Comment: When you studied Kabbalah, you disagreed with your teacher at times.

My Response: I am human. Naturally, I sometimes disagreed with Rabash because my nature did not agree. But above this disagreement, I still had to move forward according to his recommendations.

This means that on the one hand I did not want to follow his advice, and on the other hand I understood that I was obliged to follow it through “I do not want to” because all spiritual, upper nature is revealed contrary to our egoism.

It is said: “I created your desires [your egoism] as help against you.” Against you! It is like having an opponent standing in front of you who shows you how opposed you are to the common nature, to the single force. This is your mirror!

Comment: It turns out that the Creator created ugliness and then He mocks a person.

My Response: No, He shows you your ugliness in the way you treat everyone else.

Comment: But it was He who gave me such qualities.

My Response: Yes, specifically so that you gradually learn to become Him, this upper force.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Method of Realizing Kabbalah” 3/27/11

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Question: What is a book?

Answer: A book in Kabbalah is something that externally looks like a scroll or an image of some letters. This image can be on clay, metal, or any other materials like parchment, papyrus, it doesn’t matter what.

In the inner sense, a book is an adapter, converter, connector, and conductor between us. In each of us, there is an internal system called the soul. Through my external, corporeal system, visual or auditory, I come into contact with some means of connecting me to another system—an external one.

That is, my soul is connected through the book to an external system called the common soul.

This is not just a book, but a complete system made by a certain person or a group of people so that I could connect my soul to the common soul, to the common system of governance. This is not possible without a book.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What is a Book?” 3/13/11

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The point of freewill in a Kabbalistic group is in the decision to expose yourself to the influence of the environment.

This is the most fundamental thing: me and the group. I must gather this team around me, unite them together in one fist, enter among them, invigorate them so that they act on me and I on them, and we would move toward the highest goal.

Although we do not feel it, let’s all take on this task together: “Yes we do not understand what we are doing. Maybe it is still hidden from us. So we will play at it like children and eventually we will grow up because there is a force in nature that develops us.”

But often this is a “voice of one crying out in the desert” that does not resonate with anyone. Or everyone speaks beautifully and others do not respond. Everyone is shouting, “Let’s do it, let’s do it!” and at the same time they look not at each other, but look in different directions.

Comment: Nonetheless people cannot, for example, stay in a certain surrounding for five years that does not affect them in at least some way.

My Response: They have to support each other!

Changes occur in them everyday. Moreover the changes that are taking place in the world should also push them toward their own changes.

After all, since the moment the science of Kabbalah began to be revealed to the general public, look at the changes that have occurred in the world and also with us! There are already millions of us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Method of Kabbalah Realization” 4/10/11

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Comment: In the article “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Baal HaSulam writes that the entire will to receive materializes, and this place is called “our world.”

The will to receive itself is called “man’s body” (in Hebrew, Guf), and the “abundance” (Shefa) received by it is called the measure of “vitality in that body.”

My Response: Yes, everything consists of a bigger or a smaller desire, which depends on how it is fulfilled and what it eventually feels. This is life.

Question: What does it mean that desire materializes?

Answer: It feels that it exists and can express itself through other desires and include them in itself. It gives it a sense of existence.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 5/14/23

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Question: Many things are hidden from us, i.e., the potential of man himself, our future, divine governance, the governance of nature, etc. Which concealment is the most important for us?

Answer: The general force of nature, which is called the Creator, is hidden from us. It includes everything and draws everything there is in nature, all parts of it (inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human) to some goal.

We would like to find out where our part is, what our fate is, but unfortunately it is not yet possible to reveal this.

We reveal a little from here, a little from there, but, in principle, the more we do it, the more we realize that something very grandiose, general, and integral is hidden from us, and we ourselves are not in it.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to The Book of Zohar” 5/21/23

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Question: Can you give an example of the implementation of one of the universe’s principles, for example, revealing the point of freewill?

Answer: No, the principles themselves do not give us a clear plan for their implementation. Implementation occurs by applying the methodology itself, which gradually explains how to act using these principles in various conditions. There is no such thing as applying one principle without using the others.

It is not that you do not use them, you cannot launch them according to your desire. After all, you are inside nature, and these principles are your shell. You exist within them, and they all affect you.

Just to understand where you are, we are talking about the universe, what this building in which I exist consists of. But I exist inside all of it; there are walls, a ceiling, and a floor, some furnishings, some conditions, and air, absolutely everything. However, I am told bit by bit about where I am because I cannot grasp everything at once. Then, gradually, when I work with these principles, everything will come together in one picture.

