Baal HaSulam, The Writings of the Last Generation, “Introduction to the Writings of the Last Generation”: Man’s advantage over it is that the spirit of man ascends into the past, and looks into the past as one looks in the mirror and sees one’s flaws so as to correct them. Similarly, the mind sees what it has been through, and corrects its future conducts.

“The spirit of man ascends into the past”—to that force that has created him.

First of all, a person wants to know: “Where did I come from?” And then: “Where am I headed to?” But he cannot ask, “Where am I going to?” If he does not know his beginning, he will not know his end. That is why he looks to the past, wanting to reach the source, the Light, that has created him. Because the question “Who am I?” is a question about the source of man: “Who created me, who controls me, who decides?” And if he becomes aware of the source and studies it, then he attains his future.

“He looks into the past as one looks in the mirror and sees one’s flaws so as to correct them”—flaws that are purposely created in him by the source so that he would come to the awareness and attainment of Him: from darkness into Light—and in this manner to attain the future. And the future exists in the connection with that same source.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 9/11/17

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Question: Are there any objects in creation in relation to which the Creator ceases to act and they have no opportunity to know Him?

Answer: Every person has the possibility of attaining the Creator. It is only objects on the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate nature that are not prepared to do this.

Question: If the Creator is responsible for my corruption, why does the good and benevolent Creator compel me to develop through evil when He gives me the feelings of suffering?

Answer: It is in order for you to transcend the evil that was created in you initially and to attain the absolute good.

Question: You say that love is about caring for others more than for myself. How should I take care of myself in order to maintain balance? After all, isn’t the principle of love in Kabbalah that I must love myself, others, and the Creator equally?

Answer: I could say that I love myself and that is why I want to take myself out of the servitude to the ego and achieve a full resemblance to the Creator. In principle, this is actually very great self-love. But at the same time, I suppress my egoism with all my might.

Question: Does a Kabbalist understand how the Creator acts through him or does he only feel the action of the Creator?

Answer: A Kabbalist feels the Creator’s actions, and through this feeling he understands Him. The feeling comes first and then the understanding.

Question: Is it worth learning the principles of Kabbalah by heart in Hebrew? Or is it enough to know them in English?

Answer: It is possible in English, but it is desirable to know them in Hebrew so that it will be clear where they come from and specifically why they were called this because the Hebrew language is derived from Kabbalah.

Question: What has happened to a person who has felt the friends and their spiritual state, has heard their thoughts, and then this stops? Where has all of this gone? After all, nothing disappears. Has the vessel expanded?

Answer: Certainly. Egoism grew and everything that existed before, everything that connected him with his friends, has disappeared in the growing egoism. But he must go on because now he will reach a feeling of the friends on a larger scale.

Question: If I am not the Creator, how can I fully be like Him? Would I cease being a creature?

Answer: No. It is specifically in that you are fully like the Creator that you become a creature. So, a person who resembles the Creator is called “Adam,” from the word “Adameh,” similar to the Creator. That is what they called the first Kabbalist who became similar to the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/19/17

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Question: A super effort is a plea and a request to the Creator in a state when I am feeling the utmost greatness of the Creator. It can only be through great effort and only for a few seconds. Then the effort evaporates, and a preparation for a new drop of effort is required again.

This is especially prominent during a group reading of The Book of Zohar. I have heard that a student of a great Rav could reach effort like this up to 300 times during a reading of The Book of Zohar. This is not easy; it requires special intention, an environment, self-development, a special state, and so on. Does an effort like this require previous preparation?

Answer: The ability to implement an effort like this is acquired only after many years of study in a group.
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Question: If the material world exists under the control of the spiritual and its laws, then why is there no coercion in spirituality, but it is there in corporeality?

Answer: In spirituality, it is impossible to force anyone because we have no means of influencing egoism in such a way so that it refuses to receive pleasure and starts to desire its own correction.

Only the Creator acts this way. This is called the path of suffering. But through this human suffering—wars, problems, all kinds of diseases, etc.—there is a simultaneous spiritual effect on people.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 11/19/17

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We are not capable of feeling less than ten Sefirot in spirituality because ten is the threshold of our sensation. After the first nine attributes, we begin to feel ourselves existing, receiving, understanding, and feeling. And not before that.

