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Are We Destined to Succeed?

557This singular thought … is the operator, like the force that operates in the operated. This is because what is merely a thought in Him is a binding law in the created beings. Because He contemplated delighting us, it necessarily occurred in us that we receive His good abundance (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 5, Item 22).

Comment: In principle, everything is not so bad, and we are destined to succeed.

My Response: We are destined to succeed but through a very long way of recognizing our nature and correcting it.

Nevertheless, if He intended to delight us and created in us the will to receive the pleasure that He gives, then we will one hundred percent come to this state.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 12/18/22

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Antagonism Toward Kabbalah

963.6Comment: According to the classification of sects, it states: “The world is headed for disaster, and only the group knows how to save it.”

My Response: Not just the group but also the Kabbalists who have described it in their books. Therefore, you can turn not to us but to those who wrote it: Rav Kook, Baal HaSulam, Agra, Ari, Rashbi in The Book of Zohar, and so on. This is also written in the Prophets with reference to our time.

Moreover, there are documents that you cannot evade at all. But people turn a blind eye to them saying: “They do not understand anything, they are mystics, a sect.” But it will pass, I assure you. We have no other choice but to keep going and gradually eradicate this antagonism toward Kabbalah among people.

Kabbalah is anti-egoistic, and therefore, it turns out that it is against every person, against their nature. How can one take it when it is the most hated subject, the most despised teaching, that constantly tells him: “You have to change, constantly do this and that.” And you do not want to do these things.

I understand these people because I tell them they have to do something against their desires.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalah about Cults” 12/18/13

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Rest or Movement?

527.03It is known that profusion of movement pains man, for it is an indirect extension from His essence. However, it is also impossible to remain devoid of possessions and good, for this, too, is in contrast with the root, since the root is filled abundantly. Hence, we choose the torment of movement in order to acquire filling with possessions.

However, because all their possessions and property are for themselves alone, and “he who has a hundred wants two hundred,” it follows that “One does not die with half one’s wishes in one’s hand.” Thus, they suffer from both sides: from the pain of increased motion, and from the pain of deficiency of possessions. (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 4, Item 21)

Our egoism, that is, our nature, is arranged in such a way that we want to be either in complete rest or to be filled with what we lack. Our entire life is practically in looking how we can be filled with what we desire.

Here we always have two options: either to remain at rest or to enter a movement that leads us to fulfillment. And if you have already decided to move, then you should clearly see the goal in front of you.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 12/18/22

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Empty Discussions

511.01Very often, people who do not attain the upper world like to talk about Kabbalah. How can they talk about it if they are unable to implement this method? They do not understand what it is at all and they draw their conclusions by analogy with something that seems similar to them, with Hinduism or some psychological or spiritual practices, nothing more than that.

We do not pay attention to it. What can you do with people who talk about what they do not feel and have not experienced for themselves? This is not serious and it is unscientific. It is done by people who either philosophize without attaining the material or express their opinion without understanding anything.

I have met such people and sometimes I had to listen to them because it is inconvenient to tell a person that he is small and stupid, although he may look important, is puffed up like a turkey, and may even be a scientist.

As a rule, serious scientists understand that this is not their field. They do not go into what they have not explored themselves. This applies only to philosophers and all kinds of mystics and journalists, those who think they understand something.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalah about Cults” 12/18/13

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Thought as Fuel for a Power Plant

200.01Scientists are struggling in search of new sources of energy. When a nuclear reaction occurs in the Sun or in a laboratory, energy is released that already existed in a latent form and it is just freed as a result of fusion. What is this energy that is hidden between people?

This is the greatest energy. In a nuclear reaction produced in a laboratory, we only split or combine material particles. While working with the energy that exists between people, we receive access to an unlimited source of energy. All this depends only on the relationship between people.

We will inevitably exhaust our ability to extract energy from inanimate, vegetative, or animate raw materials. We will have to add human desire here. This is a completely new approach, which is possible only if we have already mastered the inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels.

