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Posted on May 11th, 2025
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Now, after all the corrections and all the damage that souls have undergone in their descent to the lowest degree, we must fulfill the law of mutual responsibility (Arvut). Through this, we will merit receiving the Torah, correction, and final correction.
Indeed, the greatest degree of Aviut (coarseness) is revealed in us now, and if in this state we implement this law, we will complete the entire work that souls were meant to carry out while clothed in bodies.
It turns out that mutual responsibility is the only correction we must implement. It includes all other conditions we are required to fulfill and all the qualities we must acquire in order to become a single vessel for containing the upper light.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/4/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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One should not fall into despair on the path. Yet, on the other hand, despair is precisely the state that brings a person to the right decision.
That is why despair is one of the most beneficial states on the spiritual path. A person despairs, makes a decision, and moves forward.
The moment of despair is the point of contact with the upper force.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/5/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Things that Come from the Heart”
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And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out from there with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm; therefore, the Lord, your God, commanded you to observe the Sabbath day (Torah, Deuteronomy 5:15).
Every chapter of the Torah describes the gradual ascent of a person through the degrees of the spiritual worlds toward the level called “the land of Israel.” Although the laws of the Torah may seem to repeat themselves, each time they speak of new spiritual levels and are therefore perceived entirely differently.
All spiritual work is considered in relation to the exile that the people of Israel experienced for the first time when they rose from an unconscious state into awareness of where they truly are in relation to the Creator, that is, in relation to the desire directed toward connection with Him, toward His revelation.
This state is called Eretz Israel—the “land of Israel.” “Eretz” means desire (Ratzon), and “Israel” means Yashar-Kel—straight to the Creator. It is the desire aimed at revealing the Creator, at a living connection with Him, in which one can feel Him directly, just as we now feel each other.
In fact, this feeling is far more vivid and intense. It arises precisely from the feeling opposite to it: from total detachment, incomprehension, ignorance, and lack of desire for spirituality. This state, known as the “darkness of Egypt” or “Egyptian exile,” is not typical for an ordinary person in our world because the average person does not feel they are far from something or that there is something they need to reveal.
Egypt is a state where the Creator does shine, but He shines with inverse light. Instead of evoking understanding, enlightenment, attainment, love, and warmth, He impacts us from His reverse side by bringing about darkness, confusion, rejection, and a sense of worthlessness.
Thus, darkness is also a form of influence of the Creator from above, and in order to feel and understand that you are opposite to the Creator, a great deal of inner work is required.
For example, my mother was a gynecologist and for many years conducted scientific research in the field of medicine. In the evenings she would share her states with my father, and she burned with that darkness, with the lack of understanding, with the desire to find the meaning, the method, the mechanism, behind certain transformations in the human body. I was 12 or 13 at the time, but even then, I could see how someone can be consumed by such a search.
That is why, to truly feel the darkness, one must work deeply and persistently. People like that are characterized by an inner emptiness that is formed by the light that shines upon them from afar but does not yet fill them. It just prepares the vessel in which it will later be revealed. And so, they search.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/16/16
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Kabbalah is a sensory transmission of information. The terms used in it are not found in any language. They are not even taken from Hebrew, but from the language of the wisdom of Kabbalah. Therefore we take such Kabbalistic definitions as Sefirot, Partzufim, Reshimot, etc. into any language.
Question: Are you saying that this is not Hebrew?
Answer: Of course, it is not Hebrew. Partzuf is “a face” in Hebrew and in Kabbalah it is the structure of a spiritual object.
Comment: But the word is still the same, and it is used in Hebrew.
My Response: Yes, but it has a completely different meaning, even a different root. For example, “Reshimot“. In Hebrew, of course, there is the word “Roshem,” “Reshima”—“record,” “list,” but in Kabbalah, the word “Reshimo” means information.
Or, for example, a screen, Masach: of course, there is a computer screen, a TV screen, which is “Masach,” and there is Masach—in the soul. But “Masach in the soul” has a completely different meaning—“to act.” That is, the language of Kabbalah means that it is detached from all other languages and from all of us.
What difference does it make whether you speak your native language or Hebrew or English? If you are an egoist, then you speak an egoistic language. And if you have already acquired the qualities of bestowal and love, then you speak an altruistic language, and this is the language of Kabbalah. That is, the meaning is completely different in every word, in every definition.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalistic Language” 8/25/10
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee),” Items 27, (11.16.2003)
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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Preparation for the Convention,” Lesson 2: “Believing that the Creator Is Good and Does Good”
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