Both during an ascent and during a descent, a person must make sure that it is the Creator who governs all ones actions, prayers, and states. A person needs only see that he or she is ready to receive any state that comes.

And if a person tries to see each state as coming from the Creator and agrees with them, then to that extent one begins to understand the thoughts and intentions of the Creator, about which it is said: “From Your actions we shall know You.”

In this way, one achieves adhesion with the Creator due to the fact that they not only makes themselves similar to Him in their actions, but also receives the same head (Rosh), the same “way of thinking.” This means that the way the light comes to a person from above, one builds the same reaction to it from below.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/9/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Before the Egyptian Minister Fell, Their Outcry Was Not Answered, in the Work?”

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Comment: You say that tension is needed to accelerate the data processing. It seems to me that I would do it much better if I were in a peaceful state and not under the group’s pressure.

My Response: So, you are saying this: “If the group pressures me, I will get confused and run away; I cannot function under pressure.” There must be pressure. The group should obligate a person.

Comment: But still, I need some free time to process the information.

My Response: Data is not processed by sitting quietly with a mug of beer and pondering life. Data is processed in critical, stressful states. Don’t think you will get a moment of rest, and then you will sit down, focus, and solve everything, nothing of the sort! On the contrary, the faster your pace, the greater your ability to make calculations will become. It is precisely in such states that you make the correct calculations within fractions of a second.

Of course, there is study; there is a time when one truly needs to study in order to feel some connection with the structure of the worlds, with the structure of the soul, to understand how it is built, and how I can at least somewhat mentally connect myself to it, verify it, and see it. A person must divide their time, but even then be on their toes.

What is tension? Tension is a lack, a deficiency in achieving the goal. That is called stress, tension, and pressure.

When I want something and cannot attain it, it puts pressure on me, it makes me tense. I am not talking about suffering that puts pressure on me so I run away from it. Our state must be that I am stressed because I have not reached what lies ahead, not because I must flee from something pressing on me from behind.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/26, Rabash, “And There Was Evening and There Was Morning”

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The group must ensure that a person’s thoughts are constantly connected to it. There are no compromises here—all 24 hours.

How can this be checked? By whether you do not leave the feeling that you are in the group, that the friends are around you, that all of you together are directed toward one goal. If this is not constantly present within you, then the group has not programmed itself correctly for spirituality.

Only after we program ourselves to feel like we are in the group and in an attack 24 hours a day, and this becomes routine and habitual for us, will we begin to experience a different life, a spiritual life. This is called becoming a nation, not individuals, a nation that demands the Torah. And then we merit receiving it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/26, Rabash, “And There Was Evening and There Was Morning?”

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Question: How can one make use of the help of the group or the Creator in order to reach the beginning of spiritual work as quickly as possible?

Answer: The fact is that a person by oneself, alone, without a group, is practically unable to come to a definition of their state as darkness, as evil.

Without such external factors as environment and group, one will never be able to know which states are more advanced, more correct—those that truly advance him toward the spiritual—and which are merely those that seem so to him and appear that way to him.

Therefore, if a person is ready, with the help of the group, to define one’s parameters in a more correct form, independent of one’s personal feeling and dependent only on the definition of truth and falsehood, and not on “bitter–sweet”; if he is ready to withstand this despite the fact that it is bitter for him or her to determine that this is truth and therefore preferable (and only the group, the books, and the teacher can make this clear to one), then one’s darkness turns into day.

A person’s definition of what is called darkness and light changes. It is not that there was a change in his or her state, in the surrounding reality, or in the Creator’s attitude toward the person. What changed was one’s inner definition, and this is called that one corrected one’s vessel. That is, now a person examines their sensations by a different vessel, which is called the vessel of faith above reason.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/26, Rabash, “And There Was Evening and There Was Morning?”

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Question: How can I demand anything from a group meeting if I cannot possibly give it to my friends myself?

Answer: How can I demand anything from my friends if I myself am not very good at it myself? If I were good at it, I wouldn’t demand anything from them; everything would be fine.

After all, I join the group because I feel weak and incapable of advancing on my own and I have heard that this is possible in a group, so I hope that what I lack for attaining the goal, will be found in them. I need additional vessels in which to reveal the Creator, and these vessels are within them!

This means I must receive all the impressions, all the desires, and all the thoughts from them,  and I can acquire them only if I approach them with the intention to bestow. If I relate to them with the intention to receive, then I will receive their egoistic desires from them; I do not need those.

To the extent that I treat them with a willingness to bestow, to that extent I will acquire ideas about the forms of bestowal from them. Otherwise this one enjoys cigarettes, another Coca-Cola, another plays bingo, and I will be drawn to each of their desires. They will drag me to football, etc.; they will teach me to enjoy corporeal life.

