Question: After the generation that came out of Egypt died out and was replaced by the next one, Moses tells the new generation: “Remember Egypt.” But how can they remember it if they were never there?

Answer: There is no such thing as “they were never there.” After all, this is not about physical bodies but about spiritual states.

The Torah speaks of people who have gone through all the stages from Abraham, and in some sense even from Adam, to Egypt, and exited it with a great desire, with immense emptiness, with the “darkness of Egypt,” and now they feel that darkness as a desert.

The fact that they no longer care already indicates a correction: nothing grows here, fine; nothing gives fruit, fine. They are ready for anything, so long as they can rise above the Egyptian darkness, which evoked a negative attitude in them toward themselves and toward the Creator. Now they want to bring themselves to a state that even slightly resembles Him.

Therefore the state of the desert becomes desirable for them. Even if I have nothing, and I find myself in a state of complete emptiness, I am still glad of it compared to the state I was in before, where I enjoyed all sorts of egoistic acquisitions and felt at ease under Pharaoh’s rule.

Now it is the Creator who governs me. Although I do not see any fulfillment of my egoism in His governance, I perceive it as goodness. Even though I walk on hot sand without water, surrounded by snakes and scorpions, I rejoice in this desert because in it, the Creator rules over me. He goes before me and shows me the way, whether through a pillar of fire or a cloud.

Through the rejection of egoistic fulfillments, I feel that by rising above my ego, I am already following Him even into the desert.

This is the generation that must be born in the desert and enter the Land of Israel. That is, I have gone through all the inner stages from the Babylonian egoism that developed in the generations of the forefathers, then through the generation of Egypt, and later Mount Sinai and the desert. Now I approach the state called the “Land of Israel.” In doing so, I have built all these states within my egoistic desire.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/16/16

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Question: When Kabbalists communicate with each other, do they speak in an ordinary language or in some kind of incomprehensible language?

Answer: They may not say anything at all and connect via a shared screen. Why do they need this body if they can communicate with their souls, with a common screen between them?

Of course they can also talk to each other. In addition, they can communicate, and each limit oneself to a certain range and not open up to the other.

There is such an option and sometimes a need not to harm each other or to reveal themselves—all things happen despite everyone’s good intentions.

That is, there are a huge number of opportunities for Kabbalists to communicate: through books, through songs, through music. And they, as they internally construct these sensations and pictures, as they live in the material world and at the same time in the next dimension, they are in it in their senses, and thus they communicate, but only according to the law of similarity of form. This is the general, most global, most fundamental law of nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalists Say” 8/21/10

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Question: What is the desert that exists within a person?

Answer: The desert within a person is their egoistic desire that cannot be corrected immediately. One must come to this desert and try to dwell in it in order to eventually come out into a “land flowing with milk and honey.”

That is why our forefathers began with the desert. Abraham went into the desert, descended into Egypt, returned to Beer Sheva, and so on. Isaac and Jacob were connected with the desert their entire lives. Moses fled from Pharaoh’s house and met Jethro in the desert, and he traversed the desert.

Naturally, this refers more to spiritual actions than to corporeal ones. However, they also occurred in corporeality in accordance with the law that every spiritual force must at some point touch its corporeal branch and imprint the same sequence in the physical world.

Therefore we must come to understand what the desert is and how it can be transformed into a blooming, fruitful land, as it is written in the Torah. This does not depend on physically relocating, as in our world. In spirituality, a change of place means a change in one’s internal qualities.

“Place” in the spiritual sense is a person’s inner desire. If my inner desire is like a desert, then I dwell within it. And if my desire is like a seashore or a garden, then I live in a garden. Everything depends on how a person corrects their inner qualities. Based on this, one should understand what is described in the Torah.

The Torah describes the process that takes place within a person who transitions from the internal state of a desert full of scorpions and snakes to a flourishing land. After forty years of correction while wandering in the desert, we arrive at the land flowing with milk and honey.

Question: So does that mean the desert is bad?

Answer: The desert is not bad; it is the initial state from which we begin our development both internally and externally.
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From KabTV’s “New Life – 924,” 11/28/2017

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Question: It is interesting that when you are physically near someone, it is easier to associate yourself with them. But doing so through thought alone is much harder. How can we work through thought without slipping into mysticism or telepathy where people claim to sense each other at a distance?

Answer: People can feel one another and even think together. But this is not like Wolf Messing, who could supposedly read minds; that is simply an animalistic sense.

