Comment: The collective consciousness aimed at a common goal holds a certain power. It is not an individual but a group advantage when people unite fanatically, egoistically, to win something. If your students stick together, they have a whole different calculation that removes all barriers. It is palpable. Such a great power is revealed in this that people cannot explain it.

My Response: This is the inner force of unity of the group that is more or less correctly formed and pursuing a single goal: to reveal the Creator in this unity and to delight Him.

But at the same time, there is no fanaticism. Fanaticism implies completely different qualities of unification, opposite of what we are talking about. There can be no fanaticism in Kabbalah because everything here works on all possible opposite forces.

Comment: Opponents of Kabbalah try to pin cult stereotypes on you.

My Response: No, we are nothing like a cult, although our opponents try to impose that label on us.

The fact is, firstly we follow an ancient methodology. It is anti-egoistic, which means, it gradually develops you, and it forces you to rise higher and higher above yourself to no limit. In no way do you worship anyone like a guru.

This simply cannot be because we are all completely equal and equitable before the Creator. And most importantly, each of us has a left line which is not found anywhere, not in religions, nor in sects, etc.

The left line is the line of checking, scrutiny, and analysis, when you have to work on the opposite of yourself, turn yourself inside out, and explore what forces you are working with. You have to constantly answer the questions: “Is this true or is it all a lie? There is no Creator, there is no group, and in general, no one and nothing, so who am I from within?”

You constantly have to scrutinize yourself, reveal things, and mold yourself, from an egoist, into an altruist while all this goes against your whole strength or desires. Such formation out of opposite qualities is not found anywhere. This is the most important thing.

Therefore, all people in the world no matter their circles, religions, sects, trends, or movements, are just one-sided puppets.

One specific force of nature works on them and that’s it. Only a Kabbalist works with two opposing forces within himself and is constantly in an internal struggle and scrutiny, awakening and building himself out of two opposing forces.

Therefore, there is no fanaticism; there is no worship of anyone or anything. There is an absolutely equal and new unification every moment, in the name of one upper category—the Creator, who also turns away from any worship because it is a quality. If you achieve it, it manifests in you. That is, you build the Creator in yourself and then you discover this quality, albeit He Himself is not there.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Sectarian Fanaticism” 10/19/13

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