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Our world operates according to the desire to receive pleasure; that is, every part of creation instinctively makes an internal calculation about what is most beneficial for it, according to its understanding, inner makeup, inborn qualities, upbringing, and the influence of the environment. We are incapable of acting otherwise.
We are not even aware of how much each of us is locked into such an egoistic calculation every single moment. And even when we perform some merciful act, it is only in order to gain something through it; otherwise, we would have no motivation to act that way. This is how all of nature functions, from the smallest atomic particle to the most educated and developed human being.
But there is another intention: for the sake of bestowal, not for one’s own benefit, but for the benefit of the other. This is the anti-world, anti-matter, the complete opposite of everything that exists in this world.
There cannot be even a thought about oneself there; such a thought has undergone restriction (Tzimtzum) and is cut off. Everything is governed and moved solely by concern for the good of the other.
So how can we approach such a vision and such calculations? Naturally, this is not within our power because no such force exists in our world. We must draw it to ourselves from that other, opposite reality that exists beyond the boundary of the spiritual world called the Machsom.
But how is it possible for that force to reach us at all, if everything operates according to the law of equivalence of form, and like connects with like? Yet there is a special force called “the light that returns to the source,” “the light that reforms,” or “surrounding light,” that can shine on us to the extent of our yearning to be in that opposite world.
It helps us even if our yearning is false, even if we do not understand that world or feel it, as long as we have at least some relation to it, a single point of contact with it, the “point in the heart,” a spark of the spiritual world.
If we work on this spark, then to the extent of our efforts, the spiritual force shines upon us and turns these efforts into “spiritual flesh” around that point, which begins to grow. Until it becomes a complete spiritual vessel through which you break through into that very anti-world, and then you find yourself in the “opposite reality.”
The request for the force that brings changes—for the light that returns to the source, that corrects our intentions from egoistic to bestow upon the other—is called prayer. And to the extent of our yearning, our demand, our persistence, this wondrous force acts upon us and carries out changes within us.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/6/11, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Charity to the Poor Makes the Holy Name, in the Work?”
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Question: Today we look at our world, at humanity, and we see that everyone is shouting. Even on television shows. They sit a meter apart from each other and shout nonstop. What should people, humanity, do so that shouting would at least turn into conversation?
Answer: A person sitting opposite me should take my hand and begin to persuade me calmly, in a soft voice, even in a whisper, about what he wants.
Question: And in that case, should he want something for me?
Answer: Yes. He wants to tell me something. His message should be conveyed in exactly this form, in this manner, from the heart so that I can open my heart in response. And everything can flow from one heart into another.
Comment: You are describing an ideal picture of people sitting and wanting to pass warmth to one another.
My Response: And we, the viewers, watch this on television and feel glad that today they invited the right, normal people. We enjoy listening to them. They say very little, yet we understand everything.
Comment: You are talking about an ideal state, not really of our world. As far as I know, you do not particularly watch television. But it is enough just to look.
Answer: I certainly do not watch such programs.
Question: Yes, there are such shows—rings, a fight going on. It is no coincidence that beating someone up is now considered a sport. And here it is the same thing; they are beating each other up verbally. But humanity will not come to anything through this shouting, will it?
Answer: No, of course not.
Comment: Meaning that everyone will prove that they are right and…
My Response: They are not proving anything; they simply do not hear one another.
Comment: Yes, exactly, they do not hear.
My Response: The main thing for them is: when he is speaking, I am speaking. That is all.
Question: I want to understand. I keep asking this practical question all the time: How does one move to conversation? What is required?
Answer: Many more years will pass. Time itself must act. And it will, as it were, explain to both interlocutors, or to a group of people, that this is useless, it is not worth engaging in this. And gradually they will lose the desire to participate in such talk shows.
Then some kind of a turning point will come, and they will stop producing these “circus performances.” That is how I see it. And only afterward will a serious expression of intentions take place.
Question: So, do you think that this fight will exhaust itself?
Answer: This must happen.
Question: Will this come from above?
Answer: Certainly from above. There is no doubt about this at all.
Question: Do you think it will not come from us?
Answer: No, nothing good can come from us.
Question: So it will come from above: “Be silent. Be calm”?
Answer: Yes, let’s sit and be silent. That will be the program.
Question: So they will already become disappointed with us from above? Why would that suddenly happen?
Answer: No one above becomes disappointed. And who are we to be disappointed with?
Therefore, we will simply come to such a form of program that it will be transmitted through feelings. Not words—feelings. After all, we need to do something with ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/24/25
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All our actions in this world are carried out by command from above, except for those in which we are free. My freedom of will lies only in rising upward, that is, in correcting the soul to resemble the Creator.
Everything else in me and around me is dictated from Above by the laws of the higher world. If I have no freewill in anything earthly, if everything is dictated from above, then there is neither punishment nor reward for any earthly deeds! After all, I didn’t do any of it, it was done through me from above.
Therefore, it is said that we are all like animals, until we become similar to the Creator. To the extent that we resemble Him, we are called “Adam” — “similar” (Domeh in Hebrew).
Similarity to the Creator begins with a tiny desire, a yearning toward Him, called “the point in the heart.” If it exists, if it has revealed itself, a person will inevitably come to Kabbalah; it will lead him there.
The point in the heart is like a drop of semen from which you develop. But the spiritual body, the soul, can be developed only through one’s own efforts. In this lies our only freedom of will (see Baal HaSulam’s article “Freedom of Will”).
Push the whole world into the background and begin to develop it, raise yourself into the higher system. Be ready to give up everything just to remain there.
This is the only choice, the only action that can be recorded to your credit. The reward is life within the soul!
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/13/09, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Book From the Mouth of a Sage“
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Preparation to the Lesson
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 11, “A Real Prayer Is over a Real Deficiency,” (1986) (4.14.2002)
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2nd part of the Lesson — Recording of Rabash, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 1, “Table of Answers for the Meaning of the Words,” Item 44
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3rd part of the Lesson — Studying with Friends
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