Question: Some friends, when they go out to people, cynically believe that we are involved with education in order to teach them how to live. But the external public feels very strongly that through their arrogance they are putting themselves above the public. How can this be avoided so that we can be sincere towards the general public?

Answer: Personally I look at the external public as a public that doesn’t know itself but has enormous potential. In every housewife or street cleaner there is a latent, much greater potential than exists in me. So I have a very careful and helpful attitude towards them.

After all, in principle, it is they and not us who carry a tremendous desire, and when it begins to manifest in them, we see that street cleaner or housewife with such bottomless desires and such unlimited possibilities of adherence to constitute the entire shattered universal mass that doesn’t exist within us.

So, on the one hand, there exist actions in a line (Kav), and on the other hand, actions in circles (Igulim). We learn this in the second section of “The Study of the Ten Sefirot.”

If we are acting in a line, in this case, 99% of the general public don’t exist for us but only those who have the exact intention toward the Creator. However, if we are talking about a circle, about Malchut de Ein Sof (world of Infinity), about Ohr Makif (Surrounding Light), it belongs to 99% of humanity. There, everything is hidden in them.

So, we need to relate to them with the intention of the long run—not today, but in a few more years—but everything will be discovered from there, as it is written, “Be careful with the children of the poor, for the Torah will go forth from them” (Nedarim 81a), meaning the Light.

If ever I personally had a prejudice, a disregard, for Asians, South Americans, or Africans in comparison to Europeans and North Americans, in the process of becoming acquainted with them, my opinion has changed radically. They are not just equal in my understanding, but have changed places. Oddly enough, they are the bearers of such intellectual and analytic abilities, such potential of scrutiny and analysis, that doesn’t exist among the Europeans.

So, the circular Kli (vessel), the masses, are the bearers of very great potential possibilities and immense desires that will be discovered later, and with them, the Creator will be revealed..
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From the Sochi Convention 6/9/14, Lesson 1

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Question: How is it possible to extract the deficiencies from the 99% of humanity most fully and correctly?

Answer: If we work with the general public correctly, we will begin to feel such a deficiency from them that we cannot sit still, so much so that will it stab us from all sides. It will be unpleasant, uncomfortable, sometimes frightening, and sometimes as shame. These are terrible sensations that will appear to us when working systematically with the external public. I hope that the group will compare and examine its yearning to rally around itself as its greatest opportunity and simultaneously be careful about how great the deficiency of the masses is and how much they understand us and are impressed by this.

So we need to prepare a very understandable and simple booklet for them that makes it clear and understandable that within our method is concealed a truth that will help them to rebuild the family, relationships with children, relationships at work, will make them healthy, will clarify a multitude of problems, etc. I would really like us to have this brochure that will always balance our influences, our meetings with the wider public.
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From the Sochi Convention 6/9/14, Lesson 1

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Question: A thousand people are praying together for the return of the kidnapped boys. Isn’t this enough to save them?

Answer: No, this is not enough; this prayer has not been organized correctly. I would suggest organizing nationwide roundtables, a common workshop. Come, let’s get ready and gather one workshop throughout the whole nation some evening. People who are ready for this will participate in this event, except for children, the frail elderly, and nursing mothers who cannot leave their babies; let’s say 80% of all the people.

If we aim to connect in order to discover within that the power of mutual bestowal through which we want to give contentment to the Creator, with this we awaken the Light that Reforms.

And the Light will already carry out the work. Only this will help, because it will influence the Light that Reforms. This is because we prepare a place, a deficiency, upon which the Light can bestow. All of our work is to prepare the place, and for this we need many people who are arranged and organized in circles, who know the general rules of the workshop and the laws of conduct in it, and who talk about the necessity of connection.

There is a formula, it is only necessary to activate it and make it work. Do you understand this formula? So please, realize it.

Question: Do the people gathered around the roundtables have to be people who have spiritual attainment?

Answer: No, they have to be the most ordinary and simple people. Indeed Baal HaSulam writes that a farmer who plows a field to feed others is doing more important work than the High Priest in the Temple. After all, this work is closer to others, is more understandable and more noticeable, and belongs to lower, more mundane desires, so certainly it will work.

The lower the desires we work with are, meaning the closer and more understandable they are to a person, the greater the Light that we awaken, according to the general rule of the inverse order between Lights and Kelim.

