It is important to explain in our round table discussions that mutual guarantee isn’t attained by itself, but rather as a result of serious study of nature’s system of mutual dependence, in order to introduce man into it as an integral component. Only a connection between nature and all people, when everybody is in perfect balance, that is, when a person gives and receives in human society in perfect harmony, as it is done among the cells of the body, only such connection is called mutual guarantee.

But first we have to study the elements: mutual guarantee, mutual yielding and connection, above all the differences that separate us, which the ego purposefully presents to us. We should see the differences between us as exercises above which we have to ascend and thus grow namely in this way, just as children grow as a result of the games they play. This is the essence of our progress towards the state of mutual guarantee—the full mutual connection, just like in one healthy body.

This is the purpose of the entire creation, and therefore, to the extent that we reach this connection, we feel mutual bestowal, love, participation, the merger of our desires, the joining of whatever used to stand in our way. Nothing disappears. All the differences remain, and it is above them that we build our relationships.

We have to patiently explain this method of connection despite all contradictions. Then, people’s consciousness will gradually evolve, to the extent that they master the general mutual connection above the contradictions that manifest.

It is a long way of restoring the broken ties among us. We advance this way and reach the end of correction of humanity and its connection with nature into one.

This is how we reach Malchut of the world of Infinity, where all the differences and contradictions come together: utmost egoism and above it, utmost altruism—and the recognition of the Thought of Creation is revealed in us.
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The whole problem is in the approach. If I’m trying to correct this crisis using my old means, looking for solutions and trying to fix the economic systems I have built, this is called Amalek (the greatest, most ferocious will to receive in us), our main enemy.

But I have to realize that this revelation comes to me from nature. There’s nothing that can be done using the old methods as this change is happening inside human nature. This change is not in each of us individually, but in our relationships, in the connections between people. I didn’t want this to happen, but it has.

We have to begin seeing this and to understand that each one of us is an egoist and will remain an egoist. At the same time, the connection between us has grown stronger and is different than before. I will not be able to establish this connection according to my ego’s demands.

For the time being, we are all like marbles inside one system, and each marble is an egoist. However, the connections between us aren’t egoistic anymore. They are not the way we built them in the old economic system, which was a direct imprint of our old ego, an accurate demonstration of the egoistic relationships.

But nowadays, a different kind of connection is revealing itself, and that’s why we’re unable to control the network we have built. This is called the revelation of the Creator, and we’re not treating it appropriately. We don’t understand that we must include ourselves in the new nature.

We’re egoists, but the connections between us are not egoistic; they are changing. We have to be more sensitive to these changes and always adapt ourselves to them, to agree with this new connection. By doing this, we will “obliterate the memory of Amalek,” our worst enemy.

This way, we erase our indifference, disregard, and carelessness. We overcome our careless attitude toward the changes and start to examine what is going on here. Then, we’ll need the wisdom of Kabbalah because otherwise, we can throw all the powers we have, all the scientists, and all the means in the world into an analysis and still not draw a single correct conclusion.

It’s because we would remain like impenetrable marbles, everyone inside their old egoism. Now, we have to receive the instruction (the word “Torah” comes from the word “Oraa” or the instruction manual) that will teach us how to act correctly in order to perform such actions down here, and this will give rise to changes Above.

The Creator Himself reveals the new network, the new connection between all of us. To us, however, this means a crisis because we have built a certain system and He is imprinting a different one over it.

There’s nothing we can do with this new system. All we can do is change ourselves according to this newly revealed system, to adjust these marbles to this new connection between us. This means that I must raise a prayer, meaning that I have to ask for a change in myself, to ask for something that’s missing from me, that’s preventing me from connecting with this new network properly.

This new network will keep revealing itself more and more; this cloud will keep coming down lower and lower. Our work is in trying to recognize this network and to desire to adjust ourselves to it by our practical actions. Thus, we will invoke an influence from Above that will realize this within us.

The change will not be in the system, but in us. We will change in accord with it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/2011, Rabash’s article

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There is no division between individual and group or collective work— all this is one work where I can see parts of my own soul as foreign and hateful to me. And I have to overcome all this haze and fog that deceives me, picturing them to me as my hateful enemies or at least, my slaves.

This is not a simple work for I am working on my spiritual vessel until I gather all of it and join it to myself. This is only possible by the power of love, raising above all hatred and resistance that I feel toward them.

All of this opposition remains like the resistance generated in opposition to an electric current. Together, the electric current and the resistance do the work to spin the motor. As a result of this action, the Light, the spiritual world, is being revealed.

