A secret lies in a special combination of sounds that influences the heart. One must think about that in such a way that first the heart responds, and only afterward the ear hears. This is the most important thing, and no one really knows it.

Question: So it goes from the heart to the ear and then to everything else from the heart?

Answer: Yes, with any instrument, not only a musical instrument, sound must pass not into the ear, but into the heart, and only afterward, through the ear, it comes out.

Question: It come out of the ear?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Today you are turning everything upside down! So I do not hear with my ears?

Answer: No, with the heart.

Question: Does a word possess this quality, as you are now saying, like a sound?

Answer: Of course. A word is expressed precisely in this way.

Question: So one must find such a word that penetrates the heart, and only afterward it is heard?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Are there such words at all?

Answer: There are.

Question: How in our science can one find such words? After all, we study such a science that is not curiosity, not knowledge. So how can we find such words that penetrate the heart and then…?

Answer: It is very simple. I asked my teacher, RABASH, about this. He said: “Well, haven’t you heard what is said in the prayer Shema? Shema, Michael.” I was surprised, but why “Michael”?

Comment: This is the prayer Shema Israel.

My Response: Yes. Because “Israel” is a general name.

Question: But in truth: “Shema, Michael”?

Answer: Yes, you can substitute any name there.

Question: Is this the address to the heart: “Shema, Michael”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then it already begins to take shape. Is the Shema prayer considered one of the highest prayers?

Answer: Of course. Yes.

Question: Have we now reached the point that prayer is first heard precisely by the heart?

Answer: Yes, and only afterward by the ear—or heard at all.

Comment: You always insist that the prayer of a person, a simple person, is higher than the prayers composed by the sages, the Kabbalists. You always say this, and it surprises me somewhat, and people write that the prayer a person says, just the way he says it when he prays, is higher than those prayers.

My Response: Yes, because this is what he feels. An inner resonance of his heart with the upper word takes place. Therefore, this is the highest address to the Creator.

Question: So do you mean that when a person pronounces like that, with feeling, he hears it first from above?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it not born within him?

Answer: No, of course not.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/18/25

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Question: We must raise MAN (prayer). Is this an action in desire?

Answer: MAN means that I am asking for the power of bestowal. From Malchut I turn to Bina and ask from Bina for the ability to bestow.

But I have to reach such a state that I am filled with this prayer (MAN), and this is enough for me. I feel joy that I am able to raise MAN.

How is this state described in the Torah? You go out into the light of day. Day for you is when you have nothing; you walk in the desert, and search for MAN, the desire for bestowal, and when you find it, it revives you, and it fills all your tastes. Everything you desire is in it.

But what is this taste? Where does it come from? What is this MAN? It comes to you from Bina, and then it is enough for you to have the very possibility of asking the Creator: “I have a connection with Him. I can ask Him. And I need nothing more.”

But do I not want to have a desire in which I will reveal the Creator? No. I am content even with the very aspiration toward Him. This, for me right now, is fulfillment. The connection with the Creator through the group fills me.

But what kind of connection is this? From where do you have anything? There is nothing. But can I turn to Him in this way? That is enough. This is called “walking in the desert,” acquiring the quality of “Hafetz Hesed” (desiring nothing for myself).

For in the desert you have nothing; you truly do not want anything for yourself. But this is the attainment of correction by the quality of bestowal, similarity to the Creator, and in this is your fulfillment.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 06/06/2010, “The Book of Zohar“

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Question: My friends and I must come to a request to the Creator: “Either correct me, or kill me.” But looking into my heart I see that I am like a cat that, thanks to the environment, has been trained to walk with a tray, and if a mouse runs by I will dash after it. How will I come to a sincere desire?

Answer: This is possible only under the influence of the upper light. Did you think you could manage on your own?!

Question: Must the desire be such that the light will act?

Answer: No! You cannot have such a desire. From where?! You are an egoist by nature. If you slightly nullify yourself before the other egoists, then the Creator will respond to your mutual nullification.

When you create in the center of the ten such a field where each of you nullifies yourself, an empty space will form, a white spot. The Creator will act on that.

Question: So we will come to the desire “better death than such a life,” or is that impossible?

Answer: You will come to the desire to unite thanks to envy, when you show one another how far each of you has already progressed. Then your ego will force you to be different.
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From the 5th Lesson of the Congress in Moldova, 9/7/2019

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Question: What is an intention worthy of action?

Answer: Our world is a world of action. All our earthly deeds are based on action itself. It is only by action and not by intention that our deeds are counted. In our world, we cannot be certain whether we have recognized, reproduced, evaluated, and weighed the intention correctly, whereas actions can be seen, measured, and compared because they leave behind a clear material result.

Intentions are our inner motivations, which are incomprehensible both to others and to ourselves, and are forgotten within a minute. Nothing can be done with that.

The science of Kabbalah says that we are special beings that consist of both actions and intentions. The more developed a person is, the further removed from mere animal existence, the stronger his intention is, and it is the intention that determines the action. That is, the action itself may be insignificant, but the intention behind it is great. In such cases, the person carrying out the action pays attention precisely to the intention.

For example, if I give someone a small gift or perform some deed that was very difficult for me but into which I put my whole soul, then the person receiving the outcome of my action measures it not by the action itself but by the effort and the good intention.

How can we measure intention? That is a problem because the world is becoming increasingly global. We must build a single system of relationships between us. But we cannot evaluate this only through actions.

