Question: What does a Kabbalist think about all day?

Answer: How to bring the Creator into your world. After all, nothing else exists in the universe. The upper worlds are a system of mutual understanding between a person and the Creator.

The Creator is the quality of bestowal, and I need to think about how to enter into this quality and see that the world is in total connection. This is quite complicated.

I, like a small child, want to see the world as good and perfect. I want to see in it the Creator’s power, which binds everything together and creates all kinds of events in it.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian 12/17/17

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Question: What is happiness for a Kabbalist?

Answer: Happiness for a Kabbalist is an opportunity to fulfill others and, through them, the Creator. However, I by myself cannot bestow to the Creator or receive from Him, but only through a buffer, which is the group, and even better, the whole of humanity.

Question: What is a Kabbalist’s greatest joy?

Answer: It is from the action where he can bestow to the Creator through the group, and discover the Creator in it, seeing how one enters another, how the group becomes a buffer between him and the Creator, and how all of them together, the three of them, meet in this group, in this mass.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian 12/31/17

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Baal HaSulam, The Writings of the Last Generation: This is because in fact, there is nothing more natural than coming into contact with one’s maker, for He has made nature. In fact, every creature has contact with his maker, as it is written, “The whole earth is full of His glory,” except we do not know or feel it.

Such contact exists all the time. It comes from the Creator and not from creation, and our task is to start feeling it. This is the wisdom of Kabbalah.

By definition, the wisdom of Kabbalah is the revelation of the Creator to man in this world. The revelation is only in sensations.

Question: So, “the whole earth is full of His glory” comes from the Creator, and “we (the creation) do not know or feel it”—from our side?

Answer: Of course, every bug, every insect and leaf—everything is directly managed by this force, this field, called the Creator.

But this is not given to us in our sensations. Nature is an objective reality given to us in sensations. Therefore, what I feel is what exists, and what I do not feel does not exist for me. I can acquire additional senses and then everything that I can feel in them will also be part of nature that manifests in relation to me.

Question: Does a Kabbalist have the ability to constantly control his perception of reality?

Answer: There are no people living on Earth who cannot do this because we are all moving toward an ever-increasing correction. And when we become included in the Creator, everything will become simpler.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 10/9/17

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Question: What is a Kabbalist’s attitude to everyday life and its luxuries?

Answer: A Kabbalist is an ordinary person. He wants everything around him to be arranged in a simple and convenient way. I saw this both in my teacher and in other Kabbalists. They did not have anything superfluous: simple healthy food, simple furniture, comfortable clothes.

At the same time, a Kabbalist does not impose any restrictions on himself. He has everything a person needs: food, sex, family, work, etc. It is absolutely forbidden to deny yourself of the elementary filling of our world, because doing so you would stop the implementation of the program of creation. You must live a full life simultaneously in both worlds: material and spiritual.

Question: Does it mean that if the Creator gave me a lot of pleasures, then I should try everything?

Answer: No. You must take from this world what is needed to function normally and to attain the upper world. The upper world is the goal, and this world is the means to achieve the goal.

Question: That is, I myself decide, depending on my moral level, what I need?

Answer: Only if you do not harm others.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/7/18

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Question: What question should a student of Kabbalah ask oneself every day?

Answer: The most important thing is not to part from the feeling that there is none else besides Him. Never disconnect from this.

That is why each student should constantly ask him or herself the question: “What must I do so that I do not separate myself from the source of all existence?”
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 12/31/17

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Question: If Kabbalah, its Light, develops strong egoism within a person and between us, is there a chance that this process might get out of control and destroy the people or the group with a wave of built-up egoism, leaving only hatred, malice, and disappointment behind?

Answer: Naturally, strong hatred, malice, and disappointment will begin to increase. But usually, it is manifested to the degree that we can counter it in order to progress us in the middle line.

Therefore, among students in each group, there will be contradictions, misunderstandings, and hatred, like with the students of Rabbi Shimon who wrote The Book of Zohar. Nonetheless, this process will not get out of control because everything is given in its proper measure. Every situation that arises can be solved or it would not have been given. Everything is done according to the concept: “Do not place obstacles before a blind man.”
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/17/17

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Question: How do I justify the Creator? I didn’t ask to be created in order to receive pleasured in such a dreadful way, through enormous suffering. Let’s say I already agree with everything—I don’t exist! There are no thoughts, no desires, no actions. So what does He want from me if I don’t exist?!

Answer: I understand you perfectly. You cannot justify the Creator until you see the full picture of the world and of yourself in it. Justification will be partial, to the extent to which the world is being revealed to you.

Question: What should be done with this cry of the soul?

Answer: Be grateful for it because it is precisely as a result of this outcry that a person arrives at the truth.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 1/7/18

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Question: How do Kabbalists treat enemies? Or for them there are no enemies and they see in everything only good?

Answer: A Kabbalist treats enemies on two levels: on the level of this world and on the level of the spiritual world.

On the spiritual level, enemies help. On the material level, we need to treat them according to the laws of our world. Therefore, if someone “runs into” us, we bring him to court. And we sort out the rest on our spiritual levels.

But I understand what drives my enemy because all this is done by the Creator so that I correctly react to the enemy on both levels.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/7/18

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Question: Baal HaSulam, in his article “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” writes that “the general and the particular are equal.” What does that mean?

Answer: The spiritual cannot be divided into parts and that is why any small part of the spiritual system has absolutely the same value as the entire system.

By removing even the smallest, microscopic particle from the system, we destroy it completely because each grain of the spiritual system exists in absolutely all of its parts! In this manner, the absence of a tiny particle carries with it the disruption of the correct functioning of the entire system.

From this comes the principle that the general and the particular are equal. In other words, if there is a small gap, an omission, a disturbance, or a breakdown, it manifests in the entire system!

Question: How is this principle applied in practice?

Answer: In spirituality we must always strive toward wholeness. The difference between the 125 levels lies in that we increasingly come to more completely encompassing our connection to the general system.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/26/17

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Question: Why is it that in our world people that are not similar, but are opposite, while complementary to each other, unite?

Answer: The thing is that we are very confused in our world, so it is hard to tell how exactly we unite: in likeliness or not. It depends on which qualities keep us connected with each other.

When I aim to reach the highest spiritual goal, our animal qualities lose their importance to me.

I do not pay attention to the qualities that are opposite of mine in my friend, but treat them as necessary for my internal work, for overcoming various antagonisms and problems between us. I care about the intent toward the main goal.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/26/17

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