Question: One of Jerusalem’s unique features is a psychological disorder found only in this city. It is called “The Jerusalem Syndrome.” About 50 foreign tourists suffer from it each year, regardless of their religion. Could it be that Jerusalem has some kind of mysterious influence on people?

Answer: Of course, it is a special city that leaves an indelible impression on most of us. It breathes antiquity, and the history of humanity flows through it.

Nevertheless, the Jerusalem syndrome is a purely psychological phenomenon, completely understandable and explainable. Similar effects, after all, occur at other world-famous landmarks as well.

The inner vibrations of the capital of three religions, its unique aura of being chosen by God, all of that is created by people and not sent from above. There is no holiness in stones. Spiritual qualities do not clothe in our corporeal physical world.

The true spirit is created only by people themselves when they unite in a common aspiration toward bestowal and love.

The real Jerusalem is the one in the heart, a spiritual capital of the whole world. It is not merely a city, but a special degree of human connection. A level where the trembling of creation seeking connection with the Creator and His response, merge into one whole.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/5/24

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Question: If we address the wider public, will we need to raise the topic of the group and show that it is a much more general concept?

Answer: I think the topic of the group is actually a very easy one to explain to the public. After all, the people of Israel are not a nation in the usual sense of the word.

At its foundation, it is a group of Kabbalists established by Abraham. The nation exists as a group, in collective responsibility, in relationships of equality by birth, always with a dismissive attitude toward money and honors.

Throughout all generations, the values of the nation were spiritual. If we add to this the antisemitism and general hatred from the world, it becomes clear that from both the side of good—the spiritual side, and the side of evil—the corporeal side, the entire nation is driven from two directions to exist as a group.

Therefore, this approach, when we speak about ourselves and include the entire nation in this process as a group, is very positive and truly resonates.

In the heart of each person, there is something that is rarely found in other nations, a sense of mutual dependence on one another. At the same time, the nation is split into factions that treat one another in extreme ways with hatred, with envy, which is something not seen in other nations.

A nation may be divided into several religions or parts that do not even interact, yet they allow each other to live. But here, that is not the case. There is no tolerance for division within the nation into factions.

We need to explain that, in fact, this is what brings all the evil that exists, that we are all responsible for one another “as one man with one heart.” The people already have a certain readiness for this: they understand that this is harmful, even on a corporeal level, and can also come to realize that, spiritually, this is damaging.
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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: What is the difference, from an internal point of view, between the people of Israel and the Land of Israel? What do these definitions mean?

Answer: There is no difference! The people of Israel and the Land of Israel are both attributes of Bina. Both are necessary. We currently lack the attribute of Bina in the Land of Israel because there is no sanctity of the land, and there is no holiness of the land because the people of Israel do not dwell in holiness.

We must reach the correction of GE, that is, zero Aviut, the first and second degrees, as it were, Bina, and that will mean that internally we have entered the Land of Israel. Then we will also enter the Land of Israel externally because externally we will have the strength to be here and no foreign force will be able to invade us.

How did Moses defeat many nations? How did the Romans or Greeks defeat us when they came here? Every war boils down to one question: on whose side is the spiritual advantage—ours or theirs?

If we want to remain here, as Baal HaSulam writes in the article “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” then we have no choice, in our life here today, in the Land of Israel, we must attain the attribute of “the Land of Israel.” Without this, we have no right to be here! That is why Baal HaSulam writes that if we fail to achieve this, only a handful of people may be left of us. The rest will be overtaken by the Arabs, and we will not be able to live here.
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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: Do I need to turn to AHP first in order to correct Galgalta veEinaim (GE)?

Answer: If we talk about how corrections occur in the Kelim, then each Kli we begin to correct, even the lightest, consists of four parts: GE, AHP, GE in AHP and AHP in GE.

Although the light affects all the Kelim, the lighter ones are the first to awaken, because according to the rule of similarity of form, they are closer to correction. What shows them having greater vessels of giving than receiving? This is hard to explain.

On one hand, one who possessed the screen and was on a high level fell very low. One who was in the property of bestowal, naturally close to Bina, almost did not fall since the bestowing Kelim without a screen, although corrupted, they are not so to the extent the receiving Kelim are, which, having a screen, they remain very high, but without a screen are terrible and fall very low.

We do not have to do these calculations in practice as we start the correction. The light awakens, clarifies, sifts through the Kelim, and corrects them. Therefore, those who feel close to correction come by themselves, join in, and feel a part of it.

