Question: What determines where a person is born?

Answer: A person’s upper roots determine where he is born. We have no right to intervene because we don’t know how and what will happen, so we don’t need to guess about anything regarding this matter. Whatever is supposed to happen to a person is what will happen to him.

We cannot affect anything except for one thing: the unity with friends in order to reveal the Creator among them. Everything else is predetermined.

Question: How can I discover where my true home is and whether I should live wherever I was born?

Answer: You should feel where it is best for you to fulfill yourself in spiritual connection, but don’t do anything because there is a group in a certain place or anything like that. If you attain a certain spiritual state, you will be led from that place onward as I have been led. My teacher did not allow me to move closer to him for two years.

Therefore, I advise you not to rush. Today, thanks to the Internet and other means of communication, you can tranquilly remain where you are and advance in the spiritual sense, and later you will see where this takes you.

Come to the convention and see what you can do with yourself, and how you can tighten the connection with others because it is only through the connection between us that you will discover your future.

Question: Have the upper forces created the Africans with dark skin so that they will be able to adapt to the hot climate?

Answer: No, it depends on the four phases of Direct Light (Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin and Malchut) not because they have black skin, Native Americans have red skin, Asians yellow skin, and Europeans white skin. It is all conditional.

In fact, it relates only to the spiritual root because everything descends from the top downward. People in Africa are not black because the sun shines much more strongly there, but because it is inherent in the spiritual root. This means that all of the lower phenomena stem from one upper cause.

Question: Is it possible to save the Dead Sea by connecting it to the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea? Should we save it?

Answer: It is indeed possible. Personally, I believe that this can be taken into account if it is done automatically by valves or taps. Sea water must be added to the Dead Sea since the water that flows from the Kinneret is not enough to fill it.

Question: Can a person affect external natural phenomena such as stopping the motion of the sun, for example, by changing his internal attributes?

Answer: Such things are described in the Torah, but this is absolutely unrealistic. No one engages in that. I don’t advise you to think in this direction.

Question: Should we try to look at everything according to the perception that time, motion, and place do not exist on the outside, but are only reflected from a person outward?

Answer: No, you cannot act that way all the time because you are not on this level of attainment. Gradually, however, everything will be revealed and become familiar inside of you, and you will look at all of reality tranquilly from the side.

Question: If nature responds to a person’s negative actions, does that mean that even the actions of a single individual invoke problems, discomfort, and troubles?

Answer: Of course, for each and every one of us.

Question: What is a real goal? Must everyone find it by himself according to the method of Kabbalah?

Answer: Yes, we clarify the real goal throughout our lives and even during more than one lifetime of spiritual development. The moment we arrive at our complete fulfillment, we will be able to say that we have attained our goal, that we understand and perceive that “Now, I am finally in the goal of creation.”
[200977]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/14/16

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Donald Trump vs. ‘Liberalism,’ round 1

Unsettling “Liberal” Behavior Calls For A New Socio-Political Order

Within our lifetime, we can rise to the next level of existence by connecting with others above ourselves. Our body will die anyway.

Opposites come together at a level that’s higher than their own. When everyone asks for the well-being of OTHERS – they all rise.

In nature, life is created precisely when + and – are unified above their differences. Humans have to do this by themselves.

Gradually, nature develops all its parts towards total interconnection. The time has come for us to participate in this consciously.

From Twitter, 2/9/17

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The Jewish proponents of Trump & Soros should show the world how to unite above differences. My students and I are ready to help!

Authentic Kabbalah (not Madonna’s) is a means of uniting people above all contradictions. That’s why it’s now being revealed to the world.

Soon instead of issues like Trump or the EU Exit, the world will face one painful problem: What’s the meaning of our life & our suffering?

The world happily disconnected from its problems and lashed out at Trump as an excuse, rather than recognize its cancerous state.
[201742]
From Twitter, 2/8/17

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Trump wants to replace the elite and make America strong. The revolution is bloodless, yet the thirst for revenge could lead to civil war.

Unknowingly, people hate Jews specifically because they refuse to produce the positive force of nature and thereby balance human egoism.

Humans are egoists, yet the Torah demands to “love thy neighbor” by extracting the positive force of unity from nature. Jews can do this!

The Jews who are for and against Trump should try to unite above their differences. Otherwise, hatred will destroy both sides.

In nature, opposites don’t destroy each other. They complement each other to create a new level of life. We must learn this from nature.

