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Posted on March 25th, 2025
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Question: You said that we get up, join the lesson, leave the lesson, and go home, and that all these things should be literally like chapters of the book that we are going through. What kind of book is this? How should we write it?
Answer: We must indeed write the book of our actions inside ourselves.
This is a book of a person’s intentions: how he draws closer to the Creator and achieves unity with Him.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/18/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Inheritance of the Land”
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Comment: You say that you are an ordinary person. But at the same time, you are prominent. Many people know you and many admire you.
My Response: But I hope they do not attribute this to me because I do not feel like that at all. In Kabbalah, the main actor is the Creator, not the one who represents Him. In some way, I am like His representative, but nothing more than that, let’s say a clerk, a representative of the office of the Creator.
So look at me, and I don’t think people will look at me closely for long. After all, through me (I would, of course, like it to be this way) they will be observing the one who stands behind me. I tell them about someone, not about myself; I show someone, not myself. I constantly direct them toward Him, and I step aside so that they can see Him, so to speak.
I am not an actor who exhibits himself: “Look how I am dressed! Look how I performed!” On the contrary! Maybe that is why I lack the sense of personal importance; I am always looking at the Creator and inviting you to do the same. We are always talking about Him!
Comment: But many people look at you with misty eyes, almost as if looking at God.
My Response: This is a temporary phenomenon. Every person has such a period when he is very “small” and looks at someone higher with deification. And then it passes.
At least with my behavior, my communication, and my external appearances, I try to erase the feeling of personal importance or exclusivity, and show that spirituality can be achieved by each and every one.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Important person” 6/28/10
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Comment: When a person is in a group, he relaxes and it seems to him that he has already achieved everything. But when he goes outside the group, for some reason he gets a lot more trepidation.
My Response: Naturally, because he is no longer in a safe place where the group supports him. He understands that he is internally arranged in the same way as others. This feeling of herd mentality is required by a person at any level.
Question: Which condition is more important for a person?
Answer: To feel that you are in a group and at the same time outside of it and you need to constantly enter it. That’s the best part.
Comment: But you said that it’s better when a person feels worse than others. Everyone is organized, everyone is working great, but he does not measure up to them.
My Response: Everyone should have a subjective feeling that I’m worse than the others, all the others are in spiritual greatness, the whole group is a system of infinity and perfection, and I’m in it like some kind of underdeveloped organ that happened to be in it, and I have to quickly correct myself, and connect with everyone else.
I need to curry favor with my friends so that they don’t throw me out; I must please them in every possible way so that they accept me as one of their own. Moreover, I do it consciously. I’m really trying, I want and need to feel that way.
Comment: But it is impossible for a person to exist like this for a long time.
My Response: Why? Constantly. At the same time, he feels his perfection, perfection not at the expense of himself, but due to the fact that he belongs to the group, due to its greatness.
Question: When does a person begin to feel that they are in safe hands?
Answer: Only by annulling himself and dissolving into his friends does he feel that he is in safe hands and feels great on the account of the group, because he was able to annul himself before it. That is, we constantly have two opposite feelings in our spiritual state, when one determines the other.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call, The Greatness of the Group” 6/19/10
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Comment: It seems to me that you have a different attitude toward those you studied with and your students.
My Response: A student is a student. And with those with whom I studied with Rabash, we were more equal, even though there was no friendship between us. Unlike the others, I was always exclusively next to Rabash.
Of course, I treated them somehow differently, but I neither exalted nor belittled them. They knew something, but unfortunately, they did not implement it. That’s why I distanced myself from them without getting closer.
I am much closer to my students than to those who once studied with Rabash. I treat my students much better, with love.
Question: But couldn’t this be detrimental to the students? Or are you simply distancing yourself from them?
Answer: I am not distancing myself from anything. My work is my life, my world, I live within myself. I believe I should behave this way. Why should I act differently?
If you saw Rabash, he never embraced anyone. It was very rare to see him even shaking hands with his students or close ones. If a stranger approached him, of course, he would greet them with the usual human courtesy. But with the closed ones, he was absolutely ordinary. Moreover, with his students he was quite strict, even somewhat dry.
I subconsciously copy him in many ways, it happens involuntarily.
Question: And whom did he copy?
Answer: I don’t know if he copied anyone. In principle, the internal and spiritual qualities that form within you shape the way you relate to others in a certain way. You must behave this way and not otherwise because your inner traits hold you within these boundaries.
I don’t think I behave arrogantly. I just have my inner life, and I live in it. Externally, I act as I deem necessary for my spiritual existence. Basically, everything I do sets the goal, from pleasant to maybe outwardly unpleasant actions.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call, Teacher and Student” 6/25/10
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Question: What is the root of the dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah?
Answer: The connection of souls! After they were shattered and torn apart by mutual egoism, they must reunite. This is the Lego we need to assemble in order to attain the Creator who created this single soul.
Question: Why do other religious denominations also seek to disseminate their knowledge?
Answer: Every movement wants to expand, to be strong, influential, and powerful, and to absorb all the others. This is the natural egoistic desire of any teaching.
Question: How does Kabbalistic teaching differ from the egoistic expansion you just described?
Answer: The difference is that we do not specifically recruit anyone. We don’t need to! We only want a person to discover their purpose, how they can make their life good, even eternal and perfect. That’s all.
And how should they identify themselves? Not at all! They do not need to be called Jewish, Christian, Muslim, or a follower of anything. They will simply be kind and loving toward everyone.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Soul Connection” 4/19/10
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