Question: What is the combination of the ten Sefirot de Igulim and the ten Sefirot de Yosher?

Answer: It is their mutual expansion; the ten Sefirot de Yosher spread within the ten Sefirot de Igulim.

Question: In the Rosh (head) there is the light of the entire degree, and the seven lower Sefirot are filled according to the screen (Masach). The decision about this process is made by Malchut de Malchut. But does the Rosh itself not yet perform independent calculations?

Answer: Everything is determined by Malchut de Rosh.

Question: Does the quality of bestowal arise at the moment of restriction (Tzimtzum)?

Answer: Yes, bestowal manifests in the Kli when the Kli is in a state of restriction.

Question: Are the ten Sefirot de Igulim in the world of Adam Kadmon the initial foundation of the screen from the side of the Kli?

Answer: Yes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/4/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Is there a difference in the inner work we perform on the calendar’s new year’s day compared to any other day?

Answer: In the upper worlds, there are roots that can awaken their influence upon us when we turn to them.
The corporeal calendar has almost no effect on the quality of our appeal. If we think about it, there are thousands of different calendars in the world with days, weeks, months, various holidays, and forces that supposedly influence humanity.

We need to understand only one thing: if we wish to attain good outcomes, then on any day, in any month, in any year, we must turn to the Creator, to His power, to His mercy.

In this way, we will feel the degree we appeal to and advance by its strength.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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We are completely at the mercy of nature and are guided in all our actions, both in the body and in the soul. Yet Kabbalists say we have freedom of choice, otherwise there would be no point in creating all of creation if the upper force had predetermined everything that happens within it.

However, freewill exists above our current life, solely there, where we wish to rise above our egoistic nature, in a higher dimension, in the quality of bestowal.

Only in this ascent from one degree to another can we choose to rise under the blows of nature if we do not wish to use our freewill and do not make our own effort, or to advance of our own accord in the same direction, that is, to see it as the desired goal. When we seek the forces that can help us make this ascent, there we find our freedom of choice.

Kabbalists explain that freedom of choice exists only in building the right environment. In any case, I advance under the influence of the environment; only I do not usually choose it myself.

But I can choose my environment consciously and thereby accelerate my progress and change the nature of my ascent. Instead of being tossed about under the blows of fate like a beaten animal, I can rise by a beautiful path, by my own desire, full of feeling, understanding, and inner strength, as befits a human being.

If I examine the goal, wish to draw closer to it, and understand that to accelerate my development I must draw more light than comes to me naturally, then I make use of the means given to me, which is called Torah, the upper light that draws me and returns me to the source.

Regarding this work, it is written that if we leave it even for a single day without realizing our freedom of choice, we are stopped for two days in our development, and prevented from advancing independently. The natural upper forces begin to act upon us.

It is not enough simply to lose the amount of effort we did not invest; this would not teach us anything. Therefore, we must receive a punishment slightly more than our fault, so that when a stronger obstacle arises next time we will be careful not to stumble over it.

Thus the spiritual law states: “If you leave Me one day, I will leave you two.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/9/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam “If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two”

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Our entire world is made up of images of receiving because in our desire to enjoy, in our dark material, there is nothing. When a little light shines into it, and this desire is slightly impressed by the light, then various fluids, waves, and shifting currents arise within this desire.

These build within us, within our feelings and mind, the sensation of this world. After all, our world is not the true reality, but what we imagine in our feelings and minds from the light that faintly illuminates desire within in such a tiny, weak, unreal form, since there is no connection between desire and light.

When we unite and a desire is formed that has the power of unity from all its parts, then light manifests within the desire as it unites above the separation that exists between its parts. Accordingly, the light is revealed within it, and then within desire, within the heart and mind, the true forms of light, of bestowal, are revealed.

Whereas in our world, false forms of bestowal unfold within our desires and thoughts, like dark shadows that paint images on a wall. Therefore, we must strive to attain a true picture of reality.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/7/11, “The Zohar”

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Each group is a “circle” of desires, where everyone is absolutely equal. If we want to determine the difference in their levels, we measure the distance between their central points; this distance is called the “straight line” (Yosher).

Let’s say one group is the group of Rabbi Shimon’s students, great Kabbalists. The second has just reached their first spiritual level. Both form a “circle,” but the difference between them is measured by the “straight line” (Yosher).

Each level, each state, has its own “circles” and a “straight line” stretching from one circle to another through their centers. If a group is already at a spiritual level, even the very first one, there is already a circle between them, albeit a very small one. From its center, we can measure the distance to the center of Rabbi Shimon’s group, and we get exactly 125 levels or states.

To each new state, you ascend along the “straight line” (Yosher), and then build a circle within it. Then you ascend again in a straight line and form a circle. Thus we advance step by step.

And the central point of the “circle,” the shared desire of the group, is the unification of everyone, so that through joint efforts, we can reveal the common quality of bestowal, which is called the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/27/11, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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I built a “wall” inside myself that shuts myself off from the world, from everyone. I live inside myself peacefully, alone. No one suspects that I live like this.

Comment: That’s interesting! You have hundreds of thousands of students and you say this is how you live.

