Question: What advice would you give to all the people who are looking for a way to release the kidnapped teenagers now?

Answer: The advice is for just one thing: to connect, to unite. No other action is demanded from us. Connection is the foundation of the nation of Israel that was designated to be as one man with one heart, united in Arvut (mutual guarantee) and love.

As it is written, “All Israel are friends” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.” This is only about connection and unity.

We recommend holding workshops and discussions in circles, which we have already tested and work well. If we carry out an action of this kind, which leads to connection and unity, and make even a small step toward greater unity and connection, then we will immediately see how everything works out in the nation, family, hospitals, old age homes, and of course, with these wonderful teenagers that everyone is so worried about at present.

The entire situation will change for better; it is in our hands. I am very worried about this tragic event. After all, I have three children of my own. But we know that from antiquity until the present day, the nation of Israel has been targeted by all the nations of the world. And it doesn’t stop. We see how the tension around us keeps growing more and more.

Through our connection, we don’t need to become stronger in order to stand and survive against the enemy and to defeat it with the force of the fist. We won’t need force at all. Only the nation of Israel is able to bring the Upper Light closer to this world, and in this way “He makes peace in His high places, He makes peace for us.”

Thus my prayer at this moment is only for the unity of the nation of Israel. Then we will see the best results.
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From KabTV’s “The Meeting of Worlds” 6/15/14

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Question: Some friends, when they go out to people, cynically believe that we are involved with education in order to teach them how to live. But the external public feels very strongly that through their arrogance they are putting themselves above the public. How can this be avoided so that we can be sincere towards the general public?

Answer: Personally I look at the external public as a public that doesn’t know itself but has enormous potential. In every housewife or street cleaner there is a latent, much greater potential than exists in me. So I have a very careful and helpful attitude towards them.

After all, in principle, it is they and not us who carry a tremendous desire, and when it begins to manifest in them, we see that street cleaner or housewife with such bottomless desires and such unlimited possibilities of adherence to constitute the entire shattered universal mass that doesn’t exist within us.

So, on the one hand, there exist actions in a line (Kav), and on the other hand, actions in circles (Igulim). We learn this in the second section of “The Study of the Ten Sefirot.”

If we are acting in a line, in this case, 99% of the general public don’t exist for us but only those who have the exact intention toward the Creator. However, if we are talking about a circle, about Malchut de Ein Sof (world of Infinity), about Ohr Makif (Surrounding Light), it belongs to 99% of humanity. There, everything is hidden in them.

So, we need to relate to them with the intention of the long run—not today, but in a few more years—but everything will be discovered from there, as it is written, “Be careful with the children of the poor, for the Torah will go forth from them” (Nedarim 81a), meaning the Light.

If ever I personally had a prejudice, a disregard, for Asians, South Americans, or Africans in comparison to Europeans and North Americans, in the process of becoming acquainted with them, my opinion has changed radically. They are not just equal in my understanding, but have changed places. Oddly enough, they are the bearers of such intellectual and analytic abilities, such potential of scrutiny and analysis, that doesn’t exist among the Europeans.

So, the circular Kli (vessel), the masses, are the bearers of very great potential possibilities and immense desires that will be discovered later, and with them, the Creator will be revealed..
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From the Sochi Convention 6/9/14, Lesson 1

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Question: How must one answer the question about why is it necessary to love your friend as yourself?

Answer: It is because the world is integral and the mutual integral connection between everyone in human language is called “love,” mutual love for each other, like cells in one body. This is called, “And you shall love your friend as yourself.” This means that there must be such a connection between people as there is between all the other parts of creation.

In nature everything is in the right connection and union between them, except for humans. People violate this unity and distorts the still, vegetative, and animate nature. As soon as people begin to correct themselves, nature will automatically begin to be changed.

Nature will begin to rise because all parts of creation are included in each other, but in particular on that level called Adam (human). So “love your friend” is implementing the essential law of creation, the connection between all of its parts.
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From the Sochi Convention 6/9/14, Lesson 1

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Question: How is it possible to extract the deficiencies from the 99% of humanity most fully and correctly?

