A man’s prayer is the work of the Ruach [spirit], work from Behina Bet, which depends on the speech.It is in high secrets and people do not know that a man’s prayer breaches airs and breaches firmaments, opens doors and rises up (Rashbi, Zohar for All, Vol. 5 “VaYakhel,” “The Ascent of the Prayer”).

It is written that prayer should be offered near a pillar. This does not mean, in fact, a pillar near which one should pray. The point is that all the Partzufim from the world of infinity to our world are arranged in the form of a pillar, where the AHP of the higher Partzuf is located inside the Galgalta ve Einaim (GE) of the lower Partzuf, and so they are all nested into each other.

There is not a single Partzuf that is arranged differently. Each Partzuf is positioned so that its upper part is inside the higher Partzuf, and its lower part is inside the lower Partzuf.

That is, the upper part of my Partzuf is together with the lower part of the higher one, and the lower part of my Partzuf is together with the upper part of the lower one. It turns out that in my upper part (GE) I form the ten Sefirot together with the AHP of the highest, and in my lower part (AHP) I am in the ten Sefirot with the GE of the lower.

It turns out that in the ten upper Sefirot, I am connected with the higher one, and in the ten lower Sefirot with the lower. But where am I? I myself am the part that divides me into two halves; it is called Klipat Noga. It divides the Partzuf in the middle.

Klipat Noga is all of our free choice. If I decide to connect with the higher in the ten upper Sefirot (1) now in order to lift the lowest up (2), and I am working only for this, it means that I am exercising my free choice in Klipat Noga that is in the middle.

The free choice is that I connect with the Creator, with a higher level, in order to correct the lower one. That is how we work.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/11, The Book of Zohar

A thought is a result of the desire (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 153, “A Thought Is a Result of the Desire”).

This is indeed true, because the most important thing in a person is desire. Thoughts appear only to fulfill these desires.

Desires arise in the heart, and we listen only to it. The mind is activated only when it is necessary to realize the desires that come from the heart. Therefore, the main thing is desire, while the intellect is merely an auxiliary tool, a means to achieve what is desired.

A person thinks of what he wants. He will not think of what he does not want.

In our world this is natural. You can look at any person and, by understanding his desires, guess what thoughts he has. All his thoughts are directed solely toward realizing what he desires. And to the extent that his desires have a hierarchy, you can tell which thoughts dominate and which are less important, what occupies him more or less. In other words, desires practically rule us.

For example, a person never thinks of his day of death. On the contrary, he will always contemplate his eternity, since this is what he wants. Thus, one always thinks of what is desirable for him.

Thought is secondary, auxiliary. It develops only because a person has desires. And therefore, one develops intellect in order to attain what is desired. As the saying goes: “One beaten man is worth two unbeaten ones.” For the one who is beaten, who is forced and compelled, becomes wiser because he searches for ways to realize himself.

Thus, the mind always grows when there are great desires. And conversely, if there are no desires, there is no great mind. Therefore, if you wish to develop your children, you must awaken in them great desires, not spoil them.

To spoil means to try to impose some kind of fulfillment on a child before he even wishes for it. On the contrary, let him desire, let him experience a bit of lack, let him seek how to realize what he wants. From this his intellect will develop. Only in this way, and no other.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/14/19

Question: Do you believe that the Jews of Israel will eventually bring about the correction of all of humanity?

Answer: It is precisely the circumstances in which they find themselves that will compel them to do so. Why does the world around them bristle against them?

This is eternal antisemitism; the perpetual feeling that you are hated and that you must defend yourself and justify your existence in the world. When all this passes over a person from generation to generation, it is transmitted through the genes; it leaves behavioral layers in one’s character, in one’s perception of the world, in one’s attitude toward everything. There is nothing like this in any other nation.

The Jews are not like the Gypsies, who are simply despised, nor like people who impose their culture, manners, way of life, or religion on other nations. In those cases, it all stems from a sense of superiority. But here, on the contrary, it comes from a sense of inferiority, smallness, and worthlessness.

This complex has developed very strongly over the last 2,000 years. It has already produced secondary and tertiary consequences, which gradually evolve and merge with all other philosophies of life.

