Question: In which feelings exactly is the Creator revealed? Can you share the experience of a Kabbalist with us? After all, we aren’t speaking of the five senses, but about feelings that appear after we perceive reality through them.

Answer: The Creator is revealed in the right attitude to others. A right attitude to a friend, in bestowal, in love, for him is the substrate on which the Creator is revealed. For example, if you place sheet of metal in interplanertary space, you would immediately feel how the light hits it and the sheet would be lit up. If the metal sheet weren’t there, the space is dark. This is how we see the moon in the sky because it reflects the rays of the sun. And if it weren’t there, nothing would be reflected and the space would be dark.

And so we need to place a partition in the way of the Upper Light, a screen, a Masach, and then we will reveal it and feel its properties. The partition, the Masach, appears when I place myself in concern for my friend. This refers to my resistance to myself. When I reject myself, in opposition to myself, and begin to relate to the friend with care and bestowal, on top of the attribute of care, bestowal, and reflection, I begin to reveal the Creator. This is the condition, and therefore it is written: “from the love of the created beings to the love of the Creator.” This is the reason that all our actions, our whole method, is based only on the right connection with others, because this is how the Creator is revealed. The revelation of the Creator is our goal and the means for reaching it is the principle of “love thy friend as thyself.”

Question: Do we feel harmony in this crazy world when the spiritual levels are revealed, when the Creator is revealed?

Answer: Yes, we begin to feel harmony in this world because we begin to perceive this world as the correct mutual connection of all the elements of the creation. We begin to understand it, to see the wisdom in it, the relationship between cause and effect. This means that it is actually revealed to us as an immense network of the proper events that lead us to the goal.
[195026]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/19/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 12:19: Beware, lest you forsake the Levite all your days upon your land.

The Levites are the qualities that belong to the Temple.

The Levites do not have their plot, they are scattered throughout the land of Israel because their task is to serve the population. They are involved in education, service and development of the population, creation of the government structures, and so forth.

This is a bureaucracy, but it is based only on the similarity between the lower and upper degrees. The Levites do not make up laws, do not invent them out of nowhere, but study the qualities of the upper degrees and draw themselves, the people, and the country to this state. They must be above the desire of the people, more sublime.
[196670]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book,” 6/30/16

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Question: You always talk about unification, about the convergence of people, and about oneness. It follows that “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18) is not a sentence dealing with morality as do religions; rather, it is a new type of perception of reality. For this it is necessary to come closer and not just love each other?

Answer: We don’t need to get closer and cooperate with each other mutually according to the principle: you for me and me for you, in order to be good. No. We must gradually disengage from our impressions of this world and understand what kind of system we can enter between us and how the collective consciousness, which we can attain in our world, is actually perfect and takes us to another level of perception and sensation.

In this way we reach the next level of nature in which no one exists and to which a person can only ascend, because it is specifically in opposition to his egoism that a person can ascend to the next level and begin to feel that he exists in an eternal and perfect dimension.
[195048]
From a Lesson in the Russian language, 7/10/16

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Question: What is the difference between the wisdom of Kabbalah and Herzen’s theory of rational? He wrote, “It is good for me, when it is good for others.”

Answer: The difference is that in the wisdom of Kabbalah, I don’t think about what is good for me. I must go out of and transcend myself in order to begin to build elements of attainment, the states of the spiritual world, within me.

So, I cannot talk about it being good for me according to my beastly feelings. I must exist in them only as a beast. I must build a completely new sense of a reality beyond my beastly state, beyond my egoism, outside of me, outside of myself, inside of others.

When I am able to do this, rising above myself, integrating with others, and acting with faith above reason, I will begin to feel the upper world, which is actually found outside of me, specifically in my relationships with others if I build them through transcending myself.
[194811]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/19/16

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Question: How can two realities coexist and be combined, the one of the spiritual world and the one of our world?

Answer: A person can see the spiritual world through our world. Our world is different from the spiritual world since in the spiritual world a person discovers more and more connections, the reasons and the outcomes of this world. In addition, a person begins to see and to feel this system, the souls in it, additional vessels, desires, thoughts, and so on.

How does a little child relate to the world? He lives in it just like us, but he doesn’t pay attention to all the details that we notice because we are aware of them and understand what they mean and how they are related to us, while the heart of a little boy is attracted to a small toy and that’s all. This example illustrates our lack of spiritual development. When we develop, we will see a whole world around us. We don’t need to go anywhere. We need to see the mutual ties in it through this world, and then we will reveal the upper world.

Question: Suppose everyone reaches ultimate joy, the peak of their development, and suppose everyone connects with the Creator and brings him contentment, what then?

