Question: How are you able to perform your function and at the same time rely on the Creator, meaning, advance as if by yourself and in parallel with the Creator?

Answer: And how can I perform my function if I don’t rely on the Creator? Where does my strength, knowledge, and opportunities come from? Where do I get the confidence that what I am doing will work? This is only to the extent that I am connected with Him.

Comment: Once you gave an example that Rabash, without relying on anyone went into a bomb shelter during a bombing.

My Response: But this is not because he did not rely on the Creator, but because it is necessary to act as all the people do

Comment: Often there is a feeling as if you are under the shield of the Creator, that there is some kind of protection.

My Response: You don’t have any protection. It can only be to the extent that you are connected with the Creator. And even with this protection, you can’t rely on it anyway. You should only be tied to Him. And what will happen to you, you should not think about it.

No matter what state you are in, think not about protection, but about how to be more tied to Him. Because bombs falling on you  are made to help you get even more correctly attached to the Creator, not out of fear!

And constantly thank the Creator for sending to you all these states because they help you get closer to Him by giving an example that you need to be in this form in both your best states and in the worst.

Question: But Rabash could not have climbed down to the bomb shelter. Could he observe and think about the Creator?

Answer: It cannot be understood. And yes and no. He had to act like everyone else. This is not a game. Actually, this also shows the quality of bestowal. I can’t express it in words.

The ordinary human mind cannot combine two opposite forces, opposite qualities, and states and see them as one.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Rely on the Creator?” 6/28/13

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Question: If a student did not cross the Machsom (Barrier) during the teacher’s lifetime, what are the chances of crossing it later? Should he do it during the teacher’s lifetime?

Answer: Of course it is desirable. But this can be done only through similarity of qualities, which means dedication to the path, “adhesion” to the teacher, following all his advice, and on how much the teacher is more important in his eyes than he is himself. In other words, it is just a training relative to the Creator.

There are many students who are very capable, very eager to attain spirituality, but for them the importance of something of their own prevails over the importance of what the teacher requires or what would be necessary for the teacher.

Let’s say if someone wrote something unpleasant about you and about the teacher, what will you perceive with more pain? Will you defend his honor or yours? How will you perform, with what diligence?

Comment: But it depends on the different stages of a person’s development.

My Response: Undoubtedly, of course! But you are asking if it is possible to cross the Machsom before the death of the teacher. I do not know. This is a student’s problem. In any case, after death it takes much longer.

Question: But then who will take him across the Machsom if not the teacher?

Answer: The same teacher, only in a different form. If the student could not take advantage of his immediate presence next to him, he will have to look for him in a different form around him. Just as he looks for the Creator.

Question: Can there be anyone else besides the teacher?

Answer: No, nobody! Not something that is materialized. The same teacher, only in a different form, and not a person.

Comment: But if there is, as you say, a chain, you go after Rabash…

My Response: Then it must be a person who has already passed the upper path. How can you put someone who is at the same level as the students? To put one of them above them? On what basis?

Question: You are the degree we have to hold on to. But if you are gone, in what form can we do it?

Answer: If you do not discover this form, then, of course, it is bad. Then you will move forward in a very long way, using the “trial and error” method.

If a student has not entered the spiritual world for fifteen or twenty years while being with me, then he will need the same number of years more in order to enter it without me.

Question: How was it with you and Rabash?

Answer: I took everything I needed from Rabash. I was relying only on the fact that I was next to him. Then there was a lengthy method of going deeper into the same mutual connections that we had established before his death.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Spirituality During the Lifetime of the Teacher” 7/8/13

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Question: What signs indicate our progress in reading The Book of Zohar and in spiritual work in general?

Answer: The most obvious and strong sign of progress in reading The Book of Zohar is a feeling of greater need for connection with others.

Another sign is that I feel that for some reason that The Zohar attracts me sometimes more and sometimes less, but in any case, I feel that it is good for me to be near this Book, to read it, or to listen to it.

I feel that there is a force in this Book that connects me with life. There is such an effect in it.

