Question: It is said that a person cannot do anything for the sake of the Creator. What about faith and the prompting of the heart when a person feels he can act for the sake of the Creator?

Answer: If one’s heart tells a person this, and the person listens to his heart and acts, then that is good. That is, he agrees to gather the hearts of the friends in his own heart and turn them toward the Creator.

Question: But the article says that he cannot. Could it be that I am mistaken?

Answer: Then you will feel whether you are mistaken or not. It is correct if we demand that such connections begin to awaken and work within us.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/5/25, “Correction of The Heart “

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Question: There are friends who lose the importance of spirituality during the lesson. How long should we keep making efforts to pray for such friends?

Answer: It is hard to say. It depends on the group. If the group is in harmony, connected, then they experience common ascents, descents, and movement forward. They feel each other.

In that case, their prayer is also common; otherwise, it does not arise.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/25, “Correction of The Heart “

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Question: Can we take the prayer of the Kabbalists as an example and work through it with you about how it is born from nothing, grows, and eventually becomes filled?

Answer: You should try to compose this prayer yourselves, each one individually, and then begin to unite them together so that, in the end, you have a prayer of many.

Then it will become clearer to you how to unite with one another in order to address the Creator. The Creator does not require much—the main thing is that it is of the highest possible quality. And you have that.

Question: Usually not everyone takes part in composing the prayer in the ten; it is the same friends, say three people. How important is it that each person invests in it? Or is it enough that these three express the request on behalf of the whole ten?

Answer: It does not matter. The request still comes from everyone.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/25, “Correction of The Heart “

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Question: Our daily challenge is to build a prayer in the ten. How can we correctly clarify the prayer together? And another challenge is uniting it with the prayers of all the tens.

Answer: This is indeed a challenge. But the thing is, we must try to feel each other more, to sense how much we are unable to unite.

Only in the unity of hearts will we immediately feel the Creator between us. The force that will unite us is the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/7/25, “Subjugating the Heart”

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Question: Sometimes I feel a friend’s desire more strongly than my own, and it gives me unpleasant feelings. It probably prevents me from connecting to the desire of the Creator. How can I turn this to Him?

Answer: You must care about your friends, be in them, and bind them together in one desire aimed toward the Creator, toward rising for the sake of the Creator.

This is how you can affect your friends and bring them all closer to the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/5/25, “Correction of The Heart “

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We are unable to perform any action directly related to the Creator. All of them should pass only through the group, in the center of which we will reveal this essence called the Creator.

The Creator does not exist separately, by Himself. Only if I bring the group together, wishing to unite it, and it turns into a single whole—there, within this unity, I begin to discover the Creator for myself. I cannot find Him otherwise.

There is a very clear chain leading to the Creator: love of friends -> awe -> faith -> love for the Creator. Only in this way can we reach Him, otherwise we miss.

The concept of “the Creator” is one, unified, single force, attainable within the unity of the group. If I can direct all my desires and intentions toward unification, I will be able to imagine this single concept, which is the Creator.

Before I can imagine it, the Creator does not exist. There is no Creator without creation. All the work carried out in the group is designed to clarify the concept of the Creator. This does not mean we practice here but reveal the Creator somewhere else.

It is within our work in the group, in concentrating all our efforts on the concept of unity, on uniting the group, all friends, all desires and intentions, evil and good inclinations into one single whole, at the very top of the middle line do we reveal the Creator.

When I become included in a friend, I become imbued with his properties, desires, and goals. But I cannot do it myself, I only make efforts, and the upper light binds us into a system of ten Sefirot, into a spiritual Partzuf, into a vessel of the soul. In this vessel (Kli) we begin to feel all kinds of phenomena. Under the influence of light, we make a restriction, a screen, reflected light, and coupling while striking (Zivug de Hakaa), with the light.

Even if we do not want to connect and act through force, we are already awakening the light. The main thing is that this light does not come to us from above uninvited, pushing us toward each other with a negative force, but that we ourselves ask for its awakening, striving for the center of the group.

