Torah, Deuteronomy 13:17: And you shall collect all its spoil into the midst of its open square, and burn with fire the city and all its spoil, completely, for the Lord, your God; and it shall be a heap of destruction forever, never to be rebuilt.

A person will never be able to take these intentions that have become egoistic in him and use them again. He must do everything in order to not return to them.

Question: What does it mean, “collect all its spoil into the midst of its open square, and burn with fire the city and all its spoil”?

Answer: The fact is that in a group engaged in spiritual work, the analysis revealing egoism and altruism becomes more and more evident and people see that all earlier intentions, which previously seemed to be good, proper, and aimed at unity with each other, are, in fact, egoistic.

Our joint desire is called a square or a city. And the phrase “and it shall be a heap of destruction forever, never to be rebuilt,” means never to return to the previous state. In this way we move forward to complete correction.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/20/16

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