In the initially created collective soul, we existed in a wondrous state of connection. But when the shattering occurred between all the desires, each began to care only for itself.

Imagine if the various organs in our body, down to the cells, molecules, atoms, and the tiniest elementary particles, which exist in it in hundreds if not thousands of forms, started to act independently.

This is precisely the state of our world. Naturally it is very difficult to understand how we are meant to be connected in a perfect form from such a fragmented picture.

How can such tiny particles, each confined to its minuscule Kli, grasp with their small, egoistic minds, that a connection of all parts exists: first into molecular systems, then into organs, and finally into a whole organism that must function for a higher purpose? That above this body exists something called the Creator and that adhesion with Him, His revelation, is a completely different and unique form of existence?

It is absolutely impossible for an elementary particle, which each of us essentially is, to understand this.

But this does not exempt us nor remove us from the influence of the law called “the unity of the Creator and creation.” In any case, we are governed from that very same state that existed before our separation, before the connection between us called Arvut (mutual guarantee) disappeared.

From that place, we are in fact operated in order to return to it, but now with our own awareness. From the state we find ourselves in today—scattered and disconnected, with each one feeling only themselves—we are just beginning to hear that we have a duty to merge, to draw closer, to connect by means of some upper force.

Of course, these elementary particles are not capable of doing anything on their own. But they must come to desire that the upper light will reconnect them and give each of them the desire to unite with the rest into a single system. Then, with each act of connection, they will receive a new purpose in life, a need for a higher form of existence.

If, in performing this work, they make efforts and turn to the light for help, then by the same force of light that once sustained them on a higher level, they are returned to their original state.

But what is the difference? The difference is that now, it is as if they give birth to themselves. They reconnect, correct themselves, secure their existence by their own decision, thereby acquiring independence, reason, attainment, and understanding, and return to their previous state of existence already equipped with an understanding of the entire structure of reality.

From having come to know themselves, they also come to know the actions of the light that created and connected them, and thus attain the level of the Creator: “From Your actions, we shall know You.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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Question: It is interesting that when you are physically near someone, it is easier to associate yourself with them. But doing so through thought alone is much harder. How can we work through thought without slipping into mysticism or telepathy where people claim to sense each other at a distance?

Answer: People can feel one another and even think together. But this is not like Wolf Messing, who could supposedly read minds; that is simply an animalistic sense.

Anyone with enough training can develop such abilities, regardless of their internal qualities, whether good or evil. This is something many charmers and shamans are capable of. It is not difficult, and it can be developed in anyone.

But if we are talking not about reading thoughts, but about an inner connection between people, then that arises only through the quality of bestowal, which is above our egoism. This kind of connection through bestowal requires mutuality, reciprocity, love, and inclusion of one another. It is when a shared vessel is formed where all thoughts and feelings become common and merge together.

What is fascinating is that individuality is not lost in this process; it actually expands through others. It is as if I have absorbed you into my vessel, and you have absorbed me into yours, and so with everyone else. As a result, I exist within everyone, and everyone exists within me.

This is the principle of a healthy, properly functioning organism where every cell is integrated with all other parts and cells of the body; it gives itself to them and receives from them. Then each cell feels the entire body, becomes one with it, and feels eternity, infinity, and the boundlessness of everything within it, and not just the tiny, isolated part it would otherwise feel in a lifeless state, barely aware of itself.

That is why mutual inclusion through the quality of bestowal gives a person an entirely new level of existence, what we call spiritual life. It is the feeling of eternity, infinity, perfection, and boundlessness because ultimately you absorb into yourself countless other souls.

This is a unique state, and it is precisely what we must attain. It is not far off, and at first it depends only on our mutual concessions to one another. Later it deepens into a connection on the level of true internal adhesion.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalists Say” 8/21/10

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Question: I look at the world and there are already eight billion of us. And I assure you that very few people can say that they are the ones who need to be educated. No, I need to educate others, that is the go-to formula. They are the bad ones, the selfish ones, not me. It is because of them we suffer.

How will a person understand that he is the one who needs to be educated?

Answer: Only through blows. How else? If they think they are so good, why is the world so bad?

