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Posted on October 1st, 2025

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Spiritual Attainment Is Not Fiction

Posted on October 1st, 2025

Question: Why is spiritual attainment not imaginary, like an illusion of this world? How do we distinguish the types of attainments?

Answer: Spiritual attainment is not a fictional imagination or anything else we imagine because it arises from a person’s effort to rise above himself.

This happens when I act against my nature, against my essence, and in this intention and effort, I rise above myself and acquire the property of love and bestowal in which I feel a new world. There one finds properties opposite to this world, and begins to find himself inverted, altered.

Question: Why did Kabbalists not write books that would simply and beautifully describe the spiritual world?

Answer: You would not have understood it anyway. How would they portray the spiritual world, in which words? In the words of our world? Then you would imagine our world.

Everything that could be said about the upper world is said in the Torah, in the Talmud, in all the holy books, but allegorically, because only The Study of the Ten Sefirot can describe it directly. It outlines pure mechanics: the rise and descent of various screens, the restriction placed on desires, the departure and arrival of light, and so on. It is impossible to tell what feelings lie behind this, because we do not yet have an adequate perception of these feelings.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 3/19/17

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Between Love and Hatred

Posted on October 1st, 2025

Question: You once said that our entire life unfolds between love and hatred. But how are these two feelings connected?

Answer: If there were no hatred, there would not be love either. If I did not desire something and feel fulfilled by it, then how could I feel that I love it?

The measure, quality, and depth of love always depend on the measure, quality, and depth of hatred.

Hatred is when I either reject something and want to push it away from me, or I suffer deeply because I do not have it. Within this spectrum lies the whole range of our relationships. In truth, everything in life is divided only into what I hate and what I love.

We are created from the desire to enjoy. Therefore, there are things that I hate and want to distance myself from since they negatively affect my desire to enjoy and there are things that I love and want to draw closer to because they positively affect my desire for pleasure. My entire life is woven between these two poles, between what is good for me, and what is bad for me, between hatred of what feels bad and the love for what feels good.

Yet perhaps we should re-educate ourselves to reconsider what is good and what is bad, what is worthy of enjoyment and what is not. Education, in this sense, means reshaping our attitude toward what appears attractive and pleasant, and toward what appears unpleasant or harmful.

This shift allows us to move beyond the simple question of what to love or what to hate, and instead to ask: what is true and what is false? After all, some things that I love turn out to be deceptive and damaging, while some things that I instinctively reject are true, and ultimately beneficial. I should pay attention to them, draw closer to them, and I will discover that they genuinely lead me to goodness.

In other words, I should not live according to my instinctive or culturally-acquired sense of good and evil—what I love and what I hate—but add a rational inquiry to it: What is truly good and what is truly bad? Not from the perspective of what feels pleasant or unpleasant, but from the higher perspective of what is worth experiencing as good or bad. Thus, I will no longer define good and evil by my personal tastes or by natural attraction or repulsion, but by absolute good and absolute evil—above my instincts.

This is possible because the human being is a social creature. We can determine what is good or bad not only by our personal sensations, but also by the influence of the environment. After all, we need those around us: they can respect us or, on the contrary, shame us. Because we are subject to the influence of the environment, we can completely change our values by learning to hate what we once loved.

Take, for example, a person who once behaved carelessly, as he pleased. Then, under the influence of his surroundings, he suddenly realizes that others do not respect him, even scorn him, for his sloppiness or poor manners.

He feels he has no choice but to change, to correct himself because society’s influence is powerful and felt sharply as either positive or negative. He begins to see his neglect of others as harmful to himself, and so he puts effort into correcting his behavior and attitude. In doing so, he reshapes his values.

This is how we can transform what we love and what we hate.
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From KabTV’s New Life 692 – What Is Love? 2/16/16

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Creativity in Kabbalah

Posted on October 1st, 2025

Question: Everyone has their own abilities: someone is a designer, someone is an artist, someone else writes well. How do you discover these qualities in yourself?

Answer: If you work properly on developing the quality of giving, inclusion in others, which will help you develop a sense of absolutely complete interaction with the whole world, then you will see very clear tips on how to realize your abilities. They will definitely open up in you, and exactly in the way that you can use them to promote yourself.

For example, I teach, draw, write, and depict in a certain way; this is how I express myself. You express yourself in a different way, and someone else expresses themselves in a different way.

Question: But will it complement the overall system of understanding?

