Question: You said that the Creator awakens a person according to their capabilities and readiness. Can a person increase these capabilities and readiness? If so, how is this done and by what means?

Answer: This is done by the Creator.

Question: When we speak about the system in Achishena (hastening), does it apply to an individual, a ten, our group, or the entire world? How do we approach this system that we want to reveal within ourselves and thank the Creator for it? Where does it become revealed?

Answer: This system is revealed within each person, in their desire to receive and between the forces of the soul and the forces of the heart. And there, one must see to what extent he or she exists within their own forces.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/15/25, “Reaching Lishma through Envy”

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A person is like a seed: until it feels contact with the soil, it remains lifeless. Baal HaSulam gives this example in his writings. As soon as you plant a seed in the soil and it finds contact with it—that is, with the environment, with the group—everything begins. It starts to grow.

Internal forces awaken within it, forces that the seed itself was previously unaware of. It never even considered that it could grow and become a parent. After all, it is merely a consequence of a previous stage: someone created it, someone bore it, someone cultivated it.

Let’s say a grain of wheat falls from a stalk of wheat into the ground and begins to sprout—meaning it starts an entirely new path, a new cycle of life. When does this cycle begin? When contact occurs with the surrounding environment, the one suitable for your development, for the Reshimo within you.

Contact with the environment activates your Reshimo, which in turn triggers secondary influences on you: air, warmth, sunlight, and so on.

But to establish contact with the environment, you must, for instance, enter the soil in order to realize that you are within it. You cannot insert yourself into it, something places you there, but you must find contact with it, meaning connection with the group. And then everything will move forward.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Virtual Community, Part 2” 5/16/10

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When engaging in virtual space, you interact with a group that seems to exist outside of you. But in reality, it is your personal Kli, your personal desires, your soul. Because apart from the environment, apart from the entire world, which is actually this very domain of your soul, there is only the point in the heart, only this spiritual gene (Reshimo).

Everything else in the world apart from this point that exists outside of it is what you currently perceive as yourself; this is your informational data.

Thus our entire world is intentionally presented to us as something external and even opposed to us so that by initially relating to it egoistically, we gradually begin to transform it into ourselves, to draw it in, to absorb it in an altruistic way, wanting to give to it. In other words, I can connect with the world to the extent that I am ready to give to it, to belong to it, to love it.

The same applies to the group. I deliberately create a virtual force composed of many forces, influences, and qualities outside of me, which then begins to actively work in relation to me.

That is, the entire world is now embedded in this simulator, in this testing ground, where I begin to refine myself through all the texts, all the articles, and all the Kabbalistic principles in relation to the group or the world. Over time, the entire world will enter this simulator. The point is that in the end, we will build the society of the future within a virtual space.

This means that I am now starting to program myself for spiritual assent. This is precisely what Kabbalah demands. It is our most real work, and it is not detached from life. Here, I study my own qualities; I act as my own inner psychologist. Baal HaSulam always endorsed corporeal psychology.

The group stimulates me. On the other hand, while I may be able to program myself to some extent at certain stages or participate in shaping my own steps by selecting different options, there is still a division of psychologists, ideologists, and programmers who continuously develop this system. And in this process, I too can actively take part.

I see in this collective action, in this game, a very clear realization of our movement toward the Creator because at the very least, you have something tangible in your hands: your relationship with the group and the group’s relationship with you. Each of us perceives our environment as something external, and together we deliberate on how to awaken one another.

This is a system that stands between the group and each of us. And we will be the ones to program our relationships with the group. We will have control over how the group influences the individual and how the individual should respond to this influence.

For now, this is the only vision I have for implementing the principles outlined in the writings of Rabash. He is practically the only Kabbalist who has provided us with a detailed description of the relationship between a person and the group—relationships that serve as the primary tool for achieving the purpose of creation.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Virtual Community, Part 4” 5/16/10

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Question: You say that on a physical level, it is impossible to achieve what can be accomplished in virtual space. Do you think that only such a lifeless system can help us?

