Question: What does the information about the four phases of the expansion of the light in the form of letters give us?

Answer: This information gives us first knowledge that the entire Hebrew alphabet depicts to us the qualities of light and the qualities of darkness—the qualities of creation and the qualities of the Creator.

It is so created to explain to us how different we are from the Creator, and how we can depict our qualities relative to the Creator or the qualities of the Creator relative to us.

Practically all letters are like drawings, images, of the characteristics of the Creator on the background of the qualities or characteristics of creation.

Question: Can we say that a Kabbalist looks at these letters and sees instructions in them on how to receive the light and apply it on his desire?

Answer: Of course, yes.

Question: And the one who does not understand how to do it, how does he use this in life?

Answer: So, he does not understand, he looks at these letters as if they were the Chinese alphabet.

There are no letters actually in the Chinese language—only a great number of images, thousands of hieroglyphs. But they depict conformity between qualities.

It is the same in Hebrew. Although we have only 22 letters, they are enough to depict the relationship between the light and the Kli, creation and Creator. It is a very economical alphabet.

Question: Can an ordinary person use this in his life?

Answer: No. What can he use it for? He can write it down, he can read it. But without understanding the essence of the Creator and the essence of creation, he will not read it correctly.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 1/15/23

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How can we justify the Creator when such terrible disasters like the earthquake in Turkey happen? We do not know why the Creator awakens us through such sharp and heavy blows.

But apparently they include both help and punishment. We can try to turn this punishment into a reward through our connection. After all, this is the only action that can help us.

We can immerse ourselves in those states in which our friends found themselves who were physically trapped in the disaster zone, and try to pull them out of all these places and states, and lift them high above our heads.

We value them as devoted close friends yearning to reach a common connection between all of us and the Creator, and we will do our best to constantly feel them deep inside our thoughts and hearts. The Creator arranges everything so that we all become included in this action. In this way He binds us together through this disaster, and we need to unite even more because of it.

We need nothing except the connection; then the light that the Creator shines upon all of humanity will shine more strongly in those groups that have united. Therefore, the stronger our connection, unity, and embrace, the more the upper force, the light of the Creator, will influence us and pull us out of all the troubles.

We embrace all the friends who are in the earthquake zone, we fill our thoughts and hearts with this concern, and thus we will be able to protect them from troubles with the help of the Creator.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/7/23, Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “The Commandments of the Torah, the First Commandment”

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Kabbalah says that there is the upper mind, one we reveal when we connect in a group. If a group goes for connection, then it discovers not “I,” not “we,” but something else above “we,” an absolutely common unified whole, a common desire and a common mind.

This is the system of governance, the upper nature—the Creator. It exists always, only it is concealed from us.

We need to reveal this upper system, the upper mind, and then we will have no problems interacting with each other, controlling everything, and coming to universal communication and connection because we all will be connected to this upper system.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Invention of Cinema” 3/3/12

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We see that many people came to the group to study Kabbalah at the call of the point in the heart, at first they were on fire, but later cooled down and left this path. Why does this happen? It is because they could not annul themselves and rise above their pride.

To advance, you need only one thing, to bow your head before everyone, lower yourself to zero, and not make any calculations. If a person expects to receive more and more, then he has not yet started working against his egoism.

To lower yourself to zero means to make absolutely no calculations for the future. There is nothing in the present, there is no future, and I do not need them. I want to be at least at zero in the state that the Creator gave me. If I hold on only to this zero, then I discover behind this zero the opportunity to hold on to the Creator. I discover that there is the Creator to hold onto because I disconnect from my egoism.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/1/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Following the Creator in the Desert”

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Thus says the Lord, “I remember in your favor the kindness of your youth, your bridal love, your following me in the desert, in a land that is not sown.” This is written about the assembly of Israel, Malchut, when she was walking with the people of Israel in the desert (Zohar for All, Emor, “The Holiday of Sukkot,” Item 275).

Malchut is all desires that want to be corrected and reach the degree of Keter.

The desert is the entire path from Malchut to Keter, which we have to go through and ascend relative to the connection between us by uniting more and more. When we reach Keter, we become like one whole, as it is said: “The Creator is one and His Name is one.”

This is the path we have to go through. On this path of ascent from Malchut to Keter, all the events that the Torah tells us about happen to us. It is necessary to walk on the land that is not sown, on which nothing grows, on which no one has walked, sowed anything, or succeeded in anything. Yet you are walking on it because you want to come to the house of the Creator; you are following His instructions: “Follow Me.”

We are walking through a desert land where there are no signs of life, there is nothing to feed from, and there is no food (light of Hochma) and no water (light of Hassadim). But we still keep going, because this is the command of the Creator who wants us to come to Him in this form.

We only have a prayer that we want to follow the Creator with all our might. There is nothing to eat and nothing to drink, but we keep walking this path because this is what is ahead of us now. If you wait for more comfortable conditions, then nothing will work. You need to accept the conditions that the Creator gives you and continue the path until you rise to the degree of Keter, that is, to complete adhesion with the Creator from the side of Malchut.

