Question: How do we make sure that we are worthy of receiving the Torah, that we are ready to be each other’s guarantors?

Answer: If a person is ready to act as a guarantor for others (and we know that it is a condition for receiving the Torah to be “as one man with one heart”), then, of course, what one actually desires is to receive is not the Torah!

If one wants to be ready to become “like one man with one heart,” and is unable to do so, this task looms before the person like a mountain, meaning that the impulse to act “for the sake of receiving” is abhorrent and one wants to act “for the sake of bestowal,” then it is defined as being “like one man with one heart.”

It means uniting the points in the heart. This is the only correction the Torah brings, nothing more.
Our standing at the foot of Mount Sinai, along with all the doubts and all the hatred, serves one purpose: to effect the transformation from acting “for the sake of receiving” into “for the sake of giving.” For the sake of giving means that you unite all hearts and form a common vessel into which you receive the Torah. But if you do not do that, then what you get inside will not be the Torah but something else, some kind of science.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/12/26, Rabash, “What Is Preparation for Reception of the Torah? – 1”

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Each one of us tries to integrate into the group, and each one might say: “How can I determine the efforts of my friends? One may invest a great deal in the group, but can barely squeeze out a few sentences a week. Another shouts and argues.” It is true. As long as we are in this world, we are not capable of correctly measuring the effort of each person.

Often, we take as an example the one who makes more noise, who leads and helps despite the fact that his inner effort maybe smaller compared to the one who remains silent. And we must agree with this; we have no choice as long as it is this way. After all, as long as we are not corrected and do not feel one another as parts of the soul, it is important for us to be impressed by each other externally.

Therefore, the one who speaks loudly about what is correct, about awakening the group, is more important to me than the one who perhaps exerts a greater effort but whose external expression is calm. Nothing can be done about this, because we are all below the Machsom, in concealment, and this is the way our examination works. When we rise to a spiritual degree, we will judge differently.

Question: But perhaps the one who makes less noise awakens me more?

Answer: Everyone is impressed in their own way, according to the traits of their character. When I see a person who works quietly, although no one pays attention to him, he steadily and precisely does his work, he influences me more strongly than the one who makes a lot of noise. It touches me more deeply; from it, I receive a stronger inner impact. And the same happens with all those who are able to perceive this phenomenon.
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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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Comment: It is written: “I have created the evil inclination.” It is clear that each of us has the same evil inclination.

My Response: No, each of us is different from the others. Baal HaSulam writes in the article “Freedom of Will” that we all came from different points of Adam HaRishon, and we are forbidden to suppress anyone, force them to do something, change them, interfere with the culture of other people, or forcibly bring progress to the so-called primitive peoples.

Everyone should develop in accordance with their personal qualities, because this is the only way they can realize their desire to receive. Everyone is an independent creation, and even if they want to, they cannot change their desire to receive, their starting point.

Baal HaSulam explains what a starting point is and the program by which it develops. There is a predetermined order of influence in society and in the laws of environmental development; a person cannot force their way in and change anything. The only change is in its external form under the group’s influence.

But the modification of the external form does not imply that a person acquires additional desires or properties not found in him from society. He acquires excitement, a desire for the source he must reach. This serves as additional fuel for him to accelerate his development and the correction process. But he does not acquire any new Kelim, new properties or new thoughts by doing so.

It only accelerates the emergence of these inherent qualities and determines the speed of their development. Therefore, it is crucial to relate to the group, to the opinions of our friends and to the very structure of the group with the understanding that everything we acquire from it serves solely as an accelerator, a catalyst, that provides us with the energy to act. But this accelerator has no inherent character of its own; it only provides an additional push in the direction in which I am already moving. I choose where to go, not it. I expect the same from the group. That is, I must come to the group and demand additional forces in the direction I have already chosen, rather than the group coming to me and attempting to brainwash me.

Any “brainwashing” by the group should only be in strengthening my chosen direction. Otherwise, it will not be a free choice. Otherwise, it will be a group that suppresses individuals.

It does not have to bring me new ideas. It should only help me solidify what I already have. Therefore, it is said that each of us should give to the group and receive back according to our investment, only many times more.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/26, Rabash, “What Is the Preparation to Receive the Torah in the Work?-2”

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Question: How can I perceive the desire within a friend?

