The Attainment of the Purpose of Creation Rests Upon the Whole of Mankind
Questions about the post “Kabbalists On The Purpose Of Creation,” Part 7

Question: Kabbalah maintains that the spiritual laws are rigid and unchangeable as the laws of nature are in our world. Yet it also states that, contrary to these laws, a spark called “Ner Dakik” (fine and small illumination) descended under the Machsom (barrier separating us from spirituality) and begot the entire material reality. How could it be that the spiritual law was violated?

My Answer: There are two natures, two worlds; the upper one controls the lower one.

Question: Quote: “When it comes to the correction of the soul, no corporeal abilities or talents determine success.” Some of your students are very talented and participate in almost every dissemination project. Also, there are those who have a hard time working even an hour per day. Often  this makes me depressed and even fearful because it’s impossible to attain the goal even with such efforts. How can I use this state and not fall into despair?

My Answer: The spiritual success depends on the effort put forth to create the desire for the property of love and bestowal. It has nothing to do with one’s corporeal faculties given by nature at birth.

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The Attainment of the Purpose of Creation Rests Upon the Whole of Mankind
Questions about the post “Kabbalists On The Purpose Of Creation,” Part 7

Question: Suppose we raise the group prayer to awaken the question about the purpose of life in our souls before apocalyptic events and suffering come. If such prayer comes from the heart, does it have merit? And how can I influence my friends without being with them physically? Should it be my prayer or thought, or both, when I appeal to the Creator?

My Answer: In whatever way possible: by writing letters and talking to them, with your thoughts and prayers to them and to the Creator.

Question: A quote: “All the nations [in the future, either against their will, through the path of suffering, or consciously, though the path of Light] will unite and be ready for the Creator’s work [mutual bestowal to the Creator whereby they receive infinite fulfillment from the Creator for His sake]. If we wish to unite but don’t feel within ourselves inner exalted sensations, are we really uniting?”

My Answer: We should strive for it until our aspirations reach a certain measure. Then we will perceive this quality within ourselves and the Light that fills it.

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What is the Purpose of Creation?
Questions about the post “Kabbalists On The Purpose Of Creation,” Part 5

Question: What does it mean, “it is fit to receive its reward from The Whole” or until all 613 desires are corrected? How can 613 desires correct themselves if only the Creator can correct them? The group exists for a long time, and the “World Kli” has been pleading for correction. So why doesn’t the Creator perform the correction?

My Answer: Ask Him for this!

Question: Regarding the issue of the 613 commandments, there is only one commandment: Love thy neighbor as thyself. Do any of these 613 commandments have a name? What kind of commandments are they? Or are they all equal to “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” yet have different forms, Lights, and degrees of correction?

My Answer: All of them are the corrections of egoism. Ultimately, a person reaches the property of “Love thy neighbor” in its full measure.

Questions about the post “Kabbalists On The Purpose Of Creation,” Part 6

Question: Does it mean that all of reality, everything, can be changed in a split second?

My Answer: Only if you seriously desire it!

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What is the Purpose of Creation?
Questions about the post “Kabbalists On The Purpose Of Creation,” Part 5

Question: Aren’t the desire to receive and a material body the same?

My Answer: Yes, because bodies don’t exist; the desire to receive is the only creation.

Question: Is the law of cause and consequence the same at a certain degree as well as while “descending degree-by-degree”?

My Answer: The law of gradual consecutive development is the same for both the general and the particular.

Question: It is said that this world is an exact copy of the spiritual world.
1. Is the task of humanity to correct itself in order to allow this world to reclaim its place in spirituality?
2. Humanity’s correction directly depends on the correction of each individual. Can we arrive at the conclusion that the law of “love thy neighbor as thyself” will soon look as follows: The point in the heart will be revealed in every person in the world and people will try to sense their neighbors as themselves in order to fill them and thus become similar to the Creator (giving)?

Is it correct that in order to achieve this, each person will make a resolution to start giving, and, as a result, everybody will sense other people’s desires as their own? Then, will everybody start working with the desires of others as if they were their own? Will such work eliminate the necessity to materialize certain desires like murder, theft, and so on?

My Answer: All of this is absolutely correct!

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What is the Purpose of Creation?
Questions on the post
"Kabbalists On The Purpose Of Creation,” Part 4

Question: Why is this process stretched through multiple lifetimes? Why do we have to start over every time?

My Answer: Every time you continue your path starting from a new level of egoism. Due to this, there is generational growth.

Question: If the omnipotent force of nature created all that is in such perfection (based on observation of life), is it really necessary to expedite spiritual evolution? It stands to reason that no matter what we do trying to speed up or slow down the process, everything will still be as it is supposed to be. Or is what we are trying to do right now an illusion, which is also part of the Creator’s plan?

My Answer: Our actions determine the way and speed of our development.

Question: Do I have freedom of will at the level that I presently exist? Or, after I have ascended one degree, am I free at the lower degree but not at the higher one, until I ascend to even higher degree?

My answer: Absolutely right, you will be free because you will naturally act in accordance with the acquired new nature, new qualities.

