Baal HaSulam, The Writings of the Last Generation: It is impossible to taste pleasure in adhesion before one performs many good deeds that can affect it, meaning by strict observance of this condition to bring Him contentment, or in other words, delight in the contentment given to the Creator by performing the commandment. After one feels the great pleasure in the acts, it is possible to understand Him, to the extent of that pleasure.

To bring contentment to the Creator, one must perform good deeds for others because it does not matter whether you do them with respect to people or to the Creator. However, our egoism revolts against this.

Concerning the Creator, you seem to be ready to do good deeds because your egoism indulges in it. But, if you really want them to be for His sake, it is only possible by doing them for people.

Question: Does this mean that without actions I cannot come to adhesion with the Creator in my intentions?

Answer: No! Your intentions only deceive you, while actions indicate that your intentions are true.

The most important action is to organize people so that they are connected with each other by good ties.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation,” 12/11/17

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Question: On one hand, there is the principle “The judge has only what his eyes see.” On the other hand, it is said that there is nothing around us except the white Light that fills everything. How can we reconcile these two principles?

Answer: If you want to understand this, stick to a very simple principle: using the methodology of Kabbalah, unite in groups and try to feel the others. You will begin to feel the spiritual world in them.

Suppose I feel only myself now. If I exit from my own feelings and begin to sense my friends from within, if I perform a restriction (Tzimtzum Aleph) on the desires “for self alone” and enter the quality of bestowal, then I will feel each friend as a spiritual being, a Sefira. All of them together will feel like a Partzuf that is filled with Light, called the Creator.

Together, the Light, the Creator, and the totality of the Sefirot—everything except my animal “I”—will be called a soul. It turns out that together with my friends, I create my soul and each of them does so in relation to the others.

Question: What will I see in a state of “outside myself”?

Answer: You will see the forces that govern the entire universe acting through a multitude of higher laws—their beginning, process, effect, and conclusion. This understanding permeates your desire, fulfilling it. You perceive this fulfillment as the most enormous, highest pleasure of your eternal existence.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/10/17

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Question: Which forces does Kabbalah operate?

Answer: Two forces exist in nature: the force of reception and the force of bestowal, plus and minus. They affect our desire. The desire to receive exists in each of us from the beginning—we are born with it. The desire to bestow, however, we must win for ourselves from nature, from the Creator.

Everything happens as in physics: one force repels, the other attracts. We act based on these natural properties. Even when we talk about desires, prayer, and aspirations, we mean only forces.

The force to receive is our nature: I want to pull that which I desire to me, to get the maximum pleasure with the minimum effort.

The power of bestowal is the power of Light. If I absorb the desire of a friend, if I want my friend to receive and I try to fill this desire, then the strength with which I want to do this is called the power of bestowal.

It needs to be discovered, just like electricity was discovered. To do this, I need to feel a friend more closely than myself. When I reveal the power of bestowal, I begin to adjust myself with the help of both forces. Between them, I am able more and more to determine the joint property of bestowal and reception in which I feel the Creator.

The most important thing for me is to reveal the Creator as much as possible between these two opposite forces: reception and bestowal.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 2/4/18

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Question: Can a student of Kabbalah fail to achieve his cherished goal?

Answer: Of course. Kabbalah is a science. Everyone wants to be Einstein, but some only become assistant professors. This is necessary.

A person should strive for the maximum, but it does not matter how it will turn out. However, if he works correctly, he will surely reach it.

In a closed system, when one returns to his roots, he feels that he is higher in relation to others. By passing the upper Light through them, he feels himself to be a special source of energy for everyone else.

Question: Einstein is an example of reaching a high level in a certain direction. But he had a rare talent, there is no second Einstein in the world. And you say that in Kabbalah, everyone can reach great heights?

Answer: Einstein had a gift to see the inner connections of the world. His genius was in that, through the combination of various opposite properties of nature, he was able to obtain new formulas, expressions, comprehension, and to describe them mathematically.

Therefore, mathematics is the basis of all sciences, although it is not a science by itself. It is a way of describing internal connections of nature. After all, nature is also not a science. Nature is a network of connections between us.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/4/18

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Question: According to Kabbalah, what does one reveal in the process of attainment in the beginning and what is at the end?

Answer: First one reveals that everything in the world is created for man so that he will comprehend the Creator’s properties. Therefore, the meaning of existence is to reveal the Creator’s actions in ourselves.

At the end, when one achieves complete correction, he reveals that everything inside him happens in tune with the Creator, in absolute agreement with Him.

Question: It is believed that first one reveals “There is none else beside Him,” and then that “He is good and does good.” Can we break it down into such stages?

Answer: You can say so. But on every step, it is all mixed together.

Question: In the book Shamati, it is written: “The Creator is my shadow.” How can one ascend in attaining the Creator, realizing that He is one’s shadow? Does something stop us from seeing this?

Answer: “The Creator is my shadow” means that everything is the Creator’s reflection, and man too. How the Creator moves with respect to man, so man does these movements.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/11/18

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Question from Facebook: How can we reconcile emotions with reason because our emotions arise as responses to life events that are far from the rational way the world is run?

Answer: Our emotions have nothing to do with mind. They manifest because they “jump out” of desire. And desire is our innate nature.

