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On Whose Side Is the Spiritual Advantage?

937Question: What is the difference, from an internal point of view, between the people of Israel and the Land of Israel? What do these definitions mean?

Answer: There is no difference! The people of Israel and the Land of Israel are both attributes of Binah. Both are necessary. We currently lack the attribute of Binah in the Land of Israel because there is no sanctity of the land, and there is no holiness of the land because the people of Israel do not dwell in holiness.

We must reach the correction of GE, that is, zero Aviut, the first and second degrees,as it were, Binah, and that will mean that internally we have entered the Land of Israel. Then we will also enter the Land of Israel externally because externally we will have the strength to be here and no foreign force will be able to invade us.

How did Moses defeat many nations? How did the Romans or Greeks defeat us when they came here? Every war boils down to one question: on whose side is the spiritual advantage—ours or theirs?

If we want to remain here, as Baal HaSulam writes in the article “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” then we have no choice, in our life here today, in the Land of Israel, we must attain the attribute of “the Land of Israel.” Without this, we have no right to be here! That is why Baal HaSulam writes that if we fail to achieve this, only a handful of people may be left of us. The rest will be overtaken by the Arabs, and we will not be able to live here.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam, The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

Who Manifests the Answers Within Us?

528.04Question: How does the connection of disturbances occur?

Answer: Disturbances are carried out under the influence of the Creator. He deliberately evokes them within us because they compel us to connect with one another and to clarify why we have such qualities, where they come from, what the purpose of creation is, and how we can draw our friends into the ten.

This is the Creator’s work and our response to these questions. He manifests them within us.
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From the 1st part from the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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A Prayer at the Grave of a Righteous Person

935Question: Could you explain how the place where we raise a prayer is connected to the strength of that prayer? Yesterday, a part of our group went to Radun, and we prayed at the grave of a righteous person. Everyone felt the power of that prayer.

Answer: That is exactly how it should be. First of all, it is a special place. And second, it is because you genuinely wanted it. At that moment, you felt that your desires were aligning. They did not contradict each other, but rather complemented one another.

If you continue to act this way with regard to all your desires, then you will form such a unified desire that it will surely have an impact on the Creator.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/2025, “Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer”

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A Simple Axiom

88Question: Is our only choice intention?

Answer: Of course, an intention is called action.

Question: The intention can be either for the sake of receiving or for the sake of giving. But when it is for the sake of receiving, you receive blows. So how can we choose a direction?

Answer: Our choice is not to go in the right direction, but to strengthen ourselves and go in the right direction not with the help of blows, but due to importance.

Sooner or later, you will go in that direction. You are making progress today too, but each time it is because of blows. There is another possibility, to advance with the help of increasing importance.

What is the purpose of creation? To delight the creations. What should the creation do? Achieve the purpose of creation. That is, for the Creator, the goal is to please His creations, and you must come to the same point. When will you get to this point? When your attitude is the same: “to delight His creations.” It is very simple!
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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When Life Gains Meaning

198Question: Can you tell us what the meaning of life is?

Answer: The meaning of life is to change one’s nature from receiving to bestowing, from hatred to love, from rejection to rapprochement with others. And then, through these qualities, you will feel a completely different kind of existence. It will be an opposite world.

You will find fulfillment in fulfilling others. And there will be no disappointment in that.

Comment: It would be great if a person could just—snap! — and it happened.

My Response: We will get there.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/6/25

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From a Meaningless Life, We Will Come to Harmony

715Question: I look at people. Today, anyone can post a video and talk about themselves or others. People write a lot on the internet. There are personal blogs, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, whatever you want. And in general, we all know what is happening in the world today. What kind of time are we living in now?

Answer: Our entire existence emphasizes our meaninglessness. This meaninglessness is so complete that there is absolutely nothing. That is why there is apathy.

Question: Is this the time for understanding or figuring out why I live? Has that time come now?

Answer: Yes, it is the time to realize that there is no meaning in our life. And where is it?

Question: Where is it?

Answer: It is nowhere.

