention descends upon it, and now I can use this desire correctly. I combine desire and intention, and thus complete the work.

The Creator endowed me with a desire, I gave this desire an intention, and now we are interacting, adhering to, and connecting with Him. That is all.

Question: Simply put, should I connect every desire to the Creator?

Answer: If you knew exactly what your desire is, if you knew who the Creator is, what His properties are, and could connect your desire to Him, then there would be no problem. However, first you must ascertain who the Creator is, what it means to attach desires to Him, that is, the inner meaning of this action.

It is not enough to realize that desire comes from the Creator. We must also investigate and analyze this desire: why it was given to me, what I want from it, and what the Creator wants, etc. As a result, through this analytical chain, my intention becomes clear—my attitude toward what I received from Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘If a Woman Inseminates First, She Delivers a Male Child,’ in the Work?”

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938.04Question: What does the process of acquiring a Kli mean?

Answer: Acquiring a Kli is the process in which you determine the correct attitude toward spirituality: how I imagine it to myself, how I am tuned to the spiritual wavelength, how ready I am to disconnect from this world in order to fully devote myself to spirituality.

This is what is called “building a Kli for spirituality.” A Kli is a desire.

Question: So we must fight with every new obstacle?

Answer: No, we cannot fight with every obstacle. If now I am in a state of despair, how can I rejoice? I cannot. Well, I can if I force myself, for example, to dance. However, this will produce only a short-term effect. Therefore, true advancement can only be through the group. Working in it, I acquire and attach additional Kelim to myself.

Question: So when the next obstacle manifests, must I tell myself that this manifestation of force from above is an angel?

Answer: It is desirable to imagine that it is an angel hindering you, and not you yourself. Then we will be able to force ourselves to work against this foreign force. Later, we will still forget about it. After all, this angel is smarter than us, it confuses us, and we simply forget. In the end, nothing will remain for you except working in the group. Listen! That is exactly how it will be!

Question: But what if this state lasts for an unlimited time?

Answer: Imagine the best state in which you would like to be, and work for the group so that it also wishes this. Very simple. There is no need to be too smart!

Question: But why can a person not go through all these states?

Answer: Because these states are him. He cannot overcome himself. For this, he needs a force from outside that will change him. And the force from outside can be either the Creator or the group. The group is the Creator, but only this force is in our dimension.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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One Man Before One Creator

927Question: Do Kabbalists observe the commandment “Honor your father and your mother?”

Answer: Kabbalah confers a person an extremely special status. It teaches him to stand before the Creator. There is a Creator, and there is a creation. Apart from these two elements, there is really nothing; everything is included inside the person.

A single person stands before a single Creator. And all these definitions—father, parents, friends, neighbors, wife, children, country, universe, worlds—are all inside a person connected to the Creator.

Therefore, when we talk about inner work, we do not mean biological bodies, even the parents who gave you life, or relatives, friends, etc. Only according to the spirit, only according to connection with the Creator, are connections formed with the rest of creation. We no longer look at bodies but at inner definitions (Avhanot) in terms of spirituality.

For example, “father” and “mother” (Aba ve Ima) are the upper Partzufim (spiritual bodies). As it is written, “And a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife.” in spiritual terms, this means the revelation of a new Hisaron (deficiencies). With this Hisaron, a person turns to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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209Question: Please tell me, what is our life?

Answer: Our life is a form of existence of protein-based matter.

Question: But still…?

Answer: Still, from this life, we take its Reshimot (spiritual records), memories, and impressions and continue. A huge number of tiny grains of egoism, meaning corrupted desires created by the Creator, gradually go through purification, correction, and connection.

Comment: So, these small egoisms (7 to 8 billion of them) live their lives precisely in order to come to this, as you say.

My Response: Hell, purgatory, and paradise. Like in Dante’s works.

Hell is the feeling and realization of one’s egoism, of one’s lowly nature, and everything that can be said about it. Purgatory is when a person tries to correct it, to cleanse it. And paradise is when a person puts this egoism at the service of other people.

These are the three stages we must go through.

Question: So a person throughout his lives moves toward this final third stage?

Answer: Yes, and therefore, if people understand what these three stages are—hell, purgatory, and paradise—meaning, attainment of awareness of one’s egoism, its correction, and its proper use, then everything is fine. We must try.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 4/20/26

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239Question: How should a person prepare and direct themselves during prayer?

Answer: In the Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot  (TES), Baal HaSulam writes that during prayer, a person should focus on only one thing—to desire that what he studies in the Kabbalistic books be revealed within him, to strive to know and connect with the material being studied.

