Question: When a person does not want any addition to spiritual work, is that an essential condition for correct prayer or the result of it?

Answer: I think such a feeling arises as a result of the correct attitude toward the Creator, toward His work, and toward the purpose of creation.

Question: It is written that a person “wants to go with eyes shut and believe in the Creator. And he does what is within his power.” What is within our power?

Answer: What is within our power is to do everything He requires of us. Everything the Creator asks of us, we can and must fulfill.

Question: What is the burden of the kingdom of heaven? How can there be a burden if it is holy, if it is connected with the Creator?

Answer: A person feels that he is under the pressure of the kingdom of heaven (Malchut Shamayim), and it weighs on him.

Question: Is this the beginning of a person’s work?

Answer: Probably, it does not really matter. Let us keep moving forward. We will figure it out later.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 7/8/2025, “To Be as an Ox to the Burden and as a Donkey to the Load”

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Question: Is self-sacrifice similar to bestowal for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: No, the point is that self-sacrifice and bestowal both come to a person from above, and in those states they feel a connection with the Creator. This reflects a very serious attitude toward the Creator, toward oneself, and toward the bond between us.

Each time we touch a bit of this state and we will continue to do so. In every excerpt we read, there is something of this state within it.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/29/2025, “Winning the War”

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The Gate of tears is a special gate leading to the Creator. There are many gates to the Creator, but only one of them opens, the gate of tears.

The Zohar explains this very simply: There is only one entrance to the Creator, there is no need for confusion.

A person comes into contact with the upper force when he truly cries from lack of strength, from the impossibility of continuing to live like this, from the fact that he really gave it all he has got.  When one bursts into tears, the Creator reveals Himself to the person.

One day I tried to cry before RABASH from the bottom of my heart. He laughed in my face. I was ready to tear him apart back then. But there is nothing you can do. That was at a relatively early stage of learning.

All the gates are really locked, except for the gate of tears. Upon revealing the full extent of one’s ego, one’s whole desire, giving and relating everything to the Creator, a person reaches the final state: “This is it! There is nothing more I can do!”

But if he does not get an answer, it means these are empty tears, like a child who cries for any reason. Then he has to keep working and, someday, everything will be revealed to him.

The right desire is not expressed in crying one’s eyes out. It is a state where, on one hand a person is in complete powerlessness, and on the other, has a great desire to give to the Creator what he has prepared for Him, but the Creator does not want to accept it.

In such a state, a person suddenly begins to reveal a material egoistic desire, which, it turns out, is deeply hidden inside his “pure” spiritual aspirations. And he begins to dig it out of himself, to purge himself of it.

Then he turns to the Creator again with a request, and suddenly sees the egoistic desire stuck in him again, although earlier it seemed to him that he was already absolutely pure and cleansed.

Now the main thing is to never give up and to realize that your attitude toward the Creator is the same as His attitude toward you. This is a full reflection. The Creator is the upper light, completely at rest, only the creation is changing.

Therefore, if it seems to you there are changes in the Creator, these changes are in you, you see yourself as if in a crooked mirror. After all, before you correct yourself, you see the Creator in relation to yourself in the opposite reflection, in the negative relative to the positive.

It is written: “The Creator is close to you in the measure you are close to the Creator.” The Baal Shem Tov explained this with the words “The Creator is your shadow.” That is, if you can observe your shadow, your reflection against the background of white light, then this is the Creator.
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From Moscow Congress 5/2/2016, Lesson 3

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Question: Can a person, as a result of studying Kabbalah, harm another? For example, kill someone intentionally due to an increase in desire?

Answer: Absolutely not. Even ordinary psychics or clairvoyants cannot do that, let alone a Kabbalist.

The thing is, a Kabbalist is connected to the Creator and to some extent becomes similar to Him. That means he is incapable of causing harm to others.

It is possible that others may feel he is harsh or rough with them. But harm, in the sense that people usually understand it, a Kabbalist cannot inflict. It contradicts the very nature he is attaining and absorbing within himself.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Harm to Others” 8/31/10

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Question: What special thing did Baal HaSulam do besides adapting Kabbalah for our generation?

Answer: Baal HaSulam was a great Kabbalist of the first half of the 20^th century. He summarized all of Lurianic Kabbalah (the Kabbalah of the ARI), organized it into a system, and presented it in The Study of the Ten Sefirot. In addition, he wrote many articles, several Introductions to The Book of Zohar, and turned Kabbalah into a true science.

