Question: I am a lone wolf by nature and I avoid being in a crowd. I believe that quality can be achieved only individually. Is there a logical explanation to the advantage of participating in a congress instead of studying your lessons and your books in solitude?

Answer: Solitude is not a bad thing. I also like to be by myself. Everyone knows that I sit behind closed doors and that it isn’t easy to reach me, but the point is that the plan of creation is fulfilled in the connection between people.

Although it isn’t a physical connection but an internal one, we have to establish physical connections in order to reach it. This is the reason that we have conventions, gatherings, meals, and lessons together, all of which are essential.

It makes no difference who you are by nature: a lone wolf or a sociable person who always has a smile on his face, you have to establish mutual internal connection with other people.

The more difficult this is for you than for others, the greater the reward you will receive as the outcome of the efforts that you make in the form of the revelation of the Creator.

But sitting alone with the books while a convention is taking place is like spiritual death.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/19/17

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Question: Do I need to be afraid of my desires? What if I will have such desires that I can’t control?

Answer: Many people are afraid that they will lose control over their desires and will start acting completely out of control.

The fact is that here everything depends on the environment. If we are in the right environment, then a person doesn’t have to worry about self-control.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/15/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 24:1 – 24:4: When a man takes a wife and is intimate with her, and it happens that she does not find favor in his eyes because he discovers in her an unseemly (moral) matter, and he writes for her a bill of divorce and places it into her hand, and sends her away from his house. And she leaves his house and goes and marries another man, and if the latter husband hates her and writes her a bill of divorce, and places it into her hand and sends her away from his house, or if the latter husband who took her as a wife, dies her first husband, who had sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, since she was defiled to him, for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin to the land the Lord, your God, gives you for an inheritance

If we consider what has been said from the point of view of human society, then it can be treated as you like. And if considered from the point of view of the correction of the soul, then this desire cannot be corrected, because the first husband, who was trying to create the right intention with this woman (with this desire), saw that he could not do it.

So, he will not be able to fix it even after her second husband. But the second did not succeed in this either. After three husbands who gave her a divorce, she has no right to marry anymore, i.e., this desire is uncorrectable. It must be put aside until the next cycle.

The soul does not disappear anywhere. There will come the next cycle, and there will be another state in the common soul, and this private soul, this private desire, will be able to receive correction.

Question: But was there an attempt to correct it, if she still got married?

Answer: Of course.

Speaking of our world, never in the Jewish communities would a girl remain unmarried. She was sought by a husband all over the world! This is a major commandment. For any girl: curve, oblique, lame—no matter what—a groom had to be found.  Such a dowry was collected for her that an average man was ready to marry her.

To marry was always considered a very great Mitzva—a charitable cause. A person who could do it at least once in his life had a feeling that he had something to come to above.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/26/16

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Question: Can a person develop the ability to foresee the future, extrasensory abilities, etc., by studying the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: Kabbalah does not develop foreseeing the future or any extrasensory abilities. A person has inner vision, but it has nothing to do with such abilities.

There are psychics and clairvoyants who can perceive the future, but it has nothing to do with the wisdom of Kabbalah. They could be be total egoists, evil people. But as a rule, people who have extrasensory perceptions are inclined to good more than others, although they are far from attaining the qualities of love and bestowal.

These people simply have developed extrasensory perceptions, but anyone can develop them.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/22/17

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Question: How is it possible to correct a 60-year-old adult who had a completely wrong upbringing since birth?

Answer: The age of a person is unimportant. You don’t know how much time still remains for him to live; people today live to a hundred years or more. Let them be corrected.

Question: Is education possible without information?

Answer: Certainly! After all, information is knowledge about the fundamentals of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and other subjects.

Question: How is it possible to talk about educating parents if they don’t feel a need for it?

Answer: To raise a child, they will need to educate themselves.

Question: What can be called love?

Answer: Love is the right attitude toward others, for their benefit.

Question: How important is education through labor from the point of view of Kabbalah?

Answer: Effort is primary; work on yourself. This is specifically the real effort, and all the rest will be left for robots.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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Question: What does it mean to cross the Machsom (barrier)?

Answer: Crossing the Machsom is crossing the potential barrier, after which a person begins to understand what the characteristics of bestowal are, which he never felt before.

He assumed that engaging in bestowal or loving someone was similar to the spiritual quality, but in fact, everything is different.

A person acquires the characteristic of bestowal beyond the Machsom, and then he begins to see the world in a completely different light, as if a spotlight has been turned on and the true reality is revealed to him. And before that he was in the dark.

Suppose we were to turn on an X-ray; we would see everything with the light of the X-ray. But a spiritual light is not an X-ray. It reveals all the characteristics, connections, and qualities, everything around us.

Question: What does a person who has crossed the Machsom see?

Answer: Connections! Connections between all parts of creation in their true form, connections that had not yet been revealed as such. At the same time, the person has limitless enjoyment. His pleasure is a result of a great sense of harmony.

This is a unique divine melody that a person feels a need for at every moment, in every part of creation. They all complement each other mutually, they radiate and create a complete connection between them. In other words, different opposites are discovered simultaneously with the mutual complementarity between them, one above the other.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/29/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 24:14 – 24:15: You shall not withhold the wages of a poor or destitute hired worker, of your brothers or of your strangers who are in your land within your cities. You shall give him his wage on his day and not let the sun set over it, for he is poor, and he risks his life for it, so that he should not cry out to the Lord against you, so that there should be sin upon you.

All the problems described in the Torah between a human and the still, vegetative, animate, and other people, represent the relationships inside a person, or the relationship between souls, which correct themselves and come to a state of mutual interaction.

Therefore, when it is said about a hired servant, a slave, a neighbor, or your brother, etc., it means how I connect my desires inside myself, and not only mine, but how I connect with other desires into one group, one common soul.

Therefore, the Torah speaks about different interactions between different desires: one above, one below, one on the right, and one on the left, in their different forms.

Thus, it is said: “You shall not withhold.” You have to do everything so that each desire is received according to your effort.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/31/16

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