But if the subject is so distant that a person cannot see how it relates to what is taking place in his soul, then he should regard it as a remedy.

As it is written: “I have created the evil inclination, I have created the Torah as a spice.” And it is also said it: “Heals every illness.” It will give me what is necessary for my advancement; it will come as a remedy, as help from Above.

Question: How can one avoid forgetting this during the lessons?

Answer: If you suffer from an illness, you do not forget about it. Sometimes cancer patients come to see me; they do not forget their illness for a single moment. They are ready to follow any instruction from morning to evening in order to be healed. Without a doubt, they are willing, and they do not forget.

Therefore, everything depends on the recognition of the importance of the goal and the degree of pain. And the importance comes, once again, from the group. Only the group can increase  the importance of the goal, the importance of spirituality, within you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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Draw Closer to the Truth

598Question: Is our goal to acquire the intention for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: Ultimately, yes. But a person does not know what for the sake of bestowal means. He only increasingly feels his own insignificance and his distance from the goal. He reveals more and more of his egoistic nature and feels his helplessness.

Everything becomes distasteful to him. He has no strength left because his Kelim do not receive fulfillment. On the contrary, he feels the absence of fulfillment and sees that he is even farther from egoistic fulfillment than he had previously imagined.

What does it mean that “the children of Israel sighed because of the labor”? A person was already in such a state before, but now it is revealed to him that he cannot receive reward in the Kelim he presently has. The reward will be received in different Kelim.

Question: At first, is this simply a matter of thoughts?

Answer: Gradually, thoughts, desires, and definitions: “Who am I?” and “What is spirituality?” All the details contained within these inner definitions undergo change. They are transformed.

Most importantly, each time I define differently who I am and who the Creator is. These new definitions increasingly correspond to the truth. And because my definitions become more truthful, the revelation of evil takes place within me: I discover where I am, where the Creator is, and what my state truly is.

The formula here is very simple: a person makes efforts while feeling that he gains nothing from them. Then he exerts even more effort and receives even less. As a result, the correct need, the correct Hisaron (deficiency) is formed within him and eventually become what is called MAN.

Question: Does this also include work in the group?

Answer: In working with the friends, the despair, the effort, and the lack of reward are even greater. Because if a person could truly unite with the friends, he would already be satisfied with that.

In the end, there is nowhere he can receive a reward except from the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/19/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

Contribution to the Group

938.03Question: In our state, can contribution to the group be limited only to thoughts?

Answer: In our state, no. A contribution to the group is expressed, not only spiritually, but also corporeally. After all, we are connected together, we work together, and we perform actions together. Through performing corporeal actions, we are granted strength from above, reinforcement from above.

It may seem that we are simply publishing books or engaging in dissemination. But through this, we receive tremendous spiritual power as a reward. As long as we exist in this world, you cannot separate the spiritual from the corporeal and say: “That’s it, now we are as if without bodies and deal exclusively with spiritual concepts.” That is impossible.

You will always be dealing with bodies and physical actions in this world: creating something, disseminating, and so on. Therefore, one must understand that through such actions, one also comes to spiritual values.

Baal HaSulam writes about this: the more effort a person invests in something, the more important that thing becomes to him, and he can no longer leave it. This connects him to the work until he begins to feel that it is worthwhile to invest effort there, to bring benefit, and even to devote himself to it.

One should not diminish the importance of corporeal actions. If we had not performed the corporeal actions that we do during or before Passover, we would not have attained what we have attained.

Question: So, are physical actions in the group together with correct intentions the proper combination for spiritual bestowal to the group?

Answer: Yes. We must strive for both corporeal actions and spiritual actions to become as one, truly as one so that there is not a single bodily action arising from conscious desire that is not connected with the correct intention.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/22/26, Rabash, Letter 59, 1962

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The Near and the Distant Environment

423.02Question: How should I deal with my surroundings outside of the group (work, family, and friends) who have no aspiration for spirituality?

Answer: You have nothing to do with such a society unless you come to them in order to teach them the wisdom of Kabbalah and they accept this path, become inspired by it, and are willing to work according to what is written in our books.

You may offer them various teachings and methods, and if they accept specifically our method of spiritual ascent, accept the goal, and are prepared to follow this path, then they form a goal-oriented society moving toward spirituality. This is possible. But as long as they have not accepted our method, you cannot relate to them as a w2q  through which you will continue your spiritual advancement.

Question: How does my close environment, which has no connection to my path, influence me?

