Question: 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“
Question: 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“
Question: 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“
Question: 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
There 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
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”
Question: 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“
Question: 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 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”
41. The Zohar writes about the text “Those who seek Me shall find Me,” and asks, “Where does one find the Creator?” They said that the Creator is found only in the Torah. Also, regarding the verse, “Indeed, You are a God who hides,” that the Creator hides Himself in the holy Torah (Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“).
The point is that those who “pursue” the Creator and want to reveal Him, will certainly reveal Him. And this can be done only by studying the Torah, for the Creator is hidden within it. He created the Torah precisely with this condition.
Why does the Creator hide Himself? It is so that we would feel our separation from Him and begin to ask the Creator to help us reveal Him. Therefore, we need to understand the phrase well: ״Those who seek Me shall find Me.״ That is, we must clarify what this request truly is.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/25, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“
Question: You say that everything spiritual is feelings. What are feelings?
Answer: Feelings are what happens in the desire, and desire is our matter. That is, we are talking about matter and the form of matter. This is what we study in Kabbalah and what we can sense, analyze, and reproduce. Therefore, absolutely everything is in our feelings.
Comment: But feelings don’t have a specific location.
My Response: Desire is the very place in which you sense what you feel. My desire is the only reality. And all the objects surrounding me only seem to exist. In fact, they are drawn for me in my desire. Besides desire, there is nothing. Matter is desire.
Comment: In reality, this is something inexplicable.
My Response: It simply cannot be grasped.
Comment: Neither feelings nor desire can be conveyed in any way. Only if, as you say, there is a common form. If someone has experienced it, they can convey the feeling.
My Response: That is why I try, in some way, to push students to start writing emotional works about everyday situations that would lead a person to a certain awakening, similar to a spiritual one, and would accelerate their development.
Question: Is it possible to convey Kabbalah in this way? Can you take all the explanations from the heights and transmit them in a sensory form?
Answer: Yes, try to present all this in the form of various novels. One can, of course, write purely psychologically about a person’s inner states, even when he doesn’t intersect with others. Or one can base it on his relationships with a group, with friends, with animals, with women; it doesn’t matter.
That is, the foundation is always the same, only more complicated. Just like in our world: There are more intelligent people, there are less educated ones, but the foundation is always the same—emotional.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Reason and Feelings” 10/5/10
Question: We know that the closer we come to Lishma, the higher the likelihood that we will be heard throughout the world. In your view, what are we lacking in order to influence the whole world more strongly: quality or quantity?
Answer: We lack quality so that the connection between us becomes very strong. It will allow us to unite with one another and merge with our source, the Creator, in order to receive strength from Him and, through our connection with others, channel this strength to the entire world.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“
Question: If Kabbalah is a science, then why is it said that the surrounding light acts only on those who believe?
Answer: Faith is the force of bestowal. It is not about believing someone’s words. In the science of Kabbalah, faith is the force of bestowal, Binah; it is not words spoken by someone and accepted by someone else as fact.
In science, it is not customary to believe, and Kabbalah does not use this concept of faith. It is not a religion!
I rely on the advice of the Kabbalists in order to draw the surrounding light upon myself. They tell me what needs to be done and they explain why.
With their help, I study the system, trusting them the way a child trusts a schoolteacher or their parents. A small one must trust the grown-up in order to rise to a higher degree, relying on the instructions that come from there, but no more than that.
In religion, however, in our world, faith is not trust with subsequent ascent and verification, but a fanatical loyalty with one’s eyes closed.
I do not accept the words of the Kabbalists as facts; I implement them and test them on myself. And afterward, having provided myself with a full set of knowledge and evidence, I will be able to continue the research on my own.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 9/11/09, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Book From the Mouth of a Sage”
Question: What should one do in order to work specifically for the sake of Torah Lishma?
Answer: Attend all the lessons and try to fulfill all the conditions that we study. Continue every day; be with us at the lessons daily, and then you will succeed.
Question: Can we say that Torah Lishma ultimately determines our place in creation?
Answer: Of course, this is the most important thing. When we direct ourselves toward Torah Lishma, we thereby draw closer to the Creator. After all, He is the goal and the force that sustains everything.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“
Question: We study that the wisdom of the Torah is revealed in the reflected light. This is work above knowledge. And what are the conditions for working Lishma within knowledge?
