Question: You said that the brain controls our feelings. But according to Kabbalah, the Creator controls us and our thoughts. So is the brain an adapter between the Creator and the created being?

Answer: No. The system of our common interconnection is our highest state. How much I can exit myself into the friends defines my spiritual potential.

In the field of forces (green color in the drawing), which I build from myself, I feel the Creator. This is my upper world.

It will expand until I grasp the entire system. By mastering it, I begin to attract it to myself, by giving to it. These will be all my worlds: Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, Atzilut, and Adam Kadmon. In this sequence, I begin to exit “myself” and when I finish this process, the world of infinity will reside in me.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 11/18/18

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Question: What can and should I learn considering there is a direct connection from the Creator to me? How does Kabbalah recommend studying actions of the Creator upon oneself?

Answer: Kabbalah teaches a person to rise above oneself by faith above reason. That is, not to act according one’s egoism, but to receive spiritual forces from above in order to work in bestowal—outside of oneself, from oneself.

But this is carried out only through practical work in a group and applies to both men and women. It applies to women to a lesser extent than to men, but in principle both genders should do this work.

This is the only opportunity to enter the upper world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/25/18

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Question: How can I start to control every second of my inner desires and thoughts? After all, I am a receiver, not a transmitter. How can one solve this problem?

Answer: This problem can be solved only in the correct environment. In the article “The Freedom,” in the section “Influence of the Environment,” Baal HaSulam writes that the very state of a person, his development and his future depend only on the environment he is in.

Therefore, the choice of the appropriate environment and the correct interaction with it is the most important thing in our development.

You must do everything in order to get under the influence of the correct environment and to become absorbed in it so much so that you literally dissolve in it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/25/18

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Question: Who builds the bridge of connection between us? Do we do this we by ourselves?

Answer: No, the Creator builds these bridges. We have no possibility to do this, no understanding, knowledge, or forces.

We just have to imagine, as much as possible, what it is because we exist in one flat understanding of the world: yes and no, you and me, and so on. On the human level there can be no love and hate, war and peace, at the same time.

It is possible in the spiritual world because war and peace are the product of the same power that lets them exist together. At the still, vegetative, and animal levels, they coexist absolutely clearly.

Although we believe that everything is in dialectics, struggle, opposites, and confrontations, but it only seems this way to us in our egoistic understanding of nature. In fact, if we went inside this picture, we would see its absolute harmony.

To the extent that we comprehend harmony on our level, feel how the upper Light, the Creator builds a connection in us above our differences, we will also perceive it on the levels of nature that are below us: the still, vegetative, and animate.

We will see how this is a closed, ideal picture and how everything that we previously thought to be living at the expense of others, destroying and devouring in a continuous egoistic struggle, we saw through the prism of our egoism. It is said: “Everyone judges according to his own merits.” If I see something negative, it is only because these negative properties are in me.

Thus, we do not build anything ourselves. We do not have a second level yet. This is the property of the Creator, which must enter into us and somehow be absorbed, built upon, and take shape so we can clearly see the egoistic and altruistic levels in ourselves and be able to gradually elevate everything from the egoistic level to the altruistic one without destroying egoism but only by changing the intention in it for a global connection in similarity to the Creator.
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From the Lesson in Russian, 2/6/19

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Question: How does a Kabbalist find a solution when he experiences contradiction between the desires of the heart and the arguments of the mind?

Answer: In our world, these contradictions are based on the person’s ignorance. He does not know where he is, with whom he deals, what he controls, and what he has to balance. He has absolutely no foundations.

In the spiritual world, he takes the Creator as the foundation, which is the basis of the balance of these two forces because He is the positive force. He generates the negative force so that we can exist in it as creations, opposite to Him.

Therefore, the balance between the two forces is maintained by the Creator at the inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels, and at the spiritual level between the properties of bestowal and reception, but with our intervention, as much as we require, we ask Him to help us keep this balance.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/16/18

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Question: How should I perceive the Creator through a teacher: as a kind of mind or as a person?

Answer: Definitely not as a person! If such images arise, we must immediately dismiss them.

The Creator is a common force in all of us without exception. It unifies and fills us. It is a common field in which we exist. The quality of this field is absolute love and bestowal. Nothing else.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 12/02/18

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Question: What is stability and harmony from the Kabbalistic point of view?

Answer: Harmony is a balance between forces of reception and bestowal that mutually balance each other, emphasize, expand, increase, and at the same time lead to stabilization.

Question: Then why was it necessary to create a contradiction? Was it not possible to immediately create harmony and stability?

