Question: Should the presence of the Creator already be revealed?

Answer: The presence of the Creator does not need to be clear to us right now, and it cannot be clear. It is revealed to the extent of the equivalence of properties. But there must be a demand for His presence as a force within the group that provides the mutual guarantee (Arvut).

It is like a guarantee you receive from a bank, and you come to me saying: “The bank guaranteed it for me.”

There must be a sense that He is the guarantor, the partner, the source who gives strength and support, and who also fulfills things if we make the correct decision.

It is like children consulting with each other about what to ask for from their father: “We want this, and that, and the other.” But if they unite into a group and finally find the correct request to their father, he immediately fulfills their desire.

Suppose the father wants to buy them nuts, but they want ice cream. Until they come to the right desire—for nuts—the father will not buy them anything. He will not be with them. It seems too simple, but in the end, this is how Baal HaSulam describes our relationship with the Creator.

Since the Creator is hidden from us, we can heat up this question among us in our work: “What does He want from us?”

We are available to one another, and in all the twists and turns we go through, we can discern what the desire of the upper one is, what adhesion (Dvekut) means, what the right intention for the sake of bestowal is, and so on.

With the group, everything can be done like in a laboratory. But with the Creator, it is not so because He is concealed. It is very similar to the relationship between children and their father: if they find the correct request corresponding to what the father has prepared for them, then they immediately discover his desire and receive fulfillment from him.
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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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