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Burn Egoism in the Center of the Group

934Question: When there is serious separation within the ten, what is the very first action to prevent us from falling apart?

Answer: You must feel as if you are a society threatened by such separation and distancing from one another that it will be impossible to reunite afterward.

Question: What do we need to do to gather into the point of unity?

Answer: You need to destroy your egoism. Gather together, “light a fire” in the center of the group, and burn all the egoism in it.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/1/25, “Connecting to Lishma

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The Creator Is the Foundation of Desire

13.03Question: If our pleasure comes from the outside, is it still slavery? Do we need to reach a state where we become the source of all changes that enter a person’s life?

Answer: No, we will still need the Creator and the desire to receive from Him, and only strive for this. This is the foundation of our desire.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/1/25, “Connecting to Lishma

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Keep the Creator in Focus

237Question: You said that the Creator’s gift does not extinguish the Hissaron that He Himself creates for our advancement.

How can we ensure that all the gifts the Creator gives do not extinguish the Hissaron, but only increase love for Him?

Answer: It depends on how you relate to the connection between you and the Creator. The most important thing is to keep the Creator in focus at all times. And then everything will come to you at the right time.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/1/25, “Connecting to Lishma

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Protect Your Inner Wealth

631.5Question: Have you ever done anything in life that might seem strange to an outside person?

Answer: Never! I have never done anything like that! On the contrary. I act like the most ordinary person or even lower—like I might crack a joke, and so on. And it comes naturally.

Imagine you are carrying millions of dollars in a small suitcase. Would you show it off? No. You would hide it as if you were carrying a worn-out bag with old sneakers, heading to a workout.

That is how everything should appear in essence. You would wear modest clothing, something a bit worn-out, to avoid drawing the attention of others.

If I really have great inner potential, a reserve, wealth, then I keep it hidden from others.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Without Showing Off” 5/21/10

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Society of the Future: an Example of Communication

 202We must give a person such an example of the necessity and possibility of communication so that he sees in practice that only through correct interaction between us do we solve any tasks, provide ourselves with everything necessary, confidence, security, love, move forward, and reveal new qualities in us that expand our range to the next dimension—to feeling the Creator.

Where will I find these qualities in order to feel the Creator? Only in the correct communication with each other.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The System of the Future, Part 3” 5/12/10

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 72

Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 72

What Should We Do in Every State to Progress?

We need not do anything. If we decide on a certain action that we seemingly need to do, we then ruin the entire process. How can we know what we need? There is but a single force that can help us: the reforming light.

We have no understanding or prior knowledge of how to move from one state to another. Before entering a certain state, we feel as if we encounter it for the first time. Without a new vessel, we have no idea about the new state’s structure, how to correct it, or how to fill it with light.

At every level, we must follow the process of left, right, and middle again and again. From the left, we attain the vessel; from the right, we correct it; and afterward, in the middle line, we fill it. As long as we have yet to reach a certain level, we have no understanding of what we should do. This is why Kabbalists call the spiritual path “steps.” What we have yet to attain is nonexistent.

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The Spiritual Image

938.04Question: How can one find the spiritual image to which they can nullify themselves?

Answer: I cannot even say. It simply arises, that is all. It is the result of the influence of the upper light.

There is nothing to invent here. You do not need to imagine anything. There are no fantasies or meditations, no fairy-tale notions. You simply have to wait until the upper light creates a clear inner vision in you when you begin to understand that in all people, it is their soul that speaks, and they are all connected through it into one unified whole.

Let’s say there is a pot of soup in front of you. You can scoop out a spoonful, a second, a third, but each spoonful is part of the same soup. You separated it out.

I see one person, another, a third… I can distinguish them in some way from this “soup,” from the collective soul, but in essence, they are absolutely united within it. And it is only my “spoon” that separates them: this one is Vladek, that one is Grisha, Misha, Vova, and so on. But in reality, this separation does not exist, it is only relative to my “spoon.”

Question: You say that by humbling oneself before one’s friends during study, one can attract the light. Will this reveal the feeling of separation to me?

Answer: On the contrary, I will see the common bond between friends, that it is one single soul.

I do not see them as faces or even as separate individuals. I see their unity, something like a “pot of soup.”

Question: But you have many students. Over time, do you not see their distinct images?

Answer: No, I do not scan them. Not at all! I do not remember faces, and names even less.

Maybe I remember 30 to 40 names, and even that is unlikely because for me, a person is not associated with their name or face, with any external factors. I simply see them; they are inside together with the others, they wish to be with them, they strive for this.

In essence, all people are together, we are all one unified soul, one single “soup.”
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Image in the Spiritual” 6/2/10

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Questions about Spiritual Work—220

231.02Question: The Book of Zohar says man has an unchangeable nature. Despite this, can I come to a burning desire to be in Arvut (mutual guarantee)?

