Question: How can money be equal to bestowal?

Answer: It isn’t money but the efforts which are measured. Money is a bag of gold or silver, which is weighed and measured according to the force of gravity and how much of that force I have over the size of the bag according to which I can bestow. This is how it can be explained from the perspective of physics.

Question: What is the spiritual root of debts?

Answer: It is our debt to the Creator, which is manifested between us in this way.

Question: If my profession involves breaking the law, does the wisdom of Kabbalah distinguish between how money is made, or does money have no smell?

Answer: Money has no smell only if you don’t use it to harm other people.

Question: How should I relate to someone who borrowed money from me but doesn’t pay it back?

Answer: You have the right to demand your money back in any way you find fit: by taking him to court or any other way. But at the same time you have to take into account the economic situation of the person who owes you money. Perhaps he really cannot pay back his debt. In that case you should not “kill” him.

Question: Is the banking system a parasite living off society or can it benefit the world?

Answer: Today it is already a very big parasite living off society. The banking system is basically meant to convey money to places that are short of money. For example by being an intermediary in payment in industry, etc., but since the banks started thinking only about themselves, the banking system has become a parasite. The bankers receive huge salaries from the money that we deposit in the banks. What is more, they have billions in profits from using the public’s money.

Question: Money and success go hand in hand. Can one be successful by using the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: Yes, that’s possible but only if you begin to seriously engage in drawing the Upper Light unto yourself through the group. Then you will be happy, healthy, successful, and rich, both spiritually and in your corporeal life.

Question: If I find some money, do I have to look for the person it belongs to?

Answer: If you have no information who the money belongs to, then according to the Torah you don’t have to look for the person it belongs to. At the same time, according to the Torah, you may have to bring the money to the police.

Question: Does the obligation to work for a living also refer to women?

Answer: Today yes.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/3/16

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Question: Must we unite with other people to reveal the upper world? For example, suppose that I have psychological barriers, like fears that are based upon painful experiences that make it difficult for me to connect with other people and I can only come in contact with them through writing.

Answer: Union with others is necessary for discovering the upper world, but this can be only in a special group that is designed for this.

Question: How can a person fully connect with God, and what must he go through?

Answer: A specific group is required and it is realized only within the same group.
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Question: You have said that a Kabbalist is given great fears and worries in order to help him detach himself from his egoism, because otherwise he cannot be saved from it. Do you feel anything else?

Answer: In addition to that, at the same time, I also feel how lucky I am.
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Question: You, of course, are not a politician. But in your view, the wisdom of Kabbalah is involved with everything, as the science about the whole world. How are nations developed?

Answer: The time of egoistic development has passed. Therefore, the time of conflicts between nations, which try to overpower each other, has also passed. All around us, a higher and integral natural network and management of the world, including the entire universe, is becoming more and more apparent.

So there will necessarily be an aspiration toward mutual benefit, which will gradually move from egoistic mutual benefit to shared mutual benefit in which the principle of exchange will cease being the goal and will become a means for unification.
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Question: I understand that every moment in our life when we mutually cooperate with others along the path of correction is important. Do we have to appreciate the contact with any other human being without exception?

Answer: No!

Question: How does the wisdom of Kabbalah explain the correction of the ego by our contact with those who are on a lower spiritual level? To what degree is altruism and mutual cooperation with them justified?

Answer: No connection with them is justified!

Question: You often speak about spiritual incorporation with all of mankind and that everyone will eventually be connected and united. What will happen to all the mentally ill and what will their correction be?

Answer: When we are corrected we will also correct them!
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Question: Are the character traits of a person innate or is it possible to develop them somehow? Suppose that I don’t like particular characteristics in me. Can I change them?

Answer: It is not at all necessary to break and destroy yourself! It is up to you to learn to use all of your characteristics correctly, especially the most horrible ones that you are even ashamed to admit to yourself.

Question: How is it possible to use the most terrible characteristics without harming someone?

