Remark: When Baal HaSulam found the Ari’s book The Tree of Life, he was very happy and was full of hope: “Finally I found it!” However, as your teacher Rabash recounted, he did not know that only after 20 years would he be able to understand what he had found and would begin to comprehend it.

It is not easy for a person to hear that all this will start to penetrate him in 15-20 years.

My Comment: No, it is not a problem. It is a natural and necessary condition of attaining the upper world because you have to build the elements to sense it in yourself, its awareness and attainment.

It is not easy because it is born in us and accumulates in small pieces. This is how our sensual and intellectual apparatus works, that is, the heart that feels and the mind, which evokes definitions and concepts. Therefore, this combination of two systems, sensual and thinking, we cannot comprehend. Our world does not have this.

In music, in art, in anything in our world, there is no clear connection between a sensation of understanding and feelings, how one depends on the other.

The connection between them occurs precisely in Kabbalah. That is why it takes so much time.

But it does not matter. It is important that you build this correct conjugation in yourself between sensation and understanding, in order from sensation to influence understanding and from understanding to influence sensation. This is the structure of the soul, and you need to build it in yourself.

Gradually, it is created in you, only it takes some time. So what? You are all mostly young. Even if there are elderly people among us, I assure you that they will have time to reach the level of the upper world, eternity, and perfection in this lifetime.

No one is given Kabbalah to simply touch on and stop there. If a person came to Kabbalah, if he heard about it, then it means that in this lifetime he can realize this opportunity. Everything depends on his efforts.
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From the Lesson in the Russian Language, 3/10/19

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Question: Is it right to prepare myself in advance to be in one thought about the Creator, the group, and the ten? Suppose tomorrow the usual work week begins. I know that if I do not prepare myself, then the normal working day, with all its problems, will just take it away.

Answer: What you are preparing yourself for is your business, your decision. But preparation is always needed in any case and no matter what for. If a person does something, he must prepare for it.

As soon as you wake up, the best thing is to direct your thoughts to the fact that there is none else besides Him, and then your day will be mainly dedicated only to strengthening unity with the Creator who absolutely controls you in every way and at every moment. Then, inside this you can insert all your earthly problems.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/3/19

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Question: What does it mean to think about the Creator?

Answer: Thinking about the Creator means seeing the single force that presents itself to you behind all objects, actions, thoughts, and events.

The whole world, everything that affects your five senses, everything that you have before your eyes, it is all the Creator. He simply reveals Himself to you this way in order to tune you to Him through all your senses.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/2/19

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Question: No matter how many positive thoughts we send into space, there are still more negative thoughts. Why do they silence and quench positive thoughts?

Answer: You are sending your thoughts incorrectly. You must send them through the group to the Creator, and ask Him to direct the whole group to come closer to Him.

Remark: We want to change the world so that everyone will know the Creator. But everything is going so slowly. I want us to hurry up!

My Comment: This is a very good intention. Do not think that anything is missing from your efforts.

Everything is absolutely closed in this world, nothing is lost. But you need to concentrate your intentions through the group more correctly, not just somewhere into space.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 02/03/19

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Question: What is a filter for transmitting my thoughts and receiving thoughts of others?

Answer: Not only my thoughts, but also the thoughts of others, I must perceive as if I receive them from the Creator. At the same time, I do not take into account from whom among those around me I received these influences, because they come only from the Creator.

I exist in the Creator and receive from Him everything that I hear and see. The fact that there are say billions of people  around me, all this does not exist. It is just an appearance of the Creator to me at the level of “man.”
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/3/19

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Question: I have heard that the word “Ubar” (Embryo) and the word “Zam” (Rage) are connected. Can you explain the connection between them?

Answer: The strongest form of expression of egoism is a person’s rage, when he disagrees with the thought of creation and wants to command the world. If he overcomes his rage, closes his mouth and eyes, and restricts all of his egoistic feelings, he becomes an embryo.

Question: Everything happens internally, emotionally with me. Even if someone insults me, either indirectly or consciously, without my knowing about how he feels this, I feel sorrow and always turn to the upper light for help. Are these egoistic feelings?

Answer: It doesn’t matter if it is egoistic. The main thing is that it is affecting you and in this way you expand your spiritual Kli. In order to transcend your ego, it is up to you to experience many examinations within yourself for many years.

Question: Is it necessary for us to discover “fear” in order to begin to attain the right acceptance of creation?

Answer: Yes, but it depends what you are afraid of. The right fear is one where I will not be sufficiently connected with the friends so that through our union the Creator will be discovered and we will give Him satisfaction.

Question: Should I direct my feelings more toward working in a group than to study? Meaning that if you immerse yourself in studying and begin to enjoy it, it will simply sweep you away?

