There is no dead-end in nature. The dead-end that it sets for us are only for us to rise above, overcome this barrier, and develop further.

Dead-ends are only at our level, like steps. How does a small child climb stairs? He crawls with difficulty on all fours, and so on. That is why we are given these disappointments, ascents, and so on. They make us grow.

Question: So human growth occurs precisely by overcoming these dead-ends by sensing them?

Answer: By sensing them? A person cannot get up; one crawls up!

Question: So should I feel that there is a dead-end?

Answer: Yes, you must understand that the obstacles before you are the steps of the ladder of ascent.

Question: So where am I going? Here is this ladder. Where do I go, from one dead-end to another?

Answer: Toward understanding the meaning of life. Toward attaining the meaning of life.

Question: What is it? I am ascending toward something. Why am I climbing from one dead-end to the next?

Answer: I ascend so that these steps of ascent will create such desires, properties, and qualities in me through which I could reveal the meaning of life. It is there! But I do not see it, I do not feel it, I cannot  formulate or sense it.

As a result of these ascents, when I crawl from step to step like a small child on all fours, trying to climb, I develop the mind and senses within myself to understand the meaning of this ascent. And suddenly, I begin to understand, as if this meaning is located between the steps.

Question: Is there an end to these steps?

Answer: It is very far away. It is almost not even there. But why? If I start to feel this is life. This is life, when at every step you have disappointment, the need to find strength, the need to find the exact aspiration, the goal. Otherwise, you will not have the strength: what for, how, why, what will you consider the right goal, the right decision or not, etc….

That is, as a result of climbing these steps, you begin to feel yourself growing, creating.

Question: What is it that drives me? Is it to get through this dead-end or to get closer to something?

Answer: No, you no longer even want to reach any final step. You begin to feel pleasure in going through them. Between the steps, you begin to feel the wisdom and clarity of these steps.

Question: Am I starting to feel this governance?

Answer: This is called “Mi Maaseha Ikarnucha“—”From Your actions will I know You.” From the steps themselves, from how they were created for you, and at the same time you were created in order to rise above them—from all this, you begin to attain the Creator of these steps. And this is the main thing.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/8/25

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The light created us with the desire to enjoy, and this same light sustains and develops it. We continually delve deeper and deeper into this desire from zero to the final, fourth level.

By working to an ever deeper depth of desire and turning it from receiving to bestowal, from evil to good, we reveal a new reality within it called the spiritual world.

That is, we realize and utilize this desire to enjoy through stages 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4, transforming it with the help of the light from the power of the initial egoistic intent, the evil and hatred revealed in the layers of this desire, to love, goodness, and bestowal.

Within this desire to enjoy, we discover a new world, 125 stages or five worlds, depending on which desire we are already capable of turning from hatred to love in relation to our neighbor or the Creator, the light, and from receiving to bestowal.

And evil, of course, remains! Otherwise, on what basis can we build goodness? How can we appreciate goodness if there is no evil? The desire to enjoy cannot remain with good intentions unless it passes through all the opposite states on which we stand and ascend like a ladder to a height of 125 steps, returning back to the world of infinity.

Therefore, all this tension remains, all the potential through which we can rise above hatred, each time revealing it to ever greater depths.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/10/11, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Transgression Does Not Extinguish a Mitzva”

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Question: Is the work of a Kabbalist to turn the surrounding light into direct light, into a Kav (line)?

Answer: The work of a Kabbalist is to feel the light that comes to him through the Kav (line).

Question: And does the light descending to him always come as surrounding, as Igulim (circles)?

Answer: No, the light comes and clothes itself in the Kli. And the Kli must receive it more correctly and respond properly to the light, so that there is connection between them, and so that one understands and fills the other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/20/2025, The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Question: Can we feel the processes described in TES (The Study of the Ten Sefirot) through the questions we ask you, and you answer them?

Answer: You can.

There are people who are so immersed in their own question that they do not hear the questions of others.

I would advise such people to review the lesson again afterward and to focus specifically on the questions asked by others in order to include themselves in them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/20/2025, The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Question: It is said that Igulim (circles) are Kelim without a screen. How can they receive light?

Answer: First of all, they acquire a screen and feel the light that fills them to the extent of the strength of the screen.

