Question: How do we reach self-annulment?

Answer: We reach self-annulment when we realize its necessity, from the fact that I have been hearing about it for months. Each time I listen, I receive a little bit of the upper light.

As a result, I start to feel how it affects me, how certain changes occur in me like an internal click, a switch, and I suddenly realize that I truly cannot live without the group and I must annul myself.

I can feel either myself or the Creator. And how can I feel the Creator if I have no tool to change myself? So I am replacing myself with the group. And then in this group I begin to perceive the Creator.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Annulling before the Friends” Lesson 2

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Thus, each one should assemble with his friend and come to him to hear from him a word [about the work of the Creator], and how to find the Creator. He should annul before his friend, and his friend should do the same toward him, and so should everyone do.

Then, when the assembly is with this intention, then “More than the calf wants to suckle, the cow wants to nurse,” and the Creator approaches them and He is with them (Maor VaShemesh, “VaYechi”).

Now we are in a gathering of friends. We have to think all the time about how we are getting closer to each other, how we want only one thing: to begin to feel the revelation of the Creator in the connection between us, not in each of us, but in the connection between us. This is very important!

That is, I do not want to reveal the Creator in myself, this is egoism. Watch where the border between our animal world and the spiritual one runs! I want to reveal the Creator in the connection between us, as a quality of bestowal and love, my own toward all my friends.

I do not want the revelation of the Creator in order to see Him, to know, to understand, and to enjoy Him. These are egoistic qualities of a person. They should be avoided. Try to control yourself; try to rise above yourself.
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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: Neurophysiologists say that a person is just a confused animal, and that feeling love is a result of a cocktail of pheromones, dopamine, and oxytocin.

Psychologists do not agree with this. They say that feeling love is something more than the sum of its components: mental, social, and so on.

Philosophers do not argue with anyone. They say that love confuses a person and is the cause of all the stupidity and all the discoveries humanity has made.

How do Kabbalists define love?

Answer: Kabbalists define love as the highest connection of a person with everything outside of him and makes him similar to the Creator.

Love is a means to become like the Creator. Love is something that exists outside of us. There is no love in an individual. And therefore, no physiologists and no psychologists can know anything about it. They think about everything only on the basis of pheromones and the like.

Love is the exclusive property of the Creator given to us, and with its help we can raise ourselves from the animate to human level. Man is Adam. “Adam” from the word “Edomeh”—similar to the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 12/6/21

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Question: If I see the friends as above me, then how can I pray for them?

Answer: In that case, you should pray to be with them. If you imagine them above yourself, then you should be in prayer to merge with them. By doing this, you raise the group above yourself and pull yourself up to them with your prayer. You don’t have any other option. And again you imagine them higher and still higher, and again you pull yourself up to their level by praying that you want to be with them. And so you constantly, constantly pull yourself up. Here is the lifting technique for you—absolutely simple, clear, and practical.

Question: When I want to see the virtues of my friends, and this includes prayer, does it also refer to “above reason”?

Answer: Yes. If I do not comprehend, but only ask and imagine, then this is higher than knowledge.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Adhering to the Friends” Lesson 3

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Question: What should I do when my feelings regarding my friends suffocate me? Why do I feel the need to overcome them, but I cannot?

Answer: It is good that you feel that way. You are being shown who you are, what your nature is. And because you do not want to feel it, it seems to you that you are being suffocated. And that is correct because you do not want to get rid of your egoism yet.

What to do? Keep the thought that you must get rid of it and start with small changes in you in regard to your friends. Every day be aware of what you have managed to annul in relation to them that day—Rabash writes about it in his articles about connection in the group—and how you are progressing in this every day.

The articles of Rabash about the group should be re-read almost daily and gradually executed each time.
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From the International Convention “Rise Above Yourself” 1/6/22, “Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us” Lesson 1

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If I accept the environment I find myself in as given to me by the Creator, to lead me forward and to meet my main goal, desire, and aspiration to reveal the meaning of life, to reveal the Creator, then everything depends on how I make myself dependent on this environment.

Therefore, the most important thing for us is to try to annul ourselves in front of this environment. When I bow before them, agree with them, suppress my egoism, and put the environment above myself, I ascend to the Creator. The Creator is inside this environment, as He said: “I dwell among my people.”
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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: Should annulment be an internal action or can it have external expression?

Answer: Annulment must be internal. It can be that nobody knows about it. Although I must show also in action in front of my friends how ready I am to serve and help them. It is very important.

Such examples give us a basis for coming closer together.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Annulling before the Friends” Lesson 2

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Question: We usually talk about connection with the friends. What about connection with the teacher? Is there something different in it?

Answer: Connection with the teacher can only be to the extent that you follow his advice. Then he is your teacher, “rav” is from the word “great.” Then you are his disciples. Otherwise, you are listeners, students.
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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: Could prophets be wrong, and were there false prophets?

Answer: False prophets are those people who simply knew how to expose themselves to the public and the public believed them. But it is impossible to determine who is a false prophet and who is not.

Question: Why was there such a huge historical period as the prophets? What was it for?

Answer: Prophets are Kabbalists who reached the level of prophecy, which reveals the entire universe, and worked on it.

A Kabbalist who attains the Creator at a certain level is called a prophet. Therefore, not every Kabbalist is a prophet, but every prophet is a Kabbalist.

A prophet is one who speaks to the Creator. What does it mean? The Creator is not some material object, it is nature.

A person who penetrates deep into nature in such a way that he communicates with it bilaterally, understands its causes, consequences, positive and negative forces, and feels this harmony of nature’s interaction in both directions is called a prophet.

Question: It turns out that you can talk to nature. In the primary sources, it says that one can hear God and one can talk to Him. Is there any difference here?

Answer: Yes. The difference is in the depth or in the height of the attainment of nature.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/21/22

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Question: What is the correct attitude to prophecy?

Answer: Prophecy is the highest level of development for a Kabbalist when he becomes one with the Creator.

Question: For whom did the prophets write if they knew that other people would not understand them?

Answer: It was for people to at least partially understand what they wrote. And in our time a person can partially reach the level of understanding of the texts of the prophets to the extent that he can rise above himself, otherwise we will not understand Kabbalistic texts at all.

Question: Can we say that they wrote for people who are already in some kind of small attainment, and that it is like a map of actions for them?

Answer: This is not a small attainment; to be at the level of a prophet is a very high level.

Question: But can an ordinary person who is not involved in spiritual development at all read some prophecy and take something from there for himself?

Answer: No, it is not done this way. A person should work with himself, with his egoism, rise above it, and use it in the opposite direction, in the direction of bestowal and love. He will achieve in this a certain semblance to the Creator, and in this likeness to Him, he will reach the level of a prophet. Prophecy is one of the levels of similarity to the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/21/21

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