Imagine that you open your hearts and let all the participants of the convention in. In this way we will unite with our friends in the ten, then in tens, in hundreds, and in thousands.

And the more we connect, the more we will feel the common Kli, the upper light that will come to us through all the friends.

All I need to do is to connect with everyone and carry through myself all this upper light, energy, and love for absolutely everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: When we pray together with friends, we can hear each other’s aspirations. But how can I hear my friends when in silent prayer?

Answer: Listen to the heart of your friends, and in this silence you will hear what the heart wants to express.

When there is silence, when we are not pronouncing words, then you can hear the heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/18/23, “On the Merits of Silence”

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What does it mean to believe that by all your actions you bring contentment to the Creator? At first, take it for granted.

We need to constantly think about how to bring contentment to the Creator, and therefore, we must always be ready for this state.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/23, “To Criticize Oneself”

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Question: You once said that if I remain silent in response to aggression or hatred directed at me, then this is equivalent to bestowing in order to bestow. And if I can process it and respond with love, then it is receiving in order to bestow. In any case, is silence best of all?

Answer: No, silence is not best. The best is if you accept getting close to the other, say to your opponent, and want to take your connection to the next level.

Silence is a space where I can process everything in myself, justify it, turn to the Creator, to my friends, and rise to love. Silence is not a correction but just some kind of rearrangement within our Kelim (Vessels).

It is in silence that we reveal the hearts of others.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/18/23, “On the Merits of Silence”

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Question: If a person is given a certain portion of light and does not use it, can the light simply break him?

Answer: No! Then this light would reveal itself in him as darkness, and he is forced to run to the light. It is called “by a stick to happiness.”

We are growing from the bottom up. Until you are able to rise to the next level, you will not get it.

First, you have to set yourself up to receive, otherwise in what way will you feel the light? As much as the walls of your vessel grow, you feel its contents. Filling cannot happen any other way.

If a person is given a prospect and he does not use it, then it manifests itself in relation to him not as an opportunity of light, but as an opportunity of darkness, and the darkness thickens around him.

After all, what is a crisis? A crisis is our state that we should have felt as light, insight, saturation, receiving, confidence, happiness, warmth, security, and a good connection with others; but we feel the opposite because we did not prepare ourselves and did not unite to feel all this in the form of goodness.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The light is tearing apart” 9/29/11

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Question: A person who studies Kabbalah goes through certain states. First, a point in the heart awakens, he searches and finds Kabbalah, studies it, and then moves on to the Machsom.

Is there any similar development in people without points in the hearts who do not study Kabbalah? Is there a passage through some kind of their own Machsom?

Answer: A person experiences insights like that, but this is not the same at all. Sometimes even people who study Kabbalah before reaching the Machsom have the feeling that something is being revealed within them.

But then all this goes away because they do not yet possess the true screen.

And those who do not study Kabbalah experience nothing like this. They typically experience various animalistic and psychological fluctuations.

Comment: But you say that everyone will have to pass the point of the Machsom and experience spirituality: both Kabbalists and non-Kabbalists.

My Response: Yes, some will cross the Machsom because they work on their own and others because they will join those who work by themselves.

Question: How will they join—intentionally or unconsciously, by accident?

Answer: The first group, the upper one, is the group that strives to attain the source of life—the Creator. In each of them there is aspiration, a need for attainment of spirituality; I just have it and that is all: I want to attain it. Suppose you have such a desire, but your relative does not. It does not depend on anything.

We all come from Babylon, and there is no difference between us. The only difference is whether you had such a need in past cycles or not. But this is also unknown.

And even this does not matter, because as a result of the fall of the ancient Kabbalistic group, it mixed with all of humanity. At the same time, 10 tribes have completely disappeared, and no one knows where they are. Maybe they are Ethiopians, or Falashas, or Pakistanis. Or, maybe Indians.

It does not matter because everything is estimated only according to a person’s desire. If one has a desire, it means he moves forward on his own.

And the majority of people are ready to run forward if they feel bad in this life. And then they need to be shown the way by pressure from behind, when one is driven forward by suffering and pushed by a stimulus—a sharp stick that prods animals. That is all.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalists and Other People” 9/29/11

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Rabbi Elazar and Rabbi Aba rejoiced, wept, and said, “Go, ride the donkey, and we will prod it behind you (Zohar for All, “The Donkey Driver”).

That is, the sages recognized that the force that exists in the donkey (“donkey” in Hebrew is Homer, the matter of all creation) is the dwelling place of the Creator. Therefore, they began to treat differently the one who drives them, accompanies them, and leads them to the goal.

