Question: What is the work that I should do, and what is the work that the Light, the upper force, the Creator, performs?

Answer: The work that I should do is to obligate the upper Light to correct me.

My work is called a prayer, a request. I need to really want to perform this movement, which I cannot perform naturally. It is because it is impossible to bestow fully without receiving anything for myself since our nature is absolute egoism.

We can, however, receive this opportunity from above, and it is called the upper Light, the Light of Hassadim. But, it is only if the upper Light impacts me. It is in my power to convince the Light to influence me, but it can be done only through the group, through working with the ten.

Then, I can bestow without asking for any reward or anything in return.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/18/16

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Question: What kind of egoism do we correct in our relationships?

Answer: There is a beastly egoism and a spiritual egoism. It is specifically the spiritual egoism that must be corrected.

We cannot correct the animal egoism. It belongs to the physical body; therefore, we must leave it as it is and think only about what belongs to the connection between us and the group and through the group to the Creator. Everything else will be corrected by itself, integrating automatically within the efforts of a friend to connect with the group and the Creator.

Question: Animal egoism is the desire for food, sex, family, and so forth. But a social level also exists, meaning respect, control, and knowledge. Suppose I have a desire to control the friends. Must I correct this or not?

Answer: You cannot correct it. If you become involved with the connection between the friends, everything will become balanced.

Question: So, what is this spiritual egoism?

Answer: It’s like the story of the old man who was promised three wishes by a golden fish that he caught. His wife first wanted her broken laundry basin fixed but then wanted more and more. So spiritual egoism first wants one thing and then eventually wants control over everything including the Creator and even itself.

Question: What is the connection with the friends here if I already feel the Creator?

Answer: You don’t feel the Creator, you want to be above everything. This is expressed by your dismissal of the advice of the Kabbalists who discovered the upper world, accepting it from the Creator. You are not interested in using their advice.

It is specifically an ego like this that must be corrected. Everything else will be corrected automatically by being integrated in what you do. Start working and you will feel that you want to be above everyone, including above the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/11/16

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Question: How can we find external methods and tools for bestowal? Is it possible not to bestow to people, but to something else?

Answer: Basically, we should bestow to the Creator. We have to reach the right interaction with Him, adhesion with Him, and reach His revelation. This is the meaning of our existence.

If we establish the right connection with the Creator, people will of course feel better too. Not because we will begin to treat them better, but because the correct attitude toward the Creator invokes a positive effect on all created beings.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/27/16

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Question: Do I need to think about the spiritual advancement of my friends?

Answer: If you are in a group, you need to be concerned about the progress of your friends.

Question: Must a person in a group be concerned first about his friend having everything necessary and only then be concerned about one’s own advancement?

Answer: First of all, you must ask yourself whether a friend has everything necessary for normal existence. If not, then try to help him. All the rest of the time, you must think about what else you must do for him to attain the Creator. This is because his spiritual advancement is the best means for your spiritual advancement.

Together, you are a spiritual cell. If you think about him, a cell like this will certainly ascend and advance. But if you think about yourself, you will descend.

Therefore, it is said that the physicality of a friend is my spirituality.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/11/16

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The Torah, Deuteronomy 22:04: You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen [under its load] on the road, and ignore them. [Rather,] you shall pick up [the load] with him.

A donkey or an ox are animals that carry heavy loads.

If you see that a friend in a group falls in his spiritual work and is unable to fulfill it, you must help him.

I do not want to talk about how this happens inside a person—who is his brother or his neighbor, but we work among us in the group in exactly the same manner. Life is difficult for those who are gathered as a special group of people, working among themselves only to achieve greater adhesion in order to reveal the Creator. After all, our entire existence must be directed precisely to a spiritual goal, and this is what the Torah talks about.

Its laws are prescribed only for the group of people who devote their entire lives to attaining the Creator from their mutual connection.

So, if you see that your friend in spiritual work cannot cope with his ego and stumbles and falls all the time, you have to help him. You have to inspire him, to talk to him, to invite him to your place, to study together with him; that is, do everything possible to support him. Next time you will be in his place, and he will help you in return.

