Question: The principle that existed in Sodom was: “What is mine is mine, what is yours is yours; I do not help you, and you do not help me.” Is there any logic in this?

Answer: The logic is absolute! It has many adherents. Let’s assume we receive everything from the Creator. If the Creator gave to you, but did not give to me, then even if I die, I must receive from the Creator whatever He chooses to give to me.

Question: The Creator gives wealth to one person, to another He gave poverty, and so it should be? I do not interfere in your poverty, and you do not interfere in my wealth?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: There is logic in this.

Answer: ☺

Question: So where is the flaw?

Answer: The flaw is that people do not accept this in the proper way. That is, they do not accept the absolute rule of the Creator, and it therefore collapses.

We must rise above this strictness of the Creator. It can not only be “what is yours is yours and what is mine is mine.” This is given to us from above, and we must introduce a correction into it so that everything belongs to us.

What the Creator gave us: “what is yours is yours and what is mine is mine” exists at the outset and we retain it internally, yet we cover it from above with love.

Question: Is this what we call “ours”? That is, we build bridges from one to another?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this the main work? And then it endures, it will not be overturned?

Answer: And then we become, as it were, partners with the Creator. He created evil, and we build bridges of love over this evil.

Question: And the evil that He created, is that “what is mine is mine, what is yours is yours”? Is this what you call evil?

Answer: Of course. It is egoism.

Question: How does this differ from the fact that during the revolution they also said: “This is ours.” What was missing there? We say that “what is mine is mine, what is yours is yours” must turn into “ours.”

Answer: There was no such ideal—“ours.” If we must do everything, then everything is in our hands. Then it means there is no Creator; this follows by definition.

I think that nothing good will come out of all these theories. I am sure that the world will still come to the realization that these questions must be solved by the Kabbalistic method. That is, to place the Creator—the single, integral One—at the head of the entire process of the development of humanity and cling to Him, and do everything only for the sake of one single proposition, one phrase: “Brotherhood!”

Question: And will people want to cling to that? Is that what they will not want to lose?

Answer: If they choose to let go of it, they will plunge themselves into such a bitter reckoning that there will soon be no one with whom to clarify.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 3/23/26

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If a person feels that he is falling, empty, exhausted, with no desire at all; this is like a seed that has rotted from which a new tree will grow in the next stage.

Either we acquire new Kelim, and then we feel bad because we reveal desires without covering, without fulfillment; we discover helplessness and empty vessels. This is what we call a descent: the acquisition of vessels. And afterward, when they are filled, we say that it is an ascent.

But in essence, what we need are Kelim (vessels). That is, a person should rejoice more in the fact that he is incapable of doing anything on his own. In this, his nature is revealed to him, his structure, what he is and who he is inside, without the influence of the Creator upon him.

Later, such periods come when a person works within these states of descent and perceives them positively and constructively.

But this comes over a long time, once a person begins to evaluate the feeling of the Hisaron (deficiency), an unfulfilled desire, differently. For example, I love someone, I long for them, and this longing awakens a pleasant glimmer of emotion within me.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/22/26, Rabash, 1989 “What Is the ‘Bread of an Evil-Eyed Man’ in the Work?”

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One can expand their point in the heart only through connection with a friend. I give him the greatness of the goal, he gives me his greatness of the goal, and that is how I become impressed by the whole group. As a result, my point grows and attaches the points in the heart of the friends to itself.

The fact is that my point expands from within. From the outside, I receive an impression from the friends, but it comes from their points, from their internal structure, and both the disturbances from them and the awakening from them come according to their inner structure.

They themselves are not aware of where their inspiration comes from, what organs exist within their soul, and I do not know that either. But by receiving it, I thereby awaken my part.

In other words, each time I must correct a particular desire of mine. Each desire in me can be awakened only with the help of a special disturbance corresponding to it.

I have to receive these disturbances from the outside. And due to the fact that I am in a suitable environment that awakens inspiration in me, I receive precisely the inspiration and disturbances that correspond to my internal organs.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/23/26, Rabash, “The Measure of Practicing Mitzvot [Commandments]”

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Question: For the sake of advancement, should we artificially imagine the suffering of the Creator, that He is so unhappy and suffering, and that through our attitude we supposedly pity and comfort Him?

Answer: This is not our path. We must advance based on the positive, from the greatness of the Creator. If you begin to imagine the suffering of the Creator, the suffering of the Shechina, some kind of wretchedness, then you will evaluate these things in your vessels of reception.

After all, according to the concepts of the vessels of reception, the one who suffers appears to you as unhappy, wretched, pitiable. But if you have vessels of bestowal, then you will see something exalted and great in an unfilled desire. In other words, if I am in vessels of bestowal and want to bestow and regret my inability to do so, this means I am higher.

On the other hand, if I am in a vessel of reception and cannot fill my desires, then I am worse, lower. Therefore, now while in vessels of reception, we are not able to imagine the suffering of the Shechina correctly. It will seem pitiable and wretched to us. We will not relate to the Creator with the proper respect, love, and reverence, which will ultimately draw us to Him. Therefore, all sorts of “games” in this direction are undesirable and harmful.

In various streams of Judaism, such tendencies are observed: as if we must sit, and lament, shed tears, and wail. But the Kabbalists hold a different opinion to such an extent that on the eve of the fast of the 9^th of Av, they would arrange abundant meals that included even meat.

In Poland, for example, it was customary to eat meat during the nine days preceding the fast of the 9^th of Av. And all these customs are directed toward adhesion with perfection, not with deficiency. The deficiency is revealed only to the extent that a person can realize it, and then this unfulfilled desire becomes his vessel.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/24/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘When Israel Are in Exile, the Shechina Is with Them,’ in the Work?”

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