Question: What is practical Kabbalah?

Answer: Practical Kabbalah means that you begin to sense the Upper Light which comes through you to others.

When you attempt to connect with your friends, you feel how an egoistic field appears between you where the Light begins to act, how it enters, exits, and interacts with this field, it begins to transform and perform a restriction over it.

After that the Reflecting Light begins to work. You feel how it enters and exits you and what happens as a result. You feel it within yourself, inside yourself.

After all, there is nothing outside! Everything you see you feel within yourself. In spirituality nothing exists outside.
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From the Talk About Group and Dissemination 10/21/13

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Every day for the past 20 years I have given classes. Every week, I speak a minimum of ten hours recording television programs, giving short talks during meals, and managing a blog.

All of this is very dear to me because, with these materials, the revelation of the method that has come from Adam, Abraham, Moses, Rabbi Shimon, the Ari, Baal HaSulam, and Rabash continues. I am trying to explain and formulate it so that we can adapt it to this world and apply it properly to solve global problems.

In this matter, my students help me very much. They annoy me from two sides (both from the right line and from the left line) without letting me fly upward, and they constantly demand, “Feed us porridge; we don’t want anything more.” In other words, you oblige me to be involved quite seriously with revealing this method on a basic level. I want to take off, while you grab me by the legs like chicks that hold onto their mother and don’t let her fly, and this is good because we are processing and chewing that part of the wisdom of Kabbalah that talks about our world and about its departure to the first level.

I will not be able to explain the first spiritual level if we don’t go out to it with a particular mass. Only then will it be possible to explain it in a much more expanded and practical form than what the previous Kabbalists expressed in their writings because they didn’t have the possibility to descend as low as we have. They didn’t begin from this level. Rather, they ascended upward immediately like a rocket, whereas we are like a crop-duster, ascending with difficulty, descending and rising, descending and rising, all the time, until we finally take off.

Therefore, those materials that we are accumulating are very important. It is necessary to clean them up, correct and disseminate them, and people will use them, even though it is difficult to believe this in the meantime. However, a path that is difficult still awaits humanity. In what will it be involved in a few more years? In nothing! People will simply sit half asleep and look at a screen. It is not important if they will look at us with one eye open or listen with half an ear. This still will work on them. This will penetrate into them, and so gradually all that we have accumulated will enter into humanity.

Certainly, after us, there will be others who can explain our method better and inspire people. However, in any case, we must prepare it. Therefore, the processing of the material and its presentation in our archives and the proper archiving is very important work!
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/22/13

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Everything that we have in this world is necessary for our correction, for our work. There is nothing extra, nothing can be added or subtracted. Everything is precisely calibrated because it comes from the perfect vessel completely filled with the Light, from the design that contains the final goal, the ideal state. Only our participation is missing—our agreement to this ideal picture, a perfect state, created by the Creator.

But we have to agree from the darkness, from the opposite state, from doubts and clarifications, weighing all the arguments “for” and “against.” Only when a person has checked and weighed everything does he become convinced that the Creator is good and wishes him good; the Creator is above the creation, He is the first, He is the last, and “There is none else besides Him.” Then he gives the Creator all the holy names in gratitude for His every action and the form of control that has been revealed.

First of all, we need to study this picture disassembled: to understand and agree that it is broken and that our task is to assemble it, working together on our connection. The breaking happened in our relations, although we think that this world is broken.

The problems seem external to us: in the economy, ecology, ordinary human relations, at work, in the family, between spouses, parents and children, at all the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate nature. There is bedlam and confusion around. What we need is to imagine the system completely tied to the connection between people. Only by improving our relations with each other can we change the system at its all levels: the still, vegetative, animate, and moreover, on the human level, in social systems due to which the human being raised himself above the animal world.

Once the human being came from an ape, he began to develop public relations, technology, trade, and industry. But all of them are based only on the relations between people. This is the only place we can influence and change. As we improve our relations that bring us closer to the truth: to connection, unity, and mutual guarantee, all the remaining levels of this world will be connected correctly, will take their places, and the entire world will calm down and achieve prosperity.

For this work, it is not enough to represent the “righteous,” seemingly demanding nothing for oneself. There is nothing we can do; we were all born and grew up in egoism. There is no shame in this, we just need to recognize evil and correct it: to make an honest calculation with oneself, for whatever reason, we must change.

