We must strive through our own efforts to reach a state in which we constantly guard our connection with the Creator and try to stay connected with each other and with Him, without losing sight of what is happening in every cell of our animal and spiritual body, both inside and outside the collective Kli (vessel)—our group.

All of this happens solely according to His will, intention, and influence. But we desire to be in constant intention and constant appeal to Him. In this way, we are joyful about any changes, any fluctuations, that occur within us because they give us the opportunity to feel that we exist somewhere and that we are doing something.

After all, if there were no such movement, we would not feel any changes. Without feeling disturbances, we would not feel life or its inner motion. That is why we rejoice in all kinds of disturbances, no matter what they are! They compel us to concentrate even more together in mutual support because only in this way can we understand how to position ourselves before the Creator in order to form a pair with Him: He and us.

Therefore we begin to feel our life not in the achievement of closeness with the Creator, but in the very movement toward Him, which becomes the most important, joyful, and fulfilling thing for us. In other words, the goal is not to reach similarity and adhesion with Him, but rather to strive toward it because it is precisely in this striving that we experience the movement of spiritual life.

It is similar to any form of creativity; when a person creates, he lives. The process itself gives a sense of life because it is motion; it is the revelation of new problems, new desires, and their solutions. That is why we act this way.

Every day and every moment we need to rejoice in the efforts that we can make for the sake of advancement on the path of Achishena toward the Creator.
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From Lesson #1, Convention in St. Petersburg, 7/29/2016

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Everything comes from above, from the Creator. A person is not responsible for oneself, not for what happens to him nor for his reaction to what happens. So how can he determine his actions or his future?

In the spiritual world, everything is determined solely by the environment. A man has nothing of his own; either he receives something from the Creator for himself, or he receives something from the group for himself; all this goes to the Creator, and he himself is merely a small gear in a vast mechanism.

Everything passes through him from the Creator to the others, and likewise, through him from the others to the Creator. And what about him? His work is to make himself the correct kind of gear.

The correct inclusion in the group and in the Creator turns us into a gear, but one that is completely connected with the Creator in full adhesion with Him.

If I am the only flawed element in the world, then everything depends on me. The state of the Creator and the state of all of creation depends on me because I am included in everything.

Therefore a man must look: what more can I do to be precisely aimed at “There is none else besides Him” and “The good who does good”? He must feel responsible for the entire world. It does not matter what is actually happening in the world. He must feel that it is all a result of an incorrect connection between the Creator and the world through him.

This is implemented within the group. When a person completely submits to the group and does what it demands of him, then he aligns all of creation with the Creator.
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From the Convention in St. Petersburg 7/29/2016, Lesson 1

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Question: If the Creator holds our heart in His hands, then what does “work in the heart” mean? What are we supposed to do?

Answer: First of all, we must feel that the Creator holds my heart in His hands and completely determines everything within it: all my desires, intentions, thoughts, and impulses, from the most terrifying to the most beautiful.

Once I have reached this state, the question arises: what can I attribute to myself? What would the Creator want me to do now with the heart that He has created within me? How can I rise correctly above my heart and recognize with gratitude that everything the Creator has done is solely for my benefit?

I need to identify what the problems in my heart are. And I can define what a correct heart is only if it is created by the group instead of the Creator.

I must exist between two forces. One force is bad, evil, that is the Creator. He Himself admits: “I created evil.” On the other hand, He created the group, the light called the “Torah,” which I receive through the group to correct this evil. And I exist between these two forces.

The Creator holds my evil heart, which He deliberately created, so that I would find Him, the true Him, through the group. I must create such a state within myself and live in it. In this state, I myself become like the middle part of the Sefira Tiferet, the “Klipat Noga,” where on one side are the evil forces held by the Creator. After all, it is not in vain that He says: “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart.”

And on the other side is His good force, called “light,” the “Torah,” through which I perform correction. But I correct the evil force using the good force in such a way that I constantly exist in balance between them, and this is how I advance.

Advancement always takes place in the middle line. My dark left line is constantly renewed, and therefore I constantly need the right line, a stronger connection with the group, and more light.

This is exactly how one should imagine the relationship between me, the group, and the Creator.

The Creator does not initially play a positive role. Initially, He is the destroyer, the creator of evil within us so that He can later teach us how to do everything correctly, like a mother who steps away from her child and gives him a chance to learn to walk.
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From the Convention in St. Petersburg 7/29/2016, Lesson 1

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Question: Yesterday was a very intense day of the convention, and we reached a state of ascent. I felt there was no place left to add effort; it was so elevated.

