Entries in the 'Mutual Guarantee' Category

When Crossing the Boundary Between Life and Death

276.03Question: Birds have a very clear goal: to fly south, to arrive into warm lands where it will be comfortable, warm, and plentiful. And when you observe the laws of a flock of geese, you see that their task is not just to fly, but to fly and not lose a single friend. That is how nature works. These are pure laws of nature. And the flock instinctively follows them.

The laws for geese are as that the shape of the flock should be like a wedge. Ornithologists who study bird flight say that this allows almost doubling their flight range.

What does it mean for a person to align themselves correctly in pursuit of a goal? What is this wedge?

Answer: Geese understand that if they arrange themselves like this, they will save energy and not deviate from their path. These two parameters determine their structure.

Question: And for a person? How should they structure themselves like this wedge to reach their goal?

Answer: If people were defined by such parameters, then we would also, as Napoleon said: “Wise men in the center, and the whole army around them.”

Question: So, is this essentially moving like a wedge?

Answer: Yes. It is some serious organization that plans its future. That is, the brain should be at the center.

Question: Moving on to the second law. The wing beats of each goose create an updraft of air, which supports the birds flying behind.

So people move toward a goal. Let’s say people understand that they need to move together. What are these wing beats?

Answer: It is the movement that birds make for themselves and for others.

Question: And what are the wing beats for people?

Answer: For people, it can be when they define a higher goal for themselves and understand how to achieve it.

Question: It is said here that this updraft of air from the beating of the wings supports the birds flying behind. How does this manifest in people, how do they support it? What do they support?

Answer: Just like in battle those who lead the way set an example for those following them. So beating wings are the example that you show.

Question: Moving on. When a bird breaks formation, it starts to experience sharp air resistance, which quickly forces it back into formation and allows it to continue flying with less effort.

Suppose people set high goals and falter, deviate, or drop out. How can you make sure that they have the thought in their minds and hearts that a loner won’t break through? What should be present in the group for this?

Answer: They all must be obsessed with the same goal together. And then some will move forward and stick together, while others will cling to them, and in this way, they will all reach the goal together.

Question: Do those who cling to them understand that they are weaker, so they hold onto their friends, and they will have the thought, “I won’t break through alone”?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Is this if the importance of the goal is constantly emphasized?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Moving on. When the leader gets tired, it flies to the rear of the flock, and another bird takes its place.

In life, leaders, politicians, and those leading people and states don’t feel the responsibility.

They only step down during elections. There is no such thing as feeling tired and giving way to someone else. What must a leader have in order to have this thought?

Answer: The importance of the goal of the entire flock.

Comment: The importance of the goal, it is the most important; it is the foundation.

My Response: Yes. A leader must understand that they are responsible for ensuring that the flock continues the journey and reaches the goal.

Comment: Even if he’s not there…

My Response: It doesn’t matter.

Comment: So his thoughts are all about the flock, not about himself.

My Response: Yes.

Comment: That is the most important thing! In Israel, there was such an example. Begin left like that on his own. Suddenly, he stood up in the middle of a meeting and said, “I’m tired.”

My Response: Yes. It was a great decision.

Question: And then he remained quiet for ten years, he hardly gave any interviews. That is how he left.
Also geese in a flock encourage those flying ahead with their cries to increase the flying speed.
What does it mean to inspire others? What do the “cries” of friends mean?

Answer: So that everyone feels, especially those lagging behind, that we are flying, thinking about them. And they must show their zeal to be behind us.

Question: So each one thinking about the others is what the cries are?

Answer: They all have the same thought collectively, and they feel it. It is like they have a a kind of transmitter, a receiver, I don’t know how to call it, but it’s pounding inside them, like one, common heart.

Comment: We are talking about friends, about the group.

My Response: Like with geese, geese feel each other, feel the common heartbeat, the common thoughts. And in general, they feel each other. That is how it should be among friends. In other words, thoughts replace any cries. Thoughts are movement, support.

Question: There is another very interesting law when one goose in the flock loses strength and falls down, two birds follow it. They try to help the one in trouble and protect it. The escorts stay with the friends until they either perish or regain strength to continue flying. After that, the geese join another flock and continue flying.

Now the central question, what is mutual guarantee?

Answer: Mutual guarantee is when I commit to, as much as I can, to follow the flock, and the flock commits to support me as much as it can.

Question: Is that similar in a group of friends moving toward a goal?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Question: With birds, it’s clear, it’s instinctive. It’s nature saying, “I have this law, and you must follow it.” And birds follow it. Humans don’t have such an instinct. Does mutual guarantee need to be cultivated? How is it cultivated?

