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The Whole Sea Is in One Drop

712.03Every line of the Torah has such depth. The Torah is infinite, as if the whole sea is in one drop. As Kabbalah says: the whole universe exists in every point of the universe.

Question: How can this be?

Answer: It is like a holographic picture because everything consists of everything. Our world is only now beginning to understand this based on holography. In principle, if there is perfection, then every part of it must be perfect. How can it be imperfect if it must be equal, similar, and completely repeat the whole in everything?

It turns out that the whole and the part are absolutely equivalent. Every person and the whole world are absolutely equal.

Question: Then how did something imperfect come out of the perfect Creator?

Answer: The Creator created the creation not out of Himself, but out of nothing. The will to receive is His imprint. That is, we are absolutely opposite to Him. But our final state is equal to the Creator and perfect. We must reach it by ourselves.

We, as if, go back by the same path and become more and more perfect by returning to the source. Kabbalah and the Torah are engaged in this.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/12/10

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Spiritual Reward

547.02Question: What attracts a person more: flattery or rejection?

Answer: Obviously flattery, indulging their egoism, praising, and admiring. This can be seen in the child’s behavior. Tell him something nice, stroke his head, give him something sweet and tasty and see how he will become attached to you, come to you, and smile. It is clear, such is our nature. Little animals, that is how we remain.

Question: But how to use it for correct development? There is a certain limit. After all, you can’t pamper and indulge him all the time.

Answer: If you have the right intention, for the benefit of a person, society, the goal, the Creator, then you can use it without any restrictions, and you will be understood correctly. Let’s say in a group we must behave in such a way that our friends feel our love, good attitude, openness, that we admire them, support them. And this is what we use.

Question: Suppose a person has done something good and he is starting to be praised. Is this the element you are talking about?

Answer: No, this is like a payment for accomplishments.

Question: But we are not supposed to work for a payment, are we?

Answer: Why? On the contrary. If you have done something good for society, then we are obliged to make sure that everyone knows about it. You have no right to hide that you did it for society because in this way you help others do good deeds too.

Question: How does it differ from boasting?

Answer: Everything is decided by intention. If I say to everyone: “Guys, I did such a thing today! I think it will help us all. Look how I was able to do it!”, then everyone around understands that I am not boasting. I tell them that I really did something good for them to be able to do it too, use it, and repeat it.

There is no intention on my part to elevate myself here. I do this only in order that others do the same because by looking at the good deeds of others, you get infected with them. It all depends on the common platform of relations: either everyone looks at each other as competitors or as partners.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Art of Seduction” 12/7/13

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When Everyone Feels Only Themselves

232.08Question: You wrote about what a broken heart is in your blog. I liked where you said: “To ‘break’ the heart means to attain that same point in which we were once as a single, unified picture of Malchut and then were shattered into numerous parts.”

Do I understand correctly that the feeling of being separated from all other people is called my broken heart?

Answer: Yes. Only when these two sentences are linked together, they do not sound quite right.

We all come from the same state—from one heart, from the same desire. This desire then broke into many parts. This action is called the shattering. Afterward we each exist in our own separate egoistic desire.

It is called a broken heart when everyone feels only himself and not the whole global system in which the Creator is located.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/27/22

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The Eternal Task of the Kabbalist

961.2Question: At this stage you are the next transitional link after Rabash. Is this why it is desirable for you to do many things during your lifetime before you leave the world in this representation?

Answer: Yes, it is desirable to do as much as possible.

All the same, we can say that I laid the foundations for the system of correction all over the world with groups, books, archives, lectures, and methods so much so that my students can continue it all, and they are doing it. Practically, apart from our morning lessons, they do everything else on their own.

Therefore, I can say that when necessary, I can leave without any worries. Of course, I would like to see the complete correction of the world because every Kabbalist wants to see it. But I do not predict such things.

You cannot imagine how much a Kabbalist does not care if it happens to him today or in a couple of years or what will happen at all. It does not matter at all. The main thing is to move everyone as close as possible to complete correction until the very last minute.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How Does a Kabbalist Die?” 11/16/13

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The Power of the Collective

945Question: When an example is given in a Kabbalistic group, you begin to understand from it that you are not completing something. Can a Kabbalistic group set an example for the world? Will people be able to feel that we have an equal relationship and be drawn to this?

Answer: They will be drawn based on two forces. One force is suffering, which pushes from behind, and the second force is good, which pulls forward.

It all depends on the strength of the environment acting on everyone. It is in the power of the collective to make it so that a person will not be able to think differently. He will not be able to because he is a single small being in the collective field. And if this field begins to act correctly on him, he will be obliged to obey.

To enter the collective or disconnect from it is a person’s free choice. And when he enters, the environment already affects him, and he rides along with everyone without any problems.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Living Example” 12/3/13

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The Power of Unity and the Powerlessness of Separation

264.01All our work consists in correcting the spiritual vessel, which is called the soul of the first man Adam HaRishon. The Creator created this common desire, and then shattered it into many pieces. And now in each of us there is a tiny particle of that common soul.

We are called human, that is, “sons of Adam,” because we come out of the desire, which is called Adam HaRishon. Our task is to unite our disconnected, distant, separated desires back into one desire through our efforts.

Of course a lot of work is required here because all these particles have separated and moved away from each other due to the differences in their forms. And how is it possible to glue together completely different desires? We begin to examine according to what qualities it is possible to combine one desire with another until we get a single whole in which everything is connected together.

And the more desires this common desire absorbs, the more it feels and reveals the upper force that created it.

