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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Comment: Our correspondents write to us that Laitman is always taking our world apart, leaving not a single stone of it standing.

My Response: But that is how it really is. What does it mean that I am taking it apart? What do I have to do with it? Our world is created entirely in evil, and only in evil, because a person relates everything only to himself: whether it is good for me or bad for me, consciously or subconsciously, even unconsciously.

Question: Then what is the process of education? If I am like this and cannot change, what is the process of education that you keep talking about?

Answer: It is so that you will change, so that you will draw the positive force of nature, called the Creator, to yourself, and it will begin to correct your negative force.

Question: So, we always say that for this we must understand that there is only a negative force inside me?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And actually come to hate it?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Is this where the starting point begins? Then I will want the good force.

Answer: Yes, that is all!

Comment: And it exists somewhere right here.

My Response: It is around us. It completely fills all of space! Only we push it away because we do not want it. We are deliberately created this way in order to rise above ourselves, to step out of ourselves toward this common force.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/28/26

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Question: How can one use the law “Love your neighbor as yourself” in order to choose the right environment?

Answer: Baal HaSulam writes about this in the article “The Freedom.” A person must find an environment that exactly corresponds to the Hisaron (deficiency) he would like to acquire.

You see that in our lives society dictates what to do to us. Since we already have desires to enjoy, society can impose on me what to enjoy, for example, Coca-Cola. I don’t know what it is, but according to what society instills in me, I go and buy a bottle of Coca-Cola, in which there are a certain number of grams of pleasure.

In a Kabbalistic society, it is different. I must build an environment that will correspond to my expectations. If I want the spiritual world, something sublime, and society tells me that it is worth desiring, then it will thereby force me to constantly think about spirituality, and I will study the method for eight hours a day, but my request will still be in order to receive. I want spirituality, give it to me! Such a demand is not answered from above.

Of course, this is an intermediate stage, and it also exists. But the demand that is answered from above is a demand for the forces of bestowal.

Therefore, I must look for a society that will value this Hisaron. Even if I do not know what it is (I do not yet have this desire), when society begins to “brainwash me” with the message that this is very important and that this is exactly what I lack, I will receive this desire from them; there is bestowal, something that is above my nature, and that it is precisely this that I should demand.

I begin to study books that speak about spirituality, and through them I want to reveal what it is. I want it to make me feel good. When I receive this desire from the group, the surrounding light begins to shine on me and changes me.

Slowly and gradually, the group must show me what I should demand during the study, and then I will reach the desired result.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson on 2/2/26, Rabash, “For Man Is the Tree of the Field – 1”

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Rains means water, and there is no water but Torah.

When Israel were complete wicked in the beginning of the year, they were allotted few rains, but in the end they repented. It is impossible to add, since the sentence has already been given, but the Creator brings them down on time on the soil that needs them (and RASHI interpreted, “On the soil that needs them: on the fields and on the vineyards and on the gardens”) …

Torah gives him strength and power to perform Mitzvot and good deeds… (Rabash, “For Man Is the Tree of the Field – 1”).

We exist in a certain reality in which we must grow. We do not choose how to be born, to whom, or with what qualities. We do not choose our environment or how it will influence us. In this world, essentially, we cannot change anything about our destiny. Therefore, a person living within this world, confined to animalistic life, has no free choice, and consequently there is neither reward nor punishment. They do not perform a single action independently, and therefore it is not said about them that they have Rosh HaShanah.

Rosh HaShanah belongs to one who wants to be a Jew, that is, who desires to attain adhesion with the Creator. Then a person feels that he has a point in the heart, which relates to the realm of the spiritual. This desire is determined from above, and there is nothing to change within it; it contains everything necessary for this point, including the stages of its development. What it lacks is an environment, a group, since the Creator is concealed.

Therefore, a person must build an environment for the point in the heart, through which it will develop. On the corporeal level, a person’s qualities, desires, and environment are predetermined. On the spiritual level, they are given a germ of the soul, the point in the heart, but they are not given the external environment. How a person builds the environment for one’s point in the heart is how one will advance.

If they use this correctly, then all the forces given to them will contribute to the development of this point, and they will begin to develop and grow spiritually. They will find the right path and each of their steps will be very beneficial—in study, in dissemination, in all their actions—on condition that they devote all their forces to creating the right environment.

But if they do not make sufficient efforts to create such an environment and invest their efforts only in study, then even if they study the correct books, it will not help. It will rain heavily, but on a desert instead of a small rain watering a field or garden that needs it. By the way, heavy rains can even be harmful. Everything must be balanced, both the place and the amount.

At the same time, a person should not examine what is determined for him from above: the number of hours of study, his “difficult” life in which he must have a family, earn a living, and take care of his health. The Creator determines how much each one needs, absolutely precisely and in the most beneficial form.

And a person must put in order what is determined for him: the awakening forces, the friends who are near him and placed at his disposal, and so on. If he organizes this correctly, in accordance with the goal, then he advances in the most effective way.

This is the calculation a person must make on Rosh Hashanah. He must crown the Creator as King and bless Him for having provided him with all the necessary conditions.

A person crowns the Creator as the goal he must attain. And then he begins the year knowing that throughout the entire year everything has been predetermined at the beginning, except for his work. And if he fulfills it, he will attain the goal; but if not, then despite the fact that all the conditions were given to him in advance on Rosh Hashanah, he misses this cycle, which is called a year.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson on 2/2/26, Rabash, “For Man Is the Tree of the Field – 1”

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He [the Creator] wants me to feel my state as I do, [not good, deficient, bad, painful, and sick] and for myself, I do not care how I feel myself because I want to work in order to bestow.

Therefore, the main thing is that I need to work for the Creator (Rabash, “The Meaning of Truth and Faith”).

The main point is this: If I direct myself to what I receive from Him, then I must think and examine myself. Do I feel something unpleasant or even pain, or, on the contrary, joy? This depends only on the person.

Therefore, in our life, we can be in constant self-examination. Are we in faith, meaning in the feeling of the Creator, in some closeness, in intention toward Him, or are we merely falling into our egoism?

If I am directed toward the goal, toward the created beings, toward the ten, toward the Creator, then in any state I am in, whatever it may be, I cannot at the same time feel anything terrible, anything deficient.

I do not merely want to get through this state. I will not feel any pain in it; on the contrary, I will begin to reveal great pleasure in it. Because precisely above unpleasantness, pain, problems, fears, and darkness, I can reveal the light, my aspiration to it, and my connection with it.

Therefore, in any circumstances, I must be satisfied with my fate, my work, and my state, and regard this as my great merit that the Creator has given me an opportunity to draw closer to Him.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 9/7/19, Moldova, Lesson 4

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Comment: When you feel so bad that you are about to give up, they say you must understand that the bad is just as valuable as the good.

My Response: Absolutely! There is nothing good or bad, it is only relative to a person. If a person slightly changes their inner tuning, he or she will see good instead of all the bad. And the opposite can also happen.

Comment: So they say there is value in the bad. Value! It turns out that the bad is my property.

My Response: Sure, there is absolutely no good without bad, and no bad without good. We must accustom ourselves to relating correctly to everything. Because beyond our perception and our division into bad and good, we must accept that the entire world is just absolute goodness!

Question: Then the question is that something bad comes, something I feel is bad, “What do I gain from it?”

Answer: You acquire an objective view of the world. You rise above your egoistic judgment and therefore consider that everything is good and that there is nothing in the world except a single force of goodness, absolute goodness!

Question: Is this such a great acquisition?

Answer: Yes, viewing the world this way is truly happiness and a great opportunity.

Question: Is this possible?

Answer: It is possible!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 2/2/26

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