Question: How does the environment provide a person with an aspiration toward the goal, toward the quality of bestowal?

Answer: The environment provides a person with such deficiencies (Hisronot) without any words because that is exactly what it is engaged in. A person is connected to the environment, and if it is the right one, he is bound to receive a sense of concern from it, a feeling that he has lost the most important thing.

After all, the disappearance of the light does not yet bring him a Hisaron. He must feel that he has lost equivalence of form with the environment.

If the Creator disappears, if the light disappears, then with respect to the group a person should feel a Hisaron. The group serves as a substitute for the Creator in order to compensate for His concealment.

Choosing the best environment means that a person must constantly care that his group has the strongest, most correct, and most consistent direction toward the goal, and also that he himself maintains the greatest possible connection with the group.

Then one can be certain that even if the light departs from him—and the light must disappear in order to reveal a new Hisaron, a new Reshimo, the reverse side of a new degree—his support, the group, will immediately help him become aware of his state.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/22/26, Rabash, Letter 59

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