Question: How can one learn to accept all the twists of fate? It says here: “Accept all the turns of fate. It is a playful picture” and so on and so forth. How can one learn that? Nowadays fate takes sharp turns.

Answer: You need to perceive all of this with a certain excitement, as a game. When your opponent makes a move on the chessboard or plays a new card on the table, you begin to see your next move. You should rejoice that you are in connection with such a “player.” And you wish, through this connection with him, to reveal the Creator.

Question: So then, each of my responding moves, that is the adventure? My inner one. And all my thoughts are “how and what?”

Answer: Yes.

Question: And then you said the phrase: “You find yourself in connection with the Creator.” Even if that thought does not actually exist within me, it is precisely that which leads to such a journey through life?

Answer: Yes, that is what you wish to attain.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/7/25

It is impossible to directly measure our attitude toward one another or our attitude toward the Creator, it can be only relative to an outside standard that is not in Him, not in us, but in between. In this standard, which stands between us, we can find what connects us and what separates us.

This standard is the group. If I attach myself to the friends in the group, then to that same extent I discover myself in adhesion with the Creator. The group gives me the ability to measure concrete parameters, the “height” and “weight” of my love and hatred, through which I attain adhesion with the Creator.

According to the measure of my adhesion with the ten, I can determine the measure of my filling with the light. After all, I have no possibility whatsoever to measure the light itself, it is only indirectly, through the group. Through the shared desires in the group, I begin to feel the light that fills it.

I can only feel pleasure in my own desires, and this is not enough. I need to check how, through the pleasure in these desires, I connect with the one who fills them, and whom I, in turn, fill. Therefore, there is the condition that “From the love of the created beings one comes to the love of the Creator.”

We cannot judge the light itself, but only the desires that are filled by it, just as one does not speak of electricity itself, but only of electrical phenomena. It is telling that electricity does not pass inside the wire, but around it.

Therefore, the group is the perfect standard for my adhesion with the Creator, like a tuning fork by which one evaluates the sound of a string on a musical instrument. Until I touch the string and it begins to sound, nothing can be said about it. Only by the desires (Kelim) can one judge the light.

A similar example are musical notes by which one evaluates a melody. The notes indicate which strings must be plucked or which keys must be pressed. They are the score of desires with which we work in order to hear the sounds of the music within ourselves. A note does not indicate the sound itself, but the instrument that produces it. Therefore, by attaining the instruments of connection with the group, we attain adhesion with the Creator.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/18

Question: You have said more than once that a person is given only what they can endure. What do you mean by this? We see that people are given things they cannot endure. Or can they still endure it?

Answer: They can. What is it that people cannot endure? It only seems to us that they cannot withstand something or cannot survive it. No, a person survives everything, bears everything, and can work on themselves to such an extent that no other creature could withstand such things.

Question: What does to endure mean? Does it mean to agree with this blow? What does it mean to come out of it?

Answer: Even to agree, even to understand, to realize, and to go through it is called coming out of a descent.

Question: What should a person’s guiding principle in life based on this be?

Answer: The principle of life must be very simple: instead of feeling myself, I must feel others; I must live not within myself, but within others. That is it. Essentially, this leads to the correct result.

Question: So, are you saying that if I close within myself, then a descent is inevitable? But if I am always open toward others and live for them, then I quickly come out of these states.

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why are descents given?

Answer: A descent is given in order to empty a person from the past, so that they will be ready to be filled with the future. Each descent and each ascent is an inner renewal of a person.

Question: Until when can a person be renewed? What peak must they reach?

Answer: It is until one completely renews oneself. This is a state where one returns to the root of one’s soul. And from that point on, one no longer needs to change internally, as it were.

Question: Do they return to their permanent place?

Answer: They return to their place, to their original point in the soul of Adam.

Question: “The soul of Adam,” do you mean that it is one single soul?

Answer: Yes, a person returns to their point in this soul. Every human being must go through this path of ascents and descents in order to return to that point. We cannot escape it.

Question: Do we know this point in advance? Do we know where we are heading?

Answer: We cannot know it because we cannot yet feel it.

Question: At what moment do I begin to feel it?

Answer: To the extent that you truly draw closer to it.

Question: Why is it given to us not to feel it?

Answer: Because we do not yet have the qualities of bestowal, love, and connection with others, with other souls, and so on.

Question: Am I moving toward that very connection that will unite us into a single whole? Is that where I’m going?

Answer: Yes, therefore, the commandment, the main condition, is: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/11/25

The left line signifies going with knowledge and seeing the world uncorrected. That is, I see that the world suffers from a multitude of problems, my friends are full of shortcomings, and the Creator is no better. I criticize everything because my desire to enjoy has grown and has become revealed, and I speak out of it. This is called the left line.

But this is a line and not a simple dissatisfaction with material life, I am criticizing spiritual work, the group, our progress, and the perfection of our work. The left line pushes me away from spiritual work, but does not completely throw me into material things. Otherwise, it will no longer be the left line but plain egoism.

The left line in my work indicates that I want to move toward connection with the group and the Creator, but I am unable to do so. I can weigh and count exactly what I cannot accomplish and why. This is called the left line.

The greater the frequency with which we reach the middle line from any state, the greater the progress and acceleration in our work. From these points, we build a middle line that gains such force that the Creator is revealed inside it.

The middle line does not exist in nature; we build it, and therefore it is said: “You created Me.”

If we do not help ourselves, no one will. After all, we are already in the ten, and in it, everyone is responsible for all. The Creator brings me to the right place and says: “Take it for yourself.” And if I do not take it, then I do not; that is my free choice. The Creator will not do anything else. Later He will help me through suffering, but who knows when that will be?
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 9/6/2020, Work with Faith above Reason