Comment: A person can try to justify the Creator to a certain extent until he reaches a critical point.

My Response: At each stage there is this critical point, and then it is gone. All people and all objects become absolutely equal for you because through them you connect with the Creator and feel only His presence in everything. At the same time, all people become equally close to you, like parts of your body.

Question: But what if you look at the example of a mother who seems to be able to justify everything, and then when something dangerous occurs with her child, her animalistic protection program turns on?

Answer: This meanwhile is still an egoistic state, incomplete bestowal and incomplete correction. It is obvious that we are at such stages.

And at the end of correction there will be nothing that you will not sacrifice from yourself because nothing will remain of you. Everything is yours. The whole still, vegetative, animate, and human system, everything that you can only feel is your soul.

There is nothing here that is not your closest parts, and you treat them with a feeling of deep, absolute love. In them you are contacting the Creator. There will be absolutely no stages—”all of a sudden,” “I,” or “something happens”—indeed you rise above all this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. It is Impossible to Justify the Creator” 8/7/13

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Question: Let’s say a person has some material problems and he asks the Creator to sort them out somehow. Is this normal?

Answer: Do you see that it helps?

Comment: It probably helps someone, but not someone else.

My Response: In principle, no.

Question: In Kabbalistic literature it is written more strongly that you harm yourself with this. In what way exactly?

Answer: By asking for yourself, you are asking to fill up or at least calm your egoism.

Comment: Then this information should be known to everyone because people usually ask for themselves.

My Response: Let them come and study Kabbalah. In many sources it is clearly written that if a person asks for himself, then he harms his soul.

Therefore people should come and learn how to properly address the upper force and thereby direct themselves to the right goal, to good.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 9/25/22

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Comment: People feel a lot of states as a result of hearing your words during a lesson and think: “I have discovered something incredible here for myself!”

My Response: This is how I reveal the world to them! I sit in front of them and, one can say, open up more and more connections and interactions between all its parts. Of course what we do during the lesson is the discovery of the world.

Comment: It seems that it is impossible not to absorb this information, although it is hard for external people.

My Response: A person will not be able to absorb it. No matter how much he writes down, no matter what he does, it is impossible to absorb. You can only listen to this information many times in order to change. Try to change!

And the changes themselves occur only during practical study in the group, only when trying to connect on an equal level.

Question: As a result, will those people who are not listening to us now come to this through feelings or through practice?

Answer: You are in the same system with them. To the extent that you absorb, you pass the light of correction through yourself to the whole system. And if you are also actively disseminating, then even more so.

Yet if you have these opportunities, but you don’t use them to communicate with others, you shut yourself up and there will also be nothing left in you. Everything is arranged in this simple way; as long as the system passes through itself and is connected to everyone, it works. If there is some kind of breakage in it, then this part stops working.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Hidden Information” 8/6/13

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The holiday of Sukkot symbolizes joy. This is a wonderful, pleasant, easy, and simple holiday that people love very much. Although it requires advanced preparation, it is nevertheless imbued with a joyful atmosphere. Why?

First of all, after self-examination, after receiving the Torah on Shavuot, on the 9th of the month of Av, we saw ourselves as shattered (this is also symbolized by shattering of the tablets). Then we came to the recognition of evil, and on the Jewish New Year (Rosh HaShanah) we decided that we must correct ourselves.

Then came the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). In the language of Kabbalah, this is described as the embrace of the right and left lines, the manifestation of the qualities of judgment (Dinim) and mercy (Hassadim), sweetening.

Then finally, the holiday of Sukkot comes, special corrections, when I can already take my desires and raise them to bestowal. The symbol of this process is the Sukkah (a hut). Everything is extremely simple: I use the simplest, “cast-off” desires represented by the branches and leaves of the hut.

There is nothing in them, but it is from them that I build myself a temporary home, a canopy that gives at least some shade over my head. It is made of things that have no value and can be found everywhere.

