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Every person is obliged to attain the root of his soul. This means that the aspired-for purpose of the created being is Dvekut [adhesion] with His qualities (Baal HaSulam, “The Acting Mind”).
It is written that “the outcast will not be cast out from the Creator.” All universal desire, including the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human levels, all of reality, must return to the source, to the root. The creation came out of the source only in its imagination, and now, by trying to overcome this illusion that separates it from the root, it must remove the veils and return in its sensations.
Overall, the reality of the universe is a desire, divided into the four levels listed above. The greatest desire related to the human degree can carry out this work. The previous levels have no free choice, they should not have to work, exert effort, or realize this goal, because they cannot attract light, they cannot oblige the Creator to change them, and remove the concealment. Only the human can bring himself and the whole reality to correction, in other words, back to the sensation of the source, or to the removal of concealment.
The human degree, in turn, is also divided into four levels; in fact, the “human in man” who carries out the plan. This means that some people perform the necessary actions, influence others, and pull them along. Others draw the remaining levels along with them, the animate, vegetative, and inanimate. This is how everyone returns to the single root.
Thus, all people must reach the root, adhesion, but they differ in the implementation of the work and the final form. Depending on the root of their soul and desire, everyone returns in their own way, adheres to their own extent, fulfills their function, and rises to their own level.
Of course, we are talking about the process of returning, when we remove the concealment and assemble a mosaic of the overall picture. And then, when everyone takes their place, we begin to understand there is no difference between big and small, between individual desires—all this is important during the work, on the way back to the source.
But after we return to our root, our differences disappear. Then, a single force appears, a single desire, a single light, a single reality—as it is written: “He and His name are one.”
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/28/11, “The Acting Mind”
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Praying does not mean gathering together at a certain time, weeping, kneeling, and crying out.
Prayer is a collective, huge, purposeful, correct desire that arises in us under the influence of the upper light, Ohr Makif (surrounding light). Such a desire can manifest itself at any moment, and we will feel it as one common whole, in which the Creator will reveal Himself immediately without any intermediate actions.
The spiritual world is not like ours where people gather in one place and mechanically pray. We work together, attract the upper light, and it tightens the final screw in our common system, “seizing” us as we desired.
Somewhere we acted on it correctly, locked ourselves together, and the upper light manifested in us, which is the quality of bestowal and love. In principle, we achieved this ourselves, and the light appeared because we developed a similarity of form with it.
Therefore, this is not an ordinary, conventional prayer, but a joint action of Kabbalists to create one unified desire, which must be connected, woven, and glued together from their individual desires.
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From the 3rd Lesson of the Moscow Congress, 5/2/16
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How can I forgive this to you while the ladder that is placed on the ground is empty? No one climbs it, and instead of today you say “tomorrow.”…
Therefore, let me remind you of the validity of love of friends in spite of everything at this time, for it is upon this that our right to exist depends, and upon this our near-to-come success is measured.
Hence, turn away from all the imaginary engagements and set your hearts on thinking thoughts and devising proper tactics to truly connect your hearts as one, so the words “Love your friend as yourself” will literally come true in you, for a verse does not reach beyond the literal, and you will be cleaned by the thought of love that will cover all crimes. Test me in that, and begin to truly connect in love, and then you will see, “the palate will taste…” (Baal HaSulam, Letter 47).
It is so difficult for us to work on the connection between us because it is precisely in this place that the spiritual shattering occurred. A person resists this action with all his might and by every means, thanks to one’s nature, their egoistic inclination.
One must pass through a vast number of states before they see that nothing helps them and ultimately return to the simple and closest principle that has been right next to them all along. Then, if there is still time left for the person in this cycle of life, he or she may yet succeed in properly connecting with one’s friends and understand that only through unity with them does one attain the spiritual world, correction, and everything in general.
Therefore, what is required here is a collective decision, a pressing need, and great joint work to constantly awaken the feeling of the importance of connection. Each one must show everyone, and all must show each one, that correction lies precisely in connection—it is within connection that the spiritual world is revealed.
All other occupations that we invent for ourselves instead of this are called artificial work and exile, exile from connection, from readiness for unity, exile from approaching contact with a friend, from love of one’s neighbor, which no longer stands as the goal behind every step and every deed in a person’s life.
The goal is precisely in connection, by which the measure of our success is determined—until it turns into a ladder of spiritual degrees, and the measures of connection become Partzufim, Sefirot, and worlds. In the end, we compress and unite to such an extent that we become as one man with one heart, which is already the degree of the world of infinity, for such connection is absolutely perfect and boundless.
And if we make this our primary, sole, and central aim, the only task we must engage in and nothing else, then we will succeed. Otherwise, our ego will gladly cast us far away from the true work, enticing us with all sorts of imaginary occupations.
As Baal HaSulam writes: Begin to truly connect in love, and the palate will taste, that is, it will taste the flavor of the inner light that is revealed to us.
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From the preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/19/12
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Question: You keep saying not to look back into the past, to cut it off and not look back. How can we do that?
Answer: I think it is just a conviction, a self-persuasion, that I have no connection with the past. The past falls off, is cut off, disappears, vanishes, and fades away like a haze.
Question: Do I have to master the present?
Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/19/25
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it (Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning).
Question: Is this how we should look at ourselves and others? Is this how we should see people?
Answer: At each person, yes, that they are someone unique.
Question: Does this mean I cannot take their life, nor force them, etc.?
Answer: You cannot do anything.
Question: What kind of relationship should I have if we are unique? What is that, that my life and his are unique?
Answer: That you are in exceptional circumstances at every moment, and you must take advantage of this according to the rules of absolute interaction, that is, the absolute balance of you and the surrounding world.
Question: What do we do during war when there are countless casualties?
Answer: Even more so such feelings become more acute then.
Question: So the person who kills and the one who defends themselves somehow come to this state?
Answer: Not everyone. But if one thinks about his actual, genuine realization, he comes to the conclusion that every life is inimitable and unique.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/7/25
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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 5
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