Even if a person does not attain, does not understand, and does not know what The Book of Zohar is talking about, he still feels that this Book, as Baal HaSulam says in the article “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar,” is like a rope that the Creator threw to the created beings here in this world.

Holding on to the end of this rope, we will be able to rise to Him.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/10/10, The Book of Zohar “Ki Tissa (When You Take)”

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Question: Déjà vu is a state when a person clearly feels that he has seen or heard something somewhere before. How does this happen?

Answer: The fact is that when the brain begins to compare different things, it seems to a person that this has definitely already happened, and this, and that, and one begins to embed one video fragment into another, one picture into another. So it turns into “déjà vu.”

But, on the other hand, there is also premonition, foresight, when a person (thanks to one’s intellect or sense of being in the system of nature) feels that such and such an action should happen now. He begins to feel the thoughts of others or to anticipate some waves coming to him. And all this is because we are in one unified system of nature and can guess the next event by some preliminary signs.

There are people who have developed this feeling, like Messing or Bedouins in the desert. The sense of nature in them was developed very strongly, particularly in Messing, for years ahead. He could simply predict because he felt that such events would happen. But that does not mean he could change anything.

And Kabbalah allows us to mitigate the upcoming events. They will happen anyway but in a milder form. It depends on whether we will unite between us, whether we will treat each other and our progress kindly, or leave the whole matter to our egoism, which naturally will torment us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call, What is Déjà Vu?” 5/19/13

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The main thing in reading The Book of Zohar is the intention. After all, by reading this Book, we attract the greatest light, if we are able to do it.

In everything written by Kabbalists, there is no stronger light than in The Book of Zohar. That is why it gained such fame and popularity, and at the same time throughout history, it was hidden, and so many things happened to it.

Only now it is revealed because it is a source of light that returns to its origin. Therefore, it does not matter what exactly we read in The Book of Zohar, because in any case, we do not understand a single word correctly. But we want to penetrate into the same picture, to feel it, and not to understand it; it is not given to us to understand it with our earthly mind. We strive to enter it, to open it up.

After all, we are talking about Kabbalists who have revealed the spiritual world and told us about what they discovered there, like in an adventure novel about travelers discovering new lands and islands.

This is how Kabbalists tell us about what is happening in spirituality. They describe what inner tools they reveal it with, and at the same time talk about what they see and feel. That is, they talk about the actions they perform and what they reveal as a result of these actions.

We look, read, listen, and do not understand anything, but we aspire to feel these states ourselves, to live in them. Like children who read books about exciting adventures and experience the adventure together with the heroes, all this was only in our imagination.

Here we enter the spiritual world for real and feel it even more strongly than we perceive ourselves in this world now. It is our current perception of this world that is the most distorted and clouded compared to everything else.

In spirituality there is amazing clarity and transparency that is impossible to imagine, there is the deepest understanding of all events and the forces behind them, the causes and effects, the source of everything that happens, and the connections between everything that exists.

This is what we should strive for when reading The Book of Zohar—to stop being old men, but feel like young children, carried away by a book about exciting adventures.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/11, The Book of Zohar “Tzav (Command)”

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Question: During Rosh HaShanah, a person decides to start a new life, and despite the fact that he needs to rise above his nature, he nevertheless wants to check all his qualities within ten days before Yom Kippur.

Comparing them with the qualities of the Creator, he sees that he cannot be like the Creator in any of them, and on Yom Kippur decides to make a restriction on them, which in our world are represented by five restrictions.

After that, five days later, which symbolize the five Sefirot, the Sukkot holiday begins. What is the essence of these holidays?

Answer: The New Year (Rosh HaShanah) is preceded by a whole series of days when people ask for forgiveness. They sort of evaluate their actions, what good and bad they have done, and in general they understand that they have not done anything particularly good.

This is how a person checks his actions and comes to the conclusion that he is obliged to obey the upper will of the Creator because “there is none else besides Him.” He accepts the upper will as the only force ruling in the world. From this state, he begins to evaluate himself. He really has a very serious analysis of his actions and deeds, which continues until Yom Kippur.

