According to the purpose of creation, we must ascend to the height of the Creator. However, our egoistic desire is not capable of it. It seemingly wants to grow up, to become great because it’s “something out of nothing.” It has a grain of “something,” meaning the Light that produced it, but by its nature, by its essence, it comes “out of nothing.”

This is the basis of the contradiction inherent in our nature: On the one hand, it aspires to greatness, and on the other hand, it cannot achieve anything. We see this in evolution, from the history of human development. In the desire to receive, it’s impossible to obtain anything in the form of permanent or growing fulfillment. In the end, the only chance for a successful application of egoism is to reveal the evil inherent in it.

Therefore, it’s so important to show one’s own lowliness. If a person acts as a researcher in a laboratory in order to reveal the property of lowliness in the desire to receive, it’s the good, true, and shortest path to reveal the Creator.

Here, we are required to work on self-denial. Within its framework, everyone must elevate the goal in his eyes and in the friend’s eyes and to receive from the group the examples of devotion, friends’ love, love for the Creator. All this is so that eventually he discloses his lowliness. It’s said that only the low will see the Creator.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/06/13, Shamati #26

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Question: Is it possible to alter the force that moves us (back and forth) in such a way that we enter a steep dive, fall intentionally, and then take off like a rocket all at once to the 125^th level?

Answer: You cannot immediately rise to the 125^th level, not because you lack the power, but because all of the levels are the complete opposites of each other and it is up to you to become familiar with every level in order to understand its characteristic, its taste.

Suppose you broke some apparatus and you took it apart. In order to put it back together, it is up to you to learn how to connect one part to another, why this part or another is needed, and how to combine them.

That is also how it is in this circumstance. It is impossible to control creation completely without understanding the mechanism of all its parts, without connecting them correctly. A man is called Adam because he resembles the Creator; rather than the Creator, he begins to control the whole machine.

Our world, although central, is the smallest in creation; around it exists an immense system of higher worlds. And it is up to you to become familiar with the entirety of the full system. You cannot imagine how much this perception is absolute and penetrates through all the smallest parts, both vertically and horizontally!
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From the 1^st Lesson of the Bulgaria Convention “Dawn Of A New World” Day One 11/01/13

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Question: I think that until there is a critical mass of people who have revealed the Creator, others like me will remain sitting quietly, and after that we will live and exist with them in a wonderful way.

Answer: I understand you perfectly, but we are living according to a particular program and we are not allowed to escape from it! We are found under the control of nature and don’t know what will happen tomorrow or in another minute.

Look at all of human history, at the whole world. Who can manage it? No one, starting the greatest and most powerful people and ending with the smallest people. There is a clear axis of development for every person and for all of humanity. We are managed. In creation there are two forces: One force pushes us from behind through suffering and the other force pulls us forward through pleasure. They control each one of us completely, as if we were small insects.

In order to rise above the physical (animal) developmental axis, we were given free choice. Through our elevation, we can change material life, because we will be equal to the Creator to some degree. We can look at the entire perspective; there will be two forces in our hands. And without them we would be subject to the upper management. Unfortunately, this understanding is turned off in us and so we behave like little children.

But today we have already become wiser, and we see that the world has transformed to be more and more unmanageable and chaotic; everything slips through our fingers. We need to do something about this. We cannot sit still!
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From the 1^st lesson of the Bulgaria Convention “Dawn Of A New World” Day One 11/01/13

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A Mitzva (commandment) is the correction of our desires in order to connect them into one, in one direction and one intention. We can divide our desires into 613 parts, 620 parts or 10 parts and to other forms of division. However, the Torah and the Mitzvot are, in fact, a correction that is called the correction of the shattered desire to receive, from in order to receive to in order to bestow.

Thanks to this correction, all the desires connect to one general intention, to one source. Every part doesn’t worry about its own pleasure any more, but about delighting the one Creator. So, all the parts connect, as it is written, “For in Him doth our heart rejoice.” We connect thanks to our yearning for Him.

Unity is possible only through connecting, as “Israel, the Torah, and the Creator are one,” which means that we want to delight the Creator. We cannot just connect to one another if it were not aimed at the Creator because the desires to receive cannot connect by themselves. They only can connect through their goal. If each of us wants to delight the Creator, we connect in Him!

It is the same when it comes to the private parts inside a person. A person is a small world that is made of 620 parts. Each of the 620 egoistic parts of my soul wants to enjoy either sweet or bitter food, listen to music, rest, or get fresh air. If I want each of these pleasures separately, I feel what I enjoy, and each of the pleasures is different from the other.

However, if I want to feel all these pleasures in order to bestow, in the Creator, all these multiple, small, private pleasures turn into one big pleasure for me. This is called the one and simple Light of Ein Sof (Infinity) that is not divided into separate Lights of NRNHY.

