Question: How can a person determine for himself that it is not the group that needs correction but himself?

Answer: This feeling is revealed to a person as an assessment of their state when suddenly see it this way.

They see that despite their actions, they all stem from their intention to be fulfilled, to receive. And although others may also be in a similar state, it does not matter. A person judges oneself relative to the light descending upon him and then determines that he is in the intention for the sake of receiving.

One may sink into despair, or one may say: “What is now being revealed to me is a sign of the revelation of something new, something real. And now, I must find the strength. The one who reveals this state to me will also reveal to me how I can come out of it.”

It all depends on the preparation of the person and the group: on how it supports him, and on how ready he is to receive its support.
[353563]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Saboteur Was in the Flood, and Was Putting to Death,’ in the Work?”

Question: Since ancient times people have wanted to know what awaits them in the future. There were prophets, seers, and oracles. And even today, people are very concerned about their future. What is “the future”?

Answer: The future is what we build in the present. The concepts of past, present, and future exist only in our perception. It is very difficult to explain the concept of time to an ordinary person in our world because to do so he must rise above time, movement, and space.

Everything must be examined with respect to the person, meaning we must understand that we are not studying what happens in the world, but in our sensation of the world. A person senses changes only because he himself changes, not because something outside of him changes. If I see a hurricane, rain, drought, winter, or summer, it means that I feel such states within myself.

I perceive this entire world within myself: stones, plants, animals, and people; those that were, are, and will be, all exist only in my perception.

Therefore I need to investigate why my sensation is divided into these three categories: past, present, and future. Once I understand this, I will be able to relate correctly to reality. Reality does not exist independently outside of me, but it is determined by my perception.

The wisdom of Kabbalah says that nothing outside of me changes. Everything happens only within me, in my perception, which changes day by day, moment by moment.

This completely changes the whole picture because if the world were outside of us, our ability to influence it would be very limited. Clearly predicting droughts, floods, and earthquakes helps us protect ourselves from an external threat by building dams or leaving the dangerous area. Yet this does not prevent the blow itself. If I understand that a flood does not occur externally, but in my inner sensation, then I can arrange myself internally so that the tsunami will not come at all. I can create a completely different world for myself where the sun shines and everything is wonderful.

Or perhaps I will even feel like I am in an entirely different dimension, in another world. After all, if everything depends on my perception, then I simply need to know how to manage my sensations in order to build a good external world within them. In other words, I divide the world into external and internal and say that I can change only the internal world, my sensation of the world, but not the external world.

The most important thing here is what to consider a constant and what is a variable that is subject to change. Either we consider ourselves constant and the external world changing, in which case we must protect ourselves from it.

Or we accept the external world as constant and unchanging, as the science of Kabbalah says, that the upper light is in absolute rest, and all changes and corrections occur within the person. In that case I can change myself and get the reality I want.
[219961]
From KabTV’s “New Life 934 – What Is ‘The Future?’” 12/19/17

Nothing prevents us from constantly maintaining the best feeling that we have ever had in our lives, the one we experienced at the congress when we felt unity, the connection between us and the Creator, spiritual revelation. If I descend from this state, it means that it is my own fault because I did not add my own efforts.

We received an awakening from above, from the Creator, and it should not disappear. The upper one gives us an example of what we should be like, and we must continue it. The awakening should not depend on the physical location of the congress. If there is no awakening, it means that the greatness of the Creator and the greatness of the group is lacking, and this can be further developed precisely after the congress, during the normal times.

The breaks between congresses should be perceived as opportunities organized for us by the Creator to invest our own efforts in this world. The construction of the spiritual vessel takes place precisely in darkness, at night. We need to see all the events of our life as connected by this very principle, so that “There was evening and there was morning one day.” This is the only way to perceive our lives.

From above, we are given moments of unification and closeness to the spiritual so that we can continue them when the awakening from above disappears. We must preserve this inner feeling by ourselves, at least with the same strength that was given from above, as if we had not left the congress.

