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Posted on November 3rd, 2025
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On Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), we mark the anniversary of Baal HaSulam’s death.
We must try to use every opportunity to unite between us more and more and to become worthy of the unity in which the heavens open. I deeply hope that we will succeed in this soon. I see very clear signs of advancement. Let us hope it will happen at any moment.
Wherever we gather, whether drawing closer to our source during the lesson or at any event, even if it is only an external hint of contact with the righteous one, we must ask that the connection between us be revealed, that his teaching open within us, that we may understand the inner meaning of his words, that his message does not remain concealed, that both he and his teaching live within us until we become the support for the entire world, for unity among us, among all humanity, and for the revelation of the Creator.
This is a time for an intimate, heartfelt plea. No special external actions are needed; what matters most is the work in the heart. Let us hope that we will perform it together and make every effort so that it brings us to unity.
The entire desire, the entire aspiration of Baal HaSulam is in great measure directed toward us. We are not yet able to feel it, but he is undoubtedly among us acting in a very practical and powerful way. We will reveal him, because he is truly our spiritual father.
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From the meal dedicated to Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, 9/26/2012
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Question: “Don’t pay attention to anyone, just live for yourself.” What do you think of such advice?
Answer: That doesn’t solve anything. “Live for yourself,” meaning, I’ll live for myself, I won’t think about anyone else. And then what?
Comment: I’ll die just the same one day, that’s clear. What worries me is that everyone will forget me. All those to whom I gave so much warmth.
My Response: That goes without saying. They will forget.
Question: Then what is the conclusion if everyone forgets me, even those I’ve done so much good for?
Answer: I don’t intend to live in others because they are mortal too. So what is the point of investing myself in them?
Question: What is the point?
Answer: Only to come closer to the Creator.
Question: So I have my own individual purpose?
Answer: Of course, otherwise, what are people for?
Comment: When I say, “I live for others,” it sounds like I live for others. But you say, “I live for others in order to come closer to the Creator.”
My Response: Of course, because others too are here today and gone tomorrow.
Comment: So others and everything else exist only so that I would move and draw closer to the Creator.
My Response: Exactly.
Comment: That means this goal should always remain the main one before a person, the central purpose.
My Response: I can remember how much my parents invested in me, and that never leaves me. But when I look at my grandchildren, they could care less; they don’t feel how much their grandparents gave for them to exist. And so it goes, after one generation, that feeling is almost gone.
Question: So everything in this world is transient, fleeting, and only our closeness to the Creator is eternal?
Answer: Of course.
Question: Then what does it mean to come closer to the Creator?
Answer: To come closer to the Creator means to enter into an endless chain of care for one another. We must feel that mutual care is eternal.
Question: Is it eternal or does it lead to eternity?
Answer: It leads to the perception of eternity.
Question: When we hear, “You can live eternally, feel eternity,” we get nervous and dismiss it. Is it because we are always living for ourselves?
Answer: Exactly.
Question: If we could direct ourselves toward others, would eternity no longer seem like a fantasy?
Answer: Then we would begin to feel eternity. You would as if dwell in others, and in that you would feel infinity. You would draw closer in your feelings to the Creator, and time would disappear; only the feeling would remain.
Question: What is the Creator like? When I say, “to draw closer to the Creator,” what am I really longing for?
Answer: For absolute care for others. For the other!
Question: Without thinking of myself?
Answer: If I can forget myself and think only of the other, then I enter eternity.
Question: Is there not even a little thought of “what will I get in return?” Does that not exist?
Answer: That is your reward. You will begin to feel eternity itself, precisely in your attitude toward the other.
Question: So, is the ultimate goal closeness to the Creator, and everything around us is given for that purpose?
Answer: Yes.
Question: What about wars, suffering, tragedy, and illness?
Answer: Without them, we couldn’t feel all this. They are also necessary. The evil inclination was deliberately created so that we could feel ourselves rising above it.
Question: Is our task to rise above all that?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: I see. Thank you. You have even illuminated that. For people all this suffering is such a pain, and you say, “That too is for the purpose.”
My Response: It is necessary.
Question: But can it be done without it? To just go smoothly through life?
Answer: No, a person can’t do that. He must pass through anger, through the evil inclination; otherwise, he won’t be able to feel the good.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/27/25
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Question: If the feeling inside my desire is a direct appeal to the Creator, then how will my external connection with other people in the form of a ten or a Kabbalistic group help me form a request to the Creator?
Answer: You cannot appeal to the Creator personally. A request for loved ones, for relatives, for children does not help. We see this from our own lives.
It is possible to appeal to the Creator only through the group with a correctly formulated request. If I am connected with the ten and we together develop one common desire, then this desire is felt by the Creator.
