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In Anticipation of Awe

Posted on October 6th, 2025 at 7:28 am

Question: How does awe before the Creator differ from awe of using one’s receiving Kli, which is discussed in RABASH’s article “Purpose of Society – 1”?

Answer: By using our Kli (the natural, innate desire to receive), we discover all sorts of desires to receive. And if we connect with other companions, our desires become a shared, mutual desire to bestow.

Thus, in our connection, a shared desire to bestow is revealed that is directed toward the Creator. This is the difference between each individual’s desire and the desire of the group.

A group is one and one more, one and two more, one and three more. The quantity is not so important; the direction is what matters. In this case, everyone’s desire will be directed toward their friends.

Question: However, RABASH is talking specifically about awe.

Answer: Awe is a state when a person deeply desires something but has not yet received it, has not mastered it. We will still attain awe. Everyone will have it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/25, Writings of Rabash “Purpose of Society – 1”

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How the Creator Teaches Us to Walk

Posted on October 6th, 2025 at 7:20 am

My doubts are so great that I do not know where to put a foot down! There is no where I can place my foot in this life; I do not know where to step. This is a wonderful state! This is when you have only one thing to do—a possibility to turn to the Creator and feel that you depend only on Him!

That is all. This is the most reliable and the most correct.

Question: Are you saying that we can only rely on Him and no one else?

Answer: Of course. If He gives us such states that we feel that there is no one else besides Him, this is great salvation.

Comment: It would be nice to come to this state. Then the solution about apartments, sneakers, cars, whom to follow…

My Response: Let these questions constantly arise, any questions, but I would only find answers if I aspire to the Creator. Then everything is solved along the way.

Comment: But this is not easy!

My Response: Otherwise we cannot do anything. These constant doubts are all necessary for us in this life. Everything comes from the Creator, in my egoism it turns into doubts, into indecisiveness, into questions.

I send all of these back to Him together with my egoism. I cling to Him. In this state, I am awaiting the solution, and not simply a solution, I await the action so the Creator Himself would do it and carry it out. It is like you take a baby, put him in front of you, and move his legs, teach him how to walk. This is the way.

Question: This is beautiful! What you said I can relate it to any question at the lowest everyday level?

Answer: At any level.

Question: Up to the highest one?

Answer: Definitely

Question: And then will I hear the answer? If I tune myself, will I hear the answer?

Answer: Since the Creator is perfection that includes everything, for Him, in the creation there is no a small, insignificant, or a big event. They are all equal.

Question: Are you saying that small steps of this little person, a child, they all lead to daddy, to father? He wants us to walk there gradually, with little steps?

Answer: Obviously. You just have to feel that He is placing your feet and directing you to Him precisely with the help of these questions, failures, states of uncertainty, and so forth.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/10/25

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 10/6/25

Posted on October 6th, 2025 at 7:00 am

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #96 “What Is Waste of Granary and Winery, in the Work” (10.20.2024)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, The Book of Zohar, “VaYakhel (The Ascent of the Prayer)”

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Audio Version Of The Blog – 10/5/25

Posted on October 5th, 2025 at 10:55 pm

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A Person Hears with the Heart

Posted on October 5th, 2025 at 7:40 pm

A secret lies in a special combination of sounds that influences the heart. One must think about that in such a way that first the heart responds, and only afterward the ear hears. This is the most important thing, and no one really knows it.

Question: So it goes from the heart to the ear and then to everything else from the heart?

Answer: Yes, with any instrument, not only a musical instrument, sound must pass not into the ear, but into the heart, and only afterward, through the ear, it comes out.

Question: It come out of the ear?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Today you are turning everything upside down! So I do not hear with my ears?

Answer: No, with the heart.

Question: Does a word possess this quality, as you are now saying, like a sound?

Answer: Of course. A word is expressed precisely in this way.

Question: So one must find such a word that penetrates the heart, and only afterward it is heard?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Are there such words at all?

Answer: There are.

Question: How in our science can one find such words? After all, we study such a science that is not curiosity, not knowledge. So how can we find such words that penetrate the heart and then…?

Answer: It is very simple. I asked my teacher, RABASH, about this. He said: “Well, haven’t you heard what is said in the prayer Shema? Shema, Michael.” I was surprised, but why “Michael”?

Comment: This is the prayer Shema Israel.

My Response: Yes. Because “Israel” is a general name.

Question: But in truth: “Shema, Michael”?

Answer: Yes, you can substitute any name there.

Question: Is this the address to the heart: “Shema, Michael”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then it already begins to take shape. Is the Shema prayer considered one of the highest prayers?

Answer: Of course. Yes.

Question: Have we now reached the point that prayer is first heard precisely by the heart?

Answer: Yes, and only afterward by the ear—or heard at all.

Comment: You always insist that the prayer of a person, a simple person, is higher than the prayers composed by the sages, the Kabbalists. You always say this, and it surprises me somewhat, and people write that the prayer a person says, just the way he says it when he prays, is higher than those prayers.

My Response: Yes, because this is what he feels. An inner resonance of his heart with the upper word takes place. Therefore, this is the highest address to the Creator.

Question: So do you mean that when a person pronounces like that, with feeling, he hears it first from above?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it not born within him?

