Question: Can we expect a mass awakening at the still level of holiness now?

Answer: On a mass scale, this is impossible neither among the secular nor among the religious. What does “mass” mean? A million people, just like that? I do not think so.

It does not depend on us, but it will happen. At each stage there will be more in quantitative terms. For example, if this year a hundred people awaken, then next year there will be a thousand.

Question: So, we cannot do anything directly?

Answer: A direct transition to the masses is impossible. In any case, it will involve individuals, but thousands will emerge from these individuals. For example, out of half a million religious people in Israel, five percent may suddenly feel the need to engage in the inner part of the Torah, making it their primary focus. That is possible.

But these 25,000 people will be acting individually. Hasidism won’t come to you looking for a new path; that simply cannot happen. It is a matter of individual work. A specific religious group may seem to you as a unified whole, but the people within it are at different levels of spiritual development.

It will come; there will be a major crisis in the coming years.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/12/26, Rabash, “One Should Always Sell Everything He Has and Marry a Wise Disciple’s Daughter”

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Question: Why does the Kli (vessel) shift from bestowal for the sake of receiving to receiving for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: The Kli moves from the simplest animalistic form of receiving for the sake of receiving to bestowal for the sake of receiving because it understands that there is greater benefit in this, both from the side of the Kelim and from the side of the lights.

Regarding the Kelim of bestowal for the sake of receiving, I can receive an impression from the desire that is in my neighbor and want something that I did not want before, which means that I have the possibility of receiving additional pleasures that I did not have before.

I look at an advertisement, become excited, and want it too. “I want it too” means that I have some possibility of receiving additional pleasure. In essence, “bestowal for the sake of receiving” constantly pushes a person toward development.

Envy, lust, and the craving for honor that a person feels toward his neighbor build greater Kelim in him. This Kli grows until he begins to realize that it brings him trouble rather than fulfillment. And then he comes to understand that he can never fulfill himself.

This manifests itself so strongly in him that he comes to the conclusion that it is better not to increase the Kelim. He even begins to look for ways to reduce his Kelim: It is better to live somewhere far from the whole world, or to go to India, learn a method of a peaceful life, or somehow limit himself. If he is unable to do so; there is alcohol and drugs.

Bestowal for the sake of receiving, that is, acquiring a desire from someone external, from someone outside me, brings a person to such a state. And when, due to having no choice, he comes to Kabbalah, here he gradually begins to study how to move from bestowal for the sake of receiving to bestowal for the sake of bestowal, which is already spirituality and is called “for Her sake.”

A person begins to understand that there is another means by which he can advance, that spiritual pleasures are genuine and far greater. He intensifies his yearning for them by seeing the same yearning in others: “The Creator is great, I will gain dominion over all, I will be greater than everyone. I want it!”

In doing so, he seemingly draws spiritual Kelim (vessels) toward himself, increases them, as though he enters the shell (this is known as deriving nourishment from the Klipot [shells] during the small state), but at the same time he uses the light that increases his Kli, which builds him in another way, granting him the awareness of what the property of spirituality is.

And then a person suddenly begins to feel that in spirituality, which he previously thought consisted of enormous pleasures, there are no pleasures at all. This is because his Kli has changed.

If he studied Kabbalah as it is taught in other places, he would receive pleasure, because then he would not awaken the light that reforms. He would think that spirituality is ever greater receiving, studying various meditations, gematria, how Kabbalah helps in material life, and so on.

He would never have a descent, because he would receive only pleasures from his imaginary spirituality, whereas the light that reforms brings a person awareness of his state, awareness of evil. Therefore, Baal Shem Tov, who founded Hasidism, defined it in a very clear form: “The opinion of Torah is opposite to the opinion of the masses.”

Those who are capable of advancing by way of truth have the light that reforms. And those who are not yet able to attain the truth, let them have Hasidism, at least a small illumination that gives them the awareness that there is something beyond this life, in order somehow to sweeten their existence.

This is precisely what all the existing methods provide. They illuminate them a little, and thank God, they feel good. They do not yet need correction; let them remain there. They cannot be among those who are already capable of performing real corrections, real operations, on themselves.

These are states of descents, disappointments, sudden darkness, when a person first yearns for spirituality and suddenly receives a blow. He is confused because he never imagined that such a thing could happen. Whoever has gone through this knows. This is the sensation of an empty Kli of intention: not of desire, but of intention. It is already a sensation of lack of the intention for the sake of bestowal.

