Question: 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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In 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 HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: 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 HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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The 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 HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: 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 HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: 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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In 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 HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)“

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Question: 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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