With our efforts to unite, we awaken the light that returns to the source, which, acting through the center of the group, attracts us to the center with its centripetal force. We should leave our ego behind, where it is now, and strive with our hearts toward the center of the group.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/17/19 Writings of Rabash “Love of Friends – 2”

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If you look at all the desires created, a person is just a single point. Everything depends on how much he can connect with the others, whether with individual desires or with a group. If he has a yearning to unite with others, this means he is digging the ground for the foundation of a building. After all, he doesn’t dig into himself; there is nothing to dig there, he is merely a point.

His body remains on the outside and has nothing to do with this; it is an animal body. And the point is the human, the beginning of the soul. The extent to which he can connect with the others is how deep he is digging. He receives desires from them, material, then sees how capable or incapable he is of accepting them, and from the desires he manages to take in, he builds the structure of his soul with the help of the light.

Each of us has no more than a single point. I try to connect with others and discover how opposite I am to connection. But I am willing to endure it, I annul myself in relation to the desires of the friends with whom I want to unite, perceiving them as a mother, as a womb, which is what the group truly is.

I annul myself before it, and then I receive all this material of desire that has joined me. I then unite with this formed place and gain “volume.” But as I do so, I overcome my resistance, and therefore, in annulling myself, I ask for correction. And then comes the surrounding, upper light that returns to the source and actualizes our connection—between me and the group.

This is my first connection with the group on the zero level of Aviut (Aviut Shoresh), in which I feel the light of Nefesh. And now I am called a “spiritual embryo” (Ubar). I have reached my first spiritual degree!

Then my egoism in relation to them grows, and I suddenly feel a great heaviness of the heart—the first level (Aviut Alef). On this level, I already had my “living space,” the place where I united with the group as one. But with regard to others, not yet. Now I want to encompass an even larger area through my connection; this will be called “the neighbor” for me. I consider it my mother, my group, and I work to become an inseparable part of it.

And again: study, the reforming light, self-annulment, and so on, until I acquire all this shared desire in addition to what I had, and this entire area becomes mine, level “1,” Ruach.

And so, I continue further. That is, I dig ever deeper into the group, penetrate them, and take their “material,” desire. I have nothing of my own apart from the point and the animal body that desires only material pleasures. With this single black point, I enter spirituality, and the rest of the vessel of my soul is built from others’ material.

Therefore, it is said: “Love your neighbor as yourself,” meaning, connect the others to yourself. This is the fundamental spiritual rule, the main tool (common vessel) for revealing the light within you. That is why all the work takes place in the group and depends on how deeply we manage to dig into it, to annul our animal body that remains behind, to enter the group and acquire its desires, intentions, thoughts, strengths, and the importance of the goal. All of this is there, along with the upper light and the Creator. And it is precisely in the place of penetration into the group that we build the structure of our soul.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/11, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Foundation on which Kedusha [Holiness] Is Built?”

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Our sages said (Berachot 59), “Rabbi Elazar said, ‘Since the day of the ruin of the Temple, the gates of prayer have been locked. Although the gates of prayer have been locked, the gates of tears have not been locked’” (Rabash, Article 3, “What Is the Difference between the Gate of Tears and the Rest of the Gates?”).

We strive to unite. We hold unity days and other events that symbolize what true connection is. Unity with the Creator is attained through unity among the created beings through a common Kli that we correct by uniting with one another.

To do this, it is necessary to correctly arrange all the components so that a person contemplates the conditions for achieving unity with the Creator, and thereby can clearly define those conditions.

As they reflect on these conditions, they begin to examine themselves: Do I feel a need for unity with the Creator? Do I genuinely want to unite with my friends? Am I willing to bow before them and accept them as the greatest of the generation?