Answer: Within knowledge is your mind, your ordinary attitude toward the Torah.
Question: Is an ordinary attitude enough to call it work, or must one still transition above it?
Answer: By no means is it enough! “A necessary and sufficient condition” in Kabbalah we must reveal and master.
Question: So in general, is all work Lishma carried out above knowledge? Do I not have any ability to make corrections within knowledge?
Answer: For now, you do not.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“
Question: Is it possible to alleviate a friend’s illness by taking part of it upon oneself? And how can I transfer a feeling of happiness to a friend?
Answer: If my system is higher than yours, it is more filled with happiness because it exists on a higher level of life and balance. Therefore, when you are in despair, it can pass some of its energy to you, a measure of happiness, to the extent that an inner connection exists between us.
From that higher system, you appear like a small child; it is greater than you because happiness is higher than dissatisfaction in its level of awareness and value. It doesn’t even matter what makes a person happy; it may be something very simple.
Question: How do we actually transmit happiness to one another: through words, feelings, thoughts?
Answer: We can transmit happiness even without any of these; it all depends on the level of our connection: inanimate, vegetative, animate, or human. Happiness flows from a higher system into a lower one depending on the quality of our connection and on how much, at that moment, I am able to annul myself before my friend.
All people are connected with everyone. We don’t need to build this connection or cut it off. We are already tied into one network, like neurons in the brain or like cells in a single body.
The whole universe is one system. The only question is how much we humans recognize this and wish to reveal, enliven, and strengthen this connection between us and all parts of creation. But the connection already exists. The degree to which we become aware of this connection determines the measure of our friendship.
Question: On whom does it depend whether my friend’s happiness will flow into me—on him or on me?
Answer: It requires mutuality; it cannot be done one-sidedly. You must at least slightly open yourself to such a transfer with respect to the friend. Suppose your grief is so great that you completely close off inside yourself and separate from others, then you cannot absorb anything from them.
Question: What does it mean to open myself to the influence of a friend?
Answer: It means to love him as yourself. This is about a true heart-to-heart connection where we do not feel ourselves as separate bodies or foreign systems, but feel so close as if we were one whole.
Our two systems become so intertwined that they function as one. Our connection is limitless; an infinite flow of information, feelings, and thoughts pass between us. These are two systems, but they are linked in the closest possible way.
Question: How should I open myself to a friend for his positive influence?
Answer: In the same way an infant behaves in its mother’s arms, completely annulling itself before her. The infant knows nothing about itself and understands nothing; it is tuned only to absorb everything from its mother. This is why babies develop so quickly; we transmit everything we have to them.
We not only pass on tender words and smiles, but energy, our attitude. A baby absorbs this energy through thousands of sensors it possesses.
We must become like infants, completely annulling ourselves, with all our problems, in relation to the influence of our friends. Then they will be able to transfer their happiness to us as much as they wish. Unlike misfortune, happiness does not decrease when shared; it only grows. The more we make others happy, the happier we become.
The energy of happiness has no limits. To the extent that we can give and fill others, we will feel an even greater desire and capacity to do so in ourselves. After all, in this way we connect to the source of the Big Bang’s energy, to the upper force that created and sustains the entire universe.
Question: Then according to this, people who work in service of others should be very happy. Why don’t we see this?
Answer: Because they give against their will, and therefore they constantly feel drained. A mother, however, who loves her baby, may become physically tired, but she never tires of caring for him or loving him.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 242 – Happiness And Social Ties,” 10/17/13
Question: Baal HaSulam writes that as long as the nation of Israel does not come to the fulfillment of the Torah and commandments Lishma, the troubles in the world will not cease.
Over these years, we have had different appeals to the public, both to Jews and to the nations of the world. How do you see who this nation of Israel is, and to whom we must address ourselves?
Answer: It is those who are now attending our lessons and who wish, with our help, to attain the goal of creation.
Question: You said that we do not have the strength to influence all of humanity. Should we ask for this strength, or is it better for now to focus on the work in the ten?
Answer: We need to focus on the ten so that all your forces are inside it and you are ready to invest yourselves completely in its strengthening.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“