The Torah doesn’t really distinguish Aaron. He constantly accompanies Moses as if hiding in his shadow. Moses acts as a link between the Creator and the people, and Aaron stands beside him as his assistant, his brother.

From this story, the role of Aaron is not very clear. But just because it is not clear, it is apparently more hidden, which means that it is closer to a person, to you and me, and related to our work.

Aaron prepares the vessels, the connection of the people with the Creator. Moses comes from above, and Aaron comes from below, from the people, all the qualities of a person, the whole group, and the ten relative to the Creator. And that is why the role of Aaron does not stand out so much because a person has to add his work to it. Moses acts as the representative of the Creator before the people, and Aaron acts as the representative of the people before the Creator.

If I am in the power of the Creator (and there is none else besides Him), then I must always be satisfied, in any state. And if I am dissatisfied with something, it means that I am separated from the Creator. Therefore, I need to get back to the connection with Him, and a sign that I have this connection will be my joy from any state whatever it may be.

The quality of Aaron is the most important quality in a person. The qualities of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses are just preparation from above. And the quality of Aaron is our work from below, which we realize when we reach faith above reason, which is, mercy (Hesed), which is above all, bestowal, which is above any desire to enjoy.

To study the quality of Aaron means to accept him as a guest in our Sukkah. We want his quality to build our soul, the right connection between us. To clothe the quality of Hesed on all your inner qualities, which are called “the people of Israel,” means to do the work of Aaron, to adopt his quality on yourself, on all your desire to enjoy.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/7/20, “Sukkot”

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The fourth day of Sukkot is dedicated to the guest of honor (Ushpizin) Moses, the revelation of correction in the Sefira Netzach. There is no greater and closer person to us than Moses who brought the method of revealing the Creator and connection between the Creator and the created beings closer to us. That is why Moses is so dear and so important to us.

Moses is called the faithful shepherd. This is not just the force of faith or the force of overcoming but the force of care for the created beings on the part of the Creator that helps bring them to the final correction. Therefore, the entire Torah, which is intended to bring created beings into contact with the Creator, is called the Torah of Moses. This is his main concern, main work, and main purpose.

When we speak about Moses, we do not mean the physical person, but a symbol, a special quality, and the most important thing for us in accordance with the Creator’s program of governing the world. Therefore, it is so important for us to understand this quality and come closer to it.

Moses is like a shepherd accompanying the flock, a guide helping his people move correctly and confidently toward the goal. The common force that takes care of us, protects, guards, and consistently leads us to the goal with love and attention is the force of Moses, which is warm, loving, and caring.

All these forces that envelop us and pull us toward the purpose of creation are called the Torah. This is the upper light that comes to us, clothes in us, and fills each and every one of us together, like a shepherd who gathers his flock and leads it home.

The shepherd has a special mission to take the flock out of the house, bring it to a relatively dangerous place, and return it home in the evening. Due to the work of the shepherd, the herds are nurtured, grow, and multiply. The “faithful shepherd” is a leader of faith because every time his wards move away from home and then return home, thanks to these exits and returns, they gain more and more spiritual strength, more strength of faith that Moses cultivates in them.

Therefore, we need to see ourselves as such a congregation, ready to follow the force of Moses, which takes care of us. As a result of this, we are straightening up day by day and are getting filled with the force of faith above reason. This is the main thing we need, and we can acquire this faith mainly thanks to Moses.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/22, “Ushpizin Moses – Sefira Netzach“

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All the worlds are in the place of that space that has been restricted (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Restriction and Line,” Chapter 2).

The fact is that the light that comes from the Creator to the creation, that is, to the desire to enjoy, to receive, and to be filled, which was created by the Creator, saturates this desire.

The creation, filled with light and the feeling that shows how opposite it is to the Creator, restricts its desire to receive. This is why the separation between the Creator and the creation takes place.

Kabbalists write that the light that emanates from the Creator, i.e., the upper force, created a desire that was filled with light, then felt in itself how opposite it is to the quality of light and restricted itself to a point. This is the state of the first restriction.

Comment: This, in principle, is similar to the way our universe developed. Scientists say that it was compressed into one point and then an explosion happened.

My Response: ​​Yes. We are yet to see what degrees of development exist here.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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There is no happier state in man’s world than when he finds himself despaired with his own strength (Baal HaSulam, Letter 57).

Question: How long do you think it takes a person to despair that he cannot correct himself and so he has to ask for help from above?

Answer: All his life except for the last moment when he is so desperate that he cries out to the Creator and the Creator hears him and corrects him.

