Torah, Deuteronomy 24:1 – 24:4: When a man takes a wife and is intimate with her, and it happens that she does not find favor in his eyes because he discovers in her an unseemly (moral) matter, and he writes for her a bill of divorce and places it into her hand, and sends her away from his house. And she leaves his house and goes and marries another man, and if the latter husband hates her and writes her a bill of divorce, and places it into her hand and sends her away from his house, or if the latter husband who took her as a wife, dies her first husband, who had sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, since she was defiled to him, for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin to the land the Lord, your God, gives you for an inheritance

If we consider what has been said from the point of view of human society, then it can be treated as you like. And if considered from the point of view of the correction of the soul, then this desire cannot be corrected, because the first husband, who was trying to create the right intention with this woman (with this desire), saw that he could not do it.

So, he will not be able to fix it even after her second husband. But the second did not succeed in this either. After three husbands who gave her a divorce, she has no right to marry anymore, i.e., this desire is uncorrectable. It must be put aside until the next cycle.

The soul does not disappear anywhere. There will come the next cycle, and there will be another state in the common soul, and this private soul, this private desire, will be able to receive correction.

Question: But was there an attempt to correct it, if she still got married?

Answer: Of course.

Speaking of our world, never in the Jewish communities would a girl remain unmarried. She was sought by a husband all over the world! This is a major commandment. For any girl: curve, oblique, lame—no matter what—a groom had to be found.  Such a dowry was collected for her that an average man was ready to marry her.

To marry was always considered a very great Mitzva—a charitable cause. A person who could do it at least once in his life had a feeling that he had something to come to above.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/26/16

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Question: What does it mean to cross the Machsom (barrier)?

Answer: Crossing the Machsom is crossing the potential barrier, after which a person begins to understand what the characteristics of bestowal are, which he never felt before.

He assumed that engaging in bestowal or loving someone was similar to the spiritual quality, but in fact, everything is different.

A person acquires the characteristic of bestowal beyond the Machsom, and then he begins to see the world in a completely different light, as if a spotlight has been turned on and the true reality is revealed to him. And before that he was in the dark.

Suppose we were to turn on an X-ray; we would see everything with the light of the X-ray. But a spiritual light is not an X-ray. It reveals all the characteristics, connections, and qualities, everything around us.

Question: What does a person who has crossed the Machsom see?

Answer: Connections! Connections between all parts of creation in their true form, connections that had not yet been revealed as such. At the same time, the person has limitless enjoyment. His pleasure is a result of a great sense of harmony.

This is a unique divine melody that a person feels a need for at every moment, in every part of creation. They all complement each other mutually, they radiate and create a complete connection between them. In other words, different opposites are discovered simultaneously with the mutual complementarity between them, one above the other.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/29/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 24:14 – 24:15: You shall not withhold the wages of a poor or destitute hired worker, of your brothers or of your strangers who are in your land within your cities. You shall give him his wage on his day and not let the sun set over it, for he is poor, and he risks his life for it, so that he should not cry out to the Lord against you, so that there should be sin upon you.

All the problems described in the Torah between a human and the still, vegetative, animate, and other people, represent the relationships inside a person, or the relationship between souls, which correct themselves and come to a state of mutual interaction.

Therefore, when it is said about a hired servant, a slave, a neighbor, or your brother, etc., it means how I connect my desires inside myself, and not only mine, but how I connect with other desires into one group, one common soul.

Therefore, the Torah speaks about different interactions between different desires: one above, one below, one on the right, and one on the left, in their different forms.

Thus, it is said: “You shall not withhold.” You have to do everything so that each desire is received according to your effort.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/31/16

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Question: Do I understand correctly that the Kabbalists’ reluctance to talk about earthly matters is due to the fact that we have to move against the mainstream and get serious “blows”?

Answer: A Kabbalist does not renounce this world in any way. On the contrary, his mission is to explain to all of humanity how to reach spirituality from this world. And without connection of the two worlds, without being together with people, this cannot be done.

My students are scattered all over the world and they are all connected with the societies in which they live.

As for me, every week I write articles on the most current issues that are published in dozens of newspapers on the Internet and in print, in blogs, and even on Twitter.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/22/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 24:8: …You shall do according to all that the Levite priests instruct you…

The priests (Cohens) and the Levites were engaged in teaching, educating, and serving the population. They did not sit and wait for people to come to receive a blessing; they traveled across the country, teaching people to read and write.

Therefore, there were no illiterate people in the nation of Israel. Since Moses received the Torah, everyone was obliged to study it. And the Jews received their literacy from Abraham after they had exited Babylon.

It was the absence of illiteracy that distinguished Jews from other peoples. It was believed that a man who did not teach his son makes him a thief.

Everyone had to know what laws are described in the Torah, how to implement them, and how to interact with other people. Jews studied the judicial system and the tax system because everyone had to participate in it.

Moreover, they had to implement the laws of the Torah not only on the internal level, but also in everyday life: the laws of kashrut, cultivation of the land, etc.

Jews knew the Torah, the Scriptures (Ketuvim), the Mishnah, and the Talmud by heart. They were inside each of them. They were taught to people without any textbooks, because only the Tanakh (Torah, Neviim, Ketuvim) were written on paper, and the rest were not.

This knowledge was a daily code of life for a person, and they knew how to interact with others. Therefore, the goal of priests and Levites was to educate everyone.