Then the person begins to work in two forms. But one who does not use the Torah as an instruction, as light, does not feel the influence of the light that reforms, which reveals to him a lack in the Kli of bestowal, in the intention to bestow. Such a desire is never awakened in him, and he never has descents.

This is described as “going and adding.” He is filled with enthusiasm and feels good. He looks at us: “What state are you in!” and is proud of himself. He has justification for all his actions, and he is already, as if, beyond the barrier in the upper world, in the world of Atzilut, and even in the world of infinity.

He truly feels some kind of soaring, because he has no analysis of truth versus falsehood, but only sweet versus bitter, and therefore he feels some illumination from above that supports him. This is called “the opinion of Torah is opposite to the opinion of the masses,” “he who increases knowledge increases sorrow,” and so on. That is, such people are completely lacking the left line.

I remember that I came to Rabash in February, and on the holiday of Shavuot he was hospitalized with an ear inflammation. Before that, I drove him to various doctors, and once, when we returned from another doctor, he gave me a notebook containing the Shamati articles. His students, who had been with him for 50 years, had never seen these articles. I made a copy of them and brought it to the synagogue.

Rabash’s students saw it and were astonished; where had this come from? At that very moment Rabash entered. He became very angry with me, took the notebook away, pretended not to know where I had gotten it from (several hours later I received it back), and left very displeased. And when I asked him what the matter was, he said that they were not allowed to know about the left line.

And among them there were people older than Rabash; they had studied with Baal HaSulam and remembered him. But because they lacked preparation for correction in their properties, Rabash did not give them the Shamati articles. He said that they still were not allowed to read them. Still! At that time, I was 30 years old, and they were over 70. And this corresponded to their inner preparation, because they still did not have a sufficient analysis of truth versus falsehood.

Question: Is our preparation to move from descents and ascents to a state of adhesion?

Answer: A person who comes to us and remains is constantly in exaltation. But after some time, he receives a negative feeling from us, even if he himself has no inner need for it. He begins to feel the left line, feels that here there is an atmosphere of an unfulfilled desire, and therefore, if he is of the same kind, he continues to study, and if not, then in order to remain with us, he must in some way isolate himself from us.

Such people find a niche for themselves that allows them to be among us and at the same time not be with us. They succeed in this. But all the others, those who do not have the left line within them, simply leave due to the lack of equivalence of form.

And this is good; a person continues with at least something that he received from us and grows while being outside. Someday he will come to the point where he begins to correct himself, to add an intention to his actions that can be obtained only through descents, through the left line.

The Ari wrote that a person who does not have the left line can acquire it through study, and if he wishes, through entering a group. But I have doubts about this, and Rabash also said that he himself had never seen such a thing.

In any case, we must be prepared for the fact that through our efforts we will spread our method throughout the world. But each time we gather the harvest of our efforts, it will be very meager. Not many will join us. But we will contribute to the general correction: a great, broad, and relatively slow one. The main thing is to set the wheel in motion.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/23/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘Anyone Who Mourns for Jerusalem Is Rewarded with Seeing Its Joy,’ in the Work?”

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Question from Facebook: Your stance is to proceed via the path of suffering. You say that when we are backed into a corner, we will see the Kabbalists are right. Is there another way? Can you convince us without scaring us.

Answer: If my position were to “proceed via the path suffering,” I would not say anything or giving public presentation. But I really want humanity to develop in a good way.

I am against the path of suffering. I am in favor of our path being illuminated by the upper light and it leading us forward. Please do not take my assessments as scare tactics.

I simply take a sober look at the prospects of humanity, at its “starting condition,” and see that we are in free fall. Egoism is growing within us, yet we are not compensating for this growth and we are not correcting our trajectory.

I really hope we can pull ourselves together and not sink into suffering before starting our ascent. The best thing that can happen to humanity is the timely recognition of egoism and the correct self–realization that rises above it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/19/23

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Question: They say that the Ari was Mashiach ben Yosef. What does that mean?

Answer: The correcting force called “Mashiach ben Yosef” carries out the preparation before the “coming” (revelation) of the correcting force “Mashiach ben David.” Yosef points to the Sefira Yesod, and David to Malchut. Yesod prepares its influence on Malchut in order to correct it.

