The group where a person undergoes correction is a mini-humanity that was formed in the ancient Babylon.  After numerous descents and ascents, the members of the group complete their correction, rise above their egoism, and form a correct society among themselves.

Naturally, at the end of their correction demands become tougher. Therefore the name of the Torah portion “Rehe” (Behold) sounds like a warning, “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse” (Deuteronomy, 11:26).

After all, a person has already been prepared to treat the spiritual elevation seriously, rise to the next level of existence, go beyond the limitations of the material world of objects, and exist in the world of properties.

This is the land of Israel, meaning the world of intentions, qualities, and properties that don’t have any relation to what we feel now. When a person enters it, he gradually loses the sense of the material world and exists in it, as if leaving his body.

He doesn’t perceive the body as something necessary. It just binds him to others that haven’t entered the sensation of the upper state yet. However, in principle, we all will enter it gradually.

Question: Can any of the twelve tribes that approached the land of Israel turn back?

Answer: No. At this stage of the journey it can’t happen.  Everyone is focused on the land of Israel. Still, each of the twelve tribes has its own path, its own technique, and its own means of communication.
[196790]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/6/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 12:20: When the Lord, your God, expands your boundary, as He has spoken to you, and you say, “I will eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat, according to every desire of your soul.

If a person comes to a state where he can receive the largest Upper Lights for the sake of bestowal – meaning that he can receive enormous pleasures not for himself, but rather for passing them to others – then it becomes possible for him to do this. He receives power and help from the Creator.

This is the meaning of “when the Lord your God expands your boundary and you may eat meat” (receive the Upper Light) according to every desire of your soul.
[196673]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book,” 6/30/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 12:17: You may not eat within your cities the tithe of your grain, or of your wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your cattle or of your sheep, or any of your vows that you will vow, or your donations, or the separation by your hand.

Tithing (Maaser) belongs to the Cohens (Priests). The Cohen is that part of egoism that we cannot use correctly and therefore should abandon.

Usually we pay the tithe for the dissemination of Kabbalah. People always separate one tenth of their income because a person cannot correct the tenth part of his egoism before the final correction that will occur at the end of the 6,000 years.
[196667]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/30/16

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Question: How do evil thoughts affect our life? What should we do so that good things will happen to us?

Answer: You should imagine seeing the evil thoughts as good thoughts, as thoughts that lead you to the goal.

Question: But we receive our thoughts from the environment…

Answer: We receive the evil thoughts from the Creator through the environment and not from the environment itself. No object in creation affects us by itself. The Creator is always behind everything, exhibiting this “theater” to us.
[195497]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/9/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 12:16 However, you shall not eat the blood; you shall spill it on the ground like water.

Blood represents the form of the Upper Light that we cannot receive because it exists in our biggest egoistic desire that will be corrected only in the final correction.

Only approaching the end of the 6,000-year period (6,000 degrees beginning from Adam) can we correct this desire. Moreover, we just prepare this desire and it will be corrected not by us, but by the Upper Light that comes from above and corrects it.

This action is called “Rav poalim mekabtziel.” This is the coming of the Messiah, the Upper Light. Then the lowest, heaviest egoistic layer is corrected and filled with the Light that is called blood.

Therefore, the most important thing, when using meat, is to free it from blood. All the rituals associated with blood, with a test for blood, with blood output, etc. are based on the fact that this is a natural life for our egoism and we can correct it only at the very last stage.

In addition, such concepts as pure or impure blood also revolve around this: how we can and how we cannot use it, how to be purified from blood and at the same time use it in the correct form, in order to develop. After all, if blood is the basis for life, it is impossible to exist without it.

Blood rises from the uterus to the breasts of the breastfeeding woman, turns into milk that is ready for feeding a baby; that is, it turns from red (the quality of reception) to white (the quality of bestowal).
[196629]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/30/16

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Question: What is the meaning of the word “history” according to the wisdom of Kabbalah if there is no time in spirituality?

Answer: Everything that happens in the corporeal world is an outcome of the upper roots that descend into our world, and so our world is a reflection of those upper roots.

In other words, different forces are revealed in the system of the upper worlds on the spiritual level and their corporeal reflection is expressed in matter in our world. Therefore human history allows us to talk about spiritual events. Although there is no spirituality in corporeal actions, they reflect the spiritual roots. The language of the branches of our world enables us to speak about spiritual processes.

As for time, Kabbalists can travel along the time axis from the beginning of the creation to its end, except for one state: a state that can be described as a “point.” On the one hand, it is a state of zero, and on the other hand, it is a state of 100%. It is the state from which the beginning of creation and its end gradually descend, and the time axis runs between them from 0 to final correction (Gmar Tikkun), the end of correction, until the end of 6,000 years.

Suppose I, meaning my soul, my Partzuf, my spiritual body (Rosh, Toch, Sof), am in the middle of the time axis, if I have a Masach (screen) over my egoism, I can time travel wherever I want to, backward or forward. This means that by using the Masach I can change and shape my egoism to bestowal, love, and connection, and move along the time axis. The initial point on the time axis is Adam’s sin, and the final point is the coming of the Messiah. I can be in the year 1000 after Adam or at any other point.

Who wouldn’t like to time travel? Humanity has always dreamed of it! In the spiritual world it is possible, but not in our world, although we can also see the outcome here. Baal HaSulam tells us about it in the book Shamati where he says that Abraham, for example, told Isaac something. How could he know what Abraham and Isaac had spoken about in the desert or in the olive grove? A Kabbalist enters the state of Abraham and thus understands the information that Abraham had to convey now to the next state, Isaac, and this is what he tells us about.

Question: Can we travel in the body?

