Question: Kabbalah studies take many years. Why do people break down and leave?

Answer: Many of my former students who left us still harbor bitterness, even hatred, toward me and a negative attitude toward our organization because they see how difficult it is to practice Kabbalah.

And it is true. A person feels it is challenging for him; therefore, as usual, he looks for an excuse in his instinct of self-preservation.

And to justify oneself means to humiliate and discredit me. Go online and see what they write. Why? It is from the instinct of self-preservation. A person must assert himself, which means destroying the other.

But I don’t care what is written there. Sometimes, I hear from my students that someone wrote such and such. Well, So they wrote… Of course, this interferes with dissemination. However, this doesn’t bother me personally. I still do my job, and whoever comes comes.

A person has a clear instinct—to put down someone else for his self-aggrandizement. If he cannot rise, then by suppressing someone, he supposedly rises relative to others.

I don’t measure myself relative to others. We must measure ourselves against the Creator! Therefore, in Kabbalah, the more exalted there are the better!

In our world, you want only to be the richest and the rest poor so that you are the strongest and the rest are the weakest. In spirituality, this is impossible! Only together with like-minded people can you achieve something! And the more people there are with you, the higher you rise since everything is built on a combination, unity, and mutual guarantee, a common vessel.

But in our world, on the contrary, everything is built on suppression and disregard for others. Therefore, you can immediately see where people are. Sometimes, I hear what this or that person is saying and immediately understand where he is.

I don’t even want to check him through the grid of my properties and powers in a spiritual state. Just hearing it is enough. If a person responds well, he moves upward toward correction, and if he reacts poorly, he descends into egoism.

Question: What do you mean when you say that you test a person through the grid of your spiritual properties?

Answer: It is impossible to explain it to others. What is the point? It still won’t help.

The properties of each person are in a common Kli, in a common vessel, in a common soul. But why should I feel it there if it is at the very bottom? It is as if in our world, you went to the slums where he lives, to the dirt in which he exists, to the environment in which he is located.

Do you need to plunge into all this?! For what? I don’t even want to think about such people, let alone contact them. It is not worth it. Contacting them gets you dirty. That is why Kabbalists don’t do this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Difference between Kabbalah, Science and New Age” 1/28/12

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