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See the Future as Good

252Question: Can a Kabbalist predict what will happen in ten years?

Answer: A Kabbalist will never engage in prophecy. He can explain the trends of the development of society and humanity in order to demonstrate the course of the egoistic nature without the intervention of our correction.

And with the intervention of correction, no one will be able to clearly predict this, since everything depends only on the freedom of will of the people who study Kabbalah.

Therefore, Baal HaSulam, who printed his books, reproduced and distributed them with the purpose of disseminating Kabbalah, came to the conclusion that the generation was not yet ready for this.

He even wrote about the possibility of a third and fourth world war. But still, a Kabbalist does not know exactly when anything will happen because he does not have the right to use the freedom of will as a given reality. He leaves it for a person to realize.

Thus, a Kabbalist can predict the tendency of the natural development of humanity. However, considering a person’s freedom of will, he does not know how quickly humanity will enter this process. Therefore, he will not engage in speculation.

Question: Maybe Kabbalists can predict something good?

Answer: Kabbalists will predict something good only to the extent that you want it to be good.

Comment: By the way, I have never read good predictions. That is strange.

My Response: Because everything depends on the person! If you are corrected, you will see the future as good. If you are not corrected, you will see it as bad. And there is no future by itself. How well your senses are corrected or not, that is how you will feel it. You are the one who creates your own future! So, keep trying!
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 3/18/18

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Living Together Is Easier than Living Alone

423.02Question: Statistical studies show that a person with more friends has a greater chance of feeling happy. Why is that?

Answer: It would seem that friends should bring me even more trouble than happiness. After all, they pass their moods on to me, and I worry about everything that happens to them—good and bad. So I should actually be more upset because of them, since usually a person has more problems in life than joys.

But the point is that people tend to hide their problems and talk about their successes. Therefore, it seems to me that those around me live normally and prosperously. And even if others are not very happy, a shared misfortune is not as frightening. I see that others have the same problems as I do, and I no longer measure my condition against some ideal of happiness.

I understand that I am no worse off than others and that this is simply life. I accept this as a given and lower my standards to the general level accepted in society.

In addition, I see that commercial and industrial systems are built to make life easier for everyone. This is why we unite and create cities and factories. Together, it is easier to survive in this world, and we have more opportunities to enjoy life than each person on their own. Someone living as a hermit in a forest faces a very difficult existence, if they survive at all.

Clearly, connection among all of us benefits us. When problems arise, they become shared and are divided among everyone. By living in society, we learn from each other and take example from others. Therefore, the more I am included in society, the more support and sense of stability I can receive from it.

Everything bad and good that happens in life ultimately evens out. Even though in the end society may bring me more problems than good, these will be the same problems that everyone has, and so I will agree with them.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 242 – Happiness And Social Ties,” 10/17/13

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The Mind of a Kabbalist

 202Comment: You have a very broad mind, but the human brain cannot perceive and sense the entire universe so broadly. There is wisdom in you.

My Response: This is a consequence of spiritual attainment, not because on the earthly level I am intelligent. On the earthly level, I am not Newton or Einstein.

Question: Then where does your vast knowledge come from?

Answer: The fact is that I have a completely different volume of desire. In my desire, I look at everything that happens in this world as a game of little children. I see our world on a level that I can easily grasp, understand it through-and-through from top to bottom and from bottom to top in its entire volume, in all its connections. For me, it is like a sandwich.

I see it consisting of four parts: still, vegetative, animate, and human levels of matter, and see how they interact with each other and gradually develop so that the human level will finally rise upward, into the spiritual world, and pull all the other levels along with it.

I see this purely speculatively, visually, but precisely because I have developed a spiritual Kli, a spiritual desire, within myself. Otherwise, I would not be able to see with such volume and such clarity from top to bottom and, so to speak, manipulate it.

I have spoken with scientists in our world with great minds who contain so much information based on the fact that “someone said,” “someone thinks,” “according to this,” NS “according to that.” They drown in an enormous mass of information, unable to chew it. Because they rely on knowledge, and therefore, it is difficult for them.

Question: But you cannot see through all the states of other people, can you? You are not omnipresent to see everything as if on a plate.

Answer: Yes, I see nature in general. Of course, I do not know all the states, all the metamorphoses, everything that happens and passes through each one. I simply know the general plan of development. I have gone through it myself and therefore understand what the others must go through since the path of the individual and the path of the whole are absolutely identical.

