Comment: While working within a group, a person feels a certain satisfaction from having submitted himself to the group and doing what the friends want from him.

My Response: It is true. If a person has performed a specific task and succeeded, then he feels satisfaction, pride, and vanity. But this is not important. Let him do everything for the sake of that, and then, as it is written, from “Lo Lishma” he will come to “Lishma.” Then he will see whether it is worth doing it for the sake of praise and whether he needs this praise at all.

The main thing is to make an effort as much as possible. But if you begin to consider that after all, you are doing it out of your desire to receive, and not yet for the sake of bestowal, you will never do anything at all. These are indeed the correct questions that Pharaoh asks: “Who are you, what are you, and why are you striving so intensely?” But if you do not strive in this way, you will never break free from your current state.

Imagine a child. If he does not learn anything smart or useful, he will remain stuck in his childish games and will not grow up. One should not be overly clever; one simply needs to act.

This is also a problem. There are many seemingly contradictory pieces of advice. On one hand, it is said that one should not be too clever, and on the other hand, that one must act and think. And a person rushes about and does not know what to answer his own doubts because his mind is cluttered with a host of counsels, resolutions, and sayings from the sages.

But after all that, if you cast aside all these intellectual subtleties, you are left with only one choice: to invest your efforts in the group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/22/26, Rabash, “What Is the ‘Bread of an Evil-Eyed Man’ in the Work?”

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Question: You said that breaking free from the power of the Klipot is a significant challenge; a person can remain in such a state for a long time. What could be done to disconnect from it?

Answer: Klipot are any thought and any disturbances that disconnect me from the Creator. What can I do about it? There is only one thing: remember that the Creator sends this to me. Without Him, I have no ability to fight them. I must arrange matters so that the Creator, who resides within me, fights with the Klipot that are in me. Regarding this, it is written: “Come unto Pharaoh!”

Pharaoh is the entire concentration of the Klipot. The Egyptians were so wise, even in the material world, that they made the body eternal by embalming it. They got to the point where they made living material inanimate, and in this form, as if eternal. To such an extent is this a Klipa.

In the Torah, it is not said that Moses has to fight on his own. He should only be present, be impressed by the actions of the Creator, and by this awaken all his desires, called the people of Israel, to follow Him. And that is all. “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for with a mighty hand he will send them.’”

By yourself, you are not capable of fighting the Klipot. What forces will you use to do this? A Klipa is the reverse side, the Achoraim, of the Creator. He enlivens it and brings it to you to be revealed precisely with the help of the Kipa.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/21/26, Rabash, “We Should Always Discern between Torah and Work”

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Question: Why is the addition of egoism not felt as a great desire in the preparation stage?

Answer: A greater will to receive that comes to you lowers you from your degree. But you do not feel it as greater egoism, you feel it as additional pleasure.

The new will to receive that arrives gives you this opportunity; it obliges you to act. You don’t feel that the desire itself has grown; rather, you feel that your pleasure could be more intense if you were to indulge in it since you are thinking only about the pleasure itself and not about the One who gives it.

What spoils your connection with the Creator? The new desire! It does not erase the pleasure; it erases your connection with the Creator. If it had erased the pleasure, you would suddenly feel emptiness and immediately awaken. Instead, you feel that you are immersed in pleasures; it only that the Creator has vanished from your perception of reality.

Furthermore, the sensation of pleasure bribes you. Gradually, a person becomes accustomed to this state of affairs: he enjoys for himself, naturally not for the sake of the Creator, since he is still in “Lo Lishma,” yet at the same time he does not want to lose the connection with the Creator under any circumstances and constantly seeks it.

He wants to feel that he is in the Creator’s world, in some kind of sphere filled by the Creator, and he continuously tries to hold onto this state. These are the efforts. He tries to carry them out by all possible means, and as a result, the sum of his efforts fills his “cup,” and he crosses the Machsom.

As for the descents along the way, nothing can be done about them. How many will there be? No one knows. It is impossible to say how much time will pass between ascents and descents, because this depends on the person; in this lies his effort and his choice.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/23/26, Rabash, “The Measure of Practicing Mitzvot [Commandments]”

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Question: What do we have to manage to do in this world?

Answer: In this world, we must manage to feel His entire system, the upper mind, and the will of the Creator that governs all of it.

Question: But we begin from a state where we absolutely do not feel this?

