The upper expects only a reaction from us. Portions of light come from the upper to the lower (to each of us), and require us to respond correctly. The upper knows exactly what is happening to the lower one, what state the lower one is in, because He forms this state for him.

Of course, the upper one knows what the lower one is ready for. He arranges for him all the external and internal conditions for free choice and leaves to the lowest only one thing incomprehensible and unknown to the lower—the middle third of Tifferet (Klipat Noga). It is in this state that the lower one must form the middle line himself.

If the lower one, in response to the influence of the upper one, correctly builds the middle line, it means that he has been awarded. Then he really inclined himself and the whole world (the whole environment that the upper formed for him at that moment) to good.

Therefore, all that is required of the lower, when he feels a lack (Hisaron), is to turn to the upper and get the component that he lacks from Him in order to incline himself and the whole world to good.

After all, the lowest lacks knowledge, sensation, and then the ability to decide. He must receive all this from the upper.

The upper one leaves him a Klipat Noga so that the lower one wishes to turn to Him and get what he lacks. If the lower one is ready to receive this filing for the Klipat Noga, then he receives it, and this is the additional force of bestowal that he acquires at the current degree, and due to it rises to the next degree.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/10/10, The Book of Zohar “Tzav (Command)”

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Question: How do you feel how far your student has progressed?

Answer: I conduct an analysis and see. The analysis is not of medical indicators, but of the spirit.

The spiritual is the same material, but not for everyone. For example, you can do an analysis of various waves, radioactivity, gasses, or some other natural phenomena, and I can measure the parameters of the spirit, and the other cannot.

Question: But how is this measured? Due to the fact that a person does some certain actions, or does he have internal changes after all?

Answer: Of course internal changes are taking place in him. I incorporate him in myself, as if in my laboratory, and measure using my ruler. Previously, he got, say, up to 20 divisions, and now up to 25.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Proper Self-analysis” 1/21/12

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Do people see others as a mirror of themselves?“

Undoubtedly, we see people not for who they are. Also, it is not just people, but anything we see, we seemingly bring it to life according to what we want to see in it. People in and of themselves do not exist, but we see people according to what we want to see in them.

What does it mean that we want to see something in someone?

So many people in our lives simply pass us by, as if they do not stand out from the background. However, to the extent in which we get to know certain people, then we gain some kind of impression of them.

We then relate to them in a certain way. Then, even before we start communicating with them, we already picture their image in us based on our previous impressions that we accumulated. We register various impressions from people the more we encounter them. Therefore, we do not know any people for who they are. We only know these images that we sculpt within us.

Based on the video “You Don’t See People for Who They Are” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman, Tal Mandelbaum and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “The Donkey Driver,” Item 101

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” Item 39

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Man needs a weak body and a strong soul, one that prevails with strength. And then the Creator loves him (Zohar for All, Vol.3, Chapter “VaYeshev”).

The will to receive is called the body, and the spiritual force is called the soul. The stronger the soul is than the body, the more opportunities a person has to advance correctly.

How can we make the soul stronger than the body? When we yearn to connect, our connection becomes stronger and stronger. In this way, we rise higher and higher until we begin to feel the Creator, the true reality, the upper worlds, and the spiritual degrees. It all depends on the level of our connection with each other.

Through the increasingly strong connection, we ascend the degrees of revelation to ever greater and greater levels of sensation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/4/23, Love – Selected Excerpts from Zohar for All

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Comment: The Sufi mystic Mansur Al-Hallaj was once asked: “How can one become free from your attachments?” Mansur approached the nearest column of the temple, grabbed it and shouted: “Help! Save! Release me from the column!”

And right away he asks: “What do you think, is it me holding the column or the column holding me?” Their answer was, “Of course you are holding it yourself.” Mansur then says,”It is the same with all your attachments. These are your chains. But they do not hold you, you yourself cling to them. Let them go, and you will be free immediately.”

My Response: It is very difficult! To let them go means to get rid of egoism. This is not just some petty attachment, but our whole nature that binds us with chains.

Comment: All the “chains” and “pillars” that we grab onto are all egoism that attracts and grabs us. And I thought it was possible to talk about how I can distract myself from any attachments and become free.

