Question: How can the revelation of evil on the 9^th of Av be corrected on the 15^th of Av, on the holiday of love? After all, the holiday of love refers to a couple in love, while the 9^th of Av is the day of the destruction of the Temples, meaning it relates to the entire people of Israel.

Answer: Both of these days relate to a couple in love, only we do not see it. The couple in love is the people of Israel and the Creator. All creations, all the desire to enjoy created by the Creator, is like a woman, Malchut, Shechina, in relation to which the Creator acts as a man, a bestower.

If there is no unification between us, then we cannot be a vessel, a place, for the revelation of the
Creator so that He may reign in us and we can merge in an embrace, a kiss, in spiritual unity. There are three levels of spiritual merging with the Creator: “embrace,” as it is said: “His left hand is under my head, and His right hand embraces me,” then “kiss,” and then “union.”

Therefore, the actions of the same name in the material world also symbolize the connection between those who love each other. And in the spiritual world, these concepts signify a very sublime connection between man and the Creator.

That is why the 9^th of Av symbolizes the terrible breakage, which is the cause of all troubles and misfortunes. After all, good and evil are determined only by how much we draw closer or distance from the upper light, from the upper force, the Creator.

The 9^th Av is the source of all destruction, and the 15^th Av is the source of all goodness. But since we have not yet reached this goodness, we do not feel the true power of this day and we perceive it as a holiday of ordinary lovers.

In the same way we underestimate Purim and perceive it as a children’s holiday. Unfortunately we are still in exile and do not see obvious symptoms of redemption. Redemption is already near, but we have not yet reached it, and therefore we do not know what spiritual “embrace,” “kiss,” and “union” are.

The whole Torah speaks only about the relationship of this couple: humanity and the Creator, and not about earthly young women dressing up in white garments and going to dance in the vineyards on the day of love, the 15^th of Av.
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From the conversation 7/30/15, “New Life 600 – The 15th Of Av – The Holiday Of Love”

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Question: In attainment, does a Kabbalist actually feel the spiritual root in the objects of our world? If not, then how can we say that he investigates the spiritual world empirically and not through a speculative integration of opposite concepts?

Answer: This enters us gradually in the process of study, and we begin to receive everything correctly.

Question: Sometimes Baal HaSulam takes concepts of our world and seems to dismantle them. Is he trying in this way to replace the material concept with spiritual perception?

Answer: Yes, he also has such methods.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/21/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #56 “Torah Is Called Indication” (11.10.21)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 111, 112 (8.23.2006) 

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 5, Item 22

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “Heaven and Earth”

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Question: What is the subconscious from the perspective of Kabbalah?

Answer: In Kabbalah, there is no such term.

Question: It is clear that 99% of all events in a person’s life happen as if above him, that is, unconsciously. He simply reacts instinctively to everything perceiving only a small fraction. In Kabbalah, do you become aware of all 99% of events?

Answer: In Kabbalah, there are exercises that we instinctively come to trying to create such conditions in which the upper light, the Creator, begins to manifest within us so that we begin to feel Him inside, and become more receptive to His influence upon us.

We must catch the inner voice of the Creator within us. These are special conditions. They usually come when we tune ourselves correctly in the group.

By uniting with friends and preparing the kind of relations between us in which the Creator can be revealed, we catch His inner voice. The sensor for perceiving the Creator is our connection.

Question: How can one determine that this is not the voice of egoism, but the voice of the Creator?

Answer: A person feels it, and at the same time discovers that the revelation of the Creator still occurs within his egoistic qualities. But this pushes him forward.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/11/2018,”The Journey To Self-Discovery. The Basics Of Inner Work”

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In our world, all the work on attaining the greatness of the Creator, spiritual qualities, and the greatness of the goal takes place within the group. This must serve as the fuel for our advancement toward achieving the importance of bestowal and love. Accordingly, we will feel that we are changing, that various shifts and positive transformations are happening within us, that is, in the direction of bestowal.

At the same time, however, the left line begins to reveal itself in all kinds of disappointments, failures, and problems related to the group, the Creator, the teacher, and the method, in everything we associate with the attainment of the goal. And we grow the importance of spirituality, then we will also see Pharaoh, which are all the sinners revealed in the left line, from the smallest to the greatest, as described in the Torah: Balaam, Balak, and all the others.

Pharaoh, or the serpent, is the general name for all the sinners. All these egoistic forces are revealed in the left line. And the main thing that defines the character of these evil forces is pride, which makes them ask: “Why do you need spiritual work? Who is the Creator that I should obey Him?”

This is the enormous human pride rising up against the Creator and crying: “I will rule!” This is how it reveals itself to a person. And to the extent that he corrects it, he begins to see the greatness of the Creator and then understands that the Creator is great precisely in His humility. A person begins to value humility as the greatest quality because it signifies perfection.

However, humility is only the degree of Bina. And then, upon it, comes an addition—bestowal built upon humility. A person’s humility toward others manifests in his readiness to serve them. And then he attains “Love your neighbor as yourself”—true love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/12, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Place Where You Find His Greatness”

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The Creator Himself does not exist.

