Test Ourselves

942Question: You said that all spiritual models should be imagined within oneself. Suppose I come to a seminar and imagine that I am bestowing, answering questions. But as a result, I experience bliss, pleasure, and enjoyment. In that case am I working to give for the sake of receiving, or am I working to bestow and simply receiving a reward?

Answer: It depends on you. You must examine yourself and act so that your response to what the Creator does to you is correct, that is, so that it advances you toward sensing the true forces, their intention, and their goal, and so that you can influence them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/9/25, “Subjugating the Heart”

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Nature Has Begun to Remove Its Protective Screen, Part 1

738Question: In 2017, Hurricane Irma was raging over the Caribbean islands; it was the most powerful in the history of the Atlantic to that point. The hurricane was rapidly approaching Florida when the evacuation of the population from the threat of destruction and flooding was announced.

At the same time, thousands of miles to the west, the situation was exactly the opposite; there was drought and intense heat, which led to extensive forest fires. What is happening to nature?

Answer: Everyone is talking about protecting the environment, that we must protect nature in its original form, to preserve the natural balance. In nature, one devours the other, and so a certain balance is maintained. Once man comes and distorts this balance, which affects animals and plants, even the earth begins to crack and dry out.

People have always thought we must protect nature, as if man stands apart from nature and must preserve its correct shape and balance between inanimate matter, plants, and animals. Over the past 50 to 60 years, great attention has been paid to environmental protection and it is believed that this would guarantees us a good life.

But the science of Kabbalah says that this is the wrong approach. Nature gets out of balance precisely because of man, who is not in balance with it. The reason is not that he pollutes nature, burns trees, plows the land, or pumps out water.

Man must also be part of the overall ecosystem. Humanity must change and become integral, like the whole of nature, and occupy and fill the cell assigned to us between the inanimate, plant, animal and human levels of the ecosystem.

That is, we are talking about correcting man himself. But no one ever talked about that. Everyone thought the main thing was not to spoil the inanimate, plant, and animate nature, and everything would be fine. All the efforts are being made for this, all organizations are focused only on how to burn less oil and pollute the environment less. But what about man?

By our lack of an integral approach to the general nature, we ourselves cause its greatest imbalance. In fact, the only reason is not man’s negative attitude toward nature, but his lack of inclusion in the general system.

In the general system, there is a special law according to which the individual and general are equal. This means the power of one uncorrected individual, not even his destructive actions, but of the inner attitude, is enough to ruin the entire system.

The individual and the general are equal is a harsh condition for being in an integrated system where we all found ourselves against our will. After all, it is enough for me to commit the tiniest wrongful action to upset my balance with the system by just one gram, but because of the integrality of the system, I produce millions of times more harm with my microscopic violation.

After all, my gram is multiplied by what is included in every element of the system. Therefore the harm is general.

We do not yet understand that the individual and general are equal means either zero or 100%, and there can be nothing in between. But we are developing in such a way that nature hides our true, integral participation in its system.

That is why we do not have much influence on nature. Like a merciful judge, it evaluates us according to our level of development. If nature had not protected us, we would have reached the point of complete destruction, not only of ourselves, but of the entire universe.

It is only through concealment that a certain protective buffer is formed. And although I am wrong about everything, I have little impact on nature. However, nature has already begun to change, starting with the last generation, which is a sign that it is time for us to correct our involvement.

The further we go, the more nature will remove the protective shield, the buffer between man and general nature. And we will have to become integrated in consciousness, the heart, in perception, in all actions: physical, mental, internal in our relations with each other, and in relation to the whole system, until we achieve complete adhesion with it.

You can call it merging with nature or with the upper force, but we have to do it. We need to understand that we are in a classroom. Nature, or the Creator, teaches us and will teach us very concisely and quickly. This can happen through nuclear explosions, hurricanes, fires, or epidemics.

Nature has many ways to bring humanity to reason so that it understands that it must be balanced, and in full harmony with nature, like the inanimate, vegetative, and animate world.

