Question: Everyone has a mission in this world. How is it possible to become like the teacher, with respect and love for him, but remaining on your own path?

Answer: You don’t become like the teacher, you specifically develop in your own way and form. Externally, as a result of a shared connection, forms of speech and grammar or something similar like the teacher’s may appear in you, but this has no connection to spirituality. Everyone is unique in spirituality.

Question: Do you suppose that not being like your teacher is the right message?

Answer: It makes no difference. Even if a student thinks one way or another, the curve always leads a person to the “straight line.” Sooner or later the students will understand and everything will work out. I don’t give guidance about this. A student must gradually understand everything for himself.
[199148]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/7/16

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Question: In our day, will we at least succeed in laying the foundation for building the Third Temple?

Answer: The Third Temple, unlike the First and Second Temples, is the complete unification of all people on the face of the Earth. This unification will later be joined by the animate, vegetative, and still nature.

The Third Temple is directed toward unity. The First and Second Temple were a partial unity, unity of only one group of Kabbalists, whereas the Third Temple will be shared by all people and will include all of humanity. It is written: “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples” (Isaiah 56:7), or “they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them” (Jeremiah 31:33).

The crisis will obligate us to reach this state of unity even if it involves world wars, but I hope that we will overcome the difficulty in approaching each other without wars, through the development and dissemination of the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Question: How can we be certain that we will truly build the Third Temple and not a new Tower of Babel?

Answer: We don’t intend to build anything tangible, we have no need for physical symbols. We want to build this Third Temple within our hearts, between us; this is the main thing. We don’t have to build any external structures where a person can run away and hide from the need to change himself. A person must “turn himself into a spiritual brick” with whose help this temple will be built.

We have already reached a situation today in which the ego is pushing us so much that we have no possibility of escaping it. It is pushing us to unite.
[199658]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/25/16

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Question: The wisdom of Kabbalah says that there is no sin, there is experience. But we always talk about redemption, about the forgiveness of sins before Yom Kippur. If sin is a lack of faith in the Creator, then is the wisdom of Kabbalah also a religion and not a science?

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah doesn’t say anything about a person excusing himself.

All forgiveness of sin on Yom Kippur is related to the person himself. A person must judge himself about not being kind enough to others, about not working enough to bring everyone closer together.

This sums up a person’s judgment of himself; nobody is judging him. There is nobody before whom to give any accountability. A person judges himself and changes his behavior accordingly.
[199417]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/25/16

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Question: On the one hand it is said: “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18). On the other hand, it is said: “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” (Exodus 21:24). On the basis of these principles, is it possible to establish order and peace?

Answer: We need to work with egoism to balance it through, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” What this means is that balance must be equal and just, plus and minus must connect together through opposition, so “An eye for an eye,” is necessarily required to balance the system.

But we have to understand what “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” represent, meaning that I must place to the right side or the left side the same force that exists on the other side.
[199541]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/2/16

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Question: What does it mean to practically treat the friend or the teacher as the Creator? Do I have to implicitly justify them like the Creator who cannot be perceived or understood?

Answer: The student should absorb what the teacher says and teaches him and accordingly behave with the friends to establish a connection in which the Creator is revealed. Everything depends on the type of the connection between them. You have to melt among the friends and become an embryo, a drop of semen in the womb, in order to attain the first spiritual attribute between us, the level of Nefesh, which is the smallest Light.

This is what everyone has to do with regard to others in the group of ten, which will create the precondition for the revelation of the Creator.

But it is impossible to do that on our own and so there is no need to yearn for that, since it is like wanting to fly without wings.

This is not the work we should do, and it is a problem if people wish to attain it physically. There is no need to put pressure on each other and to insist on physical actions such as hugging more, reading together, etc.

All you need to do is to ask more and more that the Creator do it for us since all our other requests and expectations are merely egoistic. When you turn to the Creator, the altruistic element is inevitably activated.
[199518]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/7/16

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The Torah, Deuteronomy 12:26: “However, your holy offerings which you will have, and your vows, you shall carry, and come to the place that the Lord chooses.

Holy offerings mean everything precious that I have in me: Reshimot (spiritual information records), qualities, forces, and desires. I have to uncover them, bring them to new contact with the Creator, and by doing that, gradually rise.

I have to constantly analyze my highest states and bring them to unification with the Creator. All this is for the sole purpose of discovering that what I have is suddenly transformed from the elevated states into low states. What was an achievement on the previous level becomes a transgression on the next degree.

When I establish a contact with the next degree, with the next revelation of the Creator, all of my best, wonderful inclinations toward unity, toward the love of others, toward everything, is unexpectedly revealed as evil to me. This is constant: holiness at the lower level becomes evil at the upper degree.

Everything I’ve considered unshakable in me becomes rubbish. I see how my preconceived notions, relationships, definitions, rules, and my perception of the world disappear. There is nothing in them, no truth at all, no value, and no spirituality. All of a sudden, I have discovered that everything I considered to be my contact with spirituality is just zero.