Answer: No. Feelings must develop only in relationships between friends. Everything else is a Klipa (Shell).

Question: What is the right reason for working in a state of nullification in which you only want to care about the spirituality of the friends?

Answer: If your work is directed toward the Creator and you hope to discover Him in the center of the group, your connection to Him and the connection from Him to you is the right direction.

Question: The world is more or less relaxed at the moment and we have the possibility of being involved with spiritual work in a ten, in dissemination, and in study. What if suddenly something happens, a war or big problems in the world, will we still have the possibility of working in a ten, being involved with dissemination and study or will there be problems with this?

Answer: All of this depends personally on you, in your group, in each one of us in a concrete way and in all of us together. It is only this and nothing more.

Question: Regarding the study of the “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” according to what you say, it is necessary to dissolve into a ten, become connected with it, and that is of utmost importance, and we will not understand anything in our mind. But suppose I connect with a ten and dissolve into it and still don’t understand the study material?

Answer: First dissolve into a ten and then it will become clear to you what you must do next. Don’t jump. It is not necessary to say anything at first, just do it. Only this must be in front of you.

Question: What is the importance of the Sabbath and the rest of the customs that are described in the Torah in relation to the ten?

Answer: These holidays have no meaning, these are just spiritual levels. Over time, we will begin to use them and maintain them, but not according to a physical calendar, rather when we achieve these levels.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 4/4/19

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Question: Is it possible to be cured of cancer or other illnesses by changing your thoughts?

Answer: I would prefer not to answer specific questions regarding illnesses and such topics. It is possible to do everything. Could we do it today? I cannot say. I think not, but soon we will.

It depends only on how our thoughts will be in the correct conjugation with each other. Then we will be able to influence the deepest negative phenomena of our nature. Everything depends only on us.

There are many interesting stories about Kabbalists and their supposed miracles. But they are not miracles. This are just small corrections, not intervention but a correction of nature’s laws on certain levels, which we can do only if we correct them properly.

I can enter any system, on any level, from myself till the world of Infinity, only on the condition that I add some positive forces of influence to this system. I think that we will reach the state when we truly will be able to heal ourselves, humanity, the Earth, the ecology, and the universe from all problems.

You cannot even imagine how negative our influence is on the universe. What is happening on Earth is a small fraction of what is happening on the scale of the universe from our evil, because on Earth we consider only the human impact. On the scale of the universe, the negative impact from our thoughts and feelings have devastating consequences. But let us hope that we can come to their correction quickly.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 2/3/19

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Restriction (Tzimtzum) is when I close my desire, disallowing myself to receive pleasure, like a baby who tightly squeezes his mouth shut and refuses to eat. A blow (Bitush) already assumes a condition: if I have the opportunity to eat for the mother’s pleasure, then I will happily open my mouth. But I do not have such an opportunity right now, so what do I do? Help me, give me the desire to please you, and I will be happy to open myself to receive.

The restriction is an unconditional action, and the blow occurs on the condition that I am ready to take pleasure if there is an adhesion between us. In the blow, my goal is connection. While in restriction there is no goal of connecting, only preventing  yourself from receiving. I do not want any contact because I have no strength for more, only to restrict myself; otherwise, I will burn with shame.

The striking merger is already above shame. I no longer take shame into account, but only think about love and the connection between us, rising above selfishness. With a blow, I show that I am ready to receive a treat, not for myself, but only for the pleasure of the host.

At first we check our relationship with the host, and only when this spiritual connection of the heart has arisen can we translate it into action, and it descends into matter, into the desire to enjoy. Therefore, first of all, the decision is made in the Rosh of the Partzuf, in pure thoughts and feelings, disconnected from the clothing of the light in the desire, in matter. You can then perform this action, step by step, from easy to complex: the light of Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, and Yechida.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/17/19, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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Question: How does one properly respond to the internal shocks that are awakened by the Creator? Should we disagree with what He sent? After all, He is “the good that does good.” How can I be against what He aroused in me?

Answer: No way! You should react only in the direction of even greater connection between us. Only in this way can you force His influence on us to be more positive and kind. To the extent of our connection between us, we influence Him in such a way that we positively change His governance.

Question: How do I recognize that He pushes me precisely to that, exactly toward what He is correcting?

Answer: For this you have to listen to Kabbalists. Until you enter the system, you will not recognize anything.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 3/17/19

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Question: What is the relationship between thought and desire?

Answer: Desire determines thoughts. If it were the other way around, it would be good. But in fact, desires determine everything. This is what the Creator said: “I created desire,” an evil one at that. Thoughts appear in order to attain what is desired.

That is, at first I want, and then thoughts come to me about how to solve this problem. Thus, desire is primary and thought is secondary.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/3/19

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