Question: What are the “commandments between a person and the Creator”?

Answer: In spiritual work, there are only two actions you must perform: the correction of the vessels (Kelim) and their fulfillment.

The correction of the Kelim is carried out through love for one’s neighbor because this love represents the unification of all parts of Adam HaRishon. So what does the Creator have to do with this?

The point is that you need the Creator, the upper force, so that He gives you the force to “glue” the souls together, to unite them into a single Kli. You use Him to properly and evenly form the relationships between the friends, and thereby fulfill the rule “Love your neighbor as yourself,” which must encompass the entire world. This is precisely why you need the upper force—the Creator.

If correction is most important to you, then you relate to the Creator as an assistant. From the very beginning of the spiritual path to its end, you need both the friends and the Creator. You cannot connect only with the Creator without your friends, without the group. And further along, you cannot exist only with the group, without a connection to the Creator.

However, the important thing is what you actually do, and where your work takes place. In the first stage, it is among your friends, where the only choice for correcting the Kelim lies. Then, once you have attained a unified Kli and reached the state of “as one man with one heart,” you should no longer think about that. Then the second stage begins: a powerful connection with the upper force (Zivug de Haka’a), which fills the Kli.

Question: Then what is Avodat Hashem (the work of the Creator)?

Answer: Both of these actions are called the work of the Creator because in both you initially intend to become similar to Him. Maybe you are asking something else. If this is a person’s work, why do we call it the Creator’s work? It is because you ultimately reveal that it is Him who does it all with His force. However, the desire, the challenge, the raising of MAN (the prayer)—that comes from you.
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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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Question: Is the only way to prove the general law of the universe (without yet feeling it) to see that without it, I feel bad?

Answer: Of course. Nothing more is needed! Humanity is not at all required to suddenly engage in spiritual searches. All of this is very practical, real-life stuff. You can see for yourself, nobody comes in any other way.

The question is, how much suffering can we save ourselves by coming to it earlier? Is there any doubt that with blows, you can make a person do anything? There is no problem! Maybe we are incapable of that, but from above, it is absolutely possible.

That is why there is just one small opportunity by asking, “What is the meaning of my life?” and to immediately find the answer through the group. If we do not find the answer, an even greater, more painful question arises, and then another, and another.

Now the question is different. How are those who already know the answer obligated to help those who do not yet know, but are suffering? Here is where mutual obligation comes into play. If you know all this, you are obligated to spread this knowledge and ensure that others come to understand more quickly that there is a system behind the “blows,” that they have a source and a purpose, that all of them lead a person to such a state in which he would rise above his life, transition from action to intention, and enter a different dimension of existence.

And when he truly enters that dimension where the souls reside, that will be an entirely different existence. He will identify himself with that field called the Creator, the upper force, or the general law, and there, there is no life and death, completely different values exist there, and everything is different.
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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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Question: Should the correct intention be attached before every action or is it enough to set it once in advance?

Answer: The correct intention must be attached before each action and renewed every second because it constantly slips away. The difference between moments lies in the change of intention! Focus only on it and you will discover that intention changes the action.

Each time it must be “revived” anew, or you must remain continuously connected to that intention and pay attention to it alone. Then you will discover that it is through intention and not through actions that you change reality. You will reveal that you are in a world of intentions.
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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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Therefore, the Creator gave him the above warning, “no less,” but offered them the true nature of the work, in all its sublimity, expressed in the words, “a kingdom of priests.”

Regarding the reward that is defined in the words “a holy nation,” he was warned, “no more” (Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”).

The words “no more” and “no less” essentially speak about one’s attitude toward the system.

What does “a kingdom of priests” mean? It means not for one’s own sake. It refers to a correction that is not intended for me; I cut myself off from personal interest. In everything I do and carry out, in everything that will happen, there is no “I.” My “I” is, so to speak, completely absent from reality. My concern is that reality should exist and not that I should exist in it. This is called “a kingdom of priests.” And we must reach “no less” than this correction.

The words “no more” imply the form of work with AHP. One may engage with the AHP only in such measure and with such Aviut, that it is always “no more” than in order to reach adhesion for the sake of bestowal.

In this way, the distinction between the work according to the principle of “no less” with vessels of bestowal, and the principle of “no more” with vessels of reception is expressed. Baal HaSulam formulates it in this way.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #19 “What Is ‘The Creator Hates the Bodies,’ in the Work?” (10.12.21)

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If someone is disturbing me, I have to accept it as “help against me,” which shows me where I have not yet adhered to the Creator.

It is through this disturbance that I am getting closer to the Creator, and therefore I wish this person all the best, and bless for the bad as for the good. After all, it is due to these disturbances that I have the opportunity each time to ascend toward the Creator. Without them, I would not be able to advance.

Therefore, on one hand, in material life I must defend myself and fight against such disturbances. But in essence, in my inner work, I fully accept them and give thanks for all the bad as for the good.

It is precisely such disturbances that bring us correction, even though they cost us much effort, money, and time. The main thing is to relate to them correctly, that is, to wage war against them in order, above them, to ask for adhesion with the Creator.

