Question: If you disseminate certain visual things to the whole world, such as dancing, they can reject a person a little. There are some dances that are incomprehensible to people.

Answer: There is no dancing at all in Kabbalah. The fact that people hold hands and dance in a circle is the most popular among all nations because this is how connection naturally manifests itself. It has nothing to do with any national or Kabbalistic peculiarities.

I personally do not see myself in it. Singing—yes. It depends on the songs: with deep content, when everyone sings together, it helps to connect thoughts, hearts, and desires. But dancing? It depends on how it is done. If dancing is some kind of general movement, if it goes in rhythm with the flow of inner thoughts, then yes.

When people hold hands, it is also natural because shaking hands is an expression of inner motives. If the movement comes from within people, it will not seem strange or artificial to anyone, and everyone will accept it as a manifestation of their inner feelings.

This often happens at our congresses, when thousands of people from dozens of countries gather, and it all seems natural to them.

If a person sees African or Indian dances for the first time, they may seem strange and unusual to him. I would say it is not the case here. These are universal movements. When people from many countries hold hands, dance in a circle (a circle is the epitome of equality), follow a common movement, sing a familiar song, and utter words expressing their aspirations I do not think it looks strange. It might be in the middle of Broadway or Tverskaya. But if it comes from within people, and such actions are accepted in our global culture, they cannot be misunderstood.

In all kindergartens worldwide, the teacher tells the children: “Hold hands, stand in a circle, start walking and singing.” Such human expression, when they play and express something together, is the most natural thing. These actions are not planned. They appear spontaneously.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Let’s Dance…” 5/22/1

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By reading Kabbalistic texts, we draw the upper force upon ourselves according to strict laws derived by Kabbalists from nature. They explain that this force originates from a system called the Rosh of the world of Atzilut, the head part of the system.

How can we attract this force? Through our unified desire, referred to as MAN. In the Torah, this is described as “manna from heaven.”

In Kabbalah, we engage in real spiritual actions, the results of which we must begin to sense within ourselves. This helps us understand our unity, to desire it and simultaneously not desire it.

In other words, our egoistic force must grow, and at the same time, the altruistic force above it must grow as well. Both develop within us—downward and upward—and form a spiritual vessel in which we begin to feel unity above our common egoism, known as Mount Sinai. The word “Sinai” comes from the Hebrew word “Sina,” “hatred,” symbolizing mutual rejection.

Like Moses, we must ascend Mount Sinai, this mountain of hatred, unite with one another, and reveal the Creator, becoming acquainted with Him. For this to happen, a massive mountain of mutual hatred and rejection must form beneath us. Despite this, we must rise above it in an effort to achieve unity and love.

When you reach this state, you undergo a phase of adaptation and self-correction, referred to as the “forty days on Mount Sinai.” This corresponds to the level of Bina, the quality of bestowal. At this stage, you achieve adhesion among all members of the community and begin to sense within it the manifestation of the upper force.

With the help of this force, you continue to correct yourself within the community, thereby progressing further. A real system arises between you, in which you interact and advance together like climbers. You know your goal, understand the path, support one another, and become spiritually “sighted.” This is what we must achieve.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalistic Meditation” 5/23/10

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Question: Have your students had spiritual attainments in previous incarnations?

Answer: No, but now there is, so to speak, a pilgrimage to the upper world.

Thousands and even hundreds of thousands of people are beginning to approach this. They rush, and gather on this crusade, just as pilgrims from all over the world flock to, say, Mecca.

So here too our movement begins to gradually transform from tiny drops of water into streams, from streams into rivers, and in the end, it will all come to a large flow.

Today hundreds of thousands of people are already part of this movement. It is personal and internal, not something public, state, or interdisciplinary. This is all just one’s personal matter.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Cycles of Life” 5/10/10

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Question: Have you had experience with spiritual attainment in previous incarnations before coming into this world in your current form?

Answer: Probably, yes, as far as I understand myself. Essentially, it was the so-called “Spanish variant.” But it does not matter. What is the difference? It does not change anything. After all, we all come from somewhere.

