When a person begins to study [Kabbalah], he suddenly discovers every time that they see new things in what we study. And this will always be the case.

Suppose you are sitting and reading an article right now, and I am sitting and reading the article, and then you ask me: “Well, can you tell me something?”

Why do I tell you more than you know? Because I read and see a bit more deeply than you. At the same time, I cannot transmit to you what I feel, and so I tell you in other words what I see.

For you it is open to a certain depth; for me it is open much deeper, and there are those for whom nothing at all is revealed. They may read the same article, but feel no reaction in the heart because they have no spiritual Kli, while yours is already beginning to form.

So what is the difference? The difference is that when I speak to you, I give you a bit of light from the depth where I am, and this helps you. In addition to the surrounding light that you awaken during the study, I also add from myself.

But the group can also add to you. Each one understands according to a certain depth because no one here is a random person off the street. There are those who are truly in a good, sensory understanding.

Therefore, when we study together with the intention of passing the incoming light to one another, these surrounding lights from each of us unite and act upon everyone. Do you understand what kind of amplifier of spiritual power there is here?

And it does not matter if each one knows very little, some more, some less. Even if I am here, and you know less than I do, each of you has his own root of the soul. So I enjoy this. From the inclusion of one in another, I receive an addition because there are things that, without you, I will not understand, and without this one, and without that one even though you might be a “0.001 compared to my 1 followed by some zeros.” It does not matter. Every person is unique.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/7/26, Rabash, “What Are Holiness and Purity in the Work?”

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Question: How should an ordinary person live so as not to divide life into periods of unhappiness and happiness, unhappiness and happiness?

Answer: Treat each day as an entire lifetime. Start from zero and end with zero. Give yourself completely during that day.

Question: In other words, live that day as if it were a whole life?

Answer: Yes, that is all. Tomorrow, I will wake up, and it will be a new life.

Question: How can I motivate myself so that from morning until evening I live fully, as though I were living an entire lifetime of 120 years in one day?

Answer: My students obligate me. I feel a sense of fear in front of them. Fear. I am obligated, I owe them. I have no right to leave them as they are. I must push them forward, inspire them. I must constantly awaken them. All of this concerns me deeply.

As for myself, no. I try not to make any calculations concerning myself.

Question: So the task is to give yourself completely?

Answer: The task is that before the morning lesson begins, when I wake up, even before I start preparing for the day, I consider myself already dead. Yes, dead. I need nothing from life except to give everything I have today.

Question: By “dead,” do you mean that I no longer exist? That I have no concern for myself, and that is how I go out into the world?

Answer: Exactly.

Question: So this is how I should start the day and how I should spend it?

Answer: Of course. Then you have a very correct accounting with yourself, with life, and with your students. After that, whatever happens is already in the hands of the Creator.

Question: If we apply this to an ordinary person, can he have the same attitude toward his family and children?

Answer: Absolutely the same. He sets himself aside and gives himself to others, to the world.

Question: To family, to those close to him, and to those far away?

Answer: Yes. Live this way, give yourself. You cannot imagine how good, light, free, and most importantly, how correct it is. But you will constantly be in tension: are you truly giving yourself to them?

Question: Is that a good kind of tension? Is there an element of happiness in it?

Answer: That is happiness.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/3/26

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Question: Is there any difference between the general concept of faith and faith above reason?

Answer: It is very difficult to explain the concept of “above reason” before the Machsom. But during the preparation period, it can be explained as follows: a person is not merely present in the group, they must make efforts, annul themself before the friends, and accept what exists in the group above reason.

This means that he wants to be under the influence of friends. In other words, he begins to convince himself that what he hears from them is correct. This is truly “brainwashing.” Rabash writes that habit becomes second nature.

I will say it differently. We are in a group in which there is something revealed and concealed. The concealed forces, unknown to us, are who we truly are; this is already a spiritual force. And the force that is revealed to us is what we see as to how imperfect we still are.

For a person who is in a group and who lowers himself before it, it does not matter what level his friends are at. By convincing himself of being “small,” he receives the influence of the hidden force present in the group. The entire group may not be at a high level of spirituality, but through it, he receives forces from its spiritual root that they themselves have not yet received.

It turns out that a group may consist of twenty people, none of whom are particularly special. But suddenly one of them decides that he wants to be 100% under its influence. Then he is influenced by the group’s inner spiritual force, and even such things, the existence of which the others do not even suspect, nor do they know where they come from.

