Question: In the articles of Kabbalists it is written that there is complete and partial faith. What is the difference between them?

Answer: You do not know what will be revealed to you at the next level, but what has now been revealed in all your Kelim, when they are all filled with the light of Hassadim it means that you are in complete faith.

Partial faith manifests itself when not all of your Kelim are filled with Ohr Hassadim.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reason for the Faith”

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Question: Any object that is perceived by a person as external consists of combinatorics: inanimate, vegetative, animate. All these objects are simply drawn to us like this, but they consist of 613 pixels. And what is the difference between them and the person I see?

Answer: Each person has a different set of desires. That is, there are 613 desires in each one, but in a different arrangement, in a different combination.

Question: But if I see a person outside of myself?

Answer: What do you mean you see him outside of you? In fact, you see him within yourself, you depict him in your feelings. It seems to you that he is outside of you; we have such an idea that supposedly all this exists outside of us. I can touch it and feel it that these objects can affect me positively or negatively from the outside, and all this is inside me. That is the illusion.

Question: Where is the boundary between the fact that I need to perceive the world as a part of myself and as a world that exists separately?

Answer: When you work on yourself and try to get “out of yourself,” this boundary constantly expands. You work on expanding this boundary. You see where the feeling of the world inside you ends and the world that you perceive outside of you begins.

By working on your qualities, on getting out of yourself, on developing ever broader altruistic qualities, fields, you increasingly include in yourself what seemed to you before to be outside of you, clearly feeling it.

It becomes your world. You see everything outside of yourself, and you clearly feel that it is yours, it is within you. And you play with this duality.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World as We Don’t Know It” 1/12/12

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Question: What is good and evil? Everyone talks about goodness, friendship, and unity. And you say the same things, but how can you tell the difference?

Answer: I speak about these categories only as means that help one discover one’s faulty state, come to a corrected state, and achieve complete unity with nature.

I am not against what others say, and in no way am I trying to check them, compare them, or engage in some kind of comparative analysis. For what?

If they talk about good, great. But for what is this good? How correct is this, how real is it? There are so many opportunities in the world to do something good. Is this really good or not?

Who checks, who feels, who measures? Are they the same egoists as you? They can tell you what is good based on their egoistic qualities. And so can you. So you will understand each other perfectly. But in fact?

Therefore, there must be the emergence of some standard of good that is independent of us. If it does not exist, then thousands of beliefs, religions, philosophies, and opinions arise, and each one is right. Then you cannot do anything until some dimension is achieved.

All techniques and technologies start with some measure: meter, kilogram, and so on. Without this, people would not understand each other and could not do anything.

But in our feelings, there are no such measurements, so everyone is right.

You can talk to anyone, from Nazis to pacifists, from anarchists to communists, and they can convince you of anything. In our development, we have already gone through all possible options, except the very last ones. After all, there was once cannibalism, but it can still repeat itself in our “bright” future. And we always felt that yes, this is true or this has a place.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Good and Evil” 1/22/12

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “Letter 10”

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Question: It is written in the sources that we fill the void between us with the greatness of the Creator. What is this empty space?

Answer: We fill such voids in our hearts where we previously felt nothing and never thought that there was something there with the greatness of the Creator.

The Creator grants us the opportunity to fill the empty space by the property of bestowal.

Question: Is it necessary to maintain material emptiness, that is, the desire to be content with only what is necessary in order to correctly realize spiritual emptiness?

Answer: You need to be in balance. A person must have both. One must calmly work with all one’s desires.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Pomegranate”

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Question: We must learn how to use our receiving Kelim for bestowal, but in fact we are the ones who get corrected. In this case, how should we deal with shame?

Answer: Shame is a good quality. It corrects us and gradually turns us in a way that we stop receiving for our own sake.

Question: For me, the Creator is so great that for His sake I am ready to bestow to everyone. But at the same time, I no longer want His revelation.

On the contrary, I am ashamed if He reveals Himself. I want to hide before Him because He is so great in my eyes. What is this faith called?

Answer: It is called simple faith; when you do not desire anything other than all the opportunities that the Creator gives you to help others, to support and encourage them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/24, Writings of Rabash “The Reason for the Faith”

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Question: Among your students, there are certain layers: the so-called “light cavalry” and the “core.” Each occupies their own place, and no one should replace anyone else. But how can a person determine their place?

Answer: They determine it themselves. In the process of studying, everyone finds their place.

