Torah, Deuteronomy 34:09: Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, because Moses had laid his hands upon him. And the children of Israel obeyed him, and they did as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Joshua is the next step, inferior to Moses. But since it is lower and slightly immersed in egoism, Joshua can lead the people further and higher, can conquer the egoistic desires, and can transform them into bestowal. This is the meaning of the “work in the land of Israel.”

Moses cannot do this. Therefore, he transfers his duties to Joshua.

Torah, Deuteronomy 34:10 – 34:12: And there was no other prophet who arose in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, as manifested by all the signs and wonders, which the Lord had sent him to perform in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and all his servants, and to all his land, and all the strong hand, and all the great awe, which Moses performed before the eyes of all Israel.

The property of Keter (the Creator) and the property of GAR de Bina (Moses) are the same properties of absolute bestowal. This is why it is written that they were “face to face.”
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book,” 2/6/17

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Question: What is the difference between fear and trepidation?

Answer: Fear is an animalistic (egoistic) feeling. The term “fear” is very rarely used in Kabbalah. It uses the word “trepidation,” a feeling that I possibly do not do enough of what I should do.

Question: Do Kabbalists have no animalistic fear?

Answer: A Kabbalist is a human being like everyone else. Therefore, everything depends on his state. If he falls, he can fall below any person. If he rises, he rises to the level of the Creator.

Question: But does something make a Kabbalist different from an ordinary person?

Answer: It is only the connection with the Creator, which he has almost all of the time: “There is none else besides Him.”

Connection with the Creator neutralizes any kind of fear, and only trepeditation remains because a Kabbalist understands that the Creator is the source of everything that happens.

Question: Can a Kabbalist artificially awaken fear in himself in order to come to trepidation?

Answer: There is no need to awaken any fears or any negative emotions in yourself, only connection and love. There is no self-flagellation; that is anti-spiritual.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/13/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 34:08: So the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, and the the days of weeping over the mourning for Moses came to an end.

Thirty days of mourning is the whole step: Rosh, Toch, and Sof of the Partzuf. When you completely break away from your previous Partzuf, from the previous stage, it is called the thirty days of mourning.

Weeping is a small state (Katnut). After all, the sons of Israel are like children who cannot do anything and therefore weep. They cannot reach the level of Moses, and the awareness of this is called “weeping.”
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book,” 2/6/17

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Question: We say that the Light, falling on our desires, depicts a picture of this world for us in our egoistic desires. If I cross the Machsom—the psychological barrier between our world and the spiritual world—do I feel this Light undisturbed by egoism?

Answer: You do not feel the Light, but the desire to bestow that this Light depicts for you. However, it is not in egoistic qualities, but in altruistic ones.

We do not attain the Light. We only attain desires that are its derivatives.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/3/17

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Question: What is the meaning of the command: “And choose good” (Isaiah 7:15)? What is “good,” how does one choose it, and what is “bad?”

Answer: Good is what I do above my egoism. This means I must receive Light from above to rise above my ego and carry out an action that is directed against it.

Without receiving the reforming Light, I cannot rise above the ego and perform good deeds. I need contact with the Light. To do this I must unite with friends in a group to ask for the upper Light through the center of the group and receive it. Only then can I act.

I invest efforts to be in the group, and according to the degree of effort, I get the opportunity to bestow.

Without revealing the Creator, the Light, a person cannot perform a good deed because the Light is the property of bestowal, and it is given to a person even before he begins to discover the Creator.

Revealing the Creator means attaining the system, the ten Sefirot, which are understandable to a person, and in them HaVaYaH (the four-letter name of the Creator) is revealed.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/12/17

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Question: Does a Kabbalist feel gratitude?

Answer: A Kabbalist is thankful to the Creator for the fact that He created books, a group, a teacher, and all the conditions for him so that he can approach the upper force. Moreover, these conditions are presented in the most optimal way so that I, with all my features, could approach the Creator.

There is the absolute—the Creator, and there is me—intentionally created in some limited form. And all the conditions that lead me to the Creator are determined by the initial and the final state.

Question: What do you mean when you say that you are grateful to your teacher?

Answer: Gratitude to the teacher is a gratitude to the person who gave birth to you in spirituality.

Question: Does this feeling come by itself or do we need to work on it?

Answer: It appears in the person naturally when he begins to feel what he has received from his teacher.

Question: Is it like children who do not appreciate their parents while growing up and only when they themselves become parents can they appreciate them?

Answer: This is how it happens in the corporeal world, but everything is different for Kabbalists. When a person begins to reveal the Creator, he sees that he attains everything in the Kli (vessel) of his teacher. After all, we attain the next degree in the AHP of the upper.

It means that a disciple understands that the teacher thinks about him every second and cares about his advancement. The connection between Partzufim, Kelim (vessels), from the top to the bottom and from the bottom to the top is constant. It just becomes enlivened from our actions.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/13/17

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Question: How much is a Kabbalist resistant to feelings of suffering, emptiness and disappointment?

Answer: A Kabbalist is sensitive to physical suffering. Just like everyone else existing in physical bodies, he remains as an animal and also perceives everything. There is no difference between him and other people in this.

Another matter is his attitude toward the source of the suffering. He justifies Him fully because he understands how much this helps him break away from egoism. Therefore, a Kabbalist relates to illness and other adversities quite differently.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/3/17

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Question: How does a Kabbalist use the sixth sense organ to analyze his actions and desires?

Answer: When the upper Light reveals the property of bestowal (Bina) in you, which did not exist in you before, and you become a giving, understanding person who sees everything in reflected Light, then you gain a completely different vision. You simultaneously gain a new dimension over our earthly one, and everything becomes clear.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 9/3/17

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Question: Does a person’s quality of a conscience indicate that he or she has been corrected to some degree?

Answer: From the point of view of the wisdom of Kabbalah, there is no conscience. Everything is built only on shame. When we say: “Where is your conscience?”, in fact, we want to say: “Aren’t you ashamed?”

Question: How should I respond to the fact that in most cases it is specifically people who are close to us that hurt and cause us pain? How does one overcome strong emotions? Should I be offended as a response?

Answer: We should focus on the Creator. Nobody is causing us pain except the Creator, and He acts through those who are close to us.

Question: What is the most important property for spiritual advancement?

Answer: The most important property for spiritual advancement is perseverance and patience.

Question: How do you deal with changes in mood?

Answer: I hold onto the only goal in life: not losing connection with the Creator. Therefore, I appreciate all my states and moods as a greater development around this connection.

Question: Do emotions depend on spiritual descents and ascents?

Answer: Spiritual descents and ascents help shape our emotions correctly. After all, if I feel bitterness and weakness during a descent, I simultaneously feel happiness because from the descent I already feel a taste of the ascent that I will have. Therefore, the spiritual state influences the emotion but doesn’t form it.

Question: I am involved with the wisdom of Kabbalah and my wife is waiting for external changes to happen: for me to be more compliant, kinder, calmer. Will this happen or is my development unconnected to my external emotional state?

Answer: You can tell your wife that this will happen soon.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/13/17

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Question: When a person brings the Creator into his world, tries to justify Him, does it become psychologically easier for him?

Answer: If an individual begins to perceive the Creator, he discovers a completely different life: different concerns, different goals, different horizons!

There is no longer a place for psychology. The revelation of the Creator to someone in this world opens before that person eternity before him: completely different dimensions, different coordinates, different measures.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/3/17

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