Answer: If we work with the general public correctly, we will begin to feel such a deficiency from them that we cannot sit still, so much so that will it stab us from all sides. It will be unpleasant, uncomfortable, sometimes frightening, and sometimes as shame. These are terrible sensations that will appear to us when working systematically with the external public. I hope that the group will compare and examine its yearning to rally around itself as its greatest opportunity and simultaneously be careful about how great the deficiency of the masses is and how much they understand us and are impressed by this.

So we need to prepare a very understandable and simple booklet for them that makes it clear and understandable that within our method is concealed a truth that will help them to rebuild the family, relationships with children, relationships at work, will make them healthy, will clarify a multitude of problems, etc. I would really like us to have this brochure that will always balance our influences, our meetings with the wider public.
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From the Sochi Convention 6/9/14, Lesson 1

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The Torah, “Leviticus” (Shemini), 10:6-10:7: And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons,”Do not leave your heads unshorn, and do not render your garments, so that you shall not die, and lest He be angry with the entire community, but your brothers, the entire house of Israel, shall bewail the conflagration that the Lord has burned.

And do not go out of the entrance of the tent of meeting, lest you die, because the Lord’s anointing oil is upon you.” And they did according to Moses’ order.

Question: How can we explain that they are not allowed to mourn?

Answer: This does not refer to people who behaved recklessly and were somehow burned but about souls. When we speak about spiritual corrections allegorically, it is sometimes expressed in a very special way.

There is a state in which you should mourn since the mourning is actually a correction. This doesn’t mean that you should sit and cry since there is no one to cry about here. It isn’t about the corporeal concept of mourning, which is observed on the corporeal level.

The seven days of mourning mean that during these seven days (seven Sefirot): Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, Malchut, you gradually realize and perceive the full depth of your fall and the reasons for it.

Therefore after the seven days, you understand the meaning of your fall; you are ready to start the correction, the rebirth of the desire that died against your will, just as it was against their will that Nadav and Avihu lit the Holy fire, burned incense, entered the Holy of Holies, and tried to perform an action.

In order to correct something, you must first descend to the darkest depth of your desire and fully perceive the extent of the shattering; the repulsion felt among all the parts of the general soul. Only after you attain the shattering are you able to turn to the Creator from the depth of this state, having understood that it wasn’t you who did it, but the Creator.

It is actually from the full depth of the descent when you feel that this is the end that you begin to feel that this state is given to you on purpose so that you will acquire contact with the Creator because the shattering and the correction are not important. What’s important is that you acquire contact with Him above all these states.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 1/22/14

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M. Weisman, “The Midrash Says,” Chapter “Shemini”: When Aaron understood that his sons’ punishment was a sign of an unprecedented, special honor, he stopped crying and accepted the Creator’s judgment in his heart, and the Creator rewarded him for his self-sacrifice by starting to talk to him, although He usually turned only to Moses.

There are several types of spiritual contacts: a thought that is perceived from a distance, a conversation (exchanging information), or a mutual action. Here, it is about Aaron’s ascent to the next level, thanks to his sons.

On the whole, we should understand that Aaron’s sons are actions that take place in the one single desire.

I find it very hard to speak about this since I constantly have to translate my explanations to discrete states for different souls, for different people. However, all this actually doesn’t exist! It is only about clarifications in the one, unique desire of the one, unique Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 1/22/14

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Preparation for the Lesson

Workshop

Writings of Rabash, “Shlavei HaSulam,” “Concerning Above Reason”

“The Book of Zohar” — Selected Excerpts, “Two Points,” Item 124

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 71

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Nation” 

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Opinion (Efim Reytblat, engineer, founder of the science of gominisologii): “Looking at humanity through the eyes of an engineer, you can imagine it as a living mechanism. Like any mechanism, humanity is characterized by its model.

“The modern model of humanity has a number of nodes: the geopolitical model of humanity – the absolute state egoism, total competition, highly developed NTP, technical inventions, culture, dominated by singers, musicians, actors; criminal law, combat against evil, terrorism, corruption, drugs, ethnic strife.

“These nodes are structurally united into a single mechanism, have a common system of management and control. The nodes are interconnected and determine criminal and inefficient functioning of humanity.