Yom Kippur is the inner state of a person when he realizes that only one big egoism is acting within him and he must rise above himself. After all, the main commandment of the Torah is “love your neighbor as yourself,” and he is absolutely far from this and even the opposite of this. Therefore, he asks for forgiveness.

This is the principle of Yom Kippur, when he is ready to stop using his egoistic desires. There are only five of them in a person. Therefore, they are represented by five restrictions in our world: a prohibition on eating, drinking, and so on.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur” 10/12/19

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Question: What does Yom Kippur mean?

Answer: Yom Kippur – “Ki Purim,” as the day (Yom)  of Purim. “Kippur” is “Redemption,” “Purim” from the word “Pur,” which means fate.

Therefore, Yom Kippur shows all our transgressions, which we must gradually correct. From Yom Kippur to Hanukkah, we correct our bestowing desires to be only in bestowal, and from Hanukkah to Purim, we also correct the qualities of reception so that they are directed to bestowal. And in this way, we come to the Purim holiday.

There are certain prohibitions on Yom Kippur; people do not drink, do not wear leather clothes, and so on. This means that we find egoistic inclusions in all our desires, and therefore we cannot use them.

The five types of prohibitions correspond to five types of restriction because our egoistic desire consists of five levels. Each level corresponds to food, drink, clothing, and so on.

Question: Why can’t we wear leather clothes on this day?

Answer: Clothes (“Levush“) means that you have a Kli (Vessel), a certain correction, and then you can dress in such clothing. But in fact, you discover that all your desires are egoistic, and therefore you cannot clothe in them. The prohibition is in order not to use uncorrected desires.

A Kabbalist in his spiritual advancement fulfills these prohibitions, meaning, restrictions to his desires, checks himself, and acts accordingly.

Question: Do we also need to observe this in our world?

Answer: Well, in our world this exists as customs. Otherwise, they would not be passed from generation to generation for the people, and would exist only among Kabbalists who understand their essence and act in this way. Moreover, Kabbalists do this not on the calendar day of Yom Kippur, but every time they are in such a state.

Question: What does a Kabbalist ask for on this day?

Answer: He asks the Creator to help him to go beyond his egoism. He has no other requests.

There can be only two types of appeals to the Creator. The first is with gratitude for having received such a special work, the second is with a request for strength to rise even higher to the quality of bestowal.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur” 10/10/19

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The departure from this world of a great sage, teacher, and spiritual mentor is a special day. After all, he rises another degree higher and shows us that we should follow him.

We see that each of the great Kabbalists has taken a step forward in his own special way and brought the science of Kabbalah, the revelation of the Creator, the methodology, understanding, feeling, merging with the Creator and unity closer to people.

I think Rabash took the last step after everyone. He stands on the shoulders of all Kabbalists who lived before him, from Rabbi Akiva onwards, to Ari, Ramhal, and Baal Shem Tov. Rabash summed up everything they discovered for humanity, and he gave us this methodology in a ready, sorted form, which we can use and implement.

We need to hold on to the instructions for spiritual work he left as stated in his articles. Rabash did not want to go beyond the inner work of man in his explanations. He does not engage in philosophical or historical clarification and does not discuss the general development of mankind. He was very wary of presenting himself as a great Kabbalist, like Baal HaSulam, Ari, and Ramhal, and he tried modestly to keep a low profile. And so it went on throughout his life.

We have yet to reveal the essence of his contribution and his true height, and to see who our teacher really was.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/30/22, “Rabash Memorial Day (Yahrzeit)”

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Question: Why do we read The Book of Zohar?

Answer: We use it as means of spiritual advancement of the group.

First of all, the acquired desire manifests itself in the form of a certain group of people. Individual broken desires appear to each other in physical form and, because of this, are able to establish an initial connection between themselves. They gather in a group and study The Book of Zohar.

At the same time, the broken desire seems to strive for something above it. A joint study of a higher degree under the guidance of a teacher, given everyone’s correct participation, brings changes to the friends. They try to acquire the vessels of a straight line, then the surrounding light in the vessels of the circle around them is ready to enter them. But for now, it comes from the circles to the voids of their desires from afar, in the form of surrounding light, until they take a straight form.

