Question: I managed to implement the rule “If I am not for myself, who is for me,” because I feel that no one else will do it for me.

But to fulfill “There is none else besides Him,” I make efforts and act with the strength the Creator gives me. Yet after the work is done, I cannot agree that there were no efforts of my own and that everything was done by the Creator.

What should I do with these feelings? Forget them? Dismiss them? Turn away? Because I cannot reconcile the two rules. And if I could, I cannot imagine what the result would be.

Answer: Yes, you are right. Everyone faces this dilemma, and each person must try to resolve it for themselves.

Question: Is a person able to hold on to intention during the action?

Answer: What a person is capable of or not, we should not say that now. Once it becomes clear who we are, only then can we pass such a verdict.

Question: We carry out actions both in the material and the spiritual. We perform them. Then comes the realization: “Everything the Creator does is for the best,” meaning “There is none else besides Him.”

We enter this state, it settles within us as if some kind of chip is implanted in us.

Does this state get transmitted in some way to all of humanity? Is that our way of giving to the world? We want to be the Creator’s helpers in the salvation of all humanity.

Answer: That is bestowal and it is transmitted.
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From the Lesson #3 World Kabbalah Convention 5/23/2025, “If I’m Not for Me, Who Is for Me?”

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Question: At this convention it feels like there are no questions, rather just a strong, continuous desire to pray so that this prayer reaches the Creator.

Tell us, what should the prayer at this convention be? What should we pray for?

Answer: That is something you need to tell me.

Question: You say that we need to refine the request, to structure it. There is a prayer: “Unite us, raise us to You, help us all come together to the king’s palace!” But somehow it dissipates.

Answer: Then raise the prayer from one person, from yourself.

Question: How do I do it correctly?

Answer: From the heart.

Question: Do I need to feel everyone and unite them in my heart?

Answer: Start and then you will see.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 5/22/2025, Lesson 1, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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When we act within the group, we see that we live a kind of life where everyone is ready to give their time, attention, and effort to the group. All this is true, but why does it not actually happen with us? Because we do not ask for it to happen inside our Kelim (vessels).

We are not the masters of our Kelim. Their only master is the light. It draws near or distances itself and the Kli rises or falls accordingly. What we currently lack is the understanding that through all our actions, we will not achieve anything except for the realization that we are incapable of achieving anything on our own.

What is the desired outcome of our action? It is to come to a cry: “Save me! Help me!” That is, the Kli understands that it will not free itself from prison, but only the Creator, as it is written, will lead it out of Egypt.

We must desire to break away from Pharaoh and ask the upper force for this. If you are not asking for it, it means that your goal is not truly adhesion with the Creator and that you need mutual guarantee and the giving of the Torah for some other purpose.
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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: Let’s say a ten is working to reach a state of faith above reason. What is the correct path: to reach a state where faith above reason becomes absolutely perfect or to strive to attain upper reason?

Answer: In principle, both are necessary. That is why I cannot say specifically what exactly this ten needs. To answer that, one would need to know them more closely.

Question: If I see my friends as great, corrected, loving, and helpful, does that bring us closer to the Creator?

Answer: Yes.
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From the Lesson #2 World Kabbalah Convention 5/22/2025, “Believing that the Creator Is Good and Does Good”

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Question: What will give us the fuel to strive for fulfilling the condition of mutual guarantee (Arvut)?

Answer: The fuel is above in the surrounding light. If you are not talking about deficiencies, but about what can serve as support, then support exists only in the light. You won’t find support in the Kli.

You might ask: “If there’s no support in the Kli, then what is this mutual guarantee that I’m in together with the other vessels? Who are they? They’re just like me!”

That’s true. But precisely through this you reveal the light. What does Baal HaSulam say? That from the moment we desire for it to happen, we begin to receive a covering, a screen over our will to receive that gives us the feeling that we don’t need to worry about ourselves. A feeling of confidence appears that I won’t lack anything.

Where does such confidence come from? Are my friends really ready to fill me, to satisfy my needs? They don’t fill me at all, and they can’t! Maybe in my group everyone is spiritually “impoverished”! It doesn’t matter. I receive compensation, a covering from above, a feeling that I lack nothing. This is the force of the light!

Sometimes we experience great inspiration. That same kind of inspiration you receive in a permanent and absolute form, and it silences the will to receive. You begin to understand that the will to receive was simply teasing you, it didn’t really need anything; it was just constantly prodding you. And now, it has gone quiet and you’re free.

Question: That’s when Arvut is already revealed. But until then? From the initial moment up to that point?

Answer: Even between the beginning and that point, you receive support and advancement solely through the light! The light and nothing else! Stop expecting to find anything inside the Kelim! Arvut itself and all the stages leading up to it are attained only by means of the light!

That’s why Baal HaSulam says that the most important thing is the quality of effort during the study so that you study in order to draw the light that will change you. Only in it will you find strength.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: You said that we need to enter the system through which we raise questions and problems to the Creator.

But if I have questions and problems, I do not think about the system. And if I do not think about the system, I do not think about the questions and problems. How do these two connect? How do I find that entrance where I can raise these questions?

Answer: You must demand from the Creator that He answer all your questions. And then, through His answers, you will see how you are making your way toward Him through your questions, and how this helps you reach direct contact with Him.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 5/22/2025, Lesson 1, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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There is nothing but one thought—the thought of creation, which includes everything. Only we, the creations, do not yet understand or feel this. But we are within this design and are governed by it. All our work takes place within it. This thought is the entire creation, its design, and there is nothing else besides it.

“Everything is resolved in thought,” and everything was created by thought. There is no matter; all of reality is encompassed in thought. Interestingly, modern scientists, being absolute materialists, say that the universe is thought. And researchers of the human brain claim that all our thoughts, desires, and decisions exist outside the person and the brain is merely an instrument that detects this thought and transmits it to us.

Thus, science is gradually approaching the fact that Kabbalists discovered long ago, that there is nothing in existence but the Creator’s design, and we exist within it. And although we divide reality into forces, matter, feelings, and intellect, in essence, only the Creator’s thought operates, and we exist within it.

We need to attain this thought of the Creator’s regarding creation, and then we will know Him, not He Himself, but His attitude toward creation. There is only this one thought. And all the various opposite qualities that we perceive are meant to reveal the depth and uniqueness of this thought.

There is none else besides Him, but we attain this fact from the reverse side, through the multitude of actions and manifestations of the Creator toward us, which are very diverse and contradictory.

And it is precisely all these paradoxes and contradictions, which do not allow us to understand or accept what is happening, that push us toward such development that, above knowledge and by uniting all opposites, we attain the Creator. It is impossible to attain Him in any other way than through two opposites that merge and complement one another.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/22/19, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: Am I dependent on the thoughts of my friends or on my belief that they are thinking about me?

Answer: On one hand, I am dependent on the thoughts of others, on what my friends think about me.

On the other hand, if I am in a state of ascent, I can affect my friends more than they affect me because in my ascent I am above the group. And in such moments, I can have a greater impact on it.
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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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