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A Rebellious Generation

629.3Comment: In practice, I see what children in Israel are like; there is a complete lack of respect for adults, of upbringing…

My Response: That is the most wonderful thing that could be. And not because I am saying this as an Israeli, but because when a small person does not want to listen to a big one, that is already a good beginning.

But what does “does not want” mean? It comes from his nature. He feels absolutely independent, disregards all your values, and does not want to have anything to do with them. He wants to discover something new for himself.

I am not talking about what is happening here. Honestly, I have not yet seen such an ideal picture, but I would be very happy if the younger generation did not listen to the older one at all. At the same time, they should have the ability to analyze and find their view point for themselves, a world view that is intent, piercing, penetrating, and clear, so that they would look at the goal through everyone—where is it? Only then can they correctly use everything around them.

This does not yet exist in education. But the egoism we see in the new generation gives hope that we are approaching this. And when they come to power in the mass media and in society, I think that by then, we will already be able to help them understand that Kabbalah is precisely a means for searching for the purpose of life and for realizing it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Children of Israel, part 1” 10/1/10

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Rising Above Eternity

715Question: How will society be transformed when Kabbalah is used correctly? How will it be expressed internally and externally?

Answer: First of all, all mass media should change their direction in a single decision of the majority of countries. Everything should be aimed at explaining to the masses that only our unity will save the world and restore nature’s positive influence on us.

The mass media is a system that can be rapidly changed for the benefit of the global community, and thus reverse the direction of our development.

We will immediately see positive effects across everything: health, end of terror, weather conditions, society, and more. You will suddenly see that everything calms down, balances out, and becomes peaceful: children’s relationships with their parents, problems with the younger generation, everything instantly calms in each of these manifestations. Enormous egoism, great evil, and resistance to each other suddenly disappear. It is not that angels will walk on earth, no; people are beginning to understand this system, become imbued with it, and feel they can rise above death.

This is what we need to show humanity: “You have the opportunity to rise above death, to achieve a sense of eternity and perfection! This is what is offered to you in addition to life on this earth, which will become truly heavenly, unlike going outside and not knowing if you will return or whether you will have anything to breathe tomorrow.”
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Rise above death” 10/1/10

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The Path to the Recognition of Evil

272Question: Was Ancient Rome, or more precisely, were the Romans Italians?

Answer: No, of course not. Rome was an ancient civilization that gradually dissolved and disappeared. As is usually the case, any civilization that begins to expand outward and conquer everyone else eventually buries itself.

This is a natural process that constantly repeats itself in the development of humanity. Any conquest leads to the conqueror’s gradual downfall.

This is how expansion takes place. By invading other people’s territories, you inevitably have to develop them, because you yourself want to use them. As you develop them, you begin to perceive them as your own. And they, in turn, begin to influence you and little by little to “kill” you. This is the gradual circulation between conquerors and the conquered. But in the end, it is always the conquered who gradually absorb the conqueror.

For example, this is what happened in the USSR, when they tried to create a single Soviet person. It was a good idea. All the plans of the Soviet authorities were correct, except for the method of correction. They did not have the force to apply this method, because for that one must take the upper force, which alone can change our nature. Not by terror, not by hunger, or by any other methods, but precisely by using the upper force. There are many works about this, both by Marx and by Baal HaSulam.

Nevertheless, all of this ultimately leads to the recognition of evil.

Comment: Still, it seems to me that nothing can be achieved in a totalitarian way anymore.

My Response: Now it is already over, we have passed those stages. Today, everything can be corrected only through Kabbalah. I am simply speaking about the past.

The future is very simple. Today, nature is inevitably driving us forward! No one is capable of doing anything about it. Nature will press on us very clearly, and we will be forced to develop, driven by nature, putting out fires, saving ourselves from floods, tsunamis, volcanoes, from heat, and from everything else.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Rise Above Death” 10/1/10

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What Will Be the Development of Next Year?

294.2Question: Can you tell us point by point what the development of the next year will be?

Let’s say that first we come to such an understanding, to such training, then we do this, then that, and so on.

Answer: On the one hand, yes, on the other hand, no.

I have a general understanding of what might be, but it means absolutely nothing, because we are at a completely new stage of development, within a movement that has never existed.