I understand that the Creator has sent me these disturbances, and I want to adhere to Him along with them. After all, my devotion to the Creator is tested by the strength with which I adhere to Him.

Let’s say there is a five kg load that I want to attach to the ceiling. For this, I need glue that can hold at least five kg and some more for security. Therefore I evaluate the strength of the glue by the weight of the load. If I attach the load and it falls, it means that the glue is weaker than the weight of the load. That is, my devotion to the Creator is less than the disturbance He sent.

But if I ask the Creator to help me adhere to Him with a force greater than the disturbance, and I stick to the ceiling along with this whole problem, it means that I acquire faith above reason, the force of adhesion, which is more powerful than the disturbance felt within reason.

The glue that I receive from the Creator is the light that comes to me at my request, the power of bestowal, Bina, with which I adhere to the Creator in bestowal to Him. I want to adhere to Him over this disturbance that He pushes me away from Himself with so that all transgressions will be covered with love for the Creator.

There is no righteous who has not sinned. We always fall by focusing on the disturbance itself, on the person causing us problems, or on the situation. We are never prepared for the disturbance because each time it is new, a new Reshimo from the breaking is revealed. And we are forced to fall and succumb to deception, as if the problem did not come from the Creator.

But the very next moment, it is necessary to return to the correct perception. This is called the “devil’s pinch”; a light pinch is enough to bring one to their senses.

At first, I cry “ouch” from the feeling of the disturbance, and the second “ouch” is from the realization that this is not a disturbance, but the Creator is pulling me to Himself. All of this happens in a single breath. The only response to every disturbance is to adhere even more strongly to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/19, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: How can one balance the need to explain people’s guilt in what is happening on one hand, and on the other, make sure that they accept it?

Answer: As Baal HaSulam explains at the end of the Introduction to The Book of Zohar, all correction begins from within, from the innermost part of ourselves.

If you find a point of support on the Creator within yourself and from this point you influence yourself and the group, and from this point you reach out to the whole world, you will be able to explain it, be right, and self-confident. There will be no difficulty in doing so. But only if you have that point of reliance on the Creator.
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How does one analyze and verify their internal structure? It becomes clearer time after time. Does a newborn baby who does not need legs yet not have them? He has them! But why if he doesn’t need them yet? Let them grow in a year! But no…

We obviously do not feel it, but even the parts we do not feel until later are already developing. All of them are in our inner development.

Question: All our actions, such as mutual guarantee, are a means to merge with the Creator. Merging is the reward I want to receive. Do I need to check the desired reward more carefully: what exactly will it give me? Or is it better to leave this clarification for later; when it is needed, everything will manifest?

Answer: “The final action is in the initial thought.” We cannot begin any action unless we prioritize the ultimate goal. It must be at the start; otherwise, the action itself, or the intention, or the thought, will simply be animalistic.

Such a person is called “unbalanced in his consciousness.” If one does not know why he is acting, if he does not have a clear goal, he is called confused, or a child, or insane.

Question: Then I want to understand what kind of adhesion it is I should make an effort to achieve?

Answer: Imagine the ultimate goal to the extent you have clarified it, no matter to what extent. The main thing is that you somehow “grab it by the tail” and say: “There it is! I am working toward it. Now I have to do this and that to ultimately achieve it.”
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Is there a difference today between Jews and the nations of the world who are awakening to seek spirituality, to spiritual work?

According to what Baal HaSulam writes at the end of the Introduction to The Book of Zohar, first and foremost, we must awaken those who are customarily called “the people of Israel” in this world.

This is not according to their aspiration to adhere to the Creator, not to look for such individuals as we do in global dissemination, but simply by working within the people. This is what we are doing now. And this work, as it turns out, is the most difficult.

The point is that to those who allegedly belong to the people of Israel, those who have “Jew” written in their passport, you must come with a real accusation: that they are inherently guilty of not fulfilling their role in this world despite being Jews. Clearly no one wants to hear this.

As for the nations of the world, you approach them with a different task. You say: “You must help the Jews fulfill the correction that will be revealed to the world through them.” This is what the AHP must do in relation to Galgalta veEynaim. That is, you ask them for help, but you do not accuse them of not making corrections because the vessels of reception cannot carry it out. If they could, they would have received the Torah.

It is said that the Creator tried to give the Torah to each of the 70 nations, but they were unable to accept it. Therefore, there are no claims against them.

And when they already know what the process of correction entails and the reason for the purpose of creation, then you can demand participation and help from them, but only after that! As it is written: The nations of the world will carry Israel on their shoulders and bring them to Jerusalem. And then you will see that indeed the whole world is ready to participate in everything for the sake of correction.

And as for the fact that today we are being accused of being a part that has no purpose, this is because we, those living in Israel, claim that the inner part of the Torah, the wisdom of Kabbalah, meaning the means for attaining the purpose of creation, is unnecessary. That is why the nations of the world treat us this way.

Baal HaSulam writes about this very clearly and plainly. In this way, we ourselves determine the world’s attitude toward us and the measure of suffering or the measure of serene peace in the whole world.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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