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Question: In a verse of the ARI it says that infinite light filled all of creation. As he develops, does a Kabbalist work specifically with this simple light?
Answer: In this statement, the simple light is mentioned only briefly, but afterward, we will need to analyze this concept together with the ARI. As we penetrate deeper inside, we will begin to understand what he is thinking about and what he wants to convey to us.
Question: Should our attitude toward the words of the ARI and the words of Baal HaSulam be the same, or should we relate to them differently?
Answer: Our attitude toward the words of the ARI must be absolute. That is, whatever he says is absolutely true, and this is how everything must be understood.
As for the words of Baal HaSulam, we must also relate to them as completely true and precise, but they are already built on penetrating into the texts of the ARI.
Therefore, the main text is the ARI, which stands above Baal HaSulam.
Question: What is the Inner Light (Ohr Pnimi) that Baal HaSulam writes about?
Answer: There are many details here that we will analyze as we go along in the text.
Question: With what feeling should we read a verse of the ARI? What should we desire at that moment?
Answer: You should desire to understand what these words are, what meaning is within them, and what the ARI wants to pass on to us.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/14/2025, “Study of the Ten Sefirot“
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When we open The Book of Zohar again and again and after some time the initial inspiration fades.
This inspiration is given to us from above, just like the point in the heart with which a person comes to the wisdom of Kabbalah. This awakening from above (Itaruta deLeila) is given to us by the upper force.
Naturally, with this “fuel,” with the desire of the upper one, a person rushes forward with shining eyes and wishes more and more to feel what lies hidden inside the book, what exactly is being said about him. After all, he is awakened from above to a connection between himself and the book.
And then this inspiration fades. It fades because new desires come to a person, desires for which there is no awakening from above, from the Creator.
He is obliged to add an awakening from below to them from himself, and thus advance each time through his own search for answers to the questions: “What do I need this work for? Why?”
The Creator wishes that a person would each time reveal by himself the importance of the upper one, the urgent necessity of connection with Him, and the significance of all the means of attaining this connection, The Book of Zohar, so that he would again and again search within himself for all these inner definitions.
And here the person comes to a state in which he must understand that he is engaged in the “work of Bezalel,” to build the spiritual vessel, the Temple, with all its contents, within himself. This is immense, gradual work that requires extensive preliminary preparation.
In truth, the person himself does not accomplish anything; all that is required of him is readiness, desire, and intention.
Everything was carried out by the power of Bina from above, but through awakening from below. This is precisely a person’s work. This is what it means that he performs it.
Therefore, our work, on one hand, consists of making efforts and carrying out clarifications at every step.
But on the other hand, this work is called “the work of the Creator” because it is performed by the Creator, and not by man.
A person must only reach a desire, a request, a prayer, “half a shekel,” and the rest is done by the Creator, “the Creator will complete it for me”).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/10, The Book of Zohar
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Comment: Elon Musk once said: “I want to be part of what changes the world. Making mistakes is not scary. The main thing is to make new mistakes each time.” I would like you to comment on this.
My Response: That is correct.
Question: So we make mistakes all the time?
Answer: Without that, it is impossible.
Question: It has always been said: “We learn from mistakes.” Do we really learn from them?
Answer: Not everyone does, but mistakes come precisely so that we may learn from them.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/30/22
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Comment: “School doesn’t teach you to be happy.” That is what an eleven-year-old boy wrote.
My Response: That’s right! In school today they simply demonstrate that dullness, obedience, and the suppression of happiness are normal conditions.
Question: But in principle, the slogan of the school should be: “We must teach children to be happy”?
Answer: Yes, we must raise people who are happy.
We need a school that teaches the correct attitude toward the world, toward life, toward friends, toward teachers, and toward parents, and this does not require grades that someone else gives you, but rather that when you are taught, you yourself give yourself the grade.
Question: Can make such demands even of a little child?
Answer: That is what we must aim for. Explain this so that they themselves can grade subjects, textbooks, their instructors, and so on.
Comment: So the child can say: “Today I was not in shape. I should have read this, and worked on that a bit.”
My Response: That is good.
Question: There is a fear of making mistakes. School doesn’t teach that it’s possible and necessary to make mistakes. By the way, that is what the eleven-year-old boy says. Do you think one should make mistakes?
Answer: I agree with him.
Question: So is a mistake an important thing? And one must make mistakes?
Answer: It is inevitable.
Question: And what if I make a mistake?
Answer: It is okay. I’ll fix it, I’ll learn from it even more than from something I did without a mistake.
