Question: Since all that surrounds us is the emanation of the Creator, is love for the still, vegetative, and animate levels a transition toward love for the Creator? For example, suppose someone loves animals, flowers, etc.

Answer: No. A relationship like that exists in every person due to his animalistic essence. What we discover in this world is called our animalistic essence. It has nothing to do with the Creator.

Question: If there is none else besides Him, who am “I” who observes the picture of the surrounding world?

Answer: You are the point that has been given the possibility to feel itself supposedly outside of the Creator. That is your “I.”

Question: How do blind people feel the Creator? Do they have the ability to perceive the Creator?

Answer: How do we feel Him? Who among us sees Him? Nobody does. The Creator is felt as a force that influences you.

Question: According to the degree of my nearing the Creator, can I determine what the Creator is and how He manages me and the world within me more and more precisely?

Answer: Yes. As we study of the wisdom of Kabbalah, we approach Him, and as a result, we truly reveal Him. But we discover Him within us.

Question: When something incomprehensible happens and I remember that the Creator did this to me, does this state cease or does my perception of the “incomprehensible” change?

Answer: The perception changes. The incomprehensible becomes comprehensible.

Question: Does the Creator have any reckoning regarding our animal bodies?

Answer: There is no reckoning with our physical bodies; you might put on weight or do anything you want to do with your body.

Question: Am I the point through which God gets to know the physical world?

Answer: God does not need to know anything. He is this world.

Question: Are the attainment of the sensation of the greatness of the Creator and of His oneness the same thing?

Answer: Yes. There is no division in the many aspects of attainment. There is only one: the attainment of the Creator.

Question: Why does suffering stimulate the desire’s development?

Answer: Suffering pushes a person toward movement because he wants to get rid of it. Without suffering (the so-called deficiency), there is no movement forward.

Question: Why is it that the Creator is felt in the wild, primitive nature, and only vanity is felt in a metropolis?

Answer: It is because in primitive nature you are free from the influence of the insane crowd.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/27/19

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Question: In order to reach the state of true love, one must observe the single law of the universe, the similarity of properties. Does this mean that I should become like the qualities of nature, with that root cause that created me?

Answer: Yes, we need to become similar to nature in which we indeed reside. But how do you know what this nature actually is? Therefore, we have been given a group, supposedly existing people, with whom I should interact, considering myself and them as one common whole. Thus, I reach the focus, as, for example, from two figures or lines that by adjusting the focus, I turn them into one.

Question: Kabbalah states that nature is altruistic and we people, creation, are egoistic, that means that we have egocentric thinking and we have to bring ourselves to similarity with nature.

Although we understand what altruism is in general, we do not see it evidently in nature. Is it the same matter? Is it egoistic as well?

Answer: When Kabbalah reveals the method of one’s correction to a person, it becomes a method of one’s education. It explains to you how you should change and, in accordance with the changes in yourself, you will see the world corrected. That is how it works.

A person must understand that in one’s field of vision is a double image of the world, and one must combine them. By combining oneself with others into one whole, into one object, you correct yourself and see the world corrected.

The nature of the Creator who created us is altruistic and we have to become similar to Him, meaning similar to the quality of absolute bestowal. The Creator created us opposite to Himself on purpose so that we could attain Him from the opposite state.

By combining absolutely negative and absolutely positive qualities in oneself, a person will be able to rise to the next level of feeling the world.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah” 11/26/18

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Question: Does the Creator control me through pleasures or by inserting a desire into me, like a new ingot into a machine, and begins to process it?

Answer: The second is true. Each time the Creator places a new desire in you, He is the One who processes it.

However, you still have to take part in this process and become a partner with the Creator. Then you discover how you work together with Him in synchrony. This is the most correct spiritual state.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/10/19

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Question: When a desire overwhelms me, I can think about it endlessly. How can a desire suddenly affect a higher level of thoughts?

Answer: Desire changes, thoughts change. I am beginning to think about how to serve my new desire.

Question: Until the desire changes, does the thought not change?

