Question: You advise us to ask the Creator to correct us and fill us. How should we properly ask for fulfillment?

Answer: Your heart must desire the quality of bestowal and connection with the Creator, and your mind must grasp this state and unite with Him so that this state enters your heart as a passionate longing: “This is the only thing I want.”

Question: But we learn that we should not ask for ourselves. Here it seems like egoism is mixed in. How should we properly process this?

Answer: You can process it correctly only if you think about it from a state of love.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/20/25, “Hanukkah”

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Question: Why is cowardice so despised?

Answer: It is despised, but you have to understand that it is a human feeling, and a very strong one. By the way, it protects us from many problems that we could cause for ourselves and for others.

Question: So do you not despise a person who admits that he is a coward?

Answer: No, I do not despise him. One simply needs to know how to balance this force and protect oneself in a balanced way to the extent that is necessary.

Question: Is there courage without cowardice? Does such a thing exist at all?

Answer: No, only if it is a pathological condition.

Question: So do you call it a disease when a person is completely reckless?

Answer: Of course. Look at animals, and how they behave. They do not recklessly attack someone. They check, they circle around, and so on. And only afterward, if they decide to attack, they rush forward.

Comment: Yes, that is true. But with rabid dogs this mechanism seems to be switched off.

My Response: Yes.

Comment: So if a person is purely reckless, “brave,” as they say, it is actually a disease.

My Response: That is not courage.

Question: An important question arises: how should we raise children? They tell a child, “Do not be a coward; be brave.”

Answer: You should weigh everything.

Question: Who are you saying this to right now?

Answer: To the child. Weigh all the pros and cons. And only if you are convinced that there is no other choice, then attack.

Comment: You are now addressing the child as an adult, as someone possessing wisdom.

Answer: What can you do? It is the same with adults as well.

Question: But should such an attitude be applied to a child? That you should weigh all the pros and cons, and only after that…?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this what is called education?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Can a child do this?

Answer: He can because precisely this caution, this cowardice, can help him.

Question: What age are you talking about when you speak of this upbringing of a child?

Answer: At a young age, from three years old.

Question: From three years old you can say, “Weigh the options”? Sit in front of a child and say in an adult way, “Weigh the options”? Can one already relate to a child as to an adult at this age?

Answer: Yes.

Question: If a parent relates to a child in this way, what does it say about the parent?

Answer: That the parent is teaching the child a balanced attitude toward the world.
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Question: If we go in faith above reason, is a miracle possible?

Answer: I don’t know. If you have a Kli and it contains your energy, your light, then it is quite possible that the upper light will come to that light and ignite it.

How we can evoke the upper light so that it ignites the light within us is precisely what we are studying. This is what we must seek within ourselves, because the upper light must be the light of bestowal, the light of love, even if it is unreciprocated. And then we will begin to understand how it works.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 12/20/25, “Hanukkah”

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Question: How does a person see that his vessels of bestowal are not corrected? In what is this expressed?

Answer: This is expressed in the fact that a person asks the Creator for correction. And the Creator understands that this is His part in the correction of the whole of creation and therefore corrects it.

Then the person already rises to a step higher. This is how it happens.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/20/25, “Hanukkah”

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Question: When I fully agree with the Creator, where can I get a demand for the light that returns to the source? After all, I even agree with the fact that I do not have this demand.

Answer: That is absolutely correct. This is precisely the beginning of the desire we must reach.

Start developing it from this point. That is, I want to be connected with the friends, with the Creator, with all our states, and connected in such a way that I feel myself detached from all other desires and goals.

Then we can raise our eyes to Him and demand: “Save us!”

After all, what we must come to, the most important task, is not that we receive whatever is there lying on some shelf, but that we realize that all of this is in the Creator’s power.

The quality of bestowal, the quality of love, the quality of connection are in His power, and we are obliged to implore Him to help us. This is precisely what constitutes the revelation of the Creator to a person.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 12/20/25, “Hanukkah”

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Question: I grew up in Israel, and for me Hanukkah is a very childlike holiday with doughnuts and the dreidel. And suddenly I hear from you that Hanukkah has a spiritual meaning. How should I relate to the lighting of the candles so that this action is not merely external?

Answer: This is a spiritual action. There is nothing in the Israeli holidays that is not connected to the spiritual. After all, we exist only in order to attain our soul,  what is called the future world, the upper world, the higher dimension, that we must reach.

At present we see the picture of this world: houses, sky, sea, people, everything around me. Behind this picture we need to find a crack into the upper world, widen it, open up the horizons, and see that we are located only in a very small sphere, in a tiny part of a much greater, more spacious, infinite world.

Our entire universe is also within our current world. But we must reveal the world beyond it as well. This is what we human beings are meant for. For we do not belong to the still, vegetative, and animate levels that are bound to nature, but to the human level.

A “human being” in Hebrew is “Adam,” from the word “domeh,” similar to the Creator. We are not only capable of reaching such a state, but are simply obliged to attain it, to reveal the entire true reality that lies beyond what now appears to us as this world.

Then we will reveal not only infinite spaces, but also ourselves as existing in an infinite, perfect form, within this vast, expansive, light-filled reality that is revealed to us.

The wisdom of Kabbalah is intended for this. All the holidays speak to us about this, including Hanukkah, about how we begin to open the upper world for ourselves, expand our organs of perception and reality, and then emerge from all these narrow, bitter limitations.

All this lies before us. But everything depends on the unity between us, because unity is precisely the action that begins to open the boundaries of the present reality. And the pressures we feel today are meant to push us to accelerate and reveal the true world.

Therefore when lighting the Hanukkah candles—together with Hanukkah songs, games with children using the dreidel, and tasty doughnuts—let us think that the true Hanukkah is like a housewarming, for we are opening a new world for ourselves through uniting with one another.
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Question: What is the family of the future?

Answer: It is when a husband and wife are very close companions to one another. When we feel that we are doing something pleasant, we draw closer. When we feel that there may be some problems, we distance ourselves. We behave selectively. And then everything will be fine for us.

Question: But we do not run away from each other? Is that what it means to build a family?

Answer: We do not constantly think about “building.” We simply feel where we can help our partner, and where we should not interfere.

Comment: And this, you say, is called “companionship.”

My Response: Yes.

Comment: You use this word “companionship.” It is warm and very familiar to everyone.

My Response: That is the most important thing in marriage.

Question: That is the most important thing in marriage. And then everything will happen?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And everything else, like love?

Answer: Love exists between a mother and a child. And love exists between a person and the Creator. Between people, there is no love. There is the possibility of creating a very kind, close, mutual connection, but even that is still not love.

Love appears, manifests, is created, is born where there is a natural bond, like that of a mother with her child, and like the bond that arises between a person and the Creator.

This is natural connection. That is what can be called love. But simply between a man and a woman, even if they understand each other’s importance and try in some way to complement one another, that is not love; it is still companionship.
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