All the problems and troubles in this world are the result of the revelation of the lack of mutual guarantee (Arvut), which is increasing. Therefore, we need our behavior to be correct, to return to even our ordinary material connection and mutual guarantee.

All diseases are caused by violations of the law of mutual guarantee at the biological, zoological, botanical, or social level.

There are many levels of compliance with the law of mutual guarantee, but the highest is the love of one’s neighbor as oneself. In physical and chemical form, substances bind together, and at higher levels, people’s thoughts and desires bind together. In this perfect system, which is the universe, all the galaxies are connected to each other, that is, everything depends on mutual guarantee.

The pyramid of mutual guarantee includes the inanimate level at its base, then the vegetative, the animate, and above all, the human level. If we, are above all nature, at the top of the pyramid, fulfill the condition of mutual guarantee (Arvut)  in our desires and thoughts, in our mind and heart, this will affect all the levels below us. This will calm the whole of nature and bring it back to its integral form.

Nature will begin to behave according to the law of mutual guarantee between all its parts in all spheres. And then, of course, we will not have any health problems in the family, in human society, or even in the environment.

It is not possible to fix the environment by burning less oil or taking other protective measures, but only by implementing the law of mutual guarantee at the top of the pyramid where we are. By doing this, we will oblige all of nature below us to return to balance, reciprocity, and harmony.

The action of physical forces or the interaction of chemical substances according to their valences, according to the number of electrons around the atom, which bind together and build new substances—all these are the laws of mutual guarantee, which are revealed in different forms. All the laws of nature are manifestations of one global law.

Even the laws of human relations, psychology, and social life are part of a detailed explanation of the same global law of mutual guarantee, which we must fulfill in its entirety in order to reveal our connection with the Creator within this law. By doing this, we add our part to the Creator, and He adds His to us, and we reach the state of “He and His Name are one.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/21/20, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Mutual guarantee is the global law of the existence of humanity as one soul. If it is realized between people, then all the degrees below us, meaning the animate, vegetative, and still nature, will reconnect into one single system.

If humanity were united at its human degree today, we would see such changes in the entire universe where all nature gathers into one system, where no eruptions occur, and complete harmony reigns throughout the still, vegetative, and animate world.

As the prophets said, the wolf will live peacefully next to the lamb, and the whole creation will exist in single harmony. In this way we will bring the whole universe and the whole world to a single connection, and the Creator will reveal Himself within this harmony as one force that fills and embraces the whole creation. Our mutual guarantee and connection will not only improve our life, but it will also correct the whole creation and will combine it into one perfect system.

And this is bound to happen because these informational genes are recorded in the creation and forces are acting in it that lead it to this goal. We can bring this goal closer with our participation. Everything depends on us!
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/11/22, “Arvut on the Way to Lishma“

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The measure of the filling is as much as one can go above reason, and this is called Romemut.

There is only emptiness in a place where there is no existence, as it is written, “hangeth the earth over nothing.” You find that what is the measure of the filling, of the empty place? The answer is, according to one’s elevation of oneself above reason.

This means that the emptiness should be filled with loftiness, meaning with above reason, and to ask of the Creator to give one that strength. It will mean that all the emptiness was created, meaning it comes to a person to feel thus, that he is empty, only in order to fill it with the Romemut [greatness] of the Creator. In other words, one is to take everything above reason (Shamati #13, “A Pomegranate”) .

We do not know what faith above reason is. It is a total separation from all of our calculations. I remember how three or four months after I started studying with Rabash, I asked him, “What is faith above reason, since it is written that a person must always be in it?” At that time, I even wrote down on my hand that one mustn’t forget to think about faith above reason, even though I did not know what it was. As I was sitting in the car behind the wheel next to Rabash, I looked at what was written on my hand and asked him: What is the meaning of this concept?

In reply he gave me an example that is, of course, limited by the boundaries of this world: Suppose that a friend borrowed a $1,000 from you and later returned an envelope to you as if it had the entire sum inside. But you find only one dollar inside. Your friend says that there is $1,000 inside, but according to your calculation there is only one. Where are the other $999?

That is when you can advance by faith above reason. That is, you attain such a correction (rather than just forgiving your friend the debt!) that you perceive this dollar as if you received a $1,000 instead of one, as if the friend returned everything to you.

