Torah, Deuteronomy 10:16: You shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, therefore, and be no more stiffnecked.

“You shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart” means that you need to trim the edge of your heart because you are entering a state called the land of Israel when one needs to open his heart to complete correction.

The meaning of circumcision is that the desires that are impossible to correct are removed from the heart. The correct Kli (vessel) or soul consists of ten Sefirot. At first, we can correct only a certain part of it, and the rest is as if removed; in other words, it is not used for a certain time.

This action is performed by the Upper Light that cuts off, like a knife, the uncorrected part, protecting it so that we won’t touch it. Thus, I am confident that I never will make a mistake and won’t start using those desires for which I have no power of correction.

The Light performs all actions without exception: both fulfillment and circumcision. In this case, it acts like a knife.
[193959]
From the KabTV program, “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/1/16

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Question: Are there any Kabbalistic sources that can be learned concisely and quickly in order to attain spirituality?

Answer: Although you can teach and study the wisdom of Kabbalah quickly, if you want to attain spirituality it is up to you. Here I cannot guarantee anything because it all depends on your connection with the friends.

If you succeed in persuading yourself that it is essential to be connected to them, you are lucky. If you can convince yourself that you should believe what I teach and present before you, you can be sure that you have gained something.

But you will not attain anything without a teacher and without friends. There is no other way to fulfill the wisdom of Kabbalah correctly except for in the connection with the friends in the center of the group and in the center of the ten. Only then will you begin to feel the attribute of love and bestowal, which will reveal the Creator to you.
[193564]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/8/16

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Question: How can we develop a serious connection between us when great distances and different time zones separate us?

Answer: This is not a problem! Even if we are in different worlds: you are in this world and I am already in another world, it doesn’t matter, we can be connected with each other. Believe me, there are no limitations!

It also makes no difference where we are. I have wonderful students in Russia and America. I love my students from all the South American countries very much. I feel their advancement regardless of the geographic location.

Don’t think that the students who are near me are the most advanced, definitely not! They may be more advanced in certain mechanical actions, but lately the dissemination that the Moscow group and a few other Russian groups have been doing is far ahead of the central Israeli group. Currently the American groups are also overtaking the Israeli group and catching up with the Russian group.

Therefore, I don’t see any obstacles for my connection with you and all the groups between themselves. It depends only on you.

If there is at least some small physical contact through the media and Internet, we can always be connected. And then we will move to such connection that exists in other planes that are a different type of waves. Then you will communicate directly with me, and we will be in contact with each other soul-to-soul, and no parallels and meridians will separate us from each other.

I promise you that! This is how I am connected to my teacher; otherwise, I wouldn’t receive from him what I do today. The Book of Zohar and many other sources tell us about such states.

At the moment we don’t feel the connection between us only because the concealment acts in us this way. In fact, we all are imbued by an infinite number of links! Let’s awaken them between us and you will see where you really are.
[193510]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/8/16

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Question: It is said in the Torah that the Creator demands that we fear Him. What does it mean to fear something I don’t feel? After all, there is nothing in this, other than a game.

Answer: We are not talking about an animal fear. I am not able to intimidate myself, and that is a wrong attitude toward the Creator, to the upper force, because He is absolute, perfect, fills everything, and is infinitely good.

The fact is, that I have to artificially create a system of relationships between my friends and me that will be called the upper world or the Creator. As a result, the system must pass the test of truth and be such that it coincides with the existing system, which was created by the Creator from the descent from the top down, and we create this system by rising from the bottom up.To the extent they match, the two systems are combined, and the upper system is placed in the lower, and is felt as one single entity.

The upper system is called the Upper Light that is included in us this way. And the lower system is a system of our corrected relationships that must conform to the Upper Light. That is, we must create such relationships between us, like in the Light, and despite the fact that our system consists of the lowest, coarse desires, we must make it similar to the Upper Light of the Creator. Then it will fill the lower system and both worlds will merge. This state is considered corrected.

Comment: It turns out that you walk in the dark from the bottom upward….

Answer: But you have “tablets” for this—instruction manuals. And most importantly, you have your egoism that stops and confuses you all the time. Thanks to it, you constantly turn to the Creator and receive some help from Him.

