Question: How does a Kabbalist feel our world and the spiritual world through a template of ten Sefirot?

Answer: It depends on the level and the state of the Kabbalist. He feels our world inside himself according to his level, partly through the revelation of the upper forces and partly through the revelation of corporeal forces.

Sometimes I feel that I am in a descent and actually perceive only this world, and sometimes I am in states in which I feel that there is an upper force field that manages everything. In between these two extreme states, I feel that I am in a higher or lower state of an ascent or descent accordingly.

Question: Should we try to avoid the feelings of the corporeal world? Are they harmful??

Answer: You don’t need to try to avoid anything. You should simply yearn to be incorporated in others. Thus you ascend in the feeling of your world.

There is nothing harmful and everything is actually beneficial. When you develop and advance along the spiritual path and discover the right vector, everything that is added to it is only meant to help you advance.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/27/16

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Question: Why should I love? Who should I love? What is love?

Answer: Love is the connection of my desire with other desires. Since all of us come from one desire called Adam, the discovery of the upper world is summed up by the combination of separate, isolated desires that reject each other. So, to the degree of the union of these desires, we begin to perceive the upper world.

Comment: It is often very difficult for a person to define a feeling of love or hatred. As long as he is not in the upper world and is within the framework of our world, all the stereotypes, routines, and models of this world influence him.

Answer: Therefore, a person cannot go out to the upper world until he overcomes his rejection of other people.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/27/16

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Question: Where does the feeling of revenge in a person come from?

Answer: The feeling of revenge comes as a result of a very difficult defeat of the ego, an ego that experiences humiliation. In such a situation, a person is ready to do anything; he has no other choice. A situation in which you insult the most central point of my ego, if you show me that I am zero, and you do not leave me an opportunity to exist, this feeling arouses a feeling of revenge in me.

If I thought that I was higher and you “push” me off of that summit, showing me that I am nothing, then an extreme reaction is formed in me toward the factor that produced that emotion in me. In such a situation, I am not only ready to kill, burn, and trample, but I also want this factor to disappear form this world, in any form!

Question: Is it possible to arouse an emotion like this in a Kabbalist?

Answer: Certainly, Kabbalists experience emotions much more acutely than others. However, the Kabbalists understand that these feelings come from the Creator and come only so that a person will draw himself back to Him.

Question: In a humiliating situation, the average person will take vengeance. What would a Kabbalist do?

Answer: The Kabbalist will correct himself until he reaches a state in which that emotion will not be felt as humiliation in him even a little, because that feeling comes from the Creator and not from anyone else. This is because“There is none else beside Him” (Deuteronomy 4:35).

Question: Why is it, that among particular peoples, revenge is raised to the rank of tradition and passes from generation to generation, while among other peoples this is not so?

Answer: This is related to upbringing and the period in which they are living. There were periods when a “blood feud” was a very widespread custom. It was impossible to tolerate defeat, and only a duel could erase these feelings.

In the whole history of mankind, there have been many periods when a person who felt great humiliation calculated how to proceed. Today, egoism has become so great that it has created special mechanisms of protection. Otherwise, with every blast of a horn from a passing car, we would see drivers shooting each other.

Today, a Kabbalist doesn’t relate to insults, forgiving, or taking actions in response to an insult. Basically, we must not take it to heart in order not to feel humiliated, even though, in fact, life is an immense source of humiliation.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/21/16

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Question: Who does a Kabbalist consider a friend, and does he have many friends?

Answer: A Kabbalist has no friends. For him, every person who engages in the search for the attribute of love and bestowal along with the whole group is a friend.

The root of the word “friend” – “Chaver” in Hebrew stems from the word “Chibur”– “connection, unity.” People with whom I can connect in unity in order to discover the meaning of my life are called my friends.

Question: Does this mean that a Kabbalist has no friends with whom he can, let’s say, go to a football game once a week?

Answer: No, when I was young, I had many friends I was close with until the age of 20 to 22. Then, we separated, and each went his own way. Some went to the army and some to university.

Today, they invite me to their gatherings, but I don’t find the time, energy, and desire to be with them because we are totally different and have no common goals or desires. We have nothing to talk about, except perhaps to remember what things used to be like 50 years ago or how life has gone by, but we don’t have a common present or future.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/11/16

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Question: In spirituality, do we feel a taste of the Creator Himself or what He gives us?

Answer: It’s the same thing; therefore, it is also written, “Taste and see that the Creator is good” (Psalms 34:9), see how tasty He is.

Question: I can enjoy relationships with you and the gifts that you give me on the physical level. What gives me enjoyment in the spiritual world?

Answer: In the spiritual world, something like this doesn’t exist. What you receive from me is myself. After all, even in our world, it is the same thing. My image is created within you as a result of what you get from me, and my being outside of you is only an illusion. It seems to you that I exist. But in fact, I don’t exist.