There is an external description, but how it manifests itself in us depends on our freewill, on what these movements will be in their external form: more successful or less, slow or fast, in various forms, styles, sensations.

So I can’t say for sure. I know what should happen mathematically, I know the wording, but it can stretch with all the caveats. Like the “+ C” in an integral. And this “+ C” depending on the level of solving the integral can be anything. Everything depends on our freewill, on our decisions and realizations.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. 2011” 9/11/10

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Children of Israel

926.02Question: How can you give children the right direction if they do not want to listen to you at all?

Answer: It only seems that way to you because there is really nothing you can tell them. How can you convince them? With your tattoos, your gadgets? They have all that too. Only something that is above this world will attract them, and nothing else. Look how many young people are coming to lectures and Kabbalah lessons; look how they are drawn to it.

Comment: But I am talking about small children who grow up in our community. It seems to me that Kabbalah does not interest them at all, and they are just obliged to stay in this environment.

My Response: Go to their classes and see how they think and reason. They just do not fit into your rigid mentality. For them you are a dinosaur, you cannot understand them. And I cannot either.

But we need to understand them. There is no other detector here except if a child of fifteen to seventeen years of age stays here and does not go to any other community. This environment is the most suitable for him.

Have you ever seen sixteen-year-old boys sitting next to their fathers, organizing groups similar to those their fathers are in? This existed a few hundred years ago when we were on a primitive level of development. But now, after the turning point that we went through in the twentieth century, look what is happening.

But the goal is different now. Back then it was just an animal imitation of parents: father is a blacksmith, I will be a blacksmith too; father is a farmer, I will be a farmer, and so on. But now it is different. My father is engaged in spirituality, and I am too because in principle, I cannot find anything else. Would you be able to keep these sixteen-year-old boys next to you if they were not interested? No one could. It is obvious that they come by themselves and sit next to their fathers.

For me, this is clear proof that the example we set for them and the material we give them truly stand above the entire nature of man.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Children of Israel, Part 1” 10/1/10

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What to Dedicate the Coming Year to

963.4Question: At one time, I observed how birds fly and was very surprised; they are truly a single organism. Some descend and rest, others take off and form shapes that are simply indescribable. They feel one another, and they have no leader. Is it really possible for people to reach such a state?

Answer: There is nothing to achieve. You only need to group together, and then you will discover the force that connects and forms us all.

The point is that it is not that we become smart. Birds aren’t that intelligent, they simply reveal the connection between themselves on the animate level, and then the common force of the Creator manifests within them from within. They simultaneously feel Him, governs them, and is their foundation.

Question: Is this the unity that you speak about all the time?

Answer: Of course. And when humanity reaches this, it moves as one. These are amazing manifestations of unity, harmony, eternity, perfection, and transcendence over life and death, over the limitations in which we exist. Moreover, completely boundless perspectives manifest here in all sensations—the world of infinity.

This is not carried out by us but by the upper force. We only need to move forward and demand from it to do this.

I think that we will devote the coming year precisely to such rapprochement, to connection into one common body. And then we will discover the Creator within this common body, the force that in fact governs absolutely the entire universe, everyone in a single movement, like a flock of birds or fish.

The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks only about this. Rapprochement, adhesion, connection into one single organism, a return to one unified organism, these are the 125 degrees that we must traverse. All of Kabbalah is built on this. It simply explains to us with mathematical precision and meticulous detail what needs to be done. First, it explains in words that we can understand: egoism, altruism, rapprochement, hatred, and love.

And then, when we pass into the sensation of these qualities, it explains in terms of measurements, in specific dimensions (so many grams, so many such-and-such forces) how to work systemically, consciously grouping this system, and understanding it. Because by returning to this complete, integral system, we attain the Creator, His actions, how He formed and assembled us, and in what manner He created this system.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Unity Without a Leader” 9/11/10

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When Words and Gestures Become Unnecessary

942Question: You said that inspiration and transmission of information should be brief, clear, and to the point, not rambling statements that go on for five to ten minutes where one person speaks and everyone else is silent as if forcing themselves: “Yes, we must listen.” What should a truly inspiring speech be like?

Answer: That is a big problem, because our guys start quoting excerpts, using official jargon, and bringing in all sorts of explanations. Here, you just need to express your inner expression as simply as possible, from heart to heart, to convey the maximum feeling with the minimum number of words, and that is all.

