Question: How does a person know that the environment he creates is the right one?

Answer: A person knows nothing. This is the work he must do: get confused and check, investigate and get confused again, understand something a little, and turn to the books, the teacher, and the friends.

This is how a person gradually comes to know the system called the governance of the Creator over him and begins to use it by their own decision. This means that he or she begins to govern the world.

Question: Is there any kind of verification on this path?

Answer: Verification is necessary every second. It must be carried out in parallel with the work. Without it, it is impossible to succeed.

If a person does not perform verification, he stops being a person. He does not feel where he is pouring the water that he was given throughout the year. “Water” means the property of Bina, the upper force, with which you correct yourself, but you pour it out for nothing, even though it is precisely measured.

That is, right now, you are given every opportunity to reach the final correction. At this very second, your personal Rosh HaShanah arrives; this is what a person must tell himself, and it does not matter when it happens. It might be in the middle of winter or summer.

What does your Rosh HaShanah mean? It means that inside you are all the forces, all the data, all the systems, all the sources and opportunities to reach final correction. You only need to carry out a certain number of actions within you to put the entire system in order; this is your free choice.

You must take this data and use it correctly.

If you do this, it means that you are similar to the Creator. You have learned the system of governance from Him,  both the checking and the execution.

This means that you are merged with Him: “From Your actions we shall know You.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/2/26, Rabash, “For Man Is the Tree of the Field – 1”

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Comment: In our world, we see examples of love, but they are not very convincing.

My Response: In our world, we can take a group of people and through psychological exercises make them so devoted to one another that even death cannot separate them. The group is worked with in such a way that during a collective action no one thinks about themselves; everyone thinks about the group and cannot imagine life without it.

There is a known case of a submarine crew that suffered an accident and had to abandon the vessel. Not everyone had a chance to escape, and the part of the crew that could have left chose to stay and die together with everyone else.

On the corporeal level, we see that spiritual roots are realized in branches without any problem. And this is a human force; animals do not have it. A mother can give her life for her child, but animals cannot. If a predator truly threatens life, the female abandons the offspring and runs away. Such an addition exists only on the human level.

This indicates that we possess all the branches of the spiritual roots. But we want to attain those roots. And there, they exist in such a form that you cannot reach them directly from your ego. You must build yourself into such a form from scratch. That means you must ask to become like that.

You are not required to have the strength to become like this, nor a plan of how to achieve it, but you must have the desire to enter such a state, to acquire it so that it becomes your nature in some form; you are obligated to find it.

This is precisely where the problem lies. If you were offered to build a group modeled after a submarine crew, you would build it. But to realize this on the level of the spiritual world, you have no ability.

To rise from the branches to the roots in love for friends is possible only through our request. Not through execution, but specifically through a request.

Question: When do we come to such a request?

Answer: When the group shows you that this is how it truly is. It tells you that by exiting love for oneself, we acquire something great.

And even though for you this is not true, the group can influence you in such a way that it will become true.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/2/26, Rabash, “For Man Is the Tree of the Field – 1”

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However, there is a natural law that there is none so wise as the experienced, and before one tries to actually do all he can do, he is utterly incapable of arriving at true lowliness, to the real extent, as said above.

This is why we must toil in Kedusha [holiness] and purity, as it is written, “Whatever you find that your hand can do by your strength, that do,” and understand this for it is true and deep (Baal HaSulam, Letter 57).

While working on unification in order to form a vessel for bestowal, a person falls into despair. Then a genuine request arises in him in response to which the vessel arrives. In other words, the correct need for unity also comes from above. We ourselves are unable to attain it.

No matter how much we try, no matter how much we desire it, we are only preparing ourselves for a cry, and the Creator gives us the desire. In this world, a person does not have and cannot have a need for unity, no matter how hard he tries. Efforts are needed only in order to ask.

I revealed this truth to you only so you would not weaken or give up on mercy. Although you do not see anything, for even when the measure of labor is complete, it is the time of prayer, but until then, believe in our sages: “I did not labor and found, do not believe.”

