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Posted on August 12th, 2026
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Question: How is the group related to “existence from absence” (Yesh mi Ayin)? Why should it provide me with forces that it has no connection to?
Answer: The group does not belong to Yesh mi Ayin, and therefore, it can give you additional strength. The strength of the group lies in its connection to our root where all souls are united together.
Therefore, here in our world, through my external actions, I can awaken those upper forces in which the power of my ‘”I” is not merely an individual force, as it is in the corporeal world, but is inseparably connected with another 599,999 such forces.
At our root, I and all the other souls exist on the level of Adam HaRishon. Therefore, while living in our world, I can draw strength from my root.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/26, Rabash, “What Is ‘Do Not Slight the Blessing of a Layperson’ in the Work?”
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Question: What should one expect from the commandments of the Torah?
Answer: A “commandment of the Torah” consists of extracting the concept of the “Torah of life” from the Torah, attaining life itself. Baal HaSulam writes about this in TES (The Study of the Ten Sefirot). He refers not to the study itself, but to its result.
Question: Suppose a person is sweeping the floor in our building or working in the kitchen. Is this considered that he is studying Torah?
Answer: If I do something in our kitchen and intend thereby to attain something in my life, then the desire that arose in me at that moment, multiplied by the good, beneficial thing that I contributed to the group, that is, multiplied by the group’s collective desire to attain spirituality, becomes my own desire.
By serving my friends, I thereby acquire their desires, include myself in them, and then those desires influence me, and direct my own desire into the proper course.
As a result, during the lesson I intend to draw the light of the Torah that reforms from what I study, not to become a great sage or anything else.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/14/26, Rabash, “What It Means that ‘Law and Ordinance’ Is the Name of the Creator in the Work”
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Comment: You say that everyone has their own path.
My Response: Of course!
Question: What does it depend on?
Answer: Within the global nature of humanity, we are so different so that, precisely through our future connection, we will create one universal structure called “Man” (Adam).
Question: Will everyone have their own place?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Every nation?
Answer: Of course! I may be spinning at tremendous speed, others spin more slowly, and still others even more slowly, it is just like in our body there are systems that operate with tremendous speed and intensity, while others function much more slowly. You can compare the fingernails and toenails. Fingernails grow about a millimeter a week, while the toenails grow about a millimeter a month. Each has its own rate, even though it is seemingly the same tissue.
Comment: Yet it is one organism.
My Response: Yes.
Question: You mentioned the goal. Is the goal the same for everyone or not?
Answer: The goal is the same for everyone. But who actually knows what it is? If we knew that we all have one goal, we would agree with one another. We would begin searching together for how to attain that goal.
But instead, we feel that everyone has their own. Egoism tears us apart and does not allow us to feel that we all must move together toward one goal.
Question: Can we nevertheless come to this? Will we be brought toward this one goal or not?
Answer: I think it must become clarified from within.
Question: What is that goal?
Answer: The goal is very simple: to attain the meaning of life.
Question: And what is it?
Answer: The meaning of life? It is to attain its meaning.
Questions: So the question arises, and I must?
Answer: When I attain the meaning of life, I feel absolutely fulfilled! I know why I exist. I know who governs me, to whom I turn, what I am carrying out at every moment of my existence, and where I am going. Ever new horizons open before me. I feel like a child who has entered Disneyland. And all of it is incredible! All of it is a fairy tale! This is how a person should feel when revealing the Creator’s plan.
Question: Does everyone have their own meaning of life, or not?
Answer: Everyone will enjoy it individually, because that is how we are made. But each will enjoy it from the fact that they are constantly connecting with others. The revelation of this spiritual “Disneyland” comes from the fact that we reveal the integral connections between us more and more. And they will be revealed precisely as the attainment of the upper world. It is a serious adventure.
Question: So now you have come to the conclusion that the goal of a person is to attain the upper world?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Is that the goal of a person?
Answer: Yes.
