Question: You are a person with a certain character. How can you distinguish the spiritual in you and where are just the whims of your corporeal nature?

Answer: I think it merges together. Naturally I have a temper, irritability, and nervousness. But outwardly, this imposes only some kind of “interface” on the reaction, which, undoubtedly, is built on a spiritual vision. This is what is written about Kabbalists.

My teacher Rabash knew how to restrain and hide his emotions. I knew what was happening, and looking at him, I was simply amazed at how he could do it! He had tremendous strength and the ability to suppress his external manifestations, the flashes of what was literally exploding in him.

But he lived in a different time, in a different society. He was surrounded by strangers, opponents who did not love him, Kabbalah or his students. However these were people near him who constantly communicated with him. In general, this is a problem.

I have a different problem: I flare up and I pull everything out of myself. Perhaps it somehow makes me feel better later on, although, of course I regret it very much. We are all people; no matter who is at what level, but still people.

Rabash internally suffered a lot, but his students knew nothing about it. I was forbidden to talk about it, even if I saw something. As a result, at the end of his life he suffered several heart attacks because of this and died.

Of course we could have prevented all this by correcting ourselves for many years, during which he restrained himself. He did not say anything to anyone, and did not point out any mistakes to them, only to me.

Sometimes he pointed out to me in such a way that I would have been happy at that moment to disappear forever from the world. It was a terrible feeling of shame, of one’s own insignificance.

He knew how to create such a feeling in me with a single word, even with some gesture. Of course this was not an external, but an internal gesture, since he was internally connected with me and could control me as he pleased. It is terrible to be next to a person who absolutely knows you and controls all your thoughts, desires, and impulses. You sit next to him, think about something, and he can tell you: “Let’s switch to something else.”

Better not to know about this. Because when you get involved in common work with such a person, it is very obliging.

But on the other hand, you feel like a child in the arms of a mother: naked, not ashamed of anything, and you give yourself to him and that is it. You understand that he does not manipulate you, but leaves you complete freedom of actions, and even more than that he sees that you make mistakes and he worries. You keep making them because without them you will not learn anything.

In general, what the upper Partzuf experiences, i.e., a teacher in relation to a student, is indescribable.
In our global group, things are much simpler. This is a huge community, humanity, which I feel, take into myself, and therefore all this is softened in it, somehow leveled out due to the scale.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Teacher” 4/30/11

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There are gates that were made for concealing, made to block the lights. They are fifty, carved into four directions, and they became forty-nine gates, since one gate has no side and it is unknown where it is, above or below. For this reason, that gate remained hidden (Introduction of The Book of Zohar, Chapter “Lock and Key”).

We must reach the state of complete revelation of the Creator, which means that the creation acquires all His qualities.

All the qualities of the Creator are 49 gates. And the last, 50^th is the most fundamental gate. We must reveal it, and then, once we enter the upper palace of the Creator, we will see, learn, feel, and discover for ourselves what He is, the laws of His nature, and everything that happens in the entire universe regardless of the distances between its various parts. All this will be in us, in our capabilities.

50 gates symbolize the structure of our desire, which consists of five parts of 10 Sefirot each.

We cannot open the 50^th gate ourselves. The Creator does it. By the way, the Creator opens all the other gates, but we personally have nothing to do with the last one.

By revealing the 49 gates within himself, a person is in relative connection with the Creator, and in the 50^th gate, an absolutely complete connection with Him is accomplished. This is their characteristic.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 5/21/23

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Question: Do you have a powerful material desire?

Answer: No. I have everything I need to exist: food, clothes, and shelter. There are many students around me, so I have everything.

Question: What would you like now? What is your main desire?

Answer: My main desire at the moment? It is to always be well prepared to conduct lessons so that the students are happy with me. In principle, my condition depends only on them. That is all.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz of Kabbalah Tips” 5/18/23

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Question: Why was it you who remained the successor of Rabash’s work?

Answer: First, he prepared me for this. During all of the 12 years I was with him, I received sensory and factual information from him. I was preparing for this, writing down everything he said, I was writing and summarizing all his lessons.

I received a great amount of material from him. Of course, he invested a lot in me. We are still in contact with him.

And the fact that every day I say something new, know how to navigate in a completely new environment, in a new world compared to all the others, and that I can more and more reveal the method of spiritual correction: individual, private, and the general world, does this come from me? Who am I? I open my mouth, and from the inside, I feel that it all comes from him.

The Kabbalistic hierarchy, the chain remains. Naturally, I remain the same little disciple of his! Over the years, I realize more and more how small I am relative to him.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Teacher” 5/6/11

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I am often asked: why does a person need a body, why can he not just live inside thoughts? Indeed, the body belongs to the animalistic degree and we want to rise to the human degree that is similar to the Creator. In that case, of course, we will not need this body.

But we have not yet reached final correction, and therefore, in order to rise from degree to degree, we exist in a physical body.

Thoughts alone are not enough. After all, we are born in an animalistic body and exist in it for a certain number of years in order to finally realize that we need to rise above the degree of the body to the degree of thoughts, intentions, and bestowal. That is why we still need this body, and all our work up to the very end of correction can continue in the body.

The body is not a hindrance to spiritual advancement, it does not resist you, but on the contrary, it accompanies you on the path as much as you need. This is a special calculation that happens from above.

