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The greater our will to receive grows, the stronger Arvut (mutual guarantee) must become. We can see this reflected in the course of history.
Upon the exodus from Egypt, when we absorbed an added degree of Aviut, we had to accept the first level of Arvut, known as the “standing at the foot of Mount Sinai as one man with one heart.” It was through this unity that we merited the Torah.
Later it was necessary to expand the collective participation and mutual guarantee, which expressed itself in the journey through the desert, in the division of the people into tribes, and in their respective roles as Cohens, Levites, and Israelites.
When one studies the method, it becomes clear that all of this is essentially a continuous process of correcting the same principle called Arvut, the connection into a single Kli in a corrected form where each connects with the others according to the root of their soul.
When the people reached the stage of building the Temple, they were already required to realize their connection within a country.
That is, although the internal conditions of each individual and of the people as a whole changed, the desire to receive burned ever more fiercely and kept growing, affecting also the external conditions (the people entered the Land of Israel, fought other nations, and settled in the land). Arvut had to continuously take on new forms. Yet the core idea remained unchanged: to be guarantors for one another.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/4/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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How can one constantly maintain a state of unity with the teacher, the friends, and the Creator? Try to find that inner point within yourself that is awakening right now and illuminating the path that is leading you to the Creator; grasp it and never let it go.
It is from these points of unity that the path is built. It is a path on which we grow stronger and draw ever closer to the Creator. Each person connects to Him in a unique way, in a form that exists only between that individual and the Creator. One must constantly ask for this unity.
The next point of connection along the path depends on how ready my heart is for it, that is, how corrected it is through my attitude toward all the previous points I have already passed.
My yearning for the Creator is the force that brings me back to unity after every fall. And if I am not in unity, then I must remain in constant prayer.
The heart’s readiness to unite with the upper one requires its expansion, and the heart expands through my desire to unite with the friends in the group or the ten.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/5/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Things that Come from the Heart”
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Among these there was no man who had been [included] in the census of Moses and Aaron when they counted the children of Israel in the Sinai desert.
For the Lord had said to them, “They shall surely die in the desert,” and no one was left of them but Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun (Moses, Torah, Bamidbar, Numbers, Pinchas).
You cannot move to the next degree unless the previous generation, the generation of the desert, dies out. Perhaps a different transformation was originally intended, and then a different decision was made because it was impossible to make this transformation smoothly in order to add the next state of the “generation of the desert” to the previous state of “exodus from Egypt,” and later the state of “generation that entered the land of Israel.”
These three degrees are very different from each other. In general, all the assumptions in the Torah, “what if it were so or not so,” imply that this cannot be by definition. And it is revealed to us why this cannot be because the desire that came out of Egypt cannot go through all the corrections and enter the land of Israel.
In other words, the stage of “forty years of correction in the desert”, i.e., ascent to Bina, is an absolute renunciation of one’s past state. So naturally it must die.
Anyway, the generation of the desert does not fully correct itself; such faulty states remain there that will later lead to the fall in the land of Israel. Therefore it should die out in forty years.
That is, as Malchut rises into Bina, includes as much as it can in it. But once included, it is no longer the same Malchut, the same property or desires; they are already adapted for bestowal.
Question: What should die in forty years in the desert?
Answer: The desire to think of oneself must completely die out in a person and a passion for the quality of bestowal must arise, directed from oneself toward others. In love, from oneself, in filling others, from oneself. One should have such an aspiration, which is based on great respect for the quality of love and bestowal, and leave everything that is in a person in the background since all else pulls him forward toward the others.
The property of bestowal arises in people under the influence of surrounding light (Ohr Makif), which gradually purifies and corrects them. This light is called the light of the Torah.
All of one’s past thoughts “about himself, for himself, with himself” gradually die out. Moreover, not only the “I” associated with receiving for myself is dying out, but also the “I” involved in giving. That is, the fact that I give to someone, love someone, or strive to do something for people, this “I,” even in striving out of myself, should not be there either.
It is very difficult to explain because such a possibility, such a state, in us is formed by the upper light.
Question: Does no one know that I give?
Answer: Even I do not know it myself. That is most important.
This should happen in the desert. But this does not mean a material desert, in which, by the way, people live perfectly all their lives, because there is water and everything else there.