When they arrived at the house of Rabbi Yosi, son of Rabbi Shimon, son of Lakunia, they saw Rabbi Shimon there and they were glad. Rabbi Shimon was glad. He told them, “You must have passed through a road of miracles and high tokens, for I have been sleeping now and saw you and Benayahu Ben Yehoyada sending you two crowns through an old man, to crown you. It must be that the Creator was on that way, for I see that your faces have changed.” Rabbi Yosi said, “You said well—that a sage is preferable to a prophet.” Rabbi Elazar came and placed his head between the knees of his father, Rabbi Shimon, and told him the feat.

That is, they did not fully understand everything, but now that they have finished their journey, they are beginning to reveal that in fact, they have passed such degrees that they never assumed or knew they would pass. They talk about this further in The Book of Zohar.

It means that this is just the beginning, just the first chapter, and then the whole Book of Zohar tells about what they found there, on these degrees.

Question: It is clear that there is some allegorical meaning here. Because it is said that Rabbi Elazar, the son of Rabbi Shimon, who wrote The Zohar, came and placed his head between the knees of his father, Rabbi Shimon, and told him the feat,  about what had happened to this donkey driver. What does “came, placed his head between the knees of his father” mean?

Answer: Placed his head between the knees of his father means that Rabbi Elazar bowed before the wisdom of his father and, as the one who follows him along the spiritual degrees, asked for help to ascend to the next degree.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 9/3/23

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Question: How could Kabbalists fight during the time of King David and also promote love?

Answer: At that time everyone was a Kabbalist. And why can’t Kabbalists fight? Let us say that I know that a person is coming to kill me, that he is against the common correction of the world and is now standing in my way; therefore, if I do not kill him, it means that I will kill the common soul.

There are laws. There are two forces constantly working in the world, and you cannot do anything: you are either on one side or on the other, or somewhere in between.

By killing physically, you still kill egoism at its lowest level. And by killing spiritually, you almost completely correct this root.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Star of David” 10/1/11

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Question: Was King David a Kabbalist?

Answer: Of course! Otherwise how would he be able to be a king, a judge, and a military leader at the time when Israel was a spiritual society?

He is considered to be the basis of the spiritual structure of Israel. Therefore, the force that will come for the correction of humanity is called his descendant—Mashiach Ben David. Moses (from “limshoch” – to pull) means to pull us from egoism. Ben David—son of David.

He is considered to be the personification of Malchut, from the word “kingdom”. This is why he is called Melech Israel, King of Israel. However, it is not a kingdom of force and power, but rather a property that fills desires.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Star of David” 10/1/11

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Question: Sometimes I simply cannot hear anything during a lesson; it’s like being a log, and sometimes I cling to every word. What is better and what should I aim for?

Answer: A person has two types of integration with the general field of people in the lesson. If he is not at all with them in thoughts and desires, then he is simply taking up space. Practically no currents pass through him at that time; he is not even a receiver.

Not much depends on him anyway, perhaps he is given a certain internal sensory integration of consciousness. Sometimes we perceive everything with an open mind, and sometimes we are half-conscious, half-asleep. It is quite possible that some internal psychological states are interfering with us. And all this affects us.

However, a person depends on one’s connection with the general system of people with whom one studies, to the extent a person was connected with them before, whether one made a covenant with them that even if he is more passive today, they still help him and take care of him. They not only take care of him, but everyone who temporarily drops out o tthe point that they can take over his functions in this general system.

Interaction between people occurs on several levels: on the sensory and on the informational, either at the level of our world or at the next deeper layers. This is how we work.

Baal HaSulam writes that even if a person speaks only Chinese but sits in the lessons, he will still begin to feel something. Of course, it will take time, but that does not matter. Perhaps he will enter into these feelings even more directly because he will begin to reveal the upper world, this system, this interconnection, this chain, within himself.

In my first book on Kabbalah written in 1983, I shared my feeling that our world lies on a grid woven from these forces. Many years have passed since then, but this impression not only has not changed, but has strengthened and revealed itself even more. The impression was correct. We study this grid in Kabbalah.

Comment: But there are students who sleep in the lessons and cannot help themselves.

My Response: It does not matter! Their time has not yet come. For now, they are accumulating internal potential, and then they will break through. I would say that the more complex, the more serious, the organization of a person is, the more severe and longer latent period of lack of awareness and feelings he has, does not matter. Let him continue.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Levels Of Influencing A Person” 10/13/11

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