The Creator raised us to a certain degree and left us, and we must continue on it. It is not good if we fall because we already have an example of how to continue. And then the Creator will raise us to the next degree, and even higher, and so every time.

When the Creator leaves us, He reveals which places need to be filled with His greatness. The only thing that is missing is the greatness of the Creator.

The main thing is to make an effort to remain constantly connected with the others, like at the congress, and to not let this feeling cool down, to continue it by all means. And then we will see that all the events of our lives—our return to work and all ordinary activities—are organized by the Creator for this very purpose: to fill all these daily empty spaces with awakening, inspiration from the spiritual, and the importance of the Creator.

We must maintain this state and not allow ourselves to descend. This is precisely where all the work ilies. There is not much to work on during the congress. The awakening given from above is working there, and everything happens by itself. But today, through our own efforts, prayer, and all possible means, we must not allow this awakening to cool off. Now is the time for work.

Therefore, at the congress we did not “achieve” success, but “received” it. Today we need to achieve success. It is possible to say that the congress, that is, the gathering and unification, begins right now!

If we correctly understand how to use the time of the congress and the time between congresses, then we will correctly realize the unity we have achieved. Everything is tested precisely by everyday states where all the work lies. So let us continue!
[226477]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/18, “The Greatness of the Creator”

Comment: It is easy to be inspired by a friend who treats me well. But it is difficult to be inspired by a friend who occaisionally treats me badly.

My Response: There are friends whom I tolerate with difficulty or perhaps cannot tolerate at all. There are those whom I barely notice; they neither anger nor delight me. And finally, there are those with whom I feel wonderful and joyful, among whom it is pleasant for me to be. So which of them should I see as the target of acquisition? After all, it is said: “Buy for yourself a friend.”

It is impossible to give a universal answer to this. I would say it this way: each time you will see what you are capable of, and that is what you should do. No one will tell you that you must specifically focus on the one you hate, with whom you cannot be together, even though he is in the group. That is incorrect. Rather, each time you should be with those friends through whom, as you feel, you are able to invest effort.

But this is not based on “pouncing” on someone, on beginning to bestow to him, to unite with him, and immediately go to drink beer together in order to become closer. No. To invest effort in acquiring a friend is a general investment in the group.

It is not about some personal connection with a specific individual upon whom I am constantly focused. In accordance with the state a person is going through at any given moment, those around him appear differently each time. Sometimes you are in a good state, as though elevated in the spiritual sense, and then suddenly you find yourself ready to embrace and kiss the very one you usually hate.
[353241]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/26, Rabash, “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 1”

Question: What is the correct form of self-annulment?

Answer: If you want to attain adhesion with the Creator, then you come to the group and use its forces in order to develop the intention for the sake of bestowal. Then the group becomes very important to you; you annul yourself before it in order to come to the recognition of the Creator’s greatness, and correcting the disturbances that arise on your path toward self-annulment becomes additional strength.

Question: How can I convince myself to annul myself before the friends?

Answer: I am not capable of convincing myself. It happens only if I feel that it is necessary. Reaching a state where I have nothing else to rely on and only the group can help me on the path does not come solely from my own efforts.

I can work in the group, be close to my friends, and do a thousand things, but if I do not keep in mind (even slightly) that I am doing this in order to attain the goal, that the group must help me, and that I am working in it only for this, then I will not receive a single thought, not a single clarification. This will happen only when I bring a bit of my intention, my desire. Then it will begin to work.
[353343]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/26, Rabash, “According to What Is Explained Concerning “Love Thy Friend as Thyself””

There are three conditions for spiritual work in a group.

First, “make yourself a Rav.” A Rav (teacher) is someone greater than me who gives me direction. What he says defines my path. While giving directions, he must always give a student a certain amount of freedom, appear weak, sometimes confused, and sometimes contradict himself. This provides the student with obstacles, various doubts and thoughts about whether the teacher is right; this leaves the student room to perform the action “make for yourself a Rav.”

