Question: If there is none else besides Him, then to whom does the Creator bestow?

Answer: It is a closed system, part of which was intentionally given an egoistic addition opposite to the Creator in order to reveal Him more clearly. This part plays everything out within itself.

Imagine that you have an orchestra with no minor or major tones. What would you do? Harmony is necessary.

To create this harmony and emphasize His unity and perfection, the Creator made an opposite system, one that contradicts Him. From this you can freely investigate Him and, most importantly, crown Him.

It is precisely thanks to the egoism He created and over which you work, that you decipher the Creator who hides within this system, reveal Him, and discover that He is the only one and the perfect one.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 9/2/18

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Question: I still don’t understand where our world is, where the spiritual, higher world is in relation to it, and where the Creator is.

Answer: It’s all very simple! Everything that was created is a desire to be fulfilled, to enjoy. It senses everything it can sense within itself, through its own sensations. As long as the desire is egoistic, what it senses is called “this world.” When it becomes altruistic, what it senses is called “the upper or spiritual world.”

The desire consists of five parts, 0-1-2-3-4 levels, the magnitude of the desire, by quantity and quality. Moreover, the greater the quality, the lesser the quantity, just as in our world there are many ordinary stones but few precious ones. Within these four types of desires, a person perceives the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human levels. The zero part is “me,” the point of reference.

At the very center of the desire is the “I,” from which a person senses the world, their own desire, but it is perceived as existing outside of that “I.” Ordinary perception of the world is called egoistic (consumeristic).

Where is the Creator? Wherever the “I” makes room for Him!
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Question: Is it possible to say that the Creator outside is some kind of logic, laws, and the Creator inside is some kind of feelings? And when these two principles merge, a connection with the Creator occurs?

Answer: Of course, you can say whatever it seems to you right at the moment, but the Creator is the single force that acts in each of us and in all of us together.

There is not much to say about the Creator, because this “substance” includes absolutely everything. And even what I am saying to you now, and what you are hearing and thinking, comes from this force of nature.

Except it, practically nothing exists. We are within it, we are its parts. We are given a certain blindness, a restriction of our thoughts and feelings, so that we do not feel Him, and can reveal Him from this state. Then we, as it were, begin to exist.

There is me and a vast world. I perceive this entire world as a manifestation of the Creator in relation to me. In this way, I try to attune myself to the perception of this world, i.e., the Creator, this universal, the omnipresent force. By attuning myself in this way, I suddenly begin to feel that I am changing to match this force, the Creator. It is exactly to this state we need to arrive.

The purpose of creation is to achieve similarity to the Creator. When I, despite all the obstacles that He puts between Himself and us, reveal Him as the only One who exists, as filling the entire universe, then in this state I merge with Him. But the oneness of the Creator is not violated by this at the same time.

And the fact that He created such a remarkable quality of our separation from Him is given only so that we could, as if from the outside, as if from a distance, understand Him, feel Him, and reveal Him.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 12/1/19

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Spirituality has only the form that you build for it yourself by your desires. From above we are given only an informational record (Reshimo), and we must build the form ourselves. From above, from the upper degree, we are also given strength and mind for realization, but according to our request.

It seems to us that some ready-made world will suddenly fall upon us from above. There is nothing to wait for. I build it myself through my efforts. I myself draw this world against the background of the light.

I draw the image of the upper one, and to the extent of my efforts, it becomes more and more true. I do everything that I am capable of. I draw all kinds of forms. Sometimes it turns out better, sometimes worse, and sometimes I make mistakes. I create them and erase them until I succeed.

And in the process of my work, I suddenly see that the upper one begins to help me! He clothes within me like a hand in a glove, and works. He helps me like a mother who plays together with a child and helps him build a house out of blocks. When I try to do something and it does not work, I suddenly feel that it is He who helps me understand that it should not be this way but the opposite.

