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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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 146

How Do We Receive Spiritual Fulfillment?

We can enjoy spirituality only in a desire that has an intention to bestow upon it. That is, there needs to be an addition, and this addition, the intention to bestow that comes to the desire, can only be received as a remedy from above, through study, through the surrounding light. This is what Baal HaSulam writes at the end of the “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” that a desire, however great, must have the addition of intention.

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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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Question: Should facts be presented in a way that evoke emotion in the listeners when disseminating Kabbalah?

Answer: The facts you convey should be perceived both emotionally and logically.

Baal HaSulam, in the article “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar,” writes that the teachings of the Ari were aimed at the intellect, the influence of the Baal Shem Tov at the heart, but today both intellect and heart are involved together.

Question: Fifty-fifty?

Answer: Today, the intellect has more influence. We are closer to the Ari than to the Baal Shem Tov.

Therefore, the period of the Baal Shem Tov, the era of Hassidism, has ended, and we now lean more toward the Ari.

We must reach people specifically through rational explanation by presenting Kabbalah as a science that truly explores the structure of the world, its cause, and its purpose.
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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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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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