The Torah, “Numbers” 10:13 – 10:15: This was the first journey at God’s bidding through Moses. The banner of the camp of Judah’s children traveled first according to their legions. Heading the legion was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. Heading the legion of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar.

The movement of the twelve tribes, one following the other, symbolizes the parts of the general soul that are corrected in a certain order and sequence, starting from Judah.

Question: Why is the camp of Judah the first to be corrected?

Answer: In our days, we all are considered the descendants of the tribe of Judah.

Judah is the senior of all of the twelve tribes. This is the first of the twelve attributes that must undergo correction.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/11/15

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Question: Is it possible to measure the level of union among the people and according to it to say how far we are from another holocaust?

Answer: According to the degree of connection between us, we can measure our place on the spiritual ladder, which is called Jacob’s Ladder, how we rise from our world in 125 levels, through five worlds until we attain Olam Ein Sof.

In every world, there are five Partzufim, in every Partzuf, there are five Sefirot, and in sum there are 125 levels (5 x 5 x 5). The difference between all of these levels is greater and greater connection and union between us.

This union always is realized in a group of ten (Minyan). If we connect correctly, we nullify ourselves, and then we begin to feel the connection between us, as well as a new spiritual force that is discovered in our connection.

The more we connect, the more each one of us feels how he rises on the ladder of spiritual levels, until reaching its end.
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From Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 7/12/15

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The Torah, “Leviticus” 21:10: “And the Cohen that who is elevated above his brothers, upon whose head the anointment oil has been poured or who has been inaugurated to wear the garments he shall not leave his head unshorn or rend his garments.

The human body (613 parts) embodies his 613 desires. They all must be covered with a Masach (Screen) and Ohr Hozer (Returning Light), symbolized by clothing in our world.

The Sa’arot (hair), from the word “Sa’ar (storm)” is the awakening of the person, his advancement towards a goal. On every level they can be counted in a particular way. The Peyot (sidelocks), which descend from the sides, represent the Light that descends from the head, drips onto the beard down onto the body.

The priest had a complete wardrobe. Besides the usual clothes, he was dressed in special cloth pants and a sash, a beautifully embroidered shirt with bells on the hems and a hat. Such attire fit the Masach, the characteristic of bestowal, the intention, that should be created above one’s desires.

And he shall not come upon any dead bodies; he shall not defile himself for his father or his mother. (Leviticus 21:11)

“Dead” is a desire that is left without an intention into which the Light cannot enter. And the priest must protect himself and not come in contact with anything that has a negative intention.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/21/14

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The Torah, “Numbers” 10:11 – 10:12: On the twentieth of the second month in the second year, the cloud rose up from over the Tabernacle of the Testimony. The children of Israel traveled on their journeys from the Sinai desert, and the cloud settled in the desert of Paran.

If we speak about the geographic distance between Mt. Sinai and the land of Israel, it is about one or two weeks’ walk, not forty years.

But the point is that the nation of Israel had few transitions and many stops. They would come to a certain place and settle there with the entire camp for a long time and not move from it.

This indicates that the adaptation to a certain place you arrive takes a long time and great forces, although there is basically nothing new about it, only a desert. So what happened there?

Even when different changes take place in us, we don’t understand that huge levels of preparation are being created in us. It is absolutely impossible to skip, neutralize, restrict, remove, assemble, or compress them, and therefore, the main thing in the spiritual work is patience and endurance.

“On the twentieth of the second month in the second year, the cloud rose up from over the Tabernacle of the Testimony.” Whether in darkness or in a cloud, in daytime or at night, we must conceal ourselves from the Creator.

If we discover Him, we immediately will begin to enjoy it, and our motion forward toward the goal, toward our correction, will be out of self-love, self-enjoyment. This is the reason we must constantly be careful of it.

However, when the cloud is taken up, it means that the Creator seemingly reveals Himself, thus showing where He is in some sense.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/11/15

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Question: Does every person have a unique mission, and how can I find it?

Answer: Every person certainly has a unique mission because each one has a unique root of his soul, and only this person is ready to realize it. Nobody in the world can complete his part in his place.

How do you know your mission? To do this you need to come and learn the wisdom of Kabbalah. Only you can discover your mission and no one instead of you.

