Question: You say that the group, the friends, and the books are all very important. Yet within this framework, we need to perform a thousand and one actions. Why do we constantly fail? Is it impossible to get out of these failures?

Answer: Why do you assume that by working in a group where everyone is “simmering as if in one pot,” you are constantly losing? Maybe this is the form that is supposed to be? You see that the children of Israel in Egypt are constantly experiencing defeat. When Moses goes to Pharaoh or leads the people through the desert, didn’t he experience failures? He fails all the time. But are failures bad things?

You fail and grow weaker because you reveal your ego, discover that you are zero, that you do not understand anything, and you have neither the strength nor the mind to rise to a higher level. After all, with the mind of the previous level, with the force of the previous level, you certainly cannot rise to the next level. Each time you fail, you discover your inferiority, and this is precisely what leads you to a higher level.

I think many have gone through such states where after you see that you have nothing, understand nothing, and are tired, suddenly something new is revealed to you. You begin to understand more, to connect definitions; it organizes you correctly, and there is some kind of illumination, some glimmers of light.

And all this comes through the feeling of failure, powerlessness, and disappointment because this is our path. First a person receives an empty Kli (vessel), a feeling of the lack of its fulfillment and powerlessness; only afterward does the light enter the corrected Kli.

We are not advancing in accordance with the animalistic mind that would expect greater strength each time, but rather, the process works in exactly the opposite way. This opposite way requires us to expend enormous forces, to exert a tremendous amount of intensity in everything, and when we come to powerlessness and emptiness, then we ascend to the next level.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/22/26, Rabash, “What Is the ‘Bread of an Evil-Eyed Man’ in the Work?”

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