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Give Birth to Ourselves

264.01In the initially created collective soul, we existed in a wondrous state of connection. But when the shattering occurred between all the desires, each began to care only for itself.

Imagine if the various organs in our body, down to the cells, molecules, atoms, and the tiniest elementary particles, which exist in it in hundreds if not thousands of forms, started to act independently.

This is precisely the state of our world. Naturally it is very difficult to understand how we are meant to be connected in a perfect form from such a fragmented picture.

How can such tiny particles, each confined to its minuscule Kli, grasp with their small, egoistic minds, that a connection of all parts exists: first into molecular systems, then into organs, and finally into a whole organism that must function for a higher purpose? That above this body exists something called the Creator and that adhesion with Him, His revelation, is a completely different and unique form of existence?

It is absolutely impossible for an elementary particle, which each of us essentially is, to understand this.

But this does not exempt us nor remove us from the influence of the law called “the unity of the Creator and creation.” In any case, we are governed from that very same state that existed before our separation, before the connection between us called Arvut (mutual guarantee) disappeared.

From that place, we are in fact operated in order to return to it, but now with our own awareness. From the state we find ourselves in today—scattered and disconnected, with each one feeling only themselves—we are just beginning to hear that we have a duty to merge, to draw closer, to connect by means of some upper force.

Of course, these elementary particles are not capable of doing anything on their own. But they must come to desire that the upper light will reconnect them and give each of them the desire to unite with the rest into a single system. Then, with each act of connection, they will receive a new purpose in life, a need for a higher form of existence.

If, in performing this work, they make efforts and turn to the light for help, then by the same force of light that once sustained them on a higher level, they are returned to their original state.

But what is the difference? The difference is that now, it is as if they give birth to themselves. They reconnect, correct themselves, secure their existence by their own decision, thereby acquiring independence, reason, attainment, and understanding, and return to their previous state of existence already equipped with an understanding of the entire structure of reality.

From having come to know themselves, they also come to know the actions of the light that created and connected them, and thus attain the level of the Creator: “From Your actions, we shall know You.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

942Question: Do we lack the development of Aviut to advance?

Answer: We do not worry about Aviut, whether it is revealed or not. We must take care of the connection between us in the conditions given. We receive the level of Aviut with all the heaviness, confusion, and hindrances corresponding to the level, according to its nature. That is how it should be, period! We have nothing to be indignant about and no need to find out why this is the case and not otherwise.

We do not understand this. We have no comprehension in the revelation of the common vessel, even in its smallest part! So what can we say about this?!

We must accept this above knowledge. Of course, we can explore this, but all these scrutinies may divert us from the action itself.

There is only one direction. The levels of the Aviut will be revealed, obstacles will be revealed, all kinds of conditions, internal and external, will be revealed, and we must accept them because each revelation is the revelation of another stage and another, where we will have to make connections, and create a common Kli.

Today, according to what is being revealed, we must unite between those who are ready, openly, by mutual agreement. In the rest of the world that is not ready and does not understand what is going on we must spread this knowledge in every possible way so that it rises upward. That is our task.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/6/2025, Write of Baal HaSulam The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

According to the Magnitude of Desire

243.07Question: Is Arvut (mutual guarantee) the same for Kelim (vessels) with small and large Aviut?

Answer: The law of Arvut does not depend on Aviut. Naturally, it manifests in different forms in accordance with the level of Aviut and the nature of the Kli one has acquired.

What is the difference between degrees of Aviut in relation to Arvut? For example, Abraham and his household fulfilled the law of Arvut, because the Kelim must be connected with each other to a certain degree in order to reveal the upper light that will elevate them to some level of spiritual life.

But they hardly needed to exert effort because their souls were so pure that they understood how to reach adhesion, and through connection among themselves, to reach equivalence of form with the light.

To the extent that each person devotes himself to the group, he merits similarity to the light. And the entire group reaches such a powerful connection in intention for the sake of bestowal that the light begins to shine within it.

However, when the desire within the group becomes more coarse, then naturally the law of Arvut must be implemented in a different form according to the increased Aviut. This creates a problem: a methodology is needed; special lights are needed for the correction of the Kelim. This is what we call the Torah.

Therefore the reason for the need to attain Arvut in the first place becomes less obvious; it disappears. The increased Aviut conceals the Creator, the light withdraws, and it becomes unclear why this is necessary at all.

The desire to receive begins to demand all kinds of things for itself, and the person no longer clearly sees that the world operates according to the law of love for one’s neighbor. One’s perception becomes clouded.

This continues until people no longer believe that this reality operates according to the law of love for others.

