Question: What is the most effective method of interaction among students?

Answer: Internal, without any writing or talking, from heart to heart.

Comment: You say you feel this from the heart, but we don’t. It’s really hard for us to understand.

My Response: No, it’s not hard at all. In fact, you simply tune into the waves that exist around us. You need to adjust yourself to them. It’s literally like a radio receiver.

Question: But you cannot lose spiritual attainment if you distance yourself from the group, can you?

Answer: Of course not, because within me, this oscillatory circuit already exists.

Do you know how a simple crystal radio receiver works? I remember how as boys we used to build one without even using a battery. We’d take a long antenna, say, twenty meters, a coil, a diode, and a headphone, and that was it. We’d hang the antenna outside and connect the other end to the ground. It would pick up signals, and you’d hear them.

In this analogy, the coil represents the surrounding environment, which amplifies the signals. You are the detector, which must allow waves to pass only in one direction to resonate with the coil. The headphone is your perception organ, your quality of bestowal: your sense, your ear. Nothing else is needed.

The setup works on the same principle as a crystal radio receiver, the simplest device for catching waves. If we examine other devices, they all operate according to this principle.

You must tune yourself to a single wave, a single direction. Nearby, there must be an environment that amplifies this direction. You enter into resonance and catch the wave through the quality of bestowal.

The large antenna represents the desire to catch the upper force, while grounding is essential to work accurately with your egoism and your desires. The earth symbolizes desire.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. An Example from Physics” 4/17/10

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Question: How can we increase the speed of unfolding Reshimot?

Answer: The most reliable way is to work in a group. Then you will definitely stimulate the Reshimot of the group toward faster realization. Any effort you make to draw closer to each other, whether successful or unsuccessful, does not matter; the main thing is that your efforts are aimed at transforming the group into one unified whole.

Imagine that you are one unified whole. It doesn’t matter that we are different and that on the level of our world we repel each other. Women, in particular, feel this more acutely than men. However, this does not mean that they are further from spirituality, it is simply their natural disposition.

Everyone who experiences greater rejection from others has greater potential for ascent. So it is said: “Everyone who is greater than his friend, his evil inclination is greater.” People who have a big ego initially feel it as a huge obstacle; this is in the left line. And later, they correct it in the right line.

Each subsequent Reshimo determines the next state of the group because it is not an individual Reshimo of each of us, but of the ten Sefirot, which are becoming more and more similar to the Creator. After all, even the Reshimo that is revealed in me today comes from my state in the group.

You might say, “But I am not in the group yet. Where do I get any new feelings from?” Let’s say you are studying “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” (Pticha) or Shamati and feel that something is changing in you.

The fact is that spiritually you nevertheless exist in a group; you are already in it anyway, but you have not discovered it yet, it has not yet been revealed to you. Therefore, when some spiritual data changes in you, it actually changes your attitude toward the group you are in, even though you do not know it yet.

Like, for example, an infant who was born, develops, and does not yet know what kind of world he is in, but he exists in it. He is already somehow influencing the world with his cries and needs, and the world is influencing him by preparing special food for him, diapers, and so on. That is, there is interaction, but it is not yet conscious.

In such a way, you still exist in the group, you still haven’t left the system of Adam, even though it has been shattered to pieces.

It shattered the mutual feeling of all its parts. As, for example, the nerve connection between the leg and the head has been severed in the body, and the head does not control the leg, the same thing happens with us.

We are in the same system, only it has received an additional egoistic connection, and instead of thinking about unification, each part thinks about itself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “Turning to the Creator”

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Question: Suppose I am driving down the road, and another driver cuts me off. What should I do at this moment to connect this incident to “There is None else besides Him” at the deepest level?

Answer: You need to remember that everything happening to you occurs solely under the guidance of the Creator. After that, your work begins.

Additionally, your group should remind you of this; talk about it and discuss it. Connection with the group is essential so that you can bestow to them, influence them, and they in turn can influence you. Working alone will inevitably leave you trapped in egoism.

If a person is not part of a group, not connected with others in serious spiritual connection, it is almost useless to work with him. This is permissible only if he is a beginner who has found a small society where he can develop as an integral part and complement himself within that society. Only in such a case!

We exist in a system of forces that operates this way. Just as in our world, we are entirely dependent on one another and see that we are involuntarily moving toward greater integration, so it is here as well.

