Question: Is it enough for us to correct ourselves in order to correct the whole world?

Answer: No. Since there is a connection between all souls, no soul (degree) can complete its correction without correcting the parts of the next degree. No person lives for himself; this entire system is a system of mutual bestowal.

Therefore, it is impossible for someone to correct himself for his own sake. Everyone lives in order to provide correction and fulfillment for others. It is impossible for a soul that corrects itself not to have a part that its predecessors corrected for it, and a part that it itself is obligated to correct for others.

It is known that the upper part of each soul, its GE, is in the lower part, in the AHP, of the previous soul (Partzuf) that is the upper part for it. And its lower part, its AHP, is inside the GE of the lower soul.

Therefore, our free choice is where we are not connected with the upper soul and the lower soul, meaning, in the middle part of our soul, the middle part of the Sefira Tifferet.

There, a space free from all souls is formed, our freewill, and in principle, it represents a special connection in our soul of the upper and lower souls, in this connection they are equivalent and therefore provide us with freedom of choice.

And outside the middle part of the Sefira Tifferet, parts of the soul do not belong to it: the upper one relates to the higher soul (the previous Partzuf), and the lower one relates to the lower soul, to the continuer. Therefore, the calculation is always made on bestowal to the upper and the lower. And the decision about this bestowal is made in the middle and there is no other freedom!

Except for this artificially created middle point, called Klipat Noga, formed by the connection of Bina and Malchut, the point of my choice, everything else does not belong to me, but to the upper or lower Partzuf. And I stand in the middle and have to decide all the time how I am connected with them.

But this point, making the decision, is the I – “man,” “similar” to the Creator. On the one hand, Malchut, and on the other hand, Bina, and therefore at this point there is a special contact of Bina and Malchut (the properties of the Creator and creation), from which a free decision arises to make the creation similar to the Creator. It is called “Adam” – “similar.”

Until we reach this decision, we are not “Man.” A man begins with one, the awareness of the difference between Bina and Malchut and two, the connection between them.

From this point, he grows to the extent that he can serve others with his 613 desires: the upper ones (248 desires) and the lower ones (365 desires). If you do not do this, then you remain just a point. And if you do, then you develop your GE and AHP, and they spread to the common soul: all the souls that are above and below you.
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From Daily Kabbalah lesson 9/12/10, Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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To open the lock to the Creator with the whole ten means to achieve the closest connection of hearts, when everyone puts their whole heart into it. This common heart will become the key that opens the lock.

Each of us is just a part of the key. The mechanism of the lock and key must interact and influence each other in order to open the door the Creator is behind.

At the world congress, everyone who wants to engage in spiritual work will have the opportunity to open their hearts and connect with other friends from all over the world to realize this together.

Awe of heaven is my fear: will I be able to insert the key into the lock so it corresponds to all lock forms at all levels (inanimate, vegetative, animate, human)? I will turn the lock so everyone would see themselves conform to the advanced state, and the door will open.

Awe of heaven is the connection that exists between me and the Creator. The more I feel the awe, adjust  my key to the shape of the lock, and turn it, the more I connect with the Creator.

According to the forms I create in the key, the lock begins to open for me with this key. I hope the joint preparations for the congress will allow us to get closer, connect, and find the right shape of the lock and key in our connection, in a common embrace, thanks to mutual help and support. The ideal state at the congress is when absolutely everyone, without exception, participates in the common effort to open the lock.

The key is striving for the future, which everyone imagines a little differently. After all, not everyone is in the right state; in some way everyone’s state is incorrect. Therefore, one connects in the common key, wants to push himself and turn in the direction to the point where the lock opens.

A person alone cannot open the lock; we need to unite all our desires to achieve this. A congress provides the opportunity to complement each other by bringing all aspirations together. And then we will feel there is one common key, and with the help of prayer, we can reveal it.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/9/25, Preparation to convention “Connecting to Lishma”

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To enter the state of Lishma (intention for the sake of the Creator), one must find the key that unlocks this specific door. This is where the test lies: am I in the right state? Can I open this door or not? If not, it is as if I am retreating, returning to my previous state.

