Torah, Deuteronomy 28:27:The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with hemorrhoids, with oozing sores, and with dry lesions, from which you will be unable to be cured.

This means that at all levels the desire will be turned inside out and all your intentions that you could direct to bestowal, love, and connection with the Creator will turn into egoistic qualities that will humiliate and subdue you.
On the material level, all of this appears on the skin because skin is Malchut, the outermost layer.

Torah, Deuteronomy 28:28: The Lord will strike you with insanity, with blindness, and with bewilderment.

Insanity is damage on the level of the head (Mocha).

Blindness means that you see and feel nothing; that is, you cannot choose correctly and make decisions.

Bewilderment is an inability to analyze what is happening to you. You lose yourself completely, like a person who has gone mad and doesn’t know where he is and who he is. However, even this state is often absent in a madman.

In other words, a person who wanted to ascend to a higher degree was unable to take this height and shattered into pieces. However, he had to master it because it was up to him.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/7/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 28:32: Your sons and daughters will be given over to another people, and your eyes will see [this] and long for them all day long, but you will be powerless.

The Torah lists the losses that are expected at different levels if you do not ascend to one or another spiritual degree.

You could connect with your friends and with your people and make a common Kli (vessel) in which the Creator would be revealed. Instead, new opposite qualities are revealed to you and you lose everything that you had.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/7/16

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Question: What is spiritual attainment?

Answer: Spiritual attainment is reaching a level higher than the egoistic level where all the forces and mutual connections are attained in a totally different state, in a different interdependence between us, in the attribute of bestowal, adhesion, connection, inspiration, and flow, which we don’t understand at the moment.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/12/17

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Question: What is eternal pleasure? How can we enjoy forever?

Answer: Eternal pleasure is a state in which you can constantly renew your desires though your connection with others. This is how you constantly renew the filling in these desires and feel eternal pleasure.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/12/17

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Question: What sensations are triggered in us by the influence of the upper Light?

Answer: The influence of the upper Light raises in us the importance of the quality of bestowal, connection with others, and connection with the Creator (which, in principle, are the same thing); that is, we exchange our nature for the upper nature built on the principle “outside of me,” so that I stop being isolated within myself and come out of myself.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 4/2/2017

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Torah, Deuteronomy 28:48: Therefore, you will serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, [when you are] in famine, thirst, destitution, and lacking everything, and he will place an iron yoke upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.

Question: It is unclear why I should serve my enemy “in famine, thirst, destitution, and lacking everything” and not rebel against him.

Answer: This is because you have no power against your enemy, egoism. You are like a rabbit that is moving into the jaws of a boa constrictor, and you are unable to do anything. Egoism defeats you and at the same time shows your insignificance. You are powerless against it because it has control over you, and it demonstrates this.

Moreover, you feel that all this comes from the Creator.

Question: Do I also curse the Creator?

Answer: Naturally. By the way, the Creator does not care about a person’s attitude toward Him. The most important thing is to have some kind of relationship. Even if you curse Him, you are more preferable to Him than one who does not feel and does not address Him.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/19/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 27:26: Cursed be he who does not uphold the words of this Torah, to fulfill them. And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

If you don’t do this in intention and in action, then you will call a curse upon yourself as a result.

In intention is understandable, but why also in action? It is because everyone has these opportunities in the spiritual form. You must react correctly to all the actions that you will come across. If you don’t do this, you will receive a curse.

Question: How do I avoid incorrect actions in order not to kill the next degree in myself?

Answer: Only the right environment through which the upper Light shines on you constantly and holds you all the time, like in the space elevated above the ground, can save you from the transgressions, that is from a curse.

So, be blessed and not cursed.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/23/16

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Question: What is intention? Did the Creator create it? Or do we create it ourselves?

Answer: Specifically because a person has the possibility of being in opposite and contrary states, one state is intentionally expressed in relation to another.

If I want something, this indicates that I have an intention to receive a particular kind of pleasure for myself. In general, we call this intention desire. The question is in what manner I want to apply it: Is it for myself or for others? Here an intention already appears from the next level in relation to the Creator. We define the word “intention” as the realization of each desire in a unique format. In every desire or intention, there are many levels.

Question: If my intention is directed for the sake of another person or for the sake of the Creator, this is called altruism. Does an intention like this reach a person from the Creator?

Answer: Yes, it comes from the Creator, because it is from this that a person learns how he must bestow.

Question: Is a Kabbalist really constantly making calculations? “For whom am I drinking? For whom am I going now?” After all, it is possible to go crazy like that!

Answer: No. When you carry this out inside, within the desire, this doesn’t require any energy, on the contrary, you receive energy from it.

Question: Well, this is a constant struggle! According to my nature, I want to drink tea for my own sake, but I need to drink for the sake of the Creator. Am I always found in such a war?

Answer: A person receives enormous additional pleasure from bestowal, not just pleasure from the tea that he drinks but because he is doing it for someone. Suppose that your mother asks you to drink a cup of tea; an impression is left in you that you did this for your mother, and then the pleasure becomes egoistic. I received that and enjoyed it.

And what’s next? It is necessary to progress onward. Which is to say, it is now up to you to receive an even greater pleasure and again build an intention.

Question: Is this talking about pleasures like drinking tea, coffee, and the like?

Answer: Why not? The same pleasure that is found in a cup of coffee, if it is possible to call it pleasure, is found in the infinite eternal Light. There is only one source of pleasure, the Creator, and we are a desire that was created to enjoy receiving from Him.

