Question: There is a thirst for knowledge and for spirituality that is awakening today. Does the force that is against knowledge and attainment appear at the same time?

Answer: It must be so! A person is given both the pushing force and the resisting force so that he will discover himself through these two forces.

If a person advances only by the force of nature, it will be the result of the instinctive evolutionary force that has pushed humanity to develop for millions of years. Humanity didn’t develop by itself but was developed by these forces.

When a person wants to develop under the pressure of one external force, and at the same time, there is another external force that is a force of resistance, a person feels as if he is between the hammer and the anvil. This is the point from which a person can develop and discover himself, and grow through these two opposite forces. A person turns into a spiritual creature through the right conflict between the two forces.

The upper force leads a person to clarify things between these two forces in order to form the third force through them, which is called the middle line.

Question: Can we say that there are several spiritual attainments, or is there only one?

Answer: The nature of our world is the ego, and the nature of the upper world is the attribute of bestowal, which is expressed by altruism.

It is on top of the conflict between these two forces that we resemble the Creator. There is no other way.

Therefore, all the methods that use different forces, actions, and manipulations simply know nothing about these two major parameters in nature, the force of receiving and the force of bestowal, one versus the other.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/10/16

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Question: In your blog you include some Psalms of David. Would it also be worthwhile to similarly include the main prayers from the Siddur (prayer book), which are essential for our spiritual advancement?

Answer: I think that it is still too early to study the Siddur. We are talking in our lessons about prayers as the correct expression of turning toward the Creator, of His revelation to the Kabbalists.

The Kabbalists discovered the Creator, and from their practical experience in turning to Him, meaning the creation within them of desires, requests, MAN, they described the formation of prayers for us.

But we ourselves must be in connection with the Creator, at least on the level of Lo Lishma (not for Her name), so that the words of the Siddur that were created by the giant Kabbalists, the participants in the Great Assembly more than two thousand years ago, will not seem naïve and strange.
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Question: Why do people begin to feel emptiness along with the thirst for spirituality?

Answer: Because this feeling of emptiness is an opportunity for fulfillment. All we need to do is to develop it and turn it into a feeling that draws and attracts the upper knowledge and feeling from the outside. A vessel will be formed in this emptiness, which means a sensor for feeling the upper world. Emptiness is the initial feeling necessary for attaining the next world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/10/16

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Question: Who is closer to the wisdom of Kabbalah, men or women?

Answer: Men. Women feel it more instinctively while men must go through it and transfer this knowledge by way of their head, mind, and thoughts.

Their need for correction of the ego is much greater than it is with women. So a woman can study less; she doesn’t need to get up at three o’clock in the morning for a lesson, while this is mandatory for men. That is how nature created us.

The male ego is different from the female ego, it requires a greater correction. Because it deviates from the way, it is torn to pieces.

Women are not inferior to men; their ego is simply earthier in an everyday practical sense. They are more corrected than men. If a woman were managing the world, the world would be better.

Comment: But still, sometimes women are managed by men.

Answer: If they were to take things over everywhere and the men were to go fishing, it would be better for everyone.
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From the Webinar on zahav.ru 2/10/16

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Question: What does an ordinary person practically gain from the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: I don’t know what an ordinary person is. Everything is determined by a person’s desires. Each of us is a desire to receive, a desire to enjoy.

If the desire to enjoy is like a cat’s desire to catch a mouse, then I am a cat. If it is like a cow’s to eat grass, then I am a cow.

If my desire is to plant a tree, to build a home, and to have children, which in this world means that I am a human being, then I am a human being. If I have a desire to be rich, to acquire knowledge or respect, then I am a great man in this world and I already aspire to grow to this level. But all this is in the framework of our world, depending on my needs.

The point is that we have desires that cannot be fulfilled in our world, and this is where the need to discover the meaning of life stems from. It is seemingly a simple question, but it remains without an answer.

When a person begins to ask himself what he is living for and doesn’t find an answer in anything he does and this question leads him further onward, he is already called a human being because he asks himself about his goal, not about the animal inside him but about the human being inside him.

Question: Is a person programmed to attain spirituality?

Answer: Yes, the attraction to spirituality can awaken in a simple guy whereas it can be dormant in an Einstein type. It doesn’t matter.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/10/16

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“The age of 40” in Kabbalah

Question: There is a rumor that a person can start studying Kabbalah only after the age of 40. Is that correct?