Rocks, plants, and animals do not have the intelligence to go against nature; they act according to their instincts. But we humans, with all our evil, must act the same way animals act instinctively to achieve the same level of conformity to nature.

How is this possible if we do not have such instincts?! This is why we need the upper force to balance our evil. And the upper force is revealed only within our connection.
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From the Conversation 9/6/17, “Climate Cataclysms”

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How Can You Awaken Prayer from the Heart?

947Question: How can we make the words of a prayer awaken a prayer from the heart, preferably from the common heart?

Answer: That is indeed a real question. It would seem that each of us has some kind of Hisaron (deficiency). But what is missing so that our individual sensations of exile in that disconnection from the Creator could merge into one common desire? This is not simple at all.

What are desires the group cannot fulfill? These are desires that unite with the desires of other groups, and together they reveal a more complete, more perfect request, one to which the Creator will surely respond.

Beyond that, I can’t really explain in words, because this is something you feel only in the heart. The problem is that when we speak, the words themselves tend to erase the feeling that lies beneath them. The foundation disappears, and the words become dead.

You might have prepared them in advance, maybe even thought deeply about them, but the moment you say them, you suddenly feel there is nothing there. They are empty, completely empty. And there is nothing in them that could truly shake the Creator.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/11/2025, “First Demand and Ask”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 8/19/25

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #46 “The Domination of Israel over the Klipot” (12.7.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” (8.10.2006)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 1, Chapter 2

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If There Is Burdening of The Heart

533.02Question: The Creator is burdening my heart. I am in a very low state, and at the same time a glimmer remains where I feel that my friend also has a heaviness of the heart. For whose heart should my prayer be directed first?

Answer: This is not a simple question. But if we reduce it to an ordinary question, then a person who is under the rule of egoism decides for himself what he should start fighting with and what exactly he must humble.

Therefore, in general, the question always comes down who do  I obey in this state.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/25, “Correction of The Heart “

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What Is Attainment in Kabbalah?

219.01Question: What is “attainment” in Kabbalah?

Answer: It is the awareness within one’s desires of everything that comes from the Creator down to the depth of my desires, which I examine. All the primary, secondary, and other phenomena revealed in their full scope and interconnection constitute attainment.

Question: Can we say that a person goes through three stages: first knowledge, then understanding, and then attainment? Or does one attain everything immediately through feeling?

Answer: It depends on how a person approaches his spiritual work.

Question: Suppose I hear “There is none else besides Him” or some other principle, does that mean I now know that He exists, even without understanding?

Answer: If a person has just begun studying and has not yet attained anything, then yes. But if he is already attaining, sensing, and has spiritual vessels (Kelim), which are the means to determine, feel, and reveal, then his approach is different.

For someone reading and hearing about these things for the first time, it all seems like an incomprehensible alphabet: “Where is this happening? In which world? With whom?” He needs time. What the mind does not allow, time accomplishes.

Gradually, he becomes accustomed to the sound of Kabbalistic terms, to the connection of words into phrases, then into sentences, and finally to the connection of sentences. All this enters him gradually, not through the mind, but through the heart.

To the extent that he tries to be together with his friends united in a group helping, giving, and supporting them, he begins to attain the inner meaning of what he hears.
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From the Basic Kabbalah Lesson, 11/19/17

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The Fifteenth of Av

284.07It is written in the Mishnah (Taanit, p 26b): “Rabbi Shimon Ben Gamliel said, ‘No days were better for Israel than the fifteenth of Av [11th Hebrew month], and Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement], when the daughters of Jerusalem would come out dressed in borrowed white garments, so as not to shame those who do not have.

The daughters of Jerusalem would come out and dance in the vineyards. What would they say? ‘Young man, lift up your eyes and see what you choose for yourself.

Do not cast your eyes on beauty; cast your eyes on family.’” (And on page 31) “Those who did not have wives went there. Our sages taught, ‘What would the beauties among them say? ‘Turn your eyes to beauty, for a woman is only for beauty.

