Question: What does the four-letter name of the Creator and the three lines in each letter mean?

Answer: The four-letter name of the Creator is necessary in order to work with egoism in all of its depth.

In other words, this is the development of egoism in four stages, or the four stages of development of the Direct Light.

When we are talking about the correction of egoism, each stage is divided into three lines: right, left, and middle. The left line is egoism itself, the right line is the force of the Light that is required for its correction, and the middle line is the place where egoism should exist in the corrected state.

Therefore, each of the four stages in the depths of egoism consists of the uncorrected part, the forces that correct it, and the corrected state.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/30/16

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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.

There are only twelve critical points—Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin, and Malchut—which descend from above, and each of them is divided into three lines. In total, there are twelve (four times three) specific points that must be corrected in accordance with their properties.

Hence, each tribe has its own specific node, which it corrects first, and then the common property, because each tribe has its own special condition, a special property. Therefore, it is written, “In one of your tribes.”

There are specific dates for it; in other words, the states of the system that are called new moon, new year, weekday, Shabbat, and so on.

All of the tribes move separately, but at some point, they connect, then move separately again, and connect again. This is so in each subsystem, in each part of the overall system, called soul.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/30/16

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Question: Can you explain what infinite pleasure means to a person, or must he feel it and attain it by himself?

Answer: You can explain it rationally, but a person can only feel infinite pleasure in a corrected desire. What does it mean to attain infinite pleasure? After all, the pleasure depends on the desire, and if I don’t have a desire for something, I cannot be filled by it and derive pleasure from it. Therefore, the more a desire for something develops in me, the more I will feel pleasure from it.

The main point is not receiving the pleasure, but being in contact with the source of the pleasure and then increasing your desire for it.

The Creator doesn’t prevent us from reaching His treasure, but we will lose our head if our desire is not corrected, we will not know what to take, what not to take, and why.

Therefore, we need to prepare our desire in order to discover the treasure and enjoy it. The desire for it must be real, eternal, and it must keep growing all the time. Everything depends only on that because the Light is in a state of absolute rest.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/28/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 12:15: Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which He hath given thee; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.

Once a person corrects his qualities, he can begin the proper use of the will to receive to receive in order to bestow to the Creator.

Gates—this property in a person reveals to him the greatness of the Creator. In Hebrew, the word “gate” (Shaar) has another meaning, measure or price, and means the evaluation of the Creator by a person because the different properties of egoism have different values.

Therefore, all of the gates are different, and each tribe must go through its gate. They don’t have the right to be mixed together. Even the flags of the twelve tribes were different.

Gates work at the entrance to sanctity and the exit from it because otherwise people would not be able to resume their work.

Therefore, it is written that “The Torah will come from Zion” (Yetziot, exits) meaning that exactly from the exit, the new Light is built, and new desires appear. Light enters the Kli (vessel), awakens the new desire, and exits.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/30/16

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Question: The Creator created an immense desire to receive that is clothed inside the approximately seven billion people who exist in the world today. Could it be that He would be clothed in only a few thousand people or even fewer, as Baal HaSulam writes in his article, “The Last Generation?” Does it make any difference how many biological bodies will lead to the correction of the desire to receive? Or are ten people enough?

Answer: Yes. The most important thing is that the ten people would be the epitome of universal egoism; in other words, the egoism of all of humanity (billions of people) would be concentrated in these ten, which would gather together, neutralize this egoism, and join together into one coherent whole. This state is called Adam, the one common soul.

Understandably, it would be more complicated and difficult to correct the egoism when it is concentrated in ten people than when it is clothed in billions. Therefore, the wisdom of Kabbalah is specifically calling us today to come to correction.

After a future Third World War, it would be much worse. Even though the suffering that war brings with it would compel people to unite, freedom of choice would still exist. We would have the problem of how to bring everyone to a decision to unite. For this reason, we must engage in correction today.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/10/16

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Question: How can a Kabbalist constantly be in high spirits despite any problems?

Answer: I will share my experience with you. I am very busy, and I try to keep myself busy all the time. I get up early, sometimes at midnight. From 3 to 6 o’clock in the morning I give a Kabbalah lesson and after the lesson I go for a walk with my wife, have breakfast, and sleep for an hour.

When I get up, I go over materials on the computer. Then there is video filming from 10-11 am, and this continues until the evening with breaks and meetings in between. In addition, I have to write articles, manage my blog, and prepare presentations. I also have my own studies of Talmud Eser Sefirot by Baal HaSulam and other books, and sometimes I go through other sources.

I definitely watch the latest news, some commentaries. I like to watch programs about nature from time to time. My schedule is totally full.

Question: Do you ever feel sad? Do you ever cry?

Answer: As strange as it may sound, I am a human being too. I have feelings, thoughts, weaknesses, and achievements, etc.

I am connected to many people throughout the world and I am concerned about the fate of the world, although I feel it as something incidental, as a means to discover the upper world.

I have the same feelings you have, don’t think I am a doll.  You cannot see what goes on inside me.

At first I also wondered about my teacher until I became close to him and realized what was hidden behind the external indifference or cheerfulness.

