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Posted on February 13th, 2025

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Contact With Rabash

Posted on February 13th, 2025

My teacher, Rabash, passed away in my arms. I did everything I could to keep him alive, but what is beyond our power is simply beyond our power.

We must help a person because we never truly know the final verdict concerning them. That is why we are obligated to make every effort to ease their life. But the moment they are gone, that is it.

After his passing, I shut myself away for several months, dedicating myself completely to the study of Kabbalah, cutting myself off from everyone except him. Though, to be honest, I was always only with him anyway.

I didn’t feel, and still don’t feel, a significant difference whether he is physically near me or not.
When I was a young student, it was very important for me to be physically close to him, to listen, to see, to ask questions, to feel my connection to him. It gave me a sense of security, a way forward, confidence in myself “at his expense,” so to speak.

But over time, I became more or less independent, relatively speaking, of course. Still, I have no illusions about the fact that even today, we are in contact. I feel it absolutely clearly, just as one can feel a close person nearby, perhaps in the next room or standing behind you.

The thing is, there’s an image you form inside yourself from his physical presence, impressions, and expressions toward you. And then, there is his spiritual presence in relation to you when you create his spiritual image. In this way, you remain connected.

Question: But when people say, “I’m still in contact with my teacher,” it immediately brings to mind an image of a ghost hovering around, whispering, “Tell him this… Let him do that…”

Answer: That’s all just human nonsense.

Your next level, where you connect with him, exists within you just like everything else.
You cannot connect with him unless you yourself rise to the level of souls, unless you reveal the collective soul from within your own point in the heart. In it, you feel all other souls, absolutely everything!

To what extent depends on your level, but you do begin to feel it, like a small child feeling the world around them. There is still some contact.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Death of Rabash…” 4/10/10

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Changes Are Needed

Posted on February 13th, 2025

Comment: It happens that we build the system in such a way that we interfere with each other.

My Response: It doesn’t matter. As long as we are egoists, we always interfere with each other. So we learn from this.

Comment: At the same time, you say that when everything works stably, it’s death.

My Response: It won’t be stable for us. Something will always arise. And if not, then I will try. How else can we do it? We need to feel that changes are needed.

Let’s say we’ve taken on the Internet now. It’s an entire system that we are building. Through this, we are laying the foundation for the society of the future.

Moreover, we want to create an interactive system online where everyone actively participates. You enter it as if stepping into an enchanted world with a joystick or some other device as if engaging in a game, in a shared space where millions of people can be present simultaneously.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Changes Are Needed” 4/17/10

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The Most Direct Path

Posted on February 13th, 2025

Question: I want to ask about thought and speech. How can a person keep themselves in check? Is it by restraining their impulses or by fully expressing even their negative traits? Let’s say someone wants to say something nasty to another person, either they say it or they do not?

Answer: The rule is very simple: strive toward the goal, and everything that arises along the way will unfold. Bad or good does not matter; the main thing is to keep moving toward the goal.

For example, you are driving along a road. There are potholes, uneven pavement, and some hills, but you must keep going toward your destination, always choosing the straightest, most direct path. And whatever you encounter along the way is given to you by the Creator to shape you in some way.

That is why on the spiritual path you must be grateful equally for both the bad and the good. Equally! This is the test for a person. Let’s say today you “got hit on the head,” but yesterday everything was wonderful. Yet, in your heart, you feel the same. Absolutely the same! That means you are already moving straight ahead.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Correcting evil into good” 6/17/10

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Humble Egoism

Posted on February 13th, 2025

Question: How should one behave toward the group? How can one integrate into it as much as possible and receive the light?

Answer: To integrate into the group as much as possible means to influence it as much as possible so that the greatness of the goal, the greatness of the Creator, and the greatness of unity become revealed within it.

Moreover, one must humble oneself before the group so what you have put into it, you can get back, multiplied by the group’s power. You cannot get from it what is in it. You can only receive as much as you desire to receive and as much as you have shown yourself in this desire.

Question: What does it mean to humble oneself? Does it mean becoming like a “rag”?

Answer: On the contrary! I do not humble myself, but my ego. I feel that I am pressing my ego down. There is something within me that I reject, pull away from myself, and at the same time I am in unity with my friends.

I do not feel inferior to them. If my egoistic mind and egoistic desires are lower than theirs, then I, my inner, spiritual “I,” merge with them at that moment because I am in a way removing the partition between us, lower it down. And between my point in the heart and their vast common vessel, there are no longer any obstacles—the barrier is removed.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. To belittle egoism” 6/3/10

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 76

Posted on February 13th, 2025

Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 76

What Does the Upper One Do After the Lower One Raises MAN?

“By this, the upper raises his AHP. ‘Raising’ means that the upper one can show the lower one the merit and the pleasure that exists in the Kelim of AHP that the upper one can reveal. Thus, from the perspective of the lower one, it follows that he raises the Galgalta Eynaim of the lower one, and by this itself, the lower one sees the merit of the upper one. It follows that the lower one ascends together with the AHP of the upper one.”

All levels consist of ten Sefirot. The Sefirot Keter, Hochma, and Bina are called “Galgalta ve Eynaim” (GE), and the Sefirot Zeir Anpin and Malchut are called “Awzen, Hotem, Peh” (AHP). This structure applies to every upper and lower one. The upper one lowers its AHP (its Zeir Anpin and Malchut) into the lower one and seemingly empties them, as though there is nothing within it.

If the upper one’s AHP is empty and devoid of light, the lower one feels emptiness. Why does the upper one empty its AHP? So that the lower one can correct its GE, as the AHP of the upper one resides within the GE of the lower one—its “vessels of bestowal.”

What are “vessels of bestowal”? These are vessels that want nothing for themselves. If we want nothing, we feel no emptiness. Therefore, the emptiness brought about by the upper one is meant to help the lower one acquire the correct measure, and understand the level and extent to which it needs to correct its GE.

Initially, there is a flaw in the GE of the lower one. The lower one must bring these vessels to a state of “delighting in mercy” (Hafetz Hesed), desiring nothing for itself, vessels of bestowal. When these vessels reach the state of delighting in mercy, the lower one will no longer hold a negative and empty perception of the upper one. This is how the upper one shows the lower one its emptiness and provides a measure for the extent in which the lower one needs to correct itself.

In our current state, we feel a harsh sense of emptiness, as though we have nothing. This is the influence of the upper one’s AHP. We should not dismiss this feeling or deny our state. Instead, we should add effort.

Therefore, it is written, “Everything that is in your power to do, do.” This happens so that we add vessels, screens, and forces that enable us to sense that even in our current state, where it seems that the upper one has nothing, we suddenly begin to feel that the upper one contains everything. The upper one is perfection; it lacks nothing. This realization is not because we become indifferent due to a lack of vitality, but because the upper one is inherently good, contains everything, and nothing is lacking.

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