All this has left a deep imprint on their attitude toward everything and has generated enormous internal stress within the people, especially among the European branch of the Jews who were forced to develop in order to elevate themselves above the surrounding nations in some way, to protect themselves.

We see, in the Middle Ages, how they suddenly experienced a leap in special character traits and intellectual abilities; it is not even clear why. Previously, nothing like this existed anywhere, not even among other branches of Jews in other countries where they lived more or less peacefully.

There is a great deal of research on this topic. And indeed, we see how many scientists, artists, and thinkers they produce. All this is the result of their defensive reaction.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call, The Jews of Israel,” 9/13/10

Faith above reason means that I accept the view of the upper one even when it clashes with my own understanding, as it is written: “They have eyes but do not see; they have ears but do not hear.” This means that I can lift myself to a higher level each time, as though pulling myself upward to the next rung, by choosing the upper one’s opinion over my own, even when it contradicts everything I know.

If a friend hands me an envelope with $1,000 and I do not check the amount because I trust him—this is faith below reason. My trust does not contradict what I know, and therefore it does not demand faith.

Knowledge is the mind and perception I possess within this material world, like a judge who relies solely on what his eyes can see. Faith, however, is what stands above this knowledge, as Bina stands above Malchut. And to rise from the degree of Malchut to that of Bina, I must advance through faith above reason.

If I count the money and find that there are $999 instead of $1,000, then $999 is my knowledge, and the remaining “$1” is the measure of my faith. But if the envelope contains only $1, or is completely empty, and still I believe the higher one, considering his view to be true, then I elevate myself above my own reason and begin to see from the vantage point of the upper one.

The mind of the upper one is the opinion of the group or the teacher. If I strive each time to rise to faith above reason, this means I am ascending spiritual degrees. If I make no effort to accept the mind of the upper one, I neither enter nor approach the spiritual world.

Faith above reason is the only point of free choice granted to a person in this world.

If I accept the upper one’s view and agree that the envelope holds $1,000, although I counted only $999, then I rise to his degree. And then I myself witness how the envelope becomes filled to the full measure, not with money, but with the greatness of the Creator.

Faith above reason is a special mechanism, a unique method that lifts us from the material degree to the spiritual one, and from a lower spiritual degree to a higher one. This is the only way to ascend: by taking on the opinion of the higher one.

Each time I am as if born anew on the next degree, again and again. I enter the new state like a newborn who carries nothing from the previous one; I cling to the mind of the upper one and proceed with it.

With my own senses I see only $1 in the envelope. Yet above my senses I must accept that it is $1,000. I do not nullify my knowledge, I leave it as it is. I clearly see the gap between what I know and what stands above knowledge.

This gap defines the difference between Malchut and Bina. On one hand, “the judge has only what his eyes see”—this is Malchut. Yet I must go against this knowledge and prefer the knowledge of the higher one—Bina, faith.

And within this interval—this divergence between Malchut and Bina, between knowledge and faith above knowledge—the upper world and spiritual reality begin to reveal themselves.

All the work in the ten proceeds by faith above reason. I may see no love among the friends; on the contrary, we seem ready to devour one another. Yet we work to love each other. In the eyes of the upper one our ten is perfect and stands in complete unity; in our own eyes it appears entirely otherwise. This difference is what we must examine and rise above.

And this contradiction remains. I cannot reconcile one with the other, for this distance is the very gap between Bina and Malchut, it cannot close; in fact, it continues to widen.

This is the difference between the Creator and the created being as it awakens within me. And the more I follow faith, the more I cleave to the Creator instead of clinging to my own mind and animal body. This is how spiritual advancement unfolds.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/23/20, “Work with Faith Above Reason”

Question: How can we verify that we are bringing contentment to the Creator? What should we feel?

Answer: We should feel that we have an inner connection with the Creator, that is, feel His presence in my heart, His attitude toward me, and my attitude toward Him. In essence, this is the foundation of connection.

Question: I will feel it internally with my heart, but is there any external indication, relative to the environment, that I am correctly directed toward the Creator?

Answer: We constantly learn from the sources that it depends on love for friends, on connection with them, and on mutual help.

All of this relates to the connection within the group. Without it, we cannot advance.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/10/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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

Creation is an empty desire, while the Creator is Light. How can this emptiness be connected with the Light; they are two complete opposites? Otherwise, creation, whose very nature is an empty will to receive, would remain empty forever.

