This means that we must cling and connect to one another, and to close into one another in the heart of each one so we become one bundle to work the Creator wholeheartedly (Maor vaShemesh, “Ki Tetze”).

Question: How do we permeate each other? Or is it my inner work, straight to the Creator in working with my desires?

Answer: It is the inner work of everyone with their desires to connect with others in the Creator. To close into one another in everyone’s heart is a meeting of desires.

Question: The state of “to close into one another” seems so desirable, so inviting. Is the correct result to feel a friend’s keen desire for the Creator? Or is it already a revelation that the Creator fills his desire?

Answer: To feel that the Creator fills all your friends with His inner light.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/24/2025, “Rosh HaShanah“

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Question: How should we correctly accept the New Year, new changes, new lights in order to bring contentment to the Creator?

Answer: We must ask the Creator for such a connection between us that we feel one another in the heart so that we all have one heart. Then we will rise from our current state.

Question: When the light influences us, it creates a feeling of complete adhesion.

But when the euphoria passes, it is as if someone pushes us from behind and demands that we move forward. After several stages like that, habit sets in, and we are overcome with laziness and unwillingness to advance. What is this connected to?

Answer: This is because you are being pushed, but you are not responding. The whole ten must respond more strongly.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/24/2025, “Rosh HaShanah“

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Question: Why is spiritual attainment not imaginary, like an illusion of this world? How do we distinguish the types of attainments?

Answer: Spiritual attainment is not a fictional imagination or anything else we imagine because it arises from a person’s effort to rise above himself.

This happens when I act against my nature, against my essence, and in this intention and effort, I rise above myself and acquire the property of love and bestowal in which I feel a new world. There one finds properties opposite to this world, and begins to find himself inverted, altered.

Question: Why did Kabbalists not write books that would simply and beautifully describe the spiritual world?

Answer: You would not have understood it anyway. How would they portray the spiritual world, in which words? In the words of our world? Then you would imagine our world.

Everything that could be said about the upper world is said in the Torah, in the Talmud, in all the holy books, but allegorically, because only The Study of the Ten Sefirot can describe it directly. It outlines pure mechanics: the rise and descent of various screens, the restriction placed on desires, the departure and arrival of light, and so on. It is impossible to tell what feelings lie behind this, because we do not yet have an adequate perception of these feelings.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 3/19/17

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Question: Everyone has their own abilities: someone is a designer, someone is an artist, someone else writes well. How do you discover these qualities in yourself?

Answer: If you work properly on developing the quality of giving, inclusion in others, which will help you develop a sense of absolutely complete interaction with the whole world, then you will see very clear tips on how to realize your abilities. They will definitely open up in you, and exactly in the way that you can use them to promote yourself.

For example, I teach, draw, write, and depict in a certain way; this is how I express myself. You express yourself in a different way, and someone else expresses themselves in a different way.

Question: But will it complement the overall system of understanding?

Answer: If it comes from the soul, it will definitely complement it, since all souls are a common system. Therefore, the more you express yourself through your soul, the more you are an integral part of the common soul, Adam.

Question: Does an outside person feel it more when it comes from the general system?

Answer: Yes. Therefore, in accordance with a person’s ability to work on himself in an anti-egoistic way, it is necessary to let him develop, that is, to manifest himself in art, literature, painting or in cinema, photography, video, even in leadership; this is also a type of creative activity. But at the same time, you need to make sure that it is not at the level of selfishness, but above it.

Question: How can you determine this?

Answer: It depends on what is important to a person in the first place: to move forward or develop in art, to move up or to lead.

Comment: But sometimes it can overwhelm a person so much that he thinks he’s doing it for a purpose…

My Response: There is an environment for this, a leader who can protect him and not let him fall.

Comment: In Kabbalah, a person, in principle, must work against his will, take on some kind of work that he does through force. But in this case, it just won’t work. Let’s say a person has the ability to write, but they give him something to chop in the kitchen.

My Response: He’s going to write anyway, and he’s not going anywhere. He still has to express himself. The soul is eternal and will break through itself. Life is the greatest force that will always find some kind of loophole and manifest itself.

Comment: You know how strong a person’s selfishness can be.…

My Response: No! It doesn’t matter! All the same, development and evolution are moving toward the fact that the soul will manifest above the body, because this is the highest source. Our body is just a small animal part. This gradually manifests itself over the course of evolution. Animals don’t evolve, but humans do.

The “man in us” grows from generation to generation and gradually comes to the point where his human part grows out of this animal man more and more. And now it is undergoing a revolutionary transformation, a leap. A spiritual component begins to manifest itself in us, which is higher than this life. On the one hand, this life becomes visible as a global catastrophe, and at the same time we have the opportunity to reveal the spiritual part of ourselves. This is our generation.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Creativity in Kabbalah” 10/5/10

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Question: It is said that a person who judges must engage in exalting the Creator, and then the Creator will give him gifts in which he will not feel the bread of shame. How can one conduct judgment while exalting the Creator?

Answer: The most important thing is that by exalting the Creator, you influence His revelation to all creation.

Question: How can one receive a gift from the Creator not for the sake of the gift itself but because of the greatness of the Creator, so that this is the focus?

Answer: Ask, there is nothing else to do. Ask.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/2025, “Rosh HaShanah“

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Question: How can I avoid falling into the illusion that I am the judge instead of the Creator?

Answer: This happens after certain steps, when a person, through action, wants to break through to the right decision, see the goal, and aim toward it correctly. Then he reveals that everything in the world is done for him.

Question: How can I be sure that I am allowing the Creator to work on me?