Answer: Partly, it is done in organized societies, like the army, for example, or a group of travelers, pioneers, and so on. But in general, it is a problem; it needs to be taught. Humans do not understand this.

Question: So it doesn’t come naturally; it takes effort?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But can we consider it one of the most important rules? There is a goal and there is mutual guarantee. Can these two points be placed at the forefront?

Answer: Yes. Only if they support each other, will their bearer reach the goal.

Question: Why can’t we learn, for example, from nature? We understand that it’s instinctive, but at the same time we can understand that nature requires this from us.

Answer: We are created precisely contrary to this principle. Therefore, only if we all together accept commitments can we then bow before these two principles. But I don’t see how this can be done under normal circumstances without the threat of survival and without upbringing.

Comment: So this alliance that we form simply cannot be made. You know, how they did it, they sealed all alliances with blood.

My Response: No, it requires spirit.

Question: At what point will I be able to form an alliance?

Answer: When people cross the threshold between life and death, then they can sign their spirit for going together with the group. I’m crossing the threshold between life and death.

Comment: Life, death, it all merges.

My Response: Nothing matters except maintaining the connection.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/4/23

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Revision of Mutual Guarantee

528.01Question: Should I be responsible for a friend in the ten who is not yet ready for mutual guarantee?

Answer: No. In the ten, we reach mutual guarantee only with those who in turn can be in mutual guarantee. Therefore, it is called Arvut Hadadit, mutual guarantee.

Question: Let us say I guarantee for a friend, but the Creator shows me that he devalues it.

Answer: It means that your guarantee is worthless.

Question: Should we conduct a periodic revision of the mutual guarantee and verify what exactly we are responsible for?

Answer: Every time, in the morning, afternoon, and evening, you should check your state of aiming toward the fulfillment of the mutual guarantee; start and end a day with this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/2/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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The Mechanism of Mutual Guarantee

530Question: Is one person capable of launching the mechanism of mutual guarantee in the ten with his internal efforts, his pressure?

Answer: Never. Mutual guarantee is when each friend makes sure that there is always a connection system (Arvut) in the group. That is why there is a ten. It is so that we help each other, as it is said: “They helped every one his friend.”

It is the general pressure that can cause the overall strength of the mutual guarantee.

Question: When we start working in mutual guarantee, one friend looks at the others and it seems to him that he is ready while others are not. Is it possible at this moment to make a more active ascent so that everyone enters it? Is there any intermediate stage before mutual guarantee?

Answer: No. It is only necessary to strive for mutual help, for inner connection, and then the Creator will create these conditions and the final state for us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/3/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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“If the Creator Does Not Build a House…”

507.04Question: I can demand mutual guarantee from myself, but how can I bring all my friends to it?

Answer: By being an example.

Question: If I honestly conduct an internal analysis, I find within myself the area of distancing from some people in the ten. Outwardly, this is not manifested in any way, but do I need to work and dig inside myself in order to reveal this?

Answer: It is said about this: “if the Creator does not build a house,” that is, a Kli, none of our attempts will help. Ask the Creator. Only this will help.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/02/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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The Beginning of Spiritual Work

528.01Question: If there are friends in the ten who are not ready to be in mutual guarantee, then is there perhaps the need to divide the ten?

Answer: This is an extreme case. What can you expect from a person who is just beginning to study? Like at school, in the first years the child does not understand where he is at all.

A person repeats, learns, and connects with friends, but only when he really begins to enter into the system of mutual guarantee, is it considered the beginning of his spiritual work. There is no need to count either by years or by some degrees, you just need to continue.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/3/23, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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What should We Correct?

243.07When each one pleases his friend, there is no disparity of desire among them, and all are incorporated in one desire, by which they are incorporated in the upper desire (Likutei Halachot [Assorted Rules]).

This is done gradually, simultaneously, since to the extent that we come closer to each other, we fulfill the law of mutual guarantee.

By correcting ourselves, we correct all of nature. We begin to see from the inside how nature is transformed in accordance to this. We do not need to correct anything else except for the mutual connection between us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 10/03/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Understand the Creator

528.03Question: If we unite minimally and build this state, will we be given even greater trials until the final correction?

Answer: Yes, naturally. Our egoism will grow; we will be given stricter circumstances to rise above them in mutual guarantee.

Question: Are completely corrected people absent from this reality; do they drop out of it?

Answer: No, they are just above it.

Question: How do we increase our sensitivity?

