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Posted on June 10th, 2025
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In our world, a person is incapable of fulfilling himself, so how can anyone possibly fulfill others? It is completely impossible.
We see idealistic people who are engaged in this, those who genuinely want good for the world. There are about 10% of people who derive pleasure from bestowal. These are the so-called altruists. So-called because they fulfill themselves in a natural way. They are built in such a way that they enjoy bestowing, and that is why they bestow.
We can see what their actions lead to. Do they really do good for anyone? And even if it seems to us that they somehow “sweeten” a person’s suffering, is that truly good? After all, suffering is ultimately sent from above in order to push a person toward analysis and inner work. And perhaps, through their actions, these altruists may actually be tripping the person up? That is a serious question.
In order to fulfill the rule “Love your neighbor as yourself,” we must first and foremost give everyone an understanding of how each person can fulfill himself through bestowing to others.
And when a person begins to understand the law of bestowal and mutual guarantee, he naturally begins to live in such a way that he needs nothing beyond what is necessary for his existence. That is simply how his life is, and everything else in his life is directed toward dissemination and bestowing his surplus to the place where his life now truly resides—outside of himself.
Maybe we do not see this as bestowal, but we are also doing it to a greater or lesser extent. We direct all the time and all the surpluses, all our efforts and thoughts, all our energy toward dissemination.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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Question: How can Israel take upon itself the duty of mutual responsibility today?
Answer: Israel is obligated to be both an example and a source in relation to the entire world.
It must become a model of mutual responsibility, love, and striving for unity with the Creator. At the same time, it must be the source of the force that spreads the power to implement this throughout the world so that the entire world enters into mutual responsibility, love for others, and as a result, unity with the Creator.
What is important for us? Should we focus only on those who are currently called “Israel”? Or should we also engage with those who are within the nations of the world, or with the nations of the world within Israel, people we do not even know who they are? How can this be verified? By passport? That is a big question.
To belong to the nation of Israel has not always historically been determined by the mother and among the nations of the world by the father. This started relatively recently. So nationality is a very shaky concept. By what criteria can we decide who is Israel and who are the nations of the world? How should we relate to one or the other? And can we even relate to them based on the data available to us? Does this really correspond to the root of the soul?
Anyone who has studied history even a little sees how unstable all of this is and how lacking in a solid foundation.
In the Middle Ages, there were Kabbalists who taught Kabbalah to representatives of other nations, and just think what times those were! In accordance with spiritual laws, they determined who was called Israel and who were the nations of the world. After the spiritual shattering, such distinctions seemingly disappeared. Whoever has a spark of Israel awakened within, you can teach him, and he is capable of beginning the correction. That is one side of the matter.
On the other hand, we still must work with that part of the nation of Israel that is connected to the external part of the Torah, with the practical observance of commandments without intention, and somehow we must convince them to engage in intention.
Baal HaSulam writes about this at the end of the “Introduction to The Book of Zohar.” He says that this is precisely the essence of correction. We are obligated to work with everyone who desires it, in all countries and among all nations without exception, even if we have no idea who they are or what they represent, that is, with anyone who has been awakened.
On the other hand, ultimately we will be forced to focus on the religious society, and within it to cause a shift in the perception of importance from the external to the internal. Baal HaSulam states in the “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” that this is what will change the entire reality.
If, within the people of Israel, the very group that adheres to the external part of the Torah shifts its attention to the internal part, this will change the whole world. For then the inner part is corrected, and all other parts begin to align accordingly.
Thus, the work must proceed in two directions.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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Question: Why should one not introduce emotion when explaining things to the masses if it can help attract an audience?
Answer: The point is that when you introduce emotion into an explanation, you introduce yourself, either your empty Kelim or Kelim that have been filled. But this is something personal.
And when you speak rationally, you are talking about facts, which are seemingly above emotion. Facts are facts. They are like faith above reason. Whether you like it or not, it is the law, it is reality. Then you pass it on to others as something independent of you or of them.
You are simply giving people the opportunity to see the law; whether they want to be for it or against it, that is their business. If not, we will enter another round of suffering. And the person will translate this into their own feelings.
