Question: It is said that every person who comes to a group is chosen by tweezers as a precious stone and is inserted into a common necklace.

Answer: Each person who feels that he is attracted to Kabbalah must realize clearly that he was really selected by tweezers from the general mass of humanity and like a precious stone was inserted into the necklace.

He didn’t just turned up in this group at this time along with these people. There are specific reasons  for everything according to the root of his soul. He’ll find out about this later.
[195685]
From the Prague Congress, Preparatory Lesson, 9/9/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 12:9: For you have not yet come to the resting place or to the inheritance, which the Lord, your God, is giving you.

Rest is a corrected state in which a person is spinning like a hamster in a wheel because there are endless opportunities for realizing the property of bestowal, love, and correction that are revealed before him.

Question: He does not have any doubts left, does he?

Answer: Doubts stay with him, and they are not small at all! Otherwise, a person would turn into an animal.

Concealment always remains since the First Restriction (Tzimtzum Aleph) does not become cancelled.
[195835]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/30/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 12:4 – 12:5: You shall not do so to the Lord, your God. But only to the place which the Lord your God shall choose from all your tribes, to set His Name there; you shall inquire after His dwelling and come there.

This is a temple in the heart of a person.

A temple isn’t some kind of building in Jerusalem or anywhere else in Israel where people rush to kiss its stones and the wall, as it is today.

The only time my great teacher Rabbi Baruch Ashlag and I were in Jerusalem at the Wailing Wall, he went to it no closer than two meters, looked, and calmly, without stopping, turned back.

Not feeling any holiness in these stones, he didn’t even come close to them, and I clearly saw a complete detachment from this place in his behavior. However, a common person is drawn to this, he needs such a toy, as a baby feels comfortable only when he holds a familiar rattle in his hands, so does he.

It is necessary to educate people so that each will feel that he is related to our common temple—the unity of the hearts. The common temple is the soul.

The Torah speaks only about the construction of the temple in our hearts and from our hearts.

The place is a desire. A desire in Kabbalah is called “the place,” because only in the corrected desire that is in the right place is it possible to receive the Upper Light, the revelation of the Creator.
[195605]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/30/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 12:2: You shall utterly destroy from all the places where the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods, upon the lofty mountains and upon the hills, and under every lush tree.

Mountains, hills, and trees are what people worshipped. Either they worshipped something in these places: in the lowlands or valleys, in the mountains or on the hills, etc.

A person can pray to anything. In the repertory (Homeopathic reference), where all sorts of human motives and methods of their treatment are described, very interesting impulses of a person are mentioned, for example, a prayer to the tail of the horse and other similar things.

A person is subject to all sorts of internal fluctuations; there are various doubts, forces, and twilight states in him.

People worshipped trees a lot. However, if we speak about the internal work of a person, then the tree of knowledge of good and evil is the personification of the fact that out of something grows something. That is, knowledge is the fruit of the tree.
[195330]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/22/16

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Question: How did Kabbalsits allow two world wars to happen?

Answer: Don’t think that a Kabbalist can wrap the whole world around his little finger. If that were possible, I would already do so tirelessly. Unfortunately, this is impossible.

People can turn the world together to the degree that they get closer to each other above their egoism.

There were not any Kabbalistic groups yet during WWI. They emerged toward WWII, but they were very few. The groups of Baal HaSulam’s students were the ones who partially succeeded in preventing great problems in the world, but not the major problems, which means not the Holocaust and not the actual war, although they contributed their share to the great victories over fascism in WWII.

A Kabbalist can partially affect the world through his corrections, but only by positive corrections, which means not according to egoistic calculations, but according to what is good for humanity.
[195017]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/29/16

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Question: What will happen to the nations that don’t develop spiritually and don’t attain the Creator?

Answer: They will all gradually attain spirituality, but there are different levels of spiritual development. Just as there are nations that are more advanced technologically in our world and there are those that are more advanced physically, every nation is on a different level and develops in different directions. But eventually they all have to develop spiritually. In addition, the nations that advance faster have a smaller egoism, although it is expressed in the most overt manner. On the other hand, the nations that will attain spirituality later, like the African nations or Oceania, have a greater egoism, and they will attain a higher level of spirituality.