I started looking for that place and discovered many clusters of dark matter of the will to receive, of hatred within me. I tried to touch it and saw that a great light comes to it, and I can use it as fuel.

But when I touched it, it turned me into a wicked one. How can I work with this dark Malchut so as not to fall into it, but rise by means of it? It feels like walking on the edge of a blade.

Answer: You must constantly think about how you want to draw it to yourself, to grab hold of it, and to rise together with it. Act on it.

Question: Is adhesion with the Creator when you feel His will as your own desire?

Answer: Yes.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 5/24/2025, Lesson 5, “Descents as a Springboard for Ascents”

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Question: If a thought comes like light, but I don’t let it into the Kli, and it doesn’t become reality, but remains outside as light that I don’t give form to, can it be said that this emptiness already contains equivalence of form?

Can bestowal begin not from desire, but from emptiness?

Answer: I wouldn’t say so. Let’s work through the questions and answers together, and you’ll see that by the end of the convention, the path will become more or less clear to you, what we are asking for and how we plan to reach the end.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 5/22/2025, Lesson 1, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: I managed to implement the rule “If I am not for myself, who is for me,” because I feel that no one else will do it for me.

But to fulfill “There is none else besides Him,” I make efforts and act with the strength the Creator gives me. Yet after the work is done, I cannot agree that there were no efforts of my own and that everything was done by the Creator.

What should I do with these feelings? Forget them? Dismiss them? Turn away? Because I cannot reconcile the two rules. And if I could, I cannot imagine what the result would be.

Answer: Yes, you are right. Everyone faces this dilemma, and each person must try to resolve it for themselves.

Question: Is a person able to hold on to intention during the action?

Answer: What a person is capable of or not, we should not say that now. Once it becomes clear who we are, only then can we pass such a verdict.

Question: We carry out actions both in the material and the spiritual. We perform them. Then comes the realization: “Everything the Creator does is for the best,” meaning “There is none else besides Him.”

We enter this state, it settles within us as if some kind of chip is implanted in us.

Does this state get transmitted in some way to all of humanity? Is that our way of giving to the world? We want to be the Creator’s helpers in the salvation of all humanity.

Answer: That is bestowal and it is transmitted.
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From the Lesson #3 World Kabbalah Convention 5/23/2025, “If I’m Not for Me, Who Is for Me?”

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Question: At this convention it feels like there are no questions, rather just a strong, continuous desire to pray so that this prayer reaches the Creator.

Tell us, what should the prayer at this convention be? What should we pray for?

Answer: That is something you need to tell me.

Question: You say that we need to refine the request, to structure it. There is a prayer: “Unite us, raise us to You, help us all come together to the king’s palace!” But somehow it dissipates.

Answer: Then raise the prayer from one person, from yourself.

Question: How do I do it correctly?

Answer: From the heart.

Question: Do I need to feel everyone and unite them in my heart?

Answer: Start and then you will see.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 5/22/2025, Lesson 1, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: Let’s say a ten is working to reach a state of faith above reason. What is the correct path: to reach a state where faith above reason becomes absolutely perfect or to strive to attain upper reason?

Answer: In principle, both are necessary. That is why I cannot say specifically what exactly this ten needs. To answer that, one would need to know them more closely.

Question: If I see my friends as great, corrected, loving, and helpful, does that bring us closer to the Creator?

Answer: Yes.
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From the Lesson #2 World Kabbalah Convention 5/22/2025, “Believing that the Creator Is Good and Does Good”

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Question: You said that we need to enter the system through which we raise questions and problems to the Creator.

But if I have questions and problems, I do not think about the system. And if I do not think about the system, I do not think about the questions and problems. How do these two connect? How do I find that entrance where I can raise these questions?

Answer: You must demand from the Creator that He answer all your questions. And then, through His answers, you will see how you are making your way toward Him through your questions, and how this helps you reach direct contact with Him.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 5/22/2025, Lesson 1, “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Question: You said that we should see the difference between our initial state and our current one. I feel that I do see this difference. But how can I be sure that it is not just my illusion and that real progress is happening?

Answer: You must keep persistently demanding connection with the higher Partzuf, which clothes itself in you and moves you forward.

Question: How can one correctly redirect one’s thoughts toward the Creator?

Answer: I think there is no need to think about it too much. You simply need to understand how to adhere to the Creator. And if you can do that, you do not need anything else.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 5/24/2025, Lesson 5, “Descents as a Springboard for Ascents”

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