I, as Malchut, am at the bottom. The Creator, as Keter, is above. Through the ten Sefirot (Keter, Hochma, Bina, Hesed, Gevura, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, and Malchut), I must connect with the Creator. If I do not do this correctly, I will not reach the Creator. And when I appeal through the group, I annul myself.
That is, I have to enter the group, dissolve in it, and then my request will be, to some extent, altruistic and not mine personally.
This is how we appeal to the Creator. Otherwise, we have no possibility of doing this.
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From the Lesson in Russian, 11/4/18
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What is the difference between the perception of the Light in the Toch (body) and in the Rosh (head)?
In the Toch, it is already a Kli, a vessel of actual reception and adhesion. In the Rosh, however, it is sensation alone, in which the Kli participates only by its presence, not by reception.
All sensations are felt in the Rosh of the Partzuf because perception always takes place in the head.
Therefore, all acts of bestowal and connection ascend from the Guf to the Rosh, drawing nearer to that part which conducts the light.
As a result, the Rosh undergoes change and draws the light into itself more deeply. Then, each time, a reversal occurs, as a consequence of that process, the Guf begins to receive more of the light that has been revealed within the Rosh.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“
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Comment: Please comment on some of Albert Einstein’s quotes.
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
My Response: Yes, the impossible is the absurd. One who tries to reach something through completely absurd actions, agrees with them, and rises above his reason, which in Kabbalah is called “faith above reason” and that person can truly move forward. All others are in a state of degradation.
Faith is also knowledge, only each time it stands above me.
Question: So do you not accept earthly logic?
Answer: Earthly logic is animal logic. What I can grasp with my mind, whatever it may be, is animal mind, animal logic.
Einstein was great because, although he was not a Kabbalist, he thought like one. That is, I accept nature against my reason: “Such-and-such speed, such-and-such mass—can it change? It changes.”
Mass changes. How can it change? It just does.
Time can flow backward. Why? We do not know why, but let us accept that it can. What we perceive through our senses should not be taken a priori as an eternal constant.
Anyone who wants to see immediate results of his work should go into shoemaking.
Answer: Yes, that is well said. It is good when you do something and see the result right away. You even get paid. You finish your day, make a pair of boots, earn a few rubles, have a drink, eat, go to bed, and snore peacefully.
Comment: But that is what a person wants—to check a box: “The day was spent well.”
My Response: That is what the animal inside us wants. The animal in each of us desires only that! To lie down on a featherbed, snore, and that is it.
Question: So you say that is an animal state? And the human state is not like that?
Answer: A human being cannot be satisfied with that. There is nothing you can do. You were created so that you cannot be satisfied!
Question: But still, is there rest in life?
Answer: No, there is no rest in life. It all depends on a person’s nature. You might want it, but no—and actually, on the other hand, you would not even want that! How could you want it?!
Everyone knows that something is impossible. Then comes a fool who does not know this—and he makes the discovery.
Answer: And the most important thing is that everyone tells him how it should be done, but he cannot, he disagrees. He does not want to do it that way.
Question: But those who tell him that know it is impossible?
Answer: Yes, yet he still does it in his own way, twists it differently, and as a result he opens a new path.
Question: So do you think that science should, in essence, be entered by fools?
Answer: Science should be entered by those who can deny science, and by doing so, advance it each time.
After all, science itself, in principle, progresses through faith above knowledge, just like Einstein, like Tesla, although we know little about him. These are the kinds of revolutionaries I mean.
I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Answer: Absolutely right. I completely agree with him!
I do not think that humanity will restrain itself in the next world war, if it happens. It depends only on whether the Jews fulfill their historical function. If they unite, then it will not happen and we will reach unity by a good path. If not, then through immense suffering—ours and the world’s.
Question: Do you think that humanity, in the next war, if it happens, will not restrain itself from using weapons of destruction?
Answer: That it will not restrain itself—absolutely! The only question is to what extent it will not.
Because there are people who say that limited nuclear wars are possible, but I cannot imagine anyone being able to hold back.
After all, nuclear weapons are now in the hands of many countries that are quietly sitting and waiting.
I am afraid Einstein is right. If there is a world war, it will push humanity back by many, many thousands of years.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/26/18
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Question: How does Malchut de Rosh determine how much light it allows into the Peh so it would pass into the Guf?
Answer: I cannot say, but by how we act and connect with the inner properties of Malchut de Rosh, we begin to feel its properties and actions, and thus begin to understand and realize them. This is how we adhere to Malchut de Rosh.
Question: It is written in TES that there is an upper Zivug for the departure of light and there is an upper Zivug for bringing pleasure, for the spreading of light. And both of them are defined as joy. It is unclear what the joy from the departure of light is. Who is rejoicing and what is he rejoicing about?
Answer: Any action that realizes a Partzuf aims to satisfy the upper desire.
Question: Can we say that the reversal into reflected light occurs at the moment when the Kli feels the Creator’s desire to fill it?
Answer: We can say this.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/26/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“
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