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Can Women Be in Mutual Guarantee?

252Question: Can women enter into mutual guarantee (Arvut)?

Answer: Of course they can. What is the problem? If the men enter, then you will enter. You must fully help men because the male part determines, and the female part gives its pressure—Aviut. Without proper interaction between us, we will not be able to achieve this.

Mutual guarantee is the birth of a spiritual state. It comes only from the correct correspondence of the male and female parts in the Kli.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Signs of the State of Mutual Guarantee

947Question: Can we say that we start entering into mutual guarantee egoistically?

Answer: Of course, only egotistically.

Question: How does this mutual guarantee advance us toward the Creator?

Answer: We cannot advance using only egoism. But for now, that is the only power we have. We do not have anything else yet! Do you want to immediately jump to the level of bestowal, love, and connection between each other? From where?

There is an entire ladder and by climbing it we gradually accumulate the desire for the right connection, for bestowing, when the general becomes higher than my personal “I.” This does not happen immediately but under the influence of the higher light.

Question: What is the result of the ten being in a state of mutual guarantee?

Answer: If you do not feel yourself but feel the ten, take it into consideration, think together, desire together as if you have no internal life of your own, only a common one, and when you suddenly separate from the ten you feel as if your oxygen supply has been cut off, then this is the state of mutual guarantee (Arvut).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Mutual Guarantee—Responsibility for the Whole World

944Question: What is mutual responsibility (Arvut)?

Answer: Mutual responsibility (Arvut) is when I am responsible for the whole world before the Creator.

Question: Can we, Bnei Baruch, be an example to humanity in our state and explain to them through our example about how we unite?

Answer: No, we cannot do that because we are not yet a group that can tell humanity, “You have to become like our group.” Although we are close to it, we are not in such a state yet.

Arvut is a state in which everyone connects by one force into one organism, and the Creator descends to us according to our desires. He settles in us, controls us, and fills us with His quality of bestowal. And we are connected in this quality of bestowal. That is a mutual guarantee. That is the ideal state of humanity.

But we are not there yet. We want to get closer to this state to set an example for humanity. As soon as we reach this state, humanity will begin to notice: “What is this? Why is this happening? How did they do it?” They will suddenly intuitively feel that in Arvut lies the salvation to all problems. But to do this, we must first achieve the quality of Arvut among us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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The State of One Reflects the State of Everyone

528.02Question: If a friend in our ten goes through a state of descent and we feel it, how can we help him?

Answer: If a friend is going through a bad spiritual state, we must support him.

Understand that each of us experiences a spiritual state for the group and not for ourselves. We go through descents, ascents, and changes in our states only because the whole group needs it, not just one person.

Therefore, if I look at a friend and see that he is in a descent, he is not in it. The whole group, through him, must study this descent and pick it up. And so through each of us. We must perceive ups and downs as being given to the whole group together. In spirituality, we strive to be one.

How can I look at a friend and say if he is on a descent or an ascent? That is where we are! He experiences this alone because we have not yet united. And to the extent that we unite, we will feel all the descents and ascents of everyone together.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Think Less about Yourself

527.03Question: How can remote groups be incorporated into a teacher, as Kabbalists once did?
I am afraid it is possible to miss the common ark and it will sail away, and in the next life, I will have to be born again in some unclear conditions.

Answer: First of all, the fact that you are afraid of missing something, losing, and being late—this is good. On the other hand, you must be sure that if you are in this place and trying to unite with your friends with all your might, you will definitely succeed. That is second.

Third, success does not consist of what you have attained, earned, felt, realized, and seen. Success consists of trying to think at every moment about bringing contentment to the Creator.

And then you will think less about yourself, about how to succeed, and whether you will have time or not have time, or whether you will be born in this world again. All these purely egoistic questions will not worry you because you will be above them in aspiration toward the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Common Agreement Is Required

942Question: Is it possible to connect hearts when some in the ten disagree that this is the only way to hear the voice of the Creator?

Answer: This is not good. We must reach a state where everyone desires and performs the same action and expects the same result.

Question: Sometimes friends say that they hear the voice of the Creator without connecting with the ten. How can that be?

Answer: I do not know. I do not believe that a person can do this without first connecting through acts of bestowal with other friends.

Question: Can the part of the group that agrees with this condition hear the voice of the Creator?

Answer: It is not likely that this can be achieved without the support of the entire ten.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/12/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 41

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The Importance of Group Work

938.01Question: As a rule evil forces us to turn to good. Against what background is evil revealed? Should the feeling of evil be constant as an indicator of our progress?

Answer: Evil is not revealed in us because we strive for good. When we come to study Kabbalah, we are not interested in good and evil or all these categories in general. We are interested in comprehending the Creator, revealing the upper world, revealing the source, the cause, and the purpose of the universe, that is, everything above our life that controls it.

When I study, they tell me that to reveal the control system, the higher power, the upper world, you must unite with your friends. They tell me about the system of Adam HaRishon, which needs revealing.

To reveal it, I have to be in a group. Therefore, they include me in a group of friends to unite and mutually care for each other, etc.

All this is repulsive to my ego, mind, and soul, but I can do nothing. They explain why this is important. Gradually, under the influence of the upper light, I begin to feel the importance of working in a group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/17/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Make Everything to the Positive

632.4Question: How can we unite to feel the revelation of the Creator?

Answer: Our main progress is through ascents and descents. Let us say right now I feel completely stupid. I do not remember words or how to connect a couple of phrases. My head is empty and I am clumsy in my desires and aspirations. I am dead! Even worse.

And then everything passes, and a new state appears. It becomes more and more apparent and colorful. I strive forward to my friends; everything takes on meaning and taste. And then again, tastelessness, decline, detachment, stupidity, etc. And again, colors, tastes, desires!

That is how we move forward. The most important thing is to unite in both men’s and women’s tens so that you always receive common benefits from the falls of some and the rises of others. Our work is like that of a rectifier in a Wheatstone Bridge circuit. When it works in a positive phase, it goes to a plus; when it works in a negative phase, it also goes to a plus. Everything depends on our unification.

If we unite correctly, the Creator will ensure that we complement each other, and our common downfalls and ascents will always be only in our favor and will have a vast overall effect. So let us take care of this. After all, this is only possible through our unification.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/20, “Questions and Answers”

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Follow the Creator

942Dam (blood) means Demama (silence/stillness), as in, “And Aaron kept silent,” and “Be silent for the Lord” (Rabash, Letter No. 32).

Question: What is this power of silence? What is it expressed in?

Answer: It is a state when a person agrees with everything that comes from the Creator and agrees to remain silent.

Question: How can one correctly follow the Creator?

Answer: Following the Creator correctly means finding out in the group how fully you are connected with the inner power of the ten, and then you can be more or less sure that you are taking the right steps. All internal actions are performed only through the ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/14/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 32

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The Emergence of New Strength

938.04Question: You said to clarify what strength we reveal from our connection in the ten. How should we analyze this correctly?

Answer: In our attempts to connect we must try to see how those strengths and opportunities we lack are born from our unity.

In this way, we will understand what we can develop within ourselves. We must look for new states we have not felt before, i.e., new strength, new connections, and new opportunities.

In the habitual rhythm of our actions, we must see this new strength each time, how it is born each time we get closer to each other, and how a new opportunity emerges in the connection with each other.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/11/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 59

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