In our spiritual work, we use the materials that Baal HaSulam wrote and build ourselves on what he did.

I know from my own experience that I am allowed to go forward only to the extent that I have to explain Kabbalah to the world, but I cannot go any further. I feel like a dog that runs on a leash beside the owner, the owner constantly holds the leash and doesn’t let the dog get ahead too much.

I would rush forward with desire and strength that I cannot even describe, but I feel that I am tied to the world. Bound! As far as the world can advance, I am permitted to go ahead of it by a few degrees and that is it. These are high, spiritual degrees, but no more! I feel a rigid attachment to the world, I cannot be free. This shows, of course, my place, my duty, and my work.

There is a huge difference in how much the world has begun to move forward in jerks now, and how much it gives me the opportunity to speak. I have to keep a lot inside myself because I cannot express myself, it is like I am mute. Then the world takes a step forward and words, images, and symbols appear. I can express it right away! Some kind of external expression appears that was not there before. This is how it follows the path that the world goes through.

He is far away, somewhere out there, sorting out his problems: the same terrorists, on the one hand, economic crises and natural disasters, on the other hand. But all this gives some kind of impetus, and I have the opportunity to express a lot of connections, laws, and root causes, to link them, and to give out a new layer that can be explained. And so, in layers, I feel that I am moving forward. But these layers depend only on how the world is going.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Most Significant Kabbalist of All Time” 11/17/12

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Question: There are people who can adapt to any situation, and there are those who would start suffering from internal turmoil if you take away their iPhone. Why are there such different classifications of egoism? Which is better?

Answer: It is difficult to say which is better because humanity is arranged in such a way that everything complements each other, like in any electronic, mechanical, human, or social schemes.

There are fools and smart people and strong and weak people. Usually, people who are physically strong are not very developed mentally and vice versa. That is, everything complements each other, and perfection is achieved through this. Therefore, it cannot be said that one wins and the other loses. The Japanese are small and slight, but look at the technology they develop. The Chinese are like that too.

Each nation has its own physical, mental, moral, and psychological characteristics, and things are moving toward ensuring that everyone complements the other. Nobody will have an advantage.

No matter how people are, for example, if they are great at doing something, they still will not be able to flaunt it and win something from others. It is the harmony that gives us winning. Without proper, mutual, and standard interaction, everyone will lose: the smart ones, the stupid ones, the strong ones, and the weak ones—everyone.

All the same, before us looms the plan of nature, its indispensable condition to bring everything to harmony, to unity. And the human level, man must fulfill this condition consciously, against his egoistic nature.

If he understands this, that is, if he looks at the world around him and sees himself below all of nature and not outside of it or above it, and he understands that everything in order to achieve homeostasis will act in this direction, he will be fine.

Otherwise, the strongest, the smartest, and the very very best will look foolish, weak, unreasonable, and flawed, and will eventually die. That is all.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Hurricane Sandy is Just the Beginning” 11/3/12

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Question: If a person watches our lessons online and suddenly decides to try working in a group, how harmful can this be for him or for the group?

Answer: If he has the right desire, he can gradually blend into the group. We are talking about people who for many years either study or don’t. We don’t put much pressure on them. But a person must understand that he can “roast” for many years, like meat in a brazier.

If we put the meat on a small fire, then it will not fry, but will remain warm and raw until it spoils. Therefore, for frying, we must set it to a certain temperature, for a certain time, it must go through some kind of change that will transform it to another state. Otherwise, you leave it in its former state, and add extra energy that is completely unnecessary to it.

The same thing happens with a person who comes to a group and starts exercising once a week. He seems to be getting smarter, he seems to understand and philosophize more: here, they say, I’m already such and such, and besides, I’m a Kabbalist.

Comment: Suppose a person comes across Kabbalah for the first time and immediately wants to enter this system.

My Response: We have special courses for this. Along with that, he can watch our lessons. We do not close ourselves off from anyone or anything, but we are against immediate entry into the group. It is necessary that a person still go through the steps of development.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Enter a Kabbalistic Group?” 12/1/12

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Comment: In some countries governments officially take control of the Internet and block sites that promote, for example, pedophilia, etc.

My Response: Of course. If you have a family and small children, would you let them watch obscene programs on television or on the Internet? No. So we need to find some kind of regulator. The problem is how to find it.

Humanity is not inclined to look for something in common; it comes to something involuntarily, for example, an agreement on flights, on corridors for aircraft, and so on.

But in general, this is a big problem, especially with issues related to business. Some kind of moral basis is needed for this, and humanity does not have it.

Today’s parents, in principle, have other things to worry about. Our egoism has grown so much that the Internet does not correspond to what happens in schools. Therefore, I am in favor of reaching an international agreement, an international restriction.

Man is an animal, and the most terrible, ugly, and egoistic one on top of that! If we allow everything, it is not freedom, but a perversion that turns our life into such a swamp from which we would not get out! We would drown there. Therefore, we need to restrict ourselves so that we are at least in such a state from which we could initially go further, think of something, and choose some kind of middle line.

Our egoistic nature crushes us and pulls us to the very bottom. The popularity of porn sites is above everything else. This shows who we are!

