Question: What metamorphoses occur between descents and ascents? What the does the transition from one state to another change?

Answer: Such transitions are possible only within a group.

You cannot possibly analyze, perceive, or measure this process, unless it is in relation to a group in which you, together with your friends, strive to unite as one and nullify yourselves relative to your common connection. Within this connection, you reveal the source, the upper force, that can transform you all and bring you to this connection.

In this way you truly are striving to reveal the picture, the state that actually exists. It is the only thing that exists.

All other notions, which are disconnected from this reality, such as: tell me, show me, explain it to me, are all mere philosophy detached from matter, and will invariably be misunderstood. Moreover, such thinking will lead you to believe that you can achieve this by yourself. Therefore, it is impossible to study Kabbalah without realizing the group connection with those who share this aspiration.

A person must traverse a vast number of stages, undergoing countess realizations, definitions, and analyses before becoming ready for this specific kind of uniting and transformation in order to simply stop perceiving oneself and to perceive the collective instead. At that point one will reveal that this collective is, in fact, one’s soul.

Question: How can we use our ascents and descents in a collective manner? How can we tune to that specific wavelength where everyone is striving in the same direction?

Answer: I have spoken about this at length, and now I do not want to repeat myself.

Question: Perhaps there is some subtle nuance that we are still missing?

Answer: Nothing is missing. Everything has been said thousands of times. You have it all. If you use it, you will find the correct model and yourself in it. If not, then no.

Comment: In essence, you have explained this system in great detail many times, but your students still constantly ask about the same thing. You give some explanations and uncover finer gradations.

My Response: It depends on their advancement. I cannot scrutinize it now with you. You do not understand that a Kabbalist can scrutinize only those things that he really senses in the course of a conversation.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Practical Kabbalah” 9/28/10

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Comment: Difficult events happen to us, but we come here, begin to work with faith above reason, and say that what happened is not so bad, and that over time everything will work out.

My Response: This is incorrect. Baal HaSulam writes that If everything that happens to you is perceived as good, even though you feel it as bad, it is simply a lie. This is called Hasidism.

Herein lies the difference between the knowledge of the landlords and the teaching of the Torah, between religion and the wisdom of Kabbalah. You are simply deceiving yourself: “Whatever the Creator does is for the good, and the blows that come are good. In fact, they are not blows at all, but positive things, I just don’t feel them that way.” All of this is false.

Do you feel bad? Yes! So why deceive yourself? Whom are you lying to? Your heart is in the upper Partzuf. As we study, Ima Elyia (the upper mother) has now turned her back to Aba (father) and does not accept your prayer because it is not genuine. If you continue deceiving yourself, you distance yourself even more from the truth.

If I receive blows and claim that it is good, and even thank and pray for them, what greater deception can there be? How will I reach the recognition of evil and faith above reason? This is exactly what Baal HaSulam speaks about. It means that you are perceiving reality incorrectly.

“A judge has nothing more than what his eyes see.” After you feel bad, you must relate to it according to the principle: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?”

Your problem is that you do not want to feel the clash of opposing concepts. You do not want to exist in inner tension. Of course, it is easier to say: “Thank God, everything is in the hands of Heaven, all is good,” or “There is none else besides Him, I live by this, and nothing else concerns me.” Or to be like the religious population that supposedly relies on the Creator. I emphasize “supposedly” because they do not analyze the states they go through. They relate to life this way not because they truly feel it differently, but because they erase reality and cling to a single idea: There is a Creator, and therefore one can remain calm.

They do not live within the real reality through which they must rise, from the level of this world to the level of the final correction (Gmar Tikun) by their own effort, because they do not connect these two points. They seemingly cling to the upper force and think that by this, they have completed the correction.

There is also a completely different life lived by secular people. They believe there is nothing above, we live on this earth, and that is all there is. Between these two poles all of humanity exists. If you are at one of these extremes, you can arrange your life quite comfortably by closing your eyes either to one side or the other, like a non-believer or like a religious person, and have no inner conflict. It becomes a kind of life philosophy.

This is precisely how you want to relate to your friends: “My friend is an angel, the Creator, and I must treat him accordingly.”

But one must see everything at once and examine reality from both perspectives simultaneously.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/4/26, Rabash, “What Is Heaviness of the Head in the Work?”

