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The fourth phase of desire, “Behina Dalet,” is the creation and is the most distant from the Creator in its properties. At the same time, it is the closest to Him in its ability to attain Him.
The other phases are impossible to evaluate at all relative to attainment because there is no reflected light within them. It appears only in the case when Behina Dalet works with them.
Let’s say with my egoism, the desire to receive pleasure, I become inspired by some melody, painting, or story. These pieces of art themselves have no feeling or attitude whatsoever. However, when I tune into them with my egoism, I give them feelings and through them I attain the Creator. They alone do not have this, and this is the concept of the first nine Sefirot.
The first nine Sefirot are the properties that in connection with my egoism help me reveal the properties of the Creator that He manifests in relation to me, to my perception.
The difficulty of the perception of the Creator is that He acts “in circles” (without any limitations), while the creation has to respond to Him “in a straight line,” meaning with the screen that limits egoism. However, when we rise by faith above reason from rung to rung every time, then this ascent becomes continuous, analog, integral. Once we complete our ascent, we perceive it in a discrete way, as a specific rung.
We do reveal something from the “circles,” from the Creator’s perfection by means that we rise by faith above reason. Faith above reason allows us to approach the maximum degree from the “straight line” of creation to the “circular perfection” of the Creator.
The force of unity comes to us from the light that is eternal. And so by achieving some measure of the property of bestowal through the light, the force of the “circular perfection,” where all are equal, we thus form within ourselves desires that are close to the circle, to the Creator. However, they are formed within us through our “straight line.”
We gradually attain the circle through the straight line, but there always remains some elusive additional element that we lack. It is like when we calculate a mathematical integral, we divide the area into a multitude of rectangles approaching the curve, but there always remains an uncaptured remainder.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/19/18, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“
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There is no screen in the circles that can raise reflected light. Without it the emanated being cannot connect with the upper light. We learned there that the vessel of the line is called a “pipeline…”
Although the vessels of the circles are much higher than the line, they do not receive any light by themselves. Instead, they must receive all the light in them through that line, which is much lower than them… (Baal HaSulam “Study of the Ten Sefirot” Vol. 1, Part 2, Chapter 1, Items 3 and 30).
In Malchut of the world of infinity, everyone could receive as much as they desired. There was no desire within you for which the light did not have a perfectly fitting fulfillment. But after the restriction, a limitation arose: only those desires that possess a screen can be fulfilled, and only to the extent of that screen, through the “line,” that is, via the screen.
All other desires, the so-called “circular desires,” receive only a faint illumination from the line. The line fills them because, although they lack a screen, they are still under the restriction.
Therefore, the desires within the “line” operate actively: they draw the light, fill the line, and through this line, they fill the “circular desires.” The circular desires do not wish to receive egoistically; they simply cannot draw the light for the sake of bestowal. As a result, they receive a slight illumination—called “Nefesh.”
The circular desires are vast; they encompass all the desires of the world of infinity. But after the restriction, they can only receive illumination through a “very thin line.” The light of the line is so small compared to the light that once existed in the circular desires, relative to their capacity, that it is like trying to fill a giant swimming pool with a single cup of water.
Nevertheless, this provides them with some vital energy. On the other hand, receiving such illumination makes them more sensitive and awakens deeper inner desires. That is, this light does not fulfill the desires, but rather stimulates a yearning for fulfillment within them within them.
And this is how we operate until the very end of correction. As soon as I correct a desire, perform a Zivug, and fill myself, I immediately create a place for a descent. We always work to move forward and then fall, work again and rise and fall again. This is how progress unfolds.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/27/11, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“
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Question: Why is it most important for a person to feel that he is loved?
Answer: This is because a person is a social being and we all come from one system called Adam HaRishon in which we existed as one man with one heart, all together in one desire. We were connected to one another and even after we became distanced from each other through the process of evolution, we are still bound together by an inner force.
Where does such a strong influence of the environment on a person come from? It is because in our root, in the very depth of our nature, we are most tightly connected together in one source, in one state, in one desire, although physically distant.
That is how I am made by nature, and therefore it greatly matters to me what others think and say about me. This is true even for small children.
Question: The desire to feel that I am loved is the most important thing for a person in life. Why?
Answer: It is because the influence of the environment on a person is very powerful.
By nature, as an animal, I do not need much, a bit of food and some shelter for my family and children. But to obtain everything else beyond what is necessary for existence, I destroy my life just to gain recognition in the eyes of society—to become loved, respected, wealthy, and intelligent.
I have been working for years to buy a big house, a special car. And why do I need all this? Because it is respected in the eyes of the environment. In other words, I am a slave to my environment.
Question: When a person loves someone, it fills him very much. There is no stronger feeling that penetrates so deeply into a person. Why does he feel good when he experiences love for someone? Why are we made this way?
Answer: The question can be asked differently: why do I have both the need to be loved and the need to love someone? This comes from our nature, that within us there is a desire to feel our relations with the environment, to receive love from them and to love them.
