We must strive through our own efforts to reach a state in which we constantly guard our connection with the Creator and try to stay connected with each other and with Him, without losing sight of what is happening in every cell of our animal and spiritual body, both inside and outside the collective Kli (vessel)—our group.

All of this happens solely according to His will, intention, and influence. But we desire to be in constant intention and constant appeal to Him. In this way, we are joyful about any changes, any fluctuations, that occur within us because they give us the opportunity to feel that we exist somewhere and that we are doing something.

After all, if there were no such movement, we would not feel any changes. Without feeling disturbances, we would not feel life or its inner motion. That is why we rejoice in all kinds of disturbances, no matter what they are! They compel us to concentrate even more together in mutual support because only in this way can we understand how to position ourselves before the Creator in order to form a pair with Him: He and us.

Therefore we begin to feel our life not in the achievement of closeness with the Creator, but in the very movement toward Him, which becomes the most important, joyful, and fulfilling thing for us. In other words, the goal is not to reach similarity and adhesion with Him, but rather to strive toward it because it is precisely in this striving that we experience the movement of spiritual life.

It is similar to any form of creativity; when a person creates, he lives. The process itself gives a sense of life because it is motion; it is the revelation of new problems, new desires, and their solutions. That is why we act this way.

Every day and every moment we need to rejoice in the efforts that we can make for the sake of advancement on the path of Achishena toward the Creator.
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From Lesson #1, Convention in St. Petersburg, 7/29/2016

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Everything comes from above, from the Creator. A person is not responsible for oneself, not for what happens to him nor for his reaction to what happens. So how can he determine his actions or his future?

In the spiritual world, everything is determined solely by the environment. A man has nothing of his own; either he receives something from the Creator for himself, or he receives something from the group for himself; all this goes to the Creator, and he himself is merely a small gear in a vast mechanism.

Everything passes through him from the Creator to the others, and likewise, through him from the others to the Creator. And what about him? His work is to make himself the correct kind of gear.

The correct inclusion in the group and in the Creator turns us into a gear, but one that is completely connected with the Creator in full adhesion with Him.

If I am the only flawed element in the world, then everything depends on me. The state of the Creator and the state of all of creation depends on me because I am included in everything.

Therefore a man must look: what more can I do to be precisely aimed at “There is none else besides Him” and “The good who does good”? He must feel responsible for the entire world. It does not matter what is actually happening in the world. He must feel that it is all a result of an incorrect connection between the Creator and the world through him.

This is implemented within the group. When a person completely submits to the group and does what it demands of him, then he aligns all of creation with the Creator.
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From the Convention in St. Petersburg 7/29/2016, Lesson 1

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Question: Should the presence of the Creator already be revealed?

Answer: The presence of the Creator does not need to be clear to us right now, and it cannot be clear. It is revealed to the extent of the equivalence of properties. But there must be a demand for His presence as a force within the group that provides the mutual guarantee (Arvut).

It is like a guarantee you receive from a bank, and you come to me saying: “The bank guaranteed it for me.”

There must be a sense that He is the guarantor, the partner, the source who gives strength and support, and who also fulfills things if we make the correct decision.

It is like children consulting with each other about what to ask for from their father: “We want this, and that, and the other.” But if they unite into a group and finally find the correct request to their father, he immediately fulfills their desire.

Suppose the father wants to buy them nuts, but they want ice cream. Until they come to the right desire—for nuts—the father will not buy them anything. He will not be with them. It seems too simple, but in the end, this is how Baal HaSulam describes our relationship with the Creator.

Since the Creator is hidden from us, we can heat up this question among us in our work: “What does He want from us?”

We are available to one another, and in all the twists and turns we go through, we can discern what the desire of the upper one is, what adhesion (Dvekut) means, what the right intention for the sake of bestowal is, and so on.

With the group, everything can be done like in a laboratory. But with the Creator, it is not so because He is concealed. It is very similar to the relationship between children and their father: if they find the correct request corresponding to what the father has prepared for them, then they immediately discover his desire and receive fulfillment from him.
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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: If the Creator holds our heart in His hands, then what does “work in the heart” mean? What are we supposed to do?

Answer: First of all, we must feel that the Creator holds my heart in His hands and completely determines everything within it: all my desires, intentions, thoughts, and impulses, from the most terrifying to the most beautiful.

Once I have reached this state, the question arises: what can I attribute to myself? What would the Creator want me to do now with the heart that He has created within me? How can I rise correctly above my heart and recognize with gratitude that everything the Creator has done is solely for my benefit?

I need to identify what the problems in my heart are. And I can define what a correct heart is only if it is created by the group instead of the Creator.

I must exist between two forces. One force is bad, evil, that is the Creator. He Himself admits: “I created evil.” On the other hand, He created the group, the light called the “Torah,” which I receive through the group to correct this evil. And I exist between these two forces.