Along the way, we go through all sorts of ups and downs, disconnections, burdening of the heart, and confusion of the mind. Success depends only on the willingness to continue. Let there be no feeling, no understanding, no guiding star ahead, and no good luck, but we are moving like an ox to the burden and the donkey to the load; we just keep going.

Whether I want or not, I continue anyway because this is my life, and no matter what happens, only in this form am I under the control of the upper one. Let him do whatever he needs to do with me. I know that this is how I am relentlessly getting closer to the goal.

The result of corporeal life is known, it is the same for everyone. The body will die, and all that remains of it is a point in the heart, the soul will rise according to the different calculations. Therefore, there is no choice except to continue.

Even if I perish in this desert, I have done everything I could with all the devotion of my soul to the Creator. I was not capable of more, and I could not do anything else, I tried to realize the potential that the Creator gave me with the point in the heart.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/1/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Following the Creator in the Desert”

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What does it mean to prepare for the desert? This means that I am ready to go into the darkness with my group after my teacher no matter how difficult and unclear it may be. This is the path in the desert.

There is desert and night around me, meaning it is unknown how, where, and with the help of what to go.

If I want to reach the connection with the upper force, with the Creator, I should not ask for guarantees. I just keep moving forward despite all the difficulties that arise before me.

The desert means that I have nothing to revive my soul with, there is no food or water. It is clear that during the day I suffer from the heat under the scorching sun, and at night from the cold; these are harsh conditions. Yet it is possible to live in the desert; people live in the desert. Therefore, it is necessary to continue despite the conditions. These conditions are specially given to us from above to help us discover the quality of bestowal and become similar to the Creator.

There is no past and no future, there is only the present moment in which I adhere to the Creator with all my strength.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/1/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Following the Creator in the Desert”

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Question: There are two categories of disturbances. One is when something happens in the outside world, and from these disturbances, a person runs to the group. This is it, he is together with his friends. Another category of disturbances arises as a result of connection: people have connected and difficulties appear. What is the difference between these two types of disturbances?

Answer: The first kind is just a beginner’s disturbance. But when you feel disturbances in connection, these are already disturbances that occur throughout the entire path, the entire ladder up to the world of infinity.

It is written in The Book of Zohar that even Rashbi’s disciples felt great hatred for each other before writing The Zohar, that is, before exploring the upper elevations, which they then described.

The problem in the connection between friends is manifested throughout the entire path. It seems to us that this is only for now, and then it will disappear. But this is constant spiritual work until the final correction (Gmar Tikkun).
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Two Kinds of Disturbances” 3/11/12

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Comment: You say that sometimes we underestimate the power of thought and the extent to which it is possible to turn everything around using thought.

My Response: Thoughts and desires are the most important and highest forces that instantly permeate the entire universe from end to end. Instantly! There is no greater, higher, or stronger power than the mind connected with desire.

All other forces are much smaller. If we were given the opportunity to use thought and desire purposefully, we would destroy, burn, and ruin everything around us immediately.

The fact is that our egoistic forces of the heart and mind (meaning desires and thoughts), manifest themselves within us in a very weak form at the level of our world. And as soon as we begin to possess the altruistic forces of connection (the right line), to this extent we begin to develop the left line—negative, egoistic connections.

By managing both forces,, we are constantly creating a system of balance. Then the middle force (the middle line) is revealed, called the supreme force of nature, the force of unity.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Power of Thought is the Manipulation of Consciousness”

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A true connection with friends means that we feel one hundred percent connected and we understand each other.

The inner connection depends on the heart, on how much we want to open our heart toward the Creator and let Him into this heart so that inside this heart we feel the Creator, understand what He wants from us, and understand what we want to give Him.

The Creator wants us to appreciate internal life more than the external life. That is, the connection with the Creator should be first for us, and everything else should be secondary and temporary. If we manage to direct ourselves to that, it will already be a significant success and we will see that we are advancing.

If we fail to reach such an attitude, then gradually we will begin to move away from the spiritual path, return to the pursuits of this world, and spin in its wheel between shopping, work, and entertainment.

However the method of Kabbalah does not imply neglecting external life. It is based on increasing the importance of spiritual life, not on lowering the importance of the corporeal life. But the importance of spirituality should be higher than any corporeal fulfillment.

No matter how corporeal life puts pressure on me—family, work, and other needs—above all this I value spirituality. All my life I evaluate in terms of how much it can help my spiritual advancement or destroy it.

I raise spirituality high above everything, and I place corporeal life below under this umbrella. Then everything is suddenly easy to arrange. A person only has to agree that this should be his approach to corporeality and spirituality.

Corporeality is needed precisely in order to raise spirituality high above your head. It is like two parallel layers: spiritual life at the top and corporeal life at the bottom, and in any situation in life we maintain this attitude.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/31/23, Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “On the Night of the Bride”

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At the Arava Convention our ten will be divided in three parts: some will come directly to the convention in the desert, some will participate in a local mirror congress, and some will connect to the convention virtually from home. Is it possible in such a situation to connect as one person with one heart?

If we really want to connect between us and with the Creator, we will be in one heart, which is the Creator. He is one and He rules over the entire world without any boundaries and separation. If I connect with Him, I connect with every friend who is also connected with the Creator. That is all. Let us try to implement it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/31/23, Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “On the Night of the Bride”

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