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Posted on January 24th, 2025
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Question: You mentioned that for a long time, you could not accept The Book of Zohar.
Answer: Yes, it repelled me. I considered it unnecessary. Then the light affected me in such a way that a transformation occurred within me. I always use this example with my students.
Question: But if someone simply takes a quote from The Zohar and reads it, will it have an effect on them?
Answer: No, it will only have an effect to the extent that a person wants to correct himself through this book and strives, in some way, to extract something from it. But if, for example, a linguist wants to study it and reads it without any inner drive or demand, they will receive very little influence.
Question: So if we want it to influence us, should we read it with this intention?
Answer: Yes that is enough. However, it is even better if it happens through friends when you all study The Zohar together so that it can influence you and unite you into a single desire against the egoism that divides you.
Question: Let’s say I am sitting in a lesson and I want The Zohar to influence me. How can I build an intention that will also influence everyone else?
Answer: You want it to be this way.
Question: Even if I cannot gather all of this in my mind?
Answer: Try. This attempt is your intention, your inner work. Everything else doesn’t matter.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Hate to The Zohar” 4/19/10
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Question: If an an ordinary person who has no connection to Kabbalah watches one of your videos, what will it give him? What should he do next?
Answer: Open a book and start reading. Then he will see how much he is changing and changing the world at the same time. Everything is explained in the books on Kabbalah!
On one hand, these books tell a person about the general structure of nature and a person’s connection with it, how he influences nature, and how nature influences him. On the other hand, through the connection of a person with a Kabbalistic book, there is an entire system of initiating positive forces of nature that change him and the surrounding world in a positive direction, toward harmony.
During study, a person’s understanding, awareness, and rapprochement with this science, give one confidence, strength, and a clear foundation to stand on on one hand, and immediate integration in a normal, effective, practical correction on the other hand; these two parameters that one stimulates with one’s studies resolve everything.
Therefore, all that remains is to give a person the opportunity to correctly discover the appropriate, comfortable material for him.
Comment: You have just explained very clearly what the books talk about. But a person might get scared. He will say: “It describes how I influence nature.”
My Response: So what? Who is afraid of this today? It is nothing to be afraid of. I believe that nothing scares a person today; people are perfectly capable of navigating the material. Nowadays there are no such narrow-minded, superstitious, ignorant individuals as before. Over the last ten to fifteen years, humanity has risen above all fears and superstitions and is calm about everything.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. How to change the world” 4/19/10
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Question: If the speed of acknowledging our flaws is faster than the speed of praying for correction, what does this mean?
Answer: This means you need to pay closer attention to your faults and work to restore them to a normal state as soon as possible.
Question: Do both awareness and prayer mean contact with the Creator?
Answer: Yes, of course.
Question: How do we equalize the feeling that both are from the Creator?
Answer: There is no need to equalize anything. You should just direct yourself toward the Creator as much as possible.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/25, “Obtaining Contact with the Creator”
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Question: You have often spoken about the power of silence. How can silence within the ten strengthen the connection with the Creator?
Answer: To the extent that we assign importance to silence, it can strengthen the connection with the Creator. Try to play a “silent game” during a meal or an activity aimed at unity.
In other words, remain silent, reflect, and gather the energy of intention directed toward the Creator. Connect yourself with your friends, bring them all together into one unified knot, and aim it toward the Creator. This is very good work. I recommend doing it at least once a day.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/25, “Obtaining Contact with the Creator”
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Comment: You say that the collective system understands any of our actions, even if we deceive ourselves, as if playing at friendship and love. It begins to influence us and truly restructures us.
My Response: Yes it is just like we behave with children. They play, mess up, jump, run, speak in an incomprehensible language, and don’t know what they are doing, but we communicate with them as with a very important element of creation that needs to be raised. This is how they develop. The same thing happens with us.
Comment: But we want this artificially and pretend that we love each other.
My Response: We understand that we are only pretending, we do not hide it from ourselves and do not pretend, as it happens in other methods. We know that this is how we are at this stage, and we are constantly revealing more and more layers of egoism in ourselves.
Along with this, we understand that nature is integral, it is some kind of huge single organism, and we need to come to the point in our awareness where we are the highest integral element of this organism.
Therefore, on the one hand, knowing that we are not yet in this quality, we still try to consciously move ourselves toward it. And this conscious movement forward changes us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Signs of Advancement 2,” 3/11/10
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We are on the way to a convention, and the main goal now is to awaken a deep, urgent need for it even before we come to it. To achieve this, we must strengthen our connection and unite in our desire so that we can approach the convention with the same intensity as a pack of wolves pouncing on their prey and tearing it apart. This is how we need to prepare ourselves for the convention.
I want to integrate myself among all the participants of the convention with my desire and, together with everyone, extract everything that it contains. Each of us will seize their portion of the prey from the convention and understand that this is precisely why they came. Both men and women will take part in this action.
We want to unite around the topic of the convention and sink our teeth into it to draw life force from it. Each of us must grip it with all their strength because if we act modestly and yield it to one another, it will belong to no one. I must seize my portion myself, but not consume it for my own sake, but rather, pass it on to the Creator.
The force of true faith can only be drawn from the source of faith where we all unite, and each person gives the portion of prey they have captured to others, and in this way, we all share it between us.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/14/25, “Obtaining Contact with the Creator”
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Why Does it Seem that After Effort, Instead of Progressing, We Regress?
If we invest effort and feel that we regress, it indicates that we are undergoing the revelation of a new vessel. When does it seem that we are “going backward”? It is when there is a revelation of an empty vessel. This takes place when entering the left line, revealing a new vessel, or experiencing new Achoraim (the posterior side of the next spiritual degree). This is actually progress even though it feels negative; it is increased emptiness that will later be filled with corrections and light.
In such a state, we are in the left line and will later move to the right. The alternation of left and right creates what is called “descents and ascents.” However, these are not truly descents and ascents, but are two phases of correction. Such is the process of advancement—left, right, left, right. In the left, we feel empty and perceive ourselves as regressing. And indeed, we do go backward, away from spirituality. We are brought down to collect lower vessels, which indicates that we are ready to correct even those vessels.
Therefore, if we are experienced in spiritual work, we rejoice when feeling despair, confusion, or disarray. We are glad for these states of confusion and dispersion, as these feelings signal the addition of new vessels.
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Preparation to the Lesson
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah),” Item 20
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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “The Creator Is the Place”
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3rd part of the Lesson — The Book of Zohar, “VaYera,” “And I Appeared—In God Almighty [Shadai], and My Name Is HaVaYaH, I Am Not Known to Them”
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