Question: How can we make unity in the ten our entire life and a great delight that we bestow to the Creator?

Answer: It depends on our attitude toward what affects us, bestowal or reception, and on how much we choose between them and want to be closer to the sages or to the Creator through the differences that exist between holiness and the Klipa (impure force).
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/2025, “The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction”

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Question: Is there a kind of truth that should be told to a person?

Answer: The only truth is to give a person freewill and let them choose their own truth. That is all. This is the most important thing in raising children and in relationships between adults.

Question: How do you do that? By example? Based on what?

Answer: Teach a person the method of correctly revealing life.

Comment: That sounds good! This is the main thing.

My Response: Yes.

Question: And what if a person is one hundred percent convinced that they are right and must pass it on to someone?

Answer: Then they should shut themselves up and swallow it! So as not to choke on their own truth!

Question: Even if I feel that by doing so, I will help them?

Answer: What huge egoism he has! It is bursting out of him! He has no right even to feel it himself. The only thing he can do is just understand how much of an egoist he is if he feels obliged to fill another person with his own opinion.

It is terrible! There is a very simple saying about this: “Silence is the fence around wisdom.”

Question: That is beautiful! That is, is it better to remain silent at that moment?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/8/25

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At that time, a person should pay attention to this and believe that the Creator is tending to him and guides him on the track that leads to the King’s palace (RABASH, Article No. 6, “When One Should Use Pride in the Work“).

A person must constantly check in all one’s sensations and thoughts and in one’s heart and mind, if one agrees with the fact that the Creator is guiding him or her toward Himself?

“Do I agree with what the Creator is doing with me? He throws me down, lifts me up, tosses me in every direction. One moment I cry, the next I laugh; sometimes I rejoice, sometimes I’m distressed. Do I understand that I must go through these states, but that the most important thing is to remain in connection, in adhesion with the Creator—that there is none else besides Him?”

It follows that he should be happy that the Creator is watching over him and gives him the descents, as well. That is, a person should believe, as much as he can understand, that the Creator is giving him the ascents…

Also, a person should believe that the Creator gives him the descents, as well, because He wants to bring him closer. Therefore, every single thing that he can do, he must do as though he is in a state of ascent.

In principle, there are no descents. What occurs is merely the revelation of the next uncorrected degree, followed by its correction. These degrees are revealed to us—they were formed even before us as a result of the shattering of Adam HaRishon. And we continuously correct them through our attitude.

Nothing is required from us! We do not need to do anything except to agree with the Creator, to justify Him.

The Hebrew word “to justify” is “LeHatzdik,” and a person who justifies the Creator is called a Tzadik, a righteous one, because he justifies Him. That is our entire work. But for this, we absolutely need an environment; without it, we will not be able to justify even a single act of the Creator, neither emotionally nor mentally.

Therefore, when he overcomes a little during the descent, it is called an “awakening from below.” Each act that he does, he believes that it is the Creator’s will, and by this itself he is rewarded with greater nearing, meaning that the person himself begins to feel that the Creator has brought him closer.
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From the Kabbalah Congress in Moldova 9/8/2019, Lesson 7

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We have gathered here to establish a society for all who wish to follow the path and method of Baal HaSulam, the way by which to climb the degrees of man and not remain as a beast (Rabash, Article No. 1, Part 1, 1984, Purpose of Society – 1).

From this article, we need to extract the key principles:

1. 1. What does it mean to gather?
   2. What is the method of Baal HaSulam?
   3. What is the degree of human?
   4. Was man created for pleasure or for awe before the Creator?
   5. The condition for achieving all of this is similarity of qualities with the Creator.
   6. The desire to receive is not bad in itself; it is the very material of creation. What is called the evil inclination (Yetzer Ra) is our unwillingness to unite, our refusal to correct the shattering of the soul into its parts—our individual souls.
   7. We do not destroy the egoistic desire, but only correct its intention from for myself to for others.
   8. That is, in the desire to receive, we are always opposite to the Creator; but in the intention to give, we connect to Him.
   9. Adhesion with the Creator is through similarity of qualities with Him. The intention to bestow is attained through work in the group. This is a task that is both achievable and verifiable. The collective desire to bestow that we build is the common soul, which the Creator fills.
   10. Every state we go through consists of two opposites, and as we advance the gap between them grows. I reveal:
       1. My increasing worthlessness
       2. The increasing greatness of the goal.

I must connect these into one point to feel the shattering between souls so deeply that it compels the upper light to correct me. Then bestowal will reign between me and others.

This is called the giving of the Torah—the light of correction.

And afterward, the giver of the Torah is also revealed within our corrected attitude toward others, within the collective spiritual vessel (Kli).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/16/2010, Writings of Rabash

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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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