To what extent do I connect myself to the group’s collective strength? Only to the extent I replenish it through my own efforts toward the goal.

To that extent, I establish a connection and can draw upon my friends’ ascent to use the collective spiritual force known as the group. By using the common strength, I am in fact adding to the group.

Spiritually, no matter how much you take, you only strengthen the whole; it does not weaken. This is not so in the corporeal world. In spirituality, a person “lights a candle from the candle” of another. This does not mean the first one is left with less. By lighting their candle, the second person adds its glow to the first, until a blazing bonfire ignites.

The situation is such that multiplying the collective strength reinforces it further, and accordingly, we perceive the reality of the group, the environment.

Moreover, as we work on this, we begin to feel everyone, we feel to what extent they invest themselves and how much they are able to invest given their current form. Outwardly, one can be quiet and modest, and can even, perhaps, look lazy, but then we begin to sense the magnitude of their contribution. We already see the work of everyone’s soul.

Question: So the one who takes is contributing?

Answer: Certainly, you take strength from the group to advance. You cannot take anything from this force except the benefit of advancing in the same direction; otherwise, it will not help you in any way.

After all, it is the force of striving for the Creator, directed at Him. You cannot take it and use it for something else; it will not work. Therefore, we see that those who fails to use this flow is evading the work, which means they neither take from it nor contribute to it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/22/26, Rabash, Letter 59, 1962

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Question: If I am in a state of powerlessness, despair, fatigue and I see a friend who is in a similar situation, how will this help me?

Answer: I can influence his fatigue and weakness; I can awaken and inspire him. I am capable of this, even if it is a game. You cannot influence yourself, but you can influence a friend.

There are people in the group who constantly encourage everyone. They shout: “Come on! Move it!” This quality is very useful within the group. One can jokingly compare such a person to an army warrant officer, someone who leaves an impression on you.

Our egoism has all the necessary attributes to influence others from a specifically egoistic side. And then this returns to me, and affects me. What I am unable to bring about within myself becomes possible through egoism. This is a special opportunity. You cannot simply influence yourself directly; it happens only through an external selective influence, provided you have control over these actions.

This is a truly unique phenomenon. It is precisely for this reason that the breaking of the Kelim occurred. After all, you acquire Avсhanot (inner definitions) between yourself and those around you. There are 600,000 souls, and at the boundaries between them, that is, at the edges between these cells, you find new definitions from which your spiritual body called Adam (man) is built.

It is not built from the souls themselves, but from the inner definitions that you receive through uniting with them. The connection itself occurs at the boundaries between the souls.

This can be explained as follows: I do not receive pleasure when I am very hungry or when I am already full. I feel pleasure in the middle of the process, when I am hungry from within, but on my tongue I feel the taste of food, that is, at the boundary between light and darkness. All inner definitions are acquired in the process of fulfilling the desire.

Therefore the division and unification of the parts of souls in this form builds a new Kli that the Creator did not originally create. You gather all the attributes obtained in the process of connecting with the other parts of the collective soul. From this, a new Kli is formed that previously did not exist. This new Kli is based on the shared facets of the souls in their connection with each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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Question: What does it mean to work in the group in different states?

Answer: I must see the group in the state I want to be in myself. I must bring it to this, and then I will receive the same state from it.

If we were business partners and I ensure that everyone becomes wealthy, then I too would become wealthy. There is a condition here. If you think only about yourself, then you will not become rich, but if you think about your partners, you will, because in this way you acquire their Kelim, their wealth, their property. And with this you enter spirituality.

Question: At what pace can we artificially advance the group?

Answer: Everything that we do against our desire seems artificial to us, but these are not artificial actions. This is how it must be.

Question: How often must I inspire the friends?

Answer: Constantly, without interruption. You should not rest until the entire group is inspired.

Question: By what actions can I include a friend in myself, and unite with him?

Answer: These are very simple actions. Do toward the group what you would want it to do to you. One sentence. Look at how simple the words are that I use, as if explaining to children.

If outsiders from the street heard us, they would be surprised by our conversation. Listen to the recording of the lesson again, and you will see that without inner content, it creates the impression that we have a kindergarten here. Do not do to another what is not good for you, do to him what you desire for yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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Question: Recently, it has been felt that the world Kli is working in a single desire. Once, Rabash gave you advice to attack from such a state. What exactly are we attacking?

Answer: Ourselves, our heart, our laziness, our pride, and our old habits. I must rise above all these calculations.

