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Posted on July 25th, 2025
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In corporeality, you can see the door just as you can see the opening. But in spirituality, you see only the opening. But you cannot see the opening unless with complete and pure faith. Then you see the door, and at that moment it turns into an opening because He is one and His name is “One” (Baal HaSulam, Letter 26).
Namely, I see before me stands a wall through which it is impossible to penetrate, go around, or leap over. But the moment I reveal the quality of faith, this quality forms an entrance in the wall, and I pass through. I wish this for all of us.
The gates of prayer are not locked. We must constantly try, together with our friends, to pray to the Creator to help us unite, to clarify what is called the force of bestowal, and to reach Him with this force of bestowal.
We are obligated to reach such a state, to give all the quantity and quality of efforts in order to arrive at the gate of tears. Only through the gate of tears does one enter the upper world, the spiritual.
We must pray for each friend in the group that he may reach the gate of tears, the spiritual world, everything! “He who prays for his friend is answered first.” This greatly advances people.
But this is not about words; prayer is called “work in the heart.”
The gate of tears is a special gate that opens only when a person understands that he has no strength whatsoever to perform even the slightest act of bestowal. Yet at the same time, he must attain these acts of bestowal no matter what. He is ready to give up everything just to become one who bestows. Then these gates open.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/10/21, Writings of Baal HaSulam “My Soul Shall Weep in Secret – 1”
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Question: I do not understand what it means to yield without canceling my own desire. What is the difference between a concession in which I cancel myself and one in which I do not cancel myself?
Answer: A concession in which I cancel myself is when someone stands over me with a stick and after a few blows I have no choice but to give up my desire and do what the stick-wielder demands.
But the concession we speak of in integral education is something I do of my own freewill. I want to yield because I understand what I gain by doing so.
I understand that I have no other way to grow, expand, and stretch my boundaries if I do not cancel myself. Concession means that I cancel my own boundaries and allow foreign qualities, desires, and goals to enter inside me. And I accept them as if they were my own. Otherwise I will not grow, and I will not be able to connect with anyone. I will forever remain inside my inflated self, which in essence is a puffed-up zero locked from all sides.
Absorption, assimilation, and mutual inclusion are necessary conditions for development; they are a form of life. We have all seen movies in which two cells meet, merge into one, and then begin to multiply and expand into a new body. This is only possible because each cell yields and opens up to the other one in order to unite. Without this, there will be no life—this is the entire secret of it.
This needs to be explained and emphasized from the perspective of society. On the other hand, we are being pushed in this direction by the global crisis that demands that we begin to connect our dead, isolated cells and build a living body from them.
I open my boundaries and try to use my desire, my habits, and all my abilities to fulfill the desire of another person. My concession lies in the fact that I disregard myself in order to fulfill the desire of my neighbor. Through this, I acquire their feelings, their reason, and their thoughts.
It all begins with a conversation. Each person must imagine an internal map of their partner. What does each of us want from the other? What does he demand, and what would he like to see in the partner? We begin to practice such discussions.
But we do this not like an ordinary family trying to simply improve their relationship, but in order to acquire and build new senses within ourselves that are capable of perceiving the other. In this way I exit my egoism and begin to see what is happening around me.
If a person can correct himself like this within the family unit, then he will also succeed at work, in relationships with others, and ultimately reach balance with all of nature. In this way we tune ourselves to perceive external reality. I no longer live only within myself, but I begin to absorb information from the environment outside me. And outside me there are vast forces that I currently neither know nor feel.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 40—The Key to a Good Relationship Is Mutual Concession,” 7/25/12
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Thus, there is but one counsel: If several individuals come together with the force that it is worthwhile to abandon self-love, but without the sufficient power and importance of bestowal to become independent, without outside help, if these individuals annul before one another and all have at least potential love of the Creator, though they cannot keep it in practice, then by each joining the society and annulling oneself before it, they become one body.
For example, if there are ten people in that body, it has ten times more power than a single person does (Rabash, “Love of Friends – 2”).
This refers to the force of rising above egoism, the power of detachment from one’s “I,” when you include yourself in others, in another field, on another level. You clearly feel: either “I” or the next level “we.” In that “we,” your “I” is needed only to organize this “we.”
Question: Does a person receive the strength to rise above egoism from the group?
Answer: Not from the group, but through the group.
Question: How can a person feel that he or she has the power of the whole group to perform some action in spirituality?
Answer: If a person serves one’s friends, then he or she gains the strength of the whole group. We are speaking of the power of bestowal, of the ability to give. Therefore, when a person makes efforts to elevate the group, the person receives that strength. That is one’s vessel, his or her Malchut.
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From KabTV’s 4/12/18, “Love of Friends”
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Question: What is the principle screen and reflected light? Why is the universe built specifically on it?
Answer: It is egoism that begins to oppose itself, wants to use itself only for bestowal, and by rising above itself, wants to give to others instead of using them; it wants to exploit itself for the sake of others. This is called “screen” and “reflected light.”
Question: Why is it necessary to build such a system in order to feel the Creator?
Answer: Because otherwise you will not feel the Creator. You don’t have the same qualities as He does. After all, all sensations, even in our world, are built on the similarity of qualities between the one who is being sensed and the one who senses. I can only feel what my internal organs are attuned to. They are not tuned to radio waves, I don’t feel them. They are tuned only to sound waves, I do feel those. The same applies to all sensations, visual and so on. In order to feel the Creator, to enter into resonance with Him, I need to acquire the quality of bestowal.