After all, on the one side (on the left) egoism pushes you away from the goal, on the other side, you need help from the right. This way, thanks to these two forces, when one is allegedly “against,” and another is “for” (although they both are “for”), you move forward. We just need to learn to use them correctly.

Question: Does it mean that the smallest degree of deviation from the correct angle takes us in a completely different direction from the meeting with the Creator?

Answer: No, the fact is that after reaching the first degree where we get included into each other, the minimal degree of deviation is corrected all the time and the correction takes place with higher accuracy.

Question: What is the fear in the movement from the bottom upward?

Answer: This is a fear not to guess the desire of the Creator and to do something that will disappoint people and Him. This is the state that all of us should have.

Question: So how can we disappoint people?

Answer: The fact that in this case they would feel themselves imperfect and would have the feeling of mutual shame that literally “burns” them. Therefore, we must try to make the relationships between us similar to the attitude of the Creator toward us.
[193736]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/16/16

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Question: Do you believe that a person can be happy in this world?

Answer: It is impossible. You can close your eyes; you can even get drunk or take drugs; you can limit yourself in certain frameworks and not think about anything else, but if a person really discovers himself, if he develops all the time and really wants to understand, to feel, to know, and to attain everything, it is impossible to be happy in our world.

Question: Does this mean that this world was given to us in order to direct us to true happiness?

Answer: This world is given to us as the starting point of our development. We cannot develop any other way in this world. This is the reason that everything that we do in our world is absolutely useless. This means that true life begins from the spiritual ascent, while our world remains as a point. Everything we have done throughout history is only the starting point.

Question: What about all the scientific and cultural achievements?

Answer: All our scientific and cultural achievements are the achievements of our egoism. Nothing is left of all these great achievements and ideas. The whole human history is a history on the animate level.

When we begin to look at ourselves from the side, we realize that the root of all our actions is egoism. It is the cause of all our instincts; it drives us to write poems, novels, music, and other works of art. Therefore, there are no upper attributes, states, or achievements of any kind in any of this!

Our whole history, everything that we experience and all our values we have accumulated throughout our history are only one tiny black point compared to the rest of our development. But when we attain spirituality, we don’t feel sorry about all that because then we truly begin our interstellar journey.
[193778]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/19/16

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Question: How can I want to feel another person? Inside, a person is full of pain, humiliation, fears; I am terrified by the thought that someone will feel me.

Answer: You are not told to feel the pain, humiliation, or fears of other people! Rather you should feel the point in the heart in a person, his yearning for the Creator! It is only through this that he is your friend. Everything else, his body or his ego, doesn’t affect you at all. You shouldn’t be ashamed of yourself and engage in self-flagellation. You are full of flaws just like everyone else in this world.

So we connect with each other with the points in the heart, through yearning for the Creator. Everything else is seemingly left below. We only elevate these points and connect them with each other.

In everything else we are egoists, like all the rest of the people on the planet because the Creator created us with an egoistic desire and we cannot be good. That is also what is written: “I created the evil inclination; I created the Torah as a spice for it, for the Light in it will return it to the good” (see Kiddushin 30b).

Before we begin to correct ourselves we are totally bad, completely negative, so much so that we cannot even imagine it—each one of us. So you can relax, for you truly are completely wicked. But now we need to be corrected by attracting the upper Light. We are not saying that we must correct the evil in ourselves; rather, the Upper Light gradually arrives, corrects, and balances the evil through its goodness.
[193615]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/8/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 9:28 – 9:29: Lest [the people of] the land from which you brought us out will say, “Because of the Lord’s inability to bring them to the land about which He spoke to them, and because of His hatred toward them, He has brought them out to slay them in the desert.” But they are Your people and Your inheritance, which You brought out with Your great strength and with Your outstretched arm.

Question: What is this appeal to the Creator?

Answer: This is a state when a person has the ability to soften the Creator’s attitude toward him and thus to overcome some of the obstacles smoothly, but he doesn’t agree to this.

He wants to overcome them in their truest form so his own egoism won’t come back to him and start arguing that it is possible to cheat a little and it is not necessary to do everything meticulously to the highest level.

