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Posted on June 5th, 2025
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Comment: I have a feeling that each of us has their own channel of connection with the Creator.
My Response: Yes.
Question: Should we examine the channel of connection that our friends have?
Answer: That’s none of your business. Disconnect from that thought. Be yourself, and on that level try to be with the entire ten.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 5/23/2025, Lesson 4, “There Is None Else Besides Him in the Ten”
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The sons of the people of Israel who left Egypt continue their correction during the forty-year journey through the desert with the help of the Torah they received, enter the land of Israel, and reach the level called the First Temple.
After that, they must mix with an even greater Aviut (coarseness), which increases both within them and among the nations of the world. This pertains, of course, to the system of souls, but it is evident from history that corresponding processes occur in physical bodies as well.
As a result, each person from Israel feels an addition of Aviut, and then what is called an inner exile takes place when they are no longer able to remain in the degree of adhesion with the Creator that they had attained.
Now they are capable of less; new desires grow stronger within them. This means that a person enters into a connection with the nations of the world within themselves, and in accordance with that, external processes unfold that lead to destruction.
Destruction means that we mentally disconnect from that perception of life in which we are united with one force, with one thought, and we begin to fall into the multitude of desires.
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From the 1st part from the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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The purpose of creation is intended for all souls—each individually and all together. However, it is impossible for everyone to attain this goal collectively because in some people the condition of Arvut (Mutual Guarantee) is initially unable to awaken immediately; it can only emerge after the prior work done by other souls.
Baal HaSulam writes that the forefathers did not need the condition of Arvut because their souls were subtle, and due to their exaltedness and purity, they were already in Dvekut (Adhesion) with the Creator without performing practical actions, that is, without carrying out preliminary corrections or fulfilling commandments.
They did not need to reach the condition of “we shall do and we shall hear” because by virtue of their subtlety, their souls were originally ready to exist in mutual guarantee without making the efforts that are required from us with our coarse Aviut.
Due to their purity, subtle souls receive the Torah, and the mutual guarantee is realized within them. This leads to the fulfillment of the condition “love your neighbor as yourself.” Then the light of the Torah clothes within them and they dwell in adhesion with the Creator.
After our forefathers attained this, the merit of the fathers arose for the sons. In other words, those souls that are now capable of joining the subtle souls with their more coarse Aviut use these pure souls by means of connection and mutual inclusion.
Therefore, the law of mutual guarantee is also realized for them, but only after performing certain work, prior actions. What are these actions? Everything that can lead them to the condition of mutual guarantee.
And once they attain this, they merit receiving the Torah, that is, the light, the system of correction of their Aviut for the purpose of achieving the principle “love your neighbor as yourself” when the Creator will already dwell in their common Kli (vessel).
For receiving the Torah, it is enough to fulfill the condition “we shall do and we shall hear,” that is, the agreement that the power of mutual guarantee should exist so that we should want to fulfill it, so that this ability would come from above. And upon receiving the power of the Torah, we begin to carry it out, and then we become “as one man with one heart” and a single Kli (vessel). We merit receiving the Torah, and then we must fulfill it, that is, begin the corrections.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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Question: Suppose I am able to feel a certain quality within myself and I call it Moses. To what extent can I rely on this Moses to lead me where I need to go?
Answer: To what extent can one believe in or surrender to their own thoughts and decisions? After all, I label part of my thoughts as facts, another part as doubts, and some as lies. And it all constantly changes within me.
The fact is that testing the validity of these perceptions depends, first of all, on my discernment according to the principle of truth and falsehood rather than bitter and sweet.
The first real discernment in order to act based on truth versus falsehood rather than bitter versus sweet happens only when a person restricts their desires after receiving the force of Arvut (mutual guarantee).
Before that one cannot trust oneself in anything. And certainly, all decisions and judgments made before that are erroneous.
So what should he do? He should go according to the opinion of the group. He must understand that he has no understanding of his own, that he is completely mistaken, and that he must accept the knowledge of the group. This is what it means to go above reason.
We are talking about the group in relation to which he has decided that he will advance in accordance with what he receives from it. But first a person must understand that if he wants to rise above the animate level and begin a certain kind of development, he must submit to some external guidance.
Then he chooses a group that conveys its direction to him. He accepts from the group its opinions, intentions, decisions, view of life, everything necessary, and surrenders himself to it. This means that a person goes above his own reason following what the group dictates. In doing so, he triumphs over all the other forces in his life that deliberately confuse him so that he may reach this discernment.
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From the 1st part from the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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Comment: According to statistics, when someone attacks another person and sees signs of weakness, the attacker often feels an even greater urge to harm them.
My Response: Naturally, that is our egoism. When we see someone else’s weakness and we are confident that we will not be punished, we instinctively desire to suppress them even more.
We are very easily drawn to extremes, either one way or the other. It all depends on society, on the environment, which can influence us in either direction. It is an enormous force that resides within us, a terrifying force!
Right now, we are at a pivotal point in historical development where we can turn one way or the other. We could slide back into fascism, only this time, it would be far worse culminating in a world war of such magnitude that only a small remnant of humanity would survive, which is a scenario like those shown in Hollywood films: a destroyed Earth, with the remaining people living among heaps of metal and junk, the last remnants of everything that once existed.
Kabbalah says this is possible. Still, the people who remain will fulfill their task of bringing egoism to its corrected form. But this will happen through immense suffering.
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Question: It is written that the Creator hates the bodies. Does it mean that we are supposed to hate something or someone?
Answer: No, the phrase “hates the bodies” refers to egoism. In Kabbalah, the term “body” means the ego.
Question: But are we supposed to hate egoism or not?
Answer: The Creator calls on us to rise above the ego, to reject its use, and to replace it with bestowal, love, and connection. But this by no means refers to destroying the ego.
Egoism remains anyway, we cannot eliminate it. What we must do is create conditions for rapprochement above it despite the ego that separates us.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 12/22/2019, “How to Climb the Spiritual Steps”
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