Question: Won’t the transition to the space of intentions lead to the neglect of physical actions?

Answer: Yes, it is possible. But what is wrong with that? Why do you think that if a person stopped developing at a certain stage, say, two to three thousand years ago and had started developing in the direction of intentions rather than actions, that today he would be unhappy?

Tell me, as a doctor of science, what is the benefit of your science? What sufferings has it helped to avoid and what blows has it sweetened? Or maybe we are revealing a more enlightened world with its help? Does a person’s inner happiness depend on this? What was two or five hundred years ago? What will be in two or five hundred years?

Comment: I mean, even physical actions within the group, dissemination, and the like. If we decide that intention is the most important…

My Response: The most important thing is to reach the level of eternity! And then, what does everything else matter to us? All of it simply gets annulled.
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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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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: What is a way to check whether I am in intention?

Answer: The intention for what? To the state in which I want to be. How do I imagine it? What is the state that I want to reach afterward? I cannot imagine the end of correction or infinity, as if I am floating there and there is no difference between left and right.

How can I imagine all these states?! Moreover, everything there is qualitative, not quantitative; there are no distances, and so on and so forth. To imagine such things is to completely lose any kind of foothold.

I imagine a state that is desirable from my point of view, and from that I begin to act. That is all. Do not imagine all sorts of abstract pictures of who-knows-what.

Question: So what is the correct action?

Answer: The action is very simple. If I want to get closer to the spiritual, since for me it is the salvation of my whole life, then I must turn to the group so that it increases the importance of entering spirituality for me, and then I will have the strength for it.

For example, today we have a gathering of friends.: “Why are we doing this? How will we influence everyone with this? How will we awaken together and feel a common force? What do we gain in the end? After all, the next day I will fall from this. Is it desirable? Maybe that is exactly what is good since then new, strong Kelim will gather in me? Today I can speak to several thousand people around the world who see me. And not just several thousand, many more! They can change my life.”

You have something to think about during the day. The result depends on what you will think about, not on what you will do. This is what it means to live in the space of intentions. The action may remain the same, but the result is what you want from 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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When we live with the right intention, we feel eternity, life, and fulfillment within it! This does not complicate a person’s material existence; in fact, it is then that he truly feels what life is.

Question: What if I do not yet feel that it is good yet? What should I do?

Answer: As long as you do not feel that this is life, it seems to you like death.

What should you do? Ask the group! You have no choice. Naturally you will never want this on your own. That is what it means to rise from the animal level to the human one, or more precisely, not to the human level, but to the spiritual one! If you live with intention directed toward the upper force, then you discover it, feel it, and dwell in the sensation of eternal life.

This is already a dimension that gives you a completely new attitude toward everything. If your whole life is directed toward the Creator 24 hours a day, then that is it, you are already living in the same space with Him! It is an entirely different mode of existence.

Question: How can I ask the group to give me this kind of attitude?

Answer: Do not ask, demand it from the group! Bring them the awareness of this necessity.

Comment: But I do not have that awareness in me!

My Response: You do not have it in you, but you can influence the group. After all, are you not always pressuring someone? Don’t you want to impose your opinion on others? You do it all the time; that is egoism! Press on them and it will come back to you in the form of conviction.
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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 intention depend on? Is it the work of the individual, the group, or the Creator?

Answer: Intention depends on the awareness of the importance of the upper force, which the group must continuously awaken to be in connection with the upper force. This force is the general, all-encompassing law of the universe under which you exist, whether you want to be or not, and you perform what it obligates you to.

This law does not change because it is a general law that includes all others. Do the laws of nature change? No!

Therefore, if you do not know this law, you will not know how to live at all and will constantly find yourself in a bad state. The group must explain this fact to you and convince you of the necessity to know this law.

Question: So does everything depend on the group or on my bestowing to the group?

Answer: Yes, it depends on the group, on how it will influence you. But how you will respond, be inspired by it, and how it will affect you, depends on you, on how you position the group in relation to yourself.
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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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We do not realize how much our attitude toward the world improves it! Only now are physicists discovering that the results of their experiments with matter depend on the experimenter and their attitude. Only now are we discovering that even a plant feels how I relate to it.

