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Posted on April 2nd, 2025
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Question: Can a person determine their mission? Not invent it, but clearly reveal it?
Answer: One must feel it on their own. I think that in this matter, one cannot listen to anyone, only to their own heart. Look into the most essential. What do you want to leave behind? How can you contribute to this great process that is unfolding with humanity, even with souls? That is, with humanity, not in our world, but in a more perfect space.
Question: Suppose you have students who come, study, and leave, and there are those who invest in certain processes. How can those who come to study find their function? Or is their function simply to study?
Answer: First of all, by studying Kabbalah, you simultaneously correct yourself and the world and bring other souls closer to the point where they too begin to reveal the upper world and the Creator. Studying Kabbalah is an activity in itself.
However, in principle, when a Kabbalist is involved in other everyday matters and interacts with the world, these activities still exert a positive influence on the world. Even at their workplace, no matter what they do or how they communicate with people, they still subconsciously carries out their line, their positive influence on the world.
Question: So it does not have to be an explicit effort to invest in dissemination, to make a loud impact on the world?
Answer: No, if it is given, it is given; if not, then not. It is simply everyone’s mission. I am not to blame for being the way I am. If you were to ask me, “What would you like to do?” perhaps I would be more involved in development, writing, and creating another methodology. Not just another, but a less practical area.
I understand that what I have been given is the most suitable for me; it is just that I do not fully realize it yet. But I am drawn less to the practical actions I engage in (working with a group of students, television, books, and everything else) and more toward deeper, internal study of the material.
But probably the needs of the world and the times push me toward practical actions. Even Rabash told me this.
So there is nothing to be done. Everyone has their own mission, and it must be fulfilled. I do not see anything grand in my mission. I do not think it is visible in me that I take pride in it or value myself for what I do. There is no such thing in Kabbalah, such things are removed immediately.
The fact is that the entire space is filled only by the Creator; while you dissolve into Him, your “I” is not yours. A Kabbalist can only say that they are fulfilling the Creator’s will, and that is all. He does not have his own desire, they do not have themselves because their desire already aligns with the Creator’s desire.
Question: You said that you are drawn to deeper, internal study of the material. What do you mean?
Answer: Personally, I would study Kabbalistic material much more deeply. I do not know if I could describe it the way Baal HaSulam did in The Study of the Ten Sefirot or in his articles. Quite possibly, I could not. But I am drawn to deeper analysis, to revealing connections, not revealing them to the world, but first and foremost to myself. It is difficult for me to express this.
For example, to present the methodology the way Rabbi Shimon did in The Book of Zohar, but to describe it in a way that is closer to us, to people—more emotionally, more psychologically.
Unfortunately, due to lack of time, I cannot engage in this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Mission of a Person” 7/14/10
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Happiness is the fulfillment of a person’s deepest desires. As a rule, it arises in contrast to a sense of dissatisfaction.
For example: hunger brings pleasure from food, separation leads to joy of reunion with a loved one, and so on. In other words, we are built in such a way that we can only experience the positive through the negative.
This raises the question: “Should we even strive for happiness if we must first go through suffering to later feel happy?”
The fact is that the Kabbalistic method allows a person to experience happiness simultaneously with the feeling of lack. That is, at the moment I taste something, I feel both longing for that taste and its fulfillment.
I do not have to separate this in time, first suffering and then receiving. This is why for people engaged in spiritual practice, there is no question of time. They exist beyond it, simultaneously experiencing states of suffering and fulfillment, hunger and satiation.
This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah is: the wisdom of receiving! It teaches a person to receive what is desired, not in a month or a year, but at the very moment of desire. At the same time, two seemingly opposite states, minus and plus, coexist in harmony.
In our world, this does not exist. Here, there is one big minus, and we almost never receive the plus. But according to the Kabbalistic method, the very act of receiving pleasure awakens in us both the desire for it and its fulfillment.
Question: But how can we achieve this? How can we truly become happy in this world?
Answer: This is possible only when I am fulfilled, not independently, but through others. This is the patent for happiness, because I can never truly fulfill myself. However, if I feel and absorb the desires of others, then by fulfilling them, I fulfill myself, since their desires become mine. It turns out that I fulfill myself by existing in others.