Therefore all our actions should be aimed at connection. This determines the whole attitude to life, to the Creator, to the friends, and to oneself and one’s state. With each of my actions, thoughts, and desires, I strive to push the connection forward in order to further bring together and unite different desires and turn them into one single common desire for mutual bestowal.

All private desires are broken and do not want to connect. The Creator did this on purpose to give us the opportunity to feel the difference between a broken desire and a whole one. And due to this we begin to attain the Creator as the advantage of light from darkness.

The Creator divided the common desire into billions of opposite parts, and then He helps us, at our request, put them together and make up for each other. When we combine all the pros and cons together, we feel how powerful a united desire is compared to the weakness and insignificance of a shattered one.

On this difference of potentials—between plus and minus, between connection and division—we will feel the full power and depth of creation, we will attain the intention and work of the Creator, and ourselves.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/14/22, “Each Day They Will Be As New in Your Eyes”

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The Paradox of a Person’s Development

707It has already been explained that a corporeal essence is separated and divided by the force of motion and remoteness of location, and a spiritual essence is separated and divided by disparity of form.

According to the measure of disparity of form from one another, so is the measure of the distance between them. If the disparity of form comes to complete oppositeness, from one extreme to the other, they become completely severed and distinct (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 3, Item 15).

Question: In our world, we are completely opposite to the qualities of the Creator, and therefore we do not feel Him at all. Is there any other reality in which we are even more opposite to the Creator? Or is this the most extreme point?

Answer: Man by his nature is absolutely opposite to the Creator. Out of all types of desires—inanimate, vegetative, and animate, there is nothing more distant from the Creator than man. Therefore, in the future, as a result of his correction, there will be no object closer to the Creator.

Question: Man is the most distant in qualities from the Creator. Is this called “our world”? Is this the most remote condition or are there even worse ones?

Answer: No, there are no worse ones.

Question: In the process of our development, are we distancing from the Creator or getting closer to Him?

Answer: We are getting closer by distancing. The fact is that we see ourselves constantly distancing from the Creator, that is, not similar to Him. At the same time, we have the opportunity to become like Him. This is the paradox of our development.

In principle when we develop naturally, we feel ourselves further and further away from the Creator as the will to receive in us becomes greater and greater. But, on the other hand, there is an opportunity to come closer to Him. As it is said: “Anyone who is greater than his friend, his inclination is greater than him.”
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 11/20/22

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The Path to the Creator Lies Through a Broken Heart

236.02Question: You write in your blog that in Kabbalah the path to the Creator lies through a broken heart when we discover how opposite we are to Him. It is from this abyss of falling, when we call on the Creator, that we discover that we have points of contact with Him.

But the Creator is the quality of bestowal and love. How exactly from the point of falling, from a broken heart, do I suddenly have contact with Him?

Answer: A person begins to understand that in his state he cannot do anything, but only to bring himself to complete subjugation to the Creator. After all, he has no other possibilities to act. Then he turns with a request, with a prayer to the Creator, so that He would bring him closer to Him.

Comment: Yes, if I consider the Creator as some kind of upper force that helps me, then this is understandable. But if we consider Him as the quality of bestowal, which is manifested in me…

My Response: This is one of the qualities of the Creator, which is partially manifested in a person.

Comment: It is interesting that at the same time both joy and despair are manifested in me.

My Response: Of course, it can be both joy and despair: despair from your own strength, but joy from the fact that at the same time you are getting closer to the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/27/22

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What Are Kabbalists Working On?

944Question: When you watch the morning lessons and see people on the screen representing different parts of the globe, different systems, and sometimes representing countries that are currently at war in armed conflict with each other, and you see how these people rise above some internal, national, religious, and social features of places where they live, and unite with each other. What are they united in?

Answer: In the goal. The goal for them is the same: they want to come to a state when the world reaches its equilibrium, when all the forces of the world will be directed only to good in their union.

This good will be understood by everyone equally. And there will be no division here, for example, into prophets or some other signs, but simply everyone will understand that the right state of the world should be love.

Question: Both happiness and love are such abstract notions, people can understand the description and content in different ways. How would you define the concept of “love” that people who study Kabbalah aspire to?

Answer: Love is a state in a person when he cares about the good of his neighbor and only this controls him.

Comment: But it is so contrary to human nature.

My Response: And that is what we are working on.
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From KabTV’s “Conversations, Israel and Its Impact on the World” 11/18/21

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Advancement Through Pressure

221Question: Why should a person advance to the goal through pressure according to the Kabbalistic method?

Answer: The fact is that you have to replace your nature, either voluntarily and consciously or under harsh pressure.

Either you produce this pressure yourself and convince yourself to change your attitude toward people or nature convinces you—one of the two. This is the manifestation of all the corrections, which should be implemented right here in this world in our mutual relations.

Question: Let’s say that in principle I know and understand this method. But suddenly before some action, there is such a state that I just enter into a dissonance that presses on me?

Answer: But this is just simple egoism! It means that you lack the influence of the group and that you are not integrated with it enough. The most important thing is the environment, the group.

Comment: But this happens just before the action. Then when I already get into the action, go like a millstone and exit this state, I realize how important it is and how cool it is. But still, with the next step I feel pressure again.

My Response: True. This is how it happens: slowly and gradually until the altruistic force that is hidden inside the egoistic force is revealed to you. We need to break through to it.

Comment: Only then does the understanding come, but it is in sensations and not in the mind, and only later is it analyzed by the mind. I am going through overcoming and only in the sensations do I feel a greater breadth.

Answer: Certainly. Everything happens in sensations. Objective reality is given to us in sensations, as the Marxists used to say.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Progress Through Pressure” 12/2/13

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