Relations between friends must be businesslike and directed only toward correction. This is how we test the group. No matter how many disturbances we are still destined to encounter, can we turn them into something useful? This is the greatness of the group.

And to what extent we will be able to receive numerous disturbances and turn them into strength depends on how we all resist these disturbances and help one another.

And all of this is in the mind. Of course, I may perform various material actions, but ultimately all these things lie within, because they build a spiritual vessel within us, which is no longer something material.

We are speaking about thoughts through which we increase desires that connect together, pass from one to another, and then all of us receive even more of these desires, and each one receives them from the other also in the form of a disturbance until he attaches them to himself. In short, each time it is work on attention, which is called intention.

As it is said: “A commandment without intention is like a body without a soul.” Thus, clarification means that a person must be sensitive to this each time. Everything comes only from inner attention to where my heart and mind are right now, on which point I am focused.

It is as if I am moving the beam of a flashlight from one thing to another, examining within the given situation how I must relate to it, what I must increase, what I should pay more attention to, how to attach this to myself, in which direction to turn, how to expand the existing connection.

This is inner work. Imagine how focused a person is on this within himself and to what extent he cannot be disturbed. Only through this does he grow.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/26, Rabash, “According to What Is Explained Concerning ‘Love Thy Friend as Thyself’”

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I remember asking myself this question: “And what comes next?” Well, next you go to school, then to college, and so on. Since I did not have an answer to this question, I did not really want to study, and in general, I did not want anything. I was quite often in a state of apathy.

Question: Because there was no answer? Did the answer arise from this “I” that demanded growth?

Answer: Of course. What do I live for, why? It was a terrible feeling that everything was meaningless and useless, yet you were forced to do it.

Question: So, in fact, our life is the formation of this “I” within a person?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then the question is: does this “I” have a connection with that upper force you are always talking about?

Answer: Yes. It is in the question: “For what purpose?” This question is transmitted to everyone, but in certain doses. The one in whom this question arises truly seriously can evidently develop it and receive answers.

Question: If we try to think and fantasize a little, are there “threads” from above leading down to a person’s “I”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And how can we determine when a certain “I” will play out, and when another “I” will jump out?

Answer: For that, one must reveal one’s soul, that is, one’s entire connection with the higher degree. Then you will know why you are being pulled in exactly this way and not another.

Question: And precisely at this time?

Answer: In everything.

Question: Is it programmed which “I” will jump out, and which one will be slightly dulled?

Answer: Absolutely everything is programmed. The beginning of creation, the end of creation, and its intermediate states, practically all are known in advance. Only one thing is unknown: how a person, in realizing their freedom of will, will realize their personal participation in all of this.

This realization is not determined in advance, it is given to a person.

Question: So does actually everything not depend on a person? Does something still depend on them?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 2/9/26

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Question: When you are asked a question, what does it evoke in you?

Answer: A very strong reaction! Sometimes I suddenly start to boil over, or on the contrary, it throws me toward either a scientific presentation, or a psychological one, sometimes humorous, and so on.

A question causes very strong changes in me. Moreover, it can outwardly be, general or ordinary. There does not seem to be a difference between the questions, but inside, I feel a very strong storm tossing me from wave to wave. Therefore, the questions and answers produce huge inner work in me, a kind of inner disturbance.

Question: Does it look like you are getting some kind of injection of selfishness from this person?

Answer: Sure. Necessarily. This is exactly what is meant. I get a wide, strong contact with the audience that asks this question, and based on the breadth of this question, I connect to this audience. It is a lot of stress, like docking in space or something. And according to this docked module, I am already working.

Question: Do you get any content from this?

Answer: I get great satisfaction from clarifying the issue. Because this is an opportunity to fill those souls, those empty vessels that are now connected to me.

The question is the definition of emptiness, and I fill these voids. It gives me great pleasure; not egotistical, like ordinary lecturers. After all, I know how much people who listen to me will make progress even if they do not understand the answer. Even if they cannot realize it yet, it is already written down in their souls.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Answer to any Question” 9/12/10

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Question: How can I correct a disturbance?

Answer: You correct a disturbance by turning it into help. Don’t you remember how you once did this? You had a court summons, and you lived in constant fear of it. You were afraid of the police officer and went through various unpleasant things. That was a disturbance against the Creator’s oneness.

So what is the essence of the obstacle? To make everything dependent on the police officer or on the Creator? Here the principles “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?” and “There is none else besides Him” come into play. The important thing is when and how to put these principles in order.

In the end, against the background of this disturbance, you were supposed to correct yourself toward an additional connection with the Creator’s governance who is present within this disturbance and is giving it to you so that you would strengthen your bond with Him.

