Question: Some friends, when they go out to people, cynically believe that we are involved with education in order to teach them how to live. But the external public feels very strongly that through their arrogance they are putting themselves above the public. How can this be avoided so that we can be sincere towards the general public?

Answer: Personally I look at the external public as a public that doesn’t know itself but has enormous potential. In every housewife or street cleaner there is a latent, much greater potential than exists in me. So I have a very careful and helpful attitude towards them.

After all, in principle, it is they and not us who carry a tremendous desire, and when it begins to manifest in them, we see that street cleaner or housewife with such bottomless desires and such unlimited possibilities of adherence to constitute the entire shattered universal mass that doesn’t exist within us.

So, on the one hand, there exist actions in a line (Kav), and on the other hand, actions in circles (Igulim). We learn this in the second section of “The Study of the Ten Sefirot.”

If we are acting in a line, in this case, 99% of the general public don’t exist for us but only those who have the exact intention toward the Creator. However, if we are talking about a circle, about Malchut de Ein Sof (world of Infinity), about Ohr Makif (Surrounding Light), it belongs to 99% of humanity. There, everything is hidden in them.

So, we need to relate to them with the intention of the long run—not today, but in a few more years—but everything will be discovered from there, as it is written, “Be careful with the children of the poor, for the Torah will go forth from them” (Nedarim 81a), meaning the Light.

If ever I personally had a prejudice, a disregard, for Asians, South Americans, or Africans in comparison to Europeans and North Americans, in the process of becoming acquainted with them, my opinion has changed radically. They are not just equal in my understanding, but have changed places. Oddly enough, they are the bearers of such intellectual and analytic abilities, such potential of scrutiny and analysis, that doesn’t exist among the Europeans.

So, the circular Kli (vessel), the masses, are the bearers of very great potential possibilities and immense desires that will be discovered later, and with them, the Creator will be revealed..
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From the Sochi Convention 6/9/14, Lesson 1

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Question: How must one answer the question about why is it necessary to love your friend as yourself?

Answer: It is because the world is integral and the mutual integral connection between everyone in human language is called “love,” mutual love for each other, like cells in one body. This is called, “And you shall love your friend as yourself.” This means that there must be such a connection between people as there is between all the other parts of creation.

In nature everything is in the right connection and union between them, except for humans. People violate this unity and distorts the still, vegetative, and animate nature. As soon as people begin to correct themselves, nature will automatically begin to be changed.

Nature will begin to rise because all parts of creation are included in each other, but in particular on that level called Adam (human). So “love your friend” is implementing the essential law of creation, the connection between all of its parts.
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From the Sochi Convention 6/9/14, Lesson 1

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Question: How is it possible to extract the deficiencies from the 99% of humanity most fully and correctly?

Answer: If we work with the general public correctly, we will begin to feel such a deficiency from them that we cannot sit still, so much so that will it stab us from all sides. It will be unpleasant, uncomfortable, sometimes frightening, and sometimes as shame. These are terrible sensations that will appear to us when working systematically with the external public. I hope that the group will compare and examine its yearning to rally around itself as its greatest opportunity and simultaneously be careful about how great the deficiency of the masses is and how much they understand us and are impressed by this.

So we need to prepare a very understandable and simple booklet for them that makes it clear and understandable that within our method is concealed a truth that will help them to rebuild the family, relationships with children, relationships at work, will make them healthy, will clarify a multitude of problems, etc. I would really like us to have this brochure that will always balance our influences, our meetings with the wider public.
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From the Sochi Convention 6/9/14, Lesson 1

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The Torah, “Leviticus” (Shemini), 10:6-10:7: And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons,”Do not leave your heads unshorn, and do not render your garments, so that you shall not die, and lest He be angry with the entire community, but your brothers, the entire house of Israel, shall bewail the conflagration that the Lord has burned.

And do not go out of the entrance of the tent of meeting, lest you die, because the Lord’s anointing oil is upon you.” And they did according to Moses’ order.

Question: How can we explain that they are not allowed to mourn?

Answer: This does not refer to people who behaved recklessly and were somehow burned but about souls. When we speak about spiritual corrections allegorically, it is sometimes expressed in a very special way.

There is a state in which you should mourn since the mourning is actually a correction. This doesn’t mean that you should sit and cry since there is no one to cry about here. It isn’t about the corporeal concept of mourning, which is observed on the corporeal level.