Everyone is engaged in internal correction at his degree, as it is said: “educate the child according to his way,” his readiness. But any person must somehow correct his nature. That is why we need to work in three lines. The left line is the evil in us that is increasingly revealed. The right line is the correction of this egoism by the force of bestowal that we attract from above due to our connection.

We build the third line from these two lines. The desire to enjoy of the left line, which is corrected by the Light that Reforms, turns into a spiritual vessel, called the soul. And in it, according to equivalence of form, the new integral system, new fulfillment, is revealed. This means that the Creator is revealed inside the created beings, inside the connection of souls. Shochen reigns in Schechina (Divinity). This is the work in the middle line.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/24/13

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Question: It is obvious that without the support of government authorities for the method of integral education and information it will be difficult to implement the program of human development effectively.

Answer: We must develop the method itself and not think about how to find support from the government. It is possible to disseminate and publicize our ideas among scientists, politicians, and the like, but in any case, nobody will listen to you. Don’t look for support from anyone!

Only when the integral method will be internally understood by you and will be expressed and formulated correctly, that is, when you become real experts, then the world will be ready to comprehend it. Then you will see with whom you must unite for dissemination and if you require government support or not. And it could be that you will need the masses and nobody will oppose this because it speaks about connection and unity.

But first and foremost, we must work upon ourselves, on our mistakes, and not burst forth as if we already have in our hands a ready method and we know how to correct the world and solve all the problems. This is not right. Now we need to develop ourselves and the method such that both we and the method will become a single whole. And then we will see that the world will be ready to accept it.

As long as we have not achieved unity among the main and strongest groups, as long as we have not developed a precise and clear method that includes elements from the wisdom of Kabbalah expressed in an appropriate human language, as long as we have not educated qualified and organized faculty for workshops and processed and practiced our method in all kinds of events with the general public, we won’t have something to present to a patron or to relate to some movement.

When we will be ready for this, then you will see how many different international organizations will turn to us. I think that for this we require a minimum of one more year of serious work with the general public and simultaneously processing our method. We must formulate it in the right way. But as long as we are not ready, nobody will listen to us; the Creator will not make this possible.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/21/13

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A segment from the Writings of Rabash, Article, “And You are Israel”: There is a difference between those who go to the work in order to bestow or to get a reward. For those who go in order to bestow, they begin their work anew every day, both in mind and in heart, and they cannot get support from yesterday, which has passed.

There is no choice, rather it is necessary to go over the fundamentals of the work every day, there are reasons that oblige them to go by the way of truth. And it is as if he must say to himself each and every day that it is worthwhile for him to be a servant of the Creator. And the body asks him every day when he begins to work, “Tell me the reasons due to which you obligate me to devote all of my powers for the sake of Heaven.” And if it asks, we are compelled to give answers otherwise it won’t want to work. So every day we go according to the same arguments, the same questions, and the same answers.

And at the time that the person is drawn to work in Torah and prayer and in good deeds and doesn’t remember the goal of the work, which is for the sake of bestowal, then the work is easier for him, for he is attracted by the majority. But at that time he is reminded of the goal, which is mind and heart, then “the world is dark for his sake,” because this is against the body, which is called narcissism. And then he has no answer to give the body except that law that the Creator wants it this way and they assure him that this is for his own good, that specifically through work with mind and heart, the person will merit to reach his perfection, for then even his enemies will be made to love him, and this what is called, “With all of your heart—with both of your inclinations, with the good inclination and with the evil inclination.”

It follows that we need to constantly prepare ourselves anew for work, every day. Yesterday is called the previous state, not the sunset and sunrise. It is established according to the inner states of the person; it could be that with one it will be “day” and with another, this will be “night”, and it could be that during a week, he passes through thousands of states of “day” and “night.” But we must prepare ourselves for this all the time: to create for ourselves an environment like this, exercises, a daily schedule, so that as quickly as possible we can “get up” and work at “night” as during the “day”.

All this depends on the environment. But the person must begin anew all the time: to value anew the goal of the work, the reasons, the supports, and thus advance.
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From the Preparation to the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/18/13

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Question: Can I know that the Light has “worked” on me? Can I measure its influence?