Anyone with enough training can develop such abilities, regardless of their internal qualities, whether good or evil. This is something many charmers and shamans are capable of. It is not difficult, and it can be developed in anyone.

But if we are talking not about reading thoughts, but about an inner connection between people, then that arises only through the quality of bestowal, which is above our egoism. This kind of connection through bestowal requires mutuality, reciprocity, love, and inclusion of one another. It is when a shared vessel is formed where all thoughts and feelings become common and merge together.

What is fascinating is that individuality is not lost in this process; it actually expands through others. It is as if I have absorbed you into my vessel, and you have absorbed me into yours, and so with everyone else. As a result, I exist within everyone, and everyone exists within me.

This is the principle of a healthy, properly functioning organism where every cell is integrated with all other parts and cells of the body; it gives itself to them and receives from them. Then each cell feels the entire body, becomes one with it, and feels eternity, infinity, and the boundlessness of everything within it, and not just the tiny, isolated part it would otherwise feel in a lifeless state, barely aware of itself.

That is why mutual inclusion through the quality of bestowal gives a person an entirely new level of existence, what we call spiritual life. It is the feeling of eternity, infinity, perfection, and boundlessness because ultimately you absorb into yourself countless other souls.

This is a unique state, and it is precisely what we must attain. It is not far off, and at first it depends only on our mutual concessions to one another. Later it deepens into a connection on the level of true internal adhesion.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalists Say” 8/21/10

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All of a person’s work at the beginning of the spiritual path lies in seeking the upper. The entire universe is structured such that there is only the upper and the lower, and nothing else. The vast world that seems to surround us, both the upper worlds and this world, is in fact nothing but our own inner desires, which only appear as external to us.

In reality only the upper and the lower exist, which  are a sequence of spiritual degrees that extend from above downward. These degrees or worlds do not exist independently; they are within us. As we develop, ever greater parts of our desire are revealed to us, which are filled with the perception of existence, and this is what we call our next degree.

That is, the entire spiritual ladder is inside a person who ascends it and thus increasingly feels, understands, and chooses.

So who are these two, the upper and the lower, the only ones that exist in all of reality? The upper is me in my next state to come. And the lower is me in my current state.

The upper, my future state, is where I am more similar to the Creator. All my states, from now onward until absolute perfection, are comprised of increasing similarity to the Creator, to the levels of a human being that resemble the higher.

Everything is always structured in ten Sefirot, a complete portion, a full transformation of my desires from one “complete” state to another (from Yechida to Yechida). This is the minimal full change within me called a degree.

The degree of the upper relative to the lower is like the Creator relative to creation. When I rise to that upper degree, meaning I become similar in qualities to the Creator, I become like Him, and that upper degree that is revealed to me at that moment is the Creator (Boreh), which means “come and see.” For I have risen there and now “see,” that is, I receive the light of Hochma into my spiritual vessels.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/27/2012, Writings of Rabash, Article 195

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Comment: You say that Kabbalists can communicate without words. In our world, communication usually happens through letters and sounds.

My Response: In the spiritual world, however, it happens through thoughts. Thought is the greatest, eternal, most faithful, and perfect force.

It has no limitations and spreads in all directions with infinite speed, anywhere, in any way, between worlds, between the living and the dead. Thought is everything.

Question: Can you communicate with Kabbalists of the past through thought?

Answer: Of course. It does not matter with whom. With my teacher, certainly, I still communicate with him; I still feel him.

After all, when he was physically near me, I sensed him, and that sensation remained within me.

So what difference does it make whether I saw him with my eyes or heard him with my ears?

What was inside me was his inner, not outer, image. It is the same now. That image remains within me—not a physical image, but his attitude toward the world, toward me, toward himself, toward the Creator—in other words, his spiritual image.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalists Say” 8/21/10

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Question: You say that even if a person does not voice their questions but simply writes them down, they are still releasing them into the system and will eventually receive answers. Is it important to voice the question, or is it enough to think it through and write it down?

Answer: Both are necessary: think it through, voice it, and write it down.

There are different levels, written or verbal self-expression. When it reaches the written level it is already serious, and if it can also reach the verbal level, then it is even more serious. This is how it is in spirituality. In corporeality, it is the opposite.

Comment: So first is the thought, then processing it.

My Response: Processing the thought in writing and then expressing it verbally.

Question: Does writing down questions strengthen the work of a student who studies Kabbalah, compared to just listening like in a movie theater?

Answer: Of course. That is why we hand out pencils, pens, and paper to the students during lessons. Please, sit and take notes.

