If a person clarifies the final goal better for himself, does he thereby acquire more strength and a greater sense of the necessity to engage in Arvut (mutual guarantee), in work within the group, in investing in it?

This is built on a mutual basis. No matter how inspired you may be by the final goal, you will not be able to receive much from it without receiving an awareness of the importance of that final goal from the group.

You have no strength and no connection with the Creator that would shine upon you and give you awareness of who He is and what He is. Only your friends can tell you how great He is. Therefore you will not succeed if you delve into clarifying what final adhesion is while being alone. It will not add anything to you.

In order for the importance of the Creator to truly obligate you to action, you must turn to the group. It will amplify the awareness of the Creator’s greatness. For if a person has a goal, he must come to the group so that the group will exalt it, and he will constantly think about that goal.

Question: How can one clarify this goal in detail?

Answer: You cannot do that! Why do you need the details? For you, the main thing is to have “fuel,” pressure, a sense of necessity.
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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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Question: How do we understand Rambam’s words that “you may not reveal the meaning of ‘slavery’ to women and children?”

Answer: A person is in various forms of dependence on his desire to receive. If his desire to receive is not satisfied, one will not be able to advance and will be obliged to provide his desire with what it needs first. Therefore he is called a “slave” of desire.

The level of “slaves” is divided into several categories. There are genuine slaves, who do not understand they are in slavery and are unaware of their bondage.

There are also “children” and “little ones” who already feel weak and small in regard to their desire to receive, and who know that it dominates both their minds and hearts. Sometimes a person has the opportunity to get to know himself from the outside and see how powerless he is; sometimes he falls into a state where he just does something, like a small child, without reason.

By “women” we mean a state in which we feel dependent. There is a desire to receive, and it is like a husband, like a master. And so we feel dependence and lack (unfulfilled desire), which we must fulfill. So we fulfill it.

We are talking about various attitudes. There is nothing we can do. People employ them, and that is how they exist. Otherwise, it is impossible to live. They look for additional pleasures to fulfill their desires: fashion, public opinion, or something else.

People must have some goals in life so that they gradually fulfill themselves. Let it be football or some other game in life. There could be some changes for the whole world, one thing, then another to feel alive.

This is called life, a change in types of pleasure. This is our world. You can see it every time there is a new fashion, every time something is announced as an event or innovation. “Harry Potter,” then The Matrix, then something else. It gives you a sense of life. Otherwise, what is there to live for? That is the way people work: they look for something new to keep alive.

This is called a “woman.” She feels addicted and falls for this addiction because there is no other way. How can she exist? It is said that she “depends on a man,” “wants a man.” The Talmud and the TES say that a woman prefers “one measure and stupidity (i.e., being dependent) to nine measures as unmarried.”

We can talk a lot about these three categories: “slaves,” “children,” and “women,” about how it manifests itself in our world from the point of view of psychology, how it works in social circles, how it descends into matter and functions in it. We are already seeing this. Given that the public understands this, we can already start explaining it in lectures, and from there move to the reasons, the spiritual roots.
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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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To people who dwell within the desires of “slaves,” “children,” or “women,” the method must be explained gently, that is, in a way that the will to receive feels as though it is moving toward fulfillment, toward pleasure, toward what currently seems to it to be good.

But why do we play what seems like a kind of false game with those who are in these states? Because we know that by tempting them with today’s fulfillments, with these little “gifts,” things that the will to receive currently wants, we are, in fact, growing this desire, and it develops.

And as it develops, it reaches states in which the part of Bina within it begins to grow. Bina means “understanding,” from the word “Avana”—reason, critical analysis.

A person, besides his Malchut, besides the desire, begins to develop a part of Bina, and then, in the connection and clash between them, he begins to understand his state and analyze it, to the extent possible, from the perspective of Bina, which means more objectively, independently of Malchut, of the will to receive.

At that point, a person changes even his fulfillments; he begins to want something else. After playing various games, a child comes to understand that he wants not only games, but something more serious, and more and more so. For example, a girl wants to play with a doll, but not with a baby. Even though the baby is real, the doll suits her. It is the form of her pleasure. But for a mother, a doll will not do; she wants a living baby. That is her “game.” To each their own.

So it turns out we are seemingly lying to the will to receive and to the people who are with us at their first lecture or in their first year of study, and we tell them that everything will be fine.

Of course, we are not lying about the fact that it will be fine, but it will be fine, not for the vessels (Kelim) that they have now, but for the ones that will grow. And for the current vessels, you give some candy, a game of hide-and-seek, a car, or something else, for them that is good. So give them that now. Each time, give them these baits so they will keep progressing.
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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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Question: When we spread the message to the people of Israel should we emphasize that our purpose is to serve the world rather than rule over it?

