The Most Inner Attainment

212The Creator is my corrected quality. The Creator is revealed within the created being, and therefore in Hebrew He is called “Bo-reh” — “Come and See.”

I must reach my corrected state, my corrected self; I will see my corrected qualities and I will call them “the Creator.”

I reveal the Creator only within myself, within my corrected vessels of perception. Outside of myself I feel nothing. I perceive all reality, everything that exists, within me, in my sensations. Therefore, The Book of Zohar says that all the worlds and all that fills them, including the Creator, are within a person. Because they are felt by him only within himself. It only seems to me that everything is outside, beyond me.

This illusion is given purposefully: through the tension between the sensation of “outside” and “within,” I acquire the ability to see the world, myself, and the Creator both from the outside and within — and I become able to perceive creation as He does: before creation, during creation, and afterward, in future “super-states.”

Spiritual perception is based on the feeling of “other people’s” desires, which I attach to myself with the desire to bestow to and love them. In this way, my desire grows. And to the extent that I unite with other desires, I reveal an ever-broader reality.

In our world, we reveal the world of Assiya, because each person is locked within himself, within his own, and therefore egoistic, desire.

If I begin to connect with a group, with desires similar to mine in their yearning for the Creator, then to the extent of this connection I reveal the world of Yetzira. I have united to some degree with the environment into a single desire, and within it I reveal the measure of bestowal I have attained, which is called “the Creator.”

The phenomena I reveal within my corrected desire are called light, and its deeper source, the Creator. Then a greater egoistic desire, my “I,” is revealed in me. And above it, in my effort to unite with the group, I attain the world of Beria.

In this manner we reveal all five worlds. Baal HaSulam writes in the “Introduction to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” that all the worlds are within a person. Therefore, the wisdom of Kabbalah is the revelation of the Creator to the created being, within the created being, in its corrected desires (organs of perception).

By revealing the quality of bestowal, we also attain its source, its originator. This most inner attainment is what we call the Creator.
[5263]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/09, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

Related Material:
The World through the Creator’s Eyes
A Look At Life Through The Creator’s Eyes
The Opposite World Through The Eyes Of Love

“Those who seek Me shall find Me”

276.0241. The Zohar writes about the text “Those who seek Me shall find Me,” and asks, “Where does one find the Creator?” They said that the Creator is found only in the Torah. Also, regarding the verse, “Indeed, You are a God who hides,” that the Creator hides Himself in the holy Torah (Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“).

The point is that those who “pursue” the Creator and want to reveal Him, will certainly reveal Him. And this can be done only by studying the Torah, for the Creator is hidden within it. He created the Torah precisely with this condition.

Why does the Creator hide Himself? It is so that we would feel our separation from Him and begin to ask the Creator to help us reveal Him. Therefore, we need to understand the phrase well: ״Those who seek Me shall find Me.״ That is, we must clarify what this request truly is.
[350342]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/25, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot

Related Material:
So That The Concealment Does Not Hide The Creator
The Creator Is Hidden, But The Group Is Open
Discovering The Greatness Of The Creator

Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 12/3/25

Preparation to the Lesson

icon for podpress Video: Play Now | Download icon for podpress Audio: Play Now | Download

1st part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Work with Faith Above Reason” (11.4.2020)

icon for podpress Video: Play Now | Download icon for podpress Audio: Play Now | Download

2nd part of the Lesson — Recording of Rabash, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 4, Chapter 6, Item 16

icon for podpress Video: Play Now | Download icon for podpress Audio: Play Now | Download

3rd part of the Lesson — Conversations of a Kabbalist With His Students During the Day

icon for podpress Video: Play Now | Download icon for podpress Audio: Play Now | Download

Audio Version Of The Blog – 12/2/25

Listen to an Audio Version of the Blog
Download:MP3Audio

The Matter That Cannot Be Grasped

263Question: You say that everything spiritual is feelings. What are feelings?

Answer: Feelings are what happens in the desire, and desire is our matter. That is, we are talking about matter and the form of matter. This is what we study in Kabbalah and what we can sense, analyze, and reproduce. Therefore, absolutely everything is in our feelings.

Comment: But feelings don’t have a specific location.

My Response: Desire is the very place in which you sense what you feel. My desire is the only reality. And all the objects surrounding me only seem to exist. In fact, they are drawn for me in my desire. Besides desire, there is nothing. Matter is desire.

Comment: In reality, this is something inexplicable.

My Response: It simply cannot be grasped.

Comment: Neither feelings nor desire can be conveyed in any way. Only if, as you say, there is a common form. If someone has experienced it, they can convey the feeling.

