Question: How do we connect our hearts?

Answer: Through aspiration. When you feel that you are reaching out to others and you receive some response from them as well: “Oh!” Then you feel that one heart has truly opened, and then another, a common space begins to appear and between them.

Within that common space, love is already felt along with understanding, mutuality, and connection. There is a lack of life force, but not an animalistic one; rather, spiritual life force. I can feel it only if I connect with another person in this way.

Question: So, when a person says, “I have no strength.” Even though he has food and money, he says, “I have no strength, I simply have no strength to live.” Does this mean that he is searching for another heart?

Answer: Yes! Unconsciously, he feels that he has no one to live for. After all, life is built on giving birth, raising children, bestowing to others, and receiving the same from them. This mutual fulfillment of one another—that is life. It is impossible to give to someone without receiving in return. And so it continues.

Question: Are those times approaching?

Answer: I hope so.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/22/26

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A created being is something that exists in the spiritual world, because our corporeal world exists only in our imagination.

The created being is born from the middle line, from the point where two opposite forces are present: reception and bestowal.

It knows how to combine these two forces in such a way as to use the force of reception, which is opposite to the Creator. It was deliberately created this way in order to give the created being independence and the ability to stand freely opposite the Creator. In this way, we can build our own independent identity that incorporates both of these forces together.

At every step, the created being must combine these two forces correctly, and verify the process stage by stage for each new portion of egoistic desire that is revealed within it. Thus, the created being grows itself, builds itself from its own material with the help of the force of bestowal, which it draws from the right line.

In essence, all the work is performed by the force of bestowal, the force of the light, the Creator. But the created being must prepare everything necessary for this. Just as in our world we use all the means available to us on the still, vegetative, animate, and human levels, together with all the powers of our feelings and mind. Yet we still say that we ourselves did the work, because it is we who perform these actions using the materials of this world and our own abilities.

Corporeal and spiritual construction proceeds in the same way: first there is a plan, and then, using the materials available to us, we begin to build different forms. So it is in the spiritual world. Through our desire and understanding, we ourselves build the “forms of the Creator,” our attitude toward Him, which resembles His attitude toward us.

On the one hand, this is our own work, as it is written: “I labored and found.” But on the other hand, it is the Creator’s work, because we learn from Him, from His examples, and ask Him to carry it out. We are true partners with Him, because we ourselves know exactly what we want and must prepare everything necessary!

In other words, we pursue the middle line in our intention, by uniting desire and intention, and by deciding for ourselves how to correctly unite the forces of holiness and impurity, the left and right lines.

We also build the middle line by connecting with the group through the light. We want to become included in the group and find our desire to bestow within it, yet that desire can be created only by the light, by the Creator, who is concealed within it. Thus, we incorporate these two forces: the force of the group and the force of the Creator within ourselves, while we remain in the middle line.

In many other examples as well, we see that we operate in the middle line, because we must combine these two forces—reception and bestowal—in order to acquire freedom of choice and independently build ourselves from them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/28/11, “Preparing for the New Jersey Convention”

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The root of the screen is my attitude toward the Creator; it is what we call the greatness of the goal, the greatness of the Creator. Although it is still for the sake of reception, it constitutes the root of the screen.

When can I say that I have it? When I am in darkness, precisely when the surrounding light does not shine upon me. The surrounding light is not the light that will correct me. It is the light that will later clothe within me as the inner light.

It is specifically during darkness that a person sees that he is in an animalistic state, and the human within him is not being awakened that from above. Everything depends on how he himself is able to make a Human of himself, to awaken a desire toward the Creator within himself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/29/26, Rabash, “One’s Greatness Depends on the Measure of One’s Faith in the Future”

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Our perception of descents and ascents does not align with the true state of affairs but rather with what the will to receive feels. When the light influences me, I experience an ascent, and if it does not, then a descent, and I fall into depression.

That is, I check according to how full or empty my stomach is, or how full my pocket is, based on my vessels (Kelim) of reception. But from a spiritual point of view, this constitutes neither a descent nor an ascent.

How can I truly measure my ascents and descents? Only when the light does not shine upon me. Do I exalt the Creator on my own and not only when I receive from Him? Do I praise Him because He is great in my eyes? I can exalt the Creator by 10%, by 10 or 20 grams, or perhaps I am completely unable to do this. That is the measure.

It is impossible to determine this while receiving pleasure because the light cancels the Kli (vessel). Such measurement is possible only in a state of darkness when I make a restriction on myself and say that what is happening does not matter. The main thing is that I do not want the presence or absence of light to influence me. I want to relate to the Creator as He is, without this having any relation to me.

If I am able to cope with states of darkness, then it can be said that I am, as if, in a state where I maintain the restriction, not wanting the light to shine on me. I do not want to go toward the purpose of creation by means of the fuel that the Creator gives me, since when He gives me light, I go, and when He does not give, I do not go. I want to advance by means of my own light, in a state of darkness, the goal is important to me and this serves as my fuel.

Only I myself can develop the sensation of the importance of the goal within me, and precisely when I am in darkness.

This is what is called faith. And whether I feel good or not depends on whether I can go forward with the light of faith. If the light of faith serves me instead of the illumination coming from above, then I will feel good. And if the light of faith does not serve me, or it is weak, or there is not enough of it, this means that I have not yet reached the above-described state.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/29/26, Rabash, “One’s Greatness Depends on the Measure of One’s Faith in the Future”

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