Question: Lately, we hear more and more, and you also write that the Jews won’t stop for anything, and they participate in the most anti-Semitic organizations—if they are allowed in there, of course.

In all of this, how can you explain the desire of Jews to be found among anti-Semites? Is it only because of fear and a desire to seek protection there?

Answer: As an example, let’s take a distant and critical time for humanity that led to the appearance of Christianity and the diaspora of the Jews—the destruction of the Jewish nation 2,000 years ago.

Many Jews became lost among the Romans, and even before then, in the period of the Maccabees, many Jews became Hellenists, and that is how it has been until today. If a Jew becomes disconnected from Judaism, he develops a desire to justify himself, to stand out in the new society.

He acquires the characteristics of non-Jews, meaning that a Jew is someone who has connections of mutual bestowal to the system of the upper world. If he loses this connection, then the opposite characteristic, egoism, appears and directs him in every possible way against the members of his former people, because Jews are not a people united by biology, but are an ideologically purposeful group of ethnically diverse people.
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Question: If all the people begin to engage in spiritual development, who will produce all the corporeal goods and pleasures so that those who develop spiritually will be able to live in this world?

Answer: First, we should engage in both.

Second, if we engage only in what is essential to fill our corporeal body, we would produce 90% less than what we produce today. In other words, we wouldn’t live just in order to produce, sell, and throw away these products, and we would live a more peaceful life.

We would engage in spiritual development and attain perfect states instead of living in continuous tension and disappointment.

Material abundance doesn’t give us anything, what’s the point in it? A person only needs the basic necessities. The huge range of products is only the outcome of someone’s great desire to make a profit.

A person only needs bread and a few grains, a few types of cheese, vegetables, a little meat, chicken, and fish in order to lead a normal life. The main thing is that it is a healthy diet.

The abundance of products is only beneficial for their manufacturers. I realize that people invent new food products and other goods, but why should we have to suffer chasing after them? Is it because advertising forces us to? Is this what our life is spent on?!
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/25/15

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Question: If the Kabbalists are so great, why do they come again into the world and suffer some more?

Answer: Kabbalists have their mission. They come into this world to serve humanity.

Question: Do you want to say that they have no life of their own?

Answer: No. Suppose that even though I am not a great Kabbalist, I sit like a monk, go out only for photographs and television programs, to a lesson or sit in front of my computer working on material and that’s it.

In what way am I different from a hermit? In nothing. What do I have besides? In principle, nothing. So what am I in this world for?

The life of a Kabbalist is to transfer knowledge to others, and that is how the chain continues until all of us reach the goal of creation, perfection and eternity.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/25/15

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Question: I have read one of your books and didn’t understand anything. How do I know whether I have already entered the upper world? What should I feel?

How do I know whether I have begun to develop spiritually? How can I acquire a Masach (screen)?

What egoistic desires should I have so that I should correct them? Is it about certain desires or about egoism as a whole? After all, it is infinite. I sometimes perceive my ego and I am ashamed of myself, but I don’t feel that I ascend spiritually or perhaps I don’t perceive this sensation.

What is more, there are no groups that study Kabbalah in my city and so I see everything on video. Is it possible to study Kabbalah this way?

Answer: You should study intensively and systematically according to the program of our virtual groups. When you join a virtual group you will find both a guide and friends in it.
Good luck!
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I remember that at the time of the first Lebanon War,  my teacher Rabash and I listened to the news on the radio all the time, and he shared his impressions with me about how he perceived all that was happening. And I was surprised about how such a great Kabbalist was worried about events in the country and the world.

And for him it was a map of the battlefield. He completed everything through his internal calculations with higher Sefirot, and somehow this worked for him.

During the military operations Rabash was very focused, more quiet than usual. In general he was a person who very much loved jokes, but the moment the war began, his state changed sharply. This was truly derived from within; he was terribly concerned and very happy about our victories and successes on the battlefield.

I felt that this was terribly close to him, unlike the rest of the people around him in Bnei Brak. At that time I was a beginning student, and I was quite surprised about how much a person believed or didn’t believe in the Creator, His power and how everything comes from above.

Rabash always wanted to know the factual news, without any commentary, to react to them correctly. And when they asked him why he needed it, he answered: “And if your children were there, even then would you act calmly and dispassionately like this?” That is, he felt that his children were there in Lebanon. That is really how he felt about it.
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Question: In your spiritual development was there a time when everything seemed meaningless to you? If so, what brought you back to the path?

Answer: A Kabbalist passes through states like these every day! This is on every level! In The Book of Zohar, they describe the difficult states that Rabbi Shimon and his great companions went through when they wrote this book.

Likewise, I saw states like these that my teacher went through. When he was in a state like this, he could not move or open his eyes. He didn’t have any strength; it had left him!

There is no Kabbalist, not even the greatest, who hasn’t experienced daily opposing states on the way, from the greatest minus to the greatest plus. Specifically with their help, he advances in the right and left lines, like walking with the right and left legs.

