The Gate of tears is a special gate leading to the Creator. There are many gates to the Creator, but only one of them opens, the gate of tears.

The Zohar explains this very simply: There is only one entrance to the Creator, there is no need for confusion.

A person comes into contact with the upper force when he truly cries from lack of strength, from the impossibility of continuing to live like this, from the fact that he really gave it all he has got.  When one bursts into tears, the Creator reveals Himself to the person.

One day I tried to cry before RABASH from the bottom of my heart. He laughed in my face. I was ready to tear him apart back then. But there is nothing you can do. That was at a relatively early stage of learning.

All the gates are really locked, except for the gate of tears. Upon revealing the full extent of one’s ego, one’s whole desire, giving and relating everything to the Creator, a person reaches the final state: “This is it! There is nothing more I can do!”

But if he does not get an answer, it means these are empty tears, like a child who cries for any reason. Then he has to keep working and, someday, everything will be revealed to him.

The right desire is not expressed in crying one’s eyes out. It is a state where, on one hand a person is in complete powerlessness, and on the other, has a great desire to give to the Creator what he has prepared for Him, but the Creator does not want to accept it.

In such a state, a person suddenly begins to reveal a material egoistic desire, which, it turns out, is deeply hidden inside his “pure” spiritual aspirations. And he begins to dig it out of himself, to purge himself of it.

Then he turns to the Creator again with a request, and suddenly sees the egoistic desire stuck in him again, although earlier it seemed to him that he was already absolutely pure and cleansed.

Now the main thing is to never give up and to realize that your attitude toward the Creator is the same as His attitude toward you. This is a full reflection. The Creator is the upper light, completely at rest, only the creation is changing.

Therefore, if it seems to you there are changes in the Creator, these changes are in you, you see yourself as if in a crooked mirror. After all, before you correct yourself, you see the Creator in relation to yourself in the opposite reflection, in the negative relative to the positive.

It is written: “The Creator is close to you in the measure you are close to the Creator.” The Baal Shem Tov explained this with the words “The Creator is your shadow.” That is, if you can observe your shadow, your reflection against the background of white light, then this is the Creator.
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From Moscow Congress 5/2/2016, Lesson 3

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Question: We had an amazing congress. In Kazakhstan, there were more than 300 friends, many of whom came from Petach Tikva, Russia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey. At the congress, as you said, we had a great expansion.

And now you are saying that each small group that did all this together with the world Kli needs to work more in depth. What does “go deeper” mean? In spirituality the connection is preserved?

Answer: The connection is, of course, remains in your group. Maybe it is not so noticeable because you were united at the congress and there was a strong external pressure on you.

And now we need to merge with those groups, with that pressure that they want from the Creator and from everyone else. After all, every group wants to move forward. From today onward, we have entered the post-congress phase.

In short, we have to agree among us in the group on how to get closer to each other and also agree on this between the groups. Basically, what we want is for each group to be responsible for the others. That is enough for now, and then we will move forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/26/2025, “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent”

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Question: If a person tries to carry out spiritual work in thought and action, but the heart remains deaf, a feeling arises that some kind of heaviness is constantly happening there.

How can I unite with the others from within this heaviness in the heart? What should I do to make use of this opportunity?

Answer: You must find the point of connection with the common group, with the common Kli. And from there you will begin to feel yourself in the center of that group. There you will receive answers.

Question: Am I searching for this common point through prayer?

Answer: Yes, the prayer is there as well.
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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: Is fear of the Creator equal to the measure of difference in qualities between me and Him? How can I stop being afraid of the Creator?

Answer: It is very simple. Start talking to Him. That is the easiest thing.

Question: And how can I hear the answer?

Answer: How to hear the answer? That is already a problem. If you strive for Him to hear you, from that you will understand what you need to do in order to hear Him.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 5/22/25, Lesson 2, “Believing that the Creator Is Good and Does Good”

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Question: How did you reach such a high degree of love among the greatest friends? What did you pay for it?

Answer: With my free time. I filled all my free time with the study of Kabbalah—The Book of Zohar, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, the original Kabbalistic sources, that is the entire secret.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention 5/22/2025, Lesson 2, “Believing that the Creator Is Good and Does Good”

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Question: If I experienced a descent due to some corporeal cause and was able to use that descent for a spiritual ascent, but the corporeal problem did not go away, how should I relate to it?

Answer: You should not worry about that; rather, be concerned about how to move forward on your spiritual path.

Question: How can we help a friend who is in a descent and for whom corporeality is more important than spirituality?

Answer: We study this all the time. You can even read nothing else besides the materials from our congress.

Most of the lessons are about how we unite and thereby pull each other out of the darkness into the light. That is all there is to it.
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From the Lesson #5 World Kabbalah Convention 5/24/2025, “Descents as a Springboard for Ascents”

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Question: How can I pray correctly for the collective and ask the Creator for them if my heart only wants to pray for myself?

Answer: Try to think in a way that you genuinely want to ask for the collective, for the group, for those close to you, and for your friends. It all depends on how much you think about this.

Question: When I see a discrepancy in every point and ask for correction, but I ask for myself, how can I make that prayer for the collective?

Answer: Add the words that you are praying for everyone to it.
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From the Lesson #6 World Kabbalah Convention 5/24/2025, “A Prayer of Many to Reveal the One”

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Question: How can we connect with other tens if each ten is a whole world in itself?

Answer: That is not your concern. Everything is done by the Creator: He lowers and raises the tens in relation to one another.

He has far more data about each group and combines them according to a specific path. Therefore, don’t pay attention to how or where we are.

Ask, you are obligated to ask.
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From the Lesson #4 World Kabbalah Convention 5/23/2025, There Is None Else Besides Him in the Ten

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Question: How can we understand that a friend is in a state of descent?

Answer: The most important thing is to constantly think about how you wish for the upper force to unite all the friends, bring them closer, connect them, and pull them upward.

That is what we must do. We must think about good deeds.
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From the Lesson #5 World Kabbalah Convention 5/24/2025, “Descents as a Springboard for Ascents”

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Question: How should I correctly annul myself before a friend in the ten?

Answer: It is certainly not easy, but essentially, it is the state we must reach.

Question: So should I accept the friend’s opinion instead of my own?

Answer: No, you should accept the friend’s opinion as the state you yourself want to reach.

Question: Is that called annulment?

Answer: You will see.
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From the Lesson #4 World Kabbalah Convention 5/23/2025, There Is None Else Besides Him in the Ten

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