Only if the High Priest included all the desires of the people—including them within himself and raising with them, like Moses, the leader of the people, in that he made a Zivug de Haka’a (striking interaction) with the Light—is this considered a high action. But if he doesn’t take the desires of the people but enters into the Kadosh HaKadoshim (sanctuary) with his egoistic desires, then he dies by being struck by the Light, from a Pulsa de Nura (whip of fire).

So come, let’s organize one big workshop throughout the country together. I don’t guarantee the final result, but simply use the formula, a condition, which we can carry out in order to awaken the Light that Reforms.

Nobody knows what the result will be, but surely it will bring good changes thanks to the Light that we have drawn through our actions. The Light will advance us towards the good, towards correction. How this will be revealed in the world, I cannot say, but without a shadow of a doubt, the situation will be better because of the Light that Reforms.

This is called the prayer of many. We have no other means.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/18/14, “The Mutual Guarantee”

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 Question: The Creator commanded Moses to tell Aaron that his sons Nadav and Avihu will ascend to such a level that is above him. Does that mean that he should be glad when they fall?

Answer: Yes. Nadav and Avihu are very sublime souls, more sublime than the souls of Moses and Aaron, which means deeper desires, with more serious initial Reshimot (reminiscences) which will be revealed later on.

We will reveal our general ego in all its transformations and changes of attributes, forms, styles, and names and they will all mutually complement one another. It is actually due to the complete connection between them that the general state of the end of correction will be attained. It cannot be that a certain soul will not participate in it. If you leave even one soul out of the correction, you will not correct all the rest. This is an absolute mutual correction, an integral system.

All the souls are so mutually integrated in one another that when you engage in one thing you immediately need something else. In one system, one pulls the other.

Now, not only scientists, but also journalists write, about the unity of the world. People are already aware of it and begin to realize that nature is unified, that the world is one, and that all of humanity is actually one network.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 1/22/14

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The rules of the group, the rules of the workshop in a circle, and the rules the global world should behave according to today are the same rules. They are the rules of mutual integration, mutual cooperation, and connection to such a degree that we become like one person with one heart.

In the upcoming convention in America we must learn that the wisdom of Kabbalah and the wisdom of connection are the same thing. The wisdom of connection that we are now going out to the world is the first explanation. In the meantime there is no mention of the upper worlds and their structure in the terms of Kabbalah. This is because in the meantime, in any case, we haven’t discovered them.

But after this, we will truly begin to relate to one another with an intention of bestowal. The moment we do enough exercises and attract the Light that Reforms from Above, we will suddenly feel that we are relating to our friends with an intention of bestowal. And then within this relationship we discover the Light: Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, and Yechida of the world of Assiya.

And after that, the Light will become stronger and stronger, according to my attitude towards the friends. In the Kelim I correct, in accord with the intensity of the connection between me and others, I discover the Light of NRNHY.

And the levels of spiritual ascent about which the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks are the distances between us. They are determined according to the degree of our approaching each other, the connections of our hearts, our desires into one desire.

The higher that I ascend on this ladder from this world to Olam Ein Sof, so I approach the shattered souls more strongly, and become like one whole body together with them. And then all the Lights are gathered and concentrated into one beam, and all the Kelim (vessels) are connected into one Kli and we return to a state called Malchut de Ein Sof.

The main goal of the convention is that we speak about the wisdom of Kabbalah and the wisdom of connection as one wisdom, one method, without any division. There is no artificial division that exists between them. This is the same wisdom that explains how we—this humanity and this world that is scattered and pulverized into fragments—become one whole again.

And so our practical work today is to go out to the whole world with the wisdom of connection or with integral education. And after we begin to discover the connections between us, we discover that we have reached the wisdom of connection, which is essentially the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/14, “Preparation for the Convention in America”

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Question: These days all of Israel is concerned about the fate of the three kidnapped youths. Certainly the security forces are making great efforts to bring them home. Many are praying for them to be saved.

Discussions have been organized about how it would be possible to warn them and what precautions can be taken to avoid trouble like this. But is it possible to change something through one particular individual or must one be involved in correction of the general state of society that led to such results, that is, influencing the collective?

Answer: Improving any situation is possible only through becoming a truly collective society. This means bringing connection and unity. It is necessary to transform the people of Israel, in the land of Israel, into one collective body by means of organizing workshops everywhere, discussion circles, joint discussions, and by approaching each other.

