Question: How should we work with insults? Children do not help their parents; they have practically abandoned them. Someone truly betrayed someone else, someone sold out a friend, and so on. How should we work with these offenses?

Answer: I think we need to reach a level of development at which we will understand that all the people around us are puppets controlled by the Creator so that we can properly correct ourselves in relation to these people, justify them, and wish them well.

Question: Is that possible?

Answer: Generally, yes. Not always and not immediately, but still…

Question: It is a long process, but that is the direction we should go in?

Answer: Yes! Otherwise, you are slandering the Creator. And that is a completely different matter. There the calculation is entirely different—it is a matter of how you perceive the universe: whether it exists on its own, or whether you govern it. If everything comes from above, then we have no other choice but to make ourselves absolutely submissive, agreeable, and capable of changing to resemble this upper force.

Comment: That is beautiful. I would cautiously suggest that our whole world is a world of sinners. We all exist in a state of hatred and constant offense.

My Response: Like little children in a sandbox.

Comment: And we respond, and respond; we keep responding. Look at all the diplomatic corps, how they clash: “You expelled my diplomats…”

My Response: Stop joking! Just stop. This is all…

Question: Then why are we being joked with like this?

Answer: So that we eventually become truly disappointed. Not in how the Creator made us this way, but in how foolish we were not to realize why He made us this way. And the answer is right in front of a person, but he does not want to see it. But all this is so that it accumulates, breaks through, bursts out, and explodes.

Question: If people begin to follow this direction little by little, what will our world become?

Answer: Our world will transform from today’s madhouse into a world where people are engaged in self-research, self-healing, and self-building.

Question: And through that, do they, as it were, bring the Creator into this world?

Answer: Yes, to the extent that this happens, the Creator is revealed within them.

Question: And what do you mean by “the revelation of the Creator in a person”? What does that mean?

Answer: The quality of bestowal, of love, which elevates us to an entirely different level of perceiving the world.

Question: Are you certain that there is only one path, and no other?

Answer: No, there can be no other path.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/24/25

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Comment: Researchers have found a formula for box office success of a screenplay. Films that follow a certain pattern make the most money; the pattern is a sharp fall and followed by a rise.

My Response: Of course, a “happy ending.” To do this, you need to create a drama and then gradually bring it to a happy ending. People cry and come out of the movie theater moved. Or when they finish watching TV at home, they feel content and joyful.

Question: Is it the same in Kabbalah?

Answer: It is the same in Kabbalah, of course. That is how it works: there is no rise without a fall, no love without hate, and so on.

This is the whole method of Kabbalah—ascents and descents. “And there was evening, and there was morning, one day.” It all starts with the evening, with night, with descent.

This needs to be learned, one must know how to control it so all ascents and descents are controlled, and a person enjoys descents as much as ascents. That is the thing!

Just like with scientists: achieving a result is good, applause, awards, all else. But the search, the suffering, the birth of everything new, this is pleasure, this is creativity!

Comment: An ordinary person wants to get out of misfortune as quickly as possible.

My Response: To do this, he needs to understand the general equation of nature. Everything goes exactly according to this sine wave. There is a special progression in this, and in this way, everything is created in nature.

Question: Can a person accept this?

Answer: It needs to be explained. But who is going to do it? That is the problem! There are no people to do this. Nobody has the strength to go up to people and start explaining it all to them, they just turn away.

Comment: It is easier to take antidepressants and disconnect. Or smoke something.

My Response: Smoking something is the future of humanity. But life will lead us. Nature is shaking us up; we are close to people beginning to listen because there is no other way out. Humanity will find itself in a state where, like a small child, it stands in the middle of the room, not knowing what to do, and cries.

Question: Where is that lifeline so one understands that this is a descent for the sake of a great ascent?