Answer: One must reduce one’s egoism as much as possible, and then you will feel to what you are inclined. That will be the right direction.

Question: What allows judgment to turn into a force of goodness and love?

Answer: Your decision, when you wish it to be so.

Question: How should we ask for confidence in knowledge if we must advance in faith above reason?

Answer: Your request to attain faith above reason is itself your ascent above yourself.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/2025, “Rosh HaShanah“

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Everything that is happening to us now is organized by the upper force. Our job is to begin to feel that the Creator has made room for us to fill this free space with His properties, forces, intentions, and actions. This is called revealing the Creator in the reality that we find ourselves in.

There are no distant otherworldly worlds. We are in one reality called “the world”—our desire. In this desire, we need to reveal the properties of the Creator. All of this reality is our desire that we need to correct, and then the world will be filled with the properties of the Creator. This is how we reveal Him: “by His actions we will know Him” inside our desire, and not somewhere outside.

That is, we need to understand that everything that I feel in my reality happens only in my desire. It seems to me that there is me and this world, but in fact, everything happens inside desire. The whole question is how to change and correct your desire so that it is filled with the presence of the Creator.

Question: What does it mean to fill reality with the presence of the Creator?

Answer: The whole of reality, except for one point where I feel my “I,” is the Creator. There is nothing else. There is none else besides Him, and we are inside the upper force. The question is, how do we reveal this? This is a matter of perception (revelation) of reality.

The revelation of the upper force begins with the fact that we find ourselves in concealment. Our point is located in the AHP of the upper degree (in its lower rear part).

The whole world is the AHP of the upper, its reverse side, which has been emptied of all light, and therefore we do not feel the presence of the Creator in the world. But if we restrict ourselves relative to this world, we become a fetus in the mother’s womb, and the upper will begin to work on us and raise us.

To restrict oneself means, instead of your current perception of the world, to feel the Creator and the reverse side of the upper degree. This will change my whole behavior. After all, how would I behave if I knew I was in the upper? I would probably completely annul myself before Him; the only problem is that I do not feel Him.

But why did the upper restrict Himself and not let me feel Him? He wants to give me freedom of choice, so that without feeling the Creator, I behave as if He fills me! That is, I do not act like a child who is home alone, but behave well and correctly, as if my parents are next to me.

Question: What does it mean to fill reality with the properties of the Creator?

Answer: This means being as close as possible to the quality of bestowal. The very first action required of us egoists is restriction. I restrict my ego, try to be like the upper all the time, and behave as if He fills the whole world.

This is called: “No one will help me but myself.” I do not feel the upper force, but I act as if it is next to me. I do not act like a child left to my own devices, but as if my parents were home. It turns out that I need to build a spiritual program within myself.

But I do not know how to do it, so I ask the upper, and He starts playing with me.
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From a Kabbalah Lesson on the topic “Perception of Reality,” 8/17/2017

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Question: We must raise MAN (prayer). Is this an action in desire?

Answer: MAN means that I am asking for the power of bestowal. From Malchut I turn to Bina and ask from Bina for the ability to bestow.

But I have to reach such a state that I am filled with this prayer (MAN), and this is enough for me. I feel joy that I am able to raise MAN.

How is this state described in the Torah? You go out into the light of day. Day for you is when you have nothing; you walk in the desert, and search for MAN, the desire for bestowal, and when you find it, it revives you, and it fills all your tastes. Everything you desire is in it.

But what is this taste? Where does it come from? What is this MAN? It comes to you from Bina, and then it is enough for you to have the very possibility of asking the Creator: “I have a connection with Him. I can ask Him. And I need nothing more.”

But do I not want to have a desire in which I will reveal the Creator? No. I am content even with the very aspiration toward Him. This, for me right now, is fulfillment. The connection with the Creator through the group fills me.

But what kind of connection is this? From where do you have anything? There is nothing. But can I turn to Him in this way? That is enough. This is called “walking in the desert,” acquiring the quality of “Hafetz Hesed” (desiring nothing for myself).

For in the desert you have nothing; you truly do not want anything for yourself. But this is the attainment of correction by the quality of bestowal, similarity to the Creator, and in this is your fulfillment.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 06/06/2010, “The Book of Zohar“

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We ourselves must awaken the Creator to give us the desire to give. It is not enough that we have a desire to receive because there must also be a positive desire from the giver to give us a new desire to give.

Even though above there is a general desire to do good to His creations, He still waits for our desire to awaken His desire.

In other words, if we are unable to evoke His desire, it is a sign that the desire on the part of the receiver is still incomplete. Hence, precisely by praying that there will be a will above, our desire is made to be a genuine desire, to be a fitting Kli [vessel] to receive the abundance (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 57, “Will Bring Him Closer to His Will“).

Constant appeal to the Creator from the ten will eventually lead to the fact that our request is genuine and will elicit an answer. The Creator is a law of nature. We need to reach a certain threshold of effort, then we will receive a new life from above, a new property—the property of bestowal.

We have not yet crossed this threshold, which means that we do not yet have this desire. We will not be able to use the quality of bestowal correctly, but would use it selfishly. The upper governance will in no way allow this.

Therefore the constant awakening of the Creator from the ten is a necessary condition for the genuine desire to emerge in the ten in the right magnitude and quality. Our success depends on this alone!
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From the 6^th Kabbalah Lesson of the Congress in Moldova, 9/7/2019

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Question: What is this state when you come to complete agreement with the Creator, with the teacher, with the greatness of your friends, and are focused on only one thing: constant prayer for your friends so that they will please the Creator?

Answer: This is a good state. Continue to develop it.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/21/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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