Question: But am I not receiving a gift in the form of an object that pleases me?

Answer: You receive it from the Creator. But in the meantime, this gift exists within you, as a physical gift within your emotions, and it seems to you that it was given by me. That is how the Creator places Himself before you.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/20/16

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Question: What do the limitations of our perception, our consciousness, and attainment depend on? What is preventing us from beginning to attain the upper world now?

Answer: Only narcissism prevents us from attaining the upper world, because the higher dimension is built on bestowal and love. And the physical world is built on reception and hatred.

Question: Why? After all, I don’t hate anyone. There are those I love, those I like.

Answer: I love them because they satisfy me egoistically because my main, natural desire is to have pleasure. And whatever I don’t receive pleasure from, I hate.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/27/16

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Question: With what should I begin the path of the soul, spiritual life?

Answer: With virtual study or from ordinary study in our courses. Then as you advance in your studies, you will feel that you need a group.

Question: Why are you so sure that it is impossible to advance without a group? I have met quite a few people who claim that they quite successfully practice Kabbalah without a group. Even Baal HaSulam doesn’t mention it in his writings. After all he never had a group.

Answer: There are numerous articles about the need for a group, not by modern Kabbalists. Kabbalists have written very clearly about the importance of the group for ages. You simply don’t know the sources.

Question: Rabash had one teacher, his father Baal HaSulam. What is the shortest way to the Creator: in a group where the optimal number of people is ten, or one-on-one with a wise teacher?

Answer: Baal HaSulam had a group of students and Rabash was one of them. Then Rabash also organized a group in which I studied together with other students. After having studied with Rabash for some time, I asked him what I needed in order to continue to advance and he answered: “nothing will help you unless you organize a group.”

His group included a few old men with whom he had studied with Baal HaSulam. This group did not suit me, so I began to collect young men and gave lectures to them. This is how a new group was created.

It is impossible to study the wisdom of Kabbalah without a group. Without a group, you will not understand anything and will surely not achieve anything!
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/30/16

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The Torah, Deuteronomy 16:20: Justice, justice shall you pursue, that you may live and possess the land the Lord, your God, is giving you.

The order to pursue justice is given before entering the land of Israel because only with the help of justice can you reach the state when you ascend to the level of the “Land of Israel.”

It is written: “… that you may live and inherit the land…” since this is life. According to Kabbalah, corporeal existence is not considered life.

Life is the manifestation of the qualities of the Creator in a person; otherwise, this person is called a dead body, meaning existing on the animalistic level, without a spiritual spark inside.
The meaning of life is to reach the level of the Creator. That is why to pursue justice means to pursue the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/24/16

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Question: I sometimes think that it might be better not to know about the wisdom of Kabbalah, but there is no way I can forget. Why are we given such states that are so bitter?

Answer: So you will decide each time and determine again and again whether you need the wisdom of Kabbalah or not. You may feel that you don’t need it, and then you could live your life peacefully. Then we will meet again some other time.

A person needs to check himself again and again, many times during his lifetime. The wisdom of Kabbalah only offers itself, but you have to pay with your efforts, with your serious exertion, so that a sensor of the upper world will be created in you.

The main efforts are in establishing a group through which you will be able to summon the Surrounding Light unto yourself in which you will begin to feel the Creator. You will actually discover the whole creation in the connection between you and others.

Question: Do I have to feel that I will not be able to hold on by myself?

Answer: Not by yourself, only with others. Then you and the others become one whole, which is called a soul or a man (Adam) who is filled with the Creator. This is what you should reach, and it is yours, eternal and whole.

Question: So how can I avoid the bitterness or is it an inevitable phase?

Answer: You must feel bitterness along the spiritual way, otherwise you will not feel the sweetness.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/20/16

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Question: Why is it necessary to attainment the spiritual world from the corporeal world?

Answer: Because this is the only way you can rise above yourself and feel your gradual development. Only through gradual attainment are we able to grow new properties and facets within ourselves.

You can’t imagine how much work you are doing in the meantime. For example, you’ve been studying the wisdom of Kabbalah for two or three years. You say to yourself: “Why is it taking so long? All of this material could have been explained in a few months.” But the fact is, you are developing certain inner properties that you are completely unaware of now.

This is similar to the development of a small child. What does a child understand? In the first years of his life, he has no idea what’s happening. He simply exists! And how much he is developing all kinds of properties and how he perceives them—this is incomprehensible to him.

Similarly, when studying Kabbalah, we don’t understand what properties, new functions, and new internal blocks of perception and understanding are developing in us. Later, they all become revealed at once. As, for example, a boy in adolescence suddenly becomes a small man; the entire ripening period suddenly breaks through and reveals itself like a flower.

It’s the same with us, only much brighter. Childhood suddenly ends and real life begins in comprehension and sensations, and everything that has accumulated is revealed in a genuine, practical form.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/20/16

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