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What is the Purpose of Creation?
Questions on the post “Kabbalists On The Purpose Of Creation,” Part 2

Question: It follows that we, being a common, single desire, have to receive everything that the Creator has prepared for us. Is that why we need to prepare ourselves for the supreme feast? Are we supposed to develop the upper connection among us so as to withstand the Creator together? And is it after we tell Him, “No,” and become independent and overcome our shame? That’s a discrepancy! Is an eternal feast between the two equal partners a sort of re-birth? It’s hard to imagine this split even for a second!

My Answer: That is because you, my darling, are still a simple egoist; that is, you exist only in one nature. When the other, altruistic, nature starts manifesting within you, it won’t lead to a “schizophrenic split.” Rather, you will have an opportunity to comprehend how the opposites unite. By the way, quantum physics is already discovering such manifestations of nature.

Question: Can we say that my temporary nature of being a slave changes only in sensations by my simply choosing the master, even in the absence of their functional role and, possibly, their essence? Then, how should we redefine our relationship when I choose to work at the master’s place, for good payment? Who is he in relation to me, a partner? Why does the Torah use the world “slave” both from the side of the Creator (“‘Fear not, my slave, Jacob,’ the Creator said”) as well as from the side of characters (“the Creator’s slave”)?

My Answer: There are many types of connection with the Creator: “son,” “slave,” “wife,” “friend” and so on. “Slave” refers to a complete preference of the property of bestowal to that of reception.

A question on the post “Kabbalists On The Purpose Of Creation,” Part 3

Question: Quote: “Neither has the eye seen a God beside thee”… What about the others?

My Answer: It applies to everyone, but only within one’s personal corrected properties.

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The Creator Is Absolute Good
Questions on the post "Kabbalists On The Purpose Of Creation,” Part 1

Question: Will our future corrected state really make up for all the current suffering?

My Answer: Undoubtedly, as soon as you rise above your egoism and begin to feel yourself not in your body but above it, in the others, to that extent you will begin to associate yourself with the soul: the feeling of others rather than your own body. Accordingly, you will begin to feel the goodness that fills this world.

Question: You teach us that the Creator is the laws of nature, forces, like the law of gravity in our world. If so, how can the Creator be good?

My Answer: We perceive any force as either good or bad depending on how it affects us. That is, we talk not about the force itself, but how we perceive it.

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The Creator Is Absolute Good
Questions about the post “Kabbalists On The Purpose of Creation, Part 1”

Question: Quote: "And because He has no will to receive, He is fundamentally devoid of a desire to harm anyone; it is as simple as that." Is the will to receive causing all of our problems? Aren’t we created to be receivers and won’t we remain this way since there is no Giver without receivers? How do we dispose of these contradictions so that the will to receive would give no reason to inflict harm on anyone?

My Answer: We need to correct the egoism to its opposite and continue to receive but to receive for the sake of bestowal.

Question: Quote: "Furthermore, it is completely agreeable to our mind as the first concept, that He possesses a desire to bestow goodness upon others, meaning to His creatures." It is impossible to agree with this since many do not have this kind of perception. We can only suppose that it is so. Baal HaSulam says that we should "accept it with our heart." How do we do this practically?

My Answer: We need to engage practically in correcting ourselves so as to become similar to the Creator. We do this through studying Kabbalah systematically and by engaging in the group. No one is suggesting that you should agree with it; Baal HaSulam suggests that you reveal this.

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The Creator Is Absolute Good
Questions about the post "Kabbalists On The Purpose of Creation, Part 1"

Question: Right now I see the Creator as good that does good, even though I often scold  Him and believe that He is unfair to me and others. In the next moment, I can see Him negatively again. Is my ego painting this picture for me? How can I ask for MAN (prayer)?

My Answer: Study the articles of Rabash together with us. He is the only Kabbalist whose articles describe all the spiritual Laws in detail, as well as the states that a person goes through as he attains them.

Question: I quote: “The Creator is absolute goodness.” I want to feel the Creator, bestowal, all the time, but how do I feel it and to whom do I bestow? On the one hand, bestowal is absolute good, but on the other, it is simply a blind law. If we are desire, which is matter, and we must become similar to the Creator, what exactly are we supposed to become? By becoming similar to the Creator, we will turn into a different matter, a different substance, so what will we feel?

My Answer: You should know that there is no answer for this question. You will find your own answers through attainment. Answers to spiritual questions come only to the extent of your entrance into the spiritual quality of bestowal. This is possible only through a systematic and practical study of Kabbalah. All theorists will remain with their questions refuting Kabbalah disdainfully in an effort to justify themselves. All of your questions have already been answered on this site, so read up!

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The Creator is  Absolute Good
Questions about the post “Kabbalists On The Purpose of Creation, Part 1”

Question: “…He is fundamentally devoid of a desire to harm anyone.” Then why do I see people suffering.

My Answer: To the extent that people are opposite to the Creator’s quality to bestow and love, they perceive all the goodness that comes from Him in the opposite form, as evil.

Question: Are all events prepared by the Creator and sorted in the set of acquired habits for the soul?

My Answer: All the events are deliberately determined by the initial and final states of every soul. However, they are perceived by the souls as states ranging from extreme suffering to immense pleasure, depending upon the similarity of the souls to the Creator.

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