Comment: It is written: “I have created the evil inclination.” It is clear that each of us has the same evil inclination.

My Response: No, each of us is different from the others. Baal HaSulam writes in the article “Freedom of Will” that we all came from different points of Adam HaRishon, and we are forbidden to suppress anyone, force them to do something, change them, interfere with the culture of other people, or forcibly bring progress to the so-called primitive peoples.

Everyone should develop in accordance with their personal qualities, because this is the only way they can realize their desire to receive. Everyone is an independent creation, and even if they want to, they cannot change their desire to receive, their starting point.

Baal HaSulam explains what a starting point is and the program by which it develops. There is a predetermined order of influence in society and in the laws of environmental development; a person cannot force their way in and change anything. The only change is in its external form under the group’s influence.

But the modification of the external form does not imply that a person acquires additional desires or properties not found in him from society. He acquires excitement, a desire for the source he must reach. This serves as additional fuel for him to accelerate his development and the correction process. But he does not acquire any new Kelim, new properties or new thoughts by doing so.

It only accelerates the emergence of these inherent qualities and determines the speed of their development. Therefore, it is crucial to relate to the group, to the opinions of our friends and to the very structure of the group with the understanding that everything we acquire from it serves solely as an accelerator, a catalyst, that provides us with the energy to act. But this accelerator has no inherent character of its own; it only provides an additional push in the direction in which I am already moving. I choose where to go, not it. I expect the same from the group. That is, I must come to the group and demand additional forces in the direction I have already chosen, rather than the group coming to me and attempting to brainwash me.

Any “brainwashing” by the group should only be in strengthening my chosen direction. Otherwise, it will not be a free choice. Otherwise, it will be a group that suppresses individuals.

It does not have to bring me new ideas. It should only help me solidify what I already have. Therefore, it is said that each of us should give to the group and receive back according to our investment, only many times more.
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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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