My Response: That is why I try, in some way, to push students to start writing emotional works about everyday situations that would lead a person to a certain awakening, similar to a spiritual one, and would accelerate their development.

Question: Is it possible to convey Kabbalah in this way? Can you take all the explanations from the heights and transmit them in a sensory form?

Answer: Yes, try to present all this in the form of various novels. One can, of course, write purely psychologically about a person’s inner states, even when he doesn’t intersect with others. Or one can base it on his relationships with a group, with friends, with animals, with women; it doesn’t matter.

That is, the foundation is always the same, only more complicated. Just like in our world: There are more intelligent people, there are less educated ones, but the foundation is always the same—emotional.
[350240]
From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Reason and Feelings” 10/5/10

Related Material:
Thoughts And Mind
Instinct And Intelligence
Mind And Feelings In Spiritual Development

Quality Connection

938.05Question: We know that the closer we come to Lishma, the higher the likelihood that we will be heard throughout the world. In your view, what are we lacking in order to influence the whole world more strongly: quality or quantity?

Answer: We lack quality so that the connection between us becomes very strong. It will allow us to unite with one another and merge with our source, the Creator, in order to receive strength from Him and, through our connection with others, channel this strength to the entire world.
[350279]
From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot

Related Material:
Participate In the Creator’s Program
Qualitative Unification Efforts
We Are Rewarded According To Our Efforts

Trust and Verify

963.5Question: If Kabbalah is a science, then why is it said that the surrounding light acts only on those who believe?

Answer: Faith is the force of bestowal. It is not about believing someone’s words. In the science of Kabbalah, faith is the force of bestowal, Bina; it is not words spoken by someone and accepted by someone else as fact.

In science, it is not customary to believe, and Kabbalah does not use this concept of faith. It is not a religion!

I rely on the advice of the Kabbalists in order to draw the surrounding light upon myself. They tell me what needs to be done and they explain why.

With their help, I study the system, trusting them the way a child trusts a schoolteacher or their parents. A small one must trust the grown-up in order to rise to a higher degree, relying on the instructions that come from there, but no more than that.

In religion, however, in our world, faith is not trust with subsequent ascent and verification, but a fanatical loyalty with one’s eyes closed.

I do not accept the words of the Kabbalists as facts; I implement them and test them on myself. And afterward, having provided myself with a full set of knowledge and evidence, I will be able to continue the research on my own.
[4875]
From the Kabbalah Lesson 9/11/09, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Book From the Mouth of a Sage

Related Material:
Faith Is Bestowal
The Need for Faith above Reason
Faith And Reason

Torah Lishma—Drawing Closer to the Creator

234Question: What should one do in order to work specifically for the sake of Torah Lishma?

Answer: Attend all the lessons and try to fulfill all the conditions that we study. Continue every day; be with us at the lessons daily, and then you will succeed.

Question: Can we say that Torah Lishma ultimately determines our place in creation?

Answer: Of course, this is the most important thing. When we direct ourselves toward Torah Lishma, we thereby draw closer to the Creator. After all, He is the goal and the force that sustains everything.
[350276]
From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot

Related Material:
Work in Lishma
Achieve Lishma
The Transition to Lishma

Work In and Above Knowledge

243.01Question: We study that the wisdom of the Torah is revealed in the reflected light. This is work above knowledge. And what are the conditions for working Lishma within knowledge?

Answer: Within knowledge is your mind, your ordinary attitude toward the Torah.

Question: Is an ordinary attitude enough to call it work, or must one still transition above it?

Answer: By no means is it enough! “A necessary and sufficient condition” in Kabbalah we must reveal and master.

Question: So in general, is all work Lishma carried out above knowledge? Do I not have any ability to make corrections within knowledge?

Answer: For now, you do not.
[350273]
From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot

Related Material:
Going With Faith Above Reason
How Do You Reach Faith Above Reason?
The Sage Who Studies the Torah Lishma

Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 12/2/25

Preparation to the Lesson

icon for podpress Video: Play Now | Download icon for podpress Audio: Play Now | Download

1st part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Work with Faith Above Reason” (11.3.2020)

icon for podpress Video: Play Now | Download icon for podpress Audio: Play Now | Download

2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot” 

icon for podpress Video: Play Now | Download icon for podpress Audio: Play Now | Download

3rd part of the Lesson — The Book of Zohar,Beresheet -1, ‘Let There Be Light'”

icon for podpress Video: Play Now | Download icon for podpress Audio: Play Now | Download