They begin to relate to one another based on their own desire to receive, which grows, increasingly confuses a person, and causes him to descend further and further.

This is exactly what happens with us. We find ourselves in inspiration and then in descent. At one moment we feel capable of giving ourselves over and remaining in that state, and then suddenly we begin to make more animalistic, more earthly calculations.

It seems to us that this is the real world, that this is how we must live, that these are the laws we must follow. Everything aligns with the current state you are in, whether your desire to receive has increased or whether it has quieted down within you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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Is “Female” the Natural Intention We Are Born With?

We are not born with a natural intention “in order to receive.” “In order to receive” is an intention that becomes expressed solely in relation to the Creator and not simply as a drive to enjoy life. Merely enjoying life requires no correction. If we drink a glass of water in order to receive, this action does not become “in order to bestow.” “In order to receive” or “in order to bestow” become expressed solely in relation to the Creator and not in any other matter. Therefore, the wisdom of Kabbalah does not relate to this world; it relates only to Godliness. It deals with how we relate to the Creator, whether we want to draw from Him or to give to Him.

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International Kabbalistic Convention “Connecting With There Is None Else Besides Him” – 5/23/25

International Kabbalistic Convention,  “Preparation for Lesson 3”

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All of Reality Was Created By a Single Thought of the Creator

712.03All of reality was created by a single thought of the Creator. This one thought begins and concludes the entire process that creation must undergo. It is itself both the entire reality and the final reward. Everything except the desire of the Creator is contained within this thought that realizes His intention. It emanates from the Creator and within it all the created beings are manifested.

The expected reward is also embedded in it because all actions and all their outcomes are directed toward reaching the end of correction.

It is said that a person must place the Creator as a King over himself. That is, it is not enough that the Creator has prepared everything for us, the creation and its development, all that exists and will be. What matters is that the human being must also engage in the work to study the actions of the Creator and to elevate Him to the upper reality: to place Him as a King over himself.

A person strives to study creation on all its levels and through this gain the ability to connect everything to the upper force. Then he sees that this upper force is the Creator.

If one makes the correct choice and walks the correct path in the world in which he was created, he gradually reveals the force that governs this world and feels the necessity to bow before it.

As a person draws closer to nature, he discovers that within it, there is one upper force encompassing everything, including the person himself. It is this force we must reveal through our connection with one another.

In striving to come closer and unite ever more deeply with the friends, we gradually come to see that all of this has been prepared for us by the Creator and that it leads to the revelation of the Creator at the center of our unity. There is no other way.

The quality of such work elevates a person above everything else because through it, he takes steps toward resembling the Creator. When a person attains even the slightest similarity with the Creator, through his adhesion to the upper, he begins to rise toward Him. The work of connection brings us closer to the upper force.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/25, “Preparation for the Convention—Connecting to There Is None Else Besides Him”

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In the Direction of Mutual Guarantee

938.04The main condition for the common soul to be corrected and fit to receive the light is the mutual guarantee between its parts.

We must attain the very state originally created by the Creator by our own efforts. What are those efforts? They are efforts in Arvut.

As we ascend from below upward through the degrees of adhesion, we do so, of course, unconsciously, without strength, without understanding, without prior agreement to what lies ahead. All that is asked of us is to express, even in the simplest and most naïve way, a desire for something we do not yet truly know.

We simply walk, and through the surrounding light (Ohr Makif), we awaken the allure of holiness from the spiritual world upon ourselves. We begin to feel that this is something desirable, and then we act in the direction of Arvut.

What does this mean? It means we move in the direction of the correction of the Kli (vessel). That is, the Creator’s light is present and fills us; our task is only to reveal it. The Creator is already within us. This state is unchanging, but we can uncover it only through a certain action called the Arvut.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/4/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulamThe Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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The Kabbalist Beyond the Body

538Question: When a Kabbalist transitions to another dimension, can he observe what is happening in this world without his body; meaning, can he observe the process from the side and influence it?

Answer: Naturally! But not in the form of bodies, but in the form of forces.
You see bodies. For example, right now you see me on your computer screen. But what if you could see me, not on the screen, but inside the hard drive? That is where all the information is!

Why do you need to look at the monitor at all? Look straight at the hard drive! That is all. Why do you need five senses? Why do you need these “casings and coverings”? Inside the electrons, that is where the upper spiritual life is. That is how a Kabbalist sees.

There is a complete picture, and it is all in spirituality. Our world is included within spirituality.

For example, when we talk about small children, we speak about their desires, efforts, and qualities and not their outer appearance. We speak from the level at which they are relevant to us, the level on which they connect with us.

