The Creator says to Moses, (“Exodus” 7:26): “Come to Pharaoh” (together). I will also come with you in order to change your nature and transform it from reception to bestowal. It is only up to you to ask Me for this. But He doesn’t add, “Go, join a group, for without this I will not be revealed,” for this is self-evident.

If the person is not included in the center of a group and is not connected with the friends, then he cannot turn to the Creator. The Creator is found in the center of the group. We never turn to the Creator alone, rather only through connection with the others.

Moses is the general image of the group. Therefore he is called the leader of the people, symbolizing the general agreement, the oneness of the group. Therefore he has a link with the Creator and he can pray and ask and do everything for all the people.

In order to begin the process of correction of the soul, I must imagine that I am linked with everyone together into one image. Everything begins with our trying to connect and discovering that we are not ready to do this, as it is said, “I created the evil inclination; I created the Torah as a spice.” The entry into Egypt begins with the discovery that we are not ready to connect, we don’t want it under any condition, and we are ready to sell our dear brother Joseph; the main thing is not to connect.

Thus, the true egoistic nature begins to be discovered within a person, that “my death would be better” than bestowal, loving the other, and being concerned for him. And this is only the beginning, only the entry into Egypt. After this there are another four hundred years of Egyptian bondage, this is, passage through the entire thickness of the desire for pleasure. It is up to us to work on all the layers of our ego in order to decide in the end that, in spite of it all, we want to connect.

Then come the seven years of famine pass and the plagues of Egypt because we want to connect and don’t succeed; we try again and again without success. Until ultimately we despair and scream to the Creator, “Help!” We feel an immense demand for help from the Creator.

But this is always about connection and never about an isolated person. If we talk about some individual personality, this is only from the aspect of its connection with the whole in its unique and particular form. Therefore images appear as in The Book of Zohar: Rabbi Yossi, Rabbi Abba, Rabbi Elazar, and Rabbi Shimon. It makes no matter who this is, for this is speaking only about the quality of his connection with the others.

That is how it is also with the story about Moses and Jethro, about the burning bush. This is talking only about the collective and not about the man who fled into the wilderness. Where could he escape from his ego? This is talking about the person found within the group. The Torah talks only about relationships between us, everything “remains in the family,” within the group.

This is like a soap opera where all the events happen in one room. About this “room” it is said, everything is happening here: The wilderness, wars, the splitting of the Red Sea, everything appears within that room, in relationships between the people.

After this we discover that nothing is truly happening besides this! All of the reality that we see now is imaginary, false, and illusory. Rather, we are in fact seeing a unity that has been smashed, shattered, divided into fragments, distanced from each other. This is the picture of our world; instead of one person, there are a multitude of people, plants, animals, innumerable forms of different existence. That is how the four aspects of a single desire, a single entity, appear to us.

But if the person wants to grasp the situation correctly, it is up to him to know that only within the group does he have the opportunity to see the truth. The group is like a microscope, an instrument, which if we look through it, we can see what is happening. We have no other instrument in all of reality. Through greater and greater consolidation among the friends, which is to say, through the choice of a better and better environment, the person aims the instrument better and better and comes closer to the truth.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11.25.13, Writings of Rabash

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Question: Should we do anything when we feel that we receive any pleasure for ourselves? Should we feel guilty?

Answer: You do not feel guilty because you receive pleasure for yourself, but because you don’t translate it into pleasure for the group for the Creator even though you know that this is actually what you should do. First, focus on “There is none else besides Him; I am in the middle of the group” and receive pleasure since it is not forbidden in any way. The goal of creation is to bring delight, but from what? The greatest delight is from the revelation of the Creator.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/23/13

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Question: Does connection between us happen when our desires are identical?

Answer: Galgata ve Eynaim and AHP cannot be identical. All of us have different desires, but our singular yearning implements the required contact.

For example, the socket and the plug that between them create contact are different but complete each other. Therefore to be integrated with each other we must become identical regarding our common goal of connecting with the Creator, discovering Him within us, each one from within his own nature.

You convey the Light of the Creator to a friend, he agrees to accept it from you, and both of you work on this link in order to discover it. On the one hand, he appears as someone who gives to you and you appear as a receiver, and on the other hand, you are the giver and he is the receiver. But our desires are different. Do a man and a woman who decide to give birth to a child have identical desires? Each one of them describes the future child differently but a single objective emerges. Everything is established according to the “middle line.”

Therefore our desires are different in their nature but identical according to their goal: to discover the Creator.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/23/13

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Question: Why is it that when we discuss Integral Education and information in workshops in a simple language the idea is rapidly lost?

