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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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 145

What Is the “Taste of Dust” in the Work?

We feel the taste of dust every time we are in the left line, which is opposite the right line. For example, we get up in the morning and immediately feel that we want money. But we need to get up and study, and we sense this as a taste of dust. It might be that this same desire for money expresses itself in wanting to run and earn a lot of money to attain luxuries and pleasures, and instead, we need to sit and study.

The meaning of “taste of dust” is that we do not see or feel any possibility of enjoying through the desire we had yesterday or through the desire that occasionally awakens in us. We do not feel that opposite this desire there is something illuminating, tempting us, that could delight us.

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #15 “What Is Other Gods in th Work” (8.10.21)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 25, 26 (6.1.2006)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Winning the War”

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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: 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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Comment: The mysterious Japanese soul is very different from the European one. Their sages are very different from European ones and so is their wisdom. If possible, please comment on some sayings of Japanese sages.

“It is better to be the enemy of a good person than a friend of a bad one.”

My Response: That is true; it is more beneficial for you. You can learn a lot from a good person. But being a friend of a bad one is certainly the worst.

Comment: “Whoever strongly wants to rise upward invents a ladder.”

My Response: Yes. He will find a way to rise.

Comment: “Husband and wife should be like the hand and the eyes: when the hand hurts, the eyes cry, and when the eyes cry, the hands wipe the tears.”

My Response: Beautiful!

Question: “The sun does not know the righteous. The sun does not know the unrighteous. The sun shines not with the goal of warming anyone.” Is that so?

Answer: It all depends on how you look at it. It is all relative to a person—with a goal or without a goal.

Question: But if we speak of the warmth of the Creator emanating from Him, is there really no purpose?

Answer: It is all absolutely thought out and foreseen in advance. Based on the final goal, the final state, all the intermediate states come to us and move us toward that goal.

Comment: “Even if a sword is needed only once in a lifetime, you must carry it always.”

My Response: Yes, that is true. Precisely because you always carry it, you will be ready to use it that one time in life.

Comment: “Grief, like a torn garment, should be left at home.” But a person cannot help but show grief.

My Response: It is a cultural attitude toward the world, toward life, meaning nothing will shake me.

Comment: “When there is love, smallpox scars are as beautiful as dimples on the cheeks.”

My Response: Yes, love smoothes out absolutely everything. “Love covers all transgressions.”

Comment: “No one stumbles while lying in bed.”

My Response: Best of all is to lie down.

Comment: “Yield the road to fools and madmen.”

My Response: Yes, that is true. Because others may understand you, but these ones will not.

Comment: “When parents work and children enjoy life, the grandchildren will beg for alms.”

My Response: That is true. Children must not be given anything for free. You have to push them with all your strength toward acquiring a profession and mastering life, so that while you still exist, they are already building themselves. That is what love for children means.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/24/25

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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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