Rabbi Elazar, the son of Rabbi Shimon, writes that everyone must attain the condition of Arvut (mutual guarantee). We have no possibility of connecting souls into one Kli (vessel) other than through the correction between them, which is called Arvut.

Arvut is merely the realization of unity. It is not some artificial or secondary condition that has other causes. There is only one reason—the merging of souls in such a way that they become similar to the light and merge with it. It is very simple.

How can it be that some soul, some desire from those included in Adam HaRishon, would unite with the rest if not through Arvut, when it gives itself over to all the other souls as an inseparable part that is fused with them?

Of course, in our world this must find expression in such a form that both the nations of the world and Israel will ultimately be included in the law of Arvut.

During the exile, the people of Israel mixed with the nations of the world, and now the notions of “the people of Israel” and “the nations of the world” are such that we do not exactly know who is where. We do not know the tribes of Israel; we do not know how the mixing occurred.

Therefore there are many cases in which, among the so-called nations of the world, here and there we observe such an awakening that does not exist within the people of Israel. If some soul is awakening, this is a sign that it has already reached the possibility of fulfilling its role.

In other words, if someone is capable of taking the obligation to attain such a correction as Arvut upon themselves, they are called “Israel” in relation to all the others who have not yet reached this.

And those souls that have already attained or want to attain this must relate to the rest as to the nations of the world—to correct, to connect, and to care for them.

Such a division no longer corresponds to belonging to any nation; this division is more internal: one who strives toward the Creator is called “Israel” and one who still does not strive is called “nations of the world.”

It is said that the people of Israel were sent into exile only in order to attach the nations of the world to themselves. And we see that there are those in whom the desire for the Creator lives, and the part of Israel in them, as a result of the mixing, is very strong. There is nothing to be done; this is the result of the shattering and the exile, which were predetermined from above.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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In our time, the Jewish people are obligated to fulfill the condition of attaining Arvut (mutual guarantee). If they neglect this duty, a compelling force will be applied to them, which forces them to fulfill it through suffering.

The whole world is waiting for this, and because it waits, suffering and misfortunes are revealed on a global scale that causes the world to suffer and through its pain begin to understand the reason behind it all. Ultimately, suffering comes in order to indicate where the solution lies.

In the preface to “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Baal HaSulam writes that the Creator guides a person to the good fate by giving him, within a life full of suffering, a spark that shines faintly from afar through all the darkness.

The same occurs both for us and for the nations of the world. All current relations between us and the nations exist solely to compel us to engage in the practical aspect so that we may attain Arvut. The compelling force must reveal the necessity of this very task to us.

The nations of the world too gradually begin to understand through the suffering they endure where the true solution lies. We can see how they are slowly discovering that the root of the problem lies in Israel, which is seen as the worst part that causes harm to the whole world.

This is already a deeply advanced form of revelation. These are truly the signs of the Messiah.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/9/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: Kabbalah is a system of correction. What does the correction of Abraham’s low Aviut (coarseness) have to do with us?

Answer: The system of correcting the desire to receive was not brought to us by Abraham but by Moses.

Abraham brought us only the connection of man with the Creator. That is why he is called the first Jew (Yehudi), because he was the first to achieve unity (Yehud) with the Creator, from concealment to revelation.

Before him there were people who were in sensation without concealment. We call them the “generations of sinners:” from Adam to Noah and from Noah to Abraham. Abraham is their consequence.

But in those days, no Aviut was manifested that would give a person concealment and craving to start searching from within themselves. Abraham was the first.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/10/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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In our days, the correction of the world begins with the nation of Israel—specifically with those who engage in the Torah and replace the study of its external part with its internal part.

Before the destruction of the First and Second Temples, people dealt only with the inner part of the Torah, meaning that each person, due to the “subtlety” of their soul, had knowledge of the spiritual world. And the prophets, who were in an even deeper and higher connection with the Creator than the others, served as the spiritual leaders of the nation.

However, when the downfall occurred and prophets disappeared from among the people, the era of the sages began. People began to engage in external actions instead of internal ones, and this continues up to our days.

At the end of the Introduction to The Book of Zohar, Baal HaSulam writes that now it is necessary to return from the external part of the Torah to its internal part, and to engage in those actions that can bring us to mutual guarantee (Arvut), which we once lost. This is what is referred to as the destruction of the first and second temples.

If we return to the inner part of the Torah, whose light o brings us to mutual guarantee, then we correct ourselves and merit receiving the Torah, the upper light.

Then, because this will happen with us, all the nations will join us, since after the exiles there was such a mingling of souls that if today a small “subtle” part replaces the external with the internal and merits to reach mutual guarantee and receive the Torah, then afterward the entire world will be able to join in, and through this “subtle” part receive the light of correction according to the condition of mutual guarantee. And then the upper light, the Creator, will dwell within all souls.

From this we see that the principle remains unchanged: the upper force acts upon the “subtle” part according to equivalence of form, and the “subtle” part mixes with the “coarse” part, and then brings about mutual correction.