Question: Does my prayer for others have any healing effect on me? Let’s say I ask for others does it work for me too?

Answer: Of course, that is what the prayer says: I ask for absolutely everyone and for myself last.

Question: Today scientists have come to the conclusion that if a person does some kind, altruistic deeds, it has a good effect on his mental state. Is this also praised in Kabbalah?

Answer: Of course. It works on all levels. The less a person thinks about himself and more about others, the better it is for him.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 9/25/22

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Question: There are three main psychological approaches to changes in a person and in the world: 1) This is neither good nor bad. This is life as it is, and you need to cope with it somehow. 2) Any change is an anomaly, a problem that should be solved, no matter whether it is good or bad. 3) Change should be taken according to the principle that everything that is done is for the best.

What is the most correct approach from your point of view? Or maybe there is a fourth approach?

Answer: First we need to find out from the point of view of absolute nature what the purpose is and what my participation in this transformation is. If I can influence it, then I have to do it in accordance with nature.

Question: So do we first need to find out and then how to show an attitude?

Answer: Of course. Absolutely.

Question: How can the wisdom of Kabbalah help a person to correctly cope with all the changes taking place in the world?

Answer: If a person raises himself above his egoism, then he will see the true nature, the true changes, their true purpose, and will understand that he does not need to do anything except what he has done.

Just raise yourself above your ego because human egoism is the only obstacle to the correct perception of nature.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 9/23/22

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As long as I can remember, I have always had a tendency to think globally and understand the whole picture of the world and how much everything in it is interconnected. It was very hard for me without it.

I did not like something separate, for example, to retire to the garage and be a good mechanic, to breed bees, or to grow potatoes in the garden.

Of course, I can exist like this physically, but I need to know everything internally. I feel bad without it. This is my inner flaw. I have to embrace the whole universe within myself. Not the depth of everything: physiology, biology, mathematics, physics, or anything else, not even the system of the upper world, but its interaction.

I wanted to consume, absorb, the feeling and understanding of how it all moves so that I would be aware of it all, understand it, and feel it so that it all lived in me. This has always been such a passion, I would say bodily necessity.

Because of this, I could not find myself and I felt depressed. In a corporeal sense, my life was relatively simple and easy. Of course, sometimes it was hard, but literally for a few years. I have a wonderful family and a devoted wife who raised our children because I did not really do much with them. All the time I was just consumed by the desire to feel everything.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Man in the State of Attainment” 7/21/13

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Joseph is called the righteous, and the righteous is the foundation of the world. It is Joseph who leads a person inside his egoism and establishes his connection with Pharaoh. Then, with the help of Joseph, a person connects with higher qualities such as Moses.

Through Joseph we begin to get acquainted with the upper system, and thanks to him we can connect and try to find spiritual qualities in order to come closer to the upper force and attain the Creator. Every spiritual quality is attained through Joseph, through the Sefira Yesod, and through our connection.

Joseph is righteous, the foundation of the world, because only through connection, through Yesod, do we attain all other upper spiritual qualities. In our work Joseph is the most necessary and closest feeling to us, a connection in a group. Through the point of connection, we begin to recognize the quality of Joseph.

The Torah tells how the brothers sell Joseph into slavery. They do not understand this quality yet because they are higher than him and are not yet familiar with the quality of Joseph. They consider Joseph a younger brother and do not agree that he should stand out.

The main thing about Joseph is that he brings us to connection. Joseph does not have his own individual quality; he combines all other qualities in his yearning for connection, and through it, to the Creator. Joseph is a common quality in which all the other brothers are included, and they are clarified due to the growing will to receive, that is, Pharaoh.

Therefore, from the quality of Joseph, from Yesod, comes sustenance, the force of life, and the force of attainment. The revelation of the Pharaoh also happens through Joseph. At the beginning of the Egyptian slavery, the Pharaoh was kind and it did not feel like slavery at all. On the contrary we developed, and all this with the help of Joseph. Joseph is the beginning of the attainment of good and evil in our whole life, and therefore he is closest to us.

The quality of Joseph is implemented through our connection. He is called “everything” because all the qualities are combined within him and through them connect us with the Creator. Attaining Joseph is attaining unity, the essence of our connection. This is the first step that takes us out of this world and leads to the attainment of the Creator, the upper, spiritual world.

Joseph is like a tree that brings us all the fruits of life. This is a connection with the upper root, from which all good flows into the world. We eat from it; thanks to it we live, breed, and multiply. This is the place of our connection with each other and with the Creator; that is, it is the place of exiting the feeling of this corporeal world and entering the spiritual world. All this is performed through the quality of Joseph, the degree that is closest to us.

