Question: I noticed that people and animals from different countries are very different from each other. For example, in India, everything is about the same size, both animals and people, and they move slower than here. When you come to another country, there are certain qualities there. In Israel, cats are so arrogant that they are not afraid of dogs, and they chase them.

How much does geography affect people?

Answer: Undoubtedly geography has a very strong influence on us!

It is best to trace this through the example of the Jews, as an experimental people in the history of mankind, who settled all over the earth. If you take Jews from the Baltic States, or from Germany, or Asia, they are just different people, different nations. They are not similar to each other! The mentality is completely different.

They were once exactly the same since they came from the same territory. Look at what happened to them! Now they have different facial features, different personalities; everything is different.

This shows how much a geographical place, its nature, and the surrounding society affect people, which in turn is also a product of geography.

Question: Are animals also a purely geographical consequence?

Answer: Certainly, naturally, animals too.

They were influenced by the environment in the same way as their common primitive ancestor, who went to Germany or Central Asia. You can see how dogs differ after settling all over the earth.

Comment: Nevertheless, the language of animals is approximately the same, and that of humans is different.

Answer: It just seems this way to us. No! There are also a lot of differences in the language of animals.

Of course not as much as in humans, because this is a consequence of our internal emotional, physiological, and general development. But of course it is different because it expresses feelings in a slightly different way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Geography Influences…” 9/13/10

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Comment: You say that when a person is in concealment, it is the most maximal, best period in the development of the soul.

My Response: The greatest pleasure comes from the juxtaposition of opposites, from solving a problem. In other words, when we see certain phenomena, qualities, or parts that do not fit together, and suddenly they find a resolution, then the pleasure of the Creator arises, the pleasure of the one who creates. That is why this is the greatest pleasure, the pleasure of creativity.

Such pleasure does not just remain with you; in it, you become equivalent to the Creator. You create! You build something! You are not just drawing on a piece of cloth whatever comes to your mind, or some things you have seen or imagined in your fevered brain, but you are painting within yourself. This is truly creation, creation out of nothing.

It is not like Isaac Levitan, who looked at birch trees and painted them. I do not in any way diminish his talent. Inner creation is billions of times greater.

When you face these opposites and you are tormented about how to connect them because they must give you the highest harmony, the next degree where they can be connected, then they lift you up. They are the two foundations of the spiritual ladder.

You create the rungs you ascend on yourself by linking them between those foundations. That is when you understand that you are truly creating, that you are in revelation, in the act of creating something new, and not just copying birch trees.

Question: Even a person who has absolutely no creative inclination, does he also create his own perception? How does he create? Say a person is just sawing wood; he is just sawing.

Answer: There is no such thing as “someone who creates nothing,” because each has his own soul; he is building it! He is sculpting a human being out of himself! He did not place some discobolus, a figure figure throwing a discus, in front of himself to make a likeness. He made a perfect likeness and is considered a master. The horror we admire!

One must build something new! In creating from nothing, a person becomes similar to the Creator!

“Creating from nothing” does not mean that he sees a finished picture in front of him; he creates it himself. It appears in the world for the first time! It never existed before!

Question: Are you speaking specifically about someone who is in the process of spiritual advancement?

Answer: Of course.

Question: And each person builds his own new reality?

Answer: Absolutely! It has never existed before.

Question: But then how do you say that all of it already exists in harmony and is pre-programmed?

Answer: The point is that when you build this reality, you must create an internal readiness for the final result within yourself. And when it is born, you feel: “Yes, this is exactly what I wanted!”

Can you imagine what pleasure it is when, through birth pangs, this is born from within you, and you see in what is born that this and nothing else is what you longed for, could never express, and never imagine?

Question: But did it have to be born like that?

Answer: It exists on the next degree, but you do not know that. For you, it is new. And relative to the Creator, it is also new because no one has yet realized it in matter, that is, in desires.

Comment: This sounds like a self-learning mind.