Answer: When you speak in a regular spoken language your inner emotions dissolve into sounds that awaken completely different emotions in each one of us, and each one draws a slightly different picture that doesn’t match its internal image.

Suppose that I have read a text by Baal HaSulam that brings up particular emotions for me, creates some kind of inner image that fills me. And now I hear this text from you in your own words and this causes an internal shift in me: The image that it described to me previously diverges from the image that I imagine when I hear you, like an unfocused lens or perspective when there are two objects that have not transformed into one. I feel dissonance from this.

Therefore I must delete my image, enter into your image and dissolve into it completely, flow together with your words as if they are mine. This is called integrating with each other. Without this we would never attain a common desire, mutual integration, and inner understanding.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/23/13

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Question: What can be done in a virtual group, where there is very little physical contact, in order to help the central group?

Answer: Be involved with the same things we do. Don’t help us, rather everyone works together because what we do in the central group should be reflected by all. But without you, we also don’t rise.

No group can rise individually since it depends on others, especially the main groups of Israel, Russia, North and South America where we have very strong friends working.

Basically, these are three areas that must develop simultaneously. Specifically their shared activity will begin to reveal the Creator, and all the rest of the groups will be drawn to them.

We have said more than once that the rehabilitation and recovery of the World Kli (vessel) will happen gradually. It’s “body” develops like a fetus. First, some formless part appears; after that the embryo looks like a tadpole, which gradually develops and takes on particular forms; suddenly limbs appear, internal organs begin to be formed and so forth. That is how it is with us also.

The central part of the embryo is Israel; after that comes the strongest and most necessary part, which is Russia, after that North America, and finally South America.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/22/13

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Previously we were connected and got along with each other quite well. Everything was just great!

All of a sudden, we broke apart and detached from one another. Currently, we are striving to reconnect. One additional desire is being revealed to us now. It prevents us from reconnecting. Actually, this desire is the “evil inclination.” It’s a consequence of the Light that enters the vessel.

This desire was not created as “something out of nothing,” but rather it’s as a result of the shattering; it was initiated by the Upper Light’s contact with the desire to receive. Originally, it was very small, clean, and minor. It was the fourth stage that belonged to the world of Infinity. However, when the Light entered the fourth stage, it created an additional fragment that was not covered by a screen (Masach). There was far more delight in the Light than the fourth stage had ever anticipated to receive for the sake of bestowal. This situation caused the shattering and created the “work load” with which we now cope.

Later, this process reached our world and this additional fraction of the desire was concealed. This explains why spirituality is concealed from us. So now we work hard and strive to attain things that are above us; we started to search for the additional desire that was previously created in us.

We need not work with an authentic desire that is a part of Infinity because it was made directly by the Creator. We only have to work on the additional portion of the desire. For that, we have to reveal it. The “additional desire” is in fact the “taste,” the aspiration, the need, the “hunger,” the “appetite” that we feel towards the Light.

How can we search for it? It’s possible only in the group, only if one “glues” back together all the broken particles and acknowledges the presence of the evil inclination, meaning the additional desire that was created as a result of the shattering of the vessels. The shattering occurred exactly when the delights of which the Light is comprised entered the initial desire that was a part of Infinity, thus shaping a desire that manifests itself as the “evil inclination.”

So, it means that the evil inclination is in fact the vessel that we have. All “tastes” come out of it. That’s why it is said that “the one who doesn’t know the taste of sin (violation) won’t learn the taste of commandments.” There is a moment at which one has to get a sensation of what “wickedness” is and “enjoy” it.

This pertains to our relationships with people around us rather than to our internal sensations. If one feels lazy or dispirited, if one stays on the couch all day and doesn’t answer telephone calls, it has nothing to do with the “evil inclination.” The evil inclination didn’t exist previously; it emerged only now because of the negative relationships between the parts of the desire to receive, which are eager to reconnect. Even though the “infrastructure” of the evil inclination covers inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels, we still reveal it at the speaking level in the shape of fragmented, detached parts of the general soul of Adam HaRishon.

Previously, Adam was “an angel” and stayed in Galgalta ve Eynaim. Now, we can detect him due to the evil inclination. It means that we really need the evil inclination! Without it, we won’t be able to move ahead!

That’s why Baal HaSulam writes that we should be happy when our negativity shows up, since it’s a part of our soul. We have to work on the evil inclination and use it to connect, unite, and merge with each other so that we can reveal the property of bestowal within it. It has to be originated by each of us and by the Creator. The aspiration should address our joint, mutual love rather than our personal bestowal to the Creator or His bestowal to us.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/13/13, Shamati #3 “The Matter of Spiritual Attainment”

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It is written, “A thousand people come to study, but only one comes out to the Light.” Why is it only one is rewarded the Light? Also, this ratio existed in the past, but now everything has changed. And yet we see that people lack patience. They cannot accept that their entire life is given to them only in order to come to the Light and enter a higher dimension. Otherwise, there is nothing to live for on this earth.