Once I have built this state, this temporary shelter, I can rejoice inside of it. Thus, it symbolizes the spiritual vessel (Kli) into which I receive the light. The canopy is a symbol of the screen (Masach). I do not want to receive the light directly, the shadow should significantly prevail over it so that it barely makes its way through the roof.

I am happy that I have formed a screen above me that allows me to hide the upper abundance and to remain in the shadows. I myself (although, of course, with the help of the reforming light) can hide from pleasures in a spiritual vessel.

Then the process continues. I correct myself again and again in my growing vessels (desires), I am with them in a “hut,” i.e., I can open and use them with the help of the cover.

Then I come to the holiday of Simchat Torah (The joy of the Torah). Torah is the reforming light that I received on Shavuot. I used this force to correct the vessels and now I am exiting the hut. In other words, I have an unlimited screen and I no longer have to take care of the cover.

The exit from the hut symbolizes the fact that from now on I am free to wander all over reality, all over the world. It is no longer necessary to build a screen over my head because now it is within me. I am in a self-corrected vessel.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/18/13, “Sukkot”

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Each of us has only a tiny power, but this is how it should be before the very end of correction. The desire (Kli) must manifest itself as completely fragmented, disconnected, and broken to the smallest pieces. And if they come together and unite, then they are all included in one big Kli of Adam HaRishon. This is what is going on.

I hope that we will see many thousands of people join us again. Although in fact there is no need for a very large amount, it will still be so. And we will unite them, unite them around us, and show them the way to the Creator so that He will rejoice in our work.

I thank all my students for everything you do, for your participation in the correction of the world. In our world, where we are currently, there is no more sublime and special work than the one we do. I wish us all success this year in our connection under one tent of peace and unity, a tent of good luck, under a common big screen above our heads.
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From a Conversation at the Unity Event 10/13/22, “Unity Tent”

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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, saying: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month, is the Festival of Succoth, a seven day period to the Lord. On the first day, it is a holy occasion; you shall not perform any work of labor. [For] a seven day period, you shall bring a fire offering to the Lord. On the eighth day, it shall be a holy occasion for you, and you shall bring a fire offering to the Lord. It is a [day of] detention. You shall not perform any work of labor (Torah, “Levit,” “Emor,” 23:33-23:36).

The Sukkot holiday lasts for seven days, in each of which an ascent to the spiritual degrees of Hesed, Gevura, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, and Malchut is performed.

And on the eighth day a special gathering takes place where a person is filled with the light of mercy (Hassidim), the light of love, friendship, joy, compassion, complicity, and kindness. This is called an “embrace from the right side,” as it is said: “His left arm is under my head, and His right arm is embracing me.”

Which means that Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur are “the left hand under the head,” and Sukkot is “the right one embraces me.” And on the last day, the eighth day of Sukkot, there is a combination of the male and female parts of the Kli (vessel).

During this time a person’s desire is illuminated by the upper light and therefore, throughout all the days of the holiday, there is a manifestation of more and more of the light of kindness and more and more merging of the male and female parts of desire into a single “embrace.”

Therefore every day of the Sukkot festival is important. It is held in a special tent built under the open sky where a sacred meeting and a meal are arranged.

A person staying in a tent for seven days receives all the surrounding lights, so to say, which correct, fill, and prepare him for revelation, connection, and contact with the Creator.

This happens on the eighth day after leaving the tent. Therefore the eighth day is called Simchat Torah, the Joy of the Torah. The Torah is the light that corrects a person and fills him with joy.

Comment: It is believed that every evening honored guests come to the tent in turn: Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph, and David.

My Response: All these guests represent the lights of correction on seven spiritual degrees. After all, these are not historical characters but spiritual states. Each of the degrees has a special character and only after passing them, that is, after correcting oneself in seven different characteristic states, does a person become ready for the revelation of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “The Secrets of Eternal Book”

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Our world is the smallest. It occupies a very small volume, and everything else is of a completely different nature. Our nature is given to us only so that we can begin to develop based on it.

