Question: People used to meet and start families. There was happiness in having a child. Let me ask you a strange question. What was the parental happiness in having a child?

Answer: To see their future in the child.

Question: Is that how it should be?

Answer: Yes, of course. Children should be born and they should continue their family line.

Question: Today it seems to have disappeared. Suddenly, for many couples, a child has become a burden. Why?

Answer: Our egoism has divided us, disconnected us, placed everyone in their own corner, and that is it.

Question: But why does egoism need that?

Answer: That is how it works. Our egoism benefits when we are focused only on ourselves and care only about it.

Comment: And concerning our egoism, which is the closest and dearest to us, we say that it is a burden to us.

My Response: It is not the closest and dearest. We say that it is a burden to us because it prevents us from taking care of our true “child,” the one inside ourselves!

Question: So this “I,” my ego, is the closest and dearest?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Look where we have gotten! I wonder what will come next.

My Response: It will get worse. We will reach a state in which everyone hides in their own corner and does not want to talk to anyone. That is it! I will only order, say, pizza and cola, or something else.

Question: And what will happen then? We are constantly leading humanity to some kind of dead end.

Answer: It is a dead end. Humanity must see its own dead end. But when it becomes clear that it really is a dead end, then an epiphany will come from this dead end—that we cannot continue like this.

Question: Do you think that there can be no awakening before that?

Answer: No, I think we must reach that recognition. In other words, there should be no wars or riots or violent outbursts, but there should be a clear awareness of hopelessness and deadlock. Then we will begin to think: “What should we do?” And then we will remember: “Wait, I once heard something from Kabbalists.”

Question: Yes, there is a book on my shelf, a clip saved, and so on. So they will look and begin moving toward correction?

Answer: I am sure of it.

Question: Do we need to keep dripping it in, putting it on shelves and into computers?

Answer: Absolutely! We have no other choice.

Question: Even if we keep coming to the same results?

Answer: It does not matter. If you have a small child who is growing and developing, you still have to tell him what to do and how to behave properly. You cannot just let it go.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 7/3/25

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Question: On the first day of the convention, we felt an ocean of light. But on the second day, it was as if we dove somewhere and lost all sense of up or down; we lost our footing.

What do we need to add to make it flow and unite us?

Answer: We lack darkness. Not the emptiness that the whole world feels as the absence of small fulfillments, but real darkness. Darkness is suffering from longing to reveal the Creator, the suffering of being disconnected from the meaning of life, from its source, from what it should be.

On one hand, all of creation shows us how interconnected, perfect, and above us it is. On the other hand, when we start trying to orient ourselves, we feel that we see nothing in it: no beginning, no end, complete disorientation.

This is actually the best feeling; it arises in us every moment that we move toward mastering the spiritual space, toward revealing the Creator. Ar every moment we feel either that we are approaching Him or moving away, falling, and darkness.

If yesterday you felt an “ocean of light,” today you will feel the opposite, and not just equally, but even worse. This will repeat every time. The descents will be lower, and the attainments will accordingly be higher.

We have to get used to moving in darkness and in disorientation because it is precisely this that helps us rid ourselves completely of egoistic directions, leads, and definitions.

When we become disoriented in our usual parameters, directions, and feelings, when we understand and know nothing, when we experience a sense of being lost and perhaps even darkness, we must recognize that this is the start of a new degree. We are given the opportunity to rise precisely in this darkness to see the light, the Creator, through it. This is a huge help in our advancement.

Therefore we must immerse ourselves specifically in this state of darkness and from it reveal the light.

That is our work. Otherwise we will never reveal the Creator; it is only from the state opposite to Him.
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From the preparation for the 4th lesson of the Congress in Moldova, 9/7/2019

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If a person’s actions are directed toward connection with friends, he very quickly discovers the necessity for a direct connection with the Creator who must help with that connection. Every action should lead to the correction of the shattering, unity between us, and then the need for the Creator’s action; the quality of bestowal and love, is manifested in it.

Then the three components of our state are revealed: Torah, Israel, and the Creator.

The Torah is the force that creates desire (the world was created by the Torah), the force that corrects the intention of desire (the light that reforms), and the force that fills the desire (pleasure and wisdom, the purpose of creation).

“Love your neighbor as yourself” is the general rule of the Torah. “Israel” (aspiring to the Creator, the soul) is the common Kli (the connection of souls, Shechina). The Torah is the light, the correcting force. The Creator is the inner source of that force.

Together, we create the condition for unity and mutual guarantee, we prepare a place for the revelation of the Creator. Right up to, “The children of Israel cried out from the work,” when we truly need His help.

In nearly all descriptions of the Torah, we see a comparison of society and the Creator. Without society, we cannot come to the Creator. Therefore, the group is the means. It is the Shechina, the Knesset of Israel, the gathering of souls who ask not to remain in the dust (egoism). All the writings speak about this.