In other words, do not think that if someone lowers himself before the group, he will receive what everyone else has, or will be corrected to the same extent as everyone else. No, it will be much more than that.

He can attain spirituality by using the force of the group, even if the entire group is still in corporeality. One thing is, in essence, not connected to the other, since what is due to them comes according to their personal work, while what is due to him is according to his personal work. Therefore, let us say that for my personal advancement it is not important what is happening with you. As the saying goes, “I learned from all my students.” Students may be small, yet through them it is possible to gain immense wisdom.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/9/26, Rabash, “Man Is Rewarded with Righteousness and Peace through the Torah”

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Question: When you explain the method of unification, you say: “I understand what this is about; I have gone through these states.”

But at the same time, you separate yourself from us, as if the method you went through was completely different.

Answer: The fact is that I do not go through the states of unity together with you because you are going through them in a completely different way. I went through them in individual study, in personal attainment.

You are going through them collectively, as a generation ascending to the Creator together, as a group that will become an example for all humanity. There will no longer be any difference between how you experience this within yourselves and reveal the Creator in the quality of mutual adhesion between you, and how this will later be realized by everyone else.

What I went through cannot be implemented in a group or in humanity as a whole. Therefore, I do not want to confuse you by speaking about it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Gate of Tears” 10/11/10

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Question: Do you feel absolutely all the stages that your students go through?

Answer: How could it be otherwise? When a child does something, does an adult not understand exactly what he is doing? Of course, I feel and understand it all. Everything below me on the earthly level is absolutely clear to me, except for the animalistic psychology, which can be concealed. And in the spiritual world, all the degrees, are mine.

Comment: When a child asks for something, let’s say, a toy car or a little airplane, he has some prerequisites for it, meaning certain internal things have already formed in him. He is not simply crying, “Wah-wah,” he is still reaching for something. And we are drawn to some abstract form that we cannot perceive at all.

My Response: Yes, that is why you have to turn to the Creator. While striving to attain the abstract form, you should ask Him to take a step toward you. You only need to reach that “wah-wah,” as you say, “bursting out of yourself.”

Very good! This is where the request, which is called “the gate of tears” appears, that I cannot do this myself! And that is all; the Creator will do it. He will give you this quality. No one is saying that you have to attain Him. You must give quantity and quality to the effort required.

Question: What exactly is this request to the Creator? Where does this cry come from?

Answer: From the heart. There is no need to say anything.

After you make many different attempts, a feeling will emerge inside that cannot be expressed in words. It exists in the form of the Psalms of King David. Rabash writes about this in his articles.

The thing is that until you attain this, you let these words pass by you. You have to come to them yourself. And suddenly, you will find yourself speaking in psalms. I am speaking completely seriously. A person who attains this level says exactly what is written.

He suddenly discovers these words within himself. Where did they come from? And where did they come from for King David? He ascended to this level and discovered the combination of vessels and lights in a state that forms precisely these words, such a matrix expressed through his vocal apparatus, through the brain, in such sounds.

Question: Is it like a code on a certain degree?

Answer: Of course. That is, the light acts within the desire. In The Book of Zohar, this is described beautifully! Through the device called the human of our world with his anatomical structure, the feeling is expressed in the form of such images of letters, such sounds. As a result, the person expresses what King David said.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Gate of Tears” 10/11/10

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Comment: When you disseminate Kabbalah to the masses, what attracts people is your inner message.

My Response: This happens because I have this energy. People sense that there is an upper force in me. They perceive it, even if just slightly, and sense that knowledge, confidence, and inner light.

I am not boasting about it, but I also do not hide that they really sense all of this. In many, it provokes hatred; in others, respect, approval, or admiration. It makes no difference. The main thing is that it exists, and it is not merely the spark of a brilliant orator; after all, I do not speak Hebrew particularly well, and my manner is generally somewhat rough, with a strange, often off-putting sense of humor.

I craft my statements quite deliberately, even pointedly, specifically to shake a person up and make them feel uncomfortable to prompt them to engage their critical left line a bit. People simply recognize there is a profound logic here, not mine, of course.

By the way, by nature I am practically without any innate talents. The only thing speaking through me is what I have attained from my great teacher. Through my connection with him, I pass on to you what he receives from his teacher, and further, through the entire chain of Kabbalists.

I have simply been privileged to serve as a conduit, to “pour,” so to speak, information from myself into the common Kli. To the extent that you unite with one another, I am able to pour all of this into you.