It is known that in order to advance at least one step forward, we need to connect into tens. Joseph is called everything because he combines all our qualities together. Each of the ten people has their own qualities that differ from others, but once we rise above ourselves, we can be together. If we rise above our egoistic differences, each of us above his egoism, then we become similar and equal and can connect and complement each other.

We attain this to the extent that we attain the Sefira Yesod, which is called everything. When we rise above our egoism and come to faith above reason, to connection in the ten, we create a new spiritual quality common to all called the Creator. He is born out of the connection between us and says: “You have made Me!”

It turns out that through our connection we have created the Creator; this is how He is revealed with regard to us. The first acquaintance with the Creator, with the upper force, with the upper world, occurs through the quality of Yesod.

Honored guests, Ushpizin, who come to the Sukkah, organize the right environment for us. Joseph is the last in this chain as if instead of Malchut.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/8/20, “Sukkot“

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The Sukkot holiday is about building a screen (Shach) to cover the Sukkah and creating a place for the soul. We restrict and correct our desire to enjoy, and build a screen over it. With this screen that separates us from the Creator, we create a barrier that will not allow us to receive the upper light from Him directly but only through the screen (Shach).

The roof and walls of the Sukkah and its dimensions symbolize the details of our soul, the rules of its construction.

The roof of the Sukkah hides us from the light of the Sun, which symbolizes direct light. The sun shines on everyone equally without any obstacles. In the Sukkah there are four columns and walls, but the main thing is the roof (Shach), which does not let the light of the sun pass directly to a person sitting in the Sukkah. This is the meaning of the Sukkot holiday—building a common Kli.

The roof is constructed from the waste of barn and winery. You can use branches cut from the trees in the garden. They cover the roof so that rays of the Sun cannot shine directly through it into the Sukkah. In fact, we refuse to receive direct light for our own sake.

Therefore, we build the Sukkah together with the group and sit in it together and enjoy our unity and the fact that we can connect and hide from the rays of the Sun, from the direct light, because we built a screen.

Each supports the other in order to protect them from receiving pleasure, which can come directly into the egoistic desire. Therefore, we hide under the screen and unite to help each other stand against all pleasures and temptations that confuse us at any moment, and we are thus saved from egoistic receiving.

Everyone should have a place under the roof of the Sukkah where he or she can eat during all seven days of the Sukkot holiday. But the main thing is to build an inner Sukkah in our desires, meaning, to build a common spiritual Kli and be under a common screen.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/8/22

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Question: The Creator is the good who does good, and His attitude toward me as a creature does not change. But I have to believe it, I don’t feel that way. What does this principle give me?

Answer: This principle gives you the opportunity to evaluate the attitude of the Creator toward yourself.

Question: Do I have to believe it or can I feel that it is?

Answer: Now you can’t feel it. Just believe it as if it is unfounded. But if you strive for the same actions with respect to the Creator, you will begin to feel Him.

Question: So Kabbalah says that it is possible to feel that the Creator really wants only good for us?

Answer: Yes. This is called the law of similarity of properties. By acquiring His properties, you can feel His attitude toward you.

Comment: Many people believe that the Creator is doing good. And often this belief completely satisfies a person.

My Response: It is quite possible that this is so on the one hand. But on the other hand, we want not just to see it, but to feel, explore, and know.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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There are three conditions in prayer:

1. Believing that He can save him. Although he has the worst conditions of all his contemporaries, still, “Will the Lord’s hand be too short to save him?” If it is not so, then “the Landlord cannot save His vessels” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati, “Three Conditions in Prayer”).

Question: What does it mean to “believe”?

Answer: A person consists of all kinds of qualities and desires. Therefore, our studies attune us to select from all our desires, qualities, and intentions the ones that will direct all of humanity to good.

To believe means to be sure that if I do this, then eventually I invite upon myself the correct influence of the upper force and gradually correct myself. Thus, the first condition is that I must be sure that the Creator can help me.

2: He no longer has any choice for he has already done all that he could but saw no cure to his plight.

It means that he did not do everything. There is no other solution but to ask. Constantly address your request to the Creator. This is a single internal force of nature, which is able to correct us all. Therefore, there is practically nothing except for a prayer or request for correction.

3: If He does not help him, he will be better off dead than alive.

We need to come to the next state in which I want to correct myself and be similar to the Creator so much that if I do not achieve this, then it is not worth living for the sake of something else.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 9/25/22

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