Answer: At this stage, certainly not. This will be possible only after you have vessels (Kelim), when you can work under restriction (Tzimtzum), with a screen (Masach) and Reflected Light (Ohr Hozer).

Then through working in a certain formation of desire, you will know this, for you will be corrected by the Light to such a degree that you can work with your desire to receive for the sake of bestowal. Then you will examine the desire that is revealed in you and will measure with it that part with which you will work for the sake of bestowal, in that you will understand the mechanism of what is happening.

That is also how the Kabbalists in The Book of Zohar talk about all kinds of happenings and events on the spiritual way, describing real observations within spiritual vessels.

But today you still don’t have the vessels, and you don’t have anything with which to measure. You can measure only on condition that you make a restriction on all of your desire to receive. And this is possible to do only through the Light that Reforms. If the Light comes and illuminates you, then you feel a strong enthusiasm, elation, which makes it possible for you to make a restriction, and after that to make a clarification within your desires, to sort them out, to extract the desires with which it is possible to work.

Thus, you become familiar with the inner structure of the HaVaYaH of your Kelim; you see how you can arrange them and direct them towards one goal, on all four levels of thickness (Aviut) to adherence with the Creator. Work like this truly will make it possible for you to measure the Light in your Kelim.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: Suppose that a particular project begins, everyone is included in it, and suddenly a split happens in a group. But an agreement with an external organization has already been signed and we must cancel it. What do we do?

Answer: If you have signed an agreement to give a course in integral education to some external organization and then you violate this agreement, then you are inserting an immense disturbance into our common collective enterprise! You cannot imagine how much you have introduced separation between you through this; you have not only shattered your own group, but also the world group!

You must be more responsible! You should know that you are not just rejecting something small, but you are disturbing the activities of a very large body of which you have become a part! And if you don’t function as an organ within this body, you cause damage to the entire body that is waiting for its recovery and healing. Therefore in particular this is not only saying something about you but about the collective world group; you are causing it to fail!

Therefore if you have signed some agreement, you must maintain it at all costs.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/22/13

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Question: How is it possible to check that I am working specifically on spiritual adherence with the group and not on a materialistic psychological approach?

Answer: You must feel this in yourself according to getting closer to the group.

The yearning of the person for the center of the group in order to grasp the source of life within it signifies that he is correctly involved with external dissemination.

You often ask me: “How is it possible to check if we are disseminating correctly?” When you begin to yearn for the center of the group, this indicates that you are disseminating correctly on the outside.

Question: What does dissemination signify in spirituality?

Answer: Dissemination that is not egoistic is going out to the general public with the goal of connecting and uniting them, attracting them to the Creator, making for them that support, that base upon which the Creator is revealed.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/22/13

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Question: Your recommendations regarding integral education projects are expressed very clearly in writing, but what should we do if in practice they are not fulfilled in the same manner and not according to your recommendations?

Answer: The point is that as we grow the group goes through different states. This is what we often call childhood diseases. When a child develops he has to catch the childhood diseases because otherwise his body will not build up the special protective properties and will not be able to mobilize the inner system to resist the external environment.

We are under the harmful influence of the external environment all the time and our inner systems continuously work on that so as not to be influenced by its negative effect or to neutralize it somehow. This is how every living organism works.

For example, how much can a stone perceive from the outside? Very little, and therefore it retains the same form all the time. A plant gives and takes more, and an animal even more. A person perceives a great amount of information, a lot of psychological influences, and we have to respond to all that; otherwise, our body will not be able to hold on! This is how we stabilize ourselves.

So we go through childhood diseases: We do something right and something wrong, we express our opinion, we keep quiet, we shout, and we curse. Let people experience all that! We have to go through such states. As a result many people will leave and so gradually what has to be will be stabilized.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/22/13

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Question: Why does a person sometimes feel a shower of corporeal problems and blows hitting him? What is the reason? How can he overcome this through the connection in the group?

Answer: There are people who really feel they are under a barrage of corporeal, physical, or family problems. And there are those who go through everything easily. It depends on the structure of a person’s soul, on its orientation with regard to the other souls, and on what he has to correct.

The only thing we can do is to accept everything as essential for our advancement. If we do our best to engage in the study, in the center of the group, and in dissemination as we deal with the problems, we will overcome everything easily, although at first it seems very hard.

However, we must solve all the problems and under no circumstances try to ignore them.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/22/13

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