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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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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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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Question: You talked about the sensitivity of the soul and balancing the border between receiving and giving Kelim. How is the awe of the Creator related to the sensitivity of the soul?

Answer: We must achieve the property of bestowal over the property of receiving inherent in us from the beginning with which we begin to seek out the property of bestowal instead of receiving in our global union.

If we begin to acquire it, we can reveal the attitude of the Creator toward us in it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/25, “Rabash Memorial Day (Yahrzeit)”

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Question: What does it mean to the Creator that we have gathered in as a group? What do we mean to Him as a group?

Answer: To Him we are particles of creation, created by Him, that wish to unite in order to learn what it means to be together and for their union to be similar to the property of the Creator.

And then, inside our union, we will begin to reveal Him. This is our task now.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/25, Writings of Rabash “Purpose of Society – 1”

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Question: What should I feel in order to be certain that I have finally merged with my friends?

Answer: You will feel yourself on the level of closeness with them to the extent that you understand them and they understand you. And so, you will move forward.

Question: Is bestowal for the sake of bestowal closer to adhesion?

Answer: No, adhesion and bestowal are two different functions.

Question: What must we do in order to enter spirituality?

Answer: For this it is simply necessary to continue. Again, and again. And you will see that gradually everything will be revealed to you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/25, “Rabash Memorial Day (Yahrzeit)”

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Question: In RABASH’s “The Purpose of Society – 1,” it is written that the reason for creation was the fear of God. What kind of state is this?

Answer: It is the state of a person who desires more than anything in the world to come to fear of the Creator, and for this purpose he is ready to immerse himself in all the details of what happens with him in the world and in his group.

After all, everything in the world was created only so that a person would reveal his attitude to the Creator, which is called “fear of Him.” This is what we need to understand and try to attain.

Question: Further RABASH writes that we must be in a low state. What does this mean?

Answer: A low state is a state when a person feels that his desires and aspirations are in contradiction to the desires and aspirations of the Creator. And how to come out of this state, he does not yet know.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/25, “Rabash Memorial Day (Yahrzeit)”

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