Question: The concept that there is a Creator seems very suspicious.Where does a person get the yearning for individuality, exclusivity and freedom from?

Answer: The yearning for individuality and freedom is established in us by the Creator so that we would specifically attain absolute and eternal individuality, exclusivity, and freedom.

Question: Is it possible to say that each person is a Creator in his own way?

Answer: Only to the degree that he becomes similar to the Creator does the person himself become a Creator.

Question: Can we change the events in our lives ourselves?

Answer: We can change all of the events of life and their main results if we begin to summon upon ourselves what is called the correcting Upper Light, the Ohr Makif (Surrounding Light).

Question: How is it possible to exist in the physical world and still be an altruist?

Answer: You stop associating yourself with the physical world, meaning that you completely change your attitude to it.

Question: Where is information about the forms and characteristics of biological and non-biological types found? Is the information about the non-spiritual forms and characteristics of a person connected to his soul?

Answer: Information about all physical forms is inherent in matter itself, and the management of this matter comes  from the surrounding spiritual space.

Question: In history has there ever been women who were Kabbalists?

Answer: There were quite a few female Kabbalists in history and today there may be more. In the wisdom of Kabbalah there is no difference between a woman and a man.

Question: You claim that the conditions are ideal now for the development of the wisdom of Kabbalah. So why is it that there are so few Kabbalists who are known in our time?

Answer: Ideal conditions for the development of the wisdom of Kabbalah really do exist today. It is reaching the masses and has spread very widely. But that is only the beginning since we are the first generation to widely disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Question: Why are you not interested in the essence of other studies?

Answer: It is because they are not involved with the ascent of our nature.

Question: Is disease a punishment?

Answer: Disease is healing, a purification.

Question: I just want to have fun. Will the wisdom of Kabbalah help me?

Answer: Yes, the wisdom of Kabbalah will bring you absolute fun.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/20/16

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Question: Is there a spiritual concept of compromise?

Answer: It is not present in spirituality, but there is in a person. A person is constantly under the influence of his “animal,” which agrees and convinces him that he has to compromise. We have to try to restrict our compromises.

Question: How does the wisdom of Kabbalah relate to obscene language? Does it harm the corporeal body in any way?

Answer: Nothing is harmful! If it expresses our internal essence, there is nothing wrong with it.

Question: Does the concept of emptiness exist in Kabbalah?

Answer: Emptiness is an empty desire. The lack of a filling in a desire is called emptiness.

Question: Can learning Hebrew help a person get closer to the goal of the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: Yes, partly, because all the Kabbalistic terminology stems from Hebrew or Aramaic.

Question: For whom is it easier to become a Kabbalist, a scientist or an ordinary person?

Answer: I think it is easier for an ordinary person who doesn’t stand out in any way, when there is nothing special about him except for one thing: the question of whether there is meaning to life or not, and if not, then life is a waste of time, is burning in him. This person doesn’t have the energy to end his life, but there is nothing to live for either, and that’s what he feels all the time. If this is what a person feels and this question doesn’t let him be, his place is here.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/28/16

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Question: You have been speaking in a rigid far-right tone lately, supporting treating the Arabs in Israel with a firm hand. Isn’t this the opposite of what the wisdom of Kabbalah tells us about how to attain a general connection of love of others? Isn’t everyone supposed to part of the “others”?

Answer: I admit that my remarks sound quite tough. It is because this is how my yearning for the correction of the world guides me. The Jews are those who can correct the world by being a nation in the Land of Israel.

There is no other way of bringing the method of correction into our world in a nice way. The other path is a devastating nuclear war accompanied by environmental disasters. So I am in favor of acting in every possible way in order to have the Jews understand what their mission is and for them to fulfill it for the sake of the whole world. It is clear, of course, that I do not agree with those who want to nullify the existence of the State of Israel.
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Question: How does a woman attain spirituality? I have already read that a woman should mainly support her husband, care for her family, and participate in dissemination, but I don’t understand how exactly a woman attains spirituality by supporting her husband (the men’s group)?

Answer: A man’s path with regard to the Creator is the same as the woman’s path with regard to her family or with regard to the male part of the group. A woman is the head of the family and the home because she works for it and serves it. The man’s work is identical with regard to the group and the Creator. We can learn how a man should work in spirituality by the example of women’s work in our world.
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Question: How can my wife and I walk together toward the Creator, and in what way is the spiritual work in a family different from the work in a group? We watch the lessons together and read the writings of Baal HaSulam aloud. Are there concrete recommendations and sources that speak about this?

Answer: Studying with your wife is recommended and it helps. This is described in many of our materials.
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Question: I saved money in a bank for 20 years, but due to unforeseen circumstances, I lost everything. Does this have spiritual significance?