Answer: No, of course not.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/18/25

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Insist on Getting Closer

Posted on October 5th, 2025 at 8:02 am

Question: What does the concept of “engaging in elevating the Creator” encompass?

Answer: It means that a person’s intention is to cause the Creator to ascend gradually through their actions. This is his entire reward.

Question: How can we clarify whether our actions elevate the Creator in our minds and hearts?

Answer: You do it by trying to connect with other groups on the issues you are discussing. In this way, you will feel yourself gradually drawing closer.

And what is very important, not to detach from one another after the lessons, after the exercises, but rather insist on closeness and unification within the ten and between the tens.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/2025, “Rosh HaShanah“

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How Can We Influence the Creator?

Posted on October 5th, 2025 at 7:49 am

Question: The Creator reigns over me and other people by awakening desires and thoughts within me and in them. Does it mean we are marionettes in His hands?

Answer: We are marionettes in the hands of the Creator because we exist under His total influence. However, the reaction to His action depends on us. When we unite between us, we can collectively influence the Creator and force Him to take different actions relative to us.

The force of the Creator comes down upon us from above. If upon its influence we begin in return to act toward it, we can make Him act in the following way: (1) we receive, (2) we give our reaction, and then (3) we receive an answer that includes our reaction.

Therefore, we can always as though correct the action of the Creator upon us. It depends only on the degree of our connection between us (the sign ∑ on the drawing is the sign of connection).
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 3/17/2019

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You Should Start With the Head

Posted on October 5th, 2025 at 7:24 am

Question: Here in Israel, and in fact all over the world, Jews celebrate the Jewish New Year (Rosh HaShanah). Apples and honey are associated with the new year, sweetening life by dipping the apples in honey; does this have some deep spiritual meaning?

Answer: The spiritual meaning lies only in person’s spirit. There are no spiritual roots in the apple and honey, just like with the head of a fish.

Comment: But they say that you should start with the head and not the tail.

My Response: This is because it is the new year, the “head” of the year. That is why it starts this way. But in principle, what if you take not a fish but a head of an ox? That could be even better. The year might turn out to be even more successful.

Question: What is the spiritual meaning of the phrase “start with the head”?

Answer: You need to start with the head. That is, what do you want to live this year for, what should it give you, what should you rise to, what should you demand from yourself? All of this is contained in the head.

Question: And what is the answer to these questions: what to rise to and what to demand from yourself?

Answer: Only to get closer to the Creator. Nothing else is needed. That is the only firm directive for us. And that is why we are called Israel, Yashar El, straight to the Creator.

Question: So in principle, the new year is constant thoughts and movements exclusively toward the Creator?

Answer: It is not just constant thoughts and movements only on the new year. You are laying the foundation for the whole year.

Question: So you are laying the groundwork for the whole year? And if you lay it well and correctly, will the year roll smoothly? Will it go well?

Answer: No! That does not mean anything yet.

Question: Does it not say anything?

Answer: No, it would be nice just to pay off on the new year for the whole year!

Question: So it will not work? Do you need to work constantly?

Answer: Yes, this will not slip through.

Question: Then it turns out that every day could be a new year? Because every day you renew your thoughts about the Creator.

Answer: That is also true. So this date is purely symbolic. There is really nothing in the state of the Earth around the Sun and us on the Earth as such.

Question: What are your wishes to all people in this new year?

Answer: My wishes this new year?

Comment: You see how things are going on in the world this year. What kind of a year we have had.

My Response: And it is still unknown what the new year will be like. We are facing such questions, truly frightening ones.

I think that we simply need to wish humanity to be wiser. To understand what force actually governs us. Why do such negative forces and threats arise in our world? And how we can, even with their help, turn ourselves in the right direction, toward the right goal, and achieve unity, and in that unity discover the eternal, great meaning.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/21/25

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Just Love and That Is All?

Posted on October 5th, 2025 at 7:18 am

Question: How can one build a relationship without striving to change the other person? My natural state is to change another to fit me. How do I not do this? This is the root of all battles, all quarrels, everything.

Answer: Just love. That is all.

And again we return to the first question. If we understand that the most important thing in our life is to be next to someone who understands, helps, loves, and values you, we must value this very, very highly, and sacrifice everything for its sake.

Comment: So I practically sacrifice all my “I,” which demands conditions for itself. And I say: “I want to learn to love.”

Answer: Yes, I want to learn to love this person because I want to be with him. That is all. And it is good if he feels the same. Then it is indeed an enormous, mutual, and very unusual feeling.

Question: You are actually speaking now not only about couples, you are speaking about subordinate, and superior, and about states?

Answer: Practically, yes. Above everything, this state must shine—the state of “learning to love.”

Comment: This sounds so warm and beautiful that one wants to come to it!

My Response: This must be cultivated. But unfortunately, such cultivation does not exist. And when we grow old and understand, we no longer have the strength for it. And therefore, approaching the younger generation and trying to pass something on to them does not succeed. They wave us off, and we try, but rapprochement does not happen. “If only youth knew, if only old age could.”

Question: So you believe that everyone must get their bumps and bruises? One way or another, we cannot manage without it?

Answer: This must be demonstrated intensively in all works, in schools. In general, people must be taught this. At all ages. Then the whole society will be filled with this approach so that it would be in the air. And then it will become possible to love.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/20/25

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