Question: Why is the path to the first spiritual level not limited by physical time and dependent only on the readiness of a person?

Answer: It is not limited in time because there is no physical time in spirituality. Everything depends only on the development of your desire, how much you can get an answer to it.

Question: What is the meaning of the thousands of previous incarnations if a person always begins working for his own sake?

Answer: Every time it begins on different levels. Nothing ever happens in vain, we are constantly moving forward.

Question: There is an opinion that the Creator does not send a person trials that are beyond his abilities. Is there support for this in the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: Certainly. As a rule, a person does not have a chance to fail completely. One is sent only what one can tolerate.

Question: It is said: “If you change your place, you will change your luck.” Can a person change his location on his own or does this also come from the Creator?

Answer: A desire is called a place because it is the place for receiving the light. By changing one’s desire, a person necessarily changes one’s luck, one’s fate, because one’s spiritual state changes immediately.

Question: How does a person advance and what does one achieve by creating conditions for advancement and revelation of the Creator for other people?

Answer: Everything that passes through him to other people and what they attain, he attains in himself first.

Question: Are there exercises in the wisdom of Kabbalah for maintaining a correct perception of the world, for increasing efforts, and for focusing the intention?

Answer: There certainly are. I am very sorry that you have not seen this yet. You need to learn this methodically and seriously.

Question: Is an environment of eternally present souls of Kabbalists from the past and present not a sufficiently strong energy field?

Answer: No, because we need to act in mutual cooperation with those who are similar to us so that we are changed in relation to them and we obligate them to be changed in relation to us.

Question: While going through all the levels of the wisdom of Kabbalah, is it possible to achieve physical immortality?

Answer: There cannot be physical immortality because it is an imaginary state and it only seems to you that you exist in it.

Question: If one of the friends corrects one of his properties, will this property also be corrected in all of the friends in a group?

Answer: Yes, that is absolutely correct. This is the law of a closed system, otherwise he cannot correct this property in himself.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/25/18

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Baal HaSulam, Letter 13: Truth will show its way, that one who regrets makes his regret known. He cannot withhold himself or hide. Indeed, I feel all of you together, that today has been replaced for you with tomorrow, and instead of “now,” you say “later.” There is no cure for that but to exert to understand that mistake and distortion—that one who is saved by the Creator is saved only if he needs the salvation today. One who can wait for tomorrow will obtain his salvation after his years, God forbid.

Under no circumstances should we postpone any feelings, thoughts, definitions, and desires for tomorrow. One must gather them, direct them to the Creator, and relate them to Him.

Suppose I have many thoughts going on in my head, all of them have to be attributed to the Creator, glued to Him; I must realize that He is their source in my feelings and in my mind.

If we constantly move in relation to Him, then the correct picture of connection will gradually emerge between the Creator and me. At first, the Creator manifests Himself in the form of the original source of everything that happens to me, inside of me, and in the surrounding world. And then I see that there is no surrounding world, and all of this is what He builds around me in my sensations; it is like a projection of these sensations.

The main thing is to try to constantly bind myself to the Creator as the root cause of all my feelings. Therefore, Baal HaSulam writes that the one who does not follow this will grow wiser after years, but who knows when?

If a person neglects this, then he or she is repelled from spiritual work and will not be able to return. When the next cycle approaches, which is like the revolution of the Earth around the Sun, can really take years
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/11/19

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Question: Does the Creator influence me differently depending on the changes in me? Or does His influence stay the same, but my perception of it changes? Who changes: me or Him?

Answer: In our world, we talk about what a person feels: a change in the weather, the environment, the surrounding society, and everything else.

While Kabbalah explains that everything is inside me: society, humanity, the weather, and everything that happens. But I see it only on the outside, external from me, as different levels of nature.

Therefore, by changing myself inside, I change the world outside. Conversely, to me, the world seems to be outside, so that I, by changing myself, would see the result of my changes.

Just imagine that there is a 360 degree “screen” around me, and on it I see the changes that occur in me at all four levels: speaking, animate, vegetative, and still. These are the four stages of desire that project themselves onto an external “screen,” like in a cinema.

There are two approaches here. Either I, by changing myself, change the world around me for the better. Or I remain the same and the world around me changes in order to force me to change. That is, either the Creator pulls me forward with a positive force or He pushes me from behind with a negative force. I see all this on the “screen” around me.

Question: Then what can be said about the four seasons of the year, which are constantly replace each other?

Answer: These are the four foundations, the four stages of the light, which are reflected in me in the form of the four seasons. Everything is divided into four, five, or ten parts. This is my inner world that is projected outward in this way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson in Russian, 12/16/18

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Question: How do you determine what world we are in? Why does this lower world exist?

Answer: We are in egoism. It is called our world, which we feel within ourselves.

Our lower world exists only so that we could ascend from it to the upper world, to give us a starting point to which we can fall and rise again, each time bouncing from it to the higher degree of the upper world.

Question: If we live in the world of egoism, how can we use it more effectively in order to come to spirituality?

Answer: We have to use our egoistic world because we need to exist in it physically. However, the rest of our attention should be turned to our state in the group. It is precisely on our connection with each other that creating the spiritual Kli, vessel, the spiritual network of forces in which the Creator will be revealed depends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson in Russian, 12/23/18

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Question: The truth is revealed in the point of balance. So why is the mind constantly trying to knock us off this point?

Answer: The mind is not trying to knock us off this point, but to awaken the sense of imbalance, like in an equilibrist balancing on a rope.

Our entire life is meant to give us a sense of imbalance, pushing us to look for a higher point of balance and thus to rise.

