Question: Are there external measurements or revelations that show the purity of my intention?

Answer: Your real intentions are not known, even to you, and others certainly don’t know them. Thus, the wisdom of Kabbalah is called the hidden wisdom, the inner part of the world, since it talks about that which is not revealed in our world.

How can we determine our intentions? Just try to do everything in the group with good intentions and gradually you will begin to feel as you lie to others and yourself, and you will enjoy it as a revelation of truth.

Moreover, it suggests that not only did you previously have bad intentions in action and now their real essence is revealed, but also in the future, they will remain like that. So, what is there to do? It is to ask for good intentions.

Thus, begin to perform good physical acts for the good of the group, try to work within them with the correct intention. As a result of that you reach a conclusion that all of that is done only for your sake.

This is the correct result, you reveal the truth. And even though you feel uncomfortable, you must be thankful to the Creator and ask that from now on He will give you the opportunity to do the right thing. Then, you are given the correct intention.

The next time when you do something for the group, again you will be shown that you had an incorrect intention, and again in an identical way, you go forward. In this advancement via cycles, you constantly discover within yourself the incorrectness of your intentions, but you discover them each time at a new level.

Of course, it is an unpleasant situation. However, by way of general support, by overall inspiration, by understanding that it is specifically in this way that we advance, you will see that it is a wonderful internal battle. In the end, from within all of these conflicting sensations, man begins to understand himself, the world, and the Creator.
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From the Moscow Virtual Convention 12/13/13, Lesson 2

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Question: Will a group be homogeneous if it has attained some level of an integral state?

Answer: Yes, not just members of one group, but also all integral groups will look quite alike. After all, if by nature, our personal, mental, moral, and physical potential is different in all of us, we become included one into another when we study together in a group. We form one common organism, and all these properties become distributed among us. In this case, there can’t be any failures. No one corrupts the team because the common, dominant atmosphere points to the correct behavior. The most important thing here is not to stick oneself out in front, but rather to lower oneself next to the others. This is considered valor.
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From Kab TV’s “Integral World” 10/26/12

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There is a force in The Book of Zohar we can use. But in order to discover the inner potential of this book, we have to be on its level to some extent. So how does this mechanism work? In legends and fairy tales the hero finds a secret chest that he opens with a big heavy key. Which key will open the secret of The Zohar for us? What is the key that fits every lock? It’s the equivalence of form. This is the key that we put into the keyhole. It’s only by the equivalence of form that we can open The Book of Zohar. This is the basic key rule.

Later, of course, we need the group and the connection with the friends, etc. in order to reach an equivalence of form with this book. Thus, we open The Zohar and read it according to our equivalence of form, according to the love and hate that are in contrast to one another.

This means that it isn’t that simple to really open the book. If we open the book it doesn’t mean that the book really opens up before us yet. It all depends on what happens between us. If we are connected, we are also connected to the book and then to the same degree we can attain it and feel the group of Rabbi Shimon, the ten friends, the ten Sefirot. It isn’t about people but about their essence, about the quality that is in the desire. Thus we begin to know them, are attracted to them, and a bit of each of them is revealed in us.

We have enough power. By annulling our ego and in the connection above it, we establish a connection that helps us discover what is written in The Zohar. We establish the foundations, the infrastructure, a common place, since the spiritual spot can only be collective. Here we become equal to the first level of the revelation of The Book of Zohar, in the intensity of our connection above the interruptions, according to the law of the equivalence of form.

In order to do that we will gather at the February convention and we make great efforts and pay a lot of money while giving up many other things in order to reach this general gathering. All this effort should bring us to an ascent and to connection. This is how it was arranged from Above: If we use the means that have been prepared for us, we reach the desirable outcome.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/14,, Lesson on the Topic: “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: Every time I feel comfortable, I am thrown somewhere like on a swing: to a good state or to a bad state. How can I find the middle line in the movements from left to right?

Answer: We are thrown to and fro from the balance point since it’s the only place we can advance from. If I want to adhere to the group, to the teacher, to the books, to the goal, then I realize myself.

The center is usually opposite from my desire and my mind. The balance point is always above the left and the right line, in the middle line. It’s faith above reason, above what the heart and mind tell me. So what can I hold on to so that I won’t count on chance? The only thing that can guide me is what the group, the teacher, and the books obligate me to do.

We should only make sure that we understand and that we’ve heard the right advice. We feel so confident that the teacher meant what we think and we actually argue about that with one another. Everyone hears something different, so how can I be sure that what I have heard is right?

