The teacher’s-instructor’s remoteness from the students gives them a chance to get organized and build the group—take a step forward.
My remoteness is a possibility for our internal closeness, a chance to propel the group forward, the way a running deer turns its head back…

If the group doesn’t yet recognize the practical realization of spiritual rules by faith above reason, then it’s an amateurs club. But when they recognize the need to unite “against them” and together ask the Creator “to unite against their desire,” the group is then born.

It’s time to practically realize the knowledge received over many years. We can’t do it ourselves. These are the conditions the Creator gives us. We must ask Him for friends to desire His qualities of connection, bestowal, love. It’s time to realize the knowledge! Only together!

Spiritual growth happens only when a covenant, agreement, is made between the friends, group and Creator. Relations in the group wane with the ego’s growth. Appealing to the Creator corrects egoism. In the corrected ego, similarity to the Creator, the Creator/upper world, is revealed.

Any feeling wanes till oblivion since our ego constantly develops. We must always look for ways to develop our connection so our yearning for spirituality will appear new. It is our constant work to reveal an aspiration to the Creator just like the moment we discovered the path.

Baal HaSulam: I advise you to awaken fear of the chance that love between us may wane. If we don’t constantly multiply love, it’s already a dereliction. Since by not multiplying or developing our connection, we already disrupt the proper development, we fall instead of growing.

When the awakening is gone and you feel no desire for the group and the Creator, you feel no importance, and wish to revert to egoistic relations, work toward closeness must be carried out coercively. We must subjugate ourselves to the covenant we made before, through MAN, prayer.

BOREH Creator—BO – come + RE – see

Religious #faith is a psychological, unsubstantiated conviction. Religious people believe that God exists. When proof is available, faith becomes knowledge.
To a Kabbalist, God is the Creator that’s revealed to the person who attains Him as knowledge.

If relationships in the group get ruined in the future, the covenant we made will oblige us to continue the connection and love, which will definitely get ruined so that we’ll grow with the ego’s growth in us. We must therefore go blindly against it.

A sacrifice, Kurban, is from the word “Karov,” closer to the Creator
By removing egoism from our relations, we sacrifice it to be closer to the Creator.
But we must add “salt” to the sacrifice—a preservative guaranteeing that in bad circumstances/quarrels, we’ll act just as in love.

Only by feeling the friend’s desire for spiritual ascent can I turn to the Creator with it, raise MAN, and receive light, the force to implement that desire, for his and His sake, MAD, since otherwise my appeal will be egoistic.
Only another person can help me rise above egoism.

Why is our organization non-religious, not requiring observance of commandments?
-It’s to attract people with just one quality: aspiration to reveal the meaning of life, the goal of creation and the Creator, meaning separately from the material world.

I require the group to protect me from “ideas” of my egoism and the whole world. I want to live in a state of bestowal instead of reception, meaning in different calculations than the world.
I can do this if the group’s influence is stronger that the influence of my and the external ego.

A screen is a spiritual energy shield—against mine or external egoistic influences. It’s when I place unity in the group (mutual guarantee, the covenant, the goal of creation and etc.) above my calculations and consider only decisions of “faith above reason.”

Inasmuch as one can annul oneself before the teacher, one annuls oneself before the Creator.
Accepting the teacher’s importance instead of your own and carrying it out is the key to success.
Realize: if you don’t listen to the teacher, you break your connection with the Creator.
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A sinner is one who doesn’t ask for others.
A person is judged only by how much he invests in promoting the souls toward the Creator.

Ego isolates a person from his soul, Adam.
The souls are connected with each other, while ego closes a person off like inside a cocoon or mummy. By coming out of it, in the connection with all other souls you discover the Creator—your upper, spiritual, eternal life.

We demand of the Creator to correct us, we compel Him to correct the connections between us. This is called “My sons have defeated Me.” We must constantly be in that demand to the Creator, as long as we’re discovering egoism. Don’t be afraid or ashamed—ask like children do.

We must discern that we can’t come closer to each other, we’re unable to overcome ego alone, we’re weak and don’t want this. But in spite of it, to ask the Creator, “Although I don’t want it, You correct me. Ego is nature, You created it. Therefore I can ask You to correct it.”

