Question: Can I receive discernments (Avchanot) and a sense of their nuances from the group?

Answer: No, you cannot. You receive the general feeling of the greatness of the upper from the group. That is the group’s power. In fact, even this you do not receive from the group itself.

You receive this feeling from above, but through the group. Everything you receive comes from the world of infinity, either directly or through the friends, that is, through the souls with whom you are connected in infinity as one soul. Because there you are one soul, each of you receives additional Avchanot and additional illumination for each of you.

For example, suppose there are ten of us connected in infinity as one soul, and each of us has ten Avchanot. If all ten possess them, then each one has ten from everyone.

In this way, through the friends I draw an additional ten Avchanot because here in our world I want to become similar to the corresponding state in infinity where we are all united. By wanting to unite with them here, I as though draw that state in which we already exist there through them. “As though” because this is not yet the light itself, but a small illumination, an addition. There however, each one gains from everyone.

But this depends, not on the friends, but on me, on how I relate to them. Whether we want it or not, we are already connected there. Therefore a person should not criticize the friends. On the contrary, let them do whatever they want—let them resist, or argue. He simply draws upon himself the forces from that place where the common source of all forces exists, and through this he draws upon himself the forces of bestowal, that is, he draws himself toward that very same place.

Everything is very simple. You need to imagine the picture where, in the upper world, everything is already connected, while below it is not. And if here below you make even the slightest effort to build the same picture, then, according to the effort you invest, you draw that force upon yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/5/26, Rabash, “What Does, ‘Everything that Comes to Be a Burnt Offering Is Male,’ Mean in the Work?”

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