When I begin working with the group I gradually encounter all kinds of problems. This is how the Creator reveals the area of work for me so I will resolve all problems that come up, cover them with bridges of love, and create conditions for His revelation within the group.

So I tie myself with the other group members, as the ten Sefirot, and provide a place for the Creator’s revelation between us.

Therefore, we constantly have to remind one another about this. After all, the Creator constantly resets us in our earthly philistinism, and we have to rise from it toward the spiritual tuning, to the correct view of the situation.

This is our constant work. We rise to the new spiritual state from the earthly, confusing world that the Creator makes for us on purpose.
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From the Moscow Convention, Lesson 4, 5/3/16

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Question: There are open, extroverted people in the world and there are closed, unsociable, introverted ones. How does Kabbalah explain this? What spiritual roots does it come from?

Answer: Everyone is different.

It depends on the Sefirot in the individual in the general body. If the Sefirot of Hesed and Netzach are in a person and control him, they are Sefirot responsible for spreading and expanding. On the other hand, the Sefirot of Gevura and Hod are attributes of introversion, vigilance, and defense.

The Sefira Yesod is the general unity of all the Sefirot. This Sefira leads to the correct use of all the attributes, both the “negative” and the “positive” ones because you cannot have one without the other. It is by their mutual complement that the perfection we have to attain is born.

Question: Does an ascent to an upper level enable us to manage all the relationships between people or just to a certain degree?

Answer: An ascent to an upper level enables you to manage all the relationships between people and all the relationships with the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/1/16

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Question: Must we unite with other people to reveal the upper world? For example, suppose that I have psychological barriers, like fears that are based upon painful experiences that make it difficult for me to connect with other people and I can only come in contact with them through writing.

Answer: Union with others is necessary for discovering the upper world, but this can be only in a special group that is designed for this.

Question: How can a person fully connect with God, and what must he go through?

Answer: A specific group is required and it is realized only within the same group.
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Question: What does it mean, “And I cast its (golden calf’s) dust into the brook that descends from the mountain”?

Answer: “The brook that descends from the mountain” is a quality of Bina that comes down from Mount Sinai. Egoism (the dust of the golden calf) must be mixed with the quality of bestowal in order to produce a connection of Bina and Malchut to reach the second restriction (Tzimtzum Bet) that is a special symbiosis of qualities of reception and bestowal when they get combined and become ready for gradual and consistent correction during the so-called forty years.

The people, representing the quality of Malchut, stand at the very foot of the mountain, they don’t even have a drop of spiritual qualities, no strength to climb the mountain.

This brook that is flowing down (Bina) begins to mix with Malchut. This is great mercy of the Creator when He gives His force in order to mix with the egoism of a person and to begin raising him. And a person is required only to close his mouth, heart, and eyes and to want just one thing: to be included in this brook by at least one point.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/11/16

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Question: I understand that every moment in our life when we mutually cooperate with others along the path of correction is important. Do we have to appreciate the contact with any other human being without exception?

Answer: No!

Question: How does the wisdom of Kabbalah explain the correction of the ego by our contact with those who are on a lower spiritual level? To what degree is altruism and mutual cooperation with them justified?

Answer: No connection with them is justified!

Question: You often speak about spiritual incorporation with all of mankind and that everyone will eventually be connected and united. What will happen to all the mentally ill and what will their correction be?

Answer: When we are corrected we will also correct them!
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Question: Can we bargain with the Creator and close a deal with Him?

Answer: Of course, the deals that we close with the Creator are called Arvut (Mutual Guarantee). It is as if each of us says to the Creator: “You are for me and I am for You; I will do everything that You ask of me and You will fulfill my requests.”

Thus, consciously or subconsciously we present the Creator with a condition and advance, there is no other choice.

A person who lives in this world subconsciously makes an agreement with the Creator at any given moment, whether he wants to or not. But if he understands that there is a goal to creation and there is a way to achieve it, he is ready to advance and wants the Creator to help him, and then he already consciously makes an agreement with the Creator.

Question: Does this mean that “You are for me and I am for You” also exists in spirituality?

Answer: Of course, because the wisdom of Kabbalah is a wisdom, which explains how to receive everything there is from the Creator in the correct and unlimited way. Kabbalists are, in fact, the greatest egoists since they want to attain the world of infinity, to be filled with the Light of Infinity, to live forever in wholeness with perfect filling, in absolute attainment. This is the expression of the greatest ego. We just need to know how we can fill it, and therefore our method is called the wisdom of Kabbalah, the wisdom of receiving, the wisdom of filling.

Question: What is the cost of this filling? How can we bribe the Creator in order to reach this state?

Answer: The only way to bribe the Creator is by getting close to Him. Being close to the Creator in spirituality means becoming equal to His attributes.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/3/16

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Question: Why does Moses repeat the laws of the Torah to the people again and again?

Answer: It is in order for them to understand the entire path they travelled before entering the land of Israel and to prepare for entry into the promised land.

