Audio Version Of The Blog – 5/9/26
Posted on May 9th, 2026 at 10:55 pm
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Question: How can I determine for myself what state I am currently in: the right line or in the left line?
Answer: You can determine this by whether you feel joy. The sensation of joy should always accompany a person. This is a great commandment to always be in a state of joy.
Question: Even during the revelation of a Hisaron (deficiency)?
Answer: Yes, even during the revelation of a Hisaron. This is the primary test.
A person has to search for deficiencies in fulfillment precisely in order to advance forward. This means one must constantly be guided by the principle: “The end of the act is in the preliminary thought.”
First of all, I must keep the final outcome I wish to achieve before my eyes: attainment of a completely corrected state, union with the Creator. My first thought has to be: What must I do right now to achieve this?
If I advance in this manner, then my approach is correct. I can even search for a Hisaron: what else is not corrected in me? However, I will be searching for it from the perspective of that distant point, my final correction, asking: “What I can reveal within myself now that will pull me a little closer toward the goal?”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/7/26, Rabash, “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror”
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I like lazy people; they do little harm to the world.
Question: So, they don’t really contribute much, but at the same time they don’t cause harm?
Answer: Yes. That’s good!
Comment: But that’s some kind of complete complacency, like a stagnant swamp.
My Response: So what? We’ll just stroll through a green meadow and graze on some grass.
Question: A sandwich in your pocket, and that’s enough?
Answer: Yes. You don’t need anything else.
Question: Just breathe the air and let nature take its course. But seriously? You actually like rebels and revolutionaries.
Answer: Inside yourself! Within yourself, do whatever you want. Stage all kinds of revolutions and wars, but do it inside yourself. And everything else, let nature live in peace; don’t disturb it.
Quietly move out to the countryside, buy yourself a little house instead of your city apartment, and live a peaceful life with a wife and children. What else does a person really need?
Comment: To see out their old age.
My Response: Yes, to see out their old age.
Comment: But at the root of all prayers lies an initial sense of gratitude, and inevitably it is followed by some kind of request. It seems impossible to have a prayer without a request.
My Response: To achieve one’s purpose. The highest, greatest purpose is to become equal to the Creator!
Comment: There is no peace in that. It is a state of constant movement.
My Response: Inner peace! Because I am absolutely certain that in this way I will reach the goal since I surrender myself to the Creator and in this I go with Him. And He can do whatever He wants. I remain in absolute peace.
Question: But this movement toward Him, isn’t that a source of constant anxiety, trembling?
Answer: It’s not anxiety. There isn’t even much trembling in it. If I am confident in Him, if I have faith that I am in His hands, then I am like an infant in its mother’s arms. I cling to Him, that is all, in complete safety, peace.
But each time I check myself so that I can remain in His arms and draw even closer to Him despite my egoism with greater fervor. I need nothing else. I am already enveloped in this cocoon, right now.
So what is there to strive for? Why engage in comparing myself with others and calculating who is greater, who is better, who is higher?
Question: But what about our constantly growing egoism? You speak about it all the time.
Answer: That is so we always have the opportunity to be in dynamic closeness with the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 3/20/26
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Question: By what means does the accumulation of the soul’s potential occur?
Answer: It happens through descents, moments when a new egoistic layer is revealed within a person.
Suppose I rose one meter, only to be cast down two meters into the depths of egoism. Then I ascend two meters into the quality of altruism, but fall three meters deeper into the ego, and so on.
Through these descents, I acquire greater egoism, and in this way I can rise higher, but never higher than the level of my ego. If I were at “minus two,” I rise to “plus two;” “minus three” to “plus three,” but no more.
That is why descents are so important. They must be respected and even cherished, even though the state is very unpleasant; it involves a disconnection from reality, a lack of any strength, etc. But, on the other hand, it is very beneficial; descents educate us.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 6/10/18
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Question: Are there instances when you, as a teacher, find yourself in dissonance with the group, and you tell the students: “You do not understand me,” and they respond that it is you who does not understand them? What does this achieve?
Answer: It leads to clarification of relationships. How could it be otherwise? That is how it must be. Nothing good comes from what is already “good”; it can only emerge from what is difficult or flawed.
Comment: So, as you put it, you need to put pressure on them, much like we put pressure on a child to help him or her develop.
My Response: It depends on what you mean by “pressure.” You must apply pressure creatively; only then will something emerge. You have to constantly introduce different exercises and small challenges, nothing too overwhelming, while offering help, providing explanations, giving gentle nudges, and continuously alternating between the left and right lines.
How else could it be? How do we play with children? Only in this way. They themselves insist on it.
Comment: But you constantly drive the group into a state of stress as you tell them that the whole world is suffering because of them. And they cry out: “So what are we supposed to do? Tell us!”
My Response: This is precisely how they will try to search for something. I cannot simply tell them what must be done, because the process is one of searching. If I just told them, it wouldn’t work; it wouldn’t be accepted, defined, felt, or truly internalized.
Question: But surely you know what needs to be done, don’t you? Do you have some kind of “vaccine” for this? Is it that you simply do not speak about it?
