Question: In striving to achieve mutual guarantee, is it possible that we are directing too much effort outward instead of acting within ourselves?

Answer: This might be valid if we didn’t find in practice that engaging in external dissemination unites us, gives us confidence, strength, and upliftment, which we receive back from the communities we serve.

By building something outwardly, we thereby build ourselves. It is impossible to say what the correct balance should be. We try. This, essentially, is a kind of action called “we will do and we will hear.”

We see that we are constantly undergoing changes. One must act according to the understanding of one’s state. What else can we do? This is our path, because seeking and discovering is that practical work through which we carry out clarifications and corrections.

To aspire toward the final state is good. But by discovering different things now and performing tiny actions, we generate details of perception without which the end of correction cannot be felt.

The difference between the end of correction and the beginning of creation lies only in the added details of our perception (Avchanot), which we collect along the way.

You return to the same state, only inside yourself you become more diverse and more refined; more opposite details of perception and distinguishable inner qualities appear within you.

This is what allows you, instead of being a point merged with the Creator as you once were, to become a Partzuf and truly existing on His level.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/10/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Gradually we begin to see that the people of Israel have no hope for success in economics, security, international recognition, and not even in simple material existence. We exist in this world as a completely useless part of it, and the world despises and hates this part.

This is a law of nature! We are all within nature, and its law is that the entire human part of the world must be in adhesion with the Creator. This is what we must bring everyone to.

We have a method that helps the human part, each and every one, come to equivalence of form with the Creator, due to which a person begins to feel that there are higher components besides his animal part within him. Even in his animal part, he also feels himself in serene peace, in perfection and eternity.

That’s all! The method of how to be happy is in our hands! And this we must reveal to everyone, and first of all to our own people because they are destined to suffer more than others. So let them know why they suffer; it is because they must implement this method before others and teach it to the rest of the nations.

The Creator Himself, as it were, cannot give the Torah to all the nations, cannot bring humanity to the highest level of existence. This can be fulfilled only through us.
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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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Question: How can we distribute our efforts in the most effective way so that they lead us to mutual guarantee by the shortest route? What practical actions should we perform?

Answer: We see that these actions lie in such areas as study, support for the existence of the inner group, and external dissemination. All these things relate to the practical part and are the means for us to achieve the realization of mutual guarantee among ourselves. And if someone thinks that there is any other means, then we must check whether this is so.

Ultimately the goal is one: for a group of students drawn to spirituality to understand that they are obliged to achieve mutual guarantee. This obligation must become a necessity to such an extent that it really attracts the light from above, which will correct them and lead them to the level of mutual guarantee. This is called “we shall do and we shall hear.” We are ready to do anything, if only this condition is realized in us.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/6/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: What do we lack more in dissemination: physical or internal efforts?

Answer: We lack both internal dissemination, inside ourselves, and dissemination in the group—the group to each one, and each one to the group—and dissemination outside the group, to the people.

We must disseminate to the people both internally, in thoughts, when we think about it and want it to happen, which is called prayer for the society, and also in the form accepted in the world, in action. In other words, both in our spiritual plane at the level of thoughts, desires, and in the plane of physical, corporeal actions.

We must look for such forms so that a person accepts what is good for him, what he will not accept in any other way. Just as suitable food is specially prepared for a sick person: for example, more liquid, not too fatty, etc., so we must do this. Our task is to prepare medicine for the people in such a way that they can swallow it.

But this does not mean that we should lag behind. After all, in the case of a sick person, you do not waste time; you immediately give him what is good for him, but in a form in which he can accept it so that everything is better absorbed in him. It is the same way here!

Therefore, we need to distribute delicately and slowly, while taking into account the capabilities of people.
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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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Question: If a person is shown that he is not in perfection in his relationship with the Creator, how can he stay on the path and continue to choose the Creator each time?

Answer: What is the problem? He is shown the full picture: where he is, where the Creator is, and where the world is. And from all of this, he must build the correct system.

Question: When a person worries about himself, that he is distant from the Creator, how can he avoid thinking about his own distance and instead include in this sorrow the exile of the Shechina?

Answer: I would advise him to forget about himself a little. And then things will start to work out.
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From the  World Kabbalah Convention 5/22/2025, Lesson 1, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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A person advancing in correction begins to recognize forces within oneself he or she can consciously call “Abraham,” “Moses,” “the people of Israel,” and “the nations of the world” even before reaching true revelation.

Somehow a person distinguishes them and suddenly sees that this, in all likelihood, is that very aspiration, that desire, called “Abraham.” Abraham probably related entirely to this since other desires had not yet been revealed in him.

What is “Abraham” today? It is the uppermost layer within all souls, the purest desire to receive, which is ready to adhere to the Creator, but only if it is separated from all other desires.

In the past, it was indeed separated, because the other, more coarse desires had not yet been revealed.
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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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Question: To whom within myself should I explain what the purpose of creation is?

Answer: You must explain the purpose of creation and everything that happens not only to the external world but also to your inner world so that all your desires, all your impulses, will understand it.

Then you begin to sort them out according to how each desire at each moment can be aligned in relation to the overall goal.

You cannot simply erase some desires. You are obligated to give them some kind of answer, some kind of fulfillment, some kind of correction. Even those desires that cannot currently be truly corrected in practice you must satisfy through the advancement of your other parts, your other desires.

The desires with which you are currently unable to move forward on the path of correction, you must compensate for. That is, you must restrict them, refrain from using them even if you greatly want to. How can this be done? You must give them a kind of sweetening of the state in which they are not being fulfilled and not being realized.
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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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Comment: When you transmit Kabbalistic information in Hebrew and in Russian, it seems like there are two different people. It is as if you are translating some things from Russian.

My Response: No, I practically do not translate from Russian, although sometimes it happens. In Kabbalah, after all, what I felt was lived through in Hebrew.

And if I want to express myself sensorily and then convey it in some Kabbalistic forums, then, of course, I translate, because my sensory language on the earthly level is still Russian. But it also depends on how; it is very conditional.

I am adjusting from language to language, although my pronunciation leaves much to be desired, and my vocabulary is not that great. But if it is close to Kabbalah, then I think it is more in Hebrew.

If I am teaching a lesson or lecture in Hebrew, I am thinking in Hebrew, and I do not have any Russian words inside me. It happens sometimes that I somehow do not find the appropriate expressions. But when I search for words, I search based on my feelings that have not yet been put into words, and therefore, there is no such thing that I first put feelings into Russian, and then into Hebrew.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Kabbalistic language” 8/25/10

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #4, “What Is the Reason for the Heaviness One Feels when Annulling before the Creator in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 14 (5.10.2006)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Everything Is Obtained by the Power of Prayer”

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “The Rose” (Mirrors of the Sulam [Ladder])

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