Question: Are we allowed to give away parts of the Land of Israel?

Answer: We must not involve ourselves in politics or anything of the kind, but only in intention! You cannot hold onto the land by force. You can see for yourself that it does not work.

The more a person acts with force, the more he loses; much more than his predecessor. You can see; Golda Meir did not give anything away. Now the generals come and each one concedes more than the one before. Why? The lower he falls, the more he gives.

It is clear to us that we will not be able to hold on to even a millimeter here by force because our world is structured according to the spiritual world. Therefore, we must correspond to the roots. Even those who want to achieve peace or security at any cost are unable to do so.

This is possible only through the forces that govern all of creation. Our world is a consequence. If you bring the forces of the spiritual world into order, this will inevitably bring about a result in our world.

Never through any action in this world that a person wishes to carry out through matter will he succeed in doing something that will truly benefit him. Sooner or later, he will feel it.

No matter how seemingly good a person’s intentions may be, if he uses forces, matter, or laws of the corporeal world alone, he will discover the evil contained within them. This is how nature is built; correction, order, and change must flow from above downward. And above it, we act only through our intention.

No matter how insignificant our attitude toward the world may seem to us (after all, what difference does my attitude make, I cannot measure or truly understand it); nonetheless, it is exactly this that has power! This is what humanity must reveal and arm itself with, intention, the correct attitude. If not, the world will continue to fall apart, faster and faster.
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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 did you say that the realm of intentions at first feels like death and then will feel like life?

Answer: You asked how it is possible to live 24 hours a day with thoughts about the Creator, because it gets boring, you see nothing in it!

I answered that you have no point of support in this: the Creator is not revealed, you do not feel that your relationship with Him is life, you are not filled with it, and you do not constantly live in that dimension where you are always with Him, where you see the corporeal world as something inanimate, absolutely inanimate, as if you are looking at stones.

Right now, the world seems full of life, full of people. Later you will see that they are not really “people,” because they themselves have no free choice. They are the consequences of actions and not their masters.

When you enter the world of intentions (Assiya, Beriya, Yetzira, Atzilut, Adam Kadmon, and Infinity are all intentions!), you begin to feel life—eternal, perfect, full of possibilities for growth, understanding, and realization. All of this is endless, without any boundaries that would not depend on you; everything depends on you! That is life.

But at first, before you enter this, it seems like death to constantly think about the Creator. How can you think of Him, what He wants from you. What He wants from you is still felt as death because you are not yet receiving any fulfillment from it.
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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 connection with a Kabbalist is a union of soul with soul: soul into soul (Ruach beRuach). A new spiritual point emerges in a person through which he connects to his spiritual root. A person knows and feels with whom he is connecting.

When one connects to the soul of RASHBI or Baal HaSulam, they receive strength, illumination from there, and begin to feel an inner connection with the Kabbalist along with the ability to give more, to love more. Yet, from each Kabbalist, one can receive something unique, depending on what that Kabbalist wants to convey to us.

One must ask, constantly ask for exactly what one lacks, and strive for the request to be about the right fulfillment for the realization of the root of the soul. That is all.
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From “Conversations on the Road” 5/30/2025

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #19 “What Is ‘The Creator Hates the Bodies,’ in the Work?” (10.13.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 38, 39 (6.20.2006)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 15 “And Hezekiah Turned His Face to the Wall” (1985)

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “The Letters of Rav Hamnuna Saba”

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Question: If we act correctly, will this lead to a faster revelation of evil? Is this what is the acceleration of development is?

Answer: If we accelerate the work, what does accelerate even mean? At the very least, we should aim to close the gap! If we awaken ourselves and inspire the world to realize that the relationships between people are the most important factor in drawing closer to the upper force, then as a result, we will reveal the good.

Perhaps you are asking about when a person studies Kabbalah, through study, dissemination, and other actions, one begins to reveal the corrections awaiting him, and he goes through stages where he feels bad. He sinks into unpleasant states like depression, descent, and so on. So if the world begins to engage in what we recommend now, would it not have to go through those same descents and painful sensations?

I do not think such a danger exists. The corrections that the world will go through will be on a large scale. In other words, the idea will take hold of a huge number of people, while the opposite idea will continuously weaken because masses of people will fall into despair not knowing how to continue living.

