Question: You said we cannot unite with people who do not study Kabbalah. What did you mean by that?

Answer: If I study something, I usually seek out people who are close to my studies. If I am interested in something, I prefer people who have the same interests. This is what Baal HaSulam means.

This is how we form groups in all countries, on all continents. We are spreading information about ourselves, and anyone who wants to join us is invited.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/5/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: How can I determine whether my desires hinder spirituality or not?

Answer: All of our desires that are directed toward revealing and fulfilling themselves are naturally opposite to what we are meant to attain. They are contrary to the Creator’s intention to ultimately and completely delight us within the desire to bestow, through which we become similar to Him and connected with Him.

Therefore, our task is to examine our desires in the light of the Creator, that is, by comparing our desires with His desires. Those desires that are incompatible with the Creator’s goal we define as Klipot, forces opposite to the purpose of creation. Hence, we set them aside and engage only in fulfilling those desires that are intended for the fulfillment of others.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/7/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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The first tactic is to accustom oneself not to receive anything for one’s pleasure, even the permitted and necessary things for the existence of one’s body, such as eating, drinking, sleeping, and other such necessities (Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of theTen Sefirot“).

Question: How does this exercise bring us closer to spirituality?

Answer: This exercise brings us to a state where we ask, turn to the Creator, and pray that He will illuminate us with a light that will calm our desire to receive so we will not feel any difference whether we receive more or less.

This is precisely what we must come to understand.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/7/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Can we consider the revealed Torah as a desire to receive, and the hidden Torah as a desire to receive for the sake of giving?

Answer: No, we cannot. The “hidden Torah” is what we reveal in the process of learning Kabbalah. And the revealed is what is revealed to us as children.

Question: Does the iron wall get broken on both sides? How can one feel the other side?

Answer: You can feel the other side only when you strive to unite with what is outside of you, on the other side of the wall.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/5/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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First of all, one must connect to one’s private ten, and only afterward to the entire world Kli. My ten is my personal Kli, from which I cannot exit, to which I am connected, and into which I must invest myself. It is like a pacifier for a baby; once he grabs it, he immediately calms down and comes to himself.

That is how we should feel about our ten, as if without it we do not exist and cannot manage. It is my shield and my umbilical cord that connects me to Adam HaRishon, to the general system of all the worlds. By entering the ten, through it I am connected, like by an umbilical cord, to the common soul of Adam HaRishon and to the Creator who is revealed within it.

During the convention, I received a great desire from the large Kli. Having felt the whole world, I have to  bring all this force into my permanent ten. And each friend in my ten must bring into it his own impressions from the great Kli that was at the European convention. From all these impressions, our ten will seem to swell and become greater, and it will also feel a stronger connection with the world Kli.

This will happen every time after conventions, expansion and contraction, expansion and contraction, through which we will grow.

With all the impressions received from the great world Kli, I now come into my ten confused, and I must again find unity and connection within it. But this will already be a different connection because each of us comes filled with impressions from the great Kli, as if expanded, and therefore we must work anew on our connection.

There was an expansion, and now it must be translated into contraction so that our new connection will be much stronger than before, with deeper inner qualities. It is as if before, ten children were connecting, and now they are ten teenagers, and later they will be ten adult men.

Each time, a new quality of connection is attained due to the fact that after expansion we return to contraction. In contraction, it seems as though we return to the same state, but on a higher level.

The permanent ten is my shield, my beloved pacifier for the baby. Without it I do not exist. In the spiritual world, my ten is my passport.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/15/19, Hardening of the Heart—An Invitation to Ascend

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No one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them (Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning).

There is a universal law, and therefore, at any given moment, you must treat everyone as a person who has fulfilled their higher purpose.

Question: Even an enemy?

Answer: All the more so. Then you will act correctly, survive, and reach your goal.

In other words, you create it yourself through your correct attitude toward everyone—toward the enemy, toward the friend, toward all.

By doing so, you shape yourself internally, constantly correct yourself, and in this way come closer to the final goal, to the form that you must ultimately attain.

Question: Is that even possible?

Answer: This, generally speaking, is our path.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/4/25

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Work with Faith Above Reason” (9.4.2020)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Recording of Rabash. Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 4, Chapter 4, Item 5

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Comment: A person wants to dress nicely. It is in his nature.

My Response: If he is not forced to do so by external circumstances, then in his inner circumstances he can continue to live as he lived before.

Question: In an old robe?

