Question: Can you give at least one example of how you can adhere to the Creator in our world?

Answer: A person has to feel it by himself on himself. This is the reason that the wisdom of Kabbalah is called the secret wisdom; it is impossible to convey it in an abstract, theoretical, verbal manner. You can only teach a person to reveal it inside him and then he will be able to understand what this wisdom is.

There are no secrets in the wisdom of Kabbalah. The secret is only the fact that it is concealed from our current senses and is revealed by each one according to his level of correction. It is very simple! In our world, for example, we don’t give a small child sharp instruments, things that could be dangerous for him, we make sure he doesn’t get hurt, or doesn’t drop anything on himself.

The wisdom of Kabbalah is about even sharper and more dangerous objects and forces. Therefore an intentional “blackout” was created so that we wouldn’t be able to touch them. Imagine you exist in a dark cloud and only if you work properly will this cloud gradually begin to fade, once in one place and then in another etc., but only according to the distance and the direction you can operate without harming yourself and others.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/11/15

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Question: I currently watch and listen to [your Kabbalah] lessons in Hebrew without translation, without understanding anything; and I feel immense pleasure and joy. This bothers me, what am I enjoying? Could it be that this is the way my ego is disguising itself?

Do I need to make an effort to listen in Russian, to understand what you are talking about? I enjoy listening to the sounds, identifying the vocal emphasis (the intonation), the unknown words and language, yet I feel very close.

Answer: Besides feeling the music with the heart, it is necessary to understand the meaning through the intellect, and the main thing is participating in a group.

Question: We study Torah and draw Ohr Makif (Surrounding Light) upon ourselves, arousing our Kelim to attainment. What would you advise your students: to fulfill deficiencies or to search for deficiencies?

Answer: They should enlarge the goal in the eyes of their friends.
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It’s Important For All To Hear It

Question: You published an article based on Baal HaSulam’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” that talks about the internal and external parts of the people of Israel will undoubtedly cause resentment among religious people.

Will it trigger correction of the whole system and strengthen the inner part of the Torah relative to the external?

Answer: Baal HaSulam divided the people of Israel into the internal and external parts. The inner part is the people who are engaged in the internal part of the Torah with the intention for the sake of bestowal, i.e., Kabbalah. It brings us to loving our neighbor as ourselves. But the external part applies solely to those who observe commandments without intention.

If we study Kabbalah, we are on the path of the Light and benevolence. If we restrict ourselves to merely physical observance of the commandments, then we move from disaster to disaster as evidenced by the  ordeals endured by the people of Israel during the exile.

We want all the people of Israel to hear about this fact. It is very important that each person who has the opportunity to join the study of the internal Torah, i.e., Kabbalah, and attract the Returning Light to the people of Israel and through them to the entire world.

The article you mentioned will definitely cause a negative reaction, but it is difficult to remain silent. When we see a sick person who needs an urgent surgery, someone has to take a scalpel and perform the operation to extract a harmful tumor. Does a surgeon cause our indignation because he cuts the patient?

If we acted differently, we’d be like a little boy who cried when he saw a tailor “ruining” the fabric with scissors to make a suit.

Our current state requires correction, and pity is misplaced here. We need to understand where we are at this point. Nowadays, people are already prepared to listen. Time have changed since the Pharaoh resented Moses who in his opinion “excited” the Jewish people, rather than letting them work quietly for the Pharaoh. At this time, we are obligated to do our job as Moses and Aaron.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/9/15, Lesson on the Topic: “Selections from the Source on the Topic of Connection Between Internality and Externality in the Torah to Israel’s Redemption”

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Question: I would like to register for courses at the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education Center, but what I heard on your lesson on Israeli television confuses and perplexes me; I realized that I don’t understand anything. This wisdom seems too complicated for me. Would registering for the course be appropriate for me?

Answer: I constantly repeat that Kabbalah is a wisdom that must be studied. It is impossible to explain this profound, rich, and ancient wisdom in a few words; half of the concepts are in the upper world, from where all the forces and bestowal descend into our lives.

