Question: How can you help a friend who has fallen into trouble in the corporeal sense?

Answer: Suppose a friend comes to me and tells me about some trouble he is facing. It does not matter what exactly; let’s say he feels unwell. Relating to him as someone from the group, as a force with which I advance toward the Creator, I take his trouble and begin to pray to the Creator with his unfulfilled desire (Hisaron). This is called: “He who prays for his friend is answered first.”

I must take his Hisaron and his problems instead of my own and turn to the Creator with them as if I have no problems at all. If I truly had none, there is little wisdom in that.

But if I also have very big problems, and yet I take the friend’s problems instead of mine while maintaining awareness of what I am doing, meaning I put aside my ego a little and work toward the Creator with the friend’s Hisaron, then this is purely spiritual work.

Question: And what about the direction of the friend’s own work?

Answer: What concern is that of mine? I ask the Creator to improve his state, meaning to advance him toward the goal, because the lack of advancement toward it brings him these misfortunes. This may manifest in anything from owing a $10,000 debt to some illnesses or disaster.

I must accept the friend’s corporeal level as my own spiritual level. What does that mean?

By suppressing my own desire to receive, I take the friend’s desire and work with it. This means that I work spiritually; I am work in bestowal to someone else. If I take any corporeal problems of a friend, no matter how mundane, in place of my own troubles, my own requests, and arrange them in such a way that I truly ask the Creator for them, then this is called being “the leader of the people.”

A leader of the people is one who takes all the troubles of the people instead of all his own problems and turns to the Creator with them, desiring that they be fulfilled and not himself, that they receive everything, from their current state up to the end of correction, and he does not. And he is ready for this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/26, Rabash, “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 1”

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Comment: A person who is in a state of descent feels as if they and their desire to receive are one and the same.

My Response: In a descent, a person truly identifies with the desire to receive. They are immersed in it, completely under its control, and do not even sense that it is bad. It is similar to how the people of Israel did not feel bad in Egypt. They felt fine there and did not sense the burden of the work.

“And the sons of Israel sighed from the work,” that happened later, when another Pharaoh came, who turned evil. Before that, he was good: we work, but we also enjoy our efforts. This is how a person feels.

Question: If such a state exists, should the group come to a person and describe their state to them? Or should the person come to the group and ask for help?

Answer: The group can give a person various things, including general advice, because through this, a person develops.

For example, we are affected by reading articles about states we have not yet reached, or perhaps were in a little, or perhaps will be later. We need to awaken the upper light upon ourselves so that it constantly brings us new states. The group can speak about this.

How does it influence you? It is by reminding you that the Creator is great? But other people also shout something similar in their own way. How can that influence you?

The group must convey, through various impressions, the understanding that attaining the eternal and perfect state is the only thing that stands before you.

You have a point in the heart; you come to the group not knowing anything. But if you engage it with your point in the heart, the group acts upon you like a mother’s womb upon an embryo. It develops you. And all you need is to annul yourself, annul yourself before it.

There are people who come, and no matter how long they sit in the lessons, they understand nothing. Then they go to work in the kitchen for a month or two and this becomes their form of self-annulment before the group. And suddenly, they begin to feel that the group is influencing them. This happens under the influence of the light.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/26, Rabash, “What Is the Preparation to Receive the Torah in the Work?-2”

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Question: How can it be that a feeling like envy is a force that advances us toward the goal?

Answer: It is not just envy that drives me to my goal. There is nothing bad or good about me at all because that is how I evaluate my qualities and states. In reality, there is nothing that was created in vain, nothing unnecessary for attaining the goal.

We may feel ourselves to be anything at all, but as we learn, we descended into this world from the highest degree, and everything that exists in us now will later, with the help of screens (Masachim), become the very best qualities.

Therefore we should not engage in correcting character traits but only in striving toward the goal—and then all our qualities, all parts of the desire, will serve only as help.

A person must not hide or suppress any of his desires; this is not the method of Kabbalah! Kabbalah says the opposite. If a person suppresses something within himself, he thereby kills a part of the creation within him.

We must only follow the law: “The light contained in the Torah returns one to the source.” That is, during study and during various activities in the group when all my thoughts are about correction, the surrounding light (Ohr Makif), the light that returns to the source, shines upon me. There is no other way of correction.

A person should not think that he is capable of evaluating which of his qualities are good and which are bad or what kind of correction each requires. Otherwise, he will begin to approach correction selectively, and decide what to correct in himself and what not to correct. There is no greater foolishness than to claim that he understands anything about this!

A person must act only where he has a point of free choice, that is, to organize for himself an environment that will influence him. In any case, he needs some external force that will pull and push him forward.

The external force is either the environment or the Creator. But unfortunately, I cannot yet influence the Creator so that He will help me; I do not yet have a desire sufficient for Him to respond. He responds only to a complete, perfect desire.