It is like a ray of light that has not yet reached the brain through all the channels so that the brain would begin to react and draw for us a picture of what is happening.

Perhaps a signal has already entered the brain, but it has not reached me yet and I do not understand, do not feel, and do not react. Or if I do not hear well and have not heard the sound and the sound is already being made, it is making its way into my ears. This is called the first nine Sefirot.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/27/18, Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 2

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The main Kabbalistic principle is “There is none else besides Him.” It remains the recurring theme of spiritual development, which is built on the revelation of the Creator.

The Creator is revealed as the only one existing, governing, and determining. He is in constant communication with us, sending us all kinds of thoughts and desires that seem to arise in us from nowhere: Suddenly I want something, a thought suddenly pops up and I do not understand where it comes from.

Therefore, our very first task is to begin to focus on the fact that “There is none else besides Him,” which is the source of everything that happens to me and inside me.

Secondly, this principle means that what I do is practically done by the Creator.

Thirdly, if I think that I act by myself, then I am mistaken. But there are such states when I can ask the Creator to let me act. If these actions are directed against my nature, against my ego, then I ask Him to replace them with others.

It is my request, and not the action itself, which in any case comes from Him under the influence of the upper Light, which can arise with the proper processing of my interaction with the environment.

It turns out that all my feelings and everything that seems to come from me, in fact, comes from the Creator, although this is hidden from me.

I can, however, connect with my environment and receive from it such positive and negative excitations in thoughts and feelings, in which I myself will start to generate something in addition to what the Creator does through me. And then these actions will be mine. In these actions, thoughts, and desires, I will be me.

What does “me” mean? When does a human being (Adam) appear? It happens when he begins to interact with his environment such that he gets from it the opportunity to work despite the Creator, against the Creator. Then he gains power and acts. This is called “My sons defeated Me.”

Question: How should I relate the current life process to the principle “There is none else besides Him”?

Answer: In order to do this, you must seriously engage in Kabbalah because only Kabbalah realizes the principle “There is none else besides Him” in all the worlds.

Light governs all the worlds, the person, and humanity, causing all our actions, questions, etc. Therefore, the entire wisdom of Kabbalah fits practically into one principle—the conclusion that there is no one else but the only unified force of nature.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/19/17

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The whole of reality is created as a result of the spreading of Light that created desire “out of nothing” and then developed it. Starting from the Big Bang, the desire increasingly coarsened, and so waves, gases, and inanimate matter were created.

Then on Earth appeared plants, animals, and man, who undergoes many stages of development until he reaches similarity to the Creator.

It is interesting that the Light and the desire are imprinted in the creature as two kinds: male and female. Male and female qualities, following the example of two spiritual Partzufim: Aba (father) and Ima (mother), Hassadim and Hochma, connect with each other and give birth to a new generation of masculine or feminine.

Connection between a man and a woman is special, because on one hand they are opposite to each other, but on the other hand, they feel that they have a common goal. The common spiritual goal unites them so much that they act together and give birth to offspring. From this, it is clear where the concept of family comes from and the natural desire to live as a couple, to give birth, and to grow its own continuation.

We all are one family. Not only grandfather and grandmother, father and mother, and children, and so on from generation to generation, but all men and all women in general are one family, descendants of Adam and Eve. There is a big difference between spiritual men and women.

The result of our connection with each other, a child that we can give birth to, is called “a soul.” When we present this connection to the Creator, He gives a spirit of life to it. In this soul, in the correct connection between us, we reach adhesion with the Creator, as it is written, “Man, woman, and Shechina (Divinity) between them.”

The main thing is to know that our connection with each other must be for the sake of building a soul. This means that without friends, I cannot obtain a soul.

If I connect with my friend through my desire to receive, then the desire to bestow is participating from his side, and vice versa—if from his side, the desire to receive, then from my side, the desire to bestow. We always act between each other as Zahar (masculine quality) and Nekeva (feminine quality) that exist in any creature.

Most importantly, a connection between us should be organized, and as a result, it should give birth to the soul. I always expect this from a friend and I myself respond in the same way. With each contact, conversation, or any joint work, we construct our souls at every moment, that is, a place for revealing the Creator, so that the upper Light will fill our communicating common desires.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/18, Preparation for the World Convention 2018

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Our whole world, our whole life, is Egypt, the place of exile. We were born here and grew up feeling ourselves in a wrong reality, very remote from the power of bestowal, love, self-sacrifice, unity, that is, the properties of the Creator.

