How can I unite with a friend if he strikes me as somewhat foolish and constantly cheerful, which I perceive as frivolity? Inside him a fire may be burning, yet outwardly there are just jokes and silliness.

Moreover, the issue isn’t how I can be impressed by this, but simply that he lowers me from my level of appreciating the importance of the goal, and I too begin speaking nonsense. Can a group really bring me to something serious this way?

Rabash writes that, on the one hand, outwardly there should even be jokes, something light but not frivolous, while on the other hand, inside you everything should be burning. How can these be combined? These are very fundamental questions!

Of course, outwardly the group may say all kinds of things, but I am impressed by external expressions, not by what is internal. How do I know what is inside them? If I am influenced by the external, then I too begin speaking nonsense, willingly or unwillingly falling under its influence. On the animate level, this is exactly what happens. So, what should be done? Let us think about it!

Question: But how does a person clarify this? After all, only one thing matters: how the group can increase our desire.

Answer: Yes, that is the answer to the question! Increase the speed. Again, you are not paying attention to Baal HaSulam’s words. He writes two words, and that is all. There is no need to look for additions here. Pace!! That is all! You have no other possibility. Do not think that for every bad or good situation there is some special solution. Bad and good are all a matter of the same pace.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/26, Rabash, “The Meaning of the Strict Prohibition to Teach Idol Worshippers the Torah”

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