If I annul myself in order to adhere to the group, I begin to hear the right advice. The greater and higher a person is, the more he should humble himself.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/27/13, Shamati #72 “Confidence Is the Clothing for the Light”

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Question: I don’t understand what I should do next. I don’t understand the meaning of your actions. Guide us in some way as to how I can be helpful and what I should do, what I should hold on to.

Answer: The sequence of our actions is that we first learn about the structure of the upper worlds and then we study articles about the connection in the group, about mutual guarantee, and then we fulfill these articles and gather in workshops, thus building one whole from the “I” of every individual that yearns to “we.” We build a single united unit, one, according to the law of the equivalence of form in an attempt to unite with the one Creator.

Here we begin to feel that we lack the desire, the power, the yearning, and we realize that without dissemination we will not be able to discover these powers by ourselves. Only by worrying about the external society as about our own children will we be filled with the desire to attain what they need. So with their desires, we turn to the Creator since we have no other choice, and unite with Him, which is the goal of creation.
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The influence of the group must be so strong that “it doesn’t let me sleep.” That is, that I will never be able to forget about the importance of connection; rather, I will feel that this thought is stuck in my mind and heart, a permanent backdrop.

It is absolutely possible to attain this. No one can complain that this does not work. If he thinks so, he is simply lying to himself. For this, we only require work and time.

If the person places himself under the influence of the group and is under its healing power, he cannot become detached, as if he is drawn by a magnet or some kind of wave that holds him in its field. He becomes linked to an environment that he chose himself at one stage. However, after the choice is made, he enters under the influence of the environment, the friends, appreciates the same values, and thinks the same way as everyone, for, if the group is important to him, he will accept all of its opinions, even those that he didn’t value, didn’t love, and didn’t think were good and beautiful before.

We see from our lives that if we love and appreciate someone, we begin to accept and copy his behavior because we appreciate him as higher than us and we depend upon him.

Therefore, the ego doesn’t become a disturbance for us, and if we have not succeeded, the reason for this is that we have not invested enough energy in strengthening the group. We have not utilized envy. The teacher also learns from his students, as it is said, “I learned much from my teachers, even more from my friends, and even more from my students.” Therefore, you can learn from everyone that you teach.

The moment that we feel some kind of inner resistance, we need to accept this as the “left line” against which the “right line” is awakened. The society will stand against this disturbance and then we will see that this is not a disturbance, but rather an opportunity to connect the two lines and build the “middle line” between them in order to advance even further toward a portrayal of the Creator.

We are trying to connect the broken parts of the soul as if we were connecting gears. However, we don’t want them to be pressed onto each other and compelled to rotate as happens in a regular society. We want them to begin to turn in a synchronized manner through helping each other, avoiding pressure by any one of them on another. All of them must turn in full agreement and harmony. That is, each one feels himself as completely free, without any pressure, because the Light turns and moves everyone together.

When the Creator is revealed, no pressure of one on another remains in any direction and all are driven by means of the Light. This is as it is written, “And the third party will come and reconcile them with each other.”

Revealing the evil inclination within himself, he can check whether he is able to pass to the right correction immediately. If he immediately accepts this discovery of ego as a help, as something good and useful, “a helpmate against him,” then he immediately can work with this and build the “middle line,” and the middle line is already the discovery of the Creator, and then the work becomes so easy for a person, without any friction, that he feels as if he is simply floating in air.

However, it is impossible to remain in a state like this because oscillations come all the time, right and left, and the person balances between them in the middle line, which is called the line of accommodation, equivalence of form.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/1/14, Lesson on the Topic: Preparation for the Convention

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Question: What difference does it make to whom one builds an intention for the sake of bestowal: the friends or people who don’t belong to the spiritual process?

Answer: The idea is that you don’t feel bestowal from strangers. They will not support you, but will begin to relate to you, to put it mildly, like a person who is insane. If you behave like a divine dandelion who only wants their good, they will not understand you.

For something to be okay, there must be mutual cooperation between you; you must develop this reciprocity, where you are to them what they are to you: You support each other, stimulate each other, discuss your problems, and so forth. It is possible to do this only in a group of like-minded people.

In a group we cooperate reciprocally between us, support each other, and yearn to attain fusion of our hearts, mutual guarantee, Arvut. With whom do you intend to do this? With those who are walking in the street and someone this doesn’t matter to at all? A person doesn’t know where they are moving him, for everything happens in a general field. People are like electrical charges that are moving in a general field of light; they reach the lowest point of balance with it and are concentrated there. So we are also gathered in a group in our world. You suddenly begin to feel where they are dragging you and with whom it is necessary to connect. This is because your charge, your “point in the heart” is moving in a field of Light and comes to this state.
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From the Moscow Virtual Convention “Unity Without Boundaries” Day Two 12/14/13, Lesson #2

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Question: You have said many times that a person studies, let’s say, for ten years, but still doesn’t succeed in adhering to the group, becoming a spiritual embryo. So what happens during this time, does the ego simply grow?