People will begin to discover what form our lives should have. Thus, they will begin to reach a connection that will attract the Light that Reforms that will raise them to another level of existence. The Light will begin to enter them, change and create a new society of one connected whole, instead of the former society that was split into pieces and distant from each other.

Through this connection, they will become closer to the nature of the Light, which is one, integral, global, and singular. And when this entire shattered world with the egoism that divides us will rise a bit above the egoistic separation and become more connected, then the Light that acts and influences us will heal all the wounds in our relationships. In this case, without a doubt, we will merit good results, including the return of the kidnapped youths unharmed.

Question: Can we change reality with this method: one picture to another picture?

Answer: Without any doubt, we can change reality from this moment on in any direction, wherever we want. This is in our power. And there is just such an opportunity for the people of Israel.

If we connect more strongly, then the Light will approach us according to the law of equivalence of form, will enter the shattered desires, and begin to correct them. As a result, everyone will feel closer to each other, and from this, the world will be changed. Our relationships and the connections between us will be changed.

Thanks to the influence of the Light, we see ourselves connected differently to the extent that we will want to bestow to each other, to come closer, to bring goodness. This indicates that we are in the spiritual world. The spiritual world is bestowal.

We recommend that workshops and discussion circles be conducted everywhere. And if through shared exercises like these we truly begin to better relate to each other, even in the most minimal way, without causing harm to each other, and at least not doing to others what we hate, then evil will no longer remain in the world.

In this way we nullify and exterminate all of the evil in the world. Can you imagine what kind of a world we would live in if we were to attract the Light that will correct the world in this way? Nobody would want to harm anyone else! This would simply be the Garden of Eden (heaven).

This offers us a miracle to practice the wisdom of connection, the wisdom of Kabbalah, here and now. We have reached such a period in history where this has become our top priority. And so we feel crises that will grow more and more as long as we do not realize this method.
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From KabTV’s “The Meeting of Worlds” 6/15/14

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You should know that now the whole world is a group and we must teach this group, every person and everyone together, how to behave correctly according to the rules of the group. So we have begun widespread dissemination, but in a form compatible with the world, called integral education or the wisdom of connection.

It is impossible to go out to the world under the name Kabbalah. But in the end, we must really teach everyone the essence of the network of connection between us.

To the degree that we enter and integrate into this network, we feel our interconnection with everyone and discover that these connections between us are governed by the same rules that operate between the Sefirot, between the Partzufim and the worlds in Kabbalah.

Where does the spiritual world come from? The whole spiritual world is the altruistic connection between us. If we transform the one-sided egoistic, severed, non-global connections into a corrected global network, then we see this network as a spiritual system and the whole world as one Malchut de Ein Sof (Infinity).

The different levels of connection between us are the higher worlds: Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira,  Assiya, and this world. In the end, we correct all of these connections such that the Olam Ein Sof  (world of infinity) is among us, without any borders. All of us are connected together in one place, with one desire, which is called Malchut de Ein Sof.

It follows that there is no difference between the wisdom of Kabbalah and integral education. Integral education is the same as the wisdom of Kabbalah, only with simple explanations that are adapted for children. When the children mature, we will no longer teach them through simple explanations with colorful pictures, but in a more serious form.

That is how they teach in a medical school; first they dissect rabbits and after that they go on to humans. So we first go out to the wider world with an initial simple explanation, called integral education or the wisdom of connection, but after that we combine this with some knowledge from Kabbalah.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/14, Preparation for the Convention in America

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Question: Could it happen that I might bring harm to the world?

Answer: Certainly, you can cause harm if you don’t carry out the right actions that are required of you with intellectual and emotional participation in the system by free choice. Instead of this, you become a burden to the world. This is how you destroy it.

The right action is learning where your free choice is, what it is, and realizing it. This is what we are learning. Every day, you must make it anew and perform new acts of connection with others, and when you don’t take such actions, you cause damage. In other words, you don’t yearn to be in one heart with all the inhabitants of the world. You don’t make actions to see this connection as the most important thing in life.

Question: When Rabbi Shimon fell to the state of Shimon from the Market, did he cause damage to the system?

Answer: When a Kabbalist falls and rises, he doesn’t do any harm. Instead, he only brings benefit. By falling, he discovers a shortcoming that must be corrected. He reaches this shortcoming, Shimon from the Market, through his efforts and preliminary preparation. You don’t. There is a difference between preparing ourselves for the next action and not preparing.

Question: So, it follows that everyone in a group who falls harms it and condemns it?