My Response: Of course! The whole of Kabbalah is a process of self-knowledge, nothing but self-knowledge. And in fact our entire existence is nothing but a process of self-knowledge.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Creativity at the Level of the Creator” 9/17/10

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This repels many newcomers; they fly out of the group and do not want to continue studying. Or should they cross this barrier? What should people who encounter the methodology of Kabbalah for the first time do?

They understand perfectly well what you are talking about and admire the inner depth that you convey. But they cannot accept this method and constantly ask: “What is the point of all these actions: songs, dances, and other things?”

My Response: I see that for many people this is the most accessible and pleasant thing.

I look at a convention, thousands of people gather there, all dancing, singing, shouting. For them, this is an understandable way to express themselves and unite. It seems to me that this is what makes them happy. Would they really be pleased if I turned it into serious academic study there?

What else can you do if you want to lift people up, to inspire them? At least on this small level they can somehow express a longing for the Creator, for connection, even if not exactly for connection itself, but for something that draws them. I have seen this.

Still, I myself am not so inclined toward that. I have a completely different approach to attainment, to inward penetration. But we are talking about the masses who can feel and grasp things in this way.

By the way, after they dance, hug, and shout, when you listen to their questions, those questions are very deep and relevant, about the four phases of direct light and so on.

These are not just random questions from someone who does not know what he is talking about, but they come from understanding! They already feel these concepts and identify with them in some way. That combination is very correct in them. I envy them!
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. To deceive myself,” 6/7/11

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Question: Usually people sing and dance at our conventions and unity evenings. About 50% of the people are genuinely inspired to join in, and 50% do it through effort. Should you enjoy our method or should you do it through effort, and thereby draw the light?

Answer: Both.

Look at how mass festivities, pop bands, singers, and “Madonnas” of the world inspire people. What can you do? That is how the masses find a way to express some common opinion, a feeling of unity. That is the way everything is made. We can’t invent anything else. The most important thing is the overall common impression.

Of course, if you ask me, I feel unity most during study when all of us are learning together, absorbing one idea, being inside it as one. I hope we will reach such a state where we feel how a new thought, a new idea, a new feeling is born in our unity. It will appear precisely in the connection between us, in the adhesions, and this thought will be felt by us as a third force, as the Creator. But we will get there gradually.

Naturally it will be revealed more during study than during dancing. But both are necessary.

In the end, over the course of a few days of a convention, people receive a certain impression that is created by everything together: the study, the questions and answers, the workshops, and the cultural events.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Songs, Dances,” 9/20/10

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Question: When answering a person’s question, do you tell them what they want to hear?

Answer: No, I answer what they are able to hear. I do not indulge people; I try to respond on the level at which they can hear me. Otherwise, what is the point of replying at all?

Why ask me if I’m just going to say what they want to hear? Let them just listen to themselves, then.

Comment: All students go through various states, and when they talk to each other, each one says, “I know this or that piece of information.” And so, each one brings their own distortions into the common understanding.

My Response: That is typical for people who haven’t yet come to a clear revelation of the truth, they guess at it, imagine something about it.

Personally, I never had that kind of experience, I don’t know why. Maybe because I was very close to my teacher, and I had sufficiently accurate information. I could always ask and get a clear answer.

Comment: Suppose someone shares a feeling that they can move through walls or fly above the ground.

My Response: That is just some kind of childish fantasy.

A Kabbalist in our world cannot do anything physically out of the ordinary, because the physical world operates according to its own laws. In this world, you can’t move anything outside of the regular laws of nature.

If you have some ability, it means that ability already exists in nature. Where have you seen anyone walk through a wall? If it were possible, then anyone could do it with some practice. What does that have to do with being a Kabbalist?

A Kabbalist’s qualities operate on the next level, beyond matter. In the realm of matter, he cannot do anything special.

Question: Does a Kabbalist know how everything works, but cannot go against it?

Answer: Against what, exactly? What do you expect him to change? We are given nothing to change except our attitude toward the Creator and everything around us. When you change that, you change your own perception, your perception of reality. That is it, this is an inner wisdom.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Can Kabbalists Walk through Walls?” 9/16/10

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Comment: You said that when a person enters spirituality, there is no desire, no Aviut, but only a Masach and reflected light.

