When you connect to the global system, to all souls, it becomes yours. You nourish it, you absorb all its desires, and qualities, and therefore the upper light from the Creator passes through you more and more to the point that you and He merge together, as you become closer and closer to Him, and absorb the whole field that is in Him to pass it on others.

It turns out that you and the Creator and everyone else merge into one common whole, and you are exactly the glue that glued the entire universe together. And you don’t need anything else!

By doing this work, you receive a great desire from everyone else at the same time—this is your vessel. In it you receive light from the Creator—this is your fulfillment. That is it. It is you.

Therefore, it turns out that in this state you are the whole universe in which all other souls and the Creator are located – everything is in you. And so it is in each of us. We don’t interfere with each other at all because everyone makes contact from their point. And then these contacts are added together again and a multi-stage system of multiple multiplication is gained.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Benefits of Fasting” 5/7/12

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What is the rubbing of hearts—a feeling of closeness to another? After all, I am in an egoistic desire and even perceive closeness from the point of view of my own benefit. I cannot do it any other way—I do not have another nature yet.

So, what can we do? How can we try by force to bring our heart closer to the heart of a friend to such an extent that we feel the heat between our hearts, the resistance?

We want to connect, we realize that it is necessary. And at the same time we understand that we are not able to do it, that it is impossible to come to one heart. And as we try to connect again and again and each time we are pushed away from each other, we begin to feel the friction of our hearts. And the stronger this friction and inability to penetrate into the heart of another, it just means that the heart is already ready for a genuine connection.

We know from the experience of spiritual life that if you try to get closer to someone to whom you do not feel inner rejection, it is quite easy to do. It is nice to be together, but such people usually do not get very far.

Those who advance are those who have a hard heart, are very stubborn and selfish, and do not feel or understanding others.Therefore, we are given the mind to realize this spiritual principle and understand that we are obligated, by overcoming, to grasp the end of the thread connecting us.

And since we do not allow ourselves and the other to lose this connection, and out of hopelessness we remain connected in order to feel and recreate the system of Adam HaRishon, we continue until drop by drop everything is added to the large score, and the mind begins little by little to connect to the feeling. Then we see that they can really go together and unite according to desire and feeling. This is how we achieve the rubbing of hearts.

The more space I free up in my heart for the heart of a friend, the stronger we can connect.

Rabash writes in Letter No. 40: Through the friction of the hearts, that is, when each one prepares his heart for the connection with others, even of the strongest ones, each will bring out warmth from the walls of his heart, and the warmth will ignite the sparks of love until a clothing of love will form. Then, both of them will be covered under one blanket, that is, nothing separates them anymore and vice versa, that which separated them now becomes their common blanket, one shell, meaning a single love will surround and envelop the two of them, as it is known that Dvekut [adhesion] unites two into one. And then they seem to have one heart because they are covered with one blanket that holds them together, turning them into one body.

In every human body there are billions of different, alien cells that perform different functions each with its own purpose. But all are connected into one body, surrounded by one skin, and therefore are considered one organism, one structure.

We and the entire universe are built according to this principle within which we come to the concept of a structure called the Creator beside whom there is nothing.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/21/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: How can you create an acute need, a hunger, for spirituality?

Answer: Only through systematic studies and dissemination.

Through studies with the group, you receive a greater desire for the goal, and through connections with friends the greatness of the goal and its importance.

Through systematic dissemination, you receive a feeling of external, informational, any kind of hunger, i.e., a lack, what people are missing and what they want.

Together this forms a condition in you where the upper light, a common field, influences you because you become similar to it. You become its conduit, its representative, because by studying in a group, you connect yourself with the field, and in dissemination, you connect yourself with the masses, and thus the upper light influences them through you.

Then, on one hand, you receive the feeling of greatness of the upper light, a spiritual state, and on the other hand, you feel the suffering of the masses, who are also drawn to this, but do not know where and why.

These two polarities in you expand to the limit where they really reach the full measure, called Seah in Kabbalah, and then the upper light begins to be revealed in you. It passes through you to others. It does not enter you, but passes through you. That is all! This is called that you work in bestowal.

You have nothing to bestow to the Creator, you just need to pass the light from Him to the others! This is your bestowal. You yourself should be in the middle, neutral. You do not need anything for yourself, you just do it in order to receive from the Creator and bestow it to others because He wants to bestow and wants it to be completed in this way. That is it! The simplest thing! Everyone is a conduit for everyone else!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Benefits of Fasting” 5/7/12

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What does it mean that everyone has to prepare their heart for connection? In the old days, houses were built not from smooth bricks but from stones of arbitrary shape. They were only trimmed a little so that they could be put together, and this is how the walls of the house were laid.