But all this comes thanks to my efforts because I tried to build something. And He also awakens the beginning of this effort within me, but I must continue it myself, find its sprout, and begin to work from it. This is what is called: “I, the Creator, am the first and the last.”

We ourselves must build the connection between us, this “house,” the place where the Creator will be revealed, the “picture of the Creator,” using our own material. Without this, He has no image at all. I project Him onto myself, onto my desires, onto that part that I can make similar to Him.

And on this desire, as on a foundation, as on a screen (and in spirituality it is indeed called a screen), I begin to see His picture. It begins to appear on this screen like a photograph lowered into a developing solution. This picture that manifests on my screen is called reflected light. And thus I receive two spiritual forces: the screen and the reflected light.

All of this must come from me myself. This is why the necessary time of preparation for entering the spiritual world—“from three to five years”—is required. The time of concealment is the time of my attempts to build this picture. And afterward the spiritual world is revealed; and what it turns out to be in reality is difficult for us to even imagine.
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Question: How can I confirm I am on the right path if I still do not feel the spiritual world?

Answer: Whether you are advancing correctly can be determined according to how much the Creator helps you by hindering you. A person sees how he is constantly being knocked down by various obstacles that disconnect him from the sense that he is under control of a single upper force besides which there is nothing.

I am below, the Creator is above, and between us is the reality of this world. It turns out that I have to reveal the Creator through this world, and also through it, the Creator influences me.

Our entire job is to transform this world from an obstacle into a connection with the Creator. Otherwise, it is impossible to reveal the Creator. We are in complete negative, in our egoism, and the Creator is entirely in positive. How can we reveal each other?

That is why the Creator created this world (Olam), from the word “concealment” (Alama), so that I could work in spite of all the obstacles He creates. Someone attacks me, shouts, hinders me, my body is sick, but I attribute all these external and internal hindrances only to the Creator, saying they all come from Him. In this case, I turn only to Him to eliminate these obstacles. After all, I want to be connected only to Him and not give any importance to the obstacles He deliberately sends me. Then I realize that all obstacles become an opportunity to connect with the Creator.

I have nothing to catch the Creator with, but if I work with an obstacle and relate it to the Creator, it becomes the place where I can cling to Him. After all, He is creating this interference to confuse me. And I relate this interference to Him.

It turns out that we connect to Him precisely within this obstacle. He does so from His end by putting up this obstacle, and I, from my end, by neutralizing this obstacle that was confusing me. Now it ceases to be a hindrance, and from a barrier separating me from the Creator, it becomes a link connecting me to Him.

That is how I work with obstacles, one after another. It could be a court case, any problems or troubles. And I must work with them on the plane of this world, because I am in it. But regarding the Creator, I do my job by relating everything that happens to Him as the one who does it all.

I correct the obstacle in me (1), and correct the obstacle in the world (2), and then the Creator reveals Himself. That is the entire work.

Question: What does it mean to attribute the obstacle to the Creator?

Answer: It means deciding that there is none else besides Him, and He is sending me all the obstacles so that I think they came about on their own, i.e., someone simply yelled at me or conversely praised me. Any attitude toward you that you consider as coming from the inanimate, vegetative, or animate world, and especially from people rather than from the Creator, is an obstacle. You think there is something else besides Him.

Even if you think your body, your mind, your feelings, and the whole world exist, then this is an obstacle. And if you attribute all this to the Creator, realizing that He created this whole illusion for you so you would make an effort to connect everything only to Him, and that, in fact there is none of this but only the Creator, this allows you to reveal Him.

This whole world will turn into a spiritual world, into vessels in which you reveal the presence of the Creator besides whom there is nothing.

Question: What should I do if I try to perform such an action but get no confirmation of its correctness, and feel nothing?

Answer: That is correct. We do not yet have feelings, reason, or relation, we have nothing. However, that does not mean we cannot begin the work. We begin with a lack of reason and feeling, because this makes us independent. After all, from a complete separation, from absolute zero, we begin to acquire a sense of the upper.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/14/16, Selected Passages from the Writing of Baal HaSulam

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Question: If we do not sense the Creator, how can we receive His qualities and become similar to Him?