No one is bad. One is bad not inside himself, but only in that he doesn’t want to connect to others. Only this constitutes ego’s, our nature’s negative quality -only rejection of the connection between us. What matters most is to think of connection instead of yourself personally

Mutual guarantee is connection between souls and the Creator is light in the connection. Mutual guarantee: you leave your ego and gain a common spiritual body
In our world we’re pushed apart by ego; in the spiritual one we harmoniously connect by mutual guarantee and reveal the Creator

Mutual guarantee is the #1 quality of an integral system—unity of particular souls into a single soul, the unified system of Adam, like in a living organism.
We’re all interconnected, each one with each one. The net of forces that’s between us, connecting all of us is the Creator

One person can’t create an integral system. But if he exerts to gather people together, he’ll discover that this system is already there, ready.
As we come closer to it, we reveal the conditions for matching qualities and unity between us into one organism—the Soul.

We support each other so each one of us won’t forget that he faces “the field blessed by the Creator.” We enter this field, where each one of us can achieve—on the condition of mutual guarantee!—his entry into the spiritual world.

When upholding mutual guarantee, I must be guided only by myself—I shouldn’t wait for the same thing from the friends.
They can even obstruct me from upholding the mutual guarantee.
Because this is the condition the Creator has set for me.
Because there’s None Else Besides Him.

There’s just one problem in mutual guarantee: realizing that connection between us is the Creator. All “other” problems are there to push us toward identifying and correcting our connection with Him. It solves absolutely everything. I build the connection, and that’s the Creator!

Every person is how the Creator made him! Correct not yourself, but connection with others. Finding the right connection between us is our entire spiritual work—scrutinizing it ourselves and asking the Creator to show us how He created these connections, in bestowal (Hassadim)
and reception for the sake of bestowal (Hochma).

The law of general mutual guarantee determines our liberation of one another from egoism’s prison.
The friend will save me from egoism if I save him.
But I don’t depend on others if I uphold the mutual guarantee.
Others are the Creator—the condition for upholding mutual guarantee.

The Creator is the quality of bestowal and love revealed in mutual guarantee, in the connections.

The quality of the net of forces connecting particular souls into one common soul of Adam is mutual guarantee (Arvut).
How does Arvut differ from the Creator?
Arvut is the law of mutual guarantee, connection of #souls.

Inasmuch as we’re opposite in our ego-world, can’t stand and constantly clash with one another—to the extent we reveal Mutual Guarantee, spiritual mutual connection between us, where everyone’s superimposed with one another, we reveal that we all complement one another!

Your attitude to the friends, the way you see the friends—this is the Creator’s image in you.
Can you imagine how you imagine Him…?
You depict the Creator in you the same way you relate to the world!
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It seems like one must wait for all group members to consent to the Guarantee
But since there’s only man and Creator and everything else is a system of connections between them,
you don’t have to wait for anyone for the Guarantee. Consider everything ready for it, for man’s action!

Only by annulling yourself to the group can you evoke its influence on you, which will pull you away from ego.
This act depends only on you alone and not on them.
Because besides man, there’s only the Creator
And there’s None Else Besides Him,
and He shines upon you from the group
From Twitter, 10/27/18

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Entry into the spiritual world, crossing the Machsom, is a special stage. It’s like the eye of a needle that one squeezes into. I must restrict myself to a state of wanting only spirituality, bestowal to friends. With this desire I can pass through the needle’s eye into the upper world

The main thing about the Guarantee is to start feeling a need for mutual action.

Mutual Guarantee is mutual support of friends in the group to evoke the general light of correction OM (Ohr Makif) from the center of the group.
Together we sprinkle ourselves with the life-giving rain of Hassadim and each other’s example.

At the World Film Fair in New York—a major event in the film industry held in October 2018, the movie The Social Network in the Age of the Third Reich by my student Michael Rozenshtein, was awarded Honorary Laurels.

From Twitter, 10/26/18

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-Music’s structure includes moments of silence: pauses, inhales. What is silence in the spiritual world?
-Without pauses we wouldn’t hear anything. A pause is like preparation of a Kli, vessel. The sound of pauses inside us is just as necessary as the sounds we hear.

