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Friends must strive for connection between them and from that point turn to the Creator and demand adhesion (Dvekut). In this case, the teacher is the messenger of the Creator leading you to Him.
Adhesion with the teacher is a solid foundation (Yesod) upon which a spiritual building can be erected. Yesod is the upper quality in relation to Malchut. Therefore, when a person stands on one hand in Yesod, and on the other in Malchut, a connection forms between one’s current state and the future one.
The foundation (Yesod) is built when a person attributes it to a higher degree and is willing to exert efforts to detach from one’s present state and rise upward to a more elevated state. A person must ask the Creator for the ability to ascend higher and higher.
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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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During the period of the First Temple, the leaders of the people were prophets, individuals who were in close connection with the Creator on a very special level.
The entire nation was in contact with the Creator, but the prophets were connected to Him in a unique, revealed way, corresponding to their Aviut (spiritual coarseness). They attained much more than what the Aviut developing and being corrected in the people at that time allowed.
But when the nation returned from Babylon, a different period began, called the period of the sages. There were no longer any prophecies, but there was a different connection with the upper, on the level of Mochin deNeshama (mind of the soul), yet the mutual guarantee within the nation was no longer all-encompassing. Part of the people were in mutual guarantee with one another and therefore in attainment of the upper, while another part of the nation no longer was.
This lasted until the time of the Second Temple, until even that declined and reached the level of unfounded hatred. The desire to receive had grown so much in people that they were no longer able to carry out the necessary corrections, and so the law of mutual guarantee simply ceased to exist.
The Second Temple was destroyed, and on the material level, the flaw that had arisen between souls was revealed, and the nation went into exile.
Exile is a special state in which it is impossible in practice even to carry out or desire mutual guarantee. The very concept that one must be a guarantor for another became concealed, and this idea seemed to disappear.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/4/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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Let us do a small exercise of trying to internally attune ourselves to an absolute, perfect connection with the Creator.
The Creator is completely governing us now, is opposite our feelings, thoughts, intentions, and actions, in everything that is within a person. There is nothing left in us that is not in complete connection with the Creator.
And now let us try to maintain control over this state and try to guard it constantly so that it does not become blurred, but instead becomes ever sharper. If some interference arises and a thought runs away somewhere, we still try to draw it back in such a way that, thanks to the disturbance, we further strengthen the connection with the Creator in our feelings, in all sorts of sensations, and we constantly keep ourselves in this.
We try to feel that the friends are also in the same inner concentration on the Creator and we all together wish to support each other in this. Even more, even more effort—to try so that everyone is just as focused on the Creator as I am.
And then we imagine Him as something common, one for all. We are constantly directed only toward Him alone, and we help each other focus only on Him.
We unite among ourselves in mutual help so that we no longer feel that it is I who am constantly holding the Creator in front of me as “there is none else besides Him” and “the good that does good,” but that we all together are striving toward Him. And if He is one for everyone, then we are one.
And if this is not yet possible, then I must care even more that a friend does not break their connection with the Creator. I want to be inside him, to help him in this.
In principle, we should constantly be in such exercises. Baal HaSulam writes in his Letter 17 that “Israel, the Torah, and the Creator are one,” that we must be directed straight toward the goal and try not to deviate from this path in any case, because otherwise a growing error will occur and we will find ourselves away from the goal.
Such constant striving is precisely the realization of the method of Achishena. We must think about how every person who comes into the group integrates into it. And to integrate into the group means to renew our efforts every day, to elevate them to a higher level, to direct them more precisely toward the Creator, toward oneself, and among each other.
The main thing is not to disconnect from this. That is, all my thoughts and discussions with friends must be included in the same intention—to be together facing the Creator—and in no case should I deviate from this. All disturbances must only increase the connection between us and with Him.
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From the Convention in St. Petersburg 7/29/2016, Lesson 1
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Question: How should we deal with a reluctance to study “The Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” (“Pticha“)?
Answer: Just as in our world there are scientists and poets, those who favor humanities or technology, the same applies in Kabbalah. Some people are emotional by nature.
They come to the wisdom of Kabbalah, and for them the connection with the Creator is expressed through more emotional texts, expressions, possibly songs, dance, and certain sensations.
And then there are people who approach the world technically. They need a blueprint: draw it for them, and they will understand. Or they want everything to be strictly structured and systematized, and so on.
That is why it is so important for us to study both aspects. Over time a person will naturally lean toward their own specialization. In every group, there will be those who are more emotional and those who are more practical, but we all need to follow a common path.
The common path is the one given to us by the ARI and Baal HaSulam. You look at the diagrams and see not just a graphic representation, but a representation of feelings.
I can sketch some squiggle, and instead of talking about it for ten minutes, you just look at it and it becomes clear what it is about, just like we convey our feelings through words.
In essence, all of Kabbalah is a language of feelings because the foundation of creation is desire.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 4/4/19, Q&A with Dr. Michael Laitman
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee),” Items 29 (11.18.2003)
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