Comment: When we talk in the group about loving one another, everyone clearly understands that they are working against their will, lying to each other, and deceiving. But through this, they attract the upper light.

My Response: Why do you say deceiving?! It’s not deception! I know that I’m in my egoistic desire and want to get out of it. I show others my enthusiasm for the desire to exit my egoism, in order to receive their inspiration in return. We are not deceiving each other! Knowing our nature, we act completely openly.

It’s not a game where I lie, where I’m one person inside and another on the outside. I deliberately act this way precisely in order to transition from our world into the upper world.

If you have two natures, egoistic and altruistic, then you have no other way to rise above the egoistic one except to play in the altruistic nature, like a child playing at being an adult. Gradually, under the influence of the upper light, it becomes real within you. Here we act absolutely logically, rationally, and in no way are we deceiving anyone.

Comment: It’s not exactly deception. Many people do these things through force.

My Response: That is exactly right, through force! So what?! In our world, we do everything through force. That’s natural.

If I’m facing a task that I don’t desire according to my natural inclinations, something I can agree with intellectually, but not emotionally, how else am I supposed to act? Come up with another method.

Comment: I’m not even talking about the method.

My Response: Kabbalah is the method, the method of rising from our world into the upper world, the way to transform one’s nature using the tools we have.

Give me the layout! I know it well, and that’s why it’s absolutely clear to me that all of this is very straightforward and it simply can’t work any other way. This is science! A method! A psychological, physiological, mental, and spiritual methodology for elevating a person to a new way of thinking and acting.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. To Deceive Myself,” 6/7/11

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Question: What is the state when you see the friends as fully corrected? In that state there is strength to work in order to become like them, to be near them. What kind of work is required here?

Answer: The most important thing we need is to reveal that everything happening to us occurs because we are distant from one another and are unable to be together and support each other.

We have no other way to draw closer to the corrected state except by awakening the need for correction within ourselves, that is, for closeness between us. Then we will succeed.

Question: But when we see the friends as already corrected, what kind of work is required from us then?

Answer: It only seems to us that we are corrected. We must determine to what extent we are still uncorrected in relation to our root, the Creator. Then we will gain a clear understanding of what exactly we need to correct.
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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: RABASH writes that after a gathering of friends, everyone should feel that they are in a state of perfection. But what if I do not feel that?

Answer: If you do not feel perfection after the gathering of friends, it means you did not achieve the proper result, because connection should bring the sensation of the Creator. The Creator is the sum of the shared aspirations toward one common center.

Question: How often should one meet with friends?

Answer: Rabash defined it as once a week. Before I brought him new students, the meetings were held once a month during meals in honor of the new moon. His students would come together from all over the country. Usually, we would gather for no more than half an hour.

Question: In the times of Baal HaSulam were such gatherings also held?

Answer: Back then, it was a bit different, because people lived in small towns very close to one another. There were not same problems as today.

Question: As a rule, does a gathering of friends take place without the teacher?

Answer: Yes, of course. The ones gathering are the friends who need to unite among them. The teacher, practically speaking, has no right to step between them, but may participate in the gathering as a friend, if they agree to it.

Question: What does it mean “as a friend”?

Answer: He can lower himself to the level of a friend. The problem is whether the students are capable of perceiving him in that role.

Remark: Now as a friend, then as a teacher, of course, that is not easy for a person.

Answer: Indeed, that can be difficult.
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From KabTV’s 3/11/19, “Basics of Kabbalah”

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“All the gates were locked except for the gates of tears.” 

It is when all the gates are locked that there is a place for the gates of tears, and then we see that they are not locked. That is, when a person comes to complete concealment, then “my soul shall weep in secret,” because he has no other counsel. And it’s called: “All that your hand and strength can do, do” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 18).

And then you will reach the gates of tears and force them to open. This is how we enter the palace of the Creator, the upper world; it is only through the gates of tears when you are completely despaired of your own strength and know that nothing can help you, but you must reach the goal. This is the result of great work.

You are one hundred percent sure that you have nothing more to add, and then the entrance to the spiritual opens up to you. Gradually, we form this state called the “gates of tears.”

What are gates? As long as it seems to you that you can do something, you see a wall in front of you. And then you suddenly notice an opening, an opening in that wall, an entrance, and you enter.

That is how it is in spirituality: an insurmountable wall stands before you that gets stronger and higher. And yet, you still try to break through this wall, but you do not find any gates in it, or all the gates are locked.

Seeing a wall in front of you is a very advanced state. But then this wall opens, and suddenly a passage appears in it. My teacher RABASH once told me that this is how it happens in spirituality: there is either a wall or an entrance, and it is impossible to see in advance where the entrance will be in the wall.

This is the wall around your heart. You cannot make a hole in the walls of your heart so that the quality of bestowal, the quality of the Creator, can enter there. The heart is closed, sealed, and covered with an impenetrable hard crust. All that remains is prayer—prayer from the group.

