When a person works with the greatness of the group, he works against his desire to receive. I want the Creator to be as great as possible because this gives me more confidence, more peace; I belong to something great!

But when I work on the greatness of the group, what is its greatness? It strives more toward bestowal; it wants to invest more; this is what the greatness of my group is.

That is, I value the group according to its inclination to bestow, and this does not provide any fulfillment for my desire to receive. When the desire to receive gains no fulfillment, I have no choice, I must begin to value these qualities themselves.

By placing the group before me instead of Him, the Creator gave me the opportunity to completely disregard my desire to receive and to exit it.

Therefore, He shattered the vessel of Adam HaRishon and gave each person the environment as a means to attain bestowal. Without this, we would be able to do nothing.

The group is the means for attaining the greatness of the Creator, for recognizing Him as the good that does good.

If I detach the group from the Creator, I will never come close to performing even the smallest action that leads to coming out of myself.

As an example, Baal HaSulam brings up Soviet Russia, which detached itself from the Creator and attempted to build a beautiful society independently; the Kibbutzes did the same. There were other similar examples in history, and they all ended in failure.

In our work, we must connect the group and the Creator with one another so that the group becomes the means. Rabash writes about this very clearly in all his articles on the group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Saboteur Was in the Flood, and Was Putting to Death,’ in the Work?”

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