Question: When a person is included in the intention to bring contentment to the Creator, how does he avoid turning it into reason? After all, he understands and feels that he is bestowing to the Creator, that he is connected to Him.

Answer: But he is connected to the Creator only through the intention. He does nothing else. He attributes only his intention to the Creator.

Question: And how can he avoid enjoying this, turning it into reason? What is the next stage, the continuation of this intention?

Answer: It does not matter what the Creator asks a person to do. That is irrelevant. We can stop right there.

The most important thing is that we have changed our intention, and whatever is revealed in such a state, we desire to pass everything to the Creator. At that point, we can say this particular state ends at the moment.

Question: You have said that when in the right intention, we should add actions. How is that done?

Answer: Intention alone means nothing; there must also be action. But action in spirituality is not something tangible that can be passed from hand to hand, because it is not corporeal.

Rather, I simply transfer the beginning of my thought and its end from me to the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/9/2025, “To be as an Ox to the Burden and as a Donkey to the Load”

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Question: What is the connection between the spiritual root of love and its earthly branch?

Answer: The earthly branch represents my one-sided, egoistic attitude toward myself, when I, like a dog, sense with my nose where I can still enjoy myself, and only this pulls me forward.

Comment: A person is given the concept of “first love” when they think only about the object of their affection.

My Response: That is, I am attracted by such great pleasure that I cannot think of anything else: not about food, not about walks, not about studies, not about sports. This is the egoistic development of hormones.

I am becoming a man, I feel hormonal surges, I do not understand what it is or how to realize them. I am tormented by vague guesses, and I am drawn to the object of their realization. That is all. What kind of love is this?

I told you how my mother, a doctor by training, explained to me how she used hormonal injections to make people love. The same thing is here. I won’t mock this feeling. On the contrary, it develops us greatly at a young age, when the transition from adolescence to youth occurs. This is a very useful quality, but it is purely egoistic.

Question: Isn’t there a purpose to this? Nature?

Answer: Of course, nature has a plan to further develop our egoism.

Question: Is this a good condition?

Answer: Any development is good, but when egoism develops completely, it must be corrected somehow. The complete physiological development of a person typically ends by the age of 18 to 22. However, sometimes it can continue further because under the influence of the environment, all sorts of other drives arise.

Basically, the set of human desires includes food, sex, family, wealth, fame, and knowledge; there are just six basic properties in which our ego develops. There is nothing else here.

I constantly consider what is more profitable for me and what I love more. If knowledge prevails, then I can abandon everything else. I immerse myself in science and it completely absorbs me. This is also love.

That is, love is a desire for fulfillment that is inherent in every person.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/2017, “True Love”

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Question: On the first day of the convention, we felt an ocean of light. But on the second day, it was as if we dove somewhere and lost all sense of up or down; we lost our footing.

What do we need to add to make it flow and unite us?

Answer: We lack darkness. Not the emptiness that the whole world feels as the absence of small fulfillments, but real darkness. Darkness is suffering from longing to reveal the Creator, the suffering of being disconnected from the meaning of life, from its source, from what it should be.

On one hand, all of creation shows us how interconnected, perfect, and above us it is. On the other hand, when we start trying to orient ourselves, we feel that we see nothing in it: no beginning, no end, complete disorientation.

This is actually the best feeling; it arises in us every moment that we move toward mastering the spiritual space, toward revealing the Creator. Ar every moment we feel either that we are approaching Him or moving away, falling, and darkness.

If yesterday you felt an “ocean of light,” today you will feel the opposite, and not just equally, but even worse. This will repeat every time. The descents will be lower, and the attainments will accordingly be higher.

We have to get used to moving in darkness and in disorientation because it is precisely this that helps us rid ourselves completely of egoistic directions, leads, and definitions.

When we become disoriented in our usual parameters, directions, and feelings, when we understand and know nothing, when we experience a sense of being lost and perhaps even darkness, we must recognize that this is the start of a new degree. We are given the opportunity to rise precisely in this darkness to see the light, the Creator, through it. This is a huge help in our advancement.

Therefore we must immerse ourselves specifically in this state of darkness and from it reveal the light.

