Comment: There is a state when a student speaks against a teacher.

My Response: Then he is not a student! By doing this he completely cuts himself off from spiritual advancement. Much has been written about this. The most important thing in our movement is simply to idolize the friends, the group, the teacher, and the Creator, and to do it more and more at that. How will you advance without this?

If someone speaks badly about the teacher, then that is it, he cuts himself off! After all, in spirituality there are no conditions that someone heard something, and someone did not. You have such thoughts, that is it! Nothing else matters.

There are many so-called students who attend classes, hang out in different groups, and think badly or speak badly of others. I am very sorry that such events take place because it is useless to deal with them, in the end they will not advance.

Question: But can a person get through this state and become aware of it? Or do you think that if he went into such a stupor, he would not come out?

Answer: For everything, so to speak, there is forgiveness, but a person must work on himself. It happens to everyone! I am completely calm about this. But he should be aware of what he is controlled by.

Comment: You said that it is necessary to remain silent and not interfere with those states of a friend that seem bad to us.

My Response: You can sometimes point at it in jest or in between words. But in general no! What is the benefit of that? He must experience all this internally and rethink it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. To Hate the Teacher and Friends” 12/29/12

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Comment: Earlier you emphasized that only men can be engaged in connection. And now it is becoming the same for both men and women.

My Response: Yes, women are coming forward and starting to take an increasingly active part in all spheres of life.

Previously, a woman gave birth, cooked, cleaned, and served everyone and everything. And although she was treated with great respect, there was no question of any spiritual work. Even in prayer houses there was no place for them. This was introduced only 100 to 200 years ago.

And today everything is on equal footing. The world is moving toward the fact that women in all societies are becoming equal. And it is not just because we are so good but because this is the movement toward a global correction. There is no doubt that the female part is becoming more and more effective and necessary in our common work.

Therefore, I pay a lot of attention to them. These are serious desires, serious forces, and pressure on all men and the whole world.

Was it possible 200 years ago that a woman would become involved in politics? And today there are a lot of women in top positions in countries.

So, this is a global trend, because the world is growing. Egoism comes forward. A woman represents egoism, the desire to receive. Therefore, she is becoming more demanding and more independent.

There is a lot to respect women for. They are very consistent, very serious, and very meticulous. There is a certain limitation in their corrections, but this is not their limitation but the distribution of nature into two parts.

Therefore I regard women’s connection as a very big and serious matter.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Women’s Congress” 1/9/13

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Question: Do you draw whatever you explain to the students from the next degree?

Answer: For me, it is not the next degree. I am in it, and if necessary, I will give you a part of it.

Question: Since you are on much higher than your students, you have to descend to a degree that is slightly higher than them. How does your incorporation in the common mind happen?

Answer: I work with a higher degree. That is my teacher.

Question: So you still have the student–teacher system?

Answer: Naturally! It does not change! And the fact that his body died, what does the body have to do with it? Even before it was not the transmitter of information.

Question: But before everything was passed from mouth to mouth, from teacher to student. And in the current period it is all with the group.

Answer: It used to be with a group before too. All Kabbalists have written about this for thousands of years. There had to be a group anyway because a teacher is just a means. In fact, we have to connect to each other in one unified system.

Question: It turns out that your teacher is the next degree for you. And for each of us is it the group?

Answer: Yes, and this group connects to me.

Question: So, there are three degrees from the individual to the teacher?

Answer: No. You find me within the group. As soon as you can somehow unite, you will immediately see me there.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Higher Intelligence” 1/2/11

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Comment: When a person begins to study Kabbalah, he moves the corporeal world away from himself because it seems completely meaningless to him. But eventually, it turns out that he must unite with this world and love it.

My Response: To love the whole world?! For what reason?! There is nothing to love in it!

People in this world are not the others whom I must love as myself. I do not have to go to them and make their life better. I cannot do this! The Creator makes their life worse, but I will make it better?!

To love them means to go to them and explain a little about the possibility of rising above our world, and then it will be better for them.

I am not in the business of feeding the world when the Creator makes it starve. No! This world will suffer greatly. My task is to tell humanity how to make sure that there is no suffering, but not to destroy suffering! I just cannot do that.

I must bring into this world the method of ascent and not destroy all kinds of suffering on the corporeal level. This is not my mission!

My mission is to teach, to tell, and to help master the ascent to the upper world, then there will be no suffering. It is not to engage in all sorts of noble actions in this world. This completely contradicts the general movement of the world, the program of the Creator.

The world must feel its conformance or non-conformance with the forward movement. It must feel whether it is following the right program or not. If not, then why.

Today the world is in confusion. What to do? Let us say I have billions or anything I want. If I give the world what it lacks and please absolutely everyone, then the world will freeze in this place, and it will not need to develop.

