Question: Recently, it has been felt that the world Kli is working in a single desire. Once, Rabash gave you advice to attack from such a state. What exactly are we attacking?

Answer: Ourselves, our heart, our laziness, our pride, and our old habits. I must rise above all these calculations.

The main thing is to dissolve among the friends and intentionally push myself into the group. That is where I want to be all the time. I want to lose my personal mind and personal feeling; I want to receive the mind and feeling of all the friends. It is as though I lose myself in them by my own will.

That means acquiring the vessel of mutual guarantee.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/6/11, Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah]”

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When I restrict myself in order to care for my neighbor, I am not secretly worried about my own well-being. I simply do not think about myself. This correction is performed within me by the light. This is what it means to rise above the desire, to carry out the first restriction, and to acquire the quality of bestowal. All of this is the result of the action of the light alone.

My care for my neighbor is in no way connected with material needs. I continue to eat, drink, sleep, and provide for all my necessities. The matter lies in the desire, in my inner attitude toward the act.

For example, I may greatly wish to help a sick person, to feed and give him a drink, but the doctors allow him nothing more than a piece of bread and a glass of tea. Thus, even though I would like to give him a plentiful meal and I have the ability to do so, I am limited.

So it turns out that it is all a matter of intentions. We build our relationships, the mutual guarantee between us, not on an artificial basis. That is why it seems impossible to achieve bestowal and unity, impossible to detach from concern for ourselves and to think only of the neighbor without worrying even about the essentials. But those essentials are supplied to me by others so that I may simply sustain myself. In our mutual guarantee, they care for my material needs and 100% for my spiritual success.

All of this must be properly arranged. Who are the friends? They are receiving desires that are corrected by the light that returns to the source. Nothing here is produced by our own efforts. Efforts must be invested only in order to draw the light, which will come and correct us. It is simply ridiculous to think that we will act in bestowal by ourselves. Can a person jump higher than his own head?

Our problem is that in all our actions, we do not aim toward the light. We think that the action itself will bring the result, that if we embrace one another, we will come to love our neighbor. But no, one must embrace with the intention that through this, the light will come and bind us in an inner embrace.

Everything is accomplished by the light that returns to the source. We forget about the most important element—the only force that acts in reality.

It seems very difficult and impossible to connect into one whole mutual guarantee, adhesion, unity, the neighbor, bestowal, and the urgent need so that they become a single vessel for the revelation of absolute bestowal, i.e., the revelation of the Creator to the creation. And the reason is only that we do not summon the force that will build this state for us. We mistakenly believe we can create it on our own.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/11/11, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah]”

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Question: Why does it mean if I feel bad that something better exists?

Answer: To understand what is good and what is better or worse, you need to analyze whether your suffering is enough for you. Maybe it is worth trying to find some idea or logic within it?

Perhaps there is a certain pattern, and if I discover it, I would live better? After all, what do we ultimately want from life? Just to live better! You are not swimming against the current of life; you are moving with it.

What we are missing in this world is a certain informational element in order to be happy, to know why we live, why we suffer, why we die, why we were born, to know everything about our life! Does it all have a purpose?

In any case, you can’t escape these questions! Isn’t the dissatisfaction and suffering from these questions and the troubles that rain down on us enough to make us seriously search for an answer?! If not, then let’s go on living as before: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

But even that possibility is no longer given to us. The bitterness comes in advance, and I no longer want to “eat and drink” and forget about tomorrow. The joy of today is already taken from me before it even comes.
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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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How does one analyze and verify their internal structure? It becomes clearer time after time. Does a newborn baby who does not need legs yet not have them? He has them! But why if he doesn’t need them yet? Let them grow in a year! But no…

We obviously do not feel it, but even the parts we do not feel until later are already developing. All of them are in our inner development.

Question: All our actions, such as mutual guarantee, are a means to merge with the Creator. Merging is the reward I want to receive. Do I need to check the desired reward more carefully: what exactly will it give me? Or is it better to leave this clarification for later; when it is needed, everything will manifest?

Answer: “The final action is in the initial thought.” We cannot begin any action unless we prioritize the ultimate goal. It must be at the start; otherwise, the action itself, or the intention, or the thought, will simply be animalistic.

Such a person is called “unbalanced in his consciousness.” If one does not know why he is acting, if he does not have a clear goal, he is called confused, or a child, or insane.

Question: Then I want to understand what kind of adhesion it is I should make an effort to achieve?

Answer: Imagine the ultimate goal to the extent you have clarified it, no matter to what extent. The main thing is that you somehow “grab it by the tail” and say: “There it is! I am working toward it. Now I have to do this and that to ultimately achieve it.”
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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: How does mutual guarantee fit into the pyramidal structure that also exists within the group?

Answer: It does not matter. It is like asking if all souls are different, how is it that all exist in one soul “as one man with one heart,” and there are no differences between them, and each receives the full measure, and each contributes as much as all the others? After all, they are all different from each other.

If we are in a single system, mutually interconnected, one in all and all in one, where the structure of each is the same as all, then there are no differences.

Of course, there are differences in the basic points of souls. That is, the point in the heart is different in each soul, but the other “first nine” that a person acquires are the same: me and inclusion, you and inclusion, he and inclusion, and it turns out that the structures of all are the same.

Question: What is this difference?

Answer: This difference comes from the Creator, about whom you say: “Go to the Master who made me.” You can not change this.
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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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If a person clarifies the final goal better for himself, does he thereby acquire more strength and a greater sense of the necessity to engage in Arvut (mutual guarantee), in work within the group, in investing in it?

