Question: Will we be able to reach a permanent spiritual degree at the convention?

Answer: If not a permanent degree, we can reach a temporary spiritual degree at the convention. It will give us Reshimot (reminiscences) and create a particular spiritual picture inside of us that we will be able to seek later by arousing it over and over again and shaping it inside us.

Thus, it is necessary to wish for at least a temporary understanding of the next degree of creation, our next state, to form it inside us. The permanent state will come later. That is not a problem. A clear understanding of what to aim for will be formed in a person already.

It is possible to reach a permanent spiritual state. Everything depends on our common desire. If we want to, everything is possible!

A person’s location at the time of the convention is not important. If he can’t come for reasons beyond him, such as a lack of money, job, family, and so forth, it doesn’t matter.

Try being with us during that time at all our events. We will be open for you 24 hours a day. Even if we go to sleep for some time, you still are going to see an empty room and a few dozen people who are preparing it for the morning lesson. That doesn’t matter; be with us!

Everything that we study will be uploaded immediately to the website. Those people who can’t be with us in real time will be able to watch, listen, and relive our events immediately. We will do everything physically so that you can be with us, and you will do everything to be with us internally, spiritually. You can count on our support.

In fact, all the lessons that I give now, all our studies, are aimed toward convention preparation. It should warm, gather, and shape us up so that in those 72 hours we would simply “solder” together and reveal the upper world in that weld.
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From the Sunday Virtual Lesson Series 11/6/2011

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Question: How do we reach the quality of bestowal in such a short lifespan?

Answer: Your life depends completely on how much closer you get to the quality of bestowal. If you get closer to it, your life will be extended to allow you to reach that state. If you don’t, why suffer for no reason? You will have to be born one more time, and maybe then you’ll get lucky.

That’s why it is said: “Against your will were you created, against your will were you born, against your will do you live, against your will will you die,” meaning not by our own choice. However, if you have an invitation to rise to the next level, into the Creator’s castle, try to realize that.
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From the Sunday Virtual Lesson Series 11/6/2011

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Question: Can a Kabbalist like to watch pornography (gay and straight) if he finds it beautiful to watch people having pleasure, or is it something I should stop doing in order to live a spiritual life and be connected to the Light?

Answer: This will pass by itself, to the degree of feeling the importance of the goal.

Question: I have had health challenges for the last four years, and I’m only 28 years old. Physically I do everything as best as possible in terms of diet and exercise, and I still find myself worse off than people who mistreat their bodies with bad diet and drugs.

Why does this happen to a person who physically looks after themselves when other people who mistreat their bodies don’t go through the same health challenges? What should a person, who does everything to stay healthy and still suffers, do?

Answer: Possibly, you have to change your place of residence, job, and environment.
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Question: Regarding the problem of revealing our connection within group activity and practicing love of friends: What does it mean to “judge our friends with a scale of merit” and everything will fall into place naturally? Does this mean that if a problem is perceived regarding love of friends, judging with a scale of merit will fix things? Can a scale of merit be used as a personal tool for correction? (from the article “One should Always Sell the Beams of His House”)

Answer: The key is to reach unity first and only then judge others, already treating them like your children or relatives. That is why it is said that the basis of correction is the principle of, “do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” and after this property is mastered, the correction is in reaching the property of “love the other as thyself.”
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Question: Why do I face so many obstacles to attending the convention? Maybe I’m not ready for it yet?

Answer: Obstacles are put before you on purpose. In “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” there is an example about how we climb the mountain where the castle of the Creator stands. The higher you climb, the more roughly the guards push you away and throw you down; you have to clamber up again. This continues until you make enough effort and finally overcome the obstacles.

You will suddenly see that the obstacles did not really harm you. They merely awakened a true desire in you. This is like a flirt, when the desired distances away from you and thus fires an even greater desire. This exists at all levels of fulfillment. That is, to come into contact with the Creator, you must reach a true desire.
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From the Sunday Virtual Lesson Series 11/6/2011

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Question: Why did Rabash put so much attention in building a sukkah? Don’t we learn that corporeal acts are meaningless?

Answer: He wanted to emphasize the importance of the covering, the screen.

Question: How do I find the strength to concentrate on the goal when I have lost my job? I spend sleepless nights tossing and turning, panicking about what is to become of me, and it is sapping my energy and focus. I know I need to help others, but there is a very real problem I can’t seem to correct. I know I can’t be the only BB student in this vise-grip. What is one to do when things look so bleak?

Answer: Imagine that there will be no work at all and invest all your freed-up time in the studying of the new world of mutual guarantee (Arvut). This will help you solve many problems.
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Question: What actions at the convention will help focus on the goal in the best possible way?

Answer: When people are internally aspiring to unity, they almost don’t express it on the outside. They can stand, hug, sing, do something together, but they don’t express on the outside what they feel inside. The inner work is the most intense one.

Therefore, you have to decide for yourself where it is better for you to be, with whom, and how. Certainly, you should try to be together with the mass, both with your body and soul. However, if this is an obstacle for you, if it’s hard because of your age or health, you can stand aside and not participate physically in the activities. This is not so important. What is important is that all the time you are trying to feel the highest point of unity with others and within it, the upper force that exists and becomes manifested in this point.
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From the Sunday Virtual Lesson Series 11/20/2011

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Question: How should we work before the December convention in order to deliver our message to the masses? Should we intensify the dissemination on the Internet, or should we focus more on internal work on unification?

Answer: Of course, we should work on the Internet so that as many people as possible from around the world will know about the convention.

On the other hand, when we get to the convention, we will have to worry about the world in a different way: through the network of our internal interconnection. At the convention I should forget about the Internet, about everything I left behind. My whole attention is focused on the friends who are here physically or are connected to us through virtual channels. In our network, we should manifest the connection and in it, reveal the image of man similar to the Creator, the vessel of Adam. Then the upper force will be revealed to us.

This vessel is called Arvut (mutual guarantee). After all, its attribute is reciprocity, mutual reinforcement, interconnection, and mutual care so that no one falls out from the common circle.

Imagine that we are standing on some sharp spire. If we don’t hold each other’s hands and don’t keep the general balance, we will all fall. We are like petals, surrounding the stem of a flower. It is enough for one of us to lose his balance and let go of someone’s hand, and all the petals will “fall.” This is the feeling of mutual guarantee.

Question: What is that “sharp spire?”

Answer: It is the Creator’s supportive force that manifests if we are connected. In the connection among us we find the One.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/23/2011, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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Question: I have my own opinion regarding what’s going on around the world and the revolution that people are starting all over.

Now there’s this new wave around the Internet where people post about their problems. I read some of them and came to the conclusion that people grab anything bad from their life and post it. This starts to look like a Hindu custom, when people indulge in self-flagellation by hitting themselves with a rope.

Isn’t there a reason behind everything that happens in our life? Sometimes things happen, and we don’t know whether that was to avoid another big problem, an accident, and so on. We are the creators and the cause of our life.… My question to you is: Why is this happening?

Answer: This happens because our egoism is constantly looking for fulfillment and demands it if it is missing. When we acquire the property of bestowal, we can always enjoy, like a mother enjoys her baby.
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