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Act of Creation

509Know that the whole matter of innovation that the Creator had innovated with this creation…applies only to the form of the desire to enjoy imprinted in every created being. Nothing more was innovated in creation… (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 4, Item 18).

Question: What does this innovation that applies to the form of the desire to enjoy mean?

Answer: The innovation is the desire to enjoy, which appears, develops, and determines all created beings in all their forms.

Question: What does from absence mean? Does this mean that the Creator does not have this desire?

Answer: From absence means that there was no such desire before. The act of the appearance of desire from absence is the act of the Creator. Apart from this, there is nothing new in the entire universe.

Question: Does it mean that He created a desire to enjoy that did not exist before?

Answer: Yes, this is the action of the Creator. Everything else goes on according to the same principle.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 12/4/22

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What is Lacking in Balance to Achieve Harmony?

232.05Question: Let’s say a person is constantly in doubt and is trying to use intuition without fully understanding what it is. How would you advise him to make decisions from a harmonious state,  not out of imbalance when he is unsure of what is right or wrong, but from a place of balance?

How can we make decisions from a simple state to make additional steps?

Answer: If a person strives for harmony from a simple state, he usually achieves this by lowering his actions: moving less, thinking less, worrying less, hearing less, seeing less, and so on. The best thing is to take a sleeping pill and fall asleep.

That is, we have no harmony, but we try to achieve it by correctly balancing the forces acting on us. We call this harmony although it is not harmony at all but mutual neutralization of stimuli.

Question: So are balance and harmony not the same thing?

Answer: No. The fact is that we must understand how to restrict ourselves to not lose the harmony that has been achieved and not fall into imbalance.

Comment: When I think about it, I always remember the example of a tightrope walker. It seems that he is walking along the line and every step must be balanced or he will fall. At the same time, it is not a harmonious state but a constant effort, and constant control at every moment.

My Response: Well, we can say that this is the right balance, the right harmony. But still, one must constantly consider possible future outcomes in his sub-conscience and prove to himself that they can always be balanced.

Question: What does balance lack to become harmony? Does something need to be added?

Answer: Knowledge of the future, of the forces that affect you, of your capabilities, and of the world around you. All this can lead very far.

Comment: Turns out, there are many more elements to be added.

Answer: Of course.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 11/18/22

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Harmony Lies in the Unity of Opposites

557One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony (Haruki Murakami).

Question: What do you think about it? Is all this really necessary?

Answer: You see this is the Japanese mentality to some extent. Naturally this is a kind of convex materialism where one thing cannot exist without the other and is the result of the struggle of opposites.

Such a saying is suitable for our world. It is one of many that speaks of an unbalanced world in which there is no perfection, but for some reason the world is striving for it.

Question: How do these mundane things that Murakami writes about apparently transfer into some other things in people at certain points of higher development?

Answer: We must reach a state in which we would become convinced that the struggle is necessary, opposites must open up, and we must bring ourselves to our starting point in which we were born.

At this point a person must attain them, come to terms with them, connect with them, and achieve true harmony. That is, harmony begins when we achieve the unity of opposites.

A person must agree that what is offered to him in the form of a world of struggle of opposites is in fact our illusory world. And if we advance correctly, then instead of these two opposite forces—for example, yin – yang—we will disclose a single force that lies inside these two opposites and gives birth to them only so that they reveal this force itself.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 11/18/22

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Along the Same Chain

577Question: Do you have students who were only briefly in contact with you and you invested something in them that should be revealed in the future?

Answer: No, it is impossible to do this from a brief contact. There is no way. A student has to be annulled to a certain extent before the teacher. He must desire to annul himself and try to do it. You cannot pick a person up from the street and direct certain energy at him through glowing yellow eyes in one gaze and he becomes a werewolf like in a movie. There is no such thing.

Question: But at the same time, you yourself did not understand what Rabash was doing with you. You did not know what proper annulment and all these things you are talking about were, did you?

Answer: I did not know, but, on the other hand, I was hoping that such work was going on. And unfortunately, I was not able to appreciate it. In the end, whatever happened happened.

