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At the outset of my words, I find a great need to break an iron wall that has been separating us from the wisdom of Kabbalah, since the ruin of the Temple to this generation. It lies heavily on us and arouses fear of being forgotten from Israel. (Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“)
“To break an iron wall” means that we, who want to understand what the wisdom of Kabbalah is, would not distance ourselves from the wisdom itself. This requires both internal and external work from everyone.
Question: What do we lack in order to break this wall and understand the concealed part of the Torah?
Answer: We must study both the revealed and the concealed parts of the Torah as much as we are capable of. And all of this must be accepted by us in unity with each other.
Let us hope that our study will definitely push us toward unification.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/5/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“
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Question: If the Creator spoils me like a kind father by fulfilling my deepest desires, should I restrict myself and not enjoy them? Does this in my indicate my poor progress? How should I regard this?
Answer: You must understand that the Creator gives you the opportunity to rise to His level through such small games with Him. This is why you want to participate in them.
Question: Should we accept and be grateful or reject these desires?
Answer: It depends on how you handle it. If you simply accept fulfillment, then you are in states opposite to the Creator—He gives, you receive, and that is all.
If you want to be in states similar to His, then you refuse to receive this way and connect, for example, only with a portion of the treat He wants to give you, so that upon receiving it, you truly feel pleasure. In this way, you become closer to the Creator, like Him.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/7/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“
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In corporeal life, we have no freedom whatsoever. But in the spiritual development, we can choose our environment, the desire that this environment will pass on to us, and our attitude toward society.
Although I still act within the boundaries established by this system, I can nevertheless choose the form in which I will advance between the two points of the spiritual path—the starting and ending points.
I cannot change these points themselves because the final goal lies in the root of my soul, the place from which I once descended and to which I must now return. It is clear that I cannot take a different path.
However, I can choose the nature of my advancement, seek means and opportunities for development, and in doing so, I attain the mind of the Creator and become similar to Him. In this, I gain a certain measure of freewill regarding my present and future states.
Within me today exists a part of my future state called the AHP of the upper one; it is my next level, “I+1.” It already exists in the spiritual realm, and its lower part (AHP) is in me now.
I can reveal it and desire this next state; meaning, I am free to realize it or not. I already have a choice between “today” and “tomorrow.”
But if I live only in this world, I know nothing about tomorrow, that is, about the next moment. So what can I truly choose if the choice exists only with regard to the future?
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Thought Is a Result of the Desire”
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The creation requires two sides, two qualities, without which it cannot distinguish itself from the Creator. It perceives only what exists within itself, and therefore, there is no Creator outside of creation.
Only the first act, the creation of something from nothing, was seemingly external, emanating from the eternal, perfect essence. This is how the Kabbalists reveal this message: the property of bestowal created the black point of creation, something outside of itself.
All subsequent actions occur within creation, within that very point. In it, the light begins to spread; the quality of bestowal begins to manifest, and in comparison with it, creation comes to know itself, it perceives the difference between reception and bestowal.
Having realized its nature, creation naturally feels an immense yearning for correction, for attaining maximum equality and resemblance to the original quality of bestowal.
Part of this process occurs forcibly. Two opposite qualities acting upon each other cause the descent of the worlds until their interrelation gives rise to something special—an intermediate quality, neutral, that belongs neither to reception nor to bestowal, neither to the quality of the Creator nor to that of creation.
Within creation, between impurity and holiness, Klipa Noga arises—a neutral part. This new reality gives the creation independence, the ability to express itself. Moreover, now the creation is not only able, but obligated to decide what it is and to what it relates.
This requires special work because creation must accept both opposing forces equally. But then how can it determine what is good and what is bad?
This dilemma is reflected in us; it manifests as light and darkness, as confusion of feelings, as faith above reason, as something that appears and slips away. This middle quality expresses itself in our thoughts and desires until ultimately we attain an independent position to reveal our independence in it by our own decision.
This is very difficult. Nature prepares us to become independent outside of itself, outside of creation. Then we will view both the Creator and creation, the entire universe, from the outside. This is what the two opposing forces prepare us for.
Based on the middle quality, we incorporate both holiness that lies above it and impurity that lies below it, in order to build ourselves as a complete spiritual Partzuf. In it, the Creator and the creation merge into one through our proper use of both forces and embrace the entire creation within ourselves.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/27/2011, “The Principles of Global Education”
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All the preventions and delays that appear before our eyes are but a form of nearing—the Creator wants to bring us closer, and all these preventions bring us only nearing, since without them we would have no possibility of approaching Him [the Creator]. This is so because, by nature, there is no greater distance [than us from the Creator], as we are made of pure matter while the Creator is higher than high. Only when one begins to approach does he begin to feel the distance between us [between him and the Creator. And let him not think that this abyss has only appeared now. Absolutely not! It was there, and only now is it revealing itself to him.] And any prevention one overcomes, [it – only in connection] brings the way closer for that person.
(This is so because one grows accustomed to moving on a line of growing farther. Hence, whenever one feels that he is distant, it does not induce any change in the process, since he knew in advance that he is moving on a line of growing farther, since this is the truth, that there are not enough words to describe the distance between us and the Creator) (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 172, “The Matter of Preventions and Delays“).
