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Posted on December 17th, 2025
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After a person crosses the machsom, one moves forward—one’s soul teaches the person. He understands where he is.
Question: Is the method that the Kabbalists pass down primarily intended for the preparatory stage?
Answer: No. Kabbalists write about many stages. For example, The Book of Zohar speaks only of the three lines when you are already moving up the ladder of spiritual ascent. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, we are talking about ongoing spiritual movement.
Of course, there are articles and letters that deal with the preliminary stages. But in principle, the main material concerns serious spiritual advancement.
The preparatory stage is like this: act as you can, and then see what happens. No matter how much you talk about it, a person still doesn’t fully understand it.
The main problem that throws people off is that they either confuse Kabbalah with religion, believing they must perform some external actions, or they confuse it with work as in our world where the result depends directly on your own effort, or they confuse it with Eastern methods where you do nothing and simply wait for everything to come.
In the wisdom of Kabbalah, spiritual work is built on the middle line. You must make many efforts, become disillusioned with your own strength, and reach a genuine request for the light to correct you. By doing this, you create the conditions for the light to act upon you. The Creator does not need your suffering or your pleas; rather, your desire becomes ready to change—and then it changes.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call, Over the Machsom” 9/12/10
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Question: Let’s say a person is studying Kabbalah. But in the world around him all kinds of negative actions, hatred, intimidation, etc. are happening. You say: “It does not have any effect. Follow a clear path toward the goal. And everything that happens is, as it were, special effects that distract you; they simply divert you from the main path.”
But what for? If a person does not pay attention to these “special effects” and focuses on the goal, why are they needed?
Answer: It is in order to work them through. You must rise above them and connect with the goal. These “special effects” and everything that is created in the world are needed to direct you toward the goal, to lift you up, to sharpen your movement, and to accelerate it. Only for this! It is in order to more sharply orient you on the goal and accelerate the movement toward it. Nothing else.
Comment: So if someone puts a knife to your throat, you say, “Excuse me, I have to run to the lesson now”; or something else. And you say: “Don’t be afraid, it is all for your own good.”
Answer: Yes, this is how everything is arranged. And this is felt when a person works on himself in order to somehow create the image of the Creator within himself. He sees that from all these images that are created by him, before him, inside him, and outside of him are all so that he can correctly form the image of the Creator within himself.
Image means qualities, not some visual image, but, let’s say, character. The character of the quality of bestowal and love.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. External factors or why does everyone hate Jews?” 9/14/10
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I am not in favor of suffering. There are many examples of people choosing suffering and believing that this elevates them. This is incorrect.
Question: What does it mean not to suffer?
Answer: If you clearly understand, and you have the conditions where your suffering alleviates someone’s difficulties and helps them progress, then yes. But if this exists only in your imagination…
Comment: You have raised the bar now by saying: “If my suffering makes someone’s life, fate, and soul easier for someone.” You did not say “for me,” but “for someone.”
My Response: For someone else, of course.
Question: So if it serves as an example for someone, and I do this in order to set an example that it is possible, try it?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: That is high!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/5/25
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