Our path is tied to the development of the desire for pleasure. Altogether we exist within this single, unified desire. The four phases of the expansion of the light, the worlds, the Partzufim, and the spiritual degrees are embedded within it. Everything is inside it.

In other words, this desire is a composite. Just as the human body is made up of various organs and parts, so too is this desire made up of many components.

Among the parts of the desire, some are more developed, some less. They also differ in their thickness, which we call Aviut. In addition, some parts are closer to reception by their nature and others are closer to bestowal. There are many such gradations. Thus, if we break this great desire into its constituent parts, each will reveal itself as unique in its details and ingredients.

Among these parts, there are those that are purer, less egoistic, and they awaken first toward the light because they are closer to it. These are our friends across the world. They possess a yearning for bestowal, for the light, for discovering the reason for their existence.

They seek freedom. And freedom from life in this world first reveals itself in the question: “What am I living for? What does this life give me? What is its benefit?”

This question arises from problems and suffering. But afterward, in trying to understand their cause, one begins to search for the essence of life itself. The suffering becomes secondary; after all, what can be done about it? The main thing now is to uncover the secret of existence.

This means that I have awakened and want to break free from the everyday routine and from the vain pursuit of egoistic fulfillment. I can no longer continue serving my desire to enjoy like a slave. To me, this is death. Day after day, I have to drag around my “donkey,” feed and water it until it dies. When it dies, I, its loyal servant, will die with it.

But those who begin to understand that this is not life, but death, those are the ones who move forward. If the donkey wants to eat, feed it. But let it carry you, not the other way around. During this life, as long as you feed your donkey, you have the opportunity to ride it to a higher purpose. If you are not dragging it on your shoulders, but riding on it, then you are a human being.

This is the first stage of liberation from the angel of death, from the endless concern with mere corporeal existence. If you care for it in order to find a solution, that is a different matter; that is already life. Because essentially, you are charting a course toward the source of life.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/8/11, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Freedom”

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Hence, if we want to work only for the sake of the Creator and not for our own sake, it is hard work, since we must fight against the Kli that the Creator created.

From this work come all the lacks we learn about, such as the departure of the lights, the breaking of the vessels, Kedusha, Tuma’a, Sitra Achra [other side], and Klipot (Rabash, Article 26, “What Is “He Who Defiles Himself Is Defiled from Above” in the Work?”).

Question: It is said that work not for one’s own benefit is hard work because we must fight against the Kli created by the Creator.

What kind of work should we do so that the shattering happens not externally, especially now, during the period of “between the straits,” but rather between us in our inner work?

Answer: We simply need to persist in this and not be afraid to ask again and again from within our Kelim for connection, for adhesion, and so on. That is what we are already doing, only we need to be more active.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/22/2025, “The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction”

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Question: There is a saying: “One who prays for one’s friend is answered first.”

If a person who prays for a friend sees that the friend receives but he himself does not, does that indicate some kind of flaw, or is it normal?

Answer: If a person sees that the friend is investing a lot of energy, participating in all the actions the group is doing, then he understands that this is the friend’s work. And the opposite is also true.

We must feel where we truly need to be.

Each of us and all of us together must be at the center of the desire for the Creator, when all our desires gather together, unite, and are directed toward Him. That is the most important thing.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/22/2025, “The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction”

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Question: The Creator plays with a person. What are the rules of the game?

Answer: The rules of the game are that the Creator has only one intention—to bring a person closer to Him.

He cultivates egoistic desires within a person and the person begins to feel a burdening of the heart, confusion, and heaviness. It suddenly seems to him that the whole world is against him, that he has many enemies, many obstacles in his way, and that he himself is tired, confused, perhaps even somewhat ill.

In short, he feels a multitude of disturbances, both external and internal.

In reality, these are not disturbances at all; rather, they are additional layers of the desire to receive within which he has a new opportunity to connect with the Creator.

Usually this arrives with some unexpected disturbance, a sudden fear of people or of authorities.

The Creator dresses Himself in all these means of our world, in all these forms. The person begins to perceive them like a small child who fears everything in the world.

At that point, he must strengthen himself through the books, the environment, and the study and constantly try to hold onto the thought that “There is none else besides Him, the good who does good.”

It is not simple because this game on the Creator’s part is exceedingly clever and intricate for us.

He knows how to entangle a person on his particular level every time in such a way that it demands great effort not to veer off the path and to keep thinking that there is no other authority besides the Creator.
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From the preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/22/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is ‘Hurry, My Beloved,’ in the Work?”

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Question: If during our daily activities we do not feel, think, or believe that sparks of holiness are rising somewhere, does this mean that we are not raising them? Or are we raising them, but it is hidden from us?

Answer: This is hidden from you. Any action that you perform in connection with the group is spiritual. You still, with your actions, evoke in the upper Partzuf a desire to connect you to it and conduct the upper light through you, through it, and further to Malchut of the world of Assiya.