So all the attributes of our world are completely absent in the spiritual world. In the spiritual world, we perceive only egoistic forces.

Comment: But on the other hand, you always bring the spiritual world down to the level of our world.

My Response: That is because there is no real difference! The only difference is in how a person perceives: one sees this way, another sees that way. But the worlds themselves, they do not exist.

Question: Right now, we are speaking through a screen, not telepathically. We are communicating, and this information is somehow reaching others. Why must it be this way?

Answer: So that we understand the necessity ofthe connection between us and begin to truly want to unite!
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Kabbalist out of Body” 9/7/10

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Chapter 13. The True Nature

We cannot reach our root, the purpose of creation, without passing through every single state. Sometimes it might seem to us that we have already gone through a certain state or that we will not need to experience it because we already recognize and understand it. But that will not help us. We must pass through all the states.

We comprise all the discernments written in the books, and even those without mention. That is, we must enter into all the discernments of impurity (Klipa), holiness (Kedusha), Pharaoh, angel, and so on, to be in them, to want not to be in them, and to prepare ourselves to exit from them and advance, each time donning a new form and a new role, like an actor, thus passing through many garments.

We cannot avoid discerning something, meaning, we cannot skip degrees. We cannot desire to be male before we have been female. We must be and feel female, reject that state, and then, from that rejection and remorse, we will reach the state of male. In every single state, we need to prepare a deficiency for correction, and afterward, a deficiency for fulfillment.

So what is our true nature? Our nature is neither male nor female. Male and female are two states that we need to undergo, one after the other, at each and every degree. “Male” and “Female” represent intentions, not the will to receive.

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International Kabbalistic Convention “Connecting With There Is None Else Besides Him” – 5/22/25

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624.01Question: You spoke about those who have studied Kabbalah for many years and still don’t hear that the main thing is Arvut (mutual guarantee). How can I know whether I hear it or not?

Answer: Very simply! It is clear by how much you care about connection with others so that the Creator, the upper light, will be revealed among you, about how much this concern burns within you.

Moreover, it is not overshadowed by visions of what you might supposedly achieve. You don’t need to achieve anything except connection. Not even the Creator needs to be attained. It is written: “If only they would abandon Me but keep My Torah.” What does “My Torah” mean? That is Arvut.

All the laws of the Torah are here, within.

And if this is how you relate to your existence in the world and in the group; that is normal. That is the test.
Question: Do those who don’t hear affect those who do?

Answer: They affect those who hear only if they are capable of reaching Arvut but are lazy. If people are not yet able to hear, but join in, they do not interfere. This includes beginners or those who are currently in various confusions, in a descent, and therefore do not hear; well, what can you do. That is not a problem. The only problem is with those who truly can but are lazy.

So what should we do about this? Should we perhaps establish some sort of order, a system, inspections, and so on? No, we should relate to everyone as Baal HaSulam says: One who is drilling a hole in the boat should be thrown out. But in principle, we should think more about correction.

If our direction, like a team, is the necessity of Arvut, then there can be no one extra inside: either a person joins, or it’s clear that he is a stranger. And the greater the unity among those who agree, the greater the separation between them and those who are not in it.

But even those who are not inside should not be disregarded. We must understand that a person can be in all kinds of states.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/7/2025, Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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The Signs of the Messiah

294.2In our time, the Jewish people are obligated to fulfill the condition of attaining Arvut (mutual guarantee). If they neglect this duty, a compelling force will be applied to them, which forces them to fulfill it through suffering.

The whole world is waiting for this, and because it waits, suffering and misfortunes are revealed on a global scale that causes the world to suffer and through its pain begin to understand the reason behind it all. Ultimately, suffering comes in order to indicate where the solution lies.

In the preface to “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Baal HaSulam writes that the Creator guides a person to the good fate by giving him, within a life full of suffering, a spark that shines faintly from afar through all the darkness.

The same occurs both for us and for the nations of the world. All current relations between us and the nations exist solely to compel us to engage in the practical aspect so that we may attain Arvut. The compelling force must reveal the necessity of this very task to us.

The nations of the world too gradually begin to understand through the suffering they endure where the true solution lies. We can see how they are slowly discovering that the root of the problem lies in Israel, which is seen as the worst part that causes harm to the whole world.

This is already a deeply advanced form of revelation. These are truly the signs of the Messiah.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/9/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulamThe Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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The Inability to Fulfill One Another

629.4Question: Must Arvut (mutual guarantee) be realized in action or is it enough for society simply to agree to it?

