Torah, Deuteronomy 10:22: With seventy souls, your forefathers descended to Egypt, and now the Lord, your God, has made you as the stars of heaven in abundance.

When the sons of Israel descended to Egypt, they were just seventy souls. It means that it was the whole Partzuf, but in a state of smallness (VAK): Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, Yesod, and Malchut, and seven times ten equals seventy people.

The Partzuf lacked the “head,” meaning the huge desire of Pharaoh that was acquired in Egypt, and therefore, after exiting Egypt, they were able to assemble themselves into a complete soul. Pharaoh added desire to them by making them work very hard. They began to think about their purpose, what to do with themselves and how to connect above the growing egoism. Serious squabbles and quarrels began between them in Egypt. Pharaoh was constantly between them. The egoistic force grew, pushing them away from each other. Thus, a hopeless state was created, and they were forced to move closer to each other.

While trying to connect, they eventually understood that in Egypt they wouldn’t be able to get close to each other and get out of their egoism. Therefore, they had to rise above Pharaoh, that is, to escape from Egypt.

Question: Did the sons of Israel increase quantitatively and become numerous precisely because the egoism grew?

Answer: The Torah never refers to a quantitative addition, but only to the quality of the Partzuf: a small soul at first, then a little bigger, and then even bigger. It doesn’t depend on the quantity of the elements, but on the power of egoism that was collected in it. This is called that the Partzuf now has a head.

Question: The head that is added to VAK is the appearance of Moses?

Answer: Yes, slowly the need for him develops in the people of Israel. There is nothing artificial here. They grow gradually until Moses appears among them. And he appears suddenly, when there is no special need for him.

He emerges between two lines, right and left, between Pharaoh and the Creator, as someone able to lead all the other desires.
[194129]
From Kab TV “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/1/16

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Question: Is transcending the Machsom (barrier), reaching bestowal, reaching equivalence of form with the Creator, and uniting with friends all the same thing? If not, what is the difference between these phenomena?

Answer: They are all the same.

Question: Is one’s desire to feel the Creator while listening to and reading the materials enough in order to draw the Surrounding Light and advance toward the Machsom?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it right to advance toward the Machsom with the aim of doing everything in order to feel the Creator so that we can delight Him?

Answer: Our whole way is in order to reach absolute bestowal and to resemble the Creator.
[193812]

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Question: How is it that when working in a circle, in a workshop, in a group of ten, I begin to feel a connection with the entire world soul, with people I don’t know?

Answer: The Creator created one big desire and then broke it into pieces.

In other words, the only desire that was created was shattered into billions of fragments under the influence of what is called the sin of Adam, because Adam introduced egoism into this desire. As a result, the connection between the parts of the general desire stopped, and each individual desire stopped feeling all the rest. To be more precise, it felt them, but wanted to use them for itself only.

The general desire to receive is called, “Adam” or “Adam HaRishon” (the First Man), or the “soul.” After the Shevira (breaking), the collective soul was divided into a multitude of individual souls.

Then, the individual souls fell even lower. In each one of them remained a small point called “Keter,” which is the beginning of a future soul. These points or sparks that remained unbroken, draw us toward reconnection in order to discover the Creator.

When they are ignited within us, we long to discover the entire system of the Creator. This is revealed in us as a longing to attain the meaning of life, and we find ourselves in some group.

A group is a certain part of all the individual souls that must now reach correction. People gather together into one group, without knowing why themselves, and begin to work on themselves in groups of ten, to transform the group of ten into one unit, one common whole. The moment that they attain this, they immediately begin to feel the Creator.

This is what we must do. So in every place, wherever it may be, you must find friends with whom you will learn to create among you a single whole according to the method of the wisdom of Kabbalah. Then you will feel the upper world, meaning you will restore the connection between you called 10 Sefirot, a Partzuf, or a soul.

Through this structure, you will be able to feel the upper world clearly. “Soul,” “Upper World,” and “Creator” are the same thing; it depends on how we scrutinize this discovery.
[193748]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/8/16

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Question: Should you treat a person the same way he treats you?

Answer: Under no circumstances should you respond to someone’s negative attitude toward you in the same way! On the contrary, you should display the right attitude toward him and purposefully exaggerate your positive attitude toward him.

If he responds correctly, it is good. If not, break away from him. This indicates that he cannot understand and appreciate correctly your attitude toward him yet.
[193761]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/1/16

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Question: It is written, “You shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, therefore, and be no more stiffnecked” (Torah, Deuteronomy 10:16). What does being “stiffnecked” mean?

Answer: A person must increase his sensitivity to the things he can correct and act in this direction, not stand stubbornly in one place. In other words, it is necessary to try to be connected to the Upper Light of Hassadim so that it will dilute a person’s qualities and will give him an opportunity to see the best way to use them.

After all, in entering the land of Israel, a person begins to work with his qualities of reception, which are very hard and heavy qualities.

The land of Israel is the heaviest part of the joint Malchut, joint desires, and it isn’t simple to work with them.

Therefore, it is written, “be no more stiffnecked,” don’t be headstrong, but try gradually to dilute, as with water, these huge, difficult-to-correct desires with the Light of Hassadim. Then, you will see that it is possible gradually to work with them.
[194028]
From KabTV program “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/1/16

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Question: Can the a person’s life be lengthened if he studies the wisdom of Kabbalah and is particularly concerned about not having enough time to attain spiritual perfection in his lifetime?

Answer: That shows an absolute lack of faith!

First and foremost, one needs to free himself from concerns, because if he is under the control of the Creator, and besides Him there is no force, nobody besides Him, and He is good and benevolent, there is no reason for questions of this kind about what will happen to him in another minute and will he achieve something or not.