Answer: Of course, but no matter how much you emphasize that Israel serves the entire world, that it is an additional component that exists only as necessary for the world’s correction, and that it has no space in this world, there is always the possibility of misinterpretation. That is very easy to do.

If you find even the smallest detail that does not clearly explain at least part of the matter, it already creates room for distortion.

Still, changes are happening. It depends on our readiness, and we are obligated to act accordingly.

As for everything else, I hope we receive guidance from above. After all, everything is already prepared. We are not performing actions here, but merely participating in the process.
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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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Comment: Each stage of explaining Kabbalah to the people requires proof in itself. The first—that there is a higher force, the second—that it influences us, the third…

My Response: We should not seek proofs. We must focus on our world, and since on one hand, we exist within it, and on the other hand, we have something that belongs to the higher world (our methodology), we must do no more than organize and connect it together. Like, for instance, natural phenomena and their explanations beyond nature: where these phenomena originate and why they appear to us in the way they do.

We need only to establish the right connection, the correct picture, clear, convincing, and understandable, and that is sufficient.
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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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The strong light that comes to correct the Kelim (it created the Kli and it made what it did out of it right up to bringing it to its final state) will be able to correct it. Only the light corrects the Kli according to our decision, according to our preliminary request called raising MAN.

We participate in creation like a small child who sits in the arms of an adult and says: “I want this, I want that, and that, and that!” And the big one fulfills his requests. You just need to know what to ask for so that it corresponds to how the big one has planned actions and ways to advance you so you would attain His reason from this.

The big one wants you, upon attaining Him, to become like Him, to move from a small state to a large one due to the fact that every time you desire what He wants and is ready to give you, so that from the start you know you want to become like Him. It is said about this: every action, from the smallest, should be for the sake of adhesion with the Creator.
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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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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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The correct attitude toward reality is a much more advanced stage. After all, simply knowing that the world is structured in a certain way and that each person has their own function and their own goal that they must achieve in some form, this knowledge itself, after having come to each person, will begin to organize the entire world in the correct way.

We will see to what extent all matter, all actions, and everything that happens in the world aligns with the forces that truly operate within it. The forces acting in the world are 100% the forces of the Creator.

It is only human disagreement that causes the entire world—still, vegetative, animate, and especially speaking—to not be in equivalence of form with the intention of the Creator toward creation. This results in a terrible feeling for the human being who finds themselves in this world.

Why specifically the human in this world? Because only people in this world, and especially in our time, and particularly us, are obligated to freely choose how to relate correctly to reality.

The problem is that we view the world as a mass of matter, yet we forget that matter is merely the final, lowest, inanimate result that rests upon intention, upon attitude. You see, the more concealed the forces are, the stronger they are. If we begin to pay even a little attention to relationships, we will see how, through them, we change everything, including matter 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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Question: Do we, in our current state, influence the balance of the scale toward good?

Answer: Every moment of our existence we are in the realization of only one thing—mutual guarantee (Arvut). Whether we want it or not, we and the whole world are advancing toward the realization of its importance either through suffering or through the path of Torah.

There is nothing else toward which humanity is being led other than mutual guarantee. We must see that it is a necessity, that mutual unity leads from “Love your neighbor” to “Love the Lord your God.” This is the process that all souls must undergo.

Therefore, everything that happens to all the souls and to each individual every second of their lives is essentially a movement toward the fulfillment of this law.

No matter how confused we and all of humanity may feel—not knowing where we are, what we are doing, and what we are occupied with—it is all just clarification so that we ultimately come to the final conclusion: it depends on each person which way the scale will tip.

In other words, everything depends on the degree of responsibility each individual takes for fulfilling the law of mutual guarantee.

And even now, when you are not yet corrected, to the extent that you are in some form approaching the understanding of this law that we are obligated to fulfill, you affect the entire world through your inclusion in all souls. In this way, the law becomes more revealed in them, and you help others reach its fulfillment.

However, there are people who, due to the state of their point in the heart, are incapable of striving for adhesion with the Creator and cannot fulfill the law of mutual guarantee on their own. But since all other souls are included within them, they will receive some illumination and, as a result, will fulfill this law.

They will say: “If everyone else is doing it, then of course we must too.” But internally, they will not feel it because the penetration of other souls into them is really minimal.
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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: Every desire to receive is a Reshimo [spiritual record] from the withdrawal of the light in which we receive the letters of the Torah. Is this a feeling of fulfillment or a feeling of new emptiness from coming closer to the Creator?

Answer: I think it is emptiness that presses on a person and drives them toward the Creator.

Question: It is said that when the people of Israel gathered at Mount Sinai, they had one intention and one thought. Does that mean we unite in intention and thought even before receiving the Torah?

Answer: No, before receiving the Torah, we cannot unite in intention and thought.

But this is already a step forward. People begin to feel how the Creator corrects them, and how they gradually draw closer to one another into one body, one heart.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/2/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Giving of the Torah – 1”

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