Answer: It depends on how significant and important the goal is to you. If it is important, then they have no influence on you.

For example, I visit my mother, and she begins to complain: “You never rest, you never sleep. How can you live like this? Just look at yourself! How many years have you been living this way?” I sit and listen to her, since she is already advanced in age, but it does not affect me. There is nothing to be done; mothers are all the same. She speaks, and I remain as I am.

However, there are environments that are quite aggressive and can harm me through their influence. In such a case, I prefer to distance myself from them, because I have no obligations toward them. Toward my mother, I must show respect; I have duties toward her. But a friend is someone connected to you by a common goal. The word “Haver” (friend) comes from Hithabrut (connection, joining).

For example, friends from my hometown may come to visit, people I once invited and spent time with, yet today I have no connection with them. I have close relatives who have lived in Israel for ten years or more, and I have not even met with them. Sometimes my mother asks me to call a relative, and then I call and inquire about their health once every few years.

Why do I behave this way? Simply because it is not within my field of attention. How can I maintain a connection with a person with whom I have nothing in common?

I am not telling you this without reason, it is an common situation in life. Everything depends on a person’s desire.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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The Result of Applied Efforts

251Question: You said that a sign of advancement is the sense of helplessness in the desire to receive. Yet, there are so many people in the world who feel bad without any connection to striving toward a higher goal.

Answer: You are saying that there are many people in the world who day after day increasingly feel worthless. I am not sure that is so. The surest sign of advancement is that this feeling of worthlessness comes first as a result of applied efforts, and second, if I do not despair, but continue the work.

How do I know that disappointment, helplessness, bitterness, or a state in which I feel as though I am dying yet at the same time hate the Creator for it is the result of my purposeful efforts? Only if my despair is purposeful, when despite everything I continue to exert efforts, to break through forward, toward the Creator, and along with that, I increasingly feel what spirituality is and to what extent my nature is in opposition to it.

In other words, any state we experience includes two factors in itself: a Kli and the light. And if in bad states I perceive them correctly, it means that I am on the right path, that my despair is not merely laziness. It does not come because I have failed to receive something from the pleasures of this world nor because I lack power or honor; but rather, it is a direct consequence of the fact that I have not yet attained the goal.

My goal is the intention for the sake of bestowal, yet I have discovered that I am even further from it, that the nature of the Creator is an even greater bestowal than I had imagined.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/19/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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Obstacles and Scrutinies

222Question: Let’s say I automatically attribute the obstacle to the Creator. Is this enough?

Answer: When obstacles come and I attribute them to the Creator, this is not the whole work but only part of it. Thank God I do not forget; I try every moment of my life, and if I lose my connection with the Creator, I return to it. That is, I am always in and out. This is great! But this is only part of the work.

After I have resumed my connection with the Creator, what must I do?

This is where I scrutinize our relationship, how I perceive Him, what He is to me, how I explain to myself what the forces of bestowal are, and what for the sake of reception means. Resuming the connection is essential when I return from the animal state to the state of Israel.

Question: How are obstacles defined?

Answer: Everything that separates me from the awareness of the Creator is called an obstacle. And if I return to Him with the help of obstacles, this is called “help against him,” against the ego. This is how everything works in the world and the purpose is solely in order to bring us back to connection with Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/26, Rabash, “The Severity of Teaching Idol Worshippers the Torah”

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268.02Comment: 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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The Group Is the Upper

527How 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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According to the Measure of Connection with the Creator

239How 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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938.03Question: 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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A Group Committed to the Right Goal

939.02Question: You say that all the work of acquiring Hisaron and building the Kli must take place through bestowal to the group. But what if I am in the company of a person who does not have spiritual attainment?

Answer: We are not talking about spiritual attainment. The society should be a group of people striving for the right goal. They do not know exactly what this goal is, are not in attainment, and are not excited by it. But they study together, gather, participate in various activities, and devote their free time to the group.

Then I can check whether this group is suitable for my advancement, whether I can advance toward the goal together with it. If I cannot inspire it, and move it from its place, then perhaps I need to think about a suitable replacement. Maybe I even take a few friends with me and leave, and let the others continue their life in the “nursing home.” And we will continue the path forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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Multiply the Group’s Collective Strength

276.04To what extent do I connect myself to the group’s collective strength? Only to the extent I replenish it through my own efforts toward the goal.

To that extent, I establish a connection and can draw upon my friends’ ascent to use the collective spiritual force known as the group. By using the common strength, I am in fact adding to the group.