I would say that this kind of dissemination is the best: you do not look inspired by what you are saying, but you speak as if your “self” has been removed from the topic altogether.
You are like a mechanism issuing information, and that is it. It does not matter whether you belong to the nation of Israel or to the nations of the world, you are like an auxiliary force, a sort of angel from heaven, telling people what is happening.
This is best, because then everyone feels that you are impartial.
But by being impartial, you speak to people in a way that awakens feelings in them. This is precisely the form we must find in dissemination, even though it both depends on us and does not depend on us.
Because life will soon become such that a person will immediately feel that here you have touched their innermost point.
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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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We are now at a point in time when the world is ready to embrace the method of spiritual correction. If such thoughts and awareness are awakening in the world( as we have seen recently), it is a clear sign that the world is indeed ready.
If, under the pressure of suffering and the question of life’s meaning, people begin to ask “What is the point of the Jewish people’s existence?”, then the answer to that can also begin to be understood.
Humanity is now undergoing very deep, powerful processes. The thoughts circulating around the world, especially in a world interconnected through modern communication, are once again leading to the mixing of Reshimot from the time of the breaking of the vessels.
What is happening today? The world will soon unite around the idea that there is a certain nation, as Haman once said, that interferes with everyone, and that the solution is simply to eliminate it.
This idea will soon become fashionable. Every “cultured” person will begin to speak of it in a respectable, acceptable way, and present himself as understanding the real structure of the world and identifying the source of its evil.
He will express his desire to fix the world, to make it better, by surgically removing the “evil” from it. This will appear very clear, very rational, very scientific, supported by historical and philosophical arguments, and it will be presented as something real and correct.
After all, the Germans were also the most cultured and developed nation at the time of the Holocaust. And that was not by chance. That is how this entire philosophy developed, though it is not new; it has existed since the time of the destruction of the temple.
So if such questions arise: “What is the cause, and what is the answer?”, it means the world is now more ready to hear.
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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 thought of creation includes everything, even me, but I myself strive to attain it. The Creator gave me an opportunity, as if He created a white spot in me, which is called “striving for the Creator.” And I develop this desire and direct it to the upper.
I confirm that in fact, there is no one besides the Creator, and I myself am included in this concept. I do not want to change anything on my part in all of reality, I only want to attain the Creator, to unite with the idea of creation. This means adhesion with the Creator.
The more effort we put into this, the more we develop, change forms, and move along the axis of time. All sorts of changes will occur in us, and we will feel that we are beginning to accept His form.
Like in our world, when we get closer to a person, we gradually adopt his habits and tastes. In the same way, we begin to accept the form of the Creator, to adopt His thought; it becomes ours. This is how we achieve adhesion with Him.
The Creator created a thought, and we are a part of it, we are included in it. But besides this, He gave us the opportunity to reformat ourselves in similarity to this thought and thus to be included in the Creator. This thought enters us as if a program is loaded into a computer, but according to our own desire and demand.
Then it reformats and organizes us so that in everything that is in us, in all the “620” elements and desires, we begin to feel the upper force acting in us.
Gradually, this force fills us, as if a progress bar on a computer is running, showing the loading percentage, and reaches one hundred percent. This is how the plan of creation acts on us according to our efforts, and enters us. This means that we are filled with the Creator and adhere to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/22/19, “There Is None Else Besides Him”
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Question: Yesterday was a very intense day of the convention, and we reached a state of ascent. I felt there was no place left to add effort; it was so elevated.
I started looking for that place and discovered many clusters of dark matter of the will to receive, of hatred within me. I tried to touch it and saw that a great light comes to it, and I can use it as fuel.
But when I touched it, it turned me into a wicked one. How can I work with this dark Malchut so as not to fall into it, but rise by means of it? It feels like walking on the edge of a blade.
Answer: You must constantly think about how you want to draw it to yourself, to grab hold of it, and to rise together with it. Act on it.
Question: Is adhesion with the Creator when you feel His will as your own desire?
Answer: Yes.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 5/24/2025, Lesson 5, “Descents as a Springboard for Ascents”
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