The test is whether all my accumulated experience up to this point is forming the correct key that will open the entrance to Lishma.

In the corporeal world, we can clearly see a lock and a key that cannot open it. The same applies here. I realize that I am not yet ready to unlock this door: either I lack fear before the heavens, or the shape of my key does not yet match the lock, meaning they do not fit together.

The Creator gives us the Torah as keys to inner doors, but we do not have the key to the outer door, the fear before the heavens. Under special conditions, under the influence of external forces, I begin to feel that I must achieve the correct alignment between the key and the lock.

The key is my inner form, my friends, my tens. The outer form must be arranged like a house, so that the key fits into the lock and can turn it, that is, so that all the details of the house and the key align.

Together, friends build the form that I must align myself with. Each person adjusts himself through their own individual work, and after these efforts, we all unlock the lock together. But outside the ten, there is no key that can open it.

As I approach the correct form, I feel more precisely what is needed to unlock it. The right key is when my aspiration fits the lock exactly, and we merge in one desire. In other words, I seek to match the lock’s need and take on a form that completely fills its empty space so that I can then turn it in the direction required by the environment.

If the key does not fit even slightly, the lock will not turn. But if we, together with the friends, connect closely to all parts of the lock, we can clarify everything unnecessary that prevents us from fully inserting the key and unlocking the lock.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/9/25, Preparation to convention “Connecting to Lishma”

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 82

Chapter 8 The Power of Desire

When does the evil inclination begin to rise in us and slander our work, seemingly interfering with it? It is when we start our spiritual work. Beforehand, the evil inclination does nothing. Why? It is because before we start the work, we do not act against the evil inclination.

The work of serving the Creator is to correct the evil inclination, and this correction is necessary. Without this correction, we will lack the “letters” of the work, the flavors and sensations needed to feel the end of correction, which we are already in but lack awareness of. Otherwise, we remain in our current state. If we do not walk the path and gather impressions of the differences between light and darkness, bitter and sweet, and truth and falsehood, we cannot perceive where we are.

Only when we start distinguishing between these two extremes, the Creator and the created being, do we gradually gain awareness and truly feel our current state. Nothing changes within us except for this clarity.

The nature of the evil inclination is such that when we work through its many details, we gain knowledge, flavors, and the ability to feel the perfect state called “the end of correction.” If we work hand-in-hand with the evil inclination, as do all inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human beings in this world, the evil inclination shows no resistance. On the contrary, it provides strength proportional to our desire to satisfy it. But if we work to correct the evil inclination through which we acquire spirituality, which we cannot acquire with our natural desire but only through “reflected light” (Ohr Hozer), i.e., a desire to bestow, then nature certainly resists.

The evil inclination begins to burn within us and prevents any thought, intention, or action. We become weaker on all levels: thought, desire, and action. We lose our motivation and feel drained of energy until we can no longer move forward. This is a good sign. Although at this stage, we feel very bad about ourselves, if we have faith in the sages and understand that we must acquire strength and enlivenment from outside of us, then we seek and find that fuel, gain strength, and continue forward. But if we do not receive strength from outside of us, we have nothing to continue with.

Here also lies a problem. We might think that we are growing, influencing others, doing good deeds, and succeeding in all aspects of Kabbalah, but in truth, the evil inclination deceives us. It introduces a kind of selfish substitute instead of real corrections, which once again blinds us until we might reveal our true state.

We can test this by trying to annul ourselves to our friends, as only from them can we receive the energy to progress. If we can annul ourselves to our friends, it shows that we indeed progress.

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Question: If I interfere in some state of a friend and seem to prevent him from going through it, does this mean that I myself will have to go through it instead of him?

Answer: The passage of your states has already been mutually calculated. You and your surroundings are together in the same harness. You were brought in your generation, in your time, to a specific place, into specific conditions, because this is how the spiritual system in which you exist is materialized.

In your spiritual system there is me, close friends, distant friends, this entire world, all the surroundings, all of nature, the cosmos, and so on, and around that, there are also all the spiritual worlds.