And what is relevant to this world is also not understood until you know what is happening in the upper world; so you cannot explain from where some phenomenon suddenly appears. Since you don’t see the upper roots, you don’t understand how the phenomena are projected from there onto our world by the forces that descend from above.

When you begin to study the wisdom of Kabbalah, which speaks about the general nature of a person, about his inner essence, we attain ourselves, the world that surrounds us, and the interaction between them. We begin to understand how we influence the world, and how the world influences us. We grasp life more deeply, its flow, our inner desires and motivations. This helps a person to balance his life, to  look correctly at what is happening, and to understand the reason for his deeds and reactions to various events.

The wisdom of Kabbalah includes everything within it. There is no area that it doesn’t encompass. It can give an answer to every question: Why are we impressed by some music? Why is our language specifically constructed this way? Why is our body built specifically in this way, with hands and feet? Why do we organize a particular environment for ourselves and think that it is comfortable for us?

All of this can be revealed through the wisdom of Kabbalah because it begins from the beginning of creation, from the creation of desire. And then this desire developed and penetrated into our world, which is what we call the “Big Bang,” as a result of which our universe appeared and expanded.

Kabbalah begins from nothing, from the beginning of creation, and carries through all of human development, including our universe, together with the Earth that is contained within it and all of its history until the present day. And it doesn’t stop with this, but leads us on to the final purpose of creation.

When a person sees this entire process, he is able to manage the process and his entire life. He sees the complete perspective, all the way from beginning to end, and so he becomes an Adam (Man) and not a little child, which is what he is today, not understanding what is happening with him and only trying to escape the blows of fate.

I invite everyone to the courses at the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education Center online or in Israel at the Kabbalah for the People college, and I wish much success to all of you!
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM 11/1/15

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Comment: Anyone who faces a great number of problems could be helped if the wisdom of Kabbalah could explain how to relate to them correctly.

Answer: In principle, each of us must find the answers to his questions himself. You must become a Kabbalist, reveal the upper world, see the system of management of our world, and if you have questions, you immediately will find the answers.

For example, a little child looks at a car and asks: “Why does this car have wheels? Why do they go around?” etc. When he gets older, he becomes familiar with the entire system, knows how a car is built, and he can answer any question that arises about it.

Thus, you will no longer be tied to your teacher, and you will begin to answer every question for yourself as you completely master our world from beginning to end, from its birth and after its end.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/27/15

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We are within the absolute force of nature, which includes everything and is eternal; that is, it exists above time. An empty space was intentionally created inside it so that we can exist there.

Kabbalists don’t engage in studying the upper force that is external to the space where our world is, but in attaining it in our world. However, they attain it only because of their equivalence of properties with it.

If we want to measure something, we build an instrument that can perceive these attributes. Therefore, in order to feel new attributes we have to create them ourselves.

There is no point in amplifying our sight by means of microscopes and telescopes, and our hearing by means of radar, etc. We will not attain anything that way. We have to create attributes in us that are similar to the upper world.

This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah tells us about. When we gradually create new attributes, we begin to feel the upper world in addition to our world. At the same time, we acquire an understanding as to where we are, what affects us, how we can change ourselves by changing the upper world, and not just to explore and study it passively.

Just like a person who is born in our world gradually attains it and at the same time can actively change it, so can we affect the upper world in addition to attaining it. This influence will only be positive because the system of our influence on the upper word is arranged so that it can convey only positive signals.

Therefore, it is impossible to cause any harm here. The wisdom of Kabbalah operates only in one direction. To the extent that a person resembles the spiritual world, he can affect it in a positive way and through it positively affect our world, which is under the upper providence.

Therefore, Kabbalah is the science of the management of our world through the upper world.

Question: What is the purpose of the creation of our world?

Answer: One can attain the whole system of management and through it the Creator of this system, i.e., the upper force that created our world, the upper worlds and who governs them.

The upper world consists of five worlds or five levels: Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. They are all divided into five other levels up to 125 degrees. Accordingly, when we ascend these levels we can influence our world more and more and change it for the better.

But most important is that at the same time we can also ascend to a spiritual reality above time, space, and all the limitations of the physical world. This is the main goal of nature.