Of course, this refers to spiritual connection and not the corporeal connection of the friends. Although Baal HaSulam writes that it can be helpful to externally lower oneself before the friends, we are not yet ready for that, and doing so prematurely may bring artificiality, confusion, and damage to our inner relationships.

Starting from the final goal—adhesion with the Creator—a person unfolds the stages of the path and evaluates the means. Then they see how necessary the goal is to them and whether it leads them to the gate of tears.

The gate of tears means that a person really wants to unite with their friends but is incapable of doing so.

In that case, there is no point in continuing to seek the path toward unity with the Creator because they cannot even fulfill the first condition. Standing at the gates of tears, one must only search for sorrow over the desired goal in order to reach a point where one can truly weep.

This depends entirely on mutual work in the group: how much the person absorbs the spiritual yearning of the environment and recognizes that there is nothing more important than this. One must feel a burning fire inside from not yet having reached the goal and is torn apart by the intensity of the desire and the pain.

Only the environment can bring a person to such a state. Then their outcry will certainly be answered, it will lead to unity with the friends, to one great shared desire in which the upper force is revealed.

Everything depends on that inner necessity, on the yearning, the raising of MAN, the feeling of the deficiency for unity, for the correction of the shattered state. In the end, everything comes down to that.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/28/10, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Difference between the Gate of Tears and the Rest of the Gates?”

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In order to resemble the structure of the infinite vessel (desire), in which we exist as one soul in the world of Infinity, each of us must annul our ego, the egoistic “I,” through 125 degrees. As we descended from the world of Infinity, our “I” grew and grew until it reached this world, where each one became a tiny point. But as we begin to ascend back upward, our ego continues to grow until it becomes immense, and each time we must turn it into bestowal.

Therefore, the work against the evil inclination is ongoing, and it can only be done through mutual effort. Each rung of the ladder is a specific form of connection between the parts of the shattered soul that desire to unite despite their egoism.

It is impossible to advance without a yearning for mutual connection, in which each one invests the maximum of their capabilities and even more. Each must carry out their own inner calculation and do everything within their power.

Everything should be gathered together: their desire, effort, the importance they attribute to their state, to the environment, to the greatness of bestowal, and of the Creator. Along with the feeling of one’s lowliness and opposition to all of this, the sense of emptiness and, simultaneously, the expectation of fulfillment within the collective desire, if connection is attained.

This is the essence of the work: to unite all of this within oneself and, internally, without any words, to desire to pass it to another to strengthen him so that all of this would also take place in him, and he would feel that he must inspire others with the greatness of the goal.

On the other hand, we are friends, and I am not greater than others; on the contrary, I am smaller, and I want to receive support and help from them. For without the support of a friend, I cannot make even the tiniest step.

In these endless, ongoing clarifications, internal work, and analysis, a person discerns all the details of their connection with the group, above all rejection, separation, and disturbances that they receive. All actions must stem from the person themselves, from their yearning and inspiration, and of course, with the support of the group. But they must understand that all the disturbances come from above, from that perfect, infinite Kli that we are all destined to reach.

This infinite vessel is our goal, where the principle is realized: “Israel, the Torah, and the Creator are one.” This is how one should always picture their advancement.

Only if one constantly envisions this boundless, perfect state where Israel (one who aspires straight to the Creator), the Torah (the light that reforms), and the Creator merge into a single whole, then one is on the correct path.

The light that created the desire and fills it, also shattered this desire, and it is the light that corrects it. And from the person’s side, there is only one action: to request correction. In doing so, one expresses all of their ability, their entire act, their whole desire to delight the host, the Creator. After all, the ultimate goal is to bring contentment to the Creator, as it is said: “From the love of friends to the love of the Creator.”

Therefore, all the clarifications at every degree eventually merge into one conclusion: the person, the group, and the light that reforms all unite together in order to bring contentment to the Creator and to reach the same form as Malchut of the world of Infinity.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/20/11, Writings of Rabash “According to What Is Explained Concerning ‘Love Thy Friend as Thyself’”

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It is written, “The Lord is high and the low will see,'”that only the low can see the exaltedness. The letters “Yakar” [precious] are the letters of “Yakir” [will know]. This means that one knows the exaltedness of a thing to the extent that it is precious to one.

