Question: Should we imagine the future state of the world group as an ascent above all contradictions, or as a state of harmony and wellbeing?

Answer: There will be no harmony!

Egoism will never get a single fulfillment. Malchut of the World of Infinity will remain dark and empty. Tzimtzum Aleph (the first restriction) doesn’t disappear, change, or return; it remains. Above this black emptiness, a new Kli, a new vessel, a new desire, is formed that functions only for bestowal. I never will receive any fulfillment with my egoistic desires. They all will remain empty and dark, and I will receive fulfillment above them in the quality of bestowal.

This is why our game differs from all other methods. Right now, we are playing the future world. Like the quote of Kozma Prutkov, “If you want to be happy, be so,” and do it all now.

Draw the picture of the upper world, and be in it. When you imagine everything this way, which is called “faith above reason,” you begin to need it to actualize. This action constitutes a prayer, when you wish for what you imagine to become reality, and, then, it happens.
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From a Virtual Lesson 11/11/12

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Question: How do you see the year 2013 for the world group and for all of humanity?

Answer: I see 2013 as an excellent year.

All the media is sharpening our focus now on the fact that this year will not be easy: the lack of harvests, an overall rise in prices, general layoffs, climate problems, with more and more, and so on. That is, nature and society will present us with unpleasant surprises. This is something that concerns all of humanity.

With respect to our advancement, I think it will be a great year. Of course, not because of this suffering, but because we will try to reduce the suffering for humanity and show people how to use it properly, to rise above it.

That is, there is a force that can be negative and can be positive.

If you look at it directly, so to speak, head-on, this force is negative. It pushes you, puts pressure, and causes problems with the weather, harvest, money, work, war, with everything. If you look at it not at the egoistic level, but rise to the level from where it descends, to the level of the Creator, then everything is fine. He meets you there and says, “Finally! I sent you so many various blows that you have ascended to me in the end, but you were not in a hurry. However, finally, you have ascended!” That is why we need to understand why we are given the so-called suffering. They are “so-called” because we look right at them, but they cannot be perceived directly. So, the year 2013 will be the year of spiritual progress for those who will be rising. For those who will not rise, it will be the year of physical, moral, and material regression.
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From a Virtual Lesson 11/11/12

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Question: Will the desire to know the Creator arise in all the people who live on Earth?

Answer: By itself, it will not arise.

People in whom this desire arises are called Israel (Yashar El), which in translation means to move forward, to aspire to this goal independently.

And there are people who do not have this independent movement, but the crisis that will continue to unfold will force them to run away from it. However, then they will inevitably join those who strive forward.

That is, they will have a desire to escape adverse conditions, the pressure from behind, rather than a yearning for the goal. In this way, the ninety percent of humans will move toward correction, the goal of creation.
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From a Virtual Lesson 11/18/12

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Question: A person who studies Kabbalah should hold on to the group. How is each group included in the world group? How does this happen?

Answer: Each group should hold onto itself and try to create a group within themselves. The group should be based only on mutual support. We demand nothing of each other! First of all, we just support each other. Requirements are afterward. If a person does not want to participate in anything, but still comes, let him come! He gradually will feel shame and begin to take part in everything.

We must try as much as possible to attract people and give them an opportunity to draw the upper Light to themselves at least a little bit. We all need it so much today! Then, we will connect groups.

I don’t even know how to say this, but, out of all the people who sit in front of me, I know by name only 20-30% of them. A person’s name does not exist for me; I feel his inner image, like a cloud. I do not remember people’s faces and do not know their names; all this is completely confused for me. I feel their internal structure.

I think that we have a bright future ahead of us. I ask you, to the very last moment, attempt to squeeze out of our unity events the best efforts, all the juice, so that the Light affects you the most.
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From a Virtual Lesson 11/18/12

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Preparation to the Lesson

“Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 37, Lesson 13

The Book of Zohar – Selected Excerpt, Parashat “Emor,” Item 198, Lesson 17

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 3, Part 8, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Item 13, Lesson 42

“Exile and Redemption”

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Kabbalah for the Nation Introductory Series “Who We Are, the People of Israel”

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Question: What does it mean that “it is forbidden to reveal the secrets of the Torah, except by hinting, from the mouth of a Kabbalist to one who receives and understands by his own mind?”

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah was passed on in a chain, starting from Adam HaRishon (First Man) who discovered it and onward. There were twenty generations from Adam until Abraham, which is the time of preparation, when the wisdom was passed in one chain from one Kabbalist to another. But the spreading of the wisdom began with Abraham, spreading in breadth like branches of a tree since Abraham began to publicize it to everyone.

