Question: In your opinion which work is more successful: when a person is already in the system of attainment or when he is just entering it?

Answer: In principle, anyone can write. But a Kabbalistic work can be written by a person who feels the upper world, who realizes, understands, and feels the action of the light, the Creator, on himself according to the changes that it causes in him. He goes toward the light, and the light acts on him accordingly.

The wisdom of Kabbalah describes only these phenomena, which, in general, consist of two components: a person and the Creator, a person and the light. There is nothing else.

Comment: But you wrote your first book as a complete beginner in this system.

My Response: Yes, these are the first three books in Russian. I published them in 1983. Then, of course, I was a beginner. I was completely attached to my teacher Rabash and this helped me get some insight from him and sanctification with a big smooth light emanating from him. Therefore, what I have stated in these books is indeed true. Moreover, in general, I simply recounted some of the main positions of Kabbalah, the very basics.

Comment: You also wrote the book Attaining the Worlds Beyond at that time. After that, you wrote seemingly more complex or easy to understand books, but it was never anything so sensorial. It still works very well.

My Response: I wrote Attaining the Worlds Beyond in ten days. It just popped out like that and that is it. As I have already said, the material accumulates internally, accumulates more, and then splashes out. Nine months you bear it and in a couple of hours you give birth.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Written… Eternal…” 6/2/12

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Comment: You often give the example of Rabbi Yossi ben Kisma, who was offered the chance to leave his disciples, but he refused because for him the disciples were like a spiritual simulator.

My Response: Rabbi Yossi ben Kisma felt his disciples internally. He did not see their external qualities, not the way we see ourselves and the world, but he saw through several layers inside. After all, we are all in a completely corrected state, and we are only separated from it by 125 concealments, as if by shells.

This is how we feel—everyone through the maximum shell on which he is standing now.

Rabbi Yossi tried to go through all these shells and see their inner essence. This is how he discovered their completely corrected state and saw them as one, great, and united.

He communicated precisely with this state and not with an external group. For him this group was like a single whole, something sacred, something that existed in the corrected state.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Spiritual Exercise Machine” 7/27/12

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Once during Sukkot, the entire group was in a very good state and I asked my teacher Rabash what else were we lacking in order to jump right now to a special degree, which already is a spiritual one. He answered: “We are lacking an attack. We need an attack from your side.”

An attack is a cry of the heart. Everyone connects in one heart and together we ask, demand, shout, and beg for one thing: we want to rise up and cling to the Creator. It does not matter whether it is men or women, the main thing is to cry together from the bottom of the heart and address one Creator.

We only need to strengthen our connection so that it becomes even more powerful and strong, where everyone clings to the friends with all his might and holds on to them. Then we will definitely feel ourselves in a spiritual ascent. The Creator has placed us in a good state; we just need to connect more.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/6/23, “Working in Ascents and Descents”

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Pesach (Passover) is the biggest holiday for Kabbalists because it represents an exit from our egoism, from the will to receive pleasure, from the state of separation from the Creator, and from distance from our friends.

Passover is the beginning of the spiritual path, when we break away from the pincers of egoism that suffocate us and do not allow us to breathe.

Therefore we want to escape from such egoism in order to move toward connection between us and to restore the common Kli of Adam HaRishon, one common soul, in order to feel in it one spiritual world, one light, one Creator, and all of us together as one.

This is why this holiday is so important. There is no more important holiday than Passover. “Pesach” means “leap” (pasach). When we make a leap, we move from a state of egoistic reception to altruistic bestowal.

When we exit from our egoism, the will to receive, and this earthly nature that is artificially created by the Creator, it is really a great holiday. A fascinating journey into spirituality begins with it.

A person should feel that he needs a spiritual Kli, that he wants to contain all the parts of the soul so that they fill all his inner desire, and all his thoughts and aspirations would be only about the point of connection with the Creator. If he has reached such a state, it means that he has already prepared himself for exodus from Egypt.

Without a sense of exile, it is impossible to reach redemption. After all, the advantage of light is revealed only from darkness. Therefore, if the Creator wants to lead us to bestowal, to a state of being equal to the Creator, He is forced to lead us through exile.

The difference between exile (Galut) and redemption (Geula) is only in one letter “Aleph” – א, meaning the Creator. When the Creator begins to appear in our life, exile turns into redemption.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/6/23, “Pesach (Passover)”

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Question: We know that the structure of our world is atoms. They consist of nuclei, nuclei of protons, neutrons, and electrons. And what is the structure of spiritual matter?

Answer: Spiritual matter is desire.

Question: What does it consist of?