Answer: If it comes from the soul, it will definitely complement it, since all souls are a common system. Therefore, the more you express yourself through your soul, the more you are an integral part of the common soul, Adam.

Question: Does an outside person feel it more when it comes from the general system?

Answer: Yes. Therefore, in accordance with a person’s ability to work on himself in an anti-egoistic way, it is necessary to let him develop, that is, to manifest himself in art, literature, painting or in cinema, photography, video, even in leadership; this is also a type of creative activity. But at the same time, you need to make sure that it is not at the level of selfishness, but above it.

Question: How can you determine this?

Answer: It depends on what is important to a person in the first place: to move forward or develop in art, to move up or to lead.

Comment: But sometimes it can overwhelm a person so much that he thinks he’s doing it for a purpose…

My Response: There is an environment for this, a leader who can protect him and not let him fall.

Comment: In Kabbalah, a person, in principle, must work against his will, take on some kind of work that he does through force. But in this case, it just won’t work. Let’s say a person has the ability to write, but they give him something to chop in the kitchen.

My Response: He’s going to write anyway, and he’s not going anywhere. He still has to express himself. The soul is eternal and will break through itself. Life is the greatest force that will always find some kind of loophole and manifest itself.

Comment: You know how strong a person’s selfishness can be.…

My Response: No! It doesn’t matter! All the same, development and evolution are moving toward the fact that the soul will manifest above the body, because this is the highest source. Our body is just a small animal part. This gradually manifests itself over the course of evolution. Animals don’t evolve, but humans do.

The “man in us” grows from generation to generation and gradually comes to the point where his human part grows out of this animal man more and more. And now it is undergoing a revolutionary transformation, a leap. A spiritual component begins to manifest itself in us, which is higher than this life. On the one hand, this life becomes visible as a global catastrophe, and at the same time we have the opportunity to reveal the spiritual part of ourselves. This is our generation.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Creativity in Kabbalah” 10/5/10

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Where Is the Train Going?

Posted on October 1st, 2025

Comment: We must bring Kabbalah to people without frightening them.

My Response: I’m not frightening them. I’m offering medicine for their fears, only I’m offering it not so that they would stay in this life and sweeten it a little, but to rise to a level where they would be eternal, perfect, infinite. Of course, it sounds cool and unclear, but deep down every person basically wants only this.

Comment: It’s clear that the one who is meant to come to Kabbalah will come, his inner part will open. And the one who isn’t meant to…

My Response: Even the one who isn’t meant will still want to come, because this life is becoming very frightening. Frightening! Just wait a little. Here there will be an oil spill, there will be a volcano, another tsunami, a couple more fires. Let’s live until winter and you’ll see what kind of winter it will be, maybe minus fifty degrees. That is worse than plus forty in summer.

So everything is still ahead. I’m not threatening, on the contrary I want us to go on a fast, good path, because for your child you always want him to grow wiser, not make foolish mistakes and to have things go well, not so you have to punish him.

Question: But in fact, a blow comes, a person feels depressed, unwell. Do you really think some part in him will open, or that some process will happen in him?

Answer: If you get hit a couple of times, you will agree to anything! You don’t have your own “I.” Our “I” is not ours. We are all little animals. The “I” can be suppressed any way, and you will agree to anything.

Even now you subconsciously act according to your animal state. You have no personal philosophy, no ideology, you don’t stand on anything. There is no such notion in our world. We all proceed from our egoism; it dictates to us what to hold onto, what to value. That is all.

Who is a person in this world anyway? A small programmed egoistic creature with nothing of his own. A puppet on strings pulled from above, with no freewill. So why even reason about it?

Question: And the process? What happens to the person after the blow? What is transformed?

Answer: This puppet starts to twitch a little. Then he gets the chance to hear how to get rid of suffering.

Question: And how will he hear among the general mass of information around him?

Answer: Maybe he will have to go to India for twenty years and come back empty. And the next generation won’t go at all. For now, nothing can be done.

Question: So it’s not a stage of one single blow?

Answer: No, humanity must come to awareness on its own, otherwise you will lead it by force. This unprocessed stage must work itself through. It is like a rocket: the first stage burns out, the second ignites, then the third, and so on.

People must see the emptiness in philosophies, in sciences, in religions, and in everything else. They must uncover this emptiness, see in all of it only earthly culture, and to that extent use it reasonably. But it will give them only registration in the train in which they are riding. And where is the train going? That is for them to find out.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Where Is the Train Going?” 8/26/10

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