Question: Suppose I am able to feel a certain quality within myself and I call it Moses. To what extent can I rely on this Moses to lead me where I need to go?

Answer: To what extent can one believe in or surrender to their own thoughts and decisions? After all, I label part of my thoughts as facts, another part as doubts, and some as lies. And it all constantly changes within me.

The fact is that testing the validity of these perceptions depends, first of all, on my discernment according to the principle of truth and falsehood rather than bitter and sweet.

The first real discernment in order to act based on truth versus falsehood rather than bitter versus sweet happens only when a person restricts their desires after receiving the force of Arvut (mutual guarantee).

Before that one cannot trust oneself in anything. And certainly, all decisions and judgments made before that are erroneous.

So what should he do? He should go according to the opinion of the group. He must understand that he has no understanding of his own, that he is completely mistaken, and that he must accept the knowledge of the group. This is what it means to go above reason.

We are talking about the group in relation to which he has decided that he will advance in accordance with what he receives from it. But first a person must understand that if he wants to rise above the animate level and begin a certain kind of development, he must submit to some external guidance.

Then he chooses a group that conveys its direction to him. He accepts from the group its opinions, intentions, decisions, view of life, everything necessary, and surrenders himself to it. This means that a person goes above his own reason following what the group dictates. In doing so, he triumphs over all the other forces in his life that deliberately confuse him so that he may reach this discernment.
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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: It is written that the Creator hates the bodies. Does it mean that we are supposed to hate something or someone?

Answer: No, the phrase “hates the bodies” refers to egoism. In Kabbalah, the term “body” means the ego.

Question: But are we supposed to hate egoism or not?

Answer: The Creator calls on us to rise above the ego, to reject its use, and to replace it with bestowal, love, and connection. But this by no means refers to destroying the ego.

Egoism remains anyway, we cannot eliminate it. What we must do is create conditions for rapprochement above it despite the ego that separates us.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 12/22/2019, “How to Climb the Spiritual Steps”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 3 (5.10.2006)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Everything Is Obtained by the Power of Prayer”

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “The Rose” (Mirrors of the Sulam [Ladder])

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Question: We understand that it is us who lack something, not the nations of the world, and as soon as we take a step forward, it will be revealed in them as well. What is it that we lack?

Answer: We lack a Jew like you who has access to the people that is fulfilling the task placed upon him! That is, you must pull yourself together, gather your strength, and start doing what is necessary for correction!

Question: In what sense?

Answer: Without senses and explanations! Bring to each and every one of your people the knowledge of what our duty is.

Comment: But they do not accept it.

My Response: It does not matter that they do not accept it. You must do the work without making calculations. The results of it should not be visible to our eyes at all. The consequences come differently.

From your work in this small country aimed at awakening the people, you may not see any results here. But suddenly, Americans will start talking about it, and then it will be accepted by our whole nation. Why? Because of our intermingling and mutual incorporation with foreign cultures.

How do you know in what form it must come? You must do what you are obligated to do. That is why many say: “What do you want from us? It is all true, but what can I do?” A person responds like this even without knowing Kabbalah. But why do you, knowing all this, say the same thing?

All these things are not theoretical! They are given to us so we may fulfill them. The Torah is not a subject to study like philosophy. There is nothing in it that is subject to theoretical contemplation! It is subject to realization. It is our life, it is the most general law of the universe that encompasses all other laws.
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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: How can a person bring themselves to accept the opinion of the group by force?

Answer: This is the most difficult question. How can a person, with all their accumulated qualities, powers, and traits, accept the direction of the group? How can they do this every moment in accordance with their development, when they are within a group? Where is that button you can press so that the engine does not stop?

This is exactly what we must do. Where can you find the strength to listen to the group, submit to it, and receive from it what it gives? This is precisely what you must force yourself to do each time. This is called “buy yourself a friend.”

But the group is not just friends. “Haver” (friend) is an equal, from the word “Hibur” (connection). The group is also the teacher, something that dictates to you what to do, something whose opinion you must accept above your own.

Study the articles of Rabash about the group, and perhaps you will find advice on how to truly bow your head and receive this idea from the group.
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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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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #3 “The Matter of Spiritual Attainment”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 2 (5.10.2006)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Everything Is Obtained by the Power of Prayer”

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “The Rose”

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If we are developing correctly and feel that we want to unite but are unable to do so by ourselves, then a third factor enters the picture—the Creator.

It is not just me and the group; He must be present within it. He must be the goal for me. He must become the performer of the action, and this is a sign of correct development.

By desiring to unite with the group, I thereby create a Kli within which He must dwell.

I am ready to give myself over to it, but what I currently lack is the understanding of the necessity for this to be for the sake of the Creator, so that the Creator will dwell within this connection.

The lack of this understanding comes from the fact that He is concealed.

But soon, from the suffering, from understanding the necessity, it will be revealed that He must be here. When these three factors: me, the group, and the Creator merge as one, it will happen.
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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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In the generations from Adam to Noah and from Noah onward, both in the people of Israel and among the nations of the world, the Aviut (the thickness of the desire) was still very small.

Abraham is unique in his generation in that a yearning for the Creator was revealed in him despite the fact that his father Terach was an idol-worshipper and engaged in Avoda Zara (foreign work), meaning he believed that there are many forces in the world besides the Creator that each act independently.

If a person “sees” that all these forces govern him for better or worse, he turns to each of them. He does not consider that behind them stands another force, one that unites them all, possesses thought, has a program and a goal for humanity, and uses all these forces merely as its messengers, messengers that have no program of their own, no free will, and no particular relation to a person. He does not believe that everything is governed by a single force.

This in essence is the qualitative difference between Abraham and his father. The approach that one must believe there is a single force and seek it replaces the former view of nature as a collection of many forces. This refers to a qualitative effort and distinction that requires a special purification of the “body,” that is, the desire to receive.

Abraham taught this to his followers; he taught that behind all the forces stands a single thought, a single desire. None of the individual forces contains good or evil; behind them is one thought that is good and benevolent to both the wicked and the righteous, which leads a person to the goal.

Good and evil, though perceived differently by us, serve one purpose. We must understand the plan of the Creator and accept it, relate to it rationally, correctly, and develop ourselves accordingly.

The Creator demands that we participate in our development from our own independent desire. This is the only way we can be truly independent; it is by strengthening ourselves on the path of development, that is, by accepting His program and realizing it.

In essence, no one in the generation of Abraham, except Abraham himself, grasped this idea. People did not yet have a prepared foundation within their souls to reveal the true picture of reality. Abraham, however, came to this through purification, that is, a special quality in the soul.
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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: To what extent can a rational explanation touch the level of desire in the masses?

Answer: By carrying out explanatory work around the world through books and mass media, we are not only dealing with external factors and performing an informational task. We are also initiating a spiritual correction of the world whereby each part of the world receives knowledge from above about the purpose of creation through us. This is already a spiritual act.

We should not think that we are merely performing some corporeal action. It is as if we are laying down pipelines through which a certain knowledge about the purpose of the world and the purpose of a person that stem from the plan of creation reaches everyone. In this way, we connect each individual to the Creator.
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The individual and the collective are equal. There is no difference between how a person corrects himself and how the entire world undergoes correction. The law is the same because the shattering resulted in each part becoming mixed with all the others. Therefore, the process that one person undergoes is no different from the process the entire world undergoes.

In truth, there is nothing complicated about it. If it becomes clear, if we are able to explain it to the world, it will, in turn, clarify and illuminate many things in the world.

Those who connect to this idea will truly be called “spiritual Israel.” And from an inner feeling of necessity, they will feel that they must go through correction.
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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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