Rabash, The Social Writings, “Concerning Love of Friends”: What is the reason I chose specifically these friends, and why have the friends chosen me?

On one hand, we came together accidentally because we were looking for the meaning of life, the possibility of understanding existence, and we are guided by our common goal.

On the other hand, everything happens from above. As we later understand, it was the higher plan that led us to come together. It unites and brings us closer to each other despite the fact that we are egoists, especially those who come to study Kabbalah. These are people who have never really been drawn to each other or to others, everyone felt themselves as individuals.

Therefore, when they come together, they have a special job: to show love to each other, to organize meals and various activities together, and so on. Generally, this is not for them because such behavior is contrary to their nature. But they have to do this in order to become closer to each other.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 1/18/18

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Question: How is it possible to stop constantly analyzing my actions?

Answer: Why would you? Constant analysis is imperative. We must, however, connect all of our actions to the Creator: His to me and mine to His, and thus we work in two lines.

Question: How do we develop the ability to react differently and not automatically in an egoistic, beastly way?

Answer: When you act consciously, not automatically, you become spiritual, then you will give a spiritual reaction. Until then, you will be who you are. Don’t expect to be able to control yourself. The Creator controls everything.

Question: What does “Jerusalem” (Yeru Shalayim), which translates to Yira’a Shlema – perfect/complete awe/fear/trepidation mean?

Answer: This is the characteristic of Bina that attains the level of Keter.

Question: What is the most common mistake in the process of self-discovery?

Answer: A person only knows himself when he knows the Creator, and understanding the Creator, he works on self-reflection. Therefore, a person is called Adam, from the word “Domeh” (similar). That is, the degree in which one resembles the Creator, one discovers the Creator, I see myself within the Creator and see myself as in a mirror.

Question: How many years of inner work are required on average to pass through the Machsom (barrier)?

Answer: The years don’t matter, although in the Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot, Baal HaSulam wrote that it requires at least five years. However, I think that even with all our efforts, it can’t take less than 10-15 years. This is an inner correction of many properties in a person.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/11/18

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Question: How are the levels of knowledge of the soul different and how are they measured?

Answer: They are levels of the revelation of the Creator.

The fact is that we reveal the Creator only to the extent of our similarity to Him, like any physical law. We are given a very simple property—a property of bestowal and love, emanation. We must discover this within ourselves.

To the extent that we can generate it, we will attain it according to the law of equivalence of form. As much as we can be similar to it from the inside, it will manifest itself from the outside.

The quality of bestowal and love fills everything, but we currently have absolutely no perception of it because we are opposite to it. As soon as we resemble it, we will begin to perceive it and reveal the upper world in which we will exist in this quality.

Question: Will I then see everybody around me as loving?

Answer: Yes. I will see everyone that way because by correcting my qualities from hatred to love, I correct all the enemies, turning them into loving ones. I will then see nothing bad outside and the enemies will suddenly become friends.

About this, it is written that the one who turns hatred into love is a hero among heroes.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/4/18

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Question: A person who reaches the highest level is a person who is completely corrected. What is his task and his relationship to people in everyday life?

Answer: It is to show people the possibility of spiritual correction. There is no other task for a person in our world except bringing the entire world to this state.

Question: A higher radiance operates on the reader when reading a book of Kabbalah. Is this enough in order to move from beastly love to spiritual love, to the attainment of the characteristics of the Creator?

Answer: It is not enough. You must perform what the Kabbalists write in their recommendations for working with the group. No matter how difficult it is to interact with others, it is still necessary.

Question: What in Kabbalah can be attributed to a person’s self-knoweldge if, as I understand, a person himself does not exist?

Answer: A created being reveals the human – Adam (similar to the Creator). To the degree that he discovers this similarity within himself, he is called a human (Adam).

Question: What determines the attainment of the nearest spiritual point?

Answer: Connection with my friends and then attraction of the upper Light. This makes it possible for me to ascend.

Question: What is the “inner voice” that seems to advise each one of us? Or is this intuition?

Answer: This is intuition that has no relevance to the Creator or the soul. Don’t think that the soul speaks within you.

Question: Is it possible to discover my mission in life?

Answer: The mission of life is to “break” yourself.

Question: How can a woman become like Malchut?

Answer: Just like a man can, only through promoting unity. Malchut is part of the Partzuf, the soul, which unites everything.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/11/18

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Question: Is it possible that the spiritual world exists only in Kabbalists’ imagination? What is the guarantee that it is real?

Answer: Nobody can promise you and give guarantees that the spiritual world exists more realistically than our world.

