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Posted on September 19th, 2025

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Become as One

Posted on September 19th, 2025

Question: You say that the ten must become as one. What is this state?

Answer: One means that we, each of us, gather together into a single unit, into a single quality—the quality of mutual bestowal. And there are no other relationships, not toward the Creator nor to each other.

All the other qualities of a person are connected to the quality of bestowal. I annul myself, I connect with others, I feel myself lower or higher than the others in order to influence them with the greatness of the goal. I try to unite them together, to imagine the Creator in place of each of them. By this we come to the quality that is called “one.”

Question: Do we attain this state only for a short time or must we hold it constantly?

Answer: This state comes for a single moment, but as soon as we attain it, we reveal the Creator.

In the very next moment we fall, and everything disappears, the sensation of the Creator vanishes, serious disturbances arise in us, up to hatred, and the work above them begins once again, which leads to the quality of “one, unique.” And again we reveal the Creator.

And so, step by step, we advance toward the goal, each time attaining new worlds.

Thus, for now, we must only think about our ten. If it is surrounded by proper tens in my group and in other groups, then we feel a great addition of strength from the other such tens. Therefore, I am interested that there be as many of them as possible, and that they be as strong as possible. But, in principle, my spiritual work is concentrated within my own ten.

Over time, a kind of good competition may be encouraged here, which will push us forward. Only it is still too early to speak about this. We must treat it very carefully. But it will come.
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From the 4^th lesson of the congress in Moscow, 5/3/16

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Love—The Source of Life

Posted on September 19th, 2025

Question: What does love give to a person?

Answer: Love gives a person an inner radiance that enlivens him. Life.

But the problem is that love is a much deeper relationship that we must reveal between us.

It is not about those feelings that arise according to a person’s inner inclinations, which are instilled in him by nature or acquired through upbringing. We must first reveal the proper values—to understand what is truly called love, to what extent we exist within the nature of mutual hatred and mutual rejection, and if that is so, then what must be done in order to attain love, since the source of life is love.

Question: Must we reveal what love is?

Answer: We must reveal the secret of life. This secret is connected with love. For without it, there is no continuation.

If there were no attraction between plus and minus on the still level, no joining and separating between molecules on the vegetative level, if there were no such calculations between living bodies, when one hates or loves another depending on the level of development, if there were no feeling of a mother’s love for her child on the animate and human level, then without this, nature would not develop, not even the simplest cell would exist.

Everything exists according to love and hatred, according to the force of attraction and repulsion. These two forces must be balanced.

Therefore, it is not by chance that it is written in the wisdom of Kabbalah: “Love will cover all crimes.” These two fundamental forces, located at the center of creation, must be balanced with one another, and then between them there will be proper, gradual development until such a degree that both love and hatred will develop to infinite proportions. And in this way we will attain the world of infinity, the world of truth, which is the goal of our development.

Therefore we still have to reveal how to come to the clarification of what love truly is—for it is the source of life.
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From the conversation “New Life 692 – What Is Love?”, 2/16/2016

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Arthouse, Dostoevsky, Diamonds…

Posted on September 19th, 2025

Question: There are different categories of cinema. Arthouse is experimental cinema. There are more serious films, there is Hollywood, and everyone positions themselves as something important. I used to be fascinated by arthouse. But now I cannot even watch these films because essentially they are flat experiences, like you said about Dostoevsky, that a man killed an old woman and writes about it. In fact, there is no benefit in this at all. What does it actually give a person?

Answer: The problem is that there is no clear benchmark that a person can measure themselves against.

For example, Dostoevsky has wonderful statements about love on one hand, and on the other hand, such hatred. He does not know how to position himself.

That is, people lack an absolute reference point, a standard. And that makes it very difficult.

And that art that you are talking about, various experimental films and whatever else, is all endless chatter because there is no clear basis in human nature, nothing from which to measure ourselves.

As a result, all of this is doomed to neglect by the person who begins to rise above the level of animal existence. These are intelligent, searching people, but they are confused. Everything is fine except for one thing: there is nothing against which to measure themselves, no absolute point.

