Question: I remember about six years ago, I had such brief states, like gifts from the Creator, when I could feel something. It is clear that now I have to achieve these states myself, but the ego has strengthened and it is already hard to get it.

Now can I now focus on the sensations of past states and take them as a guide?

Answer: No way! I have known you for years. You are on a different degree now.

The feelings that will come to you are different. The states that you went through once will seem better and higher than the current ones. But that is because you are going into states that are more internal than those.

Once, let us say you were happy, like a five-year-old child playing ball with his friends. Today, you are already fifteen years old, and this is not the same game, not the same conditions, not the ease of joy from the game. Do not mix one thing with the other, live for today.

Comment: It is difficult to refuse past states that are constantly surfacing.

My Response: It does not matter. Do not refuse, but do not cling to the past either.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/20, “Questions and Answers”

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Comment: There must have been dead ends in your life when you probably wanted to give up on everything.

My Response: If I have achieved anything in life, do you think I did not go through what you still have to experience? Do you really think that any stages were cancelled for me due to some kind of patronage that allowed me to bypass them? There is no such thing in spirituality. It exists only in our world, only in animal states.

Question: How critical was your condition? Did you feel terrible despair?

Answer: Yes, especially in Tiberias where we went with my teacher Rabash and stayed there together. I felt he was ready to give everything, and I could not take anything.

I understood that everything depended on me: I had to spread myself and desire spirituality like nothing else in the world. I used to sit on the balcony of our house at night, smoke two packs of cigarettes, and I couldn’t do anything. Nothing! I understood my absolutely hopeless state.

But what could I do? After all, it was hopeless; that is how this state revealed itself to me. But there must be a way out! There is a way out for every soul. What is the solution for me now?

Question: Did Rabash know about this?

Answer: Of course he knew. It could not be that he did not feel.

A person must go through these states! The teacher cannot do anything. You have to go through them, and he is waiting for you to go through them. That is all, just like the Creator is waiting for this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. To Leave Kabbalah” 1/29/10

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Question: You said that you need to ask the Creator to manifest Himself as kind and doing good.

But we are talking about working in faith above reason, i.e., not asking for some good attitude toward ourselves. Or is it still possible to ask?

Answer: You can ask, but as soon as you feel the Creator a little, after this you should look at what other corrections you need to make to reveal Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/24/24, Writings of Rabash “Mind and Heart”

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Question: What does it mean that the ten should measure the result of their work in the Kli of bestowal?

Answer: The extent to which the ten progresses in the Kli of bestowal is the extent to which it measures its advancement in spirituality.

A sign of real bestowal in the ten is the revelation of the Creator within it.

Question: How can we determine our collective readiness to meet the face of Shechina?

Answer: The tighter you all feel together in the ten as one person with one heart, the closer you are to the face of Shechina.
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From the KabU Retreat in Holland 6/1/24, “The Creator Is in the Ten”

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Question: What is perfection?

Answer: Just as the Creator does not exist in our senses now, so the creation makes itself non-existent in creation. So together the Creator and creation discover themselves in each other, and perfection manifests itself.

You can see that a person takes up little space. You just feel it. He may take up a lot of space in his spiritual influence, but as a person in this world, he does not take up much space.

He does not push, does not rule, does not control life. If you want, you can make an example of him, if you want, you can be next to him, or not. He does not extend himself to you or put pressure on you. But if you want to be in contact with him, do so.

Comment: But at the same time, when you connect with him, he presses.

My Response: But that is already you who connected to him. Why did you do it? To reach a higher level through contact with him. So now you have to yield to him. But this is your will.

Question: Is this what choice is?

Answer: Sure, if you want it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Perfection“ 3/13/10

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Question: What does it mean that the ten reveals the face of Shechina? Is it some kind of sensation between the friends?

Answer: Yes, if there is no common sensation, how can the Creator be felt? A single person cannot feel the Creator. One must be connected with others, bestow, receive, and form a complete feeling, a complete Kli, together with them.

Question: How is this complete Kli different from the usual connection between friends in the ten?

Answer: It differs in the essence of connection when the friends connect to reveal the Creator, not for themselves, but for the entire world. That is the direction they act in.

