All the states that we undergo in the spiritual work are forms of our connection with the Creator; each time they are different. Although it seems to us that we are at work or with family, at home or on the street, going or flying somewhere—all this is our imagination at play.

In reality, these are depictions of our connection with the Creator, which take on different forms of external circumstances. There is nothing other than that!

Therefore, all my work is to determine the true state: to understand that I am in connection with the Creator and that I must discover Him as the first, the one who creates this state for me, and the last, as I have to reach the state of “None else besides Him.”

I have to determine that He really assembled this state for me, He organized it and gave it to me so that based on all the currently available facts, to the extent of the breaking that is revealed in me, I would establish that everything comes from Him, starting with the preparation and ending with the state where I connect with the Creator, to the extent possible at the moment.

This is our work.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/22/17, Lesson on Topic: “The Hardening of the Heart at the Entrance to Ibur (Conception)”

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Torah, Exodus 23:31: And I will make your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river, for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and you shall drive them out from before you.

The land of Israel, in principle, is not big, that is, the egoistic desire of man is very small. But at spiritual levels, it gradually grows. When a person ascends from a small spiritual level to a higher and higher one, he reveals the whole world.

This is not our universe, which in itself does not represent a serious spiritual volume; it is simply a zero; it does not exist. In the true world where we really are, it does not exist. It is like our reflection.

We do not know and do not see ourselves. It is as if we are sleeping now, living our material life in a dream. In this dream, we are given the beginning of the spiritual work, which helps us to awaken.

If we wake up with its help, that is, enter the spiritual world, we see that everything that was inside us before is just an illusion. We had all kinds of brain fluctuations and we pictured everything in our imagination. And now we are real, spiritual.

Therefore, material life with respect to the spiritual is like a dream. After all, we do nothing, we do not perform any material actions, and even the desires that we allegedly use are not desires—they are nothing.

But as soon as you wake up, that is, as soon as you are born spiritually, you understand that everything that occurred earlier was a dream.

Now the question arises: if a person awakens from sleep and begins to live in a spiritual volume, in another dimension, how does he, while performing some actions, suddenly appear in this dream and begin to help others exit it? How does he plunge into this? In other words, he has reached a certain spiritual level and is told: “You must be in the dream with those who are still in it.”

Question: That is, a Kabbalist, like a stalker, is sent to awaken humanity from sleep and lead it into a new state and does this work?

Answer: Of course! In spirituality, you are shown this necessity and it becomes yours.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/26/16

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Question: Can the word “love” be replaced with “balance between opposing forces” or “harmony between bestowal and reception”?

Answer: There are two types of love: love of self and love of the other or internal love and external.

If love is directed toward oneself, then this is that same egoism. I love to eat well, drink good wine, fulfill myself with sexual pleasure, travel, play with my child, and so on. All of this is nothing but manifestations of egoism. I love the child because he is mine; since I love myself, I also love him.

Why should this be called a certain type of love? They are simply manifestations of egoism. Naturally, for the person it is very nice and pleasant, well, there are even many so called demonstrations of self-sacrifice. But, the individual, of course, pays for it.

Question: Can it be said then, from a Kabbalistic point of view, that just as there is hatred without cause, there is love without cause?

Answer: Love cannot be without a cause. It is simply necessary to identify where the cause lies. Even if it is called love without a cause, it just means that we did not make the effort or are unable to identify its cause, or the cause lies above our egoism and that’s why we call it that.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 8/6/17

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The Torah, Exodus 24:01 – 24:02: And to Moses He said, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and prostrate yourselves from afar. And Moses alone shall approach the Lord but they shall not approach, and the people shall not ascend with him.”

These are steps of development.  There are different levels of desires within a person. The people are the egoistic desire corrected for bestowal, but corrected at a small height.

Then come the Levites, the Cohens, the children of Aaron (Nadav and Avhiu), Aaron, and finally Moses. This whole hierarchy personifies one person. That is, the people and all the righteous are all in one person. And Moses is at the top of the pyramid, so only he can approach the Creator, and all the rest, not.

The Torah, Exodus 24:03 – 24:04: So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the ordinances, and
all the people answered in unison and said, “All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do.”

And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and he arose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and twelve monuments for the twelve tribes of Israel.

The people are all the egoistic desires of man. They are under Moses. He pulls them up like a fisherman who throws a net into the sea and now is gradually pulling fish out of the water.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/1/13

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Question: How would you advise a contemporary person to live without using others for his own well-being? Who provides a person with bread, clothes, etc.?

The study of Kabbalah will not fill a person and his family, capitalism will not disappear tomorrow morning, and the group will not earn a living for his family.

All these animal needs create and cultivate most of the egoism that continues in the group.

Answer: Kabbalah explains how to live in order to start feeling the upper world, the system governing our world. This is realized in the group to the extent it fulfills the conditions of the upper world in the relations between its members.
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Torah, Exodus 23:28 – 23:30: And I will send the tzir’ah before you, and it will drive out the Hivvites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you. I will not drive them away from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field outnumber you. I will drive them out from before you little by little, until you have increased and can occupy the land.