Answer: What does it mean “in the body”? You feel these feelings, you are in them; you enter them. When Baal HaSulam read the commentaries of Chaim Vital to the The Tree of Life by the Ari, which were written 600 years ago, he called out in wonder, “but what you wrote here isn’t what I told you to write!” That is, he entered the Ari’s soul.

Kabbalists who wrote about their attainments lived in two worlds: in our world and in the spiritual world. Let’s assume, strictly hypothetically, that I could ascend to the level of the Ari. I would be able to feel everything he felt, said, and did then.

Question: Will we be able to time travel while being in our body?

Answer: You have to enter the egoism in order to imagine both our body and all the physical structure of our world. The point is that the corporeal state actually doesn’t exist. It is the outcome of the egoism that is parallel to the spiritual state, because everything we see around us is an unrealistic world that is depicted in our desire.

No one can change himself and be totally like the Ari. I can resemble him by entering his state, but I cannot be like him and at the same time also feel the events he underwent during his lifetime, which means to be in the 16^th century in the northern part of Israel. A Kabbalist cannot enter a person’s physical body or his corporeal attributes, but only his spiritual state. You can attain all these states spiritually but not physically.
[194795]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/29/16

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Question: The man is the primary breadwinner in the family, a social leader, and the driving force in different frameworks. Should a man also be the same in spirituality?

Answer: It makes no difference who yearns for the Creator in order to resemble Him, whether it is a man or a woman. I wouldn’t say that a man is the driving force of advancement, and not our progress of devlopment in any way.

Compared to a woman, a man is more productive in science, but this isn’t necessarily advancement. We see that everything is moving toward a crisis and that people begin to understand that material, technological, and scientific development are not the foundations of this world; spiritual development is.

The question is whether a man advances in his spiritual development. As for now, I would say that those who yearn for spirituality are 80% women and only 20% men.

Women feel the deficiency in this world and in life much more. They feel the lack of filling more acutely so they are ready for self-sacrifice, for helping, for disseminating, for everything.

It is very hard to pull a man out of a state of complacency or indifference.

We are all egoists and are made of a desire to receive, but a woman feels this desire as emptiness and is wiser in choosing the filling. She will not waste time on football and will not feel the momentary excitement and attraction like a man because this is how a woman’s nature operates—in favor of advancing in spirituality. Although basically we should know how to combine both corporeal pleasures and the yearning for spirituality in our lives.
[195343]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/26/16

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Question: How can I control my own destiny?

Answer: Controlling your destiny is very simple. You must draw the Ohr Makif (Surrounding Light), the Light that Reforms, in order to resemble the Creator. When we know the right method for drawing the Light, we become the masters of our own destiny and fulfill it.

We awaken and draw the Upper Light, and it actually performs the necessary change, not we ourselves. After all, we cannot pull ourselves out of the swamp by our own hair, which is our egoism, by ourselves.

What is more, we don’t know what the next right state is, so we can only attract the Light. How can we draw the Light from the upper level? To do this, we are given a group. If we are incorporated in collective unity with each other, we artificially create our next state on the level of this world, and then the Upper Light fulfills it.
[195491]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/9/16

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Question: What do we do when there is no desire for spirituality?

Answer: Act as if you have it. This condition is called “overcoming” when you must overcome yourself.

Where can you get the desire to bestow and love, to connect with other people, and build a new state that is opposite to our world? For this, you must begin building such a state by gathering together with other friends, each one rising above himself.

Don’t you want it? Very well, it means that you are very close to realization. If you act against your will, then you are on one of the spiritual levels: 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4.

Question: Does the condition of emptiness feel like a small, inner death?

Answer: It isn’t death, but a psychological barrier because you move to the next level of attainment, the next level of awareness opposite to what you have now! Just as an embryo inside the mother exists only due to her, and after birth, he must exist on his own. Therefore, this process is called a spiritual birth and is described on hundreds of pages in The Study of the Ten Sefirot.

Naturally, we have no desire for something that we don’t feel. If humanity continues to move forward in their desires for food, sex, family, honor, wealth, and knowledge, there would be no problems, and they would never achieve anything better than themselves. People would fill themselves during their lives, then die, fill themselves, and die, and everything would end at that.

However, in order to take humanity to the next level, it is necessary to show them that their current method of living is limited, absurd, and actually leads to nothing. We are constantly engaged only with filling our animal body. Imagine that you live next to an animal—for example, a donkey—and you are always caring only about it. This is our current existence.

In order to rise to the next level, we need to shake ourselves, and this is the heart of the crisis, because crisis means “giving birth” or “birth.”
[195462]
From the Convention in Prague – 9/9/16, Preparatory Lesson

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The wisdom of Kabbalah provides a person with a patent for attaining infinite pleasure, for the goal of creation is to provide all of creation with infinite pleasure, as it is written, “The Creator created the world to give pleasure to His creatures.” But first we must do some work, and then we will receive pleasure.

In fact, the moment a person receives an approach to this wisdom, he must immediately understand that this is not just wisdom on its own; it is a means for attaining pleasure.

This may sound egoistic, but there is nothing else for a person to do in life besides searching and discovering, with the help of his ego, the treasure that is found within him: his soul, within which is the Creator, and ultimately eternal pleasure, eternal life, and unlimited existence. All of this is possible only if a person truly has a healthy and good egoism and constantly yearns for this goal, never separating from it in exchange for any of the pleasures of this world.

At first, a person doesn’t understand the egoism hidden within him and what it means to work with it, what the upper Light is, and how it is possible to attract it and direct it toward himself so that the Light will begin to “divide” him into an egoist and an altruist, bestowal and reception. This is not easy.

Everything depends on the ability of the person to persist. If he has a serious desire, then he will attain the goal.
[196024]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/28/16

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