Question: What does it mean to reveal the Creator’s attitude toward oneself? How can I influence this?

Answer: You must bring yourself to a state in which it becomes clear to you what the Creator wants from you, and you desire to realize His attitude toward you.

Question: How should one correctly relate to concealment?

Answer: A person must strive for a state in which he is as close as possible to the Creator.

Question: If a person does not find contact with the Creator, does this mean that he is not connected with his friends?

Answer: No, a person must constantly examine himself and clarify why it seems to him that he is not sufficiently connected with the friends and with the Creator.

Question: How can one reduce oneself to the complete “point in the heart”?

Answer: The point in the heart is the single desire that I have toward the Creator. If I reduce myself to such a desire, beyond which I have nothing else, then I am in the point in the heart.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/7/25, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: What does it mean that we reveal the Creator through a friend?

Answer: It means that through my attitude toward my friend I discover the measure of my own desire to attain the Creator.

Question: And who is this friend that I am constantly searching for?

Answer: It is the Creator Himself.

One must strive to attain the Creator as one’s great friend, the one before whom you can open yourself entirely, in what is called “face to face.”

Do not hide anything from Him. Simply desire that every concealment be lifted and revealed.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/7/25, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: If we do not sense the Creator, how can we receive His qualities and become similar to Him?

Answer: A person senses nothing outside of himself, outside of his body, whether it is the Creator, a friend, or the group. Therefore, we must first work on our bestowal to the other, to love the other as ourselves. And if I can attain bestowal to the other, then I will be able to bestow to the Creator as well.

If I agree to work only for the Creator but not for the other, this is a sign that I am not ready to work for the Creator either. After all, I am still not making an independent calculation “outside my own interest.” I remain within myself and receive results of the work, the reward.

That is, all the work is only in relation to the group, within which we create the place for the revelation of the Creator.

We do not receive any light; we are filled with our own bestowal! I “generate” this quality from within myself with the help of the force that comes to me and gives me the ability to be in bestowal, and in this I feel the force of the Creator clothing in me. This serves as my fulfillment.

I will never reveal anything “outside of myself,” even though it is said that we “go out of ourselves” and connect with others. This is all my imagination, my perception, as if I am going out of myself.

It is said that Malchut of the world of Atzilut is called “the image of the Creator.”

And it is also said that I must bring joy to the Creator through all the states that I receive from Him. But what does it mean to receive states from Him; after all, they depend on the desire awakened in me: more or less, depending on my overcoming my egoistic desire and correcting it. How is this related to the Creator, who does not change?

And what can I even give Him? There is no one to bestow to, no one to receive my work.

In the end we reveal that we correct only our own qualities and never leave them. And the very quality of bestowal is a pure quality; I cannot work for any kind of “benefit” of it. I can only value it as a special, exalted quality according to my attitude of awe toward the light and toward the other, which inspires the sense of the greatness of bestowal and love in me.
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From Kabbalah Lesson 4/27/11, Baal HaSulam, Shamati 1, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: Why is it easier to endure personal misfortunes when you have friends?

Answer: When I am connected with friends, my personal problem is shared among us. If there is truly a strong bond between us and they support me by sharing my sorrow, then it is distributed among all of us.

This is precisely the meaning of visiting the sick. We tend to think that people visit the sick just to check on them, to talk with them, to bring them apples and oranges, but there is a much deeper meaning. Such a visit can actually ease the illness because we share the suffering of the friend and give him our strength.

We are all connected in one system regardless of the fact that each of us exists in a separate body. If we are connected, then all our systems connect: intellectual, emotional, and many others that we do not yet know about.

As a result, we create a shared system of connections between people, and in truth it is much greater than we imagine. Illness is a kind of malfunction in my personal system that makes me feel ill. But when my friends who are connected with me come to visit with the intention of deepening the connection, they enter my damaged system and take part in it.

If two friends come to visit me, then my malfunction is divided among the three of us. It does not yet divide evenly, but it should if we are strongly, properly, and correctly connected. We will clearly feel how we take on the other’s pain, and give the sick person our own joy and happiness in return.

Question: So if someone tells me about their problem, does it make it easier?

Answer: If there is no connection between you, this has practically no effect. Yet we know that hearing good or bad news can influence a person strongly, either lift their mood or depress them.

