The Torah, “Numbers” 10:8: The descendants of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; this shall be an eternal statute for your generations.

A trumpet symbolizes an ascent, the force of ascending. Only the priest has this force because he is in contact with the Creator. The Levites, on the other hand, only serve the priests. The part of our soul that belongs to the Creator is called a priest (Cohen). Levites, although they  are the upper part that belongs to the Creator, they only engage in conducting the Light from Him to the lower. The priests work from the bottom up, for the Creator’s sake, while the Levites work from the top down, for the sake of the created beings.

The Torah, Numbers 10:9-10: If you go to war in your land against an adversary that oppresses you, you shall blow a teruah with the trumpets and be remembered before the Lord your God, and thus be saved from your enemies. On the days of your rejoicing, on your festivals and on your new-moon celebrations, you shall blow on the trumpets for your ascent-offerings and your peace sacrifices, and it shall be a remembrance before your God; I am the Lord your God.

The trumpets are used in order to raise the intention, why and where you are headed, and what you connect to. It is because these are not just ordinary trumpets that play a march, but vessels that make special sounds in special frequencies and in a special order and sequence, repeating them over and over again. All this symbolizes the phases of the correction of the vessel and the parts of the soul that are corrected in this specific manner. It is the most complex part of the wisdom of Kabbalah. Blowing the Shofar (Horn) in our world means simply to make some sounds, while it is a very serious action in a person’s internal work.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/11/15

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Question: What is the spiritual meaning of “my land”?
Answer: “My land” is a desire I have to correct. One I can not do alone, but only in unity with others.

Answer: Others are parts of my soul who seem to me like strangers and who are apparently found outside of me. So I can relate to them as if they don’t exist or are seemingly far from me.

And I can also relate differently by understanding that they are within me; these are my personal characteristics that are projected outside of me by my mind to make it possible for me to work mutually with them more freely and expansively, and I can see all of my characteristics and theirs as opposites.

If I understand that they are my characteristics, I can accept them. But if it seems to me that they are found in someone else, then I am not ready to accept or get closer to this person. So a vision like this of my inner characteristics in the form of billions of people around me helps me to amplify all of my inner inaccuracies, contradictions, and errors like a magnifying glass.

In this way, I can correct myself to scratch because if the person is found outside of me, I feel the smallest discrepancies between us and I don’t deceive myself! But if he is within me, then I am ready to agree with everything that there is and never correct myself. So I see myself inside out in the form of all the people around me.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/13/14

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Kabbalists talk about the spiritual world with words of this world, which causes us to be very confused. We read in the Torah about building the “Tent of Revelation,” (Tabernacle) and our mind grasps this as a physical activity.

The Kabbalists say that we can ultimately discover spirituality if we read these books by trying with all our might to descend into the depths of the words and clarifying what is truly concealed behind every word.

Question: So Moses is not an old man with white hair, a long beard, and a staff?

Answer: Certainly not! Moses is a characteristic. We are not talking about people or objects, but only about characteristics. Not an evil person but evil, not a stingy person but stinginess. The spiritual world is characteristics in their purest form.

So when reading the weekly portion, I must imagine a spiritual state, the upper world. If it is written that it is necessary to build the “Tent of Revelation,” so I must clarify, what is this spiritual tool in which the Creator is revealed? What characteristics in me must match what must be within it: The “Ark of the Covenant” with the Cherubs, Cohanim (priests), and Levites, with the people of Israel standing around it?

I begin to search for these characteristics only within me; everything happens within a person. The whole world is inside of me, as it is said: “And a person is a small world.” Even this entire world that I now see around me is actually found within me.

We must always try to represent this correctly, and ultimately an inner transformation will occur when I will begin to feel that it is truly found inside of me. Then I will understand how to build the “Tent of the Testimony” and what the work of the Cohanim, the Levites and the people of Israel that are around them are, and how my twelve tribes of Israel move forward in the wilderness.

I must build all the details that are mentioned in the Torah from my characteristics and desires. Before me lies the heap of my desires, and I must take them, sort all the forces and characteristics and clarify how to connect them to build the same form the Torah talks about.
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From KabTV’s “The Torah Chapters with Shmuel Vilozni” 12/15/14

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The Torah, “Numbers” 8:4: This was the form of the menorah: hammered work of gold, from its base to its flower it was hammered work; according to the form that the Lord had shown Moses, so did he construct the menorah.

Question: Why is the menorah forged from a single piece of gold?

Answer: Forging the menorah of pure gold means reforging the pure ego into the opposite attribute in order to give and bestow Light.

At the same time, the beaten piece of gold must be whole and cannot be made of different parts because we must reach a state in which all of our egoism, all of our nature, becomes the attribute of love and bestowal.

This is the reason that this weekly section of the Torah is called Beha’alotcha, meaning when you ascend to the Light.

Rabash said that the term “menorah” refers to a person’s body, and when the Creator’s Light is dressed in it, a person illuminates like the menorah. However, the question is how a person’s body can wear the Upper Light when there is such a great difference between the attributes of the Light and the vessels, which means the person’s body. When we speak about the body, we refer to egoism.

He also says that the difficulty in creating a vessel is called a deficiency, and then the filling for that deficiency can enter it. But if a person has no deficiencies, there is no room for a filling that comes as a response to his deficiency, called help from above.

Thus, it is clear that a person cannot act without deficiencies because there is no room for fulfilling the deficiencies.