The Mashiach is not a person, not the Ari himself, not his physical body, but his teaching, his method, his force. It is a soul that operated in the common system of souls in such a way as to open a path for the light and illuminate all souls with it.

It stands on the path of the light from above downward, connects the higher corrected souls of the Kabbalists of the past with those souls that are still uncorrected, receives the light in its higher clothing and clothes it in a form suitable for our souls, distributes it by degrees, and brings the light closer to our souls.

Therefore, starting from the Ari and onward, souls began a mass correction, as in the times of the Baal Shem Tov, with the emergence of Hasidism. In this way humanity began to advance spiritually.

If not for the Ari with his method, there would be no Baal Shem Tov with his Hasidic movement (which gave rise to numerous Kabbalistic groups among the people). And without the Baal Shem Tov there would be no Baal HaSulam, and without Baal HaSulam there would be none of us today studying Kabbalah.

These stages are called the “steps of the Mashiach.”  In other words, it is the development of the method and practice of correction toward its final completion. We are the first to implement the final stage of correction, because we use the force of Mashiach ben Yosef in order to attain the revelation of the force Mashiach ben David and to correct Malchut itself, the general assembly of all souls with a common screen.

Question: Will a person with a special soul appear in our world who implements the method of correction and who will be called Mashiach ben David?

Answer: It is possible that Mashiach ben David is our common desire, which in the end will carry out this action, and not a particular individual. We are not interested in the people who lived in this world—the Ari, Baal HaSulam or even Rashbi—but in their influence within the system of souls. We are speaking about a soul that reveals the light of correction to us.

And we act in the same way. Together we create a system of souls in order to draw the light from above and pass it on to all the uncorrected souls. We perform an action that already belongs to the Malchut of David.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/22/11, Baal HaSulam, Preface “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot”

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Question: Is humanity actually lacking a tiny ray of light in this dark realm?

Answer: Yes. I think that we will gradually break through this foolishness.

Question: What would it take for the Creator to shine a little light? Just a tiny bit?

Answer: He cannot. He has no right! The Creator has no right! Otherwise, He would violate the fundamental law of nature: egoism is completely opposite to Him!

Question: What does this law of nature provide?

Answer: It allows a person to become equal to the Creator at the end of correction. Otherwise, they would not.

Question: So, if He did that, He would suppress the person? The person would simply run after that little ray and keep chasing it forever?

Answer: Yes. In a sense, they might reach something halfway there, but to become equal to the Creator, to be free in one’s actions, to choose (by free will) likeness to the Creator, and to attain this similarity despite all problems—and to achieve that likeness despite all problems—to become independent, that is, to create another image of the Creator from all the laws and properties of the universe, that is what a person must do.

If the Creator were to do this, there would be no point in it. He does not have the right to change anything in these conditions; not even by an iota.

Question: So, according to your words, can we say that after some time, a
complete darkness will come?

Answer: Yes, naturally! The greatest darkness will come before the final correction.

Question: Before the ascent?

Answer: Yes! We have not yet seen it.

Question: So, this is not the end yet?

Answer: No. There will be a universal descent into savagery. As it is written, the nations of the world will rise against the people of Israel, and so on. In general, these will be terrible things.

Comment: You speak of “terrible things” and a “universal descent into savagery,” yet, you still seem to have some inner joy.

My Response: I have joy because this is a necessary stage that we must go through, and we can navigate it successfully by countering the darkness with light. That would truly be a massive leap forward.

Question: What must humanity do if it suddenly faces complete chaos and total darkness?

Answer: We must first grow to that state. Complete chaos and darkness will not be revealed unless we also have the possibility of revealing the light.

Question: Does the Creator give us only what we can endure? Will we be able to bear it and rise to our feet?

Answer: Of course. But for now, it is still dragging on, and on, and on. The more we tell the world about who and what it is, the faster the problems will arise, and the faster we will solve them.

Question: Then why do you keep urging the world to come to its senses? If that is the case, why bother? Let it simply be driven to that state of complete darkness.

Answer: That is exactly how it will be brought there! The more we know, the faster we will be brought to it. But we are obliged to go through it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/25/26

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Question: You say the rest of the world does not possess the key to solving problems. How can we convey this key to the world?

Answer: I think that even if we all started shouting about this from every corner and I continued writing articles about the threat of annihilation, the people will still not wake up. After all, we know the stage of development the masses are at. Even in a developed society, people are unable to perceive the spiritual idea embedded in this. We cannot expect any response from them.