Whether I am here or not does not matter. The absence of visual contact serves to give you the opportunity for even greater freedom of choice to unite with one another. If I am no longer present, it will simply mean that you have been granted an even greater measure of freedom of will, even greater responsibility to unite. And when you can do this, you will receive even more from me, just as I receive much more from my teacher than when he was physically next to me.

It is said that the righteous live more in their death than in their life. And therefore there is no difference whether I exist now or will not exist in your eyes. If you unite among yourselves, you will feel a spiritual abundance pouring into you, specifically from me, in an even greater measure.

When you are ready for the stage of uniting with one another, without me in greater freedom of choice, since there will no longer be my pressure or direct guidance, and you are able to bring this to fruition, then I will depart. From that point on, it will be entirely up to you whether you succeed in realizing this or not.

Question: Do you think that those external circles we are currently disseminating information to will continue to be drawn to this in the same way?

Answer: This depends on the extent to which you become a magnetic force, how much inner strength you possess (the kind I currently hold), and on your capacity serve as a source of that strength for all of humanity. If you remain in contact with me and allow this force to flow into you through me, you will begin to attract all of humanity. But all this must happen collectively, as a single, unified entity.

Question: Is it possible that we might fail to become a unified whole?

Answer: In that case the obligation would be shifted away from you and placed upon some other group; alternatively you could be compelled toward this unity through the path of suffering. You will be made to unite regardless, because this is the natural trajectory of evolution, the inevitable path leading to the revelation of that system, that state that exists in the world of infinity.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. In the Union” 9/11/10

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Question: Are there instances when you, as a teacher, find yourself in dissonance with the group, and you tell the students: “You do not understand me,” and they respond that it is you who does not understand them? What does this achieve?

Answer: It leads to clarification of relationships. How could it be otherwise? That is how it must be. Nothing good comes from what is already “good”; it can only emerge from what is difficult or flawed.

Comment: So, as you put it, you need to put pressure on them, much like we put pressure on a child to help him or her develop.

My Response: It depends on what you mean by “pressure.” You must apply pressure creatively; only then will something emerge. You have to constantly introduce different exercises and small challenges, nothing too overwhelming, while offering help, providing explanations, giving gentle nudges, and continuously alternating between the left and right lines.

How else could it be? How do we play with children? Only in this way. They themselves insist on it.

Comment: But you constantly drive the group into a state of stress as you tell them that the whole world is suffering because of them. And they cry out: “So what are we supposed to do? Tell us!”

My Response: This is precisely how they will try to search for something. I cannot simply tell them what must be done, because the process is one of searching. If I just told them, it wouldn’t work; it wouldn’t be accepted, defined, felt, or truly internalized.

Question: But surely you know what needs to be done, don’t you? Do you have some kind of “vaccine” for this? Is it that you simply do not speak about it?

Answer: I have nothing of the sort. Do you think I am hiding something? Do you suppose that Kabbalah can simply be revealed to someone, and that is it? Through what sensations could it be revealed, if a person does not yet possess them? Through what?

Suppose you were supposed to start sensing radio waves. But you cannot. What can I do? If I were to lower radio waves to the level of the sound or light, levels that you can perceive, then you would see and feel them.

But in order to perceive the radio waves themselves, you must rise to that level, you need to develop some kind of sensor within yourself, a receiver that would perceive them.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Useless and Worthless People in the Group” 9/26/10

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Question: In contrast to the point in the heart, does the “Aviut” (thickness, coarseness) of the desire to receive also grow?

Answer: Naturally, the Aviut of the desire to receive grows opposite the point in the heart. Initially, you connect with this point, while the Aviut, the force of desire, is still concealed.

However, when you begin to sense fulfillment in this point, one that reveals the greatness of the Creator to you, the question of how to handle His greatness arises. Do you need it for the sake of self-enjoyment and comfort or do you view it as a means for further advancement, where you close your eyes, and choose not to see His greatness, but use it exclusively for further spiritual advancement?

If after receiving inspiration you do not go to the group with it but only fill yourself and enjoy it, then immediately a void is revealed within your Kli. A similar phenomenon occurs whenever we fill ourselves for the sake of receiving. I received what I strongly desired, yet I find myself empty once again; the air has escaped, and I am empty once more.

The same thing seems to happen to you in spirituality as well and you begin to feel the emptiness even more than before: You have expanded your Kli, filled it with an awareness of the Creator, only to find yourself emptied of this vast newfound awareness. “Never have I have felt so empty, never have I suffered so intensely! Is this what spiritual advancement is? You ask yourself. “Is this the Torah and is this the reward?”