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Everything that happens around us on this vast scale of society or the universe as a whole, happens according to a specific immense plan, and we exist within this plan. Our task is to align ourselves correctly with this plan. However, under no circumstances should we attempt to alter what comes from the outside; rather, we must correct ourselves so that we adapt to this external movement.

Question: In that case will I perceive whatever happens as having arrived at the right time?

Answer: It arrives at the right time, normally and correctly. And suddenly I understand the inherent correctness of everything taking place and realize just how perfectly suited it is for me.

Question: And I do not regret anything?

Answer: There is nothing to regret because all of this is unfolding outside of me, before my eyes. It serves only to show me the steps that I must take within myself in order to perceive it correctly, agree with it, unite with it, and move further in resonance with it.

Question: In balance with it?

Answer: Yes, in harmony.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 4/29/26

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Aaron is Israel’s right arm… We need to know that the right arm is regarded as Hesed [mercy], which is the vessel of bestowal. That is, he wants only to do mercy and bestow. By his power, Aaron drew this power to the people of Israel (Rabash, Article 1 “Moses Went”).

The spiritual degrees of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are Sefirot Hesed, Gevura, and Tiferet. Moses, Aaron, Joseph, and David are Netzach, Hod, Yesod, and Malchut. This article discusses a state in which it is impossible to advance in accordance with the guidance provided by Aaron (the quality of Hesed, the altruistic desire in a person).

It is written that Aaron is Hesed, mercy. But why? He is the left line, the domain to which the concept of Cohen (priest) pertains.

Consequently, it is believed that the Kohanim (priests) have a difficult, irritable temperament. But here, for some reason, it talks about the property of Hesed?

Rabash wanted to explain the path that Moses must traverse. Indeed, the article is called precisely that: “And Moses Went.” Where and how should he go? It is about advancing by faith above reason, because it is impossible to go by faith below reason.

What does faith above reason mean? It means that I accept knowledge, rise above it, and based on this, build my connection with the Creator in such a way that I treat all obstacles that come my way as if sent by the Creator. I make the correction of Hesed (mercy) on them and ask the Creator to help me use them, be above them, and stay connected to Him. In other words, I seek to build my connection with Him upon the foundation of these obstacles.

It turns out that all these hindrances are exactly the material with which I connect myself to the Creator. It says, “Bind the sacrifice with ropes until [it is brought to] the corners of the altar.

The altar represents the correction of the desire to receive at a high spiritual level. The cords (ropes) signify Aviut, spiritual coarseness or intensity of desire. This Aviut manifests specifically through the disturbances that arise from the desire to receive, from the side of reason.

Therefore, anyone who does not suppress their reason, but rather, while remaining above it, establishes a connection and demands correction from the Creator, ultimately achieves adhesion with Him.

Naturally, true spiritual work cannot take place in a state where a person merely experiences pleasure, for that is not work and does not require any exertion. It is only when a person reaches the level of Hesed (mercy) that we can say one rejoices from their work, because one has made the correction of Hafetz Hesed, the correction associated with Aaron.

This is why Moses always told Aaron, “Let us go to Pharaoh together.” This refers, of course, to approaching the Creator, but primarily, it signifies going together with his brother.

He performed the correction through the property of Hasadim and reached the degree of Hesed (mercy) through correcting the disturbances; he united with the Creator by faith above reason and reached the degree of Pharaoh, the capacity to wage war against his own desire to receive.

In this manner, you can advance forward time and again; it is by using and conquering Pharaoh, returning to him repeatedly until you pass through all ten plagues and merit to break free from Pharaoh’s dominion.

If a person does not become resilient in the face of obstacles, armed in advance with the quality of mercy, one will not need the Creator’s help to cope with Pharaoh. When one has no need for the Creator’s help, one has no means of getting closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/19/26, Rabash, “Moses Went”

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The most important thing for a person is to correct oneself along the path of life. Anyone who points out your shortcomings is doing a tremendous amount of work on your behalf.

In order to discover these shortcomings (let alone correct them, but at least simply to discover them) you will run into a vast number of serious obstacles, bang your head against the wall, and get yourself into all sorts of troubles.

People suddenly end up in prison, come out years later, start over again, and so on. But someone who can truly point out your shortcomings and you are able to feel them, understand them, become aware of them, saves you an enormous amount of suffering.

Comment: We consider such a person an enemy: he pointed out my flaws, he humiliated me.