Once we correct all the degrees that are subject to correction through existence in the body, by overcoming all the resistance of the body, then this body becomes unnecessary. Then, instead of a physical body of flesh and blood, the will to receive becomes our body, and we continue to exist in our spiritual body.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/9/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is Heaviness of the Head in the Work?”

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Question: My intention to act should come from the desire of others. It happens that the person next to me wants to talk, but I promised another to do important work for him. What should I choose if the people around me have different or even opposite desires?

Answer: It depends on specific cases. But, in principle, the most important thing is that what you promised to a person must be fulfilled.

Question: You said that Kabbalists are very obliging people. What does it mean?

Answer: They feel what is important to the other and try to help him in this action.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips” 5/18/23

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The reason why the will to receive must cascade by the four above-mentioned discernments in ABYA is that there is a great rule concerning the vessels: The expansion of the light and its departure make the vessel fit for its task (Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” item 1).

Comment: This means that the light must first be revealed, then disappear, and when we ourselves want pleasure, then it will be possible to use this desire correctly. Please explain in more detail.

My Response: This is very simple. If I am a guest and I am offered something that I have never tried, then initially it does not awaken any desires in me. I do not want to eat it.

But if I succumb to persuasion, try it,  and begin to feel a delicious taste, smell, and texture, then the next time I am offered the same thing I no longer refuse. I know what it is; I have memories and impressions, and I accept the treat.

Therefore everything depends on how much we will develop the ability for spiritual perception in ourselves so that we can fulfill it and enjoy it as quickly as possible. This is what the Creator wants.

Question: In many sources, it is written about the taste of the Creator. It is even written: “Taste the Creator.” What is the taste of the Creator?

Answer: The quality of bestowal. This quality is the uppermost taste, when a person gives everything he can, contrary to his original desire to receive everything without exception. This causes him great pleasure, not from the fact that he bestows, but from the fact that he is similar to the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 5/14/23

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But in the essay, Beresheet, it was said that that hidden, holy one engraved a carving in his intestines, in Bina (Introduction to The Book of Zohar, Article “Lock and Key”).

The Creator is the uppermost degree, Keter, who is concealed from the lower ones because they cannot attain Him. Keter is their last, most corrected state.

The Creator is concealed behind numerous degrees so that by ascending to them, dressing onto them, the lower ones, that is, people in our world, we can gradually reveal Him, understand Him, and come closer to Him.

Thus, the first three Sefirot: Keter, Hochma, and Bina are the Creator’s thought. They are like the head (Rosh) of the Partzuf. We do not attain this thought.

We attain only the actions of the Creator through the six Sefirot of Zeir Anpin (Hessed, Gevurah, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod, and Yesod), which influence Malchut.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 5/21/23

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Question: What is the most important intention a person should have every day?

Answer: To be able to do what I have planned. So that today brings me one step closer to the goal of my life.

Question: Do Kabbalists plan such a step every day?

Answer: More or less, yes.

Question: Why do certain situations repeat themselves in life with accuracy to an hour and a minute? For example, some day something was stolen from a person. Or he met someone in the same place, at the same hour.

Answer: I do not know. I do not have this. I have not tracked this.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips” 5/18/23

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Question: Why is it so difficult to implement some things in the Kabbalistic society? It is easier to do this in an ordinary capitalist society.

Answer: On the corporeal level, you have means, a material interest, an interest in receiving. In a Kabbalistic society however, it is a spiritual interest, interest in bestowal: “How to bestow? Who should I bestow to? Why bestow? Where?”

After all, we grow from egoism. That is why I need to restructure myself! To the extent that I change myself, I can come to bestowal and implement it.

In corporeality, you go in unison with your nature! You show a person what to do, give him an advertisement. Who would not like to earn money? Who would not be buying and boasting to a neighbor: “This is how healthy I am! This is how rich I am! This is how strong I am! This is how lucky I am! And who are you?”

It all goes according to our nature, in accordance with it! Here you just need to encourage and nothing else. Egoism is being inflated in a person and that is it: go ahead and earn “medals.”

This is not so in a Kabbalistic society, in a society of bestowal and love. Where is this bestowal? Where is this love? “Who should I bestow to? To some earthling I do not know, but I have to think how to make him feel good?” My egoistic nature, which has not gone anywhere yet, will not allow me to do this!

I can theoretically agree with this, but I cannot do the action. To do this, I need to attract the upper light that will change me, and then I will be able to act like this.

But how can I want the upper light to come and make me like this? “I do not know, I am afraid. What if I really start giving away everything? After all, I have something! Other people do not even have that. Come in, good people, take everything away.” This is a very big problem!

It will be solved only when the whole world gradually but simultaneously, with the general mass support, begins to understand that there is no other solution: “We are drowning. To be afloat, this is the only thing we can do!”

That is when, on one hand, nature takes us by the throat, and on the other hand, there is huge, broad public support when, as during some terrible tragic event like a tornado, war, earthquake, or tsunami, everyone understands that there is no other solution; when this is the question of life or death, then of course, greater or lesser well-being is not taken into account.

But we must come to that! It is desirable that we feel it now without reaching tragic events. If not, they will happen. But nevertheless, we will have to change ourselves. But why should we do this in the conditions of catastrophes and natural disasters, both public and personal?!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Super Egoism” 5/7/11

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