Question: Which actions are used as a preparation for attaining the goal according to the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: I would say that there is nothing except for unity.

Question: Learning the wisdom of Kabbalah accelerates our correction. Does this mean that all the suffering that is destined for my nascent soul will happen in this lifetime?

Answer: I don’t know. Everything depends on your efforts, but you can complete all of your corrections in the current incarnation.

Question: Is there some kind of stimulant we can use, like the drugs used in sports? For instance, is there something you can “eat” and immediately accelerate into the upper world?

Answer: You have to get this stimulant from your friends.

Question: Is it possible to see the entire world in one person?

Answer: There is no problem. After all, the entire world is a common general Kli.

Question: Is it true that people whose fate is difficult and complicated are closer to correction than those who live without worries?

Answer: Yes and no. I personally don’t have a difficult and complicated fate. My entire life had been arranged materially, nothing bothered or  annoyed me. But I had a different emptiness, a lack of spirituality, not something material.

Question: How is it possible to hear the quiet voice of the Creator that constantly speaks to you and not confuse it with the voice of the ego?

Answer: The Creator whispers to you about love, not in relation to yourself, but in relation to others, how to work on unity with others, how to push them toward unity in a pleasant way.

Question: What are the desires of a friend in the group that I fulfill?

Answer: These are mainly his yearning to attain the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/18/18

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Rabash, “The Agenda of the Assembly 2”: To the extent that the society regards the greatness of the Creator with their thoughts during the assembly, each according to his degree originates the importance of the Creator in him. Thus, he can walk all day in the world of gladness and joy, meaning he enjoys every little thing that he does concerning the work of the Creator. This is so because if he remembers that he should contemplate spirituality for even a minute, he immediately says, “I am already grateful and praising and glorifying the Creator,” since he believes that now the Creator has called him and wishes to speak with him.

We need to work not in our field, but in the field of the Creator. Then, there will be no problems. You are constantly concerned about making Him happy, like a mother who does not think about herself but about her child. If something happens to the baby, she is completely within it, not within herself.

Blessing the Creator is the work in His field.

Rabash, “The Agenda of the Assembly 2”: And when a person imagines that the King is calling him and tells him that he wants to play with him, what joy would he experience then, and what high spirits would he have? Certainly, in that uplifted state, he would not think any trifle thoughts. He would only be a little embarrassed at not knowing the King’s laws and manners—how to behave when the King speaks to him.

But he considers what he does know how to do for the King as a great fortune…

At every moment I should try to think about how I influence the Creator through my present state: What do I bring Him in the given moment?
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 2/8/18

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Everything that separates me from the Creator is called evil. Where, however, do I decide that this is evil, in the mind or in the heart?

Why did the Creator give a person a mind, which is above any animal’s mind, if we need to annul it, working by faith above reason?

The Creator created the mind for a person precisely in order for us to work against our animalistic mind. Otherwise we would be unable to figure out where is bitter and sweet. We replace our mind with the mind of the upper. Since we need to begin from something, the Creator gives us an animalistic mind.

It is similar to how the Creator creates the desire to receive so that we first feel reception as sweet and bestowal as bitter. One can ask why the Creator initially created the creature as opposite to Him? This, however, already relates to the question: Why did He break the creation? And the answer: the advantage of the Light is attained from darkness.
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From a conversation in Iceland, 5/23 /18

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Baal HaSulam, Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 1, “Histaklut Pnimit”: …why did He bring the Neshama into such a foul and filthy Guf? From his attainment of the upper governance, the Kabbalist answers this. They explained it with the verse, “One who eats that which is not one’s own, is afraid to look upon one’s face.” It means there is a flaw of shame in any free gift. In order to spare the Neshamot this blemish, He has created this world, where there is work. They will therefore enjoy their labor, for they take their pay from the Whole, in return for their work, and are thus spared the blemish of shame.

Spiritual shame is a feeling of receiving pleasure for myself.

Question: What is the connection between corporeal and spiritual shame?

Answer: Spiritual shame is above the screen, above the first restriction. Therefore, we cannot assess spiritual shame based on corporeal shame.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/15/18

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Question: Many times I’ve heard you speak about the necessity of proper upbringing. What is upbringing according to Kabbalah? Can egoism be educated or do we need a properly educated egoist?

Answer: A Kabbalistic upbringing means an upbringing by means of the upper Light. It is when I, along with my friends, with the help of various actions described in the Kabbalistic methodology, attract the upper Light. The upper Light influences us and brings us to a state of unity where the Creator is revealed and where we all become one whole. This is the state we have to reach.

A Kabbalistic upbringing is supposed to unite us under the influence of the upper Light, revealing the Light under the condition that our connection, our mutual bestowal, will resemble its qualities. Then in the union between the upper Light and us, we will reveal its source—the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/29/18

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On Rosh HaShanah we ask the Creator to make us a “head” and not a “tail” in the new year. This means that we want to work according to intention and thought, not according to the force of desire. We want to rise above the desire toward the thought, which is called faith above reason, and to be concerned with the intention with which we use our desire.

We do not want the desire to determine our actions as it does today. Now, we are under the control of the desire, which is driving us, determining our actions and intentions. All our intentions are aimed only at fulfilling our desires.

We, however, want to correct the relationship between the intention and the desire so that the intention would govern the desire. The intention for the sake of bestowal, which is called “faith,” will rule over the desire that will realize this intention.

This is a big shift in the spiritual work. In the beginning of the path, we only pay attention to our desire and want to realize it. Then we begin to scrutinize our intentions, which for now are also egoistic. We then, however, see that intention can be different. The reforming Light influences us and changes our attitude toward our desire to enjoy and the Creator’s desire.

