Question: How can one balance the need to explain people’s guilt in what is happening on one hand, and on the other, make sure that they accept it?

Answer: As Baal HaSulam explains at the end of the Introduction to The Book of Zohar, all correction begins from within, from the innermost part of ourselves.

If you find a point of support on the Creator within yourself and from this point you influence yourself and the group, and from this point you reach out to the whole world, you will be able to explain it, be right, and self-confident. There will be no difficulty in doing so. But only if you have that point of reliance on the Creator.
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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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Is there a difference today between Jews and the nations of the world who are awakening to seek spirituality, to spiritual work?

According to what Baal HaSulam writes at the end of the Introduction to The Book of Zohar, first and foremost, we must awaken those who are customarily called “the people of Israel” in this world.

This is not according to their aspiration to adhere to the Creator, not to look for such individuals as we do in global dissemination, but simply by working within the people. This is what we are doing now. And this work, as it turns out, is the most difficult.

The point is that to those who allegedly belong to the people of Israel, those who have “Jew” written in their passport, you must come with a real accusation: that they are inherently guilty of not fulfilling their role in this world despite being Jews. Clearly no one wants to hear this.

As for the nations of the world, you approach them with a different task. You say: “You must help the Jews fulfill the correction that will be revealed to the world through them.” This is what the AHP must do in relation to Galgalta veEynaim. That is, you ask them for help, but you do not accuse them of not making corrections because the vessels of reception cannot carry it out. If they could, they would have received the Torah.

It is said that the Creator tried to give the Torah to each of the 70 nations, but they were unable to accept it. Therefore, there are no claims against them.

And when they already know what the process of correction entails and the reason for the purpose of creation, then you can demand participation and help from them, but only after that! As it is written: The nations of the world will carry Israel on their shoulders and bring them to Jerusalem. And then you will see that indeed the whole world is ready to participate in everything for the sake of correction.

And as for the fact that today we are being accused of being a part that has no purpose, this is because we, those living in Israel, claim that the inner part of the Torah, the wisdom of Kabbalah, meaning the means for attaining the purpose of creation, is unnecessary. That is why the nations of the world treat us this way.

Baal HaSulam writes about this very clearly and plainly. In this way, we ourselves determine the world’s attitude toward us and the measure of suffering or the measure of serene peace in the whole world.
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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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Kabbalists are not planning a nationwide return to religion so everyone stands in line to put on tefillin. None of us even think in this direction. Especially regarding the nations of the world. Even if they become corrected, will they also have to fulfill all these commandments? Of course not!

Baal HaSulam writes that a person can even remain in his religion, as it has nothing to do with what we do. All these things are carried out only spiritually anyway: in relation, intention, and one’s inner connection with the Creator.

It may not be easy to explain this, but it depends on the measure of internal, personal suffering and the degree of general, collective suffering. If we actually reach a state where we have to take it upon ourselves, this will serve as our internal preparation, and people will hear this and understand we have nowhere else to look for help.

This is called a cry to the Creator. This is a prayer, raising MAN—all this is, in fact, the same thing. You have no choice, you must. This is how a person who is in pain, who has a seriously ill loved one—his inner concern, his fear, his anxiety is about it. This is surely revealed in him. These things, in general, correct his state, and we see this is how it is.

What does it mean, they correct it? Of course, they do not correct anything, but they lead to correction coming from above.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Why do you need corporeal life if you are below the level of intention? To reach this level by your free choice! Therefore, before attaining the correct intentions, you must be in a state where you have nothing in common with them.

At the same time, you must have some sense of existence, and with this sense, you gradually come to understand intentions and enter what is called the spiritual world, that is, into the development of intention, and continue to engage with it.

You are the one who does this. That is why there must be a certain preliminary reality, called “this world,” from which you begin your independent movement.

But once you’ve acquired this tool having the Rosh, Toch, and Sof of a Partzuf, you continue onward with them, and you no longer need this world. Can any physical actions here still help you? Regardless of whether they can or not, the existence of this world does not interfere with your living in intention, in the spiritual world.

Even now, you can sit here with everything you possess and, at the same time, be in Atzilut with a fully functioning Partzuf. And conversely, you could be only there, without your physical body.

That already depends on your role in relation to all other souls: How much you must be in contact with them, what your function is with respect to them, and whether you must remain in a physical body.

If you must, then even if you yourself no longer need to reincarnate, you will still do so. These are different kinds of calculations.

This is what happens with great Kabbalists. You see, one and the same soul from Adam, through Abraham, Moses, Rabbi Shimon, the Ari, and Baal HaSulam keeps reincarnating. Does it need that for itself?
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: How can Kabbalah be perceived as a science without experience and proof? A theory is fine, there are many theories, but how will this be perceived by a person?

Answer: It is clear that we present Kabbalah as a theory. And this theory is dual. First, it is a theory because in our feelings, in our proofs, there is no level where you could demonstrate some clear events that no one would be able to refute.

So, on one hand it is a theory because you construct your perception of what happens in our world based on a cause that is invisible to the eye, solely according to your own logic, according to the accumulations gained from your previous experiences. This is one theory.

