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Posted on August 12th, 2025

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How Can We Unite the Prayers of All the Tens?

Posted on August 12th, 2025

Question: Our daily challenge is to build a prayer in the ten. How can we correctly clarify the prayer together? And another challenge is uniting it with the prayers of all the tens.

Answer: This is indeed a challenge. But the thing is, we must try to feel each other more, to sense how much we are unable to unite.

Only in the unity of hearts will we immediately feel the Creator between us. The force that will unite us is the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/7/25, “Subjugating the Heart”

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Don’t Over Do It

Posted on August 12th, 2025

Question: Don’t try to buy off your child with new sneakers, tablets, or toys. Then how do you “buy” a child?

Answer: By showing him that you are his friend, that you are supposedly on his level. And just imagine how much you have to remake yourself for that, how much you need to change.

Question: Yes, it is me who has to change. And what do you mean by the word “friend”?

Answer: You understand him, you are ready to help him, support him. The main thing is to understand him.

Question: Don’t overdo it with developmental courses, clubs, extracurricular activities. Let the child live through their childhood organically.

What is an organically lived childhood?

Answer: In general, yes. A child should do what he wants.

Question: To that extent?

Answer: In the end, he gets his desires and opinions from his friends anyway. So it is not really his own. But still, encourage him.

Comment: But you said you were surrounded by composers, by music. And little by little…

My Response: It did not really give me anything special.

Question: But it gave you an ear for music. You definitely have an ear. Do you still think a child should be given freedom of choice?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Keep your word. Say it once, do it the second time. Would it be better not to promise the child anything at all so as not to deceive them?

Answer: No, but if you want to demonstrate upbringing, then you must both promise and follow through.

Question: Let him make mistakes. Finnish researchers say: “What a wonderful mistake!” That is, I could even say for a mistake: “Well done. You made a mistake.” Can such an approach be used?

Answer: Not “well done.” But find the mistake, correct it. Here you have a mistake. And it is not an accusation, you are not blaming him.

Question: “Do not be afraid to overlove your child”—people say that. What does it mean to “overlove”?

Answer: Not to show excessive love, especially where it might get in the way.

Question: Can love get in the way?

Answer: Of course. Everything must be measured and in balance.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/1/25

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Bring Friends Closer to the Creator

Posted on August 12th, 2025

Question: Sometimes I feel a friend’s desire more strongly than my own, and it gives me unpleasant feelings. It probably prevents me from connecting to the desire of the Creator. How can I turn this to Him?

Answer: You must care about your friends, be in them, and bind them together in one desire aimed toward the Creator, toward rising for the sake of the Creator.

This is how you can affect your friends and bring them all closer to the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/5/25, “Correction of The Heart “

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Selfless Act, or Gratification of One’s Own Vanity?

Posted on August 12th, 2025

Question: One day I really wanted to do something for someone without expecting anything in return. Suddenly, I saw a poor, sick girl on the street who clearly needed help. I gave her some money. She did not expect it and was so happy that I even teared up. Was it my ego crying, or did I cry because I had made a truly altruistic act?

Answer: A person, by definition, cannot do anything selflessly because he is an egoist. You helped the girl and were so moved by your own act, feeling like you were special, like you had done something selfless and unconditional. You lost a quarter from your pocket and felt good about it.

I am not denying the nobility of your act in any way. But it is earthly nobility, not spiritual. Because you, as a human being made 100% of egoism had to feel satisfaction in order to commit this seemingly altruistic deed.

Therefore, if you receive pleasure from your actions, it is called a reward, payment, or compensation. Your action cannot be called unconditional. Moreover, it was not selfless from the start, because you were moved by compassion; meaning, someone else’s suffering affected you.

And I am not even mentioning that, perhaps, the girl was pretty, in tears, in need of support, and some masculine qualities may have flared up in you; in other words, your egoism was working at full force.

You have to know your nature well in order to understand the reasons behind these inner impulses aimed at helping another person. But until you make a connection with the Creator, they will always remain egoistic.

Inside us, a very interesting machine is at work. That is why people serve each other in different ways, run around hospitals, look for victims, and do all sorts of things for others. All this because egoism, in this special form, pushes them to exchange what seem to be good deeds. But in reality, they are just satisfying themselves, their own vanity!

Through these actions, you elevate your status in your own eyes: you gave to someone, they enjoyed it, and you became higher than them, nobler, you started to respect yourself even more. This is your reward for what you did for them.

Question: So if a person has not revealed the Creator, who provides him with altruistic fuel, does he have any chance at making an altruistic action?

Answer: None. It is self-deception.

Comment: But the act itself is noble.

My Response: Noble means “bringing about good.” And these actions bring no real good—on the contrary, only harm.

If you want to bring true good into the world, draw the upper light into it, that fuel which will help us truly perform even unconscious actions directed away from ourselves and not toward ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah” 1/10/16

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The Great Soul of the ARI, Part 2

Posted on August 12th, 2025

Question: What is so special about the period in which such a great soul as the ARI is revealed? What was happening in the world at that time?

Answer: The people of Israel, throughout their history, go through four exiles and four redemptions, which correspond to the four stages of the complete development of desire (HaVaYaH).

These stages were embedded already in the very first HaVaYaH, in the four phases of the expansion of the upper light for the creation of the general vessel of creation. And accordingly, all of creation, every part of it, exists and develops according to the four phases of HaVaYaH. Every world, any spiritual object or action, from the smallest particle to the scale of the entire creation, always contains HaVaYaH.

Therefore, humanity in this material world, which is a consequence of the spiritual root, also developed along the steps of HaVaYaH. For this reason, there were four exiles and three redemptions, and now we are on the threshold of the final redemption.

The ARI represents the end of the last, fourth exile and the beginning of the redemption. And therefore, when his soul was revealed, it was able to grasp the entire system and, through his explanations in this world, give many people the possibility to attain comprehension, to draw the light through their souls. This was begun by the Baal Shem Tov and continued by all the Kabbalists after him, up to Baal HaSulam and Rabash.

The ARI gave everyone the method of the wisdom of Kabbalah on the fourth, final level. After the ARI, Baal HaSulam adapted this method for our generation, but in essence, it is the ARI’s method.

The ARI lived on the border between the end of the fourth exile and the beginning of the final redemption. This is a very special period, which occurred in the 16^th century. But spiritual processes do not manifest instantly in the material world; they unfold gradually in the order of the development of lights and desires, which takes time. And therefore, this may stretch out over many years before it is revealed.

After all, the desires must gradually develop toward knowledge, sensation, and realization, through their freewill, and draw the Light. This process includes many stages that cannot be skipped.

A person must acquire developed feelings and intellect, the ability to work against their nature, to connect with others, which always opposes one’s egoism, to clarify all of their inner shattering. And this is not simple, which is why it required time, as we see, from the ARI to Baal HaSulam.

Even Rav Chaim Vital (the first and, one could say, the only student who understood the ARI’s method) writes in the introduction to Sefer HaHakdamot how he sits in despair and sorrow that the messiah has not yet come. And this was already in the 16^th century. Though he was a great Kabbalist, he still waited and hoped.

Clearly, this is a very prolonged process, but each generation adds to the same enterprise that the ARI began.

We have merited to spread the method of the ARI and Baal HaSulam even further and to disseminate their books. Who knows, perhaps another generation will be needed to complete this work. But let us hope that we will succeed in bringing the correction of the entire world to its completion.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/5/16, “Memorial Day for the ARI”

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