I am not going to enforce anything, but it should be very limited and properly considered. I am not a hypocrite, but it must not be like that.

We will have to do something anyway. I am in favor of creating an international organization to control the Internet in which there would be representatives of all countries. This is the correct approach.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Control Over the World Internet” 11/3/12

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Question: Where is the line between justifying the Creator and disagreeing with Him?

Answer: You do not agree with Him in your egoism, but in your qualities of bestowal and love you are similar to Him.

There is a law of nature: to the extent that you are different from the Creator, you feel all kinds of concealments, fog, distance, misunderstanding, and rejection. You carry out the concealment yourself with your qualities.

Moreover, the concealment corresponds to the extent of your development. It is just like with a child, he is not given a more difficult task than one he can solve. For example, we buy a one-year-old child a toy that says: “Age: one year” on the package.

It is the same case here. Everything is perfectly clear, and in accordance with the mentality, development, and mood with what happens to everyone. This is a huge system that is constantly moving and adjusting all its parts to the final stage—to complete connection.

A person should understand that at every minute of time he is in the best condition to choose the right path. Not otherwise!

Question: Where should the disagreement be, with how I perceive it?

Answer: Of course! You have to change yourself a little. First of all, you must realize that everything comes from the Creator, from the absolute good, and that now you perceive it differently—in quantity, in quality, in any form—only because your personal uncorrected qualities distort everything. But these are the uncorrected qualities, which at the current moment, you can already correct.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. If I Do Not Agree With The Creator” 12/15/12

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Question: To what extent is it welcomed in Kabbalah for friends as a whole to discuss among themselves common actions that should be performed on the spiritual path?

Answer: We discuss these issues in workshops. Workshops are a laboratory in which we polish our mutual relations between us on the spiritual path of development. Here we think like researchers who experience everything through their own experiments.

Many scientists often tested all kinds of drugs and preparations, and recorded the results of their experiments. This is especially true in the study of human conditions. For example, in astronautics, various studies are conducted on thousands of people: overload, weightlessness, isolation, and so on. And we have the same thing.

But, we have another problem. We go through it on our own, and then we share our experience with each other. All Kabbalistic books are written based on the experience of those people who have traversed the spiritual path. And we draw this methodology from books that explains how Kabbalists go through everything themselves, what to do at that time, how to behave, and how to lead others.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. You Can’t Share Your Grief with Others.” 11/24/12

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Question: We often listen to the teacher and think that the perception of his words occurs through the eardrum. How can we perceive it not through the vibration of the air? You said that in Kabbalah to listen to a teacher is a big job.

Answer: Of course. It is necessary to hear through the equivalence of qualities, through aspiration to the teacher, through the state when you try to “get into” him and fully adapt to him.

In our world, it is also desirable to understand and feel an ordinary school teacher, and to connect with him if he really wants to pass on his knowledge and his approach to you. After all, this is not just knowledge from a book; rather, he wants to convey his view to you, his philosophy. Then it is very important for you to be closer to him.

This is the difference between dead Western science and the sciences that were taught in the East, in Tibet and in China, no matter where. This is a completely different school. There, the attitude to the teacher was like to dervishes, Sufis, and rabbis, like to spiritual teachers.

In the West, you did not have to enter into a special internal contact with the teacher, everything there was aimed not at becoming closer, but at individualism. But in the East, on the contrary, the connection was the main thing, and students always coexisted with the teacher.

It was an entire system, although nowadays we have moved away from it and all this no longer has any original forms.

Where are all these correct relationships that Abraham once passed on to his disciples and sent them to the East? Then all these teachings passed from Ancient Babylon to the East, each in accordance with its tribes, its peoples, and gradually developed into Tibetan, Indian, Muslim, and so on. But today this no longer takes place on Earth.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Correct Contact between Student and Teacher” 1/11/13

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Question: During pregnancy, there are two periods that threaten miscarriage. As a rule, it is the initial stage, and the next one is closer to the birth itself.

Is there a similar situation in Kabbalah? One when a person comes, and after a while his initial desire, the fuel of which he used to run disappears? Is this similar to the first threat? Also, when a person is already approaching the entrance to spirituality and he suddenly just leaves?

Answer: Indeed, these stages on the spiritual path can be compared to periods of threatened miscarriage. At the beginning of the path when a person advances, there is of course such a threat. But I would not say that it really depends on him. And later, when he is already advancing toward spiritual birth, such a threat exists there as well.

But, in general, during all births, there is also a lot of tension from the entire nine months. The very first stage of spiritual development is very difficult because it is a period of self-annulment, of annulling one’s “I.”

Question: It turns out that the fetus has no options to stay inside the mother, right? Anyway, one way or another, he has to be born; he cannot stay inside her.

Answer: Definitely, there is no getting away from it.

There is no way we can avoid this path. Of course, there may be an injury or some kind of unfortunate incident, and then it can happen again and again. But a person has nowhere to go, and he will still be forced to enter his birthing journey and be born. All the same, he has to place himself under the influence of upper forces.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Threat During Pregnancy” 12/7/12

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