There is only one counsel then: to cling to his teacher and to the books… Only by clinging to them can he change his mind and will for the better. However, witty arguments will not help him change his mind, but only the remedy of Dvekut [adhesion], for this is a wondrous cure, as the I reforms him (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 25, “Things that Come from the Heart“).

If a student wants to adhere to the teacher’s thought or desire, then he joins in them and unites with that thought and desire, which then become close and dear to him. As a result, all of one’s own thoughts and desires undergo correction and bow before the new desire and new thought.

Everything depends on how much one can perceive the teacher’s attitude and inner intention, cling to it, and separate from any other form of connection, whether with friends or the outside world. Then one begins to feel how tightly he has managed to adhere to the teacher, and from this, strength and desire to cling to the Creator will arise.

Any student, in any condition, has the opportunity to realize this aspiration. And to one who truly desires it, as it is said: “It will be revealed to him.”

If you yearn for adhesion, that very yearning begins to influence you and draw you closer.
Everything depends on a person’s desire, on their willingness to detach from the self-centered core and to stick to the new center of adhesion, one that is internally closer to the friends.

The advice, “Make for yourself a Rav (teacher),” means a person’s inner desire is to get closer to the center of creation.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/5/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Things that Come from the Heart”

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The force that can pull a person out of their egoistic prison arises from the difference in potential between their personal state and the collective attitude of the group, the environment. The force of the group’s desire, which is stronger than the force of a person’s egoism, passes the yearning to break free to them, as if throwing them a rope and pulling them out.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/5/2025, Writings Baal HaSulam “Things that Come from the Heart”

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Throughout history, spiritual corrections occurred in order. The first to do so was a man named Abraham and a small group of his disciples. At that time, they did not need a mutual guarantee since they had a small Aviut (coarseness), and they were very close to each other since the desire to receive had not yet been revealed.

Each one of them felt the upper force, and the “advice” conveyed by Abraham was enough to be one with the Creator because they fulfilled the entire Torah due to their purity. Other nations of the world had no need for religions. In their cultures at that time there was still a certain personal attitude to nature.

Then the people of Israel descended to Egypt where they absorbed an additional desire to receive from the Egyptians.

The increase of Aviut (coarseness) in the people of Israel after their exodus from Egypt and during the period of the First and Second Temples coincided with parallel processes in other nations: Rome replaced Greece; Greek mythology collapsed along with the previous level of Aviut. In Rome, a process of forming religion began; in India—Buddha; in China—Confucius, and so on.

In other words, it is precisely the growing Aviut throughout humanity that causes the corresponding human reaction—a person begins to search.

Therefore, as their desire to receive increased, the group that had been in Dvekut (adhesion) with the Creator since the time of Abraham needed a new method to remain in that adhesion and even strengthen it, or in other words, they needed a new method in order to take another step toward returning to the state of Adam HaRishon.

Thus it became necessary for them to receive the Torah and reach a new level of connection among themselves that was different from before. They now needed a method of how to preserve the same idea of adhesion with the Creator on a new level of Aviut. This method is called the Torah.
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From 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: How does spiritual ascent occur?

Answer: When a person begins studying Kabbalah, one starts going through various states. They do not know where these new states come from, but essentially, all changes come from the upper one.

There are two levels: the upper and the lower. In the upper, there are an upper and lower part (GE and AHAP), and in the lower also GE and AHAP. Together, they form the ten Sefirot, the structure of our soul.
As long as I merely exist in this world and have not begun to correct my soul, I perceive only myself, my current level, as my body, my life. And nothing beyond that.

But when I begin studying Kabbalah and join a group, I begin to receive the surrounding light. It is called “surrounding” relative to me because it is hidden in what surrounds me: in the books, the teacher, the friends through whom I receive this light.

I do not receive it just “from the air”; there is no upper light in the air. We are talking about the ladder of spiritual levels. But relative to a person, it so far manifests as a light transmitted to them through various means.

Sometimes this light awakens a person, and at other times, on the contrary, it gives them a sensation of darkness, the reverse side of light. The upper can explain something to the lower like a wise, adult explains something to their student. And the students enjoys what they hear and become wiser. They perceive it as receiving the light, knowledge and sensation.

Or, on the contrary, the teacher, relative to the student is in such a state, gives them such material and knowledge, such an experience that the student sees how little they understand of spirituality and how little they feel, how closed off and empty they are. And then, the more the teacher gives them, the darker it becomes for the student.

It does not depend on whether the light of Hochma is present or not but on how much the upper adjusts to the lower. Yet, if the upper adapts too much to the lower, it deprives them of the opportunity to perform any independent actions.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/27/2012, Writings of Rabash Article 195

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Question: What do you personally feel when you go from a noisy city into the desert?

