Question: Is the spiritual source of money connected to the concept of truth?

Answer: Yes. Spiritual money, the Masach (screen) is equivalent to truth because it is the characteristic of bestowal and love, the characteristic of connection with others. The more spiritual wealth a person has, the more just he is because he is in a greater connection with the Creator, which means that he is closer to the truth.

Money is a Masach and the compensation is not the Masach but the bestowal that we realize with its help for the sake of the Creator and for one another.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/27/16

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Question: How does a woman attain spirituality? I have already read that a woman should mainly support her husband, care for her family, and participate in dissemination, but I don’t understand how exactly a woman attains spirituality by supporting her husband (the men’s group)?

Answer: A man’s path with regard to the Creator is the same as the woman’s path with regard to her family or with regard to the male part of the group. A woman is the head of the family and the home because she works for it and serves it. The man’s work is identical with regard to the group and the Creator. We can learn how a man should work in spirituality by the example of women’s work in our world.
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Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 5:18: And you shall not … desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

A person should be connected to others so much that he would attract not only people themselves but also their ideology and would merge with their perception of the world. At the same time, he works to bestow with their desires and qualities as if they are his own.

By dressing into the friends, who allegedly exist outside of himself, he must work instead of them toward the correct perception of the world through each of them. After all, we are cogwheels in a giant system.

Therefore a person must understand how he twists some small cogwheel far away from him and how by dressing into it he causes it to work properly. And he needs to do so with each small part of the overall enormous organism by working through everyone for bestowal and love. And this means “you shall not … desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his manservant, his maidservant….”
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/16/16

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Question: According to many sources, we determine our fate through our thoughts. If we have positive thoughts, we will create positive events and vice versa. Is that true?

Answer: To a certain degree, it is true. There is a positive intention with regard to others behind positive thoughts, yet it isn’t simply about joy, laughter, and smiles, but about creating goodness.

However, this isn’t what the Creator demands of us. He demands that we resemble Him, and at the moment, we don’t feel that the Creator is good, although He is called the absolute good. Therefore, we must learn what spiritual good means. According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, this definition is a bit different from the common definition.

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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/20/16

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Question: How can my wife and I walk together toward the Creator, and in what way is the spiritual work in a family different from the work in a group? We watch the lessons together and read the writings of Baal HaSulam aloud. Are there concrete recommendations and sources that speak about this?

Answer: Studying with your wife is recommended and it helps. This is described in many of our materials.
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Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 05:17: And you shall not steal…

Be vigilant not to wish to receive for yourself those fulfillments and pleasures that are revealed in the quality of bestowal. This is called stealing.

It is forbidden to transfer anything from the “household” of the Creator to our egoistic desires.

It doesn’t matter that all the pleasure immediately evaporates. Nonetheless it is stealing.

On the other hand, if the Torah says that this is forbidden, it means that this is impossible and you won’t be able to use anything for your own sake, e.g., to steal or to commit adultery. In the spiritual world you won’t be permitted to do so, because the law is above you there.

Therefore, the Torah gives us instructions how to accurately adjust ourselves to fulfill spiritual laws.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/16/16

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Question: Have any of your students reached a level of spiritual attainment? If you cannot speak about this, how could this knowledge harm us or them?

Answer: You don’t need to know anyone who has achieved spiritual attainment; it is simply up to you to learn from those people who are working in the framework of our group; they are destined to raise you to the level of spiritual attainment.

When you enter into that system, the higher dimension, you can also see everyone else. Then you will know who is there and on which levels.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/20/16

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Question: Why is a person responsible for approaching the Creator if he is basically not responsible for anything?

Answer: A person is not responsible for anything except adhesion with the Creator since he was created for this. Therefore, all of his actions in this world to which he doesn’t respond by attempting to get closer to the Creator are useless and aimed completely in the opposite direction from the goal of creation.

That is how he makes his situation worse. About this it is said: “To sit and do nothing is preferable.”
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/20/16

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Question: What can we do so that there will be more justice and less suffering in the world? Why has the Creator created such an incorrect world?

Answer: The Creator did not create “such an incorrect world” but a totally uncorrected world, on purpose, so that we will correct it by perceiving its lack of correction. We can begin to correct the world by changing ourselves because there is nothing to correct but ourselves.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/20/16

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Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 05:17: And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

A person should constantly work on himself by checking if his thoughts, desires, and intentions are directed toward bestowal and if he doesn’t deceive himself.

This is a very complex work that repeats each time at a higher and deeper methodical level of recognition. And every time you go to the next level, everything you did in the past, even with the very best intentions, seems egoistic to you. What was plus on the lower degree becomes minus on the next one. And this is how you rise.

Therefore, until the end of correction you will be accompanied by constant doubts. And every time you will be convinced that they were correct. It turns out you really were stealing, but didn’t feel it in you.

You cried and suffered, it seemed to you that you wholeheartedly wish well to everyone. There are many people in the world that beat their chests claiming this. And when they come to us, just after a few lessons they feel how it all was emptiness, lies, and deception, and they begin to move forward in the true dimensions.

Question: Who is “my neighbor”?

Answer: It is all me, my internal states.

And the “false witness” is the same. I witness myself, about myself, and about the Creator. Because the Creator is also what I feel and build within myself.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/16/16

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