The condition, “There is none else beside Him” (Deuteronomy 4:35), the absolute good, completely prevents a person from having all kinds of egoistic questions. He is left with only one single question: How can a person become His associate, helper, guarantor to carry out His will in the world? Because I can implement them because I am in this world. We need to ask for only one thing: for the Creator to dictate His desires to us and that we will bring them to all of humanity. This is the function of a Kabbalist or, if you will, a prophet.

Question: Which is to say, a Kabbalist cannot ask for good health for his relatives and for himself?

Answer: If this is imperative, he can ask, but what is the use if the Creator is responsible for it?

If the Creator did that so that a person will ask Him, then he will ask. In other words, it is up to the person to search and understand why all of this is happening and to request to be directed toward the Light and correction.
[193771]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/15/16

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Question: If we were working in a group ideally to create connection between us correctly, would we then not have any physical suffering?

Answer: Right, but it is not possible to do this work ideally. After all, you are not alone, you are working in a group, and it is connected to all of humanity. So even if someone has small physical desires, he has an influence on us.

We are in one closed integral system, one collective soul, such that what anyone else outside of the group does influences everyone.

Question: Does it follow that I will not be able to build a connection through my intellect, that I will not be able to check and think rationally, why this happened?

Answer: It is possible to calculate everything, but Kabbalists are not involved with that. The wisdom of Kabbalah even forbids doing this because you need to be interested in the result. The result is immediate contact with the Creator. This is greater contact than before, a contact in which you attain all the contrasts and contradictions as they are connected with the beginning and end of creation.
[194398]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/15/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 10:12: And now, O Israel, what does the Lord, your God, demand of you? Only to fear the Lord, your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, and to worship the Lord, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul.

If there is only one force, one system, that controls everything and keeps everything within itself, then all our egoism should be directed to fear it.

To fear means to subdue our desires to this system. And what is so scary or hard about it? If the system is so great and I am in the complete subordination to it, if it controls everything by penetrating me fully, why do I need these instructions?! After all, everything is in hands of the Creator. So what are we talking about?!

The fact is that I must undergo the spiritual correction consciously, in a state when He is hidden from me. That’s the catch! The Creator is hidden and I don’t see that this is He who acts and controls. Therefore I must do everything by myself, that is, despite all the disturbances, I must reach such a state, such a life, where I understand that the Creator controls everything, although He doesn’t exist! I myself create Him within me.

It is hard for a person to understand this. But there is nothing that can be done. This is the wisdom of Kabbalah, this is the truth. However, gradually those pieces of the collective soul, who understand this state and can implement it, hold the Light that will affect all the others and, as it is said, “Everyone will know Me, from the smallest to the greatest.”
[193733]
From KabTV”s “Secrets of the eternal book” 5/16/16

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Question: What can be done if there is no desire to study the wisdom of Kabbalah and go to a group after many years of study? At first it seemed as if I had found the “philosophers’ stone” and my entire meaning of life was in the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Answer: As long as your ego was interested in studying the wisdom of Kabbalah, you ran to study, you learned its method, and it was very good for you. But today, your ego wants something else and is ready to abandon the study. Do you really think that you can systematically learn and seriously understand the wisdom of Kabbalah like that?! And this is true even for any other science. How could you do it?! You were given an opportunity to understand and know how the world in which you live is constructed, how to transform it into a Garden of Eden! This is for you, personally, for yourself. Do you want it? Go on. No? Unfortunately, I cannot give you a desire.

I can give only one piece of advice: you must play one against the other. Give an example of your greatest desire to one another. You must see how important it is to you to discover the meaning of life, its purpose, and its secrets!

Do not delay, but be sure to understand! This is a great truth, the truth! Latent in it is a characteristic that is so important to the world for attaining balance and a good future for you and for your children. Which is to say, you are involved in the most important and most interesting and secret wisdom that is gradually revealed to you. Have you lost your patience? You need to get it from the environment.

It is said, “buy yourself a friend” (Pirkei Avot 1:6). In a good and proper relationship with him, you can acquire his desire from him and continue to study, and you will have no need for anything else. You will begin to discover the upper world in the connection between you, and there you will gradually, as from a well of living water, begin to notice in the upper world how more and more future actions and events in our world are born within you. You will see yourself and your friends in a perfect state there.
[193744]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/8/16

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Question: There is a negative relationship between my grown son and I. What should I do if I want to make contact with him and he doesn’t understand me? How can I help my son and myself through the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: This is a problem! Your son doesn’t want to be in contact with you because he feels that you suppress him, while you feel that you need to take care of him, and he should accept your care and care for you in return.

However, the relationship between a mother and a child should be such that a mother won’t give a child reason to think that she limits him.

The young generation needs its freedom from the previous generation. They need the parents to provide them with all the necessities and move aside.

My teacher Rabash used to say, “All that our children need from us is to close our mouth and open our pocket.”

This is what they require. Do you want to have a good relationship with them? Then close your mouth and open your pocket.

Of course, this is somewhat exaggerated, but I advise you to keep him in your thoughts (because they influence your son) and show him that you require nothing from him: no changes in his life at all. You want, if possible, just to add somewhere, anywhere he wishes.

This is what we learn from the upper providence that treats the lower system this way.

Every upper Sefira only does what is necessary for the lower in order for it to fulfill itself, to grow, and to attain. It doesn’t think about itself in any way.

This is exactly how the Creator treats us: we don’t owe Him anything and only He owes us.

Comment: It is said that we are obliged to keep the commandments…

Answer: You do that in order to correct yourself and not for the Creator! The Creator is perfect. You can’t give Him anything and you don’t give Him anything. Absolutely nothing! After all, if we speak about a perfect attribute, then it won’t gain or lose anything no matter how you conduct yourself. Everything is done only for your own good and nothing more.
[193681]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/1/16

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