Question: In our state, can contribution to the group be limited only to thoughts?

Answer: In our state, no. A contribution to the group is expressed, not only spiritually, but also corporeally. After all, we are connected together, we work together, and we perform actions together. Through performing corporeal actions, we are granted strength from above, reinforcement from above.

It may seem that we are simply publishing books or engaging in dissemination. But through this, we receive tremendous spiritual power as a reward. As long as we exist in this world, you cannot separate the spiritual from the corporeal and say: “That’s it, now we are as if without bodies and deal exclusively with spiritual concepts.” That is impossible.

You will always be dealing with bodies and physical actions in this world: creating something, disseminating, and so on. Therefore, one must understand that through such actions, one also comes to spiritual values.

Baal HaSulam writes about this: the more effort a person invests in something, the more important that thing becomes to him, and he can no longer leave it. This connects him to the work until he begins to feel that it is worthwhile to invest effort there, to bring benefit, and even to devote himself to it.

One should not diminish the importance of corporeal actions. If we had not performed the corporeal actions that we do during or before Passover, we would not have attained what we have attained.

Question: So, are physical actions in the group together with correct intentions the proper combination for spiritual bestowal to the group?

Answer: Yes. We must strive for both corporeal actions and spiritual actions to become as one, truly as one so that there is not a single bodily action arising from conscious desire that is not connected with the correct intention.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/22/26, Rabash, Letter 59, 1962

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Question: How should I deal with my surroundings outside of the group (work, family, and friends) who have no aspiration for spirituality?

Answer: You have nothing to do with such a society unless you come to them in order to teach them the wisdom of Kabbalah and they accept this path, become inspired by it, and are willing to work according to what is written in our books.

You may offer them various teachings and methods, and if they accept specifically our method of spiritual ascent, accept the goal, and are prepared to follow this path, then they form a goal-oriented society moving toward spirituality. This is possible. But as long as they have not accepted our method, you cannot relate to them as a Kli  (vessel) through which you will continue your spiritual advancement.

Question: How does my close environment, which has no connection to my path, influence me?

Answer: It depends on how significant and important the goal is to you. If it is important, then they have no influence on you.

For example, I visit my mother, and she begins to complain: “You never rest, you never sleep. How can you live like this? Just look at yourself! How many years have you been living this way?” I sit and listen to her, since she is already advanced in age, but it does not affect me. There is nothing to be done; mothers are all the same. She speaks, and I remain as I am.

However, there are environments that are quite aggressive and can harm me through their influence. In such a case, I prefer to distance myself from them, because I have no obligations toward them. Toward my mother, I must show respect; I have duties toward her. But a friend is someone connected to you by a common goal. The word “Haver” (friend) comes from Hithabrut (connection, joining).

For example, friends from my hometown may come to visit, people I once invited and spent time with, yet today I have no connection with them. I have close relatives who have lived in Israel for ten years or more, and I have not even met with them. Sometimes my mother asks me to call a relative, and then I call and inquire about their health once every few years.

Why do I behave this way? Simply because it is not within my field of attention. How can I maintain a connection with a person with whom I have nothing in common?

I am not telling you this without reason, it is a common situation in life. Everything depends on a person’s desire.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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Question: Let’s say I automatically attribute the obstacle to the Creator. Is this enough?

Answer: When obstacles come and I attribute them to the Creator, this is not the whole work but only part of it. Thank God I do not forget; I try every moment of my life, and if I lose my connection with the Creator, I return to it. That is, I am always in and out. This is great! But this is only part of the work.

After I have resumed my connection with the Creator, what must I do?

This is where I scrutinize our relationship, how I perceive Him, what He is to me, how I explain to myself what the forces of bestowal are, and what for the sake of reception means. Resuming the connection is essential when I return from the animal state to the state of Israel.

Question: How are obstacles defined?

