One who is reading in the book of Torah—one reads and the other is silent. If two read in the Torah, they diminish the faith above because with one voice and speech, everything is one (The Book of Zohar, “And Moses Assembled,” Item 141).

Comment: Two are the good and the evil inclinations in a person. When one of them is silent and the other speaks, you can read the Torah. Otherwise, it is impossible.

My Response: Yes, when only one force speaks in a person, then he understands the cause, the process itself, and the effect. It teaches him and leads him somewhere. And if he does not understand the difference between these two sides of his being, then he cannot recognize either the truth or the lie.

Question: In principle, this is also the case in externality. If one reads, then the other should be silent.

Kabbalists of all generations largely avoided opening their mouths in order not to divulge something prohibited. What can be revealed that can harm humanity?

Answer: The fact is that everyone has their own destiny, everyone has their own way. It is impossible for one person to interfere in what another is doing. He must choose his own path, his actions, analyze them, and decide what to do next.

And if he listens to all kinds of advice from all sides, as it usually falls on our head from newspapers, television, and other sources of information, then, of course, these actions only limit a person and do not lead to anything good.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/23/22

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Comment: You say that before the final correction, everyone sees the same events that are taking place, but in completely different ways.

My Response: Seeing events differently does not mean that they happen differently.

We don’t feel it, we don’t understand it, but Kabbalists look at the management system (why how, and for what purpose) and see it differently than an ordinary person.

Even on the corporeal level, for example, in court, two witnesses testify, both speak from the heart, but each one recounts the events from his own point of view because they see a completely different picture. At the same time, they aren’t being deceptive, but simply perceive it as such. And it is the same here.

We will not understand this until we ourselves begin to experience that this is all changing. Baal HaSulam’s article “Concealment and Disclosure of the Face of the Creator” says that in concealment we see a person as sick, poor, fallen, and suffering, and in revealation as healthy, prosperous, happy, and successful. That is, we see the world in a completely different way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Everyone Sees the World Differently” 9/7/12

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Question: Words are power. Can silence be called a force?

Answer: Sure. This is especially evident in the family when the wife, for example, is silent. Her husband tries to get her to talk, but she is silent. Is that not power?

Question: I do not know, I have not tried that, but it is hard to disagree. So she wants to say something with this silence?

Answer: Yes. This is a very strong form of information transfer. Or, when someone does not want to talk to you and declares a boycott.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/23/22

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Question: When Baal HaSulam asked the Creator to bring him down to a lower level, did he clothe in the animalistic mind?

Answer: No, it was the mind he had! He needed a higher spiritual level to contact his lower level.

There was a big gap between his animalistic body and his upper spirit. It is necessary that there be a ladder, a gradual restriction to such a state when you can somehow depict the upper component, the upper vision, the upper sensation in the matter of our world in something like this, even in drawings, diagrams, or figures of speech, and give it away to people so that through your deed the upper light would pass to them.

In this way, you lay down the spiritual matter for them, which gradually can even be clothed in the matter of our world. This is what he asked for. And he got it! Through him, we exist on both levels.

Question: Do you also do this kind of work?

Answer: Yes, but I cannot compare myself to such a giant. It is just a sad imitation. Of course, I am proud that I am in some ways similar to him and to my great teacher Rabash, that I am at least doing something to connect their levels with our world, with humanity.

For me, the most important thing is that the world knows about them.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Mind of the Next Dimension” 9/7/13

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Nowadays the world is undergoing radical changes that are turning it from the world of the 20^th century, which already is in the past, into the world  of the 21^st century, a new era, with a new structure. We are yet to see where history leads us and what kind of development process humanity is going through.

It seems to us that global world events are not really influencing a person’s individual life, but it will gradually become clear that these changes are increasingly affecting each of us individually. Eventually everyone will come to the end of correction and to the correct form. But at the moment we do not know what that form will be or how everyone will be able to complete each other. We ourselves need to change in order to see everyone as ready for correction.

Our duty is to help everyone in the world develop in a good way, similar to the way we help a fruit-bearing tree grow by fertilizing it and protecting it from pests. Wars are the incorrect way because we are not completing each other, and therefore we only prolong and multiply our suffering.

The forces of nature are trying to grow the fruit to be healthy and ripe, and war kills people and interrupts the development of their souls. We need to help all people understand the program and purpose of creation, and how to achieve it in the fastest and most positive way.

Unfortunately, humanity has not learned from the lessons of the past, from the experience of the First and Second World Wars, but rather, it is pulling itself into the same whirlpool, only even more cruelly and tragically, into nuclear war.

The entire world looks like a rotting apple. The Creator planted a Garden of Eden inside which the tree of knowledge grows. The apple on this tree is rotting more and more, but what do we do?

The people sitting under this tree want to correct this state because they see that it is impossible to continue like this. If we do not start making corrections, then these corrections will come from nature, that is, from the Creator, and force us to gradually change.

Therefore it seems to us that our world is getting worse and worse every day in order to awaken us to correction. It is already pressing on us with such force that it is really time to think about what to do. The wisdom of Kabbalah explains that everything depends on us, on our correct actions that lead to connection. After all, by this connection we revive all of reality.