My Response: That doesn’t matter.

Comment: Then share the secret.

My Response: The secret is very simple. I build this world within myself and therefore even if I am in contradiction with the world imposed on me, that contradiction does not oppress me or fight me. I simply set it aside and continue.

Question: Can you at least tell a little about what you have there in that world?

Answer: In that world I am a king. And I serve the great Creator. That is all. Everything is very simple.

Question: It is easy to say, but it is not so simple. Yet one really wants to be in such a world. Is there advice on how to get into it, into that world?

Answer: Squeeze through.

Question: How?

Answer: You must build it. A person must build it within himself. And when he builds it, he discovers that yes, it is possible, it must be done, and it will be eternal.

Question: Is it both security and peace?

Answer: It covers absolutely everything! It is the kingdom of the great king.

Question: “The great king,” but is the king Him?

Answer: Yes, and you build it for Him.

Question: You build it for Him? And then you end up in it? So that He rules there?

Answer: So that I will rule everything for Him.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/19/25

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The preparation period does not mean that we have to arm ourselves with patience and wait for it to pass. It will not pass unless we do everything in our power for to ensure its end in the next moment.

Waiting means that I am ready to invest effort in it every moment, without despair, again and again. And every moment I expect I will receive the reward—the power of bestowal that I demand, and so, again and again, at every moment, tirelessly.

If I am capable of this, if the states (entrances and exits) quickly replace one another, it is a sign that I can truly be awarded a higher, deeper degree. After all, the more transgressions and mistakes a person reveals during preparation, the more one advances in the single and double disclosure beyond the Machsom, and achieves correction.

During the preparation period, the group must provide everyone with the strength of consistency, perseverance, confidence, and patience, understanding that we have no choice, this is how we advance. And so year after year, until we are ready at every moment to give up immediate reward and to work even without it. That means we are worthy of crossing the Machsom.

A person strives so to the next degree that, due to the immense, passionate, burning desire for bestowal in him, he is ready to give it up and continue the stage of preparation. If the Creator wants to give me only this preparation, and I only want to achieve bestowal, then I am satisfied with this, and I do not need the Machsom, and then I receive it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/8/09, “The Nature of the Science of Kabbalah”

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Comment: Einstein’s quotes are quite simple and at the same time very deep. Please comment, what exactly he means.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

My Response: Only in this case can you achieve true success. It is not by comparing yourself with other people, but by comparing yourself with nature: how you can truly reveal it, know it, and be in harmony with it. To be in harmony with nature, that is the meaning of life.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

My Response: There is really nothing to add here; it is so true. Not to things, of course. And not to people, because people themselves are tied to things.

That means you must detach yourself from everything, determine your upper goal, and strive only toward it. At the same time, try somehow to explain to others, to direct them toward the same goal. This is what Einstein did all his life.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is the education I received.

My Response: Any education, in principle, confines a person within certain boundaries, not letting him break free from them.

But on the other hand, you cannot do without it. Yet, you must somehow act so that education does not limit you. This is what is meant by the saying: “Train a child according to his way.” Guide him in such a way that he develops himself.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

My Response: It is better to say that I am crazy. Well, what would change because of that?

Still, I believe that my “madness” will contribute something to the world, somehow shake it, someday help, leaving such a mark that people will then find it easier to reach the goal of creation.

Question: In this case, are you speaking about yourself?

Answer: Of course. How else could I speak in his place?

Comment: Let’s be honest; people consider you not crazy, but not quite reasonable, not understanding what is going on.

My Response: I do not understand what is going on? On the contrary, I am ready to talk with anyone. Politicians and scientists come through this studio.

Comment: But your proposals that we need to change man discourage them. “He cannot be changed!” they say.

My Response: Yes, they are right, by our corporeal methods. In this, I fully agree with them.

But there is another method by which man and humanity can be changed. Here, nothing can be done, we will be obliged to do it. Otherwise, on the brink of death, humanity will agree anyway.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/23/24

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Question: What should I do in order to feel the importance and greatness of the Creator coming from the friends?

Answer: You must respect a friend for the qualities he has, for the fact that he reveals himself in the group, and then you will begin to receive through him the light of the Creator.

Question: And who gives me this importance of the Creator? The Creator? Or is it my own effort?

Answer: The Creator begins, but you complete it. At the basis of these actions lies prayer.

Question: How do I gather it so that it becomes a true prayer, and not just me whining and complaining?

Answer: Think about it. Think about it all the time.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/24/2025, “Rosh HaShanah“

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The ARI writes that it is not adhered to the light of Ein Sof, meaning that the form of the circular light of Keter of the circles is not the same as the light in Ein Sof (Baal HaSulam “The Study of the Ten Sefirot” Vol. 1, Part 2, Chapter 1, No. 9).

Question: What is a round light?

Answer: A round light is different from any other (light) and is bound to its source. That is exactly what the Ari wants to say.

Question: Why does he call the Igulim (circles) “Sefirot” and not “Behinot“?

Answer: It is completely irrelevant now. “Sefirot” and “Behinot” are the names we use for the individual levels in each Partzuf.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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