Answer: It is a big misunderstanding that one is not supposed to study Kabbalah until he is 40 years old. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, the number 40 means the level of Bina.

A person who has reached the level of Bina obtains the absolute property of bestowal where he can reveal the entire enormous Light of Hochma that governs the entire universe. Therefore, the wisdom of Kabbalah has two parts: before the level of Bina and above it. Everyone is able to study up to the level of Bina. However, above it, only those who are capable can continue and rise further.

The level of Bina is called “the age of 40.” Therefore, the only people who can “study Kabbalah”—meaning, receive the Light of Hochma—are those who have reached the level of Bina, which is defined by the number 40. However, this has nothing to do with the biological age of a person.

As proof, there is the example,of famous Kabbalists who died at a young age without reaching the age of 40, such as the ARI, Rabbi Nachman from Breslav, and others. Obviously, they began studying Kabbalah long before they were 40 years old.

There was also a ban for unmarried people to study Kabbalah. It was considered that a person with a family was more stable and balanced, and as a result, they would be more suitable for the study. However, during those times, people used to marry when they were 16 to 17 years old.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM 2/28/16

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Question: Einstein came up with the formula for energy. Can you give us the formula for the revelation of the Creator that everyone would understand and can you explain it so that we would constantly be able to remember how to do it and check ourselves?

Answer: You should think only that you are dealing with the good Creator, always and in all circumstances, and never leave this thought.
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Question: Is it true that it is actually Kabbalists who have the biggest ego?

Answer: Yes. Those who study the wisdom of Kabbalah more, develop, thanks to their ego, which constantly grows.

Question: Do people harm the Creator by depleting natural resources and destroying nature?

Answer: They first of all harm themselves, while the main thing for the Creator, who is the one force that contains all, is to bring humanity to wholeness.

Question: Does praying help us feel the spiritual world?

Answer: Only if it is the correct prayer, which means your desire is correctly aimed at unity.

Question: The Machsom (barrier) is a very vague concept. How many people in the world have transcended the Machsom? Do they still feel the internal question of “have I transcended the Machsom?”

Answer: No. If a person transcends the Machsom, which is the barrier between the corporeal world and the spiritual world, he knows, sees, senses, and feels that. He has no more questions. I cannot say how many people in the world have transcended the Machsom. You will discover that when you feel the spiritual world. You will discover yourself and those who are on the other side of the Machsom.

Question: Does the engagement in music help a person be part of the spiritual world and advance towards it?

Answer: I wouldn’t say that, although there are very special Kabbalistic musicians, and the greater a Kabbalist musician is, the deeper he is. But Kabbalists greatly appreciate music and welcome it because it can express attributes and impressions that cannot be conveyed by words.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/27/15

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Question: I heard that Kabbalists always talk about unity. They believe that only if we unite will all of the problems of humanity be solved.

It reminds me of Soviet papers with the slogan, “Workers of the world, unite!” So, were the Russian revolutionists also some kind of Kabbalists?

Answer: Marx had many ideas that were right, and now all of his writings are being reevaluated. The wisdom of Kabbalah basically speaks about the fact that communism—not the kind that they tried to implement in Russia—is the most advanced and future regime for all of mankind.

Its basic principles, as naïve as they may seem, that everyone should give as much as he can and receive according to his needs, emphasizing the good relations between people, love and friendship. All of this is very far from the current state of humanity, but Kabbalists see it in nature, and see that society is programmed in advance to reach this state.

We will reach it whether we like it or not, and the only question is how we will do that, either by world wars and terrible conflicts, or consciously by realizing that this regime is the best and that we should try to establish it by ourselves.
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From the Webinar on zahav.ru 2/10/16

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Question: How can we “attract” the Light that Reforms if it is at absolute rest? After all, it is said, “For I, the Lord, have not changed” (Malachi 3:6). So, all changes and movements are only on the background of the Light, which is permanent.

Answer: Movement is in our desires, not our thoughts, in the yearning to come closer to each other and to the absolute fixed Light and us.

Question: What does it mean to be connected with the friends throughout the day?

Answer: This is my constant internal dialog with them, not just by telephone, and this is my attitude to the world group.
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