Question: How much time would it take you to explain to a newcomer what spirituality is, to tell him about spirituality and show it to him?

Answer: Show it? How can you show it to him? He has no tools to reproduce it within himself.

Comment: Let’s put it this way, to convey spirituality. I remember there was a program called “All of Kabbalah in 90 Minutes.”

My Response: You can explain it even in five minutes! That is not important. You can convey in a single sentence what Kabbalah is: “The revelation of the Creator to a person in this world.” That is it. And then, go study. Until a person changes himself…

Kabbalah is not an external science but an inner one. Therefore, everything depends on a person’s qualities. And person’s qualities depend on his efforts, not on me.

Comment: But still, the external picture, whether one wants it or not, attracts a person at the initial stage, and someone who begins to study Kabbalah can work with that.

My Response: Yes, I understand you. Make clips, movies, whatever you want for your advertising. But the wisdom of Kabbalah is still an inner science.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Mind or Heart” 10/1/10

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Question: Who benefits more in spiritual advancement: someone who is close
to you and can communicate with you or someone far away?

Answer: The biggest benefit can be attained by those who are internally close to me. Baal HaSulam, in an article dedicated to the completion of The Book of Zohar and in several letters, writes that true spiritual attainment comes only from the student’s inner connection to the teacher.

Nowadays, this happens not directly but through a group. And still, this principle remains. In Kabbalah, it is called mouth to mouth (Peh el Peh), that is, according to the common screen between the student and the teacher.

This technique is generally known, when a student annuls before the teacher and devotes himself to connecting with the teacher in such a way that the inner content flows from the teacher to the student.

Although Kabbalah, on one hand, is a science, it talks about how to receive the upper light through the similarity of form. It is precisely the similarity of properties that is called the mouth to mouth contact (Peh el Peh).
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call.” 9/11/10

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 43, “What Is, ‘You Will See My Back, But My Face Shall Not Be Seen,’ in the Work?” (1991) (5.24.2002)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 5, Item 9

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3rd part of the Lesson — Preparation for the Congress “Connecting in the Ten, Adhering to the Creator,” Lesson 4: Arvut in the Ten

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When we get together, the agenda should be defined from the outset. In other words, everyone, to the best of his ability, should speak about the importance of the group, about what benefit the group gives him. In accordance with his expectations that the group will give him something important, something that he himself cannot achieve, to that extent he listens to the group.

And the reason for this is to initially build the greatness of the group, the goals of nature, and the necessity of achieving it. For it is precisely to the extent of the greatness of the goal that he will be able to make efforts above his ego, cancel his opinion before the opinion of the group, and act not only for the sake of the group but also for the sake of nature, its wholeness. With such direction of his thoughts, he will feel the help of all the forces of nature.

The same applies to love of friends. Before we gather, it is necessary to build the importance of the friends, the importance of each of them. And to the extent that he appreciates the greatness of the group, he can treat the group with respect. And after that, check himself to see how much effort he is making for the benefit of the group. And if he finds out that he has no strength to do anything for the benefit of the group, then there is a place to turn to the group with a request for strength and desire to work toward achieving love for one’s neighbor.

And if he turned to the group even in thoughts, he must be sure that he will receive the strength to unite and check himself whether he is in joy, as an indicator that he believes in the power of the group and the willingness to help him to achieve correction.

And, since in this case all the friends represent one desire, he wants to see everyone in enjoyment. Therefore, after all the calculations, the time comes for the joy of love of friends. And each one should feel happy as if he has just done a good deed and by this earned a lot of money. And now, as is customary in this world, he treats his friends.

Similarly, it is here as well: each one should make sure that his friend is being cared for, because now he is happy and wants his friends to feel good. Therefore, the conclusion of the meeting should take place on a joyful note and in inspiration. And then everyone will feel perfection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Rabash, Article 17 (1984), “The Agenda of the Assembly – 2”

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Question: LSD is a separate category of drugs. If, as you say, it is just a certain illusion, then why does it cause a person to feel sensations that Kabbalists describe?

Answer: Taking LSD is not a solution to a problem; it is a disconnection from reality; meaning, it is not a conscious correction of oneself within society where you become a useful member, and express yourself as loving and caring, like a mother toward others, and where every member of society perceives you this way, and you perceive them the same. Such relationships are characteristic of the society of the future.

But those who take LSD detach from reality while not connecting with others. They do not want even the smallest contact! They enjoy experiencing all kinds of rosy visions within themselves.

Yet Kabbalah speaks about something entirely different: a very real, very difficult path of correcting a person, where he controls himself and acquires screens, meaning forces, that allow him to rise above his egoism, above each of its measures.

This is a very clear path carried out in connection with other companions, where together you go into battle against your own nature.

All this is completely opposite to the disconnection from reality, to the solitary floating, abstracted from others, that consists of perceiving some internal excitations. I see no connection between Kabbalah and taking LSD. It is a completely different approach, and works on completely different material. It is not you working, but chemistry. You can inject anyone with a drug, and there you go; he already supposedly floats in another dimension.

