Question: How can I help a friend with his problems if they are provoked in him by the Creator?

Answer: And how can I not help a friend if the Creator, by causing the problems, is showing them to me through my friend?

If I see my friend having problems, it means that the Creator demonstrates them so that I can solve them.

In no case should I leave it unattended, knowing that the Creator is communicating with me through everything that is happening to me. He created a desire in me and in this desire He now triggers certain signals. I have to read these signals of my own desire and react to them.

Respond to the Creator through the friends, through the group, through the entire world group, through all of humanity, because it is all but one soul. This is all my conversation with the Creator.
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From the lesson in Russian 2/11/19

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Question: What can a Kabbalist on the final degree do that a Kabbalist on a mid or lower degree cannot?

Answer: Bestow. Everything is evaluated and measured only by the ability to bestow. The greater the egoism of a person, the greater his or her bestowal, and thus, the greater the degree. In this manner, one reveals more of the upper world, the Creator, and his own state on the Creator’s degree.

Question: How do I determine the power of my egoism?

Answer: For now, you cannot measure the power of your egoism. You can determine it only if we exist in three lines: right, left, and middle. We will then receive an opportunity to measure one side with respect to the other, and the spiritual degrees will emerge accordingly. This is the dimension of egoism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson in Russian, 11/25/18

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Question: How can I unite my desire with the group’s desire when I want to hide even the smallest degree of the Creator’s greatness as a personal attainment? It is too personal for me to share.

Answer: The best way to progress is to leave all your desires, everything you have, only take strength from it, enter the group, and try to turn to the Creator through it. Take all the aspirations of the friends from the group as if you are an adult and they are small children.

This is what you need to gather from them and then appeal to the Creator with a request to protect them, raise them, direct them to think correctly so that they feel how they should be interconnected, how they should rise in a common connection in order to create a Kli (vessel)—a place for the Creator to be revealed. This should all be in order to give Him contentment, and at the same time you should also be content by giving Him pleasure.

We always move in two levels: egoism and connection above it, unification, and gladness in order to please the Creator. We must clearly work on these two levels.

You will then feel how you emerge into the duality of the upper world where both the corpuscular and the wave theory of light work. That is, light is perceived as waves or particles depending on whether you observe the electrons passing through.

You will see that in reality, it is all one in the spiritual world. Only our egoism divides it into different levels. Therefore, in every level we get different opinions, desires, combinations, everything that kills our world, but this is precisely so that in the next, higher level, we will perceive perfection.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/6/19

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How should we see the future?
-All states exist—we must learn to see them!
The future changes by our attitude to it. A Kabbalist knows that nature can’t be changed, but if he asks, then he will change, not the world.
-How can we tolerate the states?
-Don’t tolerate—enjoy them!

It is impossible to raise yourself above the environment. Therefore, one is obligated to receive from the environment through his own efforts, and by choosing the best environment, by absorbing from it, one achieves the goal more quickly. (Shamati 225)

The goal of being in egoism is to achieve complete hatred for the power of egoism over oneself and complete self-helplessness before it.
This is precisely when a person can turn to the Creator with a true request to rescue him from egoism.
The Creator is waiting for such a request, and immediately fulfills it!

All the light of infinity is ready to shine on man, but man doesn’t have a desire for it, the Kli, the screen and the Ohr Hozer, which connect man with the Creator. And if there is no Ohr Hozer (OH), one does not feel the Creator, as if He doesn’t exist at all.
And only in the measure of connection through OH does one feel and reveal the Creator.

The light that filled the common soul of ADAM left it and is ready to awaken the uncorrected desires for correction from the outside, and then fill them in the measure of their unity, as before the breakage. Correction is possible only through unity when we no longer feel separated by our bodies—egos.

We need to show each other an example of support of friends. A friend cannot be less important to me than the Creator. This is a true test.
For our unity must correspond to the light that is ready to fill it. Therefore, each friend should be as important to me as the Creator.

If there is no hate, there is no love. No distance—no connection. As Baal HaSulam writes in a letter about the wheel (Ofanim). Therefore, one should try to identify the signs of disunion between the friends in the group and, uniting above them, build a connection, a spiritual vessel.

If the group advances correctly, toward greater unity, the Creator places bigger obstacles between them. Realizing that everything comes from the Creator, they ask Him to overcome it with His greatness, and so they advance above the growing ego between them.
The greater one is in bestowal, the greater is his ego.