Question: At the same time, everything I see is joyless, empty. So what should I do? Where is this meaning of life? Where is that something to make me come alive again?

Answer: The meaning of life lies in the fact that there is nature, vast, immense nature, and there is a thought that governs this nature, sets it in motion, and creates it.

It is this thought, this design, this great intention of nature that we must reveal. And then we will get to know the meaning of life.

Life is everything. What does “everything” mean? It is inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human nature. All of it has a certain meaning that lies above all of it. Meaning is what binds, organizes, and moves all of this. So we must rise above our life.

Question: Are you calling on a person to become a scientist?

Answer: Not a scientist, no. We must simply open our eyes.

Question: And understand the intention behind everything?

Answer: Yes, why nature created all of this.

Question: And what is that intention?

Answer: That is exactly what nature is pushing us toward. That is what we must reveal.

The intention is to rise above our world because this world is actually the worst of all worlds. And that is not a poetic expression. To rise above it means to discover this intention, this force, this thought, this design.

And when we attain this thought, we begin to perceive everything beyond time, beyond space, beyond everything. Then a person begins to feel himself on the level of the Creator.

Question: So what is this thought?

Answer: It is harmony. Absolute harmony among all parts of creation. It is something that we lack. And that is why by acting on us in this way, nature is driving us toward attaining that harmony.

This is what we must reveal. We cannot escape from it. We will not be able to just destroy ourselves completely or forget it. We will have to reveal and attain this harmony.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/11/25

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The Terrible Jealousy of the Creator

294.4Fulfillment that comes to a person from the Creator is incomparable. If a person turns away from it, then naturally, the Creator expresses His jealousy.

Question: So the Creator is telling us: “You have no idea how much I have prepared for you, and you are wasting your love.” Is He implying that there is no earthly love?

Answer: It is given to us only so that we reach heavenly love.

Question: And to turn us toward Him, He gives us all kinds of suffering, pain, and so on?

Answer: He does not give them. He simply shows us His love, which we reject. And we experience this rejected love as suffering. That is all.

Question: So what comes from Him is only love?

Answer: Yes, and if you reject it, you yourself turn it into suffering.

Question: What should we do? What is He calling us to? After all, we do not see Him, we do not know Him, and we do not feel Him.

Answer: That does not matter. You are given the opportunity to direct yourself properly toward Him.

Question: And this, essentially, is one’s main task, the main purpose of life?

Answer: There is nothing else in nature at all.

Question: A person must turn toward the Creator and love Him?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But do we first need to go through earthly feelings or not?

Answer: They should help us reach connection between us and organize that connection as much as possible in the qualities of bestowal and love.

Question: Is that exactly the desire of the upper force?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Will He stop being jealous then?

Answer: There is no jealousy, these are completely different levels.

Question: Yes, but we cannot express it differently. Human language calls it jealousy. Is it actually a level of love?

Answer: It is the level of absolute love.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/9/25

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Until All Desires Turn into One

938.03Those people agreed to unite into a single group that engages in love of friends is that each of them feels that they have one desire that can unite all their views, so as to receive the strength of love of others. There is a famous maxim by our sages, “As their faces differ, their views differ” (RABASH, “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 2“).

Question: In the first part of this passage, it is written that at first their faces do not look like each other, and then they work on loving their friend. Does friends’ love of others also differ from person to person?

Answer: Yes, it is different. The fact is, our relations with each other also differ. I treat one person one way, another differently, and another in a new way. All this is in order to be connected with friends and merge together into one common desire.

Question: Does each friend have their own feeling about the common desire, or is it something general?

Answer: At first, this is everyone’s personal desire, and then it gradually connects with other desires, becomes more general, until all desires turn into one.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/19/2025, “Winning the War”

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Awaken the Desire to Bestow

608.02Question: Is the connection with the Creator that we can hold on to the result of our prayer for a Hissaron (deficiency)? Or does it happen even before the prayer? Where exactly is the connection with the Creator?

Answer: We can hold on to it even before the prayer. If we do not let our Hissaron fall, meaning, we do not let it be forgotten, and we stay constantly connected to it, then we will be able to reach it and realize it.