This is how we rub our hearts to polish them and make them suitable for reaching one goal: connection and advancement on the spiritual path. Everyone adjusts himself to the friend in order to build a common house, a common spiritual vessel.

Therefore, we need to trim our hearts. Everyone checks how much he is able to connect himself with the others: what stands in his way, what is superfluous, and what is missing. Through this personal work on ourselves, we can reach rubbing even between the stony hearts themselves. Everyone warms up their hearts.

If we understand that we are obliged to do this according to the purpose of creation, then everyone is trimming his own stone in order to adapt it to others. He no longer looks only at himself but evaluates himself in terms of readiness to connect. Where and how much I need to trim myself is checked only with respect to connecting with others in order to make contact with them.

Therefore, there is no need to try to make everyone completely rectangular. We just need to match each other. Let each one have a curved shape, but if the other has the suitable curvature, then we match each other.

That is why we can start working together from the first second. The main thing is not to check how straight a friend is (like a standard brick), but how much he matches me and I him. If we can adjust ourselves to each other, then we have the opportunity to build together a system inside us for the revelation of the Creator, a temple, a house of holiness, for the revelation of the quality of bestowal between us.

I do not know in advance what my qualities should be. I am not able to choose my qualities and form; rather, it is the environment that determines what form I must take in order to become integrated with the friends.

It is like in ancient masonry where you need to fit one stone under another to lay down a wall, this is how we need to work on our hearts. Not a single heart wants to be trimmed to a flat rectangular shape, removing everything that does not match the other.

In order to make standard blocks that are used in construction today, it is necessary to completely crush the natural material in order to mold the desired shape from these crumbs. But in spirituality, it is impossible. We would like to do this to others according to our egoism, but it does not work.

In true spiritual development, it is necessary to let everyone develop in his own way, and then he will develop into his optimal form. The other will remain in a way that is suitable for him. It is only necessary to eliminate the force of resistance between us, and then we will reveal the form of connection that the Creator wished to have between us. It is the form of connection revealed between us that is called the Creator.

Otherwise, we will not reveal anything except fabrications of our mind with which it is impossible to build any building. This is why we see that everything built by people is being destroyed: both the structure of the family and the spiritual society.

Therefore, we just need to know how to connect hearts.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/21/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Kabbalah is the science of using the upper force. Through connection and mutual guarantee, you can invite this force upon yourself. If you want to become similar to it, it influences you to the extent of your aspiration for it.

When a great number of people connect, they annul themselves relative to each other in order to connect together and create something common. This is no longer something like a gathering of ten people because the multitude creates something common in connection with each other as if it is eleventh. They give birth to a common desire—not the sum of their desires, but something common.

This common desire is above them, at the next level, and it is like their common child. Within it, they begin to feel the Creator—the upper force, the upper world, and the upper state. This no longer relates to our world.

Reaching such a connection in spite of your egoism so that you feel not yourself or even others, but the common thing between you, it is already the first serious spiritual degree. And the rest of the degrees are also built on the same principle.

Question: How does the process itself happen? Let’s say people get together and play at connection. What is happening in spirituality at this time?

Answer: Spirituality is right here, within us. We are in the same dimension as these forces. We connect them, use them, and exist inside them. After all, there are only two forces: the force of desire and the force of light. It is very simple.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The World of Liars” 5/19/12

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Question: Does a person receive the upper illumination when he acts contrary to his desire and tries to overcome it?

Answer: The light comes when a person, despite his egoism, hatred, anger, and everything that repels him from love, from connection with other people, and from merging with them into one common desire, wants to be connected with them, and rises above the ego.

Naturally, he cannot immediately yearn for this, but gradually, in the way a child grows, he moves in small steps. Even if he relates to connecting with others purely egoistically, all the same, the light slowly influences him and he realizes that he is still in such a state.

After all, the descent and degradation of the power of the upper light took place on purpose, step by step, and through a system of filters, so that even we, who are in the opposite quality, absolutely egoistic, and want to receive only for ourselves, can attract its influence upon us. It is not directly like when we feel how it is awakened in us, but is in the form of the “surrounding light,” as if from afar, since we are opposite to it. To the extent that we become more and more like this light, we feel it even more clearly. This explicit manifestation of the light is called the revelation of the Creator.

Question: If the light is revealed in such a state, does it not simply burn and incinerate?

Answer: How can it be revealed in the opposite state? It can be revealed only according to the law of equivalence of form and in no other way.

The light is in front of you in a free, open form, and you can receive it, feel it, and call it upon yourself only to the extent that you yearn for it, its quality. Therefore it cannot be revealed more or less;  you (not the light) command the extent to which it is revealed within you. Nothing depends on it. It all depends on the person!