But if I join a group to learn the forms of bestowal from them, then I take their aspiration for and their ascent toward the Creator from them. Therefore, there is room for the individual’s work—how they relate to the group and what they want from it.

The group itself must obligate a person to relate to it correctly. If a person approaches it egoistically, the group must resist such an approach. It must “turn” the person toward what is beneficial for him or her, toward an attitude of bestowal to the group. “If you want to bestow, you are welcome. If you want to receive, you have no business here.”

Why? What can it give a person if they have come in order to receive from it? He or she will only grow their desire to receive, they will want to rule over the group and manipulate it according to their wishes. Therefore, the group must help us relate to it properly.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/26, Rabash, “And There Was Evening and There Was Morning”

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When does one leave a depleted state and move on? This happens when a person feels all the bitterness of separation from the Creator in one’s current state. This gives rise to the next state.

All our states are the steps that we descended along from above to this world, and within it to the lowest level. Now we are starting the return journey, and are passing through the same steps, with the only change being how and at what pace we go through them. This, in essence, is our choice.

Everything is already laid within my soul, all the steps, my entire journey back. The only thing that is not predetermined is my attitude toward the path, that is, how I will build it: by freewill or by compulsion, by the path of light or by the path of suffering. This does not mean there are two paths to the upper because the path is my attitude toward the ascent.

Therefore, at each step, as soon as I sense how far I am from the Creator, how opposite to Him, and I want to correct this, the stage has been passed. Then I rise to the next level to experience even greater bitterness from being distant from the Creator and opposed to Him. Just imagine how much spiritual strength it takes to withstand this constant feeling of lack!

But if I understand the goal and receive the support of a group that helps me constantly keep the grandeur of the goal in mind, then all this suffering becomes sweet because I see the Creator in it. By introducing the Creator into the picture of my world, I “sweeten” it and completely transform it.

It is like how we cannot eat without salt. We absolutely need some kind of internal “twist,” some sharpness, in every taste we experience; otherwise, we will not feel anything. We do not distinguish between good and bad, only one relative to the other.

If I am very hungry, I feel the taste precisely on the border between the lack (hunger) and the pleasure (food) when I take the very first bite. This is how our entire sensory system operates. Therefore, I need the strength each time to reveal the lack at the border with pleasure, and this sensation is always acute and unpleasant, so only the environment can help here.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/9/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean That Before the Egyptian Minister Fell, Their Outcry Was Not Answered, in the Work?”

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Question: If I am not getting advancement from the group, what is the problem?

Answer: If you are not receiving from the group what you think you should receive, then one of the following may be happening: either the group is not paying enough attention to you, or generally it is inattentive to its duty to constantly awaken each and every person.

Perhaps the members of the group are not putting in enough energy and effort into the common thought, into the shared desire; perhaps they are not sufficiently attentive to the fact that an inner flame should truly blaze between the friends, something that must be felt in the air, not merely in words, text messages, or other external things.

It must be as internal as possible, but in such a way that no one can rest and everyone is compelled to rush into the whirlwind. In other words, the individual is to blame for not awakening the group, and the entire group is also at fault since it includes everyone. After all, the group is a collection of all our desires, all our hopes.

Question: Where do we begin in correcting such a situation?

Answer: By gathering together and deciding what we want. And as soon as we feel ourselves slipping, each person immediately begins to “wake up” the group so as not to descend from the level we have established. The same applies to external actions.

Although external actions are only a means toward inner connection and inner burning, I am inspired by each person’s willingness to make efforts within the group to advance with it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/26, Rabash, “And There Was Evening and There Was Morning”

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Question: The driving force before the Machsom is the intention “for oneself.” Beyond the Machsom, in the sensation of the Creator, does my driving force remain the question: “What will I gain from the next level?”

Answer: Always! My fuel is always: “What will I gain from this? But before the Machsom, this question sounds like “What will happen to me?” It is the fear of not receiving benefit, the fear of dying and not having time to receive everything, the fear of suffering, etc.

Beyond the Machsom, there is the same question, only in a different form: “What will happen to me so that I can give to Him?” The question is the same, the meaning is the opposite.

This is called “Lishma.” Everything we feel, we sense and evaluate through our desire to receive; we have no other measuring system.

Otherwise, how can we act? If I do not get pleasure, I have nothing to give Him! My pleasure, in fact, is what I give to Him, He enjoys that I am enjoying.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/9/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean That Before the Egyptian Minister Fell, Their Outcry Was Not Answered, in the Work?”

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