Question: How many forces exist and can interact with each other?

Answer: An infinite number. What we divide into 125 degrees can be subdivided further and further, endlessly.

We see that all of humanity, having gone through its cycles for, say, one hundred thousand years of existence, has not even yet reached the corridor leading to the spiritual world. And how many different states such a huge mass of people has gone through during these hundred thousand years—every minute, every second?

We cannot even imagine what we are actually dealing with. But in spirituality, it is simpler, because the lower degree, with all its diversity, enters the higher degree as a single element.

That is, all of inanimate nature is considered one unit relative to the vegetative, all vegetative nature is considered as one unit relative to the animate, and all animate nature is considered as one unit relative to the human.

And all of humanity is considered as one unit relative to the divine. Therefore, there is no complexity. On the contrary, everything becomes more and more simplified.

Question: Why is there specifically such a gradation of inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels?

Answer: This comes from the four stages of the expansion of the direct light. The beginning of the light’s influence on the desire, when the desire still does not feel itself as existing, is called the letter “Yod” or the first stage of the development of desire. Then comes the second stage, when the desire already begins to feel itself. After that come the third and fourth stages. In the fourth stage, the desire begins to feel the Creator. This fourth stage is called man (in Hebrew, Adam, from the word “Domeh,” meaning similar to the Creator). That is, the desire in the fourth stage feels the Creator and thereby gains the possibility to become similar to Him.

From the first perception of the Creator until today, 5,786 years have passed, that is, from the moment when Adam first sensed the Creator. This moment is called the Jewish New Year (Rosh HaShanah) and is considered the date of the first contact of a human being in this world with the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Truth About Reality” 10/8/10

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 11 “What Are the Two Discernments before Lishma? (1988) (4.15.2002)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 6, Part 15, Item 7 (4.13.2016)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar“

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Comment: There are cases when you really do not feel a person. They ask you a question, and everything seems clear, but there is a feeling that you are not actually connecting to the verbal aspect of what they are asking.

My Response: Yes, it happens that a question is clear to you, but not to me, either because I do not find all four screens that connect the verbal question with the person’s inner spiritual state, or because the state they are describing does not exist. In other words, what they are asking is not yet a true question; it is fundamentally flawed in itself.

But if this question passes through another or a third listener, when I ask them to retell it to me, then it may lose the original sharpness that it had for the one who asked it, but it already becomes the correct question. That is, it reveals the real emptiness that has a place in the universe, and with which one must work.

Question: What are these four screens?

Answer: The four screens are what are called “Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey,” that is, the fundamental name of the Creator or the four-layer structure of our soul, which we must feel in order to correctly perceive the influence of the light upon us, which builds a question within us, and accordingly from the question to attain this light, which is the answer.

Comment: Very often someone asks a question through the Internet, and during translation the meaning of the question is radically lost.

My Response: That is natural because people are not in the same states. One person asks a question, and another feels it in a completely different way.

Question: So translation cannot convey the feeling of the person who asks the question?

Answer: Both yes and no. I would not go so far as to say that the translators significantly distort the meaning. In fact, even if a person phrased it differently than intended, I often can sense the question exactly as it was conceived.

If it is a strong, correct question coming from one’s heart or from the emptiness of his desire, then I will feel it even if the translation is not very good. In principle, when a person has great pain or inner emptiness, we feel it even without much external expression.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Difficulties of Translation” 9/12/10

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Question: Is the Creator infinite energy that is inconceivable to our imagination?

Answer: It is possible to say it that way. But in principle, the Creator is the quality of bestowal, of emanation. If a person acquires such a quality, then the Creator channels His force into the world through the person, and the person becomes an extension of the Creator.

Question: What does it mean “to bestow to the Creator?”

Answer: You cannot bestow anything to the Creator. That category is absolute perfection.

Question: And what does it mean “to be a conduit of the Creator in this world?”

Answer: It means trying to convey this method to others. As they gradually master it, they too will become conduits of the Creator, the upper light will pass through them, and they will come to perceive themselves as the Creator. By becoming similar to the Creator, a person becomes a conduit of His energy to others.
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From a Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 1/21/18

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We must analyze each of our states on a “true-false” scale rather than the “sweet-bitter” scale; that is, based on whether it is good or bad regarding the goal of creation and not our desire to receive.

The problem is that we spend a lot of time feeling that sweet is day and bitter is night. That is, we work according to our feelings and cannot understand either by ourselves or with the help of a group that the definition of the state should be according to the goal of creation, adhesion with the Creator, and despite the fact that it still does not feel “sweet,” we accept as the truth and goal.

It needs to be more important than “sweet.” Then we will replace the “bitter-sweet” system (bodily analysis) with “true-false,” which is a spiritual analysis.

