Kabbalah and the Meaning of Life – Michael Laitman's Personal Blog

September 2026
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30

Before Praying

Posted on May 28th, 2026 at 7:28 am

This means that one should see what he needs before he prays, and on this lack he prays that the Creator will satisfy his lack (Rabash, “What Is Heaviness of the Head in the Work?”).

It is written that a person should pray based on their deficiencies. How do I find out what I lack? All I need is to see that my qualities are opposite to the Creator, to grasp this intellectually, as it were, and to sense it deep within myself. There is nothing special about it.

The remarkable aspect lies in the fact that the Creator performed a miracle. He granted me the sensation that my current form is contrary to what I usually feel; furthermore, He gave me an additional Kli (spiritual vessel) from a spiritual world that is entirely opposite to my own.

So now I have two distinct types of vessels. First there is a tiny spark of desire to bestow (Ner Dakik), referred to as an illumination of holiness or a point in the heart. This spark is a fragment that remains from the shattering of the collective vessel of the soul. Second, there are my egoistic qualities, my ordinary, natural form.

Now I can examine, analyze, deliberate upon, and conclude that, to the extent I can see my qualities through my point in my heart, they are opposite to the Creator.

This realization is only the beginning of how I relate to spirituality; it is not yet my actual entrance to the spiritual world. Many people experience this sensation, reach out to us, come here, receive this feeling, and subsequently go home and never come back again.

Why? Because there is another step from this point onward. Since I sense my oppositeness to the Creator, I must find the correct solution to what to do with this knowledge? What can I derive from the interplay of these two systems. I have to relate to them correctly.

This does not mean that I should seek out specific Kelim to improve myself and pull myself up to the level of the Creator through my own efforts. If I look at it that way, I see I cannot do it.

Then I break down and leave Kabbalah. I tell myself this work is not for me, and that it is beyond human ability. The Creator is in heaven and I am on earth. Let me live in peace. It is better to close my eyes and see nothing, remaining in my own nature.

Being caught between the spiritual and material worlds is a terrible suffering. Constantly feeling yourself opposite, insignificant, bad, experiencing unpleasant sensations, and hopelessness. For what?!

In other words, the disparity between the material and spiritual worlds must be used correctly right away or one falls into depression, into a state of hopelessness, from which there is no way out.

Recognition of evil should immediately become a springboard for working with faith above reason; I cannot do anything on my own, but the Creator can. Moreover, His program includes implementing my correction to the extent I require it from Him.

How will it happen that I will demand this from the Creator? To do this, I must value His greatness and lower myself before Him. This is how I get advice from Him, adhere to Him. Ultimately, adhesion is what we achieve.

If we process all this data correctly, we reveal the need for a group that will give the strength to properly relate to unfolding states. And then one quickly moves on to the next stage in the work.

The next stage is serious work. It constitutes a prayer to the Creator, which can only be carried out by faith above reason.
[356288]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/4/26, Rabash, “What Is Heaviness of the Head in the Work?”

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →

How Obstacles Guide Us Toward the Creator

Posted on May 28th, 2026 at 7:17 am

Initially every person exists on the level of idol worshippers. Each one must examine all of one’s thoughts, desires, intentions, and future state (what one wants to know and attain and how one wants to feel and see one’s entire environment and themself) and determine whether all of this converges into a single point called the Creator.

But if a person has not directed their future data to this point called the Creator, they are forbidden to use the force of the Torah for advancement. First, one must clarify what is possible at one’s level.

When one completes these clarifications and asks for strength to advance so that the surrounding light will come to them, heal them, advance them, draw them closer to holiness, and give them a stronger feeling of the divine, that “There is none else besides Him”, then, after such an awakening, additional obstacles and confusion will descend upon them.

These obstacles will be more subtle; they will serve to orient one with greater precision (operating within a narrower scope (much like measuring distance in meters or alternatively in millimeters or microns). This becomes clear from the obstacles that befall a person: They will show more precisely how much more sensitive he has become, how in places where he previously saw only coarse things, he now distinguishes finer, sharper details.

Although it may appear to us that the very same obstacles (the same setbacks and confusions) are constantly recurring, each time we examine them, we perceive the underlying picture and discern its ultimate purpose with a sharper vision, through more subtle qualities, and with greater precision.