When the measure is full, your prayer will be complete and the Creator will grant generously, as our sages instructed us, “I labored and found, believe,” for one is unfit for a prayer prior to this, and the Creator hears a prayer (ibid.).

Overall, the result of our work is to reach the right request. And then the vessel arrives, the correct desire for unity.

As a rule, in this world we wait for fulfillment. But in spiritual work, fulfillment is the effort. If I can work for bestowal, make efforts, that itself is my fulfillment. And therefore there are no restrictions or limitations on it.

However, in my current state I am unable even to consider such a thing. After all, all my efforts are needed in order for me to want to perform bestowal to others, not even to begin bestowing, but to feel a need for it. Is this possible? And yet, this is precisely the spiritual vessel.

That is why in our work we go through several stages of preparation. Kabbalists have written about this more than once: in spirituality, what seems to us as a reward is in essence work, and what seems to us as work is actually the reward.

However, as a result of our efforts, that very vessel is revealed to us, the correct desire.
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From the Congress in the Arava, Lesson 6, 2/25/12

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The Creator gives a person inspiration thanks to which he comes to our community, sits, listens, burns with enthusiasm inside, and looks at the others: “Why are they sleeping? What kind of group is this?”

Then suddenly, after some time—a month, two, or three—the charge runs out, he is exhausted, and he unexpectedly begins to see himself as flawed, to feel that he is drained of strength and unable to move to such an extent that he lies in bed and cannot even move a finger. He is also unable to think; his head is empty; there is not a single thought in it, not even the smallest one.

In this way, from above, you are shown that all energy, all motivations, literally everything is being taken away from you. And then you are given a place for effort, for persistent work. This means that a person is shown where his own work begins, when he must strengthen himself on the path while making colossal efforts.

We interpret such states incorrectly. The Creator gave you something at the beginning; now you must give something back. Then the question arises: “Is a person able to give back or not?” We are unable to give back. It is known that in a state when something is taken from us from above, we cannot independently attain the light that enlivens us.

A small drop that has come out of us is that same life-giving light, the same light of Hochma, but very weak, just a small glow, a slight illumination called a “thin candle” (Ner Dakik). This is the reason for all the disappointments and depressions that we observe today in many people in the world. We are not the source of light; the source of light is only the Creator.

Therefore, naturally, in a state when He takes even a drop of light from us, and we, theoretically, need to make efforts, we are incapable of making them. However, as a result of this, a Kli (vessel) is formed.

But after we come out of the descent and rise up, possessing the Reshimot left after it, then during the ascent a reckoning is made with us. During the descent, there is no demand on us at all; we are simply shown our gaps, the emptinesses that exist within us. But during the ascent, we must already take care to strengthen ourselves even more on this path, to connect more with the group, to connect with all the things necessary for this.

That is, while preserving the memory of what the state was like during the descent, I am obliged to work during the ascent. And here the test takes place: during the ascent, am I in some kind of nirvana when I feel good, everything is fine, the Creator is Good and doing Good for me, there is nothing to do, and well-being is guaranteed? Or do I relate to these good states as an opportunity given to me for further advancement, and then I truly use the Reshimot from the past, from previous descents effectively and productively, as if attaching them to the AHAP de Aliyah. That is, to the ascent that the Creator is now sending me, to this spirit of life, I must attach, add from myself the previous states.

Such work is done during the ascent, and during the descent, there is nothing for me to do. During the descent, I should place myself under the influence of the group in the simplest possible way in order to pass through this state more quickly. Making efforts, choice, and all work in general takes place during the ascent. Baal HaSulam writes about this in the book Shamati in the article that is called exactly that: “The Time of Ascent.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/27/26, Rabash, “Lishma and Lo Lishma”

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Question: We still need to understand that on the earthly level, in this world, we cannot do anything ourselves with these hands or with this head. Is that right?

Answer: We cannot.

Comment: And all our attempts now to make society better, to make the world better…

My Response: Again, the same old games.

