Question: You said that creation connects with the Creator through its desire to receive. But how can it connect through this desire to the desire to bestow?

Answer: These two kinds of desires are connected between us, and between us and the Creator. Therefore, through the desire to receive, creation can influence the Creator, His desire to bestow to us. This is our work.

It is like one end of the thread, from us to the Creator, and it is in our power, in our hands.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/16/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: It is said that the desire to receive the Creator’s light is the material of creation. But is the desire to delight the Creator a different kind of matter? Is it something we create?

Answer: It is also a relationship between creation and the Creator: either to the Creator or to the creation. Therefore, we must work with both.

Question: So a person is called to train their desire: what should be desired and for what purpose?

Answer: Yes, we must number our desires and figure out which ones bring us closer to the Creator or further from Him and what to do with them.

And so by gradually changing, we will move from one stage to another.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/16/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: It often happens that a person brings in psychology into and thinks that he is engaged in inner work. How can one distinguish inner work from psychology?

Answer: Psychology is when you work with your egoism, and spiritual work is when you work on your egoism.

In spiritual work, you consider the desires of others and try to transcend yourself and exist within them. You accept the values of the Kabbalistic environment, which defines what is important to you, and you strive to realize the guidelines you receive from it. Spiritual work is above the ego because you work with the desires of the environment.

In psychology, you work within your ego, sorting out within yourself what is important and what is not, how you think, and how you influence.

Spiritual growth is based on constantly doubting yourself, jumping back and forth, and thus studying yourself. Spiritual development is self-knowledge, where you constantly go within and understand yourself more and more. After all, all perception is within you, the worlds are within you, the world of infinity is within you, the entire universe is within you, in you.

Question: But how can I attain a planet within myself?

Answer: Oh! You will see that it simply appears to you,  a certain spot on your screen, it turns out, is the Moon and another spot is the Sun. They are drawn within you by your inner forces, just as you see a picture on your computer screen.

There are 613 forces on your inner screen, the vectorial combination of which paints the overall picture for you. That is all, there is nothing else. Just as we are talking now, you see me on your computer screen, and I see you on mine. It is absolutely the same thing.

I’m sitting in my office right now, and I have a device here with which I can see a dozen other places outside. These are my eyes. I have become so accustomed to this device that I feel it as part of my body, as if I were outside the building, in a hallway, somewhere in another department, in a lecture hall. I live in these places. How is this device different from my eyes? Not at all.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Are You Above or Below Ego?” 10/5/10

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Question: We have holidays ahead of us: the period of Slichot, Rosh HaShanah, and Yom Kippur. If the states of time in the spiritual and material are not connected, then what place do these holidays occupy in the spiritual?

Answer: We must know in general what is happening in spirituality because the general influence of light descends upon us, we depend on it, but nothing more.

The most important thing is what happens in our hearts.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/14/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Can we say that we need to strive to hasten the movement from one form to another? Upon reaching a certain degree, should we not so much enjoy the new level but look toward the next degree, and thus move toward a new crisis of transition into the next form?

Answer: That is absolutely right. We must feel what time is demanding from us and remain connected with it together.

Question: There are states when it seems practically impossible to accept a new form. What actions can be taken so that this process happens more smoothly and quickly?

Answer: The most important thing is to be united with one another in the group. In this way, we can hasten time.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/14/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: What is the most important obstacle to revealing the stages of the development of desire in oneself?

Answer: The obstacle is that we must reveal the Kli, the desire (Ratzon) in which the light will be expressed in full.

There are many nuances and components here. We will still study this and implement it in practice.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/10/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: My friends and I must come to a request to the Creator: “Either correct me, or kill me.” But looking into my heart I see that I am like a cat that, thanks to the environment, has been trained to walk with a tray, and if a mouse runs by I will dash after it. How will I come to a sincere desire?

Answer: This is possible only under the influence of the upper light. Did you think you could manage on your own?!

Question: Must the desire be such that the light will act?

Answer: No! You cannot have such a desire. From where?! You are an egoist by nature. If you slightly nullify yourself before the other egoists, then the Creator will respond to your mutual nullification.

When you create in the center of the ten such a field where each of you nullifies yourself, an empty space will form, a white spot. The Creator will act on that.

Question: So we will come to the desire “better death than such a life,” or is that impossible?

Answer: You will come to the desire to unite thanks to envy, when you show one another how far each of you has already progressed. Then your ego will force you to be different.
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From the 5th Lesson of the Congress in Moldova, 9/7/2019

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Question: Time in spirituality is a change of states. The faster they change, the faster we move. That is, time accelerates.

The Baal Shem Tov spoke about states changing “400 times a minute.” To what extent does this depend on us, and to what extent on the Creator?

Answer: A change of state depends only on our environment. To the extent we are connected with it, to that extent we will change with it.

Question: What does it mean that we as a group, as a ten, are going through spiritual time?

Answer: We are going through spiritual time if we feel changes occurring in us. And in accordance with them, we will feel how much we rise spiritually.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/14/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Was the fact that the light left the fourth stage and then again filled the first three stages a decision of the light or the Kli?

Answer: From the material we are studying, it is clear to us that this was the decision of the Kli. The light affects the Kli, fills it, and forces it to change in accordance with its nature.

We begin our study with the concept of the light and what is Kli. Then we learn how the different parts of the Kli gradually change, how much the person himself changes, and how he reaches a state where he completely corresponds to the light that evokes certain properties in him.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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This entire reality, upper ones and lower ones alike, in its final state of the end of correction, was emanated and created with a single thought. That single thought performs all the operations; it is the essence of all the operations, the purpose and the essence of the labor. It is by itself the very perfection and the sought-after reward, as Nachmanides wrote, “one, unique, and unified” (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Vol. 1, Part 1, ” Inner Observation”).

Everything was made for the purpose of creation: “to delight the created beings.” This includes all creatures and all actions, and all their sensations, the awakening of the created beings, and their attainment of complete equivalence to the Creator in the end of correction, as the fulfillment of this entire purpose. All of this is experienced by the created beings as a process they pass through, as though changes are taking place within them.

But in truth, both the created beings and all the actions carried out with them, all their feelings, the states they go through, all the worlds, Sefirot, and Partzufim that arise—this entire grand process of development that appears to us—is already contained within the purpose of creation, in the thought of the Creator, apart from which nothing exists! There is nothing else; we exist in His thought, and within it we go through this entire process of development. We live inside His thought!

Therefore, by this one thought the world was brought into being, created, and arranged, and in it the world will reach its final correction. Everything is contained only in the Creator’s purpose, that is, in the relation of the light to the created being, to whom He wishes to give goodness and bring to the state of absolute good.

And it only seems to us as though we exist independently and perform some actions, make efforts, turn in prayer, receive an answer from above, and conquer entire worlds, Partzufim, Sefirot, vast expanses. But all this we merely imagine in accordance with the purpose of creation.

Naturally this does not in the least diminish our work and efforts, even in our world, which is not considered to exist at all. Baal HaSulam says that when our eyes are opened, we will understand that until then we were as though in a dream.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/15/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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