Answer: When a person truly adheres to the center of the group and becomes a spiritual embryo, he begins to feel as if he exists in the spiritual world to his full capacity. Exactly as in our world, an embryo that is found in his mother’s womb attains the same thing, for everything that is happening in her body, in fact, is designed only for him.

A spiritual embryo is a state that is not simple and is a very high state from which the entire spiritual level begins.

Suppose that ten years of studying has passed for someone and he still hasn’t become a spiritual embryo; that is, he has not succeeded in nullifying himself towards the group. And no matter how much we tell him about this, no matter how much he reads in the sources himself, he cannot do anything with this because he is not participating physically in the work of the group; he is arrogant, separated from it.

We are  in a special world in which even all of our physical actions invite spiritual results; I cannot love the friends, I hate them, but in spite of it all, I still force myself to sit with them, smile at them, approach them through some kind of external action with the hope that this will change me, and this truly does change me. If a person doesn’t do this, then it is too bad, even after ten years he will remain the same.
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From the Moscow Virtual Convention “Unity Without Boundaries” Day Two 12/14/13, Lesson #2

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Question: How can we establish the same attitude towards The Book of Zohar as the attitude we are trying to establish in our workshops? The point is that in the integral education we suddenly feel that we lack a source and if we added The Book of Zohar to the workshop it could raise us to a new level…

Answer: It will happen. We should see The Book of Zohar as the adaptor between the Creator and us. The Creator inserts this book into us, the book opens and builds us, and with its help it is revealed.

The Book of Zohar is a tool. It isn’t a book in the ordinary sense, but a collection of means for discovering the Creator in the created being.

But the book can be revealed only in a group that is ready. The Zohar builds us, but there should be the right preparation for The Book of Zohar to begin to operate.

Question: There is a certain illusion when you sit in front of the book and not in a circle of friends that the study of The Zohar is an individual study. How can we overcome this in order to feel that we are in one circle around The Book of Zohar with the whole global vessel?

Answer: You should speak about it before the lesson. This is called an intention before the study and also during the study. It has to come from the inside. Both the Lights and the vessels are clarified from the inside. No external advice will help here. This is clear.
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From the 2^nd  part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 01/06/14, The Book of Zohar — Selected Excerpts, Parshat, “VaYikahel”

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Question: Connection is attained by the total annulment of each individual to complete zero. But what is the difference between this and ordinary psychology?

Answer: The difference is very simple: before whom do we annul ourselves? I annul myself before the others and they annul themselves before me, and what’s next? This is the condition only to reveal the force of the Light.

The self-annulment of everyone before everyone else creates a neutral spot in the center of the circle in which no egoistic forces operate. It is the spot of our mutual general desire, since there we connect and neutralize our ego. We establish the new reality in this spot, a new space in which we discover the upper force.

All our desires are focused on the center of the circle in which there is the force of the desire, connection, self-annulment, unity, and mutual guarantee. On the one hand, it is said that there is no empty space and that there is always a certain quality, a certain force. But here in the center, there is nothing.

A place is called desire. Here our collective desire is concentrated, but it is as if it is annulled, since none of us wants to use his own desire, and only wants to bestow upon others. Thus we create a special new place in a different dimension, on a different height.

We start from Malchut, and then Zeir Anpin, Bina, Hochma, until we reach Keter, the tip of Yod. This means that out of ten efforts that we made (Yod means the number 10 in Hebrew), we reach the tip of Yod, in which the Creator is revealed. This is the essence of the center of the group, in which we build a new space, a new dimension with special attributes by our efforts and our annulment. This is where the upper force can be revealed.

So only after the shattering and the correction do we receive a means, a vessel, in which the Creator is revealed. Otherwise it is impossible to reveal Him since we don’t have a sensor to detect Him, no natural sense to feel Him. He appears only when we stabilize Him this way: We are all egoists, but we want to rise above our ego and annul ourselves before everyone else. We want all that in order to resemble the Creator; we want to acquire His form and His attributes in order to resemble Him.

Thus we create a new state in the center of the group called a womb, Shechina. Only by our mutual annulment can we create the new space with the new attributes in a new dimension that didn’t exist before in Malchut of Ein Sof (Infinity). This place for the revelation of the Creator appears only now thanks to our efforts.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 01/02/14, Lesson on the Topic: “9 Steps”

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