Question: Often the person asking a question is actually asking for the benefit of others. So they realize that they, too, have this question. How can we extract deeper information from you? How should a person be attuned when asking a question?

Answer: It does not depend on me or the person asking, but on the general level of those present, even those far away, on the Internet. When I feel the audience, I work for it; it determines the level at which I speak and even the style of presenting the material.

If there are more women sitting before me, I talk to them differently from how I talk to men. If the audience consists of new students, I naturally give a lecture as if for small children, using a soft, accessible language. For a more prepared audience, such as my longstanding students, the conversation will be brief, clear, and sharp.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Answer to Any Question” 9/12/10

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Comment: As is known, someone has to stand at the head of an organization—it is impossible to do without a leader. People need to believe in someone. Someone gives them an example, as you set an example to your students.

My Response: I think my students will understand that only together, in a powerful group that already includes tens of thousands of people, will they be able to achieve something. After all, a spiritual leader is not some individual person, but a common force, a common idea. Its bearer is the group that can unite and lead everyone forward.

In this case, we are not talking about an egoistic world, but about a world of unity, an altruistic world, in which the leader is the Creator. I think that I am the last one who, in some sense, is a spiritual leader in Kabbalah—a teacher and a disseminator who has many students.

My aspiration is to bring my students to a state where only their unity will lead them forward. Only unity!

And when they all become as one and form such an element that will lead them forward, when in their unity they will feel the Creator, then it will be He who will lead them forward, and not some tangible personality with a beard and glasses. Only this way! That is why I am trying to create a kind of stimulator within spiritual leadership.

That is, everything must be set up so that it will be the group! And if it is one person, then a second will appear, and a third, and everything will fall apart, as happened in the past in Hasidic and other movements. All of this led to the wrong path, and in the end everything disappeared.

Comment: But you have very strong students.

My Response: They are not strong in anything, absolutely! They are strong and powerful only from the point of view of egoism, and they should be feared. Precisely those who are considered advanced are in no way more spiritual than the others. On the level of our world, such people simply have a greater ability to persuade and to speak.

Because of this, one must not follow them!

I am warning you: Do not listen to any of my students individually! Instead of me, there can only be only a spiritual directorate. Under no circumstances either those close to me or those far from me. Only this way!

Whoever wants to organize separately, whoever has some kind of “creative itch,” let them go and open new communities. In a Kabbalistic society this cannot exist. Only a general assembly, at the head of which stands the spiritual directorate!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Destruction of Laitman” 9/18/10

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Question: Do you think a person asks the question himself, or is a person like a mechanism that must ask it?

Answer: Of course he is not asking the question himself. This is a common, great desire created by the Creator.

Just as, let’s say, you look at porridge boiling in a huge pot that is bubbling, boiling, and shifting layers, so too are we, all the souls, digesting and connecting with each other, and questions arise; that is, new unfilled voids that are able to rise, rise to the top.

In other words, by rising up, these voids are trying to get some kind of filling, to come to some kind of balance, and therefore, a certain question is being asked.

That is why I always connect not just with those who ask questions or even with the huge audience that listens to me all over the world, but with the whole soul. After all, we are talking about its balance, its fulfillment, bringing it to full correction, and revealing the perfect state in which it exists that is hidden from itself.

I always feel what tremendous work we are doing in this process and how it affects the whole creation. It is not pride, arrogance, or vanity, but the feeling and realization of the opportunity to participate a little in the certain time, in the minimum share that we have been given in the movement towards perfection.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Answer to Any Question” 9/12/10

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Comment: Many people find it very difficult to accept the external form of Kabbalah that we express in songs and dances. Why do we adhere to it? Why don’t we try some other form? You say that Kabbalah is a science, and if you gave lectures as is customary in universities, how much more could that help spread Kabbalah?

My Response: I do not think that this would help its dissemination. Ninety-nine percent of the people on earth do not need our science at all. They need to feel good and safe, and this is expressed in pleasant communication with each other, in pleasant unity.

