It is very important to place yourself below everyone because in this way you can channel the upper energy, the upper force, through yourself to them.

Question: Let’s say an ordinary person hears this and thinks: “How am I supposed to place myself below someone else?” This is completely against human nature.

Answer: Yes, it goes against human nature precisely because it is against human nature. There is nothing else to it. Correction cannot happen otherwise.

Comment: In principle, even logically, I can truly hear another person only if I place myself below them, not above them.

My Response: Of course! That is always the case.

Every morning when I come before my students, am I not placing myself below them? Don’t I do everything so that they can learn, become wiser and understand, unite, draw closer to the Creator, and so on?

Question: So when you appear before your students, do you even have to lower yourself before them?

Answer: Of course! I am like a waiter. Yes, I bring and serve things, and I don’t even know how to say it—I tend to their needs.

Comment: In other words, you are prepared to serve.

My Response: Yes. I do not feel that I am above them. If I display such a state, it is only to give them an opportunity to somehow gain confidence and understand what they are dealing with.

Comment: There are certain movements, theories, and spiritual practices in which the teacher binds the students to himself, where he is above them.

My Response: No! Not in Kabbalah. Never! At any given moment, a person must feel they are free to leave, even without saying goodbye! Absolutely! Simply get up and leave. And how do they leave? You see they leave calmly.

Comment: Yes. Just like that, in a moment, and that’s it. They’re gone.

My Response: And then they may come back. There are those who return. I have no prejudice against them whatsoever. You can see that yourself.

Question: Yes, I see. Someone comes in, sits down, you look at him and carry on with what you were doing. You don’t react with, “Oh! You’re back?”

Answer: Why should I? It is not my business. My business is to serve. It is like a restaurant: customers come in and I am the waiter.

Comment: I set the table.

Answer: Yes. Exactly so.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/18/26

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Spiritual work is carried out gradually. Therefore, there are rungs on the ladder along which a person advances toward merging with the Creator. It begins when a person receives the first drop of unity expressed by the principle: “There is none else besides Him.”

Thus, all our work in the group, both individual and collective, both the inner work that each person carries out separately as an individual and the work we do together, is intended solely for our inclusion in the single authority of the Creator.

But this does not mean that we dissolve into it, disappear, or consumed within it. We join it through our own efforts and abilities, consciously. Therefore, each time we reveal the greatness of the Creator, the greatness of the goal, and our readiness to unite, it gives us joy, an uplifted mood, and elevation.

And if periods subsequently come when things become more difficult for us, we must understand that additional desires are being added, desires that have not yet been included in this unity, that we have not yet incorporated into our connection, into the idea of “There is none else besides Him.”

When such disturbances arise, we must immediately, without interruption, begin working on them in order to reach the same state we had before, but now with new desires. We must not erase them, but we must understand that we need to continue ascending together with them. Then this will already be the next degree.

In other words, we must continually strive for unity despite the disturbances. This work is called work above reason, where the disturbances represent our present reason, while faith is connection in the quality of bestowal despite all the disturbances.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/26/26, Rabash, “The Importance of Recognition of Evil”

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 287

Does the Schedule Mean Consistently Attending the Lesson, or Does It Have Additional Meanings?

The schedule means, first and foremost, coming to the morning lesson. There is no substitute for that. There is a difference between someone who sits in the lesson itself and someone who listens by telephone, Internet, or a recording, which is less effective. Nevertheless, studying through means of communication is effective according to the person who uses them. If such a person truly wants to and genuinely listens, they will hardly lose the connection. Also if, in addition to this, they also try to carry out various activities in their surroundings, that is, in the group, in dissemination, and so on, then it is no less effective than being present at the lesson itself. Someone who sits alone and listens to the lesson and wants to be at the lesson and among the friends, is as though actually there. Of course, the factor of time must also be taken into account.

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