We must approach any manifestation of evil in the world with the mindset that I am responsible for what is happening, not just philosophically but truly.

When you perceive the entire system in which you exist not abstractly, but clearly, then any negative occurrence in the world brings about a deep realization: “This is my fault!”

Another person is not to blame: “The evil simply passed through me and reached them, and that is why they acted wrongly.”

This is what absolute mutual responsibility means; it is when no one is responsible for themselves but only for others. This is also what true love means; it is when you step outside yourself and only others matter to you.

At that point your own “I” disappears; you live within them. And there is nothing to worry about for yourself. Who are you? You are merely a manifestation within others. Your “I” is everywhere; it is in others.

And that is when you begin to feel true infinity. You fill it, and it becomes yours.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Negative Properties” 6/14/10

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Question: Some people who have heard you sing say that the depth of your voice makes them feel that you are in spiritual attainment. How does spiritual attainment influence the development of human qualities?

Answer: Personally, I do not like my voice. And it is not penetrating, not velvety, not convincing, and it does not envelop the listener or enter them against their will and take hold of them.

If anything ever speaks within me, it is the strength of the connection with what I am saying. There is, after all, a certain depth of connection with the qualities, objects, actions, and events that I describe.

People feel this, and it does not depend on my voice at all. If someone else were to listen to this, they would hardly feel anything.

When a person has some kind of connection with us, they perceive a deeper wave that goes beyond the voice, beyond sound frequencies. It is the desire, the force emanating from the person who is deeply connected to what he is saying.

Sometimes, after conversations with people, I hear their feedback about me. It seems that I was not talking to them about Kabbalah, and they knew nothing about it, yet they suddenly began to feel that some kind of power, some very strange effect has manifested within them as a result of our interaction.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Power of the Voice” 5/24/10

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Question: What should a person do if he reveals that he is a “complete wretch”? He did something wrong and feels it.

Answer: Be grateful for the revelation! It was the Creator who showed you your true nature. And now comes the next stage, whether you want to correct it or not.

If you are going to sit and worry now, that is completely wrong. When, as it is said, “a fool sits and eats his own flesh,” he is engaged in self-torment. This must not be done!

On the contrary! Relate everything to the Creator, including the manifestations of evil in yourself. Like a doctor, you have determined your diagnosis. But the doctor is the Creator. He has now given you a diagnosis, you have felt the illness, and now ask Him for remedy. And so it proceeds stage by stage.

This is the very best. As Baal HaSulam writes, “I rejoice in those revealed corruptions and the ones that are being revealed,” because the next step, if you only ask, is the correction of any bad quality into good, that is, for bestowal.

And maybe in a split second, in the next corrected quality, you will begin to feel the upper world, or at least you will be closer to it, and you will begin to understand more.

Comment: And you say: “Ask for the remedy.”

My Response: The remedy is the correction of evil into good. Correction is carried out by the upper light, which initially created good and then deliberately turned it into evil so that you would now ask to turn it into good again.

Just as a child is given a puzzle or some broken toys to put together so that he can assemble them and learn from that, we were given a broken soul so that by assembling it, we become similar to the Creator who created it.

Question: Does the request occur only during the lesson, or not necessarily?

Answer: In any place, at any time, and it is even unpredictable where and how. In the most remote states from spiritual search, such thoughts may suddenly arise. And for that you should also thank the Creator, that He gives them to you at the most unexpected moment.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Correcting Evil into Good” 6/17/10

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Question: I understand why the fulfillment is hidden from us. But why are our connections with each other hidden?

Answer: Because connection and fulfillment are inseparable.

What is the light? How can one explain what a sensation is? Suddenly, I feel certain vibrations within me toward someone—hatred, love, fear, care. These vibrations did not come from the outside; they were born within me, inside my attitude toward that person.

They arise because I establish a special connection with them and work on it. And then when I unite with them, I feel certain impressions in my desires, sensations, and qualities, like vibrations. And this is called light.

Light does not come from somewhere outside to envelop me; it is revealed within me, in my attitude toward someone. It cannot be revealed just like that; it is impossible. It can only be felt in my connection with another: for example, I give them a sensation, and they receive it, or vice versa.

A connection that binds two people together is necessary and within it a certain vibration, an impression is felt, and this is called light. Like a wire stretched from one to another through which a current flows, or a conduit that links us.

It turns out that light is that very vessel that senses all kinds of changes within itself. The light itself does not change, it is the desires and the impressions they experience that change. But no light comes from the outside.

It is like the vibration of a string that creates the voice of a musical instrument, and this is called light. That is why we must create bestowal and love within us, and then within this love and bestowal, we will feel its inner root called the Creator.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/20/11, “TES”

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Question: Can we influence group work? For example, our ten has decided to get together. What can we add to this point?

Answer: We all have to end up in one point and not leave it. Then everything will work out for us in a quick way.

Question: What is this point? Meaning, the first impulse is for me not to emit any anger, to hold it, to remain neutral and appeal to the Creator right away?

Answer: Yes
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/1/25, “Connecting to Lishma”

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Question: Can we do an exercise of moving from Lo Lishma to the intention of Lishma every moment, in thought, in prayer?

Answer: Yes.

Question: I begin my prayer for my friends even though I have some self-interest, my egoistic nature. How can I gradually eliminate it so my request ends with Lishma?

Answer: Compare your goals with a common goal, and you will see how much of your goal disappears in the common one.

Question: Is the common goal and the goal of bringing the Creator contentment the same, or are they two different things?