I know the nature of all transformations and changes, and therefore, it is no secret to me. I do not know a person’s private states; I am not a psychic who can look at another person and say what he is thinking, like Wolf Messing.

Kabbalah, by the way, does not give such abilities at all (to do some kind of extrasensory tricks in our world, perform various stunts, add twenty-digit fractions, numbers, and so on). It does not allow seeing the past or seeing the future in a private sense; it simply gives the general system of all development. You feel how you pass through this system, and understand from what you are now going through, how it must develop further.

You do not enter private souls. And why is that needed? What difference does it make what I might see in others?

Question: So, you recall the states you went through, and only because of this can you understand what is happening with a person?

Answer: Of course, only from my own experience and only up to the degree on which I am today. If you ask me about what is above this degree, I can only guess, I am not certain, absolutely not certain.

Moreover, all my experience tells me that all this is absolutely incorrect. On the contrary, if you tell me: “What do you think: will it be this way or that way,” I can tell you anything, and it will still be unpredictable.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Reason and Feelings” 10/5/10

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Nature Has Begun to Remove Its Protective Screen, Part 4

761.3Nature protects us by creating a restriction, that is, our impact on nature manifests itself only to the extent of our inner development. As a merciful judge assigning punishment, it takes into account, not only the crimes, but also our ability to understand and realize them.

Nature, as it were, filters our negative influences and gradually reduces them billions of times. As a result, we exert only the slightest influence on nature and in a certain form only in order to learn from it and understand that we actually influence it.

First of all, man must take an integral part in nature at the human level, that is, in relation to one’s fellow human beings, each of whom must understand that they all are one body. A person must ensure one’s correction and not hope that simply protecting the environment (the inanimate, vegetative, and animate) will help him or her. This is the most fundamental point.

Even if we put all the waste into “recycling,” that is, into secondary usage, and even if we clean up the entire Atlantic Ocean from waste, this will not help us save nature. The integral relationship of man to nature is expressed at the level of thought and desire—this is our main impact on nature.

The law of universal integral connection operates in nature because nature is the Creator! Even if a wolf kills a sheep and eats it, it does so on the orders of nature, which instructs it to kill sick individuals.

If you destroy all the wolves in the forest, all animals will get sick, and the whole forest will die out. In nature, everyone lives for the sake of others. It does so instinctively, without knowing it. The wolf does not know it lives in order to eat sick animals.

But people do not need to eat each other to survive. They harm each other only because of their egoism.

Instead of “protecting” nature on a physical level, from it we need to learn the instinctive right connection in which all parts of nature exist. We need to base human society on the same laws. What animals do in physical actions, we need to examine and fulfill in spiritual actions.

People’s thoughts and desires are projected onto lower levels, as an application to the inanimate, plant and animal worlds. Therefore, we must build a human society in an integral form and treat nature as a general system that we are a part of.

Rather than looking down on nature, or from the side, we must feel that all of nature is the upper force, the Creator, and humanity must become an integral part of it. With our correct participation, the whole of nature will come into balance.

All imbalances in nature are shown to man to bring himself into balance. Then he will see, in his application to nature, how it all returns to balance. Earth will turn into a Garden of Eden, into a perfect system, if man corrects himself.

If we do not do this, nature will ruthlessly teach us, which is what we have recently been seeing.
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From the Conversation 9/6/17, “Climate Cataclysms”

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Everything Depends on the Power of Connection

275Question: If I know that I will eventually reveal the Creator’s open governance, how can I use this knowledge without egoism? I believe that sooner or later I will attain the Creator and it seems that I can already apply my future state now.

Answer: How can you apply it?

Comment: Through faith that I will reveal the Creator.

My Response: You do not yet have the quality of faith. You simply think that someday in the future you will attain it. Whether you attain it now or another time is unknown.

Therefore, focus on further advancement together with the group of friends toward the revelation of the Creator through ever-greater unity. Everything depends on the strength of your connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/25,  Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Living with Meaning, Part 2

1.02Question: It is difficult to accept that there is only one meaning of life that is common to everyone. Doesn’t each person search for their own meaning?

Answer: It turns out that every day every person is searching for a new meaning, that is, something to derive pleasure from today. But the true meaning of life cannot be temporary: If the meaning has dried up, then there is no meaning. My life will end someday, and even if I cared about others, their lives are not eternal either.