Kabbalists experience very sharp ascents and descents; they have very strong periods, very emotional times, periods of detachment, tearing away from the world and from people. Such emptiness of the universe is revealed before them, which no ordinary person can feel.

This means that there are moments in which one feels despair, becomes depressed as if you are detached from life—for a Kabbalist all this is a billion times stronger and deeper than for an ordinary person. However, he has the right tools to help him cope with these states, but he still has them and feels them.

A Kabbalist’s egoism is much greater than an ordinary person’s. It is written, “He who is greater than his friend, his desire is even greater,” which means that the greater a person is, the greater his egoism is. In fact, a Kabbalist is a great man with great shortcomings, but, at the same time, with accordingly great advantages, which means that he has everything.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/9/16

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Question: Can I say that the female part in me is revealed if I enjoy for my own sake, and that the male part in me is revealed if I enjoy for the sake of the Creator or for other people? Can we say that we are constantly changing our gender?

Answer: The male and female inclinations in us are manifested according to the intention you wish to receive, whether it is for my own sake or for the sake of others.

But we don’t constantly change our gender. I hope that we will learn to do so and really be in the attribute of love and bestowal all of the time: to bestow in order to receive and receive in order to bestow. We must constantly play with that and move along the right and left lines. When egoism is added in the spiritual world, you become female, and when you overcome the egoism and gradually ascend, you become a male.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/26/16

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It is written in the Torah “And you shall rejoice in all your endeavors…” (Deuteronomy, 12:7).

Hands represent the egoistic desires of a person that want to possess the entire world.

However, when we act altruistically with our egoistic hands, meaning create altruistic intentions for our actions, then, in holiness, we will be able to absorb, perceive, and reveal the Creator in order to become closer to Him, to come into contact and adhesion with Him, and enter the quality of bestowal.

It is written, “Rejoice in all your endeavors,” since “rejoice” is the revelation of the Creator.

We discover Him in our corrected, properly assembled desires. So, the Creator comes from what we are able to assemble between us from our broken parts, each from his own.

In other words, the certain correct configuration of the connection between us gives us a corresponding image of bestowal and love, called the Creator, and another configuration gives us a different image of Him. Therefore, in The Book of Zohar and other sources, it is written that the Creator is revealed between us in different images. Yet, these images are not material ones.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/30/16

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Question: What exactly should I want during the lesson so that the Light will operate and influence me? Is it necessary to feel the Creator, to want to feel the desires of the friends, or to want something else? If a person hears a lesson, does the Light operate and influence him in any case, even without the right intention?

Answer: The Ohr Makif (Surrounding Light) operates and has an influence on everyone who listens to a lesson, even more for someone who wants to reveal the Creator, and even more for someone who wants to attain the characteristic of bestowal.

Question: Does the action of the Ohr Makif gradually bring a person to the recognition of evil, and does the recognition of evil bring a person to the right desire for correction, thanks to which the Creator changes the person so that he resembles Him, and then the person begins to feel Him? Is this the sequence of events?

Answer: Yes.
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Torah, Deuteronomy 12:8 – 12:9: You shall not do as all the things that we do here this day, every man [doing] what he deems fit. For you have not yet come to the resting place or to the inheritance, which the Lord, your God, is giving you.

A person in the course of his development—wandering through the desert for forty years, entering the correct work with his desire that is called “entering the land of Israel” and rearranging this land (“Aretz” from the word “Ratzon,” desire) for bestowal and love by serving the Creator—finally begins to understand his previous mistakes and misunderstandings.

He realizes how he was led from above. The Creator purposefully caused him mistakes and misunderstandings so that he would see all of the problems and the right actions through them. It is impossible to reveal something if you don’t make mistakes prior to it. After all, in order to come to the correct understanding of some phenomenon, it is necessary to know it from both sides: right and wrong.

Question: So, does it mean that what seems to me as correct now is wrong?

Answer: We only give a person the method of correction, but we don’t engage with what he goes through and how he does it.

No one has the right to interfere with the internal problems, corrections, feelings, and movements of a person—no one, not even the teacher, let alone a student regarding another student! You watch from the side, you observe all of this, you understand that only in this way can he develop, and in no any other way, and you wait ten years, twenty years, or thirty years.

Of course, changes happen in a person every moment, but you can’t enter this and propose, “Let me do it, or let me finish it for you.”

There are many types of support and help from the teacher that the student doesn’t know about because they are not performed explicitly. On the contrary, to the student, it seems that he was abandoned, the teacher is not paying attention to him, and so forth.

It was even worse for me. I suffered, worried, was stressed, and couldn’t do anything, and Rabash was laughing in my face.

Question: Yet, you were very close.

Answer: That doesn’t mean anything. The spiritual work stays spiritual work. There are no privileges or actions of the teacher in order to help the student. Otherwise, the student won’t make it. He must be independent in all of his desires and qualities, and use them correctly, one hundred percent, for bestowal.

But it all depends on the devotion of the student to the teacher, the group, and the goal. Through them, he comes to devotion to the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/30/16

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