Comment: Well that statement shocks everyone.

My Response: But it is true! How a person reacts to this, if one does, is his business. I must set things straight. The Creator Himself does not exist. What exists is the feeling of closeness with others that arises through mutual effort to reveal the quality of love and bestowal.

Question: So this feeling, you call it the revelation of the Creator?

Answer: Yes, the Creator is love. And this has nothing to do with what is between a man, a woman, children, it does not matter who or what. It is simply a relation to everything that, I would say, I perceive as outside of me.

Question: And outside of me, you say there is only love?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Within me, there is none. But outside me there is love?

Answer: Within me, it is egoistic, predetermined, over which I must rise and feel true love.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/18/25

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Question: In Kabbalah there are two fundamental concepts: the Creator and the creation. What are they?

Answer: Initially there is a incorporeal, nameless force without any properties that could be defined in any way and that has nothing to do with us.

This force is called “Atzmuto,” which in Hebrew means existing by itself; that is, it is something we do not touch at all and cannot research.

Question: And we will never attain it?

Answer: We cannot say this because we deal only with our own correction. We do not know what we will begin to attain and reveal after we correct ourselves.

Atzmuto gives birth to the quality of bestowal and love. This quality is what we call the Creator. It can be defined only in relation to the creation. There cannot be the Creator without creation and creation without the Creator. They emerge from Atzmuto simultaneously: the light and the desire within it. The desire is called the creation, and the light is called the Creator.

The desire of the Creator is to bestow, to fill, to love. The desire of the creation is to receive, to be loved, to absorb.

Gradually, these two mutually opposite forces begin to develop through the four phases of direct light from which the desire to receive emerges that completes its formation in the last, fourth phase, Malchut.

From Malchut the worlds branch out: Adam Kadmon (the prototype of the future human), Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. Their purpose is the gradual weakening of the light and the simultaneous development of desire: the less light, the greater the desire. The desire develops all the way to our world by absorbing the light.

In the process of the development of the desire, many different actions take place. When it reaches our level, it breaks, absorbs the light into itself, and begins to develop into a semblance of the light. This is what is happening with us.

The fact is that corporeally, in the form we now perceive ourselves in now, we do not exist. Our world and we ourselves are an illusion in our sensations. We perceive everything only within ourselves.

Question: If we do not exist, then why do we feel each other and the world?

Answer: It is because we have a commonality of sensations through which we can interact with one another.

Very often, we do not understand each other because beside this commonality, we also have individual desires and thoughts. Therefore, we interpret what we perceive differently. But in sensations, we are in agreement with one another.

For example, we have a shared sensation that there is a table in front of us. Such natural agreements are initially embedded in us because we are all built on the same principle.

Question: If there is no corporeal reality, then what does exist?

Answer: Our entire universe, everything around us, and we ourselves are a set of waves. Even physicists agree with this today.

Question: Physicists say that if we look at electrons, we see them as corporeal particles. But if no one is looking at them, they behave like waves. Why is that?

Answer: It is because the waves outside of us are also us. Everything is spoken of and felt only in relation to us. There is nothing that we can perceive outside of ourselves.

Question: Why is this not taught in schools? People would treat each other quite differently.

Answer: When I was a child, we were taught that the universe exists eternally and is infinite in size. Today science refutes this and claims that the universe has existed for fourteen billion years and has definite dimensions. That is, we are constantly developing.

But this knowledge will not change the relationships between people. What difference does it make to a person what scientists say? First and foremost, one thinks about one’s livelihood, health, and diversion. A person is an ordinary animal organism that wants “bread and circuses.”
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 11/10/2017, “Kabbalistic Principles and Their Spiritual Meaning and Application”

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The Creator suffers greatly without us. He has a desire to give, to saturate, to emanate, and there is no one, no one who wants it.

Question: But we want to be satisfied, to receive, don’t we?

Answer: But we do not want to be satisfied from Him or by Him! Therefore, here, I would say, it looks like a war of nerves; who will be the first to give up and say: “I love you!”

It is, of course, a game of exhaustion, really.

Question: And what is our identity when we complement the Creator, as you say?

Answer: In the fact that we become necessary for the Creator in action; we are necessary as it is, but in action, in the fact that we draw closer to Him, unite, merge with Him, in the fact that we complement the universe. We evoke a filling in the entire universe, the supreme light that fills the entire creation. And without us, it would be empty, cold, and dark.

Question: What kind of addition does He expect from us?

Answer: So that we turn on the light. Turn on the light in this world so that the universe may be filled with the light of the Creator, love, goodness, unification, and perfection in all forms.

Comment: At the same time, you say this today when you do not know where to run with these crazy wars…

My Response: You do not have to do anything. We just have to wait calmly, with confidence that this is going to happen.

Question: And still want it?

Answer: Yes, want and ask, quietly ask the Creator.

Question: Is that all that is required of us?

Answer: Yes, without unnecessary noise, statements, or arguments, without anything.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/10/25

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