The meaning of life can only be eternal. And if that does not exist and it is limited by the time span of our lives, then we are left with either confusing ourselves by finding an imaginary meaning in some hobbies or not searching for meaning at all, but simply living in the present moment.

Question: When does a person come to the necessity to find the eternal meaning of life?

Answer: It depends on the inner development and the measure of suffering. A person must suffer from the fact that his life passes without meaning. His life can be very prosperous, simply royal, where he lacks nothing but one thing: “But what am I living for?” He may have everything in this world, but it does not fulfill him. It depends on the inner needs of a person.

If we do not fill ourselves with the eternal, true meaning of life, then this is life on the bodily level until this body dies. But if we want to rise to the true meaning, we must always be connected with the goal that answers this question. We need to connect with the upper force of nature that governs the entire universe. Having reached it, we will reveal the meaning of life.

From the connection with an upper force, a person begins to understand that it created everything for a special purpose. And if a person connected with a goal touches some root in this world, then he knows how to use it correctly to give meaning to his actions. He will be able to use every detail of this world correctly in order to connect with the higher meaning through it.

In this way, he sanctifies this entire world and returns it to the upper root from which this world once expanded. It turns out that he learns to use this world correctly. Although these actions are not noticeable from the outside because all depends on the intention of the person.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 945 – The Meaning Of Life,” 1/9/18

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A More Humane World for Our Children

962.4Question: All parents want to bring up their children so they would grow up to be good, successful, educated people. But you say that the old method of upbringing does not work and we need new tools. What is this new upbringing?

Answer: First of all, we need, not the “new” upbringing, but simply “upbringing,” because the old upbringing does not exist. Currently we do not have any upbringing; we do not form a person. Therefore we cannot call the education that currently exists in Israel and in the entire world as a system of upbringing.

We deceive ourselves by thinking that we send our children to school to give them upbringing. The school does not bring them up. In school, children gain harmful examples, and the school cares only about grades, while it is not teachers’ concern how a child will behave.

Everyone will agree that at home children usually do not receive bad examples with the rare exception of the most dysfunctional families. Where do teenagers get bad habits? It is either from the Internet or from school, meaning from an outside influence. Therefore we need to take care of external influences so they would be positive rather than negative.

School is not engaged whatsoever in children’s upbringing. We need new tools of upbringing in order to transform school into a place where a person receives upbringing and not simply a place that gives him knowledge. Then we will see how our children will change for the better and be able to connect with one another and build a better, more humane world.

They will be able to build a family and have access to any information on the Internet. We must give them more knowledge about human being, about the human body, about genders, but in a correct and open form.

At the same time as the child receives information from outside, it is necessary to add explanations so they understand why they get such desires and thoughts.

We should not shame them, but talk with them in an easy way without embarrassment, correctly and openly so the child doesn’t withdraw within himself not knowing how to control his nature. The mutual work of parents, psychologists, and specialists is required here.

Question: The department of education has all the resources: psychologists, teachers, parents’ support, and a huge budget. Why are there no good results?

Answer: Today I do not see such specialists in school who would be able to form good people from today’s generation. Where can we see the results of school’s education?

Comment: My daughter is in the 11th grade and every day they keep her in school until 4 pm and occasionally until 6 pm. It costs the government a lot of money.

My Response: But there is no need for all of this. I need my daughter in the 11th grade to spend half of the time she spends in school on studying how to form a person within herself, how to build her environment, her family, and how to become a person who feels good in a good world.

A school doesn’t deal with this at all. It only teaches math, physics, biology, meaning, it prepares a child for college, in other words, how to earn money. Therefore we receive such results.
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From the program on radio station 103FM, 1/8/16

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If You Experience Suffering

630.2Question: If I go by faith above reason and justify the Creator yet still experience suffering—is this a correct work?

Answer: If you are experiencing suffering, then is that really the correct work?

In the beginning, you agree with the Creator, intending to correct yourself according to what is written in the sources. But then it turns out to be the opposite.

I hope you understand what I mean.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/2/25, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Longing for the Friends

281.01Question: What is this feeling when, after a lesson, you start missing your friends, feeling them as parts of your body you cannot be without; that is, you constantly want to be one with them?

Answer: This is the right feeling. Keep studying, complete all assigned tasks for the groups, and you will see yourself rise out of this state upward.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/2/25, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot

Reveal the Attitude of the Creator

239Question: How does the revelation of the face of the Creator as benevolent in His governance occur? After all, everything we attain is attained in faith above reason, as if we do not want to reveal Him directly.