We do not understand that it is precisely our attitude, meaning, our intention, that changes all of reality. We do not see it because we do not see the results. And we do not see intentions, we cannot clarify them, see them, or measure them. That is the problem.

Nevertheless, this alone operates in the universe; matter is brought into motion specifically by the attitude toward it. What is a matter by itself for? It cannot generate any movement on its own.

Therefore, when speaking about how we should appear before the rest of the world, it should not be at all as if we are actively involved in politics, economics, security, or anything of the sort.

Our involvement is solely in education, spreading this knowledge and bringing everyone who desires it to the right attitude toward reality, nature, and the world in which they live.
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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: Why is intention not related to the physical body?

Answer: It is because the physical body is the desire to receive. The desire to receive cannot give. Thus, its action can be one of two things: either to restrict itself and not receive, or to receive. What happens to the desire to receive when the property of Bina is added to it?

Comment: The ability to give is added.

My Response: How is that? Can the desire to receive give? Can the desire to receive start giving when the second stage enters the fourth stage? It can make a restriction, but it can never give! Only the intention behind the action is added to it.

Therefore we say that in both education and correction, we in fact pay attention not to the desire to receive, but only to intentions. That is what is important to us. To the extent of our intention, we take the desire to receive and combine them together.

I use the desire to receive only to the extent that I can increase the intention. What does the world exist for? For the intention or for the desire to receive? For the intention! To constantly nurture it. At the same time, the desire to receive is matter, raw material. As it belonged to the Creator, so it does now. The creation is the one who builds an intention above the desire to receive.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/2025, Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: Where does advancement from our current state begin?

Answer: We do not need to change any of our actions; we are only required to give all the actions we perform in life the correct direction. That will be the difference.

A person does not perform bad or good deeds; his desires remain as they were and must receive their fulfillment. Just as Malchut was filled before the first restriction, so it will be filled at the end of correction. The first restriction acts only in order to build an intention for the sake of bestowal upon each desire.

That is, a person should not be thinking about his actions at all. When educating him, we do not forbid anything; we only teach how to connect with the Creator. If a person wants to establish a connection with the Creator, then adhesion is his final state, and now he must find a foothold for that connection; that is his current goal.

This is exactly what we teach him: how to grab hold of the “end of the rope,” how to ascend along it continuously. This ascent by the “rope” of intentions is called the spiritual ascent through the ladder from world to world until he reaches 100% intention, 100% connection.

As for a person’s desires, the essence of his actions will change according to the intention; yet the actions themselves will remain the same as before. Will he no longer eat or drink? Will he not reproduce or work?

Everything will remain as it was. Simply, based on the intention, he will naturally calibrate his actions. And in doing so, he will not have to restrain himself. This will occur because his inner world will establish a new relationship between thoughts and actions and filter them, but only from within his internal development, without any external suppression from us or anyone else.

We see how useless suppression is. What can the police do? What can all the prisons in the world achieve? Absolutely nothing! Education can rely only on personal example and should serve solely to give a person a connection to the upper force from which he will then receive everything. And only then, thanks to this, will the person change.

It is impossible to change a person by any other means. We have already seen all possible methods throughout history, and not one of them has worked—not a single one! Because aside from the change of intention, there is nothing else we need to do in the entire universe.
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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: If a person tries to carry out spiritual work in thought and action, but the heart remains deaf, a feeling arises that some kind of heaviness is constantly happening there.

How can I unite with the others from within this heaviness in the heart? What should I do to make use of this opportunity?

Answer: You must find the point of connection with the common group, with the common Kli. And from there you will begin to feel yourself in the center of that group. There you will receive answers.

Question: Am I searching for this common point through prayer?

Answer: Yes, the prayer is there as well.
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From the Lesson #2 World Kabbalah Convention 5/22/2025, “Believing that the Creator Is Good and Does Good”

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Question: How can I pray correctly for the collective and ask the Creator for them if my heart only wants to pray for myself?

Answer: Try to think in a way that you genuinely want to ask for the collective, for the group, for those close to you, and for your friends. It all depends on how much you think about this.

Question: When I see a discrepancy in every point and ask for correction, but I ask for myself, how can I make that prayer for the collective?

Answer: Add the words that you are praying for everyone to it.
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From the Lesson #6 World Kabbalah Convention 5/24/2025, “A Prayer of Many to Reveal the One”

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