Question: It is said that our Hissaron depends on how much we feel the loss caused by the absence of the desire to bestow. But if we have never had that desire, how can we feel such a loss?

Answer: If you want to feel the Hissaron, to work on it, to restore the desire to bestow, then you will begin to feel that loss. You will awaken within yourself a desire to bestow and will want to realize it.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/2025, “Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer”

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How Do We Compose a Proper Prayer?

940Question: What is the correct way to compose a daily prayer? One option is for it to be a long, well thought-out prayer. Or is it better to leave it as it is where each friend contributes a suggestion from the feelings of the morning lesson? Can you suggest some way to  compose a prayer in a ten?

Answer: Once or twice a week, you can compose an individual prayer from each person, and then talk about it, compare prayers, bring them to one form, to one goal. This can give progress.

Question: What does individual prayer mean? So that we can compare and analyze it later?

Answer: It does not matter. Do as much as you can. It is not scary. In a few days, we will return to connecting our waves, our hearts, and then we will talk about it.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/2025, “Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer”

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Our Task Is to Defeat the Evil Inclination

558Question: We constantly speak about the war with the evil inclination, and our task is to win. But at the same time, we clearly understand that without the evil inclination, we cannot build the right line.

Where are the boundaries of the word “defeat” if we cannot advance without the evil inclination?

Answer: We cannot advance without the evil inclination because our advancement lies in gaining more and more strength to rule over it.

That is why we must do everything possible for the sake of that victor: wake up, go to sleep, and constantly lift ourselves up throughout the day.

In addition, there must be mutual support in the group, the certainty that we support one another. This is how we need to move forward until the Creator agrees to give us a good inclination to counter our egoism. And then, through this good inclination, we will begin to see the entire world.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/19/2025, “Winning the War”

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Change Your Attitude Toward the Creator

237In whatever form we address society with our ideas, we will be forced to do so in such a way that it will be clear to a person that, in accordance with his development, he must change his attitude toward the Creator.

And to the extent that he is capable, he will be immersed in changing his attitude, and to the extent that he is not capable, he will be immersed not in the attitude itself in its pure form but in physical work, which will be the expression of this attitude: to build, to do, to participate. That is all.

Essentially, it is hidden from him that through his physical actions he also sets forces in motion and does not do something that exists within the framework of this world. In the end, it is only a matter of concealment. Let’s say I bring you a gift, and it is clear to us that this gift should be some kind of object, and I am not capable of more; after all, it is possible that I am not participating in it with my heart at all.

It is hidden from us that within this gift, within this attitude, there is a higher action, and on those high levels on which we exist, this is already manifested in the form of forces and intentions. But I cannot come to society and say: “We exist in a world of forces and intentions. With their help, we set reality in motion and not through material actions. The material does not do anything and does not mean anything.”

I cannot address the general public in this form, but since we have reached the general public with an explanation suitable for them, gradually more and more people (and through suffering too) will see that something is happening to which they do not have an answer. We suffer nonetheless, and there is something to that.

When people feel bad, they suddenly remember that there is the “evil eye,” and that someone thinks badly of them; otherwise, why is nothing working out for them? The more a person delves into this, the more he feels that there are forces, and that it is these forces that are working and not the material.

Moreover, people will come who in some way will participate in the actions of raising MAN (prayers for correction) in the correct form, in the correct attire relative to the upper force. There is no choice. The world will come to this.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam,“The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Double Protection

258A Mitzva protects and saves while practiced. The Torah protects and saves both when practiced and when not practiced (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 6 “What Is Support in the Torah, in the Work?”).

We exist within the upper light in which there are absolutely no changes; rather, all changes occur only within us. A person’s advancement depends entirely on how much he can awaken himself toward the upper light through various means.

That is, progress is possible through the environment. If one can begin to feel what a friend feels, he can constantly experience goodness. As it is written: “Love your neighbor as yourself is a great rule in the Torah,” because through this, one attains the Torah, meaning the upper light. Then it does not matter whether he, himself, performs certain actions or not, this light will shine upon him and support him.

