Comment: It is said that we have “to walk in all His ways and to love Him, and to worship the Lord, your God” (Deuteronomy 10:12), and to serve Him.

Answer: It is needless to serve Him if He is Absolute. We just need to serve people, creating for them the upper world. The Creator needs nothing. What can you give Him? He is perfect!

Question: Isn’t there egoism that still manifests itself one way or another in the fact that I serve people?

Answer: In the upper system everything is arranged so that if all my intentions are egoistic, then, first of all I can’t serve people spiritually, and secondly I will receive only a “slap” on the head from others.

And even if I behave correctly and do everything for them unselfishly, nevertheless they will still criticize me as much as they want and thereby will guard me from conceit and pride; I thank them very much for this! However, if they don’t criticize me, it is a problem. This is a punishment from the Creator.
[193741]
From KabTV program “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/16/16

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The Torah, Deuteronomy, “Ekev,” 10:03 – 10:05: So I made an ark of acacia wood, and I hewed two stone tablets like the first ones, and I ascended the mountain, with the two tablets in my hand. And He inscribed on the tablets, like the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain, from the midst of the fire, on the day of the assembly, and the Lord gave them to me.

And I turned and came down from the mountain, and placed the tablets in the ark which I had made, and there they were, as the Lord had commanded me.

This speaks about the same Ten Commandments, but on an entirely different level. It is like saying the same words to a child, an adolescent, and an adult, but all of them will understand differently and will accept and implement the words in different ways.

These commandments are intended for a different generation; therefore, they are different. This is exactly the way this process should happen, and this is how it happened with both Temples when Rabbi Akiva laughed about the destruction of the First Temple and said, “Now I trust that more is exactly what will occur.”

Question: But what was it like for people who saw the tragedy occurring to look at him? The leader of the generation laughing at the very moment when everyone else cried.

Answer: These are two levels of attainment. The problem is that people don’t understand Kabbalists. In order to understand them, a person has to rise to their level. There is no other way. After all, it is said, he who increases knowledge, increases pain. (Ecclesiastes 1:18). In fact, a Kabbalist is the one who worries more than the others, but on the other hand, he also rejoices.

Question: If a generation doesn’t understand the Kabbalist, what was Baal Sulam expecting when he wrote his articles?

Answer: The fact is that there must be some feedback from the generation, and there was none. A Kabbalist mainly works only when he receives a certain task from above.

Baal Sulam didn’t work for the last generation, although he wrote a little bit about it. He lived in a very difficult time, with the creation of the State of Israel, World War II, the Holocaust, and the death of the Jews. He worked specifically to accept and to shape people spiritually at the time he lived here in the land of Israel, and to lay the foundation for the last generation.
[193486]
From KabTV program “Secrets of the eternal book” 5/16/16

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The only correct prayer is a prayer for the society, meaning for the ten, while the state of a prayer for myself should be crossed out within my “I.”

A person who raises a prayer for his ten becomes its representative and is the first one to be awarded leading the merging with the Creator.

It is precisely the one who, through his ten, can appeal to the Creator that is called a creation, an individual, a human being. The rest of the nine people represent a matrix through which he appeals to the Creator.

The acceleration of spiritual advancement boils down to enlarging the society that can become closer to the prayer. It means that when you raise an appeal, you can take the biggest desires from this society and direct them toward fulfillment, toward the common merging. This can be accomplished through dissemination and education.
[188186]
From the Convention In Moscow, Day One 5/2/16, Lesson 3

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Question: How can I learn to speak from my heart?

Answer: A person should not always speak from his heart. But he should say things that help his friends on the spiritual path.

There are neither truth nor lies in our lives. Everything is divided only in two parts: something that leads to the spiritual goal and something that does not. This is because the truth today will become a lie tomorrow and vice versa.

The goal of our existence is the connection and merging of all parts of creation. If something is directed toward this goal, it is truth; if not, it is a lie.
[183683]
From the Convention in Moscow, Day One, Lesson 2, 5/2/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 9:25 – 9:27: So I fell down before the Lord the forty days and the forty nights that I had fallen down; because the Lord had said to destroy you. And I prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord God, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance, which You have redeemed in Your greatness, and which You have brought out of Egypt with mighty hand. Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; do not turn to the stubbornness of this people, to their wickedness, or to their sin.

Moses protects his people all the time, because he is a quality of Bina. He is the only one who has connection with the Creator. This is a quality that exists deep within us, and today we are trying to create it in the connection between the friends in the group. This quality will save us.

Question: At what moment do I fall down before the Creator?