We all stand in line to rise to the level of man, to a spiritual degree. But we do not agree with this, thinking that there are other important activities besides this, and thus leave this path. Everything depends on the importance of the goal, and it is measured by the number of “falls,” that is, “entrances and exits,” about which it is said, “And from Zion the Torah will go forth.” It is when a person “exits,” spirituality, the desire for it, is awakened in him.

Due to the desire, developed in these entrances and exits, and especially exits, a person attracts the Light that Reforms. Gradually, his heart agrees to accept the changes. Efforts are accumulated, adding to one account, until they form a large capital, i.e., payment for the first correction that a person needs.

The same happens on all the other degrees, only there the person has experience and knows how to act: how to overcome himself by faith above reason, in what form to work. He believes the advice of the sages, understanding that advancement is possible only through mutual guarantee, connection, and unity. Thus, he focuses correctly on his efforts and can reach the required amount on his spiritual account sooner.

It is said that “All the gates are locked, except for the gate of tears.” “Tears” (Dmaot) indicate the need for “payment” (Damim), that is, efforts as well as sorrow, such a great desire that the Upper Light can affect and correct: to give it a pure intention to bestow, which a person cannot reach by himself.

And only the friends’ examples help in that.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/27/13

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Question: We learn that the Creator sees only the real desire and we have to pray for others, not for ourselves. Is there any other action besides dissemination that can form the correct prayer within us?

Answer: There is no other action. If you don’t have anybody to disseminate to, you can do it virtually, but it has to be very serious. Just don’t console or fool yourself. If you don’t start to disseminate effectively, you will not receive the degree in which you will be able to reveal the upper world and sense it.

There are many good and strong friends in the world group, but they slack off in dissemination and therefore they are not getting closer to the revelation.

Question: Is there sufficient AHP within us in order to raise MAN?

Answer: You don’t have the AHP in order to raise MAN because it exists outside, within the people, in those who are not with you in the group.

You are not Galgalta ve Eynaim either. You will become one when you begin to seriously disseminate.
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From the Talk About “Group and Dissemination,” 10/23/13

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Question: How do the efforts we make in dissemination in North America influence the growth of the global group, its power, and the quality of the lessons?

Answer: You cannot even imagine how your efforts influence all the factors that you have mentioned.

In the past most people had a steady job and they received daily wages: You worked one day and your received your wages and went home; a person didn’t know how much he would earn the next day.

This is how I feel the success of our global group every day. It mainly depends on the success of your dissemination in Russia and North America. The quality of the lessons in these two regions is amazing and at the same time totally different in volume and in depth. It has nothing to do with the success of the central group. In Israel we can advance and overcome problems on a local level. But when you succeed in dissemination it suddenly gives us an immense push outwards. This positive power is conveyed to the outside world through you and not through us.

Then I immediately feel that I can explain things more deeply and express what has accumulated in me, like a cow that hasn’t been milked for a long time. So your success in dissemination suddenly opens up such channels and I am simply freed of the great amounts of knowledge that have been pressuring me. The more efforts you make in dissemination, the better I can convey our method to you. But if there is no serious external vessel, I will not be able to give you anything.

My dream is to express our method in the best, most correct way starting from the beginner who doesn’t know anything to the level that he can be under the influence of Rabash and Baal HaSulam. I want to illuminate precisely the part of the way that is still dark and foggy for you so that you will understand it correctly and accurately and will assimilate it and be able to fulfill it.

It depends on how much you yearn for dissemination on the one hand, and on the other hand, on the unity and connection between you. This is what will allow me to explain our method better.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/23/13

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Question: Most of us wish to participate in new projects, but we lose interest very quickly. How can we keep people’s motivation so that they will continue to work on the project they have chosen?

Answer: Working on a project is your collective obligation to one another and you have to fulfill it.

Notice that an obligation to one another is no different than an obligation to the Creator. If I take it upon myself to be committed to a certain project and then neglect it, then as Rabash and Baal HaSulam say, the Creator repays us in the same way and our action is also measured from above in the exact same way.

If I neglect my project because of my laziness or because of other circumstances, then I summon upon myself the influence of the Light accordingly. It isn’t because this is desirable or undesirable above; the Creator has no such feelings as “I want to” or “I don’t want to.”

It is the upper force and it influences us according to our exertion. So when we stop yearning forward, its yearning for us also stops in the exact same way. It is an automatic action of two opposite forces: Our desire and the Upper Light.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/23/13

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