The desert is a state where, when I strive for the quality of bestowal and love, I discover that I have nothing with which to fill these properties, aspirations, and urges. I want to come to someone, give something, pour everything out from myself, but in fact I have nothing to give, nothing to pour out, no one to come to. I have no strength, no reason for the quality of giving, no opportunity for this.
This is shown to me precisely so that I can reach the pure quality of bestowal, which has absolutely nothing to do with me. And when it is connected to me in any way, it is for my own sake.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/16/15
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Question: Do all the inner qualities of a person become stronger when one studies Kabbalah?
Answer: Naturally. At first a person becomes a huge egoist, even more so than others, because they reveal their true ego, not the small, animalistic egoism that everyone has.
If you ask someone on the street whether they are an egoist, they will say: “No, I am a normal person. Of course I care primarily about my family, children, and loved ones, then about my city, my country, and beyond that about all of humanity. Naturally, there are different circles of concern, but I am not an egoist. I want everyone to be well because I am sure that if everyone is well, then I will be well too.”
In other words, people justify themselves. And only those who study Kabbalah begin to see that, in reality, they hate everyone and are only looking for ways to use them.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Even More Egoistic” 8/28/10
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee),” Items 27-28 (11.16-17.2003)
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Now, after all the corrections and all the damage that souls have undergone in their descent to the lowest degree, we must fulfill the law of mutual responsibility (Arvut). Through this, we will merit receiving the Torah, correction, and final correction.
Indeed, the greatest degree of Aviut (coarseness) is revealed in us now, and if in this state we implement this law, we will complete the entire work that souls were meant to carry out while clothed in bodies.
It turns out that mutual responsibility is the only correction we must implement. It includes all other conditions we are required to fulfill and all the qualities we must acquire in order to become a single vessel for containing the upper light.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/4/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”
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One should not fall into despair on the path. Yet, on the other hand, despair is precisely the state that brings a person to the right decision.
That is why despair is one of the most beneficial states on the spiritual path. A person despairs, makes a decision, and moves forward.
The moment of despair is the point of contact with the upper force.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/5/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Things that Come from the Heart”
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And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out from there with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm; therefore, the Lord, your God, commanded you to observe the Sabbath day (Torah, Deuteronomy 5:15).
Every chapter of the Torah describes the gradual ascent of a person through the degrees of the spiritual worlds toward the level called “the land of Israel.” Although the laws of the Torah may seem to repeat themselves, each time they speak of new spiritual levels and are therefore perceived entirely differently.
All spiritual work is considered in relation to the exile that the people of Israel experienced for the first time when they rose from an unconscious state into awareness of where they truly are in relation to the Creator, that is, in relation to the desire directed toward connection with Him, toward His revelation.
This state is called Eretz Israel—the “land of Israel.” “Eretz” means desire (Ratzon), and “Israel” means Yashar-Kel—straight to the Creator. It is the desire aimed at revealing the Creator, at a living connection with Him, in which one can feel Him directly, just as we now feel each other.
In fact, this feeling is far more vivid and intense. It arises precisely from the feeling opposite to it: from total detachment, incomprehension, ignorance, and lack of desire for spirituality. This state, known as the “darkness of Egypt” or “Egyptian exile,” is not typical for an ordinary person in our world because the average person does not feel they are far from something or that there is something they need to reveal.
Egypt is a state where the Creator does shine, but He shines with inverse light. Instead of evoking understanding, enlightenment, attainment, love, and warmth, He impacts us from His reverse side by bringing about darkness, confusion, rejection, and a sense of worthlessness.
Thus, darkness is also a form of influence of the Creator from above, and in order to feel and understand that you are opposite to the Creator, a great deal of inner work is required.
For example, my mother was a gynecologist and for many years conducted scientific research in the field of medicine. In the evenings she would share her states with my father, and she burned with that darkness, with the lack of understanding, with the desire to find the meaning, the method, the mechanism, behind certain transformations in the human body. I was 12 or 13 at the time, but even then, I could see how someone can be consumed by such a search.
That is why, to truly feel the darkness, one must work deeply and persistently. People like that are characterized by an inner emptiness that is formed by the light that shines upon them from afar but does not yet fill them. It just prepares the vessel in which it will later be revealed. And so, they search.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/16/16
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