These things are simple. In general, in the whole Torah, in all of Kabbalah, in all of reality, there is one very simple law. And it is precisely because of its simplicity that it is difficult for us to perceive it.

In its simplicity, it is very far from us, for it is simple in bestowing, and not in receiving.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/9/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)“

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When the sons of Israel agree not to use their big and burning ego, and through actions performed on egoism in order to neutralize its hindrances they begin to unite and reach the state of mutual guarantee (Arvut), this guarantee comes after actions, and is called “we will do and we will hear.”

This is when they receive a connecting and filling force from above called the Torah. With the help of this force, they begin to gradually correct the vessel itself with the Aviut degree of one.

This is called going out into the Sinai desert and raising Malchut to Bina for 40 years, correcting it, until 40 years later, they come to the land of Israel, that is, to Malchut united with Bina.

This is the land of Israel (Eretz Israel), the desire straight to the Creator (Yashar El, Israel). This is when they get awarded with the state where they build the Temple.

This means that they have a Kli that can truly contain the upper light within itself, that is, a vessel where the Creator is revealed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/9/2025, Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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During the period of the First Temple, the leaders of the people were prophets, individuals who were in close connection with the Creator on a very special level.

The entire nation was in contact with the Creator, but the prophets were connected to Him in a unique, revealed way, corresponding to their Aviut (spiritual coarseness). They attained much more than what the Aviut developing and being corrected in the people at that time allowed.

But when the nation returned from Babylon, a different period began, called the period of the sages. There were no longer any prophecies, but there was a different connection with the upper, on the level of Mochin deNeshama (mind of the soul), yet the mutual guarantee within the nation was no longer all-encompassing. Part of the people were in mutual guarantee with one another and therefore in attainment of the upper, while another part of the nation no longer was.

This lasted until the time of the Second Temple, until even that declined and reached the level of unfounded hatred. The desire to receive had grown so much in people that they were no longer able to carry out the necessary corrections, and so the law of mutual guarantee simply ceased to exist.

The Second Temple was destroyed, and on the material level, the flaw that had arisen between souls was revealed, and the nation went into exile.

Exile is a special state in which it is impossible in practice even to carry out or desire mutual guarantee. The very concept that one must be a guarantor for another became concealed, and this idea seemed to disappear.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/4/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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The greater our will to receive grows, the stronger Arvut (mutual guarantee) must become. We can see this reflected in the course of history.

Upon the exodus from Egypt, when we absorbed an added degree of Aviut, we had to accept the first level of Arvut, known as the “standing at the foot of Mount Sinai as one man with one heart.” It was through this unity that we merited the Torah.

Later it was necessary to expand the collective participation and mutual guarantee, which expressed itself in the journey through the desert, in the division of the people into tribes, and in their respective roles as Cohens, Levites, and Israelites.

When one studies the method, it becomes clear that all of this is essentially a continuous process of correcting the same principle called Arvut, the connection into a single Kli in a corrected form where each connects with the others according to the root of their soul.

When the people reached the stage of building the Temple, they were already required to realize their connection within a country.

That is, although the internal conditions of each individual and of the people as a whole changed, the desire to receive burned ever more fiercely and kept growing, affecting also the external conditions (the people entered the Land of Israel, fought other nations, and settled in the land). Arvut had to continuously take on new forms. Yet the core idea remained unchanged: to be guarantors for one another.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/4/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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All of Israel are guarantors for each other. Guarantors for each other is our state when we are in Adam HaRishon, in a common soul. The state we initially existed in is a perfect state, created like this from above, and we must come to it ourselves, from below, from this world.

From the state called the soul of Adam HaRishon (the First Man), which is united with the Creator in perfection, eternity, in complete similarity to the Creator, all laws descend to us. And we, who are at the lowest level, the furthest from this state, must gradually implement, fulfill, and apply these laws to ourselves, and thus advance and return to the same state.

Thus, mutual guarantee (Arvut) is a common law that must exist between us if we want to come to correction, a state called “one soul,” from which this law, like all other laws, or “advice” for our corrections, comes to us.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/3/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: When will the Third Temple be built? After all, the first and second temples were built. There was some movement toward love for one’s neighbor. So why was the 9^th of Av necessary, and why were these temples destroyed?

Answer: It was so that we would begin to correct them. The construction came from above. We were given a force that somehow united us.

Question: So were the two temples built from above?

Answer: Of course! The force comes from above, it does not come from us.

But for the Third Temple we must become aware of how much we need it and demand it ourselves, from below.

Question: Will the Third Temple be built by the whole world?

Answer: It will be built in the hearts of those who strive toward the Creator. They are called the people of Israel. This is no longer about people supposedly defined by having a Jewish mother and father, by birth, or by passport. It is about those who yearn for the Creator. Then this process will be taken up by the whole world.

Comment: Does it mean that “Israel” is not today’s Jews or Israelis, those living in Israel, or Jews by birth, but those who strive toward the Creator?

