Question: Are there imperfect souls?

Answer: Unfinished souls are not yet corrected.

Question: Do Reshimot (reminiscences) of our future souls leave an impression on us?

Answer: Nothing disappears. What remains are all the states of the souls and all kinds of possible combinations between them. There are even particular formulas of mutual connection.

Question: Can the Creator know what kind of choice I will make?

Answer: The Creator makes the choice, which you will then make.

Question: Why is there a fear of losing the upper Light?

Answer: This is egoism. You should not be involved with these things. Think only about connection with others. You will acquire the upper Light through them.

Question: Does my perception of someone’s soul introduce changes in that soul?

Answer: No. Do not build anything on this. Do not depend on the souls of others. Everything is found only within you. A person should imagine himself as a unique, free character in the world.

Question: What is adhesion and how is it felt?

Answer: Adhesion is felt as existence with one desire, as it is said, “I make my desire like His desire” (Pirkei Avot2: 4). This is what all the poets sing. Unfortunately, they only sing.

Question: How much time during the day should be spent in study and involvement with the wisdom of Kabbalah? How does one do this qualitatively? In what should one invest his effort?

Answer: Invest in it during all your free time. Free time is the time you can allocate to the Creator and nobody else is managing you. Your account begins from this.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/4/18

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Question: In what way do you as a Kabbalist adapt yourself to the students and the group? How do you interconnect and annul yourself?

Answer: And how do we adapt ourselves to newborns and children as they grow up and become more and more adult? They do not adapt to us, but we always adapt to them. They say that a small child is the head of the family because the family exists for him.

Why do I need a group: for them to serve me or for me to serve them? I must raise the students to the next level.

Question: Do you, as a teacher, clearly see if the group, the students, perceive you correctly?

Answer: I keep my students in myself like “a hen on eggs.” I fill them, control them, keep them on a short leash, cause certain reactions, certain influences, monitor their reaction, and in accordance with this, I change myself—not them. In Kabbalah, the teacher must adapt to the students more than the students do to the teacher.

Question: When you hold students within you, do you keep contact with them through the Creator or are they inside your spiritual Partzuf like a child in the womb?

Answer: This means in the Creator because the system called “womb” in which I carry my students is the Creator in me. Only in Him are the next souls born.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/1/18

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Baal HaSulam, The Writings of the Last Generation: People imagine that a person who has contact with the Creator is a person … nature, and that they should fear speaking to Him, much less be in His immediate vicinity. It is human nature to fear anything outside the nature of creation. People are also afraid of anything uncommon, such as thunder and loud noises.

People commonly believed that you experienced a certain anxiety when near a Kabbalist. I remember when I was started studying Kabbalah and began driving from Rehovot to Jerusalem to the Kabbalist named Isaac Zilberman, I was told: “You are going to see a person whom it is impossible to stand next to without trembling.” I did not experience anything like that.

A Kabbalist never reveals himself in anyway. On the contrary, he deliberately behaves simply. Even when there is a kind of “gilding” that appears about him, he immediately tries to dismiss it because it greatly hinders spiritual work. Nothing supernatural comes from him to make others tremble in his presence.

We see this in the writings of Kabbalists. For example, the students of Baal Shem Tov went to the people and they did not stand out from the masses. It was then that fables were created about them, but basically they behaved as  very simple people.

Even though they sensed the upper world, the system of control of all nature, they nonetheless behaved like ordinary people. This was not difficult for them to do because the higher a person is, the simpler he behaves.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 10/9/17

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Baal HaTurim explained that a person wandering in the field refers to one who strays from the path of reason, who does not know the real way, which leads to the place he should reach, as in “an ass wandering in the field.” And he comes to a state where he thinks that he will never achieve the goal he should achieve. (Rabash, “Love of Friends”)

One can move from one spiritual state to another only as a result of total despair, but only if it is conscious and you connect it with the Creator who organizes all this for you.

A person is in despair; he feels that his brothers betrayed him. This is what encourages him to spiritual work, to rise and realize that it is not about the brothers, it is about him.

Question: Why is it said that Joseph lost his way if he is still looking for brothers?

Answer: He has lost his past egoistic path and now he has reached a critical crossroad—he is taking a new path.

Having connected with Pharaoh, he realizes that he needs to work for egoism, and this is why he connects with the brothers. This attitude to the properties of bestowal, love, and connection is completely different from what he had before. He used to think that this is good in and of itself, but now he understands why and for what. Through Pharaoh, he begins to reveal the meaning, the Creator, because Pharaoh is the reverse side of the Creator.

Question: Where does a person in despair get the strength to progress? From his brothers?

Answer: No. We have only one source of power—the Creator himself.

Question: So, if I feel that I cannot come into contact with the friends, I have to ask the Creator to help me?

Answer: You have no one else to turn to.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 2/1/18

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Question: How should one interact with people who do not comprehend the spiritual? How can one build the right intention?

Answer: One gradually builds it with the help of the wisdom of Kabbalah. Drawing the upper Light affects us. We don’t feel it, but we feel how we gradually change. These successive changes create what is called the right intention.

