The Creator is the force of bestowal and love, and for one who loves, there is immense suffering in not having the opportunity to bring contentment to the one they love.

The suffering from unrealized bestowal is far greater than from not receiving, as it is written: “More than the calf wants to suckle, the cow wants to feed.”

When the big one cannot give from their perfection to the small one because the latter is incapable of receiving anything, this causes great pain.

The Creator is the desire to give and to bestow, the desire to love. And we should not think that this does not involve a sense of lack!

It is simply not from unfulfilled needs; it is from unshared perfection! Therefore, the Creator creates the desire to enjoy in order to fill it and express His love to it.

In our desire, all the preparations have already been made to receive all of the Creator’s light and His love.

But in order for us to understand what He is doing and to feel what He is giving us, we must become like Him in stature and in qualities.

Therefore, only one component is missing here—our independence, our own desire to feel His love and to accept Him as our beloved.

After all, if this yearning does not come from us, it will not be love. Can love be bought with money? No.
With money, I can only buy services: I pay in a hair salon, in a clinic, or at a restaurant, and they take care of me wholeheartedly, but it is because they love money and not me.

So how can I make them love me? That, we do not know.

True love is only possible if I am completely independent of the other, and regarding the Creator, it is written: “I am the first and I am the last.”

Therefore, the Creator’s problem is how to create us, to bring us into being, and at the same time make us as if completely independent of Him.

And at the same time, He expects us to cultivate our love for Him within ourselves about which I must then say: “I am the first, and I am the last!”

This means that the ten Sefirot of the direct light are clothed in the ten Sefirot of the reflected light and they complement one another.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/15/10, Introduction of The Book of The Zohar “Lock and Key”

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Question: If the Creator is the quality of bestowal, then how can one bring contentment to the quality? Does He need anything from me?

Answer: What the Creator wants me to enjoy. The host desires only one thing—for the guest will delight. But He places a condition: I can only receive pleasure if I become like Him.

After all, we do not want a child to enjoy at a tiny, undeveloped level. We want him to constantly grow, to become more mature and wiser. We surround him with toys that help him develop, not just for him to have fun. We seek additional benefit in children’s activities. The Creator treats us in the same way. He does not want us to remain like small animals.

If I continue receiving for my own sake, I will only feel a short-lived existence, and even within this life, I will never be truly fulfilled. But if I receive pleasure by fulfilling the Creator, even the smallest pleasure I bring Him in His desires that are now connected to mine never disappears and I feel it constantly.

Why do all the pleasures we feel in our life vanish? I want them to stay! Why must they disappear? It is as if we have agreed to this. But why?

Spiritual pleasure is called eternal. Because if you once feel the delight there, it remains and fills you all the time. This is because the pleasure does not cancel the desire. The pleasure exists in one place, and the desire in another.

And then you have no problem, you just keep adding and adding. That is why there is ascent through spiritual degrees.

In this world, everything happens on the same plane, you move from loss to loss until life ends, and that is it.

Let’s hope that we understand this unique opportunity embedded in the wisdom of Kabbalah, the science of how to receive infinite, eternal pleasure, and that we realize it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/17/10, The Book of The Zohar

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The Creator created concealment that distances, separates, repels, and confuses, instead of appearing immediately and openly; He hides in order to awaken in us the yearning, passion, and desire to reach Him!

This is the whole purpose of concealment—the necessity of creating impure forces (Klipot) that preserve us until we achieve the correct desire for the Creator.

They are holding us back like dogs straining on a leash, ready to pounce on someone.

He hides until we acquire the only true, completely bestowing desire, which can no longer be extinguished by encountering Him.

After you reveal the Creator within you, it will not disappear, unlike the desires of our world where—after we receive what we longed for, we immediately cease to appreciate it.

On the contrary, we should increasingly appreciate and love this pleasure, because it carries within itself the attitude of the bestower towards us.

Therefore, in all these concealments and rejections created by the Creator, we must see a flirtation, a game leading us to the correct desire.

Not just a desire of great power, but the right form, so that we seek not the pleasure from the encounter with the fulfillment, but the pleasure from the encounter with the bestower.

It is like a woman demanding an internal connection from a man in an external action. We need to learn spirituality from the psychology of our life.

We need to understand the essence of concealment, of flirtation, of this entire game in which the Creator sometimes draws us closer and sometimes pushes us away.

And until we begin to appreciate Him and with His help build the right attitude toward the encounter with Him, perceiving pleasure as a means to connect with Him, we will not attain revelation!

He is waiting for us to desire Him more than the pleasure He brings. Then we will be ready to receive this pleasure and, within it, reveal the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/2009, Writings of Baal HaSulam Preface “Introduction to A Sage’s Fruit (Three Partners)”

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Question: What is happiness from the perspective of Kabbalah?

Answer: Happiness from the perspective of Kabbalah is making the Creator happy.

To make the Creator happy means to feel that you bring Him pleasure, that you make Him happy because when He looks at you, He rejoices. You feel how He rejoices in you; this is the greatest possible state! I do not even know how to convey it.

