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Rapprochement with Everyone

945Question: How can your students, who represent the whole world, help correct the Jews?

Answer: In a natural way. By the fact that we, a group of my students scattered all over the world, understand that the main thing is rapprochement of everyone with everyone and that this corrects the world.

As a result, we put pressure on Jews so that they begin to understand that their job is to set an example and demonstrate how people should strive to get closer to each other.

Although, it is precisely for Jews that this is the most difficult thing to do.

Comment: But this is predetermined from the very beginning. If we turn to biblical sources, to our forefathers, they were given the Torah and they were called the chosen people.

My Response: Certainly. We all must understand that the most important and greatest vices exist in nature. They manifest themselves in us in advance as in people who are the closest and at the same time opposite to each other.
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From KabTV’s “Conversations, Israel and Its Impact on the World” 11/18/21

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How Can You Deceive Egoism?

528.03Question: It happens that a person does not control his advancement, but not because he does not want to. He understands that this is important, this, seemingly, is his only chance, but it seems as if someone is blocking him from above. What can you do in this state?

Answer: No one is blocking you other than your own egoism.

Question: How can you deceive it?

Answer: Together with the group, there is nothing else. Read what all Kabbalists write! They have nothing else to offer. Nothing else is needed.

This is a simple system—either the connection between everyone into one single organizational system at all levels: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human or not an organization into one single whole, but a contradiction between all, and then we have confusion.

At some stage it seems that competition is better, but eventually it leads to its natural end because it cannot develop indefinitely. Even because human resources are limited.

What can we compete for? In sports, yes, in various intellectual games, yes, but not in serious matters.

In Kabbalah, competition is about who will bestow more, who will be more useful to society. Competition is not destroyed. This, in general, is a very healthy force and good motivation. Envy, hatred, and jealousy, everything, everything is good only for the sake of bestowal.

Question: Let’s say a person, as you say, must dissolve into a group, but his egoism grows and starts to disturb him again. How can he still give himself to the group? Or is it basically impossible? That is, will there nevertheless be such separation-integration, separation- integration phases?

Answer: Yes, but it will be with the group, it will be soft. If a person walks with a group, he has practically no ups and downs, everything is smoothed out, as in a Wheatstone Bridge Circuit.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Progress Through Pressure” 12/2/13

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What Is the Strength of a Kabbalist?

631.5Question: Do you have any fear that your adversaries may attack you?

Answer: I am not alone, I am with the Creator and my friends. I am much stronger than the rest of them! They seem like little bugs to me that purposefully show me what else I need to correct.

I am not afraid of anyone at all! What should I be afraid of?! Even if I cease my physical existence in the next moment I will still remain in the field of the Creator. Don’t we understand that we exist temporarily? In such a low world!

We are given the only opportunity, which is to rise to the world of infinity, merge with the eternal upper force, and exist the same way as this force. This force governs everything, it forms everything. What should I be afraid of except this force?

Precisely, I constantly try to get in contact with this force, to enter into the system of mutual relations up to the complete merging with the similarity of properties.

Inwardly, I am not afraid of anything. But still, I have to care about my safety, that is the paradox. If I go somewhere, I am obliged to understand if there is a risk I have to go out with security and so forth. This is the obligation from above.

A person should guard himself. He does not have the right to enter unsafe places since he is still not completely corrected. This is the degree to which he should have fear. This means that fear is something like my recognition that I am not corrected.

Comment: Sometimes there are types of fear that create inner anxiety, meaning it is not that you are simply tough and that is all.

My Response: I am not tough because I am stronger than others. I am stronger because I sense correctly where we all exist together. My strength is my knowledge, revelation, and sensation of the true world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Turn an Enemy Into a Friend” 11/18/13

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What Is Harmony Based On?

294.4Question: During some research on the state of harmony, people were asked the following question: “Under what conditions do you feel in harmony with the world around you?” Two options prevailed in the responses: the first was when everything is stable and predictable, and the second when everything is changing rapidly.

Is harmony based on stability or on change? These are opposites.

Answer: Harmony is based on the ability to control the state. That is, not only can we not reach harmony, we cannot even really imagine it. But we can come to what we want to come to, to control, to be in charge, of our state, whatever it may be. This state can be called harmony.

Question: As far as I understand, this is an interesting point where both opposites merge: change and a stable state. Whatever my states are, they change, and I have control over them. Is that a stable condition?

Answer: Yes. This is called a stable state, although in itself it is completely unstable.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 11/18/22

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Branches Extending from Infinity

286Because we are branches that extend from Ein Sof, the things that are in our root are pleasurable to us, and those that are not in our root, are burdensome and painful (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, Inner Observation, Chapter 4, Item 19).