By nature, I am a completely unsociable person. Moreover, I am ready to sit within four walls all my life and would not feel it as a prison at all. I have my computer, my books, and what is inside me. That is enough for me! What can the world add to me?

But in order to advance spiritually, we need this earthly world. Therefore, I go out into the outer circles; otherwise, I would not teach.

I understand that positioning ourselves as an open university would be much more respectful than this kind of blurred picture of a kindergarten for overgrown kids where they dance in circles and sing. It is not clear at all what it even looks like.

But joint meals, songs, and dances were accepted among the ancient Kabbalists since the times of Baal Shem Tov. I think that it was so both with The ARI and with Rabbi Shimon. This is a natural expression of people’s inner feelings, their longings, and their desire to be together.

We understand that when people sit in a circle around a fire and sing together, it unites them. We see nothing strange in this. These can be indigenous peoples in South America, Africans with spears around a fire, Europeans who sit at their tables, Japanese or Chinese squatting; it does not matter who and how. This is accepted everywhere because this is a method of unification, an expression of feelings.

Naturally, in Europe, such an external expression as in Israel is considered very strange and, I would say, repulsive. But since we must first of all correct Israel and then the rest of the world, we are forced to act in this way. I see that this is being accepted in the rest of the world as well. I myself am not a fan of large circle dances, but people begin to behave this way spontaneously.

I prefer to sit by a fire, sing, and talk. From this I receive greater excitement than from dances, when people jump around and embrace their sweaty companions.

There are people who are drawn to this, and there are those who are inspired more from an inner sensation that comes from attainment, from understanding.

Either through the heart or through the mind are two completely different methods of correction that have come to us. One came from the ARI (through the mind), and the other from the Baal Shem Tov (through the heart). And they are both equal.

In our time, it is still difficult to say which way we are going. Although I thought and Baal HaSulam wrote that our time is the time of The ARI when one must prove, demonstrate, and explain with the mind; nevertheless, I see that what influences people more is precisely “let us drink and dance.” Because this goes from heart to heart through a common desire.

That is, songs and dances are needed, but they require greater inner deepening.

Question: How did Rabash relate to this? After all, he had some principles of his own. Since he lived in an Orthodox environment, he must have had both an external and an internal form.

Answer: His external form was very simple; he looked similar to everyone else. But inwardly, he was completely different from others but did not show it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Mind or Heart” 10/1/10

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Question: From which point can Abraham’s method be considered a genuine religion?

Answer: From the moment it became a unifying force, a force for building a society that becomes imbued with this idea, adopts it, and accepts it as its way of life.

This occurred when Abraham’s group, which had once left Babylon, began to form itself at Mount Sinai. It is clear that in the Torah, this story is presented purely allegorically. In reality, the people did not physically stand at the mountain; rather, these were inner states that they experienced.

From that point on, one can already say that they had a religion, that is, the implementation among the people of a structure organized in tens, hundreds, and thousands, and the establishment of correct interaction with one another within it in which the Creator is revealed as the quality of love, bestowal, and mutual guarantee.

From here begins the social movement of those who left Babylon, who in this way gradually become a nation.

In other words, the turning point was the moment when the need for an instruction arose in order to rise above mutual hatred. From here, religion begins as a method of uniting people into one whole, in equivalence with the upper force.

We call this method a “religion” because the people, in their structure, are constantly aimed at equivalence with the upper force, striving to do everything so that the upper force will be revealed among them.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 7/3/17

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Question: How much time would it take you to explain to a newcomer what spirituality is, to tell him about spirituality and show it to him?

Answer: Show it? How can you show it to him? He has no tools to reproduce it within himself.

Comment: Let’s put it this way, to convey spirituality. I remember there was a program called “All of Kabbalah in 90 Minutes.”

My Response: You can explain it even in five minutes! That is not important. You can convey in a single sentence what Kabbalah is: “The revelation of the Creator to a person in this world.” That is it. And then, go study. Until a person changes himself…

Kabbalah is not an external science but an inner one. Therefore, everything depends on a person’s qualities. And person’s qualities depend on his efforts, not on me.

