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Live in Intention

Posted on June 28th, 2025

Question: How can I gain the strength to remain in intention 24 hours a day?

Answer: A group can obligate you, not by force, but through influence. It can make you want this; you will think about it day and night, and this idea simply will not leave you.

Question: In an elevated state, I can still maintain such an intention, but what should I do when there is no desire?

Answer: You must begin to live within intention, rather than through actions. It is a different dimension: I do not live by actions and relationships; I live inside the intention! Me and the Creator—how do I relate to Him? To remain in this intention at all times.

If you enter such a state for the full 24 hours, it means you cross the Machsom and enter the spiritual world. After all, the spiritual world is your attitude toward the Creator based on your intention toward Him.

Of course, when this happens, you are filled with something entirely different, your concerns shift; you live by this! So do not be afraid!

Then, whether you are studying, eating, drinking, indulging in material pleasures, whatever it may be, you remain in this intention. We are capable of this. I promise that 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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Posted on June 27th, 2025

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The Importance of Our Attitude Toward Reality

Posted on June 27th, 2025

Question: We see how difficult it is for us to maintain the correct intention. So what can we even say about the whole world?

Answer: That is true. But as we study in the wisdom of Kabbalah, there is nothing but intention. The whole issue lies in realizing its importance.

Either you will attain the importance of your attitude toward reality and toward the Creator, through your own free choice or He will instill this importance in you through suffering. Choose one or the other, but you will have to do it based on importance. Importance is what you must attain. Either blows will provide it for you, or attention. That’s all. Now decide!

Today when you tell the people of Israel that another catastrophe could befall them, one even more terrible, you hear in response: “God forbid! What are you talking about?! How dare you?!”

But I only want the full importance, the full seriousness of the situation to be realized; therefore, I speak of potential disaster before it arrives. “No! Absolutely not!” they say, burying their heads in the sand.
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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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The Priority Is Relationships Between Friends

Posted on June 27th, 2025

The Mitzva, “Love your friend as yourself,” is more important than one who makes the sacrifice (Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”).

What does the act of “sacrifice” represent? A person corrects one of their 620 desires and turns it toward bestowal; this is called “offering a sacrifice to the Creator” because through this correction, they draw closer to the Creator (the Hebrew word “Korban”—“sacrifice” comes from “Karov”—“close”).

Thus, any sacrifice from the still, vegetative, or animate levels brought by a person in this world symbolizes the gradual correction of all 620 desires with the intention to bestow.

Naturally, this is not about what to do with animals, wheat, wine, water, or blood, whatever was used at the altar. All these things do indeed take on physical form in our world, but their true meaning lies in the spiritual realm where the soul, made up of 620 desires, is being corrected.

In the process of correcting the desires, the commandments between a person and their friends are more effective than those between a person and the Creator.

Why? Baal HaSulam explains that we must correct our desires by shifting their intention from receiving to bestowal. In working with friends who are close to us in quality and in sharing the same goal, we can do this more effectively than with the Creator. He is concealed; His response is not directly felt by us. But our relationship with Him must be constant, just as His laws toward us are unchanging.

However, we are still in uncorrected vessels. Our states constantly fluctuate and disappear, so we are not yet able to enter into a connection with Him that would influence us effectively.

Therefore, only our relationships with friends remain the most effective means for advancing toward correction. In other words, the commandments “between a person and their friend” take precedence over those “between a person and the Creator.”

Put differently, the commandment “Love your neighbor as yourself” is far more important than all sacrifices and all other forms of relationship between a person and the Creator because it contributes more to the correction of 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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In the Field of Intentions

Posted on June 27th, 2025

The field we find ourselves in is a field of feelings, of good and evil, of pleasures and sufferings, of information, and all sorts of relationships. Within it, one can discover that it is a field of intention, of our relationship with the Creator, from complete opposition to full equivalence. There is nothing else.

To the extent that your intention resembles His, to that same extent you will see that you are already acting. In truth, there are no actions, rather you see that intention is what is being carried out.

Even in our world, there are no real actions! It only seems that we must do something because of the gap between intention and action, between the desired and the actual.