Did it happen? Did you feel how much it helped? The same applies to all disturbances in the group work. When a person follows the spiritual path, he is sent many disturbances, including those connected with things such as court, societal pressure, pressure from the laws of society because they clearly are in the hands of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/26, Rabash, “According to What Is Explained Concerning ‘Love Thy Friend as Thyself’”

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Question: You often say that a conversation can happen in silence, from heart to heart. Can you explain what it means to “speak with the heart”?

Answer: Through feelings. When you want to convey your feelings to someone, but it is very difficult to find the right words, then the best thing is if you remain silent.

And neither person feels uncomfortable. You simply stay silent. And in this way, gradually, little by little, you begin to understand one another without words. This is what is called “a conversation between hearts.”

Question: You said that you often sat in silence with your teacher. Did you ever feel that you needed to say something?

Answer: No, absolutely not. You just sit and think beside him, and he does the same.

Question: And he did not prompt you to say something? Nothing like that?

Answer: No, there was no need. Nothing was needed. These are such feelings, such moments, when everything is understood. And an inner connection takes place, a flow of feelings from one to the other and back again, without words.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/29/23

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Who are these “felons of Israel”? The discussion concerns a person’s relation to the Creator, since in reality there is nothing besides the Creator and the creature.

Everything else that appears before our eyes exists only within this imaginary corporeal world. If I realize that in my connection with the Creator all my actions, or part of them, are not directed for His sake but for my own benefit, then I call myself a felon of Israel.

A person may think that they are righteous, that they are working for the good of the country, society, or family, but of course this is self-deception. If they do not work for the sake of the Creator, then it means they work for himself. And if they wish to work for the Creator, they must first direct themselves toward Him and only then turn to all the means available to them in order to use them for connection with the Creator. Then even in disturbances they will be able to see help for strengthening the connection with the Creator. Everything depends on the intention.

Therefore, one who directs oneself straight to the Creator and wishes to clarify his or her state must examine one’s relation to the Creator from all sides, and from this decide who he or she really is. If a person calls oneself a felon of Israel, that is, directed not straight to the Creator but in the opposite direction, it means that one has made a deep analysis of one’s qualities and intentions. This is already a very high degree, a springboard toward correction.

Before a person becomes a felon, he cannot become righteous, as it is said that “a person does not perform a commandment unless he first violates it.” First there must be the revelation and recognition of evil, and only afterward will there be distancing from evil and good deeds.

A felon of Israel is a state in which a person can see whether he has deviated from the direct direction toward the Creator (Yashar-El). To a person who strives to become Israel, the light comes and shows him that in fact he is opposite.

If he tries to direct himself precisely to the Creator in a straight line without deviating even slightly to the right or to the left, then he discovers that he is turned to face exactly the opposite direction, not toward the Creator, but toward himself.

As long as a person deviates from the direct line toward the Creator, one will not even fall into a Klipa. Various disturbances only arise for a person in order to return him or her to the straight line, straight to the Creator. But if a person aligns oneself precisely with the Creator, then one will see the Klipa. Therefore, until a person directs oneself straight to the Creator, he will not see himself as a felon.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/12/26, Rabash, “The Felons of Israel”

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The group is my mirror. To the extent that I build it, it builds me. Both my attitude toward it and its attitude toward me are detached from my desire to receive, which helps me build relationships of bestowal rather than expand and fulfill vessels of reception.

If I were working directly with the Creator, I would certainly use the vessels of reception. Baal HaSulam writes that if the Creator were revealed, I would rush toward Him shouting, “Stop the thief!” The desire to receive itself would tell me how wonderful it is to work for the Creator; I would want to be close to Him, to do something for Him.

After all, if He fills me with a sense of confidence and pleasures, then why not work? Why not perceive Him as good and great? We always want to be near greatness.

Thus, the desire to receive would strive toward the Creator for personal benefit. But if instead of the Creator I have a group in which I do not find great personal benefit, power, confidence, or a strong influence on me, then within it, there are conditions that allow me to work not with my desire to receive, but in the direction of bestowal. I want to grow vessels of bestowal within myself, and therefore, I turn to the group.

It turns out that the shattering of the vessels is the opportunity to work with the desire to receive of others, those external to me, as though with the Creator. That the Creator placed before me someone else, someone “other,” aside from Himself is truly my salvation.

In this case, I can genuinely practice how to be a giver and not a receiver. I can determine whether I am giving or receiving. I can perform exercises that later will allow me to enter into a relationship with the Creator in which my attitude toward Him will truly be one of bestowal.

The group helps me exit my desire to receive because it is not a supplier of pleasures for me. Whereas, if I were working with the Creator, I would only work with Him as the source of pleasures and would never be able to exit my desire to receive.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Saboteur Was in the Flood, and Was Putting to Death,’ in the Work?”

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