Second is “buy yourself a friend.” I have to find people who, just like me, go through the same process along with me, and through my investment in them, I will gain strength from them. Because I invested efforts into my friends, these forces become mine—I bought them; I acquired them.

And the third is “judge everyone to the scale of merit.” This means that when I see obstacles from various people, I must interpret it as coming from representatives of the Creator, who are meant to confuse me with various situations that are optimal for the gradual development of my soul toward the Creator.

Thus, there is a teacher before me, toward whom I must act according to the principle of “make yourself a Rav,” there are friends with whom I do work according to the principle of “buy yourself a friend,” and there is the external environment, the whole world, all the others, whom I judge to the scale of merit, to the fact that they themselves do not perform any action at all, but the Creator influences me through them. Thus, I see them only as puppets rather than as characters who are either guilty or righteous in their actions.
[353208]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/26, Rabash, “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 1”

Question: What is required of us in the group? Should we scrutinize each action for whether it is for our own benefit or our friend’s benefit?

Answer: In a group, we must demand that each person maintains their inner thought of reaching adhesion with the Creator, and from this thought, as if to move backward: “I can achieve this only by developing the group.”

Developing the group means that, despite everyone’s personal state and our current common state, we direct all our thoughts and actions to reaching the Creator.

To achieve this, we must build a Kli, a common, united desire between us. To come to the Creator means to come to similarity of form with Him, i.e., to the force of bestowal. This is called love.

If I love someone, then in my care for him I will reveal the Creator. He becomes important to me, as a one against several zeros, to the extent that I need love for the Creator more than love for myself.

Why should I respect a friend and think that the group is greater than me, that they are a one and I am a few zeros? Striving for the Creator should oblige me to do this. If I just set myself to raise the realization of the group’s importance, it would become egoistic.

Only if the realization of the Creator’s importance obligates me to regard the group with importance, only then can the group help me and give me the right vessels (Kelim).
[353337]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/26, Rabash, “According to What Is Explained Concerning ‘Love Thy Friend as Thyself’”

Our entire spiritual path consists of merging with the Creator—“There is none else besides Him.” Upon attaining the first point of adhesion with the Creator, a person must cling to it. Naturally, as soon as he reaches it, new shattered Reshimot (informational records) immediately arrive although one does not yet understand or feel it.

One must be very sensitive to them and recognize them as early as possible, so that a person does not find themself somewhere far away several days later.

Your work must be continuous. You must constantly sense that Reshimot awakening, and these Reshimot appear as alien thoughts and desires that seek to tear you away from the point of adhesion you have attained.

A person begins to struggle with them, tries to cope on their own, with the group, through mutual guarantee, and ultimately in prayer to the Creator. And if so, then all these alien thoughts and desires that awaken after the point of adhesion push one to connect with the Creator, to be in contact with Him.

Then a person no longer considers them alien thoughts and desires, but considers them useful, sent by the Creator so that they may expand the point of adhesion, give it volume, and transform it into an embryo.

Thus, time after time, a person nullifies oneself based on of all kinds of alien thoughts and desires that arise within oneself. “Alien” means that they disconnect you from adhesion, and they do not necessarily have to be “dirty.” If, on their basis and in spite of them, you strengthen the adhesion and attach them to holiness, then they become “holy,” bestowing. In this way, you advance.

A person’s advancement does not depend on entering a state of enlightenment, but on the constant occurrence of alien desires and thoughts that one recognizes as interfering with adhesion, with connecting to the Creator, to “There is none else besides Him,” and the person wishes to overcome them through the power of prayer.

After all, one wants to merge with the Creator, so the means for this must also be the Creator Himself. A person turns to Him, asks for the power of adhesion beyond all obstacles, and thus expands the domain of holiness.

A person must establish in one’s heart and mind that the greatness of spirituality is attained on the basis of ever-increasing self-nullification. The more one is able to nullify oneself, the more one advances and grows, on the basis of all the alien thoughts and desires. They are constantly increasing, like a mountain of doubts, and one rises above them each time, and thus grows by not detaching from adhesion.
[217970]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/17, “Holding onto the State of ‘Entering Ibur (Conception)’ Above All Disturbances”

A few words about the recent international Kabbalah congress as it was taking place: I sense a completely different spirit at this congress compared to the previous ones; there is a special aspiration by everyone toward universal unity, and I am within them. This does not require my external participation; the inner striving of all the friends is sufficient.

