Question: What does the reflected light, which is used as a receiving Kli, mean?

Answer: Reflected light is the desire that can reject pleasure. Although it desires it very much, in order to be closer to the Creator and not for pleasure, it pushes it away.

As a result, it turns out that the rejection of the upper light, or the rejection of the desire, or the restriction of the desire, is the condition under which the creation comes closer to the Creator.

Question: The reflected light is the pleasure from bestowal. If I bestow to someone and enjoy it, this is the reflected light. Is it ever felt within a person?

Answer: Of course. Pleasures and sufferings are felt only within a person.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 11/20/22

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Question: Who breaks a person’s heart and when? Does a person do it himself or does the Creator break his heart?

Answer: The Creator, of course, “There is none else besides Him.”

He does all this, but gradually so a person understands what is happening to him and why. Then we already have some kind of opportunity to manage our states, at least to determine them.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/27/22

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After the restriction and the screen that were made on the will to receive, it became unfit to be a vessel of reception and departed from the system of Kedusha [holiness]. In its stead, the Reflected Light serves as a vessel of reception, and the vessel of the will to receive was given to the system of Tuma’a [impurity] (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 3, Item 15).

This is about pleasure and suffering. Pleasures are attracted by the will to receive, and suffering is repelled by it. This is natural.
Since the Creator’s desire is to give pleasure to His creations, we must come to a state where we accept this upper pleasure and are fulfilled with it, but not for our own sake, not for our own pleasure, but for the sake of the Creator, in order to bring Him contentment.

This, in principle, is the purpose of our existence: to be fulfilled for the sake of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 11/20/22

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Question: You explained that we never see people in their true form; that is, our egoism hides who they really are from us. In turn, others also seem to see you not in the form that you are, but in a form they put on you that is comfortable for their egoism.

Where is the truth then?

Answer: There is no truth. There is no real truth; it is always relative. And the absolute truth will be only with the complete correction of all states of humanity when it reaches complete correction.

Right now, we cannot define it. But we know that truth manifests itself only in the property of bestowal and love, that is, in absolute goodness. What is absolute goodness, I do not know.

I can say that in some ways I define it for myself. But it is above me, above my nature; it is when I can put myself in the most objective position, that is, when I am not taking any of my own desires and motives into account, but instead rising above myself, accepting the desire of another, and acting only in his name.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Whom to Believe?” 11/16/13

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Question: Is the force that arranges the system into a state of harmony above harmony? Is it something above the state that a person sees as ideal?

Answer: The correct interaction of all parts of the system, when each part of it acts in such a way as to bring all the others to mutual equilibrium, is the desired result of development.

The force that a person must rely on in order to reach harmony is a common force that is outside the system. This is the only force. By itself, it is in harmony. It does not need to bring itself to balance or expect any influences in the future in order to be in harmony because it itself is harmony.

Question: What is the point of contact with this force? What should a person pay attention to?

Answer: To the fact that every time he must bring himself into the state of harmony as much as possible.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 11/18/22

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Question: Did a big transformation take place in the world when Baal HaSulam died?

Answer: Yes, the world took a sharp turn in its development; it has greatly accelerated. I must say that after the death of Baal HaSulam in 1955, it was a period of the Second World War ending and rapid development beginning; the youth, the Beatles, etc., all this went forward.

The next stage took place at the beginning of the 90s: the collapse of the Soviet Union and many changes in the world. All this was preparation for the recognition of spiritual descent and the need for spiritual ascent.

Question: Why did one person influence the entire world so much?

Answer: It is not just one person. It is not a person at all. Why do you think that the world is individual people? These are not people, but a special egoistic mass that needs to be worked on.

A Kabbalist is also not an individual person; he is like a probe, a tube, that descends into our egoistic world and transfers special spiritual energy into it. Thanks to it, the world goes to its originally intended goal in the best way.

When a Kabbalist dies, all kinds of shifts for the worse take place in the world. The world is already on the path of not good, evil development, but it is development nevertheless. This is what happened abruptly, from 1955 onward. It is mutational development, a predatory plunder of nature, the American dream, and so on.