Question: In our world, a desire appears in me to drink tea, but what pleasure can there be in the next world from this? After all, there is no body there.

Answer: What is the difference? Desire is also not corporeal. In the upper world, there is only a desire to give pleasure to someone and to have pleasure from this. I understand that this is a more exalted, better, infinite, and unlimited pleasure, not because it is good for me, but because I want others to have pleasure. This is the characteristic that I receive from the upper Light.

You can ask, “Do you give pleasure to the Creator, as if you feed your baby with a spoon?” The answer is “Yes.” “Then it’s not a problem, I also feed my little son with a spoon and enjoy this.”

But this is purely an egoistic calculation. To avoid this, you must first hate the object for which you do this. There is no love without hatred. Everything should necessarily be built on two opposite qualities. At that, hatred is by no means destroyed, it supports love, and love supports hatred. And so they exist together.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/26/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 28:30: You shall plant a vineyard, but you will not redeem it[s fruits].

The vineyard symbolizes the fruit of reason, wisdom.

To plant a vineyard means to begin to interact correctly through Bina with Hochma so that the fruit of Hochma (the Light of knowledge) is revealed in the Light of Bina (Light of bestowal, mercy).

It is very difficult to ascend to this level. If a person who is in the land of Israel does not correctly interact with his desire, he cannot use the grapes, that is, the wine that embodies the Light of Hochma.

By the way, wine is a special non-perishable product. Recently, during archaeological excavations, wine dating back to the time of the Temple was discovered. It thickened, became jelly-like, but retained its properties, taste, and smell.

Salt and oil relate to the same group of products. Oil thickens, becomes pasty, but is still preserved. Wine, oil, and salt are the basis of the existence of nature itself, they have a very high spiritual root.

While oil simply drips from the olives, wine is produced by pressing the grapes and getting the juice. And earlier fermented wine was not used, it infused by itself, but grape juice was preferred. And it is said that a man would squeeze a bunch of grapes and bless the juice.

While making oil, it is best to put the olives in a large tub with a hole through which the oil flows down. The oil, which is obtained not by pressing, but in a natural way is considered the best and can be stored forever.

Salt, which embodies the inanimate stage of egoism, relates to the same group of eternal non-perishable products.

Question: The inanimate stage, in principle, does not develop. Are grapes and olives also related to it?

Answer: No. You yourself bring them to a point where they no longer develop.

All these processes are described in Talmud Eser Sefirot (The Study of the Ten Sefirot). There it is written about the laws of cooking and storing food and  their spiritual levels and sources in a very interesting way. After all, in our world, we must act according to the way that spiritual forces are arranged in relation to a man.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/7/16

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Ari, “Tree of Life”: Behold, that before the emanations were emanated and the creatures were created, the upper simple Light had filled the whole existence…

The goal of creation is to bring the creations to the attainment of the Creator, to adhesion with Him, to reaching His level. The entire development of the human being in this world throughout thousands of years is directed at the realization of this task.

There were many people throughout human history who were able to come out of the animal degree into the human one, starting from Adam, the first man, Adam HaRishon. Such people are called Kabbalists, and during all the generations they kept helping others to come to the attainment of the upper force, to enter the spiritual degree.

Our whole life in this world, within our egoistic desire, is there for the purpose of coming out of it and elevating ourselves to the level of bestowal, to the highest existence—eternal and boundless.

So we ought to thank those people, who, having attained the Creator themselves, exerted all their efforts to develop the science of Kabbalah, helping others reach the same degree and go through the same states on the way to attaining the highest reality.

All evolution can be divided into two stages. Initially, there is an instinctive maturation and the development of the desire for pleasure. However, at some point that desire develops to the extent of demanding its correction into the desire to bestow. That turning point is symbolized by a special Kabbalist, whose name was Ari.

That messenger from above did for us what no one else has ever done. There is no other person who has made a greater contribution to the general correction. Starting with him, humanity entered the period of deliverance. For it was the Ari who revealed the science of Kabbalah, the methodology of correction, who took it from above and brought it deep down for us.

That is why today’s date [July 27, 2017] is so important for us—Ari’s Memorial Day. For everything we have in our spiritual life, what we strive for, investing our whole life into, has really come from the great Ari. It is the soul that symbolizes the turning point from the world of darkness into the world of correction.

He was the first Kabbalist who brought people the practical methodology of correction that includes the structure of the upper worlds, the circulation of souls, distribution of Light, and development. He linked these explanations to the holidays and quotes from the Torah.

Ari created the language of Kabbalah amd made it possible for study, research, and implementation. He translated Kabbalah from the language of parables and hints, received before him among the Kabbalists, into a modern, precise, scientific language: measures, degrees, Aviut (depth of the desire), Kashiut (strength of the screen)—all scientific terms.

After him, Kabbalah turned into a real science, due to the highest degree that Ari has attained, allowing him to encompass the whole upper world.

That is why he begins his writings from the four stages of Direct Light, in all the details. All the structure of the worlds that the science of Kabbalah teaches came from Ari. Baal HaSulam writes that he attained his spiritual heights due to the fact, that he received an embryo of the soul of Ari. Because of this special soul, Baal HaSulam reached his attainments and continued the work of Ari.
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From the Lesson on the Day of Ari’s Memory 7/27/17

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