Torah, Deuteronomy 25:02 – 25:03: and it shall be, if the guilty one has incurred [the penalty of] lashes, that the judge shall make him lean over and flog him in front of him, commensurate with his crime, in number. He shall flog him with forty [lashes]; he shall not exceed, lest he give him a much more severe flogging than these [forty lashes], and your brother will be degraded before your eyes.

Question: It is written: “If the guilty one has incurred the penalty of lashes, that the judge shall make him lean over and flog him.” What does it mean “lean over”? Why are these small things described in such detail?

Answer: These are not small things. It is about a person’s descent to such a state where it is necessary to humiliate not him but his egoism and to humiliate it in such a way that he will see egoism in all its ugliness and will not be able to use it anymore. He will consider using it as a baseness for the “man in him.”

This is one’s work on oneself. Therefore, all judges and jurors are needed only to help a person understand himself. He himself must select a punishment in the form of blows that come from the quality of Bina, the numeric value of which equals forty—level “forty.” He must feel these blows on himself and how much he is opposite to the quality of bestowal.

the feeling of oppositeness to the qualities of Bina, understanding of how far he is from reaching its level and the realization of evil in himself are blows on egoism, and not on a person.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/2/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 24:20: When you beat your olive tree, you shall not deglorify it [by picking all its fruit] after you; it shall be [left] for the stranger, the orphan and the widow.

Vineyards, olives, and grains represent different types of desires.

Olive oil, which symbolizes the Light of Hochma, is produced from olives. The oil is extracted by pressing, that is, through a person’s efforts when he receives something not directly from nature but through his own effort. Everything given to him by nature he uses in order to rise to the level of a “Man.”

The same is true regarding bread. Bread symbolizes the Light of Hassadim. If you do not process the grain, it is food for animals. If you process it, make flour, and bake bread, it is already a food for man.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/31/16

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Question: Do you feel envious of other Kabbalists who attained higher levels than you have?

Answer: Absolutely not! There may be envy, not evil envy, but good envy that pulls you forward in order to be by their side, not in their place.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/29/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 25:05: If brothers reside together, and one of them dies having no son, the dead man’s wife shall not marry an outsider. [Rather,] her husband’s brother shall be intimate with her, making her a wife for himself, thus performing the obligation of a husband’s brother with her.

This is a big commandment that religious people observe even today.

From the point of view of spiritual work, “If brothers reside together, and one of them dies having no son,” meaning that the next spiritual degree was not attained, then the brother who will marry his wife (desire) should lead to it.

Question: But why should he marry her?

Answer: Because it is so according to the law of universal development of the single soul. You must do it. This is the law of nature.

Torah, Deuteronomy 25:06: And it will be, that the eldest brother [who performs the levirate marriage, if] she [can] bear will succeed in the name of his deceased brother, so that his [the deceased brother’s] name shall not be obliterated from Israel.

The brother and wife of the deceased understand what they are doing when they get married—by this, they continue the soul of the deceased brother.

It means that this has nothing to do with love; they just fulfill the laws of creation. And there is not any cruelty in this; on the contrary, there is the openness and frankness that give a person a feeling of being elevated in the world, a sense of truth and verity.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/2/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 25:13: You shall not keep in your pouch two different weights, one large and one small.

A person must conduct a court of honesty and always strive for the middle line. All the laws of the Torah are designed to construct it.

A woman between two men, one of whom has died and the other is alive, or they both are alive, but one is her husband and another is not, or two weights, large and small, and so on, all of it is the construction of the middle line in all its forms.

The Torah gives basic principles on the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human levels on how to maintain the middle line and how to carry it on. The conquest of the land of Israel means controlling the desire in the middle line.

Therefore, it is written: “You shall not keep in your pouch two different weights, one large and one small.” After all, you must carry on all your changes according to one principle—by the middle line.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/2/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 20:12 – 20:14: But if it does not make peace with you, and it wages war against you, you shall besiege it, and the Lord, your God, will deliver it into your hands, and you shall strike all its males with the edge of the sword. However, the women, the children, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoils you shall take for yourself, and you shall eat the spoils of your enemies, which the Lord, your God, has given you.

If the intentions (the male part) are not willing to change, it means they have to be annihilated. You have to take only the desires (female part) and cover them with your intentions.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/19/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 26:3 – 26:4: And you shall come to the kohen who will be [serving] in those days, and say to him, “I declare this day to the Lord, your God, that I have come to the land which the Lord swore to our forefathers to give us.” And the kohen will take the basket from your hand, laying it before the altar of the Lord, your God.