Comment: The same games that will lead nowhere. And humanity still keeps looking for some earthly leader who will…

Answer: It simply does not know how to use the forces of nature! That is what Kabbalah gives us, what Kabbalah explains to us. Kabbalah tells us how to reach this positive force of nature, how to constantly draw it upon ourselves and thereby change the world.

What does “world” mean? It is what I see and feel around me either with my bad eye or with my good eye—that is what I call the world.

So, how do I change my evil attitude toward the world to a good one? This is the entire science of Kabbalah, the science of receiving, of correctly perceiving the place where you are—this world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 2/5/26

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Those two kinds of fear—fear of punishment in this world and fear of punishment in the next world—are not the essence of fear and its root” (Rabash, “Lishma and Lo Lishma”).

Fear is what propels us forward. Modern medicine lists 780 types of fear. They say there are all kinds of techniques that further distinguish its types. But what is fear?

In essence, fear is a feeling of not being fulfilled. There can be fear of the past, present, and future. The fear that I will feel bad now and later, in this world and in the world to come. What else could there be besides that? Only the fear of pain and suffering.

In the article “Lishma and Lo Lishma,” Rabash states there is also another fear—fear not for oneself. But, nevertheless, I still fear. When I want to do something good for someone I love, it is as if I am buying their desire to receive; it becomes like my own, and I care about filling it. Thus, I have a fear related to the desire to receive that belongs to a loved one, whether it will be fulfilled or not.

It is similar to a mother’s fear for her children. She worries both about whether she will be happy now or in the world to come, and for her child so that he will be happy now and in the world to come. The fact that a person is worried about himself and about another “animal” next to him because he is related to him and a part of him is the same kind of fear.

However, there is also the fear regarding the giver, the Creator. If I acquire His desire to give, if I feel Him, if I have formed some kind of relationship with Him, if I begin to love Him, then I begin to care about what He feels to the same extent. As I understand it, I am worried about what it will be like for Him.

Of course, you can say, “This is the Creator, what is there to talk about? What does it mean, ‘What is it like for Him?’ He is the only one, the first, the beginning of all beginnings, He is perfect, He is everything!”

But since I buy Kelim from Him, Inside me I feel as if He depends on me. And once He depends on me, I worry about how to fulfill Him. Thus, I have a different kind of worry; instead of worrying about what will happen to me now and after this life ends, I care about what He gets from me.

These things contradict each other. If I think about the Creator, I do not think about myself. This is called replacing animalistic fear, human fear, with the fear of love, called the suffering of love. Instead of caring about my own fulfillment, I think about fulfilling the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/26/26, Rabash, “Lishma and Lo Lishma”

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Evil rules the world. And God forbid, but we can still see it all.

Question: And no prohibitions will help? No agreements will help? Nothing will help whatsoever?

Answer: Nothing

Question: Is the elimination of nuclear weapons also impossible?

Answer: It is impossible. How can you eliminate them? Do you know who has them in the world today?

Question: Meaning, the world is loaded with weapons of mass destruction?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Will it be brimming even more?

Answer: No one is holding us back. Who can hold us back? You cannot restrain egoism, and this is what you get in return. Here, we need a serious hope in the upper force that would gradually sober us up.

Question: What does it have to tell us?

Answer: That there is no other way but to simply lay down our arms and begin to engage in positive connections between us, in the entirely new possibilities that are opening up for humanity.

We can’t continue down the old paths, not with thought, not with the mind, not with feelings, not with anything! Everything that has been in the past was built on absolute egoism. We must not use it any longer.

Comment: There is only one thing left—to see the ego as an enemy, and to see another person as a friend.

Answer: Very beautiful.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/23/26

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Question: What can I understand about the action of the Creator from an obstacle sent to me?

Answer: If I understand the state in which the Creator sends me a desire with the intention for receiving, then from this action of His, I learn about His love for me. He gives me the material, the desire itself, and gives me the opportunity to become like Him, to be as He is, to reach the same sensation that He has.

This is His attitude toward me; it is the best possible. It is impossible to create a greater state of love and sincerity, and a better attitude than this. In this way, He gives me the possibility to become similar to Himself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 2/10/26, Rabash, “What Are the Two Actions During a Descent?”

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