Question: What is the difference between a union (Brit) and mutual guarantee (Arvut)?

Answer: Union is a preliminary connection, prior to mutual guarantee, when we just agree to be in connection with each other.

Mutual guarantee is a state when we enter each other’s desires, work together in them: I work on your desires, you on mine, and we provide each other with full mutual support.

I become your guarantor, take you under my wing, think not about myself but about how to provide you with all my resources. And you see what I need and will think how to provide me with your resources.

This mutual support when we mutually fulfill each other’s desires is called mutual guarantee. But at the beginning, it is characterized by establishing union: an agreement is signed, subject to further realization. In principle, this and that work together.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/23/13

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My “I” refers to the part of me that seeks connection with the Creator, and everything else is my animal (physiological) manifestation.

In other words, a person’s image consists of two parts, and they should be clearly distinguished. One of them is an animal part, with all the human problems, his weaknesses, his desires, and everything that belongs to him as to a material object.

The second part is the point in the heart, which seeks the Creator. The Upper Light, affecting it, develops not only our positive aspiration for the Creator, but also our egoism as an opposite action constantly giving man the balancing of freedom of the will. It is this aspiration for the Creator that is called my “I.”
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/23/13

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Question: What is the meaning of the center of the group? Is it an internal component a person has, including our impressions from our collective actions and from the workshops?

Answer: The center of the group is what we constantly analyze and clarify, exploring it in our attributes, in our view: Where is it, how is it characterized, what should I yearn for? I have to feel what the center of the group is internally.

It is very blurry, like looking at a target that is constantly moving and which I cannot focus on through a site. However, if I determine it clearly, it means that I have come in contact with the attribute of love and bestowal.

Question: Through which concrete actions do I find the connection with the center of the group?

Answer: Such a connection is determined by a person’s need for it in order to connect to the Creator and to bring His revelation to the world. In the article “The Messiah’s Shofar” and in other articles too, it says that Israel, those who yearn straight to the Creator, will not leave the exile and will not attain a connection with the Creator unless they bring the whole world to it.

Now, the time has finally come for us to incorporate the external ego of the masses, and we must demand the Creator to fill it. At the same time we can only be the conductors, the point of adhesion between the Creator and the rest of the world; the revelation of the Creator in the world is our mission.

Question: How can I determine whether I disseminate from the center of the group or not?

Answer: You should feel that yourself. If you disseminate and at the same time constantly fear not leaving the center of the group, then everything is fine.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/22/13

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Question: If, for example, the entire central group transcends the Machsom together, what would happen with the daily Kabbalah lesson?

Answer: The daily Kabbalah lesson will be held beyond the Machsom. Now, too, I give you energy and the knowledge of everything that happens beyond the Machsom.

Talmud Eser Sefirot and the other sources are written on the spiritual level, but at the moment you perceive them on the level of the corporeal world. Beyond the Machsom you will already feel it on a different level.

Suppose I examine a painting together with the artist and he says: “You can add a bit of yellow here or red here and here a bit more blue.” He relates to the painting in a strictly technical manner, while I am impressed by the colors of the picture and how it influences me. Usually a painter sketches an outline of a picture by using a pencil before he begins to paint it. And I don’t see that.

The Creator also makes a pencil sketch before he paints the whole colorful picture before us. Gradually, you begin to see the inner connections, the inner forces in this general picture. You begin to feel how he adds certain new colors to the painting, something illuminates, and something is removed and creates new contrasts. All this sparkles before you in your senses. You will determine the level of interaction by the Aviut (the depth of the desire) through the Masach (screen), through the forces that depict this world to us. It will be clear to you that everything stems from one force only, from one intention: to make you as perfect as He is, as your source.

Question: What did you feel just before you transcended the Machsom?

Answer: The same states that one feels before the exodus from Egypt: terrible pressure on all sides, a full yearning forward, fear of the unknown, of what there is before me, and at the same time, the fear of not reaching the spiritual attainment. All this happens not when you yearn forward artificially, but when you really act, yearning for the center of the group and at the same time pushing yourself from behind by disseminating the integral method, just like you spur on a horse by using a whip in order to push ahead, and then you break through.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/22/13

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Igrot,” Letter 56

The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, Parashat, “Beresheet”

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 1, Part 2

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Everything depends on the importance of the spiritual path, and this is exactly what we lack. How much time do we waste during the day on different things that are unimportant? We are unable to constantly concentrate on the right intention, to yearn to draw the Light that Reforms. After all it says: “I have not exerted, I have not found.” So how do we make the effort to exert ourselves?