After all, from the border of the land of Israel onward, they must work with the same egoism, the same golden calf, with the second restriction that took place in a mixture of gold (Malchut) with a stream of water (Bina). Now, it is like they must dig it all.

Moses seems to tell his people, “During the forty years of wandering in the desert, besides the quality of Malchut that you had in Egypt, you acquired the quality of Bina. Now, are you beginning not just to interact with them, but to work in order to bestow. When you cultivate and plough the earth, you get the fruits of the earth.” In other words, this is now the land of Israel.

Question: Is it possible to say that the way of Torah is a passive way?

Answer: If we don’t understand what actions we need to perform on ourselves, then this is a passive way since there is none else besides Him and the Creator does everything. I have nothing to do other than to agree with what He does within me and try always to move in unison with Him. However, when I need to move in unison with Him, my work becomes very challenging, complex, and compound.

Agreement is the starting point. I agree with the fact that only the Creator exists and He is good that does good, and after He does only good, I need to correct myself, to expose myself under His influence so that my qualities really would become the same as His, so that I would feel inside them His personal and only good action.

This occurs both before and after entering the land of Israel. The difference is only in the power with which it is done. Either it is done in the quality of bestowal before entering the land of Israel, or it is done in the quality of reception after entering. But this happens closer to the construction of the Temple.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/11/16

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Question: Are the character traits of a person innate or is it possible to develop them somehow? Suppose that I don’t like particular characteristics in me. Can I change them?

Answer: It is not at all necessary to break and destroy yourself! It is up to you to learn to use all of your characteristics correctly, especially the most horrible ones that you are even ashamed to admit to yourself.

Question: How is it possible to use the most terrible characteristics without harming someone?

Answer: The most terrible characteristics are those through which you want to harm others and yet you get unusual pleasure from them. If you have some kind of aversion to a particular person, he is against you or he seems to be intolerable to you, then you want to harm him, to make him sorry through your actions.

Here the wisdom of Kabbalah says, “This is not right. You need to do this completely differently. If an enemy rises up against you, try to correct those characteristics within you that make you his enemy. Then you will stop provoking him against you.”

First and foremost you must think about how to correct yourself. Someone else who reveals a negative attitude toward you is actually giving you an example of your own faults. So it is up to you to think that maybe they are revealing your negative traits to you from above.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/1/16

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Comment: For every person who engages in Kabbalah for a long time, at some point comes a period when he demands internal egoistic fulfillment: “Give me at least something!” as in the “golden calf” transgression.

Answer: A person must have some goals and some achievements. However, suddenly he feels himself suspended in the air, feels some kind of tiredness. This is natural. Kabbalah writes about it. It is necessary to overcome such states.

Those who can’t endure them and walk away are just weak. It is necessary to be stubborn, to cling with your teeth and hold on. It means that you close your eyes and are ready to be below the level of life and death. Just hide, so that this devastation, anything at all, will pass over you.

You have to get used to it, to agree in advance with everything that will happen: to be “rinsed” in a view of the entire world, to be given such desires, doubts, and states by the Creator that such things were possible wouldn’t even come to the mind of a common person. And you must take it all in stride.

Moreover, a person’s mind is taken away; he is given strange thoughts, strange feelings and turns into a puppet that performs some actions. Later his mind is returned to him and he looks at what he has done. He is played upon this way in order to knock the egoism out of him. This is the main, and probably the only task of the Creator: to put us in such conditions that we would voluntarily give up our egoism and would ask the Creator ourselves: “Take this monster away from us!”

However, if a person comes to classes and everything in his life is quiet and well: home, family, work, friends, meals, congresses, and teaching, so what is there to change? Then nothing will change. Nothing! He will only demand more and more. His egoism will point to what else he wants to receive, and why not?

Therefore the real spiritual work begins when a person is humiliated in such a way that he wants to get rid of egoism. However, it is not about getting rid of egoism, since it means he just wants to suffer less. The fact is that he must stay with his egoism and say, “I am ready for anything, I just want to hold onto the Creator. Let Him do whatever He wants with me, as long as I have a point of connection with Him.”

One point, no more! To ask for more means you already anticipate a reward. “I don’t want any reward, just to have a point of connection with You, and I don’t need anything more. Do whatever you want with everything else, with me, my body, my mind, and with anything else.”

Comment: But when a person studies, teaches, works with the friends, and participates in the meals, he one way or another still moves along the right line to stronger connection with the Creator…

Answer: He moves until the time to move to the next degree comes. But it depends on how much effort he has invested.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/11/16

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Question: According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, how is it possible to determine correctly a price for work performed?

Answer: In worldly life I don’t know, the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks only about spiritual work. From this point of view, it is very simple to determine the price for work performed, because for spiritual work a person doesn’t demand anything for himself, not even spiritual elevation; rather, he asks for only one thing, to give contentment to the Creator.
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