Question: It is said that intention can be either for the sake of bestowing or for the sake of receiving. Are there really only two states or are there gradations?

Answer: This is exactly what we are studying: how to move from the intention to receive to the intention to bestow. There are many actions between them.

Question: But the question is, are there multiple intentions between them?

Answer: This is exactly the passage through the states of Ibur, Yenika, Mochin, etc. We are talking about intention, not action.

Even when we talk about a Partzuf being filled, what is it filled with? With what its intention is filled with, the intention becomes manifest. This is not a physical action.

The same with the Zivug DeHakaa: the intention for the sake of bestowing gets filled. What kind of filling is this? The way your intention came to fruition: to what extent you built a certain common part with the Creator. Him for you, and you for Him: you have built the place where you are together. This is called the inner part (Toch) of the Partzuf.

Your attitude toward Him is your head (Rosh); the place you are unable to do this is the lower part (Sof) of the Partzuf; the place you are with Him is your Toch. That is, it is the manifestation of an intention, a kind of conclusion of your intentions: now, inside the Partzuf, you see and know that this was your intention.

So these are all intentions. What actions can be there? Whether you are in this world or you have already died, freed yourself from the animal body and everything that is here, nothing ends, because you remain in intentions!

It is in them that life is, and everything else, this whole world, is a state preceding the acquisition of intention. When you transition to the intention, and start creating your own spiritual Partzuf, you will not need this life anymore.
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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: Should the correct intention be attached before every action or is it enough to set it once in advance?

Answer: The correct intention must be attached before each action and renewed every second because it constantly slips away. The difference between moments lies in the change of intention! Focus only on it and you will discover that intention changes the action.

Each time it must be “revived” anew, or you must remain continuously connected to that intention and pay attention to it alone. Then you will discover that it is through intention and not through actions that you change reality. You will reveal that you are in a world of intentions.
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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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Kabbalists are not planning a nationwide return to religion so everyone stands in line to put on tefillin. None of us even think in this direction. Especially regarding the nations of the world. Even if they become corrected, will they also have to fulfill all these commandments? Of course not!

Baal HaSulam writes that a person can even remain in his religion, as it has nothing to do with what we do. All these things are carried out only spiritually anyway: in relation, intention, and one’s inner connection with the Creator.

It may not be easy to explain this, but it depends on the measure of internal, personal suffering and the degree of general, collective suffering. If we actually reach a state where we have to take it upon ourselves, this will serve as our internal preparation, and people will hear this and understand we have nowhere else to look for help.

This is called a cry to the Creator. This is a prayer, raising MAN—all this is, in fact, the same thing. You have no choice, you must. This is how a person who is in pain, who has a seriously ill loved one—his inner concern, his fear, his anxiety is about it. This is surely revealed in him. These things, in general, correct his state, and we see this is how it is.

What does it mean, they correct it? Of course, they do not correct anything, but they lead to correction coming from above.
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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: How can I gain the strength to remain in intention 24 hours a day?

Answer: A group can obligate you, not by force, but through influence. It can make you want this; you will think about it day and night, and this idea simply will not leave you.

Question: In an elevated state, I can still maintain such an intention, but what should I do when there is no desire?

Answer: You must begin to live within intention, rather than through actions. It is a different dimension: I do not live by actions and relationships; I live inside the intention! Me and the Creator—how do I relate to Him? To remain in this intention at all times.

If you enter such a state for the full 24 hours, it means you cross the Machsom and enter the spiritual world. After all, the spiritual world is your attitude toward the Creator based on your intention toward Him.

Of course, when this happens, you are filled with something entirely different, your concerns shift; you live by this! So do not be afraid!

Then, whether you are studying, eating, drinking, indulging in material pleasures, whatever it may be, you remain in this intention. We are capable of this. I promise that it will happen.
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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: We see how difficult it is for us to maintain the correct intention. So what can we even say about the whole world?

Answer: That is true. But as we study in the wisdom of Kabbalah, there is nothing but intention. The whole issue lies in realizing its importance.

Either you will attain the importance of your attitude toward reality and toward the Creator, through your own free choice or He will instill this importance in you through suffering. Choose one or the other, but you will have to do it based on importance. Importance is what you must attain. Either blows will provide it for you, or attention. That’s all. Now decide!

Today when you tell the people of Israel that another catastrophe could befall them, one even more terrible, you hear in response: “God forbid! What are you talking about?! How dare you?!”

But I only want the full importance, the full seriousness of the situation to be realized; therefore, I speak of potential disaster before it arrives. “No! Absolutely not!” they say, burying their heads in the sand.
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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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The field we find ourselves in is a field of feelings, of good and evil, of pleasures and sufferings, of information, and all sorts of relationships. Within it, one can discover that it is a field of intention, of our relationship with the Creator, from complete opposition to full equivalence. There is nothing else.

To the extent that your intention resembles His, to that same extent you will see that you are already acting. In truth, there are no actions, rather you see that intention is what is being carried out.

Even in our world, there are no real actions! It only seems that we must do something because of the gap between intention and action, between the desired and the actual.

The smallest revelation one receives upon crossing the Machsom is that the whole world exists in a certain field, and everyone fulfills the commands of this field according to their place, each one in accordance with their potential, their soul, relative to this field. Change your place in the field and accordingly, you will perform something else.

