Question: What laws should there be in the correct society and family?

Answer: The laws of equality, total participation, unity, and reciprocity. All that we want to see in our family is necessary to take and teach these laws to the whole nation.

Everyone must accept them and understand that if the entire nation cannot live according to these laws, then no family will be able to live happily, neither the richest nor the poorest.

The general and particular are equal, so if we want our family to live well, it is necessary to establish good relations in the society. And then society will maintain peace in every family. That’s the secret of a happy family.

Question: But I bring to the family in the evening all my complaints that have accumulated over the workday, all my quarrels with co-workers.

Answer: With whom can I quarrel at work if we all are one family and care for each other? I will see around myself only good examples and feel that everyone is a brother.

This will be tomorrow’s world if today we start to learn how to build it. And it is not difficult at all. A person gets up in the morning and watches a 15-minute talk on TV about correct relations. It is interesting, an enjoyable program, which he watches with pleasure because he understands that it benefits himself, the children, and the whole family.

He comes to work, and the first half an hour of the day is a workshop in the circle about correct relations between people. Only then they start to work. In the middle of the day, there is again a workshop. We come to nothing good without education for the entire nation.

At the end of the day he is taught how he should behave on the road, coming back home and how to behave at home. At home, his family members who have also received the same education are waiting for him. Everyone studies how to establish good relations with each other. After all, by this we gain a sense of higher existence, as if we found ourselves on the cloud.

It heals all our sores, strengthens the bond between parents and children, relationships with neighbors, and changes the face of our city and region. No one is afraid to let their children go to the street because every passerby will treat them as his own child. But to achieve this, everyone must be constantly learning.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 2/15/15

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Question: Why is it so difficult to understand Kabbalah?

Answer: If you try to understand it with the mind it is difficult, if not impossible, because to understand Kabbalah, life, and meaning you must change the brain and sense organs, and this is done by the Light due to practical efforts in the circle, in the earthly likeness to the upper property of bestowal.

Kabbalah is a practical method because it is possible to understand what it talks about only in the changed desires and mind

Conclusion: A person must surrender himself and participate in the group.
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Firstly, when Jacob’s family first went to live in Egypt, his was a family of 70 people. Everything the Torah tells us about takes place only on the spiritual levels, and all the calculations are realized in the intensity of the bestowal that is felt among people who yearn for connection. This is their only yearning, desire, and action.

Abraham took thousands of his followers from Babylon in his time, but 70 or tens of thousands are different levels of measuring. Tens of thousands refers to the number of people, while 70 refers to their spiritual intensity. Israel is a big system (Partzuf), while Jacob is a small structure that contains seven Sefirot from Malchut to Hesed. Seven Sefirot that are multiplied by ten levels in each Sefira add up to 70 parts.

Secondly, according to the Torah, 600,000 men left Egypt. These numbers indicate that the Israeli nation naturally multiplied, and Jacob’s small family became a nation of millions of souls. There is nothing unnatural about this since Egypt is the egoism. When I am in huge egoism, all the desires in me naturally grow and swell and expand as a result of the environment I am in.

When the nation of Israel first entered Egypt, it was small, but full of Light. The attribute of love and bestowal was among them, and a person was among them despite his will. During the first seven years of satiety, it was normal, but, during the seven years of hunger that followed, the Egyptians enter me and begin to trouble me internally, forcing me to yearn for their ideals. I look at them and see how attractive they are, how they begin to live inside me, how I absorb them and cannot get rid of them.

However, the struggle between the Egyptians and the Israelis in me invoke the feeling of the slavery in Egypt. Up until now, I haven’t defined my state in Egypt as slavery because I wasn’t under the spiritual domination of the Egyptians and everything was normal. Now, however, I begin to discover to what extent they affect me, and therefore I must do something about it. I reach a state in which it is better to die in the Red Sea or in the desert than to live in Egypt. Spiritual death is better than living in complete rejection of the Creator.

Question: But why do I enter Egypt with a force of 70 people and come out of there with a force of 600,000 men with 3 million women, elderly, and children behind them?