How can these two opposites be joined? After all, according to the law of equivalence of form that governs all of nature, they cannot draw near or unite, like polar opposites. Therefore, there is a need for to mix the will to receive and the will to bestow.

In the Rosh (head), the intention to receive for the sake of bestowal arises. But in the Guf (body) awakens the egoistic force, to receive for one’s own sake. Thus a shattering occurs between the head and the body, a loss of connection between them, the inability to think and act in unison.

One thought resides in the head, yet a completely different desire is in the body. The heart and the mind are no longer together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/7/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot”

Due to the congress, we felt ourselves moving slightly away from our ten and closer again, like a pendulum swinging back and forth, changing the degree of our connection with each other or with the Creator and our attitude toward the study. Strength and desire diminish, weakness sets in, and then strength comes back. Each full period of the pendulum’s movement back and forth, rising and falling, does not pass unnoticed; it leaves an imprint on us.

It seems that a person of strong faith should always find the strength to overcome any state without losing connection with the Creator, either in sorrow or joy as if nothing could shake him or disconnect him from the eternal union.

But in reality, this is not the case. A person who aspires to the Creator experiences constant changes. They must feel greater and greater weakness, but at the same time know how to achieve more confidence and adhesion with the Creator. Thus one keeps advancing and growing.

If a person doesn’t feel such changes in himself, no powerlessness and uncertainty, no descents, and fear of straying from the right direction toward the Creator and the purpose of life, if they don’t worry about this, then this is precisely a serious cause for concern.

One needs to engage with the group as quickly as possible, with all one’s might, so that through it the person can begin to receive the surrounding light that will change him or her.

If it seems to us that everything is in order and nothing bothers us, then it is time to worry.

In this world, the one who advances without feeling a heavy burden is considered strong. They add another ten kilograms to his back and he keeps walking, another twenty and he keeps going as if nothing happened. This is a strong man, a hero!

But in spirituality, it is the opposite. A hero is someone who is very sensitive to every gram added to him along the way and immediately turns to the Creator with a request to correct the lack of confidence and strength to bestow.

Spiritual advancement is different; it is in increased sensitivity. The Creator adds to us in quality and quantity, and we always have the opportunity to ask Him for new strength through the environment, and so advance.

Advancing on the path depends only on the changes one feels, which the Creator awakens in him. Each time, I need to understand my weakness and how to strengthen myself in order to continue. Naturally, I lack faith and the force of bestowal. Therefore, I increasingly need the environment and the Creator to add to it, to turn to the Creator through it, and thus to continue on the path.

Everyone needs to check for the changes the congress induced in them. One feels rejection, another feels attraction, and a third one has fog in his mind and feelings. Some cannot find themselves in the ten; they look at the friends and do not feel them and see them in their heart as before. Involvement in the larger ten affected him in such a way that he lost the old connection he had with his friends.

There are many post-congress phenomena we cannot ignore while we wait to get back to our usual routine. I need to check what is happening to me and why, and how the congress has affected me. This is very important.

Everyone in the ten feels differently, and we need to check whether we can return to our previous state or whether our new state is much clearer, higher, and sharper.

After all, we began to appreciate the connection between us more, and understand why we return to our ten to be together. We not only follow the advice of the Kabbalists, but we already realize that without it we will not have the confidence or strength to advance; there will be nowhere to draw strength or to turn to the Creator from.

The ten turns into a spiritual source for us, a spring. We feel enabled to stabilize ourselves in it and return to correction. Each of us has a special property, like the ten Sefirot. Therefore we are very different. But we are connected by a common work and a common goal. Thus, from ten people, and no less, we can form a complete attitude toward the Creator.

The ten turns into a Kli, a tool, we can change something with, influence something with, and connect with a wider or higher level.

The center of the ten is a tiny needle’s eye through which I pass into the spiritual world. To do this, I have to restrict all my thoughts and desires and compress them into one point to lead me to the upper world through the center of the ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/16/19, “Hardening of the Heart – An Invitation to Ascend”

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What is faith above reason? Within reason means according to our understanding, according to the mind of a person in this world that is based on egoism.

