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Posted on December 20th, 2025
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Question: It would seem that the greater the number of people a person comes into contact with, the higher the risk of catching something and falling ill. Yet studies show that a person living in isolation from others has a much higher chance of dying from disease. Why does this contradiction arise?
Answer: There were periods in human history when terrible epidemics raged in Europe. Because people lived densely in cities, these epidemics led to real catastrophes and claimed millions of lives. If a person lived in a remote village, they had a better chance of escaping an epidemic.
But today humanity has already passed through this era of major epidemics. Recent studies show that in our time, a sense of connection and happiness has such power that it can overcome all problems and illnesses. After all, we live in a different era.
I read about a study conducted at some university involving three teenagers suffering from extremely severe forms of cancer. They were asked what they would like in their lives, and they were promised that any wish would be fulfilled. One boy wanted to fly in an airplane in the pilot’s cockpit, and one girl wanted to be a queen. All these wishes were fulfilled.
For the girl, a royal reception was organized at the university. Students dressed in historical costumes paid her royal honors. After this, it was discovered that the patients’ conditions improved by 80%.
Of course, it is impossible to treat all diseases in this way alone. There are diseases of different levels—inanimate, vegetative, animal, and human depending on which systems of the body are affected. But cancer in particular is very susceptible to such influence, and it retreats in the face of a feeling of happiness. Happiness heals even in the most hopeless conditions.
In such cases doctors advise patients to do what they enjoy: travel, drink wine, enjoy life. And the most healing thing is the support of one’s surroundings—love, help, and protection. The problem is that people often act in exactly the opposite way, and begin to pity the sick person and cry together with them. By doing so, they immediately bury them.
The further we develop and attain connection with the force that sustains all our life, the entire universe, and all levels of our existence, the better we will learn to heal all problems through the feeling of happiness. And we will understand that happiness is attained only within connection.
That is, first and foremost we need unity. By uniting we reveal the connection between us, within which we feel the force that unites us and gives us a feeling of happiness. And through this feeling of happiness we heal all problems.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 242 – Happiness And Social Ties,” 10/17/13
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Question: On what basis do I choose which states to keep and which to discard for the sake of adhesion with the Creator? What do I rely on?
Answer: On what you have already experienced. Now you have reached at a state in which you already possess a certain part of the path, when, as it is said, “the Knower of secrets testifies about him that he will never again return to folly.” That is, the Creator guarantees this state to you.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/11/25, Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”
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A “day” is not when there is sunlight, but when spiritual light is revealed to a person. This may happen once in several months, once in a lifetime, or every single moment.
And each time a person attains a revelation, it must be complete and perfect. Therefore, one is obligated to say: Hear, O Israel, the Creator is our God, the Creator is One!
This means that he has attained “One,” that is, the understanding of the one, unified force of nature.
“Hear” means the degree of Bina (hearing, ear). “Israel” means one who aspires “straight to the Creator,” Malchut rising into Zeir Anpin, and together with it ascending to Bina. The Creator is our God; the Creator is One means that everything unites in Bina into a single whole.
The souls that unite together in Malchut join Zeir Anpin, then Bina, and all together are included in the word “One.”
The word “One” sums up all the corrections a person has made, arriving at the state “He and His revelation are One” (Hu veShmo Echad). Therefore, the prayer Hear, O Israel, the Creator is our God, the Creator is One is a sign of the correction of the degree and its fulfillment.
This is how we must reveal our state at every degree, i.e., every “day.” “To say” means not only to attain, but also to be able to express what has been attained.
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Preparation for the Kabbalah Lesson 4/4/10, The Book of Zohar, “VaYakhel“
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It is impossible to understand what faith above reason means until a person attains this sensation, this revelation. And the revelation of faith above reason comes simultaneously with knowledge. Right now, we do not know what our mind truly is; it instinctively, subconsciously always strives toward good states and distances itself from bad ones.
I do not have the power to investigate, see, understand, or feel why I act precisely the way I do. Such behavior is already embedded in my nature in advance even before it reaches my sensation, comprehension, or conscious calculation. This is my nature.
