Comment: The Torah describes 613 commandments of the upper world, and in The Book of Zohar, which is a commentary on the Torah, the Prophets, and the Holy Scriptures, there are only 14.

My Response: In The Book of Zohar there is a completely different gradation since each of the fourteen main commandments is divided into many more.

Question: Aren’t there are too many instructions for us? How can we work with them?

Answer: It is not hard. They simply talk about how one can comply with the laws of the universe and how a person can influence nature, society, and oneself in a good way.

In principle, all the commandments are based on this. Nobody made them up. They were written by Kabbalists from their understanding of the inner force, the inner law of nature. If we want to correspond to it, we must behave in such and such a way.

It is quite simple. The Creator is the will to bestow, the creation is the will to receive, and all the commandments are instructions of the Creator for how to work with different types of desires at the inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels and bring them in equivalence with the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 12/10/23

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Question: How can we achieve a unified effort in attaining the Creator and overcoming differences in the perception of the vision of the world?

Answer: Only with the help of love and mutual attraction. Start showing each other how you want to embrace all the friends in the ten and ascend with them.

Let everyone try to do it, and you will see how it suddenly elevates you all. You will begin to uncover the source of your ascent.

Remember that our task is to get closer. We must return to the common communication system between ourselves.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/25/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 187 “Choosing Labor”

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Question: For the Creator to fulfill our requests, we need constant revelation of desires.

Does the Creator’s response depend on whether a person fulfills the desire for bestowal in suffering through connection and prayer, or in the same form, but in joy, thanking and exalting the Creator?

Answer: In both situations there is a connection with the Creator.

The Creator is playing with you. He asks you questions, and you feel whether these are His questions or yours, then He answers them explicitly or implicitly. Thus, by playing with you, He gradually leads you to a state of Lishma (for the sake of others).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/21/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is the Exaltedness of the Creator?”

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Question: Each time I want to feel the ten inside me, I find that I can only do this through external actions toward connection.

What am I missing to feel the ten internally?

Answer: There is not enough desire to connect with the ten with all my soul and heart.

Question: First, one needs to do this through external actions without stopping, right?

Answer: You do not even need any external actions. Just think all the time that you want to be with the others with the same feelings and thoughts. And then the desire will appear.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/26/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Matter of Spiritual Attainment”

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To avoid stagnation in spiritual work we need nothing but to ask the Creator to come closer to Him. Then the upper light will shine on us more intensely, and we will be able to feel our states and learn how to approach the Creator correctly.

We need to focus only on the connection between the friends. There is a constant renewal of feelings and Kelim in the ten, and we will constantly be in internal spiritual movement. If not us, then our friends will perform such actions on us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/28/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Every Act Leaves an Imprint”

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Although one can work devotedly, he is unable to determine if this devoted work is appropriate or not… (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 187 “Choosing Labor”).

A place for devoted work is formed when a person feels in his heart that he can sacrifice everything for the sake of the Creator. This does not happen immediately, but rather very slowly, gradually, and the Kabbalist feels it within himself.

Question: What does such a state, such a thought lead to? Does this bring contentment to the Creator?

Answer: That is not the point. The Creator knows what a person is capable of and what he is not capable of in all circumstances. When giving a person some tests, the Creator knows the outcome. Tests are needed only for the person himself, so that he can check whether he can cope with them or not, understand them correctly or not, etc.

Question: Let’s say a person understands that he really wants to sacrifice everything, but he cannot. What is this condition?

Answer: If he cannot sacrifice everything for the sake of becoming one with the Creator, then he has the opportunity to pray and ask, and in the end, he will reach his goal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/25/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Choosing Labor”

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Question: A wise man was asked: “Why is there no trace of sadness on your face?” He replied: “I do not have anything worth being sad about losing.”

Is it really possible not to be sad about anything at all?

Answer: In principle, it is a good state.

Question: Do you think it is possible?

Answer: It is possible.

Question: Even though there is so much sadness around?

Answer: This is because there are all sorts of unrealistic hopes and dreams.

Question: I build something impossible in advance, and then despair. But how can I not build? How can I not hope for something? Is it possible? This is no longer a human being.

