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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Question: Let’s say a person understands perfectly well that some medicine will help him, and he takes it. But at some point, he stops and says: “That is it, I do not want it anymore.” Like for example, drug addicts who know that they should be cured, and that they should endure certain suffering in order to get rid of drug addiction, but they cannot stop.

Answer: This is also a sign of insufficient suffering. At the end of this suffering, a new, lower level gradually unfolds in us where we are no longer able to use false pleasure.

Over time, withdrawal from drugs will come. People will not be able to use them because they will reach the final development of consciousness.

“I can no longer smoke, inject, or sniff. I cannot!”

“Why?”

“Because it is a lie!”

That is, just the understanding that it is a lie neutralizes the feeling of pleasure in them.

This is a natural, dialectical development of our multilayered desire, which consists of its root (zero) level and then the first, second, third, and fourth phases. When we reach the fourth phase of desire—that is it, the end! We can no longer use it.

We realize that it is opposite to some source, something we cannot violate, and that is it. We cannot use that desire anymore. We must rise above it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalah and Drugs” 8/27/10

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #38 “The Fear of God Is His Treasure” (10.28.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 73, (7.13.2006)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 6 “Love of Friends – 2” 1984

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “The Donkey Driver”

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Question: If Baal HaSulam says that the shattering essentially did not exist, does this mean that the desire to receive for oneself also does not truly exist?

Answer: It exists, but not in a revealed form.

We need to understand that our advancement is based on the fact that we reveal our states relative to uncorrected Kelim, and we therefore feel increasingly shattered. In this way, our state depends solely on what we are searching for within our current state, what we desire to attain.

In principle, it turns out that we draw closer to the shattered Kli and then start to analyze it in parts.

From there, based on the shattering between the parts of the Kli, we raise a prayer to the Creator so that He would help us come together, recognize the separation between us, and clearly see our entire path .
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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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Question: It is said that correction is only possible over the shattering. What kind of shattering should this be? What must we reveal in order to unite more?

Answer: We must reveal the very shattering in which we currently find ourselves. Only then will we be precisely aligned for its correction.

We need to understand what a corrected Kli is and what a corrupted Kli is, and compare the positive connection between the parts of a whole Kli and a shattered one.

Only then will we be able to feel within our own Kelim (our desires), what a shattered Kli and a corrected Kli truly are.

Then we will have a clear idea of what we need to ask of the Creator.
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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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Gatherings of friends were implemented among Kabbalists throughout all centuries and were highly effective and popular. Kabbalists gathered together to discuss their spiritual work.

When I brought new students who had no connection to Kabbalah to my teacher, he began organizing them into groups of 10 to 15 people. He wrote articles for us, which we read at weekly meetings.

We would meet at one person’s house or another’s and study these articles together. That was what the gatherings of friends were about back then.

Today, after many years of studying Kabbalah, our gatherings of friends have taken on a different form. Our global group includes several thousand people around the world. That is why we hold large, unified gatherings for all our friends, with video broadcasts, translations into many languages, and so on.

Does this still count as a gathering of friends? I believe it is exactly what it should be because we place special emphasis on the connections between us.

It does not matter whether we study a specific article at these gatherings or not, since in principle, we do that during our regular lessons. What matters is that we try to draw even closer to one another because to the extent that we achieve sensory and conscious closeness, we come closer to the feeling of the Creator. That is the principle and goal of the gathering of friends.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah. The Order of Gathering of Friends,” 3/11/19

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Question: A person does not always feel. Sometimes one does, and other times one does not. What difference does it make if one’s work is accompanied by feelings, or if a person works out of confidence, without sensations?

Answer: Where does a person’s confidence come from in that case?

Question: From faith in the sages, from what they describe in their books, or from faith in the teacher.

Answer: What is written in the books says nothing. If I feel that I am in it, it means I have mastered this degree.
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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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