But how do you perceive the $999 that are missing? This is called the force of faith above reason. It is impossible to understand what this means ahead of time. Only when this force becomes revealed inside of us as a result of our inner efforts, inside of our desires, when we change, then we see that we really can make up for the knowledge with faith, and this faith is bestowal instead of reception.

In any case this will remain unclear until a person actually acquires this quality.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/11, Shamati

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We should yearn to see a friend as the greatest of the generation in a real, tangible way, which is called “within reason,” as it really is, and not as it seems to our egoism. After all, egoism always wants to feel better and more comfortable, and therefore it instinctively belittles everyone around in order to be above them. The main thing for it is to rule.

Therefore, to accept the idea of the need to connect with friends as a means of reaching connection with the Creator is possible only by faith above reason since we certainly do not see each other in our true form. Only on the basis of this small external criterion, where we see that a person is aiming for the same goal and is willing to accept all the conditions necessary to advance toward it, do we begin to treat him as a friend, as a means to connect with the Creator.

Based on such external signs, we decide to start working on our attitude to this person. If he is ready to work together, then we annul all other claims that our ego usually makes and begin to come closer to the person to connect in order to tangibly reveal our connection, and not just by faith above reason.

As we reach a genuine, sensory connection, we are coming closer to building a spiritual vessel in which the Creator is revealed.

A connection can occur above reason, at a time when it does not seem to me that a friend is worth it, but I still connect with him. I use this as the means. We call this a period of preparation, when I value my friends not because I see them as great. According to my feelings, I am above them, but I go above my feelings, do not agree with them, and I imagine my friends as great.

In order to move from faith above reason to reason, that is, to truly appreciate my friends, I need to correct my perception. The correction is in the fact that we are starting to work on our connection despite the opposite opinion. We are building a society in which everyone gives others a sense of the greatness of the group and the goal.

Through working together, we attract the reforming light, and as a result, we move from faith above reason into reason, and so we rise higher and higher. Of course, each subsequent step is more difficult. At first, the friends seemed as not too bad to me: in some ways bad, in some ways good. When it was necessary to rise above reason, I could easily do it and accept them as equals, companions on the way, or even great people of the generation. Their goal and they themselves seemed important to me.

But then I received the burdening of the heart, and I found a lot of flaws in them. It becomes increasingly difficult for me to accept them as great and see the Creator behind them and to warm myself up so that I do not notice anyone except my friends so that friends become everything to me.

Each time it gets harder and harder until I nevertheless overcome these obstacles and fulfill the measure allocated for me. Then all my efforts to go above reason turn into reason, turn into the correct vessel, inside of which the first revelation of the true quality of bestowal takes place, that is, a person is filled with the feeling of the Creator.

Thus, the principle of faith above reason always operates between the degrees, when ascending from one to the other. But when we are building our vessel, we should try as much as possible to transfer it into the reason.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/3/13, Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” “Concerning Above Reason”

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Our sages said that if a person asks the Creator to revive his soul with faith, then such a request is immediately accepted. Apart from faith, we have nothing to ask for, we will receive nothing else.

There is no point to turn to the Creator with any other questions, there will be no answer. That is, we will receive indirect answers that will gradually turn us toward the correct prayer. This is what is happening to us so far.

Therefore, we must find out what we really want to receive, not money, fame, or small momentary joys. What should we ask of the Creator in this short life? That is, the main problem is not how to turn to the Creator, but what exactly to turn to Him with, which means to find out what is really important to us in life and to turn to Him with it, no matter in what words.

We see that billions of people are constantly turning to the Creator. Every second in the heart of any person there is a request to the Creator, which he may not even realize. But all these requests are not relevant. Therefore, we cannot say that the Creator does not respond to them at all; He reacts, but just a little bit. We have been advancing toward corrections in this way for thousands of years.

Therefore, Kabbalah teaches us how to ask correctly in order to accelerate the process of correction: to ask for the force of faith, the opportunity to move to the force of bestowal and not live in the force of egoistic reception. The answer to such a request is guaranteed to us because this is the purpose of creation. Everything that a person has in this world is given only so that he can ask for the force of bestowal and adhesion with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/08/22, Rabash “The Striking of Thoughts upon Man”

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