At the opening of the congress, each participant composed a prayer from the center of the group, and the friends asked that all the prayers include the teacher’s prayer.

My prayer is that we all feel ourselves gathered in one place, included in one heart, and we feel no separation. I do not think it takes enormous efforts to unite because we are already together.

There is no need for excessive tension; let everyone feel good and at ease. After all, we have done extensive preliminary work and lessons. Now we just need to slightly sense the connection, the unity, that we have already attained. We can enjoy this state precisely because we have earned it through the efforts we invested.

The congress is a consequence, not a place of work. It is an opportunity to thank the Creator. But nothing should obscure our desire for connection. For the three days of the congress, we can enjoy the fruits of the work we did beforehand.

However, the connection must be correct so that we do not begin to enjoy egoistically and fall. This is the enjoyment from unity in which we wish to unite with all our friends, the enjoyment from the connection that is being revealed.

Is there room for prayer in such a state? Certainly, for the feeling of unity reveals how insufficient it still is.

We thank the Creator for bringing us, through all our attempts and efforts to connect, to the feeling of how “pleasant it is to sit together.” This is a prayer of gratitude. The gathering of friends, the meal, everything should be in gratitude for the fact that the Creator gives us the opportunity to be connected with everyone, that He brought us to this congress and awakens the connection between us. Our gratitude itself will be the prayer.
[353391]
From a Conversation at a Meal 2/19/26

I feel like I am participating in a congress. On the very first day alone, 3,000 people attended, 800 of whom came from different countries, and another 3,500 connected virtually. Everyone says that the congress feels unusually serious and responsible.

So the most important thing is to maintain our concentration so that every aspiration is with the intention of achieving the effort in its true form.

I wish for all the participants to feel a connection in the center of the gathering, in the center of the congress. I hope that everyone will feel this, and that it will lead us forward, step by step.

It is very simple to do: simply annul yourself and raise all the participants to the heaven. There is no doubt that the Creator will be pleased with us.

When I studied with my teacher Rabash, I never dreamed of such a broad worldwide movement like Bnei Baruch involving thousands of people. I don’t feel that this was done by me; it was all done from above. There is none else besides Him. We must see the Creator at the center of our unity and desire only one thing: to thank Him for what He has done for us.

On one hand, I’m glad for what is happening today, but on the other hand, I am confident that we will reach such unity that each person will reveal that they are at the center of the circle, connected with everyone else. Within that connection we will receive everything we are meant to receive.

This is the peak of development: working for many years from morning to night and in the end to feel that you yourself have done nothing, but the Creator did everything. After all, you allowed the Creator to perform all the work through you. A person surrenders themselves to the Creator and allows Him to do everything for the development of the world through him. Ultimately, a person must see that in reality they did nothing, but the Creator did everything, and whatever comes to the person, they want to return everything back to the Creator.

You do everything the Creator wants you to do, but all this is due to the Creator. And the merit of a person is only this: to make oneself into a Kli worthy of the Creator.
[353396]
From a conversation at a meal on 2/19/26

Question: What if I have invested too much in a friend?

Answer: You speak as though you have acquired a friend, as if you invested efforts in him, and now he treats you well. “I gave him a candy, and now he is my friend.”

But in our understanding, a friend is someone who helps me connect with the Creator. A friend is an additional force through which I draw closer to the Creator, who is essentially my friend. And I invest my efforts in the group precisely in order to receive from it the strength to connect with the upper one.

Thus, I do not need to constantly maintain good relations with everyone so that they would all be my friends in the corporeal sense where people treat me well and I treat them well.

