Question: Is it possible to enslave the Creator on the way to the goal?

Answer: It is certainly possible to subjugate the Creator. The Creator is wholly devoted to us. He wants us to use Him 100%.

He only wants to serve our desires. This is why, in principle, He reveals Himself relative to us. On His part, there is no problem to be in complete bestowal to us—this is His essence. Therefore, there is really no point in subjugating Him. He initially arranges things in such a way so as to evoke in us the possibility for correction and ascent to His level. That is in the first place.

And second, the Creator is not some human image that can be subjugated, etc. It is a system—an immense mechanism composed of opposing positive and negative forces.

To the extent that we are similar to the Creator, that is, to the quality of bestowal, love, concern, and interconnectedness, to that extent we can evoke the positive influence of this system on ourselves
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From a Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/21/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 28:02 – 28:03: And all these blessings will come upon you and cleave to you, if you obey the Lord, your God. You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.

There are five levels of egoistic desire: zero, first, second, third, and fourth. If you do the right thing, you will be able to interact with the surrounding nature on all these levels: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human.

The inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels of nature are called a field, and a human nature is a city.

There are many additional complex laws of correct spiritual interaction in a city because the Creator is revealed there.

The priorities of the system of relations between people should be clearly set in the city: the judicial and legal system, the system of education and collection of taxes, the interaction between women, children, and men, and so on. This is a whole social system at the level of human.

It is in the city that we reach equivalence of form with the Creator. There is nothing in it that would have an aimless construction, unconnected to its spiritual root, structure, and manifestation of action.

If we had properly educated ourselves spiritually, we would have built this world as a complete copy of the spiritual world to the smallest detail. After all, our soul, residing there, consists of the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human parts, including the root part. We would accurately build the structure of HaVaYaH both in the spiritual world and in the material world.

How, for example, did the architect Bezalel create the Temple, the holy of holies, and so on? A person is visited by a prophecy and he sees how everything is arranged in the roots that govern us. Like the projector shines on the screen and creates an image on it, the same thing happens here. He sees the root and creates in our world its consequence dressed in forms such as bricks, trunks of trees, vegetation, and houses.

If a person is connected with his spiritual root, then he does everything in our world in accordance to that root. He does not have to think about anything, just not to oppose but to match himself to it. Then it turns out that our world is completely similar to the upper world. This is the final correction.

Question: Does it mean that the great Kabbalist Ramchal portrayed the Third Temple based on his attainment?

Answer: Yes. His article “Mishkani Elyon” is about this.

But the fact is that as soon as we reached the level of the First Temple, we immediately began to fall from this level. Bloody wars began between us, huge opposing forces and various egoistic problems were revealed.

All this began to break inside with great speed. When the Jews cannot overcome their egoism and rise above it, then egoism begins to destroy them. Therefore, Nebuchadnezzar conquered the people of Israel and again led them into exile.

From that moment, it was impossible to say that everything among the people was in accordance with the spiritual roots.

The law is such that as soon as you reach a spiritual peak, you immediately come to the next degree, which is the manifestation of a huge hatred. If you cannot restrain it, then it crushes everything.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/23/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 28:04: Blessed will be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your soil, the fruit of your livestock, the offspring of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep.

If from the point of view of the human level you are in aspiration to the Creator, then all the lower levels: animate, vegetative, and inanimate will also aspire to the same equivalence. Therefore, there will always be a blessing on these levels.

Torah, Deuteronomy 28:05 – 28:06: Blessed will be your basket and your kneading bowl. You shall be blessed when you come, and you shall be blessed when you depart.

This is about entering the spiritual degree and exiting from it.

Our life is a clear consequence of the way we build from ourselves equivalence to the spiritual world, to our spiritual roots.

The Torah does not speak about any objects and phenomena of our world, not about goats, sheep, people, houses, cities, and everything else, although it seems like it speaks about this. These are all spiritual qualities of a person who aspires to the upper world; they all are within him. The Torah explains how these qualities of a person receive a blessing.

Comment: It is amazing that even the exit from the spiritual degree, the fall from it, is also blessed.

Answer: This is the way out for the future ascent. It is written: “The Torah will come from Zion.” It is from these exits that the next degree appears—you attract more Light on yourself, and you must bless for both good and bad.

It is written: “Blessed will be your basket.” Your basket and your kneading bowl are the Kelim (vessels) that you fill with the upper Light on this degree, and you do it for the sake of bestowal.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/5/16

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Question: What spiritual disturbances can happen during a convention and how can we overcome them?

Answer: During the convention we do not think about any spiritual disturbances or problems.

I suggest only one thing to you: participate with all your energy and forget about yourselves. This is the main thing. Concentrate your attention above the body and try to be together with everyone and with the Creator who will be revealed in others.

If you become integrated with your friends, you will stop feeling them and will begin to feel the Creator. This is what must be done. And it should be without any calculations.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/19/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 27:14 – 27:15: The Levites shall speak up, saying to every individual of Israel, in a loud voice: “Cursed be the man who makes any graven or molten image an abomination to the Lord, the handiwork of a craftsman and sets it up in secret! And all the people shall respond, saying, ‘Amen!'”

In our world you should not make any external actions; they must all be internal.

There is no need to create any statues or images for yourself—anything you can grasp with your egoistic desires and intentions, but only what you can imagine above egoism, above earthly thoughts and feelings. When you connect with others through love of them, you begin to form the state in which the Creator can dress. It is called creating a house of the Creator.

We live in the world of idols and constantly, every second, create all new ones. This is the state that existed before the spiritual discoveries of Abraham.