Reason is an acquired additional system designed to collect emotions, sort them out, compare, curb, etc. But generally, reason is weak before emotions; before desires, it is secondary.

Question: Is it possible to curb emotions?

Answer: There is no point. You have to reach a state where your emotions are balanced. After all, negative emotions can be balanced with positive ones and then you can feel comfortable with them, because both negative and positive emotions will work together toward a lofty goal.

And you know that you need all of it. You are not fighting your nature or the people around you. On the contrary, you enter a state when you are in harmony with each other. One person’s plus is compensated by the another’s minus. We are created in such a way that if all of us would correctly connect with each other, we would form an ideal system, and all our pluses and minuses would fit together perfectly.

Question: So the pluses and minuses are scattered around the world in order to connect?

Answer: That’s the problem. We have no other choice. We try to do something among each other, we get discouraged seeing that nothing helps, and eventually we die.

But in fact, we need to see that we cannot do anything by ourselves and must ask the Creator to help us. Then He will shine upon us with the upper Light, under the influence of which we will quickly assemble into the correct mosaic and complete each other.

Then we will have the perfect combination of everyone with each other. All negative and positive emotions will be supplemented, every person will be necessary for another. That is how we will reach perfection.
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From KabTV’s, “News with Michael Laitman” 4/24/18

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Question: What does it mean to correctly respond to what the Creator sends?

Answer: The correct response is a constant feeling that you have contact with Him.

Question: How can one understand that it comes from the Creator? Maybe it just seems this way to me?

Answer: Whatever happens, imagine that it comes only from the Creator. But it is better to do this with your friends.

Question: Who exactly reveals the Creator?

Answer: The Creator is revealed by the one who, as a result of his development in the group, has reached a state where he feels that his desire and the desire of the other can conjugate and work together in a unified system. Then, between these two desires, the property of connection arises—this is already the beginning of the revelation of the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/21/18

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Question: What does it mean that we create the Creator?

Answer: In reality there is no Creator. The extent to which I can sense the upper Light and correct myself to be similar to it is the part within me that is called the Creator or Boreh (“bo-reh” – come and see).

The revelation of the Creator occurs according to my properties becoming similar to His properties. If there are no such properties currently within me, then there is no Creator within me.

Question: On one hand you say that we create the Creator within us. On the other hand, you say that the Creator does everything: all thoughts come from Him and He controls all people’s actions. There is a contradiction here. How can it be resolved?

Answer: It is very simple. As a matter of fact, the Creator acts the same way I act toward Him. He is the unchangeable force that fills everything, preserves everything within Him, and becomes revealed only to the extent that I move toward Him.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/21/18

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Question: Is it possible to single out other forces in the one higher power of nature?

Answer: No. There is only one power of the Creator/nature, which manages everything in a single system with a single force of bestowal. The whole of creation is based on the opposite power. The goal is to manage it, change its direction, and join the Creator by correcting it.

Question: But the power of creation is also a power. Does it mean there are already two?

Answer: No. The fact is that we cannot simply divide it.

We need to understand whether egoism really exists. It seems that it does. But what for? It exists to give us the opportunity to acquire the opposite property of bestowal, love, and altruism. When we reach it, we find that egoism has never existed, it only seemed to us that it existed in order to rise to the property of bestowal and love.

But these are all empty words until the person himself will experience it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/4/18

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Question: If you begin to see and feel that other people are a reflection of your egoistic characteristics, does this feeling somehow apply to the spiritual world?

Answer: Yes. This is already a good step.

Question: Why does the Creator give desires that harm me? How should I work with them?

Answer: There is nothing harmful in the world! You only need to balance one thing with the other. It is not necessary to restrict desires or to reject them. It is only necessary to balance them. There is no evil in the world; there is simply imbalanced goodness.

Question: Does the Creator act in our world through all people to reveal His actions?

Answer: Certainly.

Question: Do you feel the audience during a broadcast?

Answer: In general, yes. But it is not necessarily the same audience that is in front of me now on the screens.

Question: If a person must become like the Creator, isn’t this arrogance?

Answer: There is no arrogance here. This is a task that the higher power established from the start at the time of the creation of the desire to receive and enjoy so that it would become a desire to give pleasure.

Question: What can be done if one has a desire to bestow and give to others, but suddenly discovers that he doesn’t have anything to bestow and give?

Answer: You should not give anything to others other than your desire to bestow. Everything else is in nature is in infinite quantity and quality.

Question: What does it mean to restrict desire?

Answer: It means that you are not thinking about yourself.

Question: What is love? Is it possible to feel it in our world, after attaining and studying the wisdom of Kabbalah, outside of a group, in the ordinary life of all people?

Answer: Love is an expression of concern for others more than for oneself. That is all. It is very simple.

Question: If a person does something bad, does this mean that the Creator, not evil forces, wanted him to do this?

Answer: We cannot clarify this. To do this we must enter into a system where we can see exactly how the Creator acts through us.

Question: Does the concealment of the Creator depend on my actions, or does the Creator conceal Himself?

Answer: We conceal the Creator through our opposite characteristics.

Question: Does the concealment of the network of forces that manage us belong to one of the three reasons for the concealment of the Creator?

Answer: All three reasons for concealment work on us simultaneously, sometimes one is more, and sometimes another.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/12/17

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