When I live just in this world, I generally perceive it with all my senses: smells, sounds, visual images, tactile and taste sensations. All together I perceive it as an image of the present moment. But I can deconstruct it and say: “This device perceives sight, this one hearing, and this one something else.”

Then all this is collected inside me and compared with the pictures that are in my memory archive. And what happens next? How do I understand these images that I perceive now; how do I adapt to and work with them? This is what needs to be explained to the person.

The correct picture of the universe practically leads him to the need to change and become similar to it.

If I am in some kind of environment that is higher than me, this is world structure for me. If I am like it, I will know where I am and how I can interact with this building of the world, and then I will bring myself to a comfortable state.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Implementation of Principles” 3/27/11

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There is one single whole universe that we exist inside of. And in it there are only levels where we exist, levels of attainment, adaptation, and similarity to this single and unique force that embraces everything, creates us, and shapes everything in relation to us. This is how it plays with us in order to bring us to its similarity.

It is like the Creator has a drop opposite to Him. From this drop He wants to grow something equal to Himself through His influences. His entire attitude to you, meaning to this drop, is such that He wants you to take everything else from Him into it. In this way you will become the same as He is, but outside of Him. Then you will see and will be able to value the greatness of the Creator only from the fact that you will become like Him.

Question: Does it always have to happen through pain?

Answer: No, the Creator does not offer you pain. He wishes that you would understand Him and would want to become like Him. This is the reason He offers you the method of correction, meaning the assumption upon yourself of the properties that He has. In Kabbalah it is called  nine Sefirot that you have to take into your tenth Sefira, Malchut.

For this purpose, you are given an environment so you would form it for yourself, and it would start influencing you. Play with it as if the environment is the Creator, as if it is doing everything with you.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Root of Success” 3/6/11

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Question: Can you understand students who are going through different states?

Answer: Of course I understand my students! Every Kabbalist does.

I remember all my outbursts, ups, downs, and my relationship with the teacher. Nothing new appears in front of me because my students are going through what I once went through. I can only remember myself and see the same in others. Everyone goes through the same states.

Question: Is your perception of the lesson you are giving completely different from that of the student? It may be harder for him to endure these three hours. If you gave lectures once a week, it would be easier than three hours every day.

Answer: As a professor, I can give one lesson a day, and that would be enough for a professorial norm. But I am not a professor, I am a Kabbalist.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call.The Magic of the Kabbalah Lesson” 4/16/11

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The common soul is the only thing that was created in the universe and it has only one quality—the quality of bestowal and love.

To the extent that I can adapt to the common soul by acquiring at least a small quality of bestowal and love, I connect with it and contact is established between us. If I cannot do this, then I feel like all the people in our world that are disconnected from it do not understand what kind of shell they exist within. They do not feel this system.

But this is how it should be at the beginning. For thousands of years we have evolved to come to despair and the feeling that there is nothing in our lives, nothing shines ahead, and daily conditions shake us, threaten us, and demand that we understand the reason for our existence.

Animalistic fear, necessity, and hopelessness lead people to start demanding this contact: where is it, how, what for, why, and what are we doing here?

And then The Book of Zohar comes to meet them; it opens and says: “I am the system. By reading me, by being included in me, you connect to the general spiritual system and finally begin to feel what kind of world you live in. After all, you do not feel the world in which you exist.”
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What is a Book” 4/4/11

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Question: How can an ordinary person implement the Kabbalistic method by hearing about it?

Answer: The Kabbalistic methodology is understood only by the one who implements it on himself, and in accordance with this, his idea of the world completely changes.

As a result, the method comes down to the fact that I put myself under the influence of the right environment, under the influence of the right, benevolent forces of development, that will force me to change gently, and I try to do everything in my power to change under the influence of the environment.

Let us say there is some kind of shell around me. I am told: “If you jump 100 times, this shell will affect you, and as a result you will receive some changes.” I ask, “Can I jump 100 times?” “Yes, you can be sure of that.” I jump 100 times and still deserve a reward, i.e., I am starting to change. This is how the environment affects me.

Question: But why can’t even those who have been practicing for more than 15 years come to the realization of spiritual principles?

Answer: Because they cannot convince themselves that it is important, and this is their only free action. They do not use their freedom of choice.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Methodology of Kabbalah Realization” 3/27/11

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