Question: How can we practically distinguish our points in the heart and unite them?

Answer: Practically, decide! Pull this point out of yourself! Get rid of everything else! Kick away your “I,” your body, all this outer shell! That is why it is called Klipa. Shed it like a snake sheds its skin.

Comment: You say this so easily, but I do not quite understand how to do it.

My Response: It is actually very simple! Really. Just separate it.

Can you imagine it conceptually? We always communicate using feelings, expressing something. Extract that point!

Once you lived without it, went about your business, existing like a normal animal. Then suddenly, a point appeared that pulls you beyond the animalistic level. Isolate it, separate it from your physical self, and connect it with other points.

It is designed from above for us to exist separately so that we can demand the Creator. In that way, we can define our need for Him, determine where He exists, and what He must do. We begin to recognize the attributes of this force and how it manifests in relation to us.

We do not know the Creator Himself. We can only perceive His actions and manifestations concerning us. We can do this specifically when we attempt to unite our points. These points are our desires for Him.

However, these desires must not be egoistic but directed toward bestowal. Therefore, if we try to unite above our physical existence, disregarding our bodies and this world, we will begin to demand Him for the sake of bestowal.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Properties of a Friend” 7/18/10

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Question: Can a person determine their mission? Not invent it, but clearly reveal it?

Answer: One must feel it on their own. I think that in this matter, one cannot listen to anyone, only to their own heart. Look into the most essential. What do you want to leave behind? How can you contribute to this great process that is unfolding with humanity, even with souls? That is, with humanity, not in our world, but in a more perfect space.

Question: Suppose you have students who come, study, and leave, and there are those who invest in certain processes. How can those who come to study find their function? Or is their function simply to study?

Answer: First of all, by studying Kabbalah, you simultaneously correct yourself and the world and bring other souls closer to the point where they too begin to reveal the upper world and the Creator. Studying Kabbalah is an activity in itself.

However, in principle, when a Kabbalist is involved in other everyday matters and interacts with the world, these activities still exert a positive influence on the world. Even at their workplace, no matter what they do or how they communicate with people, they still subconsciously carries out their line, their positive influence on the world.

Question: So it does not have to be an explicit effort to invest in dissemination, to make a loud impact on the world?

Answer: No, if it is given, it is given; if not, then not. It is simply everyone’s mission. I am not to blame for being the way I am. If you were to ask me, “What would you like to do?” perhaps I would be more involved in development, writing, and creating another methodology. Not just another, but a less practical area.

I understand that what I have been given is the most suitable for me; it is just that I do not fully realize it yet. But I am drawn less to the practical actions I engage in (working with a group of students, television, books, and everything else) and more toward deeper, internal study of the material.

But probably the needs of the world and the times push me toward practical actions. Even Rabash told me this.

So there is nothing to be done. Everyone has their own mission, and it must be fulfilled. I do not see anything grand in my mission. I do not think it is visible in me that I take pride in it or value myself for what I do. There is no such thing in Kabbalah, such things are removed immediately.

The fact is that the entire space is filled only by the Creator; while you dissolve into Him, your “I” is not yours. A Kabbalist can only say that they are fulfilling the Creator’s will, and that is all. He does not have his own desire, they do not have themselves because their desire already aligns with the Creator’s desire.

Question: You said that you are drawn to deeper, internal study of the material. What do you mean?

Answer: Personally, I would study Kabbalistic material much more deeply. I do not know if I could describe it the way Baal HaSulam did in The Study of the Ten Sefirot or in his articles. Quite possibly, I could not. But I am drawn to deeper analysis, to revealing connections, not revealing them to the world, but first and foremost to myself. It is difficult for me to express this.

For example, to present the methodology the way Rabbi Shimon did in The Book of Zohar, but to describe it in a way that is closer to us, to people—more emotionally, more psychologically.

Unfortunately, due to lack of time, I cannot engage in this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Mission of a Person” 7/14/10

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Question: People can simply go crazy when playing a game because they become so engrossed in the game that they can go for days without tearing themselves away from it. This is especially true for the current generation that practically lives on the Internet.

How can we create the same level of engagement in spiritual development? Not by forcing oneself, but by presenting it as a delicious candy that draws you inward.

Answer: Enter spiritual development and you will see that it is the most captivating game. It is the game of life, a game with the Creator! You can create it!

Any game is a weak imitation of what Kabbalah offers you: the ability to create, to change, and to shape things yourself. That is why we get so absorbed in games. It is because they contain an act of creation, even destruction, it does not matter. But it is creation; you are making something new. You are, in a way, the master, you have power in your hands, choice, tension, joy, resolution, a kind of ecstasy.