Question: Suppose we, at our gathering, try to build the intention to reveal the Creator for the sake of the entire world. What should happen in our connection for the face of the Shechina to manifest there?

Answer: You should feel that you are gradually getting closer to the state where the Shechina reveals within you. When this happens, the ten will feel the manifestation of the Creator.
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From the KabU Retreat in Holland 6/1/24, “The Creator Is in the Ten”

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Comment: You said that desire is primary. This threw me into a stupor because desires arise in my brain.

My Response: No, the Creator initially created desires, and then they began to take on various magnitudes, meanings, and forms, which we see as inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human degrees. In general, there are only desires in nature, only desires.

Question: If these desires arose in my brain, how can I correctly convey them to my friends and society and try to prove that they are correct?

Answer: There is nothing to prove. Each person has one’s own desires and is occupied only with them.

Question: And how do we create a common desire to sail together and unite?

Answer: It depends on your goal, and if you have only one, the Creator, you will unite your desires in Him.

Question: According to my feelings, everyone has their own Creator. Everyone creates Him by himself even though we are together. How do we create a collective Creator correctly?

Answer: Strive for a common goal, and you will understand how to act among yourselves.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/24/24, Writings of Rabash “Mind and Heart”

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Question: Kabbalists often say, “Let us think about our friends” or something similar. Does the concentration of thought change some material things in our lives?

Answer: Thought is the most important thing we have, even though our thoughts are not pure because in reality everyone thinks about themselves and not about others.

Although we think about others only when we want them to make us feel better, I could not even think about anything else because I am an absolute egoist, and this is my nature. Still, in this inner movement, in this impulse, there exists some small element of a different, unique attitude toward a friend in which I somehow realize inside myself that I cannot do without him.

I might not want this, but the Creator arranged everything this way. What can I do? I have to love him involuntarily, without knowing what loving means. Nevertheless, something like this should happen in the future. They say it is necessary.

In other words, there are many such artificial movements, but since they are in the general mechanism, they bring the light of correction upon us. I ask for my correction despite not wanting to change. It works like a child who does not know what he wants. Nevertheless, it works.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. We are Thinking about our Friend!“ 3/11/10

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Question: What is this leap—love?

Answer: Love is a state where you treat others with a desire for complete bestowal and you strive to become like the Creator in action.

Comment: I still cannot grasp the difference. Suppose a person works like an organ in the body. He receives the most necessary things for himself and gives everything else for the sake of the entire organism. Thanks to this, the organism lives.

My Response: Yes, this is if we are talking about the internal system of the organism.

Question: So, can we say that our organs are altruistic? But we still do not say that they love each other. What is love, then?

Answer: Love, as Baal Sulam says, is a state where each organ feels all the other organs and helps them function properly.

Question: And on the human level?

Answer: There is no such state between people. It exists only at the level of the internal system of the organism.

Question: What did our sages mean when they wrote “Love your neighbor as yourself”? What is this stage when people reach such a state?

Answer: This is a stage of our internal development when we realize we must connect through good connections. That is, it is an emotional state when a person directly lives the life of society. Then we feel each other as if living in one organism.

Question: And is this organism the Creator or an upper force?

Answer: It is the Creator. Right!
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 5/9/24

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Question: The Creator gives one a place for faith and a place for work in the heart. How can we hold and expand this space? Is this our concern?

Answer: Yes, this is achieved by increasing the importance of the fact that the Creator is working on us.

Question: What advances us faster spiritually: when we humble ourselves or when others humiliate us?

Answer: It is when we humble ourselves, but we must be careful that it is done correctly and not artificially.

Question: Should I always build an intention when working with the mind and heart?

Answer: You should always try to find yourself in what you say and think.

Question: If I have many logical proofs that my friends are doing everything right, but in my heart, I feel unfounded hatred toward them, can my mind help me change this feeling?

Answer: This is very difficult. You should pray about this. I do not believe the mind can help. Only prayer can help you.

Question: How can one be joyful when I understand with my mind that the closer the Creator brings us, the more I move away from Him?

Answer: No, the Creator constantly brings us closer, and by this, we have the opportunity to more critically and soberly realize what we are going through.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/24/24, Writings of Rabash “Mind and Heart”

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