Torah, Deuteronomy 23:07: You shall not ever seek out their welfare or their good, all your days.

Egoistic desires, called “Ammonites or Moabites,” reveal on each level of the ladder we ascend. And each time they are new and more powerful .

All the 125 levels are similar to each other; they only differ in power and volume of positive and negative properties, properties of the right and the left line, and the number of details involved. In principle, the power of the level depends on the number of desires and intentions.

When we ascend, our state becomes very integrated and complex, and it is in this complexity, comprising all of its pluses, minuses, all the power of our connection, we find perfection.

It is from the closure of millions of various kinds of forces, intentions, and acts—from the beginning of creation, the middle, and again from the beginning, from the end, etc.—that the perfection of the Creator is attained. Full disclosure of the mechanics of the Creator’s interaction with the desire that He created is the supreme delight of the soul.

About this it is said that “The righteous sit and enjoy the radiance of the Shechina.” After all , the upper Light of wisdom fills the entire creation, shimmers and shines. This attainment comprises the highest meaning and supreme delight the soul feels.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book,” 10/19/16

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Question: You say that the task is to ascend above our egoism, as if on a “wave,” while, at the same time, not removing it. Does this mean that the greater the egoism, the greater the power of altruism? Can one not exist without the other? Because the more I receive, the more I can give. Is this the way to ascend to the peak of altruism and bestowal to the Creator?

Answer: Right, the ascent is achieved through three lines: the negative left line, the positive right line, and the perfect middle line. The Creator develops the left line in us, according to what He said: I created the evil inclination (the left line). But I gave you the Torah, (the correcting upper Light), which you attract by way of the group—the right line. It is so that you will correct and transform the evil into good, in the middle line.
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Question: What do we need thoughts that we sometimes cannot even remember? They “run around” in the head and cannot be grasped or stopped.

Answer: These thoughts run around in our head all the time and carry out very great work. There is no need to concentrate on them or stop and work with them; it is only necessary to constantly follow our special goal.

The stormy and foggy states that appear and pass through us don’t need to disturb us. They gather within us gradually, and this is imperative for spiritual development.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/15/17

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Rabash is a special soul. In his articles, he revealed the entire methodology of entering the upper world to humanity.

I remember what I said to him about this. This was in the beginning of my studies. He asked me what I thought about his articles, and because I felt them deeply, my reply was: “You are doing something entirely new, something the world has not seen before.”

Rabash understood the essence of this huge undertaking—the relationships in the group, which is also evident from his side notes that were published in the third volume of his works. They were written before I found Rabash, and briefly introduced the articles that he later wrote after I brought students to him and he began to present everything in a systematic way.

When reading his notes, which essentially he wrote for himself, I feel him more.

Baal HaSulam is different. He is too high above. Even when he writes for himself, or pours his heart out to his students, his words come from such heights, as if you are standing under the sky. His love is ironclad. And Rabash is much more accessible, his heart is very tender.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/31/16

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Question: Are tears an expression of emotion?

Answer: According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, a surplus of emotion produces tears. Moreover, only positive emotions arouse tears within me; I don’t cry with negative emotions.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/21/17

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Question: Why should a Kabbalist conceal his internal states and literally live a double life?

Answer: I would gladly reveal my states, but they are simply on a level that does not enable me to reveal them to anyone. After all, we don’t reveal our feelings to a two-year-old. It is only when he grows up that we can share
our feelings with him.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/29/17

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Question: When do you, as a Kabbalist experience the strongest experiences?

Answer: When my students don’t understand the need to be committed to the movement. These, probably, are my most intense concerns, because everything else doesn’t matter.

Question: Do you feel this as a betrayal?

Answer: No, usually it is disregard. They don’t understand the importance of spiritual advancement.

Question: And what is your strongest positive feeling?

Answer: The feeling that my students can be together, that they gather together internally into one single desire, to which they are getting closer.

Question: Does it mean that these feelings don’t concern you personally, but your students, precisely those in whom you invested?