All souls have undergone countless incarnations of all kinds. In truth, we do not know why things turn out as they do. Personally, I can say that I have been “rewarded” with the responsibility to carry out the work I am doing now. Of course, on one hand, it is something honorable, special, and respected. But on the other hand, I feel heavily burdened by it, though I cannot argue against what has been placed upon me from above.

If I had the choice, I would have picked a different role for myself. I would have preferred to be a deeply introspective Kabbalist working in seclusion, without engaging in the minor details of everyday life like this current level of practical dissemination. Even though I understand that dissemination is the most important thing, it somehow does not align with my nature.

Perhaps I do not fully understand myself yet, as I seem to disagree with the Creator in this regard, but I would prefer to be a reclusive scholarly Kabbalist, someone who studies, attains, and develops inner processes. Yet here I am, put in a position like a traffic officer at a crossroads who directs pedestrian flows this way and that way. To be honest, I do not feel equipped for this role.

I do not know Hebrew or Aramaic as well as I should. In general I struggle with languages, aside from Russian, of course, even with English. But what does the Russian language have to do with Kabbalah? Absolutely nothing.

It feels as though I have been “decapitated” and placed, essentially unfit, in this role. And inwardly I do not agree with it. I feel obligated to do this because the importance of the goal compels me. But fundamentally I would never have chosen myself for this job. I would have chosen someone else: someone knowledgeable, understanding, strict, and strong, someone with immense capabilities and potential.

But as the saying goes, “Man proposes, and God dispose”; He disposes with power and might, and does as He sees fit. Of course, we must accept this, even though it is entirely unclear what is happening.

Baal HaSulam, clearly, was a great sage, a great philosopher, a great erudite, a multifaceted individual with a profound understanding of all of creation, from the lowest levels of our world to the heights of the spiritual world. He truly deserved to lead people.

And now, look at this world, this humanity, all these miserable, confused people wandering as if in a fog. And who am I? Essentially someone just like them, merely given the task of stepping ahead by one single step.

When you walk an uncharted path, you must proceed with a staff in hand following the one ahead of you, stepping precisely in the same spots they stepped in; only then can you avoid falling.

This is the rule: when treading untrodden trails, you must follow closely behind the guide, step for step, with a staff in hand. But here you practically have no staff, no guide ahead of you, nor their tracks. And this is natural because we are indeed traveling a new path. Perhaps it has to be this way: to move forward through trial and error, through searching. This is the path by which a new person is created.

We do not understand what the Creator is doing with us. Birth arises from nothingness, from emptiness. Even the books we have offer us nothing. Of course, we can seemingly understand a little with our earthly minds, and fill ourselves with some small amount of understanding, some little contentment. But all of this is absolutely unimportant.

It is all just to calm us a little, to persuade us to continue.

But in reality, the whole path lies only in rising above yourself, like a magnet lifting you with the upper light—above your sensations, your knowledge, and your understanding, above everything you have in all your feelings and intellect. Only in this way do you ascend, like a balloon rising into the air. And somewhere out there, in the unknown, after reaching some peak, another state opens up to you.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Why Am I?” 4/24/10

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Question: It is said the people of Israel are obliged to prepare themselves and all the people of the world for spirituality by studying the Torah and commandments.

I feel that we are intermediaries between the whole world and the Creator. How can we make our work better?

Answer: Every day we need to extract strength, a more precise direction, and a clearer goal from the material we read so we do not make mistakes and constantly feel that we are correcting our advancement from yesterday to tomorrow.

Question: We are constantly raising prayers, but so does the whole world. How do these prayers connect? Or do we gather together, and the whole world joins us later?

Answer: No, prayers are integrated into each other and uplift the mood. Only our unity helps all the nations of the world. We, as intermediaries, bring down MAD (Mei Dhurin) to the nations of the world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/24/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”

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Comment: You once said that man’s purpose on Earth is not just development, but spiritual development.

My Response: Yes, man’s purpose is to ascend to the next level of existence, to enter a new matrix, a new dimension.

Question: Has humanity lost its way? Or was this all intentional?

Answer: Of course it was intentional in order to give us the opportunity to make this ascent independently.

By making an independent ascent from our world to the upper world while still living in this world and in this body, we begin to attain who the Creator is, His level, and we become equal to Him. We come to understand what He has done and why He created our world from the upper world in this specific way. Through this process, we know Him.