Therefore they cannot create any image that will remain for eternity, despite what has been written. After all, if it is a depiction of a person’s inner world without the correct measurement in relation to the Creator, it gives nothing. So it all remains the same—he killed an old woman and nothing more.

That is why art is dying, that is why people begin to neglect all the great works that humanity has created over the millennia. Only a few naïve intellectuals remain who value this.

Everything will die out, except perhaps music, because in a musical piece each person can somehow express themselves. But literature or painting, or something else…

Painting still has some kind of future because there is a false convention about its value, since there is nowhere else to put capital. Rembrandt, let us say, is worth a million dollars, Rubens—five hundred thousand, another one—such and such, and so on. Their paintings will remain as currency. This is how painting will be valued, and nothing more.

And why are diamonds valued? The fact is that in the world there are many diamond deposits that are prohibited from being mined, otherwise their price would collapse, and then people would be left with nothing. But this way, let us say, I have a little stone in my safe, worth, say, 30 or 100 million. But if you suddenly throw a couple of kilos of diamonds onto the market, the price of my stone will automatically fall tenfold. I will not let you do that! So the value of all these things is relative.

But classical music will remain because it conveys all human feelings, and in it one can express absolutely anything. Its harmony corresponds to the structure of the soul. Painting will remain because it is like securities. And literature will not remain at all.

Question: Then what use is literature at all? The classics, Tolstoy, Pushkin?

Answer: Who will read that?! I am sure that even now it is no longer read. Does the younger generation read these books?! No.

Perhaps there are abridged versions of the classics, where all of Tolstoy is presented in fifty pages. Well, who today will sit down and read War and Peace? Who has time for that? Can it replace today’s Internet with all its possibilities for a young person? It is a completely different world! And young people cannot be blamed for that.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Arthouse, Hollywood, Dostoevsky, Diamonds and Mushrooms”” 9/8/10

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What Is the Root of the Soul?

Posted on September 19th, 2025

Question: What is the root of the soul and how do we attain it?

Answer: The root of the soul is called the source of the soul, meaning the Creator, who is revealed in the connection between you. Not within your egoism, but in the fact that between two egoists a mutual quality of bestowal can be revealed.

It is revealed between you, the egoists, despite the personal ego in each of you, and it is precisely in this place where the Creator is revealed.

Therefore, the greater the egoists are and the more they work on themselves, the more the Creator can be revealed between them. But always between them!
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From the 4^th Kabbalah Lesson of the Congress in Moldova, 9/7/2019

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Force of Habit

Posted on September 19th, 2025

Comment: If a person understood what a vile, disgusting, limited world one lives in, the person would look at many things in a completely different way.

My Response: But we know how people get used to living in concentration camps, labor camps, in penal colonies, everywhere.

I had a friend who left the penal colony and stayed in the village next to it. I was surprised! And he said: “It is nice here. What else do I need?” This was in comparison to Leningrad, which had a good food supply, culture, everything!

A habit! A person does not need anything else. Moreover, there are simple relationships in penal colonies, everything is clear and straightforward: who you are and who I am. The whole setup is much simpler.

Comment: Yes, a person immerses himself in the familiar world he lives in anyway.

My Response: This is a terrible thing! We constantly perceive our surroundings this way, we perceive only pleases us, what we need, what suits our upbringing, and what suits our inner state. That is all we see!

But we are in a world of infinity! An incredible amount of depth, phenomena, forces, and actions revolve between us and around us! We do not notice any of this because we do not want to. We only notice what we are pre-programmed for, what we are used to. Everything else is subconsciously eliminated. This is how we are created. Habit is a terrible thing that affects our consciousness!

Question: You describe the states one experiences after moving to another facet of reality in a very colorful way. However, is aiming to develop a desire for it enough, in addition to studying and everything else? If a person really wants to, will he be able to move to a higher dimension?

Answer: No a desire is not enough because our desire is egoistic; we must transform it into another one that is altruistic.

One cannot feel the upper world in his egoistic desire. “But I want it!” No you do not want it; you want something else you imagine as the upper world. You cannot want it now because it is all about giving, loving others, and coming out of yourself. You do not have such desires! So do not lie about wanting it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Our Whole Life Is a Game?!” 9/29/10