In other words, I must act regardless of the reaction. After all, I am the one acting, not them! I am activating the law of advancement according to which all mankind must make its qualities resemble the qualities of the Creator and attain His level. I activate this law because I have received this knowledge from above. A few dozen other people here also received it.

Why do they possess this understanding and awareness? Because they have reached this level in their own development. If a person has not yet developed to the necessary level, no matter what we tell him, it will be a meaningless mantra to him, one of many.

Even if such people hear about it, write it down, and repeat it, what good would it do? There is nothing more foolish. Can they possibly act in this direction? Of course not! If they are psychologically attracted to it, that is great. On an ordinary human level, this is a good thing, just like many other things.

Therefore, although we undoubtedly need to work on dissemination, our primary work is internal rather than external.

In that case, one might say: “If so, let’s curtail our dissemination efforts and pour all our energy into working in the group!” But the fact is, we cannot do without external support or without drawing in new forces from outside. Therefore, we cannot do without dissemination. In addition, lifting all the students of the outer groups by just one millimeter is equivalent to lifting ourselves by ten meters!

Therefore, we need both components of our work. Baal HaSulam writes about this that we need to spread Kabbalah among the masses. But, of course, in this environment, we cannot expect the specific reaction we desire from that environment. Things unfold there according to the laws governing the masses; whereas we operate under the laws that apply to the individual. Therefore, it is our responsibility to act.

From the masses, there will only be support; they will follow you, but to make this happen, you must distribute our material among them. Yet it is you who must lead the way. You yourself must constantly adjust and refine the direction of the goal, and pull everyone along with you! There is no other way.

Therefore, you should not shift the responsibility onto someone else. It is written that those who deal with the external aspects of the Torah instead of the internal are to blame for everything, but what difference does it make to me? Can I afford to wait for them? They will not do anything, they are incapable of it. I am duty-bound to act! That is how everyone must think.

We must also teach this in external groups: a person who receives knowledge becomes an active participant in the work. Therefore, we must lead them to sense the obligation that rests upon them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/7/26, Rabash, “What Are the Times of Prayer and Gratitude in the Work? ”

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Question: Can we say that the new generation is further distancing from studying of The Study of the Ten Sefirot, The Book of Zohar, and authentic Kabbalistic sources?

Answer: No, it is not distancing further. People simply cannot exist on the same spiritual heights as exceptional individuals such as Baal HaSulam or the ARI.

We see the same thing happening in our world. A person uses an enormous number of scientific and technological achievements without understanding anything about them. He simply knows how to plug something into a socket and press a button for the device to work. What does he actually know besides two buttons on an air conditioner, twenty buttons on a computer, and so on? He has no idea what is really happening inside!

When using a mobile phone, he may be familiar with only two or three functions, while having no idea whatsoever of the other two hundred functions it contains.

The same applies in spirituality: there are people who engage with it slightly and solely for their own benefit, in some limited personal way, while others want to attain the inner connections between objects, dimensions, and forces—to know everything. This depends on the nature of the soul, its inner qualities, and its root. If a person has such a need, then he will fulfill it.

Question: So the fact that we are moving away from the original sources does not necessarily mean that we are getting worse?

Answer: We are not moving away from the sources. We are simply studying them not to the depth that exceptional Kabbalist scholars do, but rather, to the extent appropriate for the masses, the ordinary people who make up 99% of the world’s population.

Question: But wouldn’t that require a completely different method of interacting with the light?

Answer: No, because we study Kabbalah only in order to receive forces from it. And after receiving those forces, we must perceive the spiritual world. And we will perceive it to the extent intended for our soul.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Properties of our generation” 9/30/10

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Question: You say that the situation in Israel depends on us. But no matter how much I have tried to concentrate on this thought, I cannot feel that such responsibility truly rests on me. Apparently, I lack the force of faith?

Answer: This can come either as a result of a positive force, the force of faith given from above, or due to the influence of a negative force from below, the feeling that there is no other way out. One of the two. A person will see that nothing else can be done, that no one has a clear idea of how to emerge from the situation that has been created. Meanwhile, the problems keep growing endlessly; things become worse and worse.