If your egoism pushes you away from this, that is natural. It will repel you, providing countless justifications and arguments that you can progress on your own. However, in the end, all of that is false and will lead to nothing.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”

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Question: What should one do if he comes to a mutual guarantee, to a covenant, but then encounters corporeal obstacles and realizes that his friends do not actually provide for all his corporeal needs, and he falls?

How can one rise again and return to mutual guarantee?

Answer: A person must correct himself in a state of descent.

Question: Does the desire we reveal between us and the Creator then become the source of all changes?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Who initiates the formation of a covenant? Is it me initiating the covenant or does the Creator grant me this opportunity?

Answer: Of course, it comes from the Creator. Everything begins with Him.

Question: When Jacob makes the covenant, he sets conditions to the Creator. We are taught that we should not expect any reward. Why then are conditions set?

Answer: A condition does not imply a reward. If we want to form a covenant, it already includes obligations from both sides that must be fulfilled. This is exactly what we need—to take a specific position on this matter relative to Jacob.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/3/25, “Arvut on the Way to Lishma”

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Question: I feel that it is impossible to catch the light entering the vessel. How do we work with this? How can we hold it?

Answer: None of us individually can receive the light, but only if we come together. Each of us separately does not have the receptacle, the vessel. We form the receptacle by connecting our receiving and bestowing qualities. At their intersection, we create a network, and in this network, we catch the upper light, the Creator.

Question: What do we receive from the ten?

Answer: By annulling ourselves before the ten, each of us represents Malchut. The other friends, in relation to each of us, are the first nine Sefirot, the qualities of bestowal.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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When I experience a new desire for something, it is called a descent. In reality, there are no descents: “Holiness increases, not decreases.” However, when a new corrupted desire arises within us, we perceive it as a descent.

Each of us experiences the emergence of new egoistic desires. If we are correctly connected with one another, these desires automatically bind us together, and we instinctively respond to them.

This means that I perceive my friend’s desires as my own, and they perceive mine as theirs. In this way, we continuously pull each other up and rise together. It does not take a month or even a week for us to linger in a state of descent, to wait for the Creator’s mercy to lift us out of it. That does not happen.

If we are part of a group, each new descent, which is necessary for the revelation of the entire Kli (vessel), the entire desire, is felt by everyone as a tremendous advantage, as a great discovery. This is why it is said that an old man walks bent over as if searching for something he has lost. “Where are my desires? Where are the uncorrected intentions I can lift from the ground, elevate, and thereby elevate myself?”

But this is only possible if you are part of a group, if you rely on your friends and know with certainty that you are connected to them. In this way they support you and you support them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “Turning to the Creator”

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Question: Many friends from all over the world are going to the big congress or to the mirror congresses. What should our intention be on the way to the congress?

Answer: It does not matter where the friends are: on the road, already at the congress, or staying in their places at home. The main thing is that they are all together in the same state.

Most important is for a person to be in a ten, where he can, together with his friends, implement a system of the common Kli. Therefore under no circumstances do I divide people into those who are far away, on the road, or even somewhere else in the world. The only difference is how much a person wants to be included in this common Kli.

When he comes here and participates in the congress, he works in tens, takes part in workshops, and unites with friends. We can also study at home. We see that people who come, both men and women  (women even to a greater extent) absorb the material correctly, ask excellent questions, and are aware of what we are studying.

We meet these people everywhere. Many, even without knowing about the congress, listen to us and understand us. Suddenly it becomes clear that a huge number of people in the world nourish themselves from us.

Why am I saying this? To emphasize that the most important reason we gather is not to acquire knowledge, but to get the impression that it is precisely in the ten that we can see the structure of the world, the ten Sefirot.

And when we perceive these ten Sefirot in the ten and their division into the upper, middle, and lower parts (Rosh, Toch, Sof), when we feel the right and left lines and the light of NRNHY that is clothed in them, we will begin to work practically with this construction. And there is nothing else beside it. It is an atom of the spiritual world.

We cannot talk about any quality, about anything, if it is less than ten. We can say, “This is a hydrogen atom; this is an oxygen atom, something else or something else,” but we cannot speak of anything smaller than that, because there are no qualities there.

