If we are developing correctly and feel that we want to unite but are unable to do so by ourselves, then a third factor enters the picture—the Creator.

It is not just me and the group; He must be present within it. He must be the goal for me. He must become the performer of the action, and this is a sign of correct development.

By desiring to unite with the group, I thereby create a Kli within which He must dwell.

I am ready to give myself over to it, but what I currently lack is the understanding of the necessity for this to be for the sake of the Creator, so that the Creator will dwell within this connection.

The lack of this understanding comes from the fact that He is concealed.

But soon, from the suffering, from understanding the necessity, it will be revealed that He must be here. When these three factors: me, the group, and the Creator merge as one, it will happen.
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From the 1^st part from the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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In the generations from Adam to Noah and from Noah onward, both in the people of Israel and among the nations of the world, the Aviut (the thickness of the desire) was still very small.

Abraham is unique in his generation in that a yearning for the Creator was revealed in him despite the fact that his father Terach was an idol-worshipper and engaged in Avoda Zara (foreign work), meaning he believed that there are many forces in the world besides the Creator that each act independently.

If a person “sees” that all these forces govern him for better or worse, he turns to each of them. He does not consider that behind them stands another force, one that unites them all, possesses thought, has a program and a goal for humanity, and uses all these forces merely as its messengers, messengers that have no program of their own, no free will, and no particular relation to a person. He does not believe that everything is governed by a single force.

This in essence is the qualitative difference between Abraham and his father. The approach that one must believe there is a single force and seek it replaces the former view of nature as a collection of many forces. This refers to a qualitative effort and distinction that requires a special purification of the “body,” that is, the desire to receive.

Abraham taught this to his followers; he taught that behind all the forces stands a single thought, a single desire. None of the individual forces contains good or evil; behind them is one thought that is good and benevolent to both the wicked and the righteous, which leads a person to the goal.

Good and evil, though perceived differently by us, serve one purpose. We must understand the plan of the Creator and accept it, relate to it rationally, correctly, and develop ourselves accordingly.

The Creator demands that we participate in our development from our own independent desire. This is the only way we can be truly independent; it is by strengthening ourselves on the path of development, that is, by accepting His program and realizing it.

In essence, no one in the generation of Abraham, except Abraham himself, grasped this idea. People did not yet have a prepared foundation within their souls to reveal the true picture of reality. Abraham, however, came to this through purification, that is, a special quality in the soul.
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From the 1^st part from the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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I want to see everything in this world that can be seen and achieve everything in it that can be achieved. In the spiritual realm, that is not a problem. But to embody spirituality in this world, that is the real task.

I am not concerned with how long I live. I want to see the world accept the wisdom of Kabbalah as the method for its continued existence, a method for rising from temporary life on Earth into another dimension: the spiritual one.

When people begin to feel this, to accept this theory and way of life, when they come to see that they must rise to the next stage, that this entire world we currently perceive and experience is a kind of construct that exists only in order to ascend above it, when they accept what Baal HaSulam and my teacher, his eldest son Rabash, have prepared for them, then that will truly be the straight path to the light.

But until then, who knows what suffering humanity may still have to endure? One way or another, it will reach this conclusion, but whether it happens with minimal pain, that, no one knows.

That is why I would like to be present in all the decisions and help humanity take its first steps toward accepting Kabbalah as the method for its final development.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. What Does a Kabbalist Want?” 9/14/10

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 132

Is Prayer a Means?

Prayer is not merely a means. We refine our desire to make it better, to make it function, and to assume another form through prayer. What is prayer? It is a deficiency within the desire, a request for the desire to change.

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