Question: If you disseminate certain visual things to the whole world, such as dancing, they can reject a person a little. There are some dances that are incomprehensible to people.

Answer: There is no dancing at all in Kabbalah. The fact that people hold hands and dance in a circle is the most popular among all nations because this is how connection naturally manifests itself. It has nothing to do with any national or Kabbalistic peculiarities.

I personally do not see myself in it. Singing—yes. It depends on the songs: with deep content, when everyone sings together, it helps to connect thoughts, hearts, and desires. But dancing? It depends on how it is done. If dancing is some kind of general movement, if it goes in rhythm with the flow of inner thoughts, then yes.

When people hold hands, it is also natural because shaking hands is an expression of inner motives. If the movement comes from within people, it will not seem strange or artificial to anyone, and everyone will accept it as a manifestation of their inner feelings.

This often happens at our congresses, when thousands of people from dozens of countries gather, and it all seems natural to them.

If a person sees African or Indian dances for the first time, they may seem strange and unusual to him. I would say it is not the case here. These are universal movements. When people from many countries hold hands, dance in a circle (a circle is the epitome of equality), follow a common movement, sing a familiar song, and utter words expressing their aspirations I do not think it looks strange. It might be in the middle of Broadway or Tverskaya. But if it comes from within people, and such actions are accepted in our global culture, they cannot be misunderstood.

In all kindergartens worldwide, the teacher tells the children: “Hold hands, stand in a circle, start walking and singing.” Such human expression, when they play and express something together, is the most natural thing. These actions are not planned. They appear spontaneously.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Let’s Dance…” 5/22/1

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Question: What is the meaning of reading Kabbalistic sources? A person simply opens a book, reads it, and by doing so he already influences nature, suppose, a volcano?

Answer: Yes, of course, by doing so he already influences the volcano.

Question: There are eight billion people in the world, and how can you prove to them that some book can influence all of humanity?

Answer: First, there is no way out anyway, and a person will accept the method of Kabbalah whether he wants to or not. Suffering will make you believe in anything.

Secondly, why not try? After all, there is logic in the science of Kabbalah; it contains such a harsh, ironclad, and all-crushing truth that a person sees this is really so.

It works very directly and is based on specific data, parameters, combinations of two forces that a person sees around him, and they suddenly explain to him everything that is happening to him so simply and so specifically. As a result, a person becomes convinced of its truth even from his earthly logic, not to mention that this is a science that the whole world respects and appreciates although it is afraid of it. As a saying goes, if one is afraid, then he respects.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Come to Harmony” 4/19/10

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Question: Have your students had spiritual attainments in previous incarnations?

Answer: No, but now there is, so to speak, a pilgrimage to the upper world.

Thousands and even hundreds of thousands of people are beginning to approach this. They rush, and gather on this crusade, just as pilgrims from all over the world flock to, say, Mecca.

So here too our movement begins to gradually transform from tiny drops of water into streams, from streams into rivers, and in the end, it will all come to a large flow.

Today hundreds of thousands of people are already part of this movement. It is personal and internal, not something public, state, or interdisciplinary. This is all just one’s personal matter.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Cycles of Life” 5/10/10

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Question: Have you had experience with spiritual attainment in previous incarnations before coming into this world in your current form?

Answer: Probably, yes, as far as I understand myself. Essentially, it was the so-called “Spanish variant.” But it does not matter. What is the difference? It does not change anything. After all, we all come from somewhere.

All souls have undergone countless incarnations of all kinds. In truth, we do not know why things turn out as they do. Personally, I can say that I have been “rewarded” with the responsibility to carry out the work I am doing now. Of course, on one hand, it is something honorable, special, and respected. But on the other hand, I feel heavily burdened by it, though I cannot argue against what has been placed upon me from above.

If I had the choice, I would have picked a different role for myself. I would have preferred to be a deeply introspective Kabbalist working in seclusion, without engaging in the minor details of everyday life like this current level of practical dissemination. Even though I understand that dissemination is the most important thing, it somehow does not align with my nature.

Perhaps I do not fully understand myself yet, as I seem to disagree with the Creator in this regard, but I would prefer to be a reclusive scholarly Kabbalist, someone who studies, attains, and develops inner processes. Yet here I am, put in a position like a traffic officer at a crossroads who directs pedestrian flows this way and that way. To be honest, I do not feel equipped for this role.

I do not know Hebrew or Aramaic as well as I should. In general I struggle with languages, aside from Russian, of course, even with English. But what does the Russian language have to do with Kabbalah? Absolutely nothing.

It feels as though I have been “decapitated” and placed, essentially unfit, in this role. And inwardly I do not agree with it. I feel obligated to do this because the importance of the goal compels me. But fundamentally I would never have chosen myself for this job. I would have chosen someone else: someone knowledgeable, understanding, strict, and strong, someone with immense capabilities and potential.

But as the saying goes, “Man proposes, and God dispose”; He disposes with power and might, and does as He sees fit. Of course, we must accept this, even though it is entirely unclear what is happening.

