Question: What do we lack more in dissemination: physical or internal efforts?

Answer: We lack both internal dissemination, inside ourselves, and dissemination in the group—the group to each one, and each one to the group—and dissemination outside the group, to the people.

We must disseminate to the people both internally, in thoughts, when we think about it and want it to happen, which is called prayer for the society, and also in the form accepted in the world, in action. In other words, both in our spiritual plane at the level of thoughts, desires, and in the plane of physical, corporeal actions.

We must look for such forms so that a person accepts what is good for him, what he will not accept in any other way. Just as suitable food is specially prepared for a sick person: for example, more liquid, not too fatty, etc., so we must do this. Our task is to prepare medicine for the people in such a way that they can swallow it.

But this does not mean that we should lag behind. After all, in the case of a sick person, you do not waste time; you immediately give him what is good for him, but in a form in which he can accept it so that everything is better absorbed in him. It is the same way here!

Therefore, we need to distribute delicately and slowly, while taking into account the capabilities of people.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: If a person is shown that he is not in perfection in his relationship with the Creator, how can he stay on the path and continue to choose the Creator each time?

Answer: What is the problem? He is shown the full picture: where he is, where the Creator is, and where the world is. And from all of this, he must build the correct system.

Question: When a person worries about himself, that he is distant from the Creator, how can he avoid thinking about his own distance and instead include in this sorrow the exile of the Shechina?

Answer: I would advise him to forget about himself a little. And then things will start to work out.
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From the  World Kabbalah Convention 5/22/2025, Lesson 1, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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A person advancing in correction begins to recognize forces within oneself he or she can consciously call “Abraham,” “Moses,” “the people of Israel,” and “the nations of the world” even before reaching true revelation.

Somehow a person distinguishes them and suddenly sees that this, in all likelihood, is that very aspiration, that desire, called “Abraham.” Abraham probably related entirely to this since other desires had not yet been revealed in him.

What is “Abraham” today? It is the uppermost layer within all souls, the purest desire to receive, which is ready to adhere to the Creator, but only if it is separated from all other desires.

In the past, it was indeed separated, because the other, more coarse desires had not yet been revealed.
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From the 1^st part from the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: To whom within myself should I explain what the purpose of creation is?

Answer: You must explain the purpose of creation and everything that happens not only to the external world but also to your inner world so that all your desires, all your impulses, will understand it.

Then you begin to sort them out according to how each desire at each moment can be aligned in relation to the overall goal.

You cannot simply erase some desires. You are obligated to give them some kind of answer, some kind of fulfillment, some kind of correction. Even those desires that cannot currently be truly corrected in practice you must satisfy through the advancement of your other parts, your other desires.

The desires with which you are currently unable to move forward on the path of correction, you must compensate for. That is, you must restrict them, refrain from using them even if you greatly want to. How can this be done? You must give them a kind of sweetening of the state in which they are not being fulfilled and not being realized.
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From the 1^st part from the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Comment: When you transmit Kabbalistic information in Hebrew and in Russian, it seems like there are two different people. It is as if you are translating some things from Russian.

My Response: No, I practically do not translate from Russian, although sometimes it happens. In Kabbalah, after all, what I felt was lived through in Hebrew.

And if I want to express myself sensorily and then convey it in some Kabbalistic forums, then, of course, I translate, because my sensory language on the earthly level is still Russian. But it also depends on how; it is very conditional.

I am adjusting from language to language, although my pronunciation leaves much to be desired, and my vocabulary is not that great. But if it is close to Kabbalah, then I think it is more in Hebrew.

If I am teaching a lesson or lecture in Hebrew, I am thinking in Hebrew, and I do not have any Russian words inside me. It happens sometimes that I somehow do not find the appropriate expressions. But when I search for words, I search based on my feelings that have not yet been put into words, and therefore, there is no such thing that I first put feelings into Russian, and then into Hebrew.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Kabbalistic language” 8/25/10

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #4, “What Is the Reason for the Heaviness One Feels when Annulling before the Creator in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 14 (5.10.2006)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Everything Is Obtained by the Power of Prayer”

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4th part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction of The Book of Zohar,” “The Rose” (Mirrors of the Sulam [Ladder])

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Comment: I have a feeling that each of us has their own channel of connection with the Creator.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Should we examine the channel of connection that our friends have?

Answer: That’s none of your business. Disconnect from that thought. Be yourself, and on that level try to be with the entire ten.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 5/23/2025, Lesson 4, “There Is None Else Besides Him in the Ten”

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The sons of the people of Israel who left Egypt continue their correction during the forty-year journey through the desert with the help of the Torah they received, enter the land of Israel, and reach the level called the First Temple.

After that, they must mix with an even greater Aviut (coarseness), which increases both within them and among the nations of the world. This pertains, of course, to the system of souls, but it is evident from history that corresponding processes occur in physical bodies as well.

As a result, each person from Israel feels an addition of Aviut, and then what is called an inner exile takes place when they are no longer able to remain in the degree of adhesion with the Creator that they had attained.

Now they are capable of less; new desires grow stronger within them. This means that a person enters into a connection with the nations of the world within themselves, and in accordance with that, external processes unfold that lead to destruction.

Destruction means that we mentally disconnect from that perception of life in which we are united with one force, with one thought, and we begin to fall into the multitude of desires.
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From the 1^st part from the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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The purpose of creation is intended for all souls—each individually and all together. However, it is impossible for everyone to attain this goal collectively because in some people the condition of Arvut (Mutual Guarantee) is initially unable to awaken immediately; it can only emerge after the prior work done by other souls.

Baal HaSulam writes that the forefathers did not need the condition of Arvut because their souls were subtle, and due to their exaltedness and purity, they were already in Dvekut (Adhesion) with the Creator without performing practical actions, that is, without carrying out preliminary corrections or fulfilling commandments.

They did not need to reach the condition of “we shall do and we shall hear” because by virtue of their subtlety, their souls were originally ready to exist in mutual guarantee without making the efforts that are required from us with our coarse Aviut.

Due to their purity, subtle souls receive the Torah, and the mutual guarantee is realized within them. This leads to the fulfillment of the condition “love your neighbor as yourself.” Then the light of the Torah clothes within them and they dwell in adhesion with the Creator.

After our forefathers attained this, the merit of the fathers arose for the sons. In other words, those souls that are now capable of joining the subtle souls with their more coarse Aviut use these pure souls by means of connection and mutual inclusion.

Therefore, the law of mutual guarantee is also realized for them, but only after performing certain work, prior actions. What are these actions? Everything that can lead them to the condition of mutual guarantee.

And once they attain this, they merit receiving the Torah, that is, the light, the system of correction of their Aviut for the purpose of achieving the principle “love your neighbor as yourself” when the Creator will already dwell in their common Kli (vessel).

For receiving the Torah, it is enough to fulfill the condition “we shall do and we shall hear,” that is, the agreement that the power of mutual guarantee should exist so that we should want to fulfill it, so that this ability would come from above. And upon receiving the power of the Torah, we begin to carry it out, and then we become “as one man with one heart” and a single Kli (vessel). We merit receiving the Torah, and then we must fulfill it, that is, begin the corrections.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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