Torah, Deuteronomy 15:11: For there will never cease to be needy within the land. Therefore, I command you, saying, you shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your poor one, and to your needy one in your land.

The Torah calls a person to reveal, through the connection to all others, that he can become a mechanism of their filling, a part of the general system. Each one must do it, because he is unique exactly in this. And “there will never cease to be needy” until thed final correction, until everyone is filled from each other, one through the other.

Therefore, in front of each one is the rest of humanity, all other souls. They are the “needy” that he has to fill. After all, all the others are me! Only now I don’t feel it, but as soon as I begin to fill them, I will feel that it is mine.

Each one of us is unique, because the Light goes through him to the rest of the souls. Nobody can avoid this work. Each one is obliged to fulfill his mission and perfection will be achieved only as an overall result.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/10/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 15:09 – 15:10: Beware, lest there be in your heart an unfaithful thought, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release has approached,” and you will begrudge your needy brother and not give him, and he will cry out to the Lord against you, and it will be a sin to you. You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; for because of this thing the Lord, your God, will bless you in all your work and in all your endeavors.

Being unwilling to give to a a needy brother is our materialistic psychology. The Creator encourages us to do the opposite. However, a person won’t be able to give even if he wants. Moreover, he has to go through such states when he feels that this is his brother, the closest and dearest, but he can’t give to him.

History knows villains, who could let their children die of starvation. They even contributed to it. Yet it comes not from damaged psychology, but from evil.

It is written “he will cry out to the Lord against you, and it will be a sin to you. You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; for because of this thing the Lord, your God, will bless you.” It means that you must give to him not only because it would be a sin for you, but from the heart, devotedly, selflessly, and without any profit for you. In the internal work of a person the “needy brother” is any action of bestowal, directed either to society or to the Creator.

Since the fulfillment from the Upper Light can come to everyone only through me, the people and even the Creator are always needy of me. Their fulfillment is in my hands. It means that the quality of bestowal is always needy.

Today do I even think about how to give to others? I am absolutely not interested that someone is in an uncomfortable state. And even if I face this situation, I will pass by without noticing anything. Even if I notice, I will somehow justify myself to not engage in it, and if I engage in it, it will be only to have some benefit, or in order that in the future the world would say about me, “He is so merciful.”

But if there is no benefit either in this or in the future world, then I see nothing, because I look at everything through my egoistic vision. This is a problem.

Question: Is this why there is such a big gap between the rich and the poor today?

Answer: Today we are in such a state that a person can’t give up anything of his own. The moment another zero is added to his bank account, he feels pleasure, but at the next moment this feeling disappears and he runs after the next zero. He doesn’t feel the fact that people die because of this zero.

Comment: But you never blame anyone.

Answer: No. We need to blame the Creator. He said, “I have created the evil inclination,” but He also immediately added, “I have created the Torah for its correction, meaning the Light, because its Light returns one to the Source, to Me. Use it and you will turn all the evil into good and will become similar to Me, eternal and perfect. Everything will be revealed before you, you will exit limitations of this little world and will exist in the completely different dimension.”

Comment: It means I am rich, everything is in my hands.

Answer: The wealth of all the others depends on each person, because through each of us, like through a pipe, the Light passes to everyone else, and no one can replace another.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/10/16

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Question: You often say that the Creator doesn’t exist, and on the other hand, sometimes more often, you say that only the Creator exists, that “There is none else beside Him” (Deuteronomy 4:35). How is it possible to understand this? Does the Creator exist or not?

Answer: The Creator doesn’t exist by itself.

The Creator is what a person creates from his altruistic desires, intentions, and actions. To the degree that he builds those desires, intentions, and actions with his friends, he reveals the Creator.

The amorphous Upper Light that is called “His essence” exists around us always. It is not tangible, it has no form, it is not “clothed” in anything, and it is impossible to attain it. But the Creator is something that a person absorbs through his “sensors,” through his spiritual characteristics, that he creates through an alliance with his friends.

So there is no divinity.  About the Creator, it is said, “You created me.”

There are 2% atheists and 98% believers in the world, but the divinity imagined by those believers doesn’t exist, rather it exists through what is attained with our corrected feelings, and this is called the “Creator” (Boreh) from the words, “Bo” (come) and “Reh” (see). To the degree that a person approaches the characteristics of the Creator and feels Him, to that degree he attains Him, and for him this will be the Creator. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches how to attain it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/7/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 15:12: If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you for six years, and in the seventh year you shall send him forth free from you.

Six or seven years symbolize the correction of six or seven Sefirot of the lower part of the Partzuf (spiritual system). The desires called Jews (Yehudi, from the word “Yihud – unity”) during these six or seven years enter into you so much that now they are fully part of you. They can’t be below you.

Question: What does “your brother is sold to you“ mean?

Answer: Sold means that it fully belongs to you, there is no difference between you, and you have to start working with the desire of the other as your personal part. Caring about him and caring about yourself become one. “You shall send him forth free from you” means that in certain cases he separates from you and becomes an independent soul.

Torah, Deuteronomy 15:13: And when you send him forth free from you, you shall not send him forth empty-handed.

Since there is the birth of a new soul, you have to give it all that is necessary to reach maturity. It should receive fulfillment for the future, for the entire length of the path when it will be correcting itself and will need forces for the correction.
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From KabTV Program “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/10/2016

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Question: How can you find the right teacher? How can I not be mistaken if I am controlled by egoistic illusions? After all, it is said that there are many ways to attain the Creator.

Answer: We still have to clarify the saying “There are many paths to the Creator.” You cannot hide behind various sublime sayings that the ego can interpret any way it likes.

