Comment: When you are not here with us there is some decline in the importance of the lessons; some friends no longer connect to them.

My Response: It has always been and will be because a person was born and grew up in such a way that he has to see some big example in front of him. Therefore, I advise you to get used to going with your teachers.

I had a teacher too, a great teacher. He died in my arms. Nevertheless, everything continued.

I asked him this question too and he would say that it should be this way. So it is not scary. After all, we are interconnected, nobody is leaving anywhere and nobody is coming. Whatever is going on before our eyes are children’s games. We have to be above them.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/16/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Things that Come from the Heart”

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To correct this, meaning that because the receiver wants equivalence of form with the root, and if it were to receive it would feel unpleasantness, the Tzimtzum occurred (Rabash Article 28, “A Congregation Is No Less than Ten”).

Question: It turns out we are talking about the work of the lower. But I constantly have the feeling that you protect us like children and give us a screen from above.

Answer: In reality, the screen does come from above, always. All actions are ultimately performed under the guidance of the upper.

However, we must ask for spiritual advancement and for the ability to carry out these actions from below, from our own state.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/9/24, Writings of Rabash, “A Congregation Is No Less than Ten”

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Question: In the state of a poor person, should there be no fear for oneself?

Answer: The fear in this context does not refer to fear for oneself, but rather fear for correction. Will I be able to correct my state, the state of everyone, the world, and so on? What can I do for the Creator?

A person should not think about themselves. They must rise above this to a state where they give everything to the Creator as if they have everything.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Raises the Poor from the Dust – 2”

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Question: What should replace shame?

Answer: Gratitude.

Question: Is the awe before the teacher similar to the awe before the Creator?

Answer: No, there is no awe before the teacher, before the Creator yes, because everything is in His hands.

Question: How can we check if we are approaching the purification of our collective Hisaron from impurities toward a pure desire to bring contentment to the Creator?

Answer: To the extent that you invest such feelings in your prayer, that is how it happens.

Question: It seems the Creator is cultivating beings similar to Himself here on earth. Can we say that we all must become creators according to the upper plan?

Answer: No, that is incorrect. We simply need to reach a state where we understand and feel Him as one person understands and feels another.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/4/24, Writings of Rabash “By Your Actions, We Know You”

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Question: Your teacher Rabash knew all the states that you were going through. Knowing that you had to go through terrible despair, hopelessness, could he not have helped you in any way?

Answer: Did he not go through such states himself? He went through them the same way I am now, the same way my students go through and will go through them.

Every Kabbalist goes through absolutely all states. That is why he can write for us. No soul, starting from our world and up to complete correction, can jump over any state.

Question: You said that Rabash was patient and that you could even yell at him. Was there ever a time when he wanted to kick you out?

Answer: No, he understood everything. Once, after Rabash’s death, I met a friend that earlier had studied together with me at his place. And he told me: “I remember that you once did not want to go to the sea with Rabash as an escort because you were terribly offended and angry about something. And then I went with him.

While at the sea he said: “Let’s call Michael anyway.” I called you and told you that Rabash wants to talk to you. And you answered: “Tell him I don’t want to talk to him.”

I told him what you said and asked: “Why don’t you kick him out?” And Rabash replied: “I’m not kicking Michael out because he has a special soul.”

That is, he understood that I was really in a terrible state and could not behave in any other way, and whatever was going on with me passes. But with this call, he accelerated my spiritual development.

Of course, he saw who I was, what I was: on one hand, a jerk, but on the other hand, I still had a lot of potential, and therefore he tolerated me.

But I was as loyal to him as I could be! Of course, I had very difficult conditions when I was worried, smoked, shouted, and swore. I don’t think I could have behaved any differently today. No.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Laitman’s Exile” 1/29/10

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Question: How do you learn to recognize that the Creator is clothing on you and what He wants from you?

Answer: This can be felt internally when you work with several levels, higher and lower, you are an adapter between them, and you understand how to make contact with each of them, canceling yourself. Then you represent a thin middle strip between them, which is called a Klipat Noga.

And so does, in principle, each of us. If we communicate with each other correctly, then none of us will have anything but this strip or small dot that glues one level with another.

That is, you must be a completely invisible fastening link in the chain. What does invisible mean? Not violating anything from the previous and subsequent link from you. They cannot be held together without you, and you have to do it. That is the only reason you exist.

And then it turns out that the whole huge organism of souls works ideally when everyone gives everything, everyone does not take up space, and then the place is filled with higher light.

Question: Are you a specific subordinate link in this chain?

Answer: Of course; nothing more.

Question: This chain, including Rabash and Baal HaSulam, goes before you. It does not matter if you exist in physical attire or not, do you still remain in this chain for the entire time until complete correction?

Answer: Absolutely. This cannot change.

