Question: Are you afraid that you might be disconnected from the spiritual system?

Answer: There is fear on my part. I am afraid.

Question: And what if it is meant to be?

Answer: It doesn’t matter. I still don’t want it. Why should it be like this?! If I act correctly, run the program, and operate within it, why should this happen? I want to attain complete unity with the Creator through understanding His ways.

You want to say: “If you are still afraid that you might be disconnected, it means you are not yet fully devoted to the Creator, you have not yet given yourself to Him with all your soul.” That is true. And I do not want this. I do not want disconnection.

In everything else, do with me as You wish! But let me attain this program so that I can justify You; otherwise, I will not be able to do so. That is, this goal—this fear of falling out of attainment—is not an egoistic fixation on myself.

Question: So is it possible to negotiate with the Creator in some way?

Answer: No, not to negotiate, but rather to compel Him to lead you further, to not let go, to hold on, to force Him, just as a small child compels an adult.

Our goal is very serious. Therefore the desired attitude toward the Creator is one where on the one hand you recognize His greatness, and on the other you understand that you can influence Him. And He desires this! Because in doing so you pursue the same goal as He does: to achieve complete mutual understanding and unity.

Question: So is there really a choice between these two things you are talking about?

Answer: The choice lies in your attitude toward what is happening, not in what is happening itself.

Question: But then why are you afraid that you might simply be disconnected? Does it depend on the students or on you personally?

Answer: What it depends on, I do not know. I do not see the entire picture of governance. I only know what I have been able to attain from the beginning of my path until this moment. And what lies ahead, I do not know.

Therefore I cannot say whether it depends on me, on the students, or on something else. I do not know, and I do not need to. It does not matter whether I know or not. What matters is my attitude toward it. I want to justify the Creator in all His ways, and for this reason, I do not want to be disconnected from attaining His program and uniting with it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. To Exist in Attainment” 6/27/10

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Question: Can you share your experience of how you hold on to the goal?

Answer: Frankly speaking, I do not even know myself. It is unknown.

On the one hand, the ways of the Lord are inscrutable. On the other hand, I remember myself as a little boy, six to seven years old, constantly asking myself: “Why is this world a game? Why must one exist in it? What goal stands behind this whole spectacle?”

I always saw this world as if it were playing out on a screen behind which some kind of mechanism was specifically showing it to me. And what does it want from me? This sense of duality in the picture of the world and the idea that some hidden purpose exists behind it has never left me and has been absolutely clear to me since childhood.

Throughout all the years of my life, I have seen this from the outside. Even as a boy playing with others, and later during my student years, I understood that, out of inevitability, I had to act just like everyone else.

So if I were to say exactly what drives me forward, it is certainly not me.

But on the other hand, I constantly put myself within such constraints that I have no other options. I am afraid! There was a time when I was pulled away from my spiritual search for exactly one year, to the day.

Question: What do you mean by pulled away? Do you mean you stopped studying altogether?

Answer: No, I continued studying, but very little, automatically, and not in the way I should have.

Suddenly I was given an enormous desire to engage in a big business venture in order to later create a large system for spreading Kabbalah. And in this way I was led astray.

I devoted exactly one year to this, and although I never completely stopped studying Kabbalah, it was very little. I felt how completely it tore me away and could even immerse me in this world, something that had almost never happened in my life, except perhaps for a brief period after university when I wanted to pursue a scientific career.

That is, I clearly felt that if not for a force from above, it would be very easy to remove me from the path and turn me into an ordinary mammal.

Question: How do you establish boundaries for your spiritual work? What sustains them?

Answer: Through obligations. My entire schedule is planned by the hour.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Purpose as a Way of Life” 6/24/10

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Question: You once said: “Unless you are disconnected from above,” which has happened to many Kabbalists when, at a certain moment, they were disconnected from spirituality against their will.

Answer: The upper force can do absolutely anything! We are, after all, set in motion within this grand machine. We exist within it.

However, we have been given the ability to rise above our existence in this machine and become aware that we are inside it, live in it, operate within it, are set in motion according to a specific plan, and are executing a specific program. In other words, we can develop an understanding that we are governed by the upper force, and through this understanding we can attain the governor, justify Him, learn everything about Him, and become like Him.

At the same time we will always be executing exactly what He triggers within us. We are constantly under His commands.

However, the goal is to reveal His governance over us, to recognize it as good, just, true, infinitely harmonious, and perfect, and to adhere to Him precisely through attaining this governance. In doing so, we rise to the level of the Governor, to the level of the Creator; we attain, understand, and become like Him. It is as if we begin to launch our own program and implement ourselves.

