Question: When you explain Kabbalistic material, you use a limited number of phrases and words, but simultaneously, you convey a whole bouquet of your feelings in different combinations. How is that possible?

Answer: In principle, as soon as you start reducing everything to ten parts of the soul, or the five worlds, or the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human nature, then everything becomes very concrete, very compact. Therefore, the explanation can be through a manageable number of words.

You reduce it all to some definitions, like, in chemistry to atoms, molecules, and valences. It is the same with us. It is the coarseness of the screen, the magnitude of desire and its thickness, the magnitude of light and its various states, that is five lights, five screens, five types of egoism thickness over it, the combination between them. All this is a small, specific vocabulary.

All the enormous impression and all the richness of conveying feelings and thoughts is in the combination of these few parameters.

But they evoke various opposite sensations in us. And therefore, by going through just a hundred words, you express absolutely everything you can in human existence, not only in our world, but all worlds. The main thing is for a person to feel what you are talking about. And then there will be a very concrete language between you.

In Kabbalah, the vocabulary is minimal, just like for chemists and physicists. They do not have many words and phrases either. The most important is the combination of parameters in all possible combinations and connections. They give the entire palette of sensations and thoughts.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalist’s Limitation” 4/17/10

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Once, we were all together in one desire, in what is known as ‘Adam’s soul,’ filled with light. Then that state fragmented and in each of us remained a spark of that light, which used to fill us with the qualities of bestowal, love, and mutual connection.

Now, it is just a spark without a course, without any direction. Therefore, we can say that there is something in us, but we do not know what.

The questions arise: what can we ask from our friends, and what can we absorb from them to fuel this spark and turn it into a light that fills my great desire, which will help us return to that same soul to immense desire and fulfillment?

From our past state, we retain Reshimot (spiritual informational records) that we have something to return to and something to start with.

So we must urge and prod each other to truly desire to find ourselves in that state again.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/20/20, “The Ten” 

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Question: How can we work with thoughts that hit us?

Answer: First we need to consider where these thoughts come from. Of course, from the Creator.

What does He want from us? Should we receive or give? We must collect all these thoughts that collect in us and find out what is ultimately required of us and what we can do.

This analysis will lead us to correct actions, and we will receive the upper light for the sake of the Creator and pass it through us to Him.

Question: How can we learn to do this kind of work quickly so that these thoughts do not get stuck in us?

Answer: It depends on how much we work with them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/24, Writings of Rabash “The Striking of Thoughts upon Man”

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Question: Some principles make it apparent to a person what he is annulling before the ten.

What should be considered a foundation in the ten if everyone follows his heart? After all, this irritates us: one heard the teacher one way and the other heard him differently.

Answer: It will continue for a long time until your impressions of the group and what we are going through begin to coincide. Therefore, the contradictions that arise regarding your friends are very useful.

After all, everything in each of us comes from the Creator. And everything that contradicts our friends in each of us also comes from Him.

See how the Creator stirs up all kinds of contradictions with one movement. And all this so that we can better understand His capabilities. So let’s move on and see what happens to us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 34

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Question: Now all the friends from my ten have been distributed between different tens. What should I focus on: my ten or the one I am placed in?

Answer: It does not matter. You do not have to stay in your ten. Instead, try connecting with strangers.

They are all similar to you. They have the same states, goals, and understanding that they must nullify themselves and be connected with others in agreement and mutual guarantee.

Therefore it makes no sense for you to be associated with those you know in this world purely physically, externally, or psychologically. You should enter into the same spiritual contact with strangers.

Let’s say I am sitting at the end of the table with five to six people around me. I will discuss some issues and have a workshop with them; that is a ten for me. If I connect with it now, I can already reach the Creator.

In the next lesson, I will be with another ten, a third, and a fourth. Thus, I always look for ways to connect to the Creator.

On the contrary, it is terrific if you act this way. It will teach you how to grasp any state to cling to the Creator through it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: According to Kabbalah, the Creator clothes Himself in every person, in each of us. For example, when you talk to someone, do you perceive that person as the Creator speaking through them?

Answer: It depends on my focus and what I need from the interaction.
If I need to respond to someone on their level so that they understand me, I engage with them on that level rather than connecting with the Creator within them.

In this case, I view the person not as an individual, but as nature. They appear to me not as a personality but as a part of nature through which the Creator manifests in relation to me. So, I do not see the person before me. I see a mass of nature, of humanity, through which I observe the Creator, His actions, and His attitude toward me.