This happened because you failed to notice that critical moment when you began to derive pleasure from your state rather than using it effectively to further your advancement. Learning to discern this is a very long, difficult, and complicated process. As one learns, one eventually becomes sensitive to this point.

After establishing contact with the Creator, a person is literally at the peak of understanding regarding what one is doing with this connection, whether one using it for one’s own benefit or whether one is truly channeling every awakening, every ascent, and all the strength one has received into further advancement in order to eventually acquire the intention to please the Creator. Basically, throughout our journey in the dark, we study how to sense this point.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/26, Rabash, “What Is the Difference between Law and Judgment in the Work?”

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Question: How can a spiritual directorate replace you, a Kabbalist, who gives people a sensation of the upper world?

Answer: The spiritual directorate deals with clarifying current issues related to advertising, dissemination, studies, and the functioning of our organization, that is, the framework we exist within. It does not deal with the spiritual fulfillment that I give to the students, nor with the knowledge that I reveal to them every day.

The spiritual directorate cannot replace me as a professional, as a teacher. However, it can, and already does, replace me in all decisions concerning the development of the organization and the group so that there are no arbitrary corporeal decisions or deviations.

These are ordinary people, students who are more or less capable of looking objectively at themselves and the group, and of making decisions, not with clouded eyes, but by rising above themselves toward a collective decision.

They understand that whatever the decision may be, if it is collective, it is higher than even the smartest and most brilliant individual decision, because within it the Creator is present. He is the one who truly governs the world and the group. In an individual, egoistic, even if brilliant decision, the Creator is absent, and therefore it is doomed to fail.

Ordinary people do not yet understand this, especially now, when a global system is beginning to reveal itself in the world and the structure of reality is gradually becoming clear: first through human society, then through ecology, and later through the entire vast universe.

The universe is beginning to appear as a single, complete system of inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human nature. However, we do not know what to do with it because we have no tools to work with such a system. In fact, this system is the most important because it alone governs everything.

In other words, the world is governed by the collective as a whole system. Have you noticed how a school of fish turns in water, all at once, not one leading and the others following, but all together, a whole mass, sometimes hundreds of thousands moving as one? Birds behave the same way.

This example shows the upper governance, not when one makes a decision and others follow, but when the wholeness of the group itself governs. Therefore, I exist not to lead you forward, but so that you form such wholeness. And then, among you, the Creator will be revealed, and He will lead you forward.

Moses was great in that he led the people, yet the Creator went before him, as a pillar of fire at night and as a cloud pillar by day.

A teacher is needed to gather everyone into a collective so that within the group, or even within all humanity, the force called “the Creator” will be revealed, the force that holds everything together, the general force of nature.

It is called the force of bestowal and love because only through this quality can people unite. And when it is revealed, everyone will turn in the same direction simultaneously, feeling themselves as one single body. Then all will understand how reality is structured, and to the extent that they are able to unite, the force of the Creator will be revealed.

Therefore, if the spiritual directorate resolves issues collectively, it will certainly succeed, whereas a single “clever individual” never will.

Question: How can we unite so that the upper force will dwell within us?

Answer: Prefer the collective opinion over your own. This opinion is gradually formed by the friends through discussion, by comparing their goals, plans, capabilities, and analyses with what is written in the sources, and for this, it is enough to know a few of the simplest principles.

Any group can do this if it is capable. Unfortunately, there are many “clever” individuals who understand the material very well, but cannot yet get to a collective approach. Therefore, they are not part of the spiritual directorate.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Meaning of Spiritual Direction” 9/11/10

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Comment: When someone asks you a question via Skype or in person, that is one kind of energy. But when a crowd is sitting in front of you and they ask you a question, it is a completely different energy, as if piercing needles or a crushing weight.

My Response: Of course, because it is an enormous force, an enormous desire. How can the egoism of one small, insignificant little person be compared with the egoism of such a vast, base, egoistic mass as my students at the lesson?

On one hand, they are coarser, more disillusioned, more empty, and on the other hand, are intensely directed toward the goal. Ultimately these forces combine and reinforce each other.

And most importantly, the questions are asked collectively; all the vectors of desires converge and intertwine.

Naturally, this is a completely different kind of clarification. How can one person be compared with the masses? Next to them, you are an angel.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Questions in a Lesson” 9/29/10

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