Question: Every morning, you give three hours of lessons, and throughout the day you record a vast amount of material. Some people think that when you receive energy through a crowd, you enjoy it, feel empowered, and rule over it.

Is it really possible to structure your schedule so that you enjoy yourself every day by supposedly channeling energy through yourself?

Answer: In truth, it is an immense pleasure to see thousands of people in front of me who want to reveal the upper world, spirituality, and the Creator, who want to unite and correct our state. I gain tremendous inspiration from this.

At the same time, when I look at my students on the screens in front of me, I see that some of them doze off, fall asleep, or are in various difficult states, disconnected from the material being taught.

Of course, I understand and love them. I was like that myself. Many times I wanted the same thing during lessons.

I absolutely do not want to say that every day, by giving lessons, I am making a sacrifice. Not at all! I feel immense inspiration and significance in these lessons because I know what they do for the world.

I know that thousands of people live around these lessons, that they are a source of energy for them. Without them, they would feel bad, would be unable to find themselves, would get stuck in depression, and would never think about the Creator. Life would feel heavy for them.

I am proud and grateful for the opportunity I have. And of course, the strength for this comes from above.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Energy of the Crowd” 5/27/10

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It would seem what the connection between love for one’s neighbor and love for the Creator is? But it only seems to us that we understand what it means to “love one’s neighbor as oneself.” In fact, it is not the kind of love we imagine.

In this world, everyone talks about loving people, but on an animal level. And we see that nothing comes of it except hate. If love for creatures follows from the desire to achieve love for the Creator through it, then it will be completely different. It will no longer lead to mistakes, to Nazi regimes, or to dictatorships under the guise of socialism and communism.

After all, love for the Creator obliges us to study the laws of nature and obey them. We will understand that there is someone above us controlling us, and according to His command, we will come to love our creations, and not because we wanted to do so out of a “kind heart.” This is the whole reason for Nazism, Socialism, etc.

To love one’s neighbor as oneself means to stop feeling that I am more important than any other person. For me, everyone becomes equally important as one body. Love for the Creator obliges me to come to such love for my neighbor otherwise, it will be Nazism.

Love for one’s neighbor must be of a spiritual level, otherwise it will result in hatred of people. After all, by loving some people, I will hate others even more.

Loving my neighbor as myself means giving to my neighbor the way I would give to myself if I were the most selfish person. If the main thing for me is to come to love the Creator, then I perceive love for creatures as a means.

Therefore, I understand that the love of creation has spiritual value, the value of the Creator. The Creator hides in the creations, which become His vestments and tools for comprehending the Creator. If I comprehend their desires, thoughts, and aspirations, then through them I can reveal the Creator, not in any other way.

There is no other way to reveal the Creator except through love for the creatures. It is only through people that I reveal Him.

It would be nice to write a book that talks about such love. It is impossible to imagine how much we do not feel and do not understand what love for creation is. It is the exact opposite of what we think. People are tired of listening to conversations about how to love each other. Everyone talks about loving people: all religions, the whole world. Of all of them, Ahmadinejad has succeeded the most in this.

Love is a tool for achieving unity, that is, the property of “One, singular, and only.” Our goal is to achieve the disclosure of the essence of this One within the union of broken fragments that are distant and hate each other. And love is the means to achieve that One thing.

When we come together in one soul, we get a huge desire that is 620 times more than what was originally created. It combines all love and all hate, all selfishness and all holiness, and we give all this to the Creator for His enjoyment.

Spiritual love is a union, but for the sake of union with the Creator, that is, in order to give Him a vessel for His disclosure. If you talk about such love, you would get the most fascinating novel. At least give people a hint of spiritual feelings of unity. How else can you touch their feelings because it is not with the same dry formulas as in mathematics: light / Kli / screen.

Einstein wrote the formula: e= mc², and who is impressed by it? No one still understands his theory of relativity. That is why it is so important to write a book about love, which is supposedly born in this world, but in fact does not relate to it at all.

Love of creation is a law of nature. A Kabbalist feels himself in the integral system of nature, encompassing all reality, all worlds, except for the Creator Himself, and therefore it is natural for him to fulfill this law. He sees the world from one end to the other, and therefore understands that in the end everyone will be obliged to join the integral system of nature.

Nowadays, there is a rapid acceleration of human development. Once again, we are on the verge of a large, multifaceted crisis that may manifest itself piecemeal in different areas of the world, or it may unfold everywhere at once because the world is interconnected.

And then it will become clear to everyone what is happening. A person learns the laws of nature only through blows, then he immediately clutches his head not knowing what to do: suddenly a hurricane hits him, extreme cold or heat, etc. From year to year, we see that nature is increasingly out of balance due to the fact that we develop selfishly, but do not develop connections between us that would correspond to our development.

