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How Does the Intention Develop?

186In the wisdom of Kabbalah, we speak about two types of nature: the nature of the Creator and the nature of the created being. We cannot change our nature, but through the intention to bestow, we can make it similar to the Creator’s nature.

In the Creator, there is no separation between action and intention. There is only action with the intention for the sake of bestowal. Yet, if there were nothing opposite to it, it would be impossible even to say that it is for the sake of bestowal. It is simply an action directed toward the created being without any intention of receiving something in return.

We cannot truly imagine such a state. However, if the created being uses its desire to receive in order to become similar to the Creator—to resemble Him in action, or more precisely, in the final result of the action—then within the created being there will be both action and intention.

Initially, no intention was created in the created being. It possesses only the action of receiving, of enjoying, which is called an animate action. The still, vegetative, and animate levels of nature perform this action without any awareness of intention.

The speaking level (the human being) begins to feel the foreignness of this action. Therefore, envy, lust, and honor develop within him, along with all the other forms of development of the desire to receive.

Most importantly, he develops a sensation of the giver. To the extent that a person feels the giver, intention develops within him. If we did not feel the giver, our intention would simply be to enjoy ourselves, like everyone else in this world. There would only be the desire to enjoy, nothing more.

We call this receiving for the sake of receiving. But in truth, it is not even a genuine intention to receive. Rather, it belongs to the realm of the Klipot, forces that know what bestowal is, yet still desire only to receive.

An intention to bestow or an intention to receive can exist only when there is a sensation of the giver, a sensation of the host. Then it becomes clear to a person what he truly wants: to receive or to bestow. Only then does he have the possibility of using his desire to receive in one way or the other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/6/26, Rabash, “Why Is the Torah Called “Middle Line” in the Work? – 1”

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From Hatred to Love Is Not Science Fiction

252Question: Is it really possible to just go from hatred to love? One moment you hate, clearly hate, and suddenly after some time passes, say next year, we shift to love. Can that happen, or is it fantasy?

Answer: We can do that. We are in such extreme states, states that are opposite to this feeling, that we are capable of doing it.

Comment: That is very strange. You said that since we are in opposite states, we can do it.

My Response: Yes, because we see where we end up, where all our efforts and achievements vanish, everything slips through our fingers, and we cannot achieve anything. We are like blind, foolish puppies. That is how we live. It is terrible! I have no words for it!

But if we ask nature to change us, we will experience a transformation of forces, feelings, and qualities beyond anything we could expect. Because the Creator is love.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 4/28/26

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The Difference Between Faith and Attainment

595.05Question: What is the difference between faith and attainment?

Answer: The difference between faith and attainment is that faith is the light of Hassadim (Mercy) and attainment is the light of Hochma (Wisdom). We do not attain through faith.

We can only attain the Creator, the light. Don’t lose sight of these two things: light and Kli. You might not advance far this way, but you will certainly form a correct conception and avoid confusion.

What are you attaining? To the extent that you are like Him, you see your corrected qualities and call this the Creator. You will never feel more than your corrected properties; according to this, you will form an image of the Creator. As it is said, “Yud-hey-vav-hey” (HaVaYaH), filled with light, is called “The name of the Creator.”

Who is the Creator? This is my soul, Yud-hey-vav-hey, filled with the upper light due to its corrections. The lights, along with the corrected Kelim, which give me the whole set of sensations I call the Creator, are me.

In other words, your soul is the Creator, because in the corrected state, you merge: “He and His Name are One,” “Israel, the Torah, the Creator are One.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/9/26, Rabash, “Man Is Rewarded with Righteousness and Peace through the Torah”

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Don’t Blame the Mirror

131Question: How do I find out what nature has in store for me and where it is leading me?

Answer: Nature is leading you to realize the possibilities you have to change the future, and reach it. This depends on each person’s participation in that future.

Question: What possibilities do I have? I don’t think I have any special ones. But tell me, what are they?

Answer: You do!

Question: What?

Answer: Of course, I do not have such a site where you would go in, pay, and get a guarantee.

Question: Yes, but in principle, what must I do?

Answer: You need to want to find out about your influence on your future. You must build it, create it. It is what you make of it. They tell you the laws of nature, and from them, as from some construction set, you must assemble your future.

Question: What is the main law of nature?

Answer: The main law of nature is the correspondence of a person with the law of nature. I am not over complicating things. The law of nature is the law of universal bestowal and love, universal unification, universal mutual complementation until the ideal picture of the system of the world is revealed before us.

Question: Is it only toward this that I as a person must go?

Answer: Yes. And nothing more.

Question: That is, I should not struggle with anything?

Answer: Struggle only with the aim of fulfilling this law.

Question: With whom does this struggle take place?

Answer: The struggle is with oneself, of course. Only that. So do not blame the mirror. This is how we must work, and then what we make is what we will receive.

Question: That is, if everyone directs himself toward himself—everyone, but toward himself, not toward another—then will we turn this picture of the future upside down?

Answer: As much as we wish. As much as we want, so much we will do.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 4/23/26

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Why Do We Study Kabbalah?

256Question: Can we say that the new generation is further distancing from studying of The Study of the Ten Sefirot, The Book of Zohar, and authentic Kabbalistic sources?

Answer: No, it is not distancing further. People simply cannot exist on the same spiritual heights as exceptional individuals such as Baal HaSulam or the ARI.

We see the same thing happening in our world. A person uses an enormous number of scientific and technological achievements without understanding anything about them. He simply knows how to plug something into a socket and press a button for the device to work. What does he actually know besides two buttons on an air conditioner, twenty buttons on a computer, and so on? He has no idea what is really happening inside!

When using a mobile phone, he may be familiar with only two or three functions, while having no idea whatsoever of the other two hundred functions it contains.

The same applies in spirituality: there are people who engage with it slightly and solely for their own benefit, in some limited personal way, while others want to attain the inner connections between objects, dimensions, and forces—to know everything. This depends on the nature of the soul, its inner qualities, and its root. If a person has such a need, then he will fulfill it.

Question: So the fact that we are moving away from the original sources does not necessarily mean that we are getting worse?

Answer: We are not moving away from the sources. We are simply studying them not to the depth that exceptional Kabbalist scholars do, but rather, to the extent appropriate for the masses, the ordinary people who make up 99% of the world’s population.

Question: But wouldn’t that require a completely different method of interacting with the light?

Answer: No, because we study Kabbalah only in order to receive forces from it. And after receiving those forces, we must perceive the spiritual world. And we will perceive it to the extent intended for our soul.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Properties of our generation” 9/30/10

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 6/19/26

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 18 “Concerning the Slanderers” (1985)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Peace in the World”

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