Question: Is it possible to transition to bestowal without any pain or suffering?

Answer: Yes, one can make such a transition without suffering if it occurs under the influence of the environment.

The environment is capable of instilling a longing for any goal in me, even the most unrealistic one. If everyone around thinks about it, I will also begin to aspire to it.

And then, it will not be difficult for me at all to value the quality of bestowal as a great reward instead of today’s egoistic reception, provided that those around me think and act this way.

A person is like a computer, and society can erase the old program in him and install a new, more advanced one, with new data, and as this happens, I advance.

I need intellect only in order to follow those who point me toward the spiritual path. It is not so simple to follow them because in doing so, you do not become a robot, but on the contrary, you grow!

You are constantly given disturbances on all levels: still, vegetative, animate, and human, which all interfere with your ability to follow the spiritual path.

And you must lower yourself from the height of your enormous egoism in order to be able to follow the spiritual guide. Therefore, one must have a great intellect in order to decipher all the schemes and cunning tricks of one’s egoism, and to not follow it, but to go above one’s reason and follow the guide.

We are sent such states, we are so confused that we begin to neglect them and even hate them. But if you are able to rise above this and make yourself into “nothing,” “dust beneath the feet of the righteous,” then you are following the righteous one along the spiritual path.

It turns out that you are great, that you are just like him. After all, you receive everything that is in his mind through him; you receive it from the Creator.

When it is said that the people followed Moses like a flock follows a shepherd, it does not mean they followed like animals. It is a special form of advancement where you annul yourself before the teacher, before Moses, and through him, you annul yourself before the Creator.

Just as through love for people we come to love for the Creator, so here as well, we cannot change ourselves in any other way. You transform your previous form and acquire a new one, similar to the Creator.

There is no disparagement in these words. If you annul yourself in the spiritual world against the Klipot at the height of the worlds of Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, Atzilut, and follow the teacher, you rise to the height of these worlds. It speaks only of the magnitude of your resistance to the disturbances that are sent (that arise).

This is called going by faith above reason because I do not possess the knowledge of the spiritual teacher, and I annul myself with respect to him, annul my reason, and receive from him new knowledge, knowledge of a higher degree—faith.

The lower part of his spiritual Partzuf, the AHP, descends into me, and I accept the darkness as the light for myself even though it appears as darkness in my egoistic desire. In this way, I can progress along the spiritual path.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/1/10, Baal HaSulam, Preface “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot“

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We are discussing the topic of perception of reality in order to gradually orient ourselves in the right direction. After all, everything depends on intention. There are many people who study Kabbalah, and in particular, there are currents that have nothing in common with it.

The science of Kabbalah is intended for the correction of our nature, and the more we correct ourselves, the more we feel the upper force, reveal the upper world, become included in it, enter it, and rise above our material life. This is called “liberation from the angel of death” because we stop feeling completely dependent on our body! We rise above our animal, biological body to the degree of general nature.

I do not feel pain from cutting my nails or hair, because my body belongs to the animate level, while nails and hair belong to the vegetative level, one degree lower. And from the height of the animate level, I do not feel any loss from the loss at the vegetative level. In the same way it will happen when I rise from the animate degree to a higher degree, to the degree of Man.

“Man” is not us today. “Man” (Adam) comes from the word “similar” (Edomeh) to nature, the Creator, light. And when I become such a “man,” I will stop feeling loss from what is happening in this material life. Therefore, the science of Kabbalah is called “a remedy against death.”

Let us hope that we will attain such a degree and begin to experience spiritual life today. It all depends only on our inner efforts. Let us try to connect our inner points and appreciate this special state.
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From the International Kabbalah Congress 4/1/11, “We!” Lesson 2

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Question: At one time, I observed how birds fly and was very surprised; they are truly a single organism. Some descend and rest, others take off and form shapes that are simply indescribable. They feel one another, and they have no leader. Is it really possible for people to reach such a state?

Answer: There is nothing to achieve. You only need to group together, and then you will discover the force that connects and forms us all.

The point is that it is not that we become smart. Birds aren’t that intelligent, they simply reveal the connection between themselves on the animate level, and then the common force of the Creator manifests within them from within. They simultaneously feel Him, governs them, and is their foundation.

Question: Is this the unity that you speak about all the time?