Comment: Others are bad, that is why the world is so bad.

My Response: If everyone thinks that way about others, does it mean the world is bad or good?

Comment: The world is bad.

My Response: Except for me?

Comment: Except for me; yes, that is what people think.

My Response: And we will keep believing this until something falls on our heads and there is nothing left to think.

Question: Can we say that by doing this we are summoning trouble upon ourselves?

Answer: Of course. Instead of correcting ourselves or trying to do something, we calm ourselves down.

Question: We say: “Others are bad, but I am good.” Am I calling trouble on myself?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Not examining myself? Is it bad?

Answer: Very bad! This leads the world to disaster.

Question: Is genuine education when I learn to examine myself?

Answer: Yes, when I look at myself, at what I am like. When I look at what I owe to others, at being the only one uncorrected. That is, everything that is in me: a liar, a thief, a deceiver, a hater—I do not know what other epithets to come up with here—it is all me.

But everyone else is not. All others do not exist at all. All others are my various reflections that I see around me. That is, I look at a lot of people around me, and each of them portrays me negatively in this form and that and that.

There are eight billion people in the world, and each of them represents some kind of negative quality of mine. Eight billion! That is how I am depicted into the world. And that is how I see it.

Question: So what do I do when I see evil, an evil person?

Answer: If I correct myself, I begin to see the world as more united, as striving for bestowal, love, and connection. Eventually I realize this is all one system, one person called “Adam,” and this Adam is me. Because that is how I put it together with my actions, behavior, thoughts, and all sorts of corrections.

Question: Do I absorb the world into me and become this one soul, as we say, Adam?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this true?

Answer: It is true.

Question: And is what we see a lie?

Answer: No, we also see the truth, but it is a partial truth, torn apart by our inner egoism.

Question: Otherwise we do not pass it through our ego? Are we looking not through egoism?

Answer: Right. If I put them all together in one single image, then it is me.

Question: How can I focus on it like this?

Answer: This is our task—to gather the whole world and say, “This is me, and this world depends on me.”

Comment: Am I responsible for everyone and everything?

My Response: Absolutely everything is here.

Question: Every person?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is the simplest, most ordinary person responsible for the world, for everything that happens in this terrible world?

Answer: To the extent that he finds himself in this world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/3/25

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Question: How did Kabbalists lift each other in the past? How did they give the greatness of the goal one to another?

Answer: First of all, it was originally arranged that Kabbalists were not alone. Why did Abraham begin gathering people right away?

It is because correction is possible only in the connection between all, precisely in the place where the breaking of the connection happened. In the world of infinity, you are absolutely connected with everyone else in one single soul where all are interconnected like organs in the body; moreover, to such a degree that if one piece is detached, then the entire system breaks.

In our world, we do not feel that, we do not see that. Imagine if our body were to rise to the level of the world of infinity and even if one hair were to fall from its head; that would be it, it would be instant death, and everything would literally become destroyed. This is because perfection, eternity, and godliness is such a whole, closed, and absolute system that if you remove one atom from it, everything will shatter like a house of cards, and not a single connection remains undamaged.

Therefore, we had to descend from the world of infinity to such a state where all connections seem to be completely destroyed, we can exist independently from each other and even harm one another and continue to live.

Can you imagine what an irony it is? We did not simply descend from the level of infinity, but we turned into something opposite: we exist and enjoy harming one another. Imagine this whole system where everything is opposite!

And now from this state, we have to rise back, meaning we have to determine that by harming one another we in reality harm ourselves, we detach ourselves from the source, from eternity, perfection, infinity, and live like animals in constant worry, anxiety, and fear.

When I realize this, I begin to understand that correction is only possible in rebuilding the connection and in nothing else.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Breaking the Connection Between Souls” 6/20/10

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Question: Is it enough for us to correct ourselves in order to correct the whole world?

Answer: No. Since there is a connection between all souls, no soul (degree) can complete its correction without correcting the parts of the next degree. No person lives for himself; this entire system is a system of mutual bestowal.