Answer: Personally, my intention is always directed to connection with the Creator, to chasing Him, when He is hiding from me and revealing Himself in the circumstances in which I make Him to reveal Himself. I don’t have problems with this. This is my constant work.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 01/29/17

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It is written in the Torah, “When you go out to war.” A person goes out to war with his desires and scans all 613 desires by reviewing them in himself. This means “Moses appeals to the people.”

Moses is a point in the heart, the only thing that we have from the spiritual level. It also needs to be corrected because Moses developed in the house of Pharaoh (in egoism). And then, as he is corrected, he can already lead all the other desires of a person.

The correction of Moses occurs before the rise above egoism, in Egypt, and therefore, after leaving Jethro, he begins to reveal the Creator.

The Creator tells him, “Come to Pharaoh.” This means that Moses already feels two forces in him, the quality of bestowal (the Creator) and the quality of reception (Pharaoh), and lives and works between. From the moment he hears the voice of the Creator coming from the burning bush, he begins to act in these two directions.

A person through his Moses reviews all the desires within himself and clarifies which of them he should correct and which ones to put aside in order to come back to them and work with them on the different degrees.

Therefore, the Torah (from the word “Oraa” – “instruction”) is an instruction for each person that explains what his actions should be.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/19/16

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Question: We see the world as if inside ourselves and try to satisfy our desires, but outside of us we see nothing because it seems to us that these are other people’s desires. Will Kabbalah make us feel the entire world as our own desires?

Answer: Yes, it will. Moreover, the desires that come to us as if from outside will be more meaningful to us than those that we feel inside.

You will begin to feel the desires of other people more than your own. And you will feel yourself only to the extent that it is necessary. You will be soaring, not feeling yourself. And when you think: “What can I give them?”—then you will return to yourself and begin to search inside for what you can do for them.

Question: There are billions of people around a Kabbalist. Does he only think: “What can I bestow?”

Answer: But in this measure he feels how the Light, the Creator, flows through him. He is the conductor connecting the Creator with each of the humans. They do not feel it, but he does.

Question: How can you make yourself feel others as your own desires and even more?

Answer: You must ask for it. This is the beginning of a real life.

You enjoy the fact that you transfer the idea of ​​the Creator to everyone; you are His conductor. Therefore, you adhere to Him, becoming an instrument in His hands. The Creator is inclusive in Himself. But thanks to you, He can reach every creature.

Adhesion with the Creator is all the gain, the reward, the tribute.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/17/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 24:12 – 24:13: And if he is a poor man, you shall not lie down [to sleep] with his security. You shall return the security to him by sunset, so that he may lie down [to sleep] in his garment…

Clothes, the dressing of the soul, is a restriction, a screen (Masach), and Returning Light that is in what you receive the soul. Without the garment, you can’t sense it within yourself.

The rich and poor are two Partzufim, upper and lower. Fulfillment of the poor (lower) depends on the rich (upper) that is obliged to give everything to the lower for the fulfillment of the soul. This means “to return a deposit.”

If the upper has a screen that he must transfer to the lower, he doesn’t have a right to delay it, especially at night, because otherwise the lower will find himself in the dark without the means to cope with the darkness, that is, in an egoistic desire. The upper must take care of him, because he has the screen that he can transfer to the lower. This screen is called a garment.

It is written, “You shall return the security to him by sunset, so that he may lie down to sleep in his garment,” in other words, so that he would have protection from egoism.

From the material point of view, it can be interpreted as if a person must sleep dressed in clothes. Indeed, even according to the Torah you must change for the night in some kind of shelter, for example, under the blanket, because like roots and branches, without clothes you become naked.

From the spiritual point of view, “naked” is an inner state when you lose the garment and the Inner Light and the soul disappears from you immediately. You become food for Klipot (impure desires). All your desires immediately turn into egoistic ones.

Therefore, you can undress only in order to enter the Mikva (a pool for ablution) to clean yourself from egoistic desires and to dress again, meaning to obtain the anti-egoistic screen again, because the body is egoism and the garment on it is the screen.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/31/16

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