Question: How effective is the workshop if the friends have only been repeating your words for years during the workshops, and in fact have been using their mind (the ego) but don’t include their feelings? Should we add emotional exercises?

Answer: A person, like a kid, automatically repeats what the books say or what he has heard and it is only once in awhile that he has a greater understanding of what he reads or says.

It is a normal process both in our world and in the upper world. In both cases we develop under the influence of the Surrounding Light, but in the case of spiritual development we invoke and summon the Surrounding Light by special efforts: the group, the yearning for connection and unity, Kabbalistic texts, etc.
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The Torah describes spiritual properties, not physical characteristics. For example, there is the property of “Moses” in every person. Even the Creator exists in every one of us. After all, a person is a world in which there is absolutely everything!

Therefore, the Torah speaks about how one can balance his inner world and connect, correct, tune, and calibrate it correctly.

Only then can one use it to reveal the Creator through the correct interaction of all of its parts. The inner harmony that is formed within a person gives him the sensation of the upper existence. This is the force that fills, balances, and governs everything.

When all parts balance and complement one another within us and there is nothing left that would work in a corrupt way, then the common property called the Creator is formed. This is the revelation of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 4/12/15

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Question: In which book is crossing the Machsom (Barrier) described? Could it be that I have crossed it already and haven’t noticed?

Answer: You can learn about this by reading the material by Baal HaSulam on the subject of Tzimtzum Aleph.

Question: For a Kabbalist, who are the others? Are they his friends in a group or is every person considered to be one of the others?

Answer: First they are his friends on the path of spiritual development and then all those who are attached to it.

Question: What is “good” in spirituality, and in what way is it different from the materialistic “good?”

Answer: Good in spirituality represents the absolute good that leads a person to the purpose of his creation.
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Question: How can we turn foes into friends? For me, it is like climbing Mount Everest.

Answer: You don’t have to do that. The Light will do it for you. We don’t have to correct ourselves in any way. If we try to do so we will only ruin everything, collapse with exhaustion, and curse the whole world.

We have to do something that’s totally different; we have to ask the Creator, the Upper Light, to do it since only He corrects everything. I have to tell Him that I want Him to correct this and that, and He will correct it. I don’t correct anything by myself. How can I do that? What tools do I have?

This is the main thing!

A person scolds himself for being evil, but it is the Creator who operates him. He scolds himself about his past and about the mistakes he made, but the Creator did everything. A person cannot prepare for anything since the Creator does everything. Everything is done on purpose only so a person will beg, ask, and convince the Creator to correct him.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/31/16

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Question: Can the same text or the same book be understood differently when reading it again? If so, what is the reason for that?

Answer: It depends only on the person because two people who read the same book are in totally different states.

The book was written by a Kabbalist who felt the spiritual world and expressed his impressions from his high level in words, sentences, and characters. Therefore, while reading the Kabbalistic text, we must resemble that Kabbalist as much as we can in order to feel, at least to some extent, the state he was in.

At the same time, we do everything that we can to fulfill what is said in the writings with the help of our teacher, according to the advice given to Kabbalah students to get together, read from Kabbalah sources, and then discuss these topics.

We must focus on Kabbalistic sources and yearn to resemble the spiritual vessels as much as we can in our relationships in the complete connection between us when we get together, ten people studying from a source. We should try to attain the spiritual root, which means the height of the person who wrote it.

We must connect and resemble the spiritual state, expecting the same Light to affect us that the Kabbalist discovered and described in his writings.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/7/16

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Question: If everyone around us represent the Creator, when a person close to us hurts us mentally and insults us, is that useful for us? What does it give a person other than emotional pain?

Answer: As a general rule you should write off all pain within yourself. Suppose that someone hurts you. You should try to forgive him, especially if this is someone close. Try rising above the situation and transform the offender from an enemy into a friend. You should transform everything into something good. In this way a person changes himself and begins to adjust himself correctly toward the world that is always good and is filled with only one higher Light.

If a person behaves like this in his relationships with people, then gradually he begins to perceive his environment correctly and through it see one great pleasure—the Light that is filling all of creation.

Question: Are you saying that all who condemn do so with their own defect (Kiddushin 70b), and if I have a negative feeling from someone, I am to blame?

Answer: Certainly. If you are feeling bad now, it is only because you are bad. There is nobody to blame but yourself.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/31/16

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Question: Most new students are very excited and enthusiastic about studying the wisdom of Kabbalah and the method, and see it as the salvation for their lives. All are distinguished by the fact that they were led to search for the meaning of life.  I came because of an inability to escape the oppressiveness of egoism.

I am perplexed and confused because I had a non-standard beginning than all the rest. They were inspired. They were all searching for the meaning of life. But I came because there was no way I could go on like this. Is my way normal?

Answer: There are many ways to reach the Creator, ways we don’t choose but through which the Creator conducts us. Feeling a need to be released from the ego is a very advanced feeling and indicates a person who is close to the goal!
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Question: Why are there so few pleasures in life if we were born to receive pleasure? Why doesn’t nature, the Creator, protect us from making mistakes that only lead to pain?

Answer: I would put it differently: all of your problems come from the Creator! He is the only one who manages, arranges, and organizes everything, so the afflictions also stem from Him.

Everything is meant only to guide you to look for real pleasure and to protect you on the way from receiving small, worthless pleasures. This is why the Creator constantly trips you on the way so that you will begin to choose between good and evil, so that you will begin to determine correctly what is worth enjoying in life, so that your life actually will be full of pleasure.

Therefore, you should take what happens to you very seriously. First, you should realize that everything comes from the Creator and only from Him, that He manages you at every given moment and controls both your mind and your feelings. In other words, you should not detach yourself from Him even for a moment and should be in a constant, inner dialog with Him.

Then, you must find out how you can get closer to a pleasure that is more and more correct. If it is the right pleasure, it will not disappear! You will be continuously in it, and it will keep on growing. You will experience an internal explosion of pleasure that will fill you.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/31/16

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Question: If the thought of creation is predetermined and we will all attain the Creator whether we like it or not, and the only free will we have is whether to accept His leadership or not, we may say that freewill is an illusion.

Answer: Although the thought of creation and a person’s ultimate state are predetermined, the way we accept the Creator’s leadership is very important because it is only by the right perception of the Creator’s attitude to a person that one can bring Him contentment.

First, being in our world, which is the lowest of all the worlds, and the circumstances we live in help a person reveal the right attitude to the Creator.

Second, the fact that the end is predetermined should not bother us since the Creator is concealed from us anyway. So it is actually when a person aspires to reach Him and tries to choose the way that the Creator would choose that he attains His thought in this motion, His mind, His attitude, His goal and His relationship.

A person needs this world because although he doesn’t feel the Creator, doesn’t see the ultimate goal, and doesn’t know how to advance toward it, he has the elements that motivate him to search and to try to act properly. It is in his search for the right motion forward that he begins to feel the Creator, to perceive Him, to absorb His attributes, His thoughts, and His feelings, and thus becomes equal to Him.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/31/16

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Question: At what moment can it be said that a person has begun to work on reaching a connection with the Creator?

Answer: It is from the moment that a person feels that the Creator has awakened him to connect with Him.

It begins from a state, which is called, as it is written, “You hid Your countenance and I became frightened” (Psalms 30:8). That is how the work of the Creator with a person begins. It is a state in which the Creator draws a person toward Him by arousing fear in him. The person must immediately invest effort at every moment to reveal the Creator within him until the person reaches a state in which he is ready for anything to get away from himself and seemingly doesn’t exist. The main thing is to feel the Creator and feel that he is giving Him contentment by this.
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