The Creator holds my evil heart, which He deliberately created, so that I would find Him, the true Him, through the group. I must create such a state within myself and live in it. In this state, I myself become like the middle part of the Sefira Tiferet, the “Klipat Noga,” where on one side are the evil forces held by the Creator. After all, it is not in vain that He says: “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart.”

And on the other side is His good force, called “light,” the “Torah,” through which I perform correction. But I correct the evil force using the good force in such a way that I constantly exist in balance between them, and this is how I advance.

Advancement always takes place in the middle line. My dark left line is constantly renewed, and therefore I constantly need the right line, a stronger connection with the group, and more light.

This is exactly how one should imagine the relationship between me, the group, and the Creator.

The Creator does not initially play a positive role. Initially, He is the destroyer, the creator of evil within us so that He can later teach us how to do everything correctly, like a mother who steps away from her child and gives him a chance to learn to walk.
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From the Convention in St. Petersburg 7/29/2016, Lesson 1

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Question: You say that in our nation, due to the subtlety of the Aviut (coarseness of the Kli), there is a readiness to perceive the spiritual idea. So how can we actually implement it so that people engage with it not only externally?

Answer: The readiness of the people of Israel (who are supposed to be the first to receive the Torah) stems from the fact that they are the subtlest part in the souls that began to emerge during the time of Abraham. At that time, out of all the souls in the world, this specific part that felt a connection to the upper light manifested itself.

From the collective assembly of souls, a kind of a “tribe” began to take shape, a group, a small handful of souls who, who due to their subtlety, began to correct themselves and managed to unite.

Who then are the “sons of Abraham” and the entire group that descended from him in the corporeal world? They are the consequences of the subtle souls emerging one after another again and again but on increasingly higher levels of Aviut.

In our world, this happens through the natural succession of fathers and sons. In one way or another, the souls that came from Abraham were clothed in the bodies of his descendants in the first, second, third generation, and so on.

And today, due to mutual inclusion, there are subtle souls among the nations of the world who feel the part of Israel that has mingled with them. And who knows the current state of the tribes of Israel at all; where are they all? We do not know this.

Suddenly, we are told: “Did you hear? In Pakistan, there are 25 million people related to the people of Israel.” And indeed, in the coming years, things will be revealed that we cannot even imagine today.

Ultimately, based on what we know today, we must certainly say that the part called “Jews” in this world is obligated to reach mutual guarantee (Arvut) by the root of their soul. This is their duty.

At the same time, there are parts of the nation that apparently do not bear this obligation. Therefore, we do not see them and do not know about them. Suddenly, Ethiopians or others appear among the nation. Many have not yet been revealed because their time has not come yet, even among the people of Israel themselves.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/9/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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The Creator, the originator, the upper force is an unchangeable concept. The whole reality was created with a single thought. But the question arises: did it happen at some point or has it always been there?

It is we, the creations, who live within the framework of time, and therefore it seems to us that reality is changing. But in fact, we are in a constant reality where everything, both the highest and the lowest, are in a state of final correction. And it is this entire reality that we need to reveal.

Reality itself is already perfect; there is no development in it, and nothing new arises. Changes occur only in relation to a person. This is the reality we need to uncover by finding out who we really are. Are there really so many of us, or is it all one person with so many different thoughts, desires, and actions?

From the Creator’s side, reality is constant, just as He created it. But a person has the opportunity to participate in the revelation of this reality and determine the speed and nature of its revelation, and most importantly, for whom are we making efforts, when we try to reveal this reality?

Initially, a single thought operates: the thought of creation.

“The whole of reality was emanated and created with a single thought. It is the operator; it is the very operation; it is the sought-after reward, and it is the essence of the labor” (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, “Inner Observation”).

That is, the thought includes everything, and we only need to try to join it, to want to be included in it. All our work and efforts are aimed toward this.

The Creator has revealed the thought of creation to us, that is, His attitude toward us; from His side, everything is completed. But if we strive to identify ourselves with the thought of creation, then through this we attain the Creator. By trying to reveal the thought of the Creator, we get to know Him, to feel Him, to become included in Him, to unite with Him.

He wants us to reveal this entire thought. If from our place below we rise to its height, to the root of the thought of creation, to the point in which this thought originated in the Creator, then in this way we draw closer to Him, not to the thought, but to the Creator Himself, and reveal Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/22/19, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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In our world, a person is incapable of fulfilling himself, so how can anyone possibly fulfill others? It is completely impossible.

We see idealistic people who are engaged in this, those who genuinely want good for the world. There are about 10% of people who derive pleasure from bestowal. These are the so-called altruists. So-called because they fulfill themselves in a natural way. They are built in such a way that they enjoy bestowing, and that is why they bestow.

We can see what their actions lead to. Do they really do good for anyone? And even if it seems to us that they somehow “sweeten” a person’s suffering, is that truly good? After all, suffering is ultimately sent from above in order to push a person toward analysis and inner work. And perhaps, through their actions, these altruists may actually be tripping the person up? That is a serious question.

