Torah, Deuteronomy 22:12: You shall make yourself twisted threads, on the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself.

Any garment should end with four tassels that symbolize four qualities of desire: Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin, and Malchut. The ends of the tassels necessarily must be tied in a knot, which means restriction.

This means that you to some extent restrict each of the desires and then you can use them, already directed at bestowal. You can’t do anything with an unrestricted desire. It must end somewhere, have a restriction, a screen, and a Reflected Light.

For example, a glass has its own shape. Similarly, the desire has its shape if you restrict it by the knots. The four tassels should be not only on garments, but also on the blanket that we use during the day’s sleep, because in this case, it is considered a garment. Therefore, it is necessary to tie knots on the four corners of the blanket.

According to the Torah, there are our basic internal property, then the soul, body, garment, and then the external world. A garment is the external desires, which can be gradually attracted and corrected so that they relate to you like your body. We study this in the writings of the Ari.

Spiritual laws work only for correction of the more internal and the more external desires, and are built on various restrictions, so that it would be possible to gradually work off all the desires and fill the corrected soul with the Upper Light.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/28/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 20:18: So that they should not teach you to act according to all their abominations that they have done for their gods, whereby you would sin against the Lord, your God.

The nations of the world are these desires that draw us to all the pleasures of material life and to all its problems. But all of these very much carry away a person.

We see how, despite the fact that people come to the wisdom of Kabbalah, which is engaged precisely in destroying evil in people and bringing them to the level where they become kind and do good to others, our world pulls them in the opposite direction.

Here we need to confront our egoism. This is what the Torah calls for.

A person must rise to such a level that he takes only what he needs for existence from this world and everything else he directs only toward the attainment of the upper world.

This doesn’t mean that we have to sleep on the ground, live on bread and water, and lead a meager life. A person should have everything that his body requires. For example, it can demand five meals a day, sleep on the feather bed and not on a simple mattress, and so on.

We should start with fulfilling its requests reasonably. Then gradually, as a person moves into the quality of bestowal in connection with others, his demands for life will change naturally, without coercion.

It doesn’t matter what these demands will be! When a person’s intentions are aimed at giving to others and in attracting others toward unity, then it does not matter what his body requires. Give it what it wants so that it does not interfere with his internal development.

Question: Does it mean that if the head is directed upward, the body will gradually come to the state of modesty?

Answer: Of course, however, not because of beliefs and various spiritual practices but in a natural way.

A person is where his thoughts are. Therefore, all the rest comes to the naturally minimal, normal level that is required for a person. His material level automatically restricts itself in accordance with the level at which he is in spirituality.

It becomes ordinary, which does not distract him with any worries; it is good if he has it, but it is also all right if not. The main thing is where your thoughts are.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/21/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 21:07 – 21:08: And they shall announce and say, “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see [this crime].” “Atone for Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, O Lord, and lay not [the guilt of] innocent blood among your people Israel.” And [so] the blood shall be atoned for them

The elders that symbolize the upper qualities of a person turn to the Creator because they understand that the Creator has given them problems on purpose, so that they would determine to what extent they are still not perfect. Therefore, the appeal to the Creator attracts the Reforming Light.

Of course, they don’t do it for themselves because the upper qualities of a person are at the level of bestowal.The Creator effects through them the lower qualities, and through the lower qualities, He effects the elders.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/21/16

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Question: Why isn’t charity considered bestowal according to the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: Charity in our world is totally egoistic. A person cannot perform one good spiritual deed because we are all absolute egoists by nature.

No matter what we do, we will not bestow unto anyone in any way: not unto our children, ourselves, our relatives, or others. We cannot perform actions of bestowal since we are a desire to receive.

Only when we begin to unite according to a certain method do we get closer to creating the attribute of bestowal. But all our yearnings and closeness to each other without unity lead to nothing and are merely efforts.

When we are together, whether a group of two people or ten, and make great efforts and, at the same time, study according to Kabbalistic sources, we summon the upper Surrounding Light unto us and it corrects our egoism.

Question: So can we act in bestowal?

Answer: Yes, but in order to do so we have to accurately carry out all of the Kabbalists’ recommendations and instructions. We need to invoke and summon the impact of the upper world unto us, of the upper attribute, because we are absolute egoists by nature.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/27/16

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Question: Can you describe the true reality that I can yearn for, imagine, and understand, unlike the reality in which I am now living?

Answer: When I began the spiritual path, I tried to do this and it seemed to me that I was more successful at it than today.

I cannot describe the higher reality. It is a field of bestowal, love, total integration, and complete adhesion. It is a field in which there is a general intelligence, collective characteristics, and collective activities that complement each other, connecting into a single whole. It is a harmony.

We feel it as a higher pleasure, which is built upon the discovery of opposites and the complete harmony between them.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/27/16

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Question: You said that since the basis of human nature is egoism, happiness is possible only in the middle line. Could you explain this?

