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Posted on August 5th, 2023 at 10:55 pm
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Question: In article 117, “Labored and Did Not Find? Do Not Believe” from Baal HaSulam’s book Shamati, it says: “That is, the sorrow, called “labor,” makes the Kli [vessel], so one can be awarded the reward.”
How can we understand that it is suffering that creates the Kli? What does suffering have to do with it?
Answer: Suffering means that I find myself unable to fill the Creator and therefore suffer.
Question: Regarding the suffering in the group, I somehow figured it out myself. But people around me are suffering. Could you advise me how to work with this?
Answer: Think about what you will do to make the Creator feel good about it. Act in such a way as to give pleasure to the Creator. And then you will see that through these actions you are doing good to the whole world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/26/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”
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Question: In the article “When the Creator Loves a Person,” Rabash writes that a person can experience a state where he feels he is worse than the rest of the people. Such feelings are a gift from the Creator.
If I feel with respect to the group that I am the worst of all and that they are advancing, I need to integrate with this group, but it seems to me that I will pull them down, I will harm them, and slow them down. If I feel that I am the worst of all, then how can I be useful to the group? How can I integrate with it correctly?
Answer: Any person is useful to his group, even if he is the worst. We learn from the Creator. There is a person who is useful in himself, and there is a person who transforms himself from harmful to useful, and then, in principle, he is doubly useful. We need to pay attention to where he comes from and how he changes, this is his merit.
Comment: What if a person meanwhile ran away, distanced himself from the group, and then felt that he did not finish something, did not complete it, that he had to stay in the group and make an effort? How can we work with this?
My Response: You will still have the opportunity to correct this at the next levels. Do not worry. Do not think about the past, always think about the future.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/20/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”
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Question: How can I ask the Creator correctly for Kelim (Vessels) of bestowal? Should I completely annul myself and want them only for my friends?
Answer: Desire that it will be good to all of you together and that from your connection you would be able to bestow to the Creator.
Question: What should I do if I feel great shame before the Creator and cannot ask Him for mercy because it seems that I am not worthy of Him?
Answer: Transfer these feelings toward your friends, and then everything will work out well.
Question: Is it possible to bestow to the Creator through the pleasures of the physical body?
Answer: I do not think so. At least, not in our condition because now this is absolutely impossible. So far, you cannot receive pleasure for the sake of the Creator and transmit this pleasure to Him. It will be self-deception.
Question: We usually remember our sufferings. How can these memories be used correctly in spiritual work?
Answer: Do not think about them, they will accumulate by themselves. You have to think about moving forward.
Question: If a person does not feel the suffering of his friends in the ten, can he imagine it in order to raise a true prayer for them?
Answer: Yes, he can. It is good that he imagines it, even if not in the correct way. Nevertheless, he will develop faster in this condition.
Question: When the Creator gives us rapidly changing states and feelings, what does it mean?
Answer: He is looking for a way to connect with you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/26/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”
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Question: At some point in your life you studied Kabbalah alone. How did you determine that you did not fall into some wrong current?
Answer: After the death of Rabash, I locked myself at home, did not listen to anyone, did not see anyone, tried not to feel anything, and only worked on books.
I wrote my first 10 to 12 books. After that, I practically did not write myself but only spoke. These texts were processed by my students, they were published under my name, but these are books spoken aloud by me and not written by hand.
I was only inside the sources! Except for Baal HaSulam and Rabash, no one existed for me. So the years went by, years and years.
At the same time, I was not under anyone’s influence, not even under my own; I was only under the influence of what the books of Baal HaSulam and Rabash told me. I studied them, copied archives, processed manuscripts, and I was at it from morning till night. I held on to it like a lifeline. Not a step to the side!
After all, Rabash mentored me all the previous years. And despite the fact that he died, he is always with me. I try to be in contact with him and follow the calling that I feel from him. That is how it works. You can imagine whatever you want, but this is what it is.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Anti-Kabbalah” 8/20/11
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Question: How can we come to the feeling of real spiritual poverty through some material flaws so that it feels the same as our ego feels the flaws in this world?
Answer: Practically one has nothing to do with the other. I can have everything I want and at the same time feel absolutely penniless. And vice versa, I can be the poorest, but feel like a king.