In his writings, Baal HaSulam was the first to address ordinary people. Before him, Kabbalists wrote only for those who had already attained the upper world.

He was the first to spread Kabbalah to the public, because from his time onward, the world entered a period of spiritual ascent, even if it is not yet revealed. It is an accumulating, gradually building process.

Moreover, Baal HaSulam began to spread Kabbalah not only to Jews, but to the whole world wherever possible. He wrote openly about this: “I am glad that I have been born in such a generation when it is permitted to disclose the wisdom of truth, and I have been given permission to disclose Kabbalah in the world.”

Baal HaSulam’s eldest son, RABASH, was the great Kabbalist of the second half of the 20^th century, and our teacher. This is why our organization is called Bnei Baruch (Sons of Baruch); it is in his honor. From him, we received the Kabbalistic method that we study today.

He wrote three volumes of articles explaining the entire spiritual work of a person, how to attain the upper worlds. In addition, many of his archival recordings have been preserved but not yet published, and we are working on them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/23/2017, “A chain of knowledge 57 centuries long. The history of the Kabbalah method”

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Question: Is it correct that an obstacle that arises is overcome through the formation of a new form as a result of greater unity in the ten?

Answer: Yes, continue and you will see how to express this more clearly.

Question: The ego resists accepting a new form. How can we break it more effectively?

Answer: Do not pay attention to the ego. Try to be together, to feel one another, and from that shared feeling, turn to the Creator.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/2025, “Winning the War”

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Question: If everything comes from the Creator, how can a person make decisions on their own? What does that mean?

Answer: A constant feeling of imperfection comes from the Creator. That is, not forces of perfection that would supposedly help a person, but on the contrary, greater and greater forces showing him how imperfect he is. And this compels him to demand perfection.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/3/2025, “Devotion”

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Comment: There is an amazing way to get acquainted. Just imagine: a guy enters a room, and he is presented with a bunch of different test tubes. He has to determine which smell he likes best, which one he feels is closest to him. He picks one, and then they tell him: “This scent matches this specific girl.” It is the same for girls. She picks a scent, and they say: “Here is your guy.”

My Response: This is very important to us. The cells that respond to smell cover a huge area in our brain.

Question: So could this English method be considered advanced enough?

Answer: It is not advanced; it is old and natural.

Question: So can I actually choose a partner largely by smell?

Answer: Absolutely! There is no doubt that this is how we are drawn to or repelled from each other even unconsciously. And what about all that perfume and such? It is natural. But why am I saying this? That should not be the main criterion.

We should match not on the level of scent, although that is also very important, and not on the level of various other preferences, but on the level of understanding our proper direction toward the purpose of creation.

If we were all striving toward the true purpose of creation, it would have been much easier for us to find a partner, because in essence, we would not differ much from one another. We would not differ.

Question: So one goal, and we are already similar?

Answer: Yes, this goal would unite all of us.

Comment: But that is a very lofty idea. It is very high for young people to talk about the purpose of creation!

My Response: And in the end, what happens? It turns out very low.

Comment: Young guys talking about the purpose of creation?

My Response: They will not invent anything better. What they get is some kind of “love for an hour,” and that is the end of it.

Question: So what should they understand? The purpose of creation? What do you include in that?

Answer: Why am I getting married? Why should I tie my life to this person? In the end, married couples will not hold on to each other. People will just meet, have kids, and split up.

Question: That was exactly my question how can one find a partner for life? And are you saying that it can be done only by this criterion?

Answer: Only the final goal, that is what must hold us together.

Question: And why am I looking for a partner? Why do I get married?

Answer: To reach this ultimate goal together with my partner, in the correct connection with them. But for that, I also need friends and not just partners.

Question: But can you say what the specific goal is? What is the purpose of creation?

Answer: The purpose of creation is to reveal the upper force that governs us. To understand and attain why we exist, what is happening with us, who is leading us by the nose, and where we are being taken.

That is what we need to reveal—to open our eyes, in short, to where we really are.

Question: So that this thirst would be present in both of them, in a guy, in a girl, in people in general?

Answer: Yes, to reveal this need, and together with your partner, gradually move toward it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/4/25

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