Therefore, to the extent that he is able, a person draws strength from the Torah, but otherwise, such a decision matures within him out of despair because he finds himself in an absolute dead end! Even ending your life will not solve these problems. We will still face eternity: our problems will not end with the arrival of death; they are above that transition!

We will see this wall not only from our world; we will see that this wall rises even in the upper world and separates us from the solution to the problem. For our existence is not only in this world, and a bullet to the temple is by no means the solution to all problems.

A person will feel all these problems above the life in this world as well, he will perceive them in their eternal, spiritual form. Life and death are not such significant concepts, and a person will come to feel something far greater.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/7/26, Rabash, “What Are the Times of Prayer and Gratitude in the Work?”

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Comment: You said that if a person joins our system now, they have a great chance to catch up with those who have been studying for 15 to 20 years.

My Response: Yes, just as a small child entering our world, even though they seemingly haven’t “earned” it, benefits from all the advantages humanity has prepared for them, newcomers will be able to rise together with us as well.

They will benefit from what we have created. After all, they existed in previous generations, in past cycles of life, just as we did. We have all been cycling through existence to reach this very moment.

Question: When describing the over all system, you said that grasping it in the past took 10 to 20 years, but now this period is shortening to about 10 years. Did you mean the experience of a single individual?

Answer: Yes, but since now we are entering this state as one global group, it will be very easy to connect with us.

Newcomers will be able to feel and enter into all of this very quickly. It will be much easier for them than it was for us. Look at how quickly small children master mobile phones and computers.

Comment: But for them, it already exists inside. They seem to be naturally built for it.

My Response: Of course. Nothing appears out of nowhere. It comes from their previous cycles of life. We exist within a system in which everything moves and develops according to a precise order.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Properties of our generation” 9/30/10

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Comment: When you disseminate Kabbalah to the masses, what attracts people is your inner message.

My Response: This happens because I have this energy. People sense that there is an upper force in me. They perceive it, even if just slightly, and sense that knowledge, confidence, and inner light.

I am not boasting about it, but I also do not hide that they really sense all of this. In many, it provokes hatred; in others, respect, approval, or admiration. It makes no difference. The main thing is that it exists, and it is not merely the spark of a brilliant orator; after all, I do not speak Hebrew particularly well, and my manner is generally somewhat rough, with a strange, often off-putting sense of humor.

I craft my statements quite deliberately, even pointedly, specifically to shake a person up and make them feel uncomfortable to prompt them to engage their critical left line a bit. People simply recognize there is a profound logic here, not mine, of course.

By the way, by nature I am practically without any innate talents. The only thing speaking through me is what I have attained from my great teacher. Through my connection with him, I pass on to you what he receives from his teacher, and further, through the entire chain of Kabbalists.

I have simply been privileged to serve as a conduit, to “pour,” so to speak, information from myself into the common Kli. To the extent that you unite with one another, I am able to pour all of this into you.

Whether I am here or not does not matter. The absence of visual contact serves to give you the opportunity for even greater freedom of choice to unite with one another. If I am no longer present, it will simply mean that you have been granted an even greater measure of freedom of will, even greater responsibility to unite. And when you can do this, you will receive even more from me, just as I receive much more from my teacher than when he was physically next to me.

It is said that the righteous live more in their death than in their life. And therefore there is no difference whether I exist now or will not exist in your eyes. If you unite among yourselves, you will feel a spiritual abundance pouring into you, specifically from me, in an even greater measure.

When you are ready for the stage of uniting with one another, without me in greater freedom of choice, since there will no longer be my pressure or direct guidance, and you are able to bring this to fruition, then I will depart. From that point on, it will be entirely up to you whether you succeed in realizing this or not.

Question: Do you think that those external circles we are currently disseminating information to will continue to be drawn to this in the same way?

Answer: This depends on the extent to which you become a magnetic force, how much inner strength you possess (the kind I currently hold), and on your capacity serve as a source of that strength for all of humanity. If you remain in contact with me and allow this force to flow into you through me, you will begin to attract all of humanity. But all this must happen collectively, as a single, unified entity.

Question: Is it possible that we might fail to become a unified whole?

Answer: In that case the obligation would be shifted away from you and placed upon some other group; alternatively you could be compelled toward this unity through the path of suffering. You will be made to unite regardless, because this is the natural trajectory of evolution, the inevitable path leading to the revelation of that system, that state that exists in the world of infinity.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. In the Union” 9/11/10

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