Question: Do you remember the time when you wanted to go to a meeting of friends with RABASH’s students, but he was against it? You were eager to get there, you wanted to be in the group, you arrived, and you didn’t like the picture you saw.

Answer: Yes, I understood why he didn’t want me to go there. Because basically there was no friendship, no love.

I had been communicating with them for many months and I saw that they didn’t even talk to each other, they shied away from each other, they didn’t like each other, they condemned each other, and they had a false opinion about each other. And suddenly I saw that they were sitting together, singing, talking about friendship, about love for one’s neighbor.

It was a blatant lie! It could be so in some other place, either in the theater, or in politics, or somewhere else. I understand when politicians say one thing and think another, because that is our world.

But here, when everything has to be turned inside out, when you have to “rip your heart out,” “to get out of yourself,” and really try to achieve unity with your comrades…! You have no other way out, no other means to reach the higher world, because you reveal it only in unification! And suddenly such blatant hypocrisy, such lies! It just infuriated me!

When I returned to Rabash, he smiled and said: “I told you not to go there.” And that was it, I never showed up there again.

Question: But as far as I understand, this is the essence of the whole job, when you have to justify all these people, whatever they may be?

Answer: No! Absolutely not! After all, they did not initially strive for unity!

I can justify the people on the street because they have nothing to do with it. They are in a state where their nature forces them to act one way and not another.

I fully justify them because the Creator, through His actions, causes certain reactions in this egoistic desire, which is a person that we observe in our world. Therefore, there is no Hitler, Stalin, Rabindranath Tagore or anyone else here; all of them, both good and bad, are puppets, and there is no reckoning with them.

The only calculation is that the Creator does good through one person and evil through another. But by and large, the person himself has absolutely nothing to do with it; he is given such a desire, an aspiration, and he fulfills it.

But here, when people hear, see, feel, and understand, they inherited their spiritual aspirations from their fathers who were students of Baal HaSulam and are now close to such a great, last Kabbalist as Rabash… .

We are already in a completely different era, in a different time, cut off from all the previous great Kabbalists, who represent the chain from the first Kabbalist Adam to the last RABASH. We are in a completely different era, the era of universal correction.

And therefore, if those people who heard, saw, and understood all this acted in such a way that they did not even treat each other as friends, and suddenly they were sitting together, singing songs about love, about how to reveal the Creator because through this a person penetrates into the higher world, it is obviously a blatant lie. I don’t understand!

Of course, when I returned from there, I realized that I had nothing more to do with them, absolutely nothing! And then I asked Rabash: “What’s next?” He replied that maybe I needed another community.

And then I started looking for people in Tel Aviv who are interested in Kabbalah, and I brought them to him. However, among them too, no matter how hard we tried to create a community of friends, nothing worked. The thing is, I wasn’t ready, and they weren’t ready. They tried to unite with each other, to build something, but it didn’t work out.

The only thing that can be said is that apart from our group, nowhere else can we seriously and normally, not only study Kabbalah (a person can sit and study alone), but namely, unite. Unfortunately, not to my happiness and not to my joy.

I would like to see the whole world dotted with groups of people studying Kabbalah, each independently, even independently of others, no matter what method. The main thing is that there should be unification, because in unification the Creator is revealed.

But we see that this is not happening. We hope that this will happen in our group, because we feel from congress to congress, from lesson to lesson, how we are moving toward unity.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Kabbalist’s Failed Experiment,” 9/19/10

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