One of the sections of the Torah read on Sabbath is called “Truma” which means “donations” in Hebrew. This term has a completely different meaning in the spiritual work and it means the raising of the Creator.

This section describes how the Temple is built in great detail. It is because everything is built according to the form of the Sefirot that are the connections in the upper world, in the system that manages us and which is beyond the limits of our sensations.

The upper world penetrates through all of creation and so the Torah describes all the connections, the mutual relations, and its formulas. It isn’t just formulas but a network of formulas. It is very hard to convey this since there is no similar mathematical system in our world and we don’t deal with such problems. Only some of them are solved individually.

But when we deal with analog systems in which there are endless options of different connections that are closed to all, where everything is connected, then we are not able to do it. We cannot perceive such a network either in our mind or in our feelings and keep everything simultaneously. We have to be created that way internally in order to feel that there is the same system on the outside.

If there is no such model inside us, then we can only “cut” it to pieces and perceive them as an integral, to take the pieces and to put them together. But it is merely a sum and not a whole. We cannot contain everything. Only to the extent that we are corrected, to the extent of similarity to this system, can we begin to reveal it. Otherwise it isn’t on the same level, and it goes through us, and we don’t even feel it.

So in building beams, a roof, and partitions that are described in the Torah, we refer to the building of the integral system inside a person.

It isn’t about building objects in our world but about creating new attributes inside us. What does it mean when it says “And they shall make an ark of acacia-wood” or “And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee”? You will discover these attributes inside you (the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate nature), choose them in the most concrete manner and create an inner system out of them according to certain measures and drawings of what seems to be the external upper world, which you have to attain. If you create these conditions inside, you will attain this system, and it will be called a “Temple.”

A Temple resembles a big tent in which many people gather in order to unite and to discover the upper force, the upper system, in the full absolute connection between them.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/29/13

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Question: What is the right way to develop love for a teacher and what are the correct ways to demonstrate it?

Answer: The word Rav (teacher) is derived from the word “big.” Loving the Rav means to respect him. To love and respect the Rav means that you should follow his advice. There is nothing else that you need besides this.

Loving signifies that you hear your teacher or, at least, you are trying to listen to what I say to you (my students) and that you read what our teachers have written. In fact, this is enough. I assure you that if you act like that, your love will be mutual.
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From the Preparatory Lesson for the St. Petersburg Convention 7/11/13

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The Torah, “Exodus,” 25:1-25:4: “And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ‘Speak unto the children of Israel, that they take for Me an offering; of every man whose heart maketh him willing ye shall take My offering. And this is the offering which ye shall take of them: gold and silver and brass, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair.”

Question: Until now, the commandments in the Torah were strict. Suddenly it says now “of every man whose heart maketh him willing.”

Answer: It is about freewill.

There are clear and accurate commandments of prohibitions, “don’t do,” which everyone must keep in order to be minimally adapted to Divinity since otherwise he cannot be called Adam (similar to the upper).

There is an even upper system that already analyzes the commands and manages us. A person can resemble this system when he first performs the initial corrections. This is a precondition. Then he can continue to adapt himself to the upper system of Divinity, which means to form it inside him.

It actually exists for such people who are called the Levites, Cohens, etc. They are special people who can form the Temple inside them.

A servant in the Temple is a person who has corrected himself and now resembles and is equal to the general nature, to the upper force, to the Creator, and who works internally with these attributes. This means to serve, and there is nothing but that. The Creator doesn’t need our obedience, or that we feel impressed by Him, or serve Him since He is absolute! We need this in order to transcend ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/29/13

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The Torah, “Exodus,” Mishpatim (Laws), 21:28 – 21:29): And if a bull gores a man or a woman and (that one) dies, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, and the owner of the bull is clear.

But if it is a (habitually) goring bull since yesterday and the day before yesterday, and its owner had been warned, but he did not guard it, and it puts to death a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and also its owner shall be put to death.

A “goring bull” symbolizes a state when a person “unleashes” his internal animal. If one doesn’t know what kind of animal it is, one is not considered guilty. In this case, it means that this person has received from Above such a powerful impulse of the Light that he simply is not able to resist It and that the Light went through him. When a person is murdered with the other person’s hands, this unintentional killer is still considered guilty of something since it was done through him rather than through somebody else. It means that he can be accused of another crime, but not of an intentional murder.

A lot of laws originate from this. Let’s say, a woman had two husbands and both of them died. So, she is prohibited to marry for the third time.

Question: This triggers lots of suppositions. If people lead an ordinary earthly life and are not aware that they are egoists, what can we expect of them?

Answer: The Torah does not speak of people who know nothing and live a normal life on earthly since they are still at the animate level and nothing can be expected of them. They are governed from above without any questions. They know only what they know and they don’t have any freedom of will, nor do they have any relationships with the governing force. The Torah speaks about the ways of rising to the level of the governing force and being in control of our lives.

However, it’s said that if one knows one’s genuine nature and still intentionally commits egoistic deeds, then one is subject to death. One has to take care of one’s correction; otherwise, one has to die. It means that if one’s action repeats twice, then, on the third time, the same action excludes this person from the level he is currently at and throws him to a lower level, meaning that one will need to self-correct the very basics.
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From Kab TV’s “Mysteries of the Eternal Book,” 5/20/13

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The Torah, “Exodus,” Mishpatim (Laws), 22:15 – 22:16: If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall provide her with a marriage contract as a wife.

If her father refuses to give her to him [in marriage], he shall weigh out money according to the dowry of the virgins.

“An unengaged girl” stands for an egoistic desire that cannot be used correctly. That’s why, relative to this person, this desire of his is considered “a virgin” who cannot be his, and yet he seduces her and thus receives a certain pleasure through fulfilling the desire.

One is prohibited from doing that since his desire is egoistic and doesn’t lead to bestowal. That’s why one has to pay, meaning “refill” the screen, the part of the action that one has not committed yet.

If he paid for the girl, meaning had a screen to work with her (his desire) seriously, then he would be allowed to marry her, to receive an egoistic pleasure. Otherwise, in the spiritual world it is considered to be a serious crime since it stands for the interaction that takes place in a Kli, a vessel, which is completely unsuitable for this person.

It is said that such a man is overwhelmed by his passion similar to the way it happens in this material world. It seems to him that he is able to treat his spiritual desire correctly and use it for bestowal, although later it turns out that he was not able to do it. Thus, he is obligated to use an additional correction and start working with his quality of bestowal over again.

Question: So, it means that the “seduction of a virgin” can happen subconsciously?

Answer: There are countless situations in life. Spiritual life is much more complicated and complex than ours. It has a huge amount of variations. Only after one starts acting can he acknowledge the quality of his desire and tell if he acts knowingly or subconsciously, whether it is a debauchery and seduction or simply a lack of knowledge and a misunderstanding. Who knows, maybe one had a good intention and all of a sudden it turns out that he cannot implement it into reality and it should be considered a violation. In other words, if one used a vessel that one should not have used because it is beyond one’s capacity, one cannot endure it.

It is only about working with a desire! Whatever we touch in the Torah is about the correction of desires that consist of the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and internal speaking levels of nature. The Torah explains everything in an allegoric way.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/16/13

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