We should understand this question of our sages, who asked about it: “If the purpose of the creation of the worlds was to delight His creatures, why did He create this corporeal, turbid, and tormented world? Without it, He could certainly delight the souls as much as He wanted, so why did He bring the soul into such a murky and filthy body?” (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Chapter 1, Inner Observation, Item 6).

The Creator placed the soul in such a murky and filthy body precisely so that we, proceeding from our original disgusting state, would begin to attain His perfection, eternity, and qualities.

Then Baal HaSulam goes even deeper: One who eats that which is not one’s own is afraid to look upon one’s face. This means that we can attain the Creator only to the extent of our similarity to Him. To the extent that we acquire the qualities of bestowal, love, and connection, we will be able to attain Him.

Question: What does shame have to do with it?

Answer: Shame is a feeling of the manifestation of our separation from the Creator. He placed us in this world so that we could reach His perfection from this lowest, filthiest state and stop feeling shame.

Comment: In principle, it is logical. This also exists in our world.

My Response: Yes, it is absolutely logical. The only thing is how to reach this.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/30/22

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We do not yet fully understand how important it is to open your heart to love for the friends. After all, through it we come to love for the Creator, and this is not possible in any other way. It repels us and seems very strange and unfamiliar, but in essence this is the manifestation of the evil inclination created by the Creator in order to help us come closer to His qualities.

It turns out that when I force my way into the heart of a friend, I break through to the Creator. The heart of a friend is that temple, the place where I meet the Creator. So far we do not feel it, and it takes a long time to reach this awareness. Actually, all the egoism contained in me protests against my connection with a friend because this is the place of my connection with the Creator.

The heart of a friend turns into the house of the Creator for me. If I manage to penetrate the heart of a friend, it means that I am entering the temple where the Creator is located. It was I who built this holy building and thus came closer to the Creator.

Therefore, the most important thing is to break your egoism and force your way into the hearts of the friends. I really hope that we will feel this more and more until this inner feeling settles in the very depths of our heart, and in this way we will all be worthy to connect into one person with one heart.
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From a Conversation at a Meal, 10/28/22

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Question: We say that there is no human body in the spiritual world. Therefore, a person cannot speak. How does the exchange of information happen there?

Answer: In spiritual communication, information is exchanged through the transmission of intentions and feelings, but not necessarily verbally. This can be done without opening your mouth or showing facial expressions. It is just that a person wants to influence someone without any external expressions. And it works.

Question: In the spiritual world there are such concepts as “conversation,” “speech,” and “silence.” You can communicate with the Creator in silence or you can talk. What is the difference?

Answer: Sometimes we had such lessons with my teacher Rabash when 15 – 20 students gathered and he suddenly said, “Let’s be quiet today.” Everyone closed their mouths, and the ones who wanted to closed their eyes, and we were silent.

Usually this silence lasted one and a half to two hours. And it was not hard since internally you were kind of talking to everyone. Sometimes it broke out inside of you with a great intensity of passion, but externally everyone sat in silence.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/23/22

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Question: In our world, if I want to take an example from someone, then I see him in front of me and take an example.

Those who have attained the Creator write that the qualities of the Creator are bestowal and love. But I cannot look at Him and take an example. Why is this concealed?

Answer: This is not concealed; you just do not have these qualities. This is why you conceal the Creator from yourself.

Question: It is written: “From Your actions I will know You.” But where can I see His actions?

Answer: You cannot see the actions of the Creator because you do not have these qualities. This is done on purpose so that you can reveal them from the opposite as we always say: the difference between darkness and light, sweet and sour, and so on. That is, in the opposition of qualities we attain Him.

Comment: You still have to somehow believe that this is so.

My Response: Not believe, but understand it logically. If the Creator wants us to reveal Him, He is obliged to create qualities in us that are initially opposite to Him.

Comment: Yes, this is logical and understandable. It is just really difficult that there is no example.

My Response: This is a completely different matter. There are examples, but in the form that, as Kabbalah explains,  we must begin to change. Then we will attain and reveal examples.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/16/22

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Comment: Suppose a person lives like a worm inside an apple. And suddenly something awakened in him.

My Response: Where did something awaken from? Only proceeding from the fact that he lives within his environment, and what awakens in him arises only from connection with the environment.

How can you better use the environment is your self-development program: use your internal and external capabilities for more fulfillment and more comfort. This is how it is today and how it has been for billions of years of the universe’s development.

We do not imagine that we can exist in a different paradigm, and Kabbalah is slowly taking us out of the old one. It says: If you act in such and such a way, you will attract to yourself that force that is outside egoism, it will begin to change you inside your egoism, and emanate onto you.

There will be such radiation, such an influence from outside, that you will begin to develop inside this apple and move toward the exit from it, that is, toward the exit from your egoistic nature.