Question: Is manifests in relation to people who are not engaged in Kabbalah?

Answer: It manifests in relation to everyone because everything except you is actually the Creator!

Question: Then why does such a reality exist: our world, where I am, my mind, and my egoistic intention?

Answer: This is an illusion that is so tiny that you simply cannot imagine how small it is. It exists so that we have something to rise from that is independent of the upper world.

Question: How do we rise from this intention?

Answer: Study, work in a group, pray for the friends, and ask for their spiritual ascent.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/25/18

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Question: Is the upper world an illusion that has to become a reality for us?

Answer: Yes, all together we have to reveal the upper world and exist in it while we still live in the material world. This is absolutely doable. It is not even an illusion because illusion is what one imagines and we cannot even imagine what it is.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/18/18

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Rabash, “Love of Friends” (1984,#3): “And a certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, ‘What are you seeking?’ And he said, ‘I seek my brothers. Tell me, I pray you, where they are feeding the flock?’” (Genesis, 37).

Question: What does it mean: “He was wandering in the field?”

Answer: The field is the field of life and all the qualities that exist in a person are in it. Joseph is looking for precisely the ones that can aid him to correctly work with his egoism, with his nature, with Malchut, and reach the goal.

A person should constantly hold this image within himself and only slightly correct it and add to it, and by gradually correcting it, he should reach its final appearance.

Question: When does a person come to the state of seeking his brothers for the first time?

Answer: It is a very long way to truly begin to realize in the Light descending upon him that attainment of the Creator happens through one’s annulment to all the others, to the environment: the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human—to everything.

When a person begins to understand that by annulling himself he reveals the Creator, then this state can be considered an entrance into Egypt. He then increasingly discovers how difficult this is, how much at each degree his egoism is revealed to him, and he must annul himself before it.

Only if he decides to annul himself before all his egoism, does he deserve an exit from Egypt, rise above the egoism, and receive a tool for correct work with it—the Light, the Torah.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 2/1/18

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The state of Malchut is whenI have nothing and Keter is when there is everything. To have everything in spirituality means to attain the ability to bestow to the Creator.

But suddenly from my Keter in which I had everything, from the attained level of bestowal, I fall into darkness; in other words, I think about myself, about the fact that I have nothing. I do not understand anything; I do not feel anything; I envy others and begin to despise them.

I feel completely worthless, a complete zero.

This is called the Malchut of the upper. I received an addition of uncorrected desire in which I sense the truth: who I really am. How can I get out of this state and go further, to the Keter of the upper?

First of all, I need to stop thinking about myself; this is called restriction. I do not care about everything that is in my own feelings; what matters is what happens to the group. It is like a mother for whom it is more important what happens to her infant than her own condition. That is, I must transfer the emphasis from myself to the group, and from the group to the Creator.

If I can rejoice that I can think about the group and the Creator from total darkness, it means that I have entered the spiritual space and am in faith above reason, in bestowal above my own desire to receive.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/18, Lesson on the Topic “From Helplessness to Crying Out to the Creator”

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Baal HaSulam, “The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence“: Thus, it has been made clear that the revelation of the Creator is not a one-time disclosure, but an ongoing matter that is revealed over a period of time, sufficient for the disclosure of all the great degrees that appear from Above downwards and from below Upwards. On top of them, and at the end of them, appears the Creator.

It is like a person proficient in all the countries and people in the world, who cannot say that the whole world has been revealed to him before he has completed his examination of the last person and the last country. Until one has achieved that, one has not attained the whole world.

There is an enormous system, a system of desires, and above them intentions that we need to develop, connect with each other, and form our soul from. The desires remain below and practically do not change. The intentions are most important. Their attitude to each other builds the soul between us, what we refer to as the “spiritual world.” The spiritual world is a world of intentions: my attitude to everyone else.

It is based on desires and, possibly, some actions. But that’s it for our world. When we begin to give preference to the intentions, all the actions of our world lose their vibrancy, might, and importance.

Question: Let’s suppose that I do something now, and I realize that I do it for myself. And Kabbalah tells me that I must overcome my will and do something for the sake of the other. Does that work?

Answer: It works, but only in the group. As a member of the group, I try to do everything I can in order for the group to advance successfully.

Question: But what if I don’t hold onto the right intention?

Answer: That doesn’t matter. By carrying out actions in the group, you rouse the upper Light, which forms your intention.

Question: But you say that we draw the upper Light by reading Kabbalistic books, rather than through our actions?

Answer: No. Everything works only through the friends and only to the extent that you rouse the common desire in the group. There is no other way. The books and the studies are the preliminary means, and they are quite weak; through them you come a little closer to the goal. However, the most effective way to influence yourself and the group is when you push the friends to spiritual attainment. Even if you carry out these actions without the right intention, it is good.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/25/18

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Question: The cause-and-effect descent of the upper forces comes from the side of the Creator. What is the cause-and-effect chain that goes toward the upper forces from the side of the creation?

Answer: It is correction of our desires by the intention to bestow. This is how we climb the same degrees, by which our soul descended from the Creator to the corporeal world. By correcting our desires, we elevate our soul back to the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/18/18

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