But if this is my friend, then we are connected as if we exist within one body. Therefore when he comes to visit me during an illness, the defect in my system is transmitted to him, and it becomes easier for me.

It is precisely because we are separated by bodies, but able to connect on a sensory level, that a friend can help heal my illness, as if taking part of it into himself. He takes a portion of the imbalance from my system and equalizes it within his own.

He eases my suffering simply by performing a good and correct action, and takes this unbalanced part onto himself with love. And besides that, his healthy system can absorb this fragment of another’s illness precisely because it is not inherently his. He takes part of the illness, isolates it within himself, and heals it within his own subsystem.

Question: Does this happen unconsciously?

Answer: Usually it happens unconsciously, but there are people on a higher level who can see how it occurs.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 242 – Happiness And Social Ties,” 10/17/13

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It is very easy to determine whether a path is spiritual: everything we agree with is not spiritual!

What does belong to it are precisely the opposite things, which are not accepted by our reason and feelings and are unwanted and hated. Those are exactly what we must work on.

If I do not feel any benefit from some state, neither emotionally nor mentally, then only by rising above that state can I begin to build the spiritual. After all, in such a case I am certainly not bribed or seeking personal gain, and in order to rise above it, I will need the help of the Creator.

So I constantly check myself: to what extent does my body resist my work? And this becomes a sign of correct advancement for me.

Then I need to look at why I am doing this. Maybe I want to rise above myself and pursue some personal goals.

Or maybe I want to find the love of the Creator, which is repugnant to our “body”—the egoistic mind and feeling. And I am looking for love that is entirely built on hatred of egoistic thoughts and desires about myself.

But often we do not try to rise above our body, but regret that we cannot work according to the mind and feelings contained within the body, rather than seeking the state that lies above reason and feeling, and desiring to be in it.

First of all, we must push the body down with all its feelings and reason, be above them, and not take them into account. That is, we take them into account only in order to rise above them. This is called faith above reason.

Instead we lament: why is everything not revealed to my mind so that I could act like a sensible person, and know that I possess intellect and my own strength for proper advancement?
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 8/30/10, Rabash, Article 35

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Comment: Desire develops the mind. You say that it is not the intelligent one who learns, but still a person becomes smarter.

My Response: But this reason appears as a result of new feelings, sensations, and changes in one’s desires.
Comment: So a stronger desire emerges, and because of that the mind increases as a side effect.

My Response: No, it is not a side effect. It truly is auxiliary. It serves the increased, transformed desires.

But we always thought that desires were just some kind of passions, something else, and that the mind is something we can rely on. In reality, that is not how it is. You begin to see that everything is completely different, the world is arranged the opposite way, precisely because desire is the basis of matter.

That is, if you act only within our world, then knowledge is above desires. But if you desire to enter the upper world, you begin to understand that all your advancement depends on the change and correction of your desires. Therefore, they become the main thing for you to address. And knowledge and reason are adjacent, as something auxiliary.

Comment: I wouldn’t say that. After all, all your previous knowledge allowed you to express certain things.

My Response: But nothing more. Only in my profession as a teacher, but personally, I don’t need it.
Inner intelligence, that is, internal development does help, of course, but it depends on the type of soul.

I’m serious. I want people to understand that the level of earthly knowledge, whatever it may be— psychological or scientific—gives a person absolutely nothing for spiritual advancement. For explanations, for work, for something external perhaps it does. But not for the person himself.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Reason and Feelings” 10/5/10

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Question: You always speak about annulment before fate, before what the Creator determines. When you say this, what exactly do you mean?

Answer: I mean that I consciously agree with what is placed before me.

Question: Even with my illnesses and so on?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Meaning that this is from You, and it is necessary for me. Like that? And what happens then with my pain, with my suffering?

Answer: Agreeing with it creates serenity within a person. He agrees with his fate, he agrees with the Creator, he agrees to accept everything that is allotted to him according to his destiny.

Question: Is it like an anesthetic?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And this is called annulment?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And one must reach this?

Answer: I believe so.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/2/25

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Indeed, you should know that the reason for our great distance from the Creator, and that we are so prone to transgress His will, is for but one reason which became the source of all the torment and suffering we suffer, and for all the sins and the mistakes that we fail in (Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“).

