Question: How can you see the Creator in all obstacles?

Answer: Only a group can help you with this, which must keep you in this state all the time.

But how can you decipher what comes to you? How can you work with an obstacle? First, we study it, and then a person goes inside himself.

Why do we conduct workshops, talks, have questions and answers, and read articles? After all, they describe all our work. Of course, when a person goes through various states, he begins to understand that this is something that he has not previously imagined.

But then, by reading the primary sources in each new state, he begins to understand what it was about. This is always later, he does not feel it in advance, and then he sees what is written in them really happens.

This is the highest psychology, a gradual, gentle transition to the next level, to the next dimension. Or do you want nature to do what it usually does? That is, a species dies out, and another appears in its place. This could be so. Today we are faced with a choice.

Question: Why do we begin to understand and realize everything later and not immediately?

Answer: If you knew in advance, you would egoistically want to go for it. How is that possible?! And now you understand with your new thoughts and mind. You used to read the same thing, but now you feel it in a new way because new properties, new sensors, new sensations, assessments, and internal dimensions were born in you. You start to study yourself from a new level.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Use Obstacles” 12/1/12

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Question: Can we, once we have passed through various states, talk about them?

Answer: We do not talk about past states, we do not discuss them. We discuss only our means of connection in order to reach future states because they are common to us.

Let’s say you and I are at the eighth level of development and should ascend to the ninth one. Therefore, we are theoretically discussing how we can connect with each other because we do not yet have these qualities. By doing so, we do not interfere with each other, but, on the contrary, support each other in how we should be interconnected.

We are not yet working with our new qualities, we are not showing them to each other, and we are not interfering with each other’s spiritual work. We only, as children, play the next state,  how can we connect with each other. When it comes and is implemented within us, then we begin to understand it. We are not talking about it anymore; we are talking about the next state. But never about the past!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Use Obstacles” 12/1/13

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As we progress, the evil inclination, the power of egoism, comes out more and more harshly each time so that, in the end, we do not know what to do. It is as if a wall appears in front of us over which it is impossible to climb. And in the end, we come to the Red Sea, to the stormy, angry waters that are ready to swallow us up and cut us off from life.

Thus, we begin to feel all the forces of nature, but when we overcome all these states and include them in ourselves, we become stronger, and this is what our progress consists of.

However, it is said that if “The sons of Israel believed in the faithful shepherd Moses properly, they could hear his voice and be saved from the Klipa of Pharaoh.” This means that there is still some chance to get out, but the question is whether they use it or not.

Like in mathematics where negative multiplied by another negative yields a positive, it is also like this in spiritual advancement when leaving Egypt. If the majority of the group wants to work for the Creator for the sake of bestowal, then they can oblige Him to help them.

From heaven we are never given half; it is necessary to achieve the full measure of the revelation of evil, and then help from above will come in its entirety. Therefore, we can complain and make claims, but until we make the full measure of effort necessary in our state, there will be no breakthrough. And only when we put the last coin in the basket of efforts, then the Creator will help us achieve the goal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/8/23, “Pesach (Passover)”

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Question: Why don’t we remember how we were born? Why don’t we remember those torments? We subconsciously know that this has happened, but we cannot associate ourselves with it.

Answer: We can. We can go back and see ourselves being born in our mother’s womb. But what for?

Comment: Because in spirituality it probably gives a certain range of sensations.

My Response: There, as in our world, you feel and realize what you need at every moment and nothing more.

Question: Does a Kabbalist clearly remember the stage before the Machsom throughout all the steps?

Answer: No. Is nothing taken away from him and nothing given to him? Is he not inside a system that calls him according to a certain program? And how does he know the next step and what he should be in it? He does not know it.

Comment: I mean the past, suppose before the Machsom he remembers all this.

My Response: He may not know. It may fall out of his current sense of awareness. Just like you do not remember what happened a week ago on a certain day at a specific hour. And you can be reminded of this and, very seriously, to that extent that you will shudder.

So it is in Kabbalah. Not everything is open before you. Reshimot (informational spiritual records) rise and fall, rise into your consciousness or disappear again inside, and you do not use them.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Ideal Childbirth” 11/3/12

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Question: Matzah is a symbol of the Exodus from Egypt. Why is it necessary to eat Matzah on Pesach?

Answer: Matzah is unleavened bread, that is, bread that is prepared in a special way with the minimum amount of water needed to make leaven. Then it is baked simply on coals or in a hot pan—it doesn’t matter.