Answer: No. Then we would not feel them. We would be like insects that exist in relative harmony. We see that existence, especially in our world, consists precisely of the struggle between the two principles. Therefore, there is no harmony here, but only an alternating, fluctuating struggle that leads to a state of either greater or lesser balance between the two opposite forces.

Only the wisdom of Kabbalah explains how it is possible to reach such a balance where both forces will mutually complement each other.

In the corporeal world, these forces mutually exclude one another, try to destroy and annul each other. “Kabbalah,” which is translated from Hebrew as “the wisdom of reception,” explains how to correctly build a mutual combination of two opposites so that spiritual existence would be possible between them.

Earthy life is founded on simple principles: on the relative equilibrium of inanimate, vegetative, and animate entities that exist for a certain time and then die. That is, the corporeal balance does not withstand the test of time.

Spirituality, on the contrary, develops constantly until it reaches absolute balance in all its manifestations, which is called Gmar Tikun (the end of correction).

Question: Does it mean that the concept of happiness can exist only if there are contradictions?

Answer: Happiness is only possible when there is a struggle and it is felt precisely during those moments when this struggle comes to balance. There can be no satisfaction, happiness, or pleasure if you do not feel emptiness beforehand. Therefore, there must be a struggle in order to feel its positive result. This is this way in everything.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/16/18

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Question: How do I ask correctly if I realize that the request erases the feeling of the situation that I am in? Am I not avoiding what the Creator has sent me?

Answer: No. Often when you ask, you begin to realize your request is unnatural and weak and that you should be asking for something else, stating your request differently. It doesn’t matter.

You should understand that we exist inside a rigid system. You don’t just send off a letter somewhere and that is the end of it. You constantly work in this system; therefore, your appeal changes along the way, it is reformulated.

The system reacts in its own way. For example, as I start telling you something, my thinking changes. I start discovering other options for the questions, different answers, ways to express them, etc. This is the interaction with the system that I exist in, and I cannot exit this matrix.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian, 11/4/18

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Question: Why is the period of preparation for spiritual revelation so long?

Answer: Indeed, the preparation period is very long. It can take 20 or 30 years before you begin to receive and comprehend the answers.

However, this is not just an expectation, as if you’re waiting for a train. It is rather your continuous change, your continuous adaptation to the state when you begin to attain the hidden, upper world.

Therefore, your whole journey depends on the depth of your soul. The higher it is, the greater will be the journey before the first revelation of the spiritual world.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian, 11/25/18

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Question: Why did Kabbalists hide Kabbalah for many years?

Answer: Look at yourself. You have already been studying Kabbalah for years. How would it be possible to reveal everything that it studies to you all at once? Even when you begin studying any science, it is revealed to you gradually because you need to gather data, store it, adapt yourself to it, and chew on it within yourself.

And Kabbalah is a science that simultaneously includes feelings within you. That is, you yourself must change and adapt yourself sensually to the material you work with. Gradually you get used to it and change according to it; you will feel and absorb it differently. These are very serious, long stages of incorporating a person into Kabbalah and Kabbalah into a person.

This is not a usual science that people deduced from their conclusions. Under the guidance of Kabbalists you discover a world, yourself, and your feelings, and begin to apply your knowledge to the world that exists around you. You bring it closer and closer to yourself and feel it.

So, it turns out that this takes time, it is not possible to get past this instantly. For example, you cannot take a little child to a classic ballet, to the theater, or to a scientific experiment, he will not understand it. You can take him with you, but he will receive nothing from it. On the contrary, he will be scared or understand all of it incorrectly.

Therefore, the problem is not that Kabbalists do not want to reveal everything immediately. They, as true methodologists, understand that it requires a very long path of a person’s inner growth. That is the problem.

Such maturation might take 20 or 30 years. After all, you adapt yourself to the system that works according to different laws than your animalistic body, our primitive lower world, does.

You are like a little child who comes out of his nursery, in which his whole world was encapsulated, into the big world. There are completely different interactions in it, there are strangers and other laws.

Therefore, you need to adapt. Just like in our world we have parents and teachers who guide us and create special systems of maturation and incorporation into this world, it is the same in Kabbalah.

However, everything is much more difficult in spirituality because in the corporeal world we have natural desires and sense organs, but in Kabbalah we must develop them. This means that we must be united into tens through which we will be able to begin feeling the upper world and adapt to it.

Only now are we beginning this process, gradually exiting our little “nursery,” not even into the big world, but into the “yard.” This is precisely what we are beginning to do now.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/5/19

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