It is necessary that the question of why we are distant from the Creator, why we do not feel Him, should burn within us.

Clearly, by removing that reason, we will instantly be rid of any sorrow or pain. We will immediately be granted adhesion with Him in heart, soul, and might. 

Baal HaSulam says we should know that the true reason for our distance from the Creator lies in the lack of our feeling, awareness, and knowledge of Him. After all, we do not feel Him as the One who is within us and who governs us.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/25, Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Comment: A person stands not knowing where to go. He hears this deliberation of paths: at the end of one is hell, at the end of another is heaven. Still, he does not move anywhere. It is as if he is torn apart; he does not know which way to go!

My Response: This is our feeling every second.

Comment: So, these roads, it is not just that I stand and make a decision right now. I am always in this state.

My Response: You are always in it.

Question: Am I always at a crossroads?

Answer: Yes, every moment.

Question: So, how do I eventually decide which path to take?

Answer: You decide nothing. You decide nothing; everything is decided from above. You are led as you must be led. And this is already known and predetermined in advance. So the main thing is to agree with it, not worry, and connect with the Creator, who is arranging everything. He will take you by the hand to where you must go. You just obediently correct yourself, that is, be in agreement with Him at every moment.

Question: One way or another, do I stop at this fork for a moment, for some time, and then I need to agree with Him and go where He directs me?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this what it means “to go where the heart leads”?

Answer: That is how it is said. According to the definition of a straight line. A straight line is actually a curve in every point of which there is a turn.

Comment: I did not know that. For me, even from the first grades in school, it is two points and a straight line between them.

My Response: No. You cannot draw a straight line; you do not know the final point. But at each point, you make a turn, and that is why it becomes a straight line.

Comment: A person does not choose his path is what you say. The Creator chooses it for him. And you always emphasize that the line is to agree with the Creator.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Why do I agree? Is it out of exhaustion, out of wisdom? What is stronger here?

Answer: Because this is the only correct option. I am not tuning myself to something supernatural. I am not making any special decisions. I simply want to flow with the current of life in agreement with the Creator because it is above me from the beginning.

Question: How do we come to this wisdom? We keep choosing something all the time.

Answer: Then be a revolutionary. Go ahead!

Question: It is already clear that this is a lost cause. Is it a true revolution when I agree?

Answer: It is when you agree with the Creator because that is against your nature.

Question: Is that what it means to rise above my nature?

Answer: Yes, our life is a struggle with our own egoism, with what we would like for ourselves. Therefore, only such an approach is truly rational.

Question: So does “I decide” live inside us live? Is the real reversal: “You decide, not I”?

Answer: Yes, that is why we must jump up, hold on to the Creator, and in this way fly forward.

Question: I must hold on to the Creator, what is that?

Answer: It is the nature of the whole universe. A great force, the wisest force that revolves everything. And we are tiny particles within it.

Indeed, we are given the ability to realize that above us there is something that controls us. To agree that He governs, this is our wisdom if we can reveal it.

Comment: And this additional element, which you always say, that all is good, that is the hardest to accept.

My Response: If He governs and there is none else besides Him, then what remains for us? The most rational thing we must do is to submit to Him. To submit, not out of weakness, but out of understanding.

Question: Then do I automatically understand that I am moving toward good?

Answer: Yes, and then we will move toward good.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/23/25

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Question: What is faith in the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: Faith is bestowal above reception. We use the force of faith because within a person, there is no inherent force of bestowal; one must receive it from the Creator. Through the influence of the upper light on a person, the ability to bestow is created within him.

It is like a magnet holding a piece of metal. The ability to bestow is maintained in a person only because he is under the influence of the upper light, and that is why it is called faith. He must be permeated by this impression from above, and only then can he perform altruistic actions, selfless calculations. That is why it is called faith.

If bestowal arose from his own strength, it would not be called faith. It exists only on condition that the upper light conveys its quality to the person and creates the ability to bestow within him. The quality of bestowal in a created being comes from its similarity to the upper light, its aspiration toward the upper one, and therefore, it is called faith.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/4/2012, Writings of Rabash, Article No.16, 1988 ”What Is the Foundation on which Kedusha [Holiness] Is Built?”

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