The method of spiritual transformation is given to us when we are undergoing the worst afflictions, when we finally agree to end our horrible mutual relationships and wish to unite.

We agree to change ourselves and we realize that we cannot do it by ourselves, that only the force that created us can operate here and give us birth anew. It turns out that having been corrupted by our own ego, we have to undergo a serious correction.

We agree to that and confirm it, and wish to annul all the repulsion that we feel between us. Of course, we cannot object in the state we are, but at the same time, we don’t want to be merely neutral, but also to participate in the process, although we cannot do so.

Therefore we ask: “Help us agree to participate in the creation, not only in our intention but also in our actions, so that we will totally convert our attributes.” When humanity feels this prayer everyone will feel that this option exists.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/6/13

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Question: One of the friends who was with us for a while said: “I don’t want to be part of a herd. I have my own relationship with the Creator.”

Answer: It will pass. At the moment he doesn’t understand the general picture of creation.

The Creator doesn’t exist! A person has to create Him by himself. What can he come close to? Where can he do it? Only when he is in contact with other people. In fact, he is looking for a way to justify his ego that makes him feel repelled by everyone. I understand him perfectly, but there is nothing we can do. At the moment he is on a childish level and it may take time until he returns.

After the general vessel was shattered into many pieces, the only way to discover the Light, the Creator, within it, is by putting it together. But can I put it together if I am merely a small piece of that vessel?

There is a story about an old chiropractor who was visited by young doctors who came to learn how to put bones back in place. In the past setting bones was a separate profession.

The chiropractor took a clay pitcher, tied it tightly in a sack and broke it. Then he began to put it together without opening the sack. When he put the pitcher together just by feeling the pieces, he showed it to everyone, bowed, and left. This is art!

This is exactly what we should do. Unfortunately, I don’t feel that the nation is ready for this. We don’t encounter a great desire yet, and this hinders my explanations. But the time will come.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/27/13

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Question: Where is the Creator before a person discovers Him?

Answer: Nowhere. I always see that people don’t understand that the Creator doesn’t exist. We create Him by ourselves by ascending to a higher level. It is the next state in our evolution, and when we attain it, we make the Creator, as it is written in The Book of Zohar, “You make Me.”

However, we create Him by the attributes that He has prepared for us in advance in which there is a force that we haven’t discovered at all that is called Atzmuto. We discover the image of the Creator inside us by attaining Him in our inner attributes, in our inner senses.

After we determine our contact with the Creator, a person advances according to different principles. However, it doesn’t mean that he has any special guarantee. On the contrary, he encounters increasingly greater obligations with regard to himself and to others. However, at the same time, he also discovers increasingly greater support.

The main thing is to rise to the first level, and it is a problem. Then, there are totally different hardships that a person encounters, like an expert who becomes more and more involved in his profession. He already is devoted to it, immersed in it, and finds unique subtleties and problems in it. However, they don’t repel him since he is totally involved in it.

He already sees our world as a weak reflection of the upper world, which is presented to us in distorted emotions on purpose so that we will exit them and make our way to the real feelings and see everything that happens between us not as the true reality, but as a form of guidance.

Question: So, he probably feels sorry for all the other people who play with the toys of the corporeal world.

Answer: Why should he feel sorry? I have children and grandchildren, and I don’t feel sorry for them. They are parts of the general, enormous desire to receive who also will go through such states with time. At the moment, they are simply on another level.

By the way, a person becomes indifferent to his relatives to a certain extent. He has no desire to devote more attention to them than to anyone else. He becomes a citizen of the universe.

He understands the objectivity of what is going on and treats everyone equally. The moment he has spiritual urges, he immediately passes his knowledge to them. At the same time, he doesn’t commit himself, but does it with ease thanks to the altruistic attributes he has acquired. It is said that a father must teach his son a craft, which means to bring him to the level of Bina.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/27/13

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The Book of Zohar, “Tzav” (Command), Item 50: “A perpetual fire shall burn on the altar; it shall not go out.” This is the Torah, which is called “fire.” It was said about it, “‘Is not My word like fire’ declares the Lord?” meaning that it should always shine on the altar, on Malchut.“

An illumination of the first nine Sefirot of the Partzuf depends on the presence of the Direct Light and the Returning Light in them, while Malchut should constantly nourish them like a candle.

If we take an oil lamp and oil, they will not light separately. But if we connect them, the oil fuels the lamp and burns.

