A good example of faith above reason is contained in the story of David Leikes, a student of the Baal Shem Tov. The student says that they sat with the teacher at a meal late in the evening at the end of the Sabbath, and no one had a penny in their pocket, they were all very poor.

And suddenly the teacher said to him: “David, give me money to buy mead.” And the student put his hand in his pocket, drew out a gold coin, and gave it to him.

How could that be, when he knew that his pocket was empty? But since the upper one had told him to give him money, he didn’t hesitate to reach into his pocket and pull out a coin. And this is not a fairy tale, but a true story.

This is called faith above reason. He knew that there was nothing in his pocket, but when the teacher told him to take the money out of his pocket, he had no doubt that there must be the money that the teacher was talking about because this is a different degree of reality. This is why the student put his hand into his pocket and pulled out a coin.

We cannot judge the spiritual world from the level of this world or judge this world from the level of the upper world. This is exactly the same as with young children: If you want to understand why the baby is crying, what his grief is, then you need to go down to his level and enter into his state. Then we will know what he feels, what he sees, and why he cries. We cannot understand the cause from the height of our level, but only see the effect.

The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how to dress in the state of the upper and then be able to reveal it, understand and feel where we get all the orders that govern us. So now, when I tell you about this gold coin, about the spiritual state that we have to reveal, can you follow the teacher with faith above knowledge and pull the gold out of your pocket?

I tell you that you are at the end of correction—this is the true state immediately created at the creation of the world, only you do not feel it! But in fact, our condition is perfect, so put your hand in your pocket and pull out the final correction!

A teacher in Kabbalah is a guide on the spiritual path and you should follow him with your eyes shut.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/23/20, “Concerning Above Reason”

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Question: Can we assume that the world of bacteria and viruses has declared war on the world of people? Maybe it’s time to give them a place on this planet because they are less vulnerable and certainly united in a common goal more than people?

Answer: No one has declared war on anyone. It all depends on the person, how correctly or incorrectly he reacts to what is happening to him and to the surrounding nature. We are the only beings with freewill.

Comment: During the outbreak of the plague in the 14th century, people thought that the disease was sent to them by angry gods, evil spirits. They didn’t even know about the existence of bacteria and viruses. People believed in angels and fairies, but they could not imagine that simple hand washing could save them.

You say: “Only connection can save us from the virus.” That is, follow a simple rule: Start treating each other well, and the virus will disappear. These are also, as such, simple truths.

My Response: What does “simple truth” mean? Do I mind washing my hands?! Hand washing (netilat yadaim) according to Kabbalah, in the spiritual sense of the word, means that I take my hands away from their usual use of wanting to grab something for myself.

I restrain myself, keep away, so as not to take anything from this world. It is necessary to understand the meaning of these actions correctly. Therefore, I am not against cleanliness and hygiene. But first of all, you need to wash your hands in a spiritual sense.

Question: What is the connection between the virus and washing hands?

Answer: There are four levels of interaction between all parts of nature: inanimate, vegetative, animal, and human. And on each level, we must interact correctly, that is, take our hands away from grabbing from the other, or not to receive, or even, perhaps, to give.

In other words, “washing your hands” on the level of human relationships means not using one another.
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From KabTV’s “Coronavirus Is Changing Reality,” 3/26/20

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Question: When can caring about corporeal problems be the best spiritual action? Could it be that a Kabbalist shifts the responsibility for his failures or idleness to the Creator? How can we not be confused here? What guidelines do we have?

Answer: The Creator assigns duties to man and man passes them on to the Creator? That sounds good, but it is not so. We have received our world, our attributes, everything there is in us in order to properly interact with each other and with the Creator.

The corporeal problems were given to us so that we would maintain all the states in our world. No one is forcing you to work 20 hours a day doing hard primitive labor. You can work anywhere else. That is your business.

But Kabbalah says: “You must earn your living.” You have no right to live at the expense of others. You must work even if you have rich parents.

You can choose not to receive money or to give it away, but you must work. Work and salary are not the same thing. Everyone must produce something in the world, and wages have nothing to do with the work itself.

There are people who get paid and do not work. There are those who volunteer and do not get paid. But we must work.

