Comment: It seems that our next level is serving people. There are for example so many lonely people that it is really terrible. But despite the fact that there are so many online dating sites, it doesn’t result in people starting a family. Having accumulated a lot of experience in working in circles, I see the exact picture of how to speak about this issue with people and how to teach them.

Answer: I don’t think that bringing people together and helping them start a family is the solution to the problem. We are in a phase in human history in which people cannot see themselves connected to a family. They connect quickly, have children, and begin to regret it: “What have we done?! This limits us so much, it is suffocating!”

I am beginning to understand them better lately. What is suffocating them is the ego that has evolved to its maximum size. We have to ascend to the need of having a family, so that it will become part of our spiritual vessel (Kli). Only then will we be able to speak about getting married. Otherwise it will lead to nothing.

The more we advance, the more we will see this situation. So people will start a family only when they can be sure that this is their way upward and not because they were suddenly inspired in the group or in some workshop. Only when they reach a certain spiritual state and grow up spiritually will they understand the meaning of a family.

The idea of civil marriage will practically disappear and instead there will be spiritual families. It is the need for the creation of a family cell that will become the reason for starting a family.
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From the Convention In Sochi 8/24/14, Lesson 1

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Question: It is said: “Buy faith from the Rav (Teacher) and follow him. And you pray that you have the spirit like the Rav does. This is how spirituality is bought.” What does this mean?

Answer: The belief in the teacher means believing in what he says and performing his recommendations without questions.

Everything I say, I say for you. Anyone who hears and accepts this is advancing.

I do not have any claims to those who refuse to listen to me; it is their own business. But if you want to be tied to me and follow me, you must listen to what I say.

Because on the spiritual path your eyes will always be closed, you will always follow me. They will be opened when you ascend to your next degree, and you will be rising to your next degree with the eyes closed again. This is called “faith above reason.”
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From the Convention in Sochi, Lesson 4

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Question: We have to take the deficiency of the masses and bring it to the group so we can direct it to unity. How do we reconcile this with the situation in the Ukraine where there is a war now?

Answer: You cannot do anything about it. It is the general egoistic state of the world that is now being revealed in different places. We cannot even imagine how many wars are going on now. Nobody writes or speaks about them. Is everything quiet in Afghanistan? No. In Africa people are killing each other and everyone keeps quiet, and there are other hot locations in the world!

There is the general ego that we cannot balance at the moment. We cannot hasten our altruistic evolution to match the pace that the ego develops. Therefore, the negative events in the world develop much more quickly than the positive ones. We try to change things, but we cannot catch up with it yet. I hope that this year we will begin a routine of normal balance.

What we see are normal, rigid, accurate laws without any interference on the Creator’s part. Stop imagining some upper will. There is a force that is one constant law in itself; there is nothing but that!

There are no regrets and no sensitivities. The point is that we formulate everything through our feelings in a corporeal language, but in fact the Creator, nature has no feelings! We only depict Him by using this world’s words in order to somehow convey the spiritual method.

Therefore, everything that involves the state of the Ukraine and other places on the globe is the result of imbalance between the right and the left forces. There is nothing we can do, we have to act and try to balance them.

Question: But how should we relate to them?

Answer: Only by disseminating the goal of creation, unity, connection, and nothing but that. Everything else will lead to nothing. We have reached the point in history where the correction has to be fulfilled in either a good way or a bad way. So there is nothing we can do because there is a very rigid, accurate law that operates here.
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From the Convention In Sochi 7/14/14, Lesson 6

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All of the confrontations, conflicts, and wars in the world are initiated from above so that we will require the Light of the Creator, so that we will understand that we cannot do anything by ourselves. We must simply lift up our hands and scream. What is happening in the world is unbelievable. Suddenly everywhere in the world intense hatred has flared up that is derived from all kinds of sources and for various reasons.

Moreover, this is a kind of confrontation and conflict that we couldn’t even conceive of before, nor could we even suppose that it was possible. It is awful to look at such a vast country like the Ukraine, which is being torn apart.

I don’t think that it is necessary to blame America or the European Union. The Creator has arranged all of this for us. There is one reason; we must rise above our oppositions. We must rise above them so much that they stop. This is very serious work.

The Creator is playing with us from above and we must focus entirely on connection and unity. Our worldly ways will not result in anything.
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From the Convention In Sochi 8/25/14, Lesson 4

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Question: We are passing through various states. First, when we encounter the ego, we ask for them to raise us above it, meaning that we work with the “left line.”

Then there is a miraculous transformation; we reach the “right line,” we unite and connect, the Light floods us, we are well, we have a gleam in our eyes, and we look like fanatics. And here we understand that we can’t go out to the public like this because they will not respond to us. And the moment we begin to extinguish this, they ask us: “Where is your joy?” So what is working joyfully?

Answer: We must have calm confidence: “Please hand me the scalpel, I am going to operate on my ego.” This means that we have full confidence in the fact that we are all doing the right thing together.

Question: So where is the joy discovered?

Answer: Isn’t this joy? There are various levels of joy: the joy of a little child, the joy of an adult, and the joy of a wise person.

In this case, during the convention we are in our circles and how we seem from a distance doesn’t interest us at all. We can hug each other joyfully or express our joy differently. That is not important to us.

It is not important how we convey joy and confidence to each other. Be honest! You are in your collective, in your family.

All spiritual work is built upon infinite joy! We are happy about what we have received, about the time we are living in, what the incarnation of our soul is, and how we were chosen by the Creator to help humanity and be a conduit for its development. Whatever we touch, everything must be built on joy, on the confidence that we can attain the goal.
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From the Convention In Sochi 8/25/14, Lesson 4

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Question: Can three hundred people who undergo an experiment in unity and connection in Sochi give this feeling as a practical skill to the three thousand people who will come to the convention in Saint Petersburg? Is this realistic? Is this a physical activity, or do we need to seriously include the Creator here?

