Question: If I understand correctly, is Kabbalah about creating difficulties in order to later feel the spiritual?

Answer: No, Kabbalah is not about creating difficulties; it is about revealing the Creator, the quality of bestowal and love, in each individual and in everyone together through the correction of egoism.

Question: But isn’t correction about breaking the ego?

Answer: No! You can try breaking it if you’re stubborn. But if you’re not, you’ll gladly exchange it instead. Let’s say you go to a store, return ten empty bottles, and get a bottle of beer in return. Is that a bad thing?! You benefit from it. Instead of empty desires you can’t fill, you get one full “beer.” Sure, you give up ten, but in return, you receive one full one. Who would refuse that?

Comment: There’s also a beneficial egoistic calculation here—what feels good to me.

My Response: Of course! There’s nothing without calculation. Kabbalah comes from the word “to receive.” You just need to understand that you actually receive much more when you give up your empty, egoistic desires. So ultimately, it can be said that “love your neighbor” is a means of self-fulfillment.

Question: Let’s say I return ten bottles and receive one full one. Is the process of correction like making that full bottle?

Answer: No, that’s not your job. That’s not you. You just need to exchange one for the other. All the “bottles,” the “recycling station,” all of it already exists. You just have to want to make the trade of your empty desires for one full one.

Question: So basically I’m not really doing anything? I just add a tiny grain to the process and the rest is the system?

Answer: You only contribute your desire to exchange, nothing more. Both the empty and the full “bottles” already exist. You just need to want to exchange them.

Question: But it won’t work automatically?

Answer: No, never. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have freewill. Otherwise, you wouldn’t truly exist. You have to do it!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. I Am the System?!” 9/28/10

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Question: How can you follow the advice to “be in joy” when you feel “the taste of garbage” in spiritual work?

Answer: This is a stage where you still do not understand the importance of the garbage. But can anything grow without waste, without fertilizer? There is nothing superfluous in the world, so it all depends on your attitude.

We must go through all the states and inevitably feel each one of them. These are such states where death seems sweeter than life, but you will not be able to avoid them, because you must understand what “the will to receive” is.

I am speaking directly and without exaggeration: if you do not feel this, you will not be able to come out from under the control of the will to enjoy, although even that does not help very much. This is the revelation of the “angel of death.” Without the support of the group, without a strict daily schedule, without the commitments you take upon yourself, it is impossible to cope with it.

The best thing you can do for yourself is to take on commitments. You must complete the work today; let it press on you like a yoke on an ox. There is nothing worse than feeling free. Even though you see nothing, feel nothing, understand nothing, and remember nothing, you begin to work because you must, and gradually you come out of the state of descent and continue on the path.

We are governed by two forces, and we are given only the opportunity to move from the rule of one to the influence of the other. There is the rule of two forces and an intermediate state in which you choose under which influence to be. You must try, from this intermediate state, the middle line, to control these two forces, as if they were two reins in your hands.

Therefore, keep your daily schedule: the lesson, reviewing the lesson, sing, dance in your room when no one sees you, laugh; do everything to come out of a bad state. You don’t agree; you resist the governance of this force! Despair is the worst thing of all.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/27/11, Writings of Rabash “When Is One Considered “A Worker of the Creator” in the Work?”

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All of the Creator’s works are not as people’s works. When people build the Temple below, first they make the walls of the city and then the Temple.

First, the walls of the city, to protect them, and then the construction of the house. The Creator builds the Temple first, and finally, when He lowers it from the sky and places it in its place, it will build the walls of Jerusalem. This is why David said, “By Your favor do good to Zion” first, and then, “Build the walls of Jerusalem” (Rashbi, Zohar for All, “The Old Man [The Grandfather]”).

Question: What is the difference between building walls and building the Temple in spiritual work?

Answer: Our work lies in the fact that within the vast desire to receive pleasure that is revealed to us, we define a certain area where we are able to connect only with thoughts and desires aimed at bestowal, and we can relate them to others: friends, the group, the Creator.

All the rest of our desires we are not yet capable of using for the sake of bestowal. Therefore, our desire is divided into many parts, including the stony heart.

This is why we first build boundaries, screens, and only afterward, with the help of those screens, when we already know how to act correctly, we perform Zivug (coupling) and construct a Partzuf.

The building of the inner part of the Partzuf, from Peh to Tabur is called the construction of the Temple (in Hebrew, the word for Temple means House of Holiness). The Rosh (head) of the Partzuf is used for planning; this is called the “work of Bezalel.” The Sof (end) of the Partzuf is not yet properly engaged.

But in essence, it is with these parts of the Partzuf, which serve as boundaries, that the Temple is built, because we can construct something only from its opposite, good and evil, light and darkness; it is only by comparing opposites can we create boundaries and build a structure.

