Question: What kind of “jar of oil” exists in the ten right now? How can this be checked?

Answer: This is something that needs to be worked on. If you form a single desire to be connected with one another and direct it toward the Creator right now, then you will feel it. This will be your common desire.

And then you must make it so that this desire senses itself, and you will feel how much it is connected to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/20/25, Hanukkah

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Question: The miracle of Hanukkah is the miracle of bestowal. But the stopping on the spiritual path looks more like deciding what we want to receive.

At what point does it become clear to us that it is precisely the ten that has decided to stop and choose the correct direction?

Answer: When we connect together in our desire, we form a very strong Kli. And here, there is an opportunity to vary. What does it mean to vary? In what way do I want to receive, what do I want to receive, and how.

We only need to gather together and try, each of us, to determine what is the most important thing in our movement. What do we ask of the Creator? In what way would we like to receive from Him what we wish to receive? This is our main choice.

I think that today we are closer than ever to solving the problem by uniting as one whole, women and men from all corners of the world, and being able to receive from the upper light that part of it which would fill us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/20/25, on the topic of Hanukkah

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Question: How do Kabbalists understand that it is time to move from Hanukkah to Purim?

Answer: These are completely different states. When you come to the conclusion that you must complete your mission in Hanukkah, then you will feel what this next state, Purim, is.

But this happens not according to your desire, but because this is how the rungs of the ladder of spiritual ascent are arranged.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/20/25, Hanukkah

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So is the matter with Hanukah. This is the meaning of Hanu (parked), where the parking was not because of wholeness, meaning an illuminating mirror.

Rather, the parking was Ko (here/thus far), meaning incomplete, which is a mirror that does not illuminate. In other words, the war of the inclination is still not over, but we have to come to the real completeness (RABASH, Letter No. 26).

Question: As we ascend in our unity, do we ourselves determine this stopping point?

Answer: Yes. Gradually ascending the degrees, we begin to feel in what we are able to unite and in what we are not yet able to unite.

And thus we come to the point where all the vessels of bestowal (Kelim deHashpaa) and the vessels of reception (Kelim deKabbalah) ultimately unite in order to be in one action and to be filled with the light of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/20/25, Hanukkah

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Question: Here in Israel, and in fact all over the world, Jews celebrate the Jewish New Year (Rosh HaShanah). Apples and honey are associated with the new year, sweetening life by dipping the apples in honey; does this have some deep spiritual meaning?

Answer: The spiritual meaning lies only in person’s spirit. There are no spiritual roots in the apple and honey, just like with the head of a fish.

Comment: But they say that you should start with the head and not the tail.

My Response: This is because it is the new year, the “head” of the year. That is why it starts this way. But in principle, what if you take not a fish but a head of an ox? That could be even better. The year might turn out to be even more successful.

Question: What is the spiritual meaning of the phrase “start with the head”?

Answer: You need to start with the head. That is, what do you want to live this year for, what should it give you, what should you rise to, what should you demand from yourself? All of this is contained in the head.

Question: And what is the answer to these questions: what to rise to and what to demand from yourself?

Answer: Only to get closer to the Creator. Nothing else is needed. That is the only firm directive for us. And that is why we are called Israel, Yashar El, straight to the Creator.

Question: So in principle, the new year is constant thoughts and movements exclusively toward the Creator?

Answer: It is not just constant thoughts and movements only on the new year. You are laying the foundation for the whole year.

Question: So you are laying the groundwork for the whole year? And if you lay it well and correctly, will the year roll smoothly? Will it go well?

Answer: No! That does not mean anything yet.

Question: Does it not say anything?

Answer: No, it would be nice just to pay off on the new year for the whole year!

Question: So it will not work? Do you need to work constantly?

Answer: Yes, this will not slip through.

Question: Then it turns out that every day could be a new year? Because every day you renew your thoughts about the Creator.

Answer: That is also true. So this date is purely symbolic. There is really nothing in the state of the Earth around the Sun and us on the Earth as such.

Question: What are your wishes to all people in this new year?

Answer: My wishes this new year?

Comment: You see how things are going on in the world this year. What kind of a year we have had.