When I began to study with Rabash, I had my own business and I closed it down. I told Rabash that according to my calculations, I can afford not to work for four years. What I have is enough for me and my family.

But he said: “No. That is your calculation with your money, but the calculation with your soul is different. If you want to close down your business, go ahead, but you still have to work at least four to six hours a day.” And I continued to work four hours a day because, in addition, I spent a lot of time with him.

That is, you must give to the world. And as for receiving, that is your business.

Question: How can I know whether what I want is above my bare necessity?

Answer: Each person must determine that for himself.

You must participate in the morning lesson for three hours a day and spend another hour or two in the evening lesson. Six to eight hours go to your professional work. You must also provide for your family, and after that, do whatever you like. Any other calculations are meaningless. But you should know that from the very beginning, you must cut out three hours to study.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 1/5/20

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Question: Is a typical mistake of beginners studying Kabbalah, at least for the first few years, that a person asks for knowledge?

Answer: Yes. He goes toward knowledge because he is used to it in our world. This is a natural, selfish, understandable gain for him.

Question: So he asks for the sensations of the Creator? Is this wrong?

Answer: It depends on what this is for. In principle one should not give orders to the Creator. Besides, when a person advances forward, his desire to reveal the Creator disappears. The desire to reveal the property of bestowal, to be more in a property similar to the Creator than to feel Him within his egoism begins to awaken in him.

Question: We always can explain the state we are in now as well as the future state: how we will feel if the Creator appears in us. But the transition from state X to the state X+1 is not clear. How does it happen? What actions should be taken? I can’t understand it.

Answer: It is said, “What the mind does not do, time does.” You must study systematically, work in a group, work on yourself, disseminate, exert yourself in it, as it is said, “Everything that is in your power to do, do.”

As a result, by all these actions you attract the upper light and it moves you forward. Being a quality of bestowal, love, and rapprochement, its strength radiates on you all the time and these qualities manifest in you. You begin to desire them; you begin to feel they are not in you. In this light, you feel the opposite of it. This is called the realization of evil.

Since you see the opposite, you sense the evil in yourself, you wish to get rid of it even with your selfish qualities. Although you are still an egoist, you already want to get rid of your egoism. You are convinced that it harms you. Here the person’s work on himself and his consistent movement forward begins, directed toward the quality of bestowal.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/1/19

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Question: Why is the spiritual point located in the heart and not in the head?

Answer: The heart is called the general desire. Тhe desire specifically directed toward the Creator is called the point in the heart.

Question: If I stop wanting to receive from the Creator, will He stop giving?

Answer: If you stop asking, the Creator will stop giving. He will begin to tickle you with other alternative ways so that you will want to turn to Him.

Question: We meet once a week in the group. Is it possible to get together more often to advance faster?

Answer: I am very glad to hear that you are ready to meet more than once a week. Get ready! Our archive has a lot of materials: lectures, classes, etc. Use it. You have no idea what is there.

Question: What is the upper light? Is it an ambient light or something else?

Answer: The upper light is the property of bestowal and love that emanates from the Creator and builds the desire (creation), fills it, modifies it, and performs various actions with it in order to bring this desire to resemble Himself. In the end, the desire (creation) becomes absolutely identical to the light of the Creator.

Question: Can we call the connection between us the ability to feel the desire of another person?

Answer: No. This is not the ability to feel another person. I do not want to feel anyone at all, I only want to reveal the Creator, my connection with Him, and how He fulfills me.
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From Kab TV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 2/16/20

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Question: Baal HaSulam writes: The whole world was created only for the improvement of man, in the image of the Almighty.

Since it is necessary to make efforts to correct our nature, it is said we will make man together with the whole act of creation, since his creation is completed only with his efforts and with the help of all creations. However, apart from man, everything else is already perfect. ”

It takes some effort for a person to bring himself to a better state. What is the connection between these efforts and the fact that the coronavirus is affecting us now? What efforts should we make and in what?

Answer: In finding the right connection between us. Moreover, this connection should be good, higher than our selfish hearts. It should be that with the help of mutual aspiration with each other, we unite in the Creator. In the Creator Himself.

That He will be our home, the so-called Temple. So that we come together in a common desire, common intention, and common aspiration. For this we have been given this life and this opportunity.