Answer: Of course.

Comment: Then there is no progress.

My Response: Well then there will not be progress of that kind.

Comment: Now you are going somewhat against nature. Look around, everything is built on buying a house, dressing beautifully, fashion. Everything today is like that.

My Response: Everything is needed only to live comfortably for the sake of your goal so that you will not be a slave to things, a slave to time, and a slave to the environment. That is all. And all the rest of your free time, dedicate to your beloved self.

Question: So is that how one should live?

Answer: Yes, why should I work, as you say, for a robe, for a table, or for something else?

Question: What do you mean when you say “take care of yourself”?

Answer: Do what you truly want, what you consider important. What you consider important, not what the environment dictates.

Question: So your advice is to stop?

Answer: Not even to stop, but not to enter into it in the first place. Do not get involved; do not dive into it.

Question: Even if I am internally spinning and restless?

Answer: That should be the aim of such a low level of human development, the animal level of man, so that he does not get carried away into other goals or niches. Live for yourself! Even if it seems egoistic.

Comment: You just gave a very egoistic formula: live for yourself, not for others.

My Response: Choose a goal and live for it. A person must examine his path and direct and arrange it in such a way that he harms no one, including his own life. That is all.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/16/25

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Rav Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag (RABASH) is the source from whom we receive the entire wisdom of Kabbalah. All of it flows to us from his mouth. All his articles, all his explanations, and all his teachings that he received from his great father, Baal HaSulam, pass on to us through him. Let us hope that we accept and realize all of this properly in honor of that great soul.

Of course, in the spiritual world there is no such thing as death. Therefore, even today we are governed by that same force, called RABASH. We must understand and feel this, and never detach ourselves from the heritage he left us. It is our obligation to translate the writings of RABASH into all major languages and to disseminate them throughout the world.

We must carry out all his advice and recommendations as precisely and carefully as possible, and see him as our Teacher and spiritual father. Everything that we can attain in the spiritual world, in eternity, during our life in this world and beyond it depends on this.

The ladder of degrees and souls never changes, and thus we are all dependent upon him. RABASH is that source from which we receive life, through our connection with him and with one another. Therefore, our organization bears his name, Bnei Baruch (“The Children of Baruch”).

We truly are his sons, may we be worthy of this honor!

Come and see how grateful we should be to our teachers, who impart us their sacred lights and dedicate their souls to do good to our souls. They stand in the middle between the path of harsh torments and the path of repentance. They save us from the netherworld, which is harder than death, and accustom us to reach the heavenly pleasures, the sublime gentleness and the pleasantness that is our share, ready and waiting for us from the very beginning…

Our sages have already said, “You have not a generation without such as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob” (Baal HaSulam, Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot, Item 8).

This means that the Kabbalists themselves are the source of spiritual life, through whom the abundance from the Creator flows to us that descend into our world as the light of correction and the light of fulfillment. The light passes from Adam HaRishon onward through the entire chain of Kabbalists, and we receive it from RABASH.

Therefore, how immense is our gratitude to our teachers who impart us their sacred lights and dedicate their souls to do good to our souls.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/24/17, “On the Day of Remembrance of Rabash”

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The environment and the teacher are the only factors that determine a person’s future. At every moment, he must see his state as one in which he has received everything necessary from above, and all that remains for him is to connect himself with the right environment.

And such an environment is always near us; we only need to be able to choose it. This is our only free choice because everything else already follows from it.

That is why I don’t have to worry about anything except where I get my nourishment from, with whom I am connected, who influences me! That is, to always think not about myself, but about what external environment I am connected to. If a person wants to manage his development, his life and destiny, then he should think only about whom he is in contact with.

But it is completely unnatural for a person to think about this! After all, we constantly think about ourselves: who am I, why, what will happen to me? What is the meaning of my life?

All these questions of yours are directed inward, and they are correct! But how are you going to resolve them? With what do you connect their resolution?

Kabbalists explain that the solution depends only on the environment. And that is why I need to immediately turn my attention to the external forces that act upon me because their influence on me determines all my future.

And in essence, this is not external, but a single system of souls, an integral part of my spiritual body, there, where the shattering occurred and what needs to be corrected. And only there can I change something, because with all the other desires I can’t do anything.

It is as if to bury oneself into an archive and read the protocol of long predetermined events. I can only influence the environment somehow. And it is a pity to waste my attention on something other than that.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/18/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Freedom”

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