“Social regulation is based on the principle of output signals – the results of people’s activities. Doctors begin to treat, inspectors – to check, police – to detain criminals, judges – to punish criminals. The regulatory role belongs to the criminal law.

“If you look at the criminal law through the eyes of an engineer, you can see that the criminal law – is the regulation, based on the principle of social output signal; it is delayed regulation. It is late; the deal has already been done, the error has been made, the offense has been committed.

“The essence of the innovative project “The Future of Humanity” is to change the model of a living mechanism. The nodes of the old model, little useful for human life, should be replaced by new nodes.

The new model of the future humanity will have the following nodes:

– The geopolitical model of humanity – planetary altruism

-The industry of methods of friendship

– Highly developed scientific-social progress

– Skillful society

– Culture, dominated by scientists, inventors, engineers

– Restored morality

– Infringement of the conscience of the corrupt

– Ridiculing the drug addict’s image

– Social inventions.

“The regulator’s role will belong to restored morality. Restored morality is the regulation, based on the principle of social input. Potent psychological sanctions will be many times more effective than the fear of prison and fines.

“A high level of innovation is due to the introduction of new sciences: inventive psychology, inventive sociology and inventive diplomacy. For 100 years, humanity has accumulated a vast array of psychological and sociological knowledge. To make a revolutionary leap what is required is not just knowledge, but social inventions.

“The competitive advantages of the new model of humanity:

1. A skillful humanity will be formed

2. New types of human will appear: homo socialis habilis – the socially skilled human and homo рsychologis habilis – the psychologically skillful human.

3. New ideals of humanity will appear.

4. Wars will end on the Earth.

5. Prisons will be closed.

6. Scientific and social progress will accelerate.”

My Comment: Everything is fine, except for one problem: how can we come to this state? Only the method of integral education and upbringing will give the answer!
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Question: A thousand people are praying together for the return of the kidnapped boys. Isn’t this enough to save them?

Answer: No, this is not enough; this prayer has not been organized correctly. I would suggest organizing nationwide roundtables, a common workshop. Come, let’s get ready and gather one workshop throughout the whole nation some evening. People who are ready for this will participate in this event, except for children, the frail elderly, and nursing mothers who cannot leave their babies; let’s say 80% of all the people.

If we aim to connect in order to discover within that the power of mutual bestowal through which we want to give contentment to the Creator, with this we awaken the Light that Reforms.

And the Light will already carry out the work. Only this will help, because it will influence the Light that Reforms. This is because we prepare a place, a deficiency, upon which the Light can bestow. All of our work is to prepare the place, and for this we need many people who are arranged and organized in circles, who know the general rules of the workshop and the laws of conduct in it, and who talk about the necessity of connection.

There is a formula, it is only necessary to activate it and make it work. Do you understand this formula? So please, realize it.

Question: Do the people gathered around the roundtables have to be people who have spiritual attainment?

Answer: No, they have to be the most ordinary and simple people. Indeed Baal HaSulam writes that a farmer who plows a field to feed others is doing more important work than the High Priest in the Temple. After all, this work is closer to others, is more understandable and more noticeable, and belongs to lower, more mundane desires, so certainly it will work.

The lower the desires we work with are, meaning the closer and more understandable they are to a person, the greater the Light that we awaken, according to the general rule of the inverse order between Lights and Kelim.

Only if the High Priest included all the desires of the people—including them within himself and raising with them, like Moses, the leader of the people, in that he made a Zivug de Haka’a (striking interaction) with the Light—is this considered a high action. But if he doesn’t take the desires of the people but enters into the Kadosh HaKadoshim (sanctuary) with his egoistic desires, then he dies by being struck by the Light, from a Pulsa de Nura (whip of fire).

So come, let’s organize one big workshop throughout the country together. I don’t guarantee the final result, but simply use the formula, a condition, which we can carry out in order to awaken the Light that Reforms.

Nobody knows what the result will be, but surely it will bring good changes thanks to the Light that we have drawn through our actions. The Light will advance us towards the good, towards correction. How this will be revealed in the world, I cannot say, but without a shadow of a doubt, the situation will be better because of the Light that Reforms.

This is called the prayer of many. We have no other means.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/18/14, “The Mutual Guarantee”

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