Question: By what means can one feel that even a momentary detachment from the concern for mutual guarantee (Arvut) is a descent?

Answer: Only the group can give us such a feeling, an awareness, a sense of importanc, that without Arvut I would feel myself in a terrible state.

Baal HaSulam writes that everything depends on the revelation of evil. If I have a microscope, I see that microbes are a terrifying thing. But if I do not have one, it does not bother me; I drink the water calmly.

But if I look through the microscope and see what is going on in there, I will see terrible creatures! How they devour each other! And they will devour me too! And then I draw back. So it all depends on the revelation of evil.

I cannot see this on my own, but if a thousand people around me speak about it, it becomes not just a thousand times, but a million times more tangible for me.

But a person must be ready to listen to the group. And the group must be wise enough to build the process of convincing a person in such a way that it truly enters him. We need to understand that each one of us is closed off. A person is not able to perceive this. It is really necessary to break through his shell and get inside. That is the work of the group.
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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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