As long as the Creator is not revealed to us, we take the group as the defining factor and use it in place of the Creator. I enter the group and resolve that its opinion will apply to me as if the Creator were revealed.

Then I receive strength from the group, the power of authority over me. Therefore, I deliberately prepare myself for connection with the group in order to dissolve within it, so that it will begin to rule over me and give me a feeling of the greatness of the Creator.

I deliberately enter the group and position it in relation to myself so that the friends will overturn all my thoughts, all my desires, effectively giving me a new mind.

But this work does not end with a single act of closing my eyes and throwing myself into the group, and that is it. It is a meticulous process that continues in every moment. In this lies its difficulty.

Here, there must be a decision that comes from my side. This is called effort. It consists of going against the desire that I have and building this in full awareness, without closing my eyes. The entire success lies in this.

If a person succeeds methodically in allowing his “brain to be washed” regarding this abstract idea that he hates, he will see that the heavens clear up, and together with the growing difficulties he will increasingly enter concealment until he comes to revelation.

Thus, the effort lies in the free choice of the group, and this feels dreadful, no one wants it, but we must choose this each and every moment and use this choice in order to place the group so that it will “wash my brain” precisely with the idea that the Creator is great and must rule over me.

This cannot be done directly with the Creator because we would simply use our will to receive and would never be able to carry this out as we do with the group. In the group, I make efforts against my desire, override my nature, and am ready to annul myself, to lose myself within it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘There Is Nothing that Has No Place,’ in the Work?”

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