In the group, very difficult states are possible, states that are sent by the Creator. We cannot measure our true state by what is happening in it. We may go through turmoils and upheavals where everyone is in states of misunderstanding and hatred, when one cannot understand the other, etc., and still these states are beneficial, and we are truly talking about a group of friends.

They are called friends because each one wants to give to oneself and to the other in order to draw closer to the Creator, and everyone understands that this is the system.

The question of whether we are friends or not is not verified by human senses: I look and do not see anyone here who is a friend in the corporeal sense; the only thing that is real is the shared goal.
[353244]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/26, Rabash, “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 1”

Related Material:
Who Are You, My Friends?
A Friend in Spiritual Work
Who Can Be Considered A True Friend?

Question: How can you help a friend who has fallen into trouble in the corporeal sense?

Answer: Suppose a friend comes to me and tells me about some trouble he is facing. It does not matter what exactly; let’s say he feels unwell. Relating to him as someone from the group, as a force with which I advance toward the Creator, I take his trouble and begin to pray to the Creator with his unfulfilled desire (Hisaron). This is called: “He who prays for his friend is answered first.”

I must take his Hisaron and his problems instead of my own and turn to the Creator with them as if I have no problems at all. If I truly had none, there is little wisdom in that.

But if I also have very big problems, and yet I take the friend’s problems instead of mine while maintaining awareness of what I am doing, meaning I put aside my ego a little and work toward the Creator with the friend’s Hisaron, then this is purely spiritual work.

Question: And what about the direction of the friend’s own work?

Answer: What concern is that of mine? I ask the Creator to improve his state, meaning to advance him toward the goal, because the lack of advancement toward it brings him these misfortunes. This may manifest in anything from owing a $10,000 debt to some illnesses or disaster.

I must accept the friend’s corporeal level as my own spiritual level. What does that mean?

By suppressing my own desire to receive, I take the friend’s desire and work with it. This means that I work spiritually; I am work in bestowal to someone else. If I take any corporeal problems of a friend, no matter how mundane, in place of my own troubles, my own requests, and arrange them in such a way that I truly ask the Creator for them, then this is called being “the leader of the people.”

A leader of the people is one who takes all the troubles of the people instead of all his own problems and turns to the Creator with them, desiring that they be fulfilled and not himself, that they receive everything, from their current state up to the end of correction, and he does not. And he is ready for this.
[353247]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/26, Rabash, “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 1”

Related Material:
How Can We Solve A Friend’s Problem?
My Friend’s Physicality Is My Spirituality
Don’t Allow Bad States To Manifest

Comment: A person who is in a state of descent feels as if they and their desire to receive are one and the same.

My Response: In a descent, a person truly identifies with the desire to receive. They are immersed in it, completely under its control, and do not even sense that it is bad. It is similar to how the people of Israel did not feel bad in Egypt. They felt fine there and did not sense the burden of the work.

“And the sons of Israel sighed from the work,” that happened later, when another Pharaoh came, who turned evil. Before that, he was good: we work, but we also enjoy our efforts. This is how a person feels.

Question: If such a state exists, should the group come to a person and describe their state to them? Or should the person come to the group and ask for help?

Answer: The group can give a person various things, including general advice, because through this, a person develops.

For example, we are affected by reading articles about states we have not yet reached, or perhaps were in a little, or perhaps will be later. We need to awaken the upper light upon ourselves so that it constantly brings us new states. The group can speak about this.

How does it influence you? It is by reminding you that the Creator is great? But other people also shout something similar in their own way. How can that influence you?

The group must convey, through various impressions, the understanding that attaining the eternal and perfect state is the only thing that stands before you.

You have a point in the heart; you come to the group not knowing anything. But if you engage it with your point in the heart, the group acts upon you like a mother’s womb upon an embryo. It develops you. And all you need is to annul yourself, annul yourself before it.

There are people who come, and no matter how long they sit in the lessons, they understand nothing. Then they go to work in the kitchen for a month or two and this becomes their form of self-annulment before the group. And suddenly, they begin to feel that the group is influencing them. This happens under the influence of the light.
[353251]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/26, Rabash, “What Is the Preparation to Receive the Torah in the Work?-2”

Related Material:
Incorporate into the Group
The Benefits Of Being In The Group
I Am Disappearing And Growing

Question: How can it be that a feeling like envy is a force that advances us toward the goal?