Answer: If a person tunes himself to truly desire to reveal the attitude of the Creator toward him, and not only toward him, then according to the pressure he applies, according to his desire, he elicits a response from the Creator.

It turns out that he turns to the Creator with a question in order to know the Creator’s attitude toward him, and he receives an answer.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/2/25, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot

If You Do Not Feel the Creator

219.01Question: What is this state when you feel the whole world filled with the quality of bestowal, but you do not feel the Creator in it?

Answer: That is an incorrect state. In your world, in your perception of spirituality, the Creator Himself does not exist.

This requires serious reflection from you and a demand that He begins to engage with you, that you desire to be together with Him and to do what is pleasing to Him. Then you wait for Him to fulfill it.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/2/25, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot

Living with Meaning, Part 1

200.02Question: It is very important for a person to feel that their life has meaning. Is the meaning of life universal for everyone or must each person find their own meaning?

Answer: We all have one meaning of life: to reach the peak of human development and to attain the higher force that created us and governs us. We can draw closer to it, understand it, know it, and become its partners. The meaning of our life lies in attaining this force. According to how creation is arranged, there is no other meaning.

We did not create nature, this world, or ourselves. We exist within a system of laws without determining what will happen to us at any given moment nor our reactions. Absolutely nothing depends on us. So what remains for us within this entire system in which we are like fish caught in a net?

We are embedded in a system of forces that act in all possible forms and combinations with one another on all levels: still, vegetative, animate, and human, and in all times: past, present, and future that connect me with all generations that were, are, and will be. I feel like I belong to them because essentially I am one among billions throughout the many thousands of years of history.

Therefore in searching for the meaning of life, I first analyze the day I am living now, and immediately I discover that I do not understand the meaning. If only I knew the entire process that I and nature are undergoing. But how can a small person know such lofty matters?

In that case, one has to limit oneself to searching for meaning in this temporary, brief life. This means that I no longer ask about its causes and results beyond life and death, but I look only within life itself.

And this is how people live: they want to achieve success, start a family, raise good children, travel the world, become a renowned scientist or musician, etc. Each person finds meaning in what is closest to them.

Perhaps I simply want to have fun, or work only as much as necessary, and in the evening come home and watch television without getting off the couch. That too can be considered a meaning of life.

But the problem is that we do not live according to our own plans. The engine of development continuously turns and rotates us, and pushes us forward in all feelings and qualities, in intellectual, emotional, and inner development. Therefore we change, and yesterday’s meaning of life loses its meaning today. My former childhood dreams have already evaporated.

For example, my grandson at the age of three dreamed of becoming a garbage-truck driver. It seemed to him the pinnacle of happiness: to be the person who controls such a huge machine and makes such a tremendous noise. Today my grandson is ten, and of course he no longer dreams of a garbage truck.

In other words, the meaning of life constantly grows. But does a person living in this world understand what the meaning of life is, or does he or she simply, under the weight of problems, agree with what is? He is not concerned whether there is meaning or not. What matters to him or her is feeling good.

I remember asking my teacher in school about the meaning of life, and I received this answer: the meaning of life is to read a good book, to watch an interesting film…

And a friend of mine, from the age of fourteen, devoted himself to studying the French Thirty Years War. He made it the work of his life and truly became a major specialist on the subject. That is how he found his meaning of life, although later this passion faded.

So everyone finds some meaning in life—in family, in children. But if you ask people what the meaning of their everyday life is, they will not know how to answer, or they will say that the meaning of life is simply to live. If we were born, then now there is nowhere to go; we must live. But for what purpose to live, no one knows. And thus life continues without any meaning.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 945 – The Meaning Of Life,” 1/9/18

If Joy is Shared by All

936There is a special phenomenon in the influence of society on a person. If I face a problem together with a large society, it is divided among everyone and I do not feel that I am alone with it. If I were to fall ill with a rare and severe disease, I would be terribly anxious. But if it is an epidemic and everyone around is sick, then it is not as frightening.

The trouble is instantly shared with the entire society where I am simply one among all. Therefore, my fear is no longer the full fear of the problem itself, but it is divided among everyone else, reduced to one millionth. This happens regardless of my desire, because I am connected with others in one system. So, my relative part in the common trouble is only one millionth.

This does not mean that the trouble will not happen to me, it will happen. But the feeling of fear and threat is divided among everyone in the perception of people. To the extent that I am connected with others, I worry less about hardships.