Answer: No, he should be really scared and cry out. He must find that he cannot calm down because no help comes from anywhere. There is no mother, no adults, no one to rely on. And all the time, a bear, a wolf, or something else keeps coming out from different corners of this room. Then humanity will begin to listen to what the Kabbalists have to say about it.

An egoist cannot listen to anything unless he is scared. This is the only thing that leads humanity to its goal. Through evil to good, through thorns to the stars, that is the only way.

Good luck to all of us in this!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/6/24

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Question: What is a true spiritual vessel (Kli)?

Answer: A true Kli is a desire ready for correction. I must fully clarify what part of it I can correct toward bestowal and what part I cannot correct and must simply restrict.

For example, I’m given a desire, and I determine that I can correct 20% of it toward bestowal, and 80% I must restrict and make Sof out of it, the end of the Partzuf. This would mean that I have corrected that entire desire. There are always both kinds of desires, but it must be clear to me what to do with each.

However, within me there may awaken desires that I do not understand. The light reaching me may be insufficient to illuminate all desires in every detail. Therefore, I am left with unclarified desires called Hash and Mal, Noga.

I am as if in a fog, and I must not touch part of these desires. I only need to keep them alive, like Klipot, to maintain some form of life in them. Such compromises I must accept out of helplessness and inability to carry out a correction. Thus, unlike clarified desires called “root,” “soul,” and “body”, these desires are called “garments” and “palaces,” meaning they are as if not mine, not my true desire.

Later, at the very end of correction, these desires will become truly mine. They will join what is called “brain,” “bones,” and “tendons,” and will become my single spiritual vessel, and will revealing that all reality is within me. Not as it is now where it seems to me that there is myself and an external world outside of me.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/25/10, Baal HaSulam, “Gatehouse of Intentions”

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All the commandments of the Torah are instructions on how to fulfill the one main commandment: “Love thy friend as thyself.”

Therefore, it is called the general law of nature.

The rest of the commandments are essentially its components, indicating on different levels and in various circumstances how to carry out “love thy friend,” that is, how to unite with one another above the egoism that separates and repels us.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation”, 7/24/2018

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Question: It is said that a person cannot do anything for the sake of the Creator. What about faith and the prompting of the heart when a person feels he can act for the sake of the Creator?

Answer: If one’s heart tells a person this, and the person listens to his heart and acts, then that is good. That is, he agrees to gather the hearts of the friends in his own heart and turn them toward the Creator.

Question: But the article says that he cannot. Could it be that I am mistaken?

Answer: Then you will feel whether you are mistaken or not. It is correct if we demand that such connections begin to awaken and work within us.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/5/25, “Correction of The Heart “

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Question: There are friends who lose the importance of spirituality during the lesson. How long should we keep making efforts to pray for such friends?

Answer: It is hard to say. It depends on the group. If the group is in harmony, connected, then they experience common ascents, descents, and movement forward. They feel each other.

In that case, their prayer is also common; otherwise, it does not arise.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/25, “Correction of The Heart “

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Question: In the inner work, how can a person distinguish between the mind (Mocha) and the heart (Liba)? Where should he be above reason and where within reason?

Answer: It depends on how the Creator rearranges these perceptions, these sensors, within him, which of them is more defining and which is more important for him at that moment.

In accordance with this, a person responds to the Creator on the same wavelength.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/25, “Correction of The Heart “

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Question: Can we take the prayer of the Kabbalists as an example and work through it with you about how it is born from nothing, grows, and eventually becomes filled?

Answer: You should try to compose this prayer yourselves, each one individually, and then begin to unite them together so that, in the end, you have a prayer of many.

Then it will become clearer to you how to unite with one another in order to address the Creator. The Creator does not require much—the main thing is that it is of the highest possible quality. And you have that.

Question: Usually not everyone takes part in composing the prayer in the ten; it is the same friends, say three people. How important is it that each person invests in it? Or is it enough that these three express the request on behalf of the whole ten?

Answer: It does not matter. The request still comes from everyone.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/25, “Correction of The Heart “

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