Answer: Why not a human being?

Question: But I am making some plans, right?

Answer: What for?

Comment: This is an interesting question. It is, basically our life, step-by-step we make some plans.

My Response: What are you building? There is no need to build anything. It is what it is. Something will move, it has moved; something has stopped, it will stop.

Question: Is it possible to live like this?

Answer: Yes. And this is not a limitation, this is not from weakness. This is from wisdom.

Comment: So I agree with everything that is given to me. Somehow, since childhood, we always had dreams and goals.

My Response: During childhood, we want to run like little children, from corner to corner, back and forth aimlessly.

Question: Otherwise we will not grow. Are you saying that at some point this growth should stop? Should another growth start?

Answer: Yes, more internal.

Question: What does this wisdom that I am acquiring do within me?

Answer: It gradually slows you down.

Question: What is my inner wisdom to which I come over the years?

Answer: Where to run, for what?

Question: Should I answer this question or not?

Answer: You do not have an answer.

Question: Should I look for it?

Answer: You will be looking. While you are looking for it, you will be running. Then gradually, as you become convinced that there is nowhere to rush, you will stop. And this is right.

Question: What am I waiting for then? I stopped.

Answer: You are not waiting for anything. You just see that no movement can replace peace.

Question: Am I coming to a state of peace?

Answer: Yes. Both internal and external.

Question: What do you call the peace that I come to?

Answer: The lack of motivation to move.

Question: Then what is movement?

Answer: The desire to change your state.

Question: Is the right thought not to change my state? It is what it is. What about this phrase “Honor the madmen who can trace gay dreams, to please the human race”?

Answer: Why would you want to drive the world crazy? Let them just understand that annulling their egoism before the Creator is our highest movement.

Question: Is this what we are coming to? Is this peace?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this what we call bringing the Creator into this world?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/9/23

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Question: What is wisdom revealed for? To pass it on to others, to reveal it to the world, or are there any other reasons?

Answer: Why is wisdom revealed? It is in order for us to feel the Creator, to be in some way equal to Him, to be able at least partially to perform actions like Him. To do this, we need the light of Hochma.

Comment: If any understanding comes, we must try to reveal it to the world. But at the same time, there is a feeling that you cannot always explain everything in an understandable way. There is always some doubt.

My Response: We will not do without a doubt. You just have to go ahead and listen to the lesson. You need to listen to each lesson two or three times. Return to it after some time, in a week, two, or three. And then gradually it all fits together and turns into one big picture.

Comment: It happens that you are overwhelmed and realize that even if you try to listen to something, it still passes by because you cannot perceive such a large amount of information. That is, the quantity of listening is not equal to the quality.

My Response: It will always be like this because you cannot absorb everything that radiates at you. Gradually, over the course of many months, it passes into you, begins to soak in, and fits into shelves in your head.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 12/27/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is He Will Give Wisdom Specifically to the Wise”

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It is said that the light of wisdom means the light of life. This is a feeling of power that fills our heart and mind and makes us more and more like the Creator.

Question: Why is it called wisdom as if it were some kind of knowledge?

Answer: This is really knowledge, knowledge of the general picture of the universe, of everything that happens to us. This is called wisdom, the light of Hochma. And at the same time it is the very energy of life.

The point is that wisdom is an internal part of knowledge. You can know many different details and laws, but wisdom is precisely that part of knowledge that helps us embrace the whole picture of the world, feel it, and see it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/27/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is He Will Give Wisdom Specifically to the Wise”

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The fourteenth commandment is to keep the Sabbath day, which is the day of rest from ‎the entire deed of creation (Zohar for All, “The Commandments of the Torah,” 247).

Saturday is a special day of the week when we have no right to produce anything.

Therefore, there are many laws that state what work, production, rest, and so on mean.

We are talking about energy production, mechanical or other actions we should not perform on the Sabbath (Shabbat) because throughout the week we work on ourselves and on the Sabbath the Creator works on us.

By correcting egoism for a certain period, we reach a point where the remaining work can only be done by the Creator. As it is said, “The Creator will complete for me” because man cannot pull himself out of egoism.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 12/10/23

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