And the second theory lies in the fact that even if you have built and attained it, you prove it through your own conviction, not with facts. You cannot reveal the Creator to everyone and say: “Here is who is responsible, here is who is doing all of this!” So it still remains at the level of logical, theoretical, abstract proofs.

And why is this theory dual, a theory within a theory? Because you will never be able to demonstrate it to everyone “on demand.” “Let’s do this, and everything will happen!” It’s like taking a staff, striking it against a rock, and water starts flowing. That won’t happen!

We need to be prepared for the fact that what is supposed to happen does not happen immediately, and even though we’ve taken this theory as a means, as a tool, to change our state in the world, it has never had proofs in nature.

That is, there has never been a case where we conducted a certain specific experiment and obtained certain positive results like with how a medicine is discovered for a disease where experiments are conducted, results are published to the whole world, the world agrees, and the developers get permission to distribute the medicine.

In our case, it is hard to say that it will happen this way because then all of humanity would progress not in a form leading to adhesion with the Creator, but in the opposite form.

Here we begin to understand why the Creator sends suffering, and why it is not in vain that it is written that “suffering softens the body.” This means people will be more prepared to accept our idea. Instead of study, instead of group work, suffering will give them the degree of purification necessary for them to agree with us. It will be agreement through force, agreement from pain, but they will have no choice.

Questions arise: Why must humanity go through blows? Why not reveal all this in nature? Because discoveries in nature, too, you make through suffering, through blows, through investing effort and resources.

In other words, everything we attain, we attain “in sorrow”; otherwise, you do not advance toward adhesion. It is impossible to advance toward adhesion other than against the will to receive.
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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: Many advocate the idea of the Creator and unity. Is our approach different?

Answer: In essence, action is an attitude toward society, humanity, and the Creator. Attitude is a Kli (vessel), through which everything is transformed. It is an instrument in one’s hands, a means of change.

And herein lies the difficulty. A person does not perceive that through the right attitude, through thought, they bring about qualitative change. Physicists and chemists can already argue that this principle is embedded in the basis of matter itself, that material behaves according to the human perception of it.

But an ordinary person does not grasp this; one cannot comprehend it. How do I relate—correctly, incorrectly? If I think one way or another, what does that change? People say that if I think negatively about a flower, it will sense it, and through my energy, I could kill it. But it is still just a flower, when would such a thing even happen? I would rather use a stick, a gun, a bomb, tangible things, that allow visible action.

That is why the Baal Shem Tov and other sages established commandments and various rituals of service in the Temple. What was the purpose of all this? Does slaughtering a poor lamb, pigeons, or a cow performing these rituals truly accomplish anything? Do these actions have meaning? Of course, everything is determined by one’s intention.

People needed a framework to which they could attach their intention, their thought—why am I acting this way, upon which part of my desire to receive am I performing this action, what does blood symbolize, or a pigeon, a ram, bread, and water in the Temple service? This provides a deeper understanding of the correction of desires.

Today, we do not intend to carry out such practices; they belong to a past stage. We ascend from below upward. First comes the correction, and then, in accordance with it, action. If a person comprehends what correction must be, then…
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: When we address people can we distance ourselves from everything related to Mitzvot and Judaism?

Answer: We must approach the people of Israel with explanations about how they can change their fate and that of the entire world, as well as their attitude to the Creator.

We cannot add nor distort anything here. We can only reveal it  a little more or a little less), as one would with a child, to allow growth under the best conditions and in the fastest possible way.

Therefore, we should speak about what contributes to correction, but we need to tailor our words to the level of understanding of the listener. You are at a certain degree and must ascend to the next one; I must reveal the difference in degrees to you and help you see what needs to change, but no more than that! Only what pertains to progressing from your current degree to the next. Nothing extraneous should be added.

We cannot say: “Jump ten times in the morning, and you will be guaranteed success for the entire day.” It is in the realm of Segulot (miracles), which help a person psychologically, but does not change anything beyond perception.

If right now, you wish to give someone a good feeling, you may do so. It is like drugs, sedatives, or painkillers, but nothing more than that. A person who wears Tefillin daily without intention does not correct himself or his people. This will not prevent the emergence of gas chambers. That is not a correction.

Why should we explain this? We can say that it helps one stay within the framework that will help you think about the right thing, about the right intention. If it helps you, do it.

However, another danger exists; by wearing tefillin, one may calm oneself, by believing they have already done enough. Where, then, is the Creator, who should reward me? Why doesn’t He grant it? And everyone owes me! If I cannot demand it from the Creator, then at least from others; let them pay me for wearing tefillin.

This will lead to a dismissive attitude toward other nations—”I observe such practices, and who are you?” In other words, there is a risk that people will focus only on external observances, believing that is all they must do in this world, that by doing so, they truly bring benefit to their people and the entire world. But this contradicts genuine ascent.