One is impressed according to the importance of the thing. The impression brings one to a sensation in the heart, and according to the measure of one’s recognition of the importance, to that extent, joy is born in him (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 26, “One’s Future Depends and Is Tied to Gratitude for the Past”).

It all depends on the degree of importance, which depends on the environment. If people are talking about spirituality everywhere, I am ignited with desire and begin to appreciate it although I have no idea what it is. Then I have the fuel, the strength, to follow the path and acquire something ephemeral, the subject of everyone’s conversation, which escapes my field of vision. This is not a problem; I am ready to follow others with my eyes closed.

This is how society “hypnotizes” me and pushes me forward. In our world, it ends up with me meaninglessly buying things I don’t have the slightest need for. But in a group, it pushes me toward a spiritual goal, which I gradually reveal until it comes out in its entirety. This whole path, all the steps of the spiritual ladder, are conquered only because I am imbued with the importance of the goal from the environment.

Thus, if one knows his lowliness, that he is not more privileged than his contemporaries, meaning he sees that there are many people in the world who were not given the strength to do the holy work even in the simplest way, even without the intention and in Lo Lishma [not for Her sake], even in Lo Lishma of Lo Lishma, and even in preparation for the preparation of the clothing of Kedusha [holiness], while he was imparted the desire and thought to at least occasionally do holy work, even in the simplest possible way, if one can appreciate the importance of this, according to the importance one attributes to the holy work, to that extent he should give praise and thanks for it.

This is so because it is true that we cannot appreciate the importance of being able to sometimes observe the Mitzvot [commandments] of the Creator, even without any intention. In that state, one comes to feel elation and joy in the heart.

The praise and the gratitude one gives for it expand the feelings, and one is elated by every single point in the holy work, he knows Whose servant he is, and thus soars ever higher. This is the meaning of what is written, “I thank You for the grace that You have made with me,” meaning for the past, and by this one can confidently say, and he does say, “and that You are destined to do with me (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 26, “One’s Future Depends and Is Tied to Gratitude for the Past”).

There is no one worthy to come to the Creator. Moreover, no one deserves to come to the Creator before others do. What kind of merit can there be?

Therefore, if a person is at least involved in the process, is drawn to spirituality although in fact the Creator is pulling him toward Himself, one should be grateful for it, it should be given great importance and significance. Because of the degree of importance and sensitivity a person has cultivated in himself, he feels how the Creator draws him upward in a mutual relationship. It turns out that the Creator is behind his entire story, behind all crimes and missteps through which He deliberately guides a person right up to the present day. Then a person begins to acquire a sixth sense—the sensation of the Creator. This is only in the measure of the importance he has.

Why is the formula so simple? Why do we only need to give importance to spirituality in order to evoke a response from the Creator?

In fact, this awareness of importance includes everything. For its sake, I must bow my head, as it is said: “The Lord is high, and the low will see.” I raise Him in my eyes, i.e., the property of giving, and lower myself, i.e., the property of receiving.

I take strength for that from the environment, which means I have to join it as a small one. After all, it is the small one who can learn from the great one because he really perceives them as such. That is why I join a group, and by doing so, I already develop the quality of bestowal, love for my neighbor, and unity.

At the same time, I also need to study the actions of the Creator: how He set up the whole reality. Also, I have to spread this message to others. After all, I honor Him, and therefore I find out what He wants. He wants to reveal Himself to everyone, to bestow to others, and so I act in this direction.

It turns out that the mere concept of the importance of the Creator is enough to add everything necessary, everything that exists in me, in the vessel, and before the light to this action.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/12, Writings of Baal HaSulam “One’s Future Depends and Is Tied to Gratitude for the Past”

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