Question: For me, The Book of Zohar is very difficult to comprehend. There are parts that I read again and again, but in spite of that, they remain incomprehensible. How does one overcome them?

Answer: You must read what we are studying. It is preferable to connect to the lessons. It could be that it is difficult for a person to read by himself, so it is preferable for him to hear and grasp everything by closing his eyes. I advise proceeding in a way that is comfortable for you. You must put yourself under the influence of The Book of Zohar in any condition; it is not important which.

Question: Baal HaSulam wrote that before we study The Book of Zohar, we need to study the four introductions he wrote. What do you suggest?

Answer: I would suggest that you immediately immerse yourself in The Book of Zohar, after a person browses through The Book of Zohar once, he will be able to begin to study the theory, meaning the “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” and the rest of the prefaces, and then he can already work on The Book of Zohar seriously.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/5/17

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Question: Is it possible to correlate the structure of the soul with the structure of our body? If so, how?

Answer: Absolutely not. A soul is a soul and a body is a body. We don’t need to imagine our corporeal body as something that is eternal and perfect. It is the ordinary animate level. And the soul is the next level above the animate level.

Question: What is the creation and how are we related to it?

Answer: We are parts of creation. Our role is to begin to consciously react to what is happening to us.

Question: What is a Partzuf?

Answer: The word “Partzuf” means “face” in Hebrew. The Partzuf or the face are called the ten Sefirot, which illuminate when they are properly selected and assembled.

Question: Are the Sefirot filters?

Answer: A Sefira is a filter of the upper Light. What is left in it after it filters the Light turns into our feelings.

Question: Is Malchut the original matter?

Answer: The original matter is the desire in Keter, which develops all the way to the very last state in Malchut.

Question: Is a point and a line of a letter the same as zero and one, a certain code, a program?

Answer: A point is a desire and a line is its direction.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/5/17

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Question: When is time a person’s enemy?

Answer: Time is not a person’s enemy; the person is the enemy of his own time.

Within a person is a device through which he determines time from zero to infinity at any speed. Time is variable. Even physicists say this, but just not in our coordinates.

The wisdom of Kabbalah differs from quantum physics and other exact sciences in that it brings a person into a space where he is outside of time, where he can change himself in his own axes of freedom. But to do this, it is necessary to acquire tools (Kelim), other senses of perception.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/19/17

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Question: Why is the soul made of or does it have to be made of ten Sefirot?

Answer: Because according to the physical spreading of the Light unto the desire, there cannot be a complete action if the Light does not go through the ten Sefirot and does not attain the last tenth Sefira, the tenth.

In it the Light finds the desire that is right for it, which means the right attribute that catches the Light and receives it inside.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/5/17

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Question: What does “principle” mean in spirituality? Is it a law? And what will happen if I don’t follow a certain principle?

Answer: All the principles that we have from the wishes and advice of Kabbalists are intended only to help us focus ourselves correctly on the feeling of the upper world. Therefore, if we follow their advice, we will begin to perceive and to attain the upper world, which is the main thing and everything else is up to you.

Many Kabbalah students are stubborn and don’t want to change anything internally. They don’t want to change their paradigm of the perception of the world. Therefore, keep running into a wall when studying this wisdom and cannot do anything.

Question: I understand what will happen in our world if I ignore the law of gravity, but what will happen if I don’t keep or follow a law or a principle that is in The Book of Zohar?

Answer: If you don’t keep a law of the upper world, you will not feel it.

Question: Is this the worst thing that can happen?

Answer: It can be much worse because our entire development in this world is aimed at pushing us to further development: to the perception of the upper world. If we don’t do this, we will develop by terribly painful afflictions.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/12/17

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Question: There is only the Creator and the created being in the system, so who broke the general soul?

Answer: The Creator, He said: “I have created the evil inclination; I have created the Torah as a spice, since the Light in it reforms.” “Correct the breaking and you will receive a reward. I have created you small and you can reach My level, eternity, perfection, knowledge, and pleasure. Everything is before you!”

The Creator could have created us in the state of wholeness. But we are required to want to attain this level by ourselves so that we will use our free will.

Question: And what do we gain from our free will?

Answer: It will give us a feeling of attainment, revelation, and filling. It is all me!

Imagine a person who was born a prince, compared to a person who has attained the status himself and has become a king. That is the whole difference.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/23/17

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Question: Why does our evolution take place outside of spiritual space?

Answer: Nothing takes place outside of the spiritual space. We simply say that historical development seemingly takes place in our world. What does it mean in our world? It is all in spirituality. Our world doesn’t exist. It is a conditional division.

There is only one creation and everything exists in it. There is no artificial division between the worlds by any partitions. We are the ones who divide everything into parts as a result of our limited attainments and possibilities because all the limitations are inside us.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/2/17

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Question: Why is a collective reading of The Book of Zohar preferable? Is this related to the laws of psychology?

Answer: No. The upper world is built upon bestowal and love, upon the connection and integration of characteristics.

Kabbalists wrote extensively about these conditions. If relationships exist between friends in which they complement each other, connect, and so forth, then The Book of Zohar begins to illuminate them and fill them. Otherwise, it has no influence on the person.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/12/17

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Question: I like to study alone, but I’ve heard that one needs to study Kabbalah together in a group. What is the benefit of studying together?

Answer: We know that working together is very beneficial for achieving a significant result. It is no wonder that big firms employ many scientists and engineers to work on large-scale projects and major constructions. One person is not able to solve large, global problems. Kabbalah sets a major task for itself.

That is why after beginning to study Kabbalah a person gradually realizes the need to study in a group. After all, everyone, based on the special root of his soul, represents a specific quality.

Gradually students begin to connect their parts, their souls, until they assemble them into one beautiful mosaic. It is like a Lego or a puzzle that they put together and then they see the whole picture. And the whole picture appears only due to the connection between the students.
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From the conversation “Answers to the questions of beginners” 7/24/17

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Question: The recognition of evil in me is the recognition of my egoism. The recognition of something can happen only by our recognition of the differences; how black I can perceive black depends on if there is at least a bit of white in the background.

We can begin to be aware of, to know, and to perceive the Creator, that is, the attribute of bestowal, only if we recognize and are aware of the evil in us. Otherwise we will not be able to perceive and to recognize the attribute of bestowal.

But how can we recognize and perceive the evil in us (our egoism) if all that is in us, all that we perceive in this world, is egoism and nothing else? Please explain, how do you suggest that we recognize our egoism?

If we can recognize and perceive the evil in us, we will be able to justify the Creator with our heart. Otherwise it doesn’t happen and there is only an imaginary movement forward.

Answer: This is actually why we need the upper Light (the Surrounding Light)!
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