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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 5/11/25

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee),” Items 27, (11.16.2003)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Preparation for the Convention,” Lesson 2: “Believing that the Creator Is Good and Does Good”

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To Those Who Really Want It, It Will Be Revealed

961.2There is only one counsel then: to cling to his teacher and to the books… Only by clinging to them can he change his mind and will for the better. However, witty arguments will not help him change his mind, but only the remedy of Dvekut [adhesion], for this is a wondrous cure, as the I reforms him (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 25, “Things that Come from the Heart“).

If a student wants to adhere to the teacher’s thought or desire, then he joins in them and unites with that thought and desire, which then become close and dear to him. As a result, all of one’s own thoughts and desires undergo correction and bow before the new desire and new thought.

Everything depends on how much one can perceive the teacher’s attitude and inner intention, cling to it, and separate from any other form of connection, whether with friends or the outside world. Then one begins to feel how tightly he has managed to adhere to the teacher, and from this, strength and desire to cling to the Creator will arise.

Any student, in any condition, has the opportunity to realize this aspiration. And to one who truly desires it, as it is said: “It will be revealed to him.”

If you yearn for adhesion, that very yearning begins to influence you and draw you closer.
Everything depends on a person’s desire, on their willingness to detach from the self-centered core and to stick to the new center of adhesion, one that is internally closer to the friends.

The advice, “Make for yourself a Rav (teacher),” means a person’s inner desire is to get closer to the center of creation.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/5/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Things that Come from the Heart”

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The Saving Force of the Group

938.07The force that can pull a person out of their egoistic prison arises from the difference in potential between their personal state and the collective attitude of the group, the environment. The force of the group’s desire, which is stronger than the force of a person’s egoism, passes the yearning to break free to them, as if throwing them a rope and pulling them out.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/5/2025, Writings Baal HaSulam “Things that Come from the Heart”

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Torah—A Pressing Need

933Throughout history, spiritual corrections occurred in order. The first to do so was a man named Abraham and a small group of his disciples. At that time, they did not need a mutual guarantee since they had a small Aviut (coarseness), and they were very close to each other since the desire to receive had not yet been revealed.

Each one of them felt the upper force, and the “advice” conveyed by Abraham was enough to be one with the Creator because they fulfilled the entire Torah due to their purity. Other nations of the world had no need for religions. In their cultures at that time there was still a certain personal attitude to nature.

Then the people of Israel descended to Egypt where they absorbed an additional desire to receive from the Egyptians.

The increase of Aviut (coarseness) in the people of Israel after their exodus from Egypt and during the period of the First and Second Temples coincided with parallel processes in other nations: Rome replaced Greece; Greek mythology collapsed along with the previous level of Aviut. In Rome, a process of forming religion began; in India—Buddha; in China—Confucius, and so on.

In other words, it is precisely the growing Aviut throughout humanity that causes the corresponding human reaction—a person begins to search.

Therefore, as their desire to receive increased, the group that had been in Dvekut (adhesion) with the Creator since the time of Abraham needed a new method to remain in that adhesion and even strengthen it, or in other words, they needed a new method in order to take another step toward returning to the state of Adam HaRishon.

Thus it became necessary for them to receive the Torah and reach a new level of connection among themselves that was different from before. They now needed a method of how to preserve the same idea of adhesion with the Creator on a new level of Aviut. This method is called the Torah.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/4/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Mutual Guarantee—The General Law of the Universe

929All of Israel are guarantors for each other. Guarantors for each other is our state when we are in Adam HaRishon, in a common soul. The state we initially existed in is a perfect state, created like this from above, and we must come to it ourselves, from below, from this world.

From the state called the soul of Adam HaRishon (the First Man), which is united with the Creator in perfection, eternity, in complete similarity to the Creator, all laws descend to us. And we, who are at the lowest level, the furthest from this state, must gradually implement, fulfill, and apply these laws to ourselves, and thus advance and return to the same state.

Thus, mutual guarantee (Arvut) is a common law that must exist between us if we want to come to correction, a state called “one soul,” from which this law, like all other laws, or “advice” for our corrections, comes to us.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/3/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulamThe Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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The Path through Bands of Light and Darkness

207Question: How does spiritual ascent occur?

Answer: When a person begins studying Kabbalah, one starts going through various states. They do not know where these new states come from, but essentially, all changes come from the upper one.

There are two levels: the upper and the lower. In the upper, there are an upper and lower part (GE and AHAP), and in the lower also GE and AHAP. Together, they form the ten Sefirot, the structure of our soul.
As long as I merely exist in this world and have not begun to correct my soul, I perceive only myself, my current level, as my body, my life. And nothing beyond that.

But when I begin studying Kabbalah and join a group, I begin to receive the surrounding light. It is called “surrounding” relative to me because it is hidden in what surrounds me: in the books, the teacher, the friends through whom I receive this light.

I do not receive it just “from the air”; there is no upper light in the air. We are talking about the ladder of spiritual levels. But relative to a person, it so far manifests as a light transmitted to them through various means.

Sometimes this light awakens a person, and at other times, on the contrary, it gives them a sensation of darkness, the reverse side of light. The upper can explain something to the lower like a wise, adult explains something to their student. And the students enjoys what they hear and become wiser. They perceive it as receiving the light, knowledge and sensation.

Or, on the contrary, the teacher, relative to the student is in such a state, gives them such material and knowledge, such an experience that the student sees how little they understand of spirituality and how little they feel, how closed off and empty they are. And then, the more the teacher gives them, the darker it becomes for the student.

It does not depend on whether the light of Hochma is present or not but on how much the upper adjusts to the lower. Yet, if the upper adapts too much to the lower, it deprives them of the opportunity to perform any independent actions.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/27/2012, Writings of Rabash Article 195

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 5/9/25

1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee),” Item 23, (12.11.2003)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson 2 “Believing that the Creator Is Good and Does Good

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 5/8/25

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee),” (11.11.2003)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Preparation for the Convention,” Lesson 1: “There’s None Else Besides HIm”

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 2, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 9, Item 110

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 5/7/25

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah (Giving of the Torah),” (11.11.2003)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 2, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 9, Item 103

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3rd part of the Lesson — Preparation for the Convention, Lesson 1 “There’s None Else Besides Him”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 5/6/25

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Arvut (Mutual Guarantee),” Items 19, (11.10.2003)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Preparation for the Convention”

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