Therefore, it is impossible for someone to correct himself for his own sake. Everyone lives in order to provide correction and fulfillment for others. It is impossible for a soul that corrects itself not to have a part that its predecessors corrected for it, and a part that it itself is obligated to correct for others.

It is known that the upper part of each soul, its GE, is in the lower part, in the AHP, of the previous soul (Partzuf) that is the upper part for it. And its lower part, its AHP, is inside the GE of the lower soul.

Therefore, our free choice is where we are not connected with the upper soul and the lower soul, meaning, in the middle part of our soul, the middle part of the Sefira Tifferet.

There, a space free from all souls is formed, our freewill, and in principle, it represents a special connection in our soul of the upper and lower souls, in this connection they are equivalent and therefore provide us with freedom of choice.

And outside the middle part of the Sefira Tifferet, parts of the soul do not belong to it: the upper one relates to the higher soul (the previous Partzuf), and the lower one relates to the lower soul, to the continuer. Therefore, the calculation is always made on bestowal to the upper and the lower. And the decision about this bestowal is made in the middle and there is no other freedom!

Except for this artificially created middle point, called Klipat Noga, formed by the connection of Bina and Malchut, the point of my choice, everything else does not belong to me, but to the upper or lower Partzuf. And I stand in the middle and have to decide all the time how I am connected with them.

But this point, making the decision, is the I – “man,” “similar” to the Creator. On the one hand, Malchut, and on the other hand, Bina, and therefore at this point there is a special contact of Bina and Malchut (the properties of the Creator and creation), from which a free decision arises to make the creation similar to the Creator. It is called “Adam” – “similar.”

Until we reach this decision, we are not “Man.” A man begins with one, the awareness of the difference between Bina and Malchut and two, the connection between them.

From this point, he grows to the extent that he can serve others with his 613 desires: the upper ones (248 desires) and the lower ones (365 desires). If you do not do this, then you remain just a point. And if you do, then you develop your GE and AHP, and they spread to the common soul: all the souls that are above and below you.
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From Daily Kabbalah lesson 9/12/10, Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: We are talking about our state for tomorrow. Where does this depiction come from? Does the Creator give us some light or does my ego fantasize this?

Answer: When we imagine our future, we say that we desire it. Where do the knowledge, sensation, and necessity for this future state appear in us? Where does this ultimately come from?

We study that originally, we existed in a good state when we were united and the Creator manifested within us. The only thing He manifested was in the small state (Katnut). This is the state of the system Adam that was created by the Creator before its breaking. Then the upper light, meaning the entire influence of the Creator, focused on this system and destroyed it.

What does “destroyed” mean? It became connected between all parts of the system as pure egoism that separates all the parts so that a feeling appears that is the opposite of the Creator. It is similar to what we do with our kids when we want to teach them to be more independent, to feel life better, and begin to understand it. We gradually distance them from us and they do the same according to their nature.

Thus the Creator entered into us and filled the distance between us with the property opposite to Him, the property of receiving, not bestowal. Now we have to turn this property into His property, but by our request.

Therefore, each time we want to be closer to one another we will sense that we hate one another even more and repel one another. This sensation will only get stronger.

On the other hand we will be asking to unite because in unity between the broken parts we include ourselves in each other and the Creator together into one system. Then instead of tearing us apart, the Creator will connect us.

In the state of the breaking, He is called “Pharaoh,” but in the state of unity “Creator,” “Upper Force.” This is how it works.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “Turning to the Creator”

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Question: How can I restore my connection with the Creator after a descent? Should I begin to think that it comes from Him and directly make such a calculation? But if you say it is impossible to do this without experience, then what should I do in this situation?

Answer: One person cannot do anything alone. One will ascend and descend for a long time, struggling until a person finally finds a group. A thought will arise within him that this is necessary, and he will be brought to the group.

We are all the result of a shattered soul. Each of us is a fragment, a shard, and we must gather these broken parts back together into one whole.

The shattering occurred when a great light acted upon the collective desire and caused it to break apart. This desire then filled the spaces between the fragments, between its broken pieces. In this way, the desire became multilayered, complex, and egoistic. Now, between all its fragments, egoism resides.

