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Posted on July 18th, 2025
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Question: Why can our work contradict the teacher and the Creator? How can we act in harmony with the Creator and not be in opposition?
Answer: Once we are corrected and begin performing proper actions, we will then see how it is possible to be in harmony with the Creator and not contradict Him.
Until then we will always feel that we want to draw closer to the Creator, to be like Him, yet we experience various contradictions. These contradictions actually point us in the direction of proper closeness with the Creator.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/3/2025, “Devotion”
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Question: There is a sense that sacrifice is a high state one must merit to attain contact with the Creator. But since we do not yet have that contact, how should we act? With reason, or perhaps by “playing” at that state?
Answer: You should direct yourself toward what is called sacrifice, or devotion of the soul (Mesirut Nefesh). By striving for contact with the Creator, you increasingly reveal your inner Kli, and want the Creator to fill it. You will yearn for Him and draw closer to Him precisely by opening yourself to sacrifice.
We are in a borderline state, and I hope this will become clear very soon.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/29/2025, “Winning the War”
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Question: When a person does not want any addition to spiritual work, is that an essential condition for correct prayer or the result of it?
Answer: I think such a feeling arises as a result of the correct attitude toward the Creator, toward His work, and toward the purpose of creation.
Question: It is written that a person “wants to go with eyes shut and believe in the Creator. And he does what is within his power.” What is within our power?
Answer: What is within our power is to do everything He requires of us. Everything the Creator asks of us, we can and must fulfill.
Question: What is the burden of the kingdom of heaven? How can there be a burden if it is holy, if it is connected with the Creator?
Answer: A person feels that he is under the pressure of the kingdom of heaven (Malchut Shamayim), and it weighs on him.
Question: Is this the beginning of a person’s work?
Answer: Probably, it does not really matter. Let us keep moving forward. We will figure it out later.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 7/8/2025, “To Be as an Ox to the Burden and as a Donkey to the Load”
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Question: Is self-sacrifice similar to bestowal for the sake of bestowal?
Answer: No, the point is that self-sacrifice and bestowal both come to a person from above, and in those states they feel a connection with the Creator. This reflects a very serious attitude toward the Creator, toward oneself, and toward the bond between us.
Each time we touch a bit of this state and we will continue to do so. In every excerpt we read, there is something of this state within it.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/29/2025, “Winning the War”
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The Gate of tears is a special gate leading to the Creator. There are many gates to the Creator, but only one of them opens, the gate of tears.
The Zohar explains this very simply: There is only one entrance to the Creator, there is no need for confusion.
A person comes into contact with the upper force when he truly cries from lack of strength, from the impossibility of continuing to live like this, from the fact that he really gave it all he has got. When one bursts into tears, the Creator reveals Himself to the person.
One day I tried to cry before RABASH from the bottom of my heart. He laughed in my face. I was ready to tear him apart back then. But there is nothing you can do. That was at a relatively early stage of learning.
All the gates are really locked, except for the gate of tears. Upon revealing the full extent of one’s ego, one’s whole desire, giving and relating everything to the Creator, a person reaches the final state: “This is it! There is nothing more I can do!”
But if he does not get an answer, it means these are empty tears, like a child who cries for any reason. Then he has to keep working and, someday, everything will be revealed to him.
The right desire is not expressed in crying one’s eyes out. It is a state where, on one hand a person is in complete powerlessness, and on the other, has a great desire to give to the Creator what he has prepared for Him, but the Creator does not want to accept it.
In such a state, a person suddenly begins to reveal a material egoistic desire, which, it turns out, is deeply hidden inside his “pure” spiritual aspirations. And he begins to dig it out of himself, to purge himself of it.
Then he turns to the Creator again with a request, and suddenly sees the egoistic desire stuck in him again, although earlier it seemed to him that he was already absolutely pure and cleansed.
Now the main thing is to never give up and to realize that your attitude toward the Creator is the same as His attitude toward you. This is a full reflection. The Creator is the upper light, completely at rest, only the creation is changing.
Therefore, if it seems to you there are changes in the Creator, these changes are in you, you see yourself as if in a crooked mirror. After all, before you correct yourself, you see the Creator in relation to yourself in the opposite reflection, in the negative relative to the positive.
It is written: “The Creator is close to you in the measure you are close to the Creator.” The Baal Shem Tov explained this with the words “The Creator is your shadow.” That is, if you can observe your shadow, your reflection against the background of white light, then this is the Creator.
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From Moscow Congress 5/2/2016, Lesson 3
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Question: Can a person, as a result of studying Kabbalah, harm another? For example, kill someone intentionally due to an increase in desire?
Answer: Absolutely not. Even ordinary psychics or clairvoyants cannot do that, let alone a Kabbalist.
The thing is, a Kabbalist is connected to the Creator and to some extent becomes similar to Him. That means he is incapable of causing harm to others.
It is possible that others may feel he is harsh or rough with them. But harm, in the sense that people usually understand it, a Kabbalist cannot inflict. It contradicts the very nature he is attaining and absorbing within himself.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Harm to Others” 8/31/10
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Question: What special thing did Baal HaSulam do besides adapting Kabbalah for our generation?
Answer: Baal HaSulam was a great Kabbalist of the first half of the 20th century. He summarized all of Lurianic Kabbalah (the Kabbalah of the ARI), organized it into a system, and presented it in The Study of the Ten Sefirot. In addition, he wrote many articles, several Introductions to The Book of Zohar, and turned Kabbalah into a true science.
In his writings, Baal HaSulam was the first to address ordinary people. Before him, Kabbalists wrote only for those who had already attained the upper world.
He was the first to spread Kabbalah to the public, because from his time onward, the world entered a period of spiritual ascent, even if it is not yet revealed. It is an accumulating, gradually building process.
Moreover, Baal HaSulam began to spread Kabbalah not only to Jews, but to the whole world wherever possible. He wrote openly about this: “I am glad that I have been born in such a generation when it is permitted to disclose the wisdom of truth, and I have been given permission to disclose Kabbalah in the world.”
Baal HaSulam’s eldest son, RABASH, was the great Kabbalist of the second half of the 20th century, and our teacher. This is why our organization is called Bnei Baruch (Sons of Baruch); it is in his honor. From him, we received the Kabbalistic method that we study today.
He wrote three volumes of articles explaining the entire spiritual work of a person, how to attain the upper worlds. In addition, many of his archival recordings have been preserved but not yet published, and we are working on them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/23/2017, “A chain of knowledge 57 centuries long. The history of the Kabbalah method”
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