My Response: Humiliation is a different matter. I can recognize my shortcomings and at the same time be grateful that he is showing them to me. But the one who says nothing or even praises me, perhaps he praises me maliciously so that I would not pay attention to my own correction.

Question: No wonder you always say that the one who criticizes you is closer to you than the one who praises you?

Answer: Yes. Of course.

Question: Do you truly feel that way?

Answer: Yes, I do.

Question: Do you actually listen when someone suddenly tells you something critical?

Answer: I very much would like to.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 4/28/26

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Question: Why is our work called work in Lo Lishma if the goal of this work is the Creator?

Answer: A person who is in Lo Lishma, whether they want to or not, works for themselves. This means that both their work, their goal, and their effort is all only for themselves. When they attain Lishma, both their work and their goal change, and no longer the goal, but the work itself becomes the reward for them. Then everything changes.

I have exerted various efforts in order to bestow upon myself as well as upon you because I see benefit in it. Even if that benefit is of the highest order, so what? After all, I do all this because I feel it, me, myself. All this is connected with my “I.”

If, as a result of these efforts, correction comes from above, then everything within me changes. Bestowal for the sake of my own fulfillment disappears completely. What remains are “bestowal for the sake of bestowal” and “reception for the sake of bestowal,” and that is what I do.

Now the effort itself gives me satisfaction; I want to have the opportunity to exert it; I want this work, rather than having some other goal apart from the exertion of effort.

Question: What does a person who works for themselves in Lo Lishma think about? What must they reach?

Answer: A person working in Lo Lishma has many possibilities. There are many degrees within the state of Lo Lishma. We studied what it means “to mock,” and what it means “to hate.” There are different degrees here: working solely for oneself, working only so that another will not receive, and so on.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/2/26, Rabash, “What Are Banners in the Work?”

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Question: Do you feel absolutely all the stages that your students go through?

Answer: How could it be otherwise? When a child does something, does an adult not understand exactly what he is doing? Of course, I feel and understand it all. Everything below me on the earthly level is absolutely clear to me, except for the animalistic psychology, which can be concealed. And in the spiritual world, all the degrees, are mine.

Comment: When a child asks for something, let’s say, a toy car or a little airplane, he has some prerequisites for it, meaning certain internal things have already formed in him. He is not simply crying, “Wah-wah,” he is still reaching for something. And we are drawn to some abstract form that we cannot perceive at all.

My Response: Yes, that is why you have to turn to the Creator. While striving to attain the abstract form, you should ask Him to take a step toward you. You only need to reach that “wah-wah,” as you say, “bursting out of yourself.”

Very good! This is where the request, which is called “the gate of tears” appears, that I cannot do this myself! And that is all; the Creator will do it. He will give you this quality. No one is saying that you have to attain Him. You must give quantity and quality to the effort required.

Question: What exactly is this request to the Creator? Where does this cry come from?

Answer: From the heart. There is no need to say anything.

After you make many different attempts, a feeling will emerge inside that cannot be expressed in words. It exists in the form of the Psalms of King David. Rabash writes about this in his articles.

The thing is that until you attain this, you let these words pass by you. You have to come to them yourself. And suddenly, you will find yourself speaking in psalms. I am speaking completely seriously. A person who attains this level says exactly what is written.

He suddenly discovers these words within himself. Where did they come from? And where did they come from for King David? He ascended to this level and discovered the combination of vessels and lights in a state that forms precisely these words, such a matrix expressed through his vocal apparatus, through the brain, in such sounds.

Question: Is it like a code on a certain degree?

Answer: Of course. That is, the light acts within the desire. In The Book of Zohar, this is described beautifully! Through the device called the human of our world with his anatomical structure, the feeling is expressed in the form of such images of letters, such sounds. As a result, the person expresses what King David said.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Gate of Tears” 10/11/10

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A covenant is defined as the process of separating ourselves from the vessels of reception, when we become similar to the properties of the Creator, GE, the vessels of bestowal. AHP deAliyah means that we try to extract the interaction between Malchut and Bina from the vessels of reception. This is similar to the AHP deBina that later prepares to influence Malchut.

If the AHP deBina possesses a power that it can transmit the entire light from above downward to Malchut , this means that the entire AHP deAliyah has been corrected. And after it has been corrected, GE and AHP deAliyah together can begin correcting Malchut itself.