Question: But all the ancient texts clearly describe this system that you convey succinctly: screen and reflected light?
Answer: They are not ancient. They are timeless; they were just written about a long time ago. These texts convey an enormous amount of additional information, such subtleties that you can’t imagine!
Now if you are able to grasp only two things, screen and reflected light, then later these two words will be associated with such a magnificent infinite world, with all its colors, sounds, opposites merging into one whole, that you will need a book just to describe these two phenomena: screen and reflected light!
In fact, there is nothing else. Our egoism, above which there is a screen in order to use it in the opposite direction to bestow, is called “reflected light.” There is nothing else. But it is billions of times greater than our world!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Photo of the Creator,” 9/21/10
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In our vast desire to enjoy there is a spark, the embryo of the soul. Therefore, everything that comes from the Creator must be divided into two parts: one acts in relation to the desire for pleasure, which is called “body,” egoism, and another that acts in relation to the soul, the purpose of creation, in order to grow this point and make it more and more like the Creator, raising it up the steps of the spiritual ladder.
Therefore, where sinners stumble, the righteous rejoice and rise. After all, sinners and righteous are the evil and good inclinations.
A person who does not work for the Creator cries about the difficulties of life, and the other perceives this difficulty as hitting, not himself, but his egoistic desire to enjoy. Therefore, he sees a means to ascend to the Creator in it. This is how the Creator awakens him and helps him annul his egoism and cling to a point in his heart, to the upper force.
This is how you should relate to every moment of your life. The Creator sends “obstacles” to everyone. If a person understands these unpleasant influences are sent to crush one’s egoistic desire, the person rejoices. After all, now one can consider this blow to be to one’s ego and try to cling to the Creator with the point in one’s heart and rise even higher.
It turns out all our obstacles are calls to make an effort to overcome them correctly, in order to hold on to the Creator more tightly. Unpleasant feelings work against our ego, pointing to its presence and helping us crush it.
A person is not required to fight, we must only separate and filter out the influence of the Creator, directing the bad influence toward our ego and the good to help us adhere to the Creator and raise the point in the heart. Therefore, “where the righteous will pass, sinners will stumble.”
The Creator is already fighting for us by sending us obstacles. There are no enemies in the King’s abode to fight. We just need to attribute the problems sent from above to our ego to suppress it further and raise the point in the heart more and more.
Then we will see the Creator is doing this work, which is called the work of the Creator. The Creator is waging this war and will complete it for me. He will do everything; each time I just need to be sensitive and correctly determine where the Creator’s unpleasant influence is directed, how it hits my ego, and invites my point in my heart.
A person should always divide himself in two: into an egoistic desire, that must be crushed, stopped from being used, restricted; and into a point in the heart, which, at every opportunity, must be directed toward merging with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/22/2018, “From Interference to Ascents”
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At our gatherings there are certain actions where I must let go of all criticism and simply merge with everyone.
How can I do that? Precisely by jumping and singing together with everyone, like a child, annulling myself.
Such an attitude connects me to the common state, and then I gain the opportunity to break free from limitations and feel some kind of spiritual breath!
It seems like frivolous behavior to us, but that is only because we do not perceive spirituality within it. After all, this is the light of infinity!
We are unable to discern anything in it with our tools of perception. That is why it seems lifeless and inanimate. But it all depends on our Kli (vessel) as to whether we are able to see the entire spiritual light of NRNHY in it.
Anything that comes from a connection, even the smallest one, is already called perfection.
That is why it is in this form that we have a chance to catch some spiritual sensation, precisely when you are jumping together with others.
All these dances came to us from the great Kabbalists, from Baal Shem Tov; Rabash also made us dance like this.
It is not just frivolity. Within the dance there is serious thought and very deep work. Suddenly you do not want it, and within you thoughts of for and against are racing, and they generate terrible doubts. But you keep jumping.
This is not some kind of meditation; you are not disconnected from reality. The entire time you are standing before the question: What am I doing and why? What does it give me? Who is making me do this, and with whom am I jumping? What binds us together?!
While you are dancing, you are going through all your internal work from beginning to end.
This dance forces you to process all possible thoughts that go against it, against the unity that you do not want!
Your mind constantly rebels against it, and you are forced to make inner discernments.
That is why dancing becomes exhausting inner work. You come out of the dance completely drained, not because of physical exertion, but because of all the internal discernments you have gone through.
You are dancing inside yourself, in your internal ascents and descents! And the fact that you are jumping outwardly is just a way to awaken these internal states.
You jump physically; you rise and fall. But inside lots of other ups and downs occur simultaneously, and that is what matters most!
Without these external actions, you will not be able to achieve the internal ones. One cannot exist without the other.
That is why dancing becomes a unique tool for inner work, and that is why Baal Shem Tov and the first Hasidim who were Kabbalists, introduced these traditions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/12/2010, “Questions about the Role of the People”
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #34 “The Advantage of a Land” (10.25.2021)
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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 65, 66 (7.10.2006)
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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 2 “Concerning Love of Friends” (1984)
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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “The Donkey Driver”
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