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Reveal the Cause of One’s State

231.03Question: What does it mean to reveal the Creator?

Answer: Revealing the Creator means revealing the cause of one’s state.

Question: Is it necessary to remember that the Creator is the cause?

Answer: It is impossible to remember. A person, according to his preparation and his environment, can reach a state when he immediately feels the root of what is happening.

In every state, he will feel the Creator hiding behind the reality surrounding him. And instead of thinking and fearing “How should I act, what should I do? The judges want to put me in jail. There, they want to beat me, here, everyone is angry with me, and there is something else going on…,” he immediately sees the root of the problem.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/26, Rabash, “What Is the Importance of the Groom, that His Iniquities Are Forgiven?”

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In Search of Effective Means for Advancement

559Comment: When you suggest something new (for example, a “spiritual stimulant,” people say: “Here goes Laitman with another new scheme. Later, there will be something different.”

My Response: Of course there will be!

We are looking for a way to create something that constantly unites us, helps us adjust to each other, keeps us together, and compels us to return to the same fundamental question. This is a pressing issue for us, and it is not going away. It can be in this form, or in a different form, or in a third. We shall see!

Comment: There are people who take a passive, waiting stance, andothers who are active. As a rule, newcomers tend to be more active.

My Response: Those who wait around lose! Spirituality is not like our world where you can dodge responsibility and do nothing. Here, you work for yourself and not for a boss! So, if people want to pass us by, let them. I am not driving anyone with a stick.

Question: What is the importance of a “spiritual stimulant?” Is it dictated by forces from above?

Answer: No, we have advanced to a state where we have to work on unity. The “stimulant” is a means for uniting. Come up with something different, more productive, and we will be happy to switch to it. Why not, if there is something more effective?
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Laitman’s bullying” 10/13/10

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You Must Build the Creator

183.01Question: What does nature want from us?

Answer: Nature wants us to want to be good and kind.

Question: Is that all?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Stop being evil and become good? What do you mean by “good and kind”?

Answer: Good and kind means that absolutely everyone is truly pleased with you. Not in this world. This cannot happen in our world. Those egoists around us… .

Question: So, I am not just playing along with those who want… ?

Answer: No. When I speak about humanity and about nature in general, I mean
a completely different level of existence.

Question: When will they be pleased with me? What is the goodness they expect
from me?

Answer: When I correct them, and they become absolutely good,
perfect, and corrected.

Question: Correct whom?

Answer: All people.

Question: I have to correct all people?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Me?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this my job? Correcting things is the Creator’s job!

Answer: It is your duty.

Question: Perhaps I need to correct myself rather than all the others around me?

Answer: This is how you correct yourself.

Question: By correcting all people, I correct myself?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: This is something new. By correcting myself, I correct people.

My Response: It is the same thing.

Question: Is it really the same thing?

Answer: Of course. You see yourself in people.

Question: So, if I help with their correction, I am thereby correcting myself?

Answer: It is one and the same! You see a reflection of yourself. In this way, you correct the Creator.

Question: Every sentence is a revolution. The Creator needs to be corrected?

Answer: Of course. We have to create Him!

Question: Is He imperfect? Is He not constant?

Answer: He does not exist at all; you have to create Him! Constantly strive to make Him better and better.

Comment: We will never unravel this riddle.

My Response: No. Nor do we need to!

Question: So we should just leave it at that? Create the Creator?

Answer: Yes. That is exactly what is written in the Torah: “You have made Me.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/20/26

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What Does It Mean to Correct the World?

424.01Question: You say that if I correct myself, the entire world will appear corrected to me. Then why are so many Kabbalists needed to correct the world if the world is within me?

Answer: To correct the world means to correct yourself. You do not exist in some vast external world and the people you see do not exist by chance; they are parts of your soul.

Therefore, besides you and the Creator, there is no one else. Everything you see— the still, vegetative, animate, and human levels—is you; they are all parts of your soul! By uniting them within yourself, you will attain complete unity with the Creator. This will be your complete correction.
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From Kabbalah Lesson on Russian, 8/19/18

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Relate Everything to the Creator

261Question: What are these states in which we must seek the Creator?

Answer: Every state originates in its spiritual root, descends into our world, and clothes itself in various material forms. Through these garments, I must find the connection with the one who arranged this situation for me; I must discover the origin and the cause of what is taking place.

Everything that descends to me from Him through all the spiritual worlds, through the various bodies of this world, and through all kinds of circumstances; I must relate all of it back to the Creator. Under no circumstances should I think that there are any other forces besides the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/26, Rabash, “What Is the Importance of the Groom, that His Iniquities Are Forgiven?”

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Engage Inner Vision

281.01Question: When a person searches for the source of their state and seeks connection with the Creator, is there any point in asking why these states are being sent to us?

Answer: The Creator always gives us the states that are necessary according to the root of our soul. He reveals the Reshimot that we must go through at a given stage so that, from within those states, we may attain Him and establish connection with Him. It is not for us to choose those states.