Answer: Of course. You only need to think about the light that returns to the source (the reforming light) because you want to attract it in any state.

Question: Can we say that the state of Lishma is the final stage of the degree that depends on a person’s measure of bestowal?

Answer: Yes.

Question: You talked about feeling fear for everyone. What should I do if I try my best to achieve spirituality but fear that nothing will work out?

Answer: You must keep going and in no way step back. There is nothing more that can be done. Act only in this direction.
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From Daily Kabbalah lesson on the topic “Connecting to Lishma” 2/1/25

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A System that Emanates Goodness

962.8Comment: To convey all the information that Kabbalists talk about, we need to create a completely unique system.

My Response: In our world, we teach children how to adapt to it, to study and understand it. As a result, they gradually master this world and use it to the maximum. Although they often use it incorrectly and end up suffering, it is still possible to educate a person.

You take a little “monkey” who knows nothing and understands nothing and turn it into a rational human being who can navigate this world and adapt it to himself. We can do the same to a person in relation to the spiritual world. For this, we have the wisdom of Kabbalah, which explains how we should act.

We are instructed to build a new society. But how do we build it? Let’s start by modeling it together.

Question: But the main problem people face is how to implement this system. It is very difficult to convey this information. Suppose someone opens a website. What happens step by step? What do they encounter?

Answer: It should be a kind, welcoming website where a person enters and learns about kindness, about the correct connection with all people in the world. He learns how to interact correctly with himself and with others and begins to understand how necessary this is and how it is the only correct solution.

Examples from nature, from human society, and from all kinds of systems at various levels, whether inanimate, vegetative, or animate, are provided to him, so he can see how to build correct relationships on the human level. This is not something unattainable.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The System of the Future, Part 1” 5/10/10

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 71

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What Is the Purpose of Creation: Is it “to Adhere to Him” or “to Benefit His Created Beings”?

“To benefit His created beings” is a state, while “to adhere to Him” is an action. Through “adhering to Him,” we receive the thought of creation, which is to benefit His created beings. If we progress correctly toward the goal, we follow the middle line, which is neither right nor left but a union of both. From the left, we receive desires; from the right, we correct them with the intention to bestow, and from both, we ascend in the middle line.

In Baal HaSulam’s “Letter 17,” he describes how to perform this action: “Let me explain to you the meaning of the middle pillar, which is the meaning of ‘The Torah, the Creator, and Israel are one.’”

  • “Torah” – the light, the laws, and the rules of spiritual progress.
  • “The Creator” – the goal.
  • “Israel” – the person, the soul yearning to return to the degree of adhesion with the Creator.
  • “One” – States 1 and 3 are one, and a person must, through their own efforts, ascend to this state.

“The purpose of the soul when it comes in the body.” Why in this world are we composed of body and soul? So that the soul will “be rewarded, while clothed in the body,” during our lifetime here in this world (Kabbalah never speaks of the afterlife, only of what we should attain during our lives here in this world), “will return to its root, with adhesion with Him.” In this lifetime, we need to climb all the rungs of the spiritual ladder, starting from the degree called “this world,” which is the degree opposite to goodness and the goal, and reach the end of correction. Whoever does not complete the path in one lifetime will do so in several lifetimes.

Throughout the generations, the same souls reincarnate and return to this world until, at the end of the process, they reach State 3, “as it is written, ‘To love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, and to adhere to Him.’” The ultimate goal is “to adhere to Him,” as it was before the soul was clothed in a body.

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The Society of the Future: Caring for One Another

963.4Comment: There are many sites where our information is presented. But you are talking about a completely different stage when a person doesn’t just visit a site to get information but absorbs warmth from it.

My Response: Of course. We must make the surrounding environment in relation to each of us, like a game of Tamagotchi, a virtual pet that needs to be fed on time, put to sleep, and constantly cared for. But this egoist, their Tamagotchi, is always demanding and demanding from them.

However, we need to create a slightly different game, where the surrounding society becomes my pain, my “baby.” I depend on it, I love it, I care only for it because, to me, it is the most important thing, just as a child is to a mother for whom nothing else in the world exists. Nature has made us this way.

And here we must reach this state on our own. However, by ourselves, we can do nothing; we must come to the point of truly desiring it. And then we will feel the need for the upper light, which will bring us this correction.

Reaching such a state is practically a game. At this stage, we are not yet drawing the upper light, as we must attract it through our desire.

We must create such a game-like connection between us in which you would constantly receive inspiration, a sense of importance, and necessity from others—where they would excite you, provoke you, pull you forward to such an extent that you would feel envy, anger, and greed, and you would ask yourself why you don’t have what others do.