Question: And what is the upper world? We are speaking to people who do not study Kabbalah. Simply put, what does it mean to attain the upper world?
Answer: It is to attain the harmony of the interaction of all the completely different forces of nature. And to feel that harmony when you see how all problems, actions, thoughts, aspirations—everything, throughout all times—join together, and all of it turns out to be harmoniously interconnected, so necessary for one another, that the revelation of this harmony is the revelation of the thought of Creation, the Creator’s plan.
Question: And you constantly speak about revealing harmonious relationships between people. Is that included in this?
Answer: Of course! Naturally. That is the highest degree of all this harmony.
Question: The highest degree? That we are all harmoniously connected?
Answer: Yes.
Question: And this is the purpose of a person’s life—to discover this harmony?
Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 7/8/26
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Question from Facebook: Your stance is to proceed via the path of suffering. You say that when we are backed into a corner, we will see the Kabbalists are right. Is there another way? Can you convince us without scaring us.
Answer: If my position were to “proceed via the path suffering,” I would not say anything or giving public presentation. But I really want humanity to develop in a good way.
I am against the path of suffering. I am in favor of our path being illuminated by the upper light and it leading us forward. Please do not take my assessments as scare tactics.
I simply take a sober look at the prospects of humanity, at its “starting condition,” and see that we are in free fall. Egoism is growing within us, yet we are not compensating for this growth and we are not correcting our trajectory.
I really hope we can pull ourselves together and not sink into suffering before starting our ascent. The best thing that can happen to humanity is the timely recognition of egoism and the correct self–realization that rises above it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/19/23
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How Can We Imagine What Bestowal Is?
When we are in a group, we are told that love of friends leads to love of the Creator and that bestowal to the friends leads to bestowal to the Creator. Why? It is because we try to establish the same conduct among ourselves as if we were truly among the souls at the end of correction. From that higher world, where all souls are included and connected together, we draw surrounding light (Ohr Makif).
If we try to establish that same law, that same state, in this world, through bodies, through an idea, through an attitude, through connection, and the common goal of advancing together, even in a small group, we effectively create a resemblance of the state in which the souls exist at the end of correction, on the spiritual level within that group. To the extent that we make this effort, we draw the surrounding light, which comes and corrects the vessels.
Therefore, the connection between friends in a group directly affects their spiritual progress. Through this reflection we create in this world, we gradually begin to feel what spiritual connection is. Of course, we can never truly know the higher form in advance. If we are on a certain level, how can they perceive the level above it? Even in ordinary life, within our current state, the next state is always unknown and is revealed suddenly as something new.
So how can we yearn for something above us? The higher level (the upper Partzuf) shows us a small example of bestowal as it exists on a higher degree. It does so in two stages.
In the first stage, the higher level shows us a bit of the light within it, the pleasure it contains. Then, we desire it, long for it, and feel uplifted. Kabbalists call this an “ascent,” although it is not a true ascent, as we do not actually rise. Instead, the higher level gives us a little vitality from a higher degree. This illumination is light at the higher level, but only a faint glow for us, since we cannot receive more in our current vessels.
In the second stage, after illuminating us, the higher level gives us a descent. It lets us feel our own vessels. What are these vessels? They are vessels of bestowal through which we feel darkness. In other words, we feel ourselves calculating, “How is it possible to give without thinking of our own benefit at all?”
Thus, through these two impressions from the higher level, we experience two extremes: what the light is (even if only partially perceived) and what the vessel of bestowal is. Then, we see how much we love the light and how much we resist the vessel. From these two poles, through study, effort, and persistent work, we gradually reach the higher level.
When we attain it and realize that state, an even higher level again reveals both the fulfillment and the vessel within it. These two states once more give us a sense of the extremes within the higher level, and again we strive to attain them, step by step, ascending further.
Therefore, our path is built from ascents and descents:
The effort between them is our constant desire to acquire these qualities, whether more or less, until we fully attain them.
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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 1, Chapter 1, Item 4 (Recording from 8.14.2007)
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