Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 7:25: The graven images of their gods you will burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is upon them and take it for yourself, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord, your God.

Silver represents the quality of bestowal, and gold represents to bestow in order to receive. Like in the pure vessels—that is, the vessels of bestowal—we have a small state, the Light of Hassadim, and a big state, the Light of Hochma, and in the impure desires (Kelim, vessels), there are the same states.

Question: What does it mean to be ensnared by coveting the silver and gold statues of gods?

Answer: As soon as you begin to work with the attributes of bestowal, you can get into states where you are welcomed, rewarded, and praised, and you will sell yourself for it. While feeling yourself allegedly in the quality of bestowal, you, in fact, are ensnared.

This also happens in our world. For example, as soon as a politician achieves some sort of a position, he immediately ceases to think about others and cares only about himself.

Before his appointment, he shouts that he stands for the welfare of women and children, for equality, for special benefits, laws, and so on. Having achieved a seat in parliament, he does the opposite, he votes against the things he fought for. After all, if this is realized, how will he advertise himself in the future? How will he win over his voters?

In other words, in the government, he must work against his promises so that he will have an opportunity to use them in the next election.
[191538]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 4/27/16

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Question: I live in a country that I don’t like and I love a person who doesn’t want me. What should I do?

Answer: I think you need to go above all this. I can’t imagine what it means to love or not to love. First compare and test it in relation to the purpose of life and then maybe you will determine what it is that you don’t like, or what you like, and that what you prefer today will disappoint you tomorrow and maybe you will even hate it. Begin to distance yourself from it. Thus you need to make a renewed evaluation of the values. After all, it isn’t important where a person lives. I didn’t think I would ever live like I live today. The goal needs to determine everything.

And the purpose is the revelation of the Creator to a person in this world. We don’t have any need for anything else! And then you will be completely happy and will attain eternity, infinity, and completeness, here and now. It won’t matter to you what country you live in, what job you have, with what partner in life you live with, etc. You will understand why the Creator put you in this framework, and all in all, everything will work out in your life.
[191139]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/10/16

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Question: How do I deal with my complaints about my friend? Should I sit down with him and discuss what I don’t like, or should I keep it to myself and try to convince myself mentally that he is better?

Answer: Discuss it in the group because the Creator is giving this to you for a greater connection for His revelation in the group.

Question: Does working on the connection mean to want to feel the desires of the friends as mine? If yes, then which desires of the friends are we are talking about: all of the desires of the friends or only the desires of the friends for the Creator?

Answer: It is only the desires of the friends for the Creator.

Question: Can we say that the indication of the appearance of ten Sefirot is happiness from the unity in the group?
Answer: This is one of the accompanying sensations.
[190493]

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Question: What is a suitable way for a person who is advancing toward the goal of creation to spend his time?

Answer: I am interested, for example, in music, comedies, and witty jokes. I love traveling in the world. Besides the fact that I travel to conventions, twice a year, I take a vacation with my wife in some country where we walk a lot. That is all.

Question: It is understandable that each person has a favorite way of spending his time. In this regard, what can you recommend according to the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: If a person is involved with studying the wisdom of Kabbalah, he cannot have great materialistic hobbies.

For example, I don’t see that any of my students are involved with stamp collecting.

Kabbalists respect physical exercise and sports. Movement is imperative so that one’s head will work well. But what sport? Simply walking or swimming is good. But everything else—is dedicating yourself to spiritual work.
[190046]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/10/16

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Question: At what point does Kabbalah become a science?

Answer: Kabbalah becomes a science when a Kabbalist is engaged in it.

A Kabbalist is one who has achieved the state of “receiving for the sake of bestowal.” A person who possesses such properties understands the Creator’s actions within himself and in the universe. He becomes a researcher of the entire space revealed before him.

Therefore he is called a Kabbalist. Those who study Kabbalah are the students of Kabbalists for now since they are on the path to the attainment of the spiritual world.
[189591]
From the Convention In Moscow, Day Two 5/3/16, Lesson 5

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Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 7:22 – 7:23: And the Lord, your God, will drive out those nations from before you, little by little. You will not be able to destroy them quickly, lest the beasts of the field outnumber you. But the Lord, your God, will deliver them to you, and He will confound them with great confusion, until they are destroyed.

The process of correcting desires occurs gradually, from the lightest to the heaviest. Nations are our desires on the level of man. The beasts of the field, locusts, gnats, and so on symbolize desires of the animal level.