Answer: You could find yourself in the taiga that stretches for thousands of kilometers in all directions, surrounded only by trees, or in a vast valley. But the desert is the most natural and expressive place for a person seeking an answer to the question of life’s meaning.

In the desert, the earth (“Eretz” in Hebrew), which means desire (“Ratzon“), is bare; it is not covered or masked by grass or trees. The desert is raw, open egoistic desire in its purest form, and it is clear that nothing can grow from it.

When I see such a desert, I actually draw great strength and confidence that it is precisely from this point that we can rise. It inspires the search for a solution, for a goal. Other coverings on the earth’s surface hide the truth from us, and conceal our egoistic desire beneath them, which is the same desire that prevents anything fruitful from growing. That is why the desert speaks to a person much more directly.

Question: What do you mean by egoistic desire?

Answer: It is the desire to receive everything for oneself that is incapable of connecting with others, incapable of giving life to someone or receiving life from someone. In other words, it is a completely dead desire. A person’s desire for pleasure is so self-contained that it keeps itself in a completely dried-out state. It does not allow anything living to grow within it.

This is a very important point of realization because it is precisely from this awareness that one can begin to dig inward in search of the source of their life and its reason. Why do I exist? For what purpose? Who created me? The desert usually pushes a person to such essential, existential questions by its very nature.

I really love being in the desert because everything is revealed there. I have been in different deserts in Turkmenistan, in Arizona, but the Israeli desert gives the strongest impression. It has tremendous power. It is not a large desert by size, but it is incredibly intense.
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From KabTV’s “New Life – 924,” 11/28/2017

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Six days may you work, and perform all your labor, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall perform no labor, neither you, your son, your daughter, your manservant, your maidservant, your ox, your donkey, any of your livestock, nor the stranger who is within your cities, in order that your manservant and your maidservant may rest like you (Torah, Devarim, Chapter 5, 13-14).

Question: Does the Sabbath day apply to non-Jews?

Answer: No, it refers only to Jews, i.e., to those who are approaching correction.

All spiritual laws began with Abraham and his group began to penetrate into the property of upper nature and to tune themselves to exit from the egoistic crisis that engulfed Ancient Babylon.

Therefore, Kabbalah and Judaism—not earthly, but real, spiritual—are built on the fact that we rise above egoism, where our animalistic part is immersed.

To do this, it is necessary to build ourselves above our ego in order to exist at the level of “Love will cover all crimes (egoism).”

As soon as Abraham and his group began to unite and rise above the ego, they began to feel in their unity the properties of the spiritual nature: bestowal, love, interdependence, adhesion, connection, etc. And completely different laws operate in them. The description of these properties is the topic of all Kabbalistic books.

Abraham’s group sought to use this very system of interconnection among themselves, these laws, according to which they began to live.

The relationships that existed on a spiritual level between a man, a woman, children, between friends, the behavior of a person in relation to animals, in relation to plant life on earth, and the earth itself, they began to relate to everything around them. Therefore, all the laws of behavior come from the laws of the higher commutation of people among themselves.

When we begin to live by these laws, we gradually enter into them. There are personal laws according to which an individual fluctuates every second in his various changing properties. And there are laws in which we flow together in our society.

At the same time, we notice that one state is replaced by another, a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth and a seventh. And then the first state repeats again, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh. And then again. But they are completely unrelated to natural cycles and do not relate to the sun, moon, or earth.

These are purely spiritual states that take place only between people. Therefore, at first the people of Israel performed them only between themselves, and then gradually they began to transfer them to phenomena and objects of material life.

In the spiritual world, there are forces that govern the sun, moon, and earth, and form certain relationships between them: the moon revolves around the earth for a month, the earth revolves around the sun for a year, and so on. Gradually, all this began to enter into one unified system for people.

They began to execute the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh day on the earthly level. Hence, there were six days of the spiritual week, which correspond to the properties of Hesed, Gevura, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod, and Yesod. And the seventh day, Saturday, Shabbat, the Sabbath, is a day of rest when they do nothing, because this quality is similar to final correction.

Since they were on the spiritual level, they began to automatically fulfill these laws on the material level. For them, both worlds were one common whole. And when, at the time of the destruction of the Second Temple, the people fell from the spiritual level, only the earthly remained. We are still fulfilling them today, although it has nothing to do with anything spiritual.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/9/16

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Question: A person who feels dissatisfied with their life runs into the desert in search of themselves. After all, the desert is silence, a sense of eternity, something primordial, completely different from the endless cycle of daily life we constantly spin in.

Why is it that people seek inner fulfillment specifically in the desert?

Answer: I would not advise not to get too fixated on the external image of the desert. When the Torah mentions the desert, it refers to an inner state of a person. The inner desert is a search within a dried-out life that bears no fruit.

Egoism has completely drained the person and gives no answer to the question about the meaning and purpose of life. That is why they feel as though they are in an internal desert. This is precisely where one needs to find a well of living water, meaning, the upper light that is revealed specifically in dryness, in the desert.