All our unity is fulfilled only in the Creator. There cannot be any connection between us outside the Creator since each part is wrapped in the shell of its ego and cannot connect with others. We are like a bag of nuts that cannot connect to one another. Only if we annul ourselves and want the bag to collect and bring everyone together and to be the one thing that unites them, each annuls his shell and everyone becomes incorporated in one bag.

So, “Israel, the Torah, and the Creator are one” isn’t just a saying. There cannot be Israel (a person who yearns for Yashar El, straight to the Creator) and the Torah if they are not fulfilled in the Creator. This is a very important principle.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/28/13, The Zohar

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Question: How can we revise the articles of Rabash and Baal HaSulam in a different language so that they will be understandable to the general public?

Answer: Re-tell them in your own words! Take a small article, read it, create a plan, and begin rewriting it, word by word.

This is how I rewrote The Book of Zohar, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, and the articles of Rabash. For example, I would take a certain article and replace words with different ones using vocabulary that is close to me, and then I would check every paragraph to see if it sounded correct as compared to the original, and it came out as a completely different text that seemed to be understandable and not as archaic as the original in a normal, modern, human language.

When writing through all this, you will see that there is nothing complicated there. There are special codes, but we already understand them. We need to adapt all the texts to ourselves and to the people so that, while reading them, they will feel that, let’s say, here is a little psychology and this is philosophy, and here it writes about biology, evolution, and so on. That is, they will see a healthy, normal approach to everything.
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From a Talk About Dissemination 10/17/13

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Question: How should we construct the work in the groups of ten? Can the groups of ten be formed according to participation in projects?

Answer: The division into groups often is useful for discussions because discussions in a large format is very difficult. Discussing means listening to someone else, joining with him, completing him, and listening to others.

A group of ten is a kind of gathering that is optimal for our internal structure, for our thoughts, our intellect, and our hearts. This is the maximum amount of people that I can include within me and can see them all as if they were like my ten fingers. And if the amount is greater, it is very difficult, practically impossible. If there are more, we automatically contract ten people and sometimes only five or even two. It depends on the development of a person.
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From a Talk About the Dissemination 10/17/13

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We have had situations where we have worked a long time on some projects, and suddenly a need for developing and implementing a new project appeared. We stopped all the work in our factory and worked on the urgent project for a month or two.

On the one hand, this was our joint decision. On the other hand, at the time that the decision was made, many things were not clear to everyone: “Why are we doing this? For what? We are dealing with some kind of common joint dissemination, and what else?” People didn’t understand how much this could consolidate them, ignite them, how much they would begin to feel each other, how much this would burn within them. They thought that they had no need for this: Why take off in all directions or conversely go into some particular area?

So, I was compelled to give instructions directly so that everyone would be involved specifically with this. After that, people understood that this had been truly imperative, although, in the beginning, many were opposed and some even thought that they needed to be involved with the wisdom of Kabbalah only.

We had a friend who studied with us for fifteen years. He, ultimately, didn’t understand that dissemination had become a necessary condition for our unification and connection, and was, therefore, compelled to leave, for if two people don’t give rise to a third component, don’t care for it as if it were their little child, and they don’t unite, this is not a family, but simply two people living together.

A family is when there is some third thing in common, and now we are going out for a project like this in which we all are involved together, this is our small child and it leads us toward unity and connection.

Besides that, this project gave us an inner sense of urgency that we need to bring to people what they are missing. We went out to the masses, we promised them everything that we could, and after that we found ourselves in a dilemma, “And what else? How will we fulfill them? How will we carry out what we promised the people?” You see that they are all found here next to us, and you cannot escape from them somewhere like a traveling circus.

In other words, we intentionally promised them many things. It follows that we intentionally took upon ourselves great ambitious missions and we promised people that we would carry them out. We put ourselves into a trap. And we have no other choice but with fear, with shame, with inner trembling, to be infused with that condition that obligates us to unite, for otherwise, nothing will emerge for us, and what are we going to do now? Where will we find that power that will fulfill everything that we promised the people?

It follows that all the promises to the wider circles of society force a person to an internal mobilization, to be connected with the others, obligating the search for a way out.  And there is only one way out: to shout to the Creator. Unite and scream to the Creator.

Otherwise, they will beat you. They will shame you. They will relate to you with contempt. All the work that we have done ultimately will become negative publicity for you. You will be like all the rest of the parties and organizations who only make promises and don’t carry anything out and cannot do anything.

Therefore, it is specifically necessary to go out to the wider circles of society and make promises, and after that to clarify how you will fulfill these promises so as not to be ashamed to go out into the street. The Creator will arrange feelings of shame like this for you that will oblige you to unite, to search for salvation, and then everything will be okay.
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From a Talk About Dissemination 10/17/13

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Question: Our central group in Petach Tikva is currently engaged in a very serious dissemination effort. What can we do to strengthen them?