The seven days of mourning mean that during these seven days (seven Sefirot): Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, Malchut, you gradually realize and perceive the full depth of your fall and the reasons for it.

Therefore after the seven days, you understand the meaning of your fall; you are ready to start the correction, the rebirth of the desire that died against your will, just as it was against their will that Nadav and Avihu lit the Holy fire, burned incense, entered the Holy of Holies, and tried to perform an action.

In order to correct something, you must first descend to the darkest depth of your desire and fully perceive the extent of the shattering; the repulsion felt among all the parts of the general soul. Only after you attain the shattering are you able to turn to the Creator from the depth of this state, having understood that it wasn’t you who did it, but the Creator.

It is actually from the full depth of the descent when you feel that this is the end that you begin to feel that this state is given to you on purpose so that you will acquire contact with the Creator because the shattering and the correction are not important. What’s important is that you acquire contact with Him above all these states.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 1/22/14

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M. Weisman, “The Midrash Says,” Chapter “Shemini”: When Aaron understood that his sons’ punishment was a sign of an unprecedented, special honor, he stopped crying and accepted the Creator’s judgment in his heart, and the Creator rewarded him for his self-sacrifice by starting to talk to him, although He usually turned only to Moses.

There are several types of spiritual contacts: a thought that is perceived from a distance, a conversation (exchanging information), or a mutual action. Here, it is about Aaron’s ascent to the next level, thanks to his sons.

On the whole, we should understand that Aaron’s sons are actions that take place in the one single desire.

I find it very hard to speak about this since I constantly have to translate my explanations to discrete states for different souls, for different people. However, all this actually doesn’t exist! It is only about clarifications in the one, unique desire of the one, unique Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 1/22/14

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Question: A thousand people are praying together for the return of the kidnapped boys. Isn’t this enough to save them?

Answer: No, this is not enough; this prayer has not been organized correctly. I would suggest organizing nationwide roundtables, a common workshop. Come, let’s get ready and gather one workshop throughout the whole nation some evening. People who are ready for this will participate in this event, except for children, the frail elderly, and nursing mothers who cannot leave their babies; let’s say 80% of all the people.

If we aim to connect in order to discover within that the power of mutual bestowal through which we want to give contentment to the Creator, with this we awaken the Light that Reforms.

And the Light will already carry out the work. Only this will help, because it will influence the Light that Reforms. This is because we prepare a place, a deficiency, upon which the Light can bestow. All of our work is to prepare the place, and for this we need many people who are arranged and organized in circles, who know the general rules of the workshop and the laws of conduct in it, and who talk about the necessity of connection.

There is a formula, it is only necessary to activate it and make it work. Do you understand this formula? So please, realize it.

Question: Do the people gathered around the roundtables have to be people who have spiritual attainment?

Answer: No, they have to be the most ordinary and simple people. Indeed Baal HaSulam writes that a farmer who plows a field to feed others is doing more important work than the High Priest in the Temple. After all, this work is closer to others, is more understandable and more noticeable, and belongs to lower, more mundane desires, so certainly it will work.

The lower the desires we work with are, meaning the closer and more understandable they are to a person, the greater the Light that we awaken, according to the general rule of the inverse order between Lights and Kelim.

Only if the High Priest included all the desires of the people—including them within himself and raising with them, like Moses, the leader of the people, in that he made a Zivug de Haka’a (striking interaction) with the Light—is this considered a high action. But if he doesn’t take the desires of the people but enters into the Kadosh HaKadoshim (sanctuary) with his egoistic desires, then he dies by being struck by the Light, from a Pulsa de Nura (whip of fire).

So come, let’s organize one big workshop throughout the country together. I don’t guarantee the final result, but simply use the formula, a condition, which we can carry out in order to awaken the Light that Reforms.

Nobody knows what the result will be, but surely it will bring good changes thanks to the Light that we have drawn through our actions. The Light will advance us towards the good, towards correction. How this will be revealed in the world, I cannot say, but without a shadow of a doubt, the situation will be better because of the Light that Reforms.

This is called the prayer of many. We have no other means.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/18/14, “The Mutual Guarantee”

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Question: Why couldn’t the nations of the world receive the Torah themselves, but have to receive it through the Israeli nation?