Answer: If we study, read, and discuss together, we have the opportunity to understand the Creator more out of understanding each other.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/9/23, “Growing Stronger in There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Friendly Relations

938.07Question: What relationship should there be between friends in a Kabbalistic group?

Answer: Relationships between friends in a group are very complicated. Everyone should give others full confidence that he or she loves them, cares about them, and that a friend in his arms is like a baby in its mother’s arms.

By giving such a feeling, it is as if I impose the feeling of the upper state on him, when he can think about others and not about himself. You disarm him, neutralize his ego, and he will inevitably think about others. He will not be able to think about himself because you have neutralized him. You gave him the feeling that you would provide him with everything he would ever need. Then he can go to the spiritual world.

Can you imagine how dependent we are on each other? This is a mutual guarantee. It is not that I think about it, feel it, and measure it, but my friends, with their thoughts and concerns about me, put me in such a state.

I cannot do anything, I involuntarily move into bestowing and into exiting myself because I have nothing to do inside myself. Just nothing! They took it all away from me and it is as if I said: “Do not worry about yourself; this is all on us.” Then I have no choice, I start thinking externally: How can I through them do the same with the Creator?
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Mutual Guarantee Is a Lifeline

943All the forces of connection that existed in Adam HaRishon before the shattering should be revealed in our time in a negative form, in the form of separation, confrontation, hatred, and rejection. And we must gradually fix it all.

People who have a tendency to correct the world come to study the science of Kabbalah because a “point in the heart” awakens in them, a spark of unity. Thus they begin to learn how to fix the shattering.

This is a long and difficult job although we are already in its final stages. We will see how the aspiration for correction and connection will begin to unfold day by day and it will become clear to everyone in the world that it is urgently needed.

This realization will come at the expense of wars and all kinds of problems, the global crisis, which is now approaching in all forms. And all this is so that we understand that connection between us is a panacea for all problems.

We are in a closed circular system where everyone is connected to everyone. Therefore through our good and bad actions, corrections or damage, we cause changes in the entire system relative to each of its elements.

Therefore I must see salvation in the guarantee—personal, general, global, and in all spheres, in the economy, in health care, balance in nature, ecology—salvation through the guarantee in absolutely everything. Do not wait for more severe blows; those that exist today are enough to see that a tsunami is moving toward us which can wash us all off the face of the earth.

By the force of our connection we can stop this tsunami wave and prevent it from approaching. Only our unity can serve as a shield against all these storm waves that threaten to hit us. Nature—meaning, the upper force, the Creator—is already preparing all kinds of arguments for us to prove that it is worth bending down and accepting the force of the upper governance.

And in fact it is not that hard to accomplish. After all, the forces of connection and integral nature are the most powerful and common forces that can really save us from all problems. We just have to try to perceive nature as one force, as the only thing that works.

We see that in this world everything depends on a person. And in the spiritual worlds, everything depends on a spiritual person, which means on the ten, on a group of Kabbalists who are imbued with world problems, who absorb all the inhabitants of this world, and become that maternal womb from which they will be born already at a new spiritual degree and from which a new corrected world will be born.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/11/22, “Arvut on the Way to Lishma

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The Key for Correcting the World

935Life in the corporeal world constantly gives us difficult problems, pushes us away from spirituality, and undermines the importance of connection with the friends. But someday we will reveal how much all this shattering contributes to correction.

All the states that we reveal are given to us only for the sake of those actions that we need to arrange, combine, and correct. By doing this, we eventually establish ourselves in the very center of creation as a force that raises prayer and leads to correction.

The higher the Kli was before the shattering, the lower it fell after it. Therefore when we correct the Kelim, we start with the lightest and end with the heaviest ones, and we return the entire creation to move in the opposite direction. What fell down, rises up. By correcting ourselves in this way, we correct the entire creation.

It turns out that we humans include within ourselves all inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature that exist in creation, and also all people. If we, the greatest egoists, correct ourselves, then through this all the rest of the people will be corrected.

People who have received the yearning to correct egoistic desire are responsible for correcting the entire world. After all, if we correct ourselves, then this desire for correction will be transmitted to everyone else. We have the key to correcting the world.

By establishing the mutual guarantee between us, we will contribute to establishing world peace. After all, our desire to connect together in our state, at our degree of the last generation, affects all of reality, the whole of humanity, the entire universe, and all galaxies. This brings the forces of nature into balance at all degrees and levels, and of course, we should see the consequences of this balance of nature.

If we connect at our own degree, it means that all the degrees below us will also connect through the same forces and the same relationships as we do.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/11/22, “Arvut on the Way to Lishma

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