But it is impossible to explain in words how the wisdom passed on “from the mouth of a Kabbalist to one who receives and understands by his own mind.” It isn’t even about people in this world. In order to pass information this way, a Kabbalist doesn’t even have to be in a physical body, it makes no difference. There is a mutual cooperation between the vessels of the general soul, of the only reality, a system in which there are all these conditions and a law of passing on the Light.

It is about spiritual discernments on such a level that is already beyond the field of view, of physical bodies, and of human beings. It is about discernments of bestowal and receiving only, and there are conditions in which one vessel can pass on something to another vessel. This is a very high level, GAR of Atzilut, which in the meantime, is very far from us to understand.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/12, Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Book of Zohar,” Item 69: But if, God forbid, it is to the contrary, and a person from Israel degrades the virtue of the internality of the Torah and its secrets, which deals with the conduct of our souls and their degrees, and the perception and the tastes of the Mitzvot with regard to the advantage of the externality of the Torah, which deals only with the practical part? Also, even if one does occasionally engage in the internality of the Torah, and dedicates a little of one’s time to it, when it is neither night nor day, as though it were redundant, by that one dishonors and degrades the internality of the world, which are the children of Israel, and enhances the externality of the world—meaning the Nations of the World—over them. They will humiliate and disgrace the children of Israel, and regard Israel as superfluous, as though the world has no need for them, God forbid.

Furthermore, by that, they make even the externality in the Nations of the World overpower their own internality, for the worst among the Nations of the World, the harmful and the destructors of the world, rise above their internality, which are the Righteous of the Nations of the World. And then they make all the ruin and the heinous slaughter our generation had witnessed…

If the Israeli nation stalls the process of correction, it gets back the blow of all the corruptions it hasn’t corrected in the world. But to the same extent that we fulfill the method of correction (and we have all the conditions to do so), we draw the upper Light for the whole world, the upper force that arranges all the desires and corrects all the souls. This Light comes to everyone, and so we will see how their attitude towards us will begin to change. So there is nothing to blame our enemies for, we are the ones who have made them that way. We suffer because of our foolishness as we don’t fulfill our role.

It says: “I have created the evil inclination; I have created the Torah as a spice to it, since the Light in it reforms.” If we correct ourselves, our corrections are passed directly to everyone else by open pipes.

But if we don’t do that, then the world remains uncorrected because of us, and will turn to us pressuring us and demanding it from us. Then we will still have to advance towards correction anyway, but by the path of sufferings, since we refused to listen right off and to fulfill our role.

We have no choice. Now after so many missile attacks we have understood this a bit more. We see that we are at a dead end and that we are totally helpless. There is no more time to think, and we are so far behind and have to make much greater corrections than the ones we have already made.

The main responsibility is ours, those who deal with the internal correction. If we made the corrections on time, there wouldn’t be any conflict in Gaza and there wouldn’t be any missiles. The corporeal problems would totally disappear; they would simply not be able to exist in our world. We would rise above all matter like a flying saucer.

We are all to blame for what is happening, all those who have the internality of the Torah. The same people who called themselves the “nation of Israel,” who left Babel with Abraham and who have founded the nation based on the principle of “love thy friend as thyself,” “mutual guarantee,” and “as one man with one heart,” now is the perfect time for them to connect and to perform the correction.

The very moment and to the extent that they fulfill the correction, it will pass on freely to everyone else and will spread throughout the system that ties us and that is expecting a filling. We are the valve that blocks the artery and which doesn’t allow the upper Light to go through it.

Therefore, all the nations, feeling the lack of fulfillment, exhibit hatred towards us in different ways.. Our neighbors on the other side of the border are dreaming about destroying us, and this is an expression of the lack of correction in them, which we haven’t provided them with.

According to the structure of the world, we had to pass this correction on to them. It is like a person to whom I owe a million dollars, why? Because that’s the way the world is made, according to all the conditions. If I don’t give him the million dollars, he will have complaints towards me, and I will reply that I don’t know anything about it and that I don’t know what everyone wants of me.

I turn to the UN and to the whole world for help, and the other countries say: “You know what, we think he is right.” It is because they also have a similar feeling, but they are more distant from me. They also feel that I owe them something, not a million dollars like the neighbor, but let’s say ten dollars, and so they can wait in the meantime.

But they feel that I have a debt that is growing from day to day and the interest is growing. So we shouldn’t hope that they will come to us with a bouquet of flowers next time.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/23/12, “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar” 

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