Question: What is the point of listening to someone asking you a question? What is the purpose of asking questions anyway?

Answer: It is written, “The timid cannot learn.” Questions should be asked, but at the same time, you should follow the answers and delve into them until they are completely clear, i.e., until they enter you. By listening to a friend, you connect with him in his desire toward a goal, which is important for unification in a group.

After all, your desire alone is never enough to achieve the goal and for Ohr Makif to evoke a new intention in desire for the sake of others. It was only for the sake of this connection with others that the worlds appeared, that Adam’s soul was created and shattered, that this world was created so lowly to create a place of freewill for man, which is the only thing we do, and this freedom of will is realized only in an attempt to absorb the desires and goals of our friends throughout the world group.

In the same way, all of humanity will be forced to solve its common problem. The crisis and the revelation of mutual hatred will be revealed as the cause of the threat of destruction of an empty, worthless, yet unique and therefore precious, life. They will begin to listen to questions, i.e., the desires of others, until they all unite in one question “What is the meaning of our existence?” (Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot) and will come to Kabbalah!

Question: You often say that spirituality is beyond time, motion, and space. What do you mean?

Answer: You need to clarify this. There is nothing you can do, you must study. Those who wish to evade it with questions do not understand that only studying the writings of Baal HaSulam (in any language) attracts the upper light of correction. While the questions and answers are only a prelude for beginners. Clarify this in The Study of the Ten Sefirot, “Inner Observations” or at least go through this entire blog. Perhaps this form of learning is more suitable for you now.
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From the ‘”Questions and Answers” 6/22/08

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Question: Is there a difference between the quality of Akudim and the world of Akudim?

Answer: Of course there is. The world of Akudim is something that exists, is global and self-contained. It has special qualities that distinguish it from others.

Question: Why do we need the quality of Akudim? How does it help us?

Answer: It doesn’t. We simply study what kind of desires were created by the Creator, and this helps us grow.

We need to understand where they begin and what defines them. When we reach the level of these desires, we will be able to connect with them and become similar to them.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/25/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Hatred, as I understand it, is my natural state. From where will the desire to love the one I hate come to me?

Answer: From above, from the Creator, only from Him.

When you truly want love for others to appear within you, then you will begin to ask for it, and it will appear.

Because in your intention to express love toward others, within that very intention, you will begin to feel the opposite quality of the Creator—how He loves you. And your mutual love toward others and the love of the Creator toward you will complement one another, merge into each other, and fill each other.

This is the state called the upper world.
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From the Lesson in Russian 12/29/19

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Question: On what thought should one concentrate in order for the potential of receiving upper light to be truly realized? What should I think about?

Answer: You should think about how to understand your teacher, what Baal HaSulam, wrote for you.

I don’t know how many times I have read it, but probably not less than a hundred times. Try to imagine all the time that you are participating in this action.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/21/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Сomment: The wisdom of the Chinese people is often very profound. For example:

“The one who points out your flaws is not always your enemy, and the one who praises your virtues is not always your friend.”

My Response: This is absolutely true. The most important thing for a person is to correct oneself along life’s path. And someone who points out your flaws is doing enormous work on your behalf.

In order to discover these flaws on your own (let alone correct them), you would encounter countless obstacles, bang your head against them, and get into trouble. People sometimes end up in prison, get free after a few years, and have to start all over again. But if someone can truly point out your shortcomings, and you are able to feel them, understand them, and recognize them, that person spares you enormous suffering.

Comment: Yet we often consider such a person an enemy: “He exposed my flaws, he humiliated me.”

My Response: Humiliation is a different matter. I can feel my flaws and still rejoice that someone has pointed them out to me. But the one who says nothing, or even flatters me, perhaps he does so maliciously so that I will not pay attention to the corrections I need to make.

Question: So it is not in vain you keep saying that someone who criticizes you is closer to you than someone who praises you?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Question: Do you listen to someone who suddenly tells you something about yourself?

Answer: I very much wish I could.

Quote: “What happens, happens at the right time.”

My Response: We must accept this apriori as an axiom. The thing is that everything comes from the world around us and has its own path of development. Therefore, all that unfolds in front of us comes from this great mechanism in which we exist as small participants.

We need to understand that everything happening around us in society or in the universe as a whole occurs according to a vast plan, and we are within this plan. Our task is to fit into this plan, not to change the external flow by any means, but to correct ourselves so that we adapt to it.

Question: And then I will feel that whatever has happened, has come at the right time?