A person forgets the need for connection with the Creator because it is against his nature, but this connection will appear within our nature if we unite in a group. If I am not connected with the group, I am not directed and will not find the direction toward the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/19/2010, Writings of Rabash

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #35 “Concerning the Vitality of Kedusha” (10.26.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 70, (7.11.2006)

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Question: How can we make unity in the ten our entire life and a great delight that we bestow to the Creator?

Answer: It depends on our attitude toward what affects us, bestowal or reception, and on how much we choose between them and want to be closer to the sages or to the Creator through the differences that exist between holiness and the Klipa (impure force).
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/2025, “The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction”

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Question: Is there a kind of truth that should be told to a person?

Answer: The only truth is to give a person freewill and let them choose their own truth. That is all. This is the most important thing in raising children and in relationships between adults.

Question: How do you do that? By example? Based on what?

Answer: Teach a person the method of correctly revealing life.

Comment: That sounds good! This is the main thing.

My Response: Yes.

Question: And what if a person is one hundred percent convinced that they are right and must pass it on to someone?

Answer: Then they should shut themselves up and swallow it! So as not to choke on their own truth!

Question: Even if I feel that by doing so, I will help them?

Answer: What huge egoism he has! It is bursting out of him! He has no right even to feel it himself. The only thing he can do is just understand how much of an egoist he is if he feels obliged to fill another person with his own opinion.

It is terrible! There is a very simple saying about this: “Silence is the fence around wisdom.”

Question: That is beautiful! That is, is it better to remain silent at that moment?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/8/25

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At that time, a person should pay attention to this and believe that the Creator is tending to him and guides him on the track that leads to the King’s palace (RABASH, Article No. 6, “When One Should Use Pride in the Work“).

A person must constantly check in all one’s sensations and thoughts and in one’s heart and mind, if one agrees with the fact that the Creator is guiding him or her toward Himself?

“Do I agree with what the Creator is doing with me? He throws me down, lifts me up, tosses me in every direction. One moment I cry, the next I laugh; sometimes I rejoice, sometimes I’m distressed. Do I understand that I must go through these states, but that the most important thing is to remain in connection, in adhesion with the Creator—that there is none else besides Him?”

It follows that he should be happy that the Creator is watching over him and gives him the descents, as well. That is, a person should believe, as much as he can understand, that the Creator is giving him the ascents…

Also, a person should believe that the Creator gives him the descents, as well, because He wants to bring him closer. Therefore, every single thing that he can do, he must do as though he is in a state of ascent.

In principle, there are no descents. What occurs is merely the revelation of the next uncorrected degree, followed by its correction. These degrees are revealed to us—they were formed even before us as a result of the shattering of Adam HaRishon. And we continuously correct them through our attitude.

Nothing is required from us! We do not need to do anything except to agree with the Creator, to justify Him.

The Hebrew word “to justify” is “LeHatzdik,” and a person who justifies the Creator is called a Tzadik, a righteous one, because he justifies Him. That is our entire work. But for this, we absolutely need an environment; without it, we will not be able to justify even a single act of the Creator, neither emotionally nor mentally.

Therefore, when he overcomes a little during the descent, it is called an “awakening from below.” Each act that he does, he believes that it is the Creator’s will, and by this itself he is rewarded with greater nearing, meaning that the person himself begins to feel that the Creator has brought him closer.
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From the Kabbalah Congress in Moldova 9/8/2019, Lesson 7

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We have gathered here to establish a society for all who wish to follow the path and method of Baal HaSulam, the way by which to climb the degrees of man and not remain as a beast (Rabash, Article No. 1, Part 1, 1984, Purpose of Society – 1).

From this article, we need to extract the key principles:

1. 1. What does it mean to gather?
   2. What is the method of Baal HaSulam?
   3. What is the degree of human?
   4. Was man created for pleasure or for awe before the Creator?
   5. The condition for achieving all of this is similarity of qualities with the Creator.
   6. The desire to receive is not bad in itself; it is the very material of creation. What is called the evil inclination (Yetzer Ra) is our unwillingness to unite, our refusal to correct the shattering of the soul into its parts—our individual souls.
   7. We do not destroy the egoistic desire, but only correct its intention from for myself to for others.
   8. That is, in the desire to receive, we are always opposite to the Creator; but in the intention to give, we connect to Him.
   9. Adhesion with the Creator is through similarity of qualities with Him. The intention to bestow is attained through work in the group. This is a task that is both achievable and verifiable. The collective desire to bestow that we build is the common soul, which the Creator fills.
   10. Every state we go through consists of two opposites, and as we advance the gap between them grows. I reveal:
       1. My increasing worthlessness
       2. The increasing greatness of the goal.

I must connect these into one point to feel the shattering between souls so deeply that it compels the upper light to correct me. Then bestowal will reign between me and others.

This is called the giving of the Torah—the light of correction.

And afterward, the giver of the Torah is also revealed within our corrected attitude toward others, within the collective spiritual vessel (Kli).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/16/2010, Writings of Rabash

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