Answer: Of course. How much time do we spend with an empty head, not thinking about anything, with nothing but waves wandering in it. As soon as a desire for something appears, that is it, I am already beginning to think about how and when I shall implement it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/3/19

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Question: If thoughts come from above, then what depends on me so that correct and good thoughts come to me?

Answer: It depends on your preparation. The thought that comes to you from above is actually neither good nor bad. Depending on how you are tuned, it induces you to either good or bad. Only this way.

There is no specific impact from above. We just say it this way because it is easier for us. You determine this impact in yourself.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/3/19

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Question: We are given society in order to become similar to the Creator. Several billion people walk around me. Is the only thing I need to do is engage in altruism toward them? Will I then become similar to this higher being?

Answer: There is no higher being! There is a higher property of bestowal and love. This is the power of emanation, development, bestowal, and positive influence.

Question: Is it a force similar to gravity that acts on everyone whether we want it or not?

Answer: There is no such force in our nature like the one we are talking about. The spiritual nature is a desire to do something just for the sake of someone, for the other’s complete good, without any connection to yourself. I perform a spiritual act when I detach from myself (this state is called “Tzimtzum”—the reduction of my desire) and I want to give everything to others for their good, without any connection to me.

Question: So, do I need to give something to the people around me? Why? I have nothing.

Answer: You have nothing to give and they have nothing to receive. We should just direct our desires. If I direct all my desires to others, I will turn into a transmitter, into a pipe through which the highest abundance, light, will pass through. But my direction to them should be absolutely selfless.

Question: So is it about intention, not about action?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Now I am imprisoned within myself; I automatically think about how to improve my state every second at all levels. So will a person take care of others the same way?

Answer: Yes. In this case, one will be called being in the spiritual world and in spiritual action, and then the person will see the whole world in a completely different way.
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From KabTV’s  “Basics of Kabbalah,” 11/26/18

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Question: How can we use the Creator to help others?

Answer: In order to do this, we must first connect with others, with their desires and needs, internalize these desires and needs, absorbing them into ourselves as our own.

Only afterward can we appeal to the Creator in order to fill them.

And then through myself, through my newly-acquired alien desires, which have now become mine, I already fulfill them. This is how it works.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/02/2019

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Question: Must we bring the system into balance or must we change in relation to a system that is completely unchangeable and balanced?

Answer: We must change, only us. In this way we change the world that is reflected within us.

Question: What appears first, thought or desire?

Answer: Desire. Desire is our foundation. Thoughts then appear, which begin to sort and take in and absorb the desires and work with them.

Question: What appeared first, distance, time, or movement?

Answer: All of this is the result of our egoistic development. Until the spiritual essence fell into the egoistic level, there was no time, motion, or space.

Question: Does spiritual happiness always come as the result of a struggle between two opposing forces?

Answer: It is not only the struggle, but also the right combination between two opposing forces.

Question: The wisdom of Kabbalah is a method for uniting people. How is it possible to help your family unite in order to survive? How do we add Kabbalistic principles to the family?

Answer: You need to try to do this gradually and never apply pressure. Don’t be troublesome, don’t frighten people. You must show them that you are happy because you are studying Kabbalah. This will be the best method for making it popular with your relatives.

Question: How does a Kabbalist differentiate evil from good?

Answer: Everything that brings us closer to each other and to the Creator is good. Everything else, even what is neutral, is evil

Question: Why do people try to extend their life on Earth? After all, we were not born for that, but only in order to develop the soul.

Answer: I don’t think it is necessary to artificially prolong life. There is nothing worse than this world. Yet we don’t have the right to give it up because we need to carry out our role.

Question: When a person becomes a Kabbalist, by seeing what is inevitable, is he able to correct his behavior in the present?

Answer: Certainly. If you see your spiritual state, then you can certainly correct your next movement based on your state.

Question: What are the levels of control of the heart and the spiritual state that exist for a Kabbalist?