Answer: It would be wonderful if we could bring the convention participants to a “vibrating conveyor.” It is you who have passed a big “aquarium,” that must agitate and shake everyone internally. I suppose that this is possible.

We must attain a state of unity such that we will feel the shaking (vibrations) of each other and of everyone together. We need to bring the people to this sensory feeling that the tension that you feel here will be strengthened many more times at the convention in Saint Petersburg.

People require inner fulfillment. Yearning and longing for spirituality is felt in them, they want only this! We must make a convention where everyone will be filled with tears and will cry: either sorrow or happiness, or everything together. We must bring people to the feeling of goodness and pleasure from unity and connection, to begin to feel a preliminary sensation of feeling the Creator in unity, some kind of similar illumination, a glow. This is our mission.

You must make the Saint Petersburg convention an “aquarium” so that in the three days a trembling (vibration) like this will be created that will awaken the Upper Light.
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From the Convention In Sochi 8/25/14, Lesson 1

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Comment: When our friends in Sochi went out to disseminate, the rest of the people who didn’t go out arranged a “mirror” workshop, carried out the same activities and discussed the same questions. We did this as a support for our friends; we tried to be with them as a single whole.

Answer: Your concern for the success of your friends is the main thing. You created an atmosphere for yourselves that you can only dream of. What can be more spiritual and more useful for attracting the Upper Light?

Wherever our friends go out to disseminate, we are concerned for them. We feel them.  Make it so that everything will succeed for them! We are ready to give everything, only so that they will succeed. There is nothing higher than a prayer like this. Certainly everything will work out for the best for them!

If we create such a state at the Saint Petersburg convention, or in whatever other circumstances, then this is destined to succeed from the start! So, you have grown! It is called the “prayer of many” (Tfiflat Rabim) when I pray for my friend. Believe me, there is no need here for anything else!
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From the Convention In Sochi 8/25/14, Lesson 1

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We are the first generation (which is also the “last generation of the egoistic world”) that must realize the wisdom of Kabbalah and make a leap into the spiritual world. If all of the hundreds of thousands of people (or, possibly several million) who study Kabbalah around the world unify, we will definitely reach the power that will allow us to break through the border between the spiritual and corporeal world, which is called the Machsom, and attain love.

Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Last Generation”: There is a fable telling about a group of people who got lost in the desert and were suffering from hunger and thirst. One of them found an abode filled with abundance and remembered his unfortunate comrades. However, he has gone so far from them that didn’t know where they were. What did he do? He started to shout loudly and blow his horn so that perhaps his poor friends would hear his calling, come to him, and also enter this abundant temple.

We are facing the same predicament: We are lost in a frightening desert with all mankind, and we finally found a big treasure filled with riches. They are Kabbalistic texts…

And now, gentlemen, here, in the treasure chest you see before you, there lies a book where all wisdom regarding a state is explained, along with all possible paths of an individual and a society that get realized in the future.

Open these books, and you shall find there all the correct arrangements of life that will be revealed in the end of days, which will give you a good lesson in how to put everything in order today.

Although Kabbalah is regarded as science and wisdom and seems to be hidden, exalted, mysterious, and possibly even frightening (however, in recent years, these myths about Kabbalah have been dissipating), we must understand that it all speaks about unity between us. If people unify, they will begin to experience here and now through greater internal mutual connection this stream of energy flowing between them.

We are already in it, as if in the fog, but don’t feel our authentic, true condition. We need to disperse this fog, come back to consciousness, and then we will find ourselves in the world full of Light and start living eternal and complete life.

We will see all the worlds and feel that we are not only above everything that occurs in this material world, but will receive new consciousness and perception. We are yet to accomplish this, and everything depends on how much effort we will make to dive deeper and feel the bond between us.
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From the World Kabbalah Congress 2010 11/9/10, Lesson 1

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Question: What should a person do if he tries to participate in everything, but he can’t always be with the group physically?

Answer: If a person wants to be with the group but cannot do so, it isn’t his fault.

Suppose I was called to serve in the army while the group is holding a convention. There is nothing I can do about that.

When another force dominates me, which of course, is also arranged by the Creator, I cannot do anything about it, I will obey. The upper providence operates on me this way, against me.

If I obey it, I don’t lose anything if I don’t participate in the convention. But this is true only if I really have done everything to be there, but because of the circumstances I cannot, because the Creator surrounds me on all sides.

At the same time, a person has to say: “I don’t accept this, but I will still be connected to the friends as much as I can. I submit to the circumstances that You have put me in, which means that being in this state is the best thing for me.”

We must agree with the Creator! But only after very serious clarification, and not by looking for different excuses to justify myself.
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From the Convention In Sochi 8/25/14, Lesson 2

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Question: How can I relate to the friends like to the Creator and turn my criticism to love?

Answer: There is no logical answer here because the Upper Light performs all the changes in you. Just as now you don’t love the friend, you will begin to love him under the influence of the Upper Light.

We have to ask for that. You have many questions for which there is only one answer: the Upper Light and its effect. This is the whole method: “I have created the evil inclination; I have created the Torah as a spice,” in order to correct the evil inclination.

The Torah is called Light, which fills all of creation each time you can produce the amount of Light that you think is essential for the revealed correction of your ego. There is nothing but that. There is no other remedy but the Upper Light.

When I speak about the effect of the Upper Light, I mean that as a result of our efforts, our intensive search, and the different events we go through, we suddenly begin to feel mutually, we begin to feel that the Light is near. You receive feelings that you never had before and thus you feel that it is the result of the influence of the Upper Light.
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From the Convention In Sochi 8/25/14, Lesson 2

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