Question: How does the group decide what is day and what is night in spiritual work?

Answer: The group sets its own standards. What is the highest standard and the ideal indication? The quality of giving, bestowing like the Creator, is the goal, a state that I regard as the completion of the path.

Every time I partially achieve this goal—the intention for the sake of bestowal, whether I am currently immersed in it or merely aspiring to it (even though I have not yet achieved it), I must resolve that this is day. I do this not based on my subjective feelings, but based on the fact that this is the truth.

All other states that may appear sweet in my senses confuse me and constantly pull me in the direction of receiving for myself, I define as night.

I can distinguish between night and day both in relation to my inner state and in terms of the purpose of creation; that is, by comparing my own attributes with the properties of the Creator. I can apply this “day and night” criterion to absolutely everything.

The group must accept all this as fact and as a standard. After all, what is a standard? It is something I am not yet in, but from now on, I undertake the obligation of measuring myself against it until I become exactly like it. This is called an ideal indication, the example of what I should become.

The group must constantly check itself and refine its inner charter, its ideal, regarding what it aspires to be. We must cultivate a mindset where at every stage our stages of development, we can quickly transcend the feeling of “bitter versus sweet” and instead choose to prioritize the truth regardless of the subjective flavor we may perceive within it. Ultimately, we will aspire for our next state to be one in which truth itself is perceived as sweetness, because the purpose of creation is to bestow delight upon the created beings.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/11/26, Rabash, “What Are Day and Night in the Work?”

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