Question: What is a true desire according to Kabbalah? Is it when all other desires disappear or become insignificant?

Answer: Nothing disappears, nothing is lost; only the importance of each desire rises or diminishes.

Question: Can a ten develop incorrectly?

Answer: Certainly. There are thousands of ways to develop incorrectly and only one way to develop correctly. The threat of the incorrect development of a ten is always present.

Question: Who or what is testing a person on the spiritual path?

Answer: It is the properties of the Creator to which one must adjust to a particular degree, in a particular style, in every step of one’s spiritual development. A person must constantly adapt him or herself while passing through the stages of development and adjust to the properties of the Creator.

Question: How is it possible to learn to hold onto two lines simultaneously and not fall into one of them?

Answer: Realize yourself in the group in a way that you will not harm the group with your egoism and then you will feel balance and will maintain this condition.

Question: If I finished an introductory course together with a friend and then entered a ten while my friend remained as a guest, how should I relate to him: as a friend or as a guest?

Answer: Relate to him as a guest. It is only to the degree that he participates in a group that he is your friend.

Question: Are there different correct scenarios for the development of events on the spiritual path? How do you want the same thing that the Creator wants from you?

Answer: The Creator wants only one thing from you: for you to get as close as possible to the group. Then He will be able to be revealed in it. Try, that is all that He is waiting for.

Question: Is it possible to combine creative activity with the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: Activity is activity, and Kabbalah is Kabbalah. Do not mix one with the other. It will give you nothing. You will get confused in this and in that. Moreover, in the end, you will fail in both.

Question: How should one accept gratitude from friends?

Answer: Accept it as manifestation of their love for you, which means that you must relate to them in the same way. At the same time, thank the Creator because if He did not want this, it would not happen.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/9/18

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Question: How do we grow spiritually?

Answer: Growing spiritually means being in a group and engaging in it according to the method of Rabash, which we constantly study. This is an old method; it is simply called by the name of my teacher who was the last of a thousand-year-old Pleiad of Kabbalists that worked on this method.

Only if you exercise the method of connecting with others in a group, will all your problems gradually turn into sweetness.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/20/19

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Question: We are trying to work with friends, we want to bestow, to enter the ten. There is a feeling that we have a great desire for spirituality and that all thoughts are directed toward it.

Then suddenly this sensation is lost; we forget about everything and have nothing left of this state. Why does that happen?

Answer: It is because only one small portion of your egoism is revealed to you, which you rose above and began to, at least, listen to what is happening in spirituality. In order to reveal greater egoism, you have to add it. Therefore, egoism is added to you, and this is accompanied by a feeling of descent.

Suppose we go through a certain state, talk about the group, feel something. In order to rise to the next level, we need an additional bit of egoism. If at our initial egoistic level we had 10 kg of egoism, then another 10 kilograms are added. Since this egoism is not yet corrected, we feel a descent of minus 10.

But actually it is a plus. Is it possible to grow without egoism? Now, working in the group, I turn this egoism into an ascent, and so I grow to the next step.

Therefore, we go through states of descent and we should appreciate them! The most important thing is to appreciate our egoism. If it were not there, we would not be able to rise, we could not feel the Creator. We need to reach a state of minus infinity.

We must feel the entire Malchut of the world of Infinity, the whole huge Kli (vessel of the soul), everything the Creator created. Can you imagine the great egoism we must reach? Otherwise we will not feel ourselves against the Creator. After all, the connection with Him goes only through our ego.

It is said that Pharaoh brings Israel closer, that is, people directed to the Creator, to Him that gives them their egoism. Therefore, we must be able to overcome all the states of the descent in order to most effectively implement the revealed egoism.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/4/19

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Question: If the Creator includes all reality, then is He fully responsible for all the troubles at the lower level in our world?

Answer: No one bears any responsibility except the Creator. The Creator starts and performs everything, makes all decisions, and gets results. It is the same force.

It leads us through all the trivialities and problems of life, pushes us in all directions, and leads us into all sorts of conflicts.

We are lost inside this life, and it is precisely because of these circumstances, this “roller coaster,” along which we constantly turn up and down, to come to a state where we need to relax, surrender to the stream carrying us, and wish to be merged with this force that governs everything.

Can I achieve this or not? If I can, I do not need anything else because everything suddenly becomes static, calm, and serene. There is only one thought—the purpose of creation, and this purpose is embodied in us.

