Comment: You, as a Kabbalist on high spiritual levels, constantly go against your own desire and come to the lessons most likely in a difficult state, not with the same joy as the newcomers.

My Response: So what? That is my duty. Of course, it is hard for me, but I feel the highest obligation. There is not even a question about it.

How can I not come to the lesson when it is a means of dissemination, of conducting the Creator’s line in this world?! I have been authorized to do it.

I am simply fulfilling a mission from above, and I am grateful for the opportunity to carry it out. And every day it is a miracle that I manage to give a three-hour lesson, explain, write a blog, answer questions, and appear on some television program.

I see this as a gift, a great favor that the Creator has done for me. What difference does it make whether it is hard or not? It is so important, so necessary! At least that is how I see it. That is what gives me strength.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. When There Is No Desire” 8/12/10

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Question: Is it good or bad when a person pushes himself to study without desire?

Answer: It is good. It means the goal is higher than his own small, egoistic desire. That is good; he is making an effort. And if he studies without putting in effort, then where is his personal exertion? Even worse is when he does it with desire.

The best state is when there is no desire at all and the person is as if dead begs the group to give him some opportunity, some awareness of the importance of the goal. Then, by nullifying himself before his friends, he is ready to pay them, to do anything, just so they would tell him how important the goal is, and this would inspire him to show up to the next morning lesson. That is the best.

Question: So when a student comes to you and says, “What do I do? I cannot do anything. How do I go on?”—is the best state?

Answer: Yes. Then I tell him: “Congratulations! You already have some awareness of your nature. You understand that you do not want anything, that you are just an animal and all you need is a bit of animal fulfillment and nothing more.”

Question: So is being in a lesson with desire just an initial stage when a person has not achieved anything yet?

Answer: What does that give? Nothing yet. The most important thing is the connection with the group, with friends, where they can pass on additional desires to him, and then he can rise higher.

Question: And when a person crosses the Machsom, meaning rises to the first spiritual level, does his lack of desire feel different there?

Answer: When he crosses the Machsom, then there are completely different forces and calculations that influence him.

Question: So it means that all the way to the final correction there is always a kind of struggle against one’s nature?

Answer: Yes, of course. How else can you progress if not by revealing ever more egoism within yourself and rising above it by correcting it?
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. When There Is No Desire” 8/12/10

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Question: When will the Third Temple be built? After all, the first and second temples were built. There was some movement toward love for one’s neighbor. So why was the 9^th of Av necessary, and why were these temples destroyed?

Answer: It was so that we would begin to correct them. The construction came from above. We were given a force that somehow united us.

Question: So were the two temples built from above?

Answer: Of course! The force comes from above, it does not come from us.

But for the Third Temple we must become aware of how much we need it and demand it ourselves, from below.

Question: Will the Third Temple be built by the whole world?

Answer: It will be built in the hearts of those who strive toward the Creator. They are called the people of Israel. This is no longer about people supposedly defined by having a Jewish mother and father, by birth, or by passport. It is about those who yearn for the Creator. Then this process will be taken up by the whole world.

Comment: Does it mean that “Israel” is not today’s Jews or Israelis, those living in Israel, or Jews by birth, but those who strive toward the Creator?

My Response: Yes. In essence, those who strive toward the Creator are called “Israel,” and they are obligated to reach unity and spread it to the whole world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/22/25

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Question: How can a group influence a person if he does not annul himself before it?

Answer: It can’t influence a person positively.

Question: Then what is the point a person being in that society?

Answer: There is no point. Maybe over time he will begin to understand that he must bend himself before the environment, and ask for that, and study for that purpose.

Comment: But we are just bundles of egoism. A person cannot make the right calculation anyway. It is a very difficult process. And all the time, you do not know whether you are on the right path or not.

My Response: Just annul yourself before the group. That is all.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Bend Over and Ascend” 8/15/10

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah (Giving of the Torah),” Item 13 (12.9-10.2003)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “The Conditions for Studying with Friends”

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Question: When you were studying with Rabash, you did not know what a group was as such?

Answer: I had a different preparation. Rabash thought that there would be a group, he believed that he should do it. I brought students to him. We can see what kind of articles he wrote.

But the group did not form as a result of these articles. It was I who came out of it. No, the others came out of it too; I am by no means diminishing them. They are all my former friends, and I love and value each one of them because they are also students of my teacher. But the group was not formed from us.

Now each of them works on their own. I do not judge anyone. Each one just does as much as they can and how they can. I am the same, one of them. But still, I was the student closest to Rabash, his assistant. He spent a huge number of hours with me together in study, in everything.