What should I do as a Kabbalist? I should just bring the world the knowledge of why sufferings do not end and how you can rise above them and ascend to the next degree.

These sufferings are needed only to push us to the next degree! These are labor pains. We need to help ourselves be born. This is why I exist.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What to Expect from Kabbalah?” 12/22/12

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Question: If a friend is allegedly in a descent, then we need to help him with the methods of the Kabbalistic teaching. How do we not interfere with his state that he must experience?

Answer: We should only show him a good example. And then whatever happens, happens.

Question: But how can we determine what is good and what is bad for a person when he is in a state of descent, cannot attend lessons, or, on the contrary, when he is active and always cheerful? Visually, it seems that he is in the subject, but maybe if he is in a descent this the best state for him?

Answer: There is no better state when in a descent! The descent is only in order for us to get out of it as soon as possible. There is no need to be a masochist. If you love descents, then you are just an egoist, and you like it. It is said: “The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh.”

A descent means that you have lost the importance of the Creator, the group, the teacher, and the advancement, you do not want any of this. This is called a descent.

Comment: But people are often in a bad mood.

My Response: That is not a descent! It is just a bad mood! You must clearly understand what a descent is. If it is precisely in the descent in importance of the means to achieve the goal and of the goal itself along with the means to achieve it, then you really are in a descent. Then you need to work on it. It has nothing to do with your mood.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. To Hate the Teacher and Friends” 12/29/12

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Question: A mistake is an important part of the path, but it is better to make mistakes in potential than in practice. What does that mean?

Answer: In potential means that when I advance, I see mistakes in my advancement, aspirations, and efforts. Then I reveal egoism as evil, not by the blows it overtakes me with that force me to go and satisfy, but by the obstacles that it puts on my path to the Creator.

Instead of blows from behind, I discover egoism in front of me that pulls me back and prevents me from moving forward. In this case, I deal with it faster, I understand its nature relative to the Creator.

After all, when I yearn for the Creator, egoism begins to interfere with me, and I see how much it directs me in the opposite direction from itself to the Creator. That is, I start to feel that it is really help against it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. It Is Very Important to Make Mistakes” 1/4/13

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Question: Does a person engaged in Kabbalah, when he receives any state and does not bestow from it, feel only himself?

Answer: If a person is in the quality of bestowal, then he feels others instead of himself, and if he is in the quality of reception, then he feels only himself.

There are only two possibilities: to feel your own desires or the desires of the other.

Our world is built on the fact that we feel only our own desires. We can feel the desires of the other only to the extent that we want to use him to fulfill our desires.

The spiritual world is built on the opposite principle, to feel the desires of the other and to feel your desires only to the extent that it is necessary in order to fulfill the desires of the other.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Erasing the Past” 1/22/11

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Question: What is life?

Answer: Material life is a form of existence of protein matter.

Spiritual life is a feeling of being filled with light, not just with light, because there are many different colors in the spiritual world. For example, the light of Chaya is the light of life, a very great light of receiving, feeling, filling with life–giving power, and knowledge. It is called life.

In the spiritual, our protein matter is not considered life at all because, in fact, it does not exist. In the spiritual world of bestowal, there is nothing that we feel with our five senses in the material world.

Everything that we are observing now is not in the spiritual world at all because it exists only in our imagination, in our egoistic desires.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Life” 1/2/11

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Comment: The Kabbalists of Kotzk deliberately underestimated the importance of the group, which gave the friends the opportunity to do internal work.

My Response: This is intended for great people, not for us.

Question: If a person is equal to others, should he still try to be lower than others in a Kabbalistic group?

Answer: There is no such thing to be equal to others. Who knows what level one is at? The person himself does not know. It all depends on how he presents himself.

For example, I cannot place myself low because then the students will not respect me and will not accept the method and study. I have to take that into account. In front of the students it is necessary to keep myself accordingly; otherwise, they will not have an incentive and opportunity to learn. This is how a person is arranged. Until they can appreciate me as having the keys to their spiritual world, I have to play before them.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Motherly Care” 12/31/12

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Question: If a student does not want to learn, then he prevents the group from receiving light. Can each element can knock the whole group out of the groove?

Answer: Certainly. Therefore, this condition is called Arvut, which means mutual guarantee. In a closed system, it is the only way! We are all a closed system, in one single mechanism, one common soul, one organism.

You cannot run away from Nature. This is how we were originally created.

If you are a person, that is it, you are in this system and you cannot do anything about it, not even kill yourself, disappear somewhere, or somehow try to annul it; it will not work. You are in a system from which you cannot escape! You can only consciously bring yourself by your efforts to be an organic, integral element of this system.

Now we are driven to this strongly by Nature that shows us that we are such particles.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Harm the Group” 1/2/11

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