Question: The global rate of suicide is growing. Why does the Creator give a person a desire to commit suicide?

Answer: We must undergo a certain period of time before we realize that our current life is worthless and meaningless.

Subconsciously, a person runs away from this feeling, escaping into drugs, plunging totally into an occupation or favorite pursuit, or ends his life by committing suicide, just to forget and avoid the search for the answer for the meaning of life.

If this question does come up in a person’s mind, it means that he has reached a state in which he must find the answer. He has reached the barrier where he can attain the meaning of life, but prefers to repress this question.

Question: Can a person change the way he lives in an incorrect manner?

Answer: Of course, he can. This is the purpose of the wisdom of Kabbalah: to change the way one lives from the wrong one to the correct one and, at the same time, to feel continuous pleasure from advancing toward the right goal.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/25/15

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Question: I have found my destiny exclusively in my work, which I really love. Tell me, am I going in the right direction? Could it be that I have found my calling but have lost my purpose?

Answer: Indeed, finding interesting work, really engaging and dissolving into it is a great joy. You have found your calling. In the past I also tried to find a job I loved that was appealing and satisfying, but I realized that it was meaningless. I remember how a scholar advised me to take a certain period in history like the Thirty Years’ War, for example, and delve into it and study it in depth.

– And then what?

– Then you will be an expert on the Thirty Years’ War if you dedicate your whole life to it.

As a big egoist, I thought it wasn’t worth spending my life on the Thirty Years’ War that occurred 400 years ago. The price seemed too high. Life goes by and a person develops and suddenly begins to realize that he has been engaging in something that is meaningless. Instead of the satisfaction and the enthusiasm a person felt before: “How interesting and what a success!”,  he suddenly feels emptiness, disappointment, and lack of energy, and this is terrible. Where have all the years gone? And for what? What should I look for now? He doesn’t have the same strength, desires, or possibilities as before. It turns out that a person shouldn’t engage too much in corporeal pleasures in this life, but rather choose what seems to be the greatest and the most important lasting value that is unchanging and above our lives.

Above our lives can only be eternity. This eternity is what we need to find and not waste time on trifles.

The question arises: Do I go for or not? If I agree, there can be no obstacles, only the attainment of eternity! This has to be a person’s standard since otherwise he lowers himself to the animal level.

Therefore, we need to engage in clarifying the level on which we attain eternity. It isn’t just eternity since there is no point existing on a corporeal level eternally. We don’t need such eternity. You can approach anyone on the street and ask whether he would like to live in this world forever. I doubt whether anyone would agree. It is only the beastly fear of death that forces us to live, but basically it is absolutely meaningless. This is the reason that everyone has to find out their ultimate purpose.

Question: But at the same time a person should have a profession?

Answer: Everyone should have a job so that he will be able to provide for himself normally and be useful, to engage in a job that he likes and not feel that he is wasting his time in vain. But at the same time, he has to make sure that every minute of his life is a small step toward the great goal, toward the attainment of eternity and perfection.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/25/15

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Question: People often say that a person,who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness and realizes that he is about to die in a few months begins to think about the meaning of life. Can we say that death motivates a person to clarify the meaning of life?

Answer: Of course. This is why we don’t really understand death but paradoxically feel it a long time before it arrives, a feeling that animals don’t have. They have a premonition of death that is more apparent than in humans, but it is closer to the actual state of death.

If it weren’t for death, people would behave quite differently. In the corporeal world, all calculations are through death. But this is actually a bad thing because a person is attached to his animal body.

The wisdom of Kabbalah, on the other hand, allows us to ascend above our body and to calculate things independently. The moment we exit it and enter the eternal flow of energy, information, and Light, we immediately cease to take the body into account.

In other words, as long as we are alive we have to take care of the body, because we perform certain corrections in this life through it, but taking care of it, practically, should be just that.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 111/15

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Question: According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, is there a Satan?

Answer: No evil forces exist in nature, except for ourselves. No Satan (adversary), no angels and no demons exist. In Kabbalah, these terms refer to egoistic forces, no more than this.

Everything depends only on the person because people include the entire world within themselves, and if they rise to the level of the completion of correction, then no one can harm them.

However, people who don’t correctly understand the Kabbalistic sources begin to invent demons, vampires, and other evil spirits. Much time is needed to cleanse our minds of fantasies, ideas, and thoughts like these. All of these are egoistic forces within us that we must correct.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/11/15

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Question: Using your personal life as an example, can you tell about some practical results that come from studying Kabbalah?

Answer: I can tell you one thing: a person who studies Kabbalah lives! Every day is new for him! He constantly attains and gives something new to the world.

