Question: Am I dependent on the thoughts of my friends or on my belief that they are thinking about me?

Answer: On one hand, I am dependent on the thoughts of others, on what my friends think about me.

On the other hand, if I am in a state of ascent, I can affect my friends more than they affect me because in my ascent I am above the group. And in such moments, I can have a greater impact on it.
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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: In striving to achieve mutual guarantee, is it possible that we are directing too much effort outward instead of acting within ourselves?

Answer: This might be valid if we didn’t find in practice that engaging in external dissemination unites us, gives us confidence, strength, and upliftment, which we receive back from the communities we serve.

By building something outwardly, we thereby build ourselves. It is impossible to say what the correct balance should be. We try. This, essentially, is a kind of action called “we will do and we will hear.”

We see that we are constantly undergoing changes. One must act according to the understanding of one’s state. What else can we do? This is our path, because seeking and discovering is that practical work through which we carry out clarifications and corrections.

To aspire toward the final state is good. But by discovering different things now and performing tiny actions, we generate details of perception without which the end of correction cannot be felt.

The difference between the end of correction and the beginning of creation lies only in the added details of our perception (Avchanot), which we collect along the way.

You return to the same state, only inside yourself you become more diverse and more refined; more opposite details of perception and distinguishable inner qualities appear within you.

This is what allows you, instead of being a point merged with the Creator as you once were, to become a Partzuf and truly existing on His level.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/10/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: How can we distribute our efforts in the most effective way so that they lead us to mutual guarantee by the shortest route? What practical actions should we perform?

Answer: We see that these actions lie in such areas as study, support for the existence of the inner group, and external dissemination. All these things relate to the practical part and are the means for us to achieve the realization of mutual guarantee among ourselves. And if someone thinks that there is any other means, then we must check whether this is so.

Ultimately the goal is one: for a group of students drawn to spirituality to understand that they are obliged to achieve mutual guarantee. This obligation must become a necessity to such an extent that it really attracts the light from above, which will correct them and lead them to the level of mutual guarantee. This is called “we shall do and we shall hear.” We are ready to do anything, if only this condition is realized in us.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/6/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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The purpose of creation is intended for all souls—each individually and all together. However, it is impossible for everyone to attain this goal collectively because in some people the condition of Arvut (Mutual Guarantee) is initially unable to awaken immediately; it can only emerge after the prior work done by other souls.

Baal HaSulam writes that the forefathers did not need the condition of Arvut because their souls were subtle, and due to their exaltedness and purity, they were already in Dvekut (Adhesion) with the Creator without performing practical actions, that is, without carrying out preliminary corrections or fulfilling commandments.

They did not need to reach the condition of “we shall do and we shall hear” because by virtue of their subtlety, their souls were originally ready to exist in mutual guarantee without making the efforts that are required from us with our coarse Aviut.

Due to their purity, subtle souls receive the Torah, and the mutual guarantee is realized within them. This leads to the fulfillment of the condition “love your neighbor as yourself.” Then the light of the Torah clothes within them and they dwell in adhesion with the Creator.

After our forefathers attained this, the merit of the fathers arose for the sons. In other words, those souls that are now capable of joining the subtle souls with their more coarse Aviut use these pure souls by means of connection and mutual inclusion.

Therefore, the law of mutual guarantee is also realized for them, but only after performing certain work, prior actions. What are these actions? Everything that can lead them to the condition of mutual guarantee.

And once they attain this, they merit receiving the Torah, that is, the light, the system of correction of their Aviut for the purpose of achieving the principle “love your neighbor as yourself” when the Creator will already dwell in their common Kli (vessel).

For receiving the Torah, it is enough to fulfill the condition “we shall do and we shall hear,” that is, the agreement that the power of mutual guarantee should exist so that we should want to fulfill it, so that this ability would come from above. And upon receiving the power of the Torah, we begin to carry it out, and then we become “as one man with one heart” and a single Kli (vessel). We merit receiving the Torah, and then we must fulfill it, that is, begin the corrections.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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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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Comment: We have a short list of 30 points of advice from Rabash about the group that we have no chance of fulfilling.

My Response: That we have no chance of fulfilling them is correct. However, we do have the means for it.

Of course, I do not have the strength to subjugate my will to receive in relation to the group, and therefore also in relation to the Creator. What is the difference? Simply that what concerns the Creator is concealed, and I can fall into self-deception, get confused, and decide that I am already righteous, and everything is working out for me.

But in relation to the group, things are clearer. And if you are asking about this now, then perhaps you already see that you are incapable. That is when you come to the real question.

A person does not find the strength or the willingness to unite with the group within himself. He only understands that, in principle, he must do it: This is what the Kabbalists write, and apparently, if I do not accept it, then I am not progressing.

From here we see that we are standing, just like the people of Israel at Mount Sinai, before a condition that if you do not do this as one man with one heart, meaning if you do not surrender yourself to the group, if you do not wish to carry out this connection by subjugating yourself to it, you feel dead. “Here will be the place of your burial.”

Nothing more is needed except this mutual agreement. By saying: “We shall do and we shall hear,” we agree for it to happen. And then it happens.
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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 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: From what Baal HaSulam writes in the article “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”, it seems that spirituality is passed down genetically. Once, thanks to the merits of the forefathers, their sons received it, and now we do as well. What does “the merit of the fathers” mean? Is it something passed on through genes?

Answer: Attraction toward spirituality is not hereditary. It is clearly stated that the Torah is not inherited. So what is the merit of the fathers?

The merit of the fathers means that within a great Aviut (coarseness of egoistic desire), there are sparks through which even a person immersed in deep egoism feels an attraction to what lies above the ego.

If a soul is in a state of zero-degree Aviut (Aviut de Shoresh), it naturally feels drawn to spirituality, to the Creator, to adhesion, to striving for mutual guarantee, for connection. Where does this come from? From the closeness of the properties of the Kelim (vessels) to the lights.

In this case, no prior actions or special limitations are required because it is clear that under such conditions we receive the Torah, spiritual life, and attain bestowal, which is felt as something special and exalted in a pure vessel.

But when the Kli (vessel) has a high degree of Aviut, meaning its desire to receive is more developed, it becomes difficult to understand how bestowal could fill the Kli and bring satisfaction. It is hard to imagine that the condition of Arvut—exiting oneself in order to serve the other, to unite with the other, to connect specifically with their vessels in order to fill them instead of one’s own desires—could be something good or elevated. This is not felt as something real in a coarse Kli.

However, if this coarse Kli is a result of the development of “refined” vessels, then it contains a pure part that has truly been close to the light and has fulfilled the condition of Arvut at the level of zero Aviut.

And even if the Kli now has a first-degree Aviut (Aviut Alef), it still has a foundational base called “the fathers within it.” It can be awakened through certain actions or, alternatively, suppressed, as if returning to zero Aviut.

This is what it means to “make use of the merit of the fathers.”
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/2025, 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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