Spiritually, no matter how much you take, you only strengthen the whole; it does not weaken. This is not so in the corporeal world. In spirituality, a person “lights a candle from the candle” of another. This does not mean the first one is left with less. By lighting their candle, the second person adds its glow to the first, until a blazing bonfire ignites.

The situation is such that multiplying the collective strength reinforces it further, and accordingly, we perceive the reality of the group, the environment.

Moreover, as we work on this, we begin to feel everyone, we feel to what extent they invest themselves and how much they are able to invest given their current form. Outwardly, one can be quiet and modest, and can even, perhaps, look lazy, but then we begin to sense the magnitude of their contribution. We already see the work of everyone’s soul.

Question: So the one who takes is contributing?

Answer: Certainly, you take strength from the group to advance. You cannot take anything from this force except the benefit of advancing in the same direction; otherwise, it will not help you in any way.

After all, it is the force of striving for the Creator, directed at Him. You cannot take it and use it for something else; it will not work. Therefore, we see that those who fails to use this flow is evading the work, which means they neither take from it nor contribute to it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/22/26, Rabash, Letter 59, 1962

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Connect with Other Souls

264.01Question: If I am in a state of powerlessness, despair, fatigue and I see a friend who is in a similar situation, how will this help me?

Answer: I can influence his fatigue and weakness; I can awaken and inspire him. I am capable of this, even if it is a game. You cannot influence yourself, but you can influence a friend.

There are people in the group who constantly encourage everyone. They shout: “Come on! Move it!” This quality is very useful within the group. One can jokingly compare such a person to an army warrant officer, someone who leaves an impression on you.

Our egoism has all the necessary attributes to influence others from a specifically egoistic side. And then this returns to me, and affects me. What I am unable to bring about within myself becomes possible through egoism. This is a special opportunity. You cannot simply influence yourself directly; it happens only through an external selective influence, provided you have control over these actions.

This is a truly unique phenomenon. It is precisely for this reason that the breaking of the Kelim occurred. After all, you acquire Avсhanot (inner definitions) between yourself and those around you. There are 600,000 souls, and at the boundaries between them, that is, at the edges between these cells, you find new definitions from which your spiritual body called Adam (man) is built.

It is not built from the souls themselves, but from the inner definitions that you receive through uniting with them. The connection itself occurs at the boundaries between the souls.

This can be explained as follows: I do not receive pleasure when I am very hungry or when I am already full. I feel pleasure in the middle of the process, when I am hungry from within, but on my tongue I feel the taste of food, that is, at the boundary between light and darkness. All inner definitions are acquired in the process of fulfilling the desire.

Therefore the division and unification of the parts of souls in this form builds a new Kli that the Creator did not originally create. You gather all the attributes obtained in the process of connecting with the other parts of the collective soul. From this, a new Kli is formed that previously did not exist. This new Kli is based on the shared facets of the souls in their connection with each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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942Question: What does it mean to work in the group in different states?

Answer: I must see the group in the state I want to be in myself. I must bring it to this, and then I will receive the same state from it.

If we were business partners and I ensure that everyone becomes wealthy, then I too would become wealthy. There is a condition here. If you think only about yourself, then you will not become rich, but if you think about your partners, you will, because in this way you acquire their Kelim, their wealth, their property. And with this you enter spirituality.

Question: At what pace can we artificially advance the group?

Answer: Everything that we do against our desire seems artificial to us, but these are not artificial actions. This is how it must be.

Question: How often must I inspire the friends?

Answer: Constantly, without interruption. You should not rest until the entire group is inspired.

Question: By what actions can I include a friend in myself, and unite with him?

Answer: These are very simple actions. Do toward the group what you would want it to do to you. One sentence. Look at how simple the words are that I use, as if explaining to children.

If outsiders from the street heard us, they would be surprised by our conversation. Listen to the recording of the lesson again, and you will see that without inner content, it creates the impression that we have a kindergarten here. Do not do to another what is not good for you, do to him what you desire for yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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Attack in the Heart

632.3Question: Recently, it has been felt that the world Kli is working in a single desire. Once, Rabash gave you advice to attack from such a state. What exactly are we attacking?

Answer: Ourselves, our heart, our laziness, our pride, and our old habits. I must rise above all these calculations.

The main thing is to dissolve among the friends and intentionally push myself into the group. That is where I want to be all the time. I want to lose my personal mind and personal feeling; I want to receive the mind and feeling of all the friends. It is as though I lose myself in them by my own will.

That means acquiring the vessel of mutual guarantee.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/6/11, Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah]”

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