There are two spiritual states of a person in relation to the Light: 1) Torah, and 2) Mitzvah (commandment).

Torah refers to the state a person has presently attained in general with the entire system of soul through which he receives the light.

Mitzvah refers to working on the correction of one’s personal state by scrutinizing it and asking for the light to transform one’s desire from egoistic to altruistic.

From the combination of these two states arise four possible opportunities, whether one is performing a Mitzvah or not and whether one is engaged in the Torah or not.

It may be that a person is not currently performing a Mitzvah, meaning one is unable to receive one’s personal light: the person is not inspired, is not in ascent, and is not aspiring toward correction and toward the Creator. But the general illumination, called Torah, still shines upon him, and in such a case, it is of course more significant than the Mitzvah, which at that moment does not shine upon him.

Or the opposite may be true: he is currently performing a Mitzvah, working with his individual Light. Then, whether or not he has the light of the Torah is less important because the Mitzvah shines so strongly that it fills him entirely.

In other words, a person has two supports—either Torah or Mitzvah. But if he has neither, if neither of these two illuminations shines upon him, he becomes completely detached from feeling spirituality.

When he lacks the Mitzvah (personal engagement), but still receives a bit of light, referred to as Torah, he considers himself wicked. But when his own desire to attain correction appears, when he performs a Mitzvah, he begins to justify the Creator, even for negative states, and corrects them. Then, he is called righteous.

From this, we must understand the fundamental principle of the wisdom of Kabbalah: everything is evaluated solely in relation to the person, to the created being, for the light itself remains in absolute rest. Since we are integrated into the common system, we receive a common illumination from it, through our passive connection to others. This common illumination is what is called Torah.

Additionally, there is personal light, which comes through our active connection with the system and exchange internal states and corrections. This is called a Mitzvah.

Through these two processes, in which a person tries to engage constantly, he advances spiritually, and that is why they are called the help, the support, that the Torah (light) gives in the work.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/2/2011, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is Support in the Torah, in the Work?”

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The Place of Similarity to the Creator

942Question: Can we say that the creation becomes similar to the Creator not where it receives, and not even where it gives, but where it is unable to receive and give? And in this powerlessness, something is created that does not even exist in the light?

Answer: If a person feels that he is incapable of either receiving or giving, he should annul himself and join the group. With it, he will nevertheless draw closer in some way to the Creator, and then from there, he may also become one who gives.

Question: What is more important, what is deeper: receiving for the sake of bestowal or the suffering from the inability to bestow without receiving?

Answer: Suffering is not a goal. And in general, we have no such desire to suffer.

We should try to be in the sensation of bestowing to the Creator and receiving from Him everything He desires to give us and to give Him everything we are able to pass on.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/2025, “Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer”

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Feel As One Whole

530Question: You said that we need to deepen our preparation until we feel ourselves as one whole so that there is no difference between what I feel and what the world Kli feels. How can we reach this state?

Answer: When you exit your egoistic desire and have only your calculation with the Creator, then you do not feel yourself as separate and alone in something; you feel yourself existing, powerful, and capable of doing something for the entire world Kli.

Through this world Kli, the Creator also feels what you desire for everyone. And it turns out that your attitude toward the entire world Kli and toward the Creator becomes one and the same. Then everything comes to a common connection.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/2025, “Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer”

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Then the Child Will Have no Problems

294.4The way you react to a child is how the Creator responds to them.

Question: So through me, the Creator responds to the child? If I live with this awareness, is that called education?

Answer: Yes, in doing so, you open channels of connection between the child and the Creator.

Question: Through me, the Creator connects with the child? Am I supposed to open the Creator to the child?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: That is an incredible responsibility!

My Response: It is as if you are introducing them to each other.

Question: Beautiful! Tell me, should this awareness come to the parents even before the child is born?

Answer: In general, yes. We have spoken about this more than once.

Question: We have, but we have a million questions after that. For people, this is not just interesting, it is vital. But actually, we never said it quite the way you just did: “I open a channel for the child through myself.”

After such a warm and loving upbringing, how is the child supposed to go out into such a cold world?