Accordingly, a person perceives, feels, makes decisions, and acts. That is called “according to my opinion.” But above my opinion is the opinion of the upper one, and therefore I must replace my opinion with His, with the opinion of the Creator.

But I do not know the Creator’s opinion; it reaches me through my ten. If I connect with them, then by gradually annulling myself and merging with my friends, I replace my opinion with theirs.

This is not a simple substitution of one for another, otherwise I would become an angel, a kind of spiritual animal. Rather, I perform this act above my reason; I retain my own opinion, and rise above it. Thus, I occupy two levels, and in the difference between them I discover the perception of a spiritual human being.

Nothing in a person’s sensation is destroyed or erased. In fact, one acquires an additional nature, the Creator’s nature, and thus attains “faith above reason.” He has his own knowledge, and above it, faith; and he exists between the two.

The Creator did not create our desire to enjoy in vain. It is the foundation that constantly accompanies us so that “darkness will shine as light.” The darkness of my egoism, my opinion, supports the higher opinion that stands above it. Precisely from the contradiction between them, I attain the greatness of the Creator against the insignificance of the creature.

We do not annul ourselves or lose anything within us. While standing firmly on both feet, we build the middle line, and only in this way do we establish ourselves as a human being, Adam, “similar to the Creator.” Everything that exists in this creation is received from the Creator, but by the person’s own decision.

The Creator gives me an adapter that connects me to Him: this is the ten. This adapter is very complex, but there is no choice. I must connect it and use it, however many years it takes. I must annul myself, otherwise I will not connect to the group, because my plug does not fit its socket.

Within my friends dwells the Creator, who helps me unite with them more and more until I begin to reveal Him within them. I begin to work with the Creator through my friends, for they are my soul, and the Creator is the light that fills that soul.

The main thing is to integrate into the environment, and then I begin to receive opinions, desires, and thoughts, not just from a higher degree, but of an entirely new quality. For within the group exists “faith above reason,” a new perception not inherent to a person of this world.

Therefore there is no other way. One must annul oneself, enter the group, and leave one’s prior experience behind for now. We are speaking of an adult person with much life experience and knowledge, yet relative to the group one makes oneself into an embryo, a zero. And when a person begins to receive knowledge from it and grow, one builds faith above reason on the basis of one’s former qualities, thoughts, desires, one’s previous “self.” One cannot exist without the other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/23/19, Writings of Rabash “Concerning Above Reason”

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Faith above reason is the topic we must constantly return to. In relation to it, we will experience ascents and descents, all of our work is focused around this point.

Faith above reason means that bestowal becomes higher than reception, that is, a person enters a state in which they live by the force of bestowal. Naturally, one rises and falls again, but gradually one begins to conquer this territory, “the field blessed by the Creator,” where one remains in understanding, awareness, and the aspiration to hold on to faith.

If I don’t check what I have received, it is called faith below reason. Because I have no reason, I haven’t verified what I received, I just believed it blindly. That kind of faith is actually lower than reason; there is no knowledge, only blind belief. In spirituality, this is not considered faith, it is only in religion.

For faith above reason, I must first have my own opinion and know, according to it, what is happening. I know that there are not $1,000 in the envelope, but $999, or even only $1, and yet I accept it as a $1,000. This difference determines my spiritual degree. I must have these two clear points: reason and faith, Malchut and Bina.

Faith above reason means that I accept those $999 as $1,000, wholeheartedly. Of course, you should not behave this way in a store; we are not talking about this world, but only about the spiritual one. In the spiritual realm, one must advance by faith above reason, for there we build our relationship with the Creator above our own understanding, more and more so each time. Spirituality is based not on the force of reason, but on the force of faith.

I advance based on what the Kabbalist says, because I do not wish to rely on the opinion of my own egoism. To the extent that I can nullify myself in relation to the upper, I acquire the force of faith with which I can progress together with the upper’s mind and heart.

In the corporeal world, this doesn’t work because there is only one dimension. But in the spiritual world, there are two degrees: me and the upper (AHP of the upper). I follow the opinion of the upper’s AHP. I include myself in the upper’s opinion, and since I adhere to it, I can ascend with it. This is possible only because I have accepted its opinion, which has become my faith.

