Question: Who is responsible for the future of the world: the Kabbalists or humanity? Which of them is more helpless now?
Answer: Humanity is more helpless and Kabbalists are to a lesser extent. However, Kabbalists have more responsibility than humanity.
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From a Lesson in Russian 12/24/17
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Question: When the ten works together, does the effect occur when at least one member thinks about the other nine or when the entire ten simultaneously does the same thing?
Answer: It is enough for just a few to be thinking about the others at any given time, and those few periodically rotate with each taking their turn. They are reminded of this from above since everything happens not because they want it to happen, but because they are controlled by the upper system of control, and they are rearranged among themselves in constant intention toward their personal connection and unity with the upper force.
They control absolutely nothing; they are just trying to think about the ten. They only need to awaken each other to the greatness of this controlling force and their ability to affect it together.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation,” 8/16/17
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Question: On one hand, you talk about faith above reason. On the other, in Kabbalah there is no faith at all, only attainment. What does this mean?
Answer: Faith above reason is attainment. Faith is the quality of bestowal, the quality of Bina. Bestowal above egoism is called faith above reason. By meeting this condition an individual discovers the upper world for himself.
What has already been done in our world to corrupt the understanding of faith cannot be changed. In our world everything is corrupt.
Only the individual who has risen to the level of the quality of bestowal can be said to have faith.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 9/24/17
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Question: What is Kabbalistic meditation?
Answer: I don’t know what is meant by the term “meditation” in various methodologies, philosophies, psychologies, and teachings. Possibly, it is a practice of a person directing his thoughts toward some specific task or action.
In Kabbalah, meditation is equivalent to intention, when I want to connect to the upper Light in order for it to change me, to perform some kind of action on me. Perhaps the desire to come close to the Light, i.e., a specific inner volitional effort, could be called meditation.
At the same time, one should concentrate on a single thought: “There is none else besides Him,” “the good that does good.”
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 9/3/17
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Question: At what point does the “click” occur where we achieve a restriction of egoism and gain a screen?
Answer: This happens almost imperceptibly because all spiritual actions begin with very small details, quantities, and oppositions. A person suddenly begins to realize that he had no relation to it before it, but now there is a feeling, a sensation, that appeared and entered his field of sensation.
Question: What are a restriction and a screen?
Answer: Both the screen and the restriction are a consequence of a feeling of the upper force appearing in a person. It manifests itself as existing in him, and a person acts in a certain way based on this. He understands where to restrict himself, why, and for what. The restriction and the screen appear in him in a natural way.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 8/16/17
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Question: A Kabbalist controls the thoughts that come to him with the help of the screen. Can he put up a barrier to evil thoughts?
Answer: Only with the help of the upper Light, never by himself. Where could he get such strength? All the evil, egoistic desires that exist in him are sent to him from above. The upper Light reveals them and waits until a person realizes this and demands that the Light correct them.
In general, there is nothing evil in the world. The egoistic desires that exist in man are revealed as such in him.
There is nothing new in the world. Everything that happens and will happen is already planted in us, and we cannot escape it. All the same, we have to go through it. As the saying goes: “What was, will be.” And we must be ready to justify everything in every moment.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/3/17
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Question: Baal HaSulam writes that people need to undergo upbringing to develop the desire for spirituality. He goes on to explain that a person who considers the life of society more important than his own life is called a spiritual person.
But how can an egoist be brought up so that he will suddenly start treating others this way?
Answer: The fact is that we are all being brought up in the field of the upper Light. Therefore, if people gather together, then by influencing one another, they create a field that sustains them.
Similar to how a magnet holds a piece of metal above a surface, this field created by society can hold an egoistic individual from falling back into his egoism so he exists above it. This is the mutual guarantee.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/24/17
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Question: In Kabbalah there is a principle “Judge every person to a scale of merit.” Is ordinary daily communication with other people harder or easier for a Kabbalist?
Answer: A Kabbalist doesn’t have any problem with communication in ordinary life, he freely interacts with absolutely everyone. However, interacting positively with his friends is a big problem for him.
There is absolutely no difficulty for him in justifying other people since he understands perfectly that everyone who is doing anything around him is a little egoistic creature. So he doesn’t see anyone as someone who does evil or does good.
Question: But throughout their lives Kabbalists experienced a lot of negative pressure from people who opposed them. They were rejected, exiled from their homes, and so forth. But they still justify these actions?
Answer: This is not being done by the people themselves. Everything is the influence of the upper Light—either stemming from the Kabbalist himself or through the effects on him from the external, surrounding world. This is done for him to justify the upper Light even more and to be in adhesion with it—to exert greater effort to remain in the quality of bestowal.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 9/3/17
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Outcome of the congress: the conclusion that “There is none else besides the Creator.” We have to decide this every moment of our lives, being certain that He is good that does good, meaning, we justify Him in all His actions.
This is the very first condition with which the science of Kabbalah begins, with the article “There Is None Else Besides Him,” and all that is required of us on the path is to establish only this. The only things that change are the conditions, our inner and outer states. (In reality there is only one state, but we perceive its division into inner and outer states.)
In order to start living within the principle “There is none else besides Him, the good that does good,” one must work in a group of ten people. And this state starts from the stage of an “embryo” (Ubur) in which I annul myself in everything to the principle “There is none else besides Him, the good that does good”.
It means that I adhere to the upper one in any circumstance that He puts in front of me, completely annulling myself. In this way I become a spiritual embryo.
This is the state that we are trying to achieve, and this is why we spoke only about this during the congress: how to realize this state, what our relationships should be in the group, what each one owes the others, etc. It was all about how to reach the state “There is none else besides Him, the good that does good” on the level of an embryo.
Why did we take such a long time speaking about something that could be articulated in half a minute? The thing is that this state is realized not in a single person, but in the connections between many of us. While inside this connection, problems begin, because this is where we reveal our breakage.
All the work in establishing the principle “There is none else beside Him, the good that does good” is in tying the broken desires into it, so that it would be realized between us. It is between us, not in each one of us.
It is not enough to say that I adhered to the Creator, that I woke up in the morning with the thought of Him and accepted everything that happens as coming from Him. It is sufficient for now, but it is an abstract idea, not a practical action. However, if I want to actually realize this principle in its correct state, I have to fulfill it in the group. This is what the entire work is about.
Therefore it is necessary for us to have a congress for the mutual work. It is not enough to read the articles alone or even learn it by heart because the main thing is in realizing it between us. Together we begin to extract more and more information from the articles, and each time we perceive them anew: more and more deeply.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/18, Lesson on Topic: “The Work in Wholeness, at the Entrance of Ibur (Conception)”
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Question: What is the difference between love and respect?
Answer: Respect is an admiration of another person’s level and love is a feeling closeness with a person. These are different things.
Question: What feelings does the awakening of a point in the heart cause in a person?
Answer: A point in the heart awakens in a person after he has passed all the stages of his previous development in many circuits of lives, meaning the inanimate, vegetative, and animal levels.
Question: What can you compare the very first sensation of the Creator to? What is this feeling?
Answer: The feeling of a kind cloud that surrounds you.
Question: Can a beginner feel indifference to what was once interesting and exciting?
Answer: Naturally and quite often. Therefore, I always say that perseverance and patience are the most necessary qualities for spiritual work.
Question: How are intention and love connected?
Answer: Love is achieved only with the right intention.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/13/17
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