This thought draws all sorts of changes in my perception in me, and this inner movie that is spinning in me, I perceive as a world outside of me. But in fact, it does not exist, everything happens inside me.

I need to gradually adapt to this picture, to live in it so that it does not interfere with me, and my incorrect perception does not prevent me from living in this world too. It will turn out that I exist in two worlds: the upper world, which the Creator shows me, and the world that represents my distorted consciousness.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/27/19

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Question: Could it be that suffering or punishment is predetermined for a person and one could cancel them with the help of the light of Kabbalah?

Answer: It is not suffering and punishment that are predetermined for each person, but the specific way forward, which precedes from the point of one’s soul. This way can be either good or evil, but this is a person’s choice.

Question: Ultimately is it beneficial for a person to suffer?

Answer: No one needs to suffer even for a single moment. The Creator is good and desires only good. Therefore, every second of suffering is recorded on our account as going against Him. If we want to go along with Him, we should get rid of the feeling of suffering as quickly as possible.

Question: What develops us more: suffering from lack of necessities or the yearning for pleasure?

Answer: It is only striving forward to the goal, to the truth, not to pleasure nor avoiding suffering.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/18/18

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Question: What does the desire to study the wisdom of Kabbalah depend on?

Answer: The aspiration toward the Creator depends on the Reshimo (a spiritual informational record) that is revealed in a person. These are not just questions about the meaning of life and its worthlessness because their answers can be purely corporeal.

A pressing question arises in a person about the essence of existence above only filling himself. It does not matter to me how I live, in what way I fill myself, what I have, and when my life will end. It is important for me to understand its inner meaning! Where did it come from and why it was given to me? What is this phenomenon of life? What does it represent?

When this question emerges in a person, he really needs to discover the purpose of creation. That is, the Creator Himself is unclear. However, if the design, the thought with which everything was created: “With what purpose? Why? For what? How? By Whom?” attracts a person, he comes to the study of Kabbalah and remains in it.

Yet, if he was accidentally lured to Kabbalah by other questions that are less focused on the inner meaning of life, he leaves. Therefore, it is written that a thousand enter a dark room and only one remains and goes out to the Light.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/4/19

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Question: What should you do when there is no strength? Fight with yourself?

Answer: Why fight with yourself? You can never overcome yourself because it is not you, but your egoism, which is much stronger than you, and you have nothing but that. This is a battle already lost.

The only thing you have to do is stick to the group as much as possible. Then you will have the strength, a direction, everything you need to overcome the problems.

Question: How can you not be trapped, thinking that you are developing, but in fact you have long since gone astray and are regressing?

Answer: Only by sticking to the group. I cannot give any other advice. If you have a ten, then you have a lifeline. If you do not have one, then you are drowning.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 1/20/19

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Question: How does the concept of joy unfold in Kabbalah? For example, faith is love, bestowal. And the joy?

Answer: Joy comes from the fact that I can perform the action of bestowal. As it is said: “Joy is a reflection of good deeds.”

When you perform good deeds: give, love, hug, help, push forward, then you have joy.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/4/19

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Question: There are many groups of people in the world that enjoy connecting. What is the difference between those groups and a group of Kabbalists?

Answer: Indeed, there are many groups in the world that engage in various methods of connection and receive great pleasure from it. People do karaoke, dancing and singing together, etc. It is impressive to see how they enjoy being together.

How can we distinguish a Kabbalistic group of people from any other group that connects and receives pleasure from connection?

The fact is that the goal of ordinary groups is to enjoy themselves. But the goal of connection in Kabbalistic groups is to bring contentment to the Creator, and as far as they aspire to this, they rise to the level of the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/20/19

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Question: If pleasure is a form of light and the only source of light is the Creator, how can receiving pleasure be disconnected from the source?

Answer: This so-called “pleasure disconnected from the source” is pleasure not from giving, but from receiving. In our world, all pleasures are like that.

Question: Does that mean if it is pleasure from bestowal, then it is not disconnected from the source but is connected with it? Does all the sweetness come from there?

Answer: Yes, food, sex, family, wealth, honor, and knowledge are all pleasures of our world that we receive apart from the Creator. Therefore, they are all transient, do not remain, cannot be eternal, and all of them end badly.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/20/19

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