It always works mutually. By helping him, you join him or he joins you, as a lower part with a higher one, and you both rise spiritually.

But you should understand that if you see him falling or rising, this is how you perceive him. Everything happens in relation to you individually, and is given to you to make you rise. This means that “your brother is inside you.” There is nothing outside of us. All the neighbors, oxen, cows, sheep, etc.—is all within us. These are our human or animate desires, which we need to correct in this way.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/28/16

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Question: The nature of men and women is very different physically and psychologically and their spiritual roots are also different. Can these differences exist in the context of spiritual work and unification in a group of ten men in contrast to a group of ten women?

Answer: In spiritual work there are no differences between groups of men and women. The only condition is that their tens work separately, otherwise attraction to the opposite sex and so forth can be mixed with Kabbalah. It is impossible to do this in any other way. Men and women should each be in their own group while studying at events, workshops, and everything.

Question: How can we bring about the unity of the whole world if we separate men from women ourselves? Has the time come in which all of us, men and women, unite in our spiritual work?

Answer: When we stop feeling the ego and stop relating to our physical bodies, then the difference between men and women will disappear. Then the sexual attraction to women will not interfere with our attainment of the upper world because only that will attract us then.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/30/16

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Question: What is the upper Light?

Answer: The upper Light is energy that spreads and fills the whole volume of creation and we also use it. At the moment we contain only the energy that each one can grab for himself.

Question: Why don’t I feel the upper Light?

Answer: Because you don’t connect with anyone in a system that can serve as a sensor of the upper Light. This sensor is the group of ten.

Question: Can’t I attain it by myself, independently, if I want to be happy mentally and spiritually?

Answer: Absolutely not since you don’t have the right prerequisites for that. How can you be spiritually happy if you are a loner and an egoist?

The term “spiritual happiness” refers to ascending above yourself, above your corporeal state. To exit yourself means to enter others.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/30/16

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Question: Can our earthly love be an obstacle on the path of revealing the Creator and spirituality?

Answer: It is, indeed, an obstacle, but love in our world does not last long. Any kind of love, even the most passionate earthly love, disappears in two to three years. However, one can always balance it with his work in the group.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/11/16

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The Torah, Deuteronomy 22:09: You shall not sow your vineyard [together with] a mixed variety of species, lest the increase, even the seed that you sow and the yield of the vineyard [both] become forbidden.

The fact is that at any level (inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human), you cannot mix the right and left lines because the right line proceeds from the root of bestowal and the left line proceeds from the root of reception. There must be a screen created between them—a middle line where they must be clearly integrated.

Similarly, one cannot simultaneously plow on a cow and a bull, or weave canvases of mixed fibers of flax and wool, or to transgress the prohibition of marriage between the tribes of the Cohens, the Levites and Israel.

Therefore, it is written: “You shall not sow your vineyard [together with] a mixed variety of species. ” After all, grapes are the left line (reception) and wheat is the right line (bestowal), and they cannot be mixed.

That is why you cannot consume dairy and meat together or or for fabric to be kosher there cannot be a mixture of two different kinds of thread. The division into the right and left lines is necessary in order to integrate everything along the middle line.

Based on this law, kosher animals are identified. The first sign of an animal being appropriate for consumption is that it has split hooves. The second sign is gradual chewing of the food and regurgitation, meaning, a constantly circulating process of digestion.

Animals that display only one of the two characteristics are not considered kosher. For example, a pig, although a cloven-hoofed animal, is a non-ruminant animal whose food enters immediately into the stomach, and therefore, it is not suitable for consumption.

That is, all the properties are shown here according to which we make the selection of the corrected desires. And those desires that have not yet been corrected are at the level of the pig or other animals.

Spiritual work is quite simple. And from it, there are a lot of consequences in our world.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/28/16

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Question: What is a wedding in a Kabbalistic sense?

Answer: In a Kabbalistic sense, the groom is always the Creator, and someone who devotes his desire to fulfillment through the Light of the Creator is the bride.

The desire must be corrected to a desire with an intention for the sake of bestowal. On the level of our world, this is manifested naturally in women: They want to provide warmth, care for a husband and children, for a family. In men, in principle, there is no such desire.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/4/16

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