The study of the wisdom of Kabbalah is meant to set us on an increasingly correct vision of the world so that we can see that there is only one person in the world.

Everyone must see himself as this only person. If he incorporates all humanity into himself, thanks to unity and love and various corrections that he must perform in himself, he will really see only one person existing in the world.

In the meantime, we discover a multitude of forces in the world contradicting and opposing each other. We need to attach all of them to one source, to one desire, to one force beside which there is nothing. In this way, we will gradually come to the conclusion that only self-annulment is the sole action that we have to do at every moment of time, abolishing all the forces that come from me, from others, from everybody else, so that only one upper force that completely dominates over everything remains.

This is the state that puts us in front of the Creator, to His side, to adhere to Him, and to be included in Him.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/27/18, Writings of Rabash

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Question: It is said that the Light is at rest and in perfection. How pleasant is it to feel perfection? Why does perfection posses an attractive power?

Answer: The perfection that Kabbalists speak about is not what we consider to be perfection in our world. In Kabbalah it is the quality of bestowal, feeling what others feel, having a sense of their desires and filling them.

Question: Is it possible to imagine the quality of bestowal existing in this world?

Answer: By working together in a group, we can reach the state where we begin to feel others with the help of the upper Light.

It is not even about others; they were also created for the purpose of exiting themselves and beginning to feel the upper world. Everything around me was not created so that I would bestow. It is not about bestowal; the Creator could fulfill everything and give.

The problem is to help me find independent organs of sensation to feel everything that is outside of me—not inside yourself, but outside yourself. After all, everything we feel passes through our self-serving egoistic filtering machine and what remains after filtration is called “this world,” “our world.”

To feel the world outside of us, existing before the filter, we are given a group, and we must try to work for it. During such attempts, the upper Light acts on us and we begin to feel what is outside of us. Thus, we gradually begin to comprehend a new dimension that is higher than our egoism, and thus it is called “the upper world.” So, we enter a completely different realm, one of eternity and perfection.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/19/17

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Question: How can I identify the work of the Creator in relation to me? Is it directly or through the people around me?

Answer: It is only through a group because this power is not manifested directly anywhere. Exactly as electricity must manifest through something like an electric motor, electromagnet, electrical wires, etc., it is also so with the Creator, the power of bestowal. But what, to whom, and how does one bestow? For this there is a need for material within which He will manifest.

Therefore we construct a group in which we can identify, discover, and measure Him.

Question: For example, if someone wins the lottery, this would mean that a particular force was working so that he won. What is the connection here to a group? Is the Creator the one who is bestowing to him like this?

Answer: You can certainly say that the Creator did this, but you cannot determine or define or discover Him. We are talking about how to reveal Him!

Question: So I can’t say that I can determine in my feelings that He is the one who sent me a million dollars?

Answer: It is not just in sensation. You must reveal Him in everything, in feeling and in the mind, and fully determine all His parameters, all of His attitudes, and yours.

Question: Is this possible only through a society?

Answer: It requires some platform, a base, in which He can manifest and you will be able to investigate and learn about Him. It is like every science. Every force in our world must be discovered so that it can be demonstrated to us.

Question: In what manner is the Creator revealed through the society?

Answer: In senses and emotions. To the degree of the closeness between us, we begin to feel Him. And after that it is already possible to measure how He works in contrast to these egoistic characteristics, how we can transcend the ego, gather together, and in this way determine His quantity and quality.

What this means is that we will discover a force that exists in our world but which is different than the forces that we are aware of. It needs a unique substance in order to be revealed. Even when the Creator acts through a society, you don’t see Him. You can just create a society with a characteristic that is like His.

Where else can you make it so egoistic particles will connect altruistically, exactly as in the nature of the Creator? If egoistic people will want to connect altruistically, then they will create conditions between them in which the Creator will be revealed. This is an absolutely precise law of equivalence of characteristics that exists all over the world and in all conditions, on all levels of the science.

Question: How is the Creator felt? Is it as warmth? Is it as cold? Is it in the form of friendship, love?

Answer: Everything depends on the manner in which you discover Him. It is just like electricity can cool, warm, illuminate, and so forth. The range of sensations does not depend on strength, but on the manner in which you use it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/19/17

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