Answer: It does not work for us in that way. We cannot just sit down, come to an agreement, and then begin to systematically influence a friend. We cannot.

Comment: But this system is auxiliary; it in no way replaces the group.

My Response: I don’t know to what extent this system can replace a physical group, but I think to a great extent.

You see, what does a physical group mean? When I see others? When I express myself in relation to others as a bestower, bring them coffee, give them something, take care of them?

A physical group is the same as our internal spiritual relationships. And physical contact, does that mean I see your face, smell your scent like animals, or touch you with my shoulder? Yes, physical contact can take place, but is it fundamentally necessary? We do not know. We do not yet know these states, so we will test them on ourselves. I do not know them either. I have not gone through this in a group.

Everything I have experienced, I went through in the old system: teacher – student. So, I have no experience of how students who organize their own Kabbalistic spiritual space should interact with each other, where they shape themselves each within the group like a seed in the ground. And in this way, everyone in relation to each other creates such an environment for spiritual advancement.

As Rabash writes, it is only then that the group becomes your spiritual environment, and despite the fact that they are small, everything depends on your attitude toward them. If you believe you can receive nourishment from them, then receive it. Just start treating them that way, and you will discover that through them, all the upper forces come to you.

I do not have this experience. And no one has the practice. People can say whatever they want. But as of today, we do not see this in our world.

We hope that through our efforts, we will finally create the possibility of such interconnection. This will serve as a stimulus for each of us in the spiritual movement, one that is controlled by us. Rabash writes about this in his articles, and Baal HaSulam in his works on the realization of freewill. Nothing more is needed.

In the end, we will see that the environment we have created virtually can include concentric spheres like layers of an onion, with people who are more distant from the bright spiritual goal with less fervor for attaining spirituality.

It can be structured in such a way that it encompasses the entire world with all its possibilities, with all its supporting services necessary for our lives including children’s and family education, and in general all our relationships with anyone and in any way: social, socio-political, and others.

But the beginning of this must grow from the central point.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Virtual Community, Part 5” 5/17/10

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Question: Imagine that we have created a system of virtual space, and it seems to be functioning, but it is lifeless; it doesn’t know how to take the next steps.

When you see a person’s state, you throw something their way. How can an inanimate system do this? It feels nothing.

Answer: There are people behind the system. We will have to constantly adjust it; every day we introduce new questions, new opportunities, new puzzles, and new moves that connect a person to society, and society with them. We will actively work on this.

A computer is just a record of information; it is our demonstration, like a showcase window behind which we stand. Therefore, we must feel how we influence each of us and how each of us responds to it. This is an interactive system of very deep two-way connection.

Question: But isn’t there a risk that this system could simply collapse?

Answer: It is quite possible. Let this computer collapse! Let the group start working live! So what? To me, this machine is not something sacred, not some kind of temple. It is just a means for me to connect with a million of our friends around the world. That is all.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Virtual Community, Part 6” 5/18/10

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Comment: When a new person comes to Kabbalah or comes to Bnei Baruch, he is deeply impressed. But after some time, he begins to notice negative aspects.

My Response: Naturally, because his egoism should neutralize the initial impression. He cannot always feel inferior to the entire group and therefore begins to see flaws in it.

But if he understands that instead of the shortcomings of the group he should see his own shortcomings and try to figure out that the Creator allows him to see the deficiencies in the group in order to rise above them with faith above reason, contrary to his feelings and the apparent facts, then he develops.

He does not go back thinking: I am already used to the group, everything is fine, I know everyone, everything is as usual. On the contrary, he is cultivating his initial impression more and more.

Question: So, the first contact with the group is, in principle, the purest, when a person sees all his friends as perfect?

Answer: Yes, everyone is perfect, huge, great, and special. It is necessary to strive not to fall from this level and keep moving forward.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. First Impression of Kabbalah” 6/22/10

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Question: When a person begins to condemn and criticize his friends and the system saying that this is wrong and that is wrong, should he fight against this? Or is it a natural thing and should be left alone?

Answer: No, after the criticism, he is obliged to return to praise and see any aspect from two sides.