That is our work. Otherwise we will never reveal the Creator; it is only from the state opposite to Him.
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From the preparation for the 4th lesson of the Congress in Moldova, 9/7/2019

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If a person’s actions are directed toward connection with friends, he very quickly discovers the necessity for a direct connection with the Creator who must help with that connection. Every action should lead to the correction of the shattering, unity between us, and then the need for the Creator’s action; the quality of bestowal and love, is manifested in it.

Then the three components of our state are revealed: Torah, Israel, and the Creator.

The Torah is the force that creates desire (the world was created by the Torah), the force that corrects the intention of desire (the light that reforms), and the force that fills the desire (pleasure and wisdom, the purpose of creation).

“Love your neighbor as yourself” is the general rule of the Torah. “Israel” (aspiring to the Creator, the soul) is the common Kli (the connection of souls, Shechina). The Torah is the light, the correcting force. The Creator is the inner source of that force.

Together, we create the condition for unity and mutual guarantee, we prepare a place for the revelation of the Creator. Right up to, “The children of Israel cried out from the work,” when we truly need His help.

In nearly all descriptions of the Torah, we see a comparison of society and the Creator. Without society, we cannot come to the Creator. Therefore, the group is the means. It is the Shechina, the Knesset of Israel, the gathering of souls who ask not to remain in the dust (egoism). All the writings speak about this.

A person forgets the need for connection with the Creator because it is against his nature, but this connection will appear within our nature if we unite in a group. If I am not connected with the group, I am not directed and will not find the direction toward the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/19/2010, Writings of Rabash

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Question: How can we make unity in the ten our entire life and a great delight that we bestow to the Creator?

Answer: It depends on our attitude toward what affects us, bestowal or reception, and on how much we choose between them and want to be closer to the sages or to the Creator through the differences that exist between holiness and the Klipa (impure force).
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/2025, “The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction”

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Question: Is there a kind of truth that should be told to a person?

Answer: The only truth is to give a person freewill and let them choose their own truth. That is all. This is the most important thing in raising children and in relationships between adults.

Question: How do you do that? By example? Based on what?

Answer: Teach a person the method of correctly revealing life.

Comment: That sounds good! This is the main thing.

My Response: Yes.

Question: And what if a person is one hundred percent convinced that they are right and must pass it on to someone?

Answer: Then they should shut themselves up and swallow it! So as not to choke on their own truth!

Question: Even if I feel that by doing so, I will help them?

Answer: What huge egoism he has! It is bursting out of him! He has no right even to feel it himself. The only thing he can do is just understand how much of an egoist he is if he feels obliged to fill another person with his own opinion.

It is terrible! There is a very simple saying about this: “Silence is the fence around wisdom.”

Question: That is beautiful! That is, is it better to remain silent at that moment?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/8/25

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At that time, a person should pay attention to this and believe that the Creator is tending to him and guides him on the track that leads to the King’s palace (RABASH, Article No. 6, “When One Should Use Pride in the Work“).

A person must constantly check in all one’s sensations and thoughts and in one’s heart and mind, if one agrees with the fact that the Creator is guiding him or her toward Himself?

“Do I agree with what the Creator is doing with me? He throws me down, lifts me up, tosses me in every direction. One moment I cry, the next I laugh; sometimes I rejoice, sometimes I’m distressed. Do I understand that I must go through these states, but that the most important thing is to remain in connection, in adhesion with the Creator—that there is none else besides Him?”

It follows that he should be happy that the Creator is watching over him and gives him the descents, as well. That is, a person should believe, as much as he can understand, that the Creator is giving him the ascents…

Also, a person should believe that the Creator gives him the descents, as well, because He wants to bring him closer. Therefore, every single thing that he can do, he must do as though he is in a state of ascent.

In principle, there are no descents. What occurs is merely the revelation of the next uncorrected degree, followed by its correction. These degrees are revealed to us—they were formed even before us as a result of the shattering of Adam HaRishon. And we continuously correct them through our attitude.

Nothing is required from us! We do not need to do anything except to agree with the Creator, to justify Him.

The Hebrew word “to justify” is “LeHatzdik,” and a person who justifies the Creator is called a Tzadik, a righteous one, because he justifies Him. That is our entire work. But for this, we absolutely need an environment; without it, we will not be able to justify even a single act of the Creator, neither emotionally nor mentally.