However, now, we are completely separated from each other like a broken chain. This is not even an opposite kind of connection. I don’t love or even hate others—I simply don’t care about them. However, when we begin to work in order to get closer to each other, we then feel how the hatred, the opposition, is being revealed.

Only after the hard work in the Egyptian slavery of our own egoism, we come from the level of Jacob (from the small state) toward Mount Sinai (the mountain of hatred). From this mountain of hatred, it is possible to receive the Light that Reforms, which is called the Torah. Now, we already have something to work on.

However, he who has not started to unite, who is still under the control of the feelings of this world and tries to use his friends in a petty way as in any other place, this person has not even started his work. Perhaps, he is not trying to use them because he may have a kind character and wants to be friends with everyone, but this does not do anything toward his development.

As it is written, “She bringeth her bread [faith] from afar,” namely from distancing and rejection. There is no personal or group work here. You need to join within yourself all of the seemingly foreign parts of reality, until you reveal in the connection of these parts that the entire universe is in inside of you.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/29/2011, Shamati #121

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Question: What does it mean to ask the Creator? Do I have to acquire His attributes for that?

Answer: To ask is to search, demand, and even ask for my own transformation. After all, I have to express my own desire for it. I sentence myself (this is the meaning of “to pray” or “Lehitpalel” in Hebrew), I investigate which attributes I lack and how I can attain the force of bestowal.

This force exists inside the society. Therefore, if I enter the society, develop a desire to “clothe” in my friends with all my heart and soul, and connect with them internally so as to totally dissolve in this connection, then I will find the power of bestowal there. This is exactly what I pray for.

I pray to reach such a state in which I will see that everyone is perfect and connected. This situation is called Shechina (Divinity), the general gathering of souls (Knesset Israel). I want to be there, and I pray for the connection that brings together all the souls yearning for “Yashar-El” (straight to the Creator) to be realized in me.

I don’t turn to some external power or desire that exists independently, or to some imaginary figure. All the prayers are aimed at Malchut (of the world of Atzilut or the world of Infinity), to the connection between us, in which we discover mutual bestowal. I want this state to be revealed to me, and this is what is ask for.

This is a very delicate point, and we have to be careful not to start imagining some statue or figure, but only the state in which we are connected and incorporated in each other, tied together in complete bestowal. More correctly, it should be called an attribute and not a force because a force may seem as something distant, while an attribute is what I intend to acquire myself. These are very slight differences, but they determine the cleanliness of my attitude, and hence they are so crucial.

It says: “There is none else besides Him,” however, we have to imagine this as our state in a perfect system. Then we can be sure that we won’t be mistaken.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/22/2011, Shamati $#240

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Question: How can I reach the demand for the Creator if I feel that I am nothing compared to Him?

Answer: Our work is not to engage in soul-searching, but to focus on our environment. There is nothing more we have to work on but our attitude, our coming closer and connecting with others, which stems from the shattering of the vessels.

The Creator is what is revealed in our corrected vessels. We should worry about the vessels because the upper Light is at absolute rest. The more the vessels become equal to the Light, the attribute of bestowal, the more they reveal this attribute, and this is called the revelation of the Creator to the created beings.

How can a radio receive and transmit signals? After all, these sounds do not exist in the air? It is because we “arouse” in the radio the same radio wave that exists outside. According to the equivalence of form, these two waves unite and begin to resonate. Thus they produce the result of their unity in the radio, which we hear as sound.

Clearly, we cannot hear radio waves; our ear does not detect such frequencies. However, this main, “carrying” wave has some extra element, harmony. And if we reach equivalence with the main wave, we begin to hear this extra element, the hidden voice inside.

All our senses work according to this principle, and this is how we have to tune ourselves to the connection with the Creator.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/22/2011, Shamati $#240

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The science of Kabbalah isn’t a reference book for egoists or a manual for brokers, and it doesn’t teach us how to make business of the new world. When I study the science of Kabbalah, I understand that I must change and that I have no other choice. We have to adapt ourselves to the new system, to enter it consciously and without reservation, to leave everything old behind and cross the Rubicon, the barrier behind which there is a new world.

The method of Kabbalah was revealed and developed by special people called Yashar-El (straight to the Creator). This is how it was revealed to them, this is how they present it to the world, and everyone should know it to some extent.

Therefore, a simple guarantee, an ordinary solidarity, will be useless. Our calls for unification are the first steps toward a genuine guarantee. The more we advance towards mutual guarantee, the more clearly we will discover that we need an internal correction in order to adapt to the new system. We don’t correct nature, and we don’t correct the world—we correct ourselves.

