Question: Although we speak the same language, your words carry a whole new layer when you explain things. That is, your explanation in no way matches my understanding. There is a barrier: you are trying to convey—I am trying to understand.

There is a concrete layer between us. How can I understand why we have such a difference in perception?

Answer: Because we work on different frequencies. Definitions I exist in, you do not. There is no need to talk about it, complain, or suffer from it.

At your level, you will not understand me like a child and his parents. So what? The child will grow up and understand. He should try to grasp what they are showing him according to his level. And that is enough!

There is nothing you can do. I do not suffer because many people do not understand what I want to convey. Everyone has their own goal and guiding light; therefore, everyone will grasp it in due time. I teach and give general education. Later, each person seeks and develops himself further based on the characteristics of his soul.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. One Word – a Million Meanings” 1/8/12

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Question: When people get intoxicated from the “wine of Torah,” can they lose the desire to purify themselves?

Answer: No. It is a special kind of intoxication. It elevates degree by degree.

Question: In the article “Who Comes to Purify,” Baal HaSulam talks about two states: the state of coming and the state of coming and going. What is the difference?

Answer: The difference is that a person comes with a problem and leaves with a gift.

Question: How does a constant prayer correctly combine with joy?

Answer: Joy in prayer, prayer in joy. There are no contradictions between them.

Question: How can one reach the attribute of “the one who came to purify” and stand before the Creator?

Answer: The most important thing is to study the sources, try to feel each article, and then you will be able to present yourself to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Who Comes to Purify”

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Everyone should examine himself and see how much effort he is giving to the society (Rabash, Article No. 17, Part 2, 1984, “The Agenda of the Assembly”).

Question: How can we check for this? You can see on the outside that everyone is doing some work that depends on their character qualities, abilities, and free time. But how can you check one’s inner work, one’s thoughts?

Answer: Yes, you can still check the level of care one has before the gathering. One is ready to spend time, effort, and intention for friends to feel like a necessary condition that rightly influences him and helps everyone come into one unified whole.

Question: But how can he check this?

Answer: Only based on his feelings.

Comment: But this is not objective, feelings are subjective.

Answer: What can he do? That is all he and each of his friends have. As a result, when they gather together, they should talk about it, see how much they strive to connect, and how important each person is to everyone.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 4/4/24

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Comment: According to Kabbalah, everything consists of 613 desires. Every element that I see consists of different combinatorics of 613 desires.

My Response: Not just any object, but a person! Every human consists of a combination of 613 desires. We don’t talk about anyone besides him because all the inanimate, vegetative, and animal elements that seem to exist outside of us are also our desires.

Question: How, for example, can a stone be viewed in relation to our desires?

Answer: Very simply, my desire of the inanimate level draws such an object to me, and evokes in me the feeling of this object.

Question: That is, a stone is, in principle, one desire?

Answer: No, it is the sum of my 613 desires, which are currently at the inanimate level of development and appear to me in this form. The combination of various partial vectors adds up to a vector of such a level designated as a stone in me.

For example, behind the image on your computer screen, there are also vectors.

Now you see me on the monitor and then in your head. In the same way, the picture of the world is drawn by vectors in our heads. What about the monitor? The monitor (screen) is inside us, but we don’t feel it; it seems as if everything happens outside.

And why was this done, this “outside” orientation? Mainly so that we can work with our egoism until this supposedly external vision becomes our internal one.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World as We Don’t Know It” 1/12/12

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Question: Why do true and false relate only to my scrutiny, while sweet and bitter relate to my corrections? How does this happen?

Answer: When we approach true corrections, it turns out this way for us—true and false, bitter and sweet.

Question: How does the scrutiny of true and false relate to faith above reason?

Answer: Faith above reason helps us identify those egoistic desires we can correct with an intention for the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Scrutiny of Bitter and Sweet, True and False”

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Question: Should each person take care of his own desire for the Creator, or should we ignite desire for spirituality in the ten?

Answer: Do not wait for igniting the desire. If you have no need for spirituality, then there is no point in studying Kabbalah at all.

When you start to cool down, you must integrate with your friends, obey them, and then they will pull you along with them.

Question: What desires can be taken from the world and attributed to the Creator?

Answer: Any, because it is all His work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/9/24, Writings of Rabash “The Order of the Work”

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Question: The more I progress, the more my imperfection is revealed. Is this the Creator’s help?

Answer: Yes. The fact that the Creator reveals more and more imperfections to you is His help to you. Thank Him for that.

Question: What is this point that feels shame at the difference in qualities with the Creator?
If our qualities are opposite to Him, where does shame come from?

Answer: Shame comes from above. The Creator sends it in a form and portion that you need to feel to rise to the next level.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Who Comes to Purify”

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Question: The more we become involved in studying and with the ten, the more we feel our lack. We move on only by understanding that we are still far from the Creator. Is that correct?

Answer: No, it is wrong. Advancement consists of revealing evil in each of you and the entire ten, and to the extent it is revealed, you are getting closer to the Creator and not moving away.

The fact that you feel more and more opposite to the Creator speaks precisely about your approach to the Creator.

Question: How can we raise prayers to the Creator for correction if egoism conceals the necessity to correct ourselves? Where can we get strength and depth?

Answer: Through friends, through the connection between you; you have to get it from each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Who Comes to Purify”

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Question: How does the mind accept a different perception of reality? You often say that mind is harmful. But on the other hand, it helps.

Answer: The mind serves desires. If desires are aimed at striving toward the goal of creation, toward balance with nature, with the Creator, then this mind is beneficial. It should be activated, developed, stimulated.

But if the mind is directed toward harming others, then of course it needs to be somehow tamed because it leads us backward.

That is, if a person is overwhelmed by any animalistic passions, it does not matter. The main thing is for the mind, which belongs to the human level, to be directed toward achieving unity with creatures and merging with nature, with the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World as We don’t Know it” 1/12/12

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Question: How does the scrutiny in the mind affect our heart when we attain some truth transmitted to us by the sages? Conversely, how does it affect the mind if the heart figures out what is sweet and bitter?

Answer: This is how it happens because a person feels bitter and sweet in parallel with truth and false.

Question: How can the Creator hate if He is kind and loving? Where does the hatred come from?

Answer: We say in human language that the Creator hates or loves so we can better understand each other.

Question: The light came and left, and the memory remained. Are we working with this memory when we figure out the categories of true-false or bitter-sweet?

Answer: Yes, this memory is called a Reshimo (an information, spiritual record).

Question: Is there a difference between bringing contentment to the Creator and taking care of the Creator? And how do you find your sincere concern for the Creator and not for yourself?

Answer: True work for the sake of the Creator can only happen after correcting our common Kli. Therefore, it is good that you are thinking, worrying, and caring about it now.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Scrutiny of Bitter and Sweet, True and False”

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