This is built on a mutual basis. No matter how inspired you may be by the final goal, you will not be able to receive much from it without receiving an awareness of the importance of that final goal from the group.

You have no strength and no connection with the Creator that would shine upon you and give you awareness of who He is and what He is. Only your friends can tell you how great He is. Therefore you will not succeed if you delve into clarifying what final adhesion is while being alone. It will not add anything to you.

In order for the importance of the Creator to truly obligate you to action, you must turn to the group. It will amplify the awareness of the Creator’s greatness. For if a person has a goal, he must come to the group so that the group will exalt it, and he will constantly think about that goal.

Question: How can one clarify this goal in detail?

Answer: You cannot do that! Why do you need the details? For you, the main thing is to have “fuel,” pressure, a sense of necessity.
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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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To people who dwell within the desires of “slaves,” “children,” or “women,” the method must be explained gently, that is, in a way that the will to receive feels as though it is moving toward fulfillment, toward pleasure, toward what currently seems to it to be good.

But why do we play what seems like a kind of false game with those who are in these states? Because we know that by tempting them with today’s fulfillments, with these little “gifts,” things that the will to receive currently wants, we are, in fact, growing this desire, and it develops.

And as it develops, it reaches states in which the part of Bina within it begins to grow. Bina means “understanding,” from the word “Avana”—reason, critical analysis.

A person, besides his Malchut, besides the desire, begins to develop a part of Bina, and then, in the connection and clash between them, he begins to understand his state and analyze it, to the extent possible, from the perspective of Bina, which means more objectively, independently of Malchut, of the will to receive.

At that point, a person changes even his fulfillments; he begins to want something else. After playing various games, a child comes to understand that he wants not only games, but something more serious, and more and more so. For example, a girl wants to play with a doll, but not with a baby. Even though the baby is real, the doll suits her. It is the form of her pleasure. But for a mother, a doll will not do; she wants a living baby. That is her “game.” To each their own.

So it turns out we are seemingly lying to the will to receive and to the people who are with us at their first lecture or in their first year of study, and we tell them that everything will be fine.

Of course, we are not lying about the fact that it will be fine, but it will be fine, not for the vessels (Kelim) that they have now, but for the ones that will grow. And for the current vessels, you give some candy, a game of hide-and-seek, a car, or something else, for them that is good. So give them that now. Each time, give them these baits so they will keep progressing.
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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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Intention is a consequence of the force of Bina that exists within me and the extent to which I use it: either by using the Creator for myself or by using my nature for His sake.

If we only had the desire to receive, then it would be impossible to say that there is a place for intention here. But when the desire to receive includes the qualities of Bina, it becomes capable of activating itself in two directions: to receive for oneself or to receive for the sake of the Creator.

The action itself within the desire to receive does not change, but due to the fact that it includes Bina, intention is simply added to it: either for oneself or for the sake of bestowal.
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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 we, in our current state, influence the balance of the scale toward good?

Answer: Every moment of our existence we are in the realization of only one thing—mutual guarantee (Arvut). Whether we want it or not, we and the whole world are advancing toward the realization of its importance either through suffering or through the path of Torah.

There is nothing else toward which humanity is being led other than mutual guarantee. We must see that it is a necessity, that mutual unity leads from “Love your neighbor” to “Love the Lord your God.” This is the process that all souls must undergo.

Therefore, everything that happens to all the souls and to each individual every second of their lives is essentially a movement toward the fulfillment of this law.

No matter how confused we and all of humanity may feel—not knowing where we are, what we are doing, and what we are occupied with—it is all just clarification so that we ultimately come to the final conclusion: it depends on each person which way the scale will tip.

In other words, everything depends on the degree of responsibility each individual takes for fulfilling the law of mutual guarantee.

And even now, when you are not yet corrected, to the extent that you are in some form approaching the understanding of this law that we are obligated to fulfill, you affect the entire world through your inclusion in all souls. In this way, the law becomes more revealed in them, and you help others reach its fulfillment.

However, there are people who, due to the state of their point in the heart, are incapable of striving for adhesion with the Creator and cannot fulfill the law of mutual guarantee on their own. But since all other souls are included within them, they will receive some illumination and, as a result, will fulfill this law.

They will say: “If everyone else is doing it, then of course we must too.” But internally, they will not feel it because the penetration of other souls into them is really minimal.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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The correction of souls proceeds from the subtle vessels to the coarse ones. First, the subtle part of the soul, called “Israel,” receives the Torah, and then, through connection and mutual inclusion with it, all souls, without exception, with great Aviut, join the condition of mutual guarantee and reach the state of “as one man with one heart.”

In order to move from fathers to sons, additional Aviut was needed, which they acquired during the Egyptian exile by mixing with the Egyptians and taking Kelim from them. In addition, some of the Egyptians joined Israel.

This means that due to their stay in Egypt, they multiplied, transformed from a family into a nation, and received additional Aviut through mixing and mutual inclusion.

The same applies to the last exile. It is said: “Israel went into exile only to add the souls of the nations to themselves.” The last exile among the nations of the world had the purpose of adding the coarse vessels to the subtle ones. Of course, the subtle vessels are also in descent, in decline; otherwise, it would not be called “exile.”

However, after the last exile, the same condition arises again as when leaving Egypt. Those who are ready to leave exile can achieve the status of “as one man with one heart,” and then the condition of mutual guarantee and receiving the Torah can be realized in them too.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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