This, in fact, is the purpose of studying. Then, in the corrected vessels, they will be able to study the same texts and the same lights that have turned from external to internal and have passed from vessels of circles to vessels of a straight line.

Thus, The Book of Zohar is a special tool we use without knowing exactly how it affects us. But it doesn’t matter, it still works.

Question: Why is The Zohar more powerful than The Torah in this sense?

Answer: The Book of Zohar has a stronger effect than the Torah because it is written in a style and form that is dictated by the period following the destruction of the Temple.

Previously, the people of Israel were at the height of Mochin de Haya, their personal end of correction, and then fell from it into concealment. As a result, Kabbalists are in a broken state among everyone and at the same time rise above all. This difference between the two “ends” of reality, between the world of infinity and our world, has opened up in them.

The sons of Israel fell to the bottom, into the heaviest egoism, while the Kabbalists of Rabbi Shimon’s group were at the top. As a result, the gap, the rift between them, the nation ran from negative infinity to positive infinity.

After that, throughout exile until its very end, the vessels of the people of Israel should mix with all the others and bring spiritual sparks into them.

The Torah is another matter. Moses wrote the Pentateuch at the height of final correction. He himself was above all, but the people were not in the same state. After all, they had just come out of Egypt, and Egypt is not yet a breakage.

In Egypt you only reveal your small degree rather than the entire breakage, in the course of which sanctity enters into defilement, “rattling” it and allowing for the correction of flaws, “expanding by leaps and bounds.” So, since the people had not yet reached such states, Moses could not reveal or express in the Pentateuch all the processes of correction. He reflected only what had happened up until then.

In general, each level includes all the others. The individual and the whole are equal. Therefore, the Torah of course, contains everything, but in such a form that it is impossible to use in its entirety for the correction of souls. You cannot extract light from the Pentateuch that returns broken souls to the source because the exodus from Egypt occurred before the present breakage.

In ancient Babylon, only a small part of it was revealed, which made it possible to unite the GAR, “forefathers ” to weigh their hearts down and, upon leaving Egypt, produce “sons” from them, the tribes of Israel. Then, followed the era of the two Temples and the last exile.

Thus, The Book of Zohar was written from completely different polar states with a maximum difference between the height of 125 degrees and the final breakage of the sons of Israel. Let’s not delve into the details or the spiritual circumstances of that era; what is important to know is that this book corresponds perfectly to what lies in nature.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/19/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar“

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Question: In one of the articles we studied, it was said that it is safest to be in a society that has nothing to do with your views at all. But from the point of view of Kabbalah, we can receive the importance of the goal most of all from people who are close in spirit, and at the same time, you can get more harm from them, you can literally move a millimeter away and that is it. You said that a person could learn from Baal HaSulam, but at the same time he could literally harm a new student.

Here, we have two sides at once: both the importance of the goal and the poison that can turn everything upside down. How can one protect oneself from the poison?

Answer: I think that today my students are definitely not in danger. On the contrary, I see that those students who used to be quite dangerous because they could go astray and even drag some more friends along with them are different today.

We have organized a serious, strong group, a spiritual association that already holds them together, and they represent a single structure. I do not think that, at least for now, it can be destroyed. I hope that after me it will not collapse and the world will have a need for them.

We are moving at a very fast pace to a state where the world will no longer have any ability to lead and the ability to somehow keep itself at least at some level. Yet this group will be able to show it how to go forward. In a state of absolute lack of understanding, helplessness, and confusion of humanity, it will firmly set an example, and this will be very necessary for the world.

Question: You stress all the time that we need to show each other the importance of the goal and not in any case show a sour face. But what if someone says something kind of nasty that goes through the network inside the system itself?

Answer: I think that there are many departments for this, working with the masses and so on. In general, the system will hold itself. It is all in the hands of upper forces. I am doing my job, I have nothing to worry about. I build what I can, and then…

We are all parts of the system that leads us to the goal. My task is to teach people to go to it faster and easier for the correct connection with the upper force, and to enjoy the fact that you bring contentment to It.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Poison or Medicine” 6/28/13

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