Question: You say that prayers have existed for thousands of years, people have prayed for thousands of years. Have they have been praying incorrectly? Because we don’t really have much happiness, and we don’t we have much money.

Answer: Over thousands of years, we are gradually maturing toward the state where we will finally understand what true correction is. And it is in not asking for anything, but using what we already have. All the conditions are there for us to correct the world, and they lie in relating to one another with love. If you cannot do this, if you really cannot, then you may turn to the Creator.

Question: This is what prayer is?

Answer: Yes, and there is nothing else to ask for. Give me the ability to relate to another with love, as You relate to us.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/26/25

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The soul of Adam HaRishon was created by the upper force like a dim, barely glowing candle. This is a small state (VAK), and therefore, it is said about Adam that “he was born circumcised,” without the evil inclination, like an angel. An angel belongs to the still, vegetative, and animate levels.

Israel is a desire that has passed through the shattering in a step-by-step descent. Israel receives enormous egoism due to the fact that the light of Infinity enters its will to receive and inflates it.

A tiny black point in the white light expands to the full magnitude of the infinite light. It must attain the same power as the light—the Moon must shine exactly like the Sun.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/18, Writings of Baal HaSulam “600,000 Souls”

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Question: In addition to looking ahead, a person sometimes glances back. This gives rise to a certain piercing feeling called nostalgia. Is there a spiritual root to this feeling?

Answer: Yes, a person is drawn to the past first because it is familiar. And what is familiar is already perceived as pleasant and easy since it carries no element of threat. That is why we love the past. There are people who very much enjoy old, naive movies, books, and so on.

Personally, I believe that one must look forward so that the future will become familiar to us and will attract us with goodness and shine for us. One must not turn back; otherwise, we become like Lot’s wife, a pillar of salt. We must move only forward! By looking back at the past, we are as though preserving ourselves.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 1/13/19

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Question: In order to cling to the Creator with my desire, do I need to imagine Him as the best source of pleasure and the solution to all problems even in an egoistic way?

Answer: You need to imagine Him simply as the only source. Even what you are now thinking about, deciding, and feeling yourself as existing, this too comes from the Creator.

Question: And do evil deeds also come from the Creator: murders and wars?

Answer: Absolutely everything! And the fact that it seems to us that these are evil, harmful, terrible actions, is only because we have not corrected our perception of these actions.

If we evaluate them differently—in the quality of bestowal—then we will see them as bestowing, as good.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 1/12/2019

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Question: What is the difference between the Creator and Atzmuto?

Answer: Atzmuto is something we do not touch at all. This force precedes its manifestation in us so we cannot talk about any of its properties. We can talk about the Creator because this is an intermediate step between us and Atzmuto.

Question: But it also does not manifest in us since we do not yet have the property of bestowal?

Answer: We are talking about the Creator purely theoretically. Kabbalists tell us that everything we receive, everything we deal with, comes only from the Creator.

But no one can talk about Atzmuto: not us or the Kabbalists.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 1/21/2018

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Question: What’s wrong with the fact that egoism drives us to constant development? After all, it’s natural.

Answer: Yes, it is natural, but egoism does not let us enjoy life. It does not allow us to build a normal present or future.

Comment: But some people who use others do enjoy themselves.

Answer: No, that is not enjoyment. That is an unnatural state because you are only thinking about how to be above others.

If you take any person in the world, not a single one is truly happy. Even millionaires or very famous people are still far from happiness. And the greatest misfortune lies in the fact that, aside from the problems of this life that we are constantly running from, our entire existence is a race toward death. Therefore, all of one’s previous life is, in principle, absolutely meaningless.

Question: Millionaires are unhappy. And are Kabbalists happy and not running away from death?

Answer: Kabbalists have a completely different axis of values. The meaning of their life lies in the revelation of the Creator and in belonging to this eternal, perfect quality. It is precisely this that they strive for, and this pursuit practically has no end. But at every moment it gives the Kabbalist inexpressible, indescribable states of perfection.

Question: Are you saying that along the way he is also happy?

Answer: Yes, there is absolutely no end. You are simply happy. Of course, one could say: “Stop a moment, you are beautiful!” But in principle, in every moment of your history, of your movement, you are still in contact with the eternal, perfect force.

This is an entirely different perception that completely changes a person’s philosophy. Now he acts not out of fear, not out of deficiency, not out of the state of having to quickly achieve something, but out of a state of fulfillment, of perfection.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 6/3/2018

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Question: What does it mean to reveal the sinner within yourself during the lesson, and what should one do with this?

Answer: In the process of studying, we begin to separate thoughts and actions into positive or negative, that is, to clarify what in us is positive or negative in our actions, in our intentions. In this way, we will move forward.

Question: Should I be searching for the sinner within myself right now?

Answer: You won’t be able to find either a sinner or a righteous one within yourself. For that, you must delve deeper and deeper into the study. And then you will feel from the material being studied itself whether it relates to a positive or a negative form.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/26/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: How can one strive to study TES (Talmud Eser Sefirot, The Study of the Ten Sefirot) not for the sake of receiving, but for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: Think about this all the time. I have no other advice right now.

Question: To whom is TES revealed? To one who thinks about this or to one who is patient? What is the main quality needed for the Creator to be revealed?

Answer: The main thing is to be similar to the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/26/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: How does the Creator compensate the quality of our efforts with the quality of the reward? Can we say that each of us must come to correction, and then in the final correction (Gmar Tikkun) our efforts will unite and become equal to the reward?

Answer: Let’s say I do not know what will be in the final correction. At the very least, for someone studying this for the first time, such questions may arise, but there are no answers.

We must simply study the text and try that it enters us and is imprinted in our feelings and mind in some wat. And gradually we will sense that it becomes our thought, our spirit, our desire. In this way the light will influence us and fill us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Question: When we read Kabbalistic books, is it necessary for us to always look for the connection between the root and the branch?

Answer: We must remain in this all the time; otherwise, we will not enter into the material and will not absorb what is being said.

Question: How can we connect to the one root common to all when studying The Study of the Ten Sefirot?

Answer: Our root is the Creator. We must strive to make Him as mutual as possible for all by connecting among ourselves and in Him.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/21/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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