Answer: When I agree with the fact that everything that is done, is done by Him for the better and I am ready to lower myself before all the actions that He thinks to carry out through me. I agree with absolutely everything. This is considered a very high degree.

If I don’t do it, I won’t be able to correct any of my 613 desires, i.e., I won’t be able to perform 613 commandments (Mitzvot). This is what is called “destroy my people.”

Question: And what does the exclamation “Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob” mean?

Answer: The forefathers aren’t the slaves of Pharaoh, but the servants of the Creator. They laid the foundation of the three lines in our soul. Thus, thanks to their preparation within us, we can move on. They are constantly holding the connection between the people and the Creator.

Question: In other words, it is a request? It gives us an opportunity to walk along the middle line because we constantly deviate to the left.

Answer: This is the way it should be. A person should rejoice when something strong and serious falls on him. It means that now he rose to such a state where he can accept an additional burden and, of course, additional connection with the Creator.

Question: Usually such states come when we don’t expect them. However, can we ourselves cause them, feel ourselves reaching a dead end, and start working with them?

Answer: I personally don’t see states that a person can cause himself or even more than that, not to cause, but to provoke.

The Creator has His plan, His terms, and He works with them very precisely because everything consists of ten Sefirot, five Partzufim, 125 degrees, 613 desires on each degree and so on. It means that everything is calibrated and installed from the top down. And from the bottom up, we can only rise according to the same laws.
[193231]
From KabTV’s, “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/11/16

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Question: What is the alternative offered by the wisdom of Kabbalah that is equivalent of money that exists in the world today?

Answer: Effort. Money is the equivalent of the efforts we make. So all that is needed is to balance our lives. Try to rearrange your life just a little, so that you will be able to continue to work, maintain a good relationship with the family, and be involved with everything that you are used to, but in a more balanced way. Try to live in this framework and along with this engage in studying Kabbalah. And you will see how things begin to be arranged so that everything will be enough for you. Thoughts about lack will gradually disappear; you will calm down and everything will truly be enough for you.

Question: You can buy all kinds of pleasure in this world with money. What kind of pleasure does the wisdom of Kabbalah offer if there won’t be any money and all will be on the public dole?

Answer: Kabbalah offers the most tremendous, the most eternal, unchangeable fulfillment and pleasure, which no amount of money can buy. Kabbalah elevates a person to the level of eternity and perfection, above death. This method called Kabbalah is designed so that the Upper Light fills us and we don’t need anything more. In that way we reach our natural root fulfillment.
[192305]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/3/16

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Question: Is participation in Jewish holidays an obligation for groups outside of Israel?

Answer: I recommend taking part in the activities of the group to understand the essence of every holiday because every holiday is a level of spiritual growth.
[192916]

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Torah, Deuteronomy 9:24: You have been rebelling against the Lord since the day I became acquainted with you.

Question: What is the meaning of the phrase, “since the day I became acquainted with you?”

Answer: It is from the day Moses was called upon to lead his people.

It was still the gift from the Creator! Absolute egoism was breaking out from every point possible in the sons of Israel. So, it was necessary to settle, compare, and constantly make changes in their attitudes toward each other, so they agreed to come out of Egypt.

Moreover, they must be aware of the future state they are going to. This isn’t a physical exit from Egypt to Sinai, but an exit from their egoism, separation from it, rising above it.

This is how the rebelling was expressed. Egoism allowed itself complete freedom of action.
[193175]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/11/16

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Question: Is spiritual correction tested through poverty or wealth?

Answer: There is no test here! A person must live his life in a balanced way and provide everything for himself reasonably, I would even say minimally, so that everything will be simple.  The rest is invested in spiritual development. In this way a person profits in this world without wasting his energy on anything superfluous, and at the same time he gains the spiritual world.

Question: Suppose a person wants to be involved in spiritual development, in the wisdom of Kabbalah, but has no means, he is constantly engaged in earning money. How should one relate to a situation like this?

Answer: It cannot be that someone would need to be working to make money absolutely all the time if we are talking about a person’s normal, minimum, and reasonable needs.  Suppose he did begin to study Kabbalah, see how all of a sudden he would be able to balance his studies with the income that he has.

Question: There are people who want to be involved only with spirituality because the entire physical world simply repels them. They have no motivation to work, earn money, to play sports, or perform household duties.

Answer: This is natural! So I advise not neglecting work. Rabash insisted that a person work and earn. Even if he has no need for money, he should still work a particular number of hours per day.

[192300]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/3/16

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Question: Why do we often say that we must reach a goal, but we don’t pay attention to the corrected state already existing in everyone?

Answer: Yearning for the goal is the determinant and the force for our development, whereas focusing on the corrected state prevents movement toward the goal.
[193033]

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