Prayer must be in a group, otherwise the Creator will not hear it. We learn this from the structure of the ten Sefirot, from all of our spiritual work.

The Creator is Keter (the crown), above which there is what is called Kutso shel Yud, the highest point of Keter, the highest Sefira. That is contact with Him.

Only after I “grasp” all my friends, am ready to include them in myself and do everything necessary for them to agree to unite, am ready to be the lowest, the smallest in relation to them, then I can hope that they will respond to me in kind and a group will be formed, i.e., a structure in which the quality of bestowal, the Creator, will be revealed.

In this movement it doesn’t matter how much I fall, because advancement cannot be continuous. It is always start-stop, like the swinging of a pendulum in a clock. We cannot swallow a great egoism and rise above it, then take on another great egoism and rise again. We can only work with milliseconds, microseconds. It is by such micro-doses that we move forward.

Therefore, to the extent that we have mutual guarantee (Arvut) and the support of the group, we can receive a greater descent from the Creator and accordingly make a greater ascent.

Our descent comes from the Creator. It is always calculated by Him in advance so that we can rise voluntarily and consciously. He never gives us descents in which we collapse without knowing where we have fallen. They are always, as in a mother-child relationship, measured and precisely calibrated so that by gathering ourselves a little after the fall, we can find some strength within and begin to rise again.

So we must not think that the Creator wants to break us. He only wants to lower us slightly so that we may see the next level of our already broken egoism and begin to raise it. Just as we draw water from a well bucketful by bucketful, lifting it upward, that is how we work.

The fact that we seemingly lose the higher degree is not a loss, but precisely the first stage of ascent, the left side. Movement forward begins with the left foot, with the revelation of evil that the Creator prepared in advance. Then comes its compensation by the right line. That is how we advance.

That is why Baal HaSulam says that as soon as we wake up in the morning, we must immediately take upon ourselves the work of uniting with one another and with the Creator, from that very moment. This is extremely important! If I keep this thought in me at all times, then everything works out quickly and easily.
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From the International Kabbalah Congress in Moldova 9/7/19, Lesson 4

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