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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.
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From a conversation at a meal on 2/19/26

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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.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/26, Rabash, “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 1”

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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.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/26, Rabash, “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 1”

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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.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/26, Rabash, “What Is the Preparation to Receive the Torah in the Work?-2”

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