Answer: I have nothing of the sort. Do you think I am hiding something? Do you suppose that Kabbalah can simply be revealed to someone, and that is it? Through what sensations could it be revealed, if a person does not yet possess them? Through what?
Suppose you were supposed to start sensing radio waves. But you cannot. What can I do? If I were to lower radio waves to the level of the sound or light, levels that you can perceive, then you would see and feel them.
But in order to perceive the radio waves themselves, you must rise to that level, you need to develop some kind of sensor within yourself, a receiver that would perceive them.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Useless and Worthless People in the Group” 9/26/10
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Question: Why is it necessary to change our qualities in order to feel the Creator?
Answer: For example, a dog perceives the world through scents. Dogs have poor eyesight, and vision is less important to them. Their senses of smell and hearing are extraordinarily developed and serve as a substitute for everything else. A dog can hear what its owner did a hundred meters away and runs to him.
In addition, a dog has an exceptionally developed sense of smell. We see how dogs, running along the street, are constantly sniffing something. For them, smells serve as a map of the world. Therefore, if I want to become closer to a dog, I need to develop the same sense of smell and hearing as it has. Then we will understand each other and will be able to communicate in the same language.
And what if I wanted to see the world the way a snake sees it? Snakes navigate only by thermal sensations. For them, nothing else exists: only heat or cold. But this sensation is so developed in the snake that it is enough for it to feel the entire world as we see it with our eyes.
It seems to us that if we see with our eyes, nothing more is required. But in reality, there are many additional phenomena around us that we do not perceive. Therefore, we know nothing about them and are satisfied with what is necessary for the existence of our physical body.
The snake is also satisfied with its thermal sensations alone. But if I want to come closer to a snake, then I must develop an additional sense—heat and cold. Then I would be able to navigate using that sense, even with my eyes closed.
In other words, we all perceive according to our organs of sensation. The Creator possesses such qualities that He simply passes through us; we do not perceive Him, it is much like radio waves that fill the air. We must develop a special organ of sensation that will have qualities similar to those of the Creator.
If we want to understand a snake or a dog, we need to develop the sensitivity to heat and cold like a snake, or the sense of smell like a dog. In the same way, we must develop an organ of perception similar to the Creator in order to sense Him.
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From KabTV’s conversation “New Life 516 – The Wisdom Of Kabbalah: God And I, Part 2,” 2/5/15
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Question: Can Kabbalah be used to harm others?
Answer: Not at all! This is absolute nonsense, because only those who are at the spiritual and moral level can reach the great forces of the world. Such a person is capable of using them, but he cannot pass this ability on to others.
Even if he wanted to or was forced to use Kabbalah for someone else’s personal gain, he would not be able to. We are dealing with a system that operates at the level of the world of infinity, and therefore, no one is capable of using Kabbalah to cause harm; it simply will not work. One can only exploit its name for speculation.
Question: But can he predict the future?
Answer: Nothing can be predicted because the future depends on the person.
He can only personally reveal ever new horizons of attainment and, in accordance with that, feel himself existing in the upper world. This is an individual attainment.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 9/24/17
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Comment: In the article “The Agenda of the Assembly,” Rabash emphasizes that each one, according to his abilities, speaks at the assembly about the importance of the group and about what it gives him in order to impress the others.
Answer: Everyone must inspire all the others by saying how proud he is to be in this group, how much he values it, and how great and important the group is in his eyes. To the extent that the Creator is important to a person, the means of attaining the Creator, that is, the group, is also important to him.
All this he must express in his own words and with it ignite the hearts of the friends. And the others must make an effort themselves to listen to what he says and connect with his feelings.
It is mutual work. On one hand, a friend must impress the others, and on the other hand, they must become inspired by him.
Question: What if he says the same thing for ten years?
Answer: It does not matter. Each time, the feelings are different.
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From KabTV’s “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” 3/11/19
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Today we have approached a state where we can gather into one single unified whole. By doing this, we encompass the entire universe within ourselves; we begin to construct from within ourselves the model that really exists and to reveal the true model: the unification of human souls, which include the inanimate, vegetative, and animate parts of nature, and above all, the spiritual ones.
A person who begins to work with his friends in this manner draws closer to perceiving the universe as a single unified whole. Then, naturally, he sees all the worlds, including our own, interwoven and contained within one another.
He sees them permeated, integrated, and bound by a single force called the “Creator,” and amidst all of this, he sees himself existing eternally and ascending through the degrees of perfection. That is, he sees the universe in its true form, a reality not limited by our world, which is lost within this entire picture.
Therefore, the fact that we are approaching a state when my students can begin to work on the perception of reality described in the “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” is already a serious stage.
I hope that in the near future all the people who are with us to one degree or another, regardless of where they live, will be included in this picture of the perception of the world. This is liberation from egoistic shackles, from the limitations in which souls remain before contact with the spiritual, with the true creation.
This is the revolution in man, such is the most important moment of his existence, because after this, further revelation follows. He has entered into the sensation of the true volume, of the true universe, and that is all. And now there follow only 125 degrees of spiritual attainment.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Rise Up the Stairs” 9/27/10
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