Question: You say that everything spiritual is feelings. What are feelings?

Answer: Feelings are what happens in the desire, and desire is our matter. That is, we are talking about matter and the form of matter. This is what we study in Kabbalah and what we can sense, analyze, and reproduce. Therefore, absolutely everything is in our feelings.

Comment: But feelings don’t have a specific location.

My Response: Desire is the very place in which you sense what you feel. My desire is the only reality. And all the objects surrounding me only seem to exist. In fact, they are drawn for me in my desire. Besides desire, there is nothing. Matter is desire.

Comment: In reality, this is something inexplicable.

My Response: It simply cannot be grasped.

Comment: Neither feelings nor desire can be conveyed in any way. Only if, as you say, there is a common form. If someone has experienced it, they can convey the feeling.

My Response: That is why I try, in some way, to push students to start writing emotional works about everyday situations that would lead a person to a certain awakening, similar to a spiritual one, and would accelerate their development.

Question: Is it possible to convey Kabbalah in this way? Can you take all the explanations from the heights and transmit them in a sensory form?

Answer: Yes, try to present all this in the form of various novels. One can, of course, write purely psychologically about a person’s inner states, even when he doesn’t intersect with others. Or one can base it on his relationships with a group, with friends, with animals, with women; it doesn’t matter.

That is, the foundation is always the same, only more complicated. Just like in our world: There are more intelligent people, there are less educated ones, but the foundation is always the same—emotional.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Reason and Feelings” 10/5/10

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Question: We know that the closer we come to Lishma, the higher the likelihood that we will be heard throughout the world. In your view, what are we lacking in order to influence the whole world more strongly: quality or quantity?

Answer: We lack quality so that the connection between us becomes very strong. It will allow us to unite with one another and merge with our source, the Creator, in order to receive strength from Him and, through our connection with others, channel this strength to the entire world.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: What should one do in order to work specifically for the sake of Torah Lishma?

Answer: Attend all the lessons and try to fulfill all the conditions that we study. Continue every day; be with us at the lessons daily, and then you will succeed.

Question: Can we say that Torah Lishma ultimately determines our place in creation?

Answer: Of course, this is the most important thing. When we direct ourselves toward Torah Lishma, we thereby draw closer to the Creator. After all, He is the goal and the force that sustains everything.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: We study that the wisdom of the Torah is revealed in the reflected light. This is work above knowledge. And what are the conditions for working Lishma within knowledge?

Answer: Within knowledge is your mind, your ordinary attitude toward the Torah.

Question: Is an ordinary attitude enough to call it work, or must one still transition above it?

Answer: By no means is it enough! “A necessary and sufficient condition” in Kabbalah we must reveal and master.

Question: So in general, is all work Lishma carried out above knowledge? Do I not have any ability to make corrections within knowledge?

Answer: For now, you do not.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Is it possible to alleviate a friend’s illness by taking part of it upon oneself? And how can I transfer a feeling of happiness to a friend?

Answer: If my system is higher than yours, it is more filled with happiness because it exists on a higher level of life and balance. Therefore, when you are in despair, it can pass some of its energy to you, a measure of happiness, to the extent that an inner connection exists between us.

From that higher system, you appear like a small child; it is greater than you because happiness is higher than dissatisfaction in its level of awareness and value. It doesn’t even matter what makes a person happy; it may be something very simple.

Question: How do we actually transmit happiness to one another: through words, feelings, thoughts?

Answer: We can transmit happiness even without any of these; it all depends on the level of our connection: inanimate, vegetative, animate, or human. Happiness flows from a higher system into a lower one depending on the quality of our connection and on how much, at that moment, I am able to annul myself before my friend.

All people are connected with everyone. We don’t need to build this connection or cut it off. We are already tied into one network, like neurons in the brain or like cells in a single body.

The whole universe is one system. The only question is how much we humans recognize this and wish to reveal, enliven, and strengthen this connection between us and all parts of creation. But the connection already exists. The degree to which we become aware of this connection determines the measure of our friendship.

Question: On whom does it depend whether my friend’s happiness will flow into me—on him or on me?

Answer: It requires mutuality; it cannot be done one-sidedly. You must at least slightly open yourself to such a transfer with respect to the friend. Suppose your grief is so great that you completely close off inside yourself and separate from others, then you cannot absorb anything from them.

Question: What does it mean to open myself to the influence of a friend?

Answer: It means to love him as yourself. This is about a true heart-to-heart connection where we do not feel ourselves as separate bodies or foreign systems, but feel so close as if we were one whole.

Our two systems become so intertwined that they function as one. Our connection is limitless; an infinite flow of information, feelings, and thoughts pass between us. These are two systems, but they are linked in the closest possible way.

Question: How should I open myself to a friend for his positive influence?

Answer: In the same way an infant behaves in its mother’s arms, completely annulling itself before her. The infant knows nothing about itself and understands nothing; it is tuned only to absorb everything from its mother. This is why babies develop so quickly; we transmit everything we have to them.

We not only pass on tender words and smiles, but energy, our attitude. A baby absorbs this energy through thousands of sensors it possesses.

We must become like infants, completely annulling ourselves, with all our problems, in relation to the influence of our friends. Then they will be able to transfer their happiness to us as much as they wish. Unlike misfortune, happiness does not decrease when shared; it only grows. The more we make others happy, the happier we become.

The energy of happiness has no limits. To the extent that we can give and fill others, we will feel an even greater desire and capacity to do so in ourselves. After all, in this way we connect to the source of the Big Bang’s energy, to the upper force that created and sustains the entire universe.

