Question: Please explain the Kabbalistic principle: “The expansion of the light followed by its departure makes the Kli fit for its use.”

Answer: This principle also works in our world. When can I say that I sense something, that I came into contact with something, that I desire something? It is when I have tried it, tasted it, and felt pleasure, and then it disappeared, and a special yearning arose within me, a special attraction toward it.

This special attraction, which remains after the initial tasting, is what is called desire. The first time, it was not yet a desire. Someone simply told me that it was good, and I tried it. Nothing more.

In the story of Adam’s transgression, it is said: “He ate, and he will eat again” from the forbidden fruit. The first time, it is not considered a transgression, Adam simply absorbed the pleasure of the upper light. But when he sensed it, and then he himself reached out for it, this was already a sin.

The expansion of the light within the desire and its subsequent departure make the Kli fit for reception. It is the will to enjoy that defines the striving forward of the Kli.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/2017, “Kabbalistic Principles and Their Spiritual Meaning and Application.”

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Question: You said that the upper light touches the creation at the point where there is similarity of qualities. Does the decision about similarity of qualities come from the upper light when the creation is ready or does the creation first create this similarity and only then does the upper light come?

Answer: No, the creation cannot create anything on its own. It acts only under the influence of the upper light.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Right now countless processes are happening in my body that I am not aware of and do not feel. They are at work within me and at every moment they determine my state. Do the processes described in The Study of the Ten Sefirot influence me now, or will they only influence me once I reveal the spiritual?

Answer: They will influence you later on, when you grow up.

Question: So right now I am completely separated from this? There is nothing in the sense that these processes are forming my thoughts and desires right now?

Answer: They are forming them, but you do not feel it yet.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: What needs to be done to strengthen the Creator’s influence on me so that the desire is renewed more quickly?

Answer: For this one must work on oneself: ask more questions and participate more actively in discussions of the material. After reading a section from The Study of the Ten Sefirot, try to find its meaning and its purpose and “cling” to what the book is speaking about.

One way or another everything will work out, but acceleration is possible only through mutual desire.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: You always warn us not to look back, like Lot’s wife who looked back at Sodom and turned into a pillar of salt. So when we are filled with great inspiration after a congress or a dissemination event, does it mean we should not recall it, but instead strive forward to the next degree?

Answer: Not looking back means not wanting to remain in a previous state. But it does not mean that a person should cut himself off from the past as if it does not exist. One must learn from yesterday in order to continue today in a better state.

A person should not want to be in the state of yesterday, but in the state of tomorrow. That is what it means, “to not look back.”

But this has nothing to do with Sodom. Sodom is when one truly wishes to return to a previous degree, which has already been revealed as a corrupt state. One cannot return to it anymore.

If I have decided that my previous state was corrupt and unsuitable for correction, for advancing toward the goal, toward bestowal, then I have no choice: I must finish with it and move forward.

There are people who look back, return, and wish to remain in past states, to be “small.” This contradicts development, and we are forbidden to do so.

The means for this is the group. If I try, even a little, to integrate into the group, then I will always receive my future state from it, regardless of the state of the group or of myself. Therefore, we always have the possibility to move forward and not backward.
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From Kabbalah Lesson 3/24/10 on The Book of Zohar

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Question: In a verse of the ARI it says that infinite light filled all of creation. As he develops, does a Kabbalist work specifically with this simple light?

Answer: In this statement, the simple light is mentioned only briefly, but afterward, we will need to analyze this concept together with the ARI. As we penetrate deeper inside, we will begin to understand what he is thinking about and what he wants to convey to us.

Question: Should our attitude toward the words of the ARI and the words of Baal HaSulam be the same, or should we relate to them differently?

Answer: Our attitude toward the words of the ARI must be absolute. That is, whatever he says is absolutely true, and this is how everything must be understood.

As for the words of Baal HaSulam, we must also relate to them as completely true and precise, but they are already built on penetrating into the texts of the ARI.

Therefore, the main text is the ARI, which stands above Baal HaSulam.

Question: What is the Inner Light (Ohr Pnimi) that Baal HaSulam writes about?

Answer: There are many details here that we will analyze as we go along in the text.

Question: With what feeling should we read a verse of the ARI? What should we desire at that moment?

Answer: You should desire to understand what these words are, what meaning is within them, and what the ARI wants to pass on to us.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/14/2025, “Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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When we open The Book of Zohar again and again and after some time the initial inspiration fades.

This inspiration is given to us from above, just like the point in the heart with which a person comes to the wisdom of Kabbalah. This awakening from above (Itaruta deLeila) is given to us by the upper force.

Naturally, with this “fuel,” with the desire of the upper one, a person rushes forward with shining eyes and wishes more and more to feel what lies hidden inside the book, what exactly is being said about him. After all, he is awakened from above to a connection between himself and the book.

And then this inspiration fades. It fades because new desires come to a person, desires for which there is no awakening from above, from the Creator.

He is obliged to add an awakening from below to them from himself, and thus advance each time through his own search for answers to the questions: “What do I need this work for? Why?”

The Creator wishes that a person would each time reveal by himself the importance of the upper one, the urgent necessity of connection with Him, and the significance of all the means of attaining this connection, The Book of Zohar, so that he would again and again search within himself for all these inner definitions.

And here the person comes to a state in which he must understand that he is engaged in the “work of Bezalel,” to build the spiritual vessel, the Temple, with all its contents, within himself. This is immense, gradual work that requires extensive preliminary preparation.

In truth, the person himself does not accomplish anything; all that is required of him is readiness, desire, and intention.

Everything was carried out by the power of Bina from above, but through awakening from below. This is precisely a person’s work. This is what it means that he performs it.

Therefore, our work, on one hand, consists of making efforts and carrying out clarifications at every step.
But on the other hand, this work is called “the work of the Creator” because it is performed by the Creator, and not by man.

A person must only reach a desire, a request, a prayer, “half a shekel,” and the rest is done by the Creator, “the Creator will complete it for me”).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/10, The Book of Zohar

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Comment: Elon Musk once said: “I want to be part of what changes the world. Making mistakes is not scary. The main thing is to make new mistakes each time.” I would like you to comment on this.

My Response: That is correct.

Question: So we make mistakes all the time?

Answer: Without that, it is impossible.

Question: It has always been said: “We learn from mistakes.” Do we really learn from them?

Answer: Not everyone does, but mistakes come precisely so that we may learn from them.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/30/22

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