Question: For example, after class, we compose a prayer, then during the day, we gather for calls and so on. Is it useful to add thoughts about how we raise sparks to Atzilut to these actions, and to think and talk about it? Does this increase sensitivity to sparks of holiness?

Answer: Yes, it increases sensitivity. But on the other hand, it brings additional properties with it that you have not yet mastered; that is, you are not yet at these levels.

So little by little, one more lesson, two more lessons, we will still gradually enter into this together. Let’s say that today it is considered that our lesson is at the level of Malchut of the worlds of BYA. And tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, we may already be one level higher and go further.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/21/2025, “The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction”

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Question: What does it mean that we raise sparks of holiness for correction in Atzilut?

Answer: We do not yet feel this, but we hope that through our mutual effort, together we will feel that we are already connected to the degree of the world of Atzilut, and that all our desires, sufferings, and requests are directed from that degree to the Creator.

It is precisely from that degree that we hope to receive support from Him in the form of the upper light, which in turn will raise us into the world of Atzilut.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/21/2025, “The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction”

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Question: How can we sort our desires and intentions to be directed toward the Malchut of the world of Atzilut in all the states that come from the Creator? How do we make the choice, and what kind of choice is it?

Answer: The choice is very simple: the whole ten should unite.

When you connect with each other based on your common desire, common intention, common goal—everything you have—as one man with one heart,” then you begin to ask for it.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/21/2025, “The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction”

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Question: How can we manage stress?

Answer: We need to understand that the convergence of plus and minus at all levels in all circumstances is necessary and should take place, and we need to learn how to do this.

Question: How do we do this?

Answer: It is very simple. Build love over all manifestations of hatred. It is the same principle. There must be hatred, rejection, anything negative, and above it, undoubtedly, plus.

Question: How can you attract this plus to yourself?

Answer: This is what the science of Kabbalah teaches—how to get a plus from a minus in order to let a minus and a plus remain, for them to exist complementing each other. In Kabbalah, this is explained as the correlation of darkness and light.

Question: But how can I attract love? I do hate, and my hate strongly.

Answer: This must be achieved through education; when a person realizes there is no plus without a minus or a minus without a plus, and their correct combination creates life.

When a person realizes this, he becomes calm, reasonable, follows the middle line, and builds himself and the world.

Question: Let us say I hate. What are my actions?

Answer: You should realize that everything comes from the upper force and is given to us to balance all negative qualities, properties, and circumstances with positive ones. All this can happen only in our consciousness. When we realize this, we begin to treat everything with kindness, not denying anything, but accepting everything as an absolute necessity.

Question: Is this hatred necessary?

Answer: It is necessary for us to rise above it, and to exist above it and in it. Then we will balance these two forces of creation—plus and minus.

Comment: That is the whole difficulty: above it, somehow, somewhere it may be possible, perhaps…

My Response: No, it will only be possible egoistically, but in order to exist with it, we must rise above it and balance out all negative properties by adhering to the Creator.

Question: It is not easy. Can you give me a simple formula for overcoming hatred?

Answer: The formula is that a minus equals a plus. That is all. Where there is a minus, you should see a plus.

Question: Is what I hate now a minus?

Answer: It is a minus until you realize that it is also a plus.

Question: So is it good that I hate?

Answer: Yes, but why are you given this? So that you can turn it into a plus. You have to change your attitude to the world. But how? It is very simple. Replace egoism with altruism, hatred with love. And everything will be fine.

Question: So I hate this person, but I say to myself: “This is given to me so I can love him?”

Answer: You are simply given the opposite properties. Replace them with the opposite ones and you will get a wonderful world.

Question: Is it within my power?

Answer: It is not in your power to transform, to accomplish, but it is in your power to beg the Creator to make it so. That is, to reach a state where you really crave it.

Question: Is that why hatred comes? So that I can plead that I passionately want to replace it with love?

Answer: Yes. Then you will realize this was not the reason at all, but so that you establish contact with the Creator. That is all.

Question: I see. It is He who calls us to turn to Him.

Answer: Otherwise, we would not have turned in His direction.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 7/14/25

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Question: How can we prepare for the revelation of the shattering?

Answer: To the extent that we are connected with one another, we can delve into the study of the shattering between us and into its sensation. In this way, we can shorten our path to correction, meaning we can draw the shattering closer to us in order to correct it.

Question: The more we exert ourselves in the work, the more the world reveals its evil. How can we justify the Creator, that the world was originally corrected?

Answer: We still have to reveal that the world is initially corrected. Only then will we be able to reach the correct prayer—for closeness between us and with the Creator.

Question: In the ten, we feel unity among us, but between all the tens there is no sensation of merging into one Kli. How should we work with this shattering?

Answer: We need to work on this. To work means to connect despite the egoism that exists within each ten.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/2025, “The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction”

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