Question: Why is it important to me that I also love them?
Answer: This stems from the upper root. We are created this way and receive an impression from the upper force of nature, which gives birth to us and nurtures us, as well as from the home, from parents, from the family. That is why I also have the desire to love someone.
This is my attitude toward the world, because otherwise I feel that I exist among haters whom I myself hate. There are people who do not feel love even in their own homes, and we see how improperly and badly they grow up. The lack of love that they do not feel from parents, their family, and environment makes them corrupted human beings.
And this comes from nature. We are not creatures that can exist in isolation. We see that even the young animals need maternal love and the help of their pack.
Question: Can a person who has never felt love give love to others?
Answer: No, a person will not be able either to give love or to receive it. Such a person is a very miserable, incomplete being, and it is difficult for him to exist.
Question: Let us imagine that in a hundred years a child will be born to robot parents. They will take care of him and provide him with everything possible, like in a royal palace, except for the feeling of love. What will he be lacking?
Answer: Everything! He will not feel that he is being filled with everything. He will lack the attitude because we come from a system called Adam, and there, in that system, we are all inwardly connected to one another as one body. And if we do not feel any connection between us, then we are lost. Nature will not support us, and we will not be able to exist.
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From the 692nd conversation New Life 692 “What Is Love?” 2/16/16
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Question: How can we feel the inner light between us?
Answer: We cannot yet feel the light between us. First we need to learn how to do several actions: how to raise ourselves to a single Kli where we can ascertain ourselves, feel each other, and perform actions in the general Partzuf.
Question: It is written in The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES), Before the Akudim, meaning in the Malchut of the Rosh, there could not be any limitation there because when Malchut limits and raises reflected light in the ten Sefirot of the Rosh, this limitation is actual bestowal.
What is this limitation that is the actual bestowal?
Answer: The fact is that Malchut does not receive light. Its entire job is to push away the upper light with its efforts and clothe itself in it.
Question: Because of the discrepancy between human characteristics and the upper light, creation feels shame, and it seems this process is not in man’s hands. How can we prevent this and allow the light to close the circle?
Answer: This is still ahead of us. We cannot do these actions, so I do not even explain them. Later, they will manifest themselves, and you will identify them from our studies.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/25/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“
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In the News (CNBC): “Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has a problem with the way kids are being taught in the U.S. today. And he says there’s a simple question that can help: ‘Why?’ …
““The why of things is extremely important because our brain has evolved to discard information that it thinks has no relevance,” Musk says. …
“For example, simply listing the tools you need to take an engine apart isn’t enough to learn how to do it. You also need to try it yourself, he suggests.
“By ‘taking the engine apart and putting it back together,’ he says, ‘you learn about wrenches and screwdrivers and all the tools that you need.’ As a result, ‘you understand the relevance.’
“And he’s right. A 2015 study by the University of Chicago found that students’ understanding of science concepts, such as angular momentum and torque, was significantly aided by physically experiencing those forces. Students got higher scores on their science quizzes all thanks to trying things out themselves.
“Elon Musk believes that ‘solving abstract mathematical problems and equations brings no concrete benefit; schoolchildren do not understand why it is needed.’ Instead, he suggests that students ‘study concepts from mathematics and physics in practice, for example, by taking apart engines or building a satellite.’
In his opinion, ‘designing satellites and dismantling engines will give a sufficient understanding of mathematics and physics, while the ability to use a wrench and screwdriver will have practical use.’”
My Response: That is true. I completely agree with him. Theoretical study does not give anything.
Comment: But we studied everything theoretically.
My Response: And what is the use? I studied the strength of materials, metal sciences, and so on, so what? If it is not in practice, there is no point. I think otherwise you cannot master technology. Theory is theory. Mathematics, for example, is theory. There is nothing you can do about it. But it is not really a science; it is a language.
I believe that it is absolutely necessary to give students assignments, let them think, work it out among themselves, and arrange group activities; that is very good. They will begin to dig into everything. Today they already know how to open Google and everything else, how to extract knowledge from the Internet.
Question: Why do you think this has to be in a group? Musk does not write or talk about that.
Answer: Group work is absolutely necessary; today everything works only like that because the world has come to a state where it must group together. One person not only will not be able to do anything and will not manage, it is the wrong thought, the wrong approach.
Question: Will the participants of group work combine their skills and talents?
Answer: They will have to find contact among themselves and thus assemble from their different qualities. I remember, even as students, in order to finish a lab assignment faster, we would work as a group of several people. Someone would write the report, which had to be handed in within two hours, someone else would help with the sources, and I would assemble the machine itself, the wires. For me it was easy. It was amazing how well it went for me!
And each one in his place; it was very good, a team.
Question: So could there be exactly such schools of the present and the future?
Answer: Yes, I think it is a very good thing. After all, we are not teaching children about discoveries, but about what exists in life. Therefore we must deliberately give them machines, instruments, anything, so they can use them to learn about the elements of nature.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/10/24
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