It turns out that it is very difficult for us to understand what this real upper world is that we actually exist in all the time and that now we are like in a dream, like in some kind of unconscious state, as if we have fallen somewhere.

Thus, we need to try with our own efforts, even with very small efforts, to get out of this world into the next world. This opportunity is given to us. It is called the method of Kabbalah, that is, the method of receiving the higher world, the upper light, the upper force, and with its help we can work in the opposite way: not in receiving, not in winning, but in the opposite way—in giving.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Victory Is a Sign of Defeat” 8/2/13

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The key to successful advancement is only to have patience and to not retreat. The Creator checks a person by conducting him through all kinds of states. He is forced to do this in order to properly polish us and make us ready for spiritual attainment.

Therefore, every day (or even several times a day) should be started as anew: despair and start again, and despair again. After all, one is impossible without the other. And so we are move forward no matter what.

Only those who fall—as it is said, “The righteous will fall a thousand times and rise”—will reach the limit when the Creator will say, “That’s enough, I’m revealing Myself to this person.” Just don’t back off, if you can’t, as much as you can; fall-rise; fall-rise. Like a baby, how many times does he fall until he learns to walk! That’s how we are.

Therefore, patience is needed. Life passes anyway, and there is nothing in it worth investing efforts in except to allow yourself to exist and realize the thought of creation.

We have already received a lucky opportunity. We were chosen by the Creator. So let’s continue to the end and let’s not despair.
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From a Conversation at the Unity Event “Unity Tent” 10/13/22

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Everything in life develops from a woman. Men find and conquer new lands, cross oceans, and discover new continents. But then a woman comes and so a settlement arises with houses, children appear, and land begins to be developed.

Therefore we, men, have passed a certain stage of the spiritual path, and then the time has come when women should join in to help us enter the spiritual land and settle in it. Let us hope that this year it will already be realized in practice.
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From a Conversation at the Unity Event “Unity Tent” 10/13/22

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The last day of Sukkot is dedicated to the guest of honor David, the correction of the Sefira Malchut. It is clear that all corrections are concentrated in and end in Malchut.

Malchut is the quintessence and the result of all corrections. Therefore King David, Malchut, signifies the end of the corrections of our soul when we all gather together under the roof of the Sukkah, under one screen, and receive the upper light from above, which is revealed in the corrected Kli.

Thus we reach the state when the entire upper light enters our Kli. Then comes the feast of the Joy of the Torah (Simchat Torah), when we receive the upper light no longer inside the Sukkah, not under the roof, but rather outside of it, and the upper light fills all of reality.

David symbolizes the general Kli, which is all created beings. On one hand it is a state of complete separation from the Creator, from the upper light. But on the other hand, in this state there is a complete work that brings us to adhesion with the upper force.

Therefore King David is woven from opposite forces, from contradictory qualities. If we talk about his spiritual work, his entire life was like this because he fought all the time. But at the same time he was the ruler, the King of Israel.

King David receives from the qualities of bestowal, from Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph. From the qualities of reception, from Isaac, that is, from overcoming, he takes Kelim in order to use them just to the extent that the qualities of Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph can be imprinted in them. This combination of forces takes place in David, and therefore he is called the King of Israel.

After all, Malchut accumulates and collects all the forces within itself and combines them in the correct form.

Therefore David had such a difficult life, as described in the Torah. He was constantly involved in various wars and problems and was forced to hide from enemies and haters. His life was not easy, but he corrected all of Malchut through this. The Messiah is called the son of David because he comes out of this quality.

As long as the people of Israel do not have a king, this means that they cannot build Malchut; that is, they cannot become similar to the Creator in the full measure. After all the King of Israel is that quality of similarity to the Creator that created beings form within themselves, within their connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/16/22, “Ushpizin David—Sefira Malchut“

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