Everything that comes from the earth, eruptions (until you root up the ground), floods, etc., are desires of the still level. That is, there can be anything you want at any level: the still, vegetative, animal, and human, and all this is within a person and is subject to correction.

Therefore it happens gradually, starting from the smallest desire and ending with the greatest one. Although, basically if you can correct a large, high desire, everything included in this category and which is under this desire is corrected.

Question: Does it mean we can correct the biggest desire first?

Answer: It depends upon where a person is. In principle, initially everything is corrected on the lowest level and upward.
[191343]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 4/27/16

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Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 7:16: And you shall consume all the peoples which the Lord your God gives you; you shall not spare them, nor shall you worship their gods, for that will be a snare for you.

Any theories, methods, and goals that don’t pursue an accurate and acute goal—adhesion with the Creator in the equivalence of form with Him—should be abolished on the vine.

It is necessary to move away from those teachings that are very close to Kabbalah so they won’t captivate and confuse a person. After all, he doesn’t know the whole method yet, he isn’t at the end of correction, so that, from the pedestal he has reached, he could look at everything and evaluate. Therefore he must strictly follow only genuine Kabbalistic sources, without moving to the left or to the right!

By the way, there is a lot of unnecessary literature in Kabbalah that is written by people who haven’t attained or have just begun to attain the upper world. Therefore, it is necessary to study Kabbalah only through authentic sources.

Question: Is this the “trap”?

Answer: Yes, and a very big one! The trap, like a tidbit, lures you, but the trap slams shut. That’s it. It is difficult to get out of there. And you don’t know when it will slam shut. Once in the trap, you start to think that you are on the right path.

Unfortunately I have many students who were with us on the path, but due to some pretext left it and went into other currents, and it is hard to get them out.

It is possible that they think the same about us that we are on the side and they are in the main current. There is nothing that can be done, the future will tell.

Remark: In principle, does “serving other gods” mean serving material egoistic purposes?

Answer: It means serving any egoistic purposes, which includes everything that exists in our world.

Question: What does trap mean in a person’s internal work? Let’s say he is moving to the land of Israel and tomorrow, figuratively speaking, has to enter it, but suddenly falls in serving other gods…

Answer: Usually it happens before we enter the land of Israel. However even after we enter it, the huge war to destroy all idols continues since we begin to work with the same egoism that we left in Egypt and convert it into altruism.

The thing is that the egoistic desire is at the bottom. We exit it, 40 years we are above it, mastering all above-egoistic qualities, and then we begin to gradually raise egoistic qualities converting them to altruistic ones. And this is the entry to the land of Israel. In fact, the land of Israel is the same as Egypt in the correct, converted state.
[191074]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 4/13/16

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Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 7:24: And He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from beneath the heavens; no man will be able to stand up before you, until you have destroyed them.

Kings are our most important desires. There is a set of 620 desires in a person and they all must be corrected. Each group of desires has its ten Sefirot, its qualities, and it is necessary to correct the main ones.

The correction is carried out not in the desires themselves, but in the intention. Intention is the head of the group of qualities. Therefore, it must be corrected precisely because desires obediently follow intentions that a person creates. Intentions to receive for myself are evil and impure kings of the world.
[191426]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 4/27/16

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Comment: It is said that you must not jump over a spiritual degree. Exactly because of this Nadav and Avihu died.

Answer: The fact is that a person shouldn’t cause the next state before it comes to him. Only when he gets a reason to attract the Light that Reforms, then he can move to the next degree. And by no means should he do it before this.

Therefore, we should always strive to the most inactive state, called the small state (Katnut). And a great state comes precisely when you need to specifically overcome something.

To strive to the next degree means to strive to be in it in a passive state. This also proves that you are not in it for yourself. And when you are presented with the opportunity to fill others, you do it. However, the great state (Gadlut) comes not because you awaken it, but in order to show you the ability to correct and fill others.

Question: Does this refer to teaching and spreading the method of connection?

Answer: Anything: teaching, spreading, correcting the world, adding more desires and qualities of others.
[191383]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 4/27/16

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Question: Millions of people in the world are dying of starvation, in automobile accidents and various disasters. If the whole world is a single body, why don’t we feel this? Does only a Kabbalist feel this?

Answer: A Kabbalist doesn’t feel it either. He feels the general desire of the whole world, how it is gradually moving toward the end of creation and is fulfilled in certain ways, better or worse, greater or less harmony. After all, everything is advancing toward a common harmony.
[191142]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/10/16

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