Question: The spiritual development of the State of Israel and the connection of the country of Israel with the whole world can be divided into five stages.

One of them is the awareness of the evil of our selfish nature. Do you think this is the first stage for further development?

Answer: Yes selfishness is our primordial nature, and we we cannot get out of it by ourselves. The only thing we can realize is its depravity, its doom for us, but nothing more.

Question: Baal HaSulam writes that our natural selfishness is the essence of every human being and it gives us a sense of self. As each develops their abilities, they are ready to enslave others, take over the whole world, and control it. Why did the Creator create mankind like this?

Answer: The Creator specially created humans this way so that in the end we would reveal our egoistic essence, want to change it, and start developing from selfishness to altruism consciously.

Therefore, our egoistic essence is the foundation from which we begin to grow. Thanks to it, we see who we are and do everything only for ourselves in our narrow animal egoism. From this point, we begin to rise.

There are several means by which we can rise a little above selfishness, explore it, and then change it.
We have been given the worst foundation, the worst condition on purpose, and we must rise to the opposite.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 5/9/24

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Question: Before clearly realizing that everything I see outside of myself is in me, can I feel something as part of myself?

Answer: Maybe in a movie. In The Matrix and in other movies, perhaps they tried to somewhat portray this. I do not watch such movies, they are very primitive.

But in order to somehow hint to people what the perception of reality is, we need to come up with something. The correct perception of reality is explained in the Introduction to The Book of Zohar and by many Kabbalists in general. They wrote about this long before Einstein and other scientists because they discovered from their own experience that everything we see from the outside is actually in us, and there is no world outside.

There is nothing outside at all—everything is inside! There is no such thing as “outside of me.” I am everything! And you? And you are in me!

Comment: But often people say that all this is a fantasy.

My Response: Of course, it is a fantasy! Until we have clearly revealed it, it is a fantasy.

I am telling you about this fantasy now so you can start to grope it a bit even though you do not have any properties for it yet. But with your mind, you can push yourself toward it. Once you have even tiny buds of new properties, then you will be able to develop them using your mind and thereby accelerate your development.

If we did not have a mind and only had feelings, I would not tell anyone anything, because it would be impossible to hasten the path of development: it will come in its due time. But since we have a mind through which we can strive to comprehend this picture, draw closer to feeling it, we can direct our sensors to somehow feel it and compare various fragments; that is why I am speaking about it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World as We don’t Know it” 1/12/12

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Question: Baal HaSulam writes that a primitive person uses his egoistic nature without being ashamed of anything. A more developed person already feels some kind of shame and tries to use others in a veiled way.

But he gradually begins to realize that and is ashamed of his nature. He is looking for where he can somehow correct it until sparks of altruism appear in him.

Do you think that in our country, in Israel, we are already at a stage when people recognize the evil of their nature and understand that it separates us?

Answer: No way! This recognition can be reached only through the study of Kabbalistic sources and with their help a person can expose himself to the influence of the upper light located in them, i.e., under the influence of a special quality—the quality of bestowal, love, and connection with all humanity.

If a person works in order to attain these changes within him, then they occur in him. Then he begins to see that he cannot bear his present nature and is ready to rush into the future.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 5/9/24

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Question: Man’s main job is to come to a sense of the Creator’s reality. Achieving It can only be through prayer. How can a person keep the prayer that he must come to this feeling within oneself?

Answer: Strive for the Creator always and keep the desire to attain Him in your heart.

Question: Reason prevents us from going in faith above reason. How do we use reason correctly so that it helps us rise above ourselves?

Answer: To do this you need to unite with each other so that everyone can help a friend rise a little bit. If you work together to influence everyone in the ten in this way, you will be able to rise.

Question: When there is a great desire to get closer to the Creator, it is a good state. But what if a person feels the Creator a little bit, then is it not very good anymore?

Answer: It is okay to keep developing this feeling and try to increase it.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/18/24, “Working In Faith Above Reason”

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “Letter 20”

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Question: When we raise our prayer, should we strive to reveal the Creator or should we pray for the entire world Kli to reveal Him, or maybe even the whole world?

Answer: It is hard to say. It depends on who we are talking to.

In principle, it is important that a person who hears us feels how concerned we are about the internal state of the world. Through our dissemination, we want to convey our inner trepidation to humanity.
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From International Kabbalah Convention 5/19/24, “Praying to Go Above Reason”

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Question: When we get together and do something, what element needs to be included in order for what we have in mind to work?

Answer: It is only striving for connection; nothing more. This connection is realized precisely within us because, in principle, there is no external world.

Comment: Every time we try to unite even more, we see that we are completely unable to do this.

My Response: Then you have the opportunity to ask. Ask for this from the common power that is hidden in this connection.

Initially, there is a connection between us, only it is hidden from us. And we have to dig deeper and uncover it, uncover it, uncover it.

Comment: However, the further a person moves, the more difficult it is for him to find connection.

My Response: But on the other hand, he has more opportunities. For example, if you are a great scientist, then your experiments and tasks are much more complex for you than for a laboratory assistant who mixes various substances in test tubes.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Meaning of Kabbalah Dissemination” 2/12/12

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All thoughts, both good and bad, come to us from the Creator, and we must filter them through ourselves and decide which ones we can use to reach a good goal and which ones we cannot. This is necessary only to more precisely direct us toward the purpose of creation.

Question: Through which criteria should we determine which thoughts to restrict?

Answer: First and foremost, I must restrict thoughts that are directed only for my own sake. It is preferable not to use them. After that, it depends on the state of the group and the state of the friends.

Question: As soon as I restrict a thought for my own sake, do I immediately build an intention for the sake of the group?

Answer: Yes, that is best of all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Power of Thought”

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Question: What does it mean to channel a thought through the ten and how is it implemented?

Answer: Channeling a thought through the ten means that I must be seriously, firmly, and constantly connected with my friends.

And everything that is in me: my thoughts, plans, and actions, I channel, not through myself, but through us. In this case, we unite and can act practically without any limitations.

Question: Should a student be concerned not to cause anger in the friends, not to provoke negative states in them, or is it only the concern of the one who reacts this way?

Answer: It is everyone’s concern because it hinders the entire group, the entire ten.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/15/24, Writings of Rabash “The Power of Thought”

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