Kabbalah Insights – Wine
Posted on April 7th, 2011
The answer is simple: It’s because spirituality is opposite to us, to our essence, to our egoistic nature. Egoism rules over us; we wish to fill it. Hence, out of everything that surrounds us, we only see what we want to see in our egoism: something pleasant or, at most, threatening.
This is why a person who wants to reveal the upper world, to discover what surrounds him but remains undetected in his egoistic perception, needs to reconstruct himself. For this reason the environment is so critical for a person: It helps to rebuild one’s perception, to attune oneself to the importance of perceiving what is unpleasant to egoism, opposite to it. Then one will be able to witness a wide world that has always surrounded him or her. It is called the spiritual world because it is above the egoistic one.
It seems to us that our views are the result of our experience, but they are the upshot of the accumulation of information convenient for our egoism. And it makes no difference what they say, the truth or a lie: For us the truth is what coincides with our opinion—egoism.
We always look only for what supports our opinion and reject what opposes it. Ultimately, we form ourselves and do not wish to change. Only suffering, the attempts to find the meaning of existence, and a strong spiritual environment, the group, will help a person to become objective, to replace the egoistic perception with the environment’s opinion. And then the upper world that has always existed around him will open for him!
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Question: What is the biggest problem in the world?
Answer: The absence of a global government is the biggest threat to the peace in the world, and it is this absence in particular that causes all modern crises.
The G20 demonstrated that the parties cannot reach agreement on major issues. The world governing body does not exist, while a global, integral world demands it.
Question: Do you think that after the recent events in the Arab countries, the North Caucasian (Muslim) regions of Russian (Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, and Kabardino-Balkaria) will also demand change, that is, independence?
Answer: I don’t think so because, as someone put it: "I could take it in pieces, but I need everything." Meanwhile, what’s wrong with receiving funds and everything that’s needed from the future victim and preparing to completely overtake it at its own expense? Why leave if the goal is to take over everything, the entire world?
Question: What stimulates the development of the Kabbalistic society?
Answer: Competition drives the development of a democratic society. The stimulus for the development in an autocratic society is power and then corruption, the use of power not for social interests but for personal benefit. Corruption gradually buys up the state, officials, and infiltrates government agencies with their people.
But a corrupted government is unable to rule the country because corrupted officials are motivated only by their personal interests. This is why such a government will be replaced by a Nazi, nationalistic, regime, which will lead to a world war. Alternatively, it will be a government motivated by maintaining equality of all members of society and then the world.
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Question from a woman: I have a very big desire to become perfect. What should I do: direct this desire towards the men or straight to the Creator?
Answer: Neither. You have to correct it yourself. You don’t have to “direct” your desire anywhere. Every person must correct his or her own desire. It’s just that the means for this correction is the mutual help we give to one another, our connection with each other.
No one can correct your desires. This would take away your freedom of choice, your independence, and the ability to attain the level that you have to attain, the root of your soul.
Only work in the group, both for men and for women, in the appropriate form for each to perform their spiritual work will help them become included in one another with their souls and to feel that all together we belong to one Kli, one common soul, just as before the breaking.
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From the 3rd lesson at the WE! Convention on 4/1/11
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Question: You have repeatedly said that men who study Kabbalah must be married. Does a homosexual male have to marry a female or rather, have a partner of the same gender? Do you recommend for homosexuals, males and females, to conceive or adopt children?
Answer: I think that everyone, within the parameters of the corporeal world, can do as their inclination dictates. And all their inner forces should be directed toward reaching an exalted, eternal, perfect goal.
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Question: I understand that gradually, the points in the hearts will become revealed, and all people will come to the wisdom of Kabbalah. Can we say that if at a certain stage a critical mass is reached, the process will become simultaneous rather than gradual?
Answer: It is indeed so. Any organism has a defense mechanism: If a certain percentage of its systems function correctly, the rest recover under their influence. If we achieve our critical mass, the entire world will feel it instantly.
