Question: Why doesn’t Bnei Baruch say anything about integral education anymore? In the past, they talked about this a lot; studied it, taught it to others, and now, not a word.

Answer: We study various states in the formation of a spiritual person, in one’s resemblance to the Creator. If something in particular interests you, then I suggest that you turn to our courses, both physical and virtual. You can find everything on the Internet.
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Preparation for the Lesson

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” Item 13 

Lesson on Topic: “The Creator Desires to be Revealed,” (Prep for the World Convention)

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Torah, Deuteronomy 34:09: Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, because Moses had laid his hands upon him. And the children of Israel obeyed him, and they did as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Joshua is the next step, inferior to Moses. But since it is lower and slightly immersed in egoism, Joshua can lead the people further and higher, can conquer the egoistic desires, and can transform them into bestowal. This is the meaning of the “work in the land of Israel.”

Moses cannot do this. Therefore, he transfers his duties to Joshua.

Torah, Deuteronomy 34:10 – 34:12: And there was no other prophet who arose in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, as manifested by all the signs and wonders, which the Lord had sent him to perform in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and all his servants, and to all his land, and all the strong hand, and all the great awe, which Moses performed before the eyes of all Israel.

The property of Keter (the Creator) and the property of GAR de Bina (Moses) are the same properties of absolute bestowal. This is why it is written that they were “face to face.”
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book,” 2/6/17

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Question: What is the difference between fear and trepidation?

Answer: Fear is an animalistic (egoistic) feeling. The term “fear” is very rarely used in Kabbalah. It uses the word “trepidation,” a feeling that I possibly do not do enough of what I should do.

Question: Do Kabbalists have no animalistic fear?

Answer: A Kabbalist is a human being like everyone else. Therefore, everything depends on his state. If he falls, he can fall below any person. If he rises, he rises to the level of the Creator.

Question: But does something make a Kabbalist different from an ordinary person?

Answer: It is only the connection with the Creator, which he has almost all of the time: “There is none else besides Him.”

Connection with the Creator neutralizes any kind of fear, and only trepeditation remains because a Kabbalist understands that the Creator is the source of everything that happens.

Question: Can a Kabbalist artificially awaken fear in himself in order to come to trepidation?

Answer: There is no need to awaken any fears or any negative emotions in yourself, only connection and love. There is no self-flagellation; that is anti-spiritual.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/13/17

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Remark: People have a popular view that loving themselves isn’t simple; there are complexes, low self-esteem, etc. Some say, “To love yourself is to love the whole world.”

My Comment: It is truly so. After all, who am I indeed? A person should understand that what he now believes himself to be is not him, but is a small, selfish animal that exists for a certain number of years and that is it.

In fact, the substance of “I” is deeply hidden in him and it must be developed, pulled out, raised, and straightened so that a person gets up, raises his head, and begins to grow.

It is about the point in the heart of a person that can develop.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/23/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 34:08: So the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, and the the days of weeping over the mourning for Moses came to an end.

Thirty days of mourning is the whole step: Rosh, Toch, and Sof of the Partzuf. When you completely break away from your previous Partzuf, from the previous stage, it is called the thirty days of mourning.

Weeping is a small state (Katnut). After all, the sons of Israel are like children who cannot do anything and therefore weep. They cannot reach the level of Moses, and the awareness of this is called “weeping.”
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book,” 2/6/17

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Question: We say that the Light, falling on our desires, depicts a picture of this world for us in our egoistic desires. If I cross the Machsom—the psychological barrier between our world and the spiritual world—do I feel this Light undisturbed by egoism?

Answer: You do not feel the Light, but the desire to bestow that this Light depicts for you. However, it is not in egoistic qualities, but in altruistic ones.

We do not attain the Light. We only attain desires that are its derivatives.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/3/17

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Question: What is the meaning of the command: “And choose good” (Isaiah 7:15)? What is “good,” how does one choose it, and what is “bad?”

Answer: Good is what I do above my egoism. This means I must receive Light from above to rise above my ego and carry out an action that is directed against it.

Without receiving the reforming Light, I cannot rise above the ego and perform good deeds. I need contact with the Light. To do this I must unite with friends in a group to ask for the upper Light through the center of the group and receive it. Only then can I act.

I invest efforts to be in the group, and according to the degree of effort, I get the opportunity to bestow.

Without revealing the Creator, the Light, a person cannot perform a good deed because the Light is the property of bestowal, and it is given to a person even before he begins to discover the Creator.

Revealing the Creator means attaining the system, the ten Sefirot, which are understandable to a person, and in them HaVaYaH (the four-letter name of the Creator) is revealed.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/12/17

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