Answer: Everything that separates me from the awareness of the Creator is called an obstacle. And if I return to Him with the help of obstacles, this is called “help against him,” against the ego. This is how everything works in the world and the purpose is solely in order to bring us back to connection with Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/26, Rabash, “The Severity of Teaching Idol Worshippers the Torah”

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How can the group feel that it needs the effort of every friend? It is much easier to work on the principle of “myself in relation to the group,” and much harder to work from the side of the group relative to each person.

Baal HaSulam writes that a person must be concerned with spiritual flourishing and feeling gratitude to the Creator for twenty-three and a half hours a day, and only after this to dedicate half an hour to critical analysis.

It is the same here. We must analyze the contribution of the friends to the group only after we have unequivocally made efforts to understand the concept known as the “group.”

Once we perceive it as a spiritual concept and share a mutual understanding of what it entails, then we can discuss, at a gathering of the friends, how to evoke an extra measure of effort from everyone and how we can lift up the group.

Ultimately, we will not make demands of any individual: “Why are you not bringing benefit to the group?” Instead, we will hold ourselves, the group as a whole, accountable for failing to bring people come to the correct understanding that they contribute to the group and integrate with it heart and soul, or they see that they are outside the group.

In that case, if they remain present despite clearly standing outside and opposite to the group, then either they leave on their own or they are removed.

In spirituality, when you look at a person from the group’s perspective, the group is upper relative to that individual. And the upper must awaken the lower. If he cannot awaken the lower, then he leaves him be; and if he leaves him, it means the lower does not belong to the upper.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/22/26, Rabash, Letter 59

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How can one begin to feel a Hisaron (lack) for the Creator again while in a state of descent (if you have fallen into a bad state and lost contact with Him and no longer feel the connection? The only way is to persist in your study with the group, and through by coming to the friends and including yourself in them, you again return to yourself the connection with the group, your connection with the Creator.

We have the opportunity to accelerate this process. Above all, one must not fall due to slipping into the sensation of animalistic pleasures, that is, enjoying the ascent rather than the connection with the Creator. One must not commit a sin in the ascent.

And how does one avoid sinning during an ascent? It is by constantly striving to increase one’s awareness of the greatness of the Creator with the help of the group. In this way, it is as if you are constantly maintaining a sense of Hisaron; you add a yearning for the Creator through the group that allows you to advance further.

And if a descent does occur, as it inevitably will, it is not your fault because you were constantly striving to receive an increase in desire from your environment. You were increasingly motivated to ascend, and to ascend not merely in terms of sensation, but in unification with the Creator.

Then your descent is not experienced simply as the loss of a “good state”; rather, you define the descent as a loss of connection and contact with the Creator. That is why it is painful for you. You measure ascents and descents no longer according to sensations, but according to the measure of connection with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/22/26, Rabash, Letter 59, 1962

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Question: Is it possible to give something to the group while in a state of descent?

Answer: If you are in a descent without completely losing your connection to the Creator, meaning, that even in the descent you know that you have lost connection with Him and it is precisely this that you lack, then in such a state you add a Hissaron (deficiency) to the group for contact with the Creator, and the group benefits from your descent. It now has unfulfilled desires.

If, however, you have fallen like an animal, simply feel bad, and are only under the influence of this sensation, this is also an addition. It means that soon you will have a recognition of evil.

But still, this addition is not spiritual. Through the group and through efforts, you will gradually rework this addition into a spiritual Hisaron, a Hisaron for the Creator. But that is a long journey.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/22/26, Rabash, Letter 59

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Question: You say that all the work of acquiring Hisaron and building the Kli must take place through bestowal to the group. But what if I am in the company of a person who does not have spiritual attainment?

Answer: We are not talking about spiritual attainment. The society should be a group of people striving for the right goal. They do not know exactly what this goal is, are not in attainment, and are not excited by it. But they study together, gather, participate in various activities, and devote their free time to the group.

Then I can check whether this group is suitable for my advancement, whether I can advance toward the goal together with it. If I cannot inspire it, and move it from its place, then perhaps I need to think about a suitable replacement. Maybe I even take a few friends with me and leave, and let the others continue their life in the “nursing home.” And we will continue the path forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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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: 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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