In fact, the Jews who are advancing at the head of mankind will reach the lowest spiritual level. Their duty is to convey the Upper Light through them, and this is why they are closer to it. But it is actually the nations that today are far from the question about the meaning of life and who will be the last to start the correction, that will receive the strongest and most powerful Light.
[195477]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/9/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 11:29 – 11:30: And it will be, when the Lord, your God, will bring you to the land to which you come, to possess it, that you shall place those blessing upon Mount Gerizim, and those cursing upon Mount Ebal. Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, way beyond, in the direction of the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites, who dwell in the plain, opposite Gilgal, near the plains of Moreh?

“Har” (mountain) is from the word “Hirhurim” (doubts). A person is always in doubt. However, some doubts bring him to the correct path, and with their help, he ascends, and other doubts bring him to a descent, when he agrees with his nature.

Therefore, blessings are given on one mountain and curses on the other, in other words, a reward here and a punishment there. In spirituality this is one mountain, one place where you stumble and fall and you rise there as well.

There is nothing else but through correct work with the curses you come to the blessing. After all, the desire is the same and you correct it gradually, you stumble, correct, stumble and so you advance.

Question: It is written that “the mountains are beyond Jordan, in the direction of the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites.” Why are they “in the direction of the sunset”?

Answer: A new degree of human development begins with the sunset. Therefore, we need to consider this degree as a good sign: you went through the previous state and now are moving to the new one.

It begins close to sunset, with the twilight, when everything is unknown: you can’t see and can’t distinguish between truth and lies, between the right and wrong path. In this case, you must go forward and choose by faith above reason.

Faith above reason is a very serious spiritual principle. Only if we really move by faith above reason will we be able to understand the difference between the state of blessing and the state of curse because this is not decided on the level of our earthly understanding but precisely by rising above our egoism. This decision is made in spite of everything earthly, contrary to our logic and our attitude to what is happening.

Therefore, everything happens at dusk, in the darkness, toward the sunset.
[195316]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/22/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 12:3: And you shall tear down their altars, smash their monuments, burn their asherim with fire, cut down the graven images of their gods, and destroy their name from that place.

Humanity has developed through the construction of various religious temples, which to this day are erected all over the world, and they compete as to whose structure is higher, more beautiful, more reliable, and it creates a special feeling in people.

All of this is for a person to gradually realize the wrong way and, only after this, to see the right way.

Question: What does “smash their monuments” mean regarding the internal work of a person?

Answer: Only after you build various intentions, movements, and targets within yourself and are convinced of their failure, can you smash them and build a structure in their place called the “temple of the Creator.”

This structure is internal, within the hearts of the people. Each likens his desires, his heart, brick by brick, and from the aggregation of these bricks, create a single structure. All of our desires unite, find contact with each other, and then the Creator is revealed in them.

“Burn their asherim with fire” means to not leave anything within yourself because the sacred trees represent everything material toward which we rushed throughout thousands of years of human history, and the ashes are the last inanimate stage, and everyone must reach this state.
[195333]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/22/16

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Question: How is freedom of choice expressed in a person? Is he responsible for his approach to the Creator?

Answer: The truth is that we have no freedom of choice in that, either. Rather, our only choice is in awakening our desire to follow the path of development of all of nature.

Otherwise, we are under the complete control of the Creator. When a person carries out the program of creation before it becomes realized in him, in this way, he is realizing his freedom of choice.
[195487]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/9/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 11:31 – 11:32: For you are crossing the Jordan, to come to possess the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it. And you shall keep to perform all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today.

“For you are crossing the Jordan, to come to possess the land” means to possess the desire you can correct. We can’t correct all of the desires at once. From all the vast number of the desires from our entire nature, we can only partially correct the desire called Israel that we can direct to the Creator.

Therefore, it is said that we are a small nation. It means that we can direct to spiritual correction only a small part of human nature. All the rest will be corrected at the end of the general path of correction, in the state of the final correction (Gmar Tikkun).

First, you must correct a small part of what is called Israel, and then the rest of the nations of the world.

Therefore, the Torah encourages us to enter the land of Israel with those desires that can be corrected, and begin fighting with the seven nations that inhabit this earth, in other words, to fight with oneself, destroying all egoistic intentions within me.

The desires that we win (correct), we will be able to gather together and create one immense, united desire, which will reveal the Creator.

The Torah speaks of how, after 2,000 years of exile, guided by the current day, we again must bring ourselves to the spiritual state in which our ancestors were, and win over the rest of humanity. We must begin correcting not only ourselves, as a small part of the entire egoism, but the entire, huge, universal egoism.
[195321]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/22/16

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