This is the difference between the lower and the upper degrees. In the perception (Kelim) of the upper there are $1,000; in my perception, $999. I know, feel, and understand that I lack $1, that in my pocket there are $999 and not $1,000. But in the Kelim of the upper there are $1,000, and I fill that empty space within me with the force of the upper, I feel myself whole thanks to Him.

About faith above reason, it is said: “They have eyes but do not see; they have ears but do not hear.” I have eyes, ears, a heart, and a mind; I am an intelligent person; I understand and feel everything at my level, “judging only by what my eyes see,” standing firmly on the ground.

But the question is: How can I rise to a degree higher than myself? By what kind of elevator? Where is that lift, that means, by which I can exchange my feelings and intellect for those of an upper degree, to rise from the state of “I” to “I + 1”?

For that, I must go by faith above reason.

From above, they constantly reveal an empty space to me and I must fill it with faith. When I fill it with faith, I feel that it becomes filled with reason. Then again, darkness opens, an empty space that must be filled with faith.

And with this force of faith, I ascend to the next degree, which again becomes reason.

Thus, we grow: Ibur–Yenika–Mochin (embryo–nursing–maturity), each time ascending and perceiving the darkness and emptiness revealed to us as a part of the upper, next degree above us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/5/19, “Work with Faith Above Reason”

I must not agree with everything that happens around me because everything I see is perceived through my egoistic sensations. Yet I want to use all of it correctly to direct myself in the right way.

I do not seek to change reality or to leave it as it is; I want to change my perception, my sensations, so that I may see the true picture in which one force, one energy, one intention, one source, is revealed.

I do not strive to reveal the Creator directly, but rather to acquire the instrument (Kli) for His revelation. For how can I see something that is ten kilometers away from me? I need binoculars, that is, an instrument. And the instrument for revealing the Creator is the connection between us. This is where we apply all our efforts.

To the extent that we unite and focus together, the clarity of our vision increases. Then, instead of a blurred picture, instead of billions of people, animals, and plants, I begin to see more and more clearly the one single force and the one source.

The upper light is at absolute rest; what we need is only the instrument (Kli) for its revelation, an instrument whose qualities resemble those of the light itself.

The ten and the world group protect the person who is within them, acting as a buffer, an absorber, that softens external tremors, like the ten concealed Sefirot.

How should one respond correctly to each situation? I don’t understand what is happening, nor do I know what to do. The main thing is to integrate into the group as much as possible and use this instrument, and constantly tune myself in relation to the others.

Although I am only one individual Sefira within the ten, I tune it relative to the entire structure, and then I understand what is required of me. Just like a guitar string is tuned by comparing its sound with the others, so too must I constantly tune myself relative to the group; otherwise, my state will not change.

And after my friends have helped me tune myself correctly in relation to them, I must lift them up. Here my true work begins. This is a living system in which a constant process of exchange and interaction takes place.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/9/20, “Work with Faith Above Reason”

Question: When does a person first establish connection with the Creator?

Answer: Do you think that you don’t have this connection right now? A newborn baby who knows nothing about it has the strongest bond with his mother. And later we will have to build screens above our desire to receive pleasure.

The younger we are spiritually, the smaller we are, the closer we are to the beginning of the path, the stronger our connection is with the Creator. After all, for now, we are not disturbed by the various wisdoms and unfolding egoistic desires that separate us from the Creator.

The point of adhesion is built by a person separates from the Creator the desire to enjoy that is revealed in him and merges with the Creator above this desire. But now we are merged with the Creator through our desires in a natural way.

In other words, a person is always in adhesion with the Creator; the only difference is what percentage of this adhesion is attributed to the Creator and how much is attributed to the person himself. Let us assume it is 40/60 now, that is what my spiritual degree is called. If 125 steps are taken as 100%, then I am currently at two-thirds of the height of the ladder.

The more desires that are revealed in me and I correct, the greater the adhesion that was achieved through the power of the upper, I can now take upon myself and sustain with my own strength.

But we never leave the adhesion with the Creator. Nothing changes except our understanding, awareness, and attainment of one single constant, unchanging state.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/26/12, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

Question: In the Introduction to TES, it is written: “You will see your world in your life.”

I perceive this as a reward for our unification; that is, we receive the light, and it corrects us. How can one avoid using this knowledge egoistically?

