Let us do a small exercise of trying to internally attune ourselves to an absolute, perfect connection with the Creator.

The Creator is completely governing us now, is opposite our feelings, thoughts, intentions, and actions, in everything that is within a person. There is nothing left in us that is not in complete connection with the Creator.

And now let us try to maintain control over this state and try to guard it constantly so that it does not become blurred, but instead becomes ever sharper. If some interference arises and a thought runs away somewhere, we still try to draw it back in such a way that, thanks to the disturbance, we further strengthen the connection with the Creator in our feelings, in all sorts of sensations, and we constantly keep ourselves in this.

We try to feel that the friends are also in the same inner concentration on the Creator and we all together wish to support each other in this. Even more, even more effort—to try so that everyone is just as focused on the Creator as I am.

And then we imagine Him as something common, one for all. We are constantly directed only toward Him alone, and we help each other focus only on Him.

We unite among ourselves in mutual help so that we no longer feel that it is I who am constantly holding the Creator in front of me as “there is none else besides Him” and “the good that does good,” but that we all together are striving toward Him. And if He is one for everyone, then we are one.

And if this is not yet possible, then I must care even more that a friend does not break their connection with the Creator. I want to be inside him, to help him in this.

In principle, we should constantly be in such exercises. Baal HaSulam writes in his Letter 17 that “Israel, the Torah, and the Creator are one,” that we must be directed straight toward the goal and try not to deviate from this path in any case, because otherwise a growing error will occur and we will find ourselves away from the goal.

Such constant striving is precisely the realization of the method of Achishena. We must think about how every person who comes into the group integrates into it. And to integrate into the group means to renew our efforts every day, to elevate them to a higher level, to direct them more precisely toward the Creator, toward oneself, and among each other.

The main thing is not to disconnect from this. That is, all my thoughts and discussions with friends must be included in the same intention—to be together facing the Creator—and in no case should I deviate from this. All disturbances must only increase the connection between us and with Him.
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From the Convention in St. Petersburg 7/29/2016, Lesson 1

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