There must be a collection of some elements—pluses, minuses, electrons, protons, neutrons, and so on—that make up this object, which can be called by a certain name based on the combination of pluses and minuses. All substances are made of them. And then interesting relationships occur between them, all kinds of dynamic connections. Then this substance is called either vegetative, animate, or human.

In other words, we must gather in such a combination that would start such a life among us! That is why we come to the congress, and not to see the faces of our friends there. No! The main thing is to feel the gathering of people who can reveal the Creator and manifest the world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “Turning to the Creator”

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Question: There are commandments between me and my friends and between me and the Creator. In the state of Lishma, should my intention be directed at my friends or at the Creator?

Answer: Both at the friends and at the Creator.

Question: Let us say that I love everyone, but I cannot make others love me. Does Lishma depend only on everyone and not on me at all?

Answer: It depends on everyone and on you; you just have to keep working.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/4/25, “Connecting to Lishma“

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Question: How can I restore my connection with the Creator after a descent? Should I begin to think that it comes from Him and directly make such a calculation? But if you say it is impossible to do this without experience, then what should I do in this situation?

Answer: One person cannot do anything alone. One will ascend and descend for a long time, struggling until a person finally finds a group. A thought will arise within him that this is necessary, and he will be brought to the group.

We are all the result of a shattered soul. Each of us is a fragment, a shard, and we must gather these broken parts back together into one whole.

The shattering occurred when a great light acted upon the collective desire and caused it to break apart. This desire then filled the spaces between the fragments, between its broken pieces. In this way, the desire became multilayered, complex, and egoistic. Now, between all its fragments, egoism resides.

What should we do? Within this system are our individual desires, and between them, between all of us, lies egoism, and filling all the spaces between us is a force intentionally created by the Creator.

Now we are like an archipelago, small islands in a sea separated by egoism. We need the Creator to act upon this sea of egoism and transform our egoistic interactions into altruistic ones—into connection, bestowal, and love. This is the correction.

Therefore, without a group we cannot achieve anything. If I try to work alone, I will have no opportunity to achieve anything.

There was a period in human history, from Adam to Abraham, when it was not necessary to correct oneself through interaction in a group. At that time, egoism was not manifested in such a way that it required the attraction of the upper light within a group to transform intentions from reception to bestowal.

But now, I cannot imagine how this can be done without a group. A person, of course, may detach themselves slightly from the material world, but they cannot move forward and ascend the spiritual ladder because the implementation of the method of correction consists in reuniting into the one soul called Adam.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”

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A “neighbor” is not just any person; it is my friend who stands opposite me, and I gradually begin to achieve love for him in order to come to love for the Creator.

It is a strict formula: first I turn to the Creator, and in order to connect with Him, I unite with my friends, my “neighbors.”

I work on love for my neighbor because it is a prerequisite for reaching love for the Creator!

The neighbor and the Creator are interconnected because relative to my desire to receive, they hold an equal position. They are equidistant from me, and I feel the same way about both of them!

The Creator is entirely bestowing, and the neighbor seems to me just as hateful as the quality of bestowal. Therefore, I reject them both.

If I do not reach the point where I relate equally to the Creator and to the neighbor, I will not be able to work correctly. It is like aligning a sight, bringing my view, the front sight, and the target into one line.
If I am more inclined toward either the Creator or the neighbor, I am no longer aiming properly.

I must align myself precisely with the target so that the one striving for the Creator (Israel), the light of correction, and the Creator unite into a single whole.

A neighbor (a Kabbalistic group) is the spiritual vessel, the system of souls, while the Creator is what fills this system.

But then I realize that they are one and the same, because the vessel becomes like the light. There is no light without a vessel, without a Kli! And for me, everything merges into one.

The group becomes an example of the Creator for me. Through my attitude toward them, I learn how to relate to Him: whether to love or hate Him.

After all, the only possible attitude toward the Creator is one of bestowal. And here, the group is provided for me to test how much I am in a state of bestowal.

What creates the distance, the difference, between the Creator and the group? Only my own egoism! If it were not for my ego, there would be no distinction between them.

Why do I still feel a difference? Because I receive some pleasure from the Creator but none from the group. That is the entire difference!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/26/10, Writings of Rabash “What Does the Rule “Love Thy Friend as Thyself” Give Us”

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