On his own, a person cannot change his egoistic perception of the world to an altruistic one, this world to the altruistic one. Hence he asks the Creator for it.
The whole difference between the worlds lies in changing the force of governance from egoistic to altruistic.
This is our choice: who controls us—#Pharaoh or the Creator.
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Question: Is the state of euphoria acceptable when studying Kabbalah?

Answer: Of course. People want it.

Question: Can it not end?

Answer: It will end and will alternate with tremendous devastation and disappointment and again with contentment and euphoria until a person starts to control the two lines clearly: right and left. Then the happy and sad state, fulfillment and void, will be the same for him because one needs them both and both lead to the goal.

Question: How can one distinguish between joy and delight from ordinary communication with people and joy from unification in Kabbalah?

Answer: One can distinguish it by meaning and purposefulness. In Kabbalah, there is a sense in all states because each of them advances you. It doesn’t matter what actions you take and how you feel, they still bring you closer to the goal millimeter after millimeter. Therefore, life does not go in vain.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson in Russian 11/25/18

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Question: Why is the goal of creation in such a contradiction with the terrible state of humanity, which is immersed in egoism?

Answer: The fact is that we went through a shattering. Therefore, all thoughts and desires that arise in us are negative, opposite to the Creator and opposite to unification in the ten.

We only need to weigh our desires and thoughts, heart and mind. We have to constantly check these two parameters, how much they help, or on the contrary, oppose unification. Only in this we can see their positive or negative height.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 12/16/18

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Question: Why after having gone through sufferings and seeing the results they led to, do you understand that it could not be any other way and you justify them, but when you are going through them, you cannot justify them?

Answer: You really cannot. If you think in advance: “Now I am ready for all kinds of sufferings, and trials, anything there is, because they will reveal the whole world to me, spiritual sensations!”—it is good. But after a minute of experiencing suffering, you are ready to drop everything and run away just not to feel it.
Later, you justify everything. This is how the person is created.

Question: Does this have a spiritual root?

Answer: Yes, these are the two lines that cannot yet be combined within us.

Question: So, I cannot justify them while suffering, and only later can I understand whether they were useful?

Answer: Correct suffering is felt only in the group. It is a lack of communication between the friends, lack of mutual guarantee, mutual obligations, mutual upliftment. Everything else is completely unnecessary suffering, and it is better to avoid it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/18/18

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Question: A person has a period of accumulating suffering. Does a ten have such a period?

Answer: If you are in a group, you do not need to accumulate suffering. You need to collect the friends’ aspirations and desires and elevate them to the Creator, like how parents ask for their children. This is what we all need to do.

If everyone asks for others, it will be a serious request. The Creator pays attention not to the actual desires that He awakens in us, but to the way we, through our efforts, leave our desires, take the desires of the friends, and ask for them. The most important thing is the quality of our appeal to the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/6/19

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Question: How can we stay on the spiritual path when wherever we turn we see only our egoism?

Answer: You need to increase your work in the group and try to cancel your egoism toward each other. You have to show that you specifically are playing along with each other, envying one another, to constantly rise above yourself.

This can be realized only in the group until you start receiving help from above. You can do this very quickly.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/9/18

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Question: Why does it happen that at a certain stage your beloved teacher does not seem so beloved anymore? Moreover, it seems that he manipulates you and says things that you want to criticize over and over.

Answer: That is natural. A student does not advance without having complaints and criticisms in regard to the teacher. Advancement occurs on two sides: the left and the right, where on one hand you have criticism, and on the other hand, forceful justification.

Therefore, if a critical attitude to the teacher arises in you, it means that you now need to add from the other side, in spite of your opinion, the opinion of others, and in spite of the rejection and even hatred toward the teacher that suddenly might emerge in you. You need to rise above it in faith above reason, to the state where you continue to hold onto him.

It requires tremendous effort from the student. And if you already are in it, congratulations. This work does not end even when you enter the spiritual world at the first spiritual attainment—it continues even on higher degrees.

To the extent that you suddenly feel rejection from your friends in the group, realizing that a completely irrational hatred toward them arises in you, the same irrational hatred and not just a critical attitude will emerge in you toward the teacher. You will need to overcome it through faith above reason.
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From a Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/2/18

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