The Creator made a complete picture, then disassembled and broke it, and now I must put it back together. By assembling this picture, I start to understand what these pieces are, how they fit together, why they are made this way, and why He, having created the picture, broke it specifically for me. In doing so, I attain His mind and His intentions toward me.

As a result, I become similar to Him.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Purpose of Man” 4/19/10

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Question: Israel is responsible for uniting the world. What kind of unity is it? How can it be presented and explained to the whole world?

Answer: We must feel that all our friends in the world exist in one desire where everyone unites in it and are drawn to the center of their tens, and through them to the center of the world Kli.

Question: So when we say we are responsible for the whole world, we mean the world Kli and not the whole world, all people?

Answer: Of course.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/24/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”

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Comment: You say that a person should develop in many ways. But as a rule, there is some association or community that builds a framework and walks within that framework all the time.

My Response: That is natural. These include religions, all kinds of spiritual practices, and everyday cultures of humanity. In this way, people create a reliable environment for themselves within which they exist in confidence, and it supports them.

But for a Kabbalist, it is like death. He needs to constantly develop, change, transform his environment, and feel highly unconfident so he would have a need to hold on to the Creator and the group. He has a need to find his support in bestowal and love for the others rather than in the notion “my house is my fortress.”

Question: Does it mean that “we only dream of peace”?

Answer: You bet! And you should not dream of it; it is bad. “We only dream of peace” when I am forced to come out of the state of rest, and not that I am pulled out of it. I exit this state on my own into the raging inner world where I feel completely lost every time, and it is precisely because of this that I am ready to cling even to love for the neighbor.

Question: Does it mean that the step your students are taking is one of the many steps ahead?

Answer: Yes, of course. And the entire humanity will go this way. We are only beginning to shake. Ahead of us are even bigger social and natural disasters. We will have no choice but to look for a true and serious decision.

There will be no escape. It is like an exploded volcano. Imagine that it is really erupting, approaching you, enclosing you, the day becomes night, and this will be for the next couple of years. The temperature drops to the negative 40 to 50 degrees. What can you do here? You can oppose these forces of nature only with the spiritual force. Only! You have nothing else.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Efficiency of Combined Actions” 4/17/10

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Question: Every morning, you give three hours of lessons, and throughout the day you record a vast amount of material. Some people think that when you receive energy through a crowd, you enjoy it, feel empowered, and rule over it.

Is it really possible to structure your schedule so that you enjoy yourself every day by supposedly channeling energy through yourself?

Answer: In truth, it is an immense pleasure to see thousands of people in front of me who want to reveal the upper world, spirituality, and the Creator, who want to unite and correct our state. I gain tremendous inspiration from this.

At the same time, when I look at my students on the screens in front of me, I see that some of them doze off, fall asleep, or are in various difficult states, disconnected from the material being taught.

Of course, I understand and love them. I was like that myself. Many times I wanted the same thing during lessons.

I absolutely do not want to say that every day, by giving lessons, I am making a sacrifice. Not at all! I feel immense inspiration and significance in these lessons because I know what they do for the world.

I know that thousands of people live around these lessons, that they are a source of energy for them. Without them, they would feel bad, would be unable to find themselves, would get stuck in depression, and would never think about the Creator. Life would feel heavy for them.

I am proud and grateful for the opportunity I have. And of course, the strength for this comes from above.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Energy of the Crowd” 5/27/10

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It would seem what the connection between love for one’s neighbor and love for the Creator is? But it only seems to us that we understand what it means to “love one’s neighbor as oneself.” In fact, it is not the kind of love we imagine.

In this world, everyone talks about loving people, but on an animal level. And we see that nothing comes of it except hate. If love for creatures follows from the desire to achieve love for the Creator through it, then it will be completely different. It will no longer lead to mistakes, to Nazi regimes, or to dictatorships under the guise of socialism and communism.

After all, love for the Creator obliges us to study the laws of nature and obey them. We will understand that there is someone above us controlling us, and according to His command, we will come to love our creations, and not because we wanted to do so out of a “kind heart.” This is the whole reason for Nazism, Socialism, etc.

To love one’s neighbor as oneself means to stop feeling that I am more important than any other person. For me, everyone becomes equally important as one body. Love for the Creator obliges me to come to such love for my neighbor otherwise, it will be Nazism.