There are countless qualities and desires in a person. Gradually correcting them, one must replace them with the qualities of the Creator: substituting the egoistic use for oneself with altruistic use, and the hatred for others with love.

It is written: “I will not drive them away from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate.” The land is desire. How can we work with them? The fact is that we are arranged according to the four-step internal principle and therefore, we correct ourselves gradually from the lighter to the coarser egoistic layers.

This is an individual process typical for a person who wants to achieve the goal. Yet, for people who do not understand and do not realize their egoistic nature, such actions must be performed over them as over small children.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/1/13

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If we talk about love between friends in a group, then it seems to us that this is something artificial, unnecessary, unpleasant, and unattainable. But in fact, it is only the realization of the basic law of nature. The word “love” is just a little bit corrupted in our time.

In fact, if no one annihilates anything, but wants to supplement, reaching a complement in the group between opposing properties that come from a single root existing in nature, we understand that this is what is called harmony, love, mutual conjoining, and no other state can exist.

Therefore, a single person can do nothing. Alone, a person cannot attain the upper world and attain the world’s operating system because he does not have a corresponding state inside, he does not participate in this system. He must create such a detector in himself—the organ of perception of the upper world. And it is necessary to unite in ten for this.

Our connection is based on the fact that you have a minus, I have a plus, another person has a plus, still another one has a minus, and so on, and in a crisscross connection between us we form a network called a Kli, that is, a vessel for revealing the Creator. What does this mean—the Creator? The average, the common, what we achieve from the combination of opposites.

Therefore, we need to achieve the correct union between ourselves: not to destroy anything, not to suppress anything, but learn to use every property of any member of the group—from the worst to the best. They all have the same right to exist.
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From the Convention In Vilnius “From Chaos to Harmony,” Day One 11/3/17, Lesson 1

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Question: What is the spiritual root of laziness?

Answer: Laziness is a wonderful quality! I really advise you to be more lazy, you’ll do fewer stupid things. The fact is that laziness is the correct weighing of the degree of the necessity of an action.

Question: What if you have no strength, and therefore you are too lazy to do the necessary things, the important ones?

Answer: And then it actually becomes not that important or necessary. That is why it is written: “Better sit and do nothing.” Think, read, try to internalize it within yourself—that is the reason you were born, not to do so many physical actions that only pollute our world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/9/17

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Question: If a Kabbalist has the greatest egoism in the world, does it mean he is the most unfree person of all?

Answer: A person uses his egoism in order to rise above it.

Egoism is a force, and when we rise above it, we continually feel freedom to a greater degree. I cannot feel free if I don’t have the sensation of being unfree.

Therefore, Kabbalah is built upon two parameters: the Creator and creation—an enormous quality of bestowal and love, and enormous egoism.

Question: That is, I am grateful to the Creator for having my great egoism and wanting to separate from it?

Answer: This is a must. One who is higher than others has greater egoism too. Otherwise, how could he ascend?
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/2/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 33:02: He said: “The Lord came from Sinai and shone forth from Seir to them; He appeared from Mount Paran and came with some of the holy myriads; from His right hand was a fiery Law for them.

The correction of the sons of Israel began at Mount Sinai. Before that, they were under the rule of their egoism.

It was at Mount Sinai that they began the correction under the influence of the upper Light, called the Torah. Before exiting Egypt, they were under the rule of the Pharaoh, that is, the Light obviously did not work on them and they were not following the clear instruction for their correction.

The fact is that starting from Mount Sinai and onward, the two-way connection is revealed between them and the Creator. Here what we call raising MAN is already accomplished, by feeding on the so-called manna.

The sons of Israel raised their desires to the Creator, to the next level above them, then they received an influence from there and ascended further, until they reached the entrance to the land of Israel, that is, until they acquired all the tools with which they could openly work with their egoism.

It is written: “And shone forth from Seir to them; He appeared from Mount Paran.” Seir and Paran symbolize a kind of road signs.

The fact is that in ancient times, along each road there were definite markers showing the direction to the traveller. The people of Israel moved from place to place using them like the road pillars. This means that they moved along the spiritual degrees from one state to another.

“Radiance” (Sapphire, from the word “Sefira”) symbolizes the reflected Light. They begin to work with it, that is, with the quality of bestowal, just as it is emanated from the Creator. That is, a person himself becomes a source of Light, although reflected, but he is a source.

Question: What does it mean: “And came with some of the holy myriads”?

Answer: It is very difficult to comment on the translated Torah. To do this, we must take the original in Hebrew and then we will see a completely different picture. Maybe it means tens of thousands of degrees, when they have already reached the level of Rosh de Arich Anpin, the head of the world of Atzilut.

This is the highest degree, and there the Creator already begins to pass the reigns of control to them. It is because the desires that have reached such a level are already ready to perform all the actions of correction on themselves.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/2/17

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