Comment: I can relate to you and to the writings of Baal HaSulam, but I feel Rabash is somehow in between, and I cannot quite grasp him.

My Response: I understand you on the one hand. But on the other hand, it is completely not the case. Rabash gave us all the foundations of spiritual work. Before him, they had not been presented systematically. Kabbalists either wrote commentaries on the Torah, or letters, and articles, but a systematic presentation of the inner work a person must do to attain the Creator was given to us only by my teacher Rabash.

He wrote nearly 500 articles on this topic. In them, he expressed absolutely all the states of a person starting the spiritual path from zero and moving forward.

What Rabash did is a priceless contribution to Kabbalah! It is such an invaluable, irreplaceable help for a beginner, one that cannot be drawn from The Book of Zohar, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, or any other works!

On one hand he was a great Kabbalist, and on the other a very concealed one and cunning in how he concealed himself, how he hid everything, and stayed in the shadow of his father!

You are right when you say, “Somehow I don’t see him, he just slips past.” He truly diminished himself: “Who am I? My father was the great Kabbalist.”

Rabash was the greatest Kabbalist, with such discoveries, such achievements, such writings, and yet he constantly concealed it: “I just study a little,” and so on. No one knew him or understood him.

He was a great practitioner, a great systematizer, a great teacher, a great educator!

In his articles, he laid out the system of spiritual work in various forms suitable for every person, every soul, every style, at all times and states that we go through.

I could speak endlessly about what he did! Not because he was my teacher, the closest and dearest person to me, but because he truly did something for us without which we could not take a single step forward. We could not!

Now that we are finally beginning to study his articles seriously, I hope we will come to realize this. It is a very serious work, incomparable to anything else.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Great Rabash” 9/3/10

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Baal HaSulam was a scholar engaged in pure science. He wrote in a high academic style. And my teacher Rabash is very close to us. He holds us in his arms and shows us, “This is how you should walk. This is exactly why you are experiencing such and such states.” He constantly guides you like a small child, helps, feeds, swaddles, does everything to raise you.

Rabash, in essence, created a Kabbalistic encyclopedia of inner spiritual work. He revealed all the states we have to go through in his articles. Therefore, if a person studies them all the time, he has no problems.

While working on an abridged version of these articles and going through them over and over again, I see how much it is like baby food, without which a child would not survive. A person cannot receive the nourishment of Kabbalah that Baal HaSulam actually gives one. Baal HaSulam pours such a light on him, it is like he places a steak in front of an infant.

But Rabash does not.  He turns all this into porridge, into boiled vegetables, into milk, which can be consumed in the proper portions. He was able to do it amazingly! And in such a style, in such a form, it is impossible to describe!

I remember how he wrote, every day a little bit, a little more, a little more, and by the end of the week the article would come out. He would hand it to me, and I would make copies and distribute it to the students. And for the entire following week we would read it, until a new article came out. And then the same thing again. In other words, it was a systematic, internal, spiritual work of mastering the spiritual space.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Great Rabash” 9/3/10

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Question: How do you have the strength and patience to answer the same questions that you are asked over and over again?

Answer: First of all, there is a great love for a person who sincerely asks and wants to grow. He does not understand, and so he asks again. He still does not understand and asks once more.

To others, it might seem like it is the same question being repeated. But it is not like that at all! Each of you can ask the same question, yet you awaken completely different desires in me, different deficiencies in fulfillment.

If I am alone, I have nothing to say. I absolutely need an audience and a question that comes from people. I come to a lecture, feel the audience, and in that moment, I know what to say.

Sometimes I step onto the stage in front of thousands of people, and until the very last minute it is as if I am in a fog and don’t know what I will say. I can leaf through books beforehand, plan topics for the lecture, but I can never say in advance what I will begin to talk about.

Then suddenly contact with the audience happens, and that is it, I have caught their need, their desire, and I work with that desire.

So when thousands of people ask me the same question, each one is driven by a different desire. I perceive the desire of one, and another, and a third, I feel that it comes from a different place, and that is why it does not irritate me. Because each time it is as if a new question comes to me.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/25/2010, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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Friends must strive for connection between them and from that point turn to the Creator and demand adhesion (Dvekut). In this case, the teacher is the messenger of the Creator leading you to Him.

Adhesion with the teacher is a solid foundation (Yesod) upon which a spiritual building can be erected. Yesod is the upper quality in relation to Malchut. Therefore, when a person stands on one hand in Yesod, and on the other in Malchut, a connection forms between one’s current state and the future one.

The foundation (Yesod) is built when a person attributes it to a higher degree and is willing to exert efforts to detach from one’s present state and rise upward to a more elevated state. A person must ask the Creator for the ability to ascend higher and higher.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/5/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Things that Come from the Heart”

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How can one constantly maintain a state of unity with the teacher, the friends, and the Creator? Try to find that inner point within yourself that is awakening right now and illuminating the path that is leading you to the Creator; grasp it and never let it go.

It is from these points of unity that the path is built. It is a path on which we grow stronger and draw ever closer to the Creator. Each person connects to Him in a unique way, in a form that exists only between that individual and the Creator. One must constantly ask for this unity.

The next point of connection along the path depends on how ready my heart is for it, that is, how corrected it is through my attitude toward all the previous points I have already passed.

My yearning for the Creator is the force that brings me back to unity after every fall. And if I am not in unity, then I must remain in constant prayer.