Answer: In the article “The Giving of the Torah,” Baal HaSulam explains that you are not capable of bestowing to another. No matter whom you choose from all of humanity, even the smallest, most modest in their desires, you will not be able to fulfill them.

It is clear that you only “burn yourself out” in an attempt that is doomed to fail from the start. If you intend to fulfill people’s needs through action so that they may be happy, it will not yield good results.

We must understand that happiness is not a matter of money, politics, or psychology. Happiness arises from the feeling of adhesion with the upper. That is what fills all the lacks within the desires a person feels.

Our concern should be to lead humanity to the understanding that fulfillment comes only through the light, not through various actions in this world.

A person will never be satisfied, no matter what it is. You will never be able to satiate them. What we must care about is that people understand what the true means is and come to acquire it.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulamThe Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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Descendants of the Kabbalists

961.2The people of Israel originate from the “fathers,” from the Kabbalists. Therefore, their entire structure differs from the structure of other nations. Even the kings and ministers who ruled at the time were not aristocrats like it is customary among other nations.

The entire nation, which descended from a group of Kabbalists, originally had a clear law stating that all are equal and no one has any privileges over another that they do not deserve, but they receive by inheritance from the father or mother, as is customary among the peoples of the world.

There has never been slavery or oppression of one part over another among the people of Israel. From the time of Abraham onward, there has never been a case when every boy was not taught to attain spirituality, that they could not read, and did not know what they were living for. This was hundreds of years before the destruction of the Temple.

Thus in the foundation of the people the conditions, laws, and tasks for the end of correction were initially laid. But when they were affected by the force of destruction, they adopted the morals of their neighbors, and as a result everything fell apart.

Although they became mixed with all the nations of the world, this still did not lead to any change in the people themselves, to the introduction of laws that someone is above or below others, to changes in the area of education, social functions, and so on.

The fact is that the Kabbalists stood at the foundation of the people, and thereby the basis for correction was laid. This group truly can lead to the correction of all the rest of humanity. It is not that it causes these corrections, but it awakens in the nations of the world their correct form.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/10/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulamThe Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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Abraham—The First Jew

740.03Question: Kabbalah is a system of correction. What does the correction of Abraham’s low Aviut (coarseness) have to do with us?

Answer: The system of correcting the desire to receive was not brought to us by Abraham but by Moses.

Abraham brought us only the connection of man with the Creator. That is why he is called the first Jew (Yehudi), because he was the first to achieve unity (Yehud) with the Creator, from concealment to revelation.

Before him there were people who were in sensation without concealment. We call them the “generations of sinners:” from Adam to Noah and from Noah to Abraham. Abraham is their consequence.

But in those days, no Aviut was manifested that would give a person concealment and craving to start searching from within themselves. Abraham was the first.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/10/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulamThe Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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Do Not Run from the Truth

275Question: Can the inner work in the group be developed only through the external?

Answer: We need to work in two planes: both internally and externally. On one hand our intentions and desires are working, and on the other hand, when we momentarily fall out of the right intentions and desires, only the external can bring us back to them.

Question: Externally everything is very simple. But how can you connect internally with a friend, with a group?

Answer: This is the group’s work, and everything depends on it! If you have complaints about your private, personal state, the only way out is through the group. Don’t blame anyone, only it! But blame it for the fact that you are not influencing the group in order to change it, but want it to change you.

Comment: It is not about who is to blame, because everyone wants things to be better.

My Response: They do not want to! If they wanted to, everything would have already been the way it should be! But if you say that they do not want to because you are not pushing them, it will be true. Do not run from the truth! Do not cover it up; do not paint over everything that is rotten inside.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/7/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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Return to the Internal Part of the Torah

942In our days, the correction of the world begins with the nation of Israel—specifically with those who engage in the Torah and replace the study of its external part with its internal part.

Before the destruction of the First and Second Temples, people dealt only with the inner part of the Torah, meaning that each person, due to the “subtlety” of their soul, had knowledge of the spiritual world. And the prophets, who were in an even deeper and higher connection with the Creator than the others, served as the spiritual leaders of the nation.

However, when the downfall occurred and prophets disappeared from among the people, the era of the sages began. People began to engage in external actions instead of internal ones, and this continues up to our days.

At the end of the Introduction to The Book of Zohar, Baal HaSulam writes that now it is necessary to return from the external part of the Torah to its internal part, and to engage in those actions that can bring us to mutual guarantee (Arvut), which we once lost. This is what is referred to as the destruction of the first and second temples.

