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Posted on July 1st, 2025
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Question: If we act correctly, will this lead to a faster revelation of evil? Is this what is the acceleration of development is?
Answer: If we accelerate the work, what does accelerate even mean? At the very least, we should aim to close the gap! If we awaken ourselves and inspire the world to realize that the relationships between people are the most important factor in drawing closer to the upper force, then as a result, we will reveal the good.
Perhaps you are asking about when a person studies Kabbalah, through study, dissemination, and other actions, one begins to reveal the corrections awaiting him, and he goes through stages where he feels bad. He sinks into unpleasant states like depression, descent, and so on. So if the world begins to engage in what we recommend now, would it not have to go through those same descents and painful sensations?
I do not think such a danger exists. The corrections that the world will go through will be on a large scale. In other words, the idea will take hold of a huge number of people, while the opposite idea will continuously weaken because masses of people will fall into despair not knowing how to continue living.
Therefore, those who adhere to the idea of correction will not experience descents, but rather a relatively uplifted state, an ascent. We have descents because we are surrounded by a hostile environment, which is constantly introducing disturbances.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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Question: Why does it mean if I feel bad that something better exists?
Answer: To understand what is good and what is better or worse, you need to analyze whether your suffering is enough for you. Maybe it is worth trying to find some idea or logic within it?
Perhaps there is a certain pattern, and if I discover it, I would live better? After all, what do we ultimately want from life? Just to live better! You are not swimming against the current of life; you are moving with it.
What we are missing in this world is a certain informational element in order to be happy, to know why we live, why we suffer, why we die, why we were born, to know everything about our life! Does it all have a purpose?
In any case, you can’t escape these questions! Isn’t the dissatisfaction and suffering from these questions and the troubles that rain down on us enough to make us seriously search for an answer?! If not, then let’s go on living as before: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
But even that possibility is no longer given to us. The bitterness comes in advance, and I no longer want to “eat and drink” and forget about tomorrow. The joy of today is already taken from me before it even comes.
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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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From the beginning of creation to its end, we must deal solely with the intention against the background of the will to receive, above it. Therefore, when someone says to me, “Let’s change the world! Tell me, what needs to be done?” I answer: There is no need to destroy this world or build it anew. All actions lie in our attitude toward the world, toward reality, toward one another. That is all, nothing else is needed.
That is why our work does not intersect with any other kind of work in the world. You do not interfere with the world behaving as it always has. Let them do as they please; after all, no one is dealing with intention.
But you add only one thing to the world: intention. That is all you seek to bring to humanity, to add to it what it truly lacks. To the extent that you do so, the world begins to change for the better.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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It is written, “Do not put an obstacle before a blind person.” How can it be that the people of Israel are required to become a kingdom of priests and a holy nation?
At Mount Sinai, the people are required to be as one person with one heart; otherwise, “this will become your burial place.” The condition at Mount Sinai is a state, it is not our condition. It means we have now come out of Egypt, out of the desire to receive. This escape was accomplished through the first three Sefirot of Hochma (GAR de-Hochma), through the upper force, awakening from above.
Now that we have some idea of what it is, we must assume the next state we must enter, called: “the kingdom of priests” and “the holy nation.”
Coming out of the desire to receive and entering the spiritual world must take place in the vessels of bestowal, without any concern for oneself, for the sake of adhesion with the Creator. A state with no self-concern is achieved through a means called “love your neighbor as yourself,” with the help of a group. And merging with the Creator is achieved through working with Him.
Once a person acquires the vessels of bestowal, one interacts with the Creator. But the intention, from the start, must be in order to merge with the Creator.
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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: It is said that intention can be either for the sake of bestowing or for the sake of receiving. Are there really only two states or are there gradations?
Answer: This is exactly what we are studying: how to move from the intention to receive to the intention to bestow. There are many actions between them.
Question: But the question is, are there multiple intentions between them?
Answer: This is exactly the passage through the states of Ibur, Yenika, Mochin, etc. We are talking about intention, not action.
Even when we talk about a Partzuf being filled, what is it filled with? With what its intention is filled with, the intention becomes manifest. This is not a physical action.
The same with the Zivug DeHakaa: the intention for the sake of bestowing gets filled. What kind of filling is this? The way your intention came to fruition: to what extent you built a certain common part with the Creator. Him for you, and you for Him: you have built the place where you are together. This is called the inner part (Toch) of the Partzuf.
Your attitude toward Him is your head (Rosh); the place you are unable to do this is the lower part (Sof) of the Partzuf; the place you are with Him is your Toch. That is, it is the manifestation of an intention, a kind of conclusion of your intentions: now, inside the Partzuf, you see and know that this was your intention.
So these are all intentions. What actions can be there? Whether you are in this world or you have already died, freed yourself from the animal body and everything that is here, nothing ends, because you remain in intentions!
It is in them that life is, and everything else, this whole world, is a state preceding the acquisition of intention. When you transition to the intention, and start creating your own spiritual Partzuf, you will not need this life anymore.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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The tools that strengthen a person on the spiritual path, called the help that the Torah provides, are: good mood, inspiration, uplifted spirit, daily routine, support of friends, various responsibilities.
I organize all of this around myself so that I constantly desire to advance along the spiritual path. And if suddenly I don’t desire it, then at least I feel obligated, ashamed not to do something, and pressured by the group.
I create all kinds of support systems like this around me so they hold me, don’t let me escape, and compel me, so that every minute I try to gain benefit and make an effort. And it never happens that I try to put in effort and receive no response. It is just that sometimes the response comes on such inner levels that I don’t yet feel it, until it is revealed.
But we must constantly and persistently apply effort, as it is said, “Penny by penny accumulates into a great fortune”; we should not disregard this. We progress not in leaps, but through the tiniest, most detailed actions.
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