Answer: If I think only about spiritual closeness with the Creator, that is, with the quality of bestowal, then I will naturally advance correctly. This is what I must think about constantly.

Question: When we enter the work in the Torah, we still do not have a clear understanding of what Lishma is, or where our desires lie. Entering is easy, but it is very difficult to maintain precision and strength in turning to the Creator. How can we gain confidence that we possess that very faith that will lead us to this?

Answer: This is something we must work on.

Question: Do we have the ability to feel and direct the power of Torah toward the place of defect and corruption? Or would it be more correct to rely on the actions of the light upon us?

Answer: These are two completely different directions. We will study them later.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/10/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

Question: Do we need to go through suffering in order to reach high states?

Answer: Of course, it’s not necessary. We just need to understand which stages we must go through within our desire and try to do it as quickly as possible. The main thing is to overcome the current phase we’re going through now when we don’t quite understand where we are and get out of it as soon as possible. But we must get out of it correctly.

Question: So, in order to get out correctly, do we need to accelerate through connection between us?

Answer: Everything happens through connection.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/10/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

Question: You said that Nature, with a capital “N,” is equivalent to the concept of the Creator. The Gematria (numerical value) of these two Hebrew words is the same. So, we are talking about the Creator, right?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And you say, if we are good with the Creator, then He will be good with us.

My Response: Naturally. Fulfill His commandments, and you will see how He relates to you in the very same way! The commandments are the laws of Nature.

The laws of Nature are not physics, mathematics, and so on, what we know from science. The laws of Nature relate to the level of a person’s attitude toward the world: how people relate to each other, how a person relates to the still, vegetative, and animate nature, how one relates to the universe, to everything. That is what is meant by a person’s attitude toward the Creator.

In general, this should simply be love, a correct and heartfelt attitude toward everything outside of you.

Comment: So, I already have love for myself, there is no getting away from that.

My Response: That is your egoism.

Question: And love for others, for what is outside of me, are you saying that it doesn’t exist?

Answer: No, of course not.

Question: Or maybe it is insufficient?

Answer: No! It does not exist at all.

Question: How can one come out of oneself and love something around? Are there any steps a person must take? We’re basically talking now about how to resist or stop this war that Nature has declared on us. If possible, please give some concrete advice. How can one come out of oneself and love something outside of myself?

Answer: That’s exactly what “Love your neighbor as yourself” means. That is the main and general commandment of the entire Torah.

Question: When you say “neighbor,” do you mean another person?

Answer: In general, it refers to everything around you. You must develop this love within yourself and start giving it. Not just rationally “love this one a bit more, that one a bit less,” and so on. Love! To love means that your heart tells you how to relate.

Comment: That is exactly the problem. We don’t really understand what it means to love with the heart.

My Response: You have to work on it. It is not like flipping a switch. It is an entire process to love someone outside of yourself.

Question: What does it mean to love?

Answer: To love means to relate to another as to yourself. What could be simpler?

Comment: That’s true. And we can’t make that step.

My Response: No, we don’t even understand how.

Question: So how can we do it then?

Answer: I don’t know. Maybe we should first watch some movie about how a person loves themselves so I can learn from that how I should love others.

Question: Do you mean to copy it?

Answer: Yes. Show me, in some film, how I love myself without any filters. And from that, I will see how I should love others, so that I will always have this example in front of me.

Comment: So, I’m constantly living wanting to receive something sweet, good, warm, kind, heartfelt, that is how I want others to treat me.

My Response: Mainly, you always want to be right.

Question: Do I suddenly have to give that away and say, “You’re right”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: That is serious work. Will Nature calm down then?

Answer: Of course, it will! Because you, the main initiator of all this negativity, will simply remove yourself from the picture. Nature corrects us and leads us precisely to this realization.

Question: Is Nature really like that?

Answer: Yes. Nature responds to us. It gave the world, this Earth, into human hands: “Do as you wish.”

Comment: But in essence, Nature itself is giving, bestowing.

My Response: It is giving and bestowing to the extent that you are giving and bestowing.

Comment: So, you’re putting an equal sign here, if I become like it, everything will be fine.

My Response: A person must come to equivalence with the Creator. That is why Nature will not yield on this.