It is as if the waves will wash over people, and they will begin to understand and sense more. They will suddenly see that this is the truth. It will manifest both in their hearts and minds and they will accept it naturally, without knowing where this sensation came from. And it will come from the connection between us.
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From Lesson 3, WE! Convention 4/2/2011
Question: How can the women unite their desires in order to “pressure” the men?
Answer: Don’t pressure the men openly. Do you want them to run away from you? Indeed, at home a wife “pressures” her husband quietly, without words, and he does everything that’s needed. Women have it by nature.
And men have this “weakness”: They want to be heroes in the women’s eyes. It gives a woman power to play with this male weakness and direct a man correctly so that he will fulfill her desires. These things are natural and well-known to psychologists.
We are adults and understand our nature well. We have the goal that is above our nature, and we only need to learn how to use all the qualities instilled in us correctly.
If I can advance toward the goal thanks to my wife who encourages me in every possible way, praises me for waking up every morning for the lesson, and is proud of my spiritual achievements, it will definitely help me on the path! After all, a man is like a little boy next to his mother.
The women have to unite their desires for spirituality into one, big, strong desire and pressure “one,” “big,” “aggregate” man. We, the men, hope that we will feel your desire!
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From Lesson 3, WE! Convention 4/2/2011
Question: When we try to unite, do the points in the hearts of the women unite between themselves, while the points in the hearts of the men also unite together, or is it not important?
Answer: All the souls connect together because all of us are the single soul. In his articles, Baal HaSulam explains that there is only one soul in the world, which consists of male and female parts. And both of these parts create between themselves the connection that warrants the conception of life.
In our world a man and a woman together give birth to their continuation: sons and daughters. In the spiritual world, by connecting together, we beget our new degree that is also called a “son” or a “daughter.” It turns out that the Creator is between us, as it is said: “Husband and wife and the Shechina between them.” As a result, the three unite and become one whole—and this is our next degree.
Hence, the women face the same task as the men, and even more so because a woman has a Hissaron (unfulfilled desire). She obligates a man to advance, to leave the house and earn a living, to support the family, and be responsible. The same happens in spirituality.
Therefore, we, the men, are very hopeful that the women will take upon themselves the responsibility for our spiritual progress, be more active, and pressure us even more. It’s because the desire comes from the female part, whereas the men realize it. However, without the female desire the men cannot carry it out.
This is why the women have to unite their forces so as to demand from the men that they truly unite between themselves, which will bring the Light to the female desire. Hence, we have to work together.
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From Lesson 2, WE! Convention 4/2/2011
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Question: We make many external actions, but what is the right way to behave on the internal level?
Answer: Externally we must only do whatever helps our inner work.
I have to support a normal existence for myself in this world. That is every person’s obligation! However, all my other actions, desires, and thoughts have to be directed to the point of contact with spirituality. According to that, I have to check in the group, at home, at work, and with myself: What am I doing with my life?
The science of Kabbalah does not require a person to be an angel. But a person who wants to advance has to look for means to increase his efforts and strengthen connections in order to advance faster and more efficiently.
In essence, there is no incident, action, or event in a person’s life that could not be used to benefit his spiritual development. He only has to know how to realize it because there is nothing accidental. Everything has a reason: It all comes from above intentionally and on purpose. You only have to be attentive to the game that the Creator is playing with us. If we don’t think deeply about what is happening to us, then we end up ignoring what the Creator is trying to say to us!
In other words, nature (or the Creator, which is the same thing, one law and plan) awakens new information, Reshimot in us at every moment. These Reshimot are dysfunctional and we have to bring them back – from the left side and the right – to the point of unity. I must constantly check whether my intention is correct, and this is my entire work.
If I am focused on this in my desire and thought, then I can work at any job for any number of hours, and carry out any actions. This does not bother me!
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From the 3rd lesson at the WE! Convention on 4/1/11
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