People are willing to exert effort every day on things that seems to be important: hard work, travel, worries. So the only thing missing is spiritual importance. Rabash used to say that unfortunately it’s impossible to buy this prescription in a drugstore, a medication, which if swallowed, would immediately allow you to feel the importance of spirituality. There is no such medicine, so what can we do?

The only means is the influence of the environment. It says: “a group or death.” If we really organize a strong group that constantly inspires a person and evokes envy, lust, and honor in him, then he will envy others and see that they are stronger than he is, how special they are; it will press him, not let him relax, and then he will wake up. If not, there is no way he can succeed.

Everything is determined by the environment. Once you enter an environment, you become totally dependent on it. The environment can raise a person or lower him. A person advances according the intensity of the spirit of the environment with regard to the goal, no more, no less. This is, of course, if he doesn’t disrespect the environment and if he tries to adhere to it. His job is to invest in the environment, and the environment in response has to invest in him, in each of the friends.

We have to make sure of that and constantly check and see that everyone feels the importance and the greatness of the goal. Now, for example, we are sitting in the lesson while some of our friends are working on the construction of our new home, so we have to worry about these friends and not let them work day after day and miss the lessons. This is also forbidden. Even if a person is more extremely needed on the construction site, we still have to make sure that he comes to the lessons sometimes.

You mustn’t leave the lessons completely. A person must be in the lesson at least twice a week in order to keep the feeling of the importance of the spiritual goal, otherwise he will fall. It says: “Torah with the desired system of behavior is better,” which means that we need both.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/20/13

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The wisdom of Kabbalah is a very practical science. Adam discovered it and told us about it in his book, Sefer Raziel HaMalach. After that Abraham continued the investigation, and after him other Kabbalists in different generations.

In general, we are discovering something new in the world all the time. And what is discovered today was not discovered by the Kabbalists of the past. In the same way the physicists of the 21^st century also know more about the world than their predecessors. This is the character of the scientific knowledge of the world.

Here we , with you, are also developing the Kabbalistic method all the time, advancing forward, and as a result of this, we discover things today that were previously unknown. And what will be discovered tomorrow, we do not know. Personally, I can look at the future because I am ahead of you by a few stages, but the general development of the groups and of the world will be revealed only to the degree that they are ready for this. In general, the outlines of the picture of the future are known to me, but every level, every change is revealed only to the degree of the readiness of the group.

Therefore, the more strongly you become consolidated, the closer you will be to me, the more I can express. So all of us together are discovering the present, correct, and appropriate method of correction for our era, and in this way we will begin to realize it, we will enjoy its fruits…
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From the One America “Virtual Convention” Day Two 11/17/13, Lesson 3

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We are in the initial stage of the world crisis. It will continue to be revealed more and more, and we need to advance together with it until people will feel that they have found themselves at some kind of an end, in a vortex. In other words, pressure from the side of nature will continue to grow to such a degree that it will be clear that there must be some reason for this.

And besides this, it will be clear that a logical, calculated, purposeful, and diverse reaction is required from all of us.

We are discovering that nature is global and relates to us as a complete whole. And in particular its relationship focuses specifically on people like us who have a point in the heart. Specifically we can transform to become the link that connects between the Creator and all creatures, taking their place in the middle.

And therefore we are expecting special forms of pressure: We are obligated to the Creator, on one hand, and to humanity on the other. Both from above and from below we must carry out the role of a transitional link: to convey the desires of humanity to the Creator and transmit the actions and influence of the higher power to humanity. This is what our work is like, to become the connecting channel.

This is a very important, special task, because only through us can humanity receive spiritual “nourishment,” and only through us can the Creator receive human deficiencies. We are in the middle, the mediators, and we are responsible. And therefore it is necessary to cherish every friend, he was chosen from among billions of people and is involved in realizing this mission together with all of us.
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From the One America “Virtual Convention” Day Two 11/17/13, Lesson 3

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Question: Is it possible for a single woman in the group to search for a partner among married friends in the group?

Answer: No, can we allow ourselves to destroy married couples? Women do not come to our groups to break up couples and take someone else’s husband! What selfishness; no one can disagree with that. We must stop attempts like this immediately and even remove a person like this from the group, whether man or  woman!

This is not only about destruction of the family, but also about that egoism that is revealed in this deed; it has no place in a group. Keep in mind that our collective ego acts reciprocally so these actions insert very strong separation into a group.

There are cases where a man becomes divorced because his wife doesn’t agree with his spiritual path. Then, an unmarried woman can show him signs of interest. However, it is forbidden for her to be the cause of his divorce. She shouldn’t give him hope for a future. We cannot afford this!
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/22/13

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