If emotions burn out and disappear, it means that you are not integrated in the group, and you are not reading Shamati. Something is happening to you, and you are disconnected.

Sometimes a person goes through such states that he is as if dead, and nothing changes. These states need to be shortened somehow, by being physically present in the group, by physically doing something, and most importantly, by physically engaging in dissemination: “If I cannot do anything else, I will go and convince other people. I cannot convince myself, but I can convince others.”

When you use your egoism to convince others that Kabbalah is good, you are thereby convincing yourself.

And one more thing: teach students, those who are ready to listen. Act. This is the best way out of all problems.

You rise depending on how much your students gain from you because by this you expand your soul, and they are connected to you. You will see how you gather around yourself, not strangers, but the parts of your soul. If they respond to you, then you will feel that they are the closest to you in the structure of the soul. And then move forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/19, “Questions and Answers”

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What can be done to be ready for the convention, to gain the most from it, and to give the most to it? How should everyone together and each one individually prepare for it?

During the convention, you should gather among yourselves. Do not disconnect, as if you are absent or completely dissolved, but focus on the idea that we are all moving toward a common goal. Absorb the maximum spiritual energy from this source.

Therefore we support one another, gather from time to time, and through this become even more united. By dissolving into others, we take in everything from them into ourselves.

Despite this, after absorbing the impressions of the collective convention, we gather again within our ten.
These movements “outward–inward, outward–inward” should not only strengthen us, but recreate us anew. Then your small group will leave the convention having absorbed everything from the world Kli. This is what you should aim for.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/19, “Questions and Answers”

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We must think about how to absorb the quality of bestowal and love, the quality of connection, in order to connect the general system Adam” into a single whole.

Initially, we were assembled in the system of Adam without egoism, and then it entered us. Therefore the Creator says: “I created evil, and I created light to correct it.” The creation of evil means that the entire system was shattered into tiny particles and egoism appeared between them, like water that flows into cracks in the land and divides it.

So what should I do? By correcting ourselves we do not destroy egoism, but in spite of it we create connections between us. Therefore our connections are 620 times stronger than before. After all, the system  of Adam before the shattering was very weak. It existed like a small animal or like a small child, in the state of Katnut (small state).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: Everyone studying Kabbalah knows about the importance of the group and unity. But sometimes there is a desire to step away from the group, to take the sources, and figure things out on your own.

Does it make sense to give in to this desire, or is it better to resist it? Or perhaps this need should be fulfilled—to study some section alone that particularly interests you?

Answer: You must see yourself as a representative of the group and never detach from it. You connect with others to bring this connection back into your group. When you engage with them, you are ready to dissolve yourself within them, but your inner “self” remains, which is the group’s DNA, its essence. And so it is with each of you.

We do not part ways with our egoistic “self”; it remains within us, and we work on it. The same applies to the group; it remains within me, and I work on it. Only in this way can we combine all the attributes given to us by the Creator and thereby reach the goal.

Do not dissolve entirely, do not forget yourself, and do not forget the group. I exist to bring everyone together. If I exist as a representative of the group, then I gather the entire world Kli together with my group into a single whole. But if my “self” disappears, then what will happen? Nothing.

I repeat once again: Kabbalah does not destroy egoism; it does not destroy my “self,” and it does not destroy the “self” of the group. On the contrary, it builds the attribute of bestowal, the attribute of the Creator, above it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: How can one achieve joy and perfection without suffering?

Answer: Only through constant prayer.

Question: How do we combine prayer out of hopelessness, i.e., shout about salvation, and at the same time be in joy and perfection?

Answer: Try to do it. There is no rule here except your desire and prayer. As a result, they will find such a combination that the Creator will hear and allow you to adhere to Him.

Question: How can we do this exactly from the strength of the connection in ten?

Answer: What is the problem? Unite with each other and at the same time ask the Creator.

Question: Should we raise this point at the workshop, talk about it, everyone engage in it, and from this, we will come to a unified state?

Answer: Yes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/6/24, Writings of Rabash “Delight Them with a Complete Building – 2”

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Question: You have said that a person’s reaction to something that is happening has two components: a natural, animalistic state and spirituality, which depends on the connection with the group. How do we develop the spiritual component?