Baal HaSulam, clearly, was a great sage, a great philosopher, a great erudite, a multifaceted individual with a profound understanding of all of creation, from the lowest levels of our world to the heights of the spiritual world. He truly deserved to lead people.

And now, look at this world, this humanity, all these miserable, confused people wandering as if in a fog. And who am I? Essentially someone just like them, merely given the task of stepping ahead by one single step.

When you walk an uncharted path, you must proceed with a staff in hand following the one ahead of you, stepping precisely in the same spots they stepped in; only then can you avoid falling.

This is the rule: when treading untrodden trails, you must follow closely behind the guide, step for step, with a staff in hand. But here you practically have no staff, no guide ahead of you, nor their tracks. And this is natural because we are indeed traveling a new path. Perhaps it has to be this way: to move forward through trial and error, through searching. This is the path by which a new person is created.

We do not understand what the Creator is doing with us. Birth arises from nothingness, from emptiness. Even the books we have offer us nothing. Of course, we can seemingly understand a little with our earthly minds, and fill ourselves with some small amount of understanding, some little contentment. But all of this is absolutely unimportant.

It is all just to calm us a little, to persuade us to continue.

But in reality, the whole path lies only in rising above yourself, like a magnet lifting you with the upper light—above your sensations, your knowledge, and your understanding, above everything you have in all your feelings and intellect. Only in this way do you ascend, like a balloon rising into the air. And somewhere out there, in the unknown, after reaching some peak, another state opens up to you.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Why Am I?” 4/24/10

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Comment: You once said that man’s purpose on Earth is not just development, but spiritual development.

My Response: Yes, man’s purpose is to ascend to the next level of existence, to enter a new matrix, a new dimension.

Question: Has humanity lost its way? Or was this all intentional?

Answer: Of course it was intentional in order to give us the opportunity to make this ascent independently.

By making an independent ascent from our world to the upper world while still living in this world and in this body, we begin to attain who the Creator is, His level, and we become equal to Him. We come to understand what He has done and why He created our world from the upper world in this specific way. Through this process, we know Him.

The Creator made a complete picture, then disassembled and broke it, and now I must put it back together. By assembling this picture, I start to understand what these pieces are, how they fit together, why they are made this way, and why He, having created the picture, broke it specifically for me. In doing so, I attain His mind and His intentions toward me.

As a result, I become similar to Him.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Purpose of Man” 4/19/10

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Question: You say that the Creator never changes. Let’s say we are trying to think about someone so that the difficult situation facing the person will change. And it is really changing in the direction we think about.

If the Creator does not change, then how does reality change? For example, a person went to take tests knowing that he had some kind of illness, but it turned out that everything was fine.

Answer: The fact is that human qualities change in which he sees himself and the world around him as different.

There is nothing outside of us! Everything about us can change instantly. Moreover, changes occur either inside or supposedly outside. A Kli is multifaceted.

We simply have not yet encountered serious spiritual actions in our world, nor have we come close to spirituality to see how much it changes our world.

Now nature will slowly accustom us to this with all kinds of cataclysms, sudden changes in us and outside of us, so we will be convinced that there is nothing absolute in the world, everything is relative and depends only on our inner state, because our inner attitude to ourselves and to others actually paints a picture of the world for us. The whole picture of the world is like in a movie; I can order it with my inner change.

In a matter of seconds you can change absolutely everything, like ordering a movie on television, or logging on to the Internet and choosing a picture. It all depends on you because apart from you there is only a flashlight, and you paint the whole picture only with your qualities. It is all in you.

Question: But if I have a certain path, how can I draw another path for myself?

Answer: The path does not matter! It all depends on your attitude toward the path; it paints you a picture of the world. In fact, when you look at the world, you see your attitude toward it, toward the Creator, toward people. It is an attitude, it is not the world itself.

Everything we study: sounds, colors, all kinds of notes, words, images, parts of the world, times, any temporal, spatial, sensory axes along which we act, and the relationships between ourselves and others, all this is inside us. I can change it, own it arbitrarily, build a picture of the world, rearrange this mosaic as I like: countries, sides, perceptions, sensations. Everything is inside me. I can do all this arbitrarily however I wish. If I own it all, there is no problem.

Question: Is this what you do?

Answer: No, I do not do this, I do not need it. You have to be an important person to do that. But why? I am just talking about this possibility. We all need to put together a good picture of the world when the whole world would be like the light, the absolute. It is possible. But we need to put this mosaic together ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Picture of the World” 5/26/10

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Question: If a person leaves during the study of The Book of Zohar, for example, to disseminate, does he miss out by doing so?

Answer: No. If he feels The Zohar is not for him, if he is entirely out of touch with this book, every minute of the lesson feels like immense suffering, and he is not awaiting any result, there is nothing you can do here! It is said “a person learns where his heart leads him.” That is why you cannot learn like that.

I would advise such people, for their sake, to do something else—to work on our materials or to engage in dissemination during this time.

Question: Would people not run away?

Answer: I am not concerned about that. I am not worried about the number of students: who comes or leaves, it does not matter to me. Let it be 15 people instead of 300. I do not chase quantity.

