Question: What does the reflected light, which is used as a receiving Kli, mean?

Answer: Reflected light is the desire that can reject pleasure. Although it desires it very much, in order to be closer to the Creator and not for pleasure, it pushes it away.

As a result, it turns out that the rejection of the upper light, or the rejection of the desire, or the restriction of the desire, is the condition under which the creation comes closer to the Creator.

Question: The reflected light is the pleasure from bestowal. If I bestow to someone and enjoy it, this is the reflected light. Is it ever felt within a person?

Answer: Of course. Pleasures and sufferings are felt only within a person.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 11/20/22

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Why did God create the heavens and the earth?“

There are two forces in existence: (1) the creation, which is the desire to receive and enjoy the light of the Creator, and (2) the Creator, which is the light itself, the desire to bestow pleasure, enjoyment, fulfillment and delight.

While the creation is equal to the light, i.e. wishing to receive the light with an intention to bestow contentment upon the Creator, then it receives the light. However, if the creation intends to receive the light with a self-aimed intention, i.e. to please itself alone, then it is opposite to the Creator. In such a state, the creation feels none of the intended pleasure that the Creator wishes to impart, and instead feels complete darkness, a black copy of the light. Such a state is called “this world” or “our world.”

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” means that the Creator created the qualities of bestowal and reception. Why? It is in order for us to host a combination of these qualities, and to have the ability to exercise our free choice about which of them to use: a desire to receive and enjoy with an self-aimed intention to receive, or a desire to receive with an intention to bestow like the Creator.

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Question: Who breaks a person’s heart and when? Does a person do it himself or does the Creator break his heart?

Answer: The Creator, of course, “There is none else besides Him.”

He does all this, but gradually so a person understands what is happening to him and why. Then we already have some kind of opportunity to manage our states, at least to determine them.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/27/22

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After the restriction and the screen that were made on the will to receive, it became unfit to be a vessel of reception and departed from the system of Kedusha [holiness]. In its stead, the Reflected Light serves as a vessel of reception, and the vessel of the will to receive was given to the system of Tuma’a [impurity] (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 3, Item 15).

This is about pleasure and suffering. Pleasures are attracted by the will to receive, and suffering is repelled by it. This is natural.
Since the Creator’s desire is to give pleasure to His creations, we must come to a state where we accept this upper pleasure and are fulfilled with it, but not for our own sake, not for our own pleasure, but for the sake of the Creator, in order to bring Him contentment.

This, in principle, is the purpose of our existence: to be fulfilled for the sake of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 11/20/22

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Question: You explained that we never see people in their true form; that is, our egoism hides who they really are from us. In turn, others also seem to see you not in the form that you are, but in a form they put on you that is comfortable for their egoism.

Where is the truth then?

Answer: There is no truth. There is no real truth; it is always relative. And the absolute truth will be only with the complete correction of all states of humanity when it reaches complete correction.

Right now, we cannot define it. But we know that truth manifests itself only in the property of bestowal and love, that is, in absolute goodness. What is absolute goodness, I do not know.

I can say that in some ways I define it for myself. But it is above me, above my nature; it is when I can put myself in the most objective position, that is, when I am not taking any of my own desires and motives into account, but instead rising above myself, accepting the desire of another, and acting only in his name.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Whom to Believe?” 11/16/13

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Question: Let’s say two people are butting heads. The first reaction of one is to hit the other, to overpower him, and thereby win; it is not like “turn your cheek” at all. How does Kabbalah relate to this?

Answer: Kabbalah teaches that if I am threatened and about to be punched, then I can punch first. And why not? Why should I turn the other cheek? This is not Kabbalah or Judaism at all.

In Judaism it is said: “Kill the one who rises against you, kill him first.” That is, “Eye for an eye; tooth for a tooth.”

Question: It is interesting that in Israel when two people clash, there is almost never a fight. There is no such quality in people here to immediately hit the other in the face.

Answer: It depends on the level of development in people. Greater development suggests that they will deal with it by logical methods and not by force.

I would not say that there are no fights at all. They happen among young people but very rarely. Fighting doesn’t solve anything. You have to convince or defeat your opponent by logic and argument.

In our world, physical strength is not a guarantee of superiority over others. Anyone can carry a gun or use mace or something else in their pocket. Anyone can have more money to show off, say their Porsche or something else.

Convincing others! That is, the use of logic where you kill an opponent with a word; that is strength. And we see this both in the Talmud and in other primary sources. There is no mention of showdowns anywhere, and everything is solved only logically.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Showdown Israeli Style” 10/19/13

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