Question: Why is the addition of egoism not felt as a great desire in the preparation stage?

Answer: A greater will to receive that comes to you lowers you from your degree. But you do not feel it as greater egoism, you feel it as additional pleasure.

The new will to receive that arrives gives you this opportunity; it obliges you to act. You don’t feel that the desire itself has grown; rather, you feel that your pleasure could be more intense if you were to indulge in it since you are thinking only about the pleasure itself and not about the One who gives it.

What spoils your connection with the Creator? The new desire! It does not erase the pleasure; it erases your connection with the Creator. If it had erased the pleasure, you would suddenly feel emptiness and immediately awaken. Instead, you feel that you are immersed in pleasures; it only that the Creator has vanished from your perception of reality.

Furthermore, the sensation of pleasure bribes you. Gradually, a person becomes accustomed to this state of affairs: he enjoys for himself, naturally not for the sake of the Creator, since he is still in “Lo Lishma,” yet at the same time he does not want to lose the connection with the Creator under any circumstances and constantly seeks it.

He wants to feel that he is in the Creator’s world, in some kind of sphere filled by the Creator, and he continuously tries to hold onto this state. These are the efforts. He tries to carry them out by all possible means, and as a result, the sum of his efforts fills his “cup,” and he crosses the Machsom.

As for the descents along the way, nothing can be done about them. How many will there be? No one knows. It is impossible to say how much time will pass between ascents and descents, because this depends on the person; in this lies his effort and his choice.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/23/26, Rabash, “The Measure of Practicing Mitzvot [Commandments]”

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Question: What do we have to manage to do in this world?

Answer: In this world, we must manage to feel His entire system, the upper mind, and the will of the Creator that governs all of it.

Question: But we begin from a state where we absolutely do not feel this?

Answer: We do not feel anything. Then we begin to feel that we are completely confused. There is a period when a person simply does not know the why, the wherefore, or the how. Then gradually this goal begins to appear in us, the reason why everything is arranged this way. Starting from this goal, we, as if, unwind our life back to our birth and begin to understand how it all came to pass.

Question: And this point —the goal—that suddenly appears within all this confusion was it already in us, or is it put into us in response to our efforts?

Answer: Inside of us, there is everything. Absolutely everything! But we must sort all this out, and while holding on to the beginning and the end of life feel that we have lived through it precisely with the help of the Creator, in accordance with His intention.

Question: So, in principle, throughout our lives, we clear away all this garbage in us? We clear and clear until we find this point? Is this what human life is?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is “garbage” all the other desires, other thoughts?

Answer: It is that which deliberately confused us so that we would dig deeper and figure it out.

Question: “Deliberately confused,” so we are given this on purpose?

Answer: Of course.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 3/25/26

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 3 “All of Israel Have a Part in the Next World. (1987) (10.28.2003)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 5, Item 43

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Question: Suppose I am blind, how can I not feel that I am blind?

Answer: Look within yourself!

Question: What will I see there?

Answer: You will see everything: the sky, the stars, everything! Within yourself.

Question: And if, for example, I am deaf, can I be a musician? Will I hear music?

Answer: Anything you want. You do not need your five senses. You do not
need your body! If we did not have a body, we would be so happy and perfect!

Question: So, in that case, would I not feel any deficiency if I sort of live within myself?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Can you teach me how to live like that? How can I get to this? It sounds so good.

Answer: I cannot explain it.

Question: Why do we become still when we look at the stars?

Answer: Because it is a part of the universe that is opposite to the one in which we exist. And it immediately tells us about its infinity and our finiteness.

Question: So I see infinity in this? Can I find it within myself as well?

Answer: You can find it within yourself. You can connect with these stars. You can feel how they exist.

Question: And by this, do I sort of pass into a state of infinity?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 3/14/26

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Question: You say that the Klipa is a very powerful force. It is like a counter-force that drags you down and does not allow you to do something. Are we really in a very strong Klipa?

Answer: Yes, but not in a very strong one. We have been given good conditions, practically everything we need, and yet we still cannot make the effort.

Question: Does this depend on a small group or on everyone who has joined us?

Answer: It depends on everyone who wants to participate in the mutual guarantee (Arvut).

Comment: You give such precise answers that present both sides. But it is impossible to connect them.

My Response: It is still impossible, yes. But one must constantly strive for it. To correctly aspire to spirituality means to strive, together with the friends, to create one single, unified common desire. Then it will acquire a quality similar to that of the Creator, and He will be revealed within that desire.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Klipa” 10/9/10

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Question: Many say that we lack unity, that supposedly there are elements that hinder our breakthrough. How long does the accumulative process have to work for this to be revealed?

Answer: It depends on those who are trying to reach the state of unity. What does “long” or “not long” have to do with it? It is possible to achieve this relatively quickly with great effort or it could be stretched for many years with small efforts.

Ultimately, a specific level of shared desire should develop in a person together with the other friends that would be ready to disconnect from each of them and be one.

In this unity, which is called “one,” not each one but one single whole, the point of unity, the Creator will be revealed to them.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. We lack Unity” 9/15/10

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The world has dried out. There is no literature or art as they once were. All that was left in the 18^th and 19^th centuries. There is nothing like this today.

Question: Why? Do we not want to enjoy life?

Answer: A person is becoming mechanical.

Question: Why is the upper force doing such things to us? What is the purpose?

Answer: I will speak on behalf of the upper force. “First, it is so that you would realize the negativity and insignificance of your existence and would want to change it.”

Question: May I speak to the upper force on behalf of humanity?

Answer: Go ahead.

Comment: But you, the upper force, have created us like this. You did it!

My Response: “This is correct. I created you. I created you in such a way that you would choose the correct way of life.”

Question: Wasn’t it possible to place us in the correct way of life right away?

Answer: “Absolutely not!”

Question: Why?

Answer: “Because you would be an automaton. But now, you have a choice between this and that. And I want you to exist precisely within this choice and gradually, gradually, gradually choose the optimal existence for yourself in which you would be similar to Me.”

Comment: Meaning, the upper force has…

My Response: There is a program, there is a goal! Everything is prepared, of course.

Question: He is so egoistic: “So you would become similar to Me”?

Answer: Perhaps you can say it this way. However, to become similar to the Creator means to become absolutely kind, absolutely loving toward everyone, and so forth. Here, on the contrary, a person should grow anti-egoistic properties.

Question: Does it mean that You, the upper force, want precisely this from us? Is this the only and the most important thing?

Answer: The only thing! We absolutely do not agree with this.

Comment: Certainly, I do not agree with suffering.

My Response: Yes, but, I see that if I think in a sensible way, then I will probably have no choice but to agree with You.

Question: Are you speaking to the upper force on behalf of humanity?

Answer: Yes

Question: So, should we agree?

Answer: Ultimately, yes. If we create such a society and connections between us where we will support this idea, it will be very easy for us, and we will reach this state pretty fast.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 3/12/26

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 5 “Go Forth From Your Land” (1985)

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