The method of Kabbalah is opposite from what we’ve known so far. So far nature has activated us internally, and we have always fulfilled our growing egotistic desire. This boss totally dominated us, and we used to carry out all his commands faithfully. He was so great that he simply covered all our field of vision and we’ve always thought only about him. We didn’t feel the difference between him and ourselves.

Now, however, a new attitude towards the egotistic nature is being born in us. We are starting to realize to what extent it dominates us, to what extent it destroys us, and to what extent it is a bad boss. This is because we work for him, and we don’t get any payment. On one hand, the rule of egoism turns out to be bad and leads to emptiness. On the other, a new domination is revealed to us, the domination of the desire to bestow….

There are many things that we will have to take care of and to pass on to the world. When we talk to the world, we bring people the Light that Reforms within our words. It makes no difference how much they understand because the Light is already active in the system of our interconnection.

This is why we have to go out to the streets, to work in the social networks, and to produce as many materials as we can. We are not waiting for people to understand us right now; we don’t judge the success of the dissemination by the initial response of the public. Bestowal itself is our reward because it brings people the Light that Reforms.
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From the 5th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/22/2011, “The Nation”

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The problems the world is facing today lead to the creation of a new environment that takes into consideration and worries about everyone equally. First, we have to provide a normal standard of living for everyone. The world has all the necessary resources for that.

The world is built in such a way that everyone can have everything he needs in his corporeal life. The rest of the fulfillment will come from the connection between us, from the feeling of the upper Light, the human degree that is above the animate one.

Today we must realize this in the masses. In the coming year we will see how an instinctive urge for that will bring people out to the streets and public squares to demand different things, and the government will have no answers. We will suddenly discover that the richest countries have nothing.

The upper governance arranges everything in a way that we would find a solution only in the connection between us. Revolutions or a redistribution of wealth from rich to poor will not help us. We have been through this, and we have seen that it only leads to the destruction of industry and commerce. The connection is the solution.

We have to explain these principles and to convey this message, this understanding, to the people until they get used to the right approach, to the right outlook. After all, we are facing a new system, which we’ve entered, like a matrix. The old world doesn’t exist anymore.

Many scientists are already writing about this. Humanity believes in science, so we should attract scientists and put them in the front. They are already discovering the integral system we are talking about. With their help we will be able to convince everyone to become an integral society. We can show people that this is the only solution to our problems.

Suppose people ask us: “How is it possible? How can we change ourselves?” Baal HaSulam wrote about it in the article “The Freedom.” For the first time in history we have the opportunity to act independently. This concerns our groups and humanity as a whole: We have to create an environment that will better us.

How is it possible to create such an environment? We have to search for the system hidden between us. We create it ourselves as a result of our attempts to guess or to imagine what it should be like. Desiring to penetrate into its structure, I actually ask myself: “Who is the Creator? How does He manage the relationships among us? How does He operate among us? How does He connect us? How does the Thought of Creation that includes all of us operate?”

By creating the form that seems right to me, I discover inside me a desire to discover the Creator. I’m just like a small child who builds model cars and ships and grows smarter namely though his efforts to build something that already exists by himself. As a result, he begins to understand, he creates things. In the same way we, too, become compatible to the Creator, unite with Him, and understand Him.

When we rise from our corporeal world, we gradually create the world of Infinity. On our way to it, we go through five worlds. Each time there are different concealments so that we build that structure in a more sophisticated way, until we create the whole system. It says that the Creator created the world of Infinity and destroyed it, and people are the ones who correct and reconstruct it on the way from the bottom up.

We have to remember this. There is great work ahead of us, a great system, and we should try to pay attention to everything in the world and in life. This is all revealed to me so that I will respond to it correctly.

Most important is not wait for the positive changes in the world because changes will be only for the worse. We have to add to whatever is happening with maximum effort from our part. We will receive a positive reaction to it every day and will hear about it in the news and not only that.

What we will do today will echo in the world tomorrow. This is exactly how everything happens. You will feel your influence over the world; you will feel that the key is in your hands. What’s important here is not to move under the pressure of suffering from behind, but to pull the world forward. Thanks to this pull, we will reach the right speed indeed.
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From the 7th lesson at the Toronto Convention 9/18/11

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We were created as one system of the collective soul and are all interdependent. However, the upper Light leads this collective vessel to a shattering, and afterward these shattered pieces fall lower and lower, split more and more, and become increasingly distant from each other.