This is how your aspiration for the upper should be.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The System of the Future, Part 2” 5/11/10

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Create an Adapter Between Us and Nature

959We need to create an online system that conveys the atmosphere described by Kabbalists, the atmosphere that should prevail in the society of the future. We need to establish a virtual community, open to everyone, where a person can learn to live according to spiritual laws and principles.

This community should naturally be friendly and include interactive, game-like elements. Through this learning process, a person would gradually come to understand what nature is, why it influences them the way it does, why they feel discomfort due to being opposite to it, and how they can change to feel better.

This is essentially a system for adapting a person to nature. We exist within nature, but we don’t realize how opposite we are to it, which is why we constantly suffer. Creating such an adapter between us and nature is exactly what we need.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The System of the Future, Part 1” 5/10/10

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Light Through the Group

165Question: How do you yourself receive light through the group? Let’s say we have to nullify ourselves toward our friends. How does this happen to you?

Answer: I also have to nullify myself internally toward the group.

Comment: But you have a completely different process of nullification since you feel and know the spiritual system.

My Response: It doesn’t matter. I still nullify myself before them, that is, before that spiritual image, before the appearance, before the spiritual vessel, that my students represent.

In fact, they are internally connected to each other into one single whole, very powerful, infinite, and perfect. I nullify myself in relation to this internal unity.

Their connection, their love, the fact that the Creator wishes to see them this way and holds them at this level, I feel all of this within my friends, within the group, and, you could say, within all of humanity.

Although it is a bit harder to imagine, in essence, this is the case. Otherwise, we cannot connect with the collective soul, the place where the Creator resides.

I do not nullify myself in relation to each of these individuals based on their external traits. They may be small, beginners, or egoists. I nullify myself not before their outward expressions, but in relation to the inner divine desire and fulfillment that exists within each of them, within every person in the world. But they are unaware of this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Light Through the Group” 6/1/10

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Make Plans Come True

627.1Question: What do you do when plans fall apart? Many people have their plans fall apart, and today many have failed. Can a person react differently, calmer somehow?

Answer: It depends on his readiness. If he is prepared in advance for the fact that all his plans will fail and he will have to change them to the plans of the Creator, then he will survive it calmly.

Question: So I plan, but it will happen how the Creator wants it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it right to start the sentence with: “I plan”?

Answer: You have to, a person does plan. But he must convince himself that the plans of the Creator and not his will come true.

Question: So I do my thing, but it will happen as the Creator commands?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this how one should live? Is this the right message?

Answer: Yes, You always add: “If the Creator wills.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/1/24

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Is There No Truth on Earth?

294.2Question: Is it necessary to push through toward the truth? If we do, how can I make my way to it?

Answer: We do not know what the truth is. We do not know that. Therefore, what are we going to push through toward? The fact that we do not like our current state does not mean that we know how to leave it.

Question: What do you personally call truth?

Answer: The truth is that in my eyes all people are absolutely the same.

Question: Do you mean equality, equals?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Meaning, all people are equal?

Answer: All people. But if I wish to see it this way and advance toward this, then it is considered to be the truth.

Question: Am I equal to them the same way?

Answer: Absolutely! Then we will find out what this truth is about, what it tastes like.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/1/24

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 70

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How Is the Choice Between Good and Evil Made from this Middle Point?

“Middle” means that good and evil seem equal. But how can we distinguish between them? In our world, there are no labels of “good” or “evil” attached to desires, temptations, or actions. If there were such labels, we would have no free choice. We are positioned between and surrounded equally by all kinds of possibilities.

But if the possibilities are equal, how can we choose? What choice can there be in Klipat Noga, in something half good and half evil, if we do not know what direction to take? After all, we are clueless as to what lies ahead of us. If we knew in advance, what choice would we have? How, then, do we make a choice?

It is only through descents and ascents, through failures. As it is written, “There is not a righteous man on earth who does good and did not sin.” From the failures and the feeling of how the situation is opposite to the spiritual degree, to perfection, to the Creator’s state, we come to recognize the Creator through negation and learn who and what He is, as is it written about “the advantage of light from within darkness,” and then we yearn for Him.

This is how we gather these yearnings until they build a genuine desire that leads to a cry to the Creator from which we receive strength, and we can then adhere to Him. This happens only through the feeling of failure.

The wars mentioned in the Bible with Amalek, the Klipot, and the many conquests are scrutinies of distinctions that must be made in order to reach the Land of Israel (“Land” [Eretz] meaning “desire” [Ratzon], and “Israel” meaning “straight to God” [Yashar-El]), a place where our desire aligns precisely with the desire of the Creator. It is a state where we receive a screen at the level of the light that dresses the level of Ein Sof.

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It All Depends on the Student

254.02No one in the world is ready to hear Kabbalistic information. Everyone wants to hear information about how to get something, not information on how to give. The fact is that we are built in such a way that we are only ready to receive. “Give away? First of all, I have nothing to give. Second, who should I give it to?”

