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The Program by which We Develop

294.2Question: Do you think the audio and video lessons, lectures, and programs you’ve recorded in the past are suitable for future learning?

Answer: I think no one will come to replace me so quickly or will begin present material in an even simpler form. At least I don’t see the next person to lead. But that doesn’t matter. It doesn’t bother me.

First of all, what can I say or do? Everything is prepared from above, on the one hand. And on the other hand, it’s simply not necessary. People will have the media recorded in good quality, and they will study it, adapt it to themselves, and apply it.

That’s enough, because everything has already been explained. As long as I have the strength, the time, and the years, I may be able to simplify the material even further. At the very least, people can easily use the content from the last ten years, they can work with it and benefit from it.

And in the end, neither I nor they are the masters of our states, the Creator is. Whatever He decides, that’s how it will be. There is a program by which we are developing.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. 20000 Lessons” 8/3/10

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The Field of Love

938.02Question: I remember when I came to a congress for the first time, I had a great desire to cross the Machsom. I was overcome by a feeling of certain unification, like you just cling to others and want to feel something.

I do not know if this is psychosomatic or actually an unconscious, temporary feeling of a single whole. Is this the feeling you are talking about, or just an autosuggestion?

Answer: It is also a psychological feeling created by you along with the others but on a very small, low, animate level. This is something that can be done in any company.

The Creator does not participate in it, and therefore, it is not spiritual. A single, unique field of love has not yet been felt in it.

Love is not what we imagine in our world. Love is a quality of absolute bestowal; it is when your and other people’s desires absolutely merge into a single whole and you have only one intention left—to fill them from yourself, to give to them. That is what love is.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Field of Love” 7/4/10

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Everyone Has Their Own Reality

423.02Question: How can one explain the fact that each person sees their own reality, and at the same time, as Kabbalah says, it does not actually exist, there is only me with my perception?

Answer: Yes, there is only you and nothing else—no history, no geography, nothing at all. You exist as a certain point of desire. Besides desire there is nothing, and within this desire some perceptions or fulfillments are felt.

These fulfillments appear in exactly the form in which you currently perceive yourself. In other words, the feeling of “self” manifests within the desire in the form of your image, and the perception of the surrounding world also appears as images within the desire. That is, you feel the fulfillment in desire in this particular form.

Question: When you describe something, you speak in general terms, “a person,” without addressing anyone specifically. So do all the others actually exist?

Answer: A person, naturally, does not exist. Then how do we see others and our universe? None of it exists. The worlds? They do not exist either.

Only one state exists, which we conventionally call the “World of Infinity,” that is, creation filled with the Creator.

Question: But why do I perceive the world from such an angle, as complex, made up of other elements, people, and animals?

Answer: Because within you there is such a desire that is imperfect, shattered, unassembled, non-integral. You perceive the inner sensation of this desire as “me and something around me,” or “a lot of things around me.”

Comment: But when I say something to other people, they agree, are delighted by a thought, they seem to really exist independently.

My Response: Yes, these are your own desires, which appear to you in the form of separate people, who seemingly objectively exist independently of you and in contrast to you.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Reality of Perception” 7/20/10

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Connect to the Primary Sources

209Question: Before explaining a certain topic, you always ask to read the relevant article first. Why do you do that instead of just starting to talk about things in general?

Answer: I could speak for myself as well. But I want to teach people to be connected to the primary sources because the main thing for us is to be connected to those great Kabbalists, participants in the common system of souls, who perceive the unified field, the Creator, and exist within it.

That is why we study a book written by a Kabbalist who once lived in our world. In truth, this is a soul that felt the field of the Creator and described it: what happens in its relation to us, how it created us, developed us, and brought us to the state we exist now.

Question: But your own texts are also very deep. Don’t you transmit from your level just like other Kabbalists?

Answer: Yes, but I still do not claim the role of Baal HaSulam, my teacher Rabash, Rabbi Shimon, or the ARI. These are great Kabbalists—powerful parts of the collective soul—who are in deep, vast connection with this field, with the Creator.

They described their sensations and perceptions in a special way. And if I adhere to them through what they wrote, then I connect to their sensations as a small part of them, and in this way I can move forward. But if I do not interact with their source, how can I move forward?

After all, in our world, we also learn from others. If I try to learn by myself, it would take me twenty to thirty thousand years to become a human being. Imagine a child abandoned in the forest, what does he grow into? Nothing more than an animal. He can never become a man.

