Question: The Creator wants enjoyment on account of our correction in which we receive for His sake and that we will attain this at any price. Therefore, the Creator is the greatest egoist. Is this the level of altruism we must achieve?

Answer: The Creator is the characteristic of absolute goodness. It can be said of Him that He is the greatest altruist or egoist, yet this is just one unchanging characteristic. The Creator is the nature in which we are found.

We are immersed within a “black bubble” whose characteristic is absolute egoism, and we need to gradually get out of it.

The desire of the Creator is to bestow. We cannot wonder whether He is an egoist or not because there is nothing in Him except for a desire to bestow. The Creator is only a desire to bestow and all of His creations are only a desire to receive. We were created this way intentionally to be His opposite, otherwise we would not be called creations, meaning separated from the Creator.

To be like the Creator, to attain the same level and to serve with identical happiness, with fulfillment, our desire to receive must receive only with an intention for the sake of bestowal; it will then be equal with the level of the Creator, even though having a characteristic opposite His, a nature of reception not bestowal.

Therefore, our work is summed up as the acquisition of an intention. To the degree that our intention is to bestow, we can use the desire to receive as much as we want because then our actions will be directed toward bestowal and we will be like the Creator, equal to Him, understanding Him, and fulfilled like Him.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/26/17

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Question: What should I ask from the Creator for a friend and how should I do it?

Answer: If I don’t feel the particular needs and urgencies of a friend, then all of us have one need: we want to unite and discover the “Creator” in this unity. This is the request that I must ask for myself, for the friends, and for the entire group. This is a general, common, and constant turning toward the Creator.
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From the talk at a videoconference with the Learning Center students, 5/21/17

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Question: Is it possible to approach spirituality by refraining from fulfilling desires like wealth and control? Is it possible to fulfill myself by feeling these desires through work in a group of Ten?

Answer: No. First, we need to move through many different egoistic possibilities: wealth, control, respect, all kinds of pleasures. There is nowhere to escape from this.

In order to push a person to correction, it is specifically these desires that develop in a person and then he must rise above them.

Therefore, I don’t believe that it is up to us to run away from any desires and classify them as necessary and unnecessary, good and bad desires. It is not necessary to be engaged with them; rather, one should be involved with maximal attraction of the upper Light within the group, with entry into the first spiritual level. This is what we are involved with every day in the morning lessons.

Despite our yearning for spirituality, various desires and problems increase for us all the time: financial, familial, health, and others.

We cannot run away from them anywhere, and we must simultaneously act and understand that the solution to spiritual problems always happens on a background of material problems.

The more we advance it will become more and more understood by us that we need to rise above all these problems, and then they will be solved very simply.

Suppose that some problem pops up and it is clear that it appeared because you didn’t work on the connection with the friends enough; if you deepen the connection, then the material problem will begin to disappear.
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From the Webinar 5/21/17

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Question: How can we continuously raise the importance of spirituality over corporeality?

Answer: It is very simple; we have to be impressed about the importance of spirituality by many people, the friends who study with us in the group, through their impressions, by Kabbalists’ books, and we also have to think about the meaning of life. What else is there in this life except for exiting it and ascending to the next level?

We are all given the chance to do so, and we can do so. Every individual can exit his life and ascend to the next level of our existence during his lifetime. We have already undergone the development of the still, vegetative, and animate levels of nature, and now we are about to ascend from the beastly level to the human level. A human being, Adam, stems from the Hebrew word to resemble (Domeh), which means to resemble the next level.

I hope that you will fulfill this. This is the reason that we have prepared so many materials over the years: books that are translated to many languages, clips, an archive that includes all the different types of lectures in different media types, and also organized study groups. All you have to do is to get together and start working.

It is very serious work because a person is naturally repulsed by others and subconsciously feels that he is unique and special; there are them and there is me.

Gradually, under the impact of the upper Light, we begin to feel that we are in one system and that we depend on each other. We don’t need more than ten friends. It is enough to be in a ten in order to feel in it the upper world, the upper attributes, like in a magic mirror; it is possible.

I hope that all those who study systematically according to our study program, which I lead and teach daily, will soon be able to reach the next level of our evolution, and to attain it. I am ready to guide you and to help you in every way. I will be very happy if you would join us in our future conventions.
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From the virtual lesson “The Time of Kabbalah”, 5/21/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 28:24: The Lord will turn the rain of your land into powder and dust, raining down upon you from the heavens until you are destroyed.

Despite the fact that physically you can seemingly do everything in this world, if you don’t achieve success in the spiritual world, you will not be blessed here or there.

We still exist in this world out of mercy; we are given a “prepayment.” But in fact, it is not given for a long time.

Question: Do you think that the ” hour X” is approaching?

Answer: Undoubtedly. And it is in our time. 2016 was the last year of the “bustling” state of life and further on, it will be much harder.

Comment: Indeed, wherever you look—America, Europe, Arab countries—there is a powerful collapse everywhere.

Answer: All of them are still playing their games, but they should start learning something from life. Therefore, the dead end is approaching.