Even if we see you have a high root of your soul and a unique mission, only you can discover what exactly that involves and realize it. Everything is in front of you!
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 7/12/15

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The Torah, “Numbers” 10:8: The descendants of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; this shall be an eternal statute for your generations.

A trumpet symbolizes an ascent, the force of ascending. Only the priest has this force because he is in contact with the Creator. The Levites, on the other hand, only serve the priests. The part of our soul that belongs to the Creator is called a priest (Cohen). Levites, although they  are the upper part that belongs to the Creator, they only engage in conducting the Light from Him to the lower. The priests work from the bottom up, for the Creator’s sake, while the Levites work from the top down, for the sake of the created beings.

The Torah, Numbers 10:9-10: If you go to war in your land against an adversary that oppresses you, you shall blow a teruah with the trumpets and be remembered before the Lord your God, and thus be saved from your enemies. On the days of your rejoicing, on your festivals and on your new-moon celebrations, you shall blow on the trumpets for your ascent-offerings and your peace sacrifices, and it shall be a remembrance before your God; I am the Lord your God.

The trumpets are used in order to raise the intention, why and where you are headed, and what you connect to. It is because these are not just ordinary trumpets that play a march, but vessels that make special sounds in special frequencies and in a special order and sequence, repeating them over and over again. All this symbolizes the phases of the correction of the vessel and the parts of the soul that are corrected in this specific manner. It is the most complex part of the wisdom of Kabbalah. Blowing the Shofar (Horn) in our world means simply to make some sounds, while it is a very serious action in a person’s internal work.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/11/15

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Question: What is the spiritual meaning of “my land”?
Answer: “My land” is a desire I have to correct. One I can not do alone, but only in unity with others.

Answer: Others are parts of my soul who seem to me like strangers and who are apparently found outside of me. So I can relate to them as if they don’t exist or are seemingly far from me.

And I can also relate differently by understanding that they are within me; these are my personal characteristics that are projected outside of me by my mind to make it possible for me to work mutually with them more freely and expansively, and I can see all of my characteristics and theirs as opposites.

If I understand that they are my characteristics, I can accept them. But if it seems to me that they are found in someone else, then I am not ready to accept or get closer to this person. So a vision like this of my inner characteristics in the form of billions of people around me helps me to amplify all of my inner inaccuracies, contradictions, and errors like a magnifying glass.

In this way, I can correct myself to scratch because if the person is found outside of me, I feel the smallest discrepancies between us and I don’t deceive myself! But if he is within me, then I am ready to agree with everything that there is and never correct myself. So I see myself inside out in the form of all the people around me.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/13/14

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Question: Why does a child play so naturally and truthfully while for a grownup a game is a lie?

Answer: It is because we adults have gotten used to living in a lie: our life is a lie and the game is a lie. It isn’t a crime but simply our nature. A game is always a lie and never the truth because after all, I don’t play myself but someone I would like to be.

We wouldn’t be able to advance without games. Children perceive a game as the absolute truth and therefore develop and grow. If we wholeheartedly joined in a game, like kids, we wouldn’t be able to leave it and would stay in it.

This is actually the tool that the wisdom of Kabbalah uses. I am told: “You need to love others, and in this love you will begin to feel the Creator! Here, you have a group that is made of ten people; start establishing such relations between you by pretending that each one loves the others. You have to create such an atmosphere between you so that each one will disappear in it and will melt in his love for others.”

I act out this love over and over again by returning to it a thousand times each day until I am incorporated in it to such an extent that I melt in this love and connection. Then I can attain the revelation of the Creator.

By being incorporated in love, I am incorporated in the Creator. This ceases to be a game and becomes the game of my life. But first I play it artificially: I pretend that I love the friends and annul myself before them without any desire to do so. I force myself and convince myself that I have to act this love, although I don’t feel it at all.

But I suddenly feel a warm feeling. The others influence me by setting an example for me by their alleged loving attitude; I see that they are loyal to this love and I feel ashamed that I cannot return the same love to them. I criticize and reprimand myself over and over again and once more force myself to love the others.

But when I annul myself this way, I suddenly begin to see how all the corporeal objects around me begin to disappear: the table, the chairs, and the walls. They all disappear from my perception and only one thing remains—the love that I feel. I also disappear. I become enslaved to this feeling of love, and there is nothing left but that feeling that is external to me since my “self” disappears.