But if joy comes, it does not decrease when shared by all. Because joy is felt together with everyone. Misfortune is felt within oneself, but joy is felt outside, between us. The benevolent force that created the entire world acts on everyone and is not divided. If joy comes, everyone rejoices in full measure.

Moreover, shared joy increases the joy of each one. For example, news comes of victory in a war. That joy is not divided by a million, leaving me with one millionth of happiness. On the contrary, it is multiplied by a million, and I feel joy a million times greater! I go out into the street, see everyone celebrating, and I am filled with happiness, completely differently than if I were alone at home.

The force of unity has a unique, wondrous quality. It divides misfortune among all, while multiplying joy and happiness among all. This follows from the very source of creation, from the fact that we emerged from the point of the Big Bang, from one single force.

Therefore, today we reveal that all of nature is one system. The closer we come to this force, the more we resemble the unified system of nature, the more we gain, and we gain greatly, instead of one millionth, we get one multiplied by a million!

If, through integral education, we learned to use this correctly, we would attain the pinnacle of happiness.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 242 – Happiness And Social Ties,” 10/17/13

Questions about Spiritual Work—276

963.4Question: 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

Mind Serving the Desire

115.06In 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

Embrace the Immensity

744Question: 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

So that Torah Does Not Become Poison


294.2
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

Reveal and Know

219.03Question: It is written in TES that Atik Yomin first concealed the secrets of the Torah and then revealed them. What is this action?

Answer: A person who studies Torah correctly goes through such two states: first Atik Yomin is concealed from him, and then is revealed. We must reveal and understand what this is.

We need to accept everything revealed and everything that remains concealed, find a place for it within ourselves, and through connection with our friends, remain hopeful this would be revealed to everyone.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/23/25, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot

Connect with the Ten

942Question: It is said: “He labored and found.” If finding is the opposite of “payment for labor” that we expect from our work, does this mean that the Creator is revealed in the most unexpected places, from the unity in the ten, and not where we expect the payment?

How can we reach this state within the ten?

Answer: We need to try to reach such unity in the ten that our connection is aimed at revealing the Creator, so that we truly feel that He is revealed in the connection between us.

Question: Through our attempt to connect with the ten, through the lessons the Creator gives us, how can one know or feel that one has found and not fallen into the traps of one’s own egoism?

Answer: Keep searching, and you will see whether you have found what you were looking for, or whether you are indeed caught in the nets of egoism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the “

The Most Inner Attainment

212The Creator is my corrected quality. The Creator is revealed within the created being, and therefore in Hebrew He is called “Bo-reh” — “Come and See.”

I must reach my corrected state, my corrected self; I will see my corrected qualities and I will call them “the Creator.”

I reveal the Creator only within myself, within my corrected vessels of perception. Outside of myself I feel nothing. I perceive all reality, everything that exists, within me, in my sensations. Therefore, The Book of Zohar says that all the worlds and all that fills them, including the Creator, are within a person. Because they are felt by him only within himself. It only seems to me that everything is outside, beyond me.

This illusion is given purposefully: through the tension between the sensation of “outside” and “within,” I acquire the ability to see the world, myself, and the Creator both from the outside and within — and I become able to perceive creation as He does: before creation, during creation, and afterward, in future “super-states.”

Spiritual perception is based on the feeling of “other people’s” desires, which I attach to myself with the desire to bestow to and love them. In this way, my desire grows. And to the extent that I unite with other desires, I reveal an ever-broader reality.

In our world, we reveal the world of Assiya, because each person is locked within himself, within his own, and therefore egoistic, desire.

If I begin to connect with a group, with desires similar to mine in their yearning for the Creator, then to the extent of this connection I reveal the world of Yetzira. I have united to some degree with the environment into a single desire, and within it I reveal the measure of bestowal I have attained, which is called “the Creator.”

The phenomena I reveal within my corrected desire are called light, and its deeper source, the Creator. Then a greater egoistic desire, my “I,” is revealed in me. And above it, in my effort to unite with the group, I attain the world of Beria.

In this manner we reveal all five worlds. Baal HaSulam writes in the “Introduction to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” that all the worlds are within a person. Therefore, the wisdom of Kabbalah is the revelation of the Creator to the created being, within the created being, in its corrected desires (organs of perception).

By revealing the quality of bestowal, we also attain its source, its originator. This most inner attainment is what we call the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/09, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”