Answer: The animalistic component, meaning the left line, develops within us automatically. In no way can we awaken it ourselves. As for the right line, we awaken it through our attempts to become similar to it in our connection within the ten and in connection from the ten to the Creator. We cannot address the Creator directly, only through the ten.

In our case, a ten can consist of five and even two friends. When a person works with his egoism, even one friend in front of him is enough for him. But in general, in Kabbalah, we call it a ten because precisely in the ten Sefirot one can obtain the property of the whole Partzuf. Otherwise, it is impossible to address the Creator.

In reality, a plea to the Creator has to be above egoism and we have to clearly understand what it means. As a matter of fact, we exist in connection with other friends—men with men and women with women—and we sense egoism between us.

We have to rise above the ego in order to aspire to the Creator. However, it takes a long time before a person recognizes this necessity and starts realizing it correctly.

However, this is the most real spiritual work. This is the way we are obligated to come to connection with the Creator precisely from our world. This is like our transmitter, emitter. When we become connected through our egoistic properties and rise above them, then this vibration of the ascent above egoism is what goes to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/19, Writings of Baal HaSulam “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: How do we calibrate and check our intention?

Answer: First we aim to work with what we have. Then we strive to draw more light to strengthen our intention to bestow. That is how we grow.

Question: When there is an intention “for the sake of the world,” does it mean that all actions in the ten, whatever they may be, lead to a good result?

 Answer: It is not simple. The world is very diverse, and we need to understand how to unify it. We will learn this gradually.

Question: When the Creator stirs and confuses us, what is required of us so that He helps immediately?

Answer: I recommend surrendering to the Creator. Let Him do with us as He wishes.

Question: How can we distinguish true desires from false ones?

Answer: We cannot.

Question: Can it be said that the Creator disguises Himself as the characters in the Torah to constantly awaken our evil inclination?

Answer: No, He has plenty of supporting players for that.

Question: Each person builds their individual Torah and commandments. How does one person’s Torah differ from another’s?

Answer: It differs because each person has a unique root of the soul.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/9/24, Writings of Rabash “He Touched the Hollow of His Thigh”

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It is known that Netzah and Hod are called “two supports of the truth” (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 374, “He Touched the Hollow of His Thigh“).

Question: The supports are the reason a person engages in Torah. What are these supports of Netzach and Hod for us?

Answer: The entire system stands on two supports. These can be Netzach and Hod or they can be other qualities.

Therefore we must identify these qualities within ourselves and observe how they change. Based on this, it will become clearer to us what to do with them.

Question: Are the foundations of the work the left and right lines?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How do we acquire support for studying Torah in the ten?

Answer: We try to define the question we are raising to the Creator and clarify from which side the Creator is giving us the answer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/9/24, Writings of Rabash “He Touched the Hollow of His Thigh”

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Enjoying the meal of that wicked implies the heart, if a person enjoys his wicked one enjoying himself.

He must eat and drink because otherwise he will not be able to live, but he must not enjoy the meal that his will to receive is doing (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 911, “The Meal of a Wicked One“).

A sinner is a person who does not feel that he lives in a world where the Creator operates, the Creator who created everything so that man could draw closer to Him.

Question: How do we not enjoy a sinner’s meal in the ten?

Answer: If we want to be at a meal whose purpose is to bring pleasure to the Creator, then this is the correct meal.

Question: How do we check if it is correct or not?

Answer: You will feel it. If you set yourself up correctly, you will immediately begin to feel what kind of pleasure you get from the meal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/5/24, Writings of Rabash “The Meal of a Wicked One”

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Question: You said that with the help of prayer, we can connect to the root of our souls. How can we do it?

Answer: We wish to rise to the highest level imaginable. In this way you can constantly strive for higher levels.

This is realized when I really want it, when I demand it from the highest level, and when I exert all my efforts.

Question: What is the closest step of our unity at the root of our souls that I should ask for my ten?

Answer: Start with the general Malchut, and then you will go up very quickly.

Question: Is this Malchut of the world of Assiya or something higher?

Answer: It is Malchut of the world of Assiya.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/9/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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