As a result of working in the group, the study, and the influence of the reforming Light, we begin to perceive the Creator as more important. We have not yet revealed the Creator, but we already feel that it is important for us to think about Him, to give Him joy, to come closer to Him, and to adhere to Him. This already pertains to the intention; we ask the Creator for an opportunity to act in this way.

It follows that there is no good or evil in the world. It only appears this way to me so that I would have an opportunity to come to know the upper force, to discern it, unite with it, to attain it,  and to understand the Creator.

That is, in the beginning, we are governed by the desire, and in the end, by the intention. It does not matter if the desire is to receive or to give, whenever possible I use every desire only for the sake of realizing my intention to bestow.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/22/18, Lesson on the Topic: “Rosh HaShana”

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Question: Where is the Creator revealed?

Answer: I reveal everything within myself, within my desire. The same holds true with the Creator. Just like I feel the world where all my senses engage to perceive reality, I also feel the Creator. At first, I feel that He is behind reality, controlling at least its individual parts.

For example, I have a court date coming up. Therefore, I grasp that the Creator is behind all my enemies, controlling them in order for me to understand that it comes from Him and that there is none one else besides Him. This is the first step.

The second step is when all His “representatives,” usually quite unpleasant, turn into angels whom I love because with their help I reach a connection with the Creator. There is no other way that I can reach this adhesion with Him. It is impossible to reach connection with Him in a pleasant way because I am pure evil, opposite to Him. Therefore, I give thanks for the bad as for the good and come to love them, feeling no hatred for them.

However, there is still a consideration of the corporeal world. According to it, I have to fulfill this work the way it is required by the laws of our world: go to court, get fines, and deal with them. In fact, I thank the Creator for sending such messengers to me. He chose them, which means that this is exactly what I need in order to advance.

Question: Why are actions required in this world?

Answer: Every spiritual root has to eventually reach its material branch. After we short-circuit all the spiritual roots with their material branches, this world will disappear from our senses.

Question: What if a person neglects solving problems in this world?

Answer: If you neglect acting in this world, then all these problems will keep coming back to you in different ways until you start treating them correctly.
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From a conversation in Iceland, 5/19/18

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Question: What is inner reflection?

Answer: Inner reflection is when I see all the properties and desires of my friend within myself and try to direct them to bestowal and love.

Question: Why do you always say that we need to gather in a ten if the ten is within me?

Answer: You work so that this ten that you imagine outside of you is formed within you. Everything begins from the external.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/15/18

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Baal HaSulam, Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 1, “Histaklut Pnimit“: There is a flaw of shame in any free gift. In order to spare the Neshamot this blemish, He has created this world, where there is work. They will therefore enjoy their labor, for they take their pay from the Whole, in return for their work, and are thus spared the blemish of shame.

Question: So this world was created in order not to suffer from shame?

Answer: No. It only seems so at first glance.

Nothing was created in vain. If shame is created, it is not to suffer from it, but to use it to achieve certain spiritual levels, to turn the shame into a positive component and to move forward with it’s help. Therefore, I need to develop shame, cultivate it,  and use it with even greater desire.

Different variations of the sense of shame will help me understand where I am in the spiritual system and how I can be more fully associated with it.

After all, the different nuances of feeling shame from rejection, lack of connection, deceiving one another, from everything that our egoism pushes us to, committing small cruelties, will help me to correct all this. If it were not for the shame, I would not have felt any of this and would have enjoyed everything without a twinge of conscience.

What is the difference between a rude and an intelligent person? It is the fact that the rude one does not feel shame; it is hidden in him very deeply, and therefore enjoys everything absolutely thoughtlessly, without any pangs of conscience. And a more sensitive, intelligent man feels ashamed of using his egoism, at least in the sight of others, and therefore hides it, tries to smooth it.

Question: So, our earthly shame can at least somehow be compared with spiritual shame?

Answer: Yes. Our earthly shame can help us sort out the spiritual shame, but we do not use it correctly. A person needs shame. The more shame, the better. If I am deeply ashamed, it will quickly lead to correction.

This is a very serious lever. There is nothing else against egoism—only then does one begin to feel one’s insignificance and imperfection. This is called shame.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/22/18

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Question: What is spiritual intelligence?

Answer: It is a mind directed only toward benefiting others.

Question: What is in the power of a person when he is ascending from below upward?

Answer: Absolutely everything! Also, everything that is necessary for him is received from above.

Question: How do you know what you have passed: a step, or a whole circuit?

Answer: A level is an ascent to the next qualitative level of bestowal and love, whereas in a whole circle there is a movement of ten Sefirot that renews their desire and begins a new birth.

Question: In this world if you do not control, you are controlled. Are there only two possibilities: to control or to be controlled?

Answer: In this world it is possible to control the entire world!

Question: If we develop the soul by exiting into the spiritual world, is it possible to attract the Light of the Creator to another person who cannot do this on his own?

Answer: If you can include his desire within yourself, then you will attract the upper Light to him. But keep in mind that by doing this, you ruin his independent development. You should not do a child’s homework for him—he will not become wiser as a result.

Question: The next level of consciousness, attainment of a nature that is completely different from our nature is a holographic intelligence, complex thinking. Does this mean that the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches logic?

Answer: No. Neither complex thinking nor holographic intelligence have anything to do with the wisdom of Kabbalah. These are physical parameters; I would say they are tricks of our world, nothing more.

Question: What is a sign of optimal balance between the spiritual and corporeal?

Answer: An optimal balance is created when a person makes an effort to sustain himself in this life in normal conditions, and devotes the rest of his time and energy to dissemination and the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/18/18

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