All of these are small fragments of the process that Kabbalah grants you when you gain the ability to change worlds within yourself. It is a game that no computer can ever compare to!

I sit in front of the text of The Book of Zohar from which you have just distracted me, and I am waiting for only one thing—for you to get tired of talking to me so I can return to it. And so it is for 20 hours a day.

I take short breaks to walk, eat, do something when necessary just to sustain myself. But all the rest of the time, I am ready to be in it. It is such a fascinating process, an enchanting and unexpected path that nothing else can replace!

In my youth, I lived in Leningrad and was like any other student: girls, Preference (a card game), parties, songs, and trips. I voluntarily worked as a sound engineer for a rock band called Nomads. Once we even won first place in our city.

But spiritual attainment cannot be compared to anything! In a computer game, you are given more possibilities than in regular, real life. You have to go somewhere, crawl, do something. In the end, it is all difficult and quite time-consuming before you achieve something.

This is not for our egoism, which wants everything right now, immediately, as soon as possible, much brighter, and in a controlled manner. That is why it has all shifted into the virtual computer world.

But here, in the spiritual world, everything is billions of times brighter. And it is not a game, not an illusion—turn off the computer, and it is gone. The virtual world was created by someone either to make money from it or because they themselves enjoy playing.

But in spirituality, you are not playing. You are building, creating! You were made for that! This is the most natural fulfillment, the most vivid experience you can have! It cannot be compared to anything at all. Our world, with all its lures? I is just…

That is why, after all the obsessions with computers, the next level is only Kabbalah, only the introduction of a person into the real spiritual world. Otherwise, they will drown in an unreal, virtual world, and they will need nothing but a narcotic pill to immerse themselves inside their computer, and that is it. And that is exactly how it will be—through the realization of evil, through recognition of the deceit of those pursuits.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. A Game at the Cost of Life” 7/29/10

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Question: We constantly try to connect. Everyone is exhausted and does not know how to. And you say: “It is simple, guys! What is the problem? Just connect, and that is it.”

Answer: The issue is that a person cannot isolate that inner point within oneself, one’s spiritual “I,” the point in the heart, which is a part of the Creator from above and exists within one. Otherwise, they would not be here.

Our circle consists of chosen individuals from all over the world who feel drawn to attaining the Creator and the essence of life.

I am trying to elevate them so they can extract this point, separate it from their corporeal shell and everything else, and connect it with the points of their friends. Only then will they be able to form a spiritual vessel.

As they attempt to connect their points, they will realize they cannot do it on their own and will be compelled to call upon the upper force to connect them. Then they will feel the upper force, the Creator within themselves, in the measure of their connection with one another and with Him. This state is already spiritual.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Properties of a Friend” 7/18/10

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There is no need to strive to correct the world, that is, to correct ourselves; we only need to study the actions that the upper light performs on us. As it was said by the Creator to Moses: “Let’s go to Pharaoh!”

Moses is small and scared; this quality in a person is very weak. And against him stands a huge monster—all of creation, the whole world, in whose hands is all the power, all the food, all the oxygen.

I get all this from Pharaoh, this is my whole reality! And some small property rises up against it, a tiny desire (who is he anyway?) that wants to escape and get out from under this power and start living in another world!

We hardly feel such an opportunity to rise up and get out of our egoism. We do not know where to go at all, where to escape from this Egyptian slavery!

But the Creator tells us: “Let’s go to Pharaoh”—together! And Moses, like a little child, takes the adult by the hand, and they walk together.

All that is needed from the human side is consent, a request, a demand, to the Creator for help. He does not have to fight the evil himself.

But people do not understand this and think they can do something themselves. He is a fool who thinks he is a hero.

This is where all religions and supposedly “spiritual” techniques stumble, because the left side (egoistic desires) is given to us precisely in order to adhere to the right; after all, this is the whole purpose.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/10, The Zohar “Shmini”

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Achieving unity with the Creator is only possible by emerging from exile. Exile is the feeling of being disconnected from the Creator, a lack of unity.

But how can I know what unity is in order to feel that I am not in it now, to yearn for it, to cry, and to desire nothing else but to leave this state?

After all, my current state does not seem so bad to me. I do feel a certain lack of fulfillment in life, but I cannot say that I suffer greatly because of it. This is not what we call exile.

Exile is the state opposite to unity; it is when I suffer only from its absence and feel this lack as unbearable pain, piercing me to my very core. But how can I reach such an acute need?

This is the same question Abraham asked: “How can I be sure that my descendants will inherit the land of Israel?” The word “land” (Eretz) means desire (Ratzon). So, how can I attain such a desire that will be entirely directed toward bestowal?