Question: Does his criticism not interfere with others?

Answer: It interferes, and it should interfere and at the same time help.

There is nothing absolute In Kabbalah just as, in principle, in our world. But in Kabbalah, our attitude should not be one-sided. It should always include two opposite sides.

We were created this way, and this is how we want to develop—consisting both of ourselves and the Creator!
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. There is no Absoluteness” 6/26/10

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Any person in our world executes the program of the Creator. There is not a single one who is free from it. We all work for Him.

The only difference is whether it is conscious or not. Whether you wish to go along with this program, justify it, comprehend it, and try to implement it, or whether you are disconnected from it and exist automatically; you are still executing it anyway, even without realizing it.

But the difference between these states is that when you comprehend the program, you reveal its Creator, you become like Him in greatness, in understanding, in perception, in His very status!

You begin to flow in the same stream of immense information, feelings, and decisions. You are alive! Instead of merely existing like a little kitten, you exist like God!
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. There is no Absoluteness” 6/26/10

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Question: What is the difference in the perception of life by a Kabbalist and by an ordinary person?

Answer: The difference is in the point called “death.” For any person on this earth, everything is perceived below the level of death: he lives, and lives, and dies.

If he could imagine himself living in his body and at the same time living outside his deceased body, then he would roughly grasp that two layers of existence are simultaneously revealed to a Kabbalist: our world and the upper one, the next dimension, which exists end-to-end in our world on a different frequency.

And then naturally, the entire philosophy of life changes, the attitude toward oneself, toward others, toward the purpose of creation, toward human ideals, and toward his plans.

In principle, we do not understand that the most important thing that subconsciously exists in us and determines everything is the fear of death. It constantly drives us toward something. We create culture and science in order to forget ourselves and find some kind of salvation from fear.

We are constantly trying to escape from this question because if it arises in us, then life loses its meaning. Why give birth to children if everything ends, if everyone dies, because a birthday is also an approach toward death.

The most important question for humanity about its life and death is solved by Kabbalah, which reveals to a person the eternal, perfect existence during this animalistic life.

When he ascends to the next level and exists on both levels at the same time, that is when he can do magnificent things! He can truly exist correctly also on the earthly level, rationally, and relating to others in the right way because nothing restrains him anymore. The sensation of eternity completely covers all problems! Absolutely all of them!

That is, you begin to understand why everything exists. It is so that you could delve deeper and deeper into this eternity, into the sensation of the Creator, into the sensation of this unified, eternal, perfect, harmonious nature, to be able to merge with Him even more, to come to know Him, to become like Him. Then you begin to perceive your earthly existence as the realization of some higher possibility given to you.

There is no afterlife. If you have attained the spiritual world during this lifetime, you have attained it. And if not, you must return to the same state you are in now and continue your path.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Life or Death” 4/10/10

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The very first step in attaining love and bestowal is to attain awe.

It is similar to a mother who is constantly in fear, worrying about her infant and everything that happens to him. This natural, innate fear constantly vibrates within her and does not give her peace.

We must attain the same attitude and care toward the Creator. We need to have constant worry and awe. I need to check myself if i am thinking about Him or if I can add anything more to my care?

If I want to attain the quality of Bina, then the one to whom I want to give is like my child to me. It does not matter that I call Him the Creator! I worry and care for Him as for an infant because I want to be a bestower!

This is where a person’s connection with the Creator begins. But before that, we must attain the same awe-filled connection with humanity or at least with a small part of it, with our group. I must learn to care for it as for a very beloved and dear person.

We are given similar examples in our world in caring for our children or parents, that is, for someone outside ourselves but bound to us with unbreakable ties.

An inner fear, awe must live within me: will I be able to help them and bring them good? This is the quality of Bina from which everything begins, and upon it, we start to build bestowal and love.

The Creator gives us such exercises inside our egoism so that we can gradually attain another reality, an altruistic one, so that we have examples and a foundation from which we build within ourselves the quality of Bina, of bestowal.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/22/10, Writings of Rabash “You Stand Today, All of You”

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