Viruses and other similar things push us to this. But they adjust it so as not to deprive our freedom of will so that we would still find the right connections between us.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 3/22/20

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Question: The growth of the soul and the changes in it due to the light’s influence is something very internal, abstract, and hidden from strangers. How do these changes appear in the material world? Does a person become more harmonious? Are good relations revealed between us?

Answer: I would not say that good relations are revealed. But everything that happens in our world is carried out under the influence of an upper field. It constantly increases its tension, intensity, and this is felt as the Creator is approaching us.

But this is a very unpleasant approach because the Creator is the quality of bestowal and love, and we, being uncorrected egoists, feel His approach as negative. This is similar to the way teachers and parents approach us and demand us to behave more maturely, more seriously, and we do not want to.

Today we can see it in the development of all humankind. The Creator’s approach to the world determines the current crisis. Since we have not become similar to the Creator, this is not a good rapprochement; we would otherwise feel this approach as His revelation. Not the revelation of darkness, suffering, problems, and various viruses, but the revelation of the light. Everything depends on us. If we manage to rise spiritually, we feel the approach of the Creator as a blessing. If we do not, we feel it as evil.

The Creator always wants to get closer to us and He does so gradually, but so far we feel His approach as a constant decline of mankind.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 2/16/20

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Question: The moment the importance of spirituality is revealed, a certain desire of this world suddenly appears, does not let us rest, and it becomes stronger than the desire for spirituality. Why is this disturbance given to us?

Answer: The problem is that you do not have a proper environment that will give you an even greater thirst for revealing the question of the meaning of life.

If you are alone, the environment you are in will, of course, be much stronger and will drag you down. But if you create a small society around you in which everyone tries to cooperate mutually and correctly, each one can lean on the others and thus advance.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 2/2/20

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It is impossible to get out of a descent alone; the more advanced the state becomes, the more difficult it is to understand, accept, and rise above. The only way is to ask your friends for help. Only if I bow to them and implore them can I get out of the descent with them.

The Creator, while giving me a burdening of the heart, does not take me into account alone, but gives me the burden of the whole ten through me. Therefore, one person is not able to do anything because the Creator refers to the whole ten in general and, after the ten, to each of us: to one, another, the third, etc.

Therefore, do not be scared when a heavy load falls upon you; it falls on you so you will receive help from the entire ten. Share this load with everyone and you will see that it is not heavy at all. Only one thing is difficult: to understand that through me this burden is given to the whole ten and that I must join my friends.

If a 200 kg stove falls on me then, of course, I won’t be able to hold it. If each friend in the ten lifts 20 kg, then it is already quite feasible

The Creator never sends a burdening of the heart intended for me alone but always for the whole ten. He doesn’t see me alone, but looks only through the ten, only in this form.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/22/20, “Concerning Above Reason”

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Today, in connection with the epidemic, the Creator has given us a special opportunity to turn to Him. We want to give Him pleasure while giving Him the opportunity to become one with us, to fill us, and to do everything He wants with us. We are ready for anything.

The first action is to make yourself an embryo. The embryo in the mother’s womb completely cancels itself, decides nothing for itself, and gives everything up to the very last trifle to the higher authority. This is the first action that we all must achieve now: turn to the Creator together and cancel ourselves.

The Creator has sent us the coronavirus for this and has organized this whole state to help us perform this action: to turn to Him and ask for correction; that is , our association. The Creator has already prepared the whole basis for unification for us.

If we turn to Him now, we will suddenly feel how our whole world will begin to change. Material reality, social and governmental systems, and relations between people will change. We will feel ourselves in a different state as if we were in a different world. We will become more sensitive to each other, closer; we will understand that we are relating to one system and we can’t do whatever we want.

The Creator has begun to put our lives in order via the virus. We can no longer do what we want. Everyone is inclined and ready to fulfill everything that is necessary.

Therefore, it is necessary to turn to the Creator with a request to continue the corrections, to establish a relationship between us so that He can clothe Himself inside of our good relationships and reveal Himself to all of humanity. Then, of course, we are guaranteed a happy future and a good life. Now is the time to act!
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/29/20, Writings of Rabash, ‘According to What Is Explained Concerning “Love Thy Friend as Thyself”’

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