If we build the spiritual Kli (Sukkah) correctly, then this work will give us only pleasure. If we work together in spirituality, we will only enjoy, we do not need to suffer. If you suddenly feel suffering, it is a sign that our work is not spiritual and we are doing it wrong. It is like the parable about a man who is carrying a heavy suitcase by mistake.

If your load is heavy, then you are carrying the wrong suitcase. You see, the suitcase you must carry is very light. It is so weightless that it is not you who is carrying it. It is carrying you instead. As it is said about the ark of the covenant: “The ark carries its carriers.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/30/20, “Sukkot“

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If we want to maintain the level of faith we have achieved, then everyone must take care of others. After all, no one can be sure that he can preserve something himself, only if “they helped every one his friend.” The only way we can protect each other is by mutual guarantee.

No one is able to protect himself in any way when it comes to spiritual attainment. Having achieved some success, I will lose everything in a moment if my friends do not support me. That is why we need mutual guarantee between us all.

I can’t hold anything because my spiritual vessel is just one point, one pixel. I must be connected to all the other pixels at least in the ten, otherwise it is impossible.

Therefore it is said: “the group or death,” because I will immediately lose everything I have achieved if I remain disconnected from the group. I just don’t have a place, a vessel, or a memory where it can be stored. The spiritual can be preserved only in the, ten Sefirot in the connection between them. We will find out where the collective memory of society is located. It is not in society itself, but in the light.

Therefore, each of us can preserve our gains only if we are connected with others, in the ten, and from it we are connected further. What is outside of me will remain, and what is inside me will disappear, vanish.

And if we are connected to each other, then we should not be afraid to lose what we have achieved. If we care about our connection, then even the loss will only be in order to get something new and more important than before. This is called the “commandment of forgetfulness.” We must forget previous achievements in order to go further. As it is said: “May everything be anew for you every time.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/30/20, “Sukkot“

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Question: How does the group help a person overcome their egoism?

Answer: We cannot overcome our egoism by ourselves. If we try, we will fall into depression and self-criticism and will experience different states until we understand that only by connecting with others can we ascend above our egoism, above the separation, emptiness, and meaninglessness that pressure us.

A person must run away from himself to the group. Only then will he be able to break out of the egoistic captivity.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 10/7/18

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Question: Do I receive a portion of light from the very first moment I begin to study the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: You begin to receive a certain portion of the upper light to the extent you participate in the group, study with the group, and perform common actions together with the group. These photons impact you, and as a result of their impact, the first very sensitive changes will begin to appear in you.

I don’t want to speak about these sensations in advance, but they are quite interesting, and you will feel that something is happening inside you that is not from this world.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 11/11/18

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Question: If the whole world was created for me and is inside me, how can it be that my life is a struggle and it seems that the whole world is against me?

Answer: It is that way so that you, an egoist, will change and correct this world into the opposite world. This is the only reason it is this way.

The world is the reflection of your internal attributes. Change yourself and the world will change and you will find yourself in a world called the Garden of Eden. This means that your desire, corrected from egoistic to altruistic,  is completely similar to the Creator, is filled with Light, and is in a state of eternity and wholeness.

You can attain this in our world, during your lifetime. It is all right in front of you and it only depends on the right request.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 11/4/18

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Question: How can we perceive positive impressions in our world as something bad? After all, they divert a person from focusing on the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Answer: Indeed, we need to perceive positive influences very clearly and to fear that they might divert us in the opposite direction. Of course, all sorts of pleasures and relaxations can seriously harm us.

Evil pushes a person to the recognition of the purpose of life and the goal of one’s existence, while a positive influence can seemingly divert a person and lead one away from the goal.

Question: Does this mean that winning two million dollars in the lottery is worse than being summoned by the police?

Answer: Of course. Being summoned by the police shakes a person to such an extent that he immediately begins to search for the Creator: where, why, what? But if he wins two million dollars, it is a problem. How can a person not only annul the two million dollars now, but also turn them into an obstacle?

It is not easy and it can be done only if one receives with the intention in order to bestow. This means that Tzimtzum (Restriction), Masach (Screen), etc. are already required here. It is a very complex system.

Question: Suppose a person receives blows as a negative force and he immediately turns to the Creator. After all, this is an egoistic appeal, so how does this advance him?

Answer: It shakes him. The question is how he appeals to the Creator and what he does with it. First, he needs to thank the Creator for having reminded him about Himself. Thanks to the blow the Creator seemingly called him and he answered.

Question: Is there such a thing, since after all, it is not natural?

Answer: If the goal is more important for me than the blows, it is natural.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 10/14/18

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Question: Suppose something happens in my life that I regard as a negative impact. I come to the group and share the details of this event with them. What should the group do? How can I feel the support from the group? Should they internally turn to the Creator in order to help me?

Answer: You should not even tell the group about your problems. You should simply get the confidence from the group that everything is done by the Creator in order to tie you to the group and through the group to Him.

