The individual and the collective are equal. There is no difference between how a person corrects himself and how the entire world undergoes correction. The law is the same because the shattering resulted in each part becoming mixed with all the others. Therefore, the process that one person undergoes is no different from the process the entire world undergoes.

In truth, there is nothing complicated about it. If it becomes clear, if we are able to explain it to the world, it will, in turn, clarify and illuminate many things in the world.

Those who connect to this idea will truly be called “spiritual Israel.” And from an inner feeling of necessity, they will feel that they must go through correction.
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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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Arvut is a force that grants the ability to annul oneself, that is, to subdue one’s will to receive and accept the opinion of the group.

Question: But how can one come to Arvut without first performing annulment?

Answer: In myself and in the group there is no power to accept this force called Arvut. But through our effort aimed at making it happen, we draw the surrounding light from above upon ourselves.

Where do we draw it from? From that state in which we are already united with each other at the end of correction, whether we are on the first or the third stage. Through our yearning, the surrounding light comes precisely from there. And only with its help do we begin to rise.

Naturally, neither in the individual nor in the group is there such a force. That is why we speak of a “readiness” for this to happen, and then the light shines from there.

Question: Does Arvut mean that we are guarantors for one another through the Creator?

Answer: Of course, Arvut is given by the Creator. This is what distinguishes a group that advances toward correction from a group that may resemble Sodom or other kinds of communities.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Arvut (mutual guarantee) takes place when each person passionately desires to return to the corrected state. This means being connected with others as one man with one heart.

Kabbalists advise us to engage in study, dissemination, and group work with the intention of drawing the surrounding light, advancing, and coming closer to the Creator. All of this is done solely to gain strength and personal corrections in order to integrate with others and form a unified Kli (vessel).

We have nothing else to think about except the correction of the Kli. Its correction means connection with its other parts. The light is in absolute rest, and only the Kli needs to be corrected.

The result of our personal work should be inclusion into the general Kli and becoming an inseparable part of it where everyone is included in each one and each one in everyone. When I reach the necessity to precisely realize this, it is called my personal advancement.

And the general correction is realized through the connection of all. We must agree to this because by practically implementing Arvut, we become a Kli for the light to dwell in. The light begins to reveal itself within us. This is called crossing the Machsom (barrier), and to the extent of the Arvut between us, we reveal spiritual degrees.

The more united the Kli becomes, the more parts join it, the greater the desire, the ego within it grows, and at the same time, the Arvut, the mutual inclusion and devotion of one to another, increases, the Kli becomes stronger and more effective in its intention for bestowal.

Then a greater light is revealed within it, which is defined as ascending spiritual degrees.

What does ascending mean? There is no movement up and down! When we increasingly reveal the desire to receive between us, and against this background reveal unity, Arvut, this is what creates the Kli.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/6/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: Besides spiritual work, which cannot be verified, what should we do: think about mutual guarantee, talk about it?

Answer: Talk about it, check and measure to what extent each one is advancing in understanding that under the influence of the group and the upper force, along with the ascents and descents, the feeling awakens more and more in a person: not thinking about oneself is possible. A person will become free to think about others.

Question: If we talk about this all the time, won’t it become devalued?

Answer: It will not become devalued because it is before us. Moreover, it is not some distant goal (final correction or our adhesion with the Creator, but a break from the desire to receive called the exit from Egypt. This is the first action; by carrying it out, we enter spirituality.

It is said that it is neither an angel nor a messenger but the Creator Himself who leads the people of Israel out of Egypt. We must unite, find the force of Moses within us, who will be able to speak with our Pharaoh, convince us, feel that we are in slavery, in darkness, and wish for the upper force to influence us and for the Creator to lead us out of Egypt. All of this is the process through which we achieve mutual guarantee.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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In The Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot, item 17, it is said: “Hence, the student pledges, prior to the study, to strengthen himself in faith in the Creator…”

I open the book in order to receive the power of faith, the power of bestowal, the power that allows me to be above my desire to receive. That is, to come to a connection with other souls and fulfill the condition of the mutual guarantee.

If we think that we will ever be able to fulfill the principle “love your neighbor as yourself” in a small group even if it is just me and someone else, this certainly seems unrealistic. It is impossible that someone has accomplished this. And that is indeed so.

But we can make a decision that we want this to happen, and we want to reach such a demand that, as Baal HaSulam writes, we revolve around it day and night. And that is enough.