Haven’t you felt that sometimes, suddenly, you forget everything you’ve seen, felt, remembered, as if your “computer” was wiped clean and you were left a blank slate? A few hours or moments later, something is inserted, and you’re “switched on” again, like a puppet. How can this happen to a person? After all, before we began studying Kabbalah, we weren’t like this! We remembered everything, had control, knew our way around.

But once we started studying Kabbalah, we suddenly become emptied out and then filled with something else. States arise in you that you have no control over; you feel they are not “you.” A “disk” is inserted or removed in you, and you don’t know where it is coming from. This happens because you’re changing and moving through this field from one place to another.

By yourself, you are a Kli (vessel). What does that mean? Wherever you are located, that is what you are filled with. You change, move, and from that location comes all your fulfillment. Suddenly, you feel emptied out. “What happened? Where am I? Where are my feelings, my inner world?” Nothing is left! You barely recognize yourself.

Suddenly, you discover that you are in a different state, with different filling. Because you are a vessel, what fills you depends on where you are in the field of light. Then you will realize that it is intention that moves you through this field, and according to it you are filled.
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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 does it mean that intention is not connected to our body? What is the intention?

Answer: Essentially intention is the way I relate to the Creator, to this one and only force acting in the world. Do I distinguish it? Do I wish to see and feel it? And finally, do I wish to relate to Him the same way He relates to me?

The only problem is how to get along with Him; there is nothing and no one else to get along with. In order to match Him in qualities, I need the whole world! That is why the soul was shattered into many parts.
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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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Why do you need corporeal life if you are below the level of intention? To reach this level by your free choice! Therefore, before attaining the correct intentions, you must be in a state where you have nothing in common with them.

At the same time, you must have some sense of existence, and with this sense, you gradually come to understand intentions and enter what is called the spiritual world, that is, into the development of intention, and continue to engage with it.

You are the one who does this. That is why there must be a certain preliminary reality, called “this world,” from which you begin your independent movement.

But once you’ve acquired this tool having the Rosh, Toch, and Sof of a Partzuf, you continue onward with them, and you no longer need this world. Can any physical actions here still help you? Regardless of whether they can or not, the existence of this world does not interfere with your living in intention, in the spiritual world.

Even now, you can sit here with everything you possess and, at the same time, be in Atzilut with a fully functioning Partzuf. And conversely, you could be only there, without your physical body.

That already depends on your role in relation to all other souls: How much you must be in contact with them, what your function is with respect to them, and whether you must remain in a physical body.

If you must, then even if you yourself no longer need to reincarnate, you will still do so. These are different kinds of calculations.

This is what happens with great Kabbalists. You see, one and the same soul from Adam, through Abraham, Moses, Rabbi Shimon, the Ari, and Baal HaSulam keeps reincarnating. Does it need that for itself?
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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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People ask me what a Kabbalist prays for when there is war in the world? A Kabbalist knows that the main war does not take place somewhere out in the world, but it is going through our hearts. So he prays for this war to disappear, for us to come to hate the hatred that separates us and to strive to unite as one person with one heart. That is how we emerge from this war.

The purpose of the war is to exalt the greatness of the Creator, to raise Him above all other goals and connections that each of us has. Only when the connection between us is revealed in our hearts can we be certain that we have won the battle against our evil inclination.

If the war is not only internal but also external, in the corporeal world, then it leaves us no other choice but to reveal a good relationship between us by finding out what prevents us from uniting as one person with one heart.

There are many forces are at work at every stage that distance us from one another and disrupt our connection. We must fight against them and seek forces that can help us come closer and unite, overcoming the forces of war.

Every force of war aims to divide us and separate us from one another. If a person is not connected to others, then he is entirely powerless, a complete zero. A person’s strength is the result of his connection with others. Once he exits this connection, he is left with nothing.

Therefore, we must constantly remember this and fight only for unity. If we truly want peace in the world, we must envision ourselves so tightly connected that this connection itself will awaken the Creator to reveal Himself between us.

In this way, we will gradually overcome all forces of separation until we ultimately discover that we are all connected with one another and the Creator is in the center of our unity.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/19/2025, “Winning the War”

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Question: In order to maintain an intention, does a person need to perform some actions and be active?

Answer: An intention can be cultivated only to the extent that it is important for a person. I can develop this degree of importance only with the help of a group, after having understood with my mind how to convey this knowledge to the body in the form of feelings. After all, the body reacts only to feelings, the mind has practically no effect on it.

No matter how much I awaken feelings with the help of my mind, it will not bring results. I must be moved, frightened, and this is achieved through the environment. It is not in vain that Baal HaSulam claims that this is my only choice.

But this is my choice; after all, it is I who choose and direct the group so that it affects me in this way. It is as if sick people come to me who do not understand that they are obliged to “brainwash” themselves.

Therefore, systems are built around a person that would help him, influence him, and give him importance.

You see how much we are obliged to work against our nature, which erases every impression. Yesterday we experienced a blow, and ten minutes later we forgot about it. The moment we hear about an incident on the radio, we look for a way to forget about it. At that very moment!

And what then? Then we ask, how can it be that millions of people were sent to gas chambers? It is very simple, a person builds himself a system that erases the connection between cause and effect.
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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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