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Posted on March 1st, 2026
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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.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/26, Rabash, “According to What Is Explained Concerning “Love Thy Friend as Thyself””
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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.
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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: 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).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/26, Rabash, “According to What Is Explained Concerning ‘Love Thy Friend as Thyself’”
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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.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/17, “Holding onto the State of ‘Entering Ibur (Conception)’ Above All Disturbances”
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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.
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From a Conversation at a Meal 2/19/26
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