Answer: A person senses nothing outside of himself, outside of his body, whether it is the Creator, a friend, or the group. Therefore, we must first work on our bestowal to the other, to love the other as ourselves. And if I can attain bestowal to the other, then I will be able to bestow to the Creator as well.

If I agree to work only for the Creator but not for the other, this is a sign that I am not ready to work for the Creator either. After all, I am still not making an independent calculation “outside my own interest.” I remain within myself and receive results of the work, the reward.

That is, all the work is only in relation to the group, within which we create the place for the revelation of the Creator.

We do not receive any light; we are filled with our own bestowal! I “generate” this quality from within myself with the help of the force that comes to me and gives me the ability to be in bestowal, and in this I feel the force of the Creator clothing in me. This serves as my fulfillment.

I will never reveal anything “outside of myself,” even though it is said that we “go out of ourselves” and connect with others. This is all my imagination, my perception, as if I am going out of myself.

It is said that Malchut of the world of Atzilut is called “the image of the Creator.”

And it is also said that I must bring joy to the Creator through all the states that I receive from Him. But what does it mean to receive states from Him; after all, they depend on the desire awakened in me: more or less, depending on my overcoming my egoistic desire and correcting it. How is this related to the Creator, who does not change?

And what can I even give Him? There is no one to bestow to, no one to receive my work.

In the end we reveal that we correct only our own qualities and never leave them. And the very quality of bestowal is a pure quality; I cannot work for any kind of “benefit” of it. I can only value it as a special, exalted quality according to my attitude of awe toward the light and toward the other, which inspires the sense of the greatness of bestowal and love in me.
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From Kabbalah Lesson 4/27/11, Baal HaSulam, Shamati 1, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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41. The Zohar writes about the text “Those who seek Me shall find Me,” and asks, “Where does one find the Creator?” They said that the Creator is found only in the Torah. Also, regarding the verse, “Indeed, You are a God who hides,” that the Creator hides Himself in the holy Torah (Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“).

The point is that those who “pursue” the Creator and want to reveal Him, will certainly reveal Him. And this can be done only by studying the Torah, for the Creator is hidden within it. He created the Torah precisely with this condition.

Why does the Creator hide Himself? It is so that we would feel our separation from Him and begin to ask the Creator to help us reveal Him. Therefore, we need to understand the phrase well: ״Those who seek Me shall find Me.״ That is, we must clarify what this request truly is.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/25, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Why does a person’s inner change in his approach to reality from reception to bestowal grant him the ability to attain the present, past, and future without limitation?

Answer: The light, the quality of bestowal, revealed within a person includes everything because it is the only force in all of nature; it is nature itself.

The light governs us, the created beings, because nothing else has been created besides us. Its ever-increasing revelation within us reveals everything beyond time, space, and movement.

Therefore, by revealing the quality of bestowal, a person comes to know all of His (the Creator’s) actions from beginning to end. “There is no Creator without a created being who reveals Him.”

The quality of bestowal acting upon the created being is the Creator. When this quality, which created me, begins to rule within me, this means that I am revealing the Creator. The dominion of the desire to bestow, the intention of bestowal, the quality of bestowal within me, is called the revelation of the Creator to me.

This revelation occurs to the extent that I myself become bestowing. But then, how can I say that I am revealing the Creator? Who is this “I” that still reveals Him? It follows that within me qualities that have not yet revealed the Creator still remain.

But later, when I reveal everything completely, there is no longer a division between “I” and “He.” There exists only the quality of bestowal, boundlessly ruling within me, and nothing else.

In the end, we replace the force that motivates us. We ourselves want to replace it so that instead of constant thoughts about receiving, I think only about how to bestow.