A teacher is the one who, in a spiritual sense, is implicitly perceived without any doubts on the way to the revelation of the upper. Otherwise one will not follow his way will be doomed to fail.

Question: How can a person determine if the teacher is the right teacher or not if he is dominated by his egoistic desires?

Answer: There is no way he can do that! Just as a person doesn’t know his way in life, he doesn’t know the path to the teacher.

How can I explain why I chose Rabash, for example? After all, I didn’t choose him when I drove 30 km on a rainy winter evening to another city and entered a dark, damp small room and found six old men, one of whom was Rabash. How can you describe this?! This is upper fate, luck.

Before that I had searched for many years, but there is not any logical way I can explain this.

Therefore, many come and go in the search for the teacher. They may be lucky and find someone else, and I am all for people’s search. It is written that a person can learn only where his heart desires.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/7/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 13:17: And you shall collect all its spoil into the midst of its open square, and burn with fire the city and all its spoil, completely, for the Lord, your God; and it shall be a heap of destruction forever, never to be rebuilt.

A person will never be able to take these intentions that have become egoistic in him and use them again. He must do everything in order to not return to them.

Question: What does it mean, “collect all its spoil into the midst of its open square, and burn with fire the city and all its spoil”?

Answer: The fact is that in a group engaged in spiritual work, the analysis revealing egoism and altruism becomes more and more evident and people see that all earlier intentions, which previously seemed to be good, proper, and aimed at unity with each other, are, in fact, egoistic.

Our joint desire is called a square or a city. And the phrase “and it shall be a heap of destruction forever, never to be rebuilt,” means never to return to the previous state. In this way we move forward to complete correction.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/20/16

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Question: In one of his letters, Baal HaSulam wrote that if people discovered the smallest spiritual pleasure, they would agree to cut off their own hands and feet seven times a day just so that they would be able to feel it. Why?

Answer: This is just a figurative expression. He means that the slightest spiritual pleasure cannot be compared to the greatest pleasure in this world because all earthly states are limited.Spiritual pleasure has no limit.

This is not quantitative pleasure that we have in our world. Spiritual delights come in an unlimited amount volume and so they cannot be measured by any methods, frameworks, or units of our world.

We can only feel them after several years of studying the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/28/16

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Question: Why was it necessary to create this spiritual project, Adam HaRishon (the First Man)? Did the Creator have a desire to create something? Could He not have done this?

Answer: We cannot talk about what was before the beginning of creation or about what will be after its end. We are in a particular stage on the way between the beginning of creation, which began around 14 billion years ago, and its end. What remains for us is to exist here for only a short period to become corrected. We have only 223 years left.

During this period, we must reach the end of correction, and with this everything will end.

We don’t know what happened before the beginning of creation because the concept of time didn’t exist. We also don’t know what will happen after the end of correction because there will be no concept of time. The concept of time exists only in the framework of this world, from start to finish. The end of correction is the end of the correction of the comprehensive egoism.

We don’t know why Adam HaRishon was created. It is said that the reason for the creation of the creature is to give him enjoyment and pleasure. But why does someone have to be created to give him enjoyment and pleasure? Logic dictates that it would be easier not to create; not to create and not to give pleasure. We don’t know the reason. We will find this out when we reach the final state when all our tools of perception will be fully corrected, when from our enormous egoism we fully create a single unified system called Adam. Then from this comprehensive and ideal system, which is fully in the image of the Creator, we will discover how He created everything in the beginning and why He created such an end.

Since 1995, the wisdom of Kabbalah was placed in our hands. So now we can hasten the process by giving our personal effort and we won’t have to wait another 223 years.

If we bring the entire system into balance, resembling and being equivalent to the Creator, everything will be finished. If we don’t invest effort, then we will continue to go in the way of suffering until the end of 6,000 years.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/28/16

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Question: Why do people whose time for correction has not yet come still need to suffer? And during the period of thousands of generations when the wisdom of Kabbalah was concealed, until the year 1995, what could they have done besides suffer?

Answer: Suffering is caused by the fact that our egoism must develop to point where it will truly want higher, special, and eternal pleasures.

So we had a long way to go, beginning from the creation of atoms, molecules, soil, and water, then primitive organisms, plants, animals, and finally to the human in his present state. This was a really long way and all of it in suffering.

It is only today that we have begun to develop in our final phase. But we now have the possibility of advancing with the help of the wisdom of Kabbalah, which is a special method by which it is possible to attract the Upper Light.

And then we can advance by the way of Achishena (hastening time), by accelerating our development without nature pushing us from behind through suffering, but through yearning to move forward by anticipating attainment. It is in this way that suffering stops. It means that it is possible to “run” forward toward the goal of creation faster than the “stick” that is always behind us, so that it will not catch up to us.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/28/16

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Question: What is the spiritual meaning of the Hanukkah holiday?

Answer: Hanukkah symbolizes the ascent of the person above his egoism when he defeats the “Greeks” within him. These are all those characteristics that yearn for knowledge and want to dominate him.

In fact, spiritual attainment is not considered scientific because it is based on overcoming the ego through crises as happens in our world, not by using it.

Therefore, the Hanukkah holiday is filled with Light. It expresses the victory of our overcoming our inner egoistic drives.

Question: Does this mean I have no need of knowledge, called the “Greeks” within me?

Answer: No, beginning from the time of Abraham and on, humanity needed to develop in a completely different way, not physically nor intellectually, but spiritually through the development of our emotions to a state in which we begin to feel the nature that is hidden from us.

The Hanukkah holiday, which is the embodiment of the Light, symbolizes the discovery of the hidden nature.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 12/19/16

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