This can be explained very simply: things that are related and close to you, you always perceive as right, good, and pleasant. This is how all creatures, everything that lives on Earth, is created. This is why we define creation in this way.

It procreates its own kind and therefore feels a relationship with what it procreates.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 12/4/22

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Making It Convenient for Others

565.02Question: During the study of the state of harmony, people were asked the question: “What throws you off balance most often?” Their answers were: “Conflicts and rushing.”

Apparently, at every moment, a certain force acts on a person to bring him out of the state that he reaches? Is there any force that constantly knocks you out of the state of harmony?

Answer: What personally knocks me out of balance? I think practically nothing.

I am in a state of dynamic equilibrium, I think about its maintenance all the time, meaning, about the system in which I and my students exist and the world around me with which I interact. I am trying to maintain this dynamic balance for the convenience of everyone who wants to be in this world.

Comment: This is a very complex system; there must be a huge number of calculations every moment.

My Response: No, it is very simple. If everyone starts thinking only about making it convenient for others, then the system will always aim for internal balance.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 11/18/22

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At 125 Degrees of Attainment

209Question: When we read a novel, we imagine what is described in it in different ways. If we take, for example, such a line: “Paris. She was sitting on the veranda,” then a hundred people who read it would imagine a different Paris and a different character.

How do Kabbalists who read, for example, the The Study of the Ten Sefirot perceive the same material in the same way?

Answer: They perceive it in different depths. The fact is that the same sentence can be perceived at 125 degrees of attainment, and therefore, they attain it differently, but in the same style, in the same direction, and in the same understanding. This is somewhat similar to how we imagine the novel’s character sitting on the veranda, which you gave as an example.

Question: But if, let’s say, we take the fifth degree of attainment, figuratively speaking, then does everyone who is on it perceive this material completely in the same way?

Answer: Yes. Is it not the same in our world? If you come to a certain geographical place, then you see the same thing there as the others do. Only your feelings are subjective, they remain yours, but, nevertheless, when you sit down together and talk, you will talk about some common things and at the same time each one will talk about some things subjectively.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Recommended Books” 12/12/13

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With a Wave of a “Magic Wand”

509Question: Besides studying the sources, besides the fact that people are trying to understand the thoughts of the Kabbalists, what else is there to help us get away from the daily contradiction that shows that reaching love between people is a very, very difficult task?

Answer: Kabbalists have such a “magic wand” with which they can change the internal qualities of a person. These are certain forces that they awaken in nature. Any person can awaken them, regardless of any conditions, if only there is a desire.

Kabbalists are engaged in the fact that they begin to wish that these forces of care, love, attention, and connection would be manifested between them and act on those around them. In the end, I hope it will be possible.

Question: So, the whole point is to cause some external influence. Are all the work, all the exertions, and all the efforts that the students have to put in directed precisely at this?

Answer: Yes, to awaken an external good force that would influence everyone, neutralize our egoism and develop altruism.
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From KabTV’s “Conversations, Israel and Its Impact on the World” 11/18/21

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Matter, Energy, Information

939.02Question: Will everything you have invested in your students eventually be revealed in them?

Answer: Of course! And for generations. There can be nothing else in them except from me, and I have it from my teacher, and so on. Everything goes according to the hierarchy from the world of infinity.

Those who break away from me or become opponents; it means that this is their fate. I feel sorry for such people, but they cannot act in a different way.

Question: How do the stages of revelation occur? You say that Rabash laid all the spiritual foundations in you, and you lay them in your students. How does this happen, what are the factors?

Answer: Matter, energy, and information. Matter is the will to receive, energy is the quality of bestowal that can be transferred outward from the desire, and in accordance with this, information enters people. Desire – screen – light.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Fate of the Kabbalist” 11/02/09

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Until We Start to Wake Up

600.02Question: In principle, we turn to the Creator not because we receive blows to our egoism and suffer, but because a person really wants to be in the quality of bestowal and love, but he does not succeed. He wants to be like the Creator and wants to love everyone and cannot. Is that why his heart is broken?

Answer: Yes, a person tries to achieve such states, but cannot. A broken heart is when one is unable to come to love one’s neighbor and through this to love the Creator.

Comment: People have been suffering for billions of years.

My Response: They suffer because they don’t get what they want. This is egoistic suffering. It is like a small child who cries because he does not get the desired toy. And this is where everything ends until a person begins to wake up and realize that he can approach the quality of the Creator only to the extent of similarity of form to the Creator.

And ordinary material sufferings, when a person does not get what he wants, do not lead to an appeal to the Creator or to the appeal to which the Creator gives an answer.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/27/22

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