Question: So, in short, we must correspond to the Creator, is that it?

Answer: Yes. What else?

Question: Only how can we actually do it! Will Nature not calm down until we reach this?

Answer: No! That is exactly what is written: “Rise to the level of the Creator.”

Comment: Understood. But you know, seismologists are already predicting that this won’t stop, that it will keep shaking, shaking, and shaking. Something is happening with the Earth’s core. I won’t go into technical details, but they say more and more places will open up where it will shake seriously. That’s what they’re saying.

My Response: The Creator seems to be playing with our Earth like with a ball.

Question: So, will this continue, as you say, until we make this decision and begin to move toward the Creator?

Answer: Yes.

Question: We just have to make the decision? Is that all that is required of us?

Answer: To agree! To accept means to agree. It is not like at a meeting where they reach a unanimous decision, and then everyone goes home. Here, there must be unanimous agreement among all people to live by the principle “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Question: Can we say that all 613 or 620 commandments are included in this one?

Answer: Of course.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/28/25

Comment: I have noticed that the Jews in Israel seem to be the most indifferent. They do not care about anything, and walk around arrogantly, as if nothing interests them.

My Response: I do not think they are like that on the inside. It is more of a protective reaction of the organism.

Why are they called “Sabras”? Sabra is the fruit of the cactus—prickly on the outside but soft and tender within. It is edible.

The Jews of Israel are the same: outwardly prickly, as if they do not care about anything, but inside, they are very sensitive and gentle.

The thing is, our country is still young, and people must learn to adjust to one another. Moreover, for decades, practically until the 1950s, people were founding settlements and were constantly forced to fight, much like the first American settlers once did. All of this leaves a mark that is not easy to erase.

The problems of David and Goliath and the besieged fortress of Masada still exist today. The country is surrounded on all sides by enemies who are constantly arming themselves and preparing for new wars. People live through one war after another, and that is why they are the way we see them.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Jews of Israel” 9/13/10

It is as our sages wrote (Berachot 32), “Rabbi Shamlai said, ‘One should always praise the Creator, and then pray.’ Where did we get that? From Moses, as it is written, ‘And I besought the Lord at that time.’ It is also written, ‘O Lord God, Thou hast begun,’ and it is written, ‘Let me go over, I pray Thee, and see the good land.’”

And the reason we need to begin with praising the Creator is that it is natural that there are two conditions when one asks for something of another:

1. That he has what I ask of him, such as wealth, power, and repute as being wealthy and affluent.
2. That he will have a kind heart, meaning a desire to do good to others

(Rabash, Article 17, “The Agenda of the Assembly – 1”).

Question: Why must one first give praise to the Creator?

Answer: Because I want to feel nothing else in life or in the world besides the greatness of the Creator. I need nothing more.

This dictates all my thoughts, desires, actions, and my view of the world. It shapes my worldview and creates a correct picture of reality. The greatness of the Creator is above everything.

If some inconsistency, problem, or threat arises, the greatness of the Creator covers everything. I understand that it is He Himself who places this before me so that I may further exalt Him in my eyes. That is the only thing I must work on.

I need the greatness of the Creator in order to bestow upon Him, to act for His sake, and not to think about myself so that His importance will overshadow my egoism.

Question: And does the Creator help in this?

Answer: He is ready to help me if I ask Him. But each time, it becomes harder for me to ask and to convince Him that I must feel His greatness; otherwise, I will not be able to remain constantly directed toward Him.

Question: Does this happen because the Creator desires that I continually turn to Him?

Answer: The Creator certainly wants us to turn to Him, but He never pulls us toward Himself so as not to deprive us of freewill.

Question: And is this why we need the environment (the ten, the group, the teacher), to strike at this single point?

Answer: Yes, only in order to reveal the greatness of the Creator. Alone, I cannot reveal it. I must work with others. The Creator is revealed to me only through the ten. The ten is the prism through which He acts upon me.

Question: What, in this case, is the prayer for the friends?

Answer: Here, there are no friends and no “me.” There is the entire creation, everything created by the Creator, myself and Him. I want to become a conduit of the Creator’s light to all of creation. That is what it means to become a servant of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s Program “The Last Generation” 6/6/18