Maybe it is comparable to the feeling when parents are happy for their children. I have felt it myself, experienced it through my children and grandchildren, and I can say it is a great joy when your parents are happy for you.

But with the Creator, it is on a completely different level!

In Kabbalah, there is a dual, reciprocal connection: the Creator rejoices in the fact that we rejoice in making Him happy, and we are happy because of it.

We unite with Him, and therefore the feelings are doubled; they merge into one. It turns out that both I and He together feel the same thing. That is, the feeling of His happiness and mine are inseparable.

Question: How can one make the Creator happy?

Answer: The Creator is all of us together in full measure, in harmony, fusion, inner emotional and conscious connection. We, who are united with all hearts and minds, are the Creator. When everything comes together into a single whole, we perceive that as the Creator. Therefore, the Creator is attained precisely in this way—through our connection with one another.

Question: How can one be happy without having any idea who or what the Creator is? How can one strive toward Him?

Answer: The Creator must be revealed! The lack of understanding, the uncertainty is given to us precisely so that we can reveal the Creator. If it were already known, a person would exist in a spiritual-animalistic state, just like we live in an animal state in this world. That is, we must reach this new state ourselves, create it within ourselves, using the tools we have been given! But a person sculpts and shapes himself.

It turns out that a person as if takes matter and begins to work with it. And gradually, from the inanimate matter within, a living matter begins to form: vegetative, then animate, then human. All kinds of variations and metamorphoses arise.

It follows that the person himself builds within him this entire structure, connection, infinite combinations! All this is Sefirot, Sefirot, Sefirot. Eventually, it becomes DNA, all these proteins, spirals, the things we observe in biology.

But this is all on a higher level: the level of purpose where a person not only shapes and builds according to natural laws, but also reveals these laws himself, and implements them himself! In essence, it is a huge creative work. And that is why man enters into this work, and it is called the work of the Creator.

There is no greater pleasure than when a person creates all this within himself! And this awaits every one of us!

Question: What is the difference in happiness in receiving from the Creator or giving to Him?

Answer: It does not matter. Even receiving from the Creator means more than giving to Him if it is for the sake of unification and merging in similarity to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/19/16, “Kabbalistic formula of happiness – what is the secret?”

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Question: The Creator plays with a person. What are the rules of the game?

Answer: The rules of the game are that the Creator has only one intention—to bring a person closer to Him.

He cultivates egoistic desires within a person and the person begins to feel a burdening of the heart, confusion, and heaviness. It suddenly seems to him that the whole world is against him, that he has many enemies, many obstacles in his way, and that he himself is tired, confused, perhaps even somewhat ill.

In short, he feels a multitude of disturbances, both external and internal.

In reality, these are not disturbances at all; rather, they are additional layers of the desire to receive within which he has a new opportunity to connect with the Creator.

Usually this arrives with some unexpected disturbance, a sudden fear of people or of authorities.

The Creator dresses Himself in all these means of our world, in all these forms. The person begins to perceive them like a small child who fears everything in the world.

At that point, he must strengthen himself through the books, the environment, and the study and constantly try to hold onto the thought that “There is none else besides Him, the good who does good.”

It is not simple because this game on the Creator’s part is exceedingly clever and intricate for us.

He knows how to entangle a person on his particular level every time in such a way that it demands great effort not to veer off the path and to keep thinking that there is no other authority besides the Creator.
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From the preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/22/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is ‘Hurry, My Beloved,’ in the Work?”

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Question: What is Kabbalah’s position regarding non-believers and religious people? I see that you seem to constantly navigate between them!

Answer: You are right.

Religion views the Creator similar to a human being, i.e. changing and depending on the person’s actions. Each religion presents both the Creator and His messengers as it likes. They are forced either to coexist or to try to destroy each other because their view is based on faith, meaning it is unprovable. Whoever is stronger is “right.” Or they act as if the others do not exist, each in its own flock.

But they all share one thing: they see God as treating a person based on how the person treats God and others. That is, God changes, is sometimes angry, sometimes compassionate. This is how a person interprets it from their life and fate.

So God can be bribed, you can “pay” for paradise, or appease Him so that He will treat you well. You can atone for sins or buy off punishment. You can give charity to ward off a blow of fate. It is all built on the idea that a person’s external behavior changes God’s attitude toward them.

Atheists treat God like nature, unchangeable and mechanical, and it does not have its own mind and plan, it does not depend on our attitude toward it, but only on our “mechanical” actions.

Kabbalah sees nature and the Creator as one and the same. But He has intelligence, a plan, a purpose. He has feelings. So in the process of development (evolution), He created the human being exactly as we are: with feeling and mind, with two opposing systems, like an egoist who wants to enjoy every moment of existence. He created us this way so that by using the method of Kabbalah and the forces of nature (the surrounding light), a person would change themselves and become similar to the Creator.

