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

Posted on July 7th, 2025 at 7:57 am

Those people agreed to unite into a single group that engages in love of friends is that each of them feels that they have one desire that can unite all their views, so as to receive the strength of love of others. There is a famous maxim by our sages, “As their faces differ, their views differ” (RABASH, “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 2“).

Question: In the first part of this passage, it is written that at first their faces do not look like each other, and then they work on loving their friend. Does friends’ love of others also differ from person to person?

Answer: Yes, it is different. The fact is, our relations with each other also differ. I treat one person one way, another differently, and another in a new way. All this is in order to be connected with friends and merge together into one common desire.

Question: Does each friend have their own feeling about the common desire, or is it something general?

Answer: At first, this is everyone’s personal desire, and then it gradually connects with other desires, becomes more general, until all desires turn into one.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/19/2025, “Winning the War”

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Awaken the Desire to Bestow

Posted on July 7th, 2025 at 7:52 am

Question: Is the connection with the Creator that we can hold on to the result of our prayer for a Hissaron (deficiency)? Or does it happen even before the prayer? Where exactly is the connection with the Creator?

Answer: We can hold on to it even before the prayer. If we do not let our Hissaron fall, meaning, we do not let it be forgotten, and we stay constantly connected to it, then we will be able to reach it and realize it.

Question: It is said that our Hissaron depends on how much we feel the loss caused by the absence of the desire to bestow. But if we have never had that desire, how can we feel such a loss?

Answer: If you want to feel the Hissaron, to work on it, to restore the desire to bestow, then you will begin to feel that loss. You will awaken within yourself a desire to bestow and will want to realize it.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/2025, “Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer”

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How Do We Compose a Proper Prayer?

Posted on July 7th, 2025 at 7:46 am

Question: What is the correct way to compose a daily prayer? One option is for it to be a long, well thought-out prayer. Or is it better to leave it as it is where each friend contributes a suggestion from the feelings of the morning lesson? Can you suggest some way to compose a prayer in a ten?

Answer: Once or twice a week, you can compose an individual prayer from each person, and then talk about it, compare prayers, bring them to one form, to one goal. This can give progress.

Question: What does individual prayer mean? So that we can compare and analyze it later?

Answer: It does not matter. Do as much as you can. It is not scary. In a few days, we will return to connecting our waves, our hearts, and then we will talk about it.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/2025, “Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer”

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Our Task Is to Defeat the Evil Inclination

Posted on July 7th, 2025 at 7:34 am

Question: We constantly speak about the war with the evil inclination, and our task is to win. But at the same time, we clearly understand that without the evil inclination, we cannot build the right line.

Where are the boundaries of the word “defeat” if we cannot advance without the evil inclination?

Answer: We cannot advance without the evil inclination because our advancement lies in gaining more and more strength to rule over it.

That is why we must do everything possible for the sake of that victor: wake up, go to sleep, and constantly lift ourselves up throughout the day.

In addition, there must be mutual support in the group, the certainty that we support one another. This is how we need to move forward until the Creator agrees to give us a good inclination to counter our egoism. And then, through this good inclination, we will begin to see the entire world.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/19/2025, “Winning the War”

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Change Your Attitude Toward the Creator

Posted on July 7th, 2025 at 7:26 am

In whatever form we address society with our ideas, we will be forced to do so in such a way that it will be clear to a person that, in accordance with his development, he must change his attitude toward the Creator.

And to the extent that he is capable, he will be immersed in changing his attitude, and to the extent that he is not capable, he will be immersed not in the attitude itself in its pure form but in physical work, which will be the expression of this attitude: to build, to do, to participate. That is all.

Essentially, it is hidden from him that through his physical actions he also sets forces in motion and does not do something that exists within the framework of this world. In the end, it is only a matter of concealment. Let’s say I bring you a gift, and it is clear to us that this gift should be some kind of object, and I am not capable of more; after all, it is possible that I am not participating in it with my heart at all.

It is hidden from us that within this gift, within this attitude, there is a higher action, and on those high levels on which we exist, this is already manifested in the form of forces and intentions. But I cannot come to society and say: “We exist in a world of forces and intentions. With their help, we set reality in motion and not through material actions. The material does not do anything and does not mean anything.”

I cannot address the general public in this form, but since we have reached the general public with an explanation suitable for them, gradually more and more people (and through suffering too) will see that something is happening to which they do not have an answer. We suffer nonetheless, and there is something to that.

When people feel bad, they suddenly remember that there is the “evil eye,” and that someone thinks badly of them; otherwise, why is nothing working out for them? The more a person delves into this, the more he feels that there are forces, and that it is these forces that are working and not the material.

Moreover, people will come who in some way will participate in the actions of raising MAN (prayers for correction) in the correct form, in the correct attire relative to the upper force. There is no choice. The world will come to this.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam,“The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Double Protection

Posted on July 7th, 2025 at 7:18 am

A Mitzva protects and saves while practiced. The Torah protects and saves both when practiced and when not practiced (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 6 “What Is Support in the Torah, in the Work?”).

We exist within the upper light in which there are absolutely no changes; rather, all changes occur only within us. A person’s advancement depends entirely on how much he can awaken himself toward the upper light through various means.