In truth, I am simply accustomed to working for the sake of receiving, but there is nothing good in this. It is a habit from which I cannot free myself.

Baal HaSulam says that the transition to the desire to bestow is only a psychological difficulty. Because within the desire to bestow, there are far greater possibilities to enjoy and to develop. But we are accustomed to acting for the sake of reception, and so we continue to act.

Therefore, against our habitual nature, we must compel an external force, the surrounding light, to act so that it will replace the governing program within us. This is called: “My sons have defeated Me.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/2/09, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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Every person is obliged to attain the root of his soul. This means that the aspired-for purpose of the created being is Dvekut [adhesion] with His qualities (Baal HaSulam, “The Acting Mind”).

It is written that “the outcast will not be cast out from the Creator.” All universal desire, including the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human levels, all of reality, must return to the source, to the root. The creation came out of the source only in its imagination, and now, by trying to overcome this illusion that separates it from the root, it must remove the veils and return in its sensations.

Overall, the reality of the universe is a desire, divided into the four levels listed above. The greatest desire related to the human degree can carry out this work. The previous levels have no free choice, they should not have to work, exert effort, or realize this goal, because they cannot attract light, they cannot oblige the Creator to change them, and remove the concealment. Only the human can bring himself and the whole reality to correction, in other words, back to the sensation of the source, or to the removal of concealment.

The human degree, in turn, is also divided into four levels; in fact, the “human in man” who carries out the plan. This means that some people perform the necessary actions, influence others, and pull them along. Others draw the remaining levels along with them, the animate, vegetative, and inanimate. This is how everyone returns to the single root.

Thus, all people must reach the root, adhesion, but they differ in the implementation of the work and the final form. Depending on the root of their soul and desire, everyone returns in their own way, adheres to their own extent, fulfills their function, and rises to their own level.

Of course, we are talking about the process of returning, when we remove the concealment and assemble a mosaic of the overall picture. And then, when everyone takes their place, we begin to understand there is no difference between big and small, between individual desires—all this is important during the work, on the way back to the source.

But after we return to our root, our differences disappear. Then, a single force appears, a single desire, a single light, a single reality—as it is written: “He and His name are one.”
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/28/11, “The Acting Mind”

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Question: How can a person envision the concepts of the “Creator” and the “Torah” on the spiritual path?

Answer: The Torah is the entire light that corrects us and the light that then fills us.

Baal HaSulam writes in the “Introduction to The Book of Zohar“: Each of the 613 organs in that Partzuf fully shine in their own unique way, each as an independent Partzuf. Then there opens before him the possibility to engage in each Mitzva according to its true intention, for each organ in Partzuf Neshama illuminates for him the paths of each Mitzva related to that organ.

Through the great power of those lights, he purifies the speaking part of his will to receive and inverts it into a desire to bestow.

He explains that our desire consists of 613 parts, completely egoistic and broken. These broken desires are corrected by our request and from our efforts to connect with one another because they connect us to each other like threads, each with everyone else.

They are corrected with the help of 613 lights, which are called the “613 lights of the Torah.” And when I correct these 613 desires, they connect with the same 613 desires of another person. It turns out that we are all connected by 613 desires, threads, of each person with all the others, and one common network of mutual bestowal emerges.

My 613 desires recognize and understand the 613 desires in each person and in everyone together, and unite with all to bestow to everyone. And then all the light passes through me, all the fulfillment that I want to fill everyone else with!

The common light that is revealed in order to fill us all is called the Creator (Bo–Reh), that is, “come and see” how He clothes Himself in you.

So I have 613 uncorrected desires, and in order to correct them, I need 613 lights of correction, which are called the Torah, “the light that returns to the source.” And then the Creator clothes in these corrected desires of mine and reveals Himself in the connection between us.

It turns out that Israel (the corrected desires), the Torah (the light that corrected these desires) and the Creator, Who clothes in this entire system, unite into one whole.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/28/11, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Torah and the Creator Are One”

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