Love for one’s neighbor must be of a spiritual level, otherwise it will result in hatred of people. After all, by loving some people, I will hate others even more.

Loving my neighbor as myself means giving to my neighbor the way I would give to myself if I were the most selfish person. If the main thing for me is to come to love the Creator, then I perceive love for creatures as a means.

Therefore, I understand that the love of creation has spiritual value, the value of the Creator. The Creator hides in the creations, which become His vestments and tools for comprehending the Creator. If I comprehend their desires, thoughts, and aspirations, then through them I can reveal the Creator, not in any other way.

There is no other way to reveal the Creator except through love for the creatures. It is only through people that I reveal Him.

It would be nice to write a book that talks about such love. It is impossible to imagine how much we do not feel and do not understand what love for creation is. It is the exact opposite of what we think. People are tired of listening to conversations about how to love each other. Everyone talks about loving people: all religions, the whole world. Of all of them, Ahmadinejad has succeeded the most in this.

Love is a tool for achieving unity, that is, the property of “One, singular, and only.” Our goal is to achieve the disclosure of the essence of this One within the union of broken fragments that are distant and hate each other. And love is the means to achieve that One thing.

When we come together in one soul, we get a huge desire that is 620 times more than what was originally created. It combines all love and all hate, all selfishness and all holiness, and we give all this to the Creator for His enjoyment.

Spiritual love is a union, but for the sake of union with the Creator, that is, in order to give Him a vessel for His disclosure. If you talk about such love, you would get the most fascinating novel. At least give people a hint of spiritual feelings of unity. How else can you touch their feelings because it is not with the same dry formulas as in mathematics: light / Kli / screen.

Einstein wrote the formula: e= mc², and who is impressed by it? No one still understands his theory of relativity. That is why it is so important to write a book about love, which is supposedly born in this world, but in fact does not relate to it at all.

Love of creation is a law of nature. A Kabbalist feels himself in the integral system of nature, encompassing all reality, all worlds, except for the Creator Himself, and therefore it is natural for him to fulfill this law. He sees the world from one end to the other, and therefore understands that in the end everyone will be obliged to join the integral system of nature.

Nowadays, there is a rapid acceleration of human development. Once again, we are on the verge of a large, multifaceted crisis that may manifest itself piecemeal in different areas of the world, or it may unfold everywhere at once because the world is interconnected.

And then it will become clear to everyone what is happening. A person learns the laws of nature only through blows, then he immediately clutches his head not knowing what to do: suddenly a hurricane hits him, extreme cold or heat, etc. From year to year, we see that nature is increasingly out of balance due to the fact that we develop selfishly, but do not develop connections between us that would correspond to our development.

In the end, everything must unite as it was originally in the system of Adam HaRishon before the split, both in spiritual form and in material form. Everyone should perceive their ten as a mini-universe. There is nothing but the ten: I have ten Sefirot, HaVaYaH, and the Creator, the animating force that sustains existence. And everything else is related to maintaining my animal body.

The main thing is the ten. If I try to realize in it everything that the powers of the Creator require of me, then I must succeed.

Just as the Torah talks about the spiritual world in allegorical language, in the form of a historical story, so a book about spiritual love can be built on an ordinary story about a couple of lovers: a guy and a girl. Such an example will touch every heart because everyone knows this feeling.

Gradually, from material love and hate, the book will lead to the realization that it is not really about that, but about a much higher relationship built on giving. It will tell you how this loving couple grows and rises.

This will be understandable and close to the reader. He will be carried away by this adventure and will  empathize with their mutual desire to raise their love to a level where it will not depend on the body, on selfish calculations.

From simple psychology, they will come to a separation from themselves, and this is already spiritual, where new sensations and new phenomena begin. In this way, a person will be sensorially involved in a spiritual experience.

We are all human beings and we are not strangers to material relationships. And from this material love, which is understandable to everyone, you can gradually climb up. It will be interesting and fascinating for people because this is no longer an abstract idea, but is connected with hormones, with the experiences of this world, and gradually the book will raise the reader to higher levels. This will happen naturally.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/26/19, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Writings of the Last Generation”

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