Thus, Pharaoh said: “Moses and Aaron, what do you want from the people? Leave them alone. They work, and they work properly, they build beautiful cities, they have food and shelter, so everything is fine. The people do not suffer. When did they begin to suffer? When you demanded something beyond regular life from me. You began speaking of the Creator, insisting He must be taken in consideration. But who is the Creator that I should obey Him? Leave the people alone; let them live well.”

This is how we may fall under Pharaoh’s influence if we approach the people with explanations that external actions can change reality. True transformation is only possible through the elevation of MAN, through intention.

The framework must primarily be communal, and awaken “Love your neighbor as yourself,” “Love the Creator,” and elevate (glorify) the very idea in a way that ignites enthusiasm within society so that the masses embrace it as a trend, as something great, and thereby influence one another. Nothing more is needed.

Those who advance spiritually disregard the material realm. Even a person’s essence undergoes change; they no longer relate to this animalistic life as they once did. If you say this to someone, they may ask, “And this is Kabbalah?!” But “The Torah’s perspective is opposite to that of the masses.” You transform everything.

All the good things we do for unity, for establishing closer ties among us and within the people with regard to the Creator, the significance of merging with Him, all the tools available to us must be developed and implemented.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: Baal HaSulam writes about the group, the teacher, and the books. If we say the masses will not learn the way we do, can it be that these plans will change?

Answer: Of course the masses should not study the science of Kabbalah. And in general, one should not see studying as studying for the sake of learning, in which case “one’s knowledge is greater than his deeds.”

First of all, studying is a means of leading a person to the decision that one needs to change in accordance with the upper force to merge with It and to attract some higher forces in order to correct himself.

The upper forces that descend for correction come according to the raising of MAN, a request for correction. In other words, all this should not be tied to a book or a study at all. What is there to learn? These are extremely practical things that happen in a person: I have a desire, and it happens! Still, there must be preparation and explanations.

In what form will it reach society? In a more practical way. There are people whose duty it is to immerse themselves in books and extract these ideas from them, to fervently discern them in such a way that they can be conveyed to an ever wider public, that is, to make them simpler and clearer in accordance with the levels of society.

The lower the level of society, the more practical they become. After all, they are less able to perceive the abstract part of it, so much so that, as Baal HaSulam writes in the article “The Last Generation,” there will be those who do not perceive anything at all.

“Do you want me to sign? I will sign it.”

“Why?”

“I do not know why. I see that you act like that, and so will I.”

That is, there will be people who will join in only nominally.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: How do we understand Rambam’s words that “you may not reveal the meaning of ‘slavery’ to women and children?”

Answer: A person is in various forms of dependence on his desire to receive. If his desire to receive is not satisfied, one will not be able to advance and will be obliged to provide his desire with what it needs first. Therefore he is called a “slave” of desire.

The level of “slaves” is divided into several categories. There are genuine slaves, who do not understand they are in slavery and are unaware of their bondage.

There are also “children” and “little ones” who already feel weak and small in regard to their desire to receive, and who know that it dominates both their minds and hearts. Sometimes a person has the opportunity to get to know himself from the outside and see how powerless he is; sometimes he falls into a state where he just does something, like a small child, without reason.

By “women” we mean a state in which we feel dependent. There is a desire to receive, and it is like a husband, like a master. And so we feel dependence and lack (unfulfilled desire), which we must fulfill. So we fulfill it.

We are talking about various attitudes. There is nothing we can do. People employ them, and that is how they exist. Otherwise, it is impossible to live. They look for additional pleasures to fulfill their desires: fashion, public opinion, or something else.

People must have some goals in life so that they gradually fulfill themselves. Let it be football or some other game in life. There could be some changes for the whole world, one thing, then another to feel alive.

This is called life, a change in types of pleasure. This is our world. You can see it every time there is a new fashion, every time something is announced as an event or innovation. “Harry Potter,” then The Matrix, then something else. It gives you a sense of life. Otherwise, what is there to live for? That is the way people work: they look for something new to keep alive.

This is called a “woman.” She feels addicted and falls for this addiction because there is no other way. How can she exist? It is said that she “depends on a man,” “wants a man.” The Talmud and the TES say that a woman prefers “one measure and stupidity (i.e., being dependent) to nine measures as unmarried.”

We can talk a lot about these three categories: “slaves,” “children,” and “women,” about how it manifests itself in our world from the point of view of psychology, how it works in social circles, how it descends into matter and functions in it. We are already seeing this. Given that the public understands this, we can already start explaining it in lectures, and from there move to the reasons, the spiritual roots.
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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: When we spread the message to the people of Israel should we emphasize that our purpose is to serve the world rather than rule over it?

Answer: Of course, but no matter how much you emphasize that Israel serves the entire world, that it is an additional component that exists only as necessary for the world’s correction, and that it has no space in this world, there is always the possibility of misinterpretation. That is very easy to do.

If you find even the smallest detail that does not clearly explain at least part of the matter, it already creates room for distortion.

Still, changes are happening. It depends on our readiness, and we are obligated to act accordingly.

As for everything else, I hope we receive guidance from above. After all, everything is already prepared. We are not performing actions here, but merely participating in the process.
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