In essence, we never oppose Him in any way. We simply come to realize that His way is absolute perfection and follow it without any coercion. It turns out that at the highest level of attainment, even if there were no commands from Him, we would act in exactly the same way. In a sense, we replace the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. To Exist in Attainment” 6/27/10

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In ancient times, there were special cities where criminals were sent. They could escape to these cities and live there for, say, seven years. After those seven years, they were free to move around, and no one had the right to make any claims against them.

That is, on one hand a person is guilty of committing some crime. On the other hand we understand that this is the collective guilt of everyone. What happened to him was meant to happen from above as part of the global system, and we gave him the opportunity to correct himself. We were responsible for him!

A person is corrected through education. Criminals did not just sit idly in these refuge cities; they engaged in study and learning. They were specifically trained for correction through various discussions, lessons, and exercises. In the end, society took care of this because it bore responsibility for the fact that such individuals emerged within it.

Question: Why exactly seven years?

Answer: Because the seventh stage marks the completion of the period of Zeir Anpin and Malchut. Zeir Anpin consists of VAK (six Sefirot), and Malchut is the seventh. When everything from Zeir Anpin flows into Malchut, the cycle is complete.

Additionally, there are transformations that occur only once every 50 years (7×7=49) leading to what is called the Jubilee Year. The system functions this way by itself. Many elements are tied to this structure—how it develops, pushes us forward, and so on. By propelling us forward over seven years, it effectively renews itself.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Negative Properties” 6/14/10

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Question: How did Kabbalists of the past keep up the importance of the goal
and support each other?

Answer: Just as we are doing today. I need the support of the group because otherwise I cannot attain desire for spirituality. I advance only with the desire I receive from my environment, from society. Therefore, I need a suitable environment.

I must pressure them, flatter them, love them, literally dust them off, all in order to obtain from them—in a positive or a negative way—the enthusiasm and importance of the goal.

It is with this enthusiasm that I can turn to the Creator. Therefore, I need an environment that is on the same level with me as a source of desire with which I turn to the Creator. And from there, I receive the force that corrects and elevates me.

Question: But there were times when Kabbalists laughed at each other and at themselves, for example, stuffing crumbs into their beards. What for?

Answer: They laughed at themselves. This was all special self-irony about the state they were in. Yes, that happened.

In general, humor, satire, and self-mockery are inherent in the nature of the Jewish people. Actually, all the jokes about themselves they create themselves. This is a necessary condition for self-control and analysis, which helps them move forward.

Question: You say that the group as if intentionally pressures a person, creates numerous obstacles for them. Yet at the same time, it gives him the importance of the goal. Why is such a path necessary? Why get on each other’s nerves?

Answer: The thing is that we initially consist of two parts. I consist of one part that is egoistic and wants to use everything for itself, and the second part, the point in the heart that desires to aspire toward altruism, bestowal, adhesion with the Creator, that is, toward equivalence with the properties of the absolute in bestowal and love.

In accordance with these two parts, I perceive the surrounding world in a dual manner. Therefore, I always experience this imbalance, difference, dipole, both plus and minus within me. Moreover, I see plus and minus in everything around me: there is no good without evil and vice versa.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Support in the Group” 6/13/10

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 3

What Is Prayer?

Prayer is an attitude to the Creator. It is what we feel in our present moment toward the upper force that governs us. Whether we want to or not, we relate to the Creator out of our innermost point in our heart. Even if we do not feel it, the heart of every created being receives its feelings from the source, which means that we always feel the Creator.

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The prices for #energy are growing all over the world. This is good news—as it will force people to give up all unnecessary activities. This will happen with all the “products” that man produces—#nature will show us what is necessary and sufficient. Only this will remain!
#sustainability #heating #consumerism

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The things happening in the world will obligate us to restructure #society and the #economy. Otherwise we will be obliterated. We should see the things that are happening as a challenge from the Creator, and the need to provide an answer—by changing every person and society as a whole, towards #unity. But for now, everything is moving backwards…
#Sustainability

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The things happening in the world will obligate us to restructure #society and the #economy. Otherwise we will be obliterated. We should see the things that are happening as a challenge from the Creator, and the need to provide an answer—by changing every person

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All forms of crises, from the #pandemic to industrial-trade, are intended to show us the necessity to reduce the activities of the whole of humanity down to the rational, “No more and no less” in everything. Otherwise we will enter a period of reducing our irrational activities by means of #wars!

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