The main thing for us is to fulfill the law of mutual guarantee, and everything else will be done by the upper light.

In Baal HaSulam,’s “Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah]“ , it is written that there is no need to worry about my own existence if 600,000 people are standing guard over my interests so that I would not lack anything. This is the law of nature: if I guarantee it for others in this way, then they will also guarantee it for me.

And I do not have to wait for them to start treating me this way first. After all, this is the law of nature. I see myself in them: the world that appears before a person is a person himself. And therefore, as soon as I provide a guarantee for the entire creation, I become worthy of the entire creation providing a complete guarantee for me.

This law of mutual guarantee applies to every person and everyone together. It all depends only on each one of us whether we will be able to relate to our friends in this way.

It is only through the law of mutual guarantee that we can understand what faith above reason is: when we relate to another as our true self and to ourselves as a true animal. And then everything falls into place, and this law of nature is fulfilled.

If a person becomes a guarantor for his friends, then according to the law of nature, he stops to worry about himself. That is how it works, that is how we achieve the restriction.
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From a Conversation at the Congress

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Question: Do we have power over our intention before crossing the Machsom?

Answer: Although before the Machsom we do not have power over our intention, to the extent that there is a certain impulse in our intention to enter the spiritual world, this is connected with the material action and remains forever. Therefore, there is no doubt that one must perform the commandments with intention. It is precisely for this that our world is needed; otherwise, it is unclear to us why we were brought down here.

We constantly ask ourselves: What is the meaning of the fact that we were given the commandments? Perhaps it is some kind of mistake, and they need to be performed only in the spiritual, while by performing them materially, we are merely imitating them, like animals?

No. The mistake occurred during the time of the destruction of the Temple, when the intention for the sake of the Creator was lost, and people continued to perform the same actions without any intention, for reception for their own sake.

However, this fall concerns not the action, but only the intention. About the action itself, the Kabbalists say: “Do not add and do not subtract.” That is, one must not turn these actions into a cult. This must not be.

But as for the intention, each time it requires improvement. Baal HaSulam writes about this in the article “For the Completion of The Zohar.” The inner intention must be very important and great in comparison with the performance of the commandments on the physical level.

Along with the physical performance of the commandments, one must develop the intention as much as possible, the purpose for which we do this and the yearning for what we want to attain. Otherwise, it is impossible to understand the order of existence of the world, why we must exist in a special external form in comparison with other nations and perform the commandments in the material world, from circumcision (Brit Mila) to the commandments concerning the Temple, from our being in Egypt to the dispersion among other nations.

So why not make it all take place in the spiritual, on the inner level, and that is all? Why must we also go through all this in the material world? This is needed in order to connect the inner and the outer, for the inner rests upon the outer.

We do not know the difference between the simple observance of the commandments and their performance with intention. By performing them with intention, you bring into this a certain spiritual weight; you connect all of creation from beginning to end, from edge to edge.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/20/26, Rabash, “A Prayer of Many”

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Question: Is there a connection between the number of external actions I perform and the improvement of my intention?

Answer: There is a connection between actions and intentions. A person who invests effort in actions begins to ask himself why he is doing them. Gradually, as it is said, the hearts follow the actions. There is a connection here, because our intentions and our actions are, after all, in the same body.

When a person acts but does not achieve a result, he begins to ask questions and gradually understands that the reason is the absence of intention. The intention determines the quality of the action, what I want to achieve through it.

Without intention, a person is simply a machine that performs actions and wants nothing from them in terms of spiritual advancement. And if he wants nothing, he receives nothing.

Perhaps he intends to receive something else. For example, a person has worked for five years in order to gain respect from the group, and then declares, “Why haven’t I attained spirituality in your group?”

But your intention was directed not toward spirituality, but toward respect. And indeed, you have a good position, and you are respected among us as a strong, active person. You received respect from us, so why are you complaining about not attaining spirituality?

You should have demanded spirituality from the group yourself, but that is already your own personal, inner demand.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/12/26, Rabash, Notes 882 “Rosh Hashanah”

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The Creator created the desire to receive, which stands opposite to His desire to bestow, and then created within us the system of Klipot (impure forces) as a kind of image opposite to His image. In this way, He gave us the possibility of existing in the desire to receive in the form of a Klipa. For the desire to receive is simply a desire; it is neither good nor bad. And opposite to it there is only the light of Nefesh.

But then, as a result of the shattering, the properties of the Creator entered the desire to receive, but in an inverted form. At that point, this desire became not merely a desire to receive, but a Klipa. That is, it wants to take the Creator’s place and use these properties for its own pleasure. In this way, He gave us His image in an inverted, negative form. And when we correct this image, we come to adhesion with Him.

The Sitra Achra brings me all the properties, all the similarity, and all the understanding of what the opposite form in holiness should be. I learn from it, and on this basis, above it, I build my holy image by, as it were, stealing from it, extracting from it. Thanks to this, I build my blessing, my Kli for receiving abundance. We must understand the opposition between these two systems and how necessary it is.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/26, Rabash, “What Is the Work of Man, in the Work that Is Attributed to the Creator?”

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