Question: When a person reaches a state of adhesion with the Creator, there are no friends, only him and the Creator. How does that align with the work on mutual guarantee?

Answer: How can an ordinary, simple egoist, not particularly good or bad, who has developed a desire for something unknown, come to feel the necessity to connect with others, to become a single vessel, to correct his ego?

He is brought into a group. This does not depend on him; it is arranged from above, even if from his perspective it seems accidental.

Thanks to being placed in a group, he gradually begins to hear. Sometimes this takes several years.

There are still many people who, despite having been with us for years, do not yet truly hear.

It all depends on the surrounding light—how much it influences a person, how much the group cares about the correction of each member. If the group consists of egoistic individualists where each one thinks only of himself and the necessity for even a minimal level of mutual guarantee has not yet ignited within the group, a condition without which it is impossible to cross the Machsom, then each person will remain stuck in his private aspiration toward the Creator.

“I give, I work, I disseminate, I translate, I do everything that is asked of me, so where is what I rightfully deserve?!” And he is right to ask. “Just tell me what to do, and I will do it!” But the group has not revealed the necessity of uniting into one Kli. And without that, there is no spiritual attainment.

There may be a hundred people sitting together, but only fifteen in mutual guarantee. But if several people sincerely want this to happen, even if they are few, they will receive a relative revelation.

On the other hand, we must understand that the calculation is no longer just with us, but is with the entire world, and there are different conditions that apply now regarding how to advance in accordance with the world as a whole.

In other words, it becomes a matter of dissemination, of how much we invest in it.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/7/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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