My Response: Call it attachments, but in fact, it is our whole nature.

Question: It turns out that we cannot be free?

Answer: We can. But we cannot become free ourselves.

Question: Meaning that we ourselves cannot push off and run away from this column, our ego?

Answer: No! There is no way!

Question: Then how can we run away from it? How can we tear away from this column, from all our attachments?

Answer: Only with the help of the upper force that created us so egoistically and forged us with chains to this column. And only if we succeed in begging this upper force, convincing it, and even forcing it to release us, then we hope it will help.

Question: What do you mean by the word “column”?

Answer: It is egoism that binds us to what seems pleasant to us.

Question: Is it all the desires of this world? Is it all our attachments? Money, honor, power, and everything else?

Answer: Absolutely everything.

Question: Meaning that we ourselves cannot break away from this, only the upper force can help us?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And what should be the request?

Answer: Free! And nothing else.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/22/22

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By studying The Book of Zohar, each person clarifies for himself exactly what is necessary for his soul.

Therefore, when we are reading The Zohar, each of us receives his own impressions that are different from the others.

The whole narrative of The Zohar must pass through us. But a person develops not under the influence of the narrative itself, but due to the reforming light.

It shines on a person’s desire, on his matter, which contains information genes (Reshimot). This is similar to the work of stem cells, which are the foundations of all human cells.

The light affects our matter, and Reshimot that are characteristic and specific for this soul awaken inside the matter, and, with the help of the light, these Reshimot build out of the matter any structure, a part of the soul.

Each person has his own structure of the soul.
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From from the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/15/09, The Book of Zohar – Selections, Chapter “Noah”

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Comment: According to the classification of cults, “The group fills all your time with assignments, selling books or newspapers, recruiting new members, attending courses, and meditation.”

My Response: Kabbalists do not recruit anyone. On the contrary, we believe that everything should be absolutely open. We do not pull people to us, but disseminate our knowledge outside. A person can watch our classes on television and on the Internet; we are open to everyone more than any other organization.

A closed organization is, first of all, a characteristic of a cult. We are not like that. A person can come or leave, marry, get divorced, or change jobs or professions. We have African Americans, Chinese, Europeans, South Americans, Native Americans, and other peoples.

We have branches in Germany, Holland, France, South and North America, and so on. There is not a single country, including most of the Arab countries, in which we do not have our students.

What cult can you talk about when it is open to everyone?! We openly show it and bring it to the widest broadcast.

Comment: But it also says,”the group fills all your time with tasks.”

My Response: If you are in a group, then you have to devote some free time to dissemination because the world depends on it.

The world has no other method of salvation, but only through the correction of human nature from egoistic to altruistic, from hatred to love. I think it is clear to everyone.

Every person in the world should make time to work on themselves and pull others to the same correction. Otherwise, what are we going to do? Sit and wait for even more blows on the head? No, we are for peace and friendship.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalah about Cults” 12/18/13

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Now that we have been rewarded with all the above, we will have some understanding of His uniqueness, that His thoughts are not our thoughts, and all the abundance of matters and forms we perceive in this reality before us is united in Him in a single thought, being the thought of creation to delight His creations (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 5, Item 22).

Question: It is written that the Creator has only one thought—to delight us. Why is it so difficult to see this in our daily life?

Baal HaSulam writes that if, at the end of a person’s life, you weigh how much that person enjoyed and how much he suffered, then he would not want to be born at all because we are always at a loss. On one hand the Creator has a purpose and a thought to fulfill us, but on the other hand we do not feel this. Why?

Answer: It is because no one wants to listen to the Creator; no one wants to follow His advice.

The Creator says a very simple thing: You can reach absolute enjoyment, fulfillment, knowledge, or anything, only on the condition that you love your neighbor.

Once you have reached love for your neighbor, that is it; you are already connected with the Creator and you are already enjoying. But where do you see people who, upon hearing this, would immediately begin to aspire for such a state?

Comment: They just do not understand what it is.

My Response: What do you mean by they do not understand? It is very simple. Can you imagine being loved? Do the same to others. “No, anything but that!”

Comment: Basically, yes. It is hard.

My Response: I would say it is impossible. But this is a mandatory condition.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 12/18/22

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