My Response: Yes, all the empty space is filled with reflected light. It, like on photographic film, begins to reveal the Creator to you, and in this emptiness, you discover divine forces, absolute goodness.

All of this manifests around the entire mass of souls, which are inside, as if in some vast space, like a baby in the mother’s womb. This return to the best possible state is prepared for all of humanity.

Unfortunately, people will begin to feel it through suffering, which will involuntarily push them toward what are called “labor pains” There is no way around it; pressure is needed in order to give birth to the human being, to push him into this state.

Once we begin to feel it, we can consider the work of the Kabbalists practically complete. Experiencing such states, humanity will rush forward on its own.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Photo of the Creator,” 9/21/10

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Question: Can you raise a person without being aware of them, and they will not even identify that they were in a spiritual state?

Answer: This can happen to everyone, but they do not feel it, they do not define it.
When we study together, people all over the globe, no matter where they are, rise with us, but not in their awareness, not in their disclosure. At the same time, they are filled.

Question: During Kabbalah classes, does a person enter the spiritual world?

Answer: Yes, but not obviously because the person does not have a screen.

Question: But this is not your merit?

Answer: It is natural! This is the nature of the spiritual world. There is nothing else here. What does merit have to do with it? We are in a system, within the laws of nature, in its properties, and we act within it. In the end what happens is what happens. There are no tricks here!

Question: But in any case, you can pass on some spiritual experience even to a novice student. Does he internally find some kind of disclosure that you put into him?

Answer: Yes, of course. Let us say if I die today, then in a few years the people who continue to study will discover what I put into them yesterday, the day before yesterday, and so on.

Question: Is it the same as you keep revealing what RABASH invested in you?

Answer: By the same mechanics, of course.

Question: So each of us has a certain reserve of your ball of yarn, which gradually unwinds over time?

Answer: Yes. I will even say more. You cannot have anything else! This is a top-down descent and a bottom-up ascent.

Everything you comprehend, you received from the highest. This hierarchy remains until the end of the completion of correction. I am always above you, so you turned out to be my disciple and connected through me to higher levels. And everything you have in you, you will always receive through me. What difference does it make whether we will be in this world or only in the spiritual one? It does not matter.

Question: Let us say you are currently a carrier of spiritual information. Are your students who will appear in 5 to 10 years the next level? Is there another step beyond that?

Answer: Of course! Their students and so on, everyone who pulls everyone else along is their teacher, like in a chain reaction.

The one you attract, that is, after the first contact with a person, will begin to receive through you. After all, these contacts are not accidental because our souls were so connected from the beginning.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Inside the Words of the Answer There Is Also…” 9/8/10

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Question: Can a Kabbalist be a scoundrel?

Answer: This cannot be because he clearly sees the qualities of the Creator and is a part of Him.

But how can you think that a person is capable of performing miracles? What miracles do you want? Like little children, I want this to happen! If there is some mechanism inside the object, you press a button and show the child the so-called “miracle.” He opens his mouth because he does not understand the connection between the button and what happened.

We are all in exactly the same state.

I remember how I was once sitting in an airport in the north of Russia. Some Chukchi (a member of an Indigenous people of extreme northeastern Siberia) was passing by, and at that moment, the door of a box that measures the air temperature suddenly opened. You know, there is such a device. There is a box on a column in which there are barometers, thermometers, and other measuring devices. A motor (selsyn) automatically opens the door of the box so that air enters, and the devices measure it. Then the box closes until the next measurement.

When the Chukchi saw this, he almost fell. You should have seen his face. I thought: “Well, now a new god is being born before him.” For him, naturally, it is a miracle. Suddenly a door opens…

It is the same with us. We all wait for such phenomena, behind which stand these selsyns that open and close doors.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Can Kabbalists Walk through Walls?” 9/16/10

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Question: Essentially, Kabbalists describe the system of souls. But the Creator is described as an inanimate system, a force that governs everything. Ultimately all souls are supposed to reach similarity with this force. But if it is inanimate, does that mean the souls will also become inanimate?

