Question: We talk a lot about descents and ascents. Does a descent mean that it is me and the outside world, while an ascent means I am in the Creator and the Creator is in me? Are these states supposed to be uniform, or should they be the way they are given? Is it possible to soften this path, and does it depend on us?

Answer: We have to aspire to exist constantly in a state where we sense the Creator both inside of me and outside.

The sensation of the Creator that fills the entire world, including me, is the most perfect state. All the rest of the states are given by the Creator so we would have a greater aspiration to sense Him both inside of us and outside.

“There is none besides Him” means precisely such a sensation of the Creator where besides Him, indeed there is no one. Then who am I? I am the one who states the fact: “Yes, indeed, I feel that there is none besides Him!”

This is the only point that remains. It is the center of our soul. Everything else is the Creator.

Question: Does it depend on us to exist in the ascent as much as possible, all the time with the Creator, and the Creator inside, and Him in us?

Answer: No problem. Organize your group the way so it would always be engaged in this. Then it will be holding you.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 11/24/2019

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Question: God spoiled everything; He created evil, egoism, and we will correct everything and come to altruistic consciousness?

Answer: That is absolutely right. As it is said: “I created evil and gave the instruction for its correction.” The upper force created nothing but evil. And we must correct it.

But this does not mean that we should turn poverty into wealth or illness into health. Correction consists of bringing people to the attainment of the meaning of life, that is, to connection with the Creator. From there, they will receive what will fulfill them, heal them, and elevate them to the highest level.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 1/28/2018

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Question: What does it mean that we are studying Torah with the intention of not cutting ourselves off from the Creator, but being connected to Him?

Answer: We can do anything, but there is a force in the universe we all exist in. If we want to receive changes in us from this force, then we imagine such an action that can cause the influence of the upper light on us, and then we change. Our intentions change, what we want from our actions. These are the changes that the action of the righteous brings about.

The intention to bestow means that you do not want anything for yourself, but wish to act only for the sake of the Creator. It is clear that none of us has such an intention. But as it is said in TES (The Study of the Ten Sefirot) that we can attract this light and this force that will correct us. Then we will have intentions to act for the sake of the Creator in what we see as such an opportunity.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/26/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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However, in Him, wisdom, pleasure, sweetness and acerbity, operation and operator, and other such different and opposite forms are all contained as one in His simple light. There are no differentiations among them whatsoever, as is the term “One, Unique, and Unified.”

“One” indicates a single evenness. “Unique” implies that everything that extends from Him, all these multiplicities, are in Him as single as His self. “Unified” shows that although He performs the multiple operations, one force performs all these, and they all return and unite in the form of One. Indeed, this one form swallows all the forms that appear in His operations (Baal HaSulam, Study of the Ten Sefirot – Inner Observation, Part 1).

All three attributes “one, unique, and unified must join together in our attainment, in our feelings, and even in our desire, and we tune into them like a radio receiver. Then we begin to feel that these are the qualities of the Creator.

Moreover, their correct connection with one another gives us the understanding that it is not one, nor unique, nor unified, but all together.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 4/8/18

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Question: Is the system that Baal HaSulam described in TES (The Study of the Ten Sefirot) revealed to us as the Creator’s answer to our question?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How can we construct this question to reveal what Baal HaSulam wrote?

Answer: Read what you are studying and try to formulate several questions based on what you have read. Then you will see if the Creator answers them.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/31/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: How can I compel myself to investigate the upper worlds within myself, when this external world increasingly presses on me and tempts me with temptations and distracts me from the goal?

Answer: It is arranged so deliberately! Nothing is outside the will of the Creator, who specifically “washes” you in this way within your own egoism so that you may attain Him. Not a single thought or feeling arises in you that would hinder you. Everything is directed only toward attaining the unity and singularity of the Creator.

Question: But you say that the Creator does not exist, that He is only the measure of my attainment and revelation. Then who is it that “washes” me; is it myself?

Answer: No! It is the Creator who loves you in this way. He is the one who sets all this before you. You must turn to Him, “There is none else besides Him.” From Him alone come both the bad and the good.

Question: What tools are needed in order to investigate what is spoken of in Kabbalah?

Answer: Whoever engages in Kabbalah discovers these tools within himself.

Question: So a person is not born with these tools?

Answer: A person is born with a predisposition for them.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 4/15/2019

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It is known that the nature of every branch is equal to its root. Therefore, the branch desires, loves, and covets every conduct in the root, and does not tolerate and hates any conduct that is not in the root. This is an unbreakable law that applies to every branch and its root. Because He is the root of all His creations, everything in Him, and which is extended directly from Him, is pleasurable and pleasant to us (Baal HaSulam, Study of the Ten Sefirot –  Inner Observation).

The upper force, the Creator, is the quality of bestowal. We love what exists in Him and not Him Himself. For example, I love to eat well, but I do not love to cook food; I want to have a lot of money, but I do not want to work hard.

We love to enjoy what is in the Creator. However, in order to attain this, we must acquire His very qualities, yet we cannot; for us it is completely unrealistic and seems very distant and unpleasant.

Question: In what way do I, and my nature as a branch, coincide with my root?

Answer: In that which is good in the Creator is also good for me. All the fulfillments represented by the upper Light are pleasant to me: He created me this way. The only problem is that I am opposite to the Creator in qualities.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 7/8/18

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Question: What does the commandment “Do not do to others what is hateful to you” mean? How can it be universal for both the corporeal and the spiritual levels?

Answer: In order to master the upper world, we have been given egoism, and by transforming it we could adapt to the upper world.

Basically, egoism is an artificial state, so that by transforming it we would understand the structure of the spiritual world. Egoism is not an end in itself; in general, we do not have to correct it. It is a means of correction, an aid in adapting to the upper world.

No wonder, the Creator said “I created egoism.” He created it for man so that by gradually correcting it each time he would understand and reveal the spiritual world more and more.

Question: In the Kabbalistic method there are two principles: “Do not do to others what is hateful to you” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.” What are these steps?

Answer: “Do not do to others what is hateful to you” is a correction of the egoism, meaning the termination of using it as an ego. While “Love your neighbor as yourself” is already a revolution, it is using egoism in the opposite direction, for the sake of others.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 6/24/18

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Question: All the actions that we study in TES, is that what I take and read from my higher degree, from the ten, from the group? And then all of this comes together?

Answer: All of this comes together within each person. Therefore, he must be attuned so that his Kelim feel the influence of the light upon him.

Question: How can we extract the force of bestowal from the light?

Answer: We must do what the Kabbalists advise us. Then each time we will surely receive the correct answers, what to do in order to draw closer to one another and to the light.

Question: We always speak of the Kli as the organ that feels the entrances and exits of the light. How does it sense it?

Answer: A Kli is the desire to receive. And to the extent that it draws the light into itself and enjoys it, to that extent it feels the light.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/1/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: What does Kabbalah mean by “branch“?

Answer: A branch is a consequence of the upper root. This includes our feelings and all corporeal objects. Everything that is in us is a branch from the Creator. It can be direct, or it can be inverse.

Question: What does the root control in relation to the branch?

Answer: Absolutely everything! The Creator controls us completely. If it even seems to us that there are actions that do not come from the Creator, it is only because we cannot imagine the overall picture of His control. Everything comes from Him either through direct influence or through reverse influence. But reverse influence depends on the qualities of a person.

Question: Does each person have their personal spiritual root?

Answer: Yes, each one has their own. This is what distinguishes us from one another. Everything else is only additions layered upon our spiritual root. We receive one upper light from the Creator, but in each of us it is interpreted, realized, and felt differently, depending on one’s personal root.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 7/8/18

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