Lag Ba’Omer is the most Kabbalistic holiday—the holiday of light. Lag Ba’Omer means the 33^rd day (lamed-gimel) after Passover, meaning, when we come out of the egoistic desire into giving for the sake of giving, into desires for bestowal.

Therefore, afterward comes a period of purification of desires: 33 days from Passover to Lag Ba’Omer and from Lag Ba’Omer to Shavuot. During these 50 days, we complete all corrections and become ready to receive the Torah, that is, the light that corrects the receiving desires into receiving for the sake of giving.

Before the day of Lag Ba’Omer, we are not yet considered to have completely left Egypt because we need to correct our desires, which have the characteristics of Egypt (egoism). But on the 33^rd day, corrections are achieved in the 33^rd Sefira, and we only have to correct the lowest part of the degree, the receiving desires.

Therefore, we can be sure we will certainly come to receive the Torah. From the day of Lag Ba’Omer, the light of the gift of the Torah has already begun to shine upon us, even from afar.

That is why the day of Lag Ba’Omer is so important in terms of correction. Before Lag Ba’Omer, we are still correcting and completing the exit from Egypt, and after that day we begin to prepare ourselves for receiving the Torah on Shavuot. It turns out that Lag Ba’Omer is a very special “day,” that is, a condition that a person goes through on the path of correction.

The exit from Egypt is carried out under the influence of the upper light, the enormous light of Hochma, which is revealed due to man’s awakening. As a result, one rises above his egoism and breaks away from it, but all this is due to the light coming from above. Desires still remain egoistic, but the light gives them the opportunity to rise above egoism to want to give.

All this is only due to the upper light, which holds us like a magnet. And now we need to implement this correction so that it is imprinted on all our desires. In total, 49 Sefirot need to be corrected in the 50 days from Passover to Shavuot, but after correcting 33 Sefirot, there is no doubt we will complete our correction. After that, nothing can stop it.

It is known that 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva died from an epidemic in one month. Such enormous egoism manifested in them that instead of loving one’s friend, which the teacher commanded, they fell into unfounded hatred for each other. Therefore they could not withstand the light of correction to be revealed in these days, and died. It was only on the day of Lag Ba’Omer that the epidemic stopped, and the students stopped dying.

Of all the disciples of Rabbi Akiva, only a small group remained under the leadership of Rabbi Shimon. There were ten people in this group who were able to connect with each other like the ten Sefirot, and thanks to this they wrote The Book of Zohar, the greatest Kabbalistic book, a commentary on the Pentateuch of the Torah.

Each time they received the reforming light (the light that returns to the source), corrected themselves with its help, and recorded their corrections and discoveries. This is called a commentary on the Torah. The light itself cannot be described. But when it illuminates desires that strive for unity, it reveals new forms of their unification and thus reveals itself, that is, the Torah.

There is a connection between the spiritual root and the material branch; therefore there are days in our world when a stronger common light comes. Therefore we must use this special time of the Lag Ba’Omer holiday and try with all our might to achieve unity. After all, this is the most favorable moment for it—all conditions contribute to correction.

Rabbi Shimon’s group made corrections to the ten main Sefirot at the time. But now, all of humanity must achieve such ten main Sefirot and then it will reveal the same desires and lights, the same state. The fact that The Book of Zohar has been revealed after centuries of concealment indicates that our desires are ready for final correction, and we live in the generation of the Messiah.

Rabbi Shimon died on the day of Lag Ba’Omer. The departure of the righteous from this world is not a day of mourning but a holiday because it benefits the world. After all, the soul of the righteous rises to an even higher level, which we cannot even discern.

Lag Ba’Omer is a celebration of Kabbalists, a celebration of the upper light, which must come and clothe in people’s souls. This is the same light that was in the 24,000 disciples of Rabbi Akiva, due to their unity, which later disappeared when they could not overcome their egoism, and they died spiritually. Therefore, historically, they also died physically from the epidemic.

Rabbi Shimon’s group revealed all this light among themselves, climbed the 125 steps of the spiritual ladder, wrote about it in The Book of Zohar, and hid it to the present day.

In our time, The Book of Zohar has been revealed and supplemented with a full commentary by Baal HaSulam, entitled “Sulam” (Ladder). This supplement allows us to gradually approach The Book of Zohar and reveal it, until we discover all 125 steps and achieve complete correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/17, The Holiday of Lag Ba’Omer

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Question: We know that in any endeavor, there must be someone responsible. Without that nothing gets done. So why, in inner work, is everyone responsible?

