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Question: What is the subconscious from the perspective of Kabbalah?

Answer: In Kabbalah, there is no such term.

Question: It is clear that 99% of all events in a person’s life happen as if above him, that is, unconsciously. He simply reacts instinctively to everything perceiving only a small fraction. In Kabbalah, do you become aware of all 99% of events?

Answer: In Kabbalah, there are exercises that we instinctively come to trying to create such conditions in which the upper light, the Creator, begins to manifest within us so that we begin to feel Him inside, and become more receptive to His influence upon us.

We must catch the inner voice of the Creator within us. These are special conditions. They usually come when we tune ourselves correctly in the group.

By uniting with friends and preparing the kind of relations between us in which the Creator can be revealed, we catch His inner voice. The sensor for perceiving the Creator is our connection.

Question: How can one determine that this is not the voice of egoism, but the voice of the Creator?

Answer: A person feels it, and at the same time discovers that the revelation of the Creator still occurs within his egoistic qualities. But this pushes him forward.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/11/2018,”The Journey To Self-Discovery. The Basics Of Inner Work”

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In our world, all the work on attaining the greatness of the Creator, spiritual qualities, and the greatness of the goal takes place within the group. This must serve as the fuel for our advancement toward achieving the importance of bestowal and love. Accordingly, we will feel that we are changing, that various shifts and positive transformations are happening within us, that is, in the direction of bestowal.

At the same time, however, the left line begins to reveal itself in all kinds of disappointments, failures, and problems related to the group, the Creator, the teacher, and the method, in everything we associate with the attainment of the goal. And we grow the importance of spirituality, then we will also see Pharaoh, which are all the sinners revealed in the left line, from the smallest to the greatest, as described in the Torah: Balaam, Balak, and all the others.

Pharaoh, or the serpent, is the general name for all the sinners. All these egoistic forces are revealed in the left line. And the main thing that defines the character of these evil forces is pride, which makes them ask: “Why do you need spiritual work? Who is the Creator that I should obey Him?”

This is the enormous human pride rising up against the Creator and crying: “I will rule!” This is how it reveals itself to a person. And to the extent that he corrects it, he begins to see the greatness of the Creator and then understands that the Creator is great precisely in His humility. A person begins to value humility as the greatest quality because it signifies perfection.

However, humility is only the degree of Bina. And then, upon it, comes an addition—bestowal built upon humility. A person’s humility toward others manifests in his readiness to serve them. And then he attains “Love your neighbor as yourself”—true love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/12, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Place Where You Find His Greatness”

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The Creator Himself does not exist.

Comment: Well that statement shocks everyone.

My Response: But it is true! How a person reacts to this, if one does, is his business. I must set things straight. The Creator Himself does not exist. What exists is the feeling of closeness with others that arises through mutual effort to reveal the quality of love and bestowal.

Question: So this feeling, you call it the revelation of the Creator?

Answer: Yes, the Creator is love. And this has nothing to do with what is between a man, a woman, children, it does not matter who or what. It is simply a relation to everything that, I would say, I perceive as outside of me.

Question: And outside of me, you say there is only love?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Within me, there is none. But outside me there is love?

Answer: Within me, it is egoistic, predetermined, over which I must rise and feel true love.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/18/25

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Question: In Kabbalah there are two fundamental concepts: the Creator and the creation. What are they?

Answer: Initially there is a incorporeal, nameless force without any properties that could be defined in any way and that has nothing to do with us.

This force is called “Atzmuto,” which in Hebrew means existing by itself; that is, it is something we do not touch at all and cannot research.

Question: And we will never attain it?

Answer: We cannot say this because we deal only with our own correction. We do not know what we will begin to attain and reveal after we correct ourselves.

Atzmuto gives birth to the quality of bestowal and love. This quality is what we call the Creator. It can be defined only in relation to the creation. There cannot be the Creator without creation and creation without the Creator. They emerge from Atzmuto simultaneously: the light and the desire within it. The desire is called the creation, and the light is called the Creator.

The desire of the Creator is to bestow, to fill, to love. The desire of the creation is to receive, to be loved, to absorb.

Gradually, these two mutually opposite forces begin to develop through the four phases of direct light from which the desire to receive emerges that completes its formation in the last, fourth phase, Malchut.

From Malchut the worlds branch out: Adam Kadmon (the prototype of the future human), Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. Their purpose is the gradual weakening of the light and the simultaneous development of desire: the less light, the greater the desire. The desire develops all the way to our world by absorbing the light.

In the process of the development of the desire, many different actions take place. When it reaches our level, it breaks, absorbs the light into itself, and begins to develop into a semblance of the light. This is what is happening with us.

The fact is that corporeally, in the form we now perceive ourselves in now, we do not exist. Our world and we ourselves are an illusion in our sensations. We perceive everything only within ourselves.

Question: If we do not exist, then why do we feel each other and the world?

Answer: It is because we have a commonality of sensations through which we can interact with one another.

Very often, we do not understand each other because beside this commonality, we also have individual desires and thoughts. Therefore, we interpret what we perceive differently. But in sensations, we are in agreement with one another.

For example, we have a shared sensation that there is a table in front of us. Such natural agreements are initially embedded in us because we are all built on the same principle.

Question: If there is no corporeal reality, then what does exist?

Answer: Our entire universe, everything around us, and we ourselves are a set of waves. Even physicists agree with this today.

Question: Physicists say that if we look at electrons, we see them as corporeal particles. But if no one is looking at them, they behave like waves. Why is that?

Answer: It is because the waves outside of us are also us. Everything is spoken of and felt only in relation to us. There is nothing that we can perceive outside of ourselves.

Question: Why is this not taught in schools? People would treat each other quite differently.

Answer: When I was a child, we were taught that the universe exists eternally and is infinite in size. Today science refutes this and claims that the universe has existed for fourteen billion years and has definite dimensions. That is, we are constantly developing.

But this knowledge will not change the relationships between people. What difference does it make to a person what scientists say? First and foremost, one thinks about one’s livelihood, health, and diversion. A person is an ordinary animal organism that wants “bread and circuses.”
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 11/10/2017, “Kabbalistic Principles and Their Spiritual Meaning and Application”

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