My Response: And it is still unknown what the new year will be like. We are facing such questions, truly frightening ones.

I think that we simply need to wish humanity to be wiser. To understand what force actually governs us. Why do such negative forces and threats arise in our world? And how we can, even with their help, turn ourselves in the right direction, toward the right goal, and achieve unity, and in that unity discover the eternal, great meaning.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/21/25

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Question: We have holidays ahead of us: the period of Slichot, Rosh HaShanah, and Yom Kippur. If the states of time in the spiritual and material are not connected, then what place do these holidays occupy in the spiritual?

Answer: We must know in general what is happening in spirituality because the general influence of light descends upon us, we depend on it, but nothing more.

The most important thing is what happens in our hearts.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/14/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: How is the Partzuf of Adam HaRishon, a part of the upper spiritual worlds studied in The Study of the Ten Sefirot, related to the first man (Adam HaRishon) who revealed the Creator, who was also called Adam?

Answer: Adam, the first one to reveal the Creator, was a man like us. He was born from his father and mother, lived in this world, and one day reached a state where he began to reveal the upper force, the Creator.

Such a desire suddenly awakened in him, and he began to think: “What am I living for, where did I come from, why, and who controls me?” This is like each of us. This is how he revealed the spiritual world.

He was distinguished by the fact that he had a very sensitive soul, which was not as coarse as with a developed egoism like ours. Therefore, it was easier for him to make this revelation himself. It was the very first spiritual gene (Reshimo) to be revealed in this whole system of broken souls, at the beginning of its ascent from the bottom up; this was Adam, the first person to reveal the Creator.

The Partzuf of Adam HaRishon is a spiritual object created from above, by Zeir Anpin (ZA) and Nukva of the world of Atzilut, when the worlds spread from top to bottom. ZA and Nukva raise him to their level, and then even to the level of Aba ve Ima, where he couples (Zivug) his two parts, male and female: Adam and Eve (Hava), thinking he can already be like Aba ve Ima and act in everything for the sake of bestowal.

But when he makes this coupling, he reveals he is not capable of it for the sake of bestowal, and shatters. This is the Partzuf of Adam HaRishon, the common soul, which is studied in the science of Kabbalah.

Its parts fall after shattering, going lower and lower until they reach the very “bottom,” and from there they begin their scrutinies and clarifications. First, there are numerous clarifications on the inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels, which do not have any freewill, and only the light acts, clarifying them and connecting them, not requiring any request from them.

But after these clarifications accumulate and the queue reaches the desires of the next level, the informational gene of the human level from all the broken Reshimot is revealed for the first time. This new Reshimo, revealed for the first time on the human speaking degree, was called “Adam,” and belonged to a man of our world who lived 5,771 years ago.

He was the first person to attain the Creator “from the bottom up,” that is, from our world. He was just like us, only the first one to reveal such a Reshimo.

He did not have a Kabbalistic group or an environment because he was the first. But correction begins with the lightest Reshimo so it was enough to give him a spiritual awakening from above, and then he himself sought revelation and achieved it. The Reshimot that are revealed after him get rougher and rougher.

We celebrate this day, the first revelation of the spiritual world, the Creator, by a man of our world, as the beginning of the New Year, Rosh HaShanah.

And the world was created “five days before that”; that is, Adam has already begun to somehow feel the upper worlds, the Sefirot, the Partzufim inside him, and during this first week, revelation came to him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/22/11, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: How can the revelation of evil on the 9^th of Av be corrected on the 15^th of Av, on the holiday of love? After all, the holiday of love refers to a couple in love, while the 9^th of Av is the day of the destruction of the Temples, meaning it relates to the entire people of Israel.

Answer: Both of these days relate to a couple in love, only we do not see it. The couple in love is the people of Israel and the Creator. All creations, all the desire to enjoy created by the Creator, is like a woman, Malchut, Shechina, in relation to which the Creator acts as a man, a bestower.

If there is no unification between us, then we cannot be a vessel, a place, for the revelation of the
Creator so that He may reign in us and we can merge in an embrace, a kiss, in spiritual unity. There are three levels of spiritual merging with the Creator: “embrace,” as it is said: “His left hand is under my head, and His right hand embraces me,” then “kiss,” and then “union.”