Answer: The central group is at the forefront of the struggle for truth in the world.

To carry the truth to the world means to reveal Kabbalah as the method of correcting humanity because there is no need to correct the world, but it is necessary to correct the human being. With each passing day, more and more people understand that if we continue to live within our egoistic nature, we will loss the possibility of further existence on Earth, that is, we will bury ourselves and will not be able to do anything.

It is written in The Book of Zohar that the angel of death (his egoistic desire) appears before a person holding a sword with a drop of poison on its end. And not being able to prevent himself from greed, the person opens his mouth, swallows the drop, which the angel of death puts into his mouth, and dies.

We cannot correct our world; we cannot correct ourselves by any other means but through attracting the Upper Light. To do this, the wisdom of Kabbalah has been given.

Moreover, we are not able to correct ourselves even with the help of the Upper Light, if we are not organized in a group, do not study the structure of the upper worlds, the correct state of matter, where the Upper Force comes from and seemingly radiates on us if we seek these states.

The time has come when we must reveal this to the world. Due to this, we ourselves will ascend.
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From the Convention in Bulgaria 11/01/13, Lesson 2

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As we move forward, there are all sorts of egoistic fears, uncertainty, and hesitations. Of course, we do not want take such dramatic steps. It seems that it would be better to soften everything, not to speak out openly against the powerful forces of this world.

This is similar to how Pharaoh goes against Moses. Who is Moses? He is no one and nothing because he is afraid all the time, in awe of Pharaoh. But the Creator pushes him forward and compels him to confront Pharaoh face to face, that is, to stand against the manifestation of all the egoism of our world.

Moshe (from the word “Limshoh” – to pull out in Hebrew) is the force that pulls us out of egoism.

Moshe is not free. He stands before Pharaoh, shaking with fear, but it is the Creator who puts him in these conditions, and therefore, if he accepts them, he wins.

Today, we are in a state, which we would never be able to plan ourselves, in a state of absolute uncertainty, with the threat of conflict. And I am incredibly happy about that. This joy is multiple, multi-layered.

First of all, this joy comes from the fact that we deserve such opponents. Baal HaSulam wrote that we wanted to blow up the wall between humanity and the wisdom of Kabbalah because it alone can save humanity. Today it is manifested. We deserve enormous publicity, which we could not create ourselves. Whether it is positive or negative, it does not matter. Publicity is publicity.

We are making strides in dissemination. This forces us to rise, to evaluate everything differently. We are going to fight. All this is not simple because it involves a huge risk, and indeed it is. But the payoff is huge, and there is no turning back.

The Creator sets these circumstances and does everything so that we cannot escape. This picture is completely clear to me, and our friends start seeing that there is no way out; the Creator puts us before Pharaoh, forcing to work.

I am very happy about this first because we have earned such a strong, dramatic attitude of the Creator. Secondly, because the entire world group understands this state, this critical battle, and we are giving our last effort; we agree to withstand the onslaught and correctly respond to it; on one hand, we do so calmly, and on the other hand, without fear, without hesitation, without doubt.

The current period gives me confidence that we really are before the Egyptian exile. These are already serious battles against our egoism, which is now revealed to us in this way, especially, in the last stage of our fight against certain circles.

It is said that when the people of Israel were going out of Egypt, there was a chase. Moreover, it is not said that the Egyptians chased them, but Erev Rav (the mixed multitude). Who were they? There was no one to go after the Israelites because the Pharaoh’s army was defeated, and all the servants, etc. allegedly died of the ten plagues.

Who stayed behind in Egypt? Those who clung to it; those who were afraid of the Creator, who worked for Pharaoh. We are at war with them now. If we have reached this state, we are really close to the exit from Egypt. I congratulate all of us with this.
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From the Convention in Bulgaria 11/01/13, Lesson 2

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Question: How can every member in the group be like Moses who demands that Pharaoh let the people of Israel, the whole group, leave Egypt?

Answer: Everyone must be like Moses. It isn’t enough to be a passive member because by that you drill a hole in the general boat. You have to do your best, otherwise you are not a friend.

Imagine that we are all hanging from a cliff above an abyss, each holding the other, and you are holding everyone with a quarter of your strength. How can you be called a friend then? You have to give 100% of your powers every moment as much as you possibly can. Of you will not be able to do it, and you will quit time and time again and then come back. But in order to clarify things as quickly as possible, you have to understand that things can be that way.

Of course the desired and reality are not always consistent with each other. But still, you have to check yourself with regard to the ideal state. Only then can you really be called a friend.

Our connection creates a place for the revelation of the Creator, and it’s only for that reason that we give it priority. By connecting we create the conditions for the revelation of the Creator.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/30/13, Writings of Rabash

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