Therefore, when he overcomes a little during the descent, it is called an “awakening from below.” Each act that he does, he believes that it is the Creator’s will, and by this itself he is rewarded with greater nearing, meaning that the person himself begins to feel that the Creator has brought him closer.
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From the Kabbalah Congress in Moldova 9/8/2019, Lesson 7

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We have gathered here to establish a society for all who wish to follow the path and method of Baal HaSulam, the way by which to climb the degrees of man and not remain as a beast (Rabash, Article No. 1, Part 1, 1984, Purpose of Society – 1).

From this article, we need to extract the key principles:

1. 1. What does it mean to gather?
   2. What is the method of Baal HaSulam?
   3. What is the degree of human?
   4. Was man created for pleasure or for awe before the Creator?
   5. The condition for achieving all of this is similarity of qualities with the Creator.
   6. The desire to receive is not bad in itself; it is the very material of creation. What is called the evil inclination (Yetzer Ra) is our unwillingness to unite, our refusal to correct the shattering of the soul into its parts—our individual souls.
   7. We do not destroy the egoistic desire, but only correct its intention from for myself to for others.
   8. That is, in the desire to receive, we are always opposite to the Creator; but in the intention to give, we connect to Him.
   9. Adhesion with the Creator is through similarity of qualities with Him. The intention to bestow is attained through work in the group. This is a task that is both achievable and verifiable. The collective desire to bestow that we build is the common soul, which the Creator fills.
   10. Every state we go through consists of two opposites, and as we advance the gap between them grows. I reveal:
       1. My increasing worthlessness
       2. The increasing greatness of the goal.

I must connect these into one point to feel the shattering between souls so deeply that it compels the upper light to correct me. Then bestowal will reign between me and others.

This is called the giving of the Torah—the light of correction.

And afterward, the giver of the Torah is also revealed within our corrected attitude toward others, within the collective spiritual vessel (Kli).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/16/2010, Writings of Rabash

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In corporeality, you can see the door just as you can see the opening. But in spirituality, you see only the opening. But you cannot see the opening unless with complete and pure faith. Then you see the door, and at that moment it turns into an opening because He is one and His name is “One” (Baal HaSulam, Letter 26).

Namely, I see before me stands a wall through which it is impossible to penetrate, go around, or leap over. But the moment I reveal the quality of faith, this quality forms an entrance in the wall, and I pass through. I wish this for all of us.

The gates of prayer are not locked. We must constantly try, together with our friends, to pray to the Creator to help us unite, to clarify what is called the force of bestowal, and to reach Him with this force of bestowal.

We are obligated to reach such a state, to give all the quantity and quality of efforts in order to arrive at the gate of tears. Only through the gate of tears does one enter the upper world, the spiritual.

We must pray for each friend in the group that he may reach the gate of tears, the spiritual world, everything! “He who prays for his friend is answered first.” This greatly advances people.

But this is not about words; prayer is called “work in the heart.”

The gate of tears is a special gate that opens only when a person understands that he has no strength whatsoever to perform even the slightest act of bestowal. Yet at the same time, he must attain these acts of bestowal  no matter what. He is ready to give up everything just to become one who bestows. Then these gates open.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/10/21, Writings of Baal HaSulam “My Soul Shall Weep in Secret – 1”

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Thus, there is but one counsel: If several individuals come together with the force that it is worthwhile to abandon self-love, but without the sufficient power and importance of bestowal to become independent, without outside help, if these individuals annul before one another and all have at least potential love of the Creator, though they cannot keep it in practice, then by each joining the society and annulling oneself before it, they become one body.

For example, if there are ten people in that body, it has ten times more power than a single person does (Rabash, “Love of Friends – 2”).

This refers to the force of rising above egoism, the power of detachment from one’s “I,” when you include yourself in others, in another field, on another level. You clearly feel: either “I” or the next level “we.” In that “we,” your “I” is needed only to organize this “we.”

Question: Does a person receive the strength to rise above egoism from the group?

Answer: Not from the group, but through the group.

Question: How can a person feel that he or she has the power of the whole group to perform some action in spirituality?

Answer: If a person serves one’s friends, then he or she gains the strength of the whole group. We are speaking of the power of bestowal, of the ability to give. Therefore, when a person makes efforts to elevate the group, the person receives that strength. That is one’s vessel, his or her Malchut.
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From KabTV’s 4/12/18, “Love of Friends”

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