And here, only the group can remind a person what real measurement tools are, how he should regard his state, analyze it, speed up the process, correctly determine which state is called night and which is day, and then move from one state to another.

If he really decides that the state of night, which he finds bitter, is actually useful, that it is the truth, then night turns into day.

I define the feeling of an uncorrected Kli intent on self-interest as night. I attract the light that corrects this Kli and turns it into day by giving it the intention to bestow. Then, I come to the decision that my intention for giving is the day.

That is, it is the same state I was in before. I considered it night because of the lack of intention to bestow, and now, when I acquire this intention, I decide it is day, and so I go through this state. Turning the same receiving Kli into a giving Kli means that I feel the night and after that there is a day. And so it is at every degree. This is the same, only with an acquired intention upon it.

And if a person does not make efforts to correct the Kli he has received, does not try to see the real darkness in it due to receiving for himself, does not want to correct it with the intention to give, then he does not implement the time given to him.

One will still advance in this way, but very slowly. The Creator will take pity on the person and change his state because the group will help him a little, but not because of a change in his internal states.

I need to determine as soon as possible that night is my attitude to pleasure, to the fact that I want it. Then I will begin to desire correction, I will want to achieve an intention for the sake of bestowal, to adhere to the truth rather than to sweetness. This is what I call a day. This is the whole work of man. Man is the one who determines what day is and what night is, and what part of a day he is in.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/11/26, Rabash, “What Are Day and Night in the Work?”

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A wonderful group gathered here at a congress, united by a huge, colossal unity with the light inside.

And although it escapes our comprehension, in reality nothing is wasted. You just need to dive inside, to your point in the heart and want to unite with other points. Then I will see that the light reigns between us and we are all united internally.

That is what we have to reveal. This, in fact, is the realization of the science of Kabbalah. Everything that we study, the worlds, the Partzufim, the Sefirot, is a connection that we reveal. When we enter our inner unity, then the measures of connection between us and the measures of disclosure and concealment of light make up the spiritual world.

Our relationship is divided into five levels: Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, Atzilut, and Adam Kadmon, up to a total, perfect connection called the “world of Infinity” where there is no limit to our relationship. And these levels, in turn, are divided into Partzufim and Sefirot. In the end, it is only there that we reveal what is written in the Torah, and in general, in all Kabbalistic books.

We have nowhere to run. We just need to constantly focus on the inner, deep level where we are interconnected. It all depends on everyone’s attentiveness: let the person not give up this aspiration.

That is where the big problem lies: How can we step inside, dive in again and again, until we reach this level, until we feel it between us, until we catch the waves of our interconnection, which will begin to connect each of us to the common system. Where can we get the power of desire, attention, empathy, and sensitivity?

Here, again, I need an environment. I can’t hold myself together for more than a moment alone. I can try, apply my mind and feeling, dive inside, want to be there, and hold on with my teeth, but in a second everything disappears.

Only the friends, who are already two million around the world, will help. Everyone should think about everyone, because they depend on everyone, and then I will help myself through others. That is not what I’m incapable of. But if I think about everyone, so that they think about it too and go to the same thing, then the common force, the common thought that I send to everyone will do its job, even if they don’t hear me.

Even if I only think about it quietly to myself, my desire for their benefit, which is called the “prayer of many,” it returns to me and helps me stay on the inner level, sinking deeper.

And therefore, working as a group, we should not disperse in different directions. You just need to focus on this inner point: how to keep ourselves in the deep layers of the group where we are united with each other. This applies equally to men and women.

The external must also be put at the service of the internal. As Baal HaSulam and Rabash write, we must talk about the importance of the goal, the importance of friends, and the importance of the group. After all, it gives me inspiration, confidence, and assurance so that I can get closer and closer to my inner level, until it opens up. And then I will feel that I have entered the inner, spiritual world.

Therefore, there is a law: “May man help his neighbor.” Only with mutual support will each of us be able to achieve spirituality. No one will ever be able to do it alone.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 4/1/11, “We,” Lesson 3

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 14, What Is the Meaning of “Reply unto Your Heart”? (1989) (4.21.2002)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of the Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 6, Part 15, Item 6 (4.11.2016)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Conversations of a Kabbalist with His Students During the Day

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Question: If I am the creation of a perfect Creator, why can’t I, just as I am, simply be allowed to enjoy the ordinary life given by the Creator?

Answer: You can. But then you will turn into a little “bug” sitting on a piece of cake and consuming it your entire life. No one will disturb it: just as it began its life, so it will finish it. Do you want to be like that? By all means!

Question: But the Creator will not allow a person to remain in such a state?

Answer: Of course not. We must stand level with the Creator, rise to His degree, nothing less than that. Each person must take their place in the system of creation, at its specific, pivotal points. All the more so this must be attained by those who have received a special awakening toward the wisdom of governance.
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From a Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 6/25/17

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