Question: You talk about group work, but in the past, Kabbalists did not really work in a group, did they?

Answer: No, it is just that back then, there was not yet a state where people felt that they had exhausted all efforts, but still were not progressing, there was no state of group despair where you feel like you have reached a dead-end and do not know what to do next.

People have always gone through stages like this. We disseminate Kabbalah, we take action, we feel important, in charge, we are so wise. But then reach a point where we say: “And now what? We have nothing”—that kind of state had not yet appeared.

I was waiting for it. I prepared The Book of Zohar for this moment. I prepared practically 70% of The Zohar before we even started reading it. It has been a very long journey.

But now the time has come when we are beginning to feel the need for inner movement, inner tension. A large part of the group, people who have been advancing for years, who have gone through all the articles multiple times, absorbed all the material, disseminated Kabbalah everywhere, traveled the world, connected with friends globally, has essentially realized and exhausted everything at this level. So, what is next?

This is precisely the point where the real situation arises, where we can say: “Guys, enough playing around! You see that nothing external will help. Now it is either we rise or nothing.”

Of course, we can continue as we are. We can disseminate Kabbalah, feel like a global academy, a worldwide community promoting good ideas. But in reality, this will not bring us anything real.

To move forward, we need a group revelation of the Creator, not an individual one. That is why I started working in this direction.

Question: Are we truly standing at this threshold—either up or down?

Answer: No, not “either up or down.” We will not fall. We will continue moving, but we will stay on the same plane instead of taking the shortest path.

Either we will truly start merging our points, uniting through the help of the Creator, and filling ourselves with Him, or we will keep moving forward slowly—another book, another clip, another small step, slowly spreading.

Of course, this is still existence, and it is certainly better than purely animalistic existence where one only thinks about their physical body while it is alive.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Group despair” 7/28/10

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