It is like, for example, balls floating in a thick layer of liquid, where each ball occupies a certain place according to its specific gravity, density, and the density of the liquid. One floats on the surface, another closer to the bottom, and so on. Similarly, the students are distributed according to the properties, qualities of their desire, and intention.

And none of them interfere with each other. They are all in a relatively suspended state: above is the Creator, below is our world, and they are in between these two boundaries. Therefore, it depends on each individual at what level they will hang in this thickness. Just as when a hot air balloon is heated, it rises, and when it cools down, it descends.

Comment: But every person by nature wants to be the best.

My Response: Yes, that’s true. But the thing is, they must work against their egoism, and that’s not so simple. Not everyone can be the best. To achieve that, one must apply a lot of effort directed against oneself.

Question: Still, everyone wants to become a great Kabbalist. But does it depend not on the person, but on their properties?

Answer: Yes and no. Even throughout history, there have been Kabbalists who initially had very few abilities for this.

We’re not talking about such great Kabbalists as the Ari. They are special souls placed from above as cornerstones on the common path of humanity.

But if we’re talking simply about a person, here there are absolutely no limitations for anyone.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Find Yourself?” 1/27/12

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Happy is he who, amid torments,
Amid anxieties and life’s noisy passions,
Like a rose that blooms thoughtlessly,
And lighter than a shadow running on water (Anna Akhmatova). 

Question: Do you agree that we walk amid torments and anxieties? Is life like that?

Answer: Probably. Yes.

Comment: Second, she says that happy is he who like a rose blooms thoughtlessly.

My Response: In general, yes. Just as the laws of nature push it to develop, so it grows.

Question: Just as a rose grows according to nature, should a person also grow?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Similar to what should we grow?

Answer: Similar to nature. This means that by studying nature, we should discover capabilities within ourselves to mimic it.

Question: But everything in nature is built on instincts, and we are rational beings.

Answer: And we should do this rationally. It is very, very difficult. But that is exactly what we should do.

Question: So, we see how nature submits to universal harmony, and we with our reason should submit to it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What do I need to do with my mind that tells me that I have my “self,” my opinions, and so on?

Answer: Nullify all of that as much as possible.

Question: And is this the path to happiness if I can nullify it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Anna Akhmatova says that one should live lightly. She writes: “To live like a shadow running on water.” That is, you do not turn the water back; you are like a shadow running on water. In your opinion, is it by nature?

Answer: A person should resemble a shadow running on water, but at the same time, they must understand that it requires working on oneself.

Question: And again, we come back to the same thing—to annulment?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What is this rule that is so difficult for us to fulfill?

Answer: Egoism must be annulled!

Comment: It is so hard! So hard to take this step!

My Response: The main thing is not to forget.

Question: Then what is the purpose of my “self”?

Answer: Precisely to annul it.

Question: I am talented in something, I am successful, I know that my opinion is correct. What should I do about it?

Answer: You need to dig all of that out. Like using a knife to dig out the rotten part from an apple and discard it.

Question: Is my protruding “self” the rotten part?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What will remain then?

Answer: Something good, fit for life.

Question: What about my opinion? What should I do with it?

Answer: If it remains after such a transformation, then you will live with it.

Question: What is my “self” given to me for? It turns out it is given to me precisely so that I can…

Answer: So that you can annul it and instead find in the surrounding world, in nature, such forces that together would enable you to create yourself similar to nature, similar to the Creator. That is the main thing.

Question: In which case can a person consider their life happy?

Answer: I think a person can consider himself happy if he takes a step forward toward the universal, unified nature, and integrates into it as an integral whole.

Question: How do you personally evaluate your life? As happy?

Answer: I evaluate my life, overall, as happy. I have searched a lot and spent a lot of time testing myself—what and how. I have not reached the highest category of my searches. But I am happy that I still found out where the truth is and how to approach it. We will continue with the rest.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/18/24

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Question: From the egoistic point of view, it seems wrong that building a connection with the Creator and afterward with our friends is easier than the other way around. How do you really build connection?

Answer: Building connection correctly means constantly inspiring your friends to reach a higher state together with them.

Question: So the connection is built with the Creator first?

Answer: There is no need to build anything with the Creator. With the Creator, everything will work out for you anyway. The main thing is to connect with the friends.

Question: The primary sources state that one needs to ask for the Creator’s help. If I ask for help from my friends, does it replace appealing to the Creator?

Answer: Those are not the same thing, but one does not interfere with the other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Pomegranate”

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