Comment: But still, the external picture, whether one wants it or not, attracts a person at the initial stage, and someone who begins to study Kabbalah can work with that.

My Response: Yes, I understand you. Make clips, movies, whatever you want for your advertising. But the wisdom of Kabbalah is still an inner science.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Mind or Heart” 10/1/10

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Question: You say that at the meals and other events there are listeners and there are speakers. What should be the attitude of the listeners toward those who speak?

Answer: Everyone should be patient with their friends until we all mature together. How do you perceive a child? He does things that seem silly and unnecessary. You see how he makes mistakes, how he tries, how something works out and something does not. But through this, he somehow grows.

Comment: I am asking because for many people who encounter Kabbalah for the first time, this is not clear.

My Response: It does not matter to me whether it is clear to them or not. It is impossible to explain anything for the first time. If a person has matured, if he understands that he has nowhere else to go, then he will see logic in it, something higher; he will feel deep inside that there is something here. And if he is not ready yet, why should he understand? It will be better if he leaves.

Do you think everything is decided by some clever words? No. Look how many beautiful, professional video clips you have created. And how many people come because of those clips? There are millions of views, but only a handful come. Can you explain to me what is happening here? You cannot reach their hearts. You are knocking on them, but their hearts do not yet respond to that knock.

Comment: That is exactly what I am saying. You want to disseminate as widely as possible, but people are not ready.

My Response: We try to do everything possible. I am not going to change us because of this. We are who we are, and we are gradually trying to be more open—closer, simpler, more accessible, and more understandable to others. We are doing this all over the world, here in Israel, on television, and on the Internet.

Of course, there is still much more that can be done. We try to write books and express everything that Kabbalah wants to say to people in a simpler language. But if a person is still not ready from his side, what can we do?

Today when I walk down the street or stay somewhere, I see simple people who wave to me, who greet me, who thank me that there is a Kabbalistic channel, and that they can watch it. They even say, “So far we do not understand much. But it feels so good!” There are those who feel that it gives them a sense of peace and security. Still others say, “When I am on your channel, I just get distracted and relax.”

That is, everyone hears us on their own wavelength, and I am very glad about that. And whether they understand or do not understand the inner meaning and essence of Kabbalah, they do not need it because the world is structured like a pyramid. 99% of people cannot understand Kabbalah at all. They are created by nature, by the Creator, in such a way that they can only join it, so to speak, and participate in it.

For example, how many people build our world, lay its foundation, start enterprises, banks, the foundations of society, or conduct scientific research? How many of them are there? A thousand or two in the whole world who manage everything?

Only a few hundred people in the world truly create something, and the rest implement it. This implementation is carried out by a huge number of scientists, engineers, and researchers. But the foundation, the idea is the legacy of a very small number of people. And the billions of others? These billions are under them. This is how the world is arranged.

In exactly the same way, the perfection of all souls is achieved. When everyone, individually and together, reaches a single unified structure, everyone includes themselves in everyone else, and then everyone is included in all. As a result, each feels himself as this entire system. But that happens at the end of creation, at the end of correction.

Meanwhile, I absolutely do not expect these billions of people to realize the true greatness of what is being revealed before them, the true possibility of what Kabbalah speaks about.

I know from my own experience, from the 40 years I have been engaged in Kabbalah, what stages I have gone through, what revelations I have experienced, and what still lies ahead.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Transfer of Information,” 1/23/11

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Question: How will society be transformed when Kabbalah is used correctly? How will it be expressed internally and externally?

Answer: First of all, all mass media should change their direction in a single decision of the majority of countries. Everything should be aimed at explaining to the masses that only our unity will save the world and restore nature’s positive influence on us.

The mass media is a system that can be rapidly changed for the benefit of the global community, and thus reverse the direction of our development.

