Question: You once said in a lecture that you see and remember images and pictures. The matter of creation is one: a desire to receive and the form is the intention either for yourself or for others, which means in order to bestow.

Does that mean that we have to try to see the Creator (the form of bestowal) behind every object in our world? Do we change our perspective or do we change ourselves by that?

Answer: No, my thinking is simply in images; I don’t see words but images and pictures to such an extent that I hardly speak. I don’t associate words with images that appear in me, and therefore I can barely learn foreign languages, etc.
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Question: Will it be more difficult for the next generations to correct their ego?

Answer: It will be easier for the next generations to correct their ego because we are paving the road for them. We are the pioneers, and that is why it is so difficult for us. When I began to study, there were no easy books about the wisdom of Kabbalah. There were no introductions, and my teachers spoke in a language that I didn’t understand at all.

Today, everything is much easier and simpler. There are many materials on our Internet site, and everything has been prepared for you, for those who study. I hope that new students will arrive who will open new opportunities for us and give us a big push toward the right description of the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Question: People who read the writings of Baal HaSulam don’t understand anything, which means that there is no way they can understand him without commentaries.

Answer: When I began to study, it wasn’t easy either. On the other hand, I had the feeling that I was drinking fresh water—that I was by a spring that I couldn’t reach, but it was spraying drops of fresh, cool water on me. I couldn’t reach the water, but it was fresh. This feeling lasted for a very long time.

My teacher always said that many pennies add up to a big sum, which means that every small effort is added to the previous effort and that you need a lot of patience for that.

I didn’t have a group and friends who studied with me. I had no one by my side but my teacher. On the one hand, it was very hard. However, on the other hand, I realize today that it was necessary in order to bring me up as an independent individual, a lone wolf, a loner who could advance in life without needing anyone. This is the reason that I can be independent today.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/16/16

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Question: I am amazed by the relatively massive criticism that you and your organization receive.

Answer: I don’t agree with you. I am amazed by the relatively little amount of criticism that we receive.

After all, we tell the world what people hate most of all, that they must rid themselves of their egoistic nature and acquire a new, altruistic nature, not the fictitious altruistic nature that we often see in our world, but the true altruistic nature that has nothing to do with our egoistic nature. A person cannot even imagine what that is.

The wisdom of Kabbalah is called the wisdom of truth, and it is about love for others only regardless of yourself. We must reach the state of love of others through our own yearning, not by coercion. Now is actually the time that such a period is beginning in human evolution, and our organization is aiming at creating the right conditions for bringing humanity to this state.

But who likes to hear about that? This is the reason that we have so many critics. Although they don’t understand anything about this method, it is the actual goal that arouses such hate in them. We, on the other hand, must continue to reveal the essence of the wisdom of Kabbalah according to our sources to the entire world.
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Question: How does the Creator want to bring us joy?

Answer: The Creator wants us to rise to the highest level of our development, so that we don’t have the same desires as a cat, but great aspirations that we will be able to fill with the pleasure of the perfect eternal existence.

We cannot perceive what an eternal pleasure is now because we don’t understand what it is. However, when a person begins to engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah and study it, he gradually discovers the infinite possibilities that he has.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/14/16

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Question: What should my intention be when I read Kabbalistic sources?

Answer: I should have only one intention: to discover the uniqueness of the upper force that manages not only my perception of the world, but the entire world. Everything stems only from that force, and I must reveal it and connect to it so that all of the sights that it invokes in me will serve as phases in its direct revelation.

Question: What forms of art help us discover the soul?

Answer: Kabbalists don’t use any forms of art to express their feelings, other than music and poetry.

Question: If a student of a Kabbalist writes a book, is he closer or more distant than we are?

Answer: If we are speaking about a true student of a real Kabbalist, he can even write a book that is closer to you, a book that can serve as a bridge for you to more serious sources. However, it is always a good idea to read the writings of Baal HaSulam and Rabash. I also consider my books as a bridge to the sources.

Question: Will there be another commentary to The Book of Zohar?