Answer: Of course. And when humanity reaches this, it moves as one. These are amazing manifestations of unity, harmony, eternity, perfection, and transcendence over life and death, over the limitations in which we exist. Moreover, completely boundless perspectives manifest here in all sensations—the world of infinity.

This is not carried out by us but by the upper force. We only need to move forward and demand from it to do this.

I think that we will devote the coming year precisely to such rapprochement, to connection into one common body. And then we will discover the Creator within this common body, the force that in fact governs absolutely the entire universe, everyone in a single movement, like a flock of birds or fish.

The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks only about this. Rapprochement, adhesion, connection into one single organism, a return to one unified organism, these are the 125 degrees that we must traverse. All of Kabbalah is built on this. It simply explains to us with mathematical precision and meticulous detail what needs to be done. First, it explains in words that we can understand: egoism, altruism, rapprochement, hatred, and love.

And then, when we pass into the sensation of these qualities, it explains in terms of measurements, in specific dimensions (so many grams, so many such-and-such forces) how to work systemically, consciously grouping this system, and understanding it. Because by returning to this complete, integral system, we attain the Creator, His actions, how He formed and assembled us, and in what manner He created this system.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Unity Without a Leader” 9/11/10

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We have no other means of advancement, no other lever by which I can move forward, except the influence of the environment. If all of me, completely and entirely, is concentrated within myself, what force can direct me the other way, from inside outward? I have no such forces within me.

All my forces act “for me,” “for my own sake.” How can I create the opposite action “for the sake of others (the neighbor)”? Where can such a force of nature be obtained?

For this purpose, the soul has been created in a divided state, in two parts: myself and the surrounding world. We are given a single freedom—to choose what is more important. If you want to attain spirituality, organize your environment so that it becomes more important to you than yourself.

In truth, this is not an external environment, but my own soul, my AHP, the “garments” and “palaces” of my soul’s Kli. It only appears to me as being outside.

Envy and the desire for honor draw you to the environment, to the parts of your soul. Organize them artificially so that they influence you.

From our level, we are given a psychological approach that is inwardly spiritual. By connecting with these desires (Kelim) that supposedly surround me, and by seemingly using my envy and desire for honor, I am essentially drawing these desires back to myself, so that they are connected with me and define my system of values.

So where do envy and the desire for honor come from? From the breaking of the soul into two parts—myself and the world.

Wishing to use the “help against him” (against my ego,) I activate these external desires of mine so that they, in turn, influence me. Later we will reveal that we are working only with ourselves, with our desires, with our qualities, and that everything was arranged this way from the beginning.

But without organizing the environment, there is no (and never will be) another force capable of “taking me by the ear” and directing me toward my true desires, toward the soul. There is no other force in the world.

Suffering can only make me more sensitive so that I will want to seek a solution. But the solution will be the same—to place myself under the influence of the environment.
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From Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/1/10

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Question: Why are so many worlds needed?

Answer: The spiritual worlds are needed in order to rise to the level of the Creator. The fact is that the light of the Creator began to influence the desire that He created, and this desire developed continuously under its influence until it reached the 125^th degree called our world. At that point, the general desire shattered and broke.

Now, by gradually gathering and reassembling it, we must ascend from our world back through 125 degrees to the level of the Creator.

Question: In our corporeal world, everything is divided into many small objects, like a honeycomb. We see the world divided into inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human nature. But in spirituality, all phenomena take place within one body. How should we understand this?

Answer: In spirituality, everything takes place within a single common desire. There, many opposite inclinations, directions, and qualities are united by one common screen. I collect all the pluses and minuses as if into one bag, tie it up, and want to use it to bring contentment to the Creator. As a result, in bringing contentment to Him, I receive contentment for myself.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/25/18

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Question: Why do you constantly speak about faith when Kabbalah is a science and attainment, and faith is a philosophical, religious concept?

Answer: Faith is the property of bestowal. In our world, this quality does not exist, because even if I give something, I do it with the aim of subsequent receiving. I cannot give simply for the sake of giving.

The property of the spiritual world, however, is the quality of bestowal. It is called faith. Do not confuse it with what we understand by faith in our world.

In our world, a believing person closes his eyes and does something completely thoughtlessly. This is a completely unrealistic, illogical, and baseless action.