Answer: If the child perceives the world correctly, then they will have no problem. They will feel the world is multi-layered, at least as themselves, their parents, their home, etc., and strangers. They will know how to relate all of it correctly.

Question: Does that mean the parents succeeded in bringing the Creator to the child?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/5/25

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Readiness to Turn to the Group

544How can I come to the group and obligate them to provide me with a feeling of the importance of attaining the goal? After all, I do not feel the need to obligate the group to give me that. So where do I begin?

I must come to the group even without feeling this necessity. This is called “a desire in the absence of a desire,” and that is exactly why everything is concealed. I can come to the group and say: “Friends, I do not want any goal. But I am signing a contract with you; influence me so that I will want it!” Every person has this ability!

For example, I know that diabetes is dangerous. So what? I will eat sweets, pastries now and then, and it will be fine.

I come to the group without yet feeling the importance of the goal. Yes, they talk about it, show me things, give examples, but I do not feel it myself. So I find a group, pay them money, and say: “Increase the awareness of the importance and necessity of the goal, make me feel that it hurts to continue like this, make me want to give it up, because otherwise I am destroying myself.”

A person is capable of turning to the group in this way. If not for this, the entire method would not exist because the whole point of the method is to feel I have already suffered before a blow comes as if I have already received it.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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How Can You Learn the Right Attitude?

235Question: How can people learn the right attitude toward one another without formal studying?

Answer: Only those who really have an inner urge, an inclination, and realization that it is necessary go to study. Otherwise, what is there to teach? The correct attitude?

A person learns the correct attitude on oneself based on their feelings and inner actions, from the fact that one feels bad and wants to find what is good. It is explained to them where to find a positive feeling so that a person can feel better thanks to one’s correct attitude toward people and toward the Creator. This is not acquired through formal study.

We study because we want to master the methodology to teach others. But when teaching a person, you should not simply sit them down to study. Why all of a sudden? These are natural processes that a person must undergo internally. Moreover, we see how few people are naturally suited for structured learning. It is meant only for those who will later teach others, but teach them practically how to act.

You might say, “Yes, but it is written that through study we draw the surrounding light upon us, and besides that, there is no other means.” Yet again, this applies only to those who must correct themselves as priests or teachers. Others correct themselves solely through their attitude. Just the attitude—nothing else is needed.

Sit and study for hours? Not at all! A person simply needs an explanation. They need a group that demonstrates how they should relate in order to reach the purpose of creation—union with the Creator. It is also necessary to teach that the Creator is the upper force that operates in nature. The more I obey this force, the more I merge with Him; and when I distance myself from Him, I get “spanked” like an unreasonable child because I am not merged with Him.

Today these words have lost their flavor and give people the impression that this is about religion. In reality, we are simply being taught how to fulfill the laws of nature. There is a universal law: if you do not follow it, you suffer. You must fulfill it through your attitude toward Him: as He relates to you, so must you relate to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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In Him Is the Root of My Soul

252Question: You are not a sentimental person, so why is it that when we speak about your teacher Rabash, I often see your eyes suddenly become moist, as if you become a different person. A really different one!

Answer: There is nothing to be done because the root of my soul is in him. That is why I become different.

Question: You found your soul that way, right?

Answer: Yes, that is, somehow, millions of years before I met him, the root of my soul was there, and little by little, I was as if digging for it there until I found it. I do not know how to put it in words.

Question: So your journey through this life, all of your search was leading to this root of your soul in one way or another?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Then you are a happy person; you found the root of your soul. Everyone needs that.

Answer: Everyone has it, and everyone must search for it.
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From External to Internal Action

275Question: In the war against the evil inclination, we are essentially fighting against the will of the Master, the Creator, of this desire. After all, the desire to receive is a function entirely controlled by Him. So does that mean that fighting the evil inclination actually means fighting the Creator who made it? How then can we fight Him?

Answer: By asking the Creator to help us overcome our evil inclination.

The Creator made it by His external action so that through this external action we would come to an internal one.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/19/2025, “Winning the War”

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