Answer: I should not try to see the desire in a friend; rather, I must invest efforts in him, because in return I receive an awareness of the importance of the upper one from the entire environment.

In other words, I can invest efforts in the group through a few specific friends from whom I see absolutely nothing directly, I can suddenly receive an additional feeling that helps me become inspired by an awareness of the importance of the Creator that previously I did not perceive.

The group had a great awareness of the importance of the Creator even before, but I would come there and see none of it at all. I was like a cat walking into room. If the cat were to pass through here, would it be inspired by what we are speaking about? Would it be influenced by it? The same was true for me. I would come, sit in my place, study some science with the friends, look at the drawings on the board, and leave. It had no effect on me.

However, through the efforts that I invest in the society, I receive an additional sensitivity, and then I begin to see: indeed, they truly aspire to the goal, they are so deeply immersed in it, they strive for it so earnestly! Then I begin to experience a genuine response to the group. This depends not on the group, but on the efforts I have invested.

The group may remain exactly the same, yet suddenly I begin to discover within it more and more forces that are beneficial for my advancement, solely in accordance with the efforts I invested in it.

Consequently I no longer need to demand the friends do something for me, that they shout louder —be more vocal, although these expressions have their place. Indeed, we raise toasts for those who have accomplished something praiseworthy, and so on. It is helpful; it gives an example and in one way or another assists everyone. However, my main work is that by investing efforts, I begin to see the society differently and hear what is happening within it differently. And this is something that one does not demand from others.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/26, Rabash, “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 1”

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A group will never be completely clear or fully corrected. On the contrary, it is said that “the destruction of the elders constitutes construction.” That is, the more clashes occur, provided they are in relation to the spiritual idea, the more this leads to building something, because such disagreements are truly for the sake of heaven.

Disagreements about what? About the way that you, I, and he each think we can help the group ignite more strongly with the greatness of the Creator, the greatness of the goal. This does not concern physical work or physical changes in the group, but only the inner effort of a person in relation to the group.

One thinks in one way, another thinks differently, so let each do what he thinks. But our common idea must be heated to the maximum, sharpened, clarified. Besides that, there are a thousand paths to it. Each person feels it in his own way, within his own soul, and in this, there are no disagreements. Here, I cannot help you, and you cannot help me. Each one understands within oneself, but everyone must clearly understand what the idea itself is.

Thus, these are not arguments, but clarifications. An argument can exist only if someone thinks that the main idea is not the most important thing. Because everything we do must be only for its sake. It is not that I place something in a corner behind glass in some special cabinet and call it sacred.

Great means that this idea is the guiding force, the origin of all my thoughts and all my actions.
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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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Question: If it is written, “Buy yourself a friend,” why is one friend not enough for me? Why do I need many friends?

Answer: Because one is not enough. As Baal HaSulam writes in “The Giving of the Torah” and in “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar,” “In the multitude of the people is the King’s glory.” This means that I am not able to be inspired by one person.

I am able to be inspired by many who share the same opinion as I do and who can be my environment. Of course, it may also be one person, but still it will not influence me as much as needed.

I need as large an environment as possible, although within it I see different people. It does not matter; each time I can pay attention to those from whom I will receive inspiration.

I can be inspired by some, while I invest efforts—“buy for yourself a friend”—specifically in others. However, since all are connected into one society, it does not matter. This is how it works. The environment must be as large and as strong as possible.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/26, Rabash, “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 1”

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If a person is unable to draw inspiration from their friends, it means that the goal is still not important to them. Perhaps the goal is important to them, but they haven’t figured out what it is yet. The goal is adhesion with the Creator through equivalence of qualities, which I can achieve only if I gather strength from my environment; the Creator gave me the initial impetus.

For such a person, this entire process has not yet been fully understood and they don’t connect their goal with the true goal. They believe it lies in knowing a lot, in seeing the whole world from end to end, in feeling eternity, in being above the world. They haven’t yet deciphered the correct definition of the goal of creation. It isn’t yet completely connected to the giver with the understanding that they too must come to the force of bestowal. Then they replace the true goal with another goal, they dress it in a different garment that is more egoistic, more understandable to them. This is normal. What can they do? It is the result of his state.

Nevertheless, one must increasing focus on seeing the goal as clearly as possible in a form closer to the truth. And then, thanks to this, a person will see that indeed he or she lacks strength, knowledge, and understanding of where to begin, and will feel the need to turn to the group.