Answer: There is a meaning to everything. Everything that happens in the world is done according to a higher calculation, “There is none else beside Him” (Deuteronomy 4:35).

More than that, this calculation is not carried out by a God in the form of an old man sitting above and calculating on paper who deserves what. Rather everything is done and actualized within the general network through which we are linked.

We are all in a universal ego and our common connection within it determines the personal fate of each one of us. So the more that we push the world toward the right mutual relationships, we assure ourselves a correct, secure, and comfortable progression toward the revelation of good, the realization of the true goal of life.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/27/16

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Question: Have any of your students reached a level of spiritual attainment? If you cannot speak about this, how could this knowledge harm us or them?

Answer: You don’t need to know anyone who has achieved spiritual attainment; it is simply up to you to learn from those people who are working in the framework of our group; they are destined to raise you to the level of spiritual attainment.

When you enter into that system, the higher dimension, you can also see everyone else. Then you will know who is there and on which levels.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/20/16

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Question: What can we do so that there will be more justice and less suffering in the world? Why has the Creator created such an incorrect world?

Answer: The Creator did not create “such an incorrect world” but a totally uncorrected world, on purpose, so that we will correct it by perceiving its lack of correction. We can begin to correct the world by changing ourselves because there is nothing to correct but ourselves.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/20/16

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Question: What is the difference between connection among the friends and unity? What should we yearn for when we are in the group of ten?

Answer: We reach actual unity by yearning for connection.

Question: I am in a group of several men. Three to four of them participate in all the activities, while three to four other men don’t come to the group activities regularly. Such a group doesn’t bestow unto me, but I don’t want to “pull the train” by myself. The way I see it a group should operate in synergy.

Is it possible to enter the spiritual world without a group or should I teach others and thus create my own group?

Answer: Try to do it while being a member in your group.
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Comment: There is a feeling that you aren’t talking about what happens in the spiritual world, you are hiding what people are engaged with there and everything else.

Answer: For the last 3,500 years a few hundred books have been written about the spiritual world by great Kabbalists who investigated and discovered the upper world. As for me, I am the smallest and the last in the chain of Kabbalists, so if my words are inadequate, I recommend taking their books and start reading!

Then you will find out how you must change yourself so you can see the upper world, learn how to expand it, and penetrate more deeply into it. This is also true for sciences like nuclear physics or the synthesis of medicines and the like. These are very complex things and the wisdom of Kabbalah is even more complex because it is found beyond the perception of our regular senses.

It must be understood that it is not possible to explain the wisdom of Kabbalah, so I don’t exactly explain but teach. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches a person how to open his eyes and see the upper world. It is similar to looking at a stereogram in which you need to defocus your vision to see the hidden image. When the view is concentrated on the picture it seems that there is nothing there except for lines, and suddenly with defocusing your vision a three-dimensional picture can be seen there of roaming dinosaurs or anything else. This happens when vision is fully dispersed.

The wisdom of Kabbalah can teach a person to disperse the focus like this with all the senses! Then all five senses become directed toward the next more internal level and we begin to enter into a picture of the world that is beyond its borders and we feel all of creation! I cannot explain this, I can only recommend how to disperse the focus on oneself, how to feel the upper world instead of this world, and enter into the next dimension.

In fact, we exist in all five spiritual worlds! And our world, which is found on the lowest level of development, is not counted among them. There are five worlds that are composed of 125 levels, which are found above our world; they exist here and now, but we don’t feel and see them. But we come in contact with them unconsciously, and they influence us. The role of a person is to discover the upper world and to carry out a focal dispersion on all of his egoistic approaches to life and begin to perceive the altruistic world that exists according to laws that are the opposite of the laws of our world: altruism instead of egoism, love instead of hatred, concern for others rather than concern for oneself.

The Torah doesn’t just say “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18) for no reason at all. This is the general law of the upper world, and if you want to feel it, try practicing this attitude toward the world. This is possible only if a person enters into a circle of people like him who are eager to attain the true reality.

When a group of people like this gather together and begin to practice attitudes like this with each other, attitudes of love and concern, attention and support, then suddenly, as if in a fog, the hidden world that surrounds us will begin to appear and be revealed. The entire Kabbalistic method is based upon this, and no Kabbalist can tell us about the spiritual world because we don’t have internal models that match its sensation. In our world, we are already born with models that make it possible to feel the spiritual world, and even though they are incomplete, we acquire them. Why do newly born babies not hear and later begin to hear?  Why don’t they see at first and then begin to see? It is because these models are created in us gradually, we develop our senses. I suggest everyone to begin engaging in the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah, which derives its name from the word, “Le’Kabel,” to receive, to receive perception of the upper world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/20/16

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