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Posted on December 30th, 2025

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Suffering and the Development of the Soul

Posted on December 30th, 2025

Question: Does suffering really contribute to the development of the soul?

Answer: Naturally suffering distances a person from egoism, purifies, and elevates. But they should not be elevated to the rank of something holy or desirable, because the purpose of creation from the side of the Creator is to delight the created beings.

He created us in order to give us pleasure, not to punish us. Therefore, we must avoid suffering. It is undesirable both from our side and from His. Suffering comes only because we misuse what the Creator sends us.

Question: If I relate to suffering correctly, do I stop feeling it?

Answer: No. It stops being felt only if you correctly realize it. But this does not mean that you sit and suffer and engage in self-torment.

In principle, ideal spiritual work says that suffering should be the “suffering of love,” not because I am not receiving, but because I am not giving, not loving enough.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 5/21/17

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Hanukkah—A Stop Before the Attack

Posted on December 30th, 2025

Question: Hanukkah symbolizes the boundary between the desert and the Land of Israel. Where exactly is Hanukkah located on the spiritual path?

Answer: Hanukkah is the quality of Bina, the level of Bina, whereas the Land of Israel is the quality of Keter, when Malchut connects with Keter. Therefore, Hanukkah is located halfway on the path to Keter, to the highest degree of connection, love, and adhesion with the Creator, and revelation of the Creator.

Hanukkah symbolizes only the revelation of a correct connection between us, but not yet a complete one. And therefore, it is merely a Hanaya, Hanu-ko, a stop along the way, on the boundary between the revelation of the Creator, attainment of the Creator, and adhesion with the Creator, which occurs at Purim.

The forty-year passage through the desert is an approach to the holiday of Hanukkah, rising above egoism. And afterward, there must be movement toward Purim.

Question: How does the further transition from Hanukkah occur?

Answer: When we fully master the quality of Bina and Malchut connects with it, it is entirely included in Bina. This state is called the small state (Katnut). After that, we begin to direct all of our desires toward the quality of bestowal and love; that is, not simply to work so as not to receive, but to fill others. This state is called Purim.

The ascent up to Hanukkah symbolizes “Do not do to another what you do not wish for yourself,” while “Love your neighbor as yourself” is already the entry into the Land of Israel (Purim).

Question: It is said that during the 40 years of wandering in the desert, the generation that lived in Egypt died out, and a new generation was born, which was meant to enter the Land of Israel. Who celebrates Hanukkah? The new generation?

Answer: Hanukkah is celebrated by the generation that was born in the desert. Because it is already detached from Malchut, from egoism.
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From KabTV’s “The Kabbalistic Meaning of Hanukkah,” 12/7/17

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The Formula for Reducing Suffering, Part 1

Posted on December 30th, 2025

All the suffering that is destined for us along the path of natural development must be revealed. We exist within a system and must recognize all our evil in order to correct it and come to good. But we can accelerate this process and transfer suffering to another level.

Therefore, Baal HaSulam writes that the premature revelation of The Book of Zohar brought about much suffering, yet at the same time it led to the fact that today the world stands on the threshold of redemption.

Hence, one must strive to move forward and shorten time, to transfer oneself and the entire world onto the path of light, the path of acceleration (Achishena). One should not wait for the time of blows to arrive, for them to be revealed from above, manifested in this world, and forcing us to correct ourselves. After all, we can accelerate our development on our own and move the blows onto another plane. And although we will still suffer, these will be completely different sufferings.

Instead of simply suffering on the animal level, we will suffer in a human way, that is, from the absence of taste in life and from not understanding it. These too are sufferings, which already torment many people today, lead them to depression, and sometimes even to suicide.

People try to drown out these sufferings with antidepressants or drugs. But these are suffering from the absence of a goal; they belong to the human level. Previously, sufferings were purely material and earthly: from lack of food, sex, family, money, honor, or knowledge.

Any dissemination of the method of Kabbalah advances the process of general development along the path of light. Sufferings do not disappear, but they become human: from lack of knowledge, understanding, purpose, which a person requires, and not only the animal body.

That is, the quality of suffering rises. The quantity of suffering multiplied by its quality determines the volume of the vessel in which the creation must reveal the entire light of infinity.

m (quantity) × h (quality) = V (perfect vessel)

If the quality of suffering increases, then its quantity decreases, and vice versa. It turns out that we have the opportunity to reduce the quantity of suffering by increasing its quality. But we are obliged to reach the required volume, the required intensity of suffering, in order for the vessel to be perfect. We all exist according to this formula.

For example, one minute of suffering from being distant from the Creator is worth a month of suffering from losing the lottery. In essence, suffering comes from a single source, but we can raise it to another level, to another “frequency range,” to another quality, and thus shorten its duration.

This is similar to how modern devices are able to instantly transmit enormous volumes of information on short waves, at high frequencies. In the past, when devices could not operate at such high frequencies, the same action required many long hours.

Suffering can push us from behind if we ourselves do not want to move forward, with things like having no money or nothing to eat, and one is forced to go and look for work. But if I am drawn by a goal that shines ahead, then I myself seek a source of strength that enables me to advance. This is a huge difference: feeingl material suffering or replacing it with goal-oriented suffering. A person is evaluated accordingly.

However, we are obliged to work through a certain intensity of suffering: quantity multiplied by quality. Therefore, by one path or another—natural development, acceleration of time, or alternately both—we are obliged to arrive at a perfect vessel (desire).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 7/15/16, Rabash, Article No. 16, “But the More They Afflicted Them”

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We Can Do Nothing without the Creator

Posted on December 30th, 2025

When you become completely disillusioned with your search for yourself, for life, for the purpose of life, and for the Creator, and so on, then you are approaching the point of finding Him.

Question: So this disillusionment has to happen?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Meaning that I must put effort into the search.

My Response: Absolutely everything you possibly can.

Question: Should my efforts be based on the idea that I can do everything myself?

Answer: Yes. And after you realize that you yourself can do nothing, you begin to determine where is it possible to connect with the Creator.

Question: You said, “I can do nothing.” Do I really not have any ability at all? Nothing?

Answer: Nothing.

Question: Not even some simple things?

Answer: No, no! Until a person raises their hands completely, fully entrusting themselves to the higher force, nothing will work for them.

Question: Today, we see wars and crises approaching, more and more intense ecological disasters, and so on. Will all of this lead us to the understanding that we can do nothing?

Answer: That is a question. What we see today, I do not think will lead to that yet. Humanity still understands its state and its dependence very little. It believes it can still do something.

Question: So we must knock out this “chair” from under ourselves, i.e., the idea that I can do something?

Answer: Yes. We can do nothing without the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/17/25

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