Thus, there is but one counsel: If several individuals come together with the force that it is worthwhile to abandon self-love, but without the sufficient power and importance of bestowal to become independent, without outside help, if these individuals annul before one another and all have at least potential love of the Creator, though they cannot keep it in practice, then by each joining the society and annulling oneself before it, they become one body.

For example, if there are ten people in that body, it has ten times more power than a single person does (Rabash, “Love of Friends – 2”).

This refers to the force of rising above egoism, the power of detachment from one’s “I,” when you include yourself in others, in another field, on another level. You clearly feel: either “I” or the next level “we.” In that “we,” your “I” is needed only to organize this “we.”

Question: Does a person receive the strength to rise above egoism from the group?

Answer: Not from the group, but through the group.

Question: How can a person feel that he or she has the power of the whole group to perform some action in spirituality?

Answer: If a person serves one’s friends, then he or she gains the strength of the whole group. We are speaking of the power of bestowal, of the ability to give. Therefore, when a person makes efforts to elevate the group, the person receives that strength. That is one’s vessel, his or her Malchut.
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From KabTV’s 4/12/18, “Love of Friends”

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