Gatherings of friends were implemented among Kabbalists throughout all centuries and were highly effective and popular. Kabbalists gathered together to discuss their spiritual work.

When I brought new students who had no connection to Kabbalah to my teacher, he began organizing them into groups of 10 to 15 people. He wrote articles for us, which we read at weekly meetings.

We would meet at one person’s house or another’s and study these articles together. That was what the gatherings of friends were about back then.

Today, after many years of studying Kabbalah, our gatherings of friends have taken on a different form. Our global group includes several thousand people around the world. That is why we hold large, unified gatherings for all our friends, with video broadcasts, translations into many languages, and so on.

Does this still count as a gathering of friends? I believe it is exactly what it should be because we place special emphasis on the connections between us.

It does not matter whether we study a specific article at these gatherings or not, since in principle, we do that during our regular lessons. What matters is that we try to draw even closer to one another because to the extent that we achieve sensory and conscious closeness, we come closer to the feeling of the Creator. That is the principle and goal of the gathering of friends.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah. The Order of Gathering of Friends,” 3/11/19

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