Answer: No, it depends upon which person falls, as it is written, “For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again” (Proverbs 24:16), for this is a Tzaddik and not just some corrupted person. Shimon from the Market is a spiritual concept. This is a fall into such a depth like nobody before him has fallen or after him will fall, and from such a depth he can rise up and justify the entire creation.

If someone like a baby falls, we don’t consider the fall or the getting up. Everything depends upon preparation.

However, if a person whose time has come for correction destroys, instead of correcting, apparently he reduces the world to the way of “in its time,” causing war, disasters, a Holocaust. We have gotten all of this already through our failure to correct in time.

We could have prevented the first and second world wars with all of their horrors.

Even now, we can prevent the third world war. Indeed, we are in the generation of the Messiah, which gives us free choice. This is no longer the exile that we had to endure.

In the writings of “The Solution,” Baal HaSulam wrote: I have already conveyed the rudiments of my perception in the year. I have also spoken to the leaders of the generation, but at the time, my words were not accepted, though I cried out loudly, warning about the destruction of the world. Alas, it made no impression.

Now, however, after the atom and hydrogen bombs, I think the world will believe me that the end of the world is coming rapidly, and Israel will be the first nation to burn, as in the previous war. Thus, today it is good to awaken the world to accept the only remedy, and they will live and exist.

We hope that we can stop this slide into the abyss.
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From the 5^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/13/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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The dependence of the upper Partzuf within the lower Partzuf is worse than slavery. There is dependence through the force of evil, alien power. But there can also be slavery through the good life force, when the upper loves the lower.

And then it transmits to the lower because of its love, and does everything that the lower requests, of course, only if it is for the good of the lower. It will always be waiting in order to know how it can help the lower. This is slavery, as if, in an inverted form.

The upper cannot cause any damage to the lower. But until we begin to request, to raise MAN (Mayin Nukvin – female waters), to raise the upper AHP (Awzen Hotem, Peh),  the upper will not raise its AHP. It will only wait.

This is called, the Shechina’s sorrow, Malchut of Atzilut greatly longs to raise its AHP and waits for our prayer. But by itself it is not able to raise it, but only according to a request, according to the awakening by the lower ones, the sparks GE (Galgalta ve Eynaim) that are in the worlds of Beria, Yetzira, Assiya awaken the AHP of Atzilut that fell into the worlds of Beria, Yetzira, Assiya.

The upper is with us in slavery, like a parent with his beloved children. Love captivates us as slaves, just like hatred. However, love makes a slave of the upper, one who loves, and hatred turns the lower into a slave, one who hates.

If the upper hates, then the lower becomes its slave, and if the upper loves, then it is in slavery.

Question: In which situations does the upper answer the prayer of the lower?

Answer: The upper answers the prayers of the lower on the condition that they are ready to annul themselves for the sake of connection and ask the upper for the strength to connect between themselves into one Partzuf. The upper realizes their connection and creates a common Partzuf within which the Light is revealed.

This means that in order to receive help from the upper you need to want to connect with others in the common Partzuf, not your individual one but the one that belongs to everyone, which is called Malchut. This is called the prayer of many.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah lesson 6/8/14

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We are now writing history together. Day after day, we have to create a booklet with explanations that will be relevant for a short period, for that day, and then we move on.

There was never anything like this before and certainly this work will also continue after us, but on the same basis that we lay down today. A very unique period has begun, for we are now making a transition, an innovation, and then this new stream will only go and grow.

Certainly, an innovation will happen on every level, but there is no more fundamental and important transformation than what is now happening with people in the world today. The world is going out from a mindless form of existence where its evolution is managed by internal forces. The natural program evolution (“in its time”) pushes and pokes you from behind and you are like a donkey, running forward, trying to escape from the blows of fate.

Now, the transition has arrived in which you continue to advance forward, but you, yourself, put a grain bag in front of your donkey so that he will run faster. This is a new and completely different approach to evolution in which you have become a partner with the Creator.

The Creator is not compelled to push and poke your donkey. Instead, you get up and sit on the donkey as a human, preparing the feed bag for him, and you hang it in front of your donkey’s head, and so the donkey advances, runs forward, and you are riding him.

Question: How is it possible to make sure every day that you have found an explanation most appropriate for that day?

Answer: If you are connected with your friends and from this connection you find a way to approach people, then you certainly will not make a mistake. There is no other way to observe this. There is only the most appropriate connection between us for the nation and the world, and nothing else.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/12/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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