Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself (George Bernard Shaw).

My Response: This is not an easy task.

Question: Let’s say “finding yourself” is more or less clear: finding myself in a profession, for example. What do you mean by the term “creating yourself”?

Answer: Creating ourselves is what we are facing. In fact, this is not such a sky-high thing. This is the requirement imposed on us by our life—to make ourselves similar to the Creator.

Comment: I do not know what the Creator is, I do not know who He is.

My Response: This will be explained to you in detail. Write it down: the first condition is to love everyone.

Question: So, the first point is: I should learn to love everyone? Does this mean to be similar to the Creator by and large?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it a prayer if I write it down and look at it all the time?

Answer: Yes, it is a prayer. Imagine that you are like a parent, maybe strict, maybe kind, no matter which, but loving. As such a parent treats his children, so you should treat people.

Question: But at the moment when I read this daily and realize that I cannot, is that a prayer: “I cannot!”?

Answer: This is not a prayer, but a state when you check yourself and see how much you need to be corrected. Then you have already prepared some complaints or requests for correction. Therefore, you wait for this day of atonement and present them.

Question: Is this really the prayer of the day of atonement?

Answer: Yes. You judge yourself, you come and demand that the Creator corrects you because you cannot correct yourself. The only one who can is Him. But only according to your demands, requests, and prayers. So, hurry up!

Question: You started by loving everyone. Is this, in principle, the basis of Yom Kippur?

Answer: Yes, it is called “Ahavat Olam“—love of the world.

Question: So this is what I want to come to, but I cannot, and I ask?

Answer: Absolutely! So, get ready.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/3/22

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Question: In many articles, Rabash writes that if you do not bring contentment to the Creator, then life is not worth living. It is a very strong feeling when I do not want to live if I do not do something for someone else. How do we come to this?

Answer: We have to think about it all the time and ask the Creator to reveal to us what state we really are in when we improperly connect with Him.

Question: After the Creator brings us closer to Him, we feel rejection from Him. Will the strength of these rejections increase as we advance?

Answer: Yes, the rejections will increase. It is necessary to overcome them together, not alone. When you try to do it alone, it will not work. We must discuss it with our friends and then turn to the Creator together.

The Creator does everything explicitly or implicitly. But you have to constantly ask Him about coming closer together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/25/23, “To Criticize Oneself”

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Question: We learn that any prayer should begin and end with gratitude. What should we add to the middle of our prayer on the days of Rosh HaShana?

Answer: We must add the desire to begin the work of reinstating the Creator in our eyes in a new way and elevating Him in our feelings and understanding to the highest point.

This is the only force that creates and builds us out of our fragmented forces, out of our lowest desires, that raises and unites us so that we can recreate Him and He will truly be the King of all creation, the Creator.

It all depends on our joint participation in order to create the correct universe in which we can feel its center—the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/15/23, “Rosh Hashana“

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Question: Before crossing the Machsom, a person comes to a state when a cry to the Creator arises in him. This is the last point from which he enters the spiritual world. How can this point be described? Is it similar to an animal being cornered?

Answer: A person corners himself, but not toward death. By building the right and left lines in himself simultaneously, he drives himself between them so that the positive and negative parts are revealed in him: the property of bestowal (the spiritual property) and the property of reception (the egoistic property).

They are so opposite and insoluble that he utters a cry and calls the upper light upon himself, which can unite them together according to the rule “love will cover all transgressions.”

Question: But is this like a state where there are no more options and he screams?

Answer: No. This is a conscious state that does not come from above, but you yourself accumulate it within you. This is called the cry of the soul. If it comes from the depths of the heart, then the answer comes to it—the heavens open.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Last Cry Before Death” 10/20/11

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Question: Is the state before crossing the Machsom when there is a lump in your throat, tears flow, and you scream?

Answer: It just seems to you that you are screaming from the depths of your soul, that you are being torn to pieces. All this is child’s play because it does not come from real attainment, which is complemented by the correct state.

People are, of course, torn apart. I remember myself, and I know these states. Everything is completely wrong. It must be balanced between the heart and the mind and come at the same time from both understanding and suffering. But not the kind of suffering that arises in you: “Give me!” and so on.

In this case, unnatural suffering arises from the inability to become a bestower: “I want to be in the quality of bestowal! I want to, but I cannot do it. I do not have this quality!”

This state is similar to childbirth: “It must be born in me!” This is the pressure you feel from within. Moreover, this is the pressure on the quality of bestowal. It is not a demand: “Give me!” It is the demand: “Give me an opportunity.”

Question: I just saw a man who was crying and saying that he needed the light of correction. How plausible is this?

Answer: Children cry too, so what? I remember I cried too. And my teacher Rabash just laughed in my face as if he had in his hands what I wanted, but would not give it to me. He said: “These are not real tears. This is not a real scream.” And, of course, he was right.

Time is what we need. But now time is shortening. By connecting with the rest of the network, you put yourself in a state where you must receive help from above since you are a transition point, a node, in this system. Therefore, you can radically shorten the entire path of your revelation of this system.

But today it is so close to everyone that you will see it very quickly.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Last Scream before Death” 10/24/11

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Spiritual work is connected only with the Creator; it is only to Him that we should turn and receive answers from. Therefore, we have no one else to look to and nothing more to expect, except help from the Creator.

But if a person has a sense of guilt and a feeling that he receives punishment for wrong thoughts, that perception also comes from the Creator. The Creator wants us to feel this way.

In this case, we do not need to ask the Creator for help dealing with these thoughts. We should ask only one thing: that He would connect us all and raise us to Himself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 8/23/23 “The need for the Creator’s salvation”

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Question: How can one overcome the state of ambiguity and isolation in spiritual work? Why is it given to a person and how does one treat it correctly?

Answer: All this will pass, along with all other actions of the Creator on us. The main thing is to ask. We need to feel that we are completely and unconditionally under the authority of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/23, “The need for the Creator’s salvation”

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In order for the Creator’s help to be apparent, the level of revelation of evil by a person must be such that he understands that he is in a state of evil and that he has no other choice but to ask and beg the Creator to save him.

He must truly ask until all his aspirations, tears, and desires accumulate in the Creator, and then the Creator will help him.

When a person reveals the real need for true help, then he will feel that he receives it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 8/23/23, “The need for the Creator’s salvation”

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Question: Can I be happy about unity in the world even if I do not feel it?

Answer: Try to imagine that the world is a continuous unity, and we are all in complete correction, in connection with each other in one heart.

Try it, and will see that you are already starting to feel it. Ask the Creator to make you feel it, ask to be closer to Him. And so it will gradually happen.

But the best thing is when the whole ten asks for it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/23/23, “The need for the Creator’s salvation”

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Question: When we feel that we have no strength to overcome, what can help us break through in prayer?

Answer: Only the help of the friends can help because the Creator responds only to the common desire, to the prayer of many.

Question: Does a ten have a common ego?

Answer: Yes.

Question: It can be difficult to talk about something sincerely, for example, that you are inferior to everyone or that you love the friends. What if we say the right words, but we do not feel it in our heart? How important is sincerity?

Answer: Even if you just say the words and do not feel them in your heart yet, it also works.

Question: Can prayer harm the one we are praying for if he has not yet reached the true intention?

Answer: No.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/23, Writings of Rabash “The Lord Is Near to All Who Call upon Him”

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