After all, all my desires are aimed at egoistic reception, and there is only one small point in my heart called “Abraham,” which is the beginning of a corrected desire from which a new approach is born, a question. And the Creator answers him: “Do not worry, I will send you into exile.”

And then Abraham is at peace, because he understands that no matter what happens, he will inevitably come to such suffering from the lack of unity with the Creator that from it he will inevitably reach unity. That is, a person realizes that he has no choice; he must find the desire, the need, for unity with the upper force.

For this, he has to fall under a foreign rule, one that is opposite to the Creator. This power will gradually reveal itself to him, step by step, as something completely unbearable. At first, it will even seem good to him, not burdensome at all, like a light cobweb.

He will enter Egypt and begin working for his egoism because a famine has begun in the land of Israel (in his desires for the Creator). Joseph descends into Egypt, and then the entire house of Jacob follows—meaning the whole person, with all his desires and intentions, both good and bad, sinks into his egoism and feels comfortable in it!

This is no longer just a minor ego but the complete opposite of unity with the Creator, of spirituality, of bestowal and love.

It all begins with the hatred that flared up among the brothers and the selling of Joseph into slavery. Thus, all of a person’s desires begin to develop within his egoism, and he does not yet feel that this is bad. He is doing well—these are the seven years of abundance.

Even if I feel that I am somehow opposite to the Creator and find myself in the egoistic Egypt, I do not feel bad there at all.

And so, we naturally develop until we begin to build the cities of Pithom and Raamses. For Pharaoh, for our egoism, these cities symbolize a good life. But for our point in the heart that starts to awaken, this life becomes bitter.

I feel that these are miserable and wretched cities. I have nothing in them, only emptiness. Even if I derive some pleasure from this life, I later bitterly regret it.

Thus, I come to cry out over my meaningless existence.

I see that I am trapped in a mindset where I try to measure everything with my intellect and egoistic feeling, that is, with the impure force (Klipa), consisting of knowledge (in the mind) and reception (in the body).

I feel how it is destroying me and constantly demanding confirmation from reason that I am winning, succeeding, not failing, progressing, and that I am always gaining something! Such is the demand of my egoism.

But on the other hand, I begin to realize that this egoistic approach is simply burying me in Egypt, and I do not want to remain there. This was not the purpose of my life.

And then I begin to search for a way to break free from the rule of this Pharaoh—knowledge and reception. I seek new concepts that are above this.

Gradually, I discover that there is a quality called Israel (Yashar-Kel, straight to the Creator), which is higher than knowledge and sensation in my desire for pleasure, higher than beneficial fulfillment and egoistic reasoning.

Above this there is another state, whose “head” is called faith and whose “body” is bestowal.
This is the soul, which differs from the egoistic body based on knowledge and reception.

Thus, as a result of my work, and precisely thanks to the Pharaoh who is being revealed to me, I begin to value and elevate the desires for bestowal above the desires for reception and to prefer faith over reason.
And as soon as I begin to work in this way, an even stronger rule of Pharaoh is revealed within me.

Previously, I did not know that he was such a cruel ruler from whom I needed to flee. Moses (within me) flees from Pharaoh to the land of Midian and must hide there for 40 years, meaning that in a person, the power of bestowal grows against Pharaoh.

It is still small, unable to overcome him, but the person already understands that he must somehow fight the egoism that brings him harm.

Here he realizes that he needs the help of the Creator, and the Egyptian plagues begin.

He feels how the blows strike the Pharaoh, and through them, his Moses becomes separated from him, preparing to lead the entire nation, all the desires.

Thus, the Creator’s promise is fulfilled: that the descendants of Abraham will be exiled in a foreign land, oppressed for 400 years and will emerge from there with great wealth.

This is the very desire that has grown in Egypt thanks to Pharaoh through all this struggle.

We do not take Pharaoh himself out of Egypt, but we take from him those desires for which we have fought, and we bring them out by faith above reason.

It is in these desires that we have felt exile (Galut)—and in them, we wish to experience redemption (Geula), the revelation of the Creator.

All our work in Egypt is to discern the difference between the magnificent cities built for Pharaoh and their misery for our desire to break free from him—to distinguish Pharaoh as the “help against you,” and the helper with whom you go to Pharaoh—that is, the Creator.

You see how they stand opposite each other while the person stands in between and asks the Creator to resolve each state.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/11/11, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And They Built Arei Miskenot”

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Question: If the past does not exist, why do I see old buildings?

Answer: All of this exists within you. If you were not here, then none of it would exist.

Comment: If I tell someone: “This is all inside me. You are a part of me,” they will think I am crazy.