You “buy” a friend at the price of self-annulment. I must pay for the “purchase” with something, give something up, abdicate my ego.
I can’t eradicate my egoism, but I can change its use from “for myself” to bestowal with the help of light OM [Ohr Makif]. This is called “buying a friend.”

That’s the hurdle in revealing the Creator, since the best possible imaginable pleasure is society’s praise, for which man can expend all his energy and give up all pleasures if by that he’ll attain sufficient praise.

If they don’t give in, the markets will crash!

Save the world financial system at the cost of the USA real sector’s demise, or vice versa? That’s the financiers’ war with Trump: not to abdicate banks and the Fed to government control. Trump will win because financiers can’t ensure economic growth.

Only rare individuals aspire to the Creator, since one must give up society’s praise and be ready to be condemned by society. One isn’t ready to reveal Kabbalah and the Creator until society’s praise is devaluated for him, since otherwise he will aspire to attain that praise.
From Twitter, 10/25/18

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If there’s love on the outside, inside it there’s always hatred, and vice-versa. In spirituality, one never exists without the other. This gives rise to perfection.
#quotes #WisdomWednesday

By exerting to ask for the friends, we’ll be liberated from egoism’s prison, our spirit will rise from the hole of egoism, we’ll be able to bestow to the friends, care for them instead of ourselves and thus with our screen we’ll enter the upper world, the quality of bestowal and love.

In an integral system, no single element can fulfill itself, even if such a possibility existed.
I must open myself up to the friends, come closer, and they’ll be able to help me, as written, “A prisoner can’t liberate himself from prison, but only if his friends come to help him.”

The Creator is a network of complete, integral interconnection between the creatures, connecting all elements of creation in absolute, mutual understanding, connection, combination and complementing. The quality of this force is total mutual complementing, called “love.”

The Creator confuses us and creates problems between us so we’ll need Him in order to sort things out between us, in our lives, and…to turn to Him so He’ll establish connections between us—which means He will reveal the world’s entire state to us.

When the upper force that governs a person manifests, and one sees how this upper force governs everything, nothing new happens. Only an understanding emerges of the Creator and answers: why the world exists, the role of everyone and each one.
But this is my birth in the new world!

Everything exists and operates only in order to ultimately reveal the Creator. There are no other actions in nature. We carry this out involuntarily, governed by Nature. The aim of our development lies in independently figuring out how to do this consciously.

A great force is needed to handle the ego and pull me out of the ego-prison, like a magnet to which a piece of metal is stuck. I want to tear the metal away from the magnet, but I can’t do that to myself.
But if I ask the group, it’ll grab on and pull me away from egoism to itself!

How do we enter the upper world, the quality of bestowal, to see the world undistorted by our egoism?
Kabbalists advise: place yourself under the group’s influence so it’ll pull you out of the ego-prison since you can’t pull yourself out of it.
Give the group a chance to do this.

On 10/23/18 the international forum “Democracy Promotion and America’s Global Leadership” was held. Conclusion: promoting democracy was a mistake.
My conclusion: you can’t correct society without correcting man. It must start with re-educating man. That’s what Kabbalah says.

Everything in nature follows the principle of combination of opposites, except man, who can’t stand this. Our bodies, the still, vegetative and animate nature, have 2 opposite forces operating in everything—in mutual opposition and harmony. That’s how we should work in spirituality!

In our world we feel unidirectional acts: hate or love, separated from each other. This sets our world apart from the spiritual one—in spirituality one doesn’t exist without the other: if love is outside, there’s hate inside it, and vice versa. This produces perfection!

By coming closer to each other, we awaken the force of rejection. One can’t be without the other. No spiritual act can be one-sided. It always contains opposites. Spirituality is perfect—in it opposites act as one whole.

To acquire the quality of bestowal and see the world undistorted by ego, I must enter the group, place myself under its influence, so it’ll pull me away from ego like a piece of metal from a magnet. I can’t pull myself out of egoistic prison—only the force of the group can!

The forces by which we’ll come out of ourselves are the forces of our soul.

It’s possible to rise above restriction of egoism’s power and enter the upper world, the quality of bestowal, only when the body remains in the ego-prison while the spirit exits it.
If you think only of the friends and not yourself, you’ll have their and the Creator’s support.