This state symbolizes the attribute of the ten Sefirot. Nine Sefirot is the oil lamp itself, different types of the intention of in order to bestow, and the matter that burns is Malchut, although it cannot burn by itself.

Therefore the correct connection of Malchut, which nourishes the first nine Sefirot, provides them with constant Light.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/27/13

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The Torah, “Leviticus,” 2:2: Then, the Cohen shall make the reminder to [go up in] smoke on the altar; [it is] a fire offering [with] a pleasing fragrance to the Lord.

There are actions in the spiritual work in which parts of the offering that are meant to be burnt are separated from it. This matches the part of our desire that cannot be corrected and which seemingly rises in the air and is kept there.

There are limits indicating that we cannot fully correct our ego, but only a certain part of it. The rest is kept until the end of correction.

The point is that our correction can be included only in the circle we are in. But where are all the generations that preceded us and those that are yet to come? Where is the whole world as we know it today? We don’t include it in our correction now because we cannot correct it spiritually or physically.

All this remains and to the extent that humanity will approach the correction; our uncorrected parts will gradually begin to participate in it. But in the meantime they are separated this way and we can only operate in a small circle, in a group.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/27/13

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The Torah, “Leviticus” (VaYikra), 2:1: And when any one bringeth a meal-offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon.

“Bread” and “bread-offering gifts” represent human food. One of the most important parts of The Book of Zohar (“Safrah de Tzniyutah” – “The Book of the Modest” or “The Hidden Book”) speaks about this issue.

The word “book” stands for the revelation. “The Hidden Book” denotes a disclosed mystery.

Long before Charles Darwin, the Ari’s Book of Zohar explained that the developmental process consistently unfolds from inanimate, vegetative, and animate, and steps to the speaking level. It’s true that in the course of evolution humans originated from monkeys.

More than anything else, humans differ from animals because of the food they consume. This fact is described in the Torah. Wheat grains are suitable for animals, for example, donkeys. We associate our ego with a donkey that carries a heavy load.

If we want to rise above our animate level, we shouldn’t eat grains. We have to clean the shells off on a threshing floor and blow the husk in the wind. This action symbolizes what happens to our desires in spirituality.

Then, pure grains should be ground on millstones; the flour that we receive has to be mixed with water. After that, we should add salt and various ingredients to the dough and then bake it. No animal is capable of doing it; it is feasible only for a human being. After all these steps are complete, our major food, bread, is ready for us.

All of these actions symbolize a transition from egoistic desires to altruistic. We “grind” our egoism, make flour out of it and then dissolve it in the water.

Water is the property of bestowal and mercy (Bina). “Grains” denote the will to receive (egoism.) We grind grains, add water to them, and bake the bread, i.e., turn our egoistic qualities that are associated with the animate level into altruistic desires. We do it with the help of the properties of Bina. Only after we do all of this, we transition to the human level.

In other words, those who eat bread have already attained the speaking level. It is the level of our desire that must be sacrificed.

In fact, it is not a sacrifice at all! Rather, it is about getting closer to the property of the Creator, the attribute of absolute bestowal and love. The word “kurban” (victim) derives from the word “karov” (getting closer.)
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/27/13

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The Torah, “Leviticus,” 5:2-5:3: Or if a person touches anything unclean, whether it is the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of unclean domestic animal, or the carcass of an unclean creeping animal, and it was hidden from him, he incurs guilt. Or if he touches the uncleanness of a human, with any uncleanness through which he may become defiled, and it is hidden from him and [later] he knows, he has incurred guilt.

Touching symbolizes nearness and contact. In the spiritual world, closeness between two states takes place according to the degree of compatible attributes. Contact is when there is at least one similar part between two spiritual states or objects, which means sharing one common attribute, and then they are in contact.

But this closeness can be a big problem. The point is that there is absolute egoism and absolute altruism. If the altruism is corrupted in any way, it begins to come closer to egoism, although there should be a certain distance between them. If altruism can sustain itself in a normal state and perform actions of love and bestowal, the ego doesn’t prevent it, since altruism places it under its restriction (Tzimtzum).

But if altruism grows weak, it begins to draw closer to the ego in the spiritual space. Then a point of contact is formed between them, which means an attribute similar to egoism arose in altruism, and the two connect. The egoistic intentions can pour through this common attribute and a person doesn’t even feel what is happening to him.

