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Posted on November 21st, 2025 at 2:55 pm
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Question: Sometimes there are situations when we ask for our friends and realize that our request is egoistic and there is no desire to ask for them at all. But we ask because it is written that a person should always practice Torah and the commandments, even Lo Lishma. Is this the right way to work?
Answer: We really do need to be in a state where we always strive to communicate with the Creator in a state of “Lo Lishma” and then “Lishma.”
Question: Is it possible to add something to these states?
Answer: Whatever each person feels necessary for himself, he will add.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/10/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot
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The nature of the body is such that it always sees flaws in others rather than their merits. That is why the sages said: “Try to justify every person.” Meaning, even if within reason I see that a friend is not right, I still try to justify him. And if I see the friend’s merits even within reason, that is even better.
After all, it is not important to me whether someone else is right or not, and in fact, it is impossible to ever truly judge that. What matters to me is calibrating myself according to the spiritual world. If I think that all my friends are righteous, kind, and respectable people, and I want to see them as great, as if they were the Creator, then through this I adjust myself, I correct my vision, my perception, of the upper world.
Therefore, if I see the friend’s merits within reason, this means I have already tuned myself to the correct vision. If I don’t see this, then I must strive to see and imagine as if he is right, because through this “as if” I come closer to seeing spirituality, to seeing the truth.
It is desirable to see our friends as great, each in their own way. Every person has qualities that I do not possess. If I constantly look for only the positive qualities in them, it will help me see “Columbus’ ship,” to see spirituality.
By doing so, I diminish my egoism and elevate the qualities that are external to me. And through this, I as if elevate spirituality because it is currently zero to me since I do not feel or understand it. If I raise the friend in my eyes, I thereby increase my ability to perceive the spiritual.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/7/20, “Work with Faith Above Reason”
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Comment: Dividing the world into “good-us” and “bad-them” is rooted in human nature and is the source of many conflicts.
Some research found that monkeys judge other members of their own species with the same degree of prejudice as people judge “newcomers”. Monkey populations form various social communities within their species. After migrating to new communities, the monkeys seemed to judge members of their species alien to their community with a degree of prejudice similar to human prejudices of “strangers.”
It seems that the nature of prejudice is older than the history of civilization and culture, and therefore it is impossible to get rid of biased thinking by appealing to human culture! The real reason for intolerance lies outside the problems of cultural (national, religious, political, etc.) differences, but is much deeper, and not a consequence of cultural evolution.
My Response: No problem of society can be solved at our level, but only by rising to the next level of our development, which is possible only through integral education, because it causes the highest energy of development (light, Ohr Makif) from our future level of “man” at our current level of “animal.”
Only an ascent to the next level of our development will rid us of all animal prejudices, and all other attempts to achieve agreement, understanding, or equality are useless. It is better to look at ourselves soberly, friends.
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From KabTV’s “Evolution Beyond Darwin’s Theory” 3/2/12
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Question: Can one see the world from end to end within the ten?
Answer: Of course, a ten is a complete system of creation, which contains no more than ten elements, and if all of them manifest among the ten friends, then you need nothing more. In your small ten you will reveal all the worlds, including the Creator. Outside of the ten, there is nothing.
That is why the book that lays out the Kabbalistic method is called The Study of the Ten Sefirot.
Question: On one hand, all of humanity is a ten; on the other hand, two people are also a ten. Can I choose the people? Suppose I like two people, and I try to implement the spiritual method with them. Is that a ten? And the other twenty or thirty people in the group, I haven’t reached them yet.
Answer: But later you will have to connect them as well.
Question: So I can choose a few people I’m comfortable with?
Answer: To exit yourself, one person is enough.
Question: So, in principle, there can be many groups of two or three people?
Answer: Maybe so, but it is better if it is closer to ten. More than ten, however, is impossible. A person cannot encompass more than that.
Question: Is the system arranged so that I have a ten and I don’t need to care about the rest of the world?
Answer: The entire world will gather inside your ten. Through it, you will receive everything the world wants to say to you.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/11/18
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1st part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Work with Faith Above Reason” (9.12.2020)
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3rd part of the Lesson — The Book of Zohar, “Beresheet – 1, ‘And the Land Was Tohu (Chaos) – 1′”
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Even when a Kabbalist is already on high degrees, it is very useful for him to study the books of other Kabbalists. Then he can see reality through another’s qualities because each person looks from their own point of view. By learning how others perceive the spiritual reality, he begins to see it through every corrected soul, and thus he quickly joins the common soul.
At first, I am a point inside a circle. I have corrected myself and built my connection with infinity, a line from the center of the circle to the light surrounding it. I have connected with all the other souls, and thereby expanded this line, like a sector, over the entire circle. Now the entire plane of the circle is my corrected desire. I have completely corrected myself by uniting with the other souls.
But this is not enough. Because my circle is flat. And there are other circles, other corrected souls. When all these circles unite, they form a sphere, with one common center. This means that I must see all the corrections of all souls from their point of view.