Where did Kabbalah begin? It started from the fact that all the idols were shattered and everything moves only into the internal quality of a person, into his internal correction. Exactly on this, the method of correction of a person and his elevation to the level of the Creator was founded, and this was the only difference between Abraham and Nimrod, between Kabbalah and all other teachings.

If a person worships some statues before some of his actions, then all this is called egoistic, not holy work.

Question: How is it possible to attribute a craft to this? It is written, “The handiwork of a craftsman.”

Answer: This is the handiwork of a craftsman. The name of the architect who built the Tabernacle is Betzalel (Be-tzal-el) and it means “in the shadow of the Creator.” What does it mean that he works in the shadow of the Creator? It means only using a screen. The upper Light creates everything.

Comment: But in the Torah it is written, “An abomination to the Lord, the handiwork of a craftsman.”

Response: That’s right. All that is required from us is just a screen (Masach). Don’t interfere with the Creator; remove your egoism so everything will be created exactly in the place where you removed it. You annul egoism with His help, but when this happens, you begin to feel how something completely opposite begins to form within you from Him. This is the handiwork of a craftsman. The Creator is called a craftsman.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/21/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 28:09: The Lord will establish you as His holy people as He swore to you, if you observe the commandments of the Lord, your God, and walk in His ways.

The quality of bestowal and love is called holiness because holiness is an accessory to the Creator.

The Creator is Kadosh (The Holy One) because there is a quality of bestowal in Him. Therefore, a person is called holy when he receives a special influence from the Creator that makes him giving and loving, and this affects everyone around him.

If you aspire to this, you will receive such an answer from the Creator and you will become holy, that is, a blessed one, giving and loving all others.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/5/16

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Question: Do I have to study the system of creation of the worlds, the ten Sefirot of the soul, like a multiplication table, or should I accept that for me it is something that is yet non-existent and incomprehensible?

Answer: You must study it, then later try looking for it and the system will begin to form within you. You will look at the world, observing the changes in it as if looking through a stencil, and you will see the ten Sefirot in this world.

Looking as if through a net at the world, at an individual, at his behavior, at interactions between people, at the movement of the wind, the air, at various kinds of interactions in the phenomena of vegetative, animate, or spiritual worlds, regardless of where you look, everywhere you will see the same single net of interconnections between two forces: positive and negative.

Question: How much time is needed to attain the ten Sefirot? Does it depend on the specific individual?

Answer: We have a very in-depth, six-volume text The Study of the Ten Sefirot (Talmud Eser Sefirot), which explains how the ten Sefirot form all the worlds, including our world as the last and lowest of the worlds, and the way in which the upper Light, through the ten Sefirot, controls all of creation.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/5/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 28:08: The Lord will order the blessing to be with you in your granaries, and in every one of your endeavors, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you.

You will be blessed in all spiritual endeavours when you want to connect with others in order to rise higher and higher to the level of the Creator. The illumination of the upper Light will begin correcting you completely, and thus you will advance to the new degrees in revelation of the Creator in adhesion with Him.

This happens absolutely for real in our world. It is not that you purely conceptually understand what is written in the book, like any person who opens it and begins to philosophize, but you reveal the Creator with your new qualities in proportion to your similarity to Him. Thus, the upper world becomes for you the world where you begin to exist.
This is called “your granary” and “your endeavor.”
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/5/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy, 28:30: You will build a house, but you will not live in it.

A person builds a house in order to reveal the Creator within it. House (Kli, vessel) is the soul.

What is being referred to here is that you will not be able to use any Kli that you have built because you will not have the possibility to make a Zivug de Hakaa on it, a right kind of connection. Others will live in this house.

It is impossible to use a Kli, a house, with an intention that is not justified, while others will partially be able to use it in their own way. They will ultimately bring you to correction, to you being able to return to your house, but only after going through a very lengthy and painful journey.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/7/17

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Spiritual work begins from the fact that you bind yourself to accept the laws of your own correction.

Like on the way out of Egypt, the sons of Israel had to understand that the most important thing is the rise above egoism, the passage of the Red Sea, the acceptance of the main principle “love your neighbor as yourself” as the ultimate goal, and aspiration to it with the help of mutual commitment, when all connect into one single whole.

They were obliged to accept this direction according to their efforts to connect together above egoism and to move forward. Accordingly, they received help from above, the upper Light of correction called Torah.

It was like entering the desert when you really are going into the desert because there are no correct states, desires, or intentions before you. You turn them into the correct source; you correct your egoistic qualities to altruistic ones, hatred into love.

Therefore, the mountain you stand before is called, Mount Sinai (from the word “Sina” – hatred), which you gradually turn into love after 40 years of traveling through the desert, meaning 40 degrees from Malchut to Bina, from the quality of complete reception to the quality of bestowal. You enter the state when you as if climb the same Mount Sinai, but already as the entire nation.

Then you can win the land of Israel, conquer it, which means to correct it, and after this erect a Temple on it, that is, create a common soul for everyone. In our world, the Temple represents creation of a single soul.

This is what is commanded to a person who ascends to the next spiritual level. At that, this is not about geographical conquests but exactly the internal state of a person when he rises to the degree called the land of Israel.

He receives the instruction for further corrections while being in the state Mount Sinai.

The next stage is the correction itself that is called forty years of wandering in the desert. During this stage, he feels various egoistic desires in himself, and by correcting them from the intention for myself to the intention for the sake of others, that is, through others to the Creator, and reaches an ascent to the next degree.

There he begins to work directly with his egoistic desires without rising above them but using them for bestowal. This state is called the work in the land of Israel.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/21/16

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