Therefore, the Torah says that a person cannot forget what happens to him. There must be a detachment, a distance between the different egoistic attributes from altruism, and accordingly, we need to perform a correction in order to separate them again, which means to burn the egoistic attributes, bury them, or throw them out of the camp, which means outside the borders of our unity. There are very clear instructions as to how to detach from the ego internally and guard ourselves from it.

Question: In our world, a person usually cannot resist contact with the ego, no matter what oath he makes. He may swear, for example, to remain clean and not to take a bribe, and then suddenly fall.

Answer: No one can be absolutely clean. I am not trying to protect anyone, but it says: “Don’t trust yourself until your dying day,” which means until the death of your ego. But we should do everything that matches the spiritual laws and then you can guard yourself. The main thing is that the group, the society you are in, can guard you.

The group itself can guard and protect you only in mutual relations since it connects internally by the help of the upper force, the general force that everyone discovers in their attitude towards one another, by working for others.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/27/13

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The Torah, “Leviticus” 2:13: And every meal-offering of thine shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meal-offering; with all thy offerings thou shalt offer salt.

The Torah attaches very great importance to salt. Even in our world, we see how important it is; it is impossible to live without it.

Salt is the world’s only natural preservative that keeps everything. People used to put salt on food products in order to preserve them. Today sugar is also added as a preservative to food, but this isn’t the natural method of preservation in which they used only salt.

Salt preserves everything, so it is called a covenant of salt, the union of salt. Because salt was dear in the past, its price was its weight in gold.

If I make a covenant with someone, such as the Creator, for example, by bringing Him bread as an offering, which means my corrected part, I have to bring bread with salt. This means that I have really corrected my desire.

Spiritually this means that I have reached the end of correction of a certain desire, which means that I have corrected the whole ego that was revealed in me at a certain point as altruism. At the same time, I also calculate that this correction isn’t final, and this is symbolized by the salt.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/27/13

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Question: What is the spiritual meaning of separating milk from meat?

Answer: The Torah says: “Do not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.” Meat cannot be eaten with milk since by that you cause a short circuit between the most important things, the right and left lines.

Milk symbolizes the right line, the Light of Hassadim (mercy) that stems from the desire to bestow. So on the physical level, milk is food for children. However, the left line, meat, symbolizes receiving, rigidity, egoism.

We must not bring these two lines together because they can only connect in the middle line when you receive from the left egoistic line only what the right altruistic line can include in it and make the middle line out of the two.

In order to create the middle line, we have to descend from ten to six Sefirot, from  GAR to VAK which means to bring the state of greatness of the Partzuf to smallness, because until the end of correction it’s impossible to receive in order to bestow in the whole desire, except for a small quantity.

Malchut can be used only in the ascent to Bina. The ascent of Malchut to Bina is a state of smallness or six Sefirot. Therefore it’s possible to eat dairy products six hours after eating meat.

In our world, six hours is a conditional measure, and therefore in different communities the time of separation between meat and milk differs. In certain communities the break between dairy and meat is three hours and in others it’s an hour. But on the whole, most communities keep six hours.

As for meat, it can be eaten half an hour after dairy (except for hard cheese, which is the same as meat). Although the laws that forbid the combination of milk and meat are not so convenient, they stem from the smallness of the spiritual Partzuf.

Question: Do our friends all over the world have to keep these laws?

Answer: No, we don’t dictate anything to anyone. This refers to the spiritual work and its goal to receive in order to bestow. We can try to persuade people from morning to night that it’s important to feel love towards a friend, but we cannot demand that someone actually do it.

Moreover, one can keep the tradition and another cannot. We never demand of others but only of ourselves. On the other hand, those who don’t keep the tradition shouldn’t interfere with the customs of those who do. We should respect the customs of others, no matter what they are.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/14, Questions and Answers with Dr. Laitman

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The Torah, “Leviticus” 2:11: No meal-offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven; for ye shall make no leaven, nor any honey, smoke as an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

“No meal-offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven” means that it is forbidden to allow our desire to receive to leaven and to rise. It has to remain in its original form.

In the corporeal world, the time for the flour to connect with the water in the process of making the Matzo should be no more than 18 minutes, so that the process of fermentation will not start.

This length of time has a spiritual root, as it is made of nine Sefirot of the Direct Light (Ohr Yashar) and nine Sefirot of the Returning Light (Ohr Hozer), which we can establish without taking the tenth Sefira into account. We cannot correct it and so we just leave it.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/27/13

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