Kohen is the quality of bestowal, the upper quality of connecting all into one whole. If you can reach such a quality, it means that you turn to Kohen (priest).

Inside each of us, there is either an animal, a simple person, or one who begins to work on himself. In other words, my “I” begins to work on itself in order to connect with others and through this connection, with the Creator.

If I work this way with others, I am called a Levite, and if through this connection with others I begin to work with the Creator, then I am called Kohen. Then inside of all this hierarchy, I find contact with the Creator and exist in adhesion with Him.

It means that I bring my basket, meaning all my intentions and efforts, to the Kohen.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/9/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 26:1 – 26:2: And it will be, when you come into the land which the Lord, your God, gives you for an inheritance, and you possess it and settle in it, that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you will bring from your land, which the Lord, your God, is giving you. And you shall put [them] into a basket and go to the place which the Lord, your God, will choose to have His Name dwell there.

What does it mean “You come into the land and you possess it”? Does it mean you cross the Jordan River? But it is a very shallow river. People easily waded across it with the cattle. There was nothing special about this.

It is only possible to possess the land of Israel in the spiritual sense. Then you have the right to be in it.

Today, being in the land of Israel is given to us as an opportunity, and we must prove that we are really capable of existing in this land, and if we cannot, we are “thrown out” of it after some time. This happened to us 2,000 years ago and the same thing can happen now if we are not suitable for this land.

To be in the land of Israel means to be in a close connection with all the people in friendship, love, and brotherhood, and through this to relate to the Creator exactly the same way to give Him the opportunity to dwell among us. This is called the land of Israel, from the word “Isra-El” (straight to the Creator).

It is written about this: “And you shall put them into a basket and go to the place which the Lord, your God, will choose to have His Name dwell there.” His name can only be in this place.

Basket is your intentions, and the harvest and all the rest are your desires. “The first of all the fruit of the ground,” all the special gifts, are the intentions by which you as if demonstrate why you are doing it.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/9/16

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Comment: The scriptures describe how sacrifices were made in the Temple. The horns of the ox that went ahead were covered with gold.

Answer: In our world there are things that hint about how a person should embellish what was given to him by nature so that it would become a proper reward to the Creator.

Embellishment is the intention for our desires. After all, an ox, a cow, a sheep, fruit, berries, and everything that makes up human life and is brought to the Temple is all given to a person from above. And what he adds from himself is embellishment, which speaks of his addition to what is given by the Creator.

The whole world is given by the Creator. What can a person add to it? His intentions. They are described in the Torah.

Comment: The scriptures also say that when you enter the Temple, you must read Tehillim (Psalms).

Answer: Every inhabitant of the Earth had to visit the Temple three times a year and bring the first fruit of their labor there. The temple was small in size, but a huge number of people passed through it. They prayed, studied, and ate together there, and then went home. Thus, everything revolved around the Temple.

Some used to bring sacrifices in the form of gifts, others donated money. A certain number of hours were devoted to study, and a person went out with a wealth of knowledge, that is, cleansed from everyday dirt. He continued his usual life, but with the added load that he got in the Temple.

And most importantly, people were sitting there together, singing, and having their meals. It was a special public work during which everyone felt that he was connected with everyone else, and when he left the Temple, he naturally carried with him a sense of connection.

Thus, the Temple was a kind of people’s university for connection and education, giving the right understanding of the purpose for which we exist. It was a cultural and scientific center, the center of people’s connection with each other and with the Creator.

It was from there that the Torah, Nevi’im (Prophets), Ketuvim (Holy Writings), Mishna, Talmud, and everything else spread. They were recorded, worked on, studied, and then all that went with the people to exile.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/09/16

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Question: Do Kabbalists who look at the world through the attribute of love and bestowal they have acquired see all the flaws, cruelty, and acts of violence in the world?

Answer: That depends on the perspective through which I look at such circumstances and phenomena. A Kabbalist can see them in the ordinary form like all the other people. He can also see their spiritual roots and can see them in the parts of the corrected state until it is completely corrected.

Everything depends on how a Kabbalist wants to use these states. They all exist in the spiritual world, but a Kabbalist chooses which is the most beneficial for him.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/29/17

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