[356533]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/26, Rabash, “The Meaning of the Strict Prohibition to Teach Idol Worshippers the Torah”

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 5/28/26

Posted on May 28th, 2026 at 7:00 am

From Preparation to an Attack, Part 1, Lesson 0

Video: Play Now | Download

Audio: Play Now | Download

From Preparation to an Attack, Part 2, Lesson 0

Video: Play Now | Download

Audio: Play Now | Download

Filed under: Conventions, Daily Kabbalah Lesson | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Audio Version Of The Blog – 5/27/26

Posted on May 27th, 2026 at 10:55 pm

Listen to an Audio Version of the Blog
Download:MP3Audio

Filed under: Audio Version of the Blog | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Connect with the Creator in Every Action

Posted on May 27th, 2026 at 7:54 am

We must infuse every action we perform with the principle “There is none else besides Him.” By doing so, we are already in unity with the Creator, albeit on a certain level, but nonetheless it is a true state of unity.

We will come to know Him in a more sensory form with greater awareness until He is revealed in His complete fullness, a state known as final correction (Gmar Tikkun), the world of infinity, which is our goal.

But how will this be revealed? Precisely through small actions. What am I doing right now? Do I understand that what I am doing now comes either from the absence of connection with the Creator or from the presence of this connection?

Even if you have to lie to yourself to convince yourself that you must do it. For example, I am forced to steal. If I do not steal, I will have nothing to eat, I will have no strength, no energy, I will not be able to satisfy my needs, I will not be able to study. A person constructs all kinds of justifications even for not very good actions.

But for now, this is of no consequence because one cannot act otherwise. Even through such means one is connecting oneself with the Creator. It is essential to internalize the Creator, that you bring Him within. Do not attempt to conceal these matters from yourselves.

Otherwise it is as though you were erasing the Creator from some part of your life, banishing Him from there. No! He is always present within all my actions, even the ones that are least praiseworthy.

Question: What does it mean to internalize the Creator? Does it simply mean thinking about Him?

Answer: Yes! Think! And you will see how suddenly, within these very actions, you will begin to behave differently. The Creator agrees that instead of being concealed from you, you should search for Him in every place where you may be. There is nothing more terrible than erasing Him from your field of vision. Invite Him into the worst, the most indecent, the most dishonest action.

Rabash writes about this: When a person regrets having left holiness, they decide that from that moment onward they will try with all their strength to ensure that it does not happen again.
[356624]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/26, Rabash, “The Meaning of the Strict Prohibition to Teach Idol Worshippers the Torah”

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Link Material Actions to Holiness

Posted on May 27th, 2026 at 7:46 am

Question: How do we connect material (animalistic) actions to the goal?

Answer: It is very simple! Which of my animalistic actions can I not connect to the goal? I examine that there are some things I must do: work, sleep, eat, wash, and care for my body. I need a family, a wife, and children. I have to provide them with everything because that is how the Creator arranged it.

So if He arranged everything this way and I am executing it, then on one hand, it is a necessity. On the other hand, I must perceive all this as coming from Him, He obliges me to do this; therefore, all these actions are linked to holiness.

It turns out that I spend 20 hours a day doing what the Creator forces me to do. So how much do I devote to spirituality? Two and a half hours in the morning here in class, another half hour to get here, and another half hour back. This amounts to three and a half hours. In addition, maybe half an hour during the day in the evening or at lunchtime. That is it! Meaning, I spend 20 hours a day doing things that are not directly related to spirituality.

But if I know I do this because it is the will of the Creator so that in these actions I feel that everything comes from Him, that He obliges me to draw closer to Him with their help, then all these 20 hours turn into a means of moving toward the goal.

That is how I go to sleep, and through it I advance. I eat, and advance through it. In this way, any action turns into something that brings me closer to the Creator.
[356621]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/26, Rabash, “The Meaning of the Strict Prohibition to Teach Idol Worshippers the Torah”

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Fine-Tuning

Posted on May 27th, 2026 at 7:37 am

Question: What constitutes the maximum state of Lo Lishma (for the sake of receiving) from which we move transition into the altruistic state of Lishma (for the sake of bestowal)?

