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Posted on April 10th, 2025
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The great Kabbalists of the past prepared a spiritual system for us, just as we have prepared this world for the next generation that can make use of it. Imagine thousands of details surrounding a newborn and then accompanying them year after year throughout their development.
How much we have done so that a person can grow and enter this life correctly! At every stage we try to create something that will develop them, support them, and push them forward. Humanity has conducted a tremendous preparation for their birth. It is the same in the spiritual realm. We cannot even imagine what the Kabbalists have prepared for us.
Today you take their materials and start explaining to others what has already been clearly and explicitly written, and they do not even understand what you are talking about even though it is all explained so simply and logically. You see the ends in this world, the beginning in the upper world, and try to explain this to them.
They do not even perceive what concerns our world: free will, the system of governance, human behavior, the development of humanity under the influence of egoism, the reasons for crises, or our interconnectedness. Only a few people in the world speak about this at all, and even then they do not feel or perceive it. So how can we do without the sources? If only we could learn from our own mistakes.
Comment: Still, when you explain many things, I think that for future generations your texts will become just like the articles of Rabash are for us.
My Response: Maybe so. I am, in some sense, an intermediate link between this or the next generation and Rabash.
Of course, I see myself as someone who can be a connecting link, an adapter, between the Kabbalistic texts and people, because I explain what Baal HaSulam and Rabash wrote. My task is to create a point of contact between a person and the sources.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Importance of the Sources” 7/15/10
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Our goal is to achieve infinity, that is, an endless, unlimited adhesion with each other and with the upper force that connects and fills us.
I don’t see anything in this idea that a person couldn’t imagine. You could even animate this topic with little dots trying to come together, to connect, but they can’t because at micro-distances, there are forces of mutual repulsion.
On the surface, it looks like they are connecting, everything seems fine, but they can’t get any closer. When they try to come into real, close contact, special forces arise (well known to physicists), and at that point, the Creator is needed.
That is when they begin to feel that they need a special upper force that can help them overcome the barrier between them. Only then do they genuinely feel the need for this force, the Creator, feel its presence in nature, and call upon it.
It becomes clear to them that it has to be this way, and a request to the Creator arises. Then this force is revealed within them and connects them from within.
Such an animation could illustrate this process very clearly.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Properties of a Friend” 7/18/10
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Question: I have noticed that when I study material at the lesson, even if it is very logical and clear, it gets muddled in my mind. I cannot hear the whole sequence of sentences the same way as when I read or listen on my own.
For example, when I listen to the same lesson during the day, I have a sensation that everything is clear and makes sense. Why do I get this chaos during the lesson and what should I do with it?
Answer: During the lesson there are many inner processes going on, all kinds of searches, even interferences, because you are included in the lesson together with other people. Your inner network becomes too overloaded. It is quite possible.
Of course when you are sitting separately, and if it is in the afternoon rather than in the morning, after you have become stabilized somehow, then you can better absorb the lesson. In general there are different times. It depends on the person.
Question: Usually when people study together they either read or listen. But how is it possible to read and hear at the same time? Is it possible only when you are explaining?
Answer: I do not know. This is a matter of a habit. When I came to Rabash I too used to be very surprised: people were sitting together, reading aloud like school kids, everyone followed the text in his book, and some of them were moving their lips.
It is a commonly acceptable method where they take any source, read it together, and then begin to use their minds. This is the way people studied Torah at all times since it has been written.
However, we study in a slightly different way: we study in a semi-university, lecture-like approach where we read and I explain. In addition, these explanations could be long, with questions and answers, and with discussions.
In the past people studied Torah predominantly in pairs. It did not involve so many people as we have now, where 300 people sit in front of me.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Interference in Studies” 7/13/10
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How, in the End, Do We Emerge from a State of Descent?
We emerge from a state of descent by lingering in it, recognizing our state in depth, and accepting it as one of the states that will bring us the letters of the work.
What are letters? They are the very vessels through which we later perceive the end of correction (Gmar Tikkun), which is a state we are already in, but we lack the vessels to feel it. The missing vessels, through which we sense the world of Ein Sof (infinity) and the end of correction, include two extremes, one of which is called “descent.”
A descent does not mean a complete loss of connection with reality. Rather, it is an awareness of the state and acceptance of the fact that at the moment there is weakness and lack of discernments. If we enter this state with understanding, we extract the maximum possible discernments from it. We treat ourselves as one who has been in darkness for a long time and are trying to see through it, to orient ourselves, to distinguish shadows and shades.
Nevertheless, we cannot work in a descent as we do in a state of ascent. This does not refer to the lowest states where we simply have to wait and where we must determine for ourselves: “Now, I will lie down.” “Lying down” refers to the inner state called the “root” or “still” state. Even in this state there are several discernments. In other words, every given state, up to a state of complete death, contains several discernments, which are referred to as “death.”
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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 14, “What Is the Need to Borrow Vessels from the Egyptians?”
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