So do you want me to leave myself and my students alone in the forest? We must make use of everything the great previous generations have done for us, and they have prepared everything!
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Importance of the Sources” 7/15/10

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 107


Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 107

How Do We Know if We Acted Correctly?

If we do something incorrectly, we simply get stuck. However, if we study, are in the right environment and are generally on the right path, then although we undoubtedly make mistakes in every detail, we do not veer off the course of the work. Why? This is because we are in the right environment, we have access to the correct books and proper guidance, and all that remains for us is to recognize our mistakes in every detail and endure the disappointment. This is how we remember the Creator and realize why we do not progress. We recall that it is not us who act, but the Creator who does everything.

Then, the obstacles and disappointments bring us back to the Creator; they give us a deficiency that compels us to connect with Him. Where can we obtain this deficiency if, from the outset, Pharaoh exists within us? Initially, we think that we will build everything by ourselves and that is enough. For example, we are given a desire to advance in spirituality, but this desire still lacks direction. It is up to us to shape it so that it is directed at bestowal upon the Creator or receiving from Him. What matters most is the connection with the Creator.

We can achieve such a connection only through failures. By entering the work with our own strength, we eventually reach the awareness that “it is not my strength and might that has achieved this.” Then, from disappointment and helplessness, from realizing that we are incapable, we begin to see that there is no point in the work if it includes only us, the individual. We start to understand that our action is merely a beastly effort like that of all humanity, unless the revelation of the Creator is present within it.

This realization returns us to alignment with the Creator. We must turn to the Creator and ask Him to perform the action for us because we have seen that we ourselves cannot do it. This means that if we did not experience disappointment and despair in every single detail of our work, we would not turn to the Creator. Why do we turn to Him? Out of necessity, for the work to be completed.

But all these acts of “not for our own sake” ultimately lead us to the realization that what truly matters to us is the connection with the Creator, not the actions themselves, not the bricks, nor anything else. Everything else is simply a means since we are built this way to eventually return us to the right intention, to the understanding that we do not need any of those things. All we need is to be connected to the Creator in order to bestow upon Him.

This is a sequence of thoughts, causes and effects, and external demands that gradually become internal. It is a chain that develops within us and takes us from a state where we want to place brick upon brick, but are unable to. Then we become frustrated with ourselves and recognize that our true concern is the Creator. We first become angry at the Creator for not letting us place brick upon brick, but later we begin to realize that placing bricks is not the goal. Instead, we must be connected to the Creator. The emphasis, the center of gravity, gradually shifts from ourselves to the Creator.

As this process unfolds, the importance of the connection with the Creator grows, and the connection is no longer about the brick but about Him alone. Then, we are not connected to the Creator for our own sake but in order to bestow upon Him. There are many details to examine in this, but by engaging with each and every detail in the corporeal world, we ultimately scan through all aspects from one end to the other.

Thus, it is written: “A righteous person falls seven times and rises.” Every step forward involves a moment of failure, regret, the recognition of evil, and correction. This is how we were made. We need to go through every single detail.

We do not determine these states. We do not know when a new desire will arise, how it will become scrutinized, or what needs to be done for that to happen. When we fully immerse ourselves in a desire, we cannot act as a philosopher looking at the big picture and “wandering” between different states of consciousness. What matters is the overall movement that we maintain, as it is written, “Whatever your hand finds to do with your strength, that do.”

The general effort we invest is what brings about this unfolding sequence of events, the transition from state to state, until we reach the completion of our scrutiny and correction, and attain the intention to bestow. That is the goal. Everything we have experienced up to this moment has been nothing more than a means to reach the point of unity with the Creator.

When we complete this recognition, we are once again given the opportunity to place “brick upon brick.” Once again, we begin placing bricks without the Creator’s presence. We rush forward and act with our own strength, thinking we are doing something great, that we are engaged in construction.

This can happen in any action in this world, from the most beastly to the most spiritual, even in spreading the wisdom of Kabbalah or giving an important lecture, where we think that we are about to make a great effort. We become immersed in the action itself and forget the required outcome of the action: the strengthening of our connection with the Shechina.

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 4/17/25

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Article 933, “Concerning the Exodus from Egypt”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 934, “The Duty to Tell the Story of the Exodus from Egypt”

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3rd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Pesach (Passover)”

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Selected Highlights

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