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Posted on August 7th, 2025
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Question: If, for example, I come to the conclusion that inner beauty is much more important than everything external, do I notice this externality in a person?
Answer: You still remain a human being.
Question: So I still have an internal marker that this is a beautiful person?
Answer: Yes, even more than that, you are developing even more refined taste. You are developing an even greater need to see harmony in everything. For you, beauty already lies in harmony. And if you see harmony, you enjoy it.
Question: What is the inner beauty of a person for you? What is it?
Answer: The inner beauty of a person is when he sees the possibility of justice and even goodness, but at least justice in everything around him. When everything is balanced according to the spiritual law of buy and sell; meaning, the law of receiving and bestowing.
Question: So a person who is internally beautiful feels the absolute harmony of everything that exists around him?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: And there is no evil, and there is no…
My Response: There is nothing! He has aligned himself with the Creator! And nothing can be bad, dirty, or disgusting. Everything is in complete harmony. Because he sees not the external manifestation, but the force that governs all of creation from within.
Comment: That is beautiful, that the spiritual reflects on the material too. It is interesting. I thought that a person simply, in an instant, stops paying attention to anything. But you say it is the opposite.
My Response: No! Moreover, it is written that when approaching full correction, the taste of copulation and the understanding of beauty remain only with Kabbalists. It is very, very complex.
Question: That is, only Kabbalists can truly enjoy both materially and internally?
Answer: Yes, they see it as a creation of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 7/22/25
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Relax and realize that you are inside nature. And let it lead. The main thing is to surrender to nature.
Question: So I drop the oars? There is a current and I drop the oars.
Answer: Yes.
Question: But is there a current?
Answer: Even that is not important to me.
Question: And that does not matter? Just let go of everything like that?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Is it possible?
Answer: If you believe in a wise, great, eternal, all-powerful nature, then in my opinion, this is the most reasonable decision.
Comment: Yes, it sounds very much like nothing is in my power.
My Response: And besides, everything you come up with in order to go against it on your own only emphasizes the insignificance, limitation, lack of understanding, ignorance, and disagreement with this great nature in which we exist.
Do not resist anything, do not invent anything. Try simply to understand what nature itself means, agree with it, cling to it, and you will find the most optimal component of your existence.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 7/30/25
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Question: What does it mean “to receive from the Creator in order to bring Him pleasure”?
Answer: Baal HaSulam explains this in the “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” using the example of a guest and a host.
A guest comes to the host. The host has laid a table full of food for him because he loves the guest with boundless love, without any calculation, and wants to give him pleasure very much.
The guest feels how the host loves him and wants to bring him pleasure. But suddenly the guest feels such shame that he cannot accept anything from the host.
The host loves him so much and so deeply desires to bring him pleasure; he already knows how much the guest wants to receive and what dishes he likes. He has prepared everything exactly according to the guest’s wishes, both in quantity and quality.
But the guest feels shame. What should he do? The guest refuses to accept the meal:
“I do not want to receive anything! I want to bestow like you do! You have shown me your love, and I feel it. How can I do the same to you?” The guest begins to think: “But if I do not accept anything, I will give it back to the host. Is this how I respond to his love?! What can I do?!”
And then he finds a solution: “I will receive only for the sake of the host. Since the host has the desire to bestow and wants me to receive, I must first enter into his desire so that it becomes my goal. I enter his desire and feel how he loves me, how much he wants me to receive, how he suffers from my refusal to accept his offering. I work with his desire and think only about how I can fulfill it.”
Through being inside his desire and striving only to fulfill it, I discover the ability to do so within myself by accepting the meal and enjoying it, because only through the pleasure that I feel can I bring pleasure to the host. I am obliged to receive and enjoy without limit because I feel how this fills him.
In this way, each one works with the other’s desire. The host thinks about how the guest will receive from him and enjoy. And the guest thinks about how he will receive and enjoy in order to fulfill the host’s desire to bring pleasure to him. Each uses their own desire to fulfill the other’s desire.
At the same time, each benefits doubly, or even more, because each exits themselves outward, and thereby experiences infinite, boundless pleasure.
This “patent” seems very simple at first glance. But when we begin to contemplate it, it appears difficult to implement.
However, ideally, if we understand it, this is the only way to fill ourselves with infinite pleasure, because I use the desire of the other, outside myself.