Answer: It is not just envy that drives me to my goal. There is nothing bad or good about me at all because that is how I evaluate my qualities and states. In reality, there is nothing that was created in vain, nothing unnecessary for attaining the goal.

We may feel ourselves to be anything at all, but as we learn, we descended into this world from the highest degree, and everything that exists in us now will later, with the help of screens (Masachim), become the very best qualities.

Therefore we should not engage in correcting character traits but only in striving toward the goal—and then all our qualities, all parts of the desire, will serve only as help.

A person must not hide or suppress any of his desires; this is not the method of Kabbalah! Kabbalah says the opposite. If a person suppresses something within himself, he thereby kills a part of the creation within him.

We must only follow the law: “The light contained in the Torah returns one to the source.” That is, during study and during various activities in the group when all my thoughts are about correction, the surrounding light (Ohr Makif), the light that returns to the source, shines upon me. There is no other way of correction.

A person should not think that he is capable of evaluating which of his qualities are good and which are bad or what kind of correction each requires. Otherwise, he will begin to approach correction selectively, and decide what to correct in himself and what not to correct. There is no greater foolishness than to claim that he understands anything about this!

A person must act only where he has a point of free choice, that is, to organize for himself an environment that will influence him. In any case, he needs some external force that will pull and push him forward.

The external force is either the environment or the Creator. But unfortunately, I cannot yet influence the Creator so that He will help me; I do not yet have a desire sufficient for Him to respond. He responds only to a complete, perfect desire.

It is precisely the environment that builds within me this complete desire, so that afterward I may turn to the Creator, and then the light will return me to the source.
[352900]
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?”

Related Material:
Through Envy Of Friends
When an Enemy Turns into a Friend
How To Use Your Qualities Correctly?

Question: If I feel that the group is not doing what it is supposed to do, does that mean that I am not ready for this situation, or is the group truly not doing it? How can I know whether this is my problem?

Answer: The group must carry out its action toward you if you commit to carrying out your actions toward it.

We are talking about both external actions and internal ones. External actions by themselves mean nothing! If we perform only external actions, it will just be an enterprise.

That is why internal actions are extremely important here. What do I want from the group? For what purpose do I invest my desire, energy, and efforts into it? Am I doing this for no reason? I want to reach something through my efforts!

With my actions, I am essentially demanding from the group that it fulfill all my hopes, that it advance me, awakens me. Otherwise, why am I doing all this? Just to pass the time?

I must receive something from the group. The question is: What am I asking for?

And this is what the group must teach me: what to ask from it.
[352856]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/26, Rabash, “And There Was Evening and There Was Morning”

Related Material:
A Simple Action
Toward The Man Within Me
The Inner Group

Faith is a means to reach the inner light of the Torah. Faith is a Kli of bestowal, the quality of Bina. It should be the foundation, and therefore it is said: “The righteous will live by his faith.”

Faith above reason is a means of turning to the Creator to obtain qualities similar to His. But this is not the ultimate goal. Indeed, faith above reason is the goal of study because we want to achieve correction, the qualities of bestowal. But in fact, it is only a means.

After all, the Torah is called the Torah of life, and one must study with the intention of Lishma, for the sake of the Torah, and not Lishmo, for the sake of the Creator. That is, I want not only to become like the Creator by building a Kli, but also to fill this Kli with exactly the content that corresponds to the Creator, so that this content becomes my “life and longevity.”
[353084]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/18/26, Rabash, “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”

Related Material:
Torah – The System Of Connection Between Creator And Creation
Strengthen Faith in the Creator
Accept Support from Faith

Question: If I feel comfortable in the group, does that mean I have nothing to give it?

Answer: If you feel good and comfortable, then in that state you certainly cannot give anything to the group.