Answer: Desire exists by itself. It was created by the Creator, and therefore, there are no more questions about what it is. It is the very desire that exists in nature, and all nature consists of it.

Moreover, this desire is only to be satisfied, to enjoy, to receive, to be filled with something that is outside of it. And besides, there is a desire to give, to saturate, to fill. Everything that exists consists of these two desires.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 2/12/23

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Kabbalah is a method of attracting the upper force that changes you and raises you to the degree at which you can feel it. As Baal HaSulam said, “And only what you reveal, you and no one else will reveal.”

People are always trying to retell all this as if one can convey something in words. There is no way! No electrodes and signals can do anything.

It is impossible to connect to the next informational level by any science, because the information is in a different form there, in the form of light. And there are no physical adapters of light that would sense it at our level, you have to create them.

To create them is to “become similar.” To the extent that you are similar to the qualities of light, you begin to connect to this field and receive energy, information from it—everything that is in it, its perception.

Therefore, there is nothing but an internal change of a person!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. I Am a Mirror for Others” 6/9/12

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The spiritual path lies through ascents and descents. Through descents, the Creator reveals the will to receive (evil inclination) in us so that we feel how far we are from the Creator. Then, with the help of a good inclination, we come closer to the Creator and through the feeling of states of distancing and coming closer, we move more and more toward the purpose of creation.

The purpose of creation is to come closer to the Creator and to complete adhesion with Him without any limitations. Relatively to this state, we should feel how far we are from the Creator now.

Therefore, first there is always a descent and distancing, then an ascent and getting closer. In this form and with such steps, we eventually come to complete adhesion with the Creator. That is, an ascent is impossible without a prior descent. We need to get used to it, know how to go through such states, and appreciate the descents because through them we learn and acquire the next state and the ascent that comes after them.

The ascent cannot be greater than the descent. In each descent, you need to already understand, feel, and imagine the future ascent. The entire path consists of descents and subsequent ascents. At first, we feel how we are moving away, how bad we feel, and every taste even for corporeal life is lost. Then, by overcoming the descent, we feel that we are getting closer to spirituality and going deeper into it in a more and more tangible way.

Thus, through descents and ascents, we are treading toward a state that will only be an ascent—the final correction for all descents.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/5/23, “Pesach (Passover)”

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It is not a problem to allow us to escape from Egypt, from our egoism. But the fact is, in the fight against egoism, we acquire additional Kelim that are new and great desires. Through these Kelim we will be able to attain the essence of the new land based on bestowal.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/5/23, “Pesach (Passover)”

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Now it is us who come on stage, a universal religion, so to say. This is not a religion, but this is what Baal HaSulam calls Kabbalah in the article “The Essence of Religion and Its Purpose.” It means that this is not Judaism but precisely Kabbalah, which lays in fulfilling the principle “love your neighbor as yourself.”

When 2,000 years ago, at the time of the destruction of the Second Temple people fell from fulfilling this commandment, then they fell in religion. This is how religions came to replace the Kabbalah.

Kabbalah says: “By loving your neighbor as yourself, you open yourself up to the sensations of the upper world here and now. There is no time, there is no death, there is only what you feel. Now you feel a small world, a small dimension, but you can rise in your sensation to the next dimension. So begin to feel it now.”

When people fell into egoism and stopped hearing what should be said about love for their neighbor and forgot about it, then they chose various earthly commandments and rituals for themselves and an after-death reward for this.

First of all, this is not work on your own correction, you do not receive a reward for your effort immediately when you change and as a result feel the next world, which is your reward. According to religions, supposedly by performing some physical actions here, you receive a reward after your body dies. But why does it interfere? What kind of paradise is there that it is necessary to be bodiless?

In general, religions twisted everything a little. I think soon people will begin to understand this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. America vs. Europe” 6/2/12

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The will to receive is the first form of every essence. We define the first form as “substance” because we have no attainment in the essence”(Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 10, Item 35).

This is about spiritual matter, and not about the inanimate, vegetative, and animate matter of our world.

Question: It is known from physics that the universe is 95% dark matter. It turns out that what we see and study today is practically nothing relative to what exists. Maybe this dark matter is the emanator, the Creator?

Answer: No, the Creator is above all this matter, He is like its essence. Matter itself is not attributed to the emanator. The emanator is what emanates matter.

The essence of matter is the will to receive. This is how the Creator created it.

Comment: Currently, there is no direct evidence of the existence of dark matter, only indirect ones.

My Response: Most of our knowledge about the universe and nature, in general, is based on indirect sensations, proofs, examples, and studies because we are not at the level of what we are investigating.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 2/12/23

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