My Response: Yes. In essence, those who strive toward the Creator are called “Israel,” and they are obligated to reach unity and spread it to the whole world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/22/25

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Question: On the first evening of the Passover holiday, it is customary to hold a special meal at which the Passover Haggadah is read, which is the telling of the Jews’ escape from Egyptian slavery. Is this story a simple historical narrative or does it have a deeper meaning that applies to today?

Answer: The Egyptian exile dates back to the age of the forefathers, followed by the age of the sons. The patriarch Abraham began to gather disciples from all over Ancient Babylon. He taught that it is impossible to advance and come closer while everyone is in such internecine strife and selfishness, as it happened then in Babylon.

The construction of the Tower of Babel symbolized the ultimate form of selfishness that had grown to the heavens. The whole of Babylon was torn apart by mutual hatred and misunderstanding, which is called “the confusion of languages.”

Abraham told his students that there is a single method for all mankind, but it is impossible to force it on people because it requires maturity from a person. The essence of this method is “love covers all crimes.”

Each of us is inside our egoism, but we must build a connection between us on top of it. Egoism is unfounded hatred of one’s neighbor. If I see my neighbor’s lawn is greener or he has bought a better car than mine, then I start to hate him.

This is hatred for no reason. If my son bought a nice car, I would only be happy. The more successful my children are, the happier I am, but every success of my neighbor spoils my mood.

This happened on a small scale within the neighborhood, yard, and house. But today, the whole world has turned into a Babylon: rich people and poor people are all arguing, defending their opinions, and disagreeing with each other.

We do not know what a good, peaceful life means when you do not feel any pressure. It is like living in paradise. There is no time and space and everything goes smoothly and easily. Everyone helps each other, lets them go ahead. If you need something, everyone rushes to your aid. You can be sure that you will always be supported at the right moment.

We are not used to such a life and cannot imagine it. Abraham explained to the Babylonians that it is impossible to continue living in our growing egoism and quarreling with each other. 99% of all our forces are spent on survival in the conditions of this internecine struggle.

But what if selfishness is so huge? It dominates us; it forces everyone to fight for their opinion, and compels everyone to consider themselves the smartest. It is impossible to fight your nature, and it is not necessary—you just need to rise above it.

Everyone has their own opinion, as it happens between relatives, but we are all united by a family that we all have to take care of together. We need to take this example from life. Let’s say my children do not share my political views: one has more conservative, right–wing views, the other has left-wing views, the third has become Orthodox religious, etc., everyone votes for their own party.

But if we are one family, then despite this, we love everyone and help everyone. It is important to us that this is a person close to us, a member of our family. That is how we have to take care of all the people—as if they were one family.

Then we will not pay attention to the difference of views. If someone wants to live differently, let them live. Everyone can stay with their ego if they consider themselves obligated to love others above it. Others think differently from me, but I do not put pressure on them or try to convince them by force. Everyone is free to remain as they are, which means that all crimes will be covered by love, just like in a good family.

I cancel myself in front of others and do not dictate my opinion to them, but on the contrary, I am ready to join in their desires and help them. And so everyone does relative to the others, thanks to which we create a special, warm common field, which is called the feeling of a family or one people.

We are enveloped in a cloud of love, mutual participation, unification, warmth, reciprocity. It is something completely new. It did not exist before, it is built precisely on this principle of “love that covers all sins.”
Everyone stays with their egoism, but we know how to deal with it. After all, egoism is given to us by nature, and it is obvious to us today that we cannot do anything about it. But from Abraham, we got a technique that allows us to overcome this egoism and unite.

Those who know how to connect above egoism are called Jews (Yehudim), from the word “Yehud” (unity), or the people of Israel, Yashar-El, that is, straight to the Creator. The nation of Israel was created on this basis.

After leaving Babylon, from petty strife, Israel finds itself in a period called the Egyptian exile, which is slavery to its egoism. Egoism dominates us and does not allow us to connect. No matter how hard we try, no matter how hard we work, nothing works.

It is called slavery, which is exhausting work on our material. We try to build something out of it between us, but nothing comes of it until we realize that we need to rise above our ego. It happens after many blows and hard work.

As a result, we decide that it is impossible to continue to exist like this. This is the situation we find ourselves in today. Otherwise we will just destroy each other in an internecine war.

We need to really realize that our life is slavery. The power of evil that lives in us eats us and destroys us. Then we will agree to rise above egoism as we did once before. We do not know how to do this, but at least we are fleeing from mutual hatred, we want to get out from under the power of the Pharaoh.

This means that we are leaving Egypt, running in the dark to no one knows where. We only understand that we can no longer exist in it. And then we come to Mount Sinai, seeing what kind of hatred (sin) exists between us.

We agree to rise above this hatred and unite into one person with one heart, to achieve mutual guarantee, to accept the Torah, that is, the method of unification. The main rule of the Torah is to love one’s neighbor as oneself. That is when we are born as the people of Israel, as it says, “Today you have become My people.”
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From KabTV’s “New Life 537” 3/25/15

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