It is necessary to unite together in the ten and ask, ask for everyone, and then one day ask for one person. Today we pray for one friend, tomorrow for another, in turn, for each one. This is how we will begin to get used to demanding from the Creator to take care of the friends.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/10/21, Writings of Baal HaSulam “My Soul Shall Weep in Secret – 1”

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Comment: It turns out that there are hundreds of millions of atheists in the world. By some estimates their numbers near 1 billion.  It is projected that their number will continue to grow.

My Response: The main reason is that a person is developing. But atheism is also a religion. It is the religion of nature, not godlessness.

For atheists, their deity is progress, technology, money, or something else. It is still a belief in something higher than oneself.

Question: So what is true faith then?

Answer: True faith is the revelation of the upper force—clear, absolutely attainable, analyzable, and synthesized within oneself.

Question: Is it felt?

Answer: It is a felt absolutely completely, up to full connection of a person with the upper force, when it “dwells” in him and becomes he himself. A person becomes filled with this upper force, and then it acts in him, with his consent, and through his mutual effort.

This is all described in Kabbalah. There is only one true religion, and that is the wisdom of Kabbalah, the science of revealing the Creator, of a voluntary, conscious, gradual rapprochement with Him, that is, adapting oneself to this upper force of nature.

And the upper force is bodiless and timeless. It has no whims, no conditions, only the revelation of the opportunity to merge with it, to attain its level.

Question: What are the qualities of the upper force?

Answer: Absolute bestowal and love, nothing else.

Question: But why doesn’t that attract a person? In theory it should attract him!

Answer: It is the opposite of human nature. If a person has a predisposition, a yearning to attain the upper force at any cost (meaning, “I have no reason to live except for this!”), then he goes for it, no matter what, and is ready to sacrifice everything.

But if this yearning is not given to him from above, then he remains on the earthly level, and exists to serve his animal body. Of course, everyone has to take care of this animal body, but he exists for the sake of it.

Then he is a so-called human, that is, an animal, highly developed in some way, who lives and dies, lives and dies, until this yearning for attainment, for merging, for rising to the Creator develops in him.

Question: Is it bound to develop?

Answer: In everyone! And after us, the animate, vegetative, and inanimate nature rises to the same level. We pull everyone along with us! And all of nature integrates into this upper level, into the Creator.

Question: Then is it rightly said that “Man is the crown of creation”?

Answer: In that case, yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/21/24

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #36 “What Are the Three Bodies in Man?” (10.27.2021)

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Question: Can we say that the force of holiness always affects me in the ten?

Answer: It depends on how you perceive it, how you approach the Creator.

If you believe that in this part of the Kli there is attraction acting upon you, then yes.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/17/2025, “The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction”

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Question: When a person is included in the intention to bring contentment to the Creator, how does he avoid turning it into reason? After all, he understands and feels that he is bestowing to the Creator, that he is connected to Him.

Answer: But he is connected to the Creator only through the intention. He does nothing else. He attributes only his intention to the Creator.

Question: And how can he avoid enjoying this, turning it into reason? What is the next stage, the continuation of this intention?

Answer: It does not matter what the Creator asks a person to do. That is irrelevant. We can stop right there.

The most important thing is that we have changed our intention, and whatever is revealed in such a state, we desire to pass everything to the Creator. At that point, we can say this particular state ends at the moment.

Question: You have said that when in the right intention, we should add actions. How is that done?

Answer: Intention alone means nothing; there must also be action. But action in spirituality is not something tangible that can be passed from hand to hand, because it is not corporeal.

Rather, I simply transfer the beginning of my thought and its end from me to the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/9/2025, “To be as an Ox to the Burden and as a Donkey to the Load”

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Question: What is the connection between the spiritual root of love and its earthly branch?

Answer: The earthly branch represents my one-sided, egoistic attitude toward myself, when I, like a dog, sense with my nose where I can still enjoy myself, and only this pulls me forward.

Comment: A person is given the concept of “first love” when they think only about the object of their affection.

My Response: That is, I am attracted by such great pleasure that I cannot think of anything else: not about food, not about walks, not about studies, not about sports. This is the egoistic development of hormones.

I am becoming a man, I feel hormonal surges, I do not understand what it is or how to realize them. I am tormented by vague guesses, and I am drawn to the object of their realization. That is all. What kind of love is this?

I told you how my mother, a doctor by training, explained to me how she used hormonal injections to make people love. The same thing is here. I won’t mock this feeling. On the contrary, it develops us greatly at a young age, when the transition from adolescence to youth occurs. This is a very useful quality, but it is purely egoistic.

Question: Isn’t there a purpose to this? Nature?

Answer: Of course, nature has a plan to further develop our egoism.

Question: Is this a good condition?

Answer: Any development is good, but when egoism develops completely, it must be corrected somehow. The complete physiological development of a person typically ends by the age of 18 to 22. However, sometimes it can continue further because under the influence of the environment, all sorts of other drives arise.

Basically, the set of human desires includes food, sex, family, wealth, fame, and knowledge; there are just six basic properties in which our ego develops. There is nothing else here.

I constantly consider what is more profitable for me and what I love more. If knowledge prevails, then I can abandon everything else. I immerse myself in science and it completely absorbs me. This is also love.

That is, love is a desire for fulfillment that is inherent in every person.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/2017, “True Love”

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