However, when I wish to see the person and his individuality, I need to perceive the Creator as He descends to the level of that person, wants to elevate and shape him, and He addresses me.

Then I address that person directly, while considering the Creator’s influence on him and my own influence on that person so that our influences—mine and the Creator’s—align within him and enable him to rise.

Question: Is this such a complex scheme? Do you separate people into two streams?

Answer: Of course! If it is a person with a point in the heart who needs to move forward, if it is my student with whom I must interact this way, I relate to them as the Creator does—as a unique, distinct spiritual individual and not just a mass.

This approach applies only to people with a point in the heart who work on themselves and reach a level where they represent a spiritual individuality. There are not many such people. But there are not supposed to be many of them.
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From KabTV’s “I got a call. The Creator in Man…“ 3/20/10

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Question: What is this force that will hold us and only strengthen us rather than weaken us?

Answer: It is the force of the Creator. There is nothing else!

There are only two forces in the world: the positive, bestowing and filling force of the Creator, and the negative, receiving and demanding force of creation.

We must exist between these two forces. That is, I must separate myself from the negative (receiving) force, position myself before the positive (bestowing) force, and create within myself a mechanism, a system, composed of the negative force, the desire to receive, and the positive force, the intention to bestow.

I take the negative force from my nature, but make a restriction on it and treat it as something completely external.

For example, I take 10 grams of the desire to receive from my nature and 10 grams of the intention to bestow from the Creator, combine them, and I get a spiritual component—receiving for the sake of bestowing. This is our embryo. And this is how we will develop.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: Can we reach mutual guarantee (Arvut) before or after impregnation (Ibur)?

Answer: Arvut is a necessary condition for the conception of the embryo but specifically in conditions in which we currently find ourselves.

At every moment we are in different states and we must work on nullifying ourselves before our friends and connecting with others in mutual support. This state is called mutual guarantee (Arvut), meaning mutual guarantee and mutual support.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: External influences often unsettle us. How can we keep from these hindrances and enter the lessons with even greater effort?

Answer: The fact is, there is nothing that would unsettle us. On the contrary, we need to look at these actions as extra help because we are given an additional measure of egoism. It seems that it pushes us further back, but in reality this is only so we would unite even more with each other and with the Creator above it.

Therefore, we cannot consider everything that happens to us as obstacles. These are the interferences we rise above. Just as at school we were given all kinds of tasks that needed to be solved, so it is here. Of course, we must make efforts to solve these problems, cling to what separates us, repels us, rejects us, and distances us, but still look at it positively.

Then, we will have a common aspiration forward. Then we will always be happy, no matter the problems.

Question: So the strengthening with which we must enter the lesson is to overcome the obstacles?

Answer: What else is there to rise above if not obstacles? Therefore, whoever the Creator wishes to bring closer faster is given greater obstacles.

Question: How can we keep holding on if we are being pushed away from each other more and more and need to make maximum effort?

Answer: It seems to you that you are holding on to an old place. You are rising all the time.

At the same time, you need to constantly make internal efforts, do not fall behind, do not distance yourself from your friends, from your tens, from the topic of the lesson. Always feel like you are together.

After all, our task is to reveal ourselves as being in the same connection, in the same field, in the same system called the soul.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/20/20, “The Ten”

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Igor asks:

You once said that the hour of death is not the hour of death but a new birth. How should we take this? I do not believe in afterlife. So what is it about?

Answer: It does not depend on you whether you believe it or not. It is just the beginning of a new cycle.

Question: When you say “the hour of death,” what does it mean for Igor?

Answer: You part ways with this life, with what you have made of it, how you have lived it, and move on to the next cycle.

Question: Does that mean somewhere a child suddenly screams, some boy is born, and so on?

Answer: No.

Question: Then what does new birth mean to you?

Answer: A new birth is, of course, the act of a child being born. But generally, it is the beginning of attaining the upper world and the Creator by what is called man.

Question: Is the hour of death necessarily my physical death, or is it not necessarily so?

Answer: No, not necessarily. It means everything old dies, all that I’ve lived through, all that I considered important.

Question: Can something be born that I did not consider important?

Answer: Naturally, in the next stage.

Question: Can you tell me what I did not consider important in my past life?

Answer: Typically, it is connections with people, love, and relationship with the Creator.

Question: Even though I always talked about love?

Answer: Regardless.

Question: When you say that another love arises, what kind of “other” love is it?

Answer: It is more natural, closer, one that cannot be explained otherwise than simply by opening your heart.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/15/24

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