The main thing is to dissolve among the friends and intentionally push myself into the group. That is where I want to be all the time. I want to lose my personal mind and personal feeling; I want to receive the mind and feeling of all the friends. It is as though I lose myself in them by my own will.

That means acquiring the vessel of mutual guarantee.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/6/11, Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah]”

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Question: What means can prevent a “spiritual miscarriage”?

Answer: In our world, in order to avoid miscarriage, one should visit a doctor, get examined, and follow all of the doctor’s instructions. On our path, we must do everything that nature requires for the embryo’s full development. You protect the embryo, not its mother.

The development of the embryo is the spiritual development in you. Do you fear miscarriage? Then take part in your spiritual development.

The cause of miscarriage lies in the mismatch between the mother’s body and the development of the spiritual body. Something happens between them until it becomes a piece of flesh and dies in relation to the mother.

Among us, this happens if a person does not take part in his spiritual development.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 3 “Man Is Rewarded with Righteousness and Peace through the Torah” (1986) (1.13.2002)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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Question: Where do we get the strength to overcome all the obstacles?

Answer: On the way to spirituality, we must pass through many obstacles. You say that these are apparently very difficult obstacles because we want to move from the material world into the spiritual one.

So the obstacles must be very formidable, like in the story about people climbing a high mountain. The higher they climbed, the steeper and harder the path became, and the more cruelly the guards threw them down.

There is a very simple solution to this: obstacles only seem large in the eyes of the will to receive, but as soon as you switch to actions with the selfless intention “for the sake of bestowal,” all the obstacles instantly disappear. They are not actually so big. You do not have to climb over them. You do not have to break them. And you will not be able to do that with your will to receive anyway.

You must adopt a different attitude toward the obstacles, accept them in the opposite form, and then they disappear. It is said: “Look closely at them, and they will turn out to be a heap of bones.” The approach to obstacles should not be the same as they appear in the will to receive. The attitude must be different, from the side, and then all the obstacles fall away. But if you look at them through the will to receive, then of course they seem enormous.

Question: But how do you look at obstacles differently? How do you connect them with the goal?

Answer: If a goal is set before a person, then he must go “by faith above reason.” It is very simple: connect with the higher force, with the desire to bestow, with the group that will help you rise a little above this obstacle.

In other words, do not force your way through, but leap over the obstacle. The leap itself does not take much strength. It is more of a psychological problem than a spiritual one.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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Working on the group’s charter is very beneficial, but everyone needs to examine themselves. There is also another issue here: if I were to say now that it is necessary to work on this, you would spend all your time in meetings and discussions. But this should be inner work, not chatter. Nothing can be achieved through talking alone.

During a descent, all these laws and rules do not concern me at all; I do not even want to think about them. What keeps me going? The group. It should support me and obligate me even if I do not want to implement these laws on the level I am on.

When in spirituality, I want to support the group in spirituality as well, but if I am only on the animate level, I am obligated to support the group on that level. The animate level should neither descend nor ascend; on that level, I should always support the group as much as possible.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/1/26, Rabash, “These Are the Generations of Noah”

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Question: Must we go through many obstacles on the way to spirituality?

Answer: On the way to spirituality, we do not pass through obstacles, but through signs that we must connect within ourselves in the correct form. These are pieces of my Kli. They seem opposite to me, but if I do not include them in myself in the correct form, opposite to me, then I simply will not be able to continue my spiritual development.

Let us say that I want to reach the Machsom, and on the way I must fill a basket with berries and mushrooms. When I am on the way, I am given all these “berries and mushrooms,” but only in inverted form.

In fact these are not obstacles; they only appear that way to my will to receive. But if I am missing even one of them, I will not be able to reach the destination.

This is called “a defect in the soul” (an incomplete soul). This is an extremely special thing. In spirituality, this is also called an embryo whose development has stopped:  a miscarriage, a still birth, etc.

There are various cases, just as in this world. This happens if even one obstacle is missing. Therefore an obstacle is a very valuable thing.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference Between Charity and Gift”

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Question: Is there the concept of “drilling a hole in the boat” in spirituality?

Answer: The concept of “drilling a hole in the bottom of the boat” applies if we are talking about people who are not connected with the spiritual concept of the group.

In spirituality, it is impossible to drill a hole. You can only drill it in the corporeal world.

Let us say a person in the group suddenly wants to become a leader, to become greater than the others. But in the group everyone must be friends, whereas he specifically wants to rule. This is a very vivid example. In the spiritual world, this will not be tolerated.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/22/26, Rabash, Letter 59 (1962)

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