After all, this wisdom reveals all kinds of so-called secret sources, laws, and interconnections within the world. Furthermore, we are created in such a way that only this knowledge can fulfill us.

Nothing else will ever satisfy us completely, calm us down, balance us, or make us happy! We can suppress ourselves with drugs, work, family, etc. But we will not come to the state that fulfills our soul, i.e., the desire aspiring to the eternal existence. This is only possible if you study Kabbalah, to comprehend the world.

See for yourself. It is worth spending some time on it. After that you will see that everything else will appear to be very small and insignificant.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/25/15

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Question: Why did the Creator create suffering and death? Couldn’t He have created man with an eternal built-in attribute of altruism?

Answer: Then a person would be an eternal beast, which we call an angel. In order to attain the upper level by himself, a person has to suffer.

Question: Does that mean that a person cannot ask himself the question about the meaning of life without suffering?

Answer: No, he cannot. But the suffering can be different. There may be pangs of love. As the saying goes,”I have loved and suffered,” for example, I have loved money and suffered from the lack of it.

Here, on the other hand, you love comprehension, attaining eternity, perfection, and you want it to be absolute and objective. It isn’t as if you swallow some drug and feel good, but you have developed these feelings internally, these vessels by which you find out that you are really in a state of eternity and perfection.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/25/15

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Question: My question is about the letters of the Torah. If the Torah was written as one word starting from the letter “״ב (Bet) to the letter “ל” (Lamed), why is it possible to divide it into words?

Is it possible to read the Torah backward from”ל” to”״ב? Would it still be possible to divide it into words then? Will it still be Hebrew?

Answer: We can divide the Torah many times and in different manners. We cannot even imagine the infinite options there are to do so.

Because the Upper Light is infinite in all its forms and revelations, we cannot describe it with our tools. Only the direct feeling of the upper world enables a person to attain it internally.
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Question: How should we behave correctly along the path of correction and how is the correction expressed in the corporeal world?

Answer: The search comes down to the fact that a person looks for a way to discover eternal life: either by changing the world or by changing himself.

According to Kabbalah, the two options, which seem different at first glance, merge into one as by changing the world you change yourself, and by changing yourself you change the world. It is the same thing.

When you change yourself, you enter a level where you begin to perceive the world as eternal and whole. Eventually you attain a perfect eternal life. It is destined for us while still on the level of this world, and then you can quietly and peacefully detach yourself from your corporeal body that is on the animal level.

Question: Does this means that a man can live forever?

Answer: I don’t know what you mean by “man.”

A person’s inner self exists forever, beyond time. There isn’t really the concept of “forever” in the spiritual world because this is also a way of determining time, and when you write “t=,” it is simply infinity. This is the reason that we speak about life above time.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/25/15

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Question: What is preferable for accelerating the movement of the soul after the death of the physical body: cremation or burial?

Answer: It does not matter! Our physical body, in principle, is the same as an animal. There is no significance to its cremation, burial, or embalming.

From the point of view of the wisdom of Kabbalah, based on the situations through which we pass on all the levels, there is no reason to relate to our beastly body as something special; it is simply a mass of protein.

In the time of Abraham they would put the bodies of respected deceased people into a cave, and after a year had passed they would take the rotted bones and put them into a jug, seal it, and leave it in the cave.

Perhaps this expressed a special relationship in regard to the deceased, but they wouldn’t leave any signs of respect on the jug. Others were buried in the ground, but they didn’t leave monuments. Much later they began to put monuments on graves but without writing.

Nowadays burial has turned into a ritual, as if we were idol worshippers. It is possible that we will soon begin to build mausoleums for everyone. That is, the more that we advance and seemingly become wiser, we respect bodies in a more barbaric form. What is there about our body that is worth relating to with reverence?

The great Kabbalist-teacher Baal HaSulam said that it was not at all important to him where they would bury “his sack of bones”; that is how he referred to his body. And this is really the most correct and precise attitude of a Kabbalist to his physical body.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/1/15

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Question: Why haven’t I ever had the feeling of complete satisfaction in my life?

Answer: People cannot experience complete satisfaction in this world because as soon as we are filled with something, the feeling starts to fade away and we lose it. Therefore a person never has the feeling that he has attained what he desires and that he doesn’t need anything else. The moment he is filled, the feeling of pleasure immediately disappears. And so it always is in our world.

We were created this way in order to develop more and more new desires so that eventually we will understand that it is impossible to satisfy them. Then a person reaches the wisdom of Kabbalah, which teaches him how to be truly satisfied and tells him how to actually develop enormous, infinite desires and to fill them with perfect, eternal pleasure.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/11/15

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