Question: So it is even more important than if you move forward flawlessly?
Answer: We constantly make mistakes and correct ourselves, make mistakes and correct ourselves.
Comment: Trolling, classmates’ mockery in this often the fault of teachers who expose children to ridicule.
My Response: To live in such a society, a child must be taught how to relate correctly to society, to the environment, that this is possible, that this is and will exist until we correct our nature. That it is the nature of man that compels him to be above others at any cost.
Question: And the fact that they put me down now, is that just human nature?
Answer: Yes, that is their nature, nothing can be done. But I must understand their nature and somehow, in some way, forgive them, accept them as they are. And maybe even correct them in this way.
Question: And I should feel that this is also my nature; it is the same, and I can do the same?
Answer: Naturally, yes.
Question: So, you would like to introduce the words “human nature,” “human egoism” almost from the first grade, so that a child would feel it?
Answer: Even earlier.
Comment: The amount of homework. “I think homework does not affect children’s performance and education,” says the eleven-year-old boy.
My Response: I think homework causes disgust, hatred toward school. And therefore, it is not needed. What is needed is simply that a child goes there (whatever they teach him and however they teach, better or worse, more or less interesting), but he comes back from there, and he doesn’t have this homework hanging over him.
Question: So that he doesn’t have this burden, that “I urgently need to do this, how will I go to school tomorrow!” And instead of homework what should there be?
Answer: Instead of homework there should be absolutely free time, somewhat structured, but felt as free, what he himself would like to occupy himself with.
Question: Himself? So that he finds his own niche?
Answer: Yes, everyone in something. We had a lot of clubs back then. I don’t know they probably do not now.
Comment: I don’t think so. There were Pioneers Houses, clubs.
My Response: There was such a huge House of Pioneers! And there were a huge number of clubs, and all were free. You went, signed up wherever you wanted. Even in several if you liked! And went, studied.
Comment: Do you remember the modeling club, radio.
My Response: Yes, and you didn’t pay for anything. I went, among other things, to a photo club. Photographic paper, chemicals, everything was free. Absolutely everything free! That is so amazing!
Comment: And how warmly the club teachers treated the children!
My Response: Yes, people with a character like that worked there.
Question: Where did it all vanish? What was so bad about it?
Answer: The time! The time is not the same. We fell into such a bad streak.
Comment: “We fell into it, ”that should be the name of this story.
My Response: Yes.
Comment: “School doesn’t prepare you for adult life,” this boy thinks.
My Response: I actually think that nothing can prepare you for adult life. We just plunge into it, like into a whirlpool. And that’s it. And then each swims out in his own way.
Question: What is preparation for adult life, if we’re speaking about it?
Answer: Here it is necessary to create special, absolutely clear, realistic pictures from life.
Question: In school? Right for the children so they learn to get out of them, to deal with them, and so on?
Answer: Yes, to discuss and so on. On the other hand, to give them some patterns, but realistic ones. For example: “How would you act if you…” and you give them a story.
Comment: You know, this boy’s conclusion is very interesting. He says: “I think that the main subject in school could be a subject where we are taught to understand one another. After all, the ability to communicate is the most important thing.”
My Response: That’s exactly right!
Comment: It’s as if he’s listening to you.
My Response: Make him Minister of Education. And that’s it. ☺
Comment: No knowledge is needed, only such conclusions.
My Response: And put all these ministers into school.
Comment: Exactly!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/13/25
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Question: Can I return to the illusory past in order to change my present?
Answer: Returning to the past is forbidden! Whether you are capable of doing it or not does not matter. You must focus only on the future. Only the future! Remember this, and under no circumstances, even if you ever have the opportunity, should you return.
Question: Can we say that by changing our attitude toward the past, we change the past, and by changing a quality in the present, we change the future?
Answer: Let it be so for now. Later you will correct it yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/28/19
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Question: What practical work can delight the Creator? Is it searching in the group for a common Hisaron (lack)? Is it to come to a common Hisaron so that the Creator could fill it? After all, bestowal to the Creator is delight for Him. Do you advise to engage in this in the group?
Answer: Not only do I advise it, but there is nothing else worth engaging in! One must engage precisely in this. Thus, we can unite with one another in order to reveal yet another possibility to receive from the Creator with the intention to delight Him, exactly as He acts toward us.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/15/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“
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Preparation to the Lesson
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #54 “The Purpose of the Work – 1” (11.9.01)
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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 105
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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 4, Item 20
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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “Heaven and Earth”
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