Answer: I don’t think that any other commentaries should be written, considering all of the materials that have already been prepared.

Question: Is it true that the Hebrew language has a special power and that wonderful energy stems from it?

Answer: I see millions of people who speak Hebrew, but I don’t see any special, wonderful power in them. No miracles happen in our world, and if something seems to be a miracle, it is because we haven’t revealed its cause and source.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/7/16

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Question: In what way is your organization unique and different from other organizations?

Answer: We are different not only from other groups and methods but from all of humanity, from the whole nature of this world, because it is totally egoistic.

Today, everyone in our world wants to control others and swallow them, whereas we want to ascend to the next level of our development, which is defined as love and bestowal. This means absolute altruism, when a person performs acts of bestowal unto the world not because he is born that way, since we were all born as egoists, but because this is what the Creator tells us to do, not for one’s self.

We are opposite and different from all the religions, beliefs, and philosophies because the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches a person how to devote himself to the world by performing the main commandment of the Torah, to love thy friend as thyself. We must first exit ourselves in order to do it.

It is enough to take a look at what happens in our society in order to find out that everyone has actually abandoned the main commandment of the Torah of love thy friend as thyself and everyone cares only about their self interest. This is the reason that we seem so strange and why people don’t understand us.

The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches a person how to change his nature from receiving to bestowal and how to discover the upper world and the Creator in the attribute of bestowal. When a person starts to study he doesn’t understand that yet because once he realizes that he has to go against himself he is offended and may turn against us and the wisdom of Kabbalah and even become our rival.

This is the reason that there are so few who study and acquire this wisdom and reveal the Creator.
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Question: There is a joke about heaven and hell: For one person, God made an exception and showed him heaven and hell. They asked the person: “Well, how is it there in Hell?” He answers: “There is an enormous round table there in the middle of which stands a bowl with a fragrant smelling puddling. Sinners are sitting around the table and each of them has a spoon in his hand. But they are angry and hungry because the spoon is too long so that nobody is able to bring it close to his mouth.”

They ask him: “And how is in Heaven?” He answers: “There is an identical table there with the same bowl and delicacies. Around the table sit the Tzadikim (righteous). But they are satisfied and content.” They ask him: “How can this be?” He answers: “They have learned how to feed each other.”

Did Kabbalists invent this joke?

Answer: That’s what they say!
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Question: How effective is the workshop if the friends have only been repeating your words for years during the workshops, and in fact have been using their mind (the ego) but don’t include their feelings? Should we add emotional exercises?

Answer: A person, like a kid, automatically repeats what the books say or what he has heard and it is only once in awhile that he has a greater understanding of what he reads or says.

It is a normal process both in our world and in the upper world. In both cases we develop under the influence of the Surrounding Light, but in the case of spiritual development we invoke and summon the Surrounding Light by special efforts: the group, the yearning for connection and unity, Kabbalistic texts, etc.
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Question: You keep on saying that we don’t have the tools to manage our lives in our world, but what about our thoughts?

After all, there is a theory that our world is an infinite space of variations and our dominant thoughts influence this or another version of the development of the events in our lives. It seems logical that thoughts lead to deeds, and deeds lead to results.

The film The Secret speaks about the same idea. It is much more pleasant and optimistic to know that something depends on us in this life than to live with the hope of change, even to the best, but it is an illusory world for us.

Answer: According to what the Kabbalists discover in the upper world, our world is completely managed from above, while we can influence events only through the upper world by attracting the Light of correction, which is called Ohr Makif (Surrounding Light).
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Question: In which book is crossing the Machsom (Barrier) described? Could it be that I have crossed it already and haven’t noticed?

Answer: You can learn about this by reading the material by Baal HaSulam on the subject of Tzimtzum Aleph.

Question: For a Kabbalist, who are the others? Are they his friends in a group or is every person considered to be one of the others?

Answer: First they are his friends on the path of spiritual development and then all those who are attached to it.

Question: What is “good” in spirituality, and in what way is it different from the materialistic “good?”

Answer: Good in spirituality represents the absolute good that leads a person to the purpose of his creation.
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