The heart’s readiness to unite with the upper one requires its expansion, and the heart expands through my desire to unite with the friends in the group or the ten.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/5/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Things that Come from the Heart”

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There is only one counsel then: to cling to his teacher and to the books… Only by clinging to them can he change his mind and will for the better. However, witty arguments will not help him change his mind, but only the remedy of Dvekut [adhesion], for this is a wondrous cure, as the I reforms him (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 25, “Things that Come from the Heart“).

If a student wants to adhere to the teacher’s thought or desire, then he joins in them and unites with that thought and desire, which then become close and dear to him. As a result, all of one’s own thoughts and desires undergo correction and bow before the new desire and new thought.

Everything depends on how much one can perceive the teacher’s attitude and inner intention, cling to it, and separate from any other form of connection, whether with friends or the outside world. Then one begins to feel how tightly he has managed to adhere to the teacher, and from this, strength and desire to cling to the Creator will arise.

Any student, in any condition, has the opportunity to realize this aspiration. And to one who truly desires it, as it is said: “It will be revealed to him.”

If you yearn for adhesion, that very yearning begins to influence you and draw you closer.
Everything depends on a person’s desire, on their willingness to detach from the self-centered core and to stick to the new center of adhesion, one that is internally closer to the friends.

The advice, “Make for yourself a Rav (teacher),” means a person’s inner desire is to get closer to the center of creation.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/5/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Things that Come from the Heart”

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Question: Why is it that when different people ask you the same question, you give different answers?

Answer: I give one answer, but on different levels. I am not a two-faced Janus, and I am not lying. It depends on who is asking the question and to whom the answer is given: a small child, an adult, a man or a woman, and so on.

That is, there are different versions of the answer. In principle, the answer is one, but its external expressions may vary.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. One Question and Many Answers to It” 9/7/10

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Question: You say that in Kabbalah all your feelings are in Hebrew. When you read Kabbalistic texts in this language or listen to them, how do you perceive them?

Answer: When I read a Kabbalistic text in Hebrew, I perceive it within myself. Just like when you read a text about some situation in our world in Russian, it creates a certain inner picture within you.

It is the same for me when I read a Kabbalistic text. It creates an inner picture in me because I already possess a certain set of qualities that correspond to these words, terms, sentences, and connections.

Therefore, while reading, I assemble this picture inside myself like a mosaic, and it begins to live within me. As I continue through the text, it all shimmers, rotates, connects, and separates within me. The text lives in me and carries out its actions. I feel it as my life experienced in that very moment.

It is similar to when you read fiction and become immersed in the story.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalistic Language” 8/25/10

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Comment: You said that when you traveled with RABASH to Tiberias, there were moments when you did not understand anything and hated yourself.

My Response: Yes, of course there are such states.

During the long evenings in Tiberias, I would sit on the open terrace, smoke a pack of cigarettes, think, and not know what to do. I could not imagine any possibility of taking even a small step: “How could I? Look who I am with! The only great Kabbalist in the world! And I am beside him, alone, right now! What can I ask, what can I talk about, what can I absorb from him?”

But after such hours of questioning, searching, and self-torment, a true question, a true desire began to awaken. All of this is necessary preparation for each of us and for the whole group.

Question: What was the main topic of your conversations with Rabash? What did you talk about with him? You could not have spoken only about Partzufim and Sefirot all the time.

Answer: We talked about that too. I asked many questions about the general development of the system of creation, which greatly interested me.

I wanted to form a clear inner structure for myself, even if not developed in minute detail, because there are so many details and not enough inner energy for all of it. Frankly speaking, detailed research did not interest me much because it is meaningful only when you feel it with your senses.

But overall, the very structure of the universe seemed incredibly enticing to me: the beginning of creation, the end of creation, the entire sequential cause-and-effect, purposeful, inevitable, step-by-step process, the forces acting at each stage, the necessity of every action, and so on.

That is, nature itself, its unified, natural law passing through from the upper worlds, through our world, and back to the upper worlds—how could that not be interesting?

Back then, I discovered this system for myself as if molding it within me. It helped me, first, to understand many Kabbalistic texts, and second, everything else that I later revealed.

The attainment of reality, the forces operating at our level between it and the upper world, the interaction of man with nature, the development of languages, the development of history—all of this gradually assembled itself for me into a single picture.

It is precisely with this picture, based on the spiritual model of the worlds’ development, that I went through my entire life. I formed it within myself by the age of thirty-five and afterward continually added new data to it from what I read, heard, and researched.

I always wanted to see the synthesis of all ideas, qualities, and manifestations. The picture of nature is one, unified, whole, eternal, perfect harmony: on one hand constant and unchanging and on the other, evolving before our eyes depending on the level of perception, on the worlds, on the degrees.

It is such a stunning, multilayered, multifaceted, multistage tapestry across many dimensions that gives a person a feeling of eternity, perfection, and attainment, and it fills him! That is just how I am built.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Next to Rabash” 8/14/10

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Comment: You, as a Kabbalist on high spiritual levels, constantly go against your own desire and come to the lessons most likely in a difficult state, not with the same joy as the newcomers.

My Response: So what? That is my duty. Of course, it is hard for me, but I feel the highest obligation. There is not even a question about it.

How can I not come to the lesson when it is a means of dissemination, of conducting the Creator’s line in this world?! I have been authorized to do it.

I am simply fulfilling a mission from above, and I am grateful for the opportunity to carry it out. And every day it is a miracle that I manage to give a three-hour lesson, explain, write a blog, answer questions, and appear on some television program.

I see this as a gift, a great favor that the Creator has done for me. What difference does it make whether it is hard or not? It is so important, so necessary! At least that is how I see it. That is what gives me strength.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. When There Is No Desire” 8/12/10

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