Therefore, I am in favor of everything being very brief, without unnecessary intellectualization. A person should prepare in advance so that it would burst out from their heart, as they say, “without thinking.” But this is not easy; it comes gradually.

In addition, the listeners themselves are not yet attuned to understanding. We don’t yet communicate with each other internally, through feelings. Just as a mother feels her baby without words, and the baby feels the mother through subconscious sensations, so too should we feel one another. Much more so!

Then our external communication, words, gestures, facial expressions will become superfluous. Over time, all this will cease, and you will be able to transmit your sensations to others and receive them completely outside of physical contact, even if the person is no longer in our world but on some other levels.

That is, you no longer associate him with his body. Whether he is somewhere, a couple of thousand kilometers away from you in his body, or outside the body, in another dimension, what is the difference?
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Transfer of information” 1/23/11

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A Turbulent Period for Humanity

293Humanity has entered such a turbulent period that there is nothing left to do but hold on. And we must hold on to one another. In this way, humanity will be brought to unity and forced to understand that we live in a global world. This is not some kind of global politics; it is simply that we are compelled to unite.

Globalism is not about the fact that I must take everyone into account in order to pursue my own policy or somehow manipulate the world. Globalism is about understanding that this world is shared, and if I do not care about someone else, then ultimately, I do not care about myself. Even from the point of view of egoism, I am involuntarily obliged to include the entire world within the bounds of my benevolent self-interest.

Nature will force us to this. We will still see what will happen. Mainly these will be environmental problems. In addition, we have not yet finished with the economic crisis; everything is still ahead. No matter how much we try to cover it up, it will explode.

Comment: Egoism is so adaptive. After some time, a person gets used to everything and is no longer afraid.

My Response: No, egoism does not “get used to” things; it develops. A person does not get used to anything. This is a mistaken understanding of what is happening to people. They do not adapt; they simply carry out the commands of their egoism. They cannot return to the past.

If they actually returned to the past and we froze at a previous level, even with a new egoism, then that would be adaptation. But we do not adapt; we follow the dictates of egoism, we become different, change ourselves, our nature, our society, our relationships, everywhere and in everything.

So what are we supposedly getting used to? Families are falling apart. Children leave their parents. The entire former system of relationships is changing. The greatness of science, the greatness of culture—all of this is declining.

Humanity (and especially those in power, together with the mass media, no matter how much they try to gloss it over) is still undergoing a very stormy renewal of the world. We are not getting used to it.

You want to say that people still continue to act egoistically? That is correct. But this too is planned by nature in order to bring humanity, so to speak, to the edge. And there will be blows, strong blows. It is precisely these that gradually lead us to awareness.

The point is not to strike. The point is that small blows should provoke the development of thought, awareness, comprehension, and feelings: “Where are these from, for what, and why? What is required of me? Who requires it? Nature? Does it have its own authority, its own power, its own opinion, its own goal, its own plan? Am I obliged to respond to this? Am I obliged to take it into account? Me? Who am I? A human being! I am above everyone!”

No, you are small. Who are you? What can you do? Entire villages burn down. A couple of hurricanes will sweep through and knock out all the electricity, or rivers that have not yet dried up will overflow their banks. And then such cold will come that all the pipes will burst and people will freeze. What can you do?

You will start thinking and suddenly realize that it is truly necessary to somehow come to one another’s aid. You will no longer walk around with your nose in the air, as if to say that you do not care about the whole world.

In no way do I want to speak contemptuously about anyone. I am saying that the blows of nature will force us to be different. When a person is in pain, he becomes human. When a serious illness is suddenly discovered, there is no time for polite conversation; he is already thinking about how to survive. This is how nature, the Creator, forces us.

Comment: People unite only when there are misfortunes.

My Response: But there will be misfortunes all the time! That will not be a problem. From now on, it will only keep escalating.

Question: But everyone, first of all, saves their own skin, don’t they?

Answer: People will have nowhere to go; there will be nowhere to save themselves! Neither America, nor Russia, nor Europe will have anywhere to escape to. The Asians will join in as well. Just wait.

Comment: But surely there is some boundary a person eventually crosses.

My Response: Crosses to where? They will beat him down to the point where he wants to die and will not be able to.