Answer: Yes. It has come on time, properly and correctly. And suddenly I begin to understand the correctness of everything that happens and how perfectly it suits me.

Question: And I have no regrets?

Answer: There is nothing to regret because everything happens outside of me, before me. And what I am shown are just the steps that I must take within myself to perceive everything correctly, to agree with it, to connect with it, and to move forward in resonance with it.

Question: That is, in harmony with it?

Answer: Yes, in agreement with it.

Quote: “He who drinks the water must remember those who dug the well.”

My Response: Beautifully said. And one must be grateful to them because the one who dug the well was not thinking only of himself, he was thinking also of me, anticipating my need.

Therefore, I am deeply grateful to him and must, in some way, repay him, whether simply with my heartfelt attitude, or perhaps by doing something good around that well myself. In general, even a warm, grateful feeling toward the one who opened a source of life for me already helps to correct the world.

Question: This sounds very much like a Kabbalistic approach. That is, instead of focusing on the pleasure I receive from the water, I turn my thoughts to the one who dug the well for me. Should a person behave this way in life, for example, by digging wells for others in turn?

Answer: A person must feel that everything he has around him and in the world was given to us by our ancestors who left it behind. And we must do the same for others, and for future generations.

Quote: “Misfortune enters through the door that was opened to it.”

My Response: That depends only on the person.

Question: Am I the one who opens the door to misfortune?

Answer: Yes, naturally. It is us who do all this.

In fact, the world is filled with boundless, absolute happiness, but by our own attitude, we turn it into the opposite. This is why it is said allegorically that we “open the door” to misfortune.

Question: And what if I were filled with the thought that the world around me is absolute happiness? If I constantly thought about this and strove toward it, would I still open the door to misfortune? Would misfortune still come to me?

Answer: This is our egoism. In truth, it exists within us so that we may learn to recognize and open far more doors to what is good. But we use it incorrectly; that is the problem.

A person is essentially unhappy. He is given an egoistic desire, a foundation, a character, an aspiration, but only so that he may correctly sense in advance what to avoid and how to adjust himself. Yet he uses this desire in the wrong way.

Question: Is that why he opens the door to misfortune?

Answer: Exactly. He keeps stepping on the same rake. Imagine there are “rakes” placed on the ground to show you the right path and to guide you to walk between them. But instead, you constantly step directly on them. This wrong perception of life stems from the fact that we relate to it totally incorrectly. That is, in fact, we fail to understand that egoism itself shows us how to walk properly and what to avoid. But we use it in its direct sense, and so we step on the rake again and again.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/10/24

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Question: Where is the upper light?

Answer: The Kli is filled with the light of Hassadim (love and mercy), the power of bestowal, which holds within itself the light of Hochma (wisdom).

The upper light is the light of Hochma clothed in the light of Hassadim. This light acts constantly.
We are always addressing the Malchut of the world of infinity because that is the only state that exists.

The substance of the Malchut of Infinity is the desire to receive pleasure. The creation gives this desire an intention “for the sake of bestowal.”

Then, into this intention of bestowal that comes from the creation, the upper light from the Creator clothes itself.

Thus, the love of the Creator and the love of the creation are revealed together within our desire, and this state is called the world of infinity.

This state already exists; we only need to make efforts to reveal it!

And it cannot be done individually but only through our collective effort, when all spiritual sparks, all points in the heart unite together.

Our shared effort awakens that light that fills the world of infinity and draws it toward us as the surrounding light that shines from afar.

Under its illumination, we become similar to the Malchut of the world of infinity.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 09/27/09, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Once upon a time, people desiring to attain spirituality had to subject their bodies to restrictions and suffering in order to break their egoistic desire and acquire a new, bestowing nature. This was the way in the times of the patriarchs and the sages of the Mishnah.

But then came the era of the Talmud, and its sages, the Kabbalists of that time, through their spiritual work, changed the condition of transforming our nature from receiving to bestowing.

Each period contributed its corrected part to the common system of souls. As a result, the system became partially corrected, and all the others within it, the still uncorrected souls, can receive help from the corrected part. We no longer need to torment and limit our body, nor are we capable of it with our enormous egoism.

But the sages of the Talmud made our path easier, and that portion of egoistic desire, which otherwise would have to be broken through tormenting the body with a harsh life, we can now correct through the reforming light.

The patriarchs and the sages of the Mishnah corrected themselves with two actions: the suffering of the body and drawing the light of the Torah. But the sages of the Talmud corrected the system so that instead of bodily suffering, we can correct it with the same light of the Torah.