Only when a person feels tension from lacking the goal, when they question the meaning of life, can they contribute something. If a person has no desire, they are as if dead. When there is no desire, that is called death!

In that case, one must delve more deeply into study and into actions that are performed without intention since in that state one cannot add intention, and then the actions themselves will lead to intention. These are actions in which one unites with others and receives their desires from friends.

Let them engage in dissemination and they will receive a boost of spirit. Let them study and they will receive inspiration from the author of the book. Let them go work in the kitchen and they will serve the group and receive inspiration from the group.

A person must invest themselves in something at the level they are capable of, even at the inanimate level, in order to awaken at a higher level—vegetative, animate, and speaking. A person can always invest themselves, even without any intentions.

Thus, someone who does not create frameworks that obligate them to return to actions in relation to the group is not valuing time, not shortening it, and advances only sporadically.

Therefore if you lack work, take on translating articles, work on some material…do something!

Every group, no matter where it is located in the world, must, even artificially, build such frameworks for itself so that each person has some responsibility toward the group and the group toward the individual. Otherwise, if we feel free, we behave according to the desire to receive.

This is the very first and most important thing a group must establish for itself: a strict order of actions that allows no deviation so that no one feels free even for a moment, even in their free time.
[352889]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/26, Rabash, “And There Was Evening and There Was Morning”

Related Material:
How Should I Relate to the Group?
The Group Is the Gathering of All Our Hopes
The Group As A Spiritual Entity

Question: Do feelings such as envy, desire, and ambition arise in me when I see that I lack what my friend has in relation to the Creator?

Answer: No! There are negative and positive envy, lust, and glory. If I see something good in another, I might think that it would have been better if I hadn’t seen it so that I would not suffer. After all, when I see some good quality in him, it makes me feel bad.

Or I see something good, and it awakens in me the desire to also attain it. Then I must be grateful to the one who gave me the opportunity to see these special pleasures that can be achieved. Before I did not even think such things existed in the world. This is good envy.

Bad envy is when I see people who are doing well, but I, say, do not sufficiently desire to be like them. That is, I weigh that the effort I must exert greatly exceeds the pleasure I would gain. The goal does not justify the means.

In other words, I am lazy. This is called laziness. And to avoid suffering, I would just like that not to exist for them either. Or I become annoyed that I saw it, and now I am envious. Everything is reversed. Instead of striving to reach a higher level, I wish to see these people at a level lower than mine. “The suffering of many is half the consolation.” They have less, and I have more, immediately my mood improves.

It all depends on the person’s goal—how he wants to use qualities like envy, lust, and honor. Either he wants to rise with their help because the importance of the goal obliges him, and then he uses these qualities in a useful, effective, constructive form.

Or it can be otherwise, when he wants to destroy everything he sees in another because comfort is more important to him than advancement. The suffering is not yet strong enough for him to want to leave the current state. It all depends on the calculation and what we expect from the state we are in.

Imagine the situation. We see that half of those here are asleep, and the rest do not care. Inside them, there is no burning desire to break free from this state, where “better death than this life.” Ask them: “Do you wish that your next state will reveal that there is no possibility of stagnation?” They will answer: “Well… we can try, maybe it is better.”

But there are also those who will say that they are waiting for it and are ready for anything because without it there is no advancement. So it all depends on prior preparation. In the group there must be some idea, some goal, for which it would be worthwhile to exist.
[353152]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/14/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Creator Does Not Tolerate the Proud,’ in the Work?”

Related Material:
Positive and Negative Envy
You Should Be Envious!
Envy Is A Tremendous Force

The Zohar says about the verse, “And there was evening and there was morning” (Genesis 3, p 96, and Item 151 in the Sulam Commentary), “‘And there was evening,’ which the text writes, means that it extends from the side of darkness, meaning Malchut. ‘And there was morning’ means that it extends from the side of the light, which is ZA.

This is why it writes about them, “One day,” indicating that the evening and morning are as one body, and both make the day (Rabash, “And There Was Evening and There Was Morning”).