Answer: This is what I could egoistically absorb from the Egyptians. Although I resisted them, they still entered me, and I absorbed different desires, yearnings, attributes, and goals from them. Then I corrected them inside me, which means that I grew in a spiritual sense and saw that I cannot remain among the Egyptians anymore otherwise I would be buried under them. These desires want me to remain in them, so I can thus influence the world.

It is the work in Egypt that the Jews gave the world in the last two thousand years. Basically, we shouldn’t have engaged in it, and this is the reason that these actions are called exile. This isn’t the reason that we were given such talents, and no one is benefitting from them. Therefore, humanity doesn’t take our corporeal contribution to the development of the world into account. They are expecting something else from us. We must come out of Egypt, which is the embodiment of the entire world, and isolate ourselves spiritually, attain an inner unity among us, and then correct Egypt and the entire world.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/17/14

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The main problem of humanity is re-education to understand that we don’t control what is happening; we are within a system that reacts precisely to all of our thoughts, while our physical actions don’t arouse any response from the system.

A person must be presented with the fact that he influences the system of the forces of nature through his thoughts and intentions, while his future depends upon a response from the system. A person must be placed in frameworks like these, in such a network that he will always understand that only the right influence through intention and inner effort is what builds his future.

What I yearn for in the present determines my situation in the next moment. And if I accept the system of creation as unified and integral, then through my intentions I influence the state of all of humanity, I manage the state of all of humanity, and it influences me. This means that just as I relate to what is happening now, so in the next moment there will be a way for me to adjust to it. And intention is the main means for discovering the true picture; it is designed to detect my unity with the system of management that includes everything that exists. In the meantime, it is only a feeling of unity in the world. But to the degree that the circle of my field of vision expands, it will include within it all the rest of the worlds as well.

From here it becomes clear that the main problem is to put the person before the fact of his permanent influence on the natural system, on the system of management, the system of cyclical connection. Moreover, this system must be perceived by the person as “still,” and revealed within it are all of the laws about which the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks. It is “still” in the sense that it lacks change, “He hath made a decree which shall not be transgressed.” (Psalms 148:6). But when we are talking about this system, we explain its actions in “human” language, as it is said, the Torah speaks the language of the people, projecting onto it our feelings, the system can be compassionate, angry and so forth, but it is said this way because that is what a person understands, a person “humanizes” nature, creates its image and that of the Creator correspondent to him, as a system that is like him with which he has a mutual connection.

This is even though it is completely incorrect to attribute human characteristics to the Creator. This is also dangerous because this distracts a person from cooperating with the system, with the Creator, correctly. A person begins to think that the Creator can also be changed, like he. That is, a person perceives the Creator as being like himself, as someone who chooses to respond and to act, as existing in a framework of freedom of choice. But there is no freedom of choice in the higher system!

It is written, “I created everything that exists according to law. This law is called by My name, you call Him “HaVaYaH.” I created everything through it and you discover Me through it.” This is referring to the four letter name of the Creator, which are the five phases of development of the Direct Light (including the root stage), 0-1-2-3-4 (Shoresh, Aleph, Bet, Gimel, Dalet).

And we must understand, that nothing changes here. To speak about the Creator means to speak about nature, to speak about the only system that acts according to a particular law and can never be changed, changing those laws, that system of management, “He hath made a decree which shall not be transgressed.” So it is said: “The Creator is merciful,” “the Creator changes,” but to expect changes from Him is a person’s biggest mistake.

A person is given the possibility of choosing the proper way for his development, the “way of suffering” or the “way of Torah.” The choice of the right way for development doesn’t conclude by providing a distance from suffering, as we subconsciously awaken to our nature as suffering becomes only a sign that I am acting and developing incorrectly. Whereas advancement requires not “suffering,” but being directed towards “fulfillment of others, the Creator,” and it is up to me to change myself so that through these activities suffering becomes pleasure.

And where suffering is discovered in acts of bestowal is where I can ask the Creator (the Light that Reforms) to change my characteristics so that bestowal will become happiness. But even in this case I ask for happiness not because I want to feel happy but because I want to make the Creator happy, to become adjusted to the system. Then my movement and progress will be correct. And this is where the problem begins: What is more important to me: my sufferings or giving contentment to the Creator and working in a group?
Good luck!
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Writings of Rabash, “Rungs of the Ladder,” “The Prayer of Many”

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Question: How could it have been that precisely in Israel, which was to become a home for all the Jews of the world, that such a despicable attitude has emerged about the Ethiopian emigrants only because of the black color of their skin? What must be done to become a united people?