For our time this is very important, for who today could renounce all the achievements of modern civilization? The Kabbalists of the Talmud corrected themselves, their inclusion in the common system, and its corrected part became great.

Though I may be born uncorrected and wicked, I find myself within a system that includes many corrected parts which sustain it, and if I wish to be corrected, I have somewhere to turn for help and with whom to join!

Now it is only up to me!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/26/10, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Those who have a “why” to live can bear with almost any “how” (Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning).

“Why” is the goal. And “how” is already the attainment of the goal.

Question: But how can I escape the weight that has fallen upon me, the hopelessness? How?

Answer: Constantly clarify how to get closer to the goal. And that is what keeps you going. The goal attracts you; it shapes you; it establishes how you should go through life, and at every moment you know how to use it.

Question: Should these be some intermediate goals?

Answer: It is the ultimate goal that is achieved at every moment of time.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/30/25

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All people lie, but it’s not scary, no one listens to each other.

My Response: The scary thing is that they do not listen. That is true.

To listen means to realize, to understand. Not necessarily to agree but to understand what the other means, why he has such a worldview.

Comment: To let him a little bit inside you?

My Response: No, not even to let him in. Enter into him and understand how he acts, how he thinks. It may well be that his way of thinking, his approach to life is correct. Try to argue with him, to align with him somehow, and so on.

That is what it means to listen to another. Listening means, first of all, to understand.

Question: Do you think people listen to each other or not?

Answer: No. Egoists cannot listen to each other. They are initially tuned to clearly satisfy their egoism.

Question: Meaning, only to push through their own opinion?

Answer: Not only their opinion but to achieve whatever I desire. That is the foundation of all of my behavior, and no one can move me from it. Only under the impact of enormous suffering can I somewhat change my opinion; still egoistically, leaning one way or another, and again continue to move egoistically.

Comment: This, in principle, is the cause of absolutely all troubles—people do not listen to others.

My Response: That is how we were created. After all, we come from the shattering of the common soul, the common desire. Therefore, in each of us there is an egoistic desire that acts only within itself. Each of us lives inside himself.

Comment: If a person heard that this is the result of his egoistic nature, would that be the beginning of a small shift?

My Response: No, it will not help. To hear is not enough; that is the point.

Here, upper forces of nature are necessary, hidden forces within nature that could help us become different, the opposite of our present state. And that requires a whole method.

Question: Do you think Einstein understood that there are hidden forces of nature?

Answer: He did not understand the possibility of changing man.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

My Response: That is correct. Because we cannot imagine how simple, near, and opposite to us the upper world is, the world of bestowal, of love, when we perceive everything in connection and not in separation, in isolation from one another.

Comment: We say: “Love, it is so simple! Let’s unite, let’s love each other.” And you say: “It is not so simple!”

My Response: No. I say: “It is not so simple,” because we are not capable of doing it.

We should not keep falling into the same trap again. Besides, love is not what we define in our world as love—some hormonal, psychological, or sexual satisfactions. No.

What is meant is the connection of people among themselves in inner unity, when we feel that not our bodies (bodies as if disappear), but we ourselves are inwardly interconnected, that some kind of inner joining, merging takes place, and this creates a new community, an inner, spiritual one. In this inner, spiritual community, we begin to feel ourselves living as if in another bubble, in a new world.

Question: Is this love?

Answer: This is achieved by love. Such a connection is called love.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

Question: You often speak about the perception of reality. An empty desk, what does that actually mean?

Answer: It is an allegory. In general, a person who has no inner thoughts, no struggle, no constant confusion, no constant searching, he does not move forward, does not develop. He must always doubt himself and constantly investigate.

Question: Is this what you call life?

Answer: Yes. But when we look at such a person, we think: “He probably does not know anything. He is probably unsure.” In reality, it is the opposite.

Animal-like peace kills everything. That, of course, is terrible! We hope that the Creator will watch over us and not let us have peace.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/24/24

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Question: How should one correctly study TES?

Answer: We study The Study of the Ten Sefirot from the first page to the last. Perhaps we skip certain things, but in principle, that is how it goes. It is a textbook about the entire spiritual world.

Question: What is the difference between Kav and Yosher?

Answer: There is no difference between them. Kav is Yosher.

Question: Does the screen have some spiritual form, or is it a point of analysis?

Answer: Of course the screen has a spiritual form, because it clothes the desire, and in accordance with this the desire acquires direction.

Question: And what is the inner intention in order for there to be a screen?

Answer: The intention must be to carry out all the desires of the Creator.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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