Question: What is the difference between descent and exile, and how can we work with it?

Answer: Descent is the revelation of additional egoistic desires that I need for an ascent. That is, a descent is for the sake of an ascent because one thing cannot be without the other: I fall in order to rise.

Practically, a descent is a part of the ascent. We even have a song: “We are falling upward, we are soaring above ourselves,” which is true. When a person engaged in spiritual work experiences a descent, he is glad because it brings him additional opportunities and understanding of issues he could not identify before.

We must understand that our egoistic intentions, desires, thoughts, and feelings do not just happen to be revealed in us. We see that no one around us thinks like that: “Oh, how egoism is revealed in me!” Have you heard this from any leader or anyone else? There is no such thing.

But if we feel this, we should rejoice because the material for our ascent is being revealed. We call it a descent, but in fact it is an ascent along the left line. And in parallel, in the right line, we are already building our ascent in bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”

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Question: What does coming together in spiritual space mean and how do we do it?

Answer: Coming together in spiritual space means gathering our spiritual desires so that they give us a common desire, new in quality and strength, to accomplish something spiritual in the unification of the common Kli, in transmitting of the common light, so that we feel that we want it, that we desire it passionately. Then, the unification between us and the Creator occurs, Zivug deHakaa (coupling by striking).
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Writings of Rabash, “A Congregation Is No Less than Ten”

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Question: How do we increase the desire to become similar to the Creator in the group? How can the group help us develop or generate Hisaron?

Answer: We must raise our desires, our common Hisaron, to the Creator and urge Him to correct and fill it. That is what we expect from the Creator.

Question: How are the heart and Hisaron interconnected?

Answer: What the heart feels is Hisaron. Hisaron is the desire to become a vessel for the Creator. When your desire aligns with the desire of the ten, this is a correct Hisaron.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/24, Writings of Rabash “I Will Remove the Stony Heart”

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Question: Let’s say I experience suffering and understand that the Creator sent it for the purpose of correction. Then the suffering becomes a correction for me, through which I bring pleasure to the Creator and establish a connection with Him. Where can I get pleasure from the connection through suffering if I do not have Kelim of bestowal yet?

Answer: You will not be able to derive pleasure through suffering. Do not lie to the Creator.

Comment: But if we understand that suffering came from Him, it does not feel so bitter.

My Response: No, connection with the Creator does not feel like bitterness. That is impossible. There is nothing better than the light. All suffering arises from the absence of light.

Question: Then how do you turn it into joy?

Answer: Correct yourself through connection with friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/29/24, Writings of Rabash “He Who Comes to Purify Is Aided – 1”

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Question: Usually, the recognition of evil is sudden and surprising. Can it be balanced, anticipated, or desired?

Answer: Sure, it depends on how much a person wants to receive the upper light, see himself and the world in this light, and continue his correction.

Question: But this happens extremely rarely. Can this be taught? How can we bring the recognition of evil closer?

Answer: Only through your desire for correction and, of course, together with friends. There is nothing more to say.

Question: Is any particular process required for us to be worthy of receiving correction?

Answer: Yes, you must recognize how you differ from the Creator, why you are receivers and not givers, and ask to be corrected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/30/24, Writings of Rabash “A Cure before the Blow”

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God created us in His image and likeness. But where does the certainty come from that He worked in a realistic manner? (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)

Comment: A person’s understanding of the phrase “created in His image and likeness” is exactly that, according to His image and likeness. You know, like how Shishkin painted, Peredvizhniki…

My Response: That is incorrect. What within us resembles the Creator? Besides our desires and intentions, which we can correct and bring to similarity with the Creator, nothing else within us can be similar to the Creator.

Question: Please tell me, if He created us in His image and likeness, should we still strive to reach this after all?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And He laid out a long road for us, for millennia humanity has been traveling it.

My Response: It seems to us that it is a long road. But in reality, it is not long. No. Man was created to understand, accept, and then actualize.

Question: To become like the Creator?

Answer: Yes.

Question: If it were possible to ask from the Creator’s perspective, are we already in that state or not?

Answer: Time does not exist for the Creator. Past, present, and future are one.

Question: If it could be said that He sees, what does He see?

Answer: He sees everything in the state we should be in.

Question: Already in the completed state?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Question: We speak of the “united soul,” is this Him and the united soul of humanity?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And we, from our side.

My Response: And we, from our side, must move toward this from below upward. And that is why our path is long.

Question: With all these descents, ascents, and so on, but is it necessary for there to be falls and rises? Is all this necessary?

Answer: It is for the realization of the path.

Question: So, the entire purification process is exactly along this path?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And if the path were smooth?

Answer: We would not have formed into what we are supposed to become. We must fully desire to become like the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/15/24

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Question: In the 1920s, before Hitler came to power, Baal HaSulam predicted the Second World War. The scary thing is all his predictions came true. In his writings “The Last Generation,” he talks about the possibility of a third and even a fourth world war after which only several thousand people will remain.

Do you also believe that out of eight billion people on Earth a few thousand will survive and complete the universal correction?

Answer: I do not think this is how it will happen. I feel events will unfold in a much gentler and smoother way.

Question: Why has the number of people worldwide increased to eight billion? Only 100 years ago, the world’s population was about two billion. There were periods in the development of mankind when only a few thousand human beings lived on the planet. Why is there such growth? What is the reason for this?

Answer: It depends not on us but on how these people can perceive and implement the spiritual methodology.

In other words, the number of people somehow helps in correcting the ego, which is distributed among a huge number of people.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 8/8/24

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Question: Is temple of ten people where the Creator resides the ultimate perfection?

Answer: This is a whole Kli. It cannot be said that it is perfection, but it is a whole Kli.

If you ask the Creator to unite you into one whole when you are striving to connect with each other, then He performs this action upon you, and then in the connection between you, you begin to feel spiritual forces.

This is what we must achieve in the process of our correction and unification.

Everything we do (study and other actions) are only needed in order to achieve complete unification among us, because in accordance with its quantity and quality, we will reveal the spiritual world in our unity.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Writings of Rabash “The Point in the Heart”

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