Then, from 1991, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the common market, in general, absolutely everything. To this day, it goes on and on.

But in our time there is an opportunity to soften the path and accelerate the correction of humanity; otherwise, it will catch up with us from behind and hit us with “sticks.”
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How Does a Kabbalist Die?” 11/16/13

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Question: In addition to being attached to other Kabbalists, you must pass on the spiritual method to the general population. Is this chain necessary?

Answer: Yes, it is necessary. Beginning with the Ari and on, the development of Kabbalah is impossible without adding ever larger parts of humanity to us.

Previously, it was only for those who were once in spiritual attainment, that is, for the descendants of the Jews. But from the end of the 19^th to the beginning of the 20^th century, the next stage began when Baal HaSulam started writing that all of humanity is one family.

Then the period of spiritual mixing of all desires, all souls, was totally completed. Therefore, today we cannot think only about some specific areas or population groups.

Question: Why is it important that you make contact with a large mass through your students? Why not directly through huge public lectures?

Answer: I am preparing students to continue this path of correction that goes from Adam through Abraham and so on. I want to give them the whole methodology in theory and practice so that they can continue it further.

How much longer can I teach and generally live on this earth? Well, five, ten more years, and then what? Therefore, I strive for them to learn more and more from me and gradually move forward.

Also, I physically cannot be in all parts of the world and participate in all events. So, I am very glad that my students all over the globe are engaged in Kabbalah and are doing well.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A New Generation of Kabbalists” 11/16/13

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Then, after she [Malchut of Ein Sof] had diminished the will to receive, consequently, the light departed from there, for it is already known that the light depends on the desire, and the desire is the place of the light, for there is no coercion in spirituality (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Restriction and Line,” “Inner Observation,” Chapter 2).

Question: How is it possible to restrict your desire?

Answer: If I am among people for whom my desires are completely out of character, then by looking at them, these desires decrease for me too.

Comment: We know from experience that our desires are beyond our control.

My Response: In some ways, of course, they are beyond our control. But by being in a certain environment, I can use them so that they will change to become either greater or smaller. At the same time, the desires themselves remain. We are not talking about their disappearance.

Comment: Baal HaSulam talks about restricting them.

My Response: To restrict means to make smaller.

Question: What does the principle there is no coercion in spirituality mean?

Answer: This means that no one will force you to restrict your desire or, conversely, increase it. It depends only on the decision of the person himself.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 11/20/22

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Question: In a survey about the state of harmony, people were asked without what was it impossible for them to personally feel in harmony with the surrounding world? The majority of responses were, in descending order, that they could not feel harmony with the world without: self–confidence, the feeling that someone needs me, a clear goal, and the support of loved ones.

To what extent do these factors help a person in his movement toward a harmonious existence?

Answer: Of course, all this helps people ultimately; therefore, they answer like that. But I believe that harmony depends on balance with the environment, with the inanimate, vegetative, animate levels of nature, and especially with society.

Such a balance is very difficult to achieve. We are always trying to bring our way of life to this, to balance the system and most importantly, the relations between ourselves, that is, human society.

To bring it to harmony means to bring everyone to harmony. We see how one person can throw the whole system out of balance. Therefore, it is necessary to think about the education of everyone.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 11/18/22

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Question: Can you predict what will happen in five years? What will the world group look like?

Answer: I do not even think about it because I’m not interested in what will happen in five years. I am completely uninterested in the future. I have to learn from the past and realize the present so that there is no future and everything is realized now.

At every moment, the future is the end of this second and the beginning of the next; it is the end of this whole world, i.e., our egoistic state and complete correction.

Based on past knowledge and achievements, you do as much as possible so that this moment becomes the last before the complete correction of humanity. Then you are moving in a straight line. Where to? To the end of the correction. When? In the next moment.

This is the only way you can act if there is no concept of time.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What Will Happen in Five Years?” 11/26/13

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