One should not delve into them, searching for something that, in one’s opinion, would bring a stronger or deeper connection with the Creator. There is no need for that. Rather, in every state, one should grasp the Creator as the cause of that situation.

As soon as I begin seeking contact with the upper one in every circumstance, I make an effort. Yes—no, yes—no; I am tossed from one state to another, and they continually change.

When, in states of fear and anxiety, a person begins to relate them to the Creator, then within that very point, within that sensation, one perceives a connection with the divine. Then the Creator conceals Himself once again, and the person again experiences fear, like a child frightened by an imaginary bear.

The Creator alternately reveals Himself and conceals Himself, and accordingly the person alternately finds a connection with the upper one and then loses it again. One should always seek to reveal the cause; one should disengage from the superficial view of reality and engage one’s inner vision.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/26, Rabash, “What Is the Importance of the Groom, that His Iniquities Are Forgiven?”

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Search for Your Root

963.6There is nothing more natural for a person than to seek the cause of every state they experience. There are many jokes about children asking their parents questions like, “Where did I come from? How did I come to this world?”

Adults mistakenly assume that children are interested in the process of conception itself. Of course, this is not the case. A child would never have such a thought in mind. Indeed, this is a very profound and natural question for a human being: “Where did I come from?” It is a question about the root, about the Creator.

Why is humanity trying to find out what happened millions of years ago and what knowledge the ancient civilizations possessed? We are searching for the source because we believe that once we discover it, we will find out why we exist. Humanity wants to find that initial point from which everything began; it believes that it holds the answer to what all this is for and what it ultimately will come to in the end.

Children also ask this question in search of their root. There is no question more natural than the question of the source of life. Therefore, the science of Kabbalah is the closest to the inner nature of a human being; it is closest to our essence.

If a person sees the Creator in every state, the one who has arranged that state for him, and instantly connects this situation with Him, tracing the cause-and-effect connection, then one completely corrects that state and derives maximum spiritual benefit from it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/26, Rabash, “What Is the Importance of the Groom, that His Iniquities Are Forgiven?”

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States Change, the Cause Never Does

962.2Question: If the cause of our states is constant, what changes? Is it the states themselves?

Answer: Yes, states change, the form they are clothed in changes, but the cause remains the same. The cause is the lack of the revelation of the divine in you, in your matter, in your desire.

Let us put it this way: a person is a “black box” divided into thousands of cells. In each cell, the degree of revelation of the Creator is different.

For example, the Creator wants you to reveal Him in a certain place right now. So the Creator arranges a specific state for you in which you reveal Him. Through this, you bring about the correction of that state and receive the next one. This continues until you reveal the Creator in every single cell, until you have corrected all states.

From all the states sent to you, you somehow reveal the divine presence. At the same time, these states intensify your desire for spirituality and provide a deeper understanding of reality and experience. You transition from double to single concealment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/26, Rabash, “What Is the Importance of the Groom, that His Iniquities Are Forgiven?”

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Transition from Double to a Single Concealment

261Question: How does the transition from double concealment to single concealment happen?

Answer: The transition from double to single concealment takes place here, within this world, slowly and gradually. A person fluctuates between one state and the other, and thereby gradually moves to a state of simple concealment.

What is single concealment? It is when, against the backdrop of any event that happens to me, I feel it is sent from above, that the Creator is behind all this. Gradually, this feeling begins to accompany a person constantly, and one lives with it even before the Machsom (spiritual barrier). This happens much earlier, accumulates and manifests in our sensations.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/13/26, Rabash, “And the Lord Appeared to Him at the Oaks of Mamre”

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The Group Is a Part of My Soul

938.01Question: What role does the group play when we go through different states?

Answer: We need the group for several reasons. Actually, there is only one reason, but since the Creator is still hidden from us, this reason is divided into several sub-reasons in relation to me. At first, I feel the group reminds me of the importance of spiritual work. Its influence helps me get back on track with my work. Without a group, I lose the correct direction.

All this is just at the beginning of the path. As I progress, I begin to see the group as a part of my soul. The spiritual construction is designed in such a way that there is a part of my soul in each person, and ultimately, I must unite with each of them. I do not know how yet, but I will have to do it somehow.

We are taught that all this is arranged as a pyramid. I have to unite with everyone, but not in the same measure. I connect with some souls on the inanimate level (Domem), with others on the vegetative level (Tzmeach), and with others on the living level (Chai). In other words, I unite with all the parts of Adam HaRishon‘s common soul, but with each on a different level of unity.

Ultimately, I need friends around me who I can work with as one Kli (vessel). They and I will function as organs of one body, one Kli. That is how we must work. Indeed, we see the most advanced and effective designs in our world are based on this method.

A person alone simply cannot advance. All he can do is somehow come to realize, over millennia, that he cannot break into spirituality alone. Anyone who flees from society is completely hopeless.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/26, Rabash, “What Is the Importance of the Groom, that His Iniquities Are Forgiven?”

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