Question: People who know the concealed part of the Torah are Kabbalists. But does a Kabbalist also have a part he has not yet attained?

Answer: Each person, even those who have already revealed the Creator, has a part that they attain and a part that they have not. We are not yet in the final correction.

Therefore, we always go in faith above reason, remove a small portion from the concealed part of the Torah, and turn it into revealed to us.

Question: The concealed part of the spiritual action is called a “candle commandment.” How should one act in the ten to reveal the light of the Torah?

Answer: By coming closer to each other with your hearts until you discover that fire and light are revealed inside them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/6/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Revealed and the Concealed“

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Question: Why are there commandments that can be performed as external actions, like putting on tefillin, etc. and others that can only be performed internally, such as, “do not make an idol,” “exalt the Creator,” and so on?

Answer: This suggests that there are commandments under which we must internally adjust ourselves to a certain attitude toward a person or some action. The most important thing in fulfilling these commandments is our attitude.

There are commandments in which the main thing is not the attitude toward someone or something but the physical fulfillment itself. Therefore, the commandments differ from each other. But this does not mean that each of them is more or less important relative to the other; rather, it is that they can be sorted according to such criteria.

Question: Why does Baal HaSulam say that there are only two commandments in the world: reception and bestowal?

Answer: It refers to a person’s actions. That is why Baal HaSulam calls them commandments of reception and commandments of bestowal. That is, we must learn how to receive from any person, from the world, and from nature, and bestow in accordance with this. We practically do nothing else.

Question: Does this have something to do with the division of the 613 commandments into commandments to perform an act or to abstain from an act?

Answer: No. This is a completely separate division.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/21/23

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Question: A person fights with his ego for connection with the friends. I just do not understand why I should pause here, and what happens at this pause. Will I fall if I pause?

Answer: No, at this pause neither retreat nor cessation of military activities take place.

You simply begin to better understand where you are, who you are fighting with, and why. This is a forced pause to reassess your strengths and goals. This is Hanukkah.

You must realize that with the understanding that you are now gaining, you again need to connect with the Creator and with all your friends in one single desire for love, bestowal, and mutual assistance, and with this go to war against our common egoism.

Question: What if you do not fight the war, but pray constantly?

Answer: This is, in fact, conducting the war, because we choose between two forces of nature: egoistic and altruistic. Any fight occurs only in our desires, intentions, and internal and spiritual actions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/13/23, Writings of Rabash “Greeks Have Gathered Around Me”

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Question: Due to what in Hanukkah do we get additional strength to work with the vessels of reception?

Answer: It is due to the fact that once people fought for it, and now we use it. We try to connect and rely on the upper light that our ancestors were honored with during their Hanukkah. Therefore, no special actions are required of us.

We continue our usual work in the ten, remembering that we are in the days of Hanukkah, and thus attract the upper light that they revealed at the time.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/14/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is Hanukkah?”

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Question: Hanukkah is a break in the war against the ego, when we set ourselves up for victory. But if we don’t win this war, what can we expect next?

Answer: We will definitely win the war against the evil inclination because everything has already been calculated from above. So, there’s no problem.

But to do this, we must come together in one heart, connect with each other, work together, and support each other only out of a common, mutually united desire. Then we will defeat egoism. There are no other options.

Question: Can we consider that in fact our job is easy, and thus calm ourselves down in order to go into battle?

Answer: We can. It is said that this is not hard work. Only those who develop a love for their friends see how easy it is.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/14/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is Hanukkah?”

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Question: What do we lack to attract the force of the Creator?

Answer: You only need to open your hearts in the ten, connect them into one big heart, and turn to the Creator so that He fills it.

Question: Supposedly, a small child throwing a fit in a store understands what toy he wants. But we do not know what connection we demand from the Creator.

Answer: That is why Kabbalah is called a concealed wisdom

Question: Should we ask for this feeling to appear to us?

Answer: It will not appear clearly anyway; it will be somehow concealed because the main thing for you is the connection with your friends and not what you receive in it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/6/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Revealed and the Concealed“

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Question: Can you give examples of or describe the spiritual world?

Answer: It is impossible to describe it! I have no words to describe the spiritual world! Therefore, Kabbalists invented their own language or used the language of our world to describe spiritual roots.

But then you still imagine that there are objects from our world in the spiritual world. When I say: “Man, woman, children, and trees,” you imagine them in the spiritual world as the same as they are in our world.

First of all, we need to break away from earthly images, similar to Abraham when he smashed his idols.

Therefore, I should not describe what is happening in the upper world. It is said: “What you attain, you and no one else will feel.” This is impossible to convey! You have to get to it yourself and attain it.

Then you and I, feeling the same picture, will be able to exchange our impressions. It will be clear to us from our common language what we are talking about.

We need to start working with ourselves to expand the range of our sensations. Until then, you cannot do anything. You will look at the others and say: “How small they are! How stupid they are! How limited they are! How they lead themselves to even greater suffering!” And you will not be able to do anything either.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call Limitations of Vision and Hearing” 11/29/11

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Question: What does it mean that there are commandments that could previously be fulfilled, for example, those related to the Temple, but now cannot?

Answer: There is no Temple, and there are no such commandments.

In past centuries during the time of the Temples, we kept the commandments concerning them. But today, there is no need for this. That is why the Temples disappeared. Now, we can do something else that was not necessary in those days.

Question: It seems to me that there may be confusion here between internal action and physical action. As explained in Kabbalah, the internal action of the commandment is a change of intention from reception to bestowal, right?

Answer: Baal HaSulam writes in one of his letters that when the Jews received the Torah as one man with one heart, they first observed the most important commandment: Love your neighbor. But their egoism constantly grew and they were unable to stay in this state; they replaced it with external manifestations.

But the fact is that without physical actions, the intention is dead. Therefore, we must understand that we need to fulfill the commandments physically and internally in our attitude.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/21/23

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Question: Is it possible to reach the spiritual sensation of one another remotely, without physical contact?

Answer: We are very little, very limited, and very crude. Therefore, we still need physical contact for now. However, if my students can truly come out beyond the egoistic limitation, it will not matter where we will be.

Then if I die, I will still be together with them. Just like Ari told his disciples before he died: “If you reach the upper world, I will be teaching you. Thus, make an effort.”

He wrote that of all his disciples, only Chaim Vital could continue the study of Kabbalah. The rest of them should not even study because they did not understand him and did not come beyond the sensations of this world. Therefore, Chaim Vital was his only disciple who described and passed his method to us.

Thus, the most important thing is to come out beyond the frame of our world. After that, one can talk about any other methods of perception.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Power of the World Group” 12/2/11

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Question: Baal HaSulam writes that there is one commandment: “Love your neighbor.” Why does the Creator require us to fulfill this particular commandment?

Answer: The commandment “Love thy neighbor as thyself” includes all human corrections. If a person starts treating others the same way he treats himself, he will transform his egoistic nature into the property of bestowal and love.

In principle, this is all that the Torah should lead us to. It is in this action that we reveal the Creator.

Question: Can we say there are more important and less important commandments, or are they all equally important?

Answer: It is difficult to say which commandments are more important and which are less. But it follows from Rabbi Akiva’s explanation that “Love thy neighbor” is the most important, general commandment.
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From KabTV’s”Spiritual States” 11/21/23

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