The smallest revelation one receives upon crossing the Machsom is that the whole world exists in a certain field, and everyone fulfills the commands of this field according to their place, each one in accordance with their potential, their soul, relative to this field. Change your place in the field and accordingly, you will perform something else.

Haven’t you felt that sometimes, suddenly, you forget everything you’ve seen, felt, remembered, as if your “computer” was wiped clean and you were left a blank slate? A few hours or moments later, something is inserted, and you’re “switched on” again, like a puppet. How can this happen to a person? After all, before we began studying Kabbalah, we weren’t like this! We remembered everything, had control, knew our way around.

But once we started studying Kabbalah, we suddenly become emptied out and then filled with something else. States arise in you that you have no control over; you feel they are not “you.” A “disk” is inserted or removed in you, and you don’t know where it is coming from. This happens because you’re changing and moving through this field from one place to another.

By yourself, you are a Kli (vessel). What does that mean? Wherever you are located, that is what you are filled with. You change, move, and from that location comes all your fulfillment. Suddenly, you feel emptied out. “What happened? Where am I? Where are my feelings, my inner world?” Nothing is left! You barely recognize yourself.

Suddenly, you discover that you are in a different state, with different filling. Because you are a vessel, what fills you depends on where you are in the field of light. Then you will realize that it is intention that moves you through this field, and according to it you are filled.
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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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Intention—My Attitude Toward the Creator

Posted on June 27th, 2025

Question: What does it mean that intention is not connected to our body? What is the intention?

Answer: Essentially intention is the way I relate to the Creator, to this one and only force acting in the world. Do I distinguish it? Do I wish to see and feel it? And finally, do I wish to relate to Him the same way He relates to me?

The only problem is how to get along with Him; there is nothing and no one else to get along with. In order to match Him in qualities, I need the whole world! That is why the soul was shattered into many parts.
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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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No Thought of Yourself

Posted on June 27th, 2025

In our work, we must always stress the importance and greatness of the Creator in our eyes, so that it is clear to the group that everything we do is to achieve this. In the meantime, we perform various actions to control our desire to receive in order to achieve adhesion with the Creator.

Control over the desire to receive is expressed, first of all, in the fact that we break free of its power and begin to control it. This is possible only through being in a group, with support within it. True power over the desire to receive is achieved through work called “love your neighbor as yourself.”

“Love your neighbor as yourself” is the process and final state in correcting the vessels of reception to bestowal for the sake of bestowal, with no self-interest and concern only for others.

After all, Baal HaSulam does not say, “What you have, others will have.” He does not offer to share with everyone equally, or have this requirement. No, my requirement in the work according to the principle of “love your neighbor as yourself” should be that I give away the only pillow, the only chair.

It is not about a fifty-fifty split, no. Why? Because then I just work with my receiving vessels and see that in order for me to feel good, I need to fill everyone. Otherwise, they will come and take away what I have. So let everyone have an equal share.

This, among other things, was the mistake of the social undertaking, introduced in Soviet Russia or kibbutzim. They had a motto: “Everyone is equal and everyone receives equally.” This is not enough to correct the desire to receive.

The desire to receive must be disconnected from itself, because its ultimate goal is to merge with the Creator. The Creator has no thought of Himself: “So that I can be like them, and they can be like Me.”
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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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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 150

Posted on June 27th, 2025

Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 150

How Can One Be a Great Merchant Without a Passion for Money?

It might be that in our times, those who engage with financial matters must completely invest themselves into it. But it is possible. The difficulty of coping with spirituality versus corporeality exists until the barrier. Until the barrier, we are split. We can be either here or there, but not in both at once. We cannot connect the two.

When we cross the barrier, we view spirituality and corporeality not as opposites, but as one dressing upon the other. We see spirituality through the corporeal world, and then all corporeal actions assume a spiritual character and there is no contradiction between them. Corporeality no longer disturbs spirituality at all. On the contrary, the more we become involved in worldly matters, the more we see our own spiritual actions through them.

It might appear as if we are doing something materialistic and beastly from the outside, because the intention determines what was done, and intention is invisible. Therefore, this is called “the wisdom of the hidden.” Through the clothing of one within the other, we can make great corrections, and indeed, there is no contradiction between corporeality and spirituality.

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