And today’s contact is completely different when I, together with the group, sort of come to my teacher and ask him to help me work with them—and through them with the rest of the world—to continue our common mission. I turn to him; on one hand I am connected with the group, and on the other hand, the group is connected with the world through our dissemination, and so on. That is, everything goes along the same chain.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call, The Fate of the Kabbalist” 11/2/09

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Eternal Perfection

115Comment: You once said that students should listen to the teacher, follow his recommendations, and that if we could take this step, the spiritual field is already ready and a huge space will open up to us. And you said that you also listen to Rabash’s advice, as if he gives you something in real-time, and you, as though, overcome yourself.

My Response: Of course, after all the body has absolutely nothing to do with this.

These are the ten Sefirot that exist at the lowest level and are updated with their own Reshimo, with an information record. Therefore, it seems to you that the body is born, lives, and dies, is born, lives, and dies. Actually, the ten Sefirot change in this form.

A spiritual person is appreciated not by the low ten Sefirot, but by his altruistic ten Sefirot. In them he exists eternally, possesses and manages himself.

What does it mean that Rabash or Baal HaSulam died? Nobody dies. And in general, there is no death, just Reshimot that are renewed in us, and this is how we perceive their transformation. Therefore, contact with Baal HaSulam and Rabash remains as simple as it was before.

Comment: But you say that you, like your students, have to overcome what comes from Rabash. That is, you do not always agree with this…

My Response: Always disagree! And I must constantly change myself. And thank God that I feel it, understand it, comprehend it. and change.

My egoism never agrees with the spiritual, does it? Does not agree. Every minute it is updated and “against,” “against.” Every minute I correct it: “for,” “for.”

Question: So your work is absolutely identical to ours, even though you have understanding of the system?

Answer: Of course! And it is this way until the final correction.

But my work is performed in a larger volume of information, in the feeling of the system, in the feeling of this moving flow, interconnections.

It is a magnificent feeling! You live inside a system that breathes and controls everything. These are completely different states and forces.

A fusion of opposites happens when they connect and complement each other instead of an unbearable contradiction. And when a click happens, a correct grip between them, and from this state there is a feeling of perfection, a complementation of absolutely inconceivably opposite phenomena, characteristics, and qualities—this is spiritual ecstasy.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Universal Orgasm” 11/23/13

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The Root of Suffering and Problems

200.01Now you can understand the root of the corruptions that were incorporated promptly in the thought of creation, which is to delight His created beings.

“God has made them one opposite the other.” In that state, the turbid, corporeal body is set before us, of which it was said, “For the inclination of a man’s heart is evil from his youth.” This is so because its entire nursing from its youth is from the yeast of the Klipot. (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 4, Item 17)

The root of all the suffering and problems is only in the will to receive, in the desire, not just to enjoy, but to enjoy for one’s own sake

Question: Then why did the Creator create these desires?

Answer: In order for us, despite the desire to enjoy, to prefer the desire to bring pleasure to others so that we would rise above the desire to bring pleasure to ourselves and turn it into a desire to please others.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 11/20/22

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Why Does a Person Doubt?

79.02Question: Some researchers postulated that when a person is in doubt, it deprives him of balance and puts them in disharmony. The researchers found that when people were asked if they often doubt their decisions, most of the people answered affirmatively: either they thought a lot and had doubts before making any decision, or they had doubts but tried to rely on their intuition.

Why does a person doubt? Is constant doubt depriving him of harmony?

Answer: Doubts are a characteristic feature of a person and indicate that he really feels the present and the future and does not agree with such feelings. He still lacks additional feelings. An animal practically has no doubts, but a person lives all the time in a state of doubts and validations.

Question: Is it good that he is constantly in this state?

Answer: This is a sign of his development.

Question: Can doubt be imagined as a state in which a person can get stuck?

Answer: This is already problematic and may be a sign of a lack of information or internal disturbance in awareness, in decisions, and in feeling oneself, the world, and so on. There are many related problems here.