Question: Then according to this, people who work in service of others should be very happy. Why don’t we see this?

Answer: Because they give against their will, and therefore they constantly feel drained. A mother, however, who loves her baby, may become physically tired, but she never tires of caring for him or loving him.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 242 – Happiness And Social Ties,” 10/17/13

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Question: Baal HaSulam writes that as long as the nation of Israel does not come to the fulfillment of the Torah and commandments Lishma, the troubles in the world will not cease.

Over these years, we have had different appeals to the public, both to Jews and to the nations of the world. How do you see who this nation of Israel is, and to whom we must address ourselves?

Answer: It is those who are now attending our lessons and who wish, with our help, to attain the goal of creation.

Question: You said that we do not have the strength to influence all of humanity. Should we ask for this strength, or is it better for now to focus on the work in the ten?

Answer: We need to focus on the ten so that all your forces are inside it and you are ready to invest yourselves completely in its strengthening.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: You said that we can be like a tube through which the quality of bestowal passes to all of humanity. Are we ready for this?

Answer: Ask yourselves. Clarify what you need in order to become this tube, the path through which, from above, from the Creator, the light will come, spread into all the vessels, reach our world, and fill us.

Question: Why do we not have the strength for the light to act upon all of humanity through us?

Answer: We still do not have true, correct intentions.

We are only now learning how to begin thinking correctly, with whom to be connected, and in what way to unite with one another. Soon this will become clearer.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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We live in an inner illusion, and therefore we need to bring ourselves to the system that truly exists. Today we dwell in an illusory system, which in Kabbalah is called the “imaginary world” (Olam HaMedume), or our world.

Moreover, for this there is no need to create a matrix in the 21^st century, like in Hollywood movies. It is enough to turn to books from 5,000 years ago where all of this is laid out step by step. There is no need to break through an open door.

Our world is a complete illusion. It constantly operates inside us. We only need to create normal, natural, correct feelings and thoughts within ourselves that would give us, instead of an illusion, a true picture of reality.

But this true picture is also inside us, not outside as it seems to us. All of it is entirely within our desires. Light paints certain images within the desire, by comparing its qualities and desires, their difference or their similarity. This is the picture of the world.

Therefore our task is to move from a great illusion to a lesser one, and to an even lesser one, until we approach the true reality in which only light fills us. And everything except for it was an illusory reality, only in its various measures. That is why all worlds are called “worlds,” from the word “olama” (concealment), which indicates that we live in concealment from the true reality, the world of infinity.

People imagine another reality in the form of pictures: walls, ceilings, floors, or something else. But I imagine it in the form of inner experiences and sensations.

For example, I ask you: “Do you remember what state you were in the day before yesterday?” This is how you remember this state, and it may be simultaneously associated for you with some place and time, that is, with the coordinates “time,” “place,” and “movement.” And then I ask you, “What are your experiences, your sensations?” and then you convey them to me, as if extracting them from your memory, from your archive, and you describe them. That is, you immerse yourself in this experience again and explain it.

This is similar to how it happens in the spiritual. There is no material volume there. This volume is called “desire” in which I begin to feel my past state again and in some way transmit it to you. That is all. Only inside the desire.

It’s just like in our world. Suppose you detach yourself from everything that is around us and imagine that you and I are in some cosmic space where there is no up, no down, nothing—emptiness. But within us there exist certain shared empathies, sensations, thoughts, memory, and everything else. So these are what constitute, as if were, a spiritual state.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Matrix” 9/19/10

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Question: How do we ascend upward?

Answer: If, in a small state (Katnut), the lower one clings tightly to the upper one—who has descended to him in order to help and is standing nearby—then when the upper begins to rise, he lifts the lower together with himself. And all the lower needs to do is hold on to him more and more firmly.

The ascent of the upper to his place means that he constantly adds bestowal and returns to his own state. The lower must constantly add effort on his side. He cannot add bestowal, he has no such qualities; all he can do is cling to the upper, tighter and tighter.

It is as if you grabbed the end of a rope, and suddenly the rope began to rise, pulling you off the ground and lifting you higher and higher. And the farther you get from the ground, the more frightened you become, and the more tightly you cling to the rope. This is what it means to hold on more firmly to the upper—that is the work of the lower.

The upper performs the acts of bestowal, while the lower cannot bestow, he only annuls himself.

The difference between the degrees—if I was on one degree and rose to another—is in the depth of desire that is corrected by the screen. For example, if I had Aviut Alef and I ascended and received Aviut Bet, then I must annul myself even more.

The upper adds depth of desire and ascends. Ascent is not movement in space; it is an increase in the depth of desire and the strength of the screen. This is how the upper ascends. And accordingly, the lower must annul himself. But relative to what does he annul himself?

The upper, having added desire and a screen, attains a greater level of bestowal. And the lower looks at this bestowal, and feels bad! He doesn’t want it, he is unable, he does not know what to do. Therefore, he must cling to the upper even more tightly so the upper can help him annul his ego, his egoistic desire, relative to the bestowal he now sees before him so that this bestowal does not frighten him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/11, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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Question: What things are we forbidden to reveal in our inner work and in the work with the whole world?

Answer: We do not yet have the things that are forbidden to reveal, and therefore we do not know them.

And when we do learn them, then we will see in what way the connections between us are revealed, whether all of them are in the key of our helping one another, because this is the most important thing. We must use this correctly.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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