If I have connected to Rabash, it is because my soul stands in the hierarchy in a place that determines exactly this connection of mine.

And if certain disciples have come to me, it is because those souls stand in the hierarchy close to me, below me, so that I can conduct a technique on them to the fulfillment that I can receive through Rabash and above from his father, and so on, and so on to the very world of infinity. But this chain is constant, unchangeable.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. You are a Small Screw!“ 3/13/10

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Question: Kabbalists have a great, strange power that cannot be described. You say that it is impossible for a person who is not in attainment to feel spirituality, it is impossible to feel bestowal. But a certain energy comes from a Kabbalist.

Is this the energy of bestowal?

Answer: No, this is not spiritual energy. It is not what comes from him, but what you feel.

Comment: But there is a huge number of people, and I do not feel such energy from them.

My Response: Just because you feel something does not mean it is spiritual. You only feel what you feel.

Question: But let’s say you can fulfill a person so much that he will not even ask questions. Does he feel it, perceive it?

Answer: Because next to me he feels confidence, security, perfection, and fulfillment, the question disappears. He can run to me from the other side of the world. He came running with a question. He sat down next to me, the question disappeared. I had the same thing.

It is completely natural. When you find yourself next to a large, relatively great person, you become integrated in him, stick to him, and that is it, you do not need anything, you are already filled.

Question: But is this spiritual fulfillment or not?

Answer: I would call it psychological.

Question: Does it mean that we do not feel spirituality at all?

Answer: Not yet. Where can we do that? Do you already have spiritual intentions above yourself? Not yet. Therefore, everything that is felt is felt as preliminary psychological states.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Power of the Kabbalist “ 2/6/10

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Question: Do you ever have moments when you are surprised that you give out certain information?

Answer: Yes, it happens that I can easily express some information. It is a muse; it is simply a human property.

There are Kabbalists who could do it amazingly. I envy them a lot. After all, if I weren’t a teacher, I would float at my level and would be trying to rise all the time. But since I have to simplify the information I receive to the level of my students, I envy those who have fluent language.

But I was specially given a very difficult and complex Hebrew. I generally do not have a good grasp of languages; I have an absolute inaptitude for them. It’s hard for me in this regard.

Therefore, if I succeed, it is like a birth, like labor pains, when you can finally give out some information. When you feel that it has entered a person, he understands it, and all the information has smoothly jumped out of you like an embryo jumps out along with waters during a successful childbirth, then it certainly gives a lot of pleasure. You are amazed about the extent of it that came from above.

I clearly understand that everything is given from above because with my qualities that I also received from above, I am not capable of expressing my thoughts easily. There are even more problems here. Even if I had this ability, Kabbalistic information is still clothed in more or less convenient forms depending on how much the student needs it.

After all, there are circumstances when there is a need to confuse a student a little, give him an opportunity to unravel the tangle by himself. Then he will start using his brain and will sense that he still lacks his own efforts. Therefore, I not only make my presentation dependent on the lack of an opportunity to present the material normally, but also on the fact that the student does not need a more explicit presentation, he must figure it out himself.

Let’s take The Book of Zohar. It is written in a very confusing language, although it in principle it is close to our style. This is amazing! The book was written 2,000 years ago, but it talks about things that are very easy for us to communicate today. It is interesting. Although it is incomprehensible, its style is close to us.

When I was working on it, adapting it to the modern reader, I practically did not have to do anything special. I translated it from Aramaic to Hebrew, removed various additions, clarifications, references to other sources, outside commentaries, etc. in order to make the text more readable.

Practically, the whole task in Kabbalah is to adapt the spiritual material for the consumers, for the students.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Mindflow” 3/13/10

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Question: Why is everything that students receive from their great teacher not called bread of shame?

Answer: Were you ashamed of what you received from your parents?

Comment: No.

My Response: See, this is natural. I understand it, feel it, am proud of it, satisfied, and happy.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/24, Writings of Rabash “ The Path of Truth”

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Question: Baal HaSulam writes that there are two paths to realizing the idea of Kabbalah. The first is the natural path of development, a path of suffering. The second one is the path when people, after some educational process, will be able to advance to altruistic properties consciously. How can this take place?

Answer: The preliminary stage of the second path of development is realizing the evil of our egoistic nature. I think it is already happening.

In other words, all current confrontations, crises, and wars between Russia and the Western World have to change humanity gradually and show that no one wins anything in a war and there are no victors.

We are practically going through this state. We means all of humanity. That is because at the end of the days, meaning at the end of human development, we will not be dividing ourselves into countries, not even into continents, but instead, we will begin to aspire to rise above our nature. That is much bigger than mutual agreements between people, countries, etc.

Even though we do not realize it yet, I hope we are already starting to learn the laws that will bring us to complete correction.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 7/11/24

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