Therefore to the extent that you perform within yourself some actions that guide, bring closer, and direct you to the light, it influences you. You cause its influence.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. When the Light Comes” 5/19/12

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The main thing at the congress is to open our hearts. After all, the congress is a gathering of hearts in order to correct the broken heart of Adam HaRishon, the common world soul we all are a part of. Therefore we need to try to feel how far we are from each other in our hearts.

The heart is everything that is in a person—all his desires and thoughts. Exactly these desires for fulfillment are what we must connect with each other, and try to feel the other, which will mean that we are connected.

To the extent that we love others as ourselves, we will begin to feel the force that disappeared from us during the shattering of the soul, the sin of Adam HaRishon. We will connect our hearts above our egoistic desires to correct this system and begin to feel the Creator again. In our common heart will reign one single and special upper force—the Creator, besides which there is nothing.

This is the purpose of our life and existence, the purpose of creating all worlds and all nature. The progress in this direction, feelings and thoughts related to the process of revealing the system of the Creator and the Creator Himself inside it altogether is called the opening of the heart.

When the heart opens, we begin to feel how spiritual organs are born and grow within us, as in any developing living body: brain, heart, liver, arms, legs, and so on. We will feel how we act with all parts of the heart to the extent that we want to connect them into one system. As from a drop of semen developing in the mother’s womb, so from our tiny inner desire for unity, connection, and mutuality, a special being will begin to develop within the upper force of the Creator.

To the extent that we can unite with each other and connect with the Creator, we will feel ourselves existing in one body, in one Creator, as parts of this common body, which are called friends. We will grow like cells of a living body, and feel our connection with each other and interdependence. As far as one can bestow to another, and the other to the third one, spreading further and further, we will build our one common body.

Imagine billions of tiny desires, each of which develops not by itself but due to connection with other desires, and so it grows, feeling its purpose and purpose of development.

By building ourselves in this way, we build the attainment of the Creator; we begin to understand who He is, how He dresses in us, and how to come closer to Him. From here it becomes clear how important each friend is, which enhances our power of resolve in attaining the Creator. Each friend brings me closer to the Creator, adds more and more attainment as if increasing the zoom and adding another hundred, a thousand, tens of thousands of new details that combine into one picture.

Then I clearly see the picture of the upper world and my attitude toward everyone. I see all the movements of everyone, their thoughts and intentions and all the changes taking place in them. I recognize in them one force, one upper root, which by awakening everyone in this way, speaks to me.

Thus, from the love for the created beings, we attain love for the Creator and begin to get acquainted with one single reality. It all starts with the connection of hearts.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/21/23, Lesson on the Topic “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: Let’s say we go to the cave Idra Raba where The Book of Zohar was written. What should be our intention?

Answer: The Book of Zohar is a special book of Kabbalah that describes absolutely all connections between souls that they must restore in order to fully ascend to the degree of the Creator.

This is what a person should do in this life, in this world—reveal our complete interconnection for himself and thus become similar to the Creator. This is what we should strive for.

Question: So, the thought of unity there, in this place, adds something to a person?

Answer: Of course! If I want to come to this place and somehow connect to the spiritual force reigning there, then of course this should help me.

I remember our trips there with my teacher Rabash, and what an impression they made on me. Today it is no longer so because from any place on earth I can connect to any upper source. But then, it was the only opportunity for me. Therefore, I strongly advise our friends or guests, do not miss this opportunity.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalistic Geography” 10/10/10

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Question: When we visit Kabbalistic sites, does it affect us in any way?

Answer: Of course, everything affects a person; he is psychologically susceptible to various influences. Therefore, he needs to be told about all the mysteries, connections in our world that come from upper forces descending to us from the upper world.

Through their manifestations in our world, one can somehow begin to connect to the upper sources. However, it depends on the person, on his intention, how he wants to implement it, but in principle, it is possible. Therefore, all trips to holy places have a very great educational and spiritual significance.

The right intention in Kabbalistic places is to connect to their energy. The influence of a certain upper force exists In every place of our world.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalistic Geography” 12/27/10

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Question: You constantly direct students to the group. What would this action be for someone not in the group as such?

Answer: I do not have to mechanically be in a group with you. I am inside it.

Do you think that a group is ten men sitting in a circle and talking to each other? The group is an inner force. Everything exists in the world of infinity, in absolute perfection, but everyone feels it in the qualities he is in at the moment.

My teacher, Rabash, gave an example, if you look at a plane flying in the sky, one believes that its length is 5 meters, another thinks it is 50 meters, and the third person 100 meters. How can we grasp the real length of the plane if it is far away? We cannot. That is, everyone measures it in their qualities.

So it is with regard to the spiritual, I feel the group to the extent that I can imagine it in a corrected form.

In fact, in the world of infinity everything is in a completely corrected form: the group, humanity, and all the people. But, to some extent, I can only feel it in the measure, at the level I am at.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Group for Laitman” 5/19/12

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