Question: And how does spiritual poverty feel?
Answer: The way we evaluate it, that is how it feels.
Question: How does one come to it?
Answer: This requires only communication with friends. Then you will evaluate your states through the common connection between you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/26/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”
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Question: All suffering is from the desire to receive. But when we are in bestowal, is it a gift from the Creator?
Answer: Yes.
Question: You said that we can choose either the path of suffering or the path of love. But it often happens that one does everything to walk the path of love, and still receives suffering. Why?
Answer: We know this from our lives. First, we receive suffering, and then in suffering, we reveal love. One cannot be without the other.
Question: If a person does not feel suffering and obstacles in his work, does this mean that he is not in spiritual work at all?
Answer: Yes. There is no moving forward without resistance.
Question: There are times when I force myself to go to a lesson, to a meeting, or to a group. Does it harm the group?
Answer: On the contrary, it helps both the group and you very much.
Question: Can we say that suffering comes from the Creator in order to strengthen the quality of the connection between us and to unite us even more?
Answer: Of course. How else can He wake you up if not by suffering? An egoist can only be awakened by suffering.
Question: How is the Kli (Vessel) built? Is it built above my desire? Or can I work with the desire of a friend and help him build a Kli?
Answer: Both are good.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/25/23,”According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”
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All people on Earth are divided into numerous different stages of attainment, development, and sensations.
First of all, they are divided into five parts according to the basic principles of creation, which is divided into five levels. Each level into another five, and another five, and so on.
This division occurs based on the intensity of desire and the possibility of its attainment, meaning in the heart (desire) and mind.
Question: It is believed that 20% of people on Earth are practically inadequate, with deviations from the norm. What is their role in the overall process?
Answer: They are carriers of information and, in turn, also participants in the general process, including even those people who are completely disconnected from the world, from life. They were born, let’s say, autistic or with other mental impairments that cannot be cured, and they are practically withdrawn into themselves, unresponsive to us.
But we must understand that we have no right to destroy them as it was done in ancient Greece, Nazi Germany, or India (where there was a law concerning widows who were burned along with their deceased husbands).
These people, regardless of their form of existence, ultimately serve as a buffer for all the problems of human society. Our problems are as if loaded unto them, and they carry with them certain information about humanity, being next to us. That is why we have no right to treat them badly but, on the contrary, we must treat them with compassion and help them to the best of our ability.
They carry a part of the human load, and even more—the heavy part.
Question: But it is like a suspended layer of information? How can we interact with it?
Answer: It is impossible to discuss these matters with people who do not see the whole nature from inside. They do not understand their own participation in nature, and especially those who are sick from our point of view.
Only when you see the true picture of creation do you begin to understand their role, that there is nothing in nature that is created in vain, and there is nothing bad in it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Crazy people“ 8/20/11
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Question: If Kabbalists work on a completely different plane, in bestowal, can it be that they really do not understand each other? Do you not have anyone to work with?
Answer: Why not? I can work with whoever wants to. But if you are talking about Kabbalists, I do not see them. I do not see a person in our world who manifests himself as the one who is attaining the upper world.
Question: Can a Kabbalist feel another Kabbalist at a distance?
Answer: He can. But I do not feel there is one.
Question: Do you mean that there are no more Kabbalists besides you?
Answer: I do not know. What does it matter if they exist or not? Where do they manifest themselves?
Maybe, they exist. They are sitting somewhere secretly, each in his own place, and carrying out some corrections in the world through their souls with their desires and motives.
This is quite possible because we are all included in one single system, in one soul. And everyone who works in it in a positive way illuminates it positively.
But I really do not see a person in our world who would attain the upper world and manifest himself as moving this world toward correction. If there was such a person, I would definitely come to him.
Once I received an offer from Berg to work together to promote the idea of mutual guarantee in Israel, which we started. We answered him very simply that, unfortunately, we do not see any possibility of joint movement. How can one go together with those who sell red threads or holy water? This is shamanism.
He may have thousands of followers, but these are mystics who look for some special powers in our world, meditate, and so on. This is not Kabbalah. I do not even know how to name it. A person invents for himself some kind of a world for the lack of real attainment.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalists do not Exist!” 8/20/11
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