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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Question: What is the purpose of the whole huge system of upbringing and education?

Answer: It is spinning around us on its own, and that is all. We cannot do anything about it. You cannot instill anything into a child, just the surrounding, friends, and educators to some extent as well, can. All of this creates the child’s inner world who then enters life. And going forward he already begins to take from life.

Question: What is upbringing in your opinion? You have pushed the education part back a bit.

Answer: First of all, education and upbringing are not the same thing. Education is a filling of a child with all sorts of knowledge. Whereas, upbringing is an example from an adult to a child about how to behave in various situations.

Question: Is an adult an educator, a parent, the environment, and so forth?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then it turns out that the correct upbringing is to submerge a child in an environment that gives the correct examples. What examples should we show to a child so this child would grow correctly and would be receiving the correct upbringing?

Answer: It is impossible to say. The child himself selects these examples and assimilates them.

Question: I show an example to him, but perhaps he takes from it something of his own from it, something only he understands?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How can I penetrate this world of a child?

Answer: There is no need to! There is no way to! Let him develop independently.

Comment: But I have to somehow direct him.

My Response: I think it is not so necessary. Let him run around the yard and interact with his peers, and he will develop this way.

Question: Is the child supposed to have an ideal surrounding so he would grow up within it?

Answer: Children and animals.

Question: So there are children and animals around, but where is the place for an adult?

Answer: There is no place for an adult there. Adults will impose all sorts of behavioral rules on children. There is no need for this. Gradually a child will grow and he will discover these rules for himself.

Question: Shouldn’t an adult intervene in children’s conflicts?

Answer: No, I think there is no place for educators here.

Question: Then what will grow from the child if you say he is surrounded by children, animals, and nature?

Answer: According to his inner world he absorbs everything that is possible to receive from the world.

Comment: There is drawing, dancing, and nature studies. It happens that the adult comes and says “Let me teach the child these things.”

My Response: There is no need to! He will learn by himself. All these disciplines imposed on him just limit him.

Question: I am talking about simple disciplines like dancing and  drawing. Will he master even this?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Can we draw any conclusions?

Answer: The conclusion is very simple: Leave the children alone, leave them free of your great thoughts and instructions, pedagogy, and everything, everything that is in you.

Question: Then what about parents? Parents and adults still exist. How should parents properly bring up their children?

Answer: After many hundreds of generations, I do not see in any generation that some generation has taken something useful and good from their parents, and achieved something useful and good. Every time we just relearn.

Question: So you learn from your own mistakes, you learn from your life, you learn everything by yourself. And you say that we should leave a person with this “yourself,” leave him to go his own way?

Answer: Yes, I hope that we will come to such a state when we understand how we should treat children in general. I hope this will be understood and realized in the near future.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/9/25

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1st part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Work with Faith Above Reason” (9.12.2020)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 28

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Question: Do you believe that it is possible to merge with the Creator?

Answer: If my teachers write about it, then I believe it.

Question: Is there any example of someone who reached this state?

Answer: And what would that give you? You would not see it anyway.

Question: I just want to understand.

Answer: We are not given to understand it, only to feel it.

Comment: I want to feel what I should be striving for.

My Response: To feel that, you need to work.

Question: But will we feel it when we merge with the Creator?

Answer: Of course.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/25, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Question: How can one practically strengthen one’s faith in the Creator before studying?

Answer: You need to try to rise above all obstacles, above the confusion that arises in your mind and heart, and thereby strengthen yourself in faith in the Creator.

Question: How can one feel what the Creator desires?

Answer: Clarify what you desire. Ultimately you will come to what the Creator desires, since the question “What does the Creator desire?” is essentially the question, “What does the Creator desire from me?”

Question: How can we help a friend extract the remedies contained in the Torah?

Answer: Helping a friend means getting closer to him and engaging him in joint study. Then you will see how quickly this helps you.

Question: How can you work with the light in order to have control over the subconscious and the body?

Answer: You need to study each lesson together with us, then work on the material separately when you are alone, and afterward ask the questions that remain after your study. Nothing more.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/25, Baal HaSulam,  “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Question: Sometimes there are situations when we ask for our friends and realize that our request is egoistic and there is no desire to ask for them at all. But we ask because it is written that a person should always practice Torah and the commandments, even Lo Lishma. Is this the right way to work?

Answer: We really do need to be in a state where we always strive to communicate with the Creator in a state of “Lo Lishma” and then “Lishma.”

Question: Is it possible to add something to these states?

Answer: Whatever each person feels necessary for himself, he will add.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/10/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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The nature of the body is such that it always sees flaws in others rather than their merits. That is why the sages said: “Try to justify every person.” Meaning, even if within reason I see that a friend is not right, I still try to justify him. And if I see the friend’s merits even within reason, that is even better.

After all, it is not important to me whether someone else is right or not, and in fact, it is impossible to ever truly judge that. What matters to me is calibrating myself according to the spiritual world. If I think that all my friends are righteous, kind, and respectable people, and I want to see them as great, as if they were the Creator, then through this I adjust myself, I correct my vision, my perception, of the upper world.

Therefore, if I see the friend’s merits within reason, this means I have already tuned myself to the correct vision. If I don’t see this, then I must strive to see and imagine as if he is right, because through this “as if” I come closer to seeing spirituality, to seeing the truth.

It is desirable to see our friends as great, each in their own way. Every person has qualities that I do not possess. If I constantly look for only the positive qualities in them, it will help me see  “Columbus’ ship,” to see spirituality.

By doing so, I diminish my egoism and elevate the qualities that are external to me. And through this, I as if elevate spirituality because it is currently zero to me since I do not feel or understand it. If I raise the friend in my eyes, I thereby increase my ability to perceive the spiritual.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/7/20, “Work with Faith Above Reason”

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Comment: Dividing the world into “good-us” and “bad-them” is rooted in human nature and is the source of many conflicts.

Some research found that monkeys judge other members of their own species with the same degree of prejudice as people judge “newcomers”. Monkey populations form various social communities within their species. After migrating to new communities, the monkeys seemed to judge members of their species alien to their community with a degree of prejudice similar to human prejudices of “strangers.”

It seems that the nature of prejudice is older than the history of civilization and culture, and therefore it is impossible to get rid of biased thinking by appealing to human culture! The real reason for intolerance lies outside the problems of cultural (national, religious, political, etc.) differences, but is much deeper, and not a consequence of cultural evolution.

My Response: No problem of society can be solved at our level, but only by rising to the next level of our development, which is possible only through integral education, because it causes the highest energy of development (light, Ohr Makif) from our future level of “man” at our current level of “animal.”

Only an ascent to the next level of our development will rid us of all animal prejudices, and all other attempts to achieve agreement, understanding, or equality are useless. It is better to look at ourselves soberly, friends.
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From KabTV’s “Evolution Beyond Darwin’s Theory” 3/2/12

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