And all this is relative to you; you are at the center of this influence, and you cannot exist without something or someone, it only depends on the extent. But in general you are connected to absolutely everyone, and the more you develop, the more you will begin to feel dependent on an ever increasing number of various sources.

You will feel more and more tied to an immense system with numerous parameters. They all influence you, and you influence them. How do you manage all of this? Only with love. There is no other way to find contact and control the situation except through love, through accepting others as a part of yourself. Then there are no problems.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. In One Harness” 6/12/10

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Question: You said we are attracting much more light than desire (Hisaron). Can this really happen?

Answer: Of course, we attract a negative amount of light. There is a continuous connection between the Reshimot (spiritual information data) created as a result of the descent of souls from the world of infinity to our world through the 125 degrees of the worlds. As a result, we are at the bottom, and we have information records of all the past states that we parted with when we descended into our world.

Now each of us must make the same journey from bottom up just as was descended from top to bottom, but only on our own accord. This is the difference between descent—fall and ascent—rise in that we must stock up in advance, find, form, and create a desire for bestowal, a desire for love, and a desire for connection between us.

Initially, when we fell, we did not have this desire. It is unnatural because we do not want to rise in attributes of bestowal, love, and unification. We want to receive, grab, dominate, and be filled. In our world, we imagine a spiritual ascent, a connection with the Creator, in an entirely opposite way of how it happens. These pictures are presented to us in an egoistic way as, for example, Muslims think that 72 virgins are waiting to dance for them in the world to come.

That is, people have taken the greatest pleasure in the material world, sexual pleasure, and made a paradise out of it. A person in our world cannot imagine anything more. There is nothing to laugh about. Clearly we have nothing else. Food, sex, such eternal fun, this is paradise.

But we cannot imagine this is about bestowal, absolute love, and connection between us, where on one hand you remain as a person, but on the other hand you completely give yourself, dissolve into everyone else, and work only for their desires. We avoid such thoughts; we dont’ want it to be like that.

Therefore, the return ascent is so difficult because every ascent, every small step, has to have an underlying desire. We must want to rise to this degree in advance, that is, to become more giving, more connected to each other, and more dependent on others.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Virtual Community, Part 1” 5/16/10

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We must approach any manifestation of evil in the world with the mindset that I am responsible for what is happening, not just philosophically but truly.

When you perceive the entire system in which you exist not abstractly, but clearly, then any negative occurrence in the world brings about a deep realization: “This is my fault!”

Another person is not to blame: “The evil simply passed through me and reached them, and that is why they acted wrongly.”

This is what absolute mutual responsibility means; it is when no one is responsible for themselves but only for others. This is also what true love means; it is when you step outside yourself and only others matter to you.

At that point your own “I” disappears; you live within them. And there is nothing to worry about for yourself. Who are you? You are merely a manifestation within others. Your “I” is everywhere; it is in others.

And that is when you begin to feel true infinity. You fill it, and it becomes yours.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Negative Properties” 6/14/10

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Question: Some people who have heard you sing say that the depth of your voice makes them feel that you are in spiritual attainment. How does spiritual attainment influence the development of human qualities?

Answer: Personally, I do not like my voice. And it is not penetrating, not velvety, not convincing, and it does not envelop the listener or enter them against their will and take hold of them.

If anything ever speaks within me, it is the strength of the connection with what I am saying. There is, after all, a certain depth of connection with the qualities, objects, actions, and events that I describe.

People feel this, and it does not depend on my voice at all. If someone else were to listen to this, they would hardly feel anything.

When a person has some kind of connection with us, they perceive a deeper wave that goes beyond the voice, beyond sound frequencies. It is the desire, the force emanating from the person who is deeply connected to what he is saying.

Sometimes, after conversations with people, I hear their feedback about me. It seems that I was not talking to them about Kabbalah, and they knew nothing about it, yet they suddenly began to feel that some kind of power, some very strange effect has manifested within them as a result of our interaction.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Power of the Voice” 5/24/10

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