Answer: When a person reveals the upper world, he gradually enters a system in which there is no “what then.” There is no time, space, no axes, no motion, only an increasingly greater attainment of a certain level that is called “complete correction” (Gmar Tikkun), the end of the correction of the system, the attainment of the Creator, and we don’t know what’s next. Now we have to attain this level. Then we will reach the next state, which we will attain in spirituality. When we enter the spiritual world, we will ascend the 125 steps of the spiritual ladder until our complete correction, and when we fully correct ourselves, the concepts of time, motion, and space, good and evil, etc. will disappear; everything will be absolute goodness, absolute Light, and we will enter the next world. Now we know nothing about it, so we cannot describe it in any way. We can speak about the next world only after we fully correct ourselves.
[194806]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/19/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 12:13: Beware, lest you offer up your burnt offerings any place you see. 

A person has no right to select which of his internal properties to change. He can act only in a way that the upper force, called the Creator, shows him. After all, in the place he currently is in, he cannot know what to do. 

It’s the same in our lives. I need to rise to a higher degree, and only from there will it become clear to me what to do at the lower stage and how to manage it. Therefore, any action I perform on myself is called faith above reason.

Rising to the next degree, I feel it, perceive it above my egoism, and once I fully absorb myself in it, I turn to my present degree, to my egoism, and begin to form it correctly.

Without connection with the upper degree, I have not even touched my nature because I will always adjust it only for myself, will mold it like clay, ridiculous “toys,” all kinds of idols to worship: religions, beliefs, and so forth.

Therefore, it is better not to enter what isn’t within my scope, but to rise by faith above reason to a higher level called the Creator, cling to it, and receive instructions from it as to what action to make on my degree.

Can a little child know exactly what to do? He needs to listen to an adult, let’s say a teacher, and then comply unconditionally with his instructions, realizing that he doesn’t understand anything on his degree. This behavior is considered correct in our world.

After all, it often seems to us that we are doing the right thing, so, every second each of us and all of us together make constant mistakes in behavior, intention, thoughts, and decisions.

Naturally, nothing good comes from it because in our actions we don’t proceed from the upper degree. We always advance by trial and error, and we receive blows that correct us, but they correct us instinctively, not rationally. Therefore, on the next degree, in the next state, we will again act on the basis of our own understanding, not from a higher understanding.

Thus, every time we need to rise to the next degree, to go by faith above reason. Then, while we are in the sensation of the upper degree and being guided by it, we are constantly receiving new knowledge.
[196136]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/30/16

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Question: Is it possible to attain the highest spiritual level within a family circle?

Answer: It doesn’t matter whether you apply the integral method within your family or in some other society. We exist inside nature. Kabbalah tells us about nature’s laws, the laws of interdependence.

Currently, we are existing in crisis. The crisis is the lack of correct interaction between people. It is happening to us on purpose so that we would come to the correct interaction that we can realize in a group, in a family, at work, or in school.

For example, we teach our method to inmates in prisons, and they successfully realize it among themselves. It can be applied at any place.
[196164]
From the Convention in Prague 9/9/16, Preliminary Lesson

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Torah, Deuteronomy 12:13 – 12:14: Beware, lest you offer up your burnt offerings any place you see. But only in the place the Lord will choose in one of your tribes; there you shall offer up your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

A sacrifice (“Kurban” in Hebrew is from the word “Karov,” approximation) means approaching the quality of bestowal and love.

I tear myself away from egoism, pull it out of myself, and I begin to break it. On one hand, it really is a sacrifice, but on the other hand, it is an approximation. To the extent that I can divert my egoism to bestowal and love, I approach the Creator.

I do it with joy; otherwise, it won’t work out since I need to act in my desire, not physically, where I can work against my desire.

I must reach the state where I myself want to kill my egoism in its current form, to begin changing it, to turn it inside out, and work for those who are outside of me, including my most terrible haters, enemies, and disgusting people, which I cannot think of without shuddering.

In Kabbalah, the hero is the one who can change himself relative to them and change them within himself, because all of these “freaks” are within me. They are my inner qualities.

The inner ugliness draws the absolutely correct, ideal quality to me. So, I need to compare myself correctly to what is within me, and understand that everything outside of me shows me who I am within. This work is called sacrifice.
[196020]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/30/16

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Question: If there is suffering in life, must I relate every condition to the Creator (and that it is for the best) and then the situation will no longer be felt as bad? How can one constantly hold onto the intention that “There is none else besides Him” (Deuteronomy 4:35)?

Answer: Don’t lose the thought that everything comes from Him. Hold onto that all of the time! And, if you cannot, ask Him for help.
[195929]

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Question: What is meant by: “However, in every desire of your soul, you may slaughter and eat meat…; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the deer, and as of the gazelle” (Deuteronomy 12:15)?

Answer: Meat symbolizes receiving the Light of Hochma into the real desire to receive—what a person consumes with his most egoistic desires—but in order to bestow. Deer and gazelle are animals that can be killed in other ways than domestic animals (for example, deer can be killed with a bow), while they nevertheless still remain kosher.

“Clean” is a person who is in a state of complete correction, and “unclean” is one who understands that he is not yet corrected, but still enters to be purified.

The Torah speaks only about people with an immense desire to become similar to the Creator and to see Him and the entire universe in its true condition themselves.
[196567]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/30/16

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