Therefore, today we cannot make an accurate calculation. There was no such breakage in the bodies. There are people who, from a “bodily” point of view, are called Jews, and there are those who are called nations of the world.

Among both are those who did not mix with each other, i.e., over time there were no mixed marriages between them. But the shattering happened in the souls! No explanation is given for this. Kabbalists do not want to touch on this topic.

We cannot form an attitude toward the world based on this, if only because we do not know where the lost tribes are, how they have undergone the breakage. You cannot relate to something based on external criteria. We just have to accept as a fact: if we are talking about souls, there is no soul that did not undergo a complete breakage, with all its parts.

It follows that since the light corrects and returns to the source, people awaken to correction without any connection to other factors. In the end, it is a matter of time: either sooner or later.
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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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Ultimately, Israel and the nations of the world will work together. After all, if we speak of the shattered Kli (vessel), whose particles must awaken and be corrected and in which each particle contains all the others, then from an inner, spiritual perspective, Israel and the nations of the world are intermingled with one another. In spirituality, all these labors are interconnected.

I believe this will also be the case in the corporeal world. I see it based on facts. Before I even awaken toward correction, the outer world already pushes me toward it. Antisemites, all kinds of haters, shout at me and the whole world demands something from me, so I see that they are already beginning to participate.

Even before I begin to desire correction, they are already demanding it, unconsciously of course, but still demanding it. And consciously as well; after all, they claim that Israel is the most corrupted part of the world, that it is Israel who causes all the world’s troubles. What do they demand? Either destruction or correction!

This appeal is quite direct. We do not agree with it: “Why are you treating us this way? What do you want from us? We just want to be like you!” But what does it mean to be “like you”? None of the nations of the world want to see us like them, and they are right. Look at what is happening; it is all so clear, so obvious.

My teacher Rabash never missed the news for precisely this reason. From the news, it becomes evident and clear what is happening in the world. It is as if a prophet is speaking from the radio, reporting the news, and these are facts, not speculations or theories. You turn on the radio and you see what is happening. Ever since the beginning of the return to the Land of Israel, everything has become more and more apparent.
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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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Our message to the people of Israel must be that a person should be a “kingdom of priests” and a “holy nation” in relation to himself and in relation to a group of people, whether small or large, all the way to the rest of the nations and the world.

The same applies to the group in relation to the world, and the entire nation in relation to the world. It does not matter. Every part of creation, of the will to receive, that feels it is capable of this, in accordance with the awareness of the importance of this action, takes part in the correction both in relation to itself and in relation to the whole of reality, that is, to the rest of creation, to all other souls so that all may reach the degree of adhesion with the Creator.

Question: Can we go out with this message to the people?

Answer: This is our duty. It is no coincidence that Baal HaSulam finished the series of articles “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah)” and “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)” by stating that this is our task. This must be our banner.

Question: But isn’t this talking about the final state?

Answer: That is true. Although the phrase “You shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests” doesn’t yet refer to the end, but rather to the correction of Bina in a person, that is, the intention not for one’s own sake, the state of Hafetz Hesed (one who desires nothing for himself).

In general, we are speaking about two very great corrections, which mean attaining two degrees in the revelation of the face of the Creator (Gilui Panim) beyond the Machsom: bestowal for the sake of bestowal and reception for the sake of bestowal. The first degree is called governance by reward and punishment and the second eternal love. They stand opposite the “kingdom of priests” and “holy nation.”

However, since these are very high levels and are still far from us, it turns out that even at the smallest level, you cannot move from your place unless you take into account where you ultimately want to arrive. Even the smallest effort, according to how much you understand in your current state, must already be directed toward the final degree.

Baal HaSulam writes about the kibbutzim and Soviet Russia. Why did they not succeed? Even though their work was, in essence, based on the principle of “Love your neighbor as yourself,” and they were willing to carry it out, they could not do it. On the contrary, they only revealed the Klipa in it, because their work was not aimed at the final goal, and they did not see it as preparation for adhesion with the Creator. But that should have been the starting condition, because “the end of the act is in the initial thought.”

Such is the requirement for every appeal, every condition, and every action of a person because otherwise it is not an act that integrates into the process and becomes part of the spiritual path.
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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: What can we ask of a Jew living today in the land of Israel or elsewhere in the world so that he may become aligned with Galgalta veEynaim (GE)? What does it mean to be like GE?