My “self” is my ego, which disappears, and then I begin to feel how the upper force, the Creator, fills everything. It is because I have annulled myself and now I can feel Him. I have annulled my egoism and have received the attribute of the upper force, the attribute of bestowal, and this is the real game.
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From KabTV’s “The Torah Chapters with Shmuel Vilozni” 2/2/15

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Kabbalists talk about the spiritual world with words of this world, which causes us to be very confused. We read in the Torah about building the “Tent of Revelation,” (Tabernacle) and our mind grasps this as a physical activity.

The Kabbalists say that we can ultimately discover spirituality if we read these books by trying with all our might to descend into the depths of the words and clarifying what is truly concealed behind every word.

Question: So Moses is not an old man with white hair, a long beard, and a staff?

Answer: Certainly not! Moses is a characteristic. We are not talking about people or objects, but only about characteristics. Not an evil person but evil, not a stingy person but stinginess. The spiritual world is characteristics in their purest form.

So when reading the weekly portion, I must imagine a spiritual state, the upper world. If it is written that it is necessary to build the “Tent of Revelation,” so I must clarify, what is this spiritual tool in which the Creator is revealed? What characteristics in me must match what must be within it: The “Ark of the Covenant” with the Cherubs, Cohanim (priests), and Levites, with the people of Israel standing around it?

I begin to search for these characteristics only within me; everything happens within a person. The whole world is inside of me, as it is said: “And a person is a small world.” Even this entire world that I now see around me is actually found within me.

We must always try to represent this correctly, and ultimately an inner transformation will occur when I will begin to feel that it is truly found inside of me. Then I will understand how to build the “Tent of the Testimony” and what the work of the Cohanim, the Levites and the people of Israel that are around them are, and how my twelve tribes of Israel move forward in the wilderness.

I must build all the details that are mentioned in the Torah from my characteristics and desires. Before me lies the heap of my desires, and I must take them, sort all the forces and characteristics and clarify how to connect them to build the same form the Torah talks about.
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From KabTV’s “The Torah Chapters with Shmuel Vilozni” 12/15/14

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The Torah, “Numbers” 8:4: This was the form of the menorah: hammered work of gold, from its base to its flower it was hammered work; according to the form that the Lord had shown Moses, so did he construct the menorah.

Question: Why is the menorah forged from a single piece of gold?

Answer: Forging the menorah of pure gold means reforging the pure ego into the opposite attribute in order to give and bestow Light.

At the same time, the beaten piece of gold must be whole and cannot be made of different parts because we must reach a state in which all of our egoism, all of our nature, becomes the attribute of love and bestowal.

This is the reason that this weekly section of the Torah is called Beha’alotcha, meaning when you ascend to the Light.

Rabash said that the term “menorah” refers to a person’s body, and when the Creator’s Light is dressed in it, a person illuminates like the menorah. However, the question is how a person’s body can wear the Upper Light when there is such a great difference between the attributes of the Light and the vessels, which means the person’s body. When we speak about the body, we refer to egoism.

He also says that the difficulty in creating a vessel is called a deficiency, and then the filling for that deficiency can enter it. But if a person has no deficiencies, there is no room for a filling that comes as a response to his deficiency, called help from above.

Thus, it is clear that a person cannot act without deficiencies because there is no room for fulfilling the deficiencies.

The deficiencies that we are given are help from above. Without them, a person will have no demand, and the desire for correction will not be ignited in him. We must process all the difficulties inside us anew and use them as material for illumination.

Our role is to feel that everything stems from the Creator, but we must change it in the right way and place it correctly inside us. At the same time, a person is in a state of total confusion, fears, worries, and other images.

This means that he is raised to a level where he is like a fragile branch in the wind, and he cannot find his way around. This is just the starting point where he is forged and made into a menorah. When his egoism is softened, the process of forging begins. This is the hard transition to the attribute of bestowal.

However, at the same time, when we find the connection with the Creator, it becomes a pleasure, a redemption from our internal snake, from everything that we hate.

In other words, we must hate what is inside us more than the pain, and then we will not feel it. Therefore, the power of our intention and our yearning for the goal must be greater than the pain that we feel because it is all measured by the same parameter: the force of attraction (the force of bestowal).

If the force of attraction toward the goal is greater than the force of the pain (the force of rejection), we will not feel the force of the pain.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/4/15

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