That’s how I pull myself by the hair out of the egoistic hole!

By thinking about how to save the friends from ego with prayer, I won’t think about myself but about how to save them and pull them out. This will be my salvation, rising above myself to their cares, being under their influence through prayer for them.

But every element of the system can be fulfilled if the surrounding elements fulfill it!

Love is complete, mutual connection between creatures. I feel the other’s desires and can fulfill them. I know how to fulfill the other.
No one is able to fulfill himself, one is powerless to be fulfilled.

His officials were raised by financiers—he needs to get rid of them!
The #USA has set out on a new route!

All USA presidents were backed by transnational financiers: each one brought a new budget, but not a new policy.
#Trump is taking the USA out of the rule of financiers-liberals-WTO-globalization and making the dollar the national currency.

That’s what nature has planned. Look closely and you’ll see!

There’s no answer to the question about life’s meaning. So we run away from the question. Why suffer pointlessly?
We can tear away from the current of life with the group’s help. It lifts us above egoism. Seeing above ego, thinking of the group, you’ll see the true world.

Kabbalah is in demand. The mind understands that it’s right, but our egoistic essence rejects it. Our task is thus to adapt Kabbalah in the world to correct ego-desires into one desire for connection. This is done by the upper force at our request. It’s our task to appeal to it.
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Isra-el (those aspiring to the Creator) is an example of mankind’s organization in proper relations with each other and with Nature, the Creator. Thus the Creator, the upper governing force, will be revealed to all. Mankind will understand the purpose of life and its true form.

A critical approach is possible only against yourself, by checking whether I’ve been bribed, whether I’m dependent. It’s working with myself rather than with someone else.
Critical thinking is based on rising above one’s ego, against oneself. The “I” remains, but you exist above it.

Crisis isn’t breakage of the world, but breakage of its deceptive, shiny shell, from which new life is born like from an egg— a new world, existing not by earthly laws of a shell – Klipa, but by eternal laws of Nature, laws of bestowal and love. Crisis means birth of the new!
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What do you think of the proverbial psycho-physical threshold? I heard about it when I was young, in college. If a person did something, he won’t do anything more—his psycho-physical state won’t allow it.
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Our world is in the force of reception, the quality of receiving for oneself
The upper world is in the force of bestowal, giving to others
The wisdom of Kabbalah must give our world the ability to rise to the upper world. This is attained by people’s unity-humanity’s next degree.

When a contradiction arises in our world, we look for a conciliatory compromise. But in spirituality we don’t: the more we advance, the greater is the contradiction between matter and matter’s form, desires to receive and bestow, egoism and spirituality, screen and light.

You can add to the group whatever you want it to add to you. Until you understand that it lacks trepidation and love for the Creator, you won’t be able to add these qualities to it.
If you want greatness of the goal, you want greatness in the Kli. Then you can add it to the group.

The next spiritual degree is above my understanding, in spite of it. This was commanded to Abraham: 1. Isaac is your continuation; 2. Kill him. Both acts can’t be observed. But on the next spiritual degree, they complement each other and form one truth, “faith above reason.”

Arvut is when I think about spirituality and want others to think about the same goal. If they won’t think about it, I also won’t be able to hold on to the goal and will get distracted. I won’t have a connecting network in my soul, in 10 Sefirot, that will hold me inside it.

Wall Street International #Magazine (@WSImagazine_EN) published an article by my student about #melodies in Kabbalistic music, the benefit of silence and pauses in music and life for every one of us.

That is why spiritual work happens by faith above reason, above animate reason, built upon untraditional, opposite qualities. A person consists of two forms: human and animate. One must go by faith above reason, accepting, saddling his beast.

Entry into the spiritual world is based upon unity of mutually exclusive qualities, which together form one spiritual quality in every state, and thus lead to the goal. They do not annul one another; their single spiritual state is built above their contradiction.

Spiritual money equals truth. The more spiritual wealth (qualities) I have, the more I’m right. Spiritual money is bestowal, love, connection with others. The more of it I have, the closer I am to truth, greater connection with the Creator. A screen is money, bestowal, reward.

… and sensical in the quality of bestowal.

