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1. What most inspired me in the course?
This course is so inspiring and so informative that it gives you a certain force and awe to drive you to pursue it just like a prodigal son looking for answers regarding his purpose and meaning of his life. This course has given me a new insight, a new outlook, a new reason to move on and discover the wonders of this life and that we are greater than we think we are.
2. What have I learned about myself in the process?
I have learned that I am egoistic by design and not only that that we have a Creator who created us so lovingly that whose sole purpose was to fill us with unbounded delight. We fall down to this lower world and experienced sufferings with no sensation of the upper world where we came. But through the wisdom of Kabbalah there is a way for us to go back to our true form. This is who we truly are.
3. What do I wish for my fellow students in their spiritual development?
The group of fellow students in the path of unfolding this very rare wisdom, a very precious gift by the Creator and by the Kabbalist before us, I wish in my heart that I would be able to contribute to their spiritual development much as I have learned so much from them. How I wish this oneness between fellow student and teachers give us so much knowledge, inspiration and zeal to attain our desire to be one with the Creator.
Piece by piece we create the building blocks for us not just to have new perspective in spirituality and our part in it but it involves us to participate not just like a bystander or onlooker but to feel and sense within ourselves the essence of all the subjects we have taken. “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” The feeling is actually sensational and profound as if you found something indescribable leaving you so excited and wanting more to share.
Q:Â Envision a world where individuals are interconnected through the spiritual principle of love. How would societal dilemmas be approached differently in such a paradigm?
A: In a world where individuals are interconnected certainly would feel the need of others and before it would grow into a problem each individual would share and support those in need lovingly as if saying “Don’t worry we got your back”. Support is given for it is a mutual responsibility of each individual in that society. It is this connection that binds and harmonize each one to the community.
Q: In Kabbalah, our primary task is to draw the reforming light, which supplies all we require for  spiritual progress. Moreover, it’s said that aiding others accelerates our own spiritual ascent. How does this dynamic operate? What does supporting fellow seekers with a spiritual inclination entail?
A:  I compare it to the parts of a tree where a member of the group provides for the needs of the rest of the members of the group which is his responsibility. Just like a branch of the tree which supports the stems, the twigs and the leaves attached to it. The branch is a conglomeration of the desires of the parts to receive the nutrients that each part need. The branches requires from the trunk of the tree the nutrients that it needs to sustain the parts connected to it. The trunk would definitely supply the bigger parts first which supports the rest and it cannot go to the smaller parts then to the bigger which is the branch. In this process the branch also benefits from the nutrients that it needs to supply for the rest. Therefore the branch has the responsibility to know what each part attached to it requires then request the trunk for the total needs of the group.
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Q:Â From everything we’ve learned until now, what can you say about our work with the Light that reforms? By what means can we strengthen the influence of the reforming light?
A:Â I have learned that we need to create a kli as in a group to join and create a bigger desire to receive the Reforming Light. The Creator bestow light to the bigger desires first then the smallest. This is the fastest path to evolve through the Light’s help.
Q:Â How is spreading the wisdom of Kabbalah related to fulfilling my private correction in the general system?
A: “Bestowal” is the quality of the Creator that we wish to attain to give pleasure to Him and that can be fulfilled only by correcting ourselves with the help of the Reforming Light that can be attracted only through a conglomeration of desires, the group. Once we are corrected internally, then it is about time for connection externally to develop our soul. The internal correction will manifest externally that our friends would notice and ask why, what and how; this is the time for dissemination by the means and method of Kabbalah. As Rav Michael Laitman said,” Dissemination equals correction.”
