Question: In our world, there are such thrills as first love, the birth of a child, the resolution of some opposites, and the solution of complex problems. Can these feelings be compared to spiritual ones?

Answer: Yes, all this takes place in the comprehension of the upper world, but in a much more prominent, stronger form. This is already practical Kabbalah.

When a person comprehends the higher properties, forces, and actions that take place in a latent form, outside our earthly sense organs, then in accordance with this he begins to change himself in order to better feel the forces that secretly control our world.

Then he has the opportunity to influence his fate and everything that happens in this world. All his hidden desires begin to unfold. He begins to control his destiny, to go beyond the bounds of time, space, movement.

He no longer works with those forces of nature that earth sciences study within the framework of our world or interacts with them, but with forces and interactions above our world.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/12/18

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Question: I have been studying the wisdom of Kabbalah for a little more than a year. I have graduated from the Academy of the Wisdom of Kabbalah in Moscow (MAK). Lately, I have noticed that money, my position, and my work seem less valuable to me. Can you help me understand what is happening?

Answer: You need to relate to yourself seriously, also to your work, your family, and to everything there is, but only mechanically. You need to invest the rest of your energy in your spirituality. Yet one should not interfere with the other. You need to work with your corporeal essence in a precise manner for your family and for yourself, etc., while with your soul you should be with us.

All was programmed this way intentionally. Our world was not created against spiritual development. On the contrary, it is necessary so that a person will develop properly in two channels, which is the only way he will attain the goal.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 11/18/18

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Question: Should the selecting of people for integral upbringing groups be based on racial, national, and cultural characteristics?

Answer: No, this is completely wrong. Maybe they should be selected in accordance with their development level and mentality for them to be closer to each other. But in the end they all will be equal.

On the one hand, of course, the more similar people are, the easier it is for them to make contact, and on the other hand, the more opposite they are, the greater the success from their joint actions.
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From KabTV’s “Communication Skills” 10/16/20

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Preparation to the Lesson

Lesson on the Topic of “Simcha”

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot, Vol. 1, Part 3, Chapter 5, Item 1″

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Baal HaSulam, Shamati #70, “With a Mighty Hand and with Fury Poured Out”:

He said that we should know that of those who want to come into the work of the Creator in order to truly adhere to Him and enter the King’s palace, not everyone is admitted. Rather, he is tested: If he has no other desires but only a desire for Dvekut [adhesion], he is admitted.

And how is one tested if he has only one desire? He is given disturbances. This means that he is sent foreign thoughts and foreign messengers to obstruct him so he would leave this path and follow the path of all the people.

In movement toward the Creator, I must acquire the right direction toward Him. But I don’t see it. The Creator is only discovered at the end of my effort. I am walking in darkness every step of the way and I gradually discover Him as a result of my correct orientation. But how do we go about this in the right way? To do this, I must look through two points to strike a third point, as I would through the sight of a rifle.

If I am looking by way of a single intention, that is not enough, I must combine a second intention with it and then I will be able to strike the target.

So, I need some guiding points on the spiritual path. If I have three components: myself, a group (the “Ten”), and a teacher (the “Rav”), then I can be sure that I will “encounter” the Creator.

I must integrate fully in a group in order to do this, so that my ten will become a single unit. In this way I am guided by the same method that the entire group is getting from the teacher, and even though we don’t know anything about the Creator, we can be sure that we are aiming toward Him.

Question: How can my physical eye (the ego) feel and see the spiritual direction through characteristics that are the opposite of mine?

Answer: This is not a physical eye, but a heart and mind, my attraction to the goal.

Just as we look intentionally when we want to encounter a physical goal, so we want to encounter a spiritual goal through ourselves. It is specifically through the contrast of these characteristics that I direct myself toward the Creator and gradually change myself in such a way that according to the equivalence of the characteristics I begin to discover Him. This is working for my benefit and is changing my characteristics.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 12/9/18

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