Question: Let’s say one person lost a million dollars, and another lost a cup of rice. However, their inner feelings are the same. What is this feeling of emptiness?

Answer: What difference does it make who lost what and how much? The only thing that matters is how they feel it.

Question: But why does one of them need to lose such a large amount of money?

Answer: It is just a habit; it is an attitude.

At birth, all people are the same. When they die, they are also the same. Only their environment, a specific case, fate, so to speak, of one and the other give them different attitudes to the level of happiness, and nothing more.

A person is cleansed of unnecessary things, which leaves only the animalistic body and what this body needs, and everything else should be aimed at developing the spiritual degree in him. We do not need more.

We must exist in our animalistic body until we ascend to the spiritual degree, and then we will further develop along these degrees.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Lost a Million” 11/6/11

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Question: Does every spiritual law have an effect in our world?

Answer: No, not everyone. In our world the spiritual laws do not manifest at all with the exception of the most primitive ones—“give and take.”

Nevertheless, there is a tendency to unite in the world. For example, molecules unite into more complex substances and so forth. We see that this force exists. Gradually our world is moving toward unity in any case.

Question: If the spiritual laws do not manifest in our world, does it mean that the first and the second laws of restriction do not exist at the inanimate, vegetative, and animal level? Are they only at the human level?

Answer: Practically yes. The first law is a ban to receive for the sake of oneself. We cannot cancel or change it. It does not exist in our world. We do not see its application.

Whereas the second restriction, i.e., the second law, speaks that at some stage Kabbalists reveal the presence of egoistic desires that for now we cannot use even for the sake of the Creator since we do not have the screen. However, when we correct them, we will be able to receive into them.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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Question: How do we pray for what we lack?

Answer: In your own words. Tell me in your own words what you think you lack in order to be fully connected with your friends and with the Creator.

On the other hand, what in your egoism would you like to get rid of in order to adhere to your friends and to the Creator?

Comment: I literally hate my egoism.

My Response: Great! So you have something to ask for.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/5/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘A Ladder Is Set on the Earth, and Its Top Reaches Heaven,’ in the Work?“

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Question: What is essentially called the sin of the people of Israel, and what is the sin of the nations of the world?

Answer: They are both egoism. But the egoism of the people of Israel is central and fundamental, and the egoism of the nations of the world is much smaller and not so dependent on each other.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 11/5/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘A Ladder Is Set on the Earth, and Its Top Reaches Heaven,’ in the Work?“

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Question: What is the tree of life?

Answer: The tree of life is our path, which we walk not opposite to the Torah but clearly according to the Torah. Everyone connects with others by ties of kindness, love, and mutual assistance, closer and closer, from person to person. Then it is believed that people are going according to the tree of life.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 11/3/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Giving of the Torah – 2“

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This is the meaning of our sages’ words (Beresheet Rabbah, end of Portion 12): “In the beginning, He contemplated creating the world with the quality of judgment [Din]. He saw that the world could not exist and brought forward the quality of mercy [Rachamim] and associated it with the quality of judgment” (Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” Item 58).

We want to receive pleasure; it is our nature. The first restriction says that it is forbidden to receive from the Creator for our own sake; we will not receive anything and will remain in the emptiness.

The Creator, as if, raised the quality of Malchut into Bina, meaning mixed the quality of judgment with the quality of mercy. After all, the world cannot exist, but only by restrictions. Therefore, even in our world, we can not only receive, but also give something, albeit purely egoistically.

The second restriction is the prohibition of using egoistic Kelim even for the sake of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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Question: What condition in Israel’s current war would you call victory? What is a victory for you?

Answer: It is a state where both sides raise their hands and agree not to fight anymore.

Comment: Many people say that one of the reasons for the current war was the split in Israeli society, which has been intensifying over the past year.

My Response: I think so too. This war can be called a punishment from above for our rift in society.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/29/23

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Question: Today people spend a lot of time watching war footage. So a person even without being in the hot spots lives all this daily.

Some experts say this has a strong effect on the human psyche. Others argue this is how one learns to see the truth and thereby can prevent his aggression toward others. What would you recommend?

Should we be watching all this?

Answer: I would not advise watching it because, as a rule, it is presented with loose commentary.

I would advise people to study the nature of man and the causes of wars. Then they would gradually become aware of their damage and how that harm can be corrected concerning others.

Question: Do you think watching all these horrors affects our psyche?

Answer: Of course it does.

Question: In a good way or the opposite? Some believe if one has a strong impression of negative actions, he will never repeat them.

Answer: No, it does not work. We see the world is not getting better.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/29/23

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