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Posted on October 10th, 2025
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Know for certain that since the time of the ARI to this day, there has not been anyone who understood the method of the ARI to the fullest…
And now, by the Creator’s will, I have been rewarded with a conception [impregnation] of the soul of the ARI, not because of my good deeds but by a higher will. It is beyond me, too, why I have been chosen for this wonderful soul, with which no one has been granted since his passing until today (Baal HaSulam, Letter 39).
We know nothing about our work. It is unknown for what purpose certain people are given unique abilities. This will become clarified only at the end of the general correction when all of us will unite into one Kli (vessel) and will see how much we truly depend on one another.
Therefore, Baal HaSulam writes that he does not know the reason why he was chosen “for this wonderful soul.”
Question: If one looks at this from an egoistic point of view, a person may ask: “How can he say about himself that he is the soul of the Ari?! Maybe it only seemed to him?”
Answer: As in any science, this is a statement of fact. Baal HaSulam had to say it for the confirmation of what he accomplished in the world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 10/16/16
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Question: How is everything measured in Kabbalah?
Answer: In the science of Kabbalah, we study that there are no absolute, true measurements; everything is evaluated in human perception. Therefore, it is always said with respect to a person who attains reality, as Kabbalah says: “There is no Creator without creation.”
Therefore, it must be understood that everything written in The Book of Zohar by its authors about the Creator, in the Psalms by King David, and in other sources is written by a person who comprehends according to his qualities and the level of his attainment.
In accordance with this, the person himself is evaluated, as well as his position on the ladder of degrees. Depending on where he is, this is how he sees the Creator. It seems to him that the Creator is changing, because he evaluates everything according to his desires and qualities.
There is no change in the Creator who is good and does good and who is in absolute peace. But every moment a person awakens his Reshimot, and according to this he decides whether the Creator is great or small, good or evil.
Therefore, we can understand Kabbalistic texts only if we rise to the level of their authors.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 8/30/09
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Each group is a “circle” of desires, where everyone is absolutely equal. If we want to determine the difference in their levels, we measure the distance between their central points; this distance is called the “straight line” (Yosher).
Let’s say one group is the group of Rabbi Shimon’s students, great Kabbalists. The second has just reached their first spiritual level. Both form a “circle,” but the difference between them is measured by the “straight line” (Yosher).
Each level, each state, has its own “circles” and a “straight line” stretching from one circle to another through their centers. If a group is already at a spiritual level, even the very first one, there is already a circle between them, albeit a very small one. From its center, we can measure the distance to the center of Rabbi Shimon’s group, and we get exactly 125 levels or states.
To each new state, you ascend along the “straight line” (Yosher), and then build a circle within it. Then you ascend again in a straight line and form a circle. Thus we advance step by step.
And the central point of the “circle,” the shared desire of the group, is the unification of everyone, so that through joint efforts, we can reveal the common quality of bestowal, which is called the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/27/11, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“
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I built a “wall” inside myself that shuts myself off from the world, from everyone. I live inside myself peacefully, alone. No one suspects that I live like this.
Comment: That’s interesting! You have hundreds of thousands of students and you say this is how you live.
My Response: That doesn’t matter.
Comment: Then share the secret.
My Response: The secret is very simple. I build this world within myself and therefore even if I am in contradiction with the world imposed on me, that contradiction does not oppress me or fight me. I simply set it aside and continue.
Question: Can you at least tell a little about what you have there in that world?
Answer: In that world I am a king. And I serve the great Creator. That is all. Everything is very simple.
Question: It is easy to say, but it is not so simple. Yet one really wants to be in such a world. Is there advice on how to get into it, into that world?
Answer: Squeeze through.
Question: How?
Answer: You must build it. A person must build it within himself. And when he builds it, he discovers that yes, it is possible, it must be done, and it will be eternal.
Question: Is it both security and peace?
Answer: It covers absolutely everything! It is the kingdom of the great king.
Question: “The great king,” but is the king Him?
Answer: Yes, and you build it for Him.
Question: You build it for Him? And then you end up in it? So that He rules there?
Answer: So that I will rule everything for Him.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/19/25
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The preparation period does not mean that we have to arm ourselves with patience and wait for it to pass. It will not pass unless we do everything in our power for to ensure its end in the next moment.
