Question: If the Creator created us as a desire to receive and wants to give us pleasure, aren’t we basically opposing His desire by wanting to resemble Him and become bestowers?

Answer: We do not oppose His desire since we don’t refrain from using our desire. We only change its intention. All of our desires remain and begin to work on receiving even more. I only change the intention from an intention for my sake, an intention for the sake of my ego, to an intention for the sake of others in that my intention goes outside, because a desire is not itself ego.

An egoistic desire is a desire with an intention for my own sake. An altruistic desire is the same desire, but with an intention for the sake of others. It is only when I am using all of my desires and I go outside of myself that I am realizing them correctly.

A person cannot change the intention, the change only happens in a group under the influence of the Ohr Makif (Surrounding Light).

Only the right method stimulates and summons the Ohr Makif, which changes the intention from an intention for my sake to an intention for the sake of others. To that degree, we begin to feel the world that is found outside of us.
[198628]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 14:21: You shall not eat any carcass. You may give it to the stranger who is in your cities, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the Lord, your God…

“The stranger who is in your cities” are qualities that you don’t consider yours, from which you get rid and send outside of the limits of your desire. However, it should still exist, because the entire world is inside a person.

There are a great number of nations and ethnic groups in this world who follow other laws and customs. Why? This indicates what our desires are made from.

Therefore, we must understand that there is a set of all possible desires within us in the hierarchy—from the most uncorrected ones that still need to be corrected (but today they are at the level of so-called savage people, nations of the world) to the highest ones. The entire hierarchy is arranged only according to the possibility of realizing these desires for the benefit of others.

Foreigners and strangers can either enter into your house, that is, those desires with which you already work for bestowal, or they can be outside. It all depends on how much you approximate and correct them.

Question: Can we call them Klipa (impure desires)?

Answer: Klipa are those desires that are outside of your city.

They still need to be fed, but there are certain steps in feeding them only to the extent that they are necessary for further corrections and use for bestowal.

This is a very serious, vast, global system. It is impossible to understand it with the mind, only internally, when it emerges in your senses. After all, you can feel everything as a whole in your senses, but it is impossible to describe it with your mind.

Try to describe your relationship with the group or in the family. You carry them within you! To present them externally, you would need numerous volumes and still wouldn’t be able to describe everything.

Question: But a person thinks that all this is very complicated. How can we come to this?!

Answer: There is nothing complicated if you try to create it in your feelings and not in your head. If a person tries to absorb it all into himself, then everything happens naturally.
[198609]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/27/16

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Question: What is the meaning of the end of creation and what will happen to the physical world then?

Answer: At the end of creation people will connect together more and more.

We begin to feel the upper world more fully, until we reach a state where it holds all of our desire within us, and the same tiny part of desire that feels the present distorted reality, simply disappears and moves to grasp the true world that exists outside of us, not inside of us.

“This world” apparently disappears, so it is called the “imaginary world.”
[198782]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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Question: How can I measure the degree I am in illusion or reality?

Answer: When on the steps of the spiritual ladder, you will be able to determine the states you are found in. Right line, left line, or center line, on what stages: Reshimo de Hitlabshut (record of clothing) or Reshimo de Aviut (record of thickness) indicates the number of the level, in what world and in which Sefira you are found: Bina, Zeir Anpin, Malchut, and so forth.

A person will feel all of these concepts as he begins to move to the upper world.
[198725]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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Question: What must a person or a group do for a student to become a friend of the teacher?

Answer: Everything happens gradually, as people rise, and they begin to appreciate the spiritual work and understand that they are not ready to do anything themselves.

They get rid of illusions and begin to better understand what spiritual elevation is. After all, spiritual ascent is not achieved through egoistic actions or efforts; you can’t elbow your way in.

On the contrary, the only possibility for advancement is to step on ourselves a bit, to get closer to others, and in this harmonious relationship, to try to find the place where the Creator is revealed. This place comes from the mutual integration of my properties with other people’s properties as a result of this interconnection.

The entire process happens gradually, and one who is studying with us will come to this.

Question: Is there a situation in which students can become friends with the teacher?

Answer: The concept of a student-friend or teacher-friend exists, but nowadays, this is rather vague. They generally say this when a teacher studies one-on-one with a student.

