When we read Kabbalistic articles, we must be very careful not to attach them to concepts of time and space and create “idols” for ourselves. Everything written by Kabbalists relates only to our desire, not to any historical events that occurred in the past.

History also relates to our inner perception of reality. There is no geographical location in which all this occurs; “place” is our desire. And there is no time; “time” signifies a change of states.

And when we read such a special article as today’s: “And They Built the Cities of Affliction,” about slave labor for Pharaoh, we must relate everything described only to ourselves, to what happens to us on our spiritual path.

It speaks of what I must go through in my desire, in my relationship with myself, with the group, with the Creator; it speaks of all the means given to me to achieve union with the upper power. There is nothing else but me and Him. And everything else is merely a means to achieving fusion between us.

Everything written in the article must occur only within me, within my soul; that is how I must understand it. And then I will truly study the inner meaning of the material.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/11/11, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And They Built Arei Miskenot”

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Therefore, once all the members of the nation agreed, they were immediately given the Torah, for now they were capable of observing it. But before they grew into a complete nation, and certainly during the time of the fathers, who were unique in the land, they were not truly qualified to observe the Torah in its desirable form, since with a small number of people it is impossible to even begin with engagement in Mitzvot between man and man to the extent of “Love your friend as yourself,” …. This is why they were not given the Torah (Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah]”).

A distinction must be made between the Torah of the forefathers and the Torah of the era of Egyptian exile. In Egypt egoism grew to the degree of Pharaoh, and it had to be corrected by the light that returns to the source. But the desires revealed in the times of the forefathers were very pure and did not require this light.

Even afterward, for almost a thousand years until the era of the sages of the Talmud, one had to humble one’s desires through asceticism and labor in the Torah. Only thanks to the corrections carried out by the sages of the Talmud is it sufficient for us to engage in joint study, which brings the light that returns to the source (the reforming light).

In any case, the form of correction of the forefathers differed from ours. In the present stage of development, we must attain love for one’s neighbor as for oneself, and from this it is clear how the Torah, that is, the Kabbalistic method, must be applied. At the end of the Preface to The Book of Zohar, Baal HaSulam explains that first of all it must be realized within the people of Israel, and afterward—in the entire world.

The application of the Kabbalistic method is possible among a great number of people who support one another and become guarantors for one another. Each is obliged to care for everyone else, and then a person has no worries about himself. For even his basic needs he receives because others care for him. As a result, a person completely disconnects from his egoistic desire and performs a restriction upon it.

This restriction is not based on forceful methods, not on self-coercion. It does not mean restraining myself from eating a tasty piece of cake. That would be a diet, not a restriction. What we are speaking of is the action of the light, which raises in my eyes, bestowal above reception, and then I simply cannot receive anything egoistically. Within me there remains the desire to receive, but above it reigns the desire to bestow.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/11/11, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah]”

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Question: Baal HaSulam introduces the concept of “the force of the circle” in TES (The Study of the Ten Sefirot). What is it?

Answer: For a complete action, the desire of creation must be included in the desire of the Creator. But this does not happen so quickly. They need to become acquainted with each other through a common Kli, through the surrounding light, and so on.

Question: When I listen to TES, a great desire awakens in me to understand it. How far is what we imagine we understand from the truth? What is the meaning of our actions?

Answer: The meaning of our actions is that we should want to be like a corrected Kli, that is, to receive in the Kav exactly in proportion to the measure of that Kli.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/21/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: In previous lessons, I heard that everything spoken of in Kabbalah takes place in a line (Kav). Can we say that a circle (Igul) is what exists in potential in Ein Sof, while the Kav is what enters my perception?

Answer: We cannot feel what takes place in Ein Sof. We can feel only what happens in our Kli, in our desires.

Question: Then what is the relationship between the Kav and what happens in my Kli?

Answer: It is the same thing.

Question: On what does it depend, what exactly from Ein Sof enters the Kav?

Answer: It depends on your desire.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/21/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: What is this state of creation when there are three components: Igulim (circles), Kav (line), and Tzinor (pipe)?

Answer: These are elements that exist in the spiritual world to coordinate the actions of the Sefirot or Partzufim.

Question: Which arose first, Igulim or Kav?

Answer: The Igulim arose first, and after the restriction that creation undergoes, the Kav appears, which is a line connecting the elements of creation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/20/2025, The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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A child should grow up free. That is, he should sit and listen to his elders, but it should be interesting to him. And he should spend more time with his friends, with friends and teachers together. Go out into the fields, tinker with some small and big machines, and something else like that. That is, we must raise a child according to his ways.

Question: Do you think this is more important than, say, making him learn physics or algebra?

Answer: That does not accomplish anything. Only a few struggle through this, and only because they want to be above others.

Question: So you are least concerned with knowledge?

Answer: Indeed. We do not need it.

Question: So what you just suggested, what does it accomplish? Does it liberate him, what does it give a child?

Answer: What I propose develops a child in the natural flow of his activities. In that case, he will invent anything, not some helicopters or planes, but spaceships based on completely different principles, the ones we think those who visit us sometimes probably have, etc.