Answer: Baal HaSulam writes about this. We received the land of Israel and indeed returned here, and yet, it cannot be said that we truly received it since we were forced to come here under the pressure of the events that the Creator sent us.

And now we must make use of our free choice. In the material sense, it does not exist. In the spiritual, however, the only free choice is to agree with the development, to take it upon ourselves as it is said: first to become “a kingdom of priests” and then “a holy nation.”

If we do this while still here in the land of Israel, then we will fulfill what is incumbent upon us. But if not, there will come such troubles that we cannot even imagine.

We must understand that we went through four exiles, which were necessary. We returned from the last exile not by our own strength. In other words, we were given the conditions for finding out how the correction must take place after the shattering.
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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: What should I say to a simple person who does not study and probably will not study Kabbalah?

Answer: There is no need to study Kabbalah! The wisdom of Kabbalah is not for studying it. Studying is not its realization. Realization in our world occurs through awareness of the separation and correction and not through any kind of physical action.

Physical action is the dissemination to the people of Israel and the nations of the world of the idea of what the purpose of creation is and the process of achieving it. Once a person hears it and to some extent agrees with it, a person, as they say, carries it out.

There is no realization in our world. How would you implement it? With hands, feet? Even the work in the Temple, the sacrifice of animals for the Temple service are external symbols of internal agreement. All the work is internal.

You sow this knowledge in yourself and in the nations of the world, in everyone without any distinction, and everyone feels that this is indeed so and, apparently, the entire world is in a bad state precisely because we do not follow this general law. This is how you correct everything.

After all, the correction does not lie in extracting a few more tons of oil or coal, or building a few more factories, or in doing something else. Correction is not accomplished by physical actions. An action is achieving the correct intention. That is all. All the actions of this world are useless, and we see how destructive they are.

The intention for the sake of bestowal was shattered; the intention that should have been in the head of the Partzuf of the world of Nikudim or Adam. At that time, in the head (Rosh), there was an intention to receive for the sake of bestowal, but it was not realized in the body (Guf). It is precisely this intention that must now be realized. Intention!

Therefore, to the question “What should we do in this world?,” I answer: we should not perform any physical actions other than dissemination, other than study. This is what is called the “kingdom of the priests”: the priests (Kohanim) have no inheritance, they do not have to do anything. They should only teach, pass the method.

And what about the other nations? They work with the desire to receive; that is considered their work. The actions are only in connection, dissemination, explanation. And that is all.
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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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Today we are in a state where we are obliged to make corrections. If we do this, we are using our free choice. We create a group through which we strengthen ourselves, analyze the Kelim, and correct them from simple to complex.

First we correct “Israel in its land” to the extent possible, and then our inclusion in the nations of the world. This means that we give the nations of the world the method of correction, explain to them why everything exists, what its purpose is, and what the process and goal of creation are.

This is what is meant by Galgalta veEynaim (GE) working on the AHP, being inside it, and due to this the AHP joins GE to the extent possible.

If we function as we should, then, as Baal HaSulam, writes “sparks of enlightenment and purification” will pass from Israel to the nations of the world. By doing this, we carry out the one and only action that we can perform by free choice.

But if we do not use our freewill, specifically that which is given to us in this particular moment in history, then the general force that is obliged to bring us and all the nations of the world to the end of correction (Gmar Tikun) will act upon us in such a way that we will be made to fulfill what is required.

To the extent that we deviate from the correct direction, this force acts upon us to return us to it, but this return comes through suffering, and therefore, we risk finding ourselves in the most dreadful states.
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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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It is written, “Do not put an obstacle before a blind person.” How can it be that the people of Israel are required to become a kingdom of priests and a holy nation?

At Mount Sinai, the people are required to be as one person with one heart; otherwise, “this will become your burial place.” The condition at Mount Sinai is a state, it is not our condition. It means we have now come out of Egypt, out of the desire to receive. This escape was accomplished through the first three Sefirot of Hochma (GAR de-Hochma), through the upper force, awakening from above.

Now that we have some idea of what it is, we must assume the next state we must enter, called: “the kingdom of priests” and “the holy nation.”

Coming out of the desire to receive and entering the spiritual world must take place in the vessels of bestowal, without any concern for oneself, for the sake of adhesion with the Creator. A state with no self-concern is achieved through a means called “love your neighbor as yourself,” with the help of a group. And merging with the Creator is achieved through working with Him.

Once a person acquires the vessels of bestowal, one interacts with the Creator. But the intention, from the start, must be in order to merge with the Creator.
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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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