After all, I am not working like a machinist in a factory whose contribution is measured by a thousand units of production that determines his pay and how others treat him. In our time, more and more professions arise where intentions are measured. We try to measure the relationships between people: how I influence them, how they awaken because of me, how we exchange services, and so on. That is, intention is acquiring ever-greater significance.

And so, our world faces a great problem. The more we develop, the more we move away from an animate state, the greater becomes the need to measure intentions. Yet, we cannot measure them.

Thus, the attitude of a person defines the world. The world itself becomes a consequence of our intentions.

And here a problem arises: the world falls into crisis not because of overproduction nor because we cannot get along with one another, but because our intentions are incorrect. But how to make them correct, how to evaluate and weigh them, we do not know.

Suddenly, quite unexpectedly for us, we find ourselves in an immaterial world because countless emotional, spiritual, and soulful connections arise between us that we cannot measure or account for. Intentions turn out to be more important than actions, and the world becomes awkward and unfit for human life. It begins to “push us out of itself” because it was created only for the animate state of humans.

At present we are like animals. Animals are not embarrassed by each other: I want to eat you; if you manage to escape, you escape, if not, I will eat you. Everything is based not on intentions but on clear actions. And intentions are absolutely obvious because action and intention coincide.

But when we rise above the animate state to the human level, we are obliged to begin taking our intentions into account. And they can only be evaluated with the help of the science of Kabbalah.

Question: Can you give us an example of intention in its pure form? What is it?

Answer: Suppose I have a certain intention toward you. You neither see it nor know it. I must determine it within myself, recognize it, and test it. If I wish to harm you with my intention, then by that, I will harm myself.

On the other hand, the world of intentions is much simpler. When we enter it, we as if erase all actions, “delete” our entire world, and only points remain along with intentions of those points toward one another. This is the spiritual world.

Try to imagine 7 to 8 billion points each of which, at least in some radius around itself, relates to others with a certain intention: either evil or good, plus or minus. The intention is directed either toward making another feel good according to how he understands it, not you, or toward making another feel bad according to how you understand it, not him.

Question: Can there really be only two intentions?

Answer: Only two, nothing else. And each of them can be graded in magnitude. Our attitudes toward others determine our world and our passage into the upper world.

We sort all the possible intentions people may have and take into account only those that exist between them. If they are positive toward others, they are called spiritual; if negative, they are called earthly.

All intentions of our earthly level are only for oneself and to the detriment of others.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 3/25/2018

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Question: Where does the lower one get the ability to generate the light of Hassadim from the bottom up?

Answer: The lower cannot generate anything; he can only ask. As a result of his requests, the upper, by fulfilling them, builds the lower, causing new properties in him.

Thus, it turns out that there seem to be certain actions in the lower properties of the Kelim, but in reality, they only reveal what the lower one lacks in order to approach the upper one and receive from it.

Question: How can we, as a ten, generate the light of Hassadim in relation to the Creator?

Answer: You cannot do this yet because you have no connection with the upper one. For this, you must try very hard.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Can the upper transfer His desire to the lower one?

Answer: This is exactly what He does, but only in response to our request: “Give us the right desires!” We pray only for desire, that my desire be like His, “make your desire similar to the desire of the Creator.”

I don’t need anything else from Him, only a new program for my behavior, what to do. I need to receive reason, strength, and knowledge from Him in order to be able to work correctly with my material.

Namely, to realize the depravity of the current program of my behavior because it is opposite to the one by which He acts, and ask it to replaced with one similar to Him. This means my correction in the likeness of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/16/07, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Three Conditions in Prayer”

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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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Question: “He” means the light that exists in infinity, and “His Name” is the place within the light of infinity, the desire. When I want to turn to the Creator and ask on behalf of my friends, what should I imagine, to whom am I addressing?

Answer: You are addressing the force that gave rise to everything, within which we exist, by which we are surrounded, and which we feel. This is what you call “the Creator.”
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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The Creator suffers greatly without us. He has a desire to give, to saturate, to emanate, and there is no one, no one who wants it.

Question: But we want to be satisfied, to receive, don’t we?

Answer: But we do not want to be satisfied from Him or by Him! Therefore, here, I would say, it looks like a war of nerves; who will be the first to give up and say: “I love you!”

It is, of course, a game of exhaustion, really.

Question: And what is our identity when we complement the Creator, as you say?

Answer: In the fact that we become necessary for the Creator in action; we are necessary as it is, but in action, in the fact that we draw closer to Him, unite, merge with Him, in the fact that we complement the universe. We evoke a filling in the entire universe, the supreme light that fills the entire creation. And without us, it would be empty, cold, and dark.

Question: What kind of addition does He expect from us?

Answer: So that we turn on the light. Turn on the light in this world so that the universe may be filled with the light of the Creator, love, goodness, unification, and perfection in all forms.

Comment: At the same time, you say this today when you do not know where to run with these crazy wars…

My Response: You do not have to do anything. We just have to wait calmly, with confidence that this is going to happen.

Question: And still want it?

Answer: Yes, want and ask, quietly ask the Creator.

Question: Is that all that is required of us?

Answer: Yes, without unnecessary noise, statements, or arguments, without anything.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/10/25

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Question: You said that one must have a desire and make the right analysis so that this desire would be pleasing to the Creator. Where should I stop in the analysis so that it does not put off the Hisaron (deficiency)?

Answer: You must constantly feel with what desire you are turning to the Creator. Then it will become clear to you where the point is at which you stopped turning to the Creator for the needs of the friends or the entire world Kli, and instead you ask Him to fill you personally.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/12/2025, “First Demand and Ask”

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