That is why I have developed an internal sense of connection with him, which leads me forward. I feel that he is with me. I have an absolutely sober and clear feeling that in all my endeavors, he stands behind me, and I am fulfilling everything by realizing my teacher in myself.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. You or Group” 8/1/10

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We are a system of absolute interconnection. Parents, children, grandparents, and so on are all equal components of the one, unified system.

Question: How should I relate to children?

Answer: Children are not really “children,” they are actually adults who simply perceive the world in a more limited way. But to the extent that they do perceive it, they must engage with it intelligently. You should explain this to them, and treat them that way, and they will understand this.

Question: So I shouldn’t baby them, but treat children like adults?

Answer: Of course, the way you relate to children and your family is how you correct yourself and your soul.

Question: What about how I relate to my wife or a wife to her husband?

Answer: It is exactly the same as to yourself! The most important thing is to support each other in your mutual efforts, in understanding what is happening with you.

Question: What does it mean to make concessions to another so as not to crush them but to concede? What is it?

Answer: It means that I annul myself.

Question: Just like that? Can I just do it?

Answer: Yes, simply annul yourself.

Question: For what purpose? If I do it, there must be a reason, right?

Answer: So that you can be a correct element within the system of creation. It is about having a rational attitude toward everything.

Question: Because we are all inside one system, right? And we need to align with it?

Answer: Yes. The integral system of nature must be revealed to us, within us, around us, more and more in our perception. Within it, we will see the vast program called “the Creator.”

We are all within one system, one world, one sphere, one globe. Inside this sphere everyone is equal, interconnected, benevolent, and bound by mutual feelings of love, concession, and support.

No one thinks about themselves, everyone thinks only about others. This is the law of the interconnected integral system of the world. We will inevitably come to it! But the faster we do, the sooner we will understand what nature, or the Creator, whatever you call it, is demanding from us, and we will truly discover a beautiful future.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/18/25

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Question: Is it better for a person to go through all the states intensely together with you or separately in a group?

Answer: It is preferable to go through all the states as quickly as possible, that is clear. It is also desirable to go through them while I am still here, that too is obvious. After all, there is support, hope, guidance, advice.

But it is impossible to go through them only with me; it is better to do it in a group. Without the group, it is not possible. Without a teacher, it is possible.

Question: You keep putting the emphasis on the group. But how do you feel that it is specifically the group that is the mechanism a person must integrate into instead of using some other method?

Answer: You see how much I talk about this, and it is still not clear.

There is nothing else besides the system of souls, the connection between souls, the network of souls. This interconnected network of souls is the only global mechanism that the Creator created. We exist within this network, but we do not feel the connection between us.

It is as if we are torn apart in our perception. It is an illusion, but for us it feels completely real. In that illusion, each one of us feels themselves as existing on their own. That illusory feeling manifests within us as “this world.”

But as soon as I begin to restore my connection with others, that is, to restore this network of forces in my perception, it is as though I revive myself and return to consciousness. Then I immediately begin to feel this network or the upper world or the Creator.

When I feel only myself, I feel what is called “this world.” When I feel myself within the network with everyone else, I feel the upper world or the Creator, the unifying force, which is the common quality of this network. That is it. There is nothing else. There is no other space around us. None! Only this network of forces, and we are within it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. You or the Group” 8/1/10

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 120

Can We Escape the Blows?

It is impossible to escape the blows. Our entire learning is based on how to pass through them. Even though all these states are predetermined, we learn how to navigate the path with awareness and willingness, so that even if we were given a different set of circumstances, we would still prefer to learn about ourselves and how we are opposite to the Creator.

In other words, we want to walk the path with full awareness. And when we do, we do not experience the blows as suffering. Instead, we pass through them joyfully.

We might feel the pain of disappointment, but at the same time, we observe ourselves from the outside, as if we were a body lying on an operating table, ready for surgery and correction. We actively participate in our own correction. Experiencing difficulties from this external perspective is an entirely different feeling. Instead of enduring each blow over the course of 50 years, we can pass through them in 10 minutes.

Corrections that would otherwise take an entire lifetime of struggle in the material world, through suffering (because suffering also purifies the body), are nothing compared to the corrections made by someone who studies Kabbalah.

We do not even understand what it means to go through these difficulties with full awareness. What humanity has done for thousands of years, what we ourselves have done over many reincarnations, can now be completed in a single lifetime, in one great leap forward.
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