Question: What does it mean “not to eat the bread of shame”?

Answer: The bread of shame is when I receive for my own sake.

Question: If I manage to annul myself, can I give fulfillment to a friend?

Answer: Yes. If you annul before your friends, you can already start fulfilling them.

Question: Is it possible to use the state where I am higher than my friends to pray for them?

Answer: Yes. But we need to check that it does not come from my arrogant attitude toward them.

Question: How does the group help us bring ourselves to the greatness of the Creator?

Answer: It helps in a lot of states. I must take an example from my friends, implement my properties of bestowal on them, etc. This is our job.

Question: Will self-annulment of everyone in the ten eliminate the friction between us that we myust rise above in order to advance on the path?

Answer: It will happen.

Question: Can the ten exhausts its strength as a result of a strong desire for connection?

Answer: Maybe, and then it must ask for strength from the Creator.

Question: I understand and even feel that I must annul myself in front of my friends for spiritual advancement, but it is not so easy to annul. So how do I pray to the Creator?

Answer: Try to annul yourself. If you cannot annul, pray; the Creator will help. That is it. May God help you!

Question: It is unclear how to give an example to others without hiding my flaws?

Answer: The fact that you have flaws and you still want to give a good example—this is a perfect example.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Deriving the Greatness of the Goal from the Friends” Lesson 4

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Question: When a person loves the Creator, does self-love automatically disappear or does it still remain?

Answer: To the extent that a person loves the Creator, his love for himself gradually decreases and he does not have any thoughts about himself.

Look at the mother who is completely devoted to her baby and thinks only of him. She has no thoughts of sleeping, eating, or doing anything else. She does everything necessary, but only to be above him all the time.

This is how we should treat all people in the world. And then through them we will begin to relate to the Creator in the same way. And if we do not achieve such a relationship between ourselves and with the Creator, then we will be going through tremendous suffering.

Comment: But humanity has been suffering throughout its history.

My Response: What are our sufferings? From the fact that he received a little, stole a little, walked around a little, and the like. This is not suffering.

We are talking about suffering that we are distant from each other and relative to the Creator. They will bring us closer to the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/14/21

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Question: If I see the contribution of the friends, their work, does this mean that there is already a mutual guarantee? Is it my job to see it?

Answer: If there is a mutual guarantee (Arvut), then you are implementing it. If you are in mutual guarantee, each one of you nullifies himself with respect to a common goal and you form this common goal, that is, the property of mutual bestowal, mutual connection, and then you will gradually begin to feel the Creator in it.

Mutual guarantee is the Kli (vessel) in which we move forward and will be able to feel the Creator to the extent of our common unity. Therefore, the Creator says: “You build Me.”

Question: What are the practical conditions for building a vessel of mutual guarantee?

Answer: When you try to create conditions that exist in the spiritual vessel (Kli) between desires and intentions in your group, physical or virtual, then you create the Kli, that is, the soul.

You should think more about it and discuss it among yourselves so that this subject becomes closer to you.

Mutual guarantee is necessary precisely for each one of you to demonstrate to the others the greatness of the property of bestowal, how important and necessary it is, and how much one must be afraid of falling into egoism.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Working in Mutual Responsibility” Lesson 6

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A group of ten is higher than any sage or Kabbalist because it is a collection of small, goal-oriented people who do not yet understand where they are and what to do. But they are striving for one common goal and have gathered together.

Therefore, their connection is higher in spiritual construction than one great Kabbalist. This is true because they build the Creator within themselves. Their state is more promising, and therefore the Creator engages with them more.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Deriving the Greatness of the Goal from the Friends” Lesson 4

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Question: What are the spiritual needs for which a mutual guarantee (Arvut) is needed?

Answer: We must build a spiritual Kli in which we can feel the upper world and the Creator. To do this, we need to be in connection with each other.

Correct connection is called mutual guarantee. The ascent of each individual above his egoism is called “faith above reason.”