Answer: Israel is divided today into factions that oppose each other: The left and the right, Ashkenazi and Sephardic, Ethiopians and Russians, and more and more. A small people, constantly forced to defend itself against external enemies surrounding it from all sides cannot even establish peace for itself.

We cannot succeed in attaining unity if we don’t call for help from the force that can unite us. Each successive government has committed to strengthen the unity of the people and establish peace and consent in our society. However, it is not in the power of anyone to keep his promise, and this is not at all the role of the government.

For unity, we need to know how to awaken the unique force, the Light that Reforms, so that it will correct the relationships between us, the evil in us. Only then can we connect and become one united people. But if we don’t do this, we can expect very difficult times ahead.

So, we are conducting discussion-circles throughout the country: in recreational areas, in promenades, and in parks. During the process of such discussions, a feeling of special unity appears. That is how we show an example of how to awaken the higher power that is concealed in nature and oblige it to influence us.

Already in the first circle, people gathered who met by chance, and relationships appeared among them where they began to rise above their problems and integrate together in a common unified field. Totally different people can sit in a circle: Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Ethiopians, Arabs, and foreign tourists. It doesn’t matter. This method works and influences everyone.

The entire world is in terrible need of unity, for without it, everything falls apart. So throughout the world, anti-Semitism is growing, and the nations of the world blame the Jews for harming the world. This will continue to grow from day to day. Actually we are not the cause of evil, but the blame is ours because we are not bringing the good force to the world which will balance all of the evil.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 5/3/15

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Victory over the fascists was a great victory in a great war that many nations were dragged into. It must be said that, for the Jews, the day of victory is a special date because on that date a period of annihilation, torture, and oppression of our people ended.

With victory in the Second World War, a new stage of changes in the world opened in which the victorious nations annexed areas for themselves in accordance with the laws of our world.

At the same time, a special event occurred. Everyone understood that it was also necessary to note the Jewish people as the ones most harmed by genocide. This was used as a reason for the creation of the state of Israel. Certainly, further internal conditions that were created here contributed: political systems that were prepared from the start, massive immigration of Jews, war over territory, and so forth.

Through a United Nations (at that time League of Nations) resolution, the State of Israel was established as a result of the recognition of the suffering of the Jewish people by the world. So the holiday of May 9^th is a kind of prelude to the birth of the state of Israel.

We must pay due respect to Russia, which helped save part of the Jewish people, for, in spite of the appearance of anti-Semitism in it before the war, during the war and after it ended, this was the place to which a large number of Jews fled from fascism and western Europe.

Today many perceive the date May 9^th as a political holiday. However, if we move ourselves away from politics, it is worthwhile to recognize that this is truly a unique holiday. We hope that we will remember this date only as the end of a terrible war and that we will try to make sure that this will not be repeated. It is in our power.

What I mean is that it is specifically the power of the Jewish people and the power of the Russian speakers in Israel. If we succeed in understanding how to act among us, without connection to external forces, nations and governments, then we will neutralize all the terrible forces in the world. We won’t require arms if we arrange for the right communications with each other and come closer between us. Then, all of the peoples and nations will relate to us favorably.

We must attain unity, and then we will bring peace to all of humanity.
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From KabTV’s “A Talk About May 9^th Holiday” 5/6/15

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The Torah, “Numbers” 1:46 – 1:47: The sum of all those who were counted: six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty. But the Levites, according to their father’s tribe were not numbered among them.

The Levites are a totally separate part that is in every person who engages in spiritual work.

The soul is divided into several parts:

• Keter, Hochma, Bina
• Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet
• Netzah, Hod, Yesod, and Malchut.

Furthermore, it is divided into lines: the right line, the left line and the middle line.

The Levites belong to the part of the head that we cannot count and calculate because it is only part of the process of our correction. When we attain the complete state of the end of correction, they also will become part of the general account. This is the reason that the spiritual path of the Levites is not taken into account. We use them, but they are actually part of the Creator inside me.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/17/14

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