Question: You explained that in the process of studying Kabbalah, a person goes through experiences where the left line constantly opens up and it is necessary to overcome it all the time. What holds a person? What keeps him from leaving?

Answer: The level of development. Of course, you can go somewhere to the village and live an ordinary life, or become a railway caretaker—20 km there, 20 km here, check the rails, tighten the nuts on the sleepers.

Can you live this way? There you have no Internet or newspapers, only radio. You sit and listen to something. That’s all. In exchange, you have a quiet, good life.

You will develop a small vegetable garden around you plus a salary; from a passing train you will sometimes be dropped the products you ordered. You will live quietly away from everyone. What could be better? Walk through the woods with a gun, fish in the lake, listen to the birds singing. What’s wrong? Why can’t you limit yourself to this?

Comment: First, it is a separation from other people.

My Response: Why do you need other people? What do they give you? Look at what’s going on here, will you? Why do you need to sit in this “dumpster”?

You just can’t do it any other way. Not because you didn’t grow up in a gatehouse, but because according to your inner development you can no longer live in such a state. This is how nature develops you.

Look at what is being done with cities. In one century, the population of a city with a million inhabitants has grown to 20 – 30 million, and there is no limit to this.

Today, a person cannot live away from others. This is how the program of creation is specially designed to force people to connect so that they work together on their common egoism in the right connection with each other and use the method of influence of the upper light to correct themselves.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Careful, Kabbalah” 10/19/13

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Comment: There are many quotes about the benefits of silence. For example, “silence is the fence around wisdom.”

My Response: Yes, when a person is silent, he retains his wisdom, does not spray it. And if he talks, then all his wisdom gradually flows out of him into the air, to everyone else.

It must be understood that silence is always preferable. There is nothing in the world worth talking about. On the contrary, it is always better to remain silent.

Question: Then why is speech given to man?

Answer: In order to keep his mouth shut and say only what is necessary.

Question: That is, here a person is, as it were, given freedom of choice: he can say what is necessary or he can say different things?

Answer: It is better to remain silent about various things.

Question: There is a quote from Menachem Mendel of Kotzk: “There is no greater scream than silence” What does this mean?

Answer: When it seems to us that a person should say something, but he is silent, then we perceive his silence as a very serious statement.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/23/22

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Question: As a rule, when a newcomer comes to us, he is, as it were, elevated in his own eyes. Let’s say he was an ordinary janitor, and here he is exalted in such a way that he begins to inflate like a balloon. And then they let him go, and he either deflates or something else. Why does the system work like this?

Answer: To rub his egoism a little. He is “beaten up” so that he begins to take spiritual things seriously and neglect material ones. But it may take years until the whole procedure is completed and he begins to perceive himself correctly in relation to the spiritual world.

Comment: But the condition I mentioned is obtained naturally. For example, a guest comes from somewhere, and he just gets lost, and doesn’t know what to do.

My Response: In fact, by exalting a friend, we do not lie to ourselves or others and do not engage in sycophancy. It is just that we are really pleased that we see our friend who lives very far away and is connected with us.

Question: In this case, how can we protect the human psyche?

Answer: If he is constantly engaged with us, he sees how we treat each other, that we do not welcome him personally, but his contribution, work, and participation, that is, his efforts.

A well-organized group correctly introduces a person into the system.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Greatest Man in the World” 10/12/13

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Preparation to the Lesson

Lesson on the Topic “Faith Above Reason”

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 6, Item 15

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee), Item 24″

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Question: Crying is one of manifestations of our egoism, its powerlessness to possess something, as well as sympathy for someone. Do you think a person can cry only for himself? Can he cry for others?

Answer: No, no way. Only if he imagines himself in their place or understands that this applies to him. In general, he cannot cry for others in any way. He always has personal experience.

And if his own experience is so close to him that he cannot restrain himself and express his emotions, then he cries. Crying means the inability to react correctly.

Question: As far as I understand, it can even be checked. Let’s say there are a huge number of people who die every moment, something happens to them, but our egoism practically does not react to it in any way. However, if someone close to my egoism dies, then it is clear that I react. Can I check it this way?

Answer: Of course.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/6/22

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Question: Are there people who remain silent all their lives?

Answer: There are such people. In principle, this is not bad at all because we have nothing to talk about. If we do not talk, but instead think, then we begin to understand that we can settle everything perfectly without talking.

Question: Are you in favor of a world without talking? Would it be nice if people did not talk?

Answer: Of course. But not totally, not every single conversation. We communicate with our children, wives, neighbors, colleagues at work, and so on. In principle, if we could clearly limit empty conversations between us, it would be good.

Question: Which is preferable, to tell the truth to a person’s face or to remain silent?

Answer: It is always better to remain silent.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/23/22

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It is known that there is no thought or perception whatsoever in His self, and there is no name or appellation in Him, anything that we do not attain, how can we define it by a name? (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Restriction and Line,” Inner Observation, Chapter 1, Item 5).

We cannot attain the essence of the Creator because we have no feelings for this and no what is called Kelim (vessels). We can only somehow come closer to or more distant from His desires and His qualities, and thus feel and define Him, but not His essence. The essence is His original form, which is absolutely unattainable by us.

Question: Can we say that the essence is His thought, His plan?

Answer: It is more than thought; it is Him. Baal HaSulam revealed that we cannot comprehend the essence of the Creator, which is a very big, high attainment.

Question: Why would the Creator show us something that we cannot attain?

Answer: Because this also is an attainment. That is, I understand that I do not attain Him. It is an indication not only about the limits of my attainment, but also about what I have achieved.

According to Kabbalah, we can attain the relation of the Creator to the created beings, but not the Creator in relation to Himself or to other objects in the universe.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/30/22

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Question: Silence is often used at Kabbalistic meals. How is it different from the usual meditation that is popular today all over the world?

Answer: We are still talking, but we are talking non-verbally, not opening the mouth. It is like we are talking with one another, objecting, agreeing, arguing, or discussing. This is all occurring without letting anything out from ourselves.

Meaning that you are not simply imagining some white light, narrowing down your worldview, or concentrating on some point, but rather you are having a normal conversation, only internally. It does have an influence. This influence of one upon another gradually manifests somewhere.

Question: What is the benefit of this?

Answer: This is a method where you do not interfere with anyone and others seemingly do not interfere with you. You can speak with any speed and say anything you wish, and later on you begin to understand the results of such conversations. I support this kind of interaction between people.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/23/22

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We need to set an example for the whole world of what we achieve if we use the knowledge of Kabbalah to unite, not even the masses, but several tens of thousands of people.

How much better, more airy, and more spiritual they will begin to feel. What good interactions will develop between them. As the safety and cleanliness in their areas where they live will increase, there will be fewer diseases and fewer problems with children. Even the money they have will suddenly be enough for everything. A person, without changing anything, will stop experiencing any problems.

The upper light that manifests between us will begin to somehow average everything and pacify. And people will agree with this and be happy with it. They will stop being ill, they will start smiling. This is how Baal HaSulam describes the future society in his article “Concealment and Disclosure of the Face of the Creator.” We can come to this.

Can’t we make people happy? I would give everything I know and understand for this.

Today, for most countries, this would be a method of salvation. And tomorrow it will be the same for the whole world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Two Ways of Development of Humanity” 10/19/13

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