In the end, everything must unite as it was originally in the system of Adam HaRishon before the split, both in spiritual form and in material form. Everyone should perceive their ten as a mini-universe. There is nothing but the ten: I have ten Sefirot, HaVaYaH, and the Creator, the animating force that sustains existence. And everything else is related to maintaining my animal body.

The main thing is the ten. If I try to realize in it everything that the powers of the Creator require of me, then I must succeed.

Just as the Torah talks about the spiritual world in allegorical language, in the form of a historical story, so a book about spiritual love can be built on an ordinary story about a couple of lovers: a guy and a girl. Such an example will touch every heart because everyone knows this feeling.

Gradually, from material love and hate, the book will lead to the realization that it is not really about that, but about a much higher relationship built on giving. It will tell you how this loving couple grows and rises.

This will be understandable and close to the reader. He will be carried away by this adventure and will  empathize with their mutual desire to raise their love to a level where it will not depend on the body, on selfish calculations.

From simple psychology, they will come to a separation from themselves, and this is already spiritual, where new sensations and new phenomena begin. In this way, a person will be sensorially involved in a spiritual experience.

We are all human beings and we are not strangers to material relationships. And from this material love, which is understandable to everyone, you can gradually climb up. It will be interesting and fascinating for people because this is no longer an abstract idea, but is connected with hormones, with the experiences of this world, and gradually the book will raise the reader to higher levels. This will happen naturally.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/26/19, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Writings of the Last Generation”

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Question: Suppose I see the group as either thriving or in some kind of dire state. Can I assess my progress by the way I perceive the group in one state or another? For example, if they are all striving toward the goal, does that relate to me or not?

Answer: What does “the group in a dire state” mean? There are ascents and descents, disagreements, confusion, objections, and moments when the yearning to move forward suddenly seems to pull backward. But these are essential elements of growth. How else can one advance?

I hear from our groups in different countries about all kinds of conflicts, and I receive seemingly unpleasant news. But I do not feel it as unpleasant; I simply understand that these are growing pains.

Growth cannot happen without difficulties or without mistakes. Every step forward is built on mistakes, on trying, on doing something incorrectly, and on recognizing where you went wrong. That is how you correct and move forward.

Why does it have to be this way? Because from the start, we are not making mistakes,, but are uncovering the evil within us, the flaws we were born with. These are not mistakes that we create ourselves but our egoism revealing this evil, our flaws.

So when a person does something for the first time and fails, these are not mistakes but the uncovering of their inherently flawed nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Signs of Advancement 2” 3/11/10

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Question: Every friend who is in the same boat has been chosen by the Creator. I must share in his troubles and obstacles. What should I do if it seems to me that he is drilling a hole in the boat?

Perhaps, as you said, it is time to leave this little boat and board the large ship called Bnei Baruch?

Answer: I think the most important thing is to simply hold onto each other. Otherwise we will get lost in this raging sea and our little boat will not save us.

Therefore, let’s put aside what we once thought was important and focus on what really matters: with my behavior in the group, I must create a positive force around me that will bind us together.

Let’s try to do this at least until the congress. We can test it and then talk about it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/21/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 64

Why Is it Forbidden to Read the Torah as a Historical Story? Why Is “Do Not Make for Yourself a Graven Image or Any Likeness” the Most Severe Prohibition in the Torah?

If we imagine corporeality instead of spirituality, then we cannot attain spirituality. This causes no harm to the Creator, or to the world, but we remain at the animalistic degree reading the Torah as if it were a novel. That is the reason for this prohibition. It is why there is an obligation to view the Torah as the names of the Creator, as solely this approach leads us to the goal.

Moses wrote the Torah in the form of a story because he had no other language that could convey the meaning he wanted to express. All other forms of writing (Haggadah, Midrash, Halacha, and the language of Kabbalah) make it much harder, almost impossible, to articulate all the nuances and details Moses sought to express. Therefore, he used the language of stories and metaphors.

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Question: If a person leaves during the study of The Book of Zohar, for example, to disseminate, does he miss out by doing so?

Answer: No. If he feels The Zohar is not for him, if he is entirely out of touch with this book, every minute of the lesson feels like immense suffering, and he is not awaiting any result, there is nothing you can do here! It is said “a person learns where his heart leads him.” That is why you cannot learn like that.

I would advise such people, for their sake, to do something else—to work on our materials or to engage in dissemination during this time.

Question: Would people not run away?

Answer: I am not concerned about that. I am not worried about the number of students: who comes or leaves, it does not matter to me. Let it be 15 people instead of 300. I do not chase quantity.

I know humanity will follow a small group anyway. It will have no other choice. But this small group will be a high-quality, valuable group. And there is no quality in quantity, so I never look at quantity.

My mission is to create spiritual leadership for the world. This is work on the quality of the people who will be part of this group, and it is gradually being organized. The women there will be on equal footing with men. However, “on equal footing” is relative; it depends on a woman’s involvement in spiritual work, in her own way.