They will not allow it! The higher governance will not allow it. Can you imagine how hard it can be?

And on the other hand, we must develop and spread Kabbalah so that people see there is salvation; there is a method for changing oneself. Then you immediately change your entire perception of nature.

The Creator, nature, no longer becomes hostile toward you. You begin to enter into unison, into harmony with Him, and you feel goodness, paradise instead of hell.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Cal  2012”

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918.02Comment: You say humanity is being pushed toward awareness by blows.

My Response: Naturally. We see that the blows are pushing humanity toward a more realistic view of the world.

Comment: There is a vast amount of information in this world.

My Response: There is no vast amount of information here. It is all nonsense, all on the earthly level, at the level of a small man who can collect crumbs from what he imagined with his five material senses and a small head, and at the same time, he thinks he is drowning in these crumbs.

There is no need to drown in it. Why? You must imagine this world as something that is depicted in your ego, rise above it, and then you will see it as a small grain, because there is no vast information here. These are all your little egoistic impressions of what is depicted to you.

You are like a child who imagines this world as if there is so much in it! But in fact, there is nothing in it. This is purely egoistic matter seeking to maintain an optimal egoistic state throughout its existence and then die.

What is there in this world? What can you offer me between life and death if it all comes to an end?
Nothing. That means I am no longer interested in it. If everything ends, I am no longer interested. This is how I look at life. And this is why I immediately dismiss all your philosophies and politics. What is America or Russia, what difference does it make to me? As the Prophet says, “Calm down, calm down, nations.”

Comment: But you are talking from a position of knowing.

My Response: Not because I know! Once, I did not know anything either. But I was looking at the fact that it all has a beginning and an end. So what difference does it make to me what happens midway?

If the train is heading to a junkyard, what then? We sit in it, open a bag of sandwiches, chicken, beer, and play cards. And then what? We are going to a dead end anyway. Therefore, I am not getting on this train. And if there are theaters, movies, and all kinds of games inside the train, I have no interest in that either, because it is going to a dead end. I do not look at human history, the public, politics, or anything else, because it is all inside this train.

I have held this view since childhood. I could not see it any other way. I had to find another way, take another train, like Harry Potter’s platform “nine and three-quarters.” I need to find the platform from which the train departs in the other direction.

Comment: But you did not initially assume that you could simply feel it.

Answer: Of course, I did not know where it was, but I also did not want to board that train. That was the most important thing for me. So I ran from everywhere, tried to search, but could not find anything. It was not easy for me. But when I found Kabbalah, I immediately quit my business with pleasure and immersed myself in it.

I do not advocate this kind of lifestyle. It is given to a person either as happiness or as misfortune. I do not know how to say this, but it is a special desire for a goal. I am just saying that many people are in this state today. Therefore, I appeal to them, to those who are looking for another train and not the one that goes to a dead end. That is the most important thing.

The Torah states that it is a cure for death. This intrigued me because it is the most important thing. Everything else is nonsense; everything else does not matter. I am saying this as an old man. What does it matter what you fill your life with? You are only 30 years old, while I do not have much time left. I am telling you, there is nothing else to base your life on.

And when the younger generation finally begins to understand this early in life, it is simply a blessing that they are given such an epiphany from above, not to be polluted by various conventions.

They need to find an environment for themselves, whose purpose is clear and precise—to achieve eternity.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Harry Potter Platform” 10/4/10

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294.2We must show humanity that there is a cure for death, an elixir of immortality. But not in a way that allows a person to try it, he tries and that’s it; I won’t give him any more.

When a person begins to study Kabbalah, over the course of several months, he or she is shown a little that other states exist, and he constantly goes through them.

He sees that something is changing in him: his psyche, his psychology, his attitude toward the world, toward life, and toward himself; his consciousness expands; he begins to think on two levels—on the spiritual and the earthly level.

To a complete stranger it is enough to tell a little about the method, to give logical examples. Baal HaSulam writes in the book The Last Generation that there is no other way out.

We see in the examples of our world how we are nevertheless being helped to show that something needs to be done with it and with ourselves. If our world were in good condition, it would be much more difficult for us to tear a person away from the material feeding trough. But as it is, he sees that the feeder is already empty, and soon everything will be over.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Harry Potter’s Platform” 10/4/10

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