Answer: It is the role of the Israeli nation to convey the Torah to the nations of the world. First the nations of the world received the religions through the Israeli nation. All the major religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam are the Torah of the time of exile.

The vessels of receiving cannot be in contact with the Light and there has to be some conductor between them, an adaptor. The desire to receive and the Light are opposite to one another, so there is a need for an adaptor that will connect the desires to receive and the vessels of bestowal, Galgalta ve Enyaim (GE), so that GE will raise these deficiencies to the Creator.

The major religions in the world have made great preparation for the correction. They are the Torah of the time of the exile and they must exist until they are transformed into the true Torah, which means to the wisdom of Kabbalah. Everyone will be connected only with the Creator. The connection between the desire to receive and the Light cannot be done by different methods.

The Israeli nation was exiled after the destruction of the Temple and is among the nations of the world. Afterwards, it cannot avoid being an adaptor for them, whether a good or a bad one. So the nations of the world regard the Israeli nation in a very special way and it is impossible to change that. There is always a special attitude towards Israel, whether negative or positive. Israel is always the adaptor and the conductor of the Light. They will always be in the center of events, and be the nations of the world’s target.

Question: What should we do in order to be a corrected adaptor?

Answer: We simply have to fulfill the role of the adaptor. I have to be incorporated in the deficiencies of the nations of the world, to process them inside me and raise them correctly to the Upper Light. I have to connect all the nations to the Upper Light. They tell me that if I don’t work properly, I am responsible for their feeling bad. This is the reason that they hate me, since instead of being nicely and positively influenced by me, they are influenced negatively, their lives are miserable and they suffer. The nations of the world blame Israel more and more for all their problems. It happens subconsciously, since they feel that Israel is to blame.

We encounter this spiritual phenomenon, which has no corporeal reason, all over the world.  You can find anti-Semitism even among people who have never had any contact with Israel: South Korea, Polynesia, New Zealand, etc. People who have a soul feel that they depend on Israel.

Imagine how difficult and unpleasant it is to feel that you depend on someone. You constantly think about him because it is as if he controls you. He determines your fate and everything that happens to you and your children. He is part of your life, like a relative. He constantly sustains you and this is a very difficult psychological feeling that suffocates you internally. This has been going on for ages.

This is exactly what we are trying to explain with our dissemination, both to the Israeli nation and to the nations of the world. First we have to show everyone that we all share this problem, that we need one another, and that we cannot carry out our mission by ourselves. We need to work mutually in the struggle against our general global ego.

First we have to explain the reason for all the problems to everyone: the political crisis in the Ukraine, the global economic crisis, the crisis in education, global climate changes, etc. Indeed, what is the connection between Israel and a typhoon or a tsunami somewhere?

But immediately after Japan was hit by a tsunami, the level of anti-Semitism rose there sharply. It may seem that there is no connection between the two. Is Israel responsible for the Pacific Ocean ceasing to be so peaceful all of the sudden?  But the Japanese internally feel that Israel is responsible.

They perceive this by their feelings and not by their intellect. A person doesn’t understand why, but he feels this internally and is strangled by this thought. He doesn’t know why, and he doesn’t have to know because love and hate need no justification.
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From the 5^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/12/17, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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 Question: The Creator commanded Moses to tell Aaron that his sons Nadav and Avihu will ascend to such a level that is above him. Does that mean that he should be glad when they fall?

Answer: Yes. Nadav and Avihu are very sublime souls, more sublime than the souls of Moses and Aaron, which means deeper desires, with more serious initial Reshimot (reminiscences) which will be revealed later on.

We will reveal our general ego in all its transformations and changes of attributes, forms, styles, and names and they will all mutually complement one another. It is actually due to the complete connection between them that the general state of the end of correction will be attained. It cannot be that a certain soul will not participate in it. If you leave even one soul out of the correction, you will not correct all the rest. This is an absolute mutual correction, an integral system.

All the souls are so mutually integrated in one another that when you engage in one thing you immediately need something else. In one system, one pulls the other.

Now, not only scientists, but also journalists write, about the unity of the world. People are already aware of it and begin to realize that nature is unified, that the world is one, and that all of humanity is actually one network.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 1/22/14

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The rules of the group, the rules of the workshop in a circle, and the rules the global world should behave according to today are the same rules. They are the rules of mutual integration, mutual cooperation, and connection to such a degree that we become like one person with one heart.

