The purpose of creation is to become like the Creator, which is achievable only by correcting the soul that was intentionally broken during Adam’s sin of the Tree of Knowledge. The parts of the common soul lost their connection with each other and even became contrary to each other.
We need to put them back together into one soul starting from the lightest to the heavier ones, that is, by requiring more and more precise connection.
We always gather ten Sefirot, at first approximately, and then more precisely and carefully, which are called the steps of the spiritual ladder. The same ten Sefirot are connected more closely and precisely until they become the ten original Sefirot of the original HaVaYaH.
The general law of the existence and the conduct of the ten Sefirot is called mutual guarantee, like in an ideal human body, where all cells and systems must be in complete harmony and interconnection. This is possible only if each part knows and understands its connection with all the others.
“Mutual Guarantee” is the law of the existence of an integral system. The connection between all the parts—from step to step along all 125 steps—becomes more complex and internal. But the work begins with our accepting this principle as the only correct one; we recognize that the original HaVaYaH, the soul, is divided into ten parts and we need to start connecting it on the condition that everyone guarantees for everyone.
This is not an egoistic guarantee but a completely different one. Therefore there are many different conditions in it: everyone must humble himself before others, at the same time grow themselves in a certain way, engage in everyone and pray for them, feel responsible for everyone, and see others as a reflection of their properties.
Mutual guarantee is the general law of the entire universe. If it were not for our corrupted, egoistic perception, we would see the system created by the Creator as a limitless, ideal HaVaYaH, all parts of which are connected to each other and working as one whole.
Therefore mutual guarantee is a prerequisite for receiving the Torah and entering the spiritual ladder. If we are ready to fulfill this condition, to accept a mutual guarantee and begin to implement it, to do so we are given the Torah with the light that returns to the source. The light will do everything—all that is required of us is to agree to the condition of mutual guarantee, that is, to include each other, to connect into one system as one man.
The whole Torah is an expression of the condition of mutual guarantee in all possible forms, with all possible conditions and requirements, ever more sublime and precise from step to step.
Therefore everything we have learned about mutual guarantee and have achieved at the previous stage disappears at the next one. We fall and lose the unity and guarantee we have achieved, as if starting all over again. After all, all the conditions and laws that were fulfilled at the previous stage and were obvious, now, with a higher and more precise resolution, appear in a completely new way and seem unknown.
We have to study everything all over again, as if there were no mutual guarantee between us. Indeed there was none, because every time it is a new step. The sign of advancement is that all past success is erased, and the work begins anew.
This is the difficulty of our work, which is, in this sense, the opposite of the material one. We are not used to such conditions, and therefore they confuse and weaken us a lot. We want to see material evidence of our spiritual advancement, but this does not happen.
Our job is to constantly renew our mutual guarantee in any state, and see in it all the laws of the Torah and the laws of spiritual reality. From it we will understand the rule of loving one’s neighbor as oneself and all the laws of unification. After all, the mutual guarantee condition is the basis of everything.
Loving one’s neighbor as oneself is a consequence of the highest and most complete guarantee. To this, more specific laws of connection are added between all parts of the broken soul, which need to be collected more and more.
After we manage to collect them at the first degree and make sure it works, the mutual guarantee disappears, and we begin to achieve it again at a higher level, which is now required of us as if we had done nothing.
This is similar to how development at the inanimate level suddenly turns into a vegetative one. The vegetative level is, as it were, a consequence of inanimate development, but at the same time, has no connection with it. Later there is a leap from the plant level to the animal level, which starts from scratch again. After all, this is a new life, a new form of existence. Spiritual development occurs in the same way.
Mutual guarantee is our goal and our work. All the laws we must implement are based on this one principle of mutual guarantee.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/24/18, Preparation for the Convention “All As One” in New Jersey “Signing The Arvut In The Ten”
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