That is, Kabbalah is entirely different information. It is perceived in the reflected light, in the desire to give, in the desire to love. When such a desire arises, this information enters you and you open up. Otherwise, you are closed up.

To the extent the desire to be connected with others, to love them, and to give them comes from you, to this extent the light from all of them enters precisely into this desire of yours. How can a beginner have such a desire?

Comment: But you give such interesting lessons to the beginners, you find such expressions, such explanations.

My Response: It depends on the audience. Sometimes I hear something interesting and know how to work with it. But this happens very rarely. As a rule, this happens right at the lesson, when I see people, feel them, and according to this have appropriate associations.

Comment: You say that everything depends on the audience you communicate with. For beginners you give one thing, and for others you give another, but you still feel the desire.

My Response: I cannot help it. That is for sure. I cannot sit before beginners and give them complex information and vice versa. That is why the lessons are different. It is not I who determines this but the students.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Feel the consumer” 9/9/10

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Completely Different Logic

219.01Question: When you share information with someone, do you not have a sense of its consumers to better understand what they want?

Answer: In the article “Prophecy,” Baal HaSulam writes that he asked the Creator to lower him from the high level he was on so he could write something for people and they would understand what Kabbalah is, get closer to it, and use it. After all, Kabbalah is a purely practical science that needs to be implemented within oneself. How successful he was is a question.

When we read his works, we gradually begin to understand his style and his greatness. He managed to express vast spiritual volumes, properties, and actions very beautifully with a small number of words.

But I do not think he was satisfied with himself. It seems to me that he would have liked to write in such a way that a person, after glancing at the page, would gasp, freeze, and stick to the text as to a picture that would enter him and imprint on him, like an external image on film. This is how Kabbalistic material should be imprinted.

Light is reflected on a person’s desire. Moreover, the difference between the desire and the light is minimal so that the image can be transferred from the light directly to the egoistic desire that is opposite to it.

I do not think Baal HaSulam achieved this. Many read, but understand nothing. People who know Hebrew perfectly, with a university education, come to me and ask: “What is this about?” They cannot connect words into sentences because it is a completely different logic.

I remember myself. I did not understand the structure of the phrase itself: it seemed to be predicate-predicate-predicate, without a subject or verb. That is, it is illogical both in spelling and in vocabulary. So we still have to work as well.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Feel the Consumer” 9/9/10

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Reincarnations: Preparation for the Spiritual

202.0Question: In the previous reincarnations of life, all your students have received some training. That is, there is no such person who comes to Kabbalah from scratch. Is it so?

Answer: No, it is not like that. It is just that people who come to study Kabbalah today have done some work in previous reincarnations, so that this time in this world they can feel its hopelessness, uselessness, and meaninglessness, and disagree with their animal existence.

And all the others who still cannot react to it in this way, are spinning in their animal interests: honor, fame, power, even knowledge, culture, and science. During this lifetime, they are interested in all kinds of achievements at the level of our world.

A person who comes to pure Kabbalah is only interested in spiritual attainment. Whatever you offer him in our world, he does not see anything in it that would captivate him. You can tell him, “Let us become billionaires in ten or twenty years” and he is not interested. “Let’s make you prime minister in ten years” is also not interesting.

He is only interested in the spiritual revelation of the meaning of life and in achieving it in order to give his body such content at the level of our world that it would not distract him from spiritual expansion.

Therefore such people must already go through some states in the preliminary reincarnations of their lives, not spiritual ones, but simply certain disappointments in our world. It is quite possible that in this cycle, in this life, they will go through them.

That is, they will achieve some opportunities to become rich, noble, respected, and—having achieved or not achieved this—they will quickly reveal the inconsistency of such aspirations, that is, the lack of fulfillment from all this, and then they come to Kabbalah.

Of course, a person is driven by selfishness, a feeling of emptiness, and the question: “Why do I live, because there is no fulfillment in life?” It is healthy, normal egoism that leads him to Kabbalah, egoism that eventually kills itself, that becomes its own gravedigger.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Cycles of Life” 5/10/10

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The Group Is the Embodiment of the Connection between Souls

939.02In spiritual work, the group is absolutely essential for everyone because it is the instrument with which we reveal the Creator. The Creator is attained only through the connection between souls.

And the group in our world is the embodiment of such connection. In a group, we can learn how to interact with one another despite egoism.

This is the most unnatural work for a human being! It is the most dreadful activity you could ever come up with—trying mechanically to love, to participate in lessons and events, and to constantly interact. But there is no way around it.

Question: Are the people you work with also a group for you?

Answer: For me, the group consists of practically all my students from all over the world who take part in lessons, read my blog, and are with me.

Question: Do they help in your advancement?

Answer: Of course, I relate to them like a mother who feeds her children and derives pleasure from it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Importance of the Group” 5/30/10

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