It is written: “And He separated the light from the darkness.” This refers precisely to the state when a person begins to feel that his mind is fully governed in everything. Yet he is already able to look at this governance from the side. And from this observation-point, he sees another approach beginning to form within him and preparing to develop.
This means he acquires new desires (spiritual vessels) in which he can separate himself from his initial nature. There he exists together with other souls, together with the Creator, and there operates a different, so-called integral calculation that includes the interests of all to the extent that it has been revealed to a person.
From this zero point, these two directions, reason and faith above reason, begin to develop together: as much the one, so much the other, until we reach the end of correction in both. The reason is the development of my natural, inherent egoistic desire. And above reason is the development of the desire to bestow.
And what separates them from each other is the light. One is always built at the expense of the other. Therefore, the meaning of receiving is to be for the sake of bestowal even though these words seem incompatible and contradictory. But only if reason develops, above it faith above reason develops correspondingly.
The sensation that one is being separated from the other is called the salvation of the Creator. From that moment onward, a person begins to feel new spiritual vessels, new desires, within himself.
This requires a sensory understanding, because the matter being discussed is desire, and reason comes even later.
As long as we are merely trying to attain the desire to bestow, applying effort in the study and in the group, it is considered the time of preparation. We still do not possess spiritual desires, and therefore, we have not yet reached that zero point from which the two branches reason and faith above reason begin to grow. It is precisely from there that we begin to work with faith above reason, not during the preparation stage.
Then we constantly move from one to the other: from reason we rise into above reason, and then fall back. One must sink completely into reason in order to rise from within it to faith above reason. Reason is necessary in order to rise above it.
The only thing we have is the desire to receive pleasure. And it must be revealed in order for us to learn how to work with it in reverse form.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/2/11, Baal HaSulam, Shamati 207 ”Receiving In Order to Bestow”
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Question: Is there any parallel between the development of the spiritual embryo and the embryo in our world?
Answer: The development of a spiritual embryo occurs in the same way as in a human in our world.
Question: As a rule, an embryo has stages of development according to a pattern. For example, a cell is formed on the first day, then the pregnancy develops further strictly according to days an hours including the attachment to the uterus and other processes.
Why do they occur exactly this way and what do they reflect? Is it possible to convey something through this by studying this process?
Answer: I do not understand what does “to convey” mean? To whom and what? I know that I have to define a higher instrument, property, object, desire relative to myself; it doesn’t matter what I call it. I have to attach myself to it.
When I begin to attach myself, I form myself relative to it, I create a cell from myself that is built over the course of three so-called spiritual days: the right, the left, and the middle line. I finished, created a cell, and that’s it, I’ve attached to the upper.
And then I begin to develop. My egoism grows and I am above it, opposite to it, as I am attached to the upper. The ego pulls me back into desires to receive, and I, by annulling them, attach to the altruistic desires of the upper. This is how I struggle with these two forces and build myself between them on the middle line.
Question: Does this whole process take place in the womb?
Answer: “In the womb” means annulling oneself in relation to the qualities of the upper, the qualities of bestowal and love.
Question: And then the fetus grows. At about five weeks all the systems begin to form, and by three months, the entire embryo. If you take any animal, absolutely everything in the world is built according to this principle. And is this exactly the same as the birth of a person in spirituality, his point in the heart?
Answer: Of course.
Question: But ultimately, birth occurs. This is about crossing the Machsom?
Answer: Yes.
Question: A person transitions into a new reality after passing this entire path in the womb?
Answer: Yes, from a closed space he transitions into an open one.
Question: Does this happen within the same physical parameters, meaning he comes out from the mother’s belly?
Answer: This is a completely different attachment to the upper. He becomes independently higher, and therefore feels himself differently.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Birth and Death” 9/18/10
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Question: Recently, in the ten, we increasingly feel unity and even the presence of the Creator. Can it be said that we are transitioning to the degree of the revelation of His face? Does this transition occur gradually or is it a leap after which it will become clear to us that we will never again return to our foolishness?
Answer: It happens gradually until it becomes the revelation of the Creator. And then a person understands where he is now.
Question: Must the entire ten track this revelation together?
Answer: Not necessarily, but everyone must strive for it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 12/11/25, Baal HaSulam, Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot
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