There is no other reason for Him to cause you this unpleasantness. The Creator does it only for one purpose: for you to feel the need for the group and for Him because in the group you work on the right attitude outside yourself toward Him so that you will later reveal Him between you.

So there is no need to tell the group about your problems. The main thing is to try to reveal the Creator in the group and then turn to Him through the group.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 10/14/18

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Question: What is the path of sufferings?

Answer: We must not advance toward the goal of creation by suffering, but when you divert from the spiritual path, you sink into sufferings. They put you back on track and you make a step forward.

Then you go deeper into  your egoism, you divert, and once again feel sufferings, which put you back on track, and then you take a right step forward once again.

Question: So, is it impossible to advance without suffering?

Answer: The point is that we constantly make mistakes along the way because without making mistakes, we will not be able to understand how to operate correctly. Therefore we have the opportunity to move toward the goal so that it will not be the sufferings, but the realization of our mistakes that will help us advance. This means that working on our mistakes and moving forward will be the same.

In this case, we will go without falling and rising, taking a step forward, again falling and rising, taking a step forward, but in two lines: left and right. Experiencing certain sufferings, troubles, and mistakes in the left line, we simultaneously work with them in the right line. And thus we do not go alternately left and right, but move with both feet toward the same goal.

Basically, we understand that we cannot advance without making mistakes since that is the way we are built. But if we advance egoistically, we already assume how we will discover our mistakes, how we will reveal evil, and we aim ourselves at moving over to the right line.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 11/18/18

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Today is a special day in memory of my teacher, Rabash, the anniversary of his departure (Yahrzeit). But in fact, this day cannot be called special because we are always in connection with Rabash, with his high spirit, his path.

It is not customary among Kabbalists, like ordinary people, to grieve for the deceased, for his body no longer being near us. After all, he is connected with us even more than during the life of the physical body because we are filled with his spirit, and day by day we try to cleave to his words, to his message, to his soul.

Therefore, it remains only to thank the Creator for sending us such a soul, which has become our guide on the spiritual path, leads us and guides us. Through Rabash, the Creator fills us and manages us.

First of all, of course, we should be grateful to the Creator, and after Him to this great soul Rabash for his efforts to build the Kabbalistic group Bnei Baruch in order to convey to us all the wisdom of Kabbalah and the method of correction with the help of which we can achieve merging with Creator.

That is why I named our group Bnei Baruch (Sons of Baruch) in honor of Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag. Let’s hope that we will be able to justify the name we have taken and implement its methodology right up to the very purpose of creation.

Kabbalists usually do not celebrate the day of remembrance as it is customary, to commemorate the deceased on this day and gather at his grave. We understand that a person is not where his body is buried. Our thoughts are directed in a completely different direction.

Baal HaSulam said that it did not matter to him where his sack of bones will be buried because the soul is not connected with material remains. We want to cleave to the soul of Rabash and that is why we attach such importance to the day of his memory because this is an occasion, a special opportunity, to get even closer to his spirit and to further advance in his path to the Creator.

Of course, we celebrate this special day of memory of Rabash, but we associate it more with the spiritual path he paved.

I chose this name Bnei Baruch for our Kabbalistic group because Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag is our spiritual father, which means that we are his sons. Therefore, I had no doubt that we should be called Sons of Baruch. I was hoping that we could be worthy of this name.

I was with my teacher for twelve years and felt like a small child growing up next to an adult. He seemed huge to me, and I tried to hold on to him all the time as a child clings to a father. Therefore, I did not have to look for this name; it came to me naturally, by itself.

Our center is located on the street named after Rabash. Petach Tikva now has a street named after him, and the building of the Bnei Baruch center is located on this street. Every day we study his articles, his methodology, and we get everything from him. It is clear that Baal HaSulam stands behind Rabash, but he is extremely high, like endless space. And Rabash is closer to us. He is like a father to us.

Baal HaSulam is followed by Baal Shem Tov, then the Ari, and then Rabbi Shimon, the author of The Book of Zohar. Through this chain, we receive all our sources for studying Kabbalah. Rabash and Baal HaSulam are two people the Creator gave us so that we could approach Him.

I am grateful to my disciples for the fact that they have received from the Creator the desire to accept this material, to bind themselves to the goal of creation, and to try to achieve it. Thank you!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/22/20, “Memorial Day for Rav Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag (Rabash)”

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Question: How do my corporeal senses change in spirituality, and will they become coarser or more sensitive?

Answer: The corporeal senses practically do not change. As you were like an animal, you will remain an animal. When you reveal the upper world, only your spiritual attainment changes, which is a very significant addition that begins to lead you forward.

Your corporeal aspirations, on the other hand, will necessarily be only in order to survive, and it doesn’t even matter how. What do you really need? A bed, a fridge, a table, a chair, and a computer to study Kabbalah. If in addition to that you also need to work, then work. Do you need a family? You will have a family and you will take care of it. But all this is secondary.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 10/7/18

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