This point of balance is constantly renewed, not in its quantity, but in quality. We need to feel this ourselves.
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From a Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/16/18

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Question: What is the difference between attainment and in-depth learning?

Answer: Any study is carried out with the help of the mind. One can study anything one wants but not attain it because knowledge in Kabbalah is based on the conjugation of properties.

We cannot perceive the spiritual world because we do not have adequate properties like it. For example, there are radio waves around us that we do not see and feel, but we create instruments that let us sense them.

Likewise, we need to build a device that will sense the spiritual world. It is called the soul and it must have the properties of the upper world, bestowal and mutual connection, which are absolutely opposite to our world.

We can find them in a group, in strict adherence to what the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches. As you accumulate sensory and rational material, you will begin to feel how it gradually forms in you. You will learn more about all sorts of patterns of spiritual elements, their various compounds, classes, levels, and so on.

In other words, when studying the science of Kabbalah—the physics of the upper world—certain feelings, properties, and sensations gradually form in you. You will build models inside yourself: “This is Bina, this is Malchut, this is Zeir Anpin, it is above the Parsa, this is below the Parsa,” and so on. This is the gradual design of your soul.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/23/18

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Question: Is the Creator revealed in a field of good feelings or is the Creator the good feeling?

Answer: The Creator is everything that is in all worlds, in all of creation, within me. He determines everything, except for your freedom of choice—a small parameter that you determine for yourself.

Question: Is the path of suffering a desire of the Creator?

Answer: The desire of the Creator is our attainment of complete similarity to Him, in the middle line, because His state is the perfected state.

Question: If a person violates the laws of the spiritual system, will he necessarily experience suffering?

Answer: It is when the laws of communication between friends in a group.

Question: When a person achieves eternity and completeness, is this the point at which it is not necessary to feel pain and suffering?

Answer: Yes.

Question: I constantly try to imagine that everything comes from the Creator, that He is good to me, and that I feel Him as a loving presence. Then I feel grateful and happily participate in the group. Is a yearning to feel the Creator egoism?

Answer: No, these are the right attempts. A person should strive for good feelings.

Question: There were good relations in our family, but when my husband made a lot more money, he immediately changed. His aggressiveness was transmitted to the family, to the children. I want to continue the path of goodness, of personal development, but my husband is not listening to me anymore. Must I wait patiently or clearly move along and go my own way?

Answer: It seems to me that you cannot do anything here. You must make it possible for your husband to along the path he has chosen. The main thing is that he will think about you and the children, and you continue the path of your spiritual development.

Question: A person just wants to enjoy, even in a group, this is our essence. But this is not correction?

Answer: No, this is not correction. You need a group so that you can rise above yourself, so that through concern for the friends, through connection with them, you will achieve a connection with the Creator.

Question: Is every person ready and able to transform bitterness into sweetness and proceed in the quick and easy path of Achishena (path of acceleration)?

Answer: Yes, in our time every person can transform bitterness into sweetness and attain the goal of creation during this life. It does not matter how old one is. Everyone, if they will only try to make fewer mistakes moving toward the goal.

Question: Does our world mix with the upper world or do they remain separate?

Answer: No, they do not mix.

Question: If a person in a group suffers, does this mean that he is not going in the way of Kabbalah?

Answer: It means that for the time being he is unable to ascertain his suffering correctly in order to help him ascend spiritually.

Question: Is the Creator our common dream?

Answer: The Creator is what we represent between us. What this means is that we achieve revealing Him as the sum of all of our impressions and yearnings.

Question: How is it possible to understand that I have chosen the path of Kabbalah and not the path of suffering?

Answer: This depends on how much you draw the group and the friends together with you in order to ascend spiritually.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/18/18

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Question: How do Kabbalists practice love for the Creator and what does it feel like?

Answer: Let’s try this practice together.

Try to constantly keep yourself in a thought that you want to love the Creator, you want to do good to Him, you aspire to Him with all your soul, you want to get closer to Him and feel Him.

Try and see whether you can develop an inner feeling that you are lacking this connection.

Best of all is to constantly think: “I would very much like to do good to Him.” Such inner yearning will quickly evoke certain sensations within you, and then you will be able to say: “Indeed, there is some point of a special attitude toward the Creator in me. Based on that, I can develop further.”

I repeat and keep thinking: “I want to have a constant urge to do good to the Creator. But I do not want the Creator to know about it. I just want to do it myself.” That is all.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/23/18

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Question: Some new students who face sudden problems, think they are related to the study of Kabbalah. Is it so?

Answer: No. Problems in studying Kabbalah arise only in a group when friends begin to feel rejection and hostility. This results from advancement so that each time one will rise above these obstacles, nothing more.

Question: Where does the feeling that something is about to happen come from? Perhaps sensitivity increases?

Answer: Sensitivity also increases. How else can we overcome all sorts of obstacles in order to rise above them even higher and define the spiritual more if we do not feel them? Obstacles existed before, they just manifest themselves more now because we deserve it and we can rise above them.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/18/18

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Question: It is hard to seek the Creator if He is felt as a source of suffering. Would efforts aimed to feel that He is good and does good be considered egoistic?

Answer: We need to reveal this. From those states we are trying to create in the group, we are preparing the ground for His attainment.

To the extent we reach the properties of love and bestowal, unity above our ego, we create the conditions, that is, the Kli (vessel) in which we attain the Creator.

The Creator is revealed in the Kli created by us to the extent of our similarity to His quality of bestowal and love, the quality that we have prepared for Him.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 11/18/18

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