Answer: Tzimtzum (restriction), then the Masach (screen), ascent above the ego, and after that Zivug de Haka’a  (mating by striking), meaning the proper functioning of your egoism with bestowal and love.

Question: Does a hierarchy exist in a spiritual system?

Answer: Certainly it exists. There are 125 levels that are divided into sublevels. Kabbalists feel that someone is higher or lower according to the hierarchy. But other than that, each one has his own mission.

Question: How is it possible to hasten and carry out a maximal change in states from bad to good and from good to the middle line?

Answer: This is only through work with friends in a group to the degree they approach each other.

Question: Does spiritual consciousness depend on the physical level of human consciousness?

Answer: Spiritual consciousness does not depend on physical consciousness in any way. A person in our world can be stupid or lazy, while in spirituality he could discover completely different characteristics.

Question: How and what is changed in a physical person after going through the Machsom (barrier)?

Answer: He becomes purposeful. That is all.

Question: Whether we remain in this world or abandon it depends upon what?

Answer: It depends upon the mission.

Question: Do all people have a point in the heart?

Answer: All people have a point in the heart, if only they want to renew or revive it.

Question: Can a Kabbalist influence his spiritual root and therefore determine the flow of events in the lowest world, for all the worlds?

Answer: Yes, certainly he can.
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/20/19

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Question: Once again we have approached the study of the Preface to The Wisdom of Kabbalah (Pticha), but at a new level, through feeling. This is so interesting, so deep, that again we miss the technical details.

Why, when we start to ask any technical questions, does it takes us away from the sensory perception that we have entered, knocks us out of it?

Answer: This happens only in the beginning. For example, when people learn to play a certain musical instrument, at first one has to work on technique. They have to do exercises and get used to the instrument.

Once they have mastered it, then it is as if they unite with it and the instrument begins to express their feelings, those that they cannot express themselves. I take a violin in my hands and it sings they way I never could. But through its singing, through its longing, through its sounds, I am able to express myself.

It is the same here. First we have to learn the instrument. Our instrument is feelings, nothing more than feelings because we are merely the desire to enjoy. This is what the Creator created in us.

In order to express our feelings for the Creator, we need to take them above our egoism, that is, through the desire to the friends. This is a great, special, wonderful opportunity to take our feelings through them because I will not get into the Creator otherwise!

The group for me is an instrument on which I play. If I did not have it, I would not be able to convey anything to the Creator. Therefore, the shattering of the common desire into a vast number of desires gives me an opportunity to play, as if on piano keys, all sorts of melodies of connection. From them, I assemble a symphony, a song of love for the Creator. These are feelings. Yet, they work on mathematics, on desires.

Several times in our lessons, I told you about my friend who worked on the restoration of the organ in the Riga Cathedral. He told me how complex this instrument is. He had books and articles on the structure of the organ with complex mathematical formulas, including diameters, pressure, tune, and so on.

A question arises: what are we going to study: mechanics or how with its help we can evoke feelings? The Creator needs both.

Why? It is so we could fully become masters of the desire that He created, and with its help, express everything in the same way He does, as our quality of bestowal in relation to His quality of bestowal. So that we could connect, adhere to Him.

Therefore, we do not go into feelings with no connection to mechanics. Currently, we do not pay more attention to feelings, because once we run into this, we do not understand what is required of us. We must develop our sensory perception, and then we will play.

We will look at different drawings and cry or laugh—each one will have one’s own reaction. You have no idea how many drawings there are—thousands. So you don’t have to worry about mechanics. You will have all the mechanics you want.

Thus we will come to this. Then everything will be balanced: both feelings and mechanics. You will be able to play the instrument perfectly and express your feelings through it so that both you and the Creator will really be in a common understanding and enjoyment.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/4/19

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Question: How do you explain the phenomenon when you suddenly begin to understand?

Answer: Understanding is an awareness of the connection between the previous and the present state, that is, cause and effect. The connection between cause and effect is called understanding.

Question: What does it mean to understand the Creator?

Answer: From His actions on us we begin to understand Him.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/3/19

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