What should we do? Within this system are our individual desires, and between them, between all of us, lies egoism, and filling all the spaces between us is a force intentionally created by the Creator.

Now we are like an archipelago, small islands in a sea separated by egoism. We need the Creator to act upon this sea of egoism and transform our egoistic interactions into altruistic ones—into connection, bestowal, and love. This is the correction.

Therefore, without a group we cannot achieve anything. If I try to work alone, I will have no opportunity to achieve anything.

There was a period in human history, from Adam to Abraham, when it was not necessary to correct oneself through interaction in a group. At that time, egoism was not manifested in such a way that it required the attraction of the upper light within a group to transform intentions from reception to bestowal.

But now, I cannot imagine how this can be done without a group. A person, of course, may detach themselves slightly from the material world, but they cannot move forward and ascend the spiritual ladder because the implementation of the method of correction consists in reuniting into the one soul called Adam.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”

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Question: While working on ourselves, we begin to feel a sense of responsibility as we realize the value of the left line and learn to cover it with the right. When does this moment of responsibility arise?

Answer: The awareness of such responsibility and the ability to act on it come gradually.

It is one of the stages of our development when we understand that overcoming the egoism that separates us from our friends in the group draws greater illumination from the upper light or, in other words, brings the Creator closer. Therefore all the work lies in achieving closeness.

This is why the Creator shattered the vast vessel (Kli) that He created, which is the soul called “Adam,” from the word “Domeh” (similar to the Creator). This structure broke into countless fragments.

Imagine a piece of dough thrown into a bucket of water. Gradually, the dough absorbs the water, and the water fills its pores. The water, which fills the spaces between the fragments of dough, represents the egoism that pushes us apart.

Initially we were all gathered as one small piece, created by the Creator. Then His force of bestowal and love, the upper light, poured onto this small desire and caused it to shatter into pieces.

Now we must reassemble these pieces along with the water that separates them. By doing so, we will achieve a greater state compared to the original one, as the water that expanded the pieces will now contribute to their unity and allow us to feel the Creator within ourselves.

The water represents the Creator’s attribute, and we must unite with it. The very force that now divides us must be transformed into a connecting one. This process is called the gradual revelation of the Creator within us. It is our purpose and the essence of our development.

Thus, egoism is essential; we simply need to use it correctly.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/19, Writings of Baal HaSulam “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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We must think about how to absorb the quality of bestowal and love, the quality of connection, in order to connect the general system Adam” into a single whole.

Initially, we were assembled in the system of Adam without egoism, and then it entered us. Therefore the Creator says: “I created evil, and I created light to correct it.” The creation of evil means that the entire system was shattered into tiny particles and egoism appeared between them, like water that flows into cracks in the land and divides it.

So what should I do? By correcting ourselves we do not destroy egoism, but in spite of it we create connections between us. Therefore our connections are 620 times stronger than before. After all, the system  of Adam before the shattering was very weak. It existed like a small animal or like a small child, in the state of Katnut (small state).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/19, “Questions and Answers”

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There were times when Kabbalists entered the spiritual world alone on their own. But that time has long passed. Starting with Abraham onward we see that a group has emerged.

All Kabbalistic laws and conditions for the development of the soul are built on “loving thy neighbor as thyself,” that is, on correcting egoism to the point of uniting with others into one common spiritual whole, one network.

The spiritual system called Adam (which means “similar to the Creator”) was broken on purpose. From its pieces we now must assemble, like a mosaic, the same system, only by ourselves, with our desires, our searches, to get closer to each other in order to unite. For this, we need the power of the Creator. This is our method.

Do you want to collect your soul? Then you need a force against your egoistic nature, which will glue you to others. Therefore, you must attract it. Thus, by collecting your soul, you are obliged to attract the Creator, and therefore you inevitably need Him.

It turns out that by collecting the fragments of the mosaic into a single whole, you come closer to the others, and then glue them together with the force of the Creator. The Creator is like glue, the force of correction. He fills the connecting parts together, because the circulation of His power becomes possible in them, the power of love, the power of light. This is how the manifestation of the Creator occurs. He acts as the power of correction and the power of fulfillment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/19, “Questions and Answers”

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