Matzah is baked to commemorate the exit from Egypt and symbolizes our rapid transition from the desire to receive to the desire to bestow. It happens unexpectedly, abruptly, in supposedly the most inappropriate place and time for a person.

There is an accumulative process, a buildup, and a person gets out of the power of egoism. This is called the exodus from Egypt.

Question: That is, a person does not expect this exit?

Answer: He is always expecting it, but does not know that it is coming. And when it really happens, he does not understand how it suddenly happened. But someday it will happen to everyone.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/19/22

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Question: What is Pesach?

Answer: “Pesach” is from the word “passover, Poseah, stepping over”. It means stepping over from a world in which egoism operates to a world in which altruism operates.

Question: Four questions are asked on the eve of Passover. What are those questions?

Answer: Those four questions refer to the four levels of egoism that are in every person. They symbolize our desire to exit the power of general egoism, which is divided into four levels.

Therefore, the youngest in the family, that is, the smallest one who is starting to grow, asks questions about his spiritual growth. It is such an allegory.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/19/22

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Question: What to do when one friend is dismissive of another, the friend judges the other one based on his appearance or status?

Answer: It gradually passes, depending on what you get greater impressions from, meaning, what you value more.

By looking at a person, if I can scan his appearance once and identify certain signs that are purely outwardly positive or negative for me, for example, character, etc., then I lay them out and sort them. This is how every person is arranged. Then I scan his inner qualities, which are only related to his spiritual path.

After that, I have to give myself an account of what is most important to me in him.

It is possible that he is a redhead and I do not like redheads. It is possible that he is dirty and  I do not like such people either, and so on and so forth, no matter what it is that repels me outwardly. We know from psychology all these conditions.

Then I analyze the internal conditions: how much this person is dear to me, how much I depend on him, and how suddenly I am imbued with his greatness, integrity, directness, and aspiration. As it turns out, he really does not care about himself and therefore is slovenly, untidy, and does not pay attention to himself.

That is, I begin to reveal completely different qualities in him, and they are very dear to me. Then they suppress everything else in me, I stop noticing absolutely everything external that once repelled me. This is no longer a barrier for me.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Prejudice Against a Friend” 11/24/12

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Question: Did Baal HaSulam have a special soul? In principle, he was like an angel.

Answer: No, he is not an angel. An angel is someone who is given something to do, and he does it without putting any effort of his own, like, say, a horse, cow or dog, like any person on the street. They obey the calls of nature that are aroused in them, its signals, and they fulfill them.

And here the man worked on himself and made great efforts! Therefore, it cannot be said that he is an angel. He is a “Man.” And an angel is a very small degree.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Most Significant Kabbalist of All Time” 11/17/12

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Question: I perceive everyone as disconnected from the Creator. And the group is the mechanism that pushes me to Him. How does this mechanism work when you give them spiritual information?

Answer: We will not understand this until we reveal the true vision of the universe.

Now we are working as if with one eye. When we open both eyes, a three-dimensional image will appear. This is what is happening to us today compared to the feeling of another level.

We lack voluminous, inner vision. Therefore, Baal HaSulam called his writing on The Study of the Ten Sefirot inner observation.

Question: Why do I see those who are yearning for the Creator as disconnected, as the same as I am?

Answer: These are parts of your soul that broke away from you that have received an opportunity to independently aspire to Him. Everything is done to make your correction easier. This is how you should see others.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Be Closer to the Creator?” 12/3/12

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Comment: No matter how much of a scoundrel a person is, he always finds an excuse for his actions.

My Response: Otherwise he would not be able to commit them. At the moment when he is acting, he must feel absolutely right.

Question: But what can we do to justify the Creator and friends with the same confidence?

Answer: This is possible only under the influence of the upper light. The person himself is not capable of this.

On the contrary, the more we move forward, the more we attain our own meanness, our own impotence and insignificance. But if at the same time we put a lot of effort into connection with our friends, then through them we receive the upper light, which allows us to see our states as purely negative and vicious.

Then we have a great desire to get rid of our qualities. We begin to demand this from the upper light, which gave birth to these qualities, as it is written: “I have created an evil inclination.” We ask the Creator to correct these qualities.

Question: But why can a person justify himself without the light, and the other only by taking into account its influence?

Answer: Because we are in one single quality of our egoism, which is to love ourselves, justify ourselves, and take care of ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. ‘I’ Am Always Right!” 11/16/12

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