Question: How is their screen different from the screen of the Tzinor (tube)?

Answer: It is not different. They have an active screen.

Question: Are Igulim and Tzinor the first ten Sefirot, meaning one Partzuf?

Answer: At first, we only have ten Sefirot. Then they undergo restriction, and darkness is created in them. But to the extent that they can rise above the restriction, they receive the upper light, and it fills them.

Question: So are Igulim darkness?

Answer: Igulim are our Kelim upon which we cannot perform restriction (Tzimtzum). Therefore they remain as circles. And the Kelim upon which we can perform restriction turn into Kelim deYosher.

Depending on what connection they can have with the Kav haYosher (the straight line), to that extent they conduct the light.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/20/2025, The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Creation has a desire. If creation can block itself from receiving the light, it is called making a restriction (Tzimtzum). If after that it partially opens itself so that the light can enter it, this is the nature of creation itself.

In other words, this is already proper reception, reception for the sake of bestowal.

In the world we study, there is a balance between receiving the light and rejecting it, that is, a Kli that does not accept the light, but then opens itself so that, through the light that it receives, it can resemble the Creator and become equal to Him, such a Kli is called corrected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/20/2025, The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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His operations did not come to be by many thoughts, as is our way, for He is one, unique, and unified. And as He is simple, His lights, which are extended from Him, are simple and unified, without any proliferation of forms, as it is written, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not My ways.”

Therefore, understand and perceive that all the names and appellations, and all the worlds, upper and lower, are all one simple, unique, and unified light. In the Creator, the light that is extended, the thought, the operation, the operator, and anything the heart can think and contemplate, are one and the same thing in Him (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot – Inner Observation).

Question: How can it be understood that plan and action are one and the same for the Creator?

Answer: Only in relation to us is it divided into several actions, but for the Creator, there is no division at all and no actions whatsoever. We feel different actions because we exist in impure desires, in Klipa. The Klipa creates time; it stretches it like rubber. You have one action, and you stretch it out and separate its parts from one another, as if pulling rubber; that is the action of the Klipa.

The Creator does not have such a thing, and therefore His thought, action, the beginning of creation and its end are all contained in one single plan. And in this plan, there are no details at all; it is only in relation to us that it begins to manifest itself as the four phases of direct light and all the further development. For the Creator everything is contained in the very root, at the “tip of the letter Yod,” and not even in the Yod itself, but even higher than that where we already exist in His plan.

And all the rest of the development takes place in relation to the created beings, so that they may understand, feel, and attain where they are and that they exist at all.

The root of impure desire, Klipa, also lies in the Creator, for it is His direct opposite, like His reverse imprint. Light creates darkness, its reverse side (in Hebrew, “Ohr” means light, and in Aramaic, “Orta” means night). There is none else besides the Creator! But He turns to you, sometimes with His face, sometimes with His back, so that you can study Him in this way.

It is as if He says: “You did not want to get to know Me in a good state, so now I’m going to arrange adventures for you and make you get to know Me from the bad side so that you will understand that before I related to you kindly. If you now understand, then I will return to goodness again, but after this whole circle you will begin to value My attitude. And this does not mean that I need your attitude so much, but then you will begin to understand what kind of quality you have acquired: the quality of love and bestowal.

It seems to us as though He deliberately does this to spite us. But the Creator does not want to teach us this way; it is only we who feel it so.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/15/11, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: You’ve repeatedly spoken about how creation turns itself toward the Creator and can regulate its connection with Him. How can we now, while reading TES (The Study of the Ten Sefirot), direct ourselves toward greater connection with the Creator?

Answer: Based on what we are reading, you should understand that our most important task is to clothe ourselves as much as possible in the desire to bestow (what we will later study as reflected light) and sense the Creator, perceive Him, and become one merge with Him in this state.

That is, just as He reveals Himself as influencing us, so too we must reveal ourselves as influencing Him.

How does this manifest itself? Very simply, from the Creator we must receive the desire to bestow, which we must direct back to Him.

In this state, we become analogous, completely similar, to Him. The Creator, by sending us light, influences us, and we, in turn, by receiving light, influence Him. It follows that the Creator fills us; this is His purpose. And despite our desire not to receive, we accept the light from the Creator and merge with Him.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/16/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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