The group’s work should be directed at each of its members ensuring that each member feels that they are under constant control and persistent spiritual pressure, compelling them to conduct themselves properly.

One should be ashamed to look into the eyes of one’s friends if one lets them down by “drilling a hole in the common boat,” risking the lives of everyone on board. Therefore, it helps a lot when everyone in the group reminds one another of how dependent they are on each other.

If I am sitting here dejected, struggling, feeling disappointed, detached, or exhausted, I have to understand that by doing so, I am effectively cutting off the oxygen supply to my friends, and I should feel ashamed before them. We need to constantly develop a sense of responsibility within ourselves. Now we are given the opportunity to experience this feeling. That is why I consider our current state to be very good. Let us try to feel it together, and you will see how simple it is.

In fact, there is no fatigue. What does Gmar Tikkun (final correction) entail? Does it mean a person no longer sleeps, eats, or drinks, or perhaps is in some kind of euphoria, as if floating? What happens in this state? Does one experience fatigue? Does one ever feel a need to take a break from spirituality? After all, when nothing changes, it is also not a very good state either: it can be an unhealthy, hyperactive, or overstimulated state.

Gmar Tikkun is a benevolent state of inner balance between you and the Creator, because it is only through this balance that a state of peace is achieved. At each degree, balance is felt for a moment. And then, when egoism grows again, and correction grows accordingly, and they merge, peace is felt again for a certain period of time. And so on, until we reach eternal peace.

Therefore, we must attain a state in which constant striving forward will be felt by us as the most absolute peace.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson for the holiday of Sukkot, 9/30/26

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