The Torah begins with the words “In the beginning” (“Bereshit”). By “beginning” we mean the beginning of a person’s advancement, when he can already distinguish between his ascents and descents. He begins to define more correctly what a descent is in relation to an ascent, what is good in relation to evil, light in relation to darkness.

If he sees that his thoughts are drawing closer to the thoughts of the masses, he defines this as darkness, as evil, even though in his feelings it may seem pleasant or good. Yet he understands that remaining within the thoughts of the masses distances him from spirituality and from the purpose of creation.

Conversely, when he turns inward and finds even some small closeness to the upper force, to the Creator, to a recognition of the value of bestowal, within himself, he defines this as an ascent. But here, too, there are various degrees. A person does not always know which state he is in and remains in it almost unconsciously without the ability to measure it.

Each state begins when a person seemingly observes it from the side and perceives it from an objective perspective that does not depend on him.

In other words, when he acquires the ability to understand his state, and the word “understanding” (Heb. “Havana”) comes from Bina, that is, when there is Bina within Malchut, and he receives some sensation of something higher than ordinary animate life, then two points appear within him. From the difference between them, he examines his state. Now he can discern where good is and where evil is, where truth is and where falsehood is.

If he rises above the sensations of good and evil and is ready to proceed according to the definition of truth and falsehood, then one can say with certainty that he is consciously in states of ascent and descent. Then he may conclude that going within reason may be correct at his present degree, but if he wishes to rise to a higher degree, he must go in faith above reason.

Through this, he acquires intellect, attainment, and closeness to the upper, to a higher degree. At that point, it can truly be said that his path begins to be defined as “In the beginning”: He now has a beginning, he has a head (Rosh), he has a goal, and he is moving toward advancement.

He always sees his present state as darkness, as evening, and strives toward morning, so that there will be one day, and another day, and yet another. Each of his states begins with evening, and whatever it may be, he comes to realize that there is a higher state, one closer to the Creator. Therefore, he defines his current state as evening, and from this he arrives at morning, at the first day, the second, and the third.
[352842]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/26, Rabash, “And There Was Evening and There Was Morning”

Related Material:
The Basis Of The Spiritual Advancement
The Spiritual Environment Is The Repository Of The Soul
How The Soul Grows

When a person is proud and has no desire to annul his authority before the Creator, and says that he has no lowliness in him, but he rather does what he wants, from this come to him all the bad qualities. The light of pleasure, which comes from above, illuminates as a slim light in order to sustain the world. As is known, it dresses in three qualities, called “envy,” “lust,” and “honor,” and all three qualities are included in the quality of pride (Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Creator Does Not Tolerate the Proud,’ in the Work?”).

Pride is a common term for a human personality, a sense of one’s own “I.” There is a correction for this feeling: bringing a person to realize that he is not capable of anything. Rather, he is capable of many things in this life, but he cannot come to spiritual correction on his own.

How is one led to understand he cannot correct himself, to come to Lishma? It is with the help of three qualities: envy, lust, and honor.

Because the human desire to receive has all three qualities, it develops. As a person develops, he sees that every time he is unable to control the desire to receive, he cannot combine it with the intention to give and use it within the framework of eternity. Then he gives up and asks the Creator for help.

Our progress, in fact, includes many such states when we try and fail, try again and again in vain. And every time a prayer appears in our hearts, an appeal to the Creator, that I am unable, I cannot. So far, this request, that I am really disappointed in myself and want to achieve an intention to bestow, has not fully formed as addressed specifically to the Creator.

But gradually, a person begins to learn more and more about these details within his desire to receive, within his environment, and becomes convinced of the importance of this goal. He sees that otherwise, his life will be temporary, random, and meaningless.

This happens until he begins to understand that this appeal is not a natural request due to accidental disappointment, but a certain approach to various life situations in order to find the right attitude to all cases of life, to see how much he is able or not to dominate the desire to receive, and based on this, turn to the Creator with true prayer.
[353144]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/14/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Creator Does Not Tolerate the Proud,’ in the Work?”