I know humanity will follow a small group anyway. It will have no other choice. But this small group will be a high-quality, valuable group. And there is no quality in quantity, so I never look at quantity.

My mission is to create spiritual leadership for the world. This is work on the quality of the people who will be part of this group, and it is gradually being organized. The women there will be on equal footing with men. However, “on equal footing” is relative; it depends on a woman’s involvement in spiritual work, in her own way.

And then various waves, so to speak, or circles, will form around this group. These 300 people will form such circles out of tens of thousands of people in the world until they come to the point where all of humanity will gradually join them. But the most important is the head and a few auxiliary circles around it.

Therefore I do not mind that not everyone studies The Book of Zohar, and not all are so deeply immersed in it. They are not able to. A few dozen people are enough. There is no need for more!

In fact, the brain that controls the body is like a tiny nut, not a pound of gray matter. The gray matter is the maintenance staff, the center’s workers. The cognitive center is literally the size of an olive, even smaller. And it controls the entire body.

So I am not worried about the quantity. We have free entry and exit, and there are no restrictions. People come from abroad and go back. Who, when, or where does not concern me at all! I do my part. As a result, the light affects the person, and thus he comes to the goal.

Comment: This is like a drug. “Please! Everything is free!” And once a person gets hooked, he can no longer leave.

My Response: That is a different story! You feel the importance here! You feel that without it the rest of your life is an animal existence. You cannot let this happen! After all, you want to be a human being. We have inner needs to accomplish something, to find a way out of our lives, to see a healthy result.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Resistance to The Zohar” 3/20/10

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Question: You say that the correct result of studying The Book of Zohar is a desire for unity. Does this desire arise from the person himself, or is it something he must force himself to achieve?

Answer: There is a rule that there is no coercion in spirituality as spirituality is revealed only in the desire for it. Therefore, it is impossible to force oneself into spirituality without truly desiring it.

You approach spirituality indirectly by engaging in seemingly unrelated or alternative actions not strictly aimed at bestowal and love, which nonetheless draw the light. This light corrects you and moves you toward the quality of bestowal. That is how it works.

Although a person exists in a state opposite to spirituality—the quality of egoism, the desire to subordinate everything to oneself, to be filled, and to dominate others—when they begin studying Kabbalah, an interesting symbiosis arises. There is a connection between their efforts, which appear to be aimed at bestowal, love, unity, and bringing all of creation into a single system, which in fact already is although it is concealed from us, and we must reveal it in our unity with everyone

It seems that a person both desires and does not desire, wants and does not want, understands, realizes, yet cannot achieve anything through his inner qualities. However, in the end, the force of the upper light influences him and changes him.

This means that we are not required to artificially or falsely strive for something we do not truly want.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Signs of Advancement 2” 3/11/10

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Question: You say that when a person opens his heart to a friend, he can harm himself. It turns out that envy propels a person forward, but on the other hand it can lead to the evil eye. What should one do?

Answer: It’s very simple! When I envy others, it’s good because I envy them positively. A friend is moving forward, and I envy them: “Look how they work! Look how much they invest! Look how they’re running somewhere, doing something, participating in something! Why don’t I have that?”

However, if the person who sets a good example opens up their soul to me, meaning they start sharing their personal feelings, this is where my envy can play a cruel trick on them. My envy could harm them.

And I’m not to blame for this, it’s just how I am. What can I do? From my level, this is how I perceive them. Therefore they should not reveal themselves in this way.

They should only open up in a way that inspires positive progress in me without sharing their inner, private feelings. But speaking about the importance of the group and unity among friends, envy that as much as you like. Nothing bad will come of it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Envy in Studies” 5/7/10

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Question: Does annulment before a friend mean following any request from a friend in my environment?

Answer: If this environment is clearly moving with you toward the goal and you have agreed on this, you must completely annul yourself before your friends, meaning you must be internally connected with them. It doesn’t matter what external states you go through: ascents, descents, arguments, tensions, all are part of moving forward.

It’s as if you are on a sailboat heading toward the goal with the wind constantly shifting, and you climb the rigging and adjust the sails to keep moving forward. After all, everything happening within you, once you’ve seriously committed to the goal, whether it’s a breeze, a storm, or a hurricane, is intentionally stirred up by the Creator to ensure that, despite all this, you stick together and aim your sails in one direction.

Comment: You always emphasize the internal focus of the environment I am in. But there are situations, for instance, where I approach someone and say, “Let’s try to do a certain project.” They agree without even asking what it is, and it leads to a good result.

My Response: What does that have to do with spiritual advancement? Perhaps it’s related to some joint work in dissemination. Are you primarily aiming to connect souls to achieve adhesion with the Creator? Or are you preparing an action just for dissemination? You need to understand the nature of your actions.

Comment: But in any case, for now, we inevitably feel physical interactions.

My Response: Of course! Therefore, you must interact and do everything possible. But annulment before a friend primarily means that I fully move together with them, knowing that I cannot reach the goal without them, and they cannot without me.

Question: Can we still advance in this way, even without direct communication with someone?

Answer: Yes, of course. In this way, we essentially include one another in our common world group.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Internal Compound” 6/4/10

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