Why? Because the Creator looks from above at every soul and brings it into action. I must reach that very same level. Therefore I need to clothe myself in each person and see his correction from his own point of view, from within his soul.
Only then do I attain equivalence of form with the upper force. It is not enough for me to correct my own plane. I must correct one plane after another, circle after circle, until they all unite into a sphere.
This is mandatory. Otherwise, we do not attain similarity to the Creator. And so each person connects with others and looks through them.
And then all must unite together. All the individual spheres combine into an even more “rounded,” perfect dimension. And then all private distinctions disappear completely.
But this stage is beyond our corrections.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/10/09, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot
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We cannot directly measure our attitude toward one another. We can measure how much we love or hate each other only in relation to some external object.
Suppose you love something and I hate it, or you love it more than I do—this love, too, is relative. And only in this way can it be measured.
This is the basis of the technique for the precise inner, spiritual measurement of the connection between people, for through it they also connect to the Creator. This measurement must be very personal because all of us have completely different desires. We need to examine to what extent we are even capable of discerning this connection. But there is no doubt that if I love what you hate, then we cannot unite.
This is how we can test our attitude toward each other. There are billions of different concepts in the world, and if we want to love one another, then our attitude has to align regarding each of them. This is called adhesion.
How else can I examine you, and you me? It is possible only in relation to a benchmark that is outside of both you and me. By comparing ourselves to it, we determine whether we match or not. The benchmark by which our attitude toward the Creator is checked is the group, for this is the place where we are together with Him.
If I relate to the group correctly, I discover that the Creator is already there from the beginning, in unity with the friends. As it is said: “The Creator dwells among His people.” He is already in the group. The only problem is that I am not there. Therefore all my work consists of attaching myself to the nine friends and completing them to a full ten.
To the extent that I attach myself to the group, I merge with the Creator. There is no other frame of reference. The group is the benchmark, the standard, the tuning fork by which I adjust myself. Nothing is required from the friends, not even their agreement.
If I join them unconditionally, and annul myself in everything, I will discover that they accept me with all their heart and soul, and that the Creator dwells among them. The group is in a state of final correction.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/18, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar“
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Two opposites in a single whole is the main point that defines the entrance to the upper world, to the spiritual dimension, that is, to the space where the Creator dwells, the source of the two forces.
With respect to us, they are revealed as the force of evil and the force of good—Klipa and holiness, bestowal and reception, two opposite forces. But for the Creator there is no contradiction and everything is united as one.
Only relative to us, in our perception and understanding, do they appear as two forces that contradict one another. The more we begin to perceive creation, the more distance and opposition we see between them.
Because of this we are unable to perceive the spiritual. As it is said: “In Isaac shall your seed be called, but you must sacrifice him.” One contradicts the other. On the one hand, he must be killed; on the other, he is to continue your path.
How is this possible? We cannot understand this with our earthly mind. We must attain the mind of the upper one. If we try to hold onto both principles, we draw the light that returns to the source, which builds a new reality for us. In this new space that we reveal, called the middle line, these two opposite lines can coexist as a single whole and complement each other.
This is extremely difficult to grasp, practically impossible. We need an environment and the upper light that returns to the source that will unite the two lines within the middle line. The middle line is the Creator.
The revelation of the Creator, the unity of the two opposite lines, gradually leads us to the purpose of creation, to the end of correction. Step by step, these opposites grow and unite more and more, and this is the entire work.
We have already completed sufficient preparation over many years and have gathered many people who are capable of this step. The rest will become capable of it by attaching themselves to those who have already reached the right readiness.
Thus, in our world, children who are born in the 21st century join all the advancements achieved by previous generations, and move ahead of them because they attach to their parents and receive everything the parents have.
So it is in the Kabbalistic group. It does not matter who has advanced more or who less. If each one tries to reach the goal with all their strength and preparation, they will reach it.
I hope for you will approach this topic seriously because in the entire wisdom of Kabbalah—in spiritual work, in attaining the Creator, the upper reality and the perfection of nature—there is nothing more important than this principle of the unity of the two lines.
This integration of opposites is the spiritual space that is revealed to a person. When they enter it, they begin to feel the next world. There is no doubt that through our common efforts we are capable of advancing and achieving all of this, and pulling each person toward this degree, toward the beginning of the true spiritual ladder.
From this moment onward, we always advance in the three lines in faith above reason. Then the entire Torah and the whole world will become clear to us. All of reality begins to become clear; it divides into three lines and reveals their interaction.
For now we do not know where the plus and minus originate, nor where they lead us. But if we know how to correctly connect the opposites above this world and above earthly intellect within spiritual feeling and reason, then we attain unlimited revelation and understand how the Creator acts, what He does, what we must do to be similar to Him, to become “like gods, knowing good and evil.”
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/23/19, “Two Opposites in One Subject”
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