A person does not change his nature in this. He returns again to the same world, and that is it. Of course, he can tell how good he felt. But what next?! What does he change through this?!

You are suggesting: “Let us make an injection, and then for years not work on our nature.” But we must change our nature, and become godlike people, similar to the Creator; meaning, we must rise above our egoism into the quality of giving and love, into the correct mutual engagement between us, reveal in this engagement the higher world, eternity, perfection, and exist within it.

At the same time, our world does not disappear. We sense two levels of existence: our world in its full material form—we go to work, have children, raise them, serve in the army, do everything necessary—and simultaneously we feel ourselves on a higher level. A person exists on two levels! And one level does not cancel the other but helps it.

On the earthly level, each person is a useful member of society to the extent that he behaves normally as a simple human being. He does not shout: “Let us love each other!” and so on.

But internally he works toward the others so as to bring them closer to the quality of giving and love, to the correct interaction between themselves as one organism. I have never seen or heard that people who take LSD strive for this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalah and LSD, Part 1” 10/6/10

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Question: We know that the main thing is the intention. What can it clothe in to draw the light?

Answer: A person is in a state into which the Creator has placed him, and from this state he must begin his path of change in order to reach the goal. He has no one to turn to except the Creator.

The question is, by what means will he turn to Him, and what exactly will he ask for? People who have already gone through this path write about what needs to be done. To whom do I turn for advice? It is simple: to one who already has experience.

These people advise us what to do and say that there is a study through which you extract forces and draw the light that returns one to the source. And in order for you to have the desire to ask for this force during the study, before the study you must arm yourself with a desire greater than the one you already have. This additional desire you can acquire from the group.

Just as in ordinary society, when a person enters it he acquires various desires and goals—how good it would be to achieve this, to buy that, to be such-and-such, and so on. It is the same with you. If you enter a good spiritual society, it adds to you the desire to draw closer to the Creator.

And then you sit with the book, not like some friends whose eyes have barely been opened, but already waiting, hoping, and wanting to receive something from the book. That is, everything depends on what kind of society you have found, and what you have received from it, and of course, the teacher and the books. The general direction comes from the teacher, and through the correct texts, which connect you to the spiritual roots, illumination is given to you.

Thus there are only a few means: the right book, the right teacher, the right group, and you yourself, who wish with their help to change in order to attain the revelation of the Creator. First to correct the Kelim (vessels), and then to receive the lights.

The correction of the Kelim is called the acquisition of faith, the intention to bestow, and the reception of the lights is reception with the intention to bestow.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 1/18/26 and 1/19/26, Rabash, “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”

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Comment: Rabash writes that in faith, one must follow the path of “penny by penny accumulates to a large sum.”

My Response: Of all the actions a person supposedly performs in life, there is only one that he actually makes, and it remains forever. All others are temporary. A person commits them, enjoys them, or suffers from them, and that is it.

There is only one action: to correct my Kli, my desire to receive. It accumulates from moment to moment or from cycle to cycle, and everything I have done stays in my “bank account” to my credit and for my benefit. Each time I add another penny to my account depending on the number of corrections made.

And what are my corrections that we already know? This is an increase in the force of bestowal with the help of the group and study; that is, it is the realization of free choice. If I perform an action in accordance with my free choice (when I do it, and not the Creator), it is credited to my account.

My free action can only be one thing, to make the group stronger every time so that it influences me and strengthens the power of my desire, so that with an even greater desire to give, I turn to the Creator and demand an even greater force of giving from Him.

Thus, another number appears in my account balance. So I turn to the group again, change it again, and again it raises me and inspires me to advance and bestow. Once again, I turn to the Creator. I ask Him for the force of bestowal, and my account balance grows once more, etc.

There is nothing else because this is my only free action. Everything else is not done by me but by the Creator. But this is done by me, and therefore it is credited to my account. Each time, only this remains as a result of our lives. Only this account remains. Therefore, Rabash writes that after a person departs, only the Torah and the good deeds he has done during his life remain with him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lessons, 1/18/26 and 1/19/26, Rabash, “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”

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Today, many people want to express themselves. But they do not know how to express themselves. One walks around with a tail on their head, another with piercings, a third covered in tattoos front and back. All of this is supposedly a kind of distinguishing mark, a sign of belonging to certain trends. But it says nothing about a person’s individuality. On the contrary.

All of this is sold by those who profit from it. We are taught that this is how you will be considered special, and we follow along. But where is individuality in this?

First, I must discover my individuality. Then I must understand how it can truly be expressed. Only then can I actually reveal myself. Otherwise, I just see everyone fooling around, and I fool around too, saying, “Look how cool I am!”

But cool in what way? You’re exactly the same as everyone else.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call.Everyone should be the same” 10/1/10

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