Question: Why should one not introduce emotion when explaining things to the masses if it can help attract an audience?

Answer: The point is that when you introduce emotion into an explanation, you introduce yourself, either your empty Kelim or Kelim that have been filled. But this is something personal.

And when you speak rationally, you are talking about facts, which are seemingly above emotion. Facts are facts. They are like faith above reason. Whether you like it or not, it is the law, it is reality. Then you pass it on to others as something independent of you or of them.

You are simply giving people the opportunity to see the law; whether they want to be for it or against it, that is their business. If not, we will enter another round of suffering. And the person will translate this into their own feelings.

I would say that this kind of dissemination is the best: you do not look inspired by what you are saying, but you speak as if your “self” has been removed from the topic altogether.

You are like a mechanism issuing information, and that is it. It does not matter whether you belong to the nation of Israel or to the nations of the world, you are like an auxiliary force, a sort of angel from heaven, telling people what is happening.

This is best, because then everyone feels that you are impartial.

But by being impartial, you speak to people in a way that awakens feelings in them. This is precisely the form we must find in dissemination, even though it both depends on us and does not depend on us.

Because life will soon become such that a person will immediately feel that here you have touched their innermost point.
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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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We are now at a point in time when the world is ready to embrace the method of spiritual correction. If such thoughts and awareness are awakening in the world( as we have seen recently), it is a clear sign that the world is indeed ready.

If, under the pressure of suffering and the question of life’s meaning, people begin to ask “What is the point of the Jewish people’s existence?”, then the answer to that can also begin to be understood.

Humanity is now undergoing very deep, powerful processes. The thoughts circulating around the world, especially in a world interconnected through modern communication, are once again leading to the mixing of Reshimot from the time of the breaking of the vessels.

What is happening today? The world will soon unite around the idea that there is a certain nation, as Haman once said, that interferes with everyone, and that the solution is simply to eliminate it.

This idea will soon become fashionable. Every “cultured” person will begin to speak of it in a respectable, acceptable way, and present himself as understanding the real structure of the world and identifying the source of its evil.

He will express his desire to fix the world, to make it better, by surgically removing the “evil” from it. This will appear very clear, very rational, very scientific, supported by historical and philosophical arguments, and it will be presented as something real and correct.

After all, the Germans were also the most cultured and developed nation at the time of the Holocaust. And that was not by chance. That is how this entire philosophy developed, though it is not new; it has existed since the time of the destruction of the temple.

So if such questions arise: “What is the cause, and what is the answer?”, it means the world is now more ready to hear.
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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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The thought of creation includes everything, even me, but I myself strive to attain it. The Creator gave me an opportunity, as if He created a white spot in me, which is called “striving for the Creator.” And I develop this desire and direct it to the upper.

I confirm that in fact, there is no one besides the Creator, and I myself am included in this concept. I do not want to change anything on my part in all of reality, I only want to attain the Creator, to unite with the idea of creation. This means adhesion with the Creator.

The more effort we put into this, the more we develop, change forms, and move along the axis of time. All sorts of changes will occur in us, and we will feel that we are beginning to accept His form.

Like in our world, when we get closer to a person, we gradually adopt his habits and tastes. In the same way, we begin to accept the form of the Creator, to adopt His thought; it becomes ours. This is how we achieve adhesion with Him.

The Creator created a thought, and we are a part of it, we are included in it. But besides this, He gave us the opportunity to reformat ourselves in similarity to this thought and thus to be included in the Creator. This thought enters us as if a program is loaded into a computer, but according to our own desire and demand.

Then it reformats and organizes us so that in everything that is in us, in all the “620” elements and desires, we begin to feel the upper force acting in us.

Gradually, this force fills us, as if a progress bar on a computer is running, showing the loading percentage, and reaches one hundred percent. This is how the plan of creation acts on us according to our efforts, and enters us. This means that we are filled with the Creator and adhere to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/22/19, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: Yesterday was a very intense day of the convention, and we reached a state of ascent. I felt there was no place left to add effort; it was so elevated.

I started looking for that place and discovered many clusters of dark matter of the will to receive, of hatred within me. I tried to touch it and saw that a great light comes to it, and I can use it as fuel.

But when I touched it, it turned me into a wicked one. How can I work with this dark Malchut so as not to fall into it, but rise by means of it? It feels like walking on the edge of a blade.

Answer: You must constantly think about how you want to draw it to yourself, to grab hold of it, and to rise together with it. Act on it.

Question: Is adhesion with the Creator when you feel His will as your own desire?

Answer: Yes.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 5/24/2025, Lesson 5, “Descents as a Springboard for Ascents”

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Question: If a thought comes like light, but I don’t let it into the Kli, and it doesn’t become reality, but remains outside as light that I don’t give form to, can it be said that this emptiness already contains equivalence of form?

Can bestowal begin not from desire, but from emptiness?

Answer: I wouldn’t say so. Let’s work through the questions and answers together, and you’ll see that by the end of the convention, the path will become more or less clear to you, what we are asking for and how we plan to reach the end.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 5/22/2025, Lesson 1, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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If I weren’t involved in dissemination, I wouldn’t leave the house. Ever. If we start asking ourselves whether the world is expecting this from us, whether it will look at it favorably…

How could the world possibly look at us favorably?! From the start, we must completely throw out any possibility of trying to accommodate that! We should only care about one thing: how to present ourselves as pleasantly as possible in their eyes, but without compromising our mission. No distortion, no substitution of the task.

“As pleasantly as possible” means that since it’s hard for them to grasp our idea, we should make it as easy as possible for them to perceive it. But aside from that, we must be like flint. This is what is entrusted to us, and this is what I do. People receive it just fine.

I have given lectures in various countries before thousands of people who had no favorable attitude toward me, toward Israel, or toward Kabbalah.

But when I explained that there is a difference between me and them, and that I had come to speak precisely about that difference, about the purpose of the world, why it exists, what I must do in it, and what you must do in it, and why for thousands of years we have been in this opposition, where it comes from and for what reason—they listened!

There is a willingness to listen because the problem is evident. Moreover, they responded calmly, without shouting, without voicing opposition not against me nor against the topic. They listened from beginning to end. The explanation was simple. This should always be our motto, the central message of every one of our presentations.

Otherwise, why did you come? To talk about the upper worlds? Why? Baal HaSulam says: What do I care how many angels are in heaven and what their names are? You came to speak about what truly concerns us, and that it concerns us for a reason. And the audience will listen.
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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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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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A person chooses a group based on what he feels in his soul; these people belong to the same idea to which he wants to advance. No one can tell him: “Choose this or that.”

He himself, as a result of his suffering, based on his life experience, even if he is young and lacks experience, feels that he wants such development. This is the guiding hand of the Creator in him.

It is the Creator who finds the group for him and brings him into it. What is incumbent upon the person is only to try to devote himself to the group in such a way that it will “brainwash” him and impart to him all its opinions, thoughts, and desires for progressing in the right direction.

If a person is ready to receive only this from the group, here lies his free choice; it is to place himself in relation to the group so that it gives him advancement and not to scatter himself among various other things. After all, everything he does is only in order to receive direction from the group, the very direction for which he initially came to it.

Then a person advances, and his advancement goes above reason because initially he does not want it. But with the help of the group, he finds the strength to move forward. If he were alone, he would not have the strength to rise above his own reason. Whatever reason he would choose, it would be his reason; it would not be above his reason.
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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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