In Kabbalah, faith is the force of bestowal that we receive from the upper light.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 5/15/16

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Question: You said that inspiration and transmission of information should be brief, clear, and to the point, not rambling statements that go on for five to ten minutes where one person speaks and everyone else is silent as if forcing themselves: “Yes, we must listen.” What should a truly inspiring speech be like?

Answer: That is a big problem, because our guys start quoting excerpts, using official jargon, and bringing in all sorts of explanations. Here, you just need to express your inner expression as simply as possible, from heart to heart, to convey the maximum feeling with the minimum number of words, and that is all.

Therefore, I am in favor of everything being very brief, without unnecessary intellectualization. A person should prepare in advance so that it would burst out from their heart, as they say, “without thinking.” But this is not easy; it comes gradually.

In addition, the listeners themselves are not yet attuned to understanding. We don’t yet communicate with each other internally, through feelings. Just as a mother feels her baby without words, and the baby feels the mother through subconscious sensations, so too should we feel one another. Much more so!

Then our external communication, words, gestures, facial expressions will become superfluous. Over time, all this will cease, and you will be able to transmit your sensations to others and receive them completely outside of physical contact, even if the person is no longer in our world but on some other levels.

That is, you no longer associate him with his body. Whether he is somewhere, a couple of thousand kilometers away from you in his body, or outside the body, in another dimension, what is the difference?
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Transfer of information” 1/23/11

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Question: If everything in the world depends on people engaged in spiritual development, does it mean we are responsible for all the suffering in the world?

Answer: We do not cause suffering in the world; on the contrary, by attracting the light, we move suffering from the material level to the level of spiritual suffering. Meaning, instead of suffering from wars, diseases, and all other problems, we suffer from a lack of spirituality. This is what the science of Kabbalah gives a person.

It brings him “suffering,” but it cannot even be called that; it is the suffering of love, as if I were invited to a meal in a couple of hours, so I do not eat right now to keep my appetite strong. This is called the suffering of love; it is when I realize that I should prepare spiritual Kelim.

And even now, in the empty Kelim, I feel the glow of the upcoming meeting with the people I love, and from the meal. This is what humanity needs to be brought to, to show them that there is a solution and to develop not as a result of the blows of nature.

Now we are entering a period of ecological problems that can cause the suffering and death of thousands of people. We see natural disasters occurring all over the world, in China, Europe, Russia, and America.

The only way to escape it is to transition to preparing spiritual Kelim, not in an earthly form, not waiting decades for suffering to pass until we finally realize that there is a reason and a goal and two paths to the goal: the path of light and the path of suffering.

Why should we suffer in vain? Let us draw the light now that will show us the difference between its state and ours, so we would suffer from the fact that we want a better state, rather than from feeling bad now.
This is what the science of Kabbalah offers man—the path of light instead of the path of suffering.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/1/10, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot“

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I have nothing besides my desire, so how can I give it up? All my life, I have been following my rational logic; should I suddenly go against it, as if I have lost my mind and reason?

The science of Kabbalah does not call for working without mind or reason, but teaches us to rise above them. Knowledge and reason remain, we do not cross them out, but always rise above them and do the opposite.

Therefore, one who goes above knowledge stimulates his knowledge to grow ever more. The more his mind and knowledge grow, the higher a person rises to act above them, and therefore one becomes more and more intelligent in the material world, and further advances in the spiritual.

This is how he grows all the time, within knowledge and then above knowledge, and again within knowledge and above knowledge…

Therefore, we never annul our knowledge or go below it, as happens in religions, but always go by faith above reason. Faith gained above reason becomes knowledge, and again we must go above it. This is how we ascend the spiritual degrees.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/22/20, “Work with Faith Above Reason”

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If we place our “seed” into a good environment, it develops; but if we place even the very best seed into “bad soil” (environment), it will wither. Everything depends solely on the environment. That is, we need people around us who reveal the evil of egoism within themselves and want to correct it.

I must place myself in such an environment and strive to absorb everything possible from it to the maximum extent: moisture, minerals, warmth, everything that the soil can give to the seed.

For, as Baal HaSulam writes in the article “Freedom of Will,” at the hour of death a person will not be able to take anything from this world with him except the attained quality of bestowal, which can be acquired only in this world, and through which one feels oneself living in the upper world. It is said: “See your world in your life.”

And if nothing has been attained, then one remains only like a seed, which will later be placed again into the earth and given a new chance.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/18/10, Baal HaSulam, “The Freedom”

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