Question: The Creator testifies about a person. Does this occur at the beginning of the degree of reward and punishment, or is it when he has completed this measure of effort and passed this degree?

Answer: It occurs at the beginning.

Question: Does a person work with the correction of desires in direct connection with the Creator, meaning that he sees the result of his actions?

Answer: Yes.

Question: If a person has been rewarded with the revelation of the face, then from this point onward, what does his freedom of choice consist of?

Answer: He must constantly raise himself to a level that is above his personal desires. That is all.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/11/25, Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

When will one be certain that he has been granted complete repentance? For this, one is given a clear sign: “When He Who knows the mysteries testifies that he will not return to folly.” This means that he will attain the revelation of the face, at which time His salvation itself will testify that he will not return to folly (Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“).

Question: What does it mean that a person will never again return to folly?

Answer: It is a state in which a person clearly discerns the degree of his relation to the revelation of the Creator, to his connection with Him. This awareness safeguards him from falling. The Creator reveals His attitude toward him to him, and therefore he will no longer fall.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/11/25, Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

Question: I change, and the world changes. Is that the formula?

Answer: That is the formula. But who changes me?

Question: That is the important question. Is it the Creator who changes me? In response to what? Or is it simply His will?

Answer: It is so that I can gradually determine that I am under His authority and that He governs the world that He alone created. And I am grateful to Him for having carried me through all these metamorphoses.

Comment: But until that happens…

My Response: It doesn’t matter. A person does eventually reach such a state when he dies. Then he understands and realizes.

Comment: I will ask you carefully: “Who is he?” You said: “A person dies,” and then you say, “he understands and realizes.”

My Response: The person, in his soul.

Comment: But he’s dead.

My Response: And what does “dead” mean?

Comment: That is interesting. What does “dead” mean? You said: “A person dies and then understands.”

My Response: And then he understands, realizes, that the Creator led him through all the states of this life.

Question: But who is he? Who understands?

Answer: The person.

Comment: But he is no longer here. He died.

My Response: Was he buried or burned? So what?

Question: And where is he, the person?

Answer: The spirit. That is the person.

Question: So is this spirit immortal?

Answer:Of course. What, do you think, it is just a piece of meat?

Question: So, are you saying that there is something eternal in a person, which feels everything, passes through everything, and only that exists?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And this outer shell, what is it?

Answer: That you may bury.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/8/25

Question: Can you give an example of how to rise above an egoistic state?

Answer: The most common state a person goes through is when something “unpleasant” is orchestrated from above, some kind of negative incident, and then they are manipulated, supposedly revealing it to the whole world. Because of this, a person finds him or herself in a constrained, intensely anxious, stressful state, terribly afraid for their good name.

They are pressured from above to show how much they love themselves and how unwilling they are to sacrifice their ego for any thoughts about spirituality, how they are even ready to run away from spiritual work just so they would not be exposed or revealed in any way, so that their insignificance would not be shown. These are the usual exercises carried out from above on our egoism.

But it is easy to talk about this, and when you are actually in such states, living through it is almost impossible. A person constantly wavers on this borderline, back and forth: either spirituality is important to me, or my ego, my shame. They keep examining and re-examining this. This condition is given so that they constantly try to understand that they must follow the path of bestowal and rise above their shame. This cannot be ignored.

I believe that one day films and books will be created on this topic and the time will come when it will be published, not only in a purely instructive format as it is today, but also in more popular styles accessible to many.

We know that today our sources are understood by only a small percentage of the population. Therefore, (just as Baal HaSulam dreamed) we will have to write new books, create new films, and new media tools that will emotionally bring a person into these states, because reason alone cannot achieve much. These tools should prepare a person through feelings, inner definitions, and inner analyses for the perception of spiritual influences.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Over the Machsom” 9/12/10