And when they reach the bottom, they begin to awaken, from the depths of the fall. The same Light that forced them to fall begins to awaken them and pull them back up.

That ascent is comprised of several stages and takes place primarily at the degrees of the still, vegetative, and animate nature, where the vessel operates unconsciously, being completely enslaved to the Light. However, at the human degree, we must reveal our own yearning.

The desire exists in everybody and is created by the Light “from absence,” as a reverse imprint of the Light. And the yearning is what we should develop within us by ourselves. That yearning is the true “creature” which becomes awakened and adds its intentions, efforts, and love by himself.

All this doesn’t come as a direct response to the Light’s influence; rather, it is the result of the vessel’s own seeking. Surely, the Light operates here, albeit in a concealed manner, yet there is the necessary addition here from the side of the vessel that has developed to the last, fourth, stage. That addition is its own yearning and love.

For us, it is expressed in our work against the egoistic desire revealed in us when we want to unite. We don’t feel our ego’s resistance in anything, other than with regard to bonding in the group, to annulling ourselves before its force in order to attain the quality of the general bestowal that will dwell within us, which is called the revelation of the Creator.

If a person directs himself in this way, which is called “Israel, the Torah, and the Creator are one,” in that effort, he reveals the resistance of his ego to correction. However, he should continue by all means and still try to reveal within himself at least some willingness to unite.

It’s similar to a sailboat that can’t sail directly against the wind. Yet there are special sails that assist its sailing in a zigzag manner, in the form of a rising and falling curve, and that’s how it advances—toward the wind.

This is how a person should behave as well when a person discovers that he is incapable of going against his ego, which is hindering his bonding with the group in order to annul himself before it and reveal the quality of general bestowal in it. However, he is capable of doing it in all sorts of indirect, auxiliary means.

These auxiliary means are called the environment a person builds so that it influences him. The environment will become the sail that will lead him in a zigzag manner toward the wind—and that is how he will advance!
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/21/2011, Shamati #232

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Question: How can we be sure that if we connect now, we will immediately see improvement in life? Maybe it will suddenly get even worse?

Answer: To the extent that we try to join together, we receive a greater revelation in feeling and understanding and the alleviation of all our states, including the corporeal ones. It all depends only on our efforts.

Even the Ari, before his death, said to his students that if they really wanted to advance, he wouldn’t be taken from them and wouldn’t have died. And now he has deceased from the world because there is no need for him. He wasn’t necessary to them. They shouted: “How could that be, we need you so much!” But actually, they didn’t need him, and he died, no longer manifesting though a physical body.

However, if we had a desire to advance in the direction of giving and uniting, we would immediately see positive results. Surely, we would not be able to measure them according to egoistic gains for otherwise, we would never be able to exit our egoism. We see them in bestowal, in our ability to connect, in the same yearning that we discover. It is called the Reflected Light, inside of which the Direct Light is revealed. After all, I wanted to be in bestowal, in unity, and now I discover that I am able to. I see my advancement in bestowal, that’s my reward.

And if I am in bestowal, I will see see improvement for the better in corporeal life as well: a normal life. This is the law of nature: Success is promised to you. There are people who have no problems with money or health, but they are not satisfied with their lives. And you reach a state where you will be satisfied from everything. Really, you will have everything! The Creator, the force of Light, doesn’t lack anything. He could print dollars for you infinitely.

The moment the direction is changed, we immediately, almost instantly, see the results. If the entire nation began to approach mutual guarantee, we would see how everything would begin to calm down: The rockets would cease to fall on us; inflation would stop; there would be fewer road accidents—all our daily life would be normalized. I am saying this in complete seriousness.

We only need to match ourselves to the law of mutual guarantee, to change our direction, each one according to his understanding. Nothing more is asked of us. In his article “The Peace,” Baal HaSulam wrote that if we accepted this law, then within just a few years we would reach full prosperity in all areas: health, standard of living, children’s education, state management, the nation’s relation to the government, and security.

After all, all of our problems originate only from the lack of our compatibility to nature. There is no other law than the balance of nature, equivalence of form. The Creator created the desire to receive and said: “He must be similar and equal to me!” And since then, everything revolves around only that. There is nothing else, starting from the first restriction and the decision to transform into being similar to Him. This is called the law of equivalence of form. If we don’t implement it, we will suffer only to agree to implement it at the end of the day.

The only freedom we have is to choose how we want to advance: by the carrot or the stick. The choice is yours.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/2011, Rabash’s letter

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