The deficiencies that we are given are help from above. Without them, a person will have no demand, and the desire for correction will not be ignited in him. We must process all the difficulties inside us anew and use them as material for illumination.

Our role is to feel that everything stems from the Creator, but we must change it in the right way and place it correctly inside us. At the same time, a person is in a state of total confusion, fears, worries, and other images.

This means that he is raised to a level where he is like a fragile branch in the wind, and he cannot find his way around. This is just the starting point where he is forged and made into a menorah. When his egoism is softened, the process of forging begins. This is the hard transition to the attribute of bestowal.

However, at the same time, when we find the connection with the Creator, it becomes a pleasure, a redemption from our internal snake, from everything that we hate.

In other words, we must hate what is inside us more than the pain, and then we will not feel it. Therefore, the power of our intention and our yearning for the goal must be greater than the pain that we feel because it is all measured by the same parameter: the force of attraction (the force of bestowal).

If the force of attraction toward the goal is greater than the force of the pain (the force of rejection), we will not feel the force of the pain.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/4/15

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The Torah, “Numbers” 1:20 – 1:27: And the children of Reuben, Israel’s first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those that were numbered thereof, according to the number of names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred. 

Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.

Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.

This is about the shattered particles of the soul that assemble into one general soul.

The Upper Light enters the tiny spiritual particle and brings into this particle all its power and energy that includes the whole universe, all the worlds, everything that the Creator has given the created being, and thus blows it to pieces. The shattering symbolizes the revelation of the great egoism inside it, and this is called Adam’s sin.

Now a great egoistic desire is revealed in the tiny particle that exploded into a billion parts, which is equal to the infinite Upper Light. When the Light enters the particle, it transfers all its greatness to it in an opposite form, in the form of help against. Now we have to change all the great egoistic attributes into the attribute of the Light according to our connection and unity.

But we don’t return to the tiny particle; rather, we connect and are covered by all the Upper Light. It is as if we dress onto this particle like a snake that dresses on its prey.

We have to understand that all the attributes, all the mutual connections, everything we have to discover, is separated in an absolute accurate manner and they all have their own places. These are the clear and accurate physical laws that are based on the correlation between the Light and the desire, between the Creator and the attribute that is opposite from Him. Everything has to be kept in perfect accuracy, and therefore it is said: examine whether you calculate everything correctly, whether you have undergone certain states, whether you are on a given spiritual level, and whether you have perceived it internally.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/17/14

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The formation of the 12 tribes of Israel comes from the fact that the entire desire has 12 parts. The desire itself is composed of four phases of development corresponding to the four-letter name of the Creator. Besides that, the desire is divided into 3 lines. And the entire manifestation of this scheme is the Creator.

Four phases times three lines is 12. So the entire society is divided into 12 parts. This is further derived from the time of Jacob. When Jacob was connected to the enormous ego of the next phase, he was “divided” into 12 parts because he could not bear that himself. And all of those called the 12 sons of Jacob began to work on this ego to transform it to altruism and mutual love. That is how the 12 tribes were formed with 12 flags for all the camps.

Question: Does it follow that every leader of a tribe: Judah, Benjamin, Joseph and so forth, is a larger or smaller part of my ego?

Answer: Certainly. A person is a small world! He has everything in him! Every name corresponds to a particular characteristic, and every characteristic has its own unique correction.

Question: What kind of ego did Joseph have, since he was sold into slavery in Egypt: the largest or the smallest?

Answer: Joseph represents the totality of all the types of ego. This means that he didn’t have any ego of his own, so he is called “Joseph the Righteous.” But on the other hand, specifically thanks to the characteristic of the Tzadik (righteous), which does not belong to anyone, he was separated from his brothers. And so he could gather all of their characteristics and enter into Malchut with them, meaning that he could turn to Pharaoh. He gathered them into himself, and so he is called Joseph, which is the symbol of “gathering” (L’Asof).
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/11/15

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Every camp of the twelve tribes of Israel had its own flag. Degel (Flag, Standard) is from the word “Geulah “(Redemption) and “Ledaleg” (Leap), for the people of Israel went out to the wilderness to move from one level to another.

When they began to move, they raised a flag above them, a symbol of the goal that was placed before them. It is impossible to advance without this; there must be a most serious motivation!

In spiritual work, a flag symbolizes the idea of elevation above our ego, absolute dissociation and complete detachment from the ego, using it intentionally for the sake of bestowal. So it is also in the physical world.

For a nation, the flag is a symbol of an idea, like a root and branch. Everything that exists in the spiritual world is reflected in our world, and the person acts this way in spite of himself, even without knowing where this is coming from.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/11/15

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Question: If there are no words in spirituality, how do Kabbalists convey their attainments to one another and write books?

Answer: Kabbalists use what we call the language of branches. The spiritual world is the root, and from it we perceive some corporeal imprint in our corporeal senses that is called a branch.

Therefore we can describe spiritual phenomena even in our language, using this world’s words, because there is an outcome, a branch in the corporeal world for everything that exists in the spiritual world.

Suppose we are two Kabbalists. How can I tell you about the spiritual world if the spiritual consciousness and attainment are personal? I feel a certain picture, a form, a great world, an infinite reality that is revealed to me in all my senses in every direction, in every axis, and you feel something, too. How can we communicate and share our impressions?

The solution is actually in being here in our world, in our corporeal bodies. This is the reason that we can use our bodies to communicate with one another to write texts and to convey information even by clues or by a glance. This is the reason that we use our corporeal language.

In the spiritual world, for example, there are forces called a chair, a table, