Question: What does the principle “To that which we do not attain, we do not give a name” mean?

Answer: We do not run ahead and claim to understand what we have not yet attained since it is still in the process of clarification. Any spiritual object or phenomenon is given a name according to its action, according to what it produces in the worlds. If we do not yet know all its consequences precisely, we cannot give it a true name that defines the very essence of the spiritual phenomenon.

Question: What is the name of the Creator? The Creator has many names. What does that mean?

Answer: The name of the Creator is the consequences we feel upon ourselves from His influence. Moreover, a name is a desire filled with light, and by the kind of light that is there, one can determine the name of the Creator. Thus, it turns out that I am the one who gives Him a name.

Comment: We often use names given by others. That is, someone gave the name, and other people use it.

My Response: If a name is given by a Kabbalist who has truly determined the designation of an object or phenomenon, then in studying the material we use it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 11/19/17

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Question: Many of your students use their material qualities for the dissemination of Kabbalah. They are told that first they must rise out of their egoistic attitude, but they don’t want to listen to anyone. What should be done about this?

Answer: In Kabbalah, as in our world, this is called the suffering of parents: “If youth only knew, if old age only could.” You can’t do anything with such a person except try to educate him as much as possible. But, in principle, everything depends on him.

You give the students what you can, you soften and accelerate their development, but nothing more than that. And then, gradually, they begin to absorb it.

To this day, I am nourished by what I went through with my teacher during twelve years of being by his side. Education is when you give a student the beginning of a connection with you, and then through this connection between souls—whether on the level of our world or from world to world, it doesn’t matter—his further development takes place.

We must look not at bodily interactions within the framework of this world, but at the fact that we exist in the system of souls, and everything happens there.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. If Youth Only Knew, If Old Age Only Could” 10/4/10

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Question: What is this condition that allows a creature to touch infinity?

Answer: Infinity is the infinite mutual influence of the Creator and creation.

We study that the Creator influences creation as He wants. He has a plan according to which He constantly transforms creation in order to fill it more and more with Himself.

In accordance with this, the creation is changing and becoming more and more like the Creator. This is how they affect each other.

Question: In this case, is shame still present in this combination, or is it transformed, or is it disappearing?

Answer: Shame is present. Wherever the creation feels removed from the Creator, it feels shame.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/19/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Does the feeling of shame in knowledge somehow contribute to our ascent in faith above reason?

Answer: Possibly yes. But this will not manifest now, but on the next, higher stages. We will feel shame for our desire, our states.

Question: And in this way, we will rise in faith above reason? Or do we still need some other parameters?

Answer: There is still much more that we need. So simply continue studying.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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The soul of Adam HaRishon was created by the upper force like a dim, barely glowing candle. This is a small state (VAK), and therefore, it is said about Adam that “he was born circumcised,” without the evil inclination, like an angel. An angel belongs to the still, vegetative, and animate levels.

Israel is a desire that has passed through the shattering in a step-by-step descent. Israel receives enormous egoism due to the fact that the light of Infinity enters its will to receive and inflates it.

A tiny black point in the white light expands to the full magnitude of the infinite light. It must attain the same power as the light—the Moon must shine exactly like the Sun.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/18, Writings of Baal HaSulam “600,000 Souls”

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Question: Is the root of corruption the very desire to receive itself or my dependence on the desire to receive, that is, the conscious or unconscious execution of its orders?

Answer: No, the desire to receive itself is the foundation for all the Klipot, for all the wrong actions and intentions.

Question: It is said that the Klipot create concealment. Does this mean they necessary after all?

Answer: Of course they are necessary. They show us in which cases our desires, intentions, and actions are incorrect. Therefore, without Klipot, we cannot move forward.

For every action of the light, there is an action of the Klipot.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/26/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: In addition to looking ahead, a person sometimes glances back. This gives rise to a certain piercing feeling called nostalgia. Is there a spiritual root to this feeling?

Answer: Yes, a person is drawn to the past first because it is familiar. And what is familiar is already perceived as pleasant and easy since it carries no element of threat. That is why we love the past. There are people who very much enjoy old, naive movies, books, and so on.

Personally, I believe that one must look forward so that the future will become familiar to us and will attract us with goodness and shine for us. One must not turn back; otherwise, we become like Lot’s wife, a pillar of salt. We must move only forward! By looking back at the past, we are as though preserving ourselves.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 1/13/19

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Question: In order to cling to the Creator with my desire, do I need to imagine Him as the best source of pleasure and the solution to all problems even in an egoistic way?

Answer: You need to imagine Him simply as the only source. Even what you are now thinking about, deciding, and feeling yourself as existing, this too comes from the Creator.

Question: And do evil deeds also come from the Creator: murders and wars?

Answer: Absolutely everything! And the fact that it seems to us that these are evil, harmful, terrible actions, is only because we have not corrected our perception of these actions.

If we evaluate them differently—in the quality of bestowal—then we will see them as bestowing, as good.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 1/12/2019

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Question: There is the concept “there is none else besides Him” and the concept “shame of the receiver.” How closely are they interconnected?

Answer: The desire to receive and the desire to bestow are very closely interconnected with each other and manifest in a person depending on one’s choice, on what one wishes to receive, in how one wants to feel oneself and the entire universe.

Then we will experience firsthand how this changes.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/2025, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: What’s wrong with the fact that egoism drives us to constant development? After all, it’s natural.

Answer: Yes, it is natural, but egoism does not let us enjoy life. It does not allow us to build a normal present or future.

Comment: But some people who use others do enjoy themselves.

Answer: No, that is not enjoyment. That is an unnatural state because you are only thinking about how to be above others.

If you take any person in the world, not a single one is truly happy. Even millionaires or very famous people are still far from happiness. And the greatest misfortune lies in the fact that, aside from the problems of this life that we are constantly running from, our entire existence is a race toward death. Therefore, all of one’s previous life is, in principle, absolutely meaningless.

Question: Millionaires are unhappy. And are Kabbalists happy and not running away from death?

Answer: Kabbalists have a completely different axis of values. The meaning of their life lies in the revelation of the Creator and in belonging to this eternal, perfect quality. It is precisely this that they strive for, and this pursuit practically has no end. But at every moment it gives the Kabbalist inexpressible, indescribable states of perfection.

Question: Are you saying that along the way he is also happy?

Answer: Yes, there is absolutely no end. You are simply happy. Of course, one could say: “Stop a moment, you are beautiful!” But in principle, in every moment of your history, of your movement, you are still in contact with the eternal, perfect force.

This is an entirely different perception that completely changes a person’s philosophy. Now he acts not out of fear, not out of deficiency, not out of the state of having to quickly achieve something, but out of a state of fulfillment, of perfection.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 6/3/2018

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