In order to fulfill the rule “Love your neighbor as yourself,” we must first and foremost give everyone an understanding of how each person can fulfill himself through bestowing to others.

And when a person begins to understand the law of bestowal and mutual guarantee, he naturally begins to live in such a way that he needs nothing beyond what is necessary for his existence. That is simply how his life is, and everything else in his life is directed toward dissemination and bestowing his surplus to the place where his life now truly resides—outside of himself.

Maybe we do not see this as bestowal, but we are also doing it to a greater or lesser extent. We direct all the time and all the surpluses, all our efforts and thoughts, all our energy toward dissemination.
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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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Question: How can Israel take upon itself the duty of mutual responsibility today?

Answer: Israel is obligated to be both an example and a source in relation to the entire world.

It must become a model of mutual responsibility, love, and striving for unity with the Creator. At the same time, it must be the source of the force that spreads the power to implement this throughout the world so that the entire world enters into mutual responsibility, love for others, and as a result, unity with the Creator.

What is important for us? Should we focus only on those who are currently called “Israel”? Or should we also engage with those who are within the nations of the world, or with the nations of the world within Israel, people we do not even know who they are? How can this be verified? By passport? That is a big question.

To belong to the nation of Israel has not always historically been determined by the mother and among the nations of the world by the father. This started relatively recently. So nationality is a very shaky concept. By what criteria can we decide who is Israel and who are the nations of the world? How should we relate to one or the other? And can we even relate to them based on the data available to us? Does this really correspond to the root of the soul?

Anyone who has studied history even a little sees how unstable all of this is and how lacking in a solid foundation.

In the Middle Ages, there were Kabbalists who taught Kabbalah to representatives of other nations, and just think what times those were! In accordance with spiritual laws, they determined who was called Israel and who were the nations of the world. After the spiritual shattering, such distinctions seemingly disappeared. Whoever has a spark of Israel awakened within, you can teach him, and he is capable of beginning the correction. That is one side of the matter.

On the other hand, we still must work with that part of the nation of Israel  that is connected to the external part of the Torah, with the practical observance of commandments without intention, and somehow we must convince them to engage in intention.

Baal HaSulam writes about this at the end of the “Introduction to The Book of Zohar.” He says that this is precisely the essence of correction. We are obligated to work with everyone who desires it, in all countries and among all nations without exception, even if we have no idea who they are or what they represent, that is, with anyone who has been awakened.

On the other hand, ultimately we will be forced to focus on the religious society, and within it to cause a shift in the perception of importance from the external to the internal. Baal HaSulam states in the “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” that this is what will change the entire reality.

If, within the people of Israel, the very group that adheres to the external part of the Torah shifts its attention to the internal part, this will change the whole world. For then the inner part is corrected, and all other parts begin to align accordingly.

Thus, the work must proceed in two directions.
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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 thought of creation includes everything, even me, but I myself strive to attain it. The Creator gave me an opportunity, as if He created a white spot in me, which is called “striving for the Creator.” And I develop this desire and direct it to the upper.

I confirm that in fact, there is no one besides the Creator, and I myself am included in this concept. I do not want to change anything on my part in all of reality, I only want to attain the Creator, to unite with the idea of creation. This means adhesion with the Creator.

The more effort we put into this, the more we develop, change forms, and move along the axis of time. All sorts of changes will occur in us, and we will feel that we are beginning to accept His form.

Like in our world, when we get closer to a person, we gradually adopt his habits and tastes. In the same way, we begin to accept the form of the Creator, to adopt His thought; it becomes ours. This is how we achieve adhesion with Him.

The Creator created a thought, and we are a part of it, we are included in it. But besides this, He gave us the opportunity to reformat ourselves in similarity to this thought and thus to be included in the Creator. This thought enters us as if a program is loaded into a computer, but according to our own desire and demand.

Then it reformats and organizes us so that in everything that is in us, in all the “620” elements and desires, we begin to feel the upper force acting in us.

Gradually, this force fills us, as if a progress bar on a computer is running, showing the loading percentage, and reaches one hundred percent. This is how the plan of creation acts on us according to our efforts, and enters us. This means that we are filled with the Creator and adhere to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/22/19, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: Yesterday was a very intense day of the convention, and we reached a state of ascent. I felt there was no place left to add effort; it was so elevated.

I started looking for that place and discovered many clusters of dark matter of the will to receive, of hatred within me. I tried to touch it and saw that a great light comes to it, and I can use it as fuel.

But when I touched it, it turned me into a wicked one. How can I work with this dark Malchut so as not to fall into it, but rise by means of it? It feels like walking on the edge of a blade.

Answer: You must constantly think about how you want to draw it to yourself, to grab hold of it, and to rise together with it. Act on it.

Question: Is adhesion with the Creator when you feel His will as your own desire?

Answer: Yes.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 5/24/2025, Lesson 5, “Descents as a Springboard for Ascents”

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