The secret is that I step outside of myself, discover desires beyond me, accept them as my own, and fulfill them. That is, both the desire and its fulfillment exist outside of me, but this is precisely what constitutes my soul.
Question: Does this mean we also fulfill a person’s corporeal desires?
Answer: We satisfy all of a person’s desires but only to a certain extent. Corporeal desires are fulfilled only to the degree necessary for existence and no more. But spiritual desires are fulfilled to the extent that we strive to rise together, since my ascent and his ascent are interconnected and complement each other.
Thus, fulfilling the desires of others gives us a sense of happiness.
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From KabTV’s “Short Stories” 10/22/14, Part 2
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Question: People can simply go crazy when playing a game because they become so engrossed in the game that they can go for days without tearing themselves away from it. This is especially true for the current generation that practically lives on the Internet.
How can we create the same level of engagement in spiritual development? Not by forcing oneself, but by presenting it as a delicious candy that draws you inward.
Answer: Enter spiritual development and you will see that it is the most captivating game. It is the game of life, a game with the Creator! You can create it!
Any game is a weak imitation of what Kabbalah offers you: the ability to create, to change, and to shape things yourself. That is why we get so absorbed in games. It is because they contain an act of creation, even destruction, it does not matter. But it is creation; you are making something new. You are, in a way, the master, you have power in your hands, choice, tension, joy, resolution, a kind of ecstasy.
All of these are small fragments of the process that Kabbalah grants you when you gain the ability to change worlds within yourself. It is a game that no computer can ever compare to!
I sit in front of the text of The Book of Zohar from which you have just distracted me, and I am waiting for only one thing—for you to get tired of talking to me so I can return to it. And so it is for 20 hours a day.
I take short breaks to walk, eat, do something when necessary just to sustain myself. But all the rest of the time, I am ready to be in it. It is such a fascinating process, an enchanting and unexpected path that nothing else can replace!
In my youth, I lived in Leningrad and was like any other student: girls, Preference (a card game), parties, songs, and trips. I voluntarily worked as a sound engineer for a rock band called Nomads. Once we even won first place in our city.
But spiritual attainment cannot be compared to anything! In a computer game, you are given more possibilities than in regular, real life. You have to go somewhere, crawl, do something. In the end, it is all difficult and quite time-consuming before you achieve something.
This is not for our egoism, which wants everything right now, immediately, as soon as possible, much brighter, and in a controlled manner. That is why it has all shifted into the virtual computer world.
But here, in the spiritual world, everything is billions of times brighter. And it is not a game, not an illusion—turn off the computer, and it is gone. The virtual world was created by someone either to make money from it or because they themselves enjoy playing.
But in spirituality, you are not playing. You are building, creating! You were made for that! This is the most natural fulfillment, the most vivid experience you can have! It cannot be compared to anything at all. Our world, with all its lures? I is just…
That is why, after all the obsessions with computers, the next level is only Kabbalah, only the introduction of a person into the real spiritual world. Otherwise, they will drown in an unreal, virtual world, and they will need nothing but a narcotic pill to immerse themselves inside their computer, and that is it. And that is exactly how it will be—through the realization of evil, through recognition of the deceit of those pursuits.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. A Game at the Cost of Life” 7/29/10
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Question: We constantly try to connect. Everyone is exhausted and does not know how to. And you say: “It is simple, guys! What is the problem? Just connect, and that is it.”
Answer: The issue is that a person cannot isolate that inner point within oneself, one’s spiritual “I,” the point in the heart, which is a part of the Creator from above and exists within one. Otherwise, they would not be here.
Our circle consists of chosen individuals from all over the world who feel drawn to attaining the Creator and the essence of life.
I am trying to elevate them so they can extract this point, separate it from their corporeal shell and everything else, and connect it with the points of their friends. Only then will they be able to form a spiritual vessel.
As they attempt to connect their points, they will realize they cannot do it on their own and will be compelled to call upon the upper force to connect them. Then they will feel the upper force, the Creator within themselves, in the measure of their connection with one another and with Him. This state is already spiritual.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Properties of a Friend” 7/18/10
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