Therefore, there is no real harmony. But it is possible to somehow imagine it in a limited form. That is, to understand that my problem is getting as close to harmony as possible.

Question: Does it help to achieve harmony when people try to think less and listen to intuition more?

Answer: If you try not to think at all, then there will be complete harmony.

Comment: But people say, “I’m trying,” so they are probably not very successful in it.

Answer: Yes, of course, this is a problem—to think less. Many would like to since there are so many medications associated with this condition. In general, of course, this is a disease, it is part of a big problem for humanity.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 11/18/22

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What Are We Lacking?

942Question: What joint actions between people are welcomed from the Kabbalistic point of view?

Answer: Actions such as sitting together and studying. Sitting together and eating together. Sitting together, discussing the greatness of the goal and the attainment of the upper world.

Participating together in some joint actions aimed at connection, at spreading the idea of equality, brotherhood, and solidarity, all things that the Soviet government reproached the West with and claimed that the West did not have these things but the Soviets did, and eventually was revealed that they did not have unity either. But it was a powerful card to play.

In general, Kabbalah welcomes everything that leads to the connection of people because precisely within it the next state of the world is revealed. When a person comes from opposing others to a real connection with them above his egoism, it is in this connection that the upper world is revealed, that is, our next state.

We do not have to die to move into this state. In general, our death does not mean anything. After all, the death of an animalistic body, like any animal, does not mean anything because absolutely nothing happens to the person.

The only thing we lack is just a serious connection between us, when the “I” disappears and instead the “we” is created in which we feel a completely new state of ourselves and the whole world.

Perception changes. You see a different picture of the world, how all people are interconnected and how everything around is filled with the force that drives the universe. One should feel this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Mind of the Crowd” 11/23/13

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Learning to Exist According to the Laws of Connection

935Humanity is in such period in history when we are revealing even more clearly that our development was wrong. After all, it was dictated by evil egoistic forces, and therefore was constantly accompanied by wars, conflicts, problems, and fears. Eventually we need to join the force of good.

We have no idea how different such a life is from our current existence. This is the entire essence of the wisdom of Kabbalah; it speaks about the collection of forces available in nature, how we can reveal them, bring them closer to us, come closer to each other through them, and begin to assemble the system as it existed before the shattering of the system of the common soul Adam HaRishon.

In this system, everyone was connected together and understood each other as if they belonged to one body, one mind, and with common desire and intention as one single whole. This is the way the organs in a healthy body exist,  each organ knows what it must do to maintain the life of all other organs.

Therefore, Kabbalists advise us to work in a group in order to gradually feel how mutual support helps us uncover a system called Adam, that is, similar (Domeh) to the Creator, the force of bestowal. We will really feel together as one force with one mind and one feeling in love and unity.

For this purpose we organize Kabbalistic groups through which we try to learn how to exist according to the laws of connection and climb to the second floor of reality.

Then we will reveal the universe in its true form and find out that the universe is much broader and more interconnected than we thought. We get to know the forces of nature by seeing how they permeate this world from end to end. It means, to attain the Creator, the upper force, by rising to His level.
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From the Convention in Turkey 2022, “A Prayer Lishma,” Lesson 3

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The Origin of Questions

961.2Question: Did you demand answers for your questions from Rabash?

Answer: No. The fact is that there are times when a student cannot formulate a question; there is no corresponding requirement in him. This process is cumulative and gradual. It happens that months or even years pass until a demand arises in him through the teacher to the Creator.

In addition, he has a lot of questions that he cannot express. Sometimes there is something in us, but it cannot be expressed. These questions remain within the student, and he does not want to ask the teacher. Something holds him back.

There are many states where there are no questions to the Creator. Something seems to be hiding from us. There is some kind of protection, isolation, and distance, and there is no way to break through it. The student can be in such states for years.

In the meantime, the teacher can depart to another world. Questions remain. It depends on the student how he can present them to the Creator.

But serious daily classes prepare him to move independently and to identify these questions even after the teacher leaves.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/12/22

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