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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