How can I come to the group and obligate them to provide me with a feeling of the importance of attaining the goal? After all, I do not feel the need to obligate the group to give me that. So where do I begin?

I must come to the group even without feeling this necessity. This is called “a desire in the absence of a desire,” and that is exactly why everything is concealed. I can come to the group and say: “Friends, I do not want any goal. But I am signing a contract with you; influence me so that I will want it!” Every person has this ability!

For example, I know that diabetes is dangerous. So what? I will eat sweets, pastries now and then, and it will be fine.

I come to the group without yet feeling the importance of the goal. Yes, they talk about it, show me things, give examples, but I do not feel it myself. So I find a group, pay them money, and say: “Increase the awareness of the importance and necessity of the goal, make me feel that it hurts to continue like this, make me want to give it up, because otherwise I am destroying myself.”

A person is capable of turning to the group in this way. If not for this, the entire method would not exist because the whole point of the method is to feel I have already suffered before a blow comes as if I have already received it.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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