Answer: The purpose of bringing the Creator contentment is unclear to us; these are just words. Therefore, we need to somehow put it together in the ten.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/25, Preparation to “Connecting to Lishma” Convention

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As seen above, there are two modes in religion: 1) Lo Lishma [not for Her sake], which is pure utilitarianism, meaning aiming to establish morality for one’s own good. One is satisfied when acquiring this tendency. And there is a second tendency to religion, being a mental need to adhere to Him. This is called Lishma [for Her sake]. One can be rewarded with the above through actions, and from Lo Lishma one comes to Lishma (Baal HaSulam, “The Writings of the Last Generation”).

Question: When a person is working in Lo Lishma, does he have a sense of the Creator’s presence, a feeling that there is none else besides Him?

Answer: No, of course not. He is in a state of self-benefit.

Lo Lishma means performing actions for one’s own sake, and Lishma means for the sake of the Creator, for the sake of others, beyond oneself.

Question: Can we say that the majority of humanity is in Lo Lishma?

Answer: No, they are in an animalistic state. But if a person develops within a Kabbalistic group correctly and precisely fulfilling all the conditions, he transitions from complete egoism to a willingness to give to others. He wants to give altruistically, without any connection to himself, but he is not yet able to. This is called Lo Lishma.

The transition from Lo Lishma happens through the reforming light (light that returns one to the source). Precisely because a person wants to give, but is still unable to, the light influences him and brings him to Lishma, to actions for the sake of others.

Question: Should we constantly have the feeling that we are moving toward Lishma?

Answer: We have to think about this. A person has no right to lock himself in the thought that it is for his own benefit, even though his intentions are essentially egoistic. This is precisely the prison, the bondage, the feeling of Egyptian exile—when we feel that we would like to free ourselves from the rule of Pharaoh (egoism), but are unable to. These are not easy states.

Question: To transition from Lo Lishma to Lishma, we work in a group. Where I am like an expert who observes everything from the outside? Does this happen simultaneously?

Answer: Yes, because a second system is created within you—the quality of bestowal. From it, you observe your own qualities of reception.

Question: On one hand a person tries to become aware of the state he is in; on the other hand he has the opportunity to engage in group activities aimed at unity mechanically, without thinking. How can these actions be done non-mechanically?

Answer: This happens under the influence of the right environment. There must be an active attitude of the group toward each individual. Each person must feel the pressure of the group, its correction, what it wants to do with him, and at the same time feel how much he resists this and how much he agrees to surrender. This is the expert point within each member of the group.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 12/19/17

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Question: Why am I given all this suffering?

Answer: This is given to me so that I can take a proper look at my life, make sure that I am not the source of my own suffering, understand how I can rise above the suffering, above  its cause, and thus free myself from it and look at suffering from above.

Question: And what will I see?

Answer: I will see that all my suffering is purely philosophical. Where suffering exists, there is always some kind of philosophy behind it where I refuse to accept suffering as something meant for me. But if I accept it, I can rise above it.

Question: Is the understanding that this is how I am being guided necessary?

Answer: That is what the Creator desires.

Question: Should this understanding be in both the heart and the mind?

Answer: I agree with Him and follow this path.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/23/24

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Question: With what mindset do we come to the convention, in what kind of unity, and what should we achieve as an individual group and as Bnei Baruch?

Answer: The main focus of the group’s work is preparing for the convention.

This means seeing the current state of our Kli, that in which we exist at the moment, meaning in Lo Lishma, and seeing how to gradually transform these qualities into Lishma.

This, in fact, is our preparation for the convention.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/25, Preparation to “Connecting to Lishma” Convention

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Everything depends on desire; everything is revealed within it. Therefore we just need a properly organized, structured, and directed desire.

To shape our desire, to give it the right form that is ready to be filled by the Creator, the Creator plays a game with us. He alternately hides and conceals Himself. A person does not always recognize this game, but it goes on all the time and with everyone until the complete correction of everyone.

It is essential to constantly recognize that the entire world is nothing more than a manifestation of the Creator in various images: both those who oppose and those who love, those who hinder and those who help, those who are close and those who are distant, friends and complete strangers.

All these people, as well as inanimate nature, plants, animals, human thoughts, and desires, everything, except for the point of one’s own “I,” the point of observation from which a person strives to grow similar to the Creator, everything else in him comes from the Creator who plays this game, sometimes drawing a person closer, sometimes pushing them away.

But both the drawing close and the distancing are done with only one purpose: to stir a person, as it is said: “The upper light shakes and awakens desires.”

If, despite being thrown about, a person exerts all their strength to hold onto the thought that everything comes from the Creator because “There is none else besides Him” and the Creator is undoubtedly “Good and Does Good,” then their desires expand.

If they truly “hold on with their teeth” and don’t allow themself to disconnect from the thought and feeling that it is the Creator performing all the actions with them, then they begin to see how to use every moment of life correctly. After all, every opponent is, in reality, not an opponent at all, but a helper, someone who strengthens their grip on the Creator, especially in extreme states.

In this way, a person advances until they reach a state where they are ready for anything and can withstand everything, as long as they do not part from the Creator. And this is their only request.

It no longer matters to them what happens in their life; they ask for only one thing: “That I may dwell in the house of the Creator all the days of my life.” They even rejoice in all obstacles, for these expand their desires.

They see these obstacles as the most important exercises that are lovingly sent to them by the Creator, who is simply waiting for their readiness to be revealed to them.

Thus, a person progresses until they complete the entire process known as “concealment” or “the period of preparation,” and move from “Lo Lishma” to “Lishma.”
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From preparation to Daily Kabbalah lesson 3/22/10, “Shamati 10”

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