How can we bring everyone to think about one goal? This is what we must seek because there are no ready-made solutions for every moment of our lives.

We need to search for what kind of connection and in what form, I must have at each moment, so that I may draw upon myself the surrounding light, and that it may give me some elevation toward the spiritual, that is, toward fulfilling the law of mutual guarantee, love for one’s neighbor, and adhesion with the Creator.

All the data is already within us, and according to it, the surrounding light shines upon me. I only need to be sensitive to the difference between me and it, and with its help I need to adjust myself to reach correction. I need to come to a state where the surrounding light affects precisely the uncorrected vessels, my uncorrected intentions.

And each time, I must analyze my states, and clarify them. But I can only be ready for this when the group gives me the sense of importance: “Look, you are sick! A terrible disease is consuming you, and if you do not detect it, you will die! Look at what is inside you!”

Nevertheless, we see that a person does not really listen to this. He is not in a hurry to go to the doctor. ”Maybe in a week… It is not scary yet.” But if he is told this from all sides, and terrifying stories are shared about those who did not go to the doctor, then he will run to the doctor, even if he does not feel anything yet. That is exactly what we need.

All the components are already within us: the light shines, and the vessel is uncorrected. Necessity compels us to begin the work of analysis and correction.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 127

How Can We Reach a State of Lo Lishma Before the Barrier So That the Creator Will Pass Us Through the Barrier?

RABASH says that before the barrier, we must reach a state of “until it does not let me sleep,” “I am lovesick.” This is such an immense extent of yearning for the Creator that does not leave our eyes day or night. It is all we want, and we become locked onto the object of our yearning. Such a state means that we have prepared a vessel, and the Creator discerns our preparation and, according to that preparation, grants the correction, the degree, the vessel. The Creator cannot give us what we have not asked for. We do not receive fulfillment into the vessel we have prepared, otherwise it would turn into a Klipa. Instead, first we acquire a correction, the initial screen.

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Question: We have talked about the need for a group constitution. What is the best way to formulate it?

Answer: It must be clear to us that no efforts, no money, and nothing else will lead to the emergence of the common feeling within our group that will move it forward.

This common feeling is called mutual guarantee (Arvut), for it is simply a feeling in which each person is confident that they will lack nothing because everyone loves them.

Just as a child is certain that their parents will undoubtedly take care of them and give them everything whether the child is good or bad. This is a matter of psychology, a matter of feeling, not of actual implementation.

Of course, the group cannot provide this by itself because it is the result of the influence of the upper light. But we must desire for this to happen, and we must take care that it does.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Which of our actions is most suitable for the surrounding light that will come and correct us? It is the action of a group that is striving to unite in order to merge with the Creator. The formula is very simple. But the problem is that when we start doing it, we forget for what.

We have not sufficiently clarified the intention in each action. Moreover, it is not the same for different people. We need to work on this as much as possible.

If you add a clearer, more demanding intention to the smallest action, it will be a lot more effective and will bring much more benefit. We are going through many actions right now, but we are not very good at intention. The quality of the effort is what is missing.

There is always a problem with that, in every group and in every state. We can do many actions. I often receive emails where people list everything they have done, and ask: “When will it happen already, and where is all that?” What can I say to that?

Indeed, groups do a lot, but there is not enough intention, or it is not sufficient. According to the level of development of the group, the intention should be much more united, much more scrutinized. The purpose of the intention is to be a battering ram.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: If there is agreement in the group to fulfill the mutual guarantee, is this enough to provide the confidence that will influence me and allow me to come out of egoism?

Answer: One must learn from Abraham how to fulfill mutual guarantee. It is not for nothing that he is called Av (father) Le Am (of the people), the father of the people, the group. This is an example for everyone. It does not matter whether the conditions back then were different or not.

He was the first to implement it by drawing more and more people to himself, by increasingly explaining to them the essence of the law of mutual guarantee, what kind of relationships we must be in so that the Creator will be revealed within us, and so that we will feel the spiritual reality, the kind of existence we are truly in, and so on. Each person can do this by following the path of our forefather Abraham. There is nothing new in this.

Of course, if a group already exists and agrees, in one form or another, to implement the mutual guarantee according to the level of its development, or adopts its attainment as the highest standard—a goal they believe they can reach through their own correction and through mutual support among the members—then this is truly an independent advancement. In that case, the group influences each individual, and each individual influences the group.

There is no need for complex calculations here, but only internalizing this law and understanding that without mutual connection, we will not be similar to the light.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 126

Why Do We Who Want Vessels of Bestowal Still Want Them in Order to Receive?

We will always desire everything “in order to receive,” but we still seek some connection to spirituality, even if through Klipot. When entering spirituality, there is a right side and a left side. We, and our entire world, are situated under the left side of Kedusha, in the Klipot. Human beings are a result of the Klipot.

What is required is to reach such a strong state of Lo Lishma, where we can ascend from it to Lo Lishma that is beyond the barrier, and then transform into Lishma. We cannot imagine or desire anything beyond that. However, even in the Lo Lishma desire, there is something of Lishma because the point in the heart is active and stimulates us toward such a desire.

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