In general, this is certainly possible, even with many students, but not yet at our current level.
[199413]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/7/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 17:2 – 17:5: If there will be found among you, within one of your cities which the Lord, your God is giving you, a man or woman who does evil in the eyes of the Lord, your God, to transgress His covenant, and who will go and worship other gods and prostrate himself before them, or to the sun, the moon, or any of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded; and it will be told to you, and you will hear it, and investigate thoroughly, and behold, the matter coincides; this abomination has been perpetrated in Israel. Then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has committed this evil thing, to your cities, the man or the woman, and you shall pelt them with stones, and they shall die.

If I discover within myself some negative qualities that I couldn’t see earlier because I wasn’t yet on this degree, I must extract them from myself, isolate them, and begin working with them. These egoistic intentions are called “a man or woman who does evil in the eyes of the Lord, your God, to transgress His covenant.”

I examine them until I kill them. This is their correction. Therefore, it is written, “Then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has committed this evil thing, to your cities, the man or the woman, and you shall pelt them with stones, and they shall die.”

A stone or “stony heart” is an inner feeling through which a person determines the insignificance of his nature and sets out to change it.

Question: However, the “Islamic State” organizations interprets this literally; as it is written, they throw stones, cut off heads, and so on.

Answer: This isn’t a correction. It’s impossible to achieve anything this way. It turns out that one destroys another, and there is no end to this feud that has no purpose.

Question: But they claim they follow the Koran literally without suspecting that it means executing their own egoism. Is it even possible to explain it to them?

Answer: They will realize it automatically after the people of Israel understand it. We don’t have to explain anything to the world. We should just speak openly about the wisdom of Kabbalah. The correction should be performed by the people of Israel, and through them, the Light will come to the entire world. But all of humanity should know about the wisdom of Kabbalah.
[200068]
From KabTV Program “The Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/24/16

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Question: How can I be assisted by a teacher who is a Kabbalist? Can you give a few basic principles of how we can use such a gift of the upper force?

Answer: If a teacher advises something, you should try to fulfill it. My most important advice is to attend the morning lesson that I give daily.

My second advice is to find yourself a group of ten, preferably a physical group, not a virtual one, and to try to be in contact with it, to study together and to do everything that we do in a group of ten.

In addition, if there is a convention near where you live, you should do whatever is in your power to attend it, and of course, engage in dissemination as much as you can dedicate your time to it.

In short, the most important thing is the morning lesson, then working in the group of ten, dissemination, and participation in conventions. There is nothing more you need to do.
[199307]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/7/16

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Question: If you receive a thought about the upper force (at any moment in your life when you experiencing some events and trials), it is only thanks to the efforts that you make in order to get at least a bit closer to the Creator.

The measure of whether you are on the right path is always the emergence of a thought from above that comes from the Creator. Is this faith, which we need so much, in order to advance correctly in spirituality?

Is the fear that perhaps you will not receive this thought because you don’t make enough efforts or that you somehow will succumb to something that will alienate you from the Creator, the fear of God?  

Answer: The fear of God is not fear. It is actually a yearning not to miss any opportunity to bestow unto Him everything that you can. It is somewhat like the yearning of a mother who keeps looking for how she can do something for her baby.
[198254]

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Torah, Deuteronomy 13:11: And you shall stone him with stones so that he dies, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Question: What does it mean to “stone him?”

Answer: “Stone” means that you take nothing into account except your inanimate state. At the same time, you do not accept any persuasions of egoism: no properties, no tricks—nothing. You act clearly according to the Kabbalistic method.

You have to precisely follow all of its directions. You cannot trust your eyes, your ears, or your mind. This level of acting is called “Domem,” meaning the stone, , still, inanimate level.

“Lev haEven” (stony heart) is a real penalty when a stone is called something that is impossible to change. You take your properties, which are impossible to change, and with their help, you kill your evil inclination within yourself.
[197835]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/13/16

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Question: What is “illusion” and what is “reality” as defined in the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer:  An illusion is anything that doesn’t resemble the Creator. And reality is any part of the Creator I perceive. That is, it is an immense field, which I correctly perceive to the degree of my similarity to it. This field is perceived by me as the Creator and it is not an illusion but the truth.

The true reality – Upper Light or the Creator – is found at absolute rest. But our perception of this reality can change. The change depends on correction. If a person completely corrects himself, then nothing changes in his perception any more.

Everything is measured only relative to a person.
[198273]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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