Answer: A person achieves 99% of bestowing and only 1% receiving. This is the maximum state of Lo Lishma; the final 1% of reception feels like 100% for them. This is how a person sees it, this is how one is calibrated so that sensitivity to this last percentage surpasses everything else.

It is written that “the Creator is exacting with the righteous to the hair’s breadth.” The evil inclination appears first like a strand of a spider’s web and later as cart ropes. To the righteous, it seems like a high mountain, but to sinners it seems like something insignificant. It would seem that all that is needed is to jump over a ten-centimeter groove, but for the righteous, it feels like a leap over an abyss. In reality, the opposite is true; the righteous have only a hair’s breadth to overcome, while sinners still face a towering mountain.

Question: Is there suffering involved in the sensation of Lo Lishma?

Answer: Of course. A person has invested much effort, studied, and worked in a group only to suddenly see an unassailable summit looming before him. The higher we ascend as we correct our egoism, the larger the egoism seems.

After all, we acquire a subtle sensitivity to it, see even a small flaw as if under a magnifying glass. This happens in any profession a person masters.

As for suffering, at the beginning of the journey it has a more material character, and then it becomes purposeful, or spiritual.

[70800]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/10/12, Baal HaSulam “The Peace”

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Thou Shalt Not Make Unto Thyself an Idol

Posted on May 27th, 2026 at 7:23 am

Question: Who is called an idol worshipper in Kabbalah?

Answer: You! Because every minute, even without sensing it, you are sculpting idols right out of thin air.

If you do not connect everything that happens to you with the one force called “One, Unified, and Unique,” if you do not always relate these events back to a single cause and regard everything else (save it) merely as manifestations of that one force, then you are engaged in idol worship.

Suppose your wife says something unpleasant to you. You must understand that this came from the Creator, and she is only a puppet through whom the Creator demonstrates His attitude toward you.

But if you attribute everything to her, you are “making an idol.” You should relate it to her, and through her to the Creator. There must be two here.

One should understand that the director of this entire play is the Creator, and that in this way He presents Himself to us precisely so that we may unite all His various and even opposite manifestations into one form, into one source, the Creator.

But this is possible only on condition that you use the entire world in order to unite it within your perception into one whole and connect it to a single source.
[6177]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/6/9, Baal HaSulam “Characteristics of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Connect Everything with the Creator

Posted on May 27th, 2026 at 7:17 am

Question: Suppose I want to determine my next action in accordance with the Creator, and there are two possibilities where one suits my will to receive more and the other less. Can I combine the more suitable ones and say that I am thinking only about the Creator?

Answer: It is not for nothing that it is written: “I the Lord, who dwells with them in the midst of their Tumaa [impurity].” The question is: If He really is present in your impure matter, and you are fully aware that you are engaged in such an act, then the presence of the Creator sanctifies your impure action. These actions turn into corrections.

And even though you see that for now you cannot rid yourself of these actions and you remain in them, you do not merely settle into complacency, you simply use them for advancement.

Comment: But this negates the advancement, it shows how much I am not on the path.

My Response: Who told you that if you see to what extent you are not going the right way that this is not advancement? Even the fact that you agree to remain in a lowly state, provided you remain with the Creator, that you reveal these matters, that they are important to you, and that you are capable of connecting the sacred with the Klipa and saying that there is a connection, it is as if you enjoy twice—from the Creator, who is together with you, and from the very action.

If you clarify that it is precisely He who is inside, then you have a connection that saves you and pulls you out. There is nothing more terrible than you forgetting about the Creator. This is the worst thing! And the fact that a person cannot rise above his Klipa is a result of the connection between the surrounding light and the person’s Reshimo (informational gene). Such is the state, and you cannot change it.

Only after you have finished the clarification of your Kli and have thoroughly verified it, do you begin to move away from evil, because you simply are unable to be in the bad. And as soon as you feel that this really is evil, you naturally move away from it.

Comment: But I do not feel this.

My Response: Excellent! You do not feel it now, but you will gradually feel it! You have no choice. If the Creator is not with you, if you do not feel His presence, if you do not somehow connect Him with your spiritual advancement, if you understand that the state in which you are is opposite to spirituality, but you agree with it and are now gnawing yourself over it, you will never be able to come out of this.
[356651]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/11/26, Rabash, “The Meaning of the Strict Prohibition to Teach Idol Worshippers the Torah”