Answer: The most terrible characteristics are those through which you want to harm others and yet you get unusual pleasure from them. If you have some kind of aversion to a particular person, he is against you or he seems to be intolerable to you, then you want to harm him, to make him sorry through your actions.

Here the wisdom of Kabbalah says, “This is not right. You need to do this completely differently. If an enemy rises up against you, try to correct those characteristics within you that make you his enemy. Then you will stop provoking him against you.”

First and foremost you must think about how to correct yourself. Someone else who reveals a negative attitude toward you is actually giving you an example of your own faults. So it is up to you to think that maybe they are revealing your negative traits to you from above.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/1/16

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Comment: For every person who engages in Kabbalah for a long time, at some point comes a period when he demands internal egoistic fulfillment: “Give me at least something!” as in the “golden calf” transgression.

Answer: A person must have some goals and some achievements. However, suddenly he feels himself suspended in the air, feels some kind of tiredness. This is natural. Kabbalah writes about it. It is necessary to overcome such states.

Those who can’t endure them and walk away are just weak. It is necessary to be stubborn, to cling with your teeth and hold on. It means that you close your eyes and are ready to be below the level of life and death. Just hide, so that this devastation, anything at all, will pass over you.

You have to get used to it, to agree in advance with everything that will happen: to be “rinsed” in a view of the entire world, to be given such desires, doubts, and states by the Creator that such things were possible wouldn’t even come to the mind of a common person. And you must take it all in stride.

Moreover, a person’s mind is taken away; he is given strange thoughts, strange feelings and turns into a puppet that performs some actions. Later his mind is returned to him and he looks at what he has done. He is played upon this way in order to knock the egoism out of him. This is the main, and probably the only task of the Creator: to put us in such conditions that we would voluntarily give up our egoism and would ask the Creator ourselves: “Take this monster away from us!”

However, if a person comes to classes and everything in his life is quiet and well: home, family, work, friends, meals, congresses, and teaching, so what is there to change? Then nothing will change. Nothing! He will only demand more and more. His egoism will point to what else he wants to receive, and why not?

Therefore the real spiritual work begins when a person is humiliated in such a way that he wants to get rid of egoism. However, it is not about getting rid of egoism, since it means he just wants to suffer less. The fact is that he must stay with his egoism and say, “I am ready for anything, I just want to hold onto the Creator. Let Him do whatever He wants with me, as long as I have a point of connection with Him.”

One point, no more! To ask for more means you already anticipate a reward. “I don’t want any reward, just to have a point of connection with You, and I don’t need anything more. Do whatever you want with everything else, with me, my body, my mind, and with anything else.”

Comment: But when a person studies, teaches, works with the friends, and participates in the meals, he one way or another still moves along the right line to stronger connection with the Creator…

Answer: He moves until the time to move to the next degree comes. But it depends on how much effort he has invested.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/11/16

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Question: How does the Upper Light work on a person?

Answer: The Upper Light, which is the characteristic of love, created us, the egoistic desire. When it acts on us, it gradually changes this form from an egoistic desire to an altruistic desire. The wisdom of Kabbalah explains this process and helps a person to actively participate in it.
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Question: It is written that the world cannot exist only by the attribute of Din (judgment) and thus the Creator added the property of mercy so that by the balance between them the created beings in the world will be able to implement these attributes in themselves in order to advance spiritually.

The attribute of love and bestowal is the law of nature. Is this what the balance between judgment and mercy refers to?

Answer: Yes that’s what it refers to, but we have to reconstruct this state and re-establish it.
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Question: Can friendship exist without self-benefit, and if so, how are the equality and the mutual interdependence in the relationship expressed?

Answer: A person never does anything without self-benefit because he is an egoist. Every action he performs is always an action that he benefits from.

This means that the closer a person is to you and the more you perceive him as part of you, the more you can act in his favor since it is as if you are doing it for your own sake. It is only in such circumstances that a connection between people is possible and not in any other way.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/1/16

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