Through this a person gains true independence (otherwise they are completely driven by nature and egoism, and are not free), perfection, eternity, and adhesion with the Creator (the status of the Creator).

The Creator in Kabbalah is unchanging because He is absolute, absolutely good, and therefore cannot change; only something less-than-perfect can become better or worse, but not the absolute.

Therefore turning to the Creator is really turning to yourself and convincing yourself of the need to correct yourself to become like the Creator, the model of goodness.

So atheists try to remake the world, and the religious beg the Creator, while Kabbalists correct themselves and thereby correct the world.
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Comment: I remember when I first came to you 21 years ago to make a film about Kabbalah. I expected to see all kinds of Kabbalistic symbols like red strings, holy water, and burning candles. I walked into your room, and there was nothing. I thought at the time: “There is nothing to film.”

It turned out that Kabbalah is not about “holy artifacts,” but rather about the levels of connection between people.

My Response: Indeed, the Creator is revealed between people, but only between those who have reached the next level of attainment and understanding. After all, Kabbalah speaks of what lies beyond our consciousness, beyond material perception.

That is why two ordinary people cannot perceive anything between them except the material world and its various problems. Only through proper connection can we gather into a special spiritual state where our connections begin to reveal the Creator, and the many variations of these connections begin to tell us about the Creator. That is how we are built.

Practically speaking, a group of ten people needs to come together, but not around a round table with crystal balls and burning candles. Those props are completely unnecessary. In proper connection with each other, people attune themselves to an altruistic relationship.

But it is not simple. The right kind of interconnection is achieved through studying Kabbalah and understanding the next inner stage of human development, above egoism, when each person rises “above themselves” in relation to their friends, and uses a special higher energy for this.

It may sound mystical, but it is not. This higher energy simply exists outside of us. The point is that the force in which we currently exist is an egoistic force of reception. There is an opposite, altruistic force, but it exists outside of us.

When we draw the altruistic force upon ourselves, and try to establish mutual altruistic relationships between us, then the higher force influences us, and alongside the natural egoistic connections between us, altruistic connections, which are unnatural for us, gradually emerge. These are called spiritual.

The proper interplay of egoistic and altruistic connections (like black and white intertwining in all vast metamorphoses) grants us the awareness of the Creator, the upper force.

At the same time, on the one hand we do not disappear as created beings because the egoistic force remains within us. On the other hand, we acquire the altruistic force and begin to perceive the Creator through it.

That is how He is revealed—in the correct connection between us.

Comment: You constantly say that our egoistic desires remain, and yet a contrary, altruistic structure is built over them. That is very hard for a person to imagine.

My Response: This is the unique and exalted state of a Kabbalist. He does not simply drift off somewhere unknowable, but alongside his egoistic perception of the world he also acquires an altruistic perception. Upon these two opposite forms of attainment, he builds himself between them, and there, in that fusion within himself, he discovers the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 6/11/17, ” How the Creator Reveals Himself in Relationships”

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The topic of “There is None Else Besides Him” is the most important in the wisdom of Kabbalah, and each time it is perceived in a new way. It seems to us that we are repeating the same words, but there is never any repetition because we are changing all the time.

Therefore, this concept will be perceived by us in a new way. If a person does not feel any changes, then he should worry about it.

The concept of “There is None Else Besides Him” is always changing because it speaks about the Creator Himself, about His uniqueness, about the higher governance that acts upon us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/22/19, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: For you, does God exist?

Answer: There is a Creator for me. It is the one who created everything, including you, and wants you to fulfill your purpose.

Question: What is it?

Answer: Your purpose is to reach His level, to become similar to Him. That is why a person is called “Adam” from the word “Domeh” – “similar” to the Creator.

Question: Then again, similar to what?

Answer: To the Creator.

Question: And what does that mean? What is that quality?

Answer: It is the quality of bestowal, the quality of creation, the quality of governing all the worlds. This is the state a person must attain.

Question: Anyone in our world?

Answer: Absolutely everyone!

Comment: It is mind-boggling!

My Response: But you will come to it, whether you want to or not.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/19/25

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Question: The God that many people think of, does He exist?

Answer: He does not exist.

Comment: But there is a God, as you say, who is called…

My Response: The Creator, the upper force.

Question: And what is that really?

Answer: It is the supreme force of nature, which includes all of nature. The Creator Himself is God. Nature itself is God. Not the nature of our world, but the general one, which we can already begin to reveal to the point that we can unite with it, with this nature. We can even govern it. The Creator wants us to be at such a level in order to become partners with Him.

Question: And when you say the word “nature,” what do you mean by that?

Answer: I mean all the worlds. Of course, our world does not even count. All the worlds, including five worlds in total, which are all included in and governed by one single force, one single law, this law of unity is the Creator.

Comment: I see, but this is quite elevated.

My Response: Not really if we are talking more or less about some kind of approximation to the truth. And that is why, naturally, I seem…

Comment: Like an atheist, a non-believer God, and so on.

My Response: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/9/25

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