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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The Creator suffers greatly without us. He has a desire to give, to saturate, to emanate, and there is no one, no one who wants it.

Question: But we want to be satisfied, to receive, don’t we?

Answer: But we do not want to be satisfied from Him or by Him! Therefore, here, I would say, it looks like a war of nerves; who will be the first to give up and say: “I love you!”

It is, of course, a game of exhaustion, really.

Question: And what is our identity when we complement the Creator, as you say?

Answer: In the fact that we become necessary for the Creator in action; we are necessary as it is, but in action, in the fact that we draw closer to Him, unite, merge with Him, in the fact that we complement the universe. We evoke a filling in the entire universe, the supreme light that fills the entire creation. And without us, it would be empty, cold, and dark.

Question: What kind of addition does He expect from us?

Answer: So that we turn on the light. Turn on the light in this world so that the universe may be filled with the light of the Creator, love, goodness, unification, and perfection in all forms.

Comment: At the same time, you say this today when you do not know where to run with these crazy wars…

My Response: You do not have to do anything. We just have to wait calmly, with confidence that this is going to happen.

Question: And still want it?

Answer: Yes, want and ask, quietly ask the Creator.

Question: Is that all that is required of us?

Answer: Yes, without unnecessary noise, statements, or arguments, without anything.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/10/25

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Question: Please explain the Kabbalistic principle: “The expansion of the light followed by its departure makes the Kli fit for its use.”

Answer: This principle also works in our world. When can I say that I sense something, that I came into contact with something, that I desire something? It is when I have tried it, tasted it, and felt pleasure, and then it disappeared, and a special yearning arose within me, a special attraction toward it.

This special attraction, which remains after the initial tasting, is what is called desire. The first time, it was not yet a desire. Someone simply told me that it was good, and I tried it. Nothing more.

In the story of Adam’s transgression, it is said: “He ate, and he will eat again” from the forbidden fruit. The first time, it is not considered a transgression, Adam simply absorbed the pleasure of the upper light. But when he sensed it, and then he himself reached out for it, this was already a sin.

The expansion of the light within the desire and its subsequent departure make the Kli fit for reception. It is the will to enjoy that defines the striving forward of the Kli.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/2017, “Kabbalistic Principles and Their Spiritual Meaning and Application.”

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Question: You said that the upper light touches the creation at the point where there is similarity of qualities. Does the decision about similarity of qualities come from the upper light when the creation is ready or does the creation first create this similarity and only then does the upper light come?

Answer: No, the creation cannot create anything on its own. It acts only under the influence of the upper light.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Right now countless processes are happening in my body that I am not aware of and do not feel. They are at work within me and at every moment they determine my state. Do the processes described in The Study of the Ten Sefirot influence me now, or will they only influence me once I reveal the spiritual?

Answer: They will influence you later on, when you grow up.

Question: So right now I am completely separated from this? There is nothing in the sense that these processes are forming my thoughts and desires right now?

Answer: They are forming them, but you do not feel it yet.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: What needs to be done to strengthen the Creator’s influence on me so that the desire is renewed more quickly?

Answer: For this one must work on oneself: ask more questions and participate more actively in discussions of the material. After reading a section from The Study of the Ten Sefirot, try to find its meaning and its purpose and “cling” to what the book is speaking about.

One way or another everything will work out, but acceleration is possible only through mutual desire.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: You always warn us not to look back, like Lot’s wife who looked back at Sodom and turned into a pillar of salt. So when we are filled with great inspiration after a congress or a dissemination event, does it mean we should not recall it, but instead strive forward to the next degree?

Answer: Not looking back means not wanting to remain in a previous state. But it does not mean that a person should cut himself off from the past as if it does not exist. One must learn from yesterday in order to continue today in a better state.

A person should not want to be in the state of yesterday, but in the state of tomorrow. That is what it means, “to not look back.”

But this has nothing to do with Sodom. Sodom is when one truly wishes to return to a previous degree, which has already been revealed as a corrupt state. One cannot return to it anymore.

If I have decided that my previous state was corrupt and unsuitable for correction, for advancing toward the goal, toward bestowal, then I have no choice: I must finish with it and move forward.

There are people who look back, return, and wish to remain in past states, to be “small.” This contradicts development, and we are forbidden to do so.

The means for this is the group. If I try, even a little, to integrate into the group, then I will always receive my future state from it, regardless of the state of the group or of myself. Therefore, we always have the possibility to move forward and not backward.
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From Kabbalah Lesson 3/24/10 on The Book of Zohar

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