Therefore, the actions of the same name in the material world also symbolize the connection between those who love each other. And in the spiritual world, these concepts signify a very sublime connection between man and the Creator.

That is why the 9^th of Av symbolizes the terrible breakage, which is the cause of all troubles and misfortunes. After all, good and evil are determined only by how much we draw closer or distance from the upper light, from the upper force, the Creator.

The 9^th Av is the source of all destruction, and the 15^th Av is the source of all goodness. But since we have not yet reached this goodness, we do not feel the true power of this day and we perceive it as a holiday of ordinary lovers.

In the same way we underestimate Purim and perceive it as a children’s holiday. Unfortunately we are still in exile and do not see obvious symptoms of redemption. Redemption is already near, but we have not yet reached it, and therefore we do not know what spiritual “embrace,” “kiss,” and “union” are.

The whole Torah speaks only about the relationship of this couple: humanity and the Creator, and not about earthly young women dressing up in white garments and going to dance in the vineyards on the day of love, the 15^th of Av.
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From the conversation 7/30/15, “New Life 600 – The 15th Of Av – The Holiday Of Love”

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It is written in the Mishnah (Taanit, p 26b): “Rabbi Shimon Ben Gamliel said, ‘No days were better for Israel than the fifteenth of Av [11th Hebrew month], and Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement], when the daughters of Jerusalem would come out dressed in borrowed white garments, so as not to shame those who do not have.

The daughters of Jerusalem would come out and dance in the vineyards. What would they say? ‘Young man, lift up your eyes and see what you choose for yourself.

Do not cast your eyes on beauty; cast your eyes on family.’” (And on page 31) “Those who did not have wives went there. Our sages taught, ‘What would the beauties among them say? ‘Turn your eyes to beauty, for a woman is only for beauty.

’What would the wellborn among them say? ‘Cast your eyes on family, for a woman is only for sons.’ In The Eye of Jacob he adds, ‘The wealthy among them say,

‘Cast your eyes on the wealthy.’ What would the unsightly ones among them say? ‘Take what you take for the Creator, as long as you crown us with gold coins.’” (Rabash, “The Fifthteenth of Av”)

“The unsightly Daughters of Jerusalem” is the final stage of Malchut, Dalet de Dalet, called “poor and wretched.”

A person runs away from such work; he has no motivation or desire for it because all of this work is in faith above reason.

One must understand that this is arranged deliberately, precisely to help a person attain the spiritual world!

He must see that exactly where his egoistic desire does not function, where there is no desire, where beauty and fulfillment do not attract, that is the sign he needs a different kind of fuel.

He is given the opportunity to picture a state in which he is not bribed by his egoism, and if he works in such a state, it will be for the sake of bestowal.

But where will he get such “anti-fuel,” the ability to work without energy, without filling his ego?

It is precisely in such a state that he realizes he needs the Creator’s help. If he does not receive the force called “the light” from above, he cannot move from his place.

If I desire only to bestow without wishing to receive any compensation, neither wealth, nor beauty, nor nobility, and I choose a “poor and wretched wife” in the evaluation of my egoism, and choose only the ability to bestow without any conditions, then I arrive at the day of joy, the Day (quality and light) of Love (the 15^th of Av).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/26/10, Writings of Rabash “The Fifteenth of Av”

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Question: The ARI lived 500 years ago. At that time, there was a certain awakening. Today too, an awakening is taking place, as many are beginning to study Kabbalah. What is special about our time, 500 years later?

Answer: In the time of the ARI, his books did their work and attracted many people. Then Baal HaSulam hurried to meet the people with the commentaries he wrote on the books of the ARI.

It is the same today. We can go out to people and feel how the books of the ARI have become part of their daily use, they study them.

Essentially, there is nothing new here. The only thing we want is that the attitude of the ARI toward the wisdom of Kabbalah, toward the attainment of the Creator, toward ascending the steps of the spiritual ladder, could be realized by us.

That is why we study the conditions by which we must draw closer to the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/2025, “”Memorial Day for the ARI””

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