The energy of connection between people is unlimited because it belongs to the human level. In this way, we use the forces of nature acting between the Creator and the created beings. At the same time, we do not need to burn raw materials or split atoms. To do this, you do not need to create laboratories, you only need the thought of people who unite and think together about the way to jointly receive energy for the benefit of everyone.

The tank for producing this energy will also be only in thought. This thought, the purpose of creation, the connection of people, and mutual assistance will become an inexhaustible source of energy for us that is capable of providing all our needs.

If there is unity between us, unification in thoughts and desires, mutual help and support, and inner connection, then with our common desire we will come closer to the desire of the upper. In this form we use forces capable of maintaining such a connection between all the particles of matter, which produces energy of a higher level than all types of energy available to our imagination.

It will be the energy of the spiritual level, which appears simply from zero. This energy will give us light, heat, and it will work between us. We will be able to generate this energy with the power of thought alone.

We are talking about extracting from matter the concealed internal energy contained in it, which was placed there by the thought of creation. Then we will no longer need to build any power plants, we will receive energy without any auxiliary means, rather just in thought. It will be such energy that can be used for any purpose.

Even today we do not really understand what electricity is, we just learned how to use it. But here we are talking about the energy of a completely different level. However, the upper governance will not give us access to such super-energy until humanity corrects itself. We can come closer to it only if we want to use it only for the benefit of people.

To the extent that a person can act for the benefit of the other, for the sake of uniting people, he will receive permission to use the energy concealed inside matter. To do this, we need to short-circuit two forces on each other: the upper force of the Creator and the lower force of creation
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From KabTV’s “Conversation with Journalists” 12/13/22

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Is Kabbalah Really that Simple?

508.1Comment: According to the classification of a cult, it is considered that the teaching of the group is extremely simple and explains any problem.

My Response: There is nothing simple in Kabbalah because everything we study must go through our feelings. We must attain this by changing our qualities, and only when they change can we say that we have learned some aspect, some phenomenon.

That is, it is a long process of changing the person himself. Nothing in Kabbalah can be studied without changing oneself.

The fact is that science is not when I study some extraneous phenomena, but when I study what is happening within me because the world is felt inside a person. There is no world outside of a person.

Our knowledge and attainment are purely subjective, and therefore, only by changing all kinds of parameters in myself, can I begin to understand how I perceive the world, how I am arranged, and what the world I perceive is. Everything is only inside of me.

So, there is nothing simple here. Everything is built only on showing a person that he must begin to change in order to attain the real universe and the system of governance.

People who do not do this, do not change themselves, but only philosophize about it and attribute to Kabbalah everything that seems to them, because they do not attain it in themselves, from their own experience. Hence, they have an incorrect opinion about Kabbalah. They liken it to all kinds of other practices; they believe that it is slander, conspiracies, witchcraft, mysticism, Pulsa deNura, spells, and so on.

Basically, they attribute to Kabbalah something that has never been in it at all. In fact, a Kabbalist has no secrets, all he needs is to change himself, expand his sensations, feelings, and then he will perceive the true universe more and more, which is outside of us, but will be felt internally.

Kabbalah talks about how to change our senses with the help of restriction (screen, reflected light), spiritual attainment, how light (NRNHY) will gradually enter new senses, which are called KHB ZON, and so on.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalah About Cults” 12/18/13

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Double Emptiness

509And “he who has a hundred wants two hundred,” it follows that “One does not die with half one’s wishes in one’s hand” (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 4, Item 21).

We are arranged in such a way that we always run for a double reward, which constantly signals us from afar. Therefore, it turns out that we die without reaching it. This means that a person dies without getting even half of what he wished for.

Thus, they suffer from both sides: from the pain of increased motion, and from the pain of deficiency of possessions. That is, you suffer both from the fact that you have to move all the time and look for something, and from the fact that you are not fulfilled.