But Malchut is not corrected through the making of a covenant or through the corrections performed by GE and AHP deAliyah as the property called “Israel.” Rather, it is corrected “in its own place.” A light comes from above and sanctifies Malchut as it is. As it is said: “The angel of death will become a holy angel.” And the pig will become holy, that is, kosher.

So what, will the laws of nature change? Will the pig suddenly lose the signs of an impure animal and become a ruminant like a cow? Naturally, such a thing cannot happen. The Creator does not change the original design. The laws of nature are constant and absolute.

AHP deAliyah will do its work and Malchut will be corrected in its own place. Thus, there will not be changes from the inclusion of Malchut in Bina; rather, the force of correction will come from Bina to Malchut. Then it will not be “Israel” that is corrected, but the nations of the world, and there will be no distinction between the future world and our world.

During correction, it is said that Israel has a share in the future world. Those who strive toward spirituality and are called “Israel” also have a share, but only a share in that state, in that place called the future world: in covenant with the Creator, in connection, in equivalence of form and adhesion with the Creator.

In the final correction, the future world will descend and become included within this world, and then not only Israel will have a share in the future world, but all created beings will possess that same state of adhesion with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/23/26, Rabash, “All of Israel Have a Part in the Next World”

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Question: How can we achieve a state where a prayer is not false?

Answer: All our prayers are false. When a person reaches the point where one can no longer raise a prayer, he enters the state of real prayer. Before that, all his prayers are false.

It is written that you need to always remain in prayer, as it is said: “May he pray all day.” We must strive to pray with all seriousness, out of heavy thoughts. Once they all come to an end, the time for true prayer comes.

We must realize one thing: everything we understand does not work at all. Our minds feel full. Imagine that you would leave this lesson satisfied, understanding everything, happy that you understood it, and were filled. In fact, you feel exactly the opposite: everything is dull, unclear, and in general, you have no idea how to walk this path.

What is the difference between these two states apart from the inner false feeling? It is deceptive because you do not know why you are given such a feeling.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/4/26, Rabash, “What Is Heaviness of the Head in the Work? ”

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All our work is carried out only above reason. It is completely absent in the desire to receive. And although Kabbalah is called a science, this science is hidden. It does not stem from the nature of the desire to receive from which all our sciences are built: physics, chemistry, electronics, even psychology (although that is not entirely a science).

But what conclusion can be drawn from all this? No matter how much research we conduct, no matter how much we develop these sciences, they do not change us. We gain no real benefit from them.

Question: So, what does our “strengthening on the path” before the breakthrough consist of? To come to a state above reason?

Answer: Above reason means to receive advice from the Creator, to become included in Him and not in the desire to receive.

If while being within the desire to receive, I imagine some other state, which I call, say, the desire to bestow, it is still the same desire to receive. So, what is to be done? I must receive from the Creator something that does not exist within the desire to receive.

The sages say that all that remains is to carry out the preparation called “strengthening.” I must work with other people who are outside of me, egoistically, and then I will begin to discover that there is a great difference between my attitude toward them and my attitude toward myself. From the recognition of this difference, I will begin to understand who I am.

I have a “laboratory” in this world located within the desire to receive. In our nature, thanks to the shattering of the common soul, a unique possibility exists to see from within the desire to receive an analogy to the kind of difference that exists between the spiritual and material worlds.

It is said that the same opposition that exists between the material world and the spiritual world also exists in your attitude toward yourself and toward others. It is astonishing that within your egoism, you can see this and learn from it.

Nevertheless, if you study this egoistically, then it is psychology: how good I am, how polite I am, and so on. It becomes the kind of thing people like to take pride in: how noble-hearted they are.

But if you study this with the aim of somehow imagining your attitude toward spirituality, toward the Creator, then, as a result of the connection between the branch and the root, there appears within you a certain feeling called the point of recognition of evil.

From this point, you gradually begin striving toward adhesion with the Creator, as Baal HaSulam says: “I am lovesick.” But this comes only from the recognition of your attitude toward the friend.

What can strengthen us in this? The relationship between “I” and the Creator, “I” and divinity.

Question: But is this not concealed?

Answer: It is not concealed. Before my eyes stands a real friend. But if I accept him, then I work with him in order to find the point of my relation to the upper one. Otherwise, I have no other place for work. The reality surrounding me becomes as if a laboratory.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/4/26, Rabash, “What Is Heaviness of the Head in the Work? ”

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