Whereas the Creator builds differently, not through limitations or calculations of “how much there is” and “how much is lacking.”

On the contrary, the upper light builds holiness, bestowal, the Temple itself within the desire, and the remaining part of the desire, which the upper light does not enter, is what forms the “walls of Jerusalem” erected afterward, in the final act.

This is the difference between constructing the Temple from below upward and constructing it from above downward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/3/11, The Book of Zohar, “Mishpatim”

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Question: Lately, there has been a feeling that we should already be approaching the quality of bestowal since everyone in the ten has this desire. On the other hand, it is noticeable that most of the friends have calmed down and are paying more attention to corporeal needs. It turns out that the quality of bestowal seems to be there, but there is nowhere to apply it. What should we do?

Answer: You must integrate into your ten in such a way that there are no distances between you, so that what one has, flows to another, to a third one, and so on. Then your ten will be unified, and you will be able to feel the spiritual structure. This is what you need to achieve.

You must dissolve in the ten and together with it—together with it—move forward. If all of you feel yourselves as one, then you will succeed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/9/25, “Subjugating the Heart”

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Question: What is a woman’s Hisaron?

Answer: A woman’s Hisaron is the natural deficiency that forms within her that must be worked with more intensively. There is nothing artificial about it!

Let us say I want something, so let me want it today. Later I will want it more consciously, so just want it more consciously, and so on. It is not an artificial desire for something nonexistent. What we are engaged in is entering into the true nature, not the deceptive, egoistic nature that surrounds us, but the eternal and perfect nature that is 100% altruistic and entirely directed toward bestowal.

Right now we are merely in a small, illusory volume, like a dream, where everything operates in opposition to bestowal. But in truth, all of nature is founded on altruism, bestowal, and love, which is the Creator’s quality. It is only us who experience this clouded perception when we are in the opposite state.

Comment: So we should just leave the women alone.

My Response: Yes, let everything move as it should! Just more desire, more inner tension, more yearning, and everything will come to fruition. The intensity depends on the overall effort, on the collective influence we have on one another.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Woman’s Hisaron” 9/23/10

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Question: What elements make up the spiritual sense organ called the “screen” in Kabbalah, and how does it function?
Answer: The screen is not a primary, but an auxiliary spiritual sense organ.

The point is that if we possessed properties aligned with the Creator and with one another, we would not need any screens; we would just tune into a single frequency and that would be enough.

The problem is that in order to reach the level of that frequency where connection with the Creator and with a friend becomes possible, I must rise above myself. The level of elevation is called the screen.

To rise above oneself is only possible in proportion to the magnitude of one’s egoism. For example, if I have ten kilograms of egoism and I am able to rise above it, then I can transmit myself toward the Creator. Through Him—meaning through the system called “Elokim,” “the Creator,” “HaVaYaH”—I can pass spiritual influence to any participant in that system, to the extent of my ascent.

This elevation allows me to correctly connect with others and interact with them on the same level.

My side of the communication must be compatible, like in our modems, with the communication of the other person. But essentially, when we enter into a unified system, all of this is harmonized by the upper force. The light equalizes all frequencies.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah,” 4/1/18

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Question: Does a Kabbalist have no complaints against anyone at all? That is, does he see himself as the greatest egoist?

Answer: A Kabbalist does not feel himself to be an egoist. He understands that he has great egoism, but he sees it as something given to him for correction. He works with it and does not allow the ego to control him. Egoism awakens in a person so that the person can rule over it.

Question: There are three types of egoism in a person: animalistic, social, and spiritual, which is when I want to use the Creator for my own sake. What is the difference between them?

Answer: The difference lies in their quality. A “good” egoist is someone whose ego expands on all levels and pushes him to be filled by anything possible.

Question: Which of these three types of egoism needs to be corrected?

Answer: You must draw the upper light so that it will correct them. What exactly it will correct is up to it. After all, you do not really know what needs to be corrected.

The most important thing is to draw the upper light through the connection between us in the group, in the ten. Then it begins to correct your particular egoistic qualities, and from there, you will see what your next actions should be.
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From the Basic Kabbalah Lesson , 4/29/2018

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Question: You said that Kabbalistic sources are dead if we do not engage in unification. Is it possible to imagine our unification alive without the sources?

Answer: Can we move forward without books? Of course we can.

There were periods when humanity had no books at all. Afterward, they appeared at a time when people still did not know how to read and write correctly. So it doesn’t matter. The main thing is to desire. We always attain what we attain in our desires. Therefore, the most important thing for us is to desire.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/9/25, “Subjugating the Heart”

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