Waiting means that I am ready to invest effort in it every moment, without despair, again and again. And every moment I expect I will receive the reward—the power of bestowal that I demand, and so, again and again, at every moment, tirelessly.
If I am capable of this, if the states (entrances and exits) quickly replace one another, it is a sign that I can truly be awarded a higher, deeper degree. After all, the more transgressions and mistakes a person reveals during preparation, the more one advances in the single and double disclosure beyond the Machsom, and achieves correction.
During the preparation period, the group must provide everyone with the strength of consistency, perseverance, confidence, and patience, understanding that we have no choice, this is how we advance. And so year after year, until we are ready at every moment to give up immediate reward and to work even without it. That means we are worthy of crossing the Machsom.
A person strives so to the next degree that, due to the immense, passionate, burning desire for bestowal in him, he is ready to give it up and continue the stage of preparation. If the Creator wants to give me only this preparation, and I only want to achieve bestowal, then I am satisfied with this, and I do not need the Machsom, and then I receive it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/09, “The Nature of the Science of Kabbalah”
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All people lie, but it’s not scary, no one listens to each other.
My Response: The scary thing is that they do not listen. That is true.
To listen means to realize, to understand. Not necessarily to agree but to understand what the other means, why he has such a worldview.
Comment: To let him a little bit inside you?
My Response: No, not even to let him in. Enter into him and understand how he acts, how he thinks. It may well be that his way of thinking, his approach to life is correct. Try to argue with him, to align with him somehow, and so on.
That is what it means to listen to another. Listening means, first of all, to understand.
Question: Do you think people listen to each other or not?
Answer: No. Egoists cannot listen to each other. They are initially tuned to clearly satisfy their egoism.
Question: Meaning, only to push through their own opinion?
Answer: Not only their opinion but to achieve whatever I desire. That is the foundation of all of my behavior, and no one can move me from it. Only under the impact of enormous suffering can I somewhat change my opinion; still egoistically, leaning one way or another, and again continue to move egoistically.
Comment: This, in principle, is the cause of absolutely all troubles—people do not listen to others.
My Response: That is how we were created. After all, we come from the shattering of the common soul, the common desire. Therefore, in each of us there is an egoistic desire that acts only within itself. Each of us lives inside himself.
Comment: If a person heard that this is the result of his egoistic nature, would that be the beginning of a small shift?
My Response: No, it will not help. To hear is not enough; that is the point.
Here, upper forces of nature are necessary, hidden forces within nature that could help us become different, the opposite of our present state. And that requires a whole method.
Question: Do you think Einstein understood that there are hidden forces of nature?
Answer: He did not understand the possibility of changing man.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
My Response: That is correct. Because we cannot imagine how simple, near, and opposite to us the upper world is, the world of bestowal, of love, when we perceive everything in connection and not in separation, in isolation from one another.
Comment: We say: “Love, it is so simple! Let’s unite, let’s love each other.” And you say: “It is not so simple!”
My Response: No. I say: “It is not so simple,” because we are not capable of doing it.
We should not keep falling into the same trap again. Besides, love is not what we define in our world as love—some hormonal, psychological, or sexual satisfactions. No.
What is meant is the connection of people among themselves in inner unity, when we feel that not our bodies (bodies as if disappear), but we ourselves are inwardly interconnected, that some kind of inner joining, merging takes place, and this creates a new community, an inner, spiritual one. In this inner, spiritual community, we begin to feel ourselves living as if in another bubble, in a new world.
Question: Is this love?
Answer: This is achieved by love. Such a connection is called love.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Question: You often speak about the perception of reality. An empty desk, what does that actually mean?
Answer: It is an allegory. In general, a person who has no inner thoughts, no struggle, no constant confusion, no constant searching, he does not move forward, does not develop. He must always doubt himself and constantly investigate.
Question: Is this what you call life?
Answer: Yes. But when we look at such a person, we think: “He probably does not know anything. He is probably unsure.” In reality, it is the opposite.
Animal-like peace kills everything. That, of course, is terrible! We hope that the Creator will watch over us and not let us have peace.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/24/24
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