However, the fact that our world is not real has already been revealed by Kabbalists. They feel this by being above our illusory world, and they understand that this world is created in such a way on purpose, so that we would push ourselves away from it and exit into the real world.

The upper spiritual world is real because we attain the Creator in it, the only driving force, “There is none else besides Him.” By revealing in the spiritual world the force that governs everything, we determine that it really exists.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/25/18

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Question: Does the unity of the world soul mean that souls of all Kabbalists who ever existed in history are connected to us right now?

Answer: They do not connect to us through a modem, but we are all constantly in one common network.

Question: Once you advised us to ask them questions directly. How can we learn to do this?

Answer: Ask questions, and you will begin to develop certain inner sensations.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/18/18

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Question: What is birth, death, integration, and rejection in spirituality?

Answer: They are a mutual convergence of desires. Desires can be completely opposite, which means totally remote, polar. By gradually becoming similar to each other, they can become closer, partially overlap, form a common segment, and, in the case of full similarity, completely superimpose on each other.

Question: In spirituality, what is death and birth?

Answer: There is no death in the spiritual world. There is a transition from one level to another. Birth is the appearance of desire, which begins to acquire an ever larger screen.

Question: If a person postpones a desire that he cannot work with, is it not called “killing” it for a while?

Answer: No, because we will work with it later. There are many such opportunities when we move from one state to another, and in the next state we partially use the previous one, and the remaining desires prepared in advance will be partially used at the higher levels.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 02/25/18

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Question: Scientists of our world are constantly in dispute and disagree with each other. Everyone promotes their own theory. How does it work among the Kabbalist scientists?

Answer: If a Kabbalist scientist clearly knows where he exists and speaks only from the level of his attainments without crossing into something he has not revealed, then he is a real scientist and his conclusions can be trusted.

If a Kabbalist is unable to clearly define where he exists and he can slightly “overstep” his boundary, then his attainments in that area are not really true. Then he has all sorts of guesses, theories, assumptions, and sometimes mistakes. Kabbalists themselves write about this.

In particular, Baal HaSulam wrote a book about a great Kabbalist of the 17th century who incorrectly described an entire phase of attainment of the upper nature. In Kabbalah, just as in any other science, this has a place.

Kabbalists, just as other scientists, can have various disputes and criticize one another. It can be expressed through their knowledge, assumptions, drawings, or many other things.

In other words, Kabbalah is like ordinary science where a person faces the fact of revealing something unknown.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/11/18

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Question: Baal HaSulam writes about the need to reveal the Creator in all ways. Is he speaking about the many multitude of ways or many different ways in the only path toward similarity of form with the qualities of the Creator?

Answer: There are principles that are immutable on every level of attainment, and there are those that can change.

Let’s say, in physics, any equation studied in school acquires a completely different look in the university: integrals are added, differentials and so on. Why can’t we be satisfied with what we learned in school? It’s because in the university, a more generalized comprehension of those same laws takes place. The same thing happens in Kabbalah.

Question: Are there many forms of attainment on the spiritual path?

Answer: No. The spiritual path is characterized by an absolutely well-defined path of attainment: the expansion of personal sensitivity to all forms of spiritual qualities.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 3/11/18

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Question: How is it possible to learn to approach or feel the intentions of the Creator in relation to me, to comply with His plans and not contradict them?

Answer: Only through the group.

Question: Why did the Creator create the created being? Why did He have a need for this?

Answer: The Creator wanted to give pleasure to the created being. We cannot understand this yet because we exist within the framework of time. But after entering the ladder of spiritual attainment, this will begin to be revealed to us.

Question: What exercises must a person perform to achieve the Creator’s form?

Answer: It is up to a person to dissolve into the right group by learning and carrying out the principles described in the articles of Rabash.

Question: Is the middle line the soul, the Creator Himself?

Answer: The middle line is what we attain through the correct unity of the right and the left lines, and the Creator is revealed within it.

Question: What is the Light? How is it revealed?

Answer: The Light is the characteristic of bestowal and love that fills our desire, and to this degree we feel the Creator.

Question: Are the higher power and the Light the same thing?

Answer: Yes. The higher power, the characteristic of bestowal, and the Light are the same thing.

Question: Do you raise our questions to the Creator so that He will answer them, as Baal HaSulam did with his students?

Answer: Absolutely. You can be sure that all of your requests and questions reach the Creator but in another form, not according to how you ask them. That is because there are many questions here that are personal and egoistic, that are not worthwhile for turning to the Creator in such a form; but in any case, everything is transferred.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian 1/21/18

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