’What would the wellborn among them say? ‘Cast your eyes on family, for a woman is only for sons.’ In The Eye of Jacob he adds, ‘The wealthy among them say,

‘Cast your eyes on the wealthy.’ What would the unsightly ones among them say? ‘Take what you take for the Creator, as long as you crown us with gold coins.’” (Rabash, “The Fifthteenth of Av”)

“The unsightly Daughters of Jerusalem” is the final stage of Malchut, Dalet de Dalet, called “poor and wretched.”

A person runs away from such work; he has no motivation or desire for it because all of this work is in faith above reason.

One must understand that this is arranged deliberately, precisely to help a person attain the spiritual world!

He must see that exactly where his egoistic desire does not function, where there is no desire, where beauty and fulfillment do not attract, that is the sign he needs a different kind of fuel.

He is given the opportunity to picture a state in which he is not bribed by his egoism, and if he works in such a state, it will be for the sake of bestowal.

But where will he get such “anti-fuel,” the ability to work without energy, without filling his ego?

It is precisely in such a state that he realizes he needs the Creator’s help. If he does not receive the force called “the light” from above, he cannot move from his place.

If I desire only to bestow without wishing to receive any compensation, neither wealth, nor beauty, nor nobility, and I choose a “poor and wretched wife” in the evaluation of my egoism, and choose only the ability to bestow without any conditions, then I arrive at the day of joy, the Day (quality and light) of Love (the 15th of Av).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/26/10, Writings of Rabash “The Fifteenth of Av”

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Simplify the Method for Everyone

629.3Question: Did Kabbalists of the past try to bring the method down to each person?

Answer: No! This has never happened! They have been trying very hard to lower the threshold only in our time, in the last 100 years.

Comment: But you said that the method must be lowered so far that it practically touches the tip of egoism.

My Response: So that it becomes understandable to anyone, to absolutely everyone.

A person living on the simplest egoistic level should clearly understand that the wisdom of Kabbalah reveals the secrets of the world, allows them to understand their destiny, and even change it.

Indeed, by drawing the upper light, we do change our destiny! What else shapes our future if not it?

So it needs to be explained simply and directly to every person while gradually revealing that this involves serious inner work, work on correcting the errors of nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Hello Aunt Fenya!” 9/27/10

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Work On the Restoration of The Soul

544Comment: In order to implement the method of Kabbalah, three components are necessary: a group of like-minded individuals, original sources, and an instructor. Work in a group of like-minded individuals is the work of coming closer to one another to reveal the goal that Kabbalah speaks of: the revelation of the Creator.

My Response: Our world is intended for us to carry out the work called the restoration of the soul. According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, the Creator created a system of a single common soul called “Adam.” This system, in its original state, consisted of egoistic desires that were connected together and worked toward one goal: to support one another.

Then a shattering occurred, and the entire structure broke apart into a vast number of inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human elements, which are now in a state of relative connection with one another. Relative because their relations to one another imply only mutual complementation, that is, using each other, and on the other hand, a desire to constantly develop at the expense of others, to absorb one another. This is the egoistic principle of existence of the entire system.

Now we must return it to its original state, in which all its parts will relate to each other, not egotistically from a purely consumerist standpoint for themselves, but with the understanding that it is necessary to work for the entire system as a whole, for the sake of all. Therefore, every mature, sound element of the system must attain the state of “love your neighbor as yourself.”

Only under this condition will all the elements unite above their initial egoism and form a single, unified, integral system that will be able to exist properly and be filled with a special force called the Creator.

This work we must carry out here in this world, now in our generation. We are those who understand the significance of this work, the conditions that nature or the Creator provides us with, the importance of our mission, and who feel such a drive and responsibility for it.

That is why we gather in a group to unite in mutual help, mutual efforts, and to connect all our ties together in similarity to the global force of the Creator. The Creator represents the force of bestowal, connection, love, and mutual complementation. And we must generate this force between us in such a way as to become similar to Him in our relationships.

We cannot do this by ourselves because we are initially opposite to one another. Each of us is an egoist and cannot think of others. But we can ask Him to change us. And then, in the group, we will be able to realize this idea.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah” 12/25/18

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