Answer: We see that in any work, if we want to succeed, for example, to build a Sukkah, we divide into teams.

Each team is responsible for its own part—electricity, cooling, heating, kitchen, and so on—and then we succeed. Everyone cares about the overall success, but works on their own portion. Still, everyone is thinking about the common goal.

Now you are asking: in our group, does everyone have to think about Arvut, or can we form a dedicated team for that? Teams are necessary for carrying out tasks that require practical implementation. But each person must have the intention to succeed, and that success is defined as the fulfillment of the condition of Arvut. Everyone must feel that they have come out of their own will to receive.

That is called exodus from Egypt and it is the condition for receiving the Torah. After that, the upper force comes and gives the ability to work with the vessels of reception.

The desire to attain Arvut must be present in each one, otherwise there is no point being in the group at all. Each can perform different actions according to the character of their soul and their capabilities, according to what they are able to do in the group, whether physically, mentally, or theoretically, but the intention must be shared by all.

You cannot divide responsibilities by saying, “You deal with the group’s intention and we will do the action.” Baal HaSulam says that Arvut must apply to everyone. Each one places the whole world on the scale of merit. Each one! You cannot shift this burden onto others because each person has their own vessel (Kli) that they must correct through Arvut.

From my Kli, I must provide my share of Arvut for everyone. He must provide it from his Kli, another from theirs, and so on. And if someone is missing, then because we are all connected, I will be lacking what he was supposed to contribute. I will feel: yes, the group is good, and I always get help, but still something is missing.

But I should not worry about whether I will be filled with Arvut or not. I do not know that. What happens is, a person reaches a state where he breaks free from the will to receive and begins to work in bestowal. That is called crossing the Machsom.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/2025, 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 — “Studying with the Friends”

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A group is those people who kind of agree to achieve a goal called adhesion with the Creator. This is a potential agreement. They have not achieved it yet, nor do they even agree with it, but they determine for themselves this is actually the goal.

This is what the authentic sources say, and we feel that it must be so. So let us start building some mechanisms within ourselves, some levels of work, and apply effort to help us get closer to the goal.

Of course, eventually we will find that progress occurs only with the help of the light that corrects, regulates, and connects all parts of Adam HaRishon.

We will determine all our actions according to how much correcting light we can attract to ourselves.

Accordingly, actions will be more or less important, those you need to think about all the time and those you cannot always think about.

Each time there is a different revelation, a different understanding of the means, but always the right realization. It consists of the light checking and correcting the Kelim, while we must attract it through actions that will achieve this in the most beneficial way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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Rabbi Elazar, the son of Rabbi Shimon, writes that everyone must attain the condition of Arvut (mutual guarantee). We have no possibility of connecting souls into one Kli (vessel) other than through the correction between them, which is called Arvut.

Arvut is merely the realization of unity. It is not some artificial or secondary condition that has other causes. There is only one reason—the merging of souls in such a way that they become similar to the light and merge with it. It is very simple.

How can it be that some soul, some desire from those included in Adam HaRishon, would unite with the rest if not through Arvut, when it gives itself over to all the other souls as an inseparable part that is fused with them?

Of course, in our world this must find expression in such a form that both the nations of the world and Israel will ultimately be included in the law of Arvut.

During the exile, the people of Israel mixed with the nations of the world, and now the notions of “the people of Israel” and “the nations of the world” are such that we do not exactly know who is where. We do not know the tribes of Israel; we do not know how the mixing occurred.

Therefore there are many cases in which, among the so-called nations of the world, here and there we observe such an awakening that does not exist within the people of Israel. If some soul is awakening, this is a sign that it has already reached the possibility of fulfilling its role.

In other words, if someone is capable of taking the obligation to attain such a correction as Arvut upon themselves, they are called “Israel” in relation to all the others who have not yet reached this.

And those souls that have already attained or want to attain this must relate to the rest as to the nations of the world—to correct, to connect, and to care for them.

Such a division no longer corresponds to belonging to any nation; this division is more internal: one who strives toward the Creator is called “Israel” and one who still does not strive is called “nations of the world.”

It is said that the people of Israel were sent into exile only in order to attach the nations of the world to themselves. And we see that there are those in whom the desire for the Creator lives, and the part of Israel in them, as a result of the mixing, is very strong. There is nothing to be done; this is the result of the shattering and the exile, which were predetermined from above.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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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: Do we lack the development of Aviut to advance?