Answer: I do not know what you mean by “inanimate.”

Comment: I mean, it is not a mind, which can change, but just a force.

My Response: What do you mean “not a mind”? We are the ones who are mindless. I understand only one thing: there is desire and next to it is a mind that fulfills what the desire wants. That is all. There is nothing else in the world. The greater the desire, the more it develops the mind needed to fulfill it.

Comment: But the Creator is the ultimate desire we must achieve.

My Response: That is how we perceive Him within ourselves. In our greatest desire, when we feel the true quality of the Creator called the quality of bestowal and love, we call that “the Creator.”

Question: Let’s take an example of a force, like a traffic light. There is no point arguing with a traffic light because it is an unchanging mechanism. So if we become similar to the Creator, do we turn into that same kind of unchanging mechanism?

Answer: If we become similar to the Creator, then all of our internal and external movements become absolutely correct, altruistic, and based on bestowal and love. We would not experience a single doubt about what to do or how to act.

So you are asking: “Does that mean we turn into robots who flawlessly execute their internal program?”
Right now, we carry it out incorrectly and therefore we introduce all sorts of errors and interferences into it. As a result, those interferences force us to come to the correct program of behavior.

So you are suggesting that as long as we are not corrected and do not really know what to do, we feel free: “I could do this or I could do that.” But once we know for sure what we should do, then we will stop feeling free, we will just be like animals.

Comment: Yes, you are speaking about merging with this force and becoming like it. A person as if becomes the Creator, similar to Him.

My Response: Do you think I would feel bad if at every moment I felt that I am doing something, exposing the next desires within myself, finding ways to resolve them in an absolutely correct manner, realizing them, and thus constantly advancing in such a spiritually correct, perhaps even error-free growth? What is so bad about finding an absolutely correct algorithm of behavior?

Question: Let’s say you have a mechanism, like a precisely working clock. Are you saying we become like this clock? But what mind does a clock have?

Answer: So what is the problem? What I see is that today you are a mechanism that does not understand how it works. It does everything it needs to do, but it thinks it is acting freely, like a small child. But I see you from the outside; you perform all actions absolutely correctly, without any mistakes. You do everything exactly right because nature compels you to do so.

The difference lies in how you see yourself. Do you see yourself in your true form from the level where you correctly observe and evaluate everything within you? Or do you not see this and are in concealment, unaware that the Creator is completely controlling you now, that even now you are entirely carrying out His program?

In other words, you are saying: “I want to remain in concealment; it gives me the illusion of freedom.” But I say: “No, you do not need that!” Because when I feel that I am moving in unison with the Creator, I experience even greater pleasure. At the same time, I do not lose the sense of freedom, I do not turn into a robot, although I know precisely that I am moving in harmony with Him. It gives me immense joy to search for the correct behavior in relation to Him.

It is like when you listen to music and it is somewhat familiar, you already know what the next chords, sounds, and transitions will be. Precisely that anticipation, that foreknowledge of what is coming, gives you far more enjoyment than an unfamiliar melody, because you do not have any developed, known desires, sensations, emotions, or expectations toward it.

Try to figure this out! And you will see how this does not rob you in any way; rather, it makes you far richer, more serious, more majestic when you suddenly begin to reveal a completely different level of your own behavior, of how you are governed, and of your participation in the common governance. These are things beyond imagination!

Why talk about this on an amateur level? Reveal it, and you will see! Then you will discover that your current state is the most pitiful and the most miserable.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Similarity to the Creator,” 9/16/10

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Question: Can a person, as a result of studying Kabbalah, harm another? For example, kill someone intentionally due to an increase in desire?

Answer: Absolutely not. Even ordinary psychics or clairvoyants cannot do that, let alone a Kabbalist.

The thing is, a Kabbalist is connected to the Creator and to some extent becomes similar to Him. That means he is incapable of causing harm to others.

It is possible that others may feel he is harsh or rough with them. But harm, in the sense that people usually understand it, a Kabbalist cannot inflict. It contradicts the very nature he is attaining and absorbing within himself.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Harm to Others” 8/31/10

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