These things are found at every step. But a person knows what to do. After all, when he receives an opportunity to work this way he has no doubts. It’s just that for him there always appears a point of making the hardest decisions.
[193293]
From the KabTV program “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/11/16

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Question: How can I seal the egoism within me?

Answer: There is no need at all to block anything. On the contrary, don’t even touch the ego at all. It will be corrected to the degree that we attract the Upper Light, attracting the good light that will balance the egoism so that we will correct ourselves.

We will have no relation to the egoism. It lives within us and we are its slaves, as we were with Pharaoh in Egypt. But we are working so that we will gradually attract the Upper Light onto ourselves, the fore that attracts and takes us out from the control of the ego, from our “Egypt” until we have gathered a sufficient degree of power in quantity and quality and we can begin to transcend it.

It is necessary to think only about the good and the connection between us and not about our bad characteristics. They were within us from the start and they should be kept there. The Light will pull them up and correct them.
[193685]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/8/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 10:01: At that time, the Lord said to me, “Hew for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to Me onto the mountain, and make for yourself a wooden ark.

A person’s egoistic heart that must be corrected is called a stony heart. Therefore, the entire Torah, the essence of which is in ten sayings, in ten main commandments, must be carved onto the heart.

It is necessary to carve out of the heart, i.e., of our desires, the only place (nothing else should remain of it) to write on it the ten commandments that we must perform each day and night to reach their full implementation during our entire life, at the same time, rising to the mountain.

The mountain is called Mount Sinai, the mountain of hatred. Rising to the Creator and descending from Him, a person suddenly discovers that all the people (his desires) are engaged in debauchery, confusion, and desire to fully delight themselves with food, sex, knowledge, fame, power, and everything that their stony evil heart can imagine. However, nevertheless, he must bear these tablets.

Therefore, Moses carved them and made an additional special packaging for them in order to guard his corrected desires that were once carved on the tablets; they assumed the form of letters. Allegorically, it is said that when he was carrying the tablets, these letters were shining.

But everything Moses achieved, he did for himself, and this is not enough. So when he came down, he discovered that the people had become corrupted and his tablets were worthless! Therefore he destroyed them.

This shattering mixed all of his upper thoughts and ideas with the lower ones. So when he climbed the mountain for the second time with the new tablets, they were much more valuable than the previous ones, not due to their height and detachment from everything material, but because they included themselves in all the sinister earthly desires of the people connected with the desire to go back to the golden calf, to Egypt, “Give us what we had in Egypt.” This is why the second tablets were much more valuable.

As a rule, a Kabbalist must pull himself up to the lowest level; there is no other way. Only from the shattering is it possible to go up! The same thing happened to Adam. The same thing happened to us: the construction of the First and Second Temples, their complete destruction, exit into the exile, and beginning of the current recovery. After all, today we are mixed with all of humanity and therefore our recovery will be universal, correct, and final. This is how it happens.

So Moses, in such a condition, breaking the tablets and ascending the mountain again shows this was planned in advance; it can’t be any other way!

And the instruction to carve himself two stony tablets means to prepare the heart to rise. It is said, “Write the Torah on your heart” (on your desires) because it is necessary to give the desires a certain shape. And this, actually, is a heart.
[193366]
From KabTV Program “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/16/16

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Question: In the Rabash article, “What the Concept of Failure Is in the Work,” what is the meaning of failure?

Answer: Attributing everything that happens with a person to the Creator sums up the only task a person has in our world, meaning when the Creator is concealed. The only force that exists in creation determines all the thoughts, desires, and actions that a person has, “There is none else beside Him” (Deuteronomy 4:35).

It seems to a person that he has desires and thoughts; this is a discovery of the concealment of the Creator. In this concealment, which is called, “this world,” a person’s task is to attribute everything that happens to the Creator from the start. The only sin, mistake, or iniquity is that a person doesn’t attribute everything to the Creator.

Accordingly, the only task of a person is to attribute all thoughts, desires and actions to their source, the Creator, and to see himself as a result of all the actions of the Creator. See the articles, “There is None Else Beside Him,” “Thou Hast Hemmed Me In Behind and Before,” “Concealment and Disclosure of the Face of the Creator,” and others.
[193349]

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