Answer: We do not feel anything. Then we begin to feel that we are completely confused. There is a period when a person simply does not know the why, the wherefore, or the how. Then gradually this goal begins to appear in us, the reason why everything is arranged this way. Starting from this goal, we, as if, unwind our life back to our birth and begin to understand how it all came to pass.

Question: And this point —the goal—that suddenly appears within all this confusion was it already in us, or is it put into us in response to our efforts?

Answer: Inside of us, there is everything. Absolutely everything! But we must sort all this out, and while holding on to the beginning and the end of life feel that we have lived through it precisely with the help of the Creator, in accordance with His intention.

Question: So, in principle, throughout our lives, we clear away all this garbage in us? We clear and clear until we find this point? Is this what human life is?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is “garbage” all the other desires, other thoughts?

Answer: It is that which deliberately confused us so that we would dig deeper and figure it out.

Question: “Deliberately confused,” so we are given this on purpose?

Answer: Of course.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 3/25/26

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Question: You say that the Klipa is a very powerful force. It is like a counter-force that drags you down and does not allow you to do something. Are we really in a very strong Klipa?

Answer: Yes, but not in a very strong one. We have been given good conditions, practically everything we need, and yet we still cannot make the effort.

Question: Does this depend on a small group or on everyone who has joined us?

Answer: It depends on everyone who wants to participate in the mutual guarantee (Arvut).

Comment: You give such precise answers that present both sides. But it is impossible to connect them.

My Response: It is still impossible, yes. But one must constantly strive for it. To correctly aspire to spirituality means to strive, together with the friends, to create one single, unified common desire. Then it will acquire a quality similar to that of the Creator, and He will be revealed within that desire.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Klipa” 10/9/10

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Question: Many say that we lack unity, that supposedly there are elements that hinder our breakthrough. How long does the accumulative process have to work for this to be revealed?

Answer: It depends on those who are trying to reach the state of unity. What does “long” or “not long” have to do with it? It is possible to achieve this relatively quickly with great effort or it could be stretched for many years with small efforts.

Ultimately, a specific level of shared desire should develop in a person together with the other friends that would be ready to disconnect from each of them and be one.

In this unity, which is called “one,” not each one but one single whole, the point of unity, the Creator will be revealed to them.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. We lack Unity” 9/15/10

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The world has dried out. There is no literature or art as they once were. All that was left in the 18^th and 19^th centuries. There is nothing like this today.

Question: Why? Do we not want to enjoy life?

Answer: A person is becoming mechanical.

Question: Why is the upper force doing such things to us? What is the purpose?

Answer: I will speak on behalf of the upper force. “First, it is so that you would realize the negativity and insignificance of your existence and would want to change it.”

Question: May I speak to the upper force on behalf of humanity?

Answer: Go ahead.

Comment: But you, the upper force, have created us like this. You did it!

My Response: “This is correct. I created you. I created you in such a way that you would choose the correct way of life.”

Question: Wasn’t it possible to place us in the correct way of life right away?

Answer: “Absolutely not!”

Question: Why?

Answer: “Because you would be an automaton. But now, you have a choice between this and that. And I want you to exist precisely within this choice and gradually, gradually, gradually choose the optimal existence for yourself in which you would be similar to Me.”

Comment: Meaning, the upper force has…

My Response: There is a program, there is a goal! Everything is prepared, of course.

Question: He is so egoistic: “So you would become similar to Me”?

Answer: Perhaps you can say it this way. However, to become similar to the Creator means to become absolutely kind, absolutely loving toward everyone, and so forth. Here, on the contrary, a person should grow anti-egoistic properties.

Question: Does it mean that You, the upper force, want precisely this from us? Is this the only and the most important thing?

Answer: The only thing! We absolutely do not agree with this.

Comment: Certainly, I do not agree with suffering.

My Response: Yes, but, I see that if I think in a sensible way, then I will probably have no choice but to agree with You.

Question: Are you speaking to the upper force on behalf of humanity?

Answer: Yes

Question: So, should we agree?

Answer: Ultimately, yes. If we create such a society and connections between us where we will support this idea, it will be very easy for us, and we will reach this state pretty fast.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 3/12/26

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The people of Israel are not formed simply by ordinary individuals connecting with one another. They become a people because together they attach themselves to Moses.

Moses is called the “faithful shepherd,” that is, the emissary of the Creator within the people. And the concept “people of Israel” means that they are connected with Moses.