This is our life. In any case, we will be constantly running, constantly striving for something, and we will not be able to stop ourselves. But no matter what actions we take, we will still remain twofold empty.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 12/18/22

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Gradual Entry into the Wisdom of Kabbalah

962.7Comment: Due to the growing popularity of Kabbalah and the development of the Bnei Baruch organization, there are many views on how to classify it. Some consider it as a cult. For example, it is considered that it offers you the exact recipe for success and happiness, just for you.

My Response: There is nothing personal or “just for you” in Kabbalah. It can only be for everyone because the universe is common, unified, and there can be no happiness for one.

Comment: According to the classification of cults, the first meeting opens up a completely new way of looking at things for people.

My Response: No, this is not the case in Kabbalah. By starting to study it, you are just beginning to realize that you are facing something radically new. But what exactly it is, you do not understand.

It takes a lot of time for a person to get into it. First he must prepare his senses and expand them. He must begin to work for bestowal, and then in this acquired quality, he will begin to feel the upper world that we are talking about.

The upper world is the world that is felt in our altruistic desires. While I do not have them, I do not reveal anything. I just feel that it is really something special: big, deep, and ancient. But this impression is very general. It may be incorrect. After all, all of it is individual.

Comment: When a person feels something unusual in Kabbalah, let’s say he checks some things in life.

My Response: No, these are not spiritual, but all kinds of personal psychological impressions, which he often has when confronted with something new—terrible or beautiful, it doesn’t matter what. This is not Kabbalah.

How can a person who has just started studying, at the first impression feel and understand what Kabbalah is?! It is not from our world at all. Therefore first he must see that there is a huge, ancient wisdom embedded in it. Maybe the first time he does not understand something, but instead he simply feels that this is not mysticism and not divination, i.e., it is absolutely nothing that he has read about anywhere else.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalah about Cults” 12/18/13

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Each Question in Its Own Time

530Question: There are times when someone asks you a question and you answer it very briefly, and sometimes you do not even want to give an answer. It also happens that we ask the same question, and you pour out your soul and open wide spaces before us. How do we catch this moment when you can say something?

Answer: If I cannot answer a question directly, but have the opportunity to answer it in a different way, then I answer.

Kabbalists have large limitations in what they can say and what they cannot. In addition, it is possible that by the time you ask the question for the second or third time, the state of the group has already changed. This is why I can talk about the topic that interests you. That is, there are many different conditions. The difference may even be in several days.

Comment: Sometimes you say that it is impossible to talk about something at all, and at other times you address this topic and develop it widely.

My Response: It is because the time has come. It does not depend on me. I am just a transmitter here.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Ask a Kabbalist a Question” 3/6/13

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Big Unification Instead of Big Bang

936Initially, there was only one desire—it was the desire of the Creator to delight His creations. But the Creator broke this desire into tiny pieces, and they scattered, distancing themselves from each other according to the difference of their qualities, which was revealed during the breakage.

Thus, scientists assert that our universe was formed as a result of the Big Bang. In the beginning, it was just one point that exploded, and its particles began to scatter in all directions in search for balance.

The universe is still expanding, moving away from the central point where the connection once existed. We are still in the process of dispersing. But scientists say that this expansion must end, and the universe will begin to collapse back, meaning, we will begin to get closer and connect.

Somewhere in this process, a state of equilibrium will be reached depending on how we influence these huge cosmic forces and star clusters with our thoughts so that that they begin to get closer back to the center of the Big Bang.

We will see that we can influence all these billions of stars and bring them closer to each other to such an extent that perhaps they will unite again into one nucleus containing all the desire created by the Creator.

There are parallels in this between astrophysics and the science of Kabbalah. The fact is that every day and every moment we influence what is happening in the sky and what will happen to us with our thoughts.

When parts of the universe that seemed empty to us became accessible for observation by space telescopes, billions of stars suddenly opened up there. In place of an empty, dark space, it was as if another universe suddenly opened up to us.

This shows how infinite the world we are in is: both the spiritual world and the material world are endless. And we need to learn how to approach each other with desires and hearts, and then we might be able to see a response in the sky too.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/14/22, “Each Day They Will Be As New in Your Eyes”

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