The uniqueness of Kabbalah is that it can unify opposite qualities (views, desires, goals) of people, parties, and nations into one whole.

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The new era will be psychologically different from the old: direct, based in problem-solving, and despising political correctness.

Political correctness, humanism, liberalism & democracy-have become absurd. At this point they hinder themselves & cause their own death.
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From Twitter, 2/7/17

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Comment: There are many predictions that are not made by people with special properties but by people called futurologists, or people who have a fertile imagination, like science fiction writers.

Answer: Futurologists are people who, based on science, technology, and the progression of various strata of humanity, predict a general trend for the next 50 or 100 years.

Comment: Futurologists predict that by the year 2030 robots will have been invented that will connect our brains directly to a data cloud, and it will be possible to print both food and houses on 3-D printers.

Answer: In the future we will print everything on printers, there is no problem. It is possible to load a printer with palm oil and it will issue sausages, cold cuts, dairy products, porridge, and everything else.

Question: They say that in another 20 years, toward the year 2045, a unique revolution will begin, meaning that an artificial brain will transcend the biological brain. Will an artificial person have a soul?

Answer: There is no connection between the soul and the brain.

Question: If a robot were to sit next to a person and manage a program, what would a person do?

Answer: I see how people talk with a computer today, so why would he not talk with a smart robot and exchange information with it?

Question: Do you mean just rational information?

Answer: This would not only be intellectual information but even emotions. A regular person is a mechanism whose actions and responses can be completely calculated and predicted because all of these are not found in a spiritual space; there is nothing here that cannot be predicted.

We can create machines that could communicate with us splendidly, instead of people. Likewise, as we would want, according to how we would direct them and the data that we insert, they could be lyrical, rigid, or romantic, directed toward musical or psychological communication, etc. They could be integrated and composed of different kinds of characters.

Comment: This would be more attractive if they would be faithful friends, good friends….

Answer: It depends on how we program them; after all, they could also be the opposite, very cruel.

You would go to the store, choose a robot for yourself shaped like a little dog or a tough friend. Why not? They don’t have to be shaped like a person. There are no limits.

A person reacts to everything that happens in the world just like every beast. The nature of the still, vegetative, and animate is absolutely capable of being programmed. So there is nothing secret in a person, nothing that is sublime. But on the next level he begins to attain the soul, meaning “a portion of the divine from above” (Job 31:2). Then he is no longer a person but what is called an “ambulatory soul.”
[200804]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/1/17

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Question: Why do we need Kabbalistic geography? Is it related to the geography of the corporeal world, which is about coordinates, landscapes. etc.?

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah explores and teaches everything that stems from the root of creation. The root of creation is the four phases of the spreading of the Direct Light, which means the first ten Sefirot. When the Light began to bestow a point inside it, the first phase appeared and then the second phase, the third, and the fourth, then there was a restriction and everything continued to develop.

The Light that spreads affects the desire that appeared in it, the desire to receive, to enjoy, to be filled, and the desire began to change accordingly.

Since on one hand, the Light carries the filling , and on the other hand, the attribute of bestowal, which is its essence and conveys them to the desire, two reactions occur in the desire. The first is that the created being enjoys the filling of the Light because it is opposite from the Creator so that it can receive pleasure from Him. The second is that the desire gradually resembles the Light and perceives its character and attributes, which diminishes the desire to enjoy in it.

All the next levels of the development of the created being stem from the emergence of these two opposite attributes in matter, in the desire to enjoy. The created being develops through five worlds by being divided into an external part called “the world” and an internal part called “soul.” It thus develops until the lowest point in its spiritual evolution.

Then there is a transition to the level of our world and the spreading of its matter, which is a mark of the spiritual world. And the matter of our world is a matching replica between matter and the spiritual forces.

Therefore, whatever happens in the spiritual world in the coordination between the forces, happens in our world in the coordination between the different parts of different matter. This leads to a very interesting phenomenon: on the edge of some galaxy, the tiny quite unimpressive globe appeared. And despite what we know about the universe and that the Earth is somewhere on the side, it is actually at the center of the universe from the perspective of the impact of the upper forces in our world.

Of course we don’t feel that because we don’t have the scientific instruments that enable us to perceive it, but Kabbalists tell us about this.

Then the oceans, the seas, the continents, islands, and huge areas of plants and animals, the underwater world, and eventually man, who historically settled all over the earth and now covers the whole globe, appeared on the surface of the Earth.

