YESOD: TIKKUN CHATZOT – LESSON WITH RAV MICHAEL LAITMAN

Lesson 6 “Working in Mutual Responsibility”

SOURCE OF LESSON

Working in Mutual Responsibility-  Selected Excerpts from the Sources

1. Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”, Item 17

If they keep the Arvut to the point that each one cares and satisfies all the needs of his friends, because of it, they can […] bring contentment to their Maker.

2. Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”, Item 17

If a part of the nation does not want to keep the Arvut, but to wallow in self-love, they cause the rest of the nation to remain immersed in their filth and lowliness.

3. Baal Hasulam, “Not The Time For The Livestock To Be Gathered”

One must not exclude oneself from the public and ask for oneself, not even to bring contentment to one’s maker, but only for the entire public […]

One who departs from the public to ask specifically for one’s own soul does not build. On the contrary, he inflicts ruin upon his soul.

4. RABASH, Letter No. 24

You must always stand guard, all day and all night, when you feel a state of day or feel a state of night. […] It follows that you must awaken the heart of the friends until the flame rises.

5. RABASH, Article No. 4 (1984),” They Helped Every One His Friend”

It is one’s friend who can lift his spirit.

This means that one’s friend raises him from his state into a state of liveliness. Then, one begins to reacquire strength and confidence of life and wealth, and he begins as though his goal is now near him.

6. RABASH, Letter No. 40

When one begins to feel the love of his friend, joy and pleasure immediately begin to awaken in him […] because he always knew that he was the only one who cared for his own well being. But the minute he discovers that his friend cares for him, it evokes within him immeasurable joy, and he can no longer care for himself.