Therefore, those who adhere to the idea of correction will not experience descents, but rather a relatively uplifted state, an ascent. We have descents because we are surrounded by a hostile environment, which is constantly introducing disturbances.
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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 does it mean if I feel bad that something better exists?

Answer: To understand what is good and what is better or worse, you need to analyze whether your suffering is enough for you. Maybe it is worth trying to find some idea or logic within it?

Perhaps there is a certain pattern, and if I discover it, I would live better? After all, what do we ultimately want from life? Just to live better! You are not swimming against the current of life; you are moving with it.

What we are missing in this world is a certain informational element in order to be happy, to know why we live, why we suffer, why we die, why we were born, to know everything about our life! Does it all have a purpose?

In any case, you can’t escape these questions! Isn’t the dissatisfaction and suffering from these questions and the troubles that rain down on us enough to make us seriously search for an answer?! If not, then let’s go on living as before: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

But even that possibility is no longer given to us. The bitterness comes in advance, and I no longer want to “eat and drink” and forget about tomorrow. The joy of today is already taken from me before it even comes.
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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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From the beginning of creation to its end, we must deal solely with the intention against the background of the will to receive, above it. Therefore, when someone says to me, “Let’s change the world! Tell me, what needs to be done?” I answer: There is no need to destroy this world or build it anew. All actions lie in our attitude toward the world, toward reality, toward one another. That is all, nothing else is needed.

That is why our work does not intersect with any other kind of work in the world. You do not interfere with the world behaving as it always has. Let them do as they please; after all, no one is dealing with intention.

But you add only one thing to the world: intention. That is all you seek to bring to humanity, to add to it what it truly lacks. To the extent that you do so, the world begins to change for the better.
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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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It is written, “Do not put an obstacle before a blind person.” How can it be that the people of Israel are required to become a kingdom of priests and a holy nation?

At Mount Sinai, the people are required to be as one person with one heart; otherwise, “this will become your burial place.” The condition at Mount Sinai is a state, it is not our condition. It means we have now come out of Egypt, out of the desire to receive. This escape was accomplished through the first three Sefirot of Hochma (GAR de-Hochma), through the upper force, awakening from above.

Now that we have some idea of what it is, we must assume the next state we must enter, called: “the kingdom of priests” and “the holy nation.”

Coming out of the desire to receive and entering the spiritual world must take place in the vessels of bestowal, without any concern for oneself, for the sake of adhesion with the Creator. A state with no self-concern is achieved through a means called “love your neighbor as yourself,” with the help of a group. And merging with the Creator is achieved through working with Him.

Once a person acquires the vessels of bestowal, one interacts with the Creator. But the intention, from the start, must be in order to merge with the Creator.
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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: It is said that intention can be either for the sake of bestowing or for the sake of receiving. Are there really only two states or are there gradations?

Answer: This is exactly what we are studying: how to move from the intention to receive to the intention to bestow. There are many actions between them.

Question: But the question is, are there multiple intentions between them?

Answer: This is exactly the passage through the states of Ibur, Yenika, Mochin, etc. We are talking about intention, not action.

Even when we talk about a Partzuf being filled, what is it filled with? With what its intention is filled with, the intention becomes manifest. This is not a physical action.

The same with the Zivug DeHakaa: the intention for the sake of bestowing gets filled. What kind of filling is this? The way your intention came to fruition: to what extent you built a certain common part with the Creator. Him for you, and you for Him: you have built the place where you are together. This is called the inner part (Toch) of the Partzuf.

Your attitude toward Him is your head (Rosh); the place you are unable to do this is the lower part (Sof) of the Partzuf; the place you are with Him is your Toch. That is, it is the manifestation of an intention, a kind of conclusion of your intentions: now, inside the Partzuf, you see and know that this was your intention.

So these are all intentions. What actions can be there? Whether you are in this world or you have already died, freed yourself from the animal body and everything that is here, nothing ends, because you remain in intentions!

It is in them that life is, and everything else, this whole world, is a state preceding the acquisition of intention. When you transition to the intention, and start creating your own spiritual Partzuf, you will not need this life anymore.
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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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