When Is Criticism Allowed?
Question: If I see flaws in my group, for example a lack of unity, and I want to correct this, should I raise these issues?
Answer: The rule is that it a person is forbidden to talk about anything that could bring down the entire group or any individual friend, or even the speaker himself.
One must not even awaken such thoughts internally or say things out loud that could cause the person himself or his friend, or the group, or the entire world to descend from the level they are at. No matter what state you are in, as it is said, “I will come to you and bless you.” You must strive only upward.
Therefore, if you are contemplating saying a few critical words, and before that you truly were in a good state for 23.5 hours a day and worked with inspiration, in ascent, did not descent from your level, but were constantly in tension, in striving forward, without allowing yourself to relax, then for half an hour you can engage in criticism.
You can express your comments to everyone else, since this criticism is based on the foundation laid by your elevated state, and you identify flaws only in order to rise even higher.
Then it is not criticism, but the revelation of a lack of fulfillment together with the light, together with the Kli. Being inside the right line, you turn to the left in order to return to the right. But this return to the right will already build the middle line.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/7/26, Rabash, “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror”
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