Question: What is the connection between concealment and the desire for revelation?

Answer: The desire for revelation awakens to the extent of the concealment.

Question: What does it mean that the Creator hides Himself in the Torah?

Answer: It means that through studying the Torah we begin to see which questions can bring us closer to Him, reveal Him, and connect us with Him.

Question: How can one find and see the Creator behind absolutely everything in reality?

Answer: If you direct yourself toward the Creator, you will gradually see how He becomes revealed after the concealment He places between Himself and us.

Question: How do the views of a friend, the Creator, and creation connect?

Answer: One’s view of a friend gradually becomes more direct, clear, and close within each of us. Therefore, through the connection with friends, we gradually come closer to connection with the Creator.

Question: Should a person strive to feel the Creator’s true attitude toward him, or should he try to correct this striving and purify it?

Answer: A person should ask questions and try to seek answers in the sources we study.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

In spiritual development, education, reason, and mental abilities have absolutely no meaning.

I have seen this from my own experience. I always considered myself smart; I wanted to develop, and naturally respected reason, understanding, and knowledge. For me, it was simply divine when a person knows, understands, realizes, thinks, analyzes, and synthesizes everything that he feels and perceives. But in the end, it turns out no one needs any of it. It is amazing that no one needs it.

In fact, spiritual work comes down to finally realizing with your developed brains that you do not need them. All you need are to do things that cause the influence of the upper light on you. It will change your desires, not your mind, but your desires. In accordance with the new desires, a new mind will develop that will serve these desires. That is all.

It took me a long time to finally realize that knowledge is not important; it is only needed to summon the upper light.

That is why all the smart guys who come to study Kabbalah and want to figure everything out quickly with their brains and move forward “crash” like waves against this stone wall until they begin to realize that the opposite is true.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Reason and Feelings” 10/5/10

Question: Has our world group not yet broken through the iron wall that separates us and the whole world from Kabbalah?

Answer: The fact is that breaking through the iron wall means acquiring the property of complete bestowal. Ask yourself if you are already in that state.

There are people among us who are truly breaking through this wall, there are those who have broken through and there are those who are on their way to it, some closer and some further away.

Each of us should feel as if only one more effort remains to break through the iron wall. Beyond it are many other steps, and each time a person will feel as if he is breaking through it again. But all subsequent steps proceed within this spiritual ladder, within the upper world, already in the quality of bestowal, from a small level of bestowal to a larger and larger one. In accordance with this, an ever-increasing volume and more internal connections of the whole world and oneself with it are revealed. A person feels like he contains the whole world.

In fact, everything is inside of us. Sometimes, when you look at the starry sky at night, you suddenly have a desire to have it all in you; you want to embrace it all. In fact, it is all you, and as a result, you feel not only the stars in you, because this is a very small part of our world, but the entire universe, not to mention the upper world.
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From a Virtual Lesson, 11/18/12

40) First, we must understand the words of our sages (Megillah 6b), who said, “I labored and found—believe; I did not labor and found—do not believe” (Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“).

Question: Why must we understand this first and then see how and in what way the Torah becomes a deadly poison for a person?

Answer: We need to try to reveal the condition “labored and found—believe” to the point of realizing that the efforts we exert for our sense of revelation are proportional to our desire.

How can it be that a person labors and does not find if he exerts all his strength to attain the Creator and is awaiting His revelation?
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”