Answer: The middle line is a state where our egoistic desires, called the “left line” are balanced by the altruistic desires of the “right line,” and we work in harmony between them.

In other words, our egoism constantly helps us to work in bestowal and love of others. Then it really becomes fulfilled.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/11/16

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Question: What is the mechanism for discovering the law of equivalence of form (similarity of properties) in nature?

Answer: The law of equivalence of form operates on all levels, but we don’t recognize that it is operating everywhere. If you and I have the same characteristics, we are close to each other, we understand each other. It is possible to describe this with physical bodies and also chemical elements.

However, the law of equivalence of form does not describe nature in our world because as a general rule, such objects (plus plus) reject each other, but it describes nature in spiritual space, what happens according to the degree of similarity of internal characteristics, not the physical.

In spirituality, there is only the getting closer and the distancing of objects according to the degree of similarity or difference of characteristics. This is the basic law of behavior in spiritual space.

Due to the power of this law, in our world we cannot discern characteristics that are not found in us. A person can see only what is in him. For example, a cruel person will not see kindness and mercy in others because to do this there must be a similarity of characteristics.

This is the reason that we don’t perceive the Creator as good that does good unless we are like that ourselves. The Creator is revealed only as a bounty of good and warmth, which are absent in us.

Question: Should this be accepted as an axiom or must one believe in the law?

Answer: At present, you should accept this as an axiom so that it will be used as the basis for what we do.

Through the Kabbalistic method, we gradually create a new sense. This sense will be somewhat similar to the characteristics of the Creator, and then we begin to discover Him within us to the degree of our similarity and equivalence with Him, until we attain Him fully.

Question: Is this the reason that it is so difficult for people to understand a Kabbalist?

Answer: In fact, it is impossible to understand a Kabbalist. Even a Kabbalist cannot understand another Kabbalist who is on a higher level because he is always limited only by the set of spiritual characteristics that are already created within him and he is ready to feel.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/25/16

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Question: Spiritual sensations are inside me, inside my soul. Where is the connection to other people here?

Answer: You cannot begin to feel the upper world, the common field called the Creator, if you don’t reach Him through perceiving others as yourself. You will not have a sensor through which you can feel the upper state unless you do so.

Question: Is there a reverse process to the correction of the desire? Does a person with uncorrected desires who comes to a group of who have corrected their soul lower the level of the group?

Answer: Of course, but we still must accept him and begin to draw him to us since everyone who arrives has the right to be incorporated with the group. At the same time, we can divide the group of older and newer students, and gradually bring the level of the new students to that of the older ones. This is the way to advance.

Question: Does making reality unperturbed mean not putting any labels on it?

Answer: Yes, this means not participating in it.

When I acquire the attribute of bestowal, I think about how to do good unto others in order to fill their desires. I don’t include myself in it, but only yearn to give them what they want. In that case, the upper world receives me without any problems or obstacles, and I am peacefully incorporated in it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/27/16

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Question from Facebook: A friend and I decided to climb Mt. Sinai. At a certain point, I felt so weak that I couldn’t move and I gave in. I feel that I was given a chance and that I did not take it.

Answer: There is nothing holy about Mt. Sinai. It was a holy moment when the Jews received the Torah, not the mountain itself but the state of the children of Israel at the foot of the mountain in order to connect and to receive the Upper Light.

The upper Light fills not only our space but other dimensions as well. It is dressed in us and fills us to the degree that we can resemble it, and the resemblance is attained by our yearning to unite between us.

Therefore, Mt. Sinai is simply a geographic landmark along the way and nothing more. In fact, it is the state that people achieve when they want to connect to each other above their egoism. Then their united egoism creates a mountain that grows right in front of them, and they must rise above it.

The point in their heart called Moses rises above their egoism and the whole nation (egoism) remains below, but agrees, by lowering its head, to obey what the Creator tells Moses and to accept this state in order to later attain the same ascent together.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 2/15/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 16:05 – 16:06: You shall not sacrifice the Passover offering within any of your cities, which the Lord, your God, is giving you. Except at the place which the Lord, your God, will choose to establish His Name….

Desire is called a place. There are auxiliary, secondary desires and there are basic desires that manifest as a result of proper corrections of secondary desires. They are those points where the Creator is revealed.

The most important of them is called the Temple, the Holy of Holies in the Temple, and so on, and there are lower points that are located anywhere in the land of Israel. That is, they all are directed to the Creator, but are included in the common desire called the land of Israel where ten people gather in friendship and unity.

Otherwise, you won’t build the place where the Creator is revealed. After all, He can be revealed not only in Jerusalem, but among any ten people who unite above egoism in order to become similar to the Creator in their unity.

There are plenty of stories that people performed many kind deeds for each other exactly in Jerusalem and that is why the Temple was built there. But, in principle, it appears in any place where unity exists.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/10/16

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