If we return to the inner part of the Torah, whose light o brings us to mutual guarantee, then we correct ourselves and merit receiving the Torah, the upper light.

Then, because this will happen with us, all the nations will join us, since after the exiles there was such a mingling of souls that if today a small “subtle” part replaces the external with the internal and merits to reach mutual guarantee and receive the Torah, then afterward the entire world will be able to join in, and through this “subtle” part receive the light of correction according to the condition of mutual guarantee. And then the upper light, the Creator, will dwell within all souls.

From this we see that the principle remains unchanged: the upper force acts upon the “subtle” part according to equivalence of form, and the “subtle” part mixes with the “coarse” part, and then brings about mutual correction.

These things are simple. In general, in the whole Torah, in all of Kabbalah, in all of reality, there is one very simple law. And it is precisely because of its simplicity that it is difficult for us to perceive it.

In its simplicity, it is very far from us, for it is simple in bestowing, and not in receiving.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/9/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulamThe Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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273.02Question: Arvut (mutual guarantee) is a law we neither see nor feel yet. What will give us the fuel to strive toward fulfilling it?

Answer: Essentially your claim is: “The Creator is revealed when we are connected to one another. Even the smallest connection between us will reveal Him. But right now, since we are not yet connected, we do not know that He will be revealed or what good that will bring. So there is nothing driving me to connect.”

In other words, your attitude toward connection is egoistic. It is based on receiving: “Show me that it is good, and then I will connect with the others.” Just like in times of war: no one needs to be told, “Give a soldier a ride!” Everyone’s kind; everyone’s helpful. Why? “Of course I will give him a ride! So he can go where the enemies are and protect me!”

Do you call that “kindness”? Do you want to reveal spirituality in the same way?

Advancing toward spirituality is inseparable from distancing from your ego. That is precisely why it is concealed. So do not complain that spiritual pleasures are concealed from you. If they were revealed, your ego would chase after them and you would become an even greater egoist. That would not be called Arvut. That kind of Arvut, you can arrange at a bank or with social insurance.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Why We Needed the Torah

234We must constantly work on one fundamental principle, the principle of Arvut (mutual guarantee). Our forefathers also worked on it, but for their level of Aviut (coarseness), a special method, the Torah, was not required.

Their method was simple. They understood that it was so, and by the purity of their soul, they felt the upper just as a Bedouin living in nature feels it entirely, and senses things thousands of kilometers away. It was simply a natural connection with creation. But when egoism grows, a method and tools become necessary.

What is this method? What is the Torah really about? It teaches how to reach the same connection our forefathers had but on a different level of desire to receive. As that desire grows, more actions are needed, as well as individual effort and collective work of the entire group.

The forefathers did not need to work on Arvut among themselves. For them, it came naturally, like a mother’s love for her child. This necessity was evident through the revelation of the Creator; there was no other way to exist.

But once the desire to receive is revealed, everything changes. Aviut increases, and everyone grows distant from one another. To overcome this separation, various methods, tools, efforts, and learning are required.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/6/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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Without Mutual Guarantee, There Is No Spiritual Attainment

934Question: When a person reaches a state of adhesion with the Creator, there are no friends, only him and the Creator. How does that align with the work on mutual guarantee?

Answer: How can an ordinary, simple egoist, not particularly good or bad, who has developed a desire for something unknown, come to feel the necessity to connect with others, to become a single vessel, to correct his ego?

He is brought into a group. This does not depend on him; it is arranged from above, even if from his perspective it seems accidental.

Thanks to being placed in a group, he gradually begins to hear. Sometimes this takes several years.

There are still many people who, despite having been with us for years, do not yet truly hear.

It all depends on the surrounding light—how much it influences a person, how much the group cares about the correction of each member. If the group consists of egoistic individualists where each one thinks only of himself and the necessity for even a minimal level of mutual guarantee has not yet ignited within the group, a condition without which it is impossible to cross the Machsom, then each person will remain stuck in his private aspiration toward the Creator.

“I give, I work, I disseminate, I translate, I do everything that is asked of me, so where is what I rightfully deserve?!” And he is right to ask. “Just tell me what to do, and I will do it!” But the group has not revealed the necessity of uniting into one Kli. And without that, there is no spiritual attainment.

There may be a hundred people sitting together, but only fifteen in mutual guarantee. But if several people sincerely want this to happen, even if they are few, they will receive a relative revelation.

On the other hand, we must understand that the calculation is no longer just with us, but is with the entire world, and there are different conditions that apply now regarding how to advance in accordance with the world as a whole.

In other words, it becomes a matter of dissemination, of how much we invest in it.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/7/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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