Gradually, to the extent that you will change, you will begin to feel that there is another paradigm, outside of this apple. But changes will take place only to the extent that you perform certain actions that cause this external force. Only it can do it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Evolution of Creation” 10/5/13

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Question: As a Kabbalist, besides the material mind, you have an additional part. Is it specifically based on that, that you are in the understanding, as you say, of the animate minds of people?

Answer: Obviously. After all, I also exist in them.

Question: And how can you juxtapose these two completely opposite phenomena?

Answer: My body functions in this world, through it I understand people. That is why I exist in it.

The body is an adapter of my inner higher “I” to this world. The body means my mind, heart, feelings, understanding, accumulated information, and everything else. It is all an adaptation to this world, to what I am saying now, doing something, and so on. And besides that, I also have another level, a higher mind. Everyone has to have it. Nature will lead us to this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Mind of the Next Dimension” 9/7/13

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Question: As a rule, most of the time a person talks to himself. Who is he talking to: his ego or the upper force? How can I tell if I’m talking to myself or to the Creator?

Answer: You are talking to whomever you envision. It can be close or distant friends, relatives, parents, the Creator, an evil force, a good force, it doesn’t matter what. Whomever you imagine is whom you are communicating with.

Question: Actually, if there were no pauses between speaking but only constant sounds, we would not hear each other at all. Is that why pauses are important?

Answer: That is right. It is very interesting to watch TV shows when several politicians meet; each one speaks without paying attention to the other; there is continuous constant noise. This is typical for them.

But ordinary people still communicate in such a way as to give each other the opportunity to speak and to somehow express themselves. By doing so, they show respect for each other.

In fact, a pause, a silence, and then speech are like inhaling and exhaling. These are necessary natural parts.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/23/22

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Question: What is the right way to imagine the soul at this stage? Where can I find this organ inside myself?

Answer: The soul is a property of similarity to the Creator. If I begin to strive to bestow, to fulfill, and to be kind to others, that is, if I will try to somehow manifest in myself all the properties of the Creator that I know in relation to others, then I will increasingly feel myself approaching the Creator until I begin to feel Him more and more clearly.

It is this aspiration to discover an inclination for bestowal and love for other people in myself, that will be called the soul inside me.

Question: But why is it so? It is not clear.

Answer: There is nothing else besides this.

Comment: It is love and unity again.

My Response: This is the property of the Creator. It is His manifestation in relation to us, and in us this property is manifested as opposite to the Creator.

Question: Could they not have come up with something else?

Answer: You do not like it because it is too far away from you, opposite to you. That is why it was created this way, so that you could attain the Creator from the opposite state.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/16/22

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Question: What information did Kabbalists have throughout centuries, what secrets of Kabbalah, did they not  divulge? What were they silent about and how could this information have harmed people?

Answer: The Kabbalists had absolutely all information. What was hidden from people, you ask? Is Kabbalah a science that develops like other sciences? The ancient Kabbalists were initiated into all mysteries of nature. There are no such Kabbalists today.

Question: That is why I ask: What secrets were there that they could not be spread?

Answer: It was the same as today. The same secrets. For example, there is none else but the Creator. There is only one force in the world.

Question: And this could not be disclosed because people believed in many different forces?

Answer: They invented them for themselves.

Comment: In principle, the ancient Greeks would have been very offended if there were only one force.

My Response: What would they do? They would have nothing to engage in. How many statues, sculptures, and so on exist in Ancient Greece! Each village has its own museum.

People were at such a stage of development that they could not perceive that there is one force.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/23/22

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Patience and perseverance are the two main qualities essential to spiritual work. The Creator tests our devotion, i.e., how much we are attached to Him and are able to sacrifice everything else except Him, as if there is none else but the Creator.

We have to test our strength and whether we will be able to withstand all the influences from the Creator by which He leads us to the recognition that “There is nothing else but a higher power.”

A person needs great stubbornness in the work of the Creator so that despite any interference he does not forget that everything comes only from the Creator and so that under any conditions he continues the path in one direction. In all situations that arise in life, he should only hold on even more tightly to “There is none else besides Him”—for the Creator to be his only goal.

And the further a person advances, the more obstacles arise in front of him, all in order to strengthen his perseverance and dedication to the goal and his stability. Each time he is torn away from the goal, has obstacles in front of him, becomes confused, and is led astray, but he tries not to forget that all this comes in order for him to strengthen himself even more on the path and grow.

It is necessary to go through all the descents and falls, through a very narrow bridge, before you enter the gates of the spiritual world. And most importantly, do not be afraid of anything; no matter what happens, do not leave, but instead hold on to the goal. Just as a baby clings to his mother until it is impossible to tear him away from her, so must we cling to the Creator in order to be attached even stronger to the goal and in such a way to grow in spirituality.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/22, “Patience and Persistence”

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