Every second we must check to what extent we are in the force pulling us toward the center of the group so that everything external remains behind us, and everything internal unites in the center of the group.

Each one discerns this within himself. How can I check myself and how can the group check itself? Only in accordance with how much in quantity and quality a person cares to see himself and others connected at the central point of the group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/10/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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If our common Kli were perfect, then ideally, everyone would be one hundred percent devoted to one another. And if someone ignores this, he harms his part in each and every one.

Every broken, i.e., corrupted, quality entered into all the other qualities. This means that within each and every one, all others are included.

Through the shattering, the Kli (vessel) gained a truly wondrous condition—a universal interconnection.

Right now, this connection is not active, but it exists! This is the state of shattering.

In other words, even now, we are all connected to each other and there is no separation between us; there is not a single soul that is not included within all other souls. All that is needed is to restore the proper connection.

Baal HaSulam writes that there can be no general correction without the personal correction of each individual. This is an absolute law that must be realized by everyone, and then it will be realized in everyone else as well.

And if even one person does not realize it, then everyone remains uncorrected to the extent that he is included in them all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/6/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: Once a person understands the necessity of mutual guarantee (Arvut), what are the stages of achieving it?

Answer: We study about them in many articles. Everything you wish to achieve can only be realized with the help of the upper light.

When it shines a bit more, you understand a bit more; it shines still more, you begin to feel more.

You begin to analyze with both your mind and heart. By comparing them, you understand what governs you, whether you are guided by the criterion of bitter–sweet or by truth–falsehood.

Thus, all our work is aimed at attracting the surrounding lights, and with their help we see in which state we are regarding Arvut and the correction of the general Kli.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/6/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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We must understand that the law of mutual guarantee, which is the foundation of love for one’s neighbor, is not yet love for Him.

It is only a law according to which we will relate to each other in such a way as to give everyone the feeling that they lack nothing.

We perform corrections on their desire to receive, we provide such compensation that this desire is in restriction. It does not break out in a person and does not demand fulfillment. A person is content that he has everything he vitally needs because he receives a certain correction and corresponding influence from other souls: “Do not worry, we take care of you, you will not lack anything.”

And then each person becomes free to develop his Kelim of bestowal, that is, the Kelim of love for one’s neighbor.

Mutual guarantee is only half of the state. It is necessary in order to calm the desire to receive and gradually turn it toward serving one’s neighbor, toward loving him. But this is the work that comes after mutual guarantee. And when we begin to engage in love for one’s neighbor, then through this we achieve equivalence of qualities with the Creator.
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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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How can we bring everyone to think about one goal? This is what we must seek because there are no ready-made solutions for every moment of our lives.

We need to search for what kind of connection and in what form, I must have at each moment, so that I may draw upon myself the surrounding light, and that it may give me some elevation toward the spiritual, that is, toward fulfilling the law of mutual guarantee, love for one’s neighbor, and adhesion with the Creator.

All the data is already within us, and according to it, the surrounding light shines upon me. I only need to be sensitive to the difference between me and it, and with its help I need to adjust myself to reach correction. I need to come to a state where the surrounding light affects precisely the uncorrected vessels, my uncorrected intentions.

And each time, I must analyze my states, and clarify them. But I can only be ready for this when the group gives me the sense of importance: “Look, you are sick! A terrible disease is consuming you, and if you do not detect it, you will die! Look at what is inside you!”

Nevertheless, we see that a person does not really listen to this. He is not in a hurry to go to the doctor. ”Maybe in a week… It is not scary yet.” But if he is told this from all sides, and terrifying stories are shared about those who did not go to the doctor, then he will run to the doctor, even if he does not feel anything yet. That is exactly what we need.

All the components are already within us: the light shines, and the vessel is uncorrected. Necessity compels us to begin the work of analysis and correction.
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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: We have talked about the need for a group constitution. What is the best way to formulate it?

Answer: It must be clear to us that no efforts, no money, and nothing else will lead to the emergence of the common feeling within our group that will move it forward.

This common feeling is called mutual guarantee (Arvut), for it is simply a feeling in which each person is confident that they will lack nothing because everyone loves them.

Just as a child is certain that their parents will undoubtedly take care of them and give them everything whether the child is good or bad. This is a matter of psychology, a matter of feeling, not of actual implementation.

Of course, the group cannot provide this by itself because it is the result of the influence of the upper light. But we must desire for this to happen, and we must take care that it does.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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