It is precisely the environment that builds within me this complete desire, so that afterward I may turn to the Creator, and then the light will return me to the source.
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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 feel that the group is not doing what it is supposed to do, does that mean that I am not ready for this situation, or is the group truly not doing it? How can I know whether this is my problem?

Answer: The group must carry out its action toward you if you commit to carrying out your actions toward it.

We are talking about both external actions and internal ones. External actions by themselves mean nothing! If we perform only external actions, it will just be an enterprise.

That is why internal actions are extremely important here. What do I want from the group? For what purpose do I invest my desire, energy, and efforts into it? Am I doing this for no reason? I want to reach something through my efforts!

With my actions, I am essentially demanding from the group that it fulfill all my hopes, that it advance me, awakens me. Otherwise, why am I doing all this? Just to pass the time?

I must receive something from the group. The question is: What am I asking for?

And this is what the group must teach me: what to ask from 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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Faith is a means to reach the inner light of the Torah. Faith is a Kli of bestowal, the quality of Bina. It should be the foundation, and therefore it is said: “The righteous will live by his faith.”

Faith above reason is a means of turning to the Creator to obtain qualities similar to His. But this is not the ultimate goal. Indeed, faith above reason is the goal of study because we want to achieve correction, the qualities of bestowal. But in fact, it is only a means.

After all, the Torah is called the Torah of life, and one must study with the intention of Lishma, for the sake of the Torah, and not Lishmo, for the sake of the Creator. That is, I want not only to become like the Creator by building a Kli, but also to fill this Kli with exactly the content that corresponds to the Creator, so that this content becomes my “life and longevity.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/18/26, Rabash, “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”

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Question: If I feel comfortable in the group, does that mean I have nothing to give it?

Answer: If you feel good and comfortable, then in that state you certainly cannot give anything to the group.

Only when a person feels tension from lacking the goal, when they question the meaning of life, can they contribute something. If a person has no desire, they are as if dead. When there is no desire, that is called death!

In that case, one must delve more deeply into study and into actions that are performed without intention since in that state one cannot add intention, and then the actions themselves will lead to intention. These are actions in which one unites with others and receives their desires from friends.

Let them engage in dissemination and they will receive a boost of spirit. Let them study and they will receive inspiration from the author of the book. Let them go work in the kitchen and they will serve the group and receive inspiration from the group.

A person must invest themselves in something at the level they are capable of, even at the inanimate level, in order to awaken at a higher level—vegetative, animate, and speaking. A person can always invest themselves, even without any intentions.

Thus, someone who does not create frameworks that obligate them to return to actions in relation to the group is not valuing time, not shortening it, and advances only sporadically.

Therefore if you lack work, take on translating articles, work on some material…do something!

Every group, no matter where it is located in the world, must, even artificially, build such frameworks for itself so that each person has some responsibility toward the group and the group toward the individual. Otherwise, if we feel free, we behave according to the desire to receive.

This is the very first and most important thing a group must establish for itself: a strict order of actions that allows no deviation so that no one feels free even for a moment, even in their free time.
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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: Do feelings such as envy, desire, and ambition arise in me when I see that I lack what my friend has in relation to the Creator?

Answer: No! There are negative and positive envy, lust, and glory. If I see something good in another, I might think that it would have been better if I hadn’t seen it so that I would not suffer. After all, when I see some good quality in him, it makes me feel bad.

Or I see something good, and it awakens in me the desire to also attain it. Then I must be grateful to the one who gave me the opportunity to see these special pleasures that can be achieved. Before I did not even think such things existed in the world. This is good envy.

Bad envy is when I see people who are doing well, but I, say, do not sufficiently desire to be like them. That is, I weigh that the effort I must exert greatly exceeds the pleasure I would gain. The goal does not justify the means.

In other words, I am lazy. This is called laziness. And to avoid suffering, I would just like that not to exist for them either. Or I become annoyed that I saw it, and now I am envious. Everything is reversed. Instead of striving to reach a higher level, I wish to see these people at a level lower than mine. “The suffering of many is half the consolation.” They have less, and I have more, immediately my mood improves.

It all depends on the person’s goal—how he wants to use qualities like envy, lust, and honor. Either he wants to rise with their help because the importance of the goal obliges him, and then he uses these qualities in a useful, effective, constructive form.

Or it can be otherwise, when he wants to destroy everything he sees in another because comfort is more important to him than advancement. The suffering is not yet strong enough for him to want to leave the current state. It all depends on the calculation and what we expect from the state we are in.

Imagine the situation. We see that half of those here are asleep, and the rest do not care. Inside them, there is no burning desire to break free from this state, where “better death than this life.” Ask them: “Do you wish that your next state will reveal that there is no possibility of stagnation?” They will answer: “Well… we can try, maybe it is better.”

But there are also those who will say that they are waiting for it and are ready for anything because without it there is no advancement. So it all depends on prior preparation. In the group there must be some idea, some goal, for which it would be worthwhile to exist.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/14/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Creator Does Not Tolerate the Proud,’ in the Work?”

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