If a person truly, reveals time after time, an even more true goal, more directed toward bestowal, more distant from them by virtue of their nature, they will more clearly feel that they are unable to take a step toward it. Then they must remember that the forces for this exist only in the environment. And since they have already entered it, they turn to it out of desperation.

The absence of a way out is the stimulus that compels me to turn to the group, since otherwise I will not be able to find the strength to move forward. It is like the need to maintain life within yourself, and so I come and ask. It is only in this case, the request in itself does not help. You must invest effort and receive strength in return.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/26, Rabash, “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 1”

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Question: How can I advance if the desire to receive dominates me?

Answer: Indeed, the Creator constantly activates the desire to receive in you to advance you, and then you feel that it dominates you again. It is not even that it dominates you, but that you are that desire to receive.

But to feel its power over you, you need the upper light that gives you the feeling that there is something besides the desire to receive—the desire to bestow. Then you realize that the desire to receive and you are not the same thing. There must be a third party.

If you have this separation between you and the desire to receive and the awareness of its power, this is salvation. Now something is up to you.

You have come out of unconsciousness and can act. You think “I am not my egoism, my hater, the one who prevents me from advancing. I would kill it, but how do I seize it? It is like a cancer in me.” You should start looking for some kind of cure. The cure from egoism can only be the light.

Your problem is that you do not really want this cure. Then you should go to a group that will strengthen your awareness of evil, so that you would see that this disease is killing you and separates you from eternal life to such an extent that you start to scream. It is the real scream that opens the heavens.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/26, Rabash, “What Is the Preparation to Receive the Torah in the Work?-2”

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When we look at our history, which must occur within every person, the entry into Egypt and the exit from it, the splitting of the Red Sea, approaching Mount Sinai, and standing at its foot, we do not see that a person somehow acts or influences what is happening. The Torah says categorically: “This is how it was.”

Everything is predetermined, and we are already at the end of this development. Now this development that is programmed in potential must be realized in each and everyone without exception and without any possibility of avoiding it.

We see that everything is connected by a chain of cause and effect: the need for a state and its birth, which in turn generates the need for the next state and its birth, and so on. But our role in this is to accelerate the states, to participate in them consciously, and to increase our sensitivity to what is happening. But we can develop sensitivity only with the help of the group.

The group can increase my awareness of evil and good in a wide variety of states and can intensify my sensitivity to them so much that I will feel how they occur within me every split second rather than once every few days, weeks, or months.

Everything depends on the degree of sensitivity. When I acquire it and begin to understand my states, I begin to determine their quality, their essence, and what is good and what is evil.

Thus, gradually, in the light that influences me, I begin to connect good and bad states in relation to the status of the Creator until my nature becomes hateful to me. Then I reach the foot of Mount Sinai, which is called so because I come to hatred (Sina in Hebrew) toward my own nature, and therefore I merit receiving the Torah.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/12/26, Rabash, “What Is Preparation for Reception of the Torah – 1”

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Question: Where can I receive the correct attitude to any subjective sensation from and how can I establish the correct attitude toward it?

Answer: How can I evaluate each of my sensations? How can I measure it and be sure that I am examining it in the right way? I cannot. It is only in relation to the group. The group is the measuring instrument in place of the Creator.

If my attitude toward the group is truly one of bestowal, if the group places the concept of bestowal (what is called the greatness of the goal, the greatness of the Creator) at the highest level and shows me how important it is, while all other qualities and states are low in comparison, then relative to this I can measure myself, my thoughts, intentions, and how I plan my time and my life.

But if I do not have such the standard that the group provides for me, then relative to what will I measure myself? I can invent all kinds of measuring systems on my own, but with them I will always justify myself. I have no ability to verify myself unless I construct some standard outside of myself, such as the group. Otherwise, how would I know how to measure?

Ask people on the street, everyone is a righteous person, everyone is giving. No one considers themselves to be a sinner. A person cannot call himself a sinner, because his “I” would be harmed to such an extent that he wouldn’t be able to tolerate himself. And he cannot allow that because it is a terrible feeling. We immediately cover it with something.

Therefore, if not for the group constantly pressing on me, awakening me, pushing me in the right direction, demanding progress from me, and giving me the correct indication of what I should be, then I would have no possibility to advance.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/25/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that the Creation of the World Was by Largess?”

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