And then various waves, so to speak, or circles, will form around this group. These 300 people will form such circles out of tens of thousands of people in the world until they come to the point where all of humanity will gradually join them. But the most important is the head and a few auxiliary circles around it.

Therefore I do not mind that not everyone studies The Book of Zohar, and not all are so deeply immersed in it. They are not able to. A few dozen people are enough. There is no need for more!

In fact, the brain that controls the body is like a tiny nut, not a pound of gray matter. The gray matter is the maintenance staff, the center’s workers. The cognitive center is literally the size of an olive, even smaller. And it controls the entire body.

So I am not worried about the quantity. We have free entry and exit, and there are no restrictions. People come from abroad and go back. Who, when, or where does not concern me at all! I do my part. As a result, the light affects the person, and thus he comes to the goal.

Comment: This is like a drug. “Please! Everything is free!” And once a person gets hooked, he can no longer leave.

My Response: That is a different story! You feel the importance here! You feel that without it the rest of your life is an animal existence. You cannot let this happen! After all, you want to be a human being. We have inner needs to accomplish something, to find a way out of our lives, to see a healthy result.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Resistance to The Zohar” 3/20/10

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When I conduct a lesson, on one hand I am just a robot, on the other hand an “angel.” If you ask me if I would want to go out to a lesson every morning, I would answer: “No.”

I would prefer to do something else: I have things to write and talk about, interesting material to process.

I would like to give myself, perhaps, a vacation, to isolate somewhere far away, wander in nature and think about something of my own. But I am absolutely clear that I have no right to do so. That is, importance for me is the same as importance for others.

When you are in one connection, in one system with others, you cannot divide, whether it is better for you or better for them, or worse for you or worse for them. It is a common plate from which you all receive and fill up together.

Of course, strength comes from above, not from me. There is no heroism in a person; it is all arranged by the Creator.

I remember my teacher, who with difficulty, literally on all fours, would go to the lesson. How hard it was for him! Tired, eyes closing. At that time he was already 84 years old. I would prepare him strong coffee, cold water, and try to cheer him up somehow.

We would go down to the lesson with him, I would sit next to him, light a cigarette for him, serve him coffee, turn on the tape recorder, and I would see him come to life, simply come to life. For him, words were like tubes through which life-giving force would come to him. I saw how he would say “Ah!” and come to life, and in five to ten minutes, we would see a completely different person, who was already flying.

Of course, these are not one’s own forces, but the upper light that holds us.

Therefore I cannot attribute anything I do to myself; there is nothing of mine here, no merit of my own. When we will reveal the upper world, we will see that we have absolutely nothing to do with it. It is not you, nor anyone else, but the manifestation of a created desire that feels this way right now.

And then all these sensations: I, the others, he, we, all doubts, internal collisions, and fluctuations merge into one single whole when “There is none else besides Him,” besides the Creator. And it becomes absolutely clear to a person that he has nothing to do with any of it at all, neither good nor bad.

Therefore, to make yourself so transparent that you fulfill the upper will is the most reliable approach during the lesson. These are immense internal sufferings, doubts, mutual attacks of egoism against something else.

Gradually you reveal within yourself an even greater egoism and even greater evasions and justifications. It is natural. But this is precisely the opportunity to delve even deeper, and there, at the very depth, to discover the Creator Himself.

Question: What then is your choice?

Answer: To be like this, and nothing more, that is, absolutely transparent, non-existent. This is what complete merging entails, but it is achieved above egoism, which does not disappear.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Energy of the Crowd” 5/27/10

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We have reached out to the world with enough dissemination. We will continue to do this.

But we do not have that inner strength that we can show to the world so that it would grab it, so that it would subconsciously captivate it, and people would feel that here is a source of special energy, special intelligence, wisdom, methodology—a source of salvation. This is what is missing in us today. The world does not feel it.

Methodology? Yes. Logic? Yes. Philosophy of life? True. And the solution that we offer is in unity. We do not present this unity to the world. We are saying: “Let’s do everything together.” But this is not enough. We need to really show the world that this works, that it exists.

First we must show how to save ourselves by our own example, and thus help others to save themselves.

Question: What can we use to set an example?

Answer: People will feel it. This is about a person’s attitude toward themselves, the world, and about the governance of nature based on the inner harmony we will achieve. These are not physical forces, as we only see the results of their manifestation in the world.

Our relationships do not necessarily have to manifest outwardly; this is the first point. The second is that their outcomes will later be visible in how nature achieves balance, how relationships between countries and people stabilize, how we suddenly witness the benefits of cooperation, how various diseases in the world disappear, and how corruption and cruelty fade away.

All of this will be evident in people and in the connections between them. It will not depend on them directly. It is an inner connection that will be revealed naturally.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Add Connection” 5/20/10

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