All evil is within a person’s egoism, in his desire to be filled for the sake of his own pleasure. Egoism receives pleasure even from doing bad things to others. This person must be brought to the form of bestowal so that he enjoys only things that benefit the other. If everyone bestows on everyone and everyone takes care of everyone, then no one will feel any evil.

Imagine a closed, perfect system where each element is connected with the others in order to provide everyone with the force of life that comes through him, and in order to pass along the upper light. The correct, corrected system operates in a perfect form where each part of it is engaged in passing the upper force that comes through him to others, to neighboring elements, and transfers vital energy to them. And each and every one acts in this way, which brings pleasure to everyone.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/22, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Peace in the World”

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This is what I have troubled to do in this interpretation, to explain the ten Sefirot as the Godly sage the Ari had instructed us, in their spiritual purity, devoid of any tangible terms. Thus, any beginner may approach the wisdom without failing in any materialization or mistake.

With the understanding of these ten Sefirot, one will also come to examine and know how to comprehend the rest of the issues in this wisdom. (Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Part 1: Restriction and line, Inner Observation).

Baal HaSulam says that Kabbalists specifically took the language of the Sefirot in order not to materialize spiritual objects.

Gradually, by studying Kabbalistic texts, a person will begin to understand the spiritual actions and spiritual concepts behind all the words of our world.

Baal HaSulam recommends that beginners study the spiritual world in Kabbalistic language and not in the language of branches, which was used in the books written in previous generations, so as not to get confused with all those stories.

The fact is that Kabbalists who attained the upper world and more or less understood the inner meaning of Kabbalah still could not clearly state anything because they did not have this language.

It was Baal HaSulam who revealed its correct use. Therefore, after him, we can already generally be sure that we will not make a mistake and we will correctly state and understand everything.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 8/14/22

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Question: Let’s say artificial intelligence cannot exist independently and invent things. It can think everything through very professionally, but it’s all already embedded in its program. It will never have any independent solution, just a program.

And how do we differ from artificial intelligence, from this program? What is not embedded in us so that we can implement it ourselves? And how is that even possible?

Answer: Apart from light, we have everything. Light is the power of bestowal and love, which we do not have initially, and which, through acting on us, causes its own properties in us. We become its bearers, possessors of another power. After all, in addition to the egoistic power to receive, which is in us, another power (or property) to bestow arises in us.

Question: It turns out that in any case we are programmed?

Answer: Sure. Absolutely programmed! When my teacher looked at me, he saw my whole future. Where is Wolf Messing before him?!

Question: But where is the feeling as if you have realized it yourself, and not that the Creator introduced you into these states so that you would come to attain the spiritual?

Answer: Aren’t you now in the same mechanism,  the same matrix?! Aren’t they playing with you now?

It seems to you that you are experiencing it, you are free, and you do anything. And they twist you around here in every way, they make you lie here, do something else there, put some kind of trick here, do a good deed there.

This is how they twist you to take you through all kinds of states and thus hatch all kinds of new sensations in you, so that you analyze everything, feel it, gain experience and are able to be aware, understand who and what, and are ready for free will.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. See What Doesn’t Exist” 8/30/13

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Question: There is such a thing as a “vow of silence,” meaning abstinence from talking. What is it? What is it used for?

Answer: People have long understood that silence is a much more important manifestation of a person than some conversations. That is why they always say that if a speech costs, say, a hundred, then silence is two hundred, meaning twice as much. In general, if the word is silver, then silence is gold. I absolutely agree with this.

Question: What is a vow of silence? Does it mean that talking is kind of a sin or a crime?

Answer: A person takes a vow of silence and that is it, he closes his mouth and does not speak, for example, for a year or two.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/23/22

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The spiritual is divided by disparity of form, as the corporeal is divided by an ax…

Know that spiritual entities become separated from one another only by disparity of form. In other words, if one spiritual entity acquires two forms, it is no longer one, but two (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Chapter 1, Inner Observation, Item 4).

If the desire, which is the basis of the entire creation, changes, then it separates the previous form from the subsequent one. Therefore, by changing the desire, we separate from our previous state into the next one, and thus we are constantly changing. After all, the change in our desires determines our movements and differences.

Question: What are the forms of desire?

Answer: Bigger and smaller ones in quality and in quantity.

Question: This is the size of desire. What does “the form of desire” mean?

Answer: The fact is that the desire, while changing in size also changes its form: the way this desire is expressed, what it yearns for, what fulfillment is desirable for it.

Question: I am now trying to understand what forms my desire has?

Answer: Any forms you want.

Question: How many types of forms are there?

Answer: It is impossible to say; there are countless numbers of forms.

Question: Is form an intention of the desire?

Answer: Intention or direction, no matter what you call it.

Comment: But if it is an intention, then we only have two of them: for my own sake and for the sake of the other.

My Response: But they can also be different.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/30/22

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Question: When in one’s spiritual development is a person required to speak and when to be silent? Are there any intervals?

Answer: In a person’s spiritual development, one should communicate with the Creator as much as possible, I would say even constantly. That is, one should be in touch with Him all the time: I am to the Creator, and He is to me. He must be permanently connected to this communication line.

All other types of communication with friends in the group with whom we do the spiritual work together should depend on how much we can really be in a creative, productive connection so as not to interfere but to help each other.

That is, you need to talk to the Creator all the time, and you can sometimes be silent with your friends.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/23/22

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