In the upcoming convention in America we must learn that the wisdom of Kabbalah and the wisdom of connection are the same thing. The wisdom of connection that we are now going out to the world is the first explanation. In the meantime there is no mention of the upper worlds and their structure in the terms of Kabbalah. This is because in the meantime, in any case, we haven’t discovered them.

But after this, we will truly begin to relate to one another with an intention of bestowal. The moment we do enough exercises and attract the Light that Reforms from Above, we will suddenly feel that we are relating to our friends with an intention of bestowal. And then within this relationship we discover the Light: Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, and Yechida of the world of Assiya.

And after that, the Light will become stronger and stronger, according to my attitude towards the friends. In the Kelim I correct, in accord with the intensity of the connection between me and others, I discover the Light of NRNHY.

And the levels of spiritual ascent about which the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks are the distances between us. They are determined according to the degree of our approaching each other, the connections of our hearts, our desires into one desire.

The higher that I ascend on this ladder from this world to Olam Ein Sof, so I approach the shattered souls more strongly, and become like one whole body together with them. And then all the Lights are gathered and concentrated into one beam, and all the Kelim (vessels) are connected into one Kli and we return to a state called Malchut de Ein Sof.

The main goal of the convention is that we speak about the wisdom of Kabbalah and the wisdom of connection as one wisdom, one method, without any division. There is no artificial division that exists between them. This is the same wisdom that explains how we—this humanity and this world that is scattered and pulverized into fragments—become one whole again.

And so our practical work today is to go out to the whole world with the wisdom of connection or with integral education. And after we begin to discover the connections between us, we discover that we have reached the wisdom of connection, which is essentially the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/16/14, “Preparation for the Convention in America”

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Question: These days all of Israel is concerned about the fate of the three kidnapped youths. Certainly the security forces are making great efforts to bring them home. Many are praying for them to be saved.

Discussions have been organized about how it would be possible to warn them and what precautions can be taken to avoid trouble like this. But is it possible to change something through one particular individual or must one be involved in correction of the general state of society that led to such results, that is, influencing the collective?

Answer: Improving any situation is possible only through becoming a truly collective society. This means bringing connection and unity. It is necessary to transform the people of Israel, in the land of Israel, into one collective body by means of organizing workshops everywhere, discussion circles, joint discussions, and by approaching each other.

People will begin to discover what form our lives should have. Thus, they will begin to reach a connection that will attract the Light that Reforms that will raise them to another level of existence. The Light will begin to enter them, change and create a new society of one connected whole, instead of the former society that was split into pieces and distant from each other.

Through this connection, they will become closer to the nature of the Light, which is one, integral, global, and singular. And when this entire shattered world with the egoism that divides us will rise a bit above the egoistic separation and become more connected, then the Light that acts and influences us will heal all the wounds in our relationships. In this case, without a doubt, we will merit good results, including the return of the kidnapped youths unharmed.

Question: Can we change reality with this method: one picture to another picture?

Answer: Without any doubt, we can change reality from this moment on in any direction, wherever we want. This is in our power. And there is just such an opportunity for the people of Israel.

If we connect more strongly, then the Light will approach us according to the law of equivalence of form, will enter the shattered desires, and begin to correct them. As a result, everyone will feel closer to each other, and from this, the world will be changed. Our relationships and the connections between us will be changed.

Thanks to the influence of the Light, we see ourselves connected differently to the extent that we will want to bestow to each other, to come closer, to bring goodness. This indicates that we are in the spiritual world. The spiritual world is bestowal.

We recommend that workshops and discussion circles be conducted everywhere. And if through shared exercises like these we truly begin to better relate to each other, even in the most minimal way, without causing harm to each other, and at least not doing to others what we hate, then evil will no longer remain in the world.

In this way we nullify and exterminate all of the evil in the world. Can you imagine what kind of a world we would live in if we were to attract the Light that will correct the world in this way? Nobody would want to harm anyone else! This would simply be the Garden of Eden (heaven).

This offers us a miracle to practice the wisdom of connection, the wisdom of Kabbalah, here and now. We have reached such a period in history where this has become our top priority. And so we feel crises that will grow more and more as long as we do not realize this method.
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From KabTV’s “The Meeting of Worlds” 6/15/14

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