At the same time, the new degree is opened to me because I’ve advanced with faith above reason; I am ready to reject everything that used to be “me” and rise above it.

Faith above reason is a state when I accept the qualities of the Creator, bestowal and love, above what exists in me now. I am ready to accept completely opposite values in desires and intentions to my current state and work according to them. Meanwhile, the next degree is completely opposite to the previous level.

Only one law exists: to rise in bestowal above the will to receive. All past is completely erased and I am building a new degree!
[196971]
From KabTV’s, “Secrets of the Eternal Book,” 7/6/16

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Question: You have said that effort is a Kli. Can you explain this and elaborate?

Answer: Efforts create desires for something that we didn’t want before: bestowal.

Question: How would you describe a person whose Reshimo (Reminiscence) is only in the left and right lines, without the middle line?

Answer: This is a person who needs balance. This is so for every person on every level.

Question: What is the right way to disclose information to new students in the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: This is with a caring, loving, gentle attitude toward everyone.
[198928]

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Question: When can a teacher become a transmitter of spiritual energy for the student?

Answer: This is when a teacher can serve as a channel through which the Upper Light will pass to a student or at least help a student connect with a group of ten that will begin to absorb the Upper Light.

Question: But, doesn’t the teacher lock the student onto himself?

Answer: In the wisdom of Kabbalah, this cannot happen!

I remember my teacher Rabash, the last giant Kabbalist. He never allowed his greatness, his immense importance, to be seen.

Today, we read his articles that were written before my eyes. I remember everything that happened then, down to the last detail, the time of year when were sitting on a bench in the park as he wrote. I remember literally everything, even the background noises and voices around us. Today, when I read his articles again, I notice that I understand them more deeply than in the past, even though so many years have passed since then.

It is not possible to appreciate a teacher immediately, even though he doesn’t hide his inner world. No one is hiding anything from us. At that time, I thought to myself: “I am going to move in next to him. I will be by his side, and then I will shake him and take out of him everything he has!”

There isn’t anything to shake out. The teacher is ready to transmit everything. It only depends on the degree to which the student can understand him. Student and teacher are two levels.

But how can a student approach a teacher to receive, absorb, and take from him—this is another matter and is not easy.
[198911]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/7/16

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The Torah, Deuteronomy 12:23 – 12:25: However, be strong not to eat the blood, for the blood is the soul; and you shall not eat the soul with flesh. You shall not eat it. You shall not eat it, in order that it be good for you, and for your children after you, when you do what is proper in the eyes of the Lord.

Blood is called the greatest, biggest glow, filling the desire—the Light of Hochma at its highest level. We are unable to obtain this Light until the final correction, about which “be strong not to eat the blood” was allegorically written.

Blood is the fourth part of the world, the fourth part of a desire that cannot be used because we are unable to feel adhesion with the Creator with the quality of bestowal, while at the same time feeling the enormous desires that are filled with the strongest Light. This is beyond our desires.

Thus, we have to cleanse everything from blood. That is why Kashrut laws are based on appropriate rules for animal slaughter and the extraction of blood from meat.

Question: It is written that “the blood is the soul.” What does this mean?

Answer: The soul has five degrees: Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, and Yechida.

Blood is the lowest part (Nefesh) and that is why its use is prohibited. It is impossible to accept this fulfillment with the intention to bestow; we do not have the force to resist the heaviest egoism. This will continue until the final correction and only after that will we be able to shift to different laws.
[196962]
From KabTV’s, “Secrets of the Eternal Book”, 7/6/16

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Question: What are good relationships and how are they related to spirituality?

Answer: The spiritual world is revealed when a person can build himself to be in a correct mutual connection between good and evil, not killing evil and not adhering to the good, but creating a connection in which the two forces complement each other. There is no evil without good and there is no good without evil; there is no Light without darkness and there is no darkness without Light. The central line must stabilize them correctly.

If a person acts correctly through directing himself between these two lines, his egoism will constantly grow. That is how he can produce a positive force, placing himself opposite the egoism and building himself in the middle line. This sums up the entire method of the wisdom of Kabbalah, and this is education of the self.

The moment a person begins to do this correctly between them, he begins to feel the upper world in the middle line. This is the state of nature, which consists of a precise balance between the positive force and the negative force.

On the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate, these forces cooperate mutually in a natural way, instinctively, so that they don’t require any work. But on the human level we must find that good force in nature to balance the negative force through it and develop this way. Humans, being the worst of all in our world, can also ascend higher than all.

The two forces are seemingly found outside of humans. But when we begin to examine them, we clarify the negative force within us and feel what kind of positive force we need through which to balance the negative force. All of this is possible only if we correctly cooperate mutually in a group, a group of ten.
[198633]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/3/16

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