Question: How does one dig a well in the desert?

Answer: A well emerges through questions. A well is always initially covered with a stone, and then the stone is rolled away, revealing the well. There are always disputes surrounding a well.

Question: What kind of questions are these that bore through the earth?

Answer: A person wants to reach the source of life. One constantly examines oneself and investigates reality. Where can they find the source of their own life? They search precisely in the middle of the dryness of the desert; they do not flee from this question, but dig deeper into their life.

Those people need to find their source and understand why they live, for what purpose, and what is the outcome of this short, painful life. Through this kind of digging, a person ultimately reaches the source.
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From KabTV’s “New Life – 924,” 11/28/2017

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Comment: You say that we have entered a period where the process of correction is already taking place. But to us, it is not noticeable. We do not see anything except that everything is happening more intensively.

My Response: The process of exposing our egoistic nature is indeed happening, and it is becoming clear to everyone. Psychologists, sociologists, and politicians who think about these matters are starting to more or less realize that egoism, which is our very nature, is essentially what is destroying us.

People just think there is no cure for it, and so they throw up their hands and continue living as before: “What can be done? That is just how we are. We will keep devouring each other.”

That is why we need to develop the wisdom of Kabbalah to show people that it is not so. The process has begun, but it must be taken under conscious control and directed toward the goal by ourselves so that nature does not drive us toward happiness “with a stick.” Of course we do not yet see the egoism corrected, but we already see the recognition of egoism as evil. And that is the preliminary stage.

Already several million people around the world are able to hear that the egoism is meant to be corrected so that precisely through it, we ascend to the level of the Creator. If we make an effort to disseminate this knowledge, then by uniting among us, we will break through humanity’s disbelief, emptiness, and laziness, and give people the opportunity to understand that perfection and eternity are attainable, and that we are standing at the threshold of a very serious, elevated process.

We are not beings without a rudder or sails, without a clan or a tribe. We exist within the highest process of nature, within the Creator, who leads us from one end of creation to the other. We are now at a very critical, culminating point from which we can begin to move consciously, revealing worlds before us and feeling ourselves as part of the universe.

I believe that our current state is special. That is what the Kabbalists write. We must try to make these days of humanity more intense, more revealing of the great goal that stands before humanity. It was created by nature, and we will reach it anyway, but now we have the opportunity to consciously and swiftly realize it ourselves.

Question: Do you speak about the correction process not only with regard to the group but to all of humanity?

Answer: To all of humanity. The group is separate. Regarding our international group, which includes hundreds of thousands of people around the world who hear and are already absorbing this, we can say only one thing: this group is already a real spiritual force in the world, not by human standards but by spiritual qualities. If we measure not by numbers but by spiritual qualities, we are the greatest force in the world.

We must respect our community and understand what an opportunity we have to accelerate humanity’s development, to make it pleasant, easy, and inspiring, instead of allowing it to continue in division, anxiety, and fear of world war or ecological disaster.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Greatest Force In The World” 8/16/10

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Question: Is the inner desert a condition inherent to every person, or not everyone?

Answer: There are people in whom the egoistic desire has developed so much that they begin to feel dissatisfied with their lives.

It is like being in a desert. A person wants to know why this is happening. Is there a purpose, a higher program? Why does he feel such dryness, such emptiness in his life, from which no fruits grow?

He tells himself he needs to investigate the desert in him. This means he escapes into the desert, like our forefathers, looks for purpose, and does not find it. He plunges even deeper into inner scrutiny, tries to figure out why he feels such emptiness in life, and is unable to do anything.

This is the state of the desert, where one searches for sources of water, for wells, like Abraham or Isaac once did. There are many stories in the Torah about wells, which are so necessary especially in the desert. After all, if a person feels the dryness of life and has nothing with which to revive his soul, he must find a source of living water, that is, an upper force capable of answering him—what the purpose of his life is, its essence and meaning.

He is looking for the force that created these two states—drought and water, that is, egoism and the desire to love, evil and good. When he finds out that they come from the same source, he wonders how this can be. After all, people believed there were two forces: good and evil. Even Abraham himself once made idols in ancient Babylon, half of which were evil and half were good.

It is by going into the desert and digging wells for water that he finds the middle line. The middle line is the same upper force that brings both drought and water. This is the answer to man’s search: the feeling of drought and desert is given in order to seek and find the upper force that is the source of both phenomena.

Question: How do you find the upper force in the desert?

Answer: It is precisely because a person feels the drought and the absolute emptiness of life that he reveals the upper force.

Question: Why specifically in the desert?

Answer: A person must answer the question of why there is such dryness in his soul. And then he finds a well with living water, which is located precisely in the desert.
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From KabTV’s “New Life – 924,” 11/28/2017

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