Being on the verge of Lishma is a very special state. I am glad that we have achieved it, and we can already, all together, help each other and try to enter Lishma. Even just getting closer to this state is also a huge achievement.

Lishma is a quality of the Creator, but we can already grasp it, understand it, and feel it.

Concerning Lishma [for Her sake]. In order for a person to obtain Lishma, one needs an awakening from above, as it is an illumination from above and it is not for the human mind to understand. Rather, he who tastes, knows. It is said about this, “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati Article No. 20, “Lishma [for Her Sake]”)

To do this, it is necessary to make efforts, pay attention, have sensitivity of the heart, and as much as possible do this jointly, together. And if with all this, we do not feel any reaction, then we can only pray, that is, ask the Creator to listen to us and teach us how to turn to Him. Then there will already be a mutual connection between us.

On the one hand it is said that the Creator hears everyone’s prayer. But on the other hand this prayer needs correction because it is not raised by everyone from the correct place. After the transgression of the tree of knowledge, we were thrown far away from each other as if by an explosion and flew in all directions.

And now we need to gradually connect back together with the additional egoism that we received during the shattering. To do this, we need to feel how far apart we are and that we cannot get closer to each other and all together get closer to the Creator.

And since we discover that we are completely unfit for this, it is necessary to raise a prayer. Prayer should be as close as possible to our common heart, to the union of our inner desires. Therefore we want to reveal all the desires of our friends and unite them in order to bring everything together to the Creator to give Him our heart.

Try to imagine such a state and stay in it all 24 hours a day. Gradually we are getting closer to such work due to the desire to help our friends and be together as one man with one heart. We are trying to take at least a small step, but together. Otherwise, it will not work; it will not cause the right reaction.
Thus we take step by step in the direction of the Creator until we feel that He is coming toward us.

To take a step together means to want to unite so as to become a Kli to serve the Creator.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/23, “On the Verge of Lishma“

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Question: How can one correctly appraise a member of the ten?

Answer: Nowadays a very extensive, stormy external connection is needed because we are very small and our egoism is very primitive. It is difficult for us to get out of ourselves, to sacrifice our little egoistic world because external society and life influence us too much. We must get good help from a friend and the environment.

Comment: Recently you have been focusing on the connection among groups.

My Response: Of course, this is mutual assistance. Therefore, I am very happy when students come to us for internships and for congresses. They see how we live. It means a lot to them! They absorb our spirit.

After returning home, they pass it on, compare it, and try to work like us. It brings us closer to each other.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How Many People Should Be in a Group” 12/29/12

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We are all in the same network. Therefore, those who can strongly influence this network are the engines of positive direction in humanity. After all, it is possible to influence only by the power of bestowal, kindness, and love. Not in any other way!

The opposite force, which is selfishness, hatred, and violence, immediately switches off there; a restriction (Tzimtzum) occurs, and the network is blocked.

To the extent that people approach spirituality and become like the spiritual system, they act positively because in the higher world there is a “filter” that allows only positive influence to pass through.

The upper world is very simple; in it there is a Machsom or Parsa through which only a positive influence passes, only a striving for connection.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Manipulate People” 1/16/13

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Question: When a certain opinion that something is important is formed around people, it can affect some but not others. How can you influence the masses to make it work?

Answer: Only through the internal network of connections between all of us.

We are all tied into one network. But a person who is not engaged in spiritual work has very little effect on it. However, my influence on this network is really strong because I am a part of it.

With the help of intentions and corresponding qualities that I have specially created in me, I influence the entire system. It turns out that we get locked in this way. My impact on the general system of humanity is billions of times greater than that of an ordinary person.

This is the only way! As for the media and everything else we do in our world, humanity has very little effect on the general system.

Our main influence should be directed at correcting the world. If we create its correct microstructure from ourselves and this microstructure is spiritually powerful in the general structure of the world, then it will influence everything else most of all.

Although this will be done by a small group (maybe only a hundred people), but in terms of its power and quality, it will surpass the rest of the world billions of times over. That is the way this is arranged!

It is just as in the human brain where everything is controlled by a tiny microprocessor the size of a match head, and everything else are auxiliary systems around it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to manipulate people?” 1/16/23

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Currently we are at the first initial stage of our spiritual development. There is no way for us not to be born in the future. But we can be born the hard way when we resist and do not want to go to the state of a more developed fetus; we do not want to increasingly adapt the spiritual forces of bestowal and love of others within us and assemble a spiritual image from all people.

When we assemble it at such a level that we will deny and destroy everything that contradicts the connection between us, then we will become a spiritual fetus.

Egoism between us will be increasing, and we, thanks to it, will constantly be in a greater connection with each other above it until the nine-month development of the fetus ends, and then we will reach spiritual birth.

We can imagine how difficult this period is! Now all of humanity is being pushed into the womb, and nature is beginning to pressure us. This is the huge, closed, global, integral crisis that we feel today; this is the first pressure of nature on us so that we begin to connect with each other.

It presses on us from the outside, like a mother, but still gently. Later it will push more and more if we do not start connecting with each other.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Threat During Pregnancy” 12/7/12

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Question: Why does Passover last seven days?

