In our work, we must always stress the importance and greatness of the Creator in our eyes, so that it is clear to the group that everything we do is to achieve this. In the meantime, we perform various actions to control our desire to receive in order to achieve adhesion with the Creator.

Control over the desire to receive is expressed, first of all, in the fact that we break free of its power and begin to control it. This is possible only through being in a group, with support within it. True power over the desire to receive is achieved through work called “love your neighbor as yourself.”

“Love your neighbor as yourself” is the process and final state in correcting the vessels of reception to bestowal for the sake of bestowal, with no self-interest and concern only for others.

After all, Baal HaSulam does not say, “What you have, others will have.” He does not offer to share with everyone equally, or have this requirement. No, my requirement in the work according to the principle of “love your neighbor as yourself” should be that I give away the only pillow, the only chair.

It is not about a fifty-fifty split, no. Why? Because then I just work with my receiving vessels and see that in order for me to feel good, I need to fill everyone. Otherwise, they will come and take away what I have. So let everyone have an equal share.

This, among other things, was the mistake of the social undertaking, introduced in Soviet Russia or kibbutzim. They had a motto: “Everyone is equal and everyone receives equally.” This is not enough to correct the desire to receive.

The desire to receive must be disconnected from itself, because its ultimate goal is to merge with the Creator. The Creator has no thought of Himself: “So that I can be like them, and they can be like Me.”
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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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