Comment: They say that Berg gathered all the cream of society for himself, and Laitman got everything else.

My Response: It is very good. People who consider themselves scum are the nicest people. They understand that they are worthless, but they must achieve a big goal.

And this cream? They believe that they have everything, that they are so great that the Creator must, so to speak, help and serve them, and they will pay for it in cash.

Therefore a person who feels empty rather than full is better. It is said: “Beware of the poor, for out of them will come the Torah, the light.”

When a person feels empty and poor—”I have nothing in this life”—it is from this state that he comes to the light.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. It is Better to Be Empty than Full” 6/23/10

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Question: Are you afraid that you might be disconnected from the spiritual system?

Answer: There is fear on my part. I am afraid.

Question: And what if it is meant to be?

Answer: It doesn’t matter. I still don’t want it. Why should it be like this?! If I act correctly, run the program, and operate within it, why should this happen? I want to attain complete unity with the Creator through understanding His ways.

You want to say: “If you are still afraid that you might be disconnected, it means you are not yet fully devoted to the Creator, you have not yet given yourself to Him with all your soul.” That is true. And I do not want this. I do not want disconnection.

In everything else, do with me as You wish! But let me attain this program so that I can justify You; otherwise, I will not be able to do so. That is, this goal—this fear of falling out of attainment—is not an egoistic fixation on myself.

Question: So is it possible to negotiate with the Creator in some way?

Answer: No, not to negotiate, but rather to compel Him to lead you further, to not let go, to hold on, to force Him, just as a small child compels an adult.

Our goal is very serious. Therefore the desired attitude toward the Creator is one where on the one hand you recognize His greatness, and on the other you understand that you can influence Him. And He desires this! Because in doing so you pursue the same goal as He does: to achieve complete mutual understanding and unity.

Question: So is there really a choice between these two things you are talking about?

Answer: The choice lies in your attitude toward what is happening, not in what is happening itself.

Question: But then why are you afraid that you might simply be disconnected? Does it depend on the students or on you personally?

Answer: What it depends on, I do not know. I do not see the entire picture of governance. I only know what I have been able to attain from the beginning of my path until this moment. And what lies ahead, I do not know.

Therefore I cannot say whether it depends on me, on the students, or on something else. I do not know, and I do not need to. It does not matter whether I know or not. What matters is my attitude toward it. I want to justify the Creator in all His ways, and for this reason, I do not want to be disconnected from attaining His program and uniting with it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. To Exist in Attainment” 6/27/10

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A person’s spiritual need can be fulfilled only if we agree with the actions of the Creator in darkness. After all, in the light of revelation, it is easy for us to agree that the Creator has done good to us. But it is precisely in darkness and concealment that it must be said that these too are actions of the Creator.

A person feels that he has no connection with the revelation of the Creator in his world, and that this connection depends on him, on whether he strives for it or not. The Creator wants to bring a person to the understanding that everything depends on his connection with the Creator. And then the revelation of the Creator to a person is called light and connection, while separation from the Creator is called darkness and evil. And so a person progresses from evil to good, from darkness to light. Any advancement is a sequence of concealment and revelation of the Creator.

The Torah gives us a solution. If we act for the sake of taking a step toward the Creator, then we will perceive any revelation of the Creator as happiness. However, if we do not strive to come closer to Him, then we will perceive the revelation of a new state as evil.

Invite and draw the Creator into what is happening so that it becomes revealed that it was the Creator who acted is the solution.

We cause all the evil and misery in the world by choosing the force of evil. But if we choose the force of good, then peace reigns in the world. Our only choice is to attribute everything that happens to the Creator. And the more of what happens in reality that we can attribute to the Creator, the more we strengthen this force of “There is none else besides Him.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/1/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: We are a young ten. We feel that we have made significant progress over the past few months while preparing for the convention. However, there is often a feeling that to truly make a breakthrough, an extreme situation is necessary, something similar to the intensity of your caring for your teacher for two months or having a non-stop convention for three months. Should we, perhaps, create conditions to truly foster an extreme situation?

Answer: Extreme situations can arise at any moment without any special reasons.

However, you must understand that entering the volume of spiritual vessels, lights, and levels happens with those who genuinely desire it, who exert effort, and pray, meaning, they ask the Creator for spiritual advancement. Therefore I urge you not to neglect this.

I have never seen anyone who could claim with absolute certainty that what one has achieved in spirituality was received as a gift from above without any effort on his part. No, it depends on a person himself, at least 90%, and the Creator adds the rest.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/25, “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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