Answer: Seven days are seven Sefirot, all levels of our soul. On the first day of Passover, a person leaves the intention “for his own sake” and continues to get rid of his egoistic intentions on the second, the third day, and so on until he completely breaks away from them.

In this way he approaches the state called Yam Suf—the final sea. He is ready to throw himself into it in order to completely break away from Egypt, i.e., from egoism.

Question: Leaving Egypt is the last border of the corporeal, egoistic world, beyond which there is a notional line called the Machsom. After passing it, a person begins to feel love, bestowal, and the spiritual world. What happens to him? What is the transformation behind this line?

Answer: Beyond this line, a person thinks only about how through others he can more and more implement the quality of bestowal and love within himself. As a result, he begins to feel in this quality that he is being filled with the upper light—the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/26/21

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Consistent study of Kabbalah develops qualities within a person that can be used to research spiritual space, to be born in this space and to live in it. 

These qualities develop gradually. This is the purpose of Kabbalah—to transform our egoism into altruism and to the degree of this transformation to begin seeing the upper world in this attitude to the world. And you see it and sense it; it is here.

Just like in science fiction movies about space: people look out the window, they see dark space, and suddenly some alien spaceship appears before them. They did not see it before. Why do they suddenly see it now? Apparently, they turned on a different property, a different locator, a different frequency, or different sensor.

It is the same here. This is pure physics and math, there are no miracles here.

We are gradually preparing a possibility for the revelation of the governing system, i.e., the upper world, the upper nature, or the Creator for all of humanity. This is our mission. Humanity does not know about it and it does not need to; it will know later.

Moreover, it will not know about us at all since this does not exist in the system, this is all nameless. But still, it is a tremendous pleasure to feel that you are paving the way. You understand in advance what joy and good will come out of this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How does Laitman Use Students?” 12/15/12

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Question: When the people of Israel were exiting Egypt, the sea parted before them. What does this mean?

Answer: It is another final quality. Therefore, it is called Yam Suf, the final sea, [the Red Sea in English] after which there is no return to Egypt. This is the final break away from egoism. There is no turning back.

But before that, there are all sorts of doubts and problems. Later, in the desert, there also will be doubts and problems, but they are of a different kind.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual states” 4/15/19

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Question: While speaking about dissemination, you once said, “If you are able to not curse the Creator, then you can go into the masses.” You are constantly working with this, to justify Him through the masses?

Answer: It depends on what degree. It is written, “Don’t believe in yourself until the complete death of your egoism.” I can be led through such states, such torments, such visions… No one can vouch for themselves. I am not Rabbi Akiva who was skinned.

This is an allegory and the truth, in general, everything together. That is, the final degree of egoism is the skin covering the soul.

Question: To such an extent is a Kabbalist led through such powerful trials?

Answer: Any person, including you. And there is nowhere to go other than rising above these corrections in such a way that you will feel them as redemption rather than suffering.

Everything depends on whether we reject our egoism with the help of the group, with the help of the light that we draw to us when studying Kabbalah. Then, we perceive everything that happens to us as good medicine, as the medicine of life.

But if we do not reject egoism—our body so to say, the body does not mean our flesh that we identify ourselves with but egoism—then we feel enormous suffering, as if we really are being skinned. And we nevertheless come to correction. But these are enormous, very prolonged torments, experienced in the most difficult way.

This is why Kabbalah was given to us in order to do it differently, to rise above the ego and separate from it. When I perform the first restriction (Tzimtzum Aleph) on it, I no longer feel what happens to the ego; it is no longer mine. What does it mean, not mine? It is as if I have received anesthesia. At least in this way.

But afterward, I separate from the ego so much that I do not feel that it belongs to me at all: this is not my body, this is not my egoism, and that is all. It is as if I come out of it and exist separately in the quality of bestowal.

Question: Must we reach such a degree as Rabbi Akiva did so that even in this situation we find a way to justify the Creator?

Answer: Yes, that is how powerfully you have to separate from your former egoistic body, egoistic desires.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Justify Suffering?” 10/27/12

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Question: When one of your students started talking about the importance of spiritual work due to repetition of actions, i.e., about how it seems to him like a routine, you replied: “We cannot hear what you say.” Why not?

Answer: One should not hear bad things about spirituality.

Comment: But you once said that you can even swear at the Creator…

My Response: This is your own business. I do not want to hear it. You go ahead and swear. I said it is better to swear than to forget.

Imagine that you love another person, and sometimes there are all sorts of disputes between you. It is better than cutting off the connection and moving away from each other.

Question: But you hear a lot of similar things when people express their doubts and say: “I do not believe, prove it.”

Answer: This is natural! A person is in concealment! How else can he react?

But when he calls spiritual work a routine and complains that he is tired of this everyday life, then we should not listen to these and other negative statements about spirituality. He can talk to himself, anything can happen. But he has no right to speak to others!

In relation to other people, he must play as in a theater, show himself to be inspired and elated. This is the only way!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Things That are Forbidden to Hear” 1/3/1

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