That is, liberation will give freedom to ideas, as we still do not know what potential lies in a child. Entire worlds are inside him.

Question: You are talking about freedom. What is the principle of this freedom for a child?

Answer: The principles of this freedom are free contact with nature, discussions, conclusions, arguments with adults and with their peers. All this is vital for the proper development of people. Otherwise, you just put them in some kind of square, I do not know, in a cube, and they cannot break free of it for the rest of their lives. You make their thinking formal.

Question: By doing so, are you stopping this whole progress? But in fact, this progress could have been out of this world?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What does this require of teachers?

Answer: This requires teachers to become different from the teachers we have today. We need to redo everything over a number of years. But we will come to very different results.

Question: Realizing this, will we ever come to realize we need to “jump off a cliff?”

Answer: Through a great revolution.

Question: What needs to be changed? The Ministry of Education, you know, everything is tangled up in here, the whole bureaucratic system.

Answer: All of it!

Comment: They would not want to…

My Response: I am not talking about whether they want to or not, whether we should fight for it or not. I am not calling for anything.

Question: So how will this happen?

Answer: I do not know. I am just stating the truth.

Question: Can our thinking be changed from above?

Answer: Anything can be done from above. By “from above,” I do not mean the government.

Question: So the upper force can turn our thinking around?

Answer: Yes.

Question: In what case will this happen?

Answer: I cannot say for sure, but it seems to me that when we are completely discouraged with what we have.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/14/25

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Comment: You know, when you look at what is happening in the world today, you think: “How did we get to all this?” You look at people near and far, at yourself, and you think: “What kind of creature is a human being?”

My Response: A human is a collection of absolutely all evil and all good. Therefore, he can switch in any circumstances from good to evil and from evil to good. And he will never understand another person who might blame him for something.

Question: Will he always justify even the greatest evil he has done?

Answer: Of course! And will do so sincerely at that! He will even try to convince you that he acted absolutely correctly, and that maybe he is the only righteous person in the world.

Question: What is it within us, then?

Answer: We do not know ourselves.

Question: What are those sensors inside?

Answer: Absolute good and absolute evil within us can switch places. They can be various and different.

Question: So you are saying that the evil I committed, the worst evil, I can switch inside myself?

Answer: And you will consider it absolutely good.

Comment: But that is evil.

My Response: No. You have already convinced yourself that it is absolutely good.

Comment: Well, okay—somebody, but we understand that…

My Response: You are wrong. How can you convince another person if he thinks differently?

Question: So what should we do with this? How can we turn evil into good? Is this possible?

Answer: As you recognize more and more evil, you should correct it into corresponding good.

Question: So eventually, I must come to the conclusion that this evil is within me?

Answer: That is possible if there is what is called a “third one.” That is, there is evil, there is good, and there is the Creator from whom this quality originates.

Question: Both good and evil originate from Him?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So there must be my appeal to the third one, in one way or another? My mind and heart—that is, supposedly, good and evil—and then there is a third. Am I being guided to this?

Answer: Of course! You are being educated and nurtured for this.

Question: They allow me to commit all sorts of terrible acts, right?

Answer: Everything. Everything that passes through you.

Question: Is it only so that I come to this third, to the Creator?

Answer: Yes. But this takes many states, generations, and so on.

Question: Have you even said “generations”? Is it not just one life? Does it take generations?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Is it worth it at all? All this…

Answer: You are not asked. You are the material of a great experiment.

Comment: It is a nightmare! The whole history is paved with blood, wars, sufferings, the entire history of humanity is only to arrive at this third, as you say.

My Response: And to rejoice, enjoy, and give thanks!

Question: That You did this and brought me to Yourself?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What should my appeal be like when I truly want to reach Him?

Answer: That you finally attain His wisdom, the perfection of His actions in relation to you.

Question: And you justify everything?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Will humanity get to this?

Answer: Of course!

Comment: It seems to me that we can see now how humanity is already moving toward this in giant strides.

My Response: He is guiding us energetically, yes.

Question: Energetically! We have such a scriptwriter and a director that it is simply impossible to get away with this. Is this because we have moved slowly?

Answer: No, who are we to determine the speed, the vector, and so on?

Question: I see you do not consider us at all—humanity in general?

Answer: We are small beings who can somehow experience and somehow adapt these experiences within ourselves. We can somehow compare all this within ourselves and gradually bring it into actions that flow one from another, thus establishing within ourselves some internal process of attainment, approval, and so on.

Question: But is this a logical chain?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Is the Creator and all this beyond any logic?

Answer: Beyond all logic; it is my agreement with Him.

Question: So is it logical that I do not have to agree with Him, but I agree? Is this what I am being guided to?

Answer: You have no other choice. Otherwise, there is no way to exist.

Question: And when I agree with Him, what happens?

Answer: Then you begin, through justifying Him, to draw closer to Him. You begin to reveal the meaning of His actions toward you. This fills you, and it becomes your life. It becomes that very flow through which you sail and attain Him.

Question: Does this river lead me to peace and love? I want so much to cling to something like that: peace, love. Does the justification of Him lead me there, to this point?

Answer: Yes. It does.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/4/25

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