The existence of the continents, oceans, natural areas, four races of mankind, numerous nations, different ethnic groups, and everything else stem from the upper spiritual root.

The coordination of the spiritual forces in the spiritual world is revealed in our world in the form of a corporeal seal, including the earth and everything on it, including us. If we take our small system, which includes the sun, the moon, and the different planets, the Earth and everything on it, the wisdom of Kabbalah describes everything in a very detailed way. It even tells us about hidden places in the universe, which we have only recently discovered, and sometimes about things that one can only guess that they exist and which we will probably discover in the future.

Generally speaking, geography, as well as astronomy, is fully described in the wisdom of Kabbalah. You can also find the roots of geology, and anthropology in Kabbalah books because there is nothing new under the sun and everything spreads from the upper root to the lower branches, to its outcome.

Because there is only the coordination between forces in the upper root, it creates the imprint of these forces and the connection between them in the matter of our world, and this is actually the reason that we can describe the upper spiritual forces through the objects in our world and by the interaction between them.
[199848]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/14/16

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Question: Education is carried out today through various media. Does the education you speak about require some kind of physical contact, or can it be realized virtually, through the Internet?

Answer: Physical contact is certainly preferable. But if it doesn’t exist, it is also possible virtually.

But don’t confuse the Kabbalistic education with any other methods! It is possible to arrange lessons both online and offline, the main thing is to adhere strictly to the Kabbalistic method and not mix it with anything else; otherwise, you will be confused and not clarify anything.
[199915]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/3/16

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Question: There are now more than 3,000 different spiritual faiths and practices in the world. When a person has a problem, he automatically turns to some force with an internal scream. To whom or what is a person turning to at such a moment?

Answer: If you want to turn correctly, you must only turn to the Creator for help in connecting with others and discovering Him. This means that in the wisdom of Kabbalah we are asking the Creator to change us. Generally, all people ask the Creator to remove the disturbances that are in their way, meaning to change the world “according to a person’s desire.”

Such a “consumer” attitude toward the Creator like this will begin to change when very strong feelings appear in the person that everything that is happening in the world is a result of his attitude toward the Creator.

If we are talking about a Kabbalist, then everything depends on the level he is on. Likewise, a Kabbalist passes through states that bring him below a regular person. When he is in descent, he is able to ask for himself and to carry out deeds that are difficult to define in advance.

But this happens only during a descent. When he is active, when he has power, clearly he always asks for help in changing himself because he understands how the system operates.

A Kabbalist understands that blows are goodness and kindness; they are help and concern from the Creator, because precisely thanks to these blows, he can connect with the Creator above them.

The problem is that the blows don’t happen only to him but to all those who are close to him until the completion of correction. But in the beginning of the correction, everyone is vulnerable to the Creator!
[199950]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/25/16

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World Kabbalah Convention 2017 in Tel Aviv

The surrounding world is a projection of our egoism. Don’t like the world? Then correct your own ego – not your shadow!

Instinctively, Trump opponents understand the need for change. They’re not ripe for it psychologically, and desperately cling to the old.

Reality check: when Trump calls a spade a spade, not being politically correct, could it be that we’re just not ready for it?

Liberalism led to Political Correctness. Since it’s feeding on our egoism, it is now overblown. It hinders us and needs to be replaced.

In the old world we used to lie to each other and not call a spade a spade. Trump reveals who we really are—that’s why we don’t like him.

Society’s development is driven by egoism, so contradictions will intensify. Kabbalah teaches how to connect in spite of contradictions.

Trump undermines the old world management system, which is dying, rather than being temporarily replaced. That’s why it keeps resisting.

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Question: If the goal of the Creator is only to give us pleasure, why did He create a system in which negative feelings were prepared for a person from the start, like separation, illness and death?

Answer: Currently in our situation we are like “little beasts” who are managed, whereas an Adam (Man) is someone who manages himself by himself through the upper world and from himself creates an essence similar to the Creator. So he is called an Adam (from the word “Domeh” – similar). So you choose how to act, either you remain as a little beast or become an Adam.

In principle, we don’t have much choice because we must advance and develop; suffering doesn’t allow us to stagnate. Therefore, whether we want it or not, suffering will push us and we gain the possibility of changing ourselves, our fate, and our world anyway.

The wisdom of Kabbalah makes it possible to do this without preliminary suffering, like a wise person who sees what he is facing from the start and so he releases himself from suffering by consciously directing himself toward the right decision.
[201068]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/21/1

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