We will immediately see positive effects across everything: health, end of terror, weather conditions, society, and more. You will suddenly see that everything calms down, balances out, and becomes peaceful: children’s relationships with their parents, problems with the younger generation, everything instantly calms in each of these manifestations. Enormous egoism, great evil, and resistance to each other suddenly disappear. It is not that angels will walk on earth, no; people are beginning to understand this system, become imbued with it, and feel they can rise above death.

This is what we need to show humanity: “You have the opportunity to rise above death, to achieve a sense of eternity and perfection! This is what is offered to you in addition to life on this earth, which will become truly heavenly, unlike going outside and not knowing if you will return or whether you will have anything to breathe tomorrow.”
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Rise above death” 10/1/10

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If we prove incapable of awakening the world to spiritual advancement so that a light shines for it ahead, then suffering will begin to push it from behind, forcing it to advance. And this is a very long path until suffering compels a person to think about what to do and why he is suffering. Imagine how much time and suffering this requires! If, however, we contribute even a little to development by disseminating the wisdom of Kabbalah, we quickly awaken development and avoid all these blows.

It is known that everything that occurs on the still (inanimate) level is equivalent to a single action on the vegetative level. Everything that occurs on the vegetative level is equivalent to a single action on the animate level. Just imagine this difference between the degrees!

Wars, suffering, and terrible catastrophes must occur in order to move us even one step higher to the next degree. And instead of this, we can draw the upper light and avoid all these problems on the level of this world!

Ten years full of suffering can be replaced by one tiny personal movement toward spiritual development with the help of the light! Such is the difference between the degrees of the still, vegetative, animate, and human levels. Therefore, we must relate with full responsibility to the opportunities given to us.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson on 8/4/10, Baal HaSulam, Prefaces “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot”

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Question: What is the difference between suffering along the natural path of development and suffering when time is accelerated? If the only difference is time, does that mean I would have to suffer a hundred times more?

Answer: There are terrible tragedies that shock the entire world. The whole world feels some blows because everyone tries this situation on themselves, knowing that it could happen anywhere.

It is possible to transfer these sufferings to the spiritual level and avoid the tragedies. To what extent did these sufferings advance humanity toward goodness, toward understanding the need to work on unity? Not more than a millimeter.

Instead, it would have been enough to make the very smallest spiritual effort—to agree at least a little that salvation lies in unity, in bringing everyone closer together in our global world, to engage the heart and the mind just a bit—and we would have neutralized these sufferings.

Both paths move us toward the goal. But what an enormous amount of suffering is required to advance by the natural path. Fourteen billion years were needed for the development of inanimate nature on Earth. A couple of billion years for the plant world to develop, another billion years for animals, and another hundred thousand years for a monkey to become a human being.

Look at the proportion between inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human development. At the high, human level, development proceeds very quickly.

The same principle applies to all modern technology: it becomes faster, more sensitive, and far more powerful. The greater the force of nature, the more concealed it is and the faster it acts. This is precisely the difference between the natural path and the acceleration of time.

Many sufferings could have been avoided, and time could have been accelerated.

Question: Does this mean that tragedies and terrorist attacks will happen more and more often?

Answer: Terrorist attacks can be avoided if we use the method of unity that Kabbalah offers. As long as we do not do this, attacks will occur more frequently because the world is constantly advancing, and our egoism is steadily growing.

The world does not remain in the same state; by learning through blows, it is moving forward. It has its own dynamic of development. Egoism keeps intensifying. That is why, twenty years ago, one major blow per year was enough to teach us something, whereas today we already need twenty blows a year.

Our egoism has grown. It is like a child who has become more egoistic, ruthless, and stubborn, and therefore must be punished more than one who is merely a little lazy. That is why today the world receives far more blows than it did ten years ago. And if we do not begin to advance by the path of light, this will continue: blow after blow, more and more.

I only hope that it will not come to natural disasters. For now, it is limited to global warming and typhoons, but if we do not engage in our correction, it could reach real natural cataclysms.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/2016, Rabash, Article No. 16, 1985 “But the More They Afflicted Them”

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