Question: What does Kabbalah mean by “branch“?

Answer: A branch is a consequence of the upper root. This includes our feelings and all corporeal objects. Everything that is in us is a branch from the Creator. It can be direct, or it can be inverse.

Question: What does the root control in relation to the branch?

Answer: Absolutely everything! The Creator controls us completely. If it even seems to us that there are actions that do not come from the Creator, it is only because we cannot imagine the overall picture of His control. Everything comes from Him either through direct influence or through reverse influence. But reverse influence depends on the qualities of a person.

Question: Does each person have their personal spiritual root?

Answer: Yes, each one has their own. This is what distinguishes us from one another. Everything else is only additions layered upon our spiritual root. We receive one upper light from the Creator, but in each of us it is interpreted, realized, and felt differently, depending on one’s personal root.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 7/8/18

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