Moses is the quality of Israel (“Yashar El” – straight to the Creator), the one who points the way. The others, like a flock, simply follow him, and he leads them out of Egypt.

But if each one of the three million Jews who were in Egypt at the time had connected individually with Moses, would that not have sufficed? Why did they have to unite among themselves in order to be able to connect to Moses and, through him, to the Creator? Why was their unification a necessary condition?

The necessity to joining oneself to Moses means the annulment of egoism, of self‑love. And the result of this is love of the neighbor. Therefore, first the people unite among themselves, that is, they nullify their egoism, their love of self, and only then are they able to receive the message of love for the Creator from Moses, and through Moses, to connect with the Creator.

Not every person must attain the level of Moses, but everyone must accept the work “to love one’s neighbor” on the level appropriate to the ordinary people of Israel.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/8/26, Rabash, “Come unto Pharaoh – 2”

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Question: If the people of Israel already came out of Egypt once, then why must we repeat this again now?

Answer: In the historical process of its development, the people of Israel carried out the exodus from Egypt about 4,000 years ago; therefore, we do not need to go through this again on the material level now.

We do not need to journey to Ur of the Chaldeans and then relocate to Israel, descend from Israel into Egypt, return from there to the Land of Israel again, build the First and Second Temples, and go through this entire process once more.

The material bodies in past incarnations did what they were required to fulfill at the level of the spiritual roots; they realized it within matter. However, nothing was accomplished in spirituality since the soul had not yet attained that level.

At the time when all these events took place on the material level, the people, in the spiritual sense, were at their usual degree, at the level of the masses. Both the exodus from Egypt and the entry into the Land of Israel occurred solely on the material level.

All that they possessed on the spiritual level at that time was merely a glimmer of the level of Nefesh, that is, a sensation that they were close to spirituality, to the Creator, and a sense of the importance of their actions, like a person who is under the influence of the spiritual.

But since a specific spiritual root exists, it must necessarily extend into the material world and be realized here. This is precisely why we went through this entire path on the earthly level once with the exception of the final correction.

We have already been in Egypt, exited it, conquered the Land of Israel, built the First Temple at the level of Mochin deHaya, only to see it destroyed, then built the Second Temple at the level of Mochin deNeshama,” and it too was destroyed. We went into exiles. We passed through several exiles and have now returned from the last one.

And now we must build the Third Temple, one in which Mochin deHaya and Mochin deNeshama will be present together as Mochin deYechida, so that the Third Temple encompasses the essence of both it predecessors combined.

This signifies that in the material world we have already traversed the entire path up to the very end of correction. But in spirituality we have not yet accomplished anything. We have only just arrived at our current state, the preparation period. Now we must carry out the exodus from Egypt, enter spirituality, and then go through this entire path in spirituality.

Our present era is the time when, in the near future, all souls are destined to complete their preparatory stage and enter the upper world; they will begin to ascend the spiritual ladder and, pass all 125 degrees, and reach the end of correction.

In the material we have practically nothing left to realize except what must still be done before the building of the Third Temple. The outcome, whether we encounter further suffering or goodness will be revealed to us so that we may come to our final correction, depends on our inner work, on our deeds.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/8/26, Rabash, “Come unto Pharaoh – 2”

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Question: What does it mean to build a better environment each time?

Answer: Building a better environment means that I devote myself to it with the intention that it will become stronger and support me when I need it. I invest myself in it to the extent that I have something to invest. And by helping others, I essentially express love for the friends.

The group can present you with a new, stronger desire for the Creator each time, and if you nullify yourself before it, you can receive from it.

You change the group by constantly investing in it, making it stronger; and you nullify yourself before it to an ever-greater extent, and it becomes increasingly bestowing toward you. This is called “each time, a different environment.”

Sometimes I hear people say they want to move from one group to another. There is no need for this, why do it? On the contrary, if you feel uncomfortable in your group, it means there is a place there where you should invest your efforts. In fact, it does not matter which group you are in. If a person is ready to bestow and to humble himself before it, the group can even consist of beginners.

When a new person arrives, they are burning with desire, wanting constantly to sit right next to me, even fighting for it. But after some time passes, they move farther away and “call” me from a distance, as if with a remote control. I was better off with them when they were just beginners, their desire ignited me. And now where is it? It seems to them that they already know everything, understand everything. And so, it is with each of you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/22/26, Rabash, “What Is the ‘Bread of an Evil-Eyed Man’ in the Work?”

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