Question: What is the upper world?

Answer: The upper world is a world of forces. Our world is also a force field, a fact that quantum physics verifies. It doesn’t reveal matter but only energy and information. They form a field in which there are forces and intelligence hidden in these forces that operates them.

Question: Does this mean that when a Kabbalist looks at a person he sees energy and not matter?

Answer: A Kabbalist sees only forces in everything.

A vet, for instance, who examines an animal, understands that it is motivated by instincts. A psychologist who speaks to a person understands the forces that motivate him. It is the same when it comes to a Kabbalist who observes a psychologists or the vet and understands what motivates them or all the people as a whole.

The attainment and understanding of the system of management raise a person to the next level of understanding the universe. He begins to look at the world in a totally different manner. Kabbalah is the science of managing all things, because the creation itself is also a consequence of the control.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/11/15

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Question: In any study, there is a process of advancement. How can I assess my progress in the study of Kabbalah?

Answer: Progress in Kabbalah is when a person attains the material more closely and begins to identify with what he studies in the world around him.

He begins to see through the system of the world forces that manage this world and himself. This control system is called the general soul.

A person begins to realize how he can affect it, how it responds to his actions and influences him. He studies this whole cycle—actuating forces and receiving feedback. In essence, this is our entire life.

This is how we can get closer to the goal in a good way and not along the path of suffering. After all, what we feel in our life now is the action of the forces that lead us to recognize as quickly as possible the control system so that, ultimately, we become part of it and begin to manage our own lives so that there won’t be such troubles and sufferings everyday.

Everything depends only on us! We have freedom of choice precisely because we have the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Once a person recognizes and attains the system of control, he sees his states throughout his previous and future incarnations. He sees the whole way until the end of all the corrections. His is a life filled with meaning.

Question: How does that affect my daily life?

Answer: The moment you realize how to fill your life with an inner content at any given moment, what you do in your corporeal life becomes unimportant. You immediately begin to feel that you have something to do in life; every minute of your life, you gain something priceless.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM 11/1/15

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Question: Do you give private lessons?

Answer: I don’t give private lessons to anyone because it is useless.

A person must study together with a group; it is only in connection with his friends that he creates the same system of forces in which he begins to feel and discover the upper world.

So there is no reason to study alone. The study should take place only in conjunction with other people, a minimum of ten people. And with the right connection between them, they will begin to feel the upper world.

Question: But you were taught one-on-one with your teacher. What has changed at this time?

Answer: I studied according to a particular program; in history there have been cases like these. Later it wasn’t easy to move from personal study to group study. I understood what it was, but didn’t personally work with the group. Most of my study took place one-on-one with the teacher.

But this cannot be today; we have entered into such a historical period in which all of humanity needs to go out to the upper world. So personal study will not yield results.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/27/15

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Question: Why can’t we simply be in a state of happiness?

Answer: Because then we wouldn’t have any desire to discover the upper world. We would exist in a state of unconsciousness.

After all, now we exist in the upper world. It is all around us, but we don’t feel it because we have no need for it, no real sensors or desires to attain it.

In order to attain them, a person must change himself so that all of his desires for this world will be practically detached from him. He will be satisfied with normal, essential existence, only in order to attain the upper world.

This is what the sufferings lead a person to. It isn’t only him but the entire world that inevitably must reach the next level.

Question: Do we  have to deal with it somehow?

Answer: The study the wisdom of Kabbalah implements the method for spiritual ascent before you encounter the suffering! Then, there will be no need for suffering since one slight sting will be enough to push you toward the upper world.
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Question: Does gender, age, or nationality influence the study of Kabbalah?

Answer: No, only desire does.

But there is a difference in the attitude and in the way of climbing the spiritual ladder that stems from a person’s attributes and especially from whether it is a man or a woman.

Just as men and women in our world differ in their perception of reality and in their advancement and in their actions, they also differ when it comes to the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Question: What is the role of women in the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: It is the same as the men’s role. There is no difference! There are simply personal differences between men and women, just like in our world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/27/15

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