That is, progress is possible through the environment. If one can begin to feel what a friend feels, he can constantly experience goodness. As it is written: “Love your neighbor as yourself is a great rule in the Torah,” because through this, one attains the Torah, meaning the upper light. Then it does not matter whether he, himself, performs certain actions or not, this light will shine upon him and support him.

There are two spiritual states of a person in relation to the Light: 1) Torah, and 2) Mitzvah (commandment).

Torah refers to the state a person has presently attained in general with the entire system of soul through which he receives the light.

Mitzvah refers to working on the correction of one’s personal state by scrutinizing it and asking for the light to transform one’s desire from egoistic to altruistic.

From the combination of these two states arise four possible opportunities, whether one is performing a Mitzvah or not and whether one is engaged in the Torah or not.

It may be that a person is not currently performing a Mitzvah, meaning one is unable to receive one’s personal light: the person is not inspired, is not in ascent, and is not aspiring toward correction and toward the Creator. But the general illumination, called Torah, still shines upon him, and in such a case, it is of course more significant than the Mitzvah, which at that moment does not shine upon him.

Or the opposite may be true: he is currently performing a Mitzvah, working with his individual Light. Then, whether or not he has the light of the Torah is less important because the Mitzvah shines so strongly that it fills him entirely.

In other words, a person has two supports—either Torah or Mitzvah. But if he has neither, if neither of these two illuminations shines upon him, he becomes completely detached from feeling spirituality.

When he lacks the Mitzvah (personal engagement), but still receives a bit of light, referred to as Torah, he considers himself wicked. But when his own desire to attain correction appears, when he performs a Mitzvah, he begins to justify the Creator, even for negative states, and corrects them. Then, he is called righteous.

From this, we must understand the fundamental principle of the wisdom of Kabbalah: everything is evaluated solely in relation to the person, to the created being, for the light itself remains in absolute rest. Since we are integrated into the common system, we receive a common illumination from it, through our passive connection to others. This common illumination is what is called Torah.

Additionally, there is personal light, which comes through our active connection with the system and exchange internal states and corrections. This is called a Mitzvah.

Through these two processes, in which a person tries to engage constantly, he advances spiritually, and that is why they are called the help, the support, that the Torah (light) gives in the work.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/2/2011, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is Support in the Torah, in the Work?”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 7/7/25

Posted on July 7th, 2025 at 7:00 am

Preparation to the Lesson

1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #20 “Lishma (For Her Sake)” (10.16.21)

2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 42-44 (6.25.06)

3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 21 “We Should Always Discern Between Torah and Work” 1985

4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “The Letters of Rav Hamnuna Saba”

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The Place of Similarity to the Creator

Posted on July 6th, 2025 at 7:55 am

Question: Can we say that the creation becomes similar to the Creator not where it receives, and not even where it gives, but where it is unable to receive and give? And in this powerlessness, something is created that does not even exist in the light?

Answer: If a person feels that he is incapable of either receiving or giving, he should annul himself and join the group. With it, he will nevertheless draw closer in some way to the Creator, and then from there, he may also become one who gives.

Question: What is more important, what is deeper: receiving for the sake of bestowal or the suffering from the inability to bestow without receiving?

Answer: Suffering is not a goal. And in general, we have no such desire to suffer.

We should try to be in the sensation of bestowing to the Creator and receiving from Him everything He desires to give us and to give Him everything we are able to pass on.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/2025, “Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer”

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Feel As One Whole

Posted on July 6th, 2025 at 7:44 am

Question: You said that we need to deepen our preparation until we feel ourselves as one whole so that there is no difference between what I feel and what the world Kli feels. How can we reach this state?

Answer: When you exit your egoistic desire and have only your calculation with the Creator, then you do not feel yourself as separate and alone in something; you feel yourself existing, powerful, and capable of doing something for the entire world Kli.

Through this world Kli, the Creator also feels what you desire for everyone. And it turns out that your attitude toward the entire world Kli and toward the Creator becomes one and the same. Then everything comes to a common connection.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/2025, “Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer”

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Then the Child Will Have no Problems

Posted on July 6th, 2025 at 7:38 am

The way you react to a child is how the Creator responds to them.

Question: So through me, the Creator responds to the child? If I live with this awareness, is that called education?

Answer: Yes, in doing so, you open channels of connection between the child and the Creator.

Question: Through me, the Creator connects with the child? Am I supposed to open the Creator to the child?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: That is an incredible responsibility!

My Response: It is as if you are introducing them to each other.

Question: Beautiful! Tell me, should this awareness come to the parents even before the child is born?

Answer: In general, yes. We have spoken about this more than once.

Question: We have, but we have a million questions after that. For people, this is not just interesting, it is vital. But actually, we never said it quite the way you just did: “I open a channel for the child through myself.”

After such a warm and loving upbringing, how is the child supposed to go out into such a cold world?

Answer: If the child perceives the world correctly, then they will have no problem. They will feel the world is multi-layered, at least as themselves, their parents, their home, etc., and strangers. They will know how to relate all of it correctly.

Question: Does that mean the parents succeeded in bringing the Creator to the child?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/5/25

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