Initially, we need to accept the condition that we are extremely, polarly, maximally distant from the Creator, and that every new state of ours—whatever it may be, according to a module, in absolute value—is always closer to the Creator, although it seems to us to be further away. After all, I reveal my true state and then correct it—left step, right step, and so on.
We see that only the environment can help a person to hold on and not to stray away from this path. How, when feeling worse, can he convince himself that in reality he is now closer to the Creator? Everything inside them tells them they are further away and worse. They curse and condemns themselves.
But in fact, what has been revealed to him is simply what was there before, only he saw it now in order to correct it and thereby draw closer to the group and unite with them despite other calculations.
Therefore we need the habit of walking at an increasing distance. After all, if we become great specialists on our path, then every little twist and every small obstacle will appear as big to us.
When we are small, we do not see these obstacles, we do not notice them, and it seems to us that they do not exist at all. And then every small deviation, every minimal change, will be felt as a huge barrier. This is the difference between a specialist and an ordinary person.
Therefore as we approach the Creator, we will repel each other more, and hate each other more, like the students of Rabbi Shimon.
We will not want to get closer; we will begin to condemn the ten, to believe what we feel and see: “How can I be around these people?! They used to be different! I need to get away from them!” And so on. Only mutual help, mutual support, mutual guarantee can save us.
How many friends we have had along the way who fell off our “wagon”! Is it a pity? Of course, they will come back. But we need to think about how every time, with each step, to create such a ten, such a Kli (vessel), that no one would fall from it.
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From the Congress in Moldova 9/8/19, Lesson 7 “The Matter of Preventions and Delays”
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Just as we expect actors in the theatre to do their best to make our imagination think that their acting is real, we expect our interpreters of religion to be able to touch our hearts so deeply that we will perceive the faith of religion as the actual reality (Baal HaSulam, The Writings of the Last Generation).
Kabbalists should be closer to people and approach them so that their words would speak to the human heart and the heart would understand them. There is still a lot of work to be done here because the egoistic human heart is used to being receptive only to certain cliches. People are far from what we are saying. It is incomprehensible, alien, and repulsive to them.
There is a vast gap between the science of Kabbalah and the modern, crude human consciousness, especially regarding the perception of reality, freewill, and the realization of mutual love, that is, things the mind does not agree with. After all, we should perceive as an existing reality, not our material world that we see through the five animal senses, but a completely different dimension.
We must understand that people are unaware of this. They cannot see or feel what we Kabbalists see and feel. Here we encounter our own weakness. We cannot blame people for not understanding us. We need to blame ourselves for not understanding people.
Comment: Why does Baal HaSulam make a clear comparison with artists?
My Response: Parents play with their children in the same way. What does being an artist mean? This is a person who stands at a higher level than others must regress and act at a lower level for the viewer to feel it as reality.
A Kabbalist, just like an artist, must talk about everything correctly, and use examples so that others understand how this method is implemented.
Usually people come to us looking for us to lift them up, rather than for us to come down to their level. And if we go out to the masses, we must understand that 90% of people on Earth, if not more, are incapable of mastering the methodology.
Therefore we must explain it to them at their level so they will join us like a small one clings to the great, and thus ensure that they are going in the right direction.
Question: Aside from acting for the general masses, should we, first of all, act for each other?
Answer: Of course, in order to be more connected with each other, each of us, by absorbing the properties of others, would become integrally assembled.
Question: Then why do we need an outer circle of people who follow us like a child holding onto his father’s little finger?
Answer: The fact is, we exist for them. The Creator wants them to become closer to Him. And we are the intermediate link, His messengers and His workers. That is why we are called the workers of the Creator. And they are the address He wants to send Himself to; He wishes them to adhere to Him because of us.
Question: After we fill them, does anything remain of us as transmitters?
Answer: Nothing, zero, and we are very pleased with this.
Question: Why do transmitters have to be actors?
Answer: Acting is a descent from the level of the Creator, to which you are attached on the one hand, to the lower level of people on the other hand, and the transformation of this through yourself. You have to take the role of the Creator, play Him in such a way—with His methodology, management system, and everything else—and gradually lower the levels so that everything is clear to the little ones.
Question: What if I lack acting skills and cannot act?
Answer: You can! Many scientists, including Kabbalists, have been thinking about the future of humanity. They thought about how to convey their thoughts to the masses, and wrote clever things. But no one understood anything!
And some of them wrote novels. They were not just writers, but great philosophers and teachers who expressed their thoughts in an artistic form. Those who wanted to convey their philosophy of life in an accessible way presented it in the form of a literary work because it is more accessible to the masses who associate with the characters of their novels.
This is the only way people perceive and absorb everything; otherwise, they cannot. If you start telling them the same thing in scientific terms, everything immediately dries up.
Question: So our art, as Kabbalists, is to evoke people’s empathy?
Answer: Absolutely. You organize all kinds of seminars, and this gradually brings them to a new state.
Question: Can every culture and nation organize something suitable for them?
Answer: Naturally. In its own way, national in form, Kabbalistic in content.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation,” 7/3/17
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