At the age of two, a child was taught the alphabet, at three – reading, at five -the Torah and the Mishnah, by nine he already knew all the laws, and by the age of 13 he had to know everything that he needs for life.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/26/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 24:7: If a man is discovered kidnapping any person from among his brothers, of the children of Israel, and treats him as a slave and sells him that thief shall die, so that you shall clear out the evil from among you.

This is absolutely forbidden and obviously can not happen because of the principle “love your neighbour as yourself.” And among the nations of the world, people were kidnapped at all times.

The Torah speaks about inner attitude: you can not use your uncorrected or corrected desires egoistically.

For example, if you’ve achieved certain success in working on yourself and suddenly egoism is manifested in you and says: “Let’s turn whatever you succeeded in into a business, or a pleasant pastime. You deserved it,” then by this, you kill everything you did.

This is called “to kidnap your brother,” and to sell him. If your egoistic desire wants to work within you this way, you must destroy it.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/26/16

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Question: If the desire is primordial and controls us, how can the mind assess, operate, and control desires?

Answer: Man was actually given a mind in order to perceive his desires, to want to correct them, somehow think of how to adapt them to the Creator’s desires, and ask for power from above that is called the Surrounding Light (Ohr Makif), which will correct his desires.

Thus, a person asks for his desires to be brought in line with the Creator, to receive the forces that correct these desires, and to begin to ask the Creator to perform the right actions even before he fulfills them. It turns out that a person constantly advances before the Creator.

Question: Can a person control his desires?

Answer: Theoretically, yes.

Question: Can a Kabbalist manage his thoughts?

Answer: A Kabbalist can manage his thoughts to the extent that they are connected to the Creator. This means that he should perpetually raise his desires to adhesion with the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/15/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 24:6: One shall not take the lower or the upper millstone as security [for a loan], because he is taking a life as security.

You cannot give something to others and demand from them as security tools of production or other things without which they cannot survive.

Everything that concerns collateral is a whole system. The entire Talmud speaks about interactions between people on different levels of their communication.

Everything in it is spelled out very clearly and demonstrates once again that it is not a person that changes, but a connection, because a person manifests in connection with others.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/26/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 23:15: For the Lord, your God, goes along in the midst of your camp, to rescue you and to deliver your enemies before you. [Therefore,] your camp shall be holy, so that He should not see anything unseemly among you and would turn away from you.

There are many laws in the Torah forbidding a person to be naked. During both day and night, he must be covered with clothes and undress only when he enters the Mikva (the pool for bathing). However, even for this, there are special rules.

It is not about being clean physically; although of course, this also matters. It means that everything should be in strict accordance with the spiritual ablution of the body. “Body” is a desire. Therefore, the Torah speaks about the way to purify the desire from various impure layers of egoistic intentions so that the desires will have a correct intention for bestowal and could already be used.

Therefore, we are told to squeeze all “excrements” out of the desire, bury them into the ground, and wash yourself. It was preferable to wash and not to wipe yourself. By the way, this law remains to this day among many Asian peoples in Russia and in southern countries.

I often visited Baku, Azerbaijan where there is a container with water in each toilet. This is very correct because whatever corresponds to spiritual health corresponds to physical health as well.

Therefore, we cannot say that a spiritual action can harm the physical body. For example, in the nations that do not circumcise, men are 20-30% more likely to have cancer. All of it is naturally connected.

Question: Is Kashrut [the body of Jewish religious laws concerning the suitability of food, the fitness for use of ritual objects, etc.] also beneficial for health?

Answer: I believe that Kashrut is an absolute benefit. So far we cannot understand because we do not have enough knowledge as to why it is forbidden to eat artiodactyla animals (pigs, camels, and so on), although there is nothing harmful in them from a scientific point of view. However, since this is a consequence from the spiritual root, we will eventually discover the reason for this phenomenon, if it is at all necessary.

Everything comes from the spiritual world and, therefore, if you violate spiritual prohibitions, it gives direct, incorrect consequences in our world.

Question: Why is it forbidden for a person to be naked?

Answer: A person should be dressed all the time, even under a blanket because clothes symbolize the correction of the body. After all, clothing is a shell, like a screen.

The body represents desire that should have a screen. Therefore, some parts of the body (desire) can be exposed, and some should be covered. A required cover for some of them means that there should be a screen for these desires of the soul.

The face of a person is always exposed because it represents the three upper Sefirot and emits the light of Hochma. The head should nevertheless, in principle, be covered.

The Kippah has a small likeness to the spiritual attributes. In fact, previously, all men tied a handkerchief on their head or covered it with all sorts of cloaks such as tallit. And women dressed in oriental style with everything long and closed but white, not black.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/19/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 24:8: Be cautious regarding the lesion of tzara’ath, to observe meticulously and you shall do according to all that the Levite priests instruct you; as I have commanded them, [so shall you] observe.

“Lesion” and “leprosy” are the most external problems a person has because skin represents the outmost layer of egoism.

A person’s body, from inside out, is arranged as follows: marrow (Mocha), bones (Atzamot), tendons (Gidin), flesh (Basar), and skin (Or).

The eruption of lesions on the skin is the manifestation of the last degree of breakage. You must interact correctly with these problems, that is, cure yourself from leprosy through the Cohen (priest) and Levite in you, through your highest, very best corrected desires that can correct the lowest uncorrected desires in you. Otherwise, you cannot determine what this is and be cured.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/26/16

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