Answer: We do not worry about Aviut, whether it is revealed or not. We must take care of the connection between us in the conditions given. We receive the level of Aviut with all the heaviness, confusion, and hindrances corresponding to the level, according to its nature. That is how it should be, period! We have nothing to be indignant about and no need to find out why this is the case and not otherwise.

We do not understand this. We have no comprehension in the revelation of the common vessel, even in its smallest part! So what can we say about this?!

We must accept this above knowledge. Of course, we can explore this, but all these scrutinies may divert us from the action itself.

There is only one direction. The levels of the Aviut will be revealed, obstacles will be revealed, all kinds of conditions, internal and external, will be revealed, and we must accept them because each revelation is the revelation of another stage and another, where we will have to make connections, and create a common Kli.

Today, according to what is being revealed, we must unite between those who are ready, openly, by mutual agreement. In the rest of the world that is not ready and does not understand what is going on we must spread this knowledge in every possible way so that it rises upward. That is our task.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/6/2025, Write of Baal HaSulam The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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Question: Is Arvut (mutual guarantee) the same for Kelim (vessels) with small and large Aviut?

Answer: The law of Arvut does not depend on Aviut. Naturally, it manifests in different forms in accordance with the level of Aviut and the nature of the Kli one has acquired.

What is the difference between degrees of Aviut in relation to Arvut? For example, Abraham and his household fulfilled the law of Arvut, because the Kelim must be connected with each other to a certain degree in order to reveal the upper light that will elevate them to some level of spiritual life.

But they hardly needed to exert effort because their souls were so pure that they understood how to reach adhesion, and through connection among themselves, to reach equivalence of form with the light.

To the extent that each person devotes himself to the group, he merits similarity to the light. And the entire group reaches such a powerful connection in intention for the sake of bestowal that the light begins to shine within it.

However, when the desire within the group becomes more coarse, then naturally the law of Arvut must be implemented in a different form according to the increased Aviut. This creates a problem: a methodology is needed; special lights are needed for the correction of the Kelim. This is what we call the Torah.

Therefore the reason for the need to attain Arvut in the first place becomes less obvious; it disappears. The increased Aviut conceals the Creator, the light withdraws, and it becomes unclear why this is necessary at all.

The desire to receive begins to demand all kinds of things for itself, and the person no longer clearly sees that the world operates according to the law of love for one’s neighbor. One’s perception becomes clouded.

This continues until people no longer believe that this reality operates according to the law of love for others.

They begin to relate to one another based on their own desire to receive, which grows, increasingly confuses a person, and causes him to descend further and further.

This is exactly what happens with us. We find ourselves in inspiration and then in descent. At one moment we feel capable of giving ourselves over and remaining in that state, and then suddenly we begin to make more animalistic, more earthly calculations.

It seems to us that this is the real world, that this is how we must live, that these are the laws we must follow. Everything aligns with the current state you are in, whether your desire to receive has increased or whether it has quieted down within you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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All of reality was created by a single thought of the Creator. This one thought begins and concludes the entire process that creation must undergo. It is itself both the entire reality and the final reward. Everything except the desire of the Creator is contained within this thought that realizes His intention. It emanates from the Creator and within it all the created beings are manifested.

The expected reward is also embedded in it because all actions and all their outcomes are directed toward reaching the end of correction.

It is said that a person must place the Creator as a King over himself. That is, it is not enough that the Creator has prepared everything for us, the creation and its development, all that exists and will be. What matters is that the human being must also engage in the work to study the actions of the Creator and to elevate Him to the upper reality: to place Him as a King over himself.

A person strives to study creation on all its levels and through this gain the ability to connect everything to the upper force. Then he sees that this upper force is the Creator.

If one makes the correct choice and walks the correct path in the world in which he was created, he gradually reveals the force that governs this world and feels the necessity to bow before it.

As a person draws closer to nature, he discovers that within it, there is one upper force encompassing everything, including the person himself. It is this force we must reveal through our connection with one another.

In striving to come closer and unite ever more deeply with the friends, we gradually come to see that all of this has been prepared for us by the Creator and that it leads to the revelation of the Creator at the center of our unity. There is no other way.

The quality of such work elevates a person above everything else because through it, he takes steps toward resembling the Creator. When a person attains even the slightest similarity with the Creator, through his adhesion to the upper, he begins to rise toward Him. The work of connection brings us closer to the upper force.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/25, “Preparation for the Convention—Connecting to There Is None Else Besides Him”

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