Maybe you need to listen to the same lesson several times, try to collect what is said in its different points, and then you will have an inner understanding, knowledge, and feeling.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Working in Mutual Responsibility” Lesson 6

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Question: What can we fill our neighbor with? What can we bestow?

Answer: There is only one thing we can do for our neighbor.  He is striving to rise to spirituality and this is what we wish for him and want to help him in this.

I don’t need to take him to a restaurant! I need to help him in his spiritual ascent because that is all he wants. And that is all I want. That is why we are together.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/6/22, “Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us” Lesson 1

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Question: How can we create an artificial relationship template that will force us to demand to actually feel the friends?

Answer: You should talk and communicate with each other more. You can even write down what you are talking about. And you will gradually develop a common language. You will begin to understand each other more and thus get closer to each other spiritually and internally. Everything will come from this. You will begin to feel the Creator. So you need to work on it.

Question: Is it possible to outline a certain format that we would like to implement?

Answer: You can agree on mutual guarantee between each other, then fulfill it, and each time correct this agreement, make it ever-growing. Please, do it!

You are mature people and you must understand what state you are in, what you should come to and build your rapprochement to the correct state step by step.

This is serious work for both men and women. And the Creator helps us by alienating us, dividing us, and thereby promoting unity. Both in this and in that direction, a little bit of plus and then slightly increased minus, then more plus than minus, and after that more minus than plus. And so we go, gradually increasing the amplitude.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Asking the Creator to Fill the Place Between Us” Lesson 7

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Question: If a friend does not bring the spirit of joy to the group, does it mean that he is not working?

Answer: That is correct. He is not concerned about the group or thinking about his friends. The right attitude toward friends is first of all to encourage them.

Question: If a friend admits that he does not envy anyone in the ten right now, how can he advance? How can the group help him?

Answer: We need to work on him. There is nothing you can do here. Give him an example, talk to him, maybe do something else.

You need to increase your connection. The more you work with each other, the more it will affect him, and you are yet to see what will become of him.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Deriving the Greatness of the Goal from the Friends” Lesson 4

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Question: How can we reach the feeling that the Creator fills the whole world and act this way toward our friends?

Answer: If we connect with each other in the ten, then we will feel that the Creator fills the whole world.

We need to create our personal Kli (group vessel) and achieve such a connection between us that we begin to feel the revelation of the Creator. This is the most important thing. Everything else is only transient.

It is very important to unite in such a way that the Creator, the quality of love and bestowal, begins to manifest between us. And it will be revealed above our egoism. This is called faith above reason.

Question: Every path involves calculating the start and end point and identifying the shortest distance. What is the meaning of faith above reason in this trajectory?

Answer: If you go by faith above reason, then you take the shortest path from Malchut to Bina. And all this is done only by annulling and submitting yourself primarily to the group. To the extent of your submission to the group, you call upon yourself the illumination of the upper light, which moves you forward.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Going with Faith above Reason” Lesson 5

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Question: How do you manage to annul yourself in front of your students like Rabbi Yossi Ben Kisma?

Answer: What can I do? You see how you are forcing me to adapt myself to you. Unless it is in serious contradiction with the teachings of Kabbalah, with advancing, I annul myself before you. If you want to study something else—please. I may gradually correct this, but in general, I follow your requests and desires.

So it is written: “Train a child according to his way;” that is, as he wishes. You educate him, but in a way he can perceive. We must find an adequate approach to everyone so that they can get hold of the material. Do not present it by force but in a wrapping he can accept and swallow.

Even such a great Kabbalist as Rabbi Yossi Ben Kisma could not do anything alone and was completely dependent on his students. They were small, but there were many of them, and they wanted to come together for the upper goal. And he was ready to always be with them because only together can people reach heaven. This is what we hope for.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Deriving the Greatness of the Goal from the Friends” Lesson 4

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