My Response: That is natural. Even if you explain that physicists or philosophers propose similar theories, they will still say the same thing. What Kabbalah speaks about closely resembles some philosophical or physical theories. There is nothing unusual about it.

Understand that there is no way around it. What “seems” to a person or not does not matter. There is reality, and that is what we are discussing. Our corporeal reality exists only relative to us. If our qualities change, reality will change as well.

Scientists already write that time exists as an objective reality only relative to us. There is nothing truly objective. Everything is relative to us. Physicists directly speak about time flowing forward, backward, in any direction, or not existing at all. If time does not exist, then what is left? That means nothing exists at all.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Reality of Perception” 7/20/10

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Comment: Once when you were talking about bestowal you said that reception does not exist.

My Response: Yes, indeed, reception does not exist.

It exists only in our imagination, in our fantasy. Therefore, our entire world is imaginary, unreal, because there is no such force or property as “reception.” It manifests itself as if in a state of loss of consciousness.

In other words, to the extent that we are in a loss of awareness of true existence, to that extent we exist as if in a dream, in an unconscious state in which we imagine our life in reception, in accumulation.

It is only our clouded consciousness that represents everything to us in this way. It is as if you are asleep, and this world is depicted to you in your dream.

As it is said in the Psalms that when a person returns to connection with the Creator, he reveals that he was asleep.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Loss of Consciousness” 7/22/10

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Comment: When you describe spiritual images, you say that at present we perceive ourselves in a completely different way. But when you explain this, you still try to put it in some form.

Answer: Otherwise, how would I be able to reproduce it?

Question: Suppose I asked you how spirituality can be conveyed? In a visual sense, this is difficult to do. But maybe there are some allegories or categories?

Answer: I convey it with words such as, for example, “field.”

Question: By “field,” do you mean waves, vibrations in the air?

Answer: No, it is a kind of a space filled with something, and you move within it. Depending on where you are in this space, you detect its new properties each time.

And then you begin to understand that this happens not because you are moving and thus detect its properties, but because these movements are, in principle, your own, while the field is constant, and there is nothing else in it but love.

Question: But this field is infinite. And I am like an element that can move within it?

Answer: Yes, some kind of finite element, a detector.

Question: But how can you embrace the entire field while being a small element?

Answer: Even if you are very small, when you acquire the same quality of love as the field, then there will be no barrier between you, and you will feel yourself fully sensing it, comprehending it, merging with it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Spiritual images” 7/2/10

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Comment: You claim that everything that was in the past, all of history, everything we see, as if never existed. But I look at old ruins and see that they seem so real that I cannot say they never existed.

My Response: Everything is genuine indeed! But all of this is within your awareness! This is what “genuine in my mind” and “genuine in my sensation” mean.

Question: But did it exist?

Answer: There is no such thing as “it existed or not.” Time does not exist at all. There is an objective reality given to us in our sensations. It turns out that reality is given to us in our sensations. Marxists put it correctly. No matter how you look at it, they were truly right. And Kabbalah supports this view. Moreover, it has been saying this for thousands of years!

Question: How should I relate to this? Why are people so fascinated by history, historical films, and historical events?

Answer: Because it all seems to be about us! People don’t really want to know about the present because it is very limited. It is always concerned more about the past or the future. The present is just a moment. Life is a moment between the past and the future. Therefore, we exist between the past and the future, and we’re interested in it.

The past is interesting because it defines the future. The past itself is interesting in the future: “Where am I from? Why me? Who am I?” This all speaks about me personally, about things I do not know because it seems I was not there then. But all of it relates to me.

In other words, if I want to understand something about myself today, I can better understand it if I knew where I came from, what defines me, who made me, who has been nurturing me for thousands of years, where, and so on. Therefore, people are interested, society is interested, every country is interested in its past, either to hide it or to reveal it (which is already politics).

The future is also unknown to anyone. Naturally, it is interesting. The present is transient. It consists of the past and the future.

But Kabbalah does not speak of time at all. It claims that time itself does not exist, and there is only the past and the future, which also do not exist just like the present. That is, I feel all of this.

But objectively, outside of me, there is no time, no sensations, no events. There is only one reality—the creation completely filled by the Creator. And this creation gradually undergoes internal changes in the revelation of the Creator.

Gradual revelation of the Creator to His creation is the course of all that exists. Moreover, this gradual revelation occurs within the creation and nowhere else.

It is divided into several stages. One of the stages is the unconscious revelation of the Creator when a a peron appears and unconsciously develops on the earth.

The next stage is when in our time, a person begins to work with this and can consciously reveal the Creator. He is pushed to this by his state, and Kabbalah helps him in this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Past Does Not Exist” 7/21/10

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