The Creator is an infinite desire, and I am merely a tiny point. But if I begin to attach myself to Him, I thereby acquire an infinite desire for myself that I can fulfill. And I begin to feel how I fill it and how that desire is enjoying itself.
It turns out that by treating Him with love, I receive infinite desires, infinite life, eternity, and perfection. I receive all of this if I relate to the Creator as the goal that I must fulfill.
Therefore the wisdom of Kabbalah is truly the science of reception (the word “Kabbalah” in Hebrew means “reception”), of how to receive and how to enjoy myself without any limitations.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/17/10, The Book of The Zohar
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Question: How should I live my life in order to raise a true prayer that will be answered?
Answer: You must try to take your heart and open it up. You will see what prayer is inside it and how it comes out. But it really must be done this way; otherwise, it is not a prayer.
Question: When you say “heart,” of course you do not mean the physical organ. What do you mean by it?
Answer: I mean all your deepest desires and dreams, but more precisely, your complaints about life.
Question: That is what the “heart” is?
Answer: Yes.
Question: All these unfulfilled desires, what are they?
Answer: They are what you want to come to the Creator with and ask for Him to explain to you why He did not fulfill them.
Question: Which of my unfulfilled desires will receive a response?
Answer: Only one. If you ever desired something, did you wait for that desire to be fulfilled by the Creator? It is not about what you desired, but whether you desired that it would be the Creator who would fulfill them. That is where the fulfillment lies.
That is, you did not desire money, happiness, fame, success—no matter what or how—but you waited for it to come from the Creator because you wanted Him to fill your desires and only that would satisfy you. Nothing else is needed! Only that He would do it! And even if He fills it with just a drop, that would be enough because He did it!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 7/19/25
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Comment: Researcher Jerry Burger replicated Stanley Milgram’s controversial and infamous experiment of testing people’s willingness to inflict pain in the form of electric shocks on others in increasing increments at the prodding of an “authority figure.” After the experiment started Burger offered subjects full payment for participating in the study even if they chose not to continue inflicting increasingly stronger electric shocks on their counterparts. His study yielded nearly the same results as Milgram’s that was conducted some 50 years earlier. Compliance rates of subjects inflicting suffering at the behest of the studies’ authority figure were only slightly lower in Burger’s study and he too found no difference in the rates of obedience between men and women.
My Response: If the experiment had been conducted under more natural, real-life conditions, the researcher would have found a 100% willingness to exploit others in any form just for the smallest personal benefit or even without any benefit at all. Because the worse it is for the other, the better it feels for me. This is how a person measures his state, it is measured relative to others.
Events will inevitably lead us to reveal our evil nature and to recognize the evil force that rules over us to such an extent that we would agree to change it toward good and love.
In essence, whether we receive or give does not really matter. The main thing is to feel fulfilled!
If we were born with the quality of bestowal instead of reception, we would not understand how it is even possible to receive instead of give.
This transition is nothing more than a psychological shift. After all, the main thing is to be fulfilled!
For now, a person sees fulfillment only in himself, and measures it relative to the downfall of another.
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The ARI is a great soul who descended to our world in order to open the gates of wisdom to us. And therefore, as Baal HaSulam writes, from the time of the ARI onward everything depends on man, who must correct himself and then be able to reveal the Creator, become one with Him, and reach the goal of creation.
Before, prior to the ARI, this was simply closed to ordinary people since the souls were not yet ready and needed to go through a certain path of development and mix with each other.
The ARI symbolizes the period of Messiah (Mashiach); therefore, he is called Mashiach ben Yosef, and from his period onward the wisdom of Kabbalah began to take the form of a method of correction. And before it was intended only for selected individuals in a special form.
We must respect the Kabbalists who were in Safed at that time next to the ARI and recognized his greatness. They appreciated him. RAMAK was already old, famous, and respected, but he came to ARI’s lessons and sat like a student. Although he was twice as old as the ARI, he was known and revered as a great Kabbalist.
Thanks to him and several other Kabbalists who appreciated the ARI, he was protected from opponents of Kabbalah. After all, he had only a few young (26-year-old!) students. In those days, the attitude toward Kabbalah was not at all friendly. It only seems to us that everything was allowed, as they like to write about that now.
This is somewhat similar to the fate of RaMCHaL: he was persecuted for studying Kabbalah, expelled from the ghetto of Padua, the city where he lived. Until the Vilna Gaon declared to everyone about his greatness, and he was left alone.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/8/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam Preface “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot”
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