One who can tolerate such a split builds entry into the spiritual degree above it.
Example: the Creator said to Abraham: your continuation is in Isaac and sacrifice him. It sounds like a mutually exclusive act, but above this degree it becomes real …

Me: Nature is the Creator, while God was invented by you.

Stephen Hawking’s final book, published yesterday:
“There is no God. No one directs the universe,” he writes in “Brief Answers to the Big Questions.” … “I prefer to think that everything can be explained another way, by the laws of nature.”

Money (Kesef in Hebrew from the word “Kisuf” – covering) is a screen covering my egoism, the degree of bestowal to others.

Money is the degree of one’s efforts, aspiration, importance.
One must always measure the degree of connection.
Money is a general equivalent of human desires, i.e., the measure of everything.

If you “sell yourself” to the goals of our world, use your energy and abilities to attain goals in our world more than your vital necessities, replacing the soul’s correction with that, you “sell your soul to the devil/satan.” Satan is from the verb “Listot” – veer off the path.

In my growing love for the friend, I see that he “becomes corrected,” more pleasant and kinder, as is written, “love will cover all sins.” At the same time, I will continue seeing his bad attitude, while wrapping him in love, until I reveal that everything is set up by the Creator.

The friends’ behavior is an expression of my qualities that I must correct. It therefore doesn’t matter what I feel from them, or from the whole world. I must correct myself so I’ll perceive each friend as a comrade toward the goal of creation, nurturing love for him within me.

I must work on my love of friends regardless of how the friends act toward me. They are sent to me by the Creator, who arranges the picture of the world for me. I must accept this picture, understanding that I’m seeing not the friends, but “my reverse self.”

All of creation’s corrections lie in unity.
By aspiring to unity and making room for the Creator to be revealed by equivalence of our form to Him, we fulfill our mission. Thus, the world Bnei Baruch group is the front-line pioneers, to be followed by many other parts of the soul of Adam.

In the wisdom of Kabbalah, a pause is creation of a Kli (vessel, deficiency).
I can’t hear silence properly if it wasn’t preceded by a pause originating from a special sound.
Silence is the note I am now hearing…
That’s how we feel the message transmitted to us by the melody.

#France has come to resemble a third-world country. Mass immigration has dehumanized French cities, which are overrun by drug dealers and Islamists. The authorities are not changing their policy, despite the forthcoming outburst of popular nationalism!
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Evil is our great helper since only out of evil can we need good and appeal to good.
Hence, there’s no good that doesn’t come from evil, and in that good, the Creator’s greatness is raised. Being the great egoists that we are, we remember the Creator only when we feel bad.

The Creator made us as an imprint of Himself, like a seal and its imprint.
We gradually develop in that imprint until we start to feel opposite to the light, Creator. Then we’ll be ready to “exterminate” the qualities opposite to the Creator, rising above them in equivalence to Him.

The Creator’s main quality is his singularity, universality, “There’s none else besides Him.” Hence He can be revealed from the quality opposite to Him—the lack of a single upper force in everything that happens. It’s precisely from this state that we aspire to His revelation.

A child doesn’t worry about anything because he feels the mother’s absolute care, and therefore feels no need to worry about himself. Thus, by caring for others, we neutralize their egoistic desires and thoughts of self. That’s how the principle of mutual guarantee (Arvut) works.

Thoughts aren’t yours—they’re sent to you. Desires aren’t yours—they’re awoken in you. Decisions aren’t yours—they’re made for you. Actions aren’t yours. Everything passes through me and goes somewhere. I’m inside the Creator’s system. When I nullify like an embryo, I feel Him.

We usually perform actions with the intention of receiving rewards in this world or the next world. In Kabbalah we perform actions with the intention to bestow—in spite of the desire, not for a reward, beyond connection to self, i.e., faith—bestowal above reason—reception

…… one should care only about one’s own country, which is what #Trump is suggesting.

International processes are now unmanageable. Nations are annoyed by the elites’ global aspirations since it diverts them from governing their own countries. Conclusion: focus on yourself instead of “correcting” the world ….

Kabbalah is a wisdom about a new attitude to reality where we accept that reality depends not on our reason/feelings, but on perceiving the quality of bestowal instead of our egoism. It’s seeing reality the way it’s seen by the upper force, which bestows upon us.
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