Question: What does it mean that the rain will become powder and dust?

Answer: Rain, which is meant to give birth, will not give you anything. It will be shed in other places. That is, you will not receive a blessing for your actions, and they will “dry up” if you do not unite and strive for likeness to the Creator. Nothing else is said here. A man is called Adam because he must be “like” (in Hebrew “Domeh“) the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/5/16

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Question: Sometimes in conventions I feel like I am in a suit of armor: everyone around me is happy and full, while I feel empty. What should I do?

Answer: You must “turn-off your head,” become integrated with others, start dancing, or do something else. If nothing helps at all, then go to the kitchen to peel vegetables.

Question: How can one ascend to the common desire?

Answer: You must uncover the yearning for the Creator within yourself. Leave the physical body below and raise the yearning for the Creator, uniting with all the friends.

Question: I am a practical person, not a theoretician or a mystic. If I don’t nullify myself and annihilate my egoism, then I won’t get to the practical work. How can I nullify my ego from within the ego itself?

Answer: First, you don’t nullify the ego; the upper Light that you arouse does. Second, the ego is necessary for us and in no manner should it be annihilated. It is forbidden to annihilate anything in nature! It is only up to us to rise above the egoism in the direction of connection and love.

Question: Why is it not possible to defeat a city of wicked who are standing together as one person?

Answer: It is not possible to defeat them because they also have the power of connection, which attracts the upper Light to them; as long as the upper Light is found among them, it is not possible to defeat them. They are under the protection of the Creator even though they are completely opposite from Him. The Creator is the general law of nature.

Question: Why do people who gather together in a large mass, as for example at rock concerts or soccer games, experience ecstasy?

Answer: They experience this because their desires are gathered together, but this has nothing to do with spirituality.

Question: Baal HaSulam wrote to his seven students that it was enough to gather their sparks in one place to discover spiritual worlds. If so, why is it necessary to gather so many people in a convention?

Answer: We are living in a different period in which it is necessary to gather greater and greater amounts of people. I hope that the great number of people will attain the intensity of a common power, which will truly be according to the first spiritual level, so that we will begin to feel the shared power within us already, in the connection between us.

For Baal HaSulam there were other students and other circumstances. It was much simpler and easier for them, while for us it is much more complicated and difficult.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/19/17

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Question: Is it good or bad if I have no questions at all during the study, but I do envy the friends who always ask you questions?

Answer: It is good to envy, but it should be good envy, which means wanting to be like them and not that they would stop asking questions.
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From the talk at a videoconference with the Learning Center students, 5/21/17

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Question: Everyone has already noticed for some time how time flies very quickly. I would like to know what our priorities should be in our learning and advancement.

Answer: Indeed, time flies very quickly. But we can develop even faster, not materially as in our world, but spiritually, if we are, like little children,  obey what the Kabbalists say without any criticism. It all depends on us.

Gather together in a group, try to achieve unity and mutual concern among yourselves, which is how you will have one and only one desire for spirituality. Connect within this desire and dissolve within it. And then through the point that is found on the other side of the ego, you will feel the upper world, the higher power. This is what you must discover.

Unity between us the opportunity to “penetrate” through the boundary between our world and the spiritual world. Forward movement is only through the unity between us. Realization is always internal, in an emotional connection between us.
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From the talk at a videoconference with the Learning Center students, 5/21/17

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Question: How can we balance our world and the attainment of the spiritual world?

Answer: It is wonderful when everything is balanced because there is no contradiction between the two worlds. We will all have to attain that.

The main thing is to try to do everything we can in order to attain the upper world and then we will see that everything is connected into one unique system. We will see one picture; it will be wonderful, with such harmony that will fill us and give us the feeling of perpetual motion. In this state, we will feel everything that is above us while living in this world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/21/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 27:24: Cursed be he who strikes his fellow in secret. And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

“In secret” means in court. This is about egoistically destroying an opportunity for your next action of correction. If I take a desire and instead of correcting it I pull it away from my action, then I kill it within myself, which means “to strike my fellow in secret.” I curse myself by this.

The damage of the soul by a person or the damaging of “a person” within oneself is called a curse.

Question: In other words, must I take care of my neighbor, as if to educate him?

Answer: Of course, this is your desire. The Torah does not speak about anything other than the desires that are within each of us. It tells us how to correct them and how to become similar to the Creator.

Therefore, all the things the Torah speaks about such as sheep, goats, cows, plants, and even more so, people—in all their external manifestations—imply different desires within a person. The Torah indicates clearly what you can and cannot do. Therefore, it tells you what you don’t touch, what is not yours, and what the system itself will correct for you.

Question: Can we say that if I do not aspire to fulfill the law “love your neighbor as yourself,” then it is as if I kill my neighbor?

Answer: Of course because your “mother-in-law,” your “wife,” your “mother,” and your “father,” no matter who and what they are, are all within you. If you correct them incorrectly, you kill them.

Question: Does it mean that humanity is now in a state of “killing its neighbor”?

Of course, and especially within oneself; we kill our soul within ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/23/16

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