People going in the path of truth go through states like these because it is impossible to achieve a new, higher level unless we first feel its emptiness.

All knowledge is built on a comparison between darkness and light, so the feeling of disappointment in life—in emotions, in work, in tasks and in everything that a person does, and for which he exists—is natural and necessary. Otherwise, he cannot push himself and rise higher.

However, there is no need to fear these states! It is simply necessary to strengthen the connection with the right environment, and then all of these states will seem like blessings. So, I suggest that you will have disappointments and, together with this, great fulfillments, and then you will feel life!
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/25/15

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Question: Is it effective to read The Book of Zohar in Russian or English, or must you read it in the original language?

Answer: Of course it is. Read it translated in the language you understand.

Question: You say that if we do anything at the expense of others, we draw further away from the upper world. But we live only at the expense of others: we eat, dress, and so on. What do you mean when you say at the expense of others?

Answer: At the expense of others means that I steal another person’s efforts, what he deserves and not me.

Question: I think that a person attains the Creator after much suffering and pain. Is that really so?

Answer: Not necessarily, a person must feel pain, but it must be pangs of love, like a person in love yearning for his loved one. This means that he experiences pain, but it is sweet.

Question: Is the wisdom of Kabbalah similar to Buddhism?

Answer: No, according to Buddhism, you are supposed to destroy egoism. But in Kabbalah you are told, “Don’t give up anything; yearn for spirituality and, to the extent you yearn for it, the desires for this world will begin to diminish by themselves.”

Question: I have strange dreams. The feeling of reality is blue and white. I come out of my skin and feel free. What does it mean?

Answer: I think that it is a problem and that you should consult your doctor.

Question: Nature speaks to me in a language that I understand perfectly, so how can I discern the thin border between a psychological illness and a healthy perception of reality?

Answer: I can say only one thing: a person who studies in a group with friends according to the right sources and guided by a teacher will not have such difficulties, neither of white and blue dreams nor problems with his psychological perception.

Question: Must a person live with a partner as a couple? Sometimes two people meet, then their kids grow up and one of them dies. Must the other look for a new partner or carry on by himself?

Answer: It is up to you and to what your heart feels.

Question: How can you discover and feel the upper forces in our five senses?

Answer: It is only with friends. When you begin to build the network of forces, you will discover the upper world in it.

Question: Why do I sometimes begin to shed tears during the lesson?

Answer: It happens because the upper force begins to operate in you, but your desire cannot perceive it since its volume is bigger than your desire. But it is a very good thing.

Question: Is all of humanity on the same level?

Answer: All people are on different levels and will never reach the same level of the wisdom of Kabbalah. Those who have stronger egoistic desires are more attracted to it because they want to find an answer to the question about the meaning of life. Those who have smaller desires are more passive in this life.

Question: Why does the Creator need the creation to resemble Him?

Answer: It is in order to reach a state of absolute pleasure.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/11/15

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Question: Is it possible to transcend the Machsom (Barrier) at the moment of death?

Answer: Of course not. We are all on the animal level. So, in what way does an animal change when it dies a natural death or when it is killed? What does it gain from death?

From this perspective, man is not better or worse than any other animal. However, while living in the corporeal world, he can ascend above his animal level and acquire an additional level called a soul.

However, if he doesn’t acquire this new sense, he has no soul, so when he passes away, his corporeal body passes away.

Question: Why do we perceive death as such a tragic event? Why are we afraid of death?

Answer: Fear drives us to overcome death. It spurs in us the egoistic desire to attain the upper world. When a person leaves the feeling of this world and reaches the feeling of the upper world, he ceases to fear death and continues to live in this world only in order to ascend higher in the spiritual world. In any case, he is already on the level of the next dimension.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/11/15

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Question: What is the meaning of the verse “Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves,” according to Kabbalah?

Answer: It means that a person has to be careful not to fall into his egoistic desires.

He has to make sure that he is constantly surrounded by the right society that will keep him in the correct altruistic direction and make him feel that developing in spirituality is important. The environment will always make sure that he perceives the feeling of the Creator in the Light of Hassadim, which is a very special force, the attribute of bestowal.

If a person continuously renews this force inside him, he will begin to ascend in spirituality and will feel the Creator at every moment, closer and stronger. This is called, “Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves.”
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/11/15

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Question: How can I show an example to others that by studying Kabbalah I am in a better place?

Answer: There’s no way. When a person begins to study Kabbalah, he sees in it such knowledge, logic, and depth that it simply amazes him.

He will understand that all the rest of the sciences of our world are explained very simply within it, and it advances them further. Kabbalah tells a person what must be done to reach general integral knowledge about our world and the upper worlds, about the management system of our world.

We need to see the system of creation because then we can not only manage ourselves, but also rise to the system of management itself and exist in it in the form in which we existed prior to the physical body.

Before entering our body, we were within the program of creation. But now we have the possibility of achieving this program and living simultaneously in two worlds. And then from our perspective there will be neither time nor death. We must yearn for this.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/25/15

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