I support everyone working like real students, then formulating their thoughts and writing a short report.
We want to create a simulator that will encourage people to study more.

Question: But does the information that arises during a lesson already carry a certain force? Meaning, if a person writes an article based on it, does it hold great force?

Answer: Of course it holds great force, because at the very least, several thousand people are present together during the lesson and are imbued with this information. This is a tremendous force in the world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Ask Questions” 8/20/10

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“The Day of the Creator” is a state of a person when they feel no lack of anything and are ready to remain in that state for their entire life and beyond under one condition: that they continuously have the desire to bestow to the Creator. And this is without any response, knowledge, or compensation; it is simply for the sake of doing something good for the Creator, even with no one knowing, not even the Creator Himself, that the person is making efforts for His sake.

The proof of this is the joy and the feeling of perfection. This means that the person is already at the end of correction, because they want nothing else but this. Such a state is called the Day of the Creator. Any person, wherever they may be, can imagine this for themselves and constantly strive toward it. Otherwise, it would not be called a day or perfection.
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From a Conversation on the Topic “Faith Above Reason”

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Comment: You said that when you traveled with RABASH to Tiberias, there were moments when you did not understand anything and hated yourself.

My Response: Yes, of course there are such states.

During the long evenings in Tiberias, I would sit on the open terrace, smoke a pack of cigarettes, think, and not know what to do. I could not imagine any possibility of taking even a small step: “How could I? Look who I am with! The only great Kabbalist in the world! And I am beside him, alone, right now! What can I ask, what can I talk about, what can I absorb from him?”

But after such hours of questioning, searching, and self-torment, a true question, a true desire began to awaken. All of this is necessary preparation for each of us and for the whole group.

Question: What was the main topic of your conversations with Rabash? What did you talk about with him? You could not have spoken only about Partzufim and Sefirot all the time.

Answer: We talked about that too. I asked many questions about the general development of the system of creation, which greatly interested me.

I wanted to form a clear inner structure for myself, even if not developed in minute detail, because there are so many details and not enough inner energy for all of it. Frankly speaking, detailed research did not interest me much because it is meaningful only when you feel it with your senses.

But overall, the very structure of the universe seemed incredibly enticing to me: the beginning of creation, the end of creation, the entire sequential cause-and-effect, purposeful, inevitable, step-by-step process, the forces acting at each stage, the necessity of every action, and so on.

That is, nature itself, its unified, natural law passing through from the upper worlds, through our world, and back to the upper worlds—how could that not be interesting?

Back then, I discovered this system for myself as if molding it within me. It helped me, first, to understand many Kabbalistic texts, and second, everything else that I later revealed.

The attainment of reality, the forces operating at our level between it and the upper world, the interaction of man with nature, the development of languages, the development of history—all of this gradually assembled itself for me into a single picture.

It is precisely with this picture, based on the spiritual model of the worlds’ development, that I went through my entire life. I formed it within myself by the age of thirty-five and afterward continually added new data to it from what I read, heard, and researched.

I always wanted to see the synthesis of all ideas, qualities, and manifestations. The picture of nature is one, unified, whole, eternal, perfect harmony: on one hand constant and unchanging and on the other, evolving before our eyes depending on the level of perception, on the worlds, on the degrees.

It is such a stunning, multilayered, multifaceted, multistage tapestry across many dimensions that gives a person a feeling of eternity, perfection, and attainment, and it fills him! That is just how I am built.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Next to Rabash” 8/14/10

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Question: How can we learn to correctly absorb our friends’ yearning for spirituality?

Answer: Try to unite with them so that their questions become your own and their desires and aspirations become yours. It is like a mother who absorbs her child’s desires until they become the central focus of her life, she lives for him.

Question: In principle, this kind of absorption happens even on a corporeal level when we get together for our meetings. When someone shares something with others, it is as if he is answering himself. Does it work on the level of thought where a person processes his ideas through someone else?

Answer: Of course, absolutely. That happens when a person starts to explain things to others or even just writes them down for himself without integrating with someone else.

Question: Is this why you claim that we need to internalize all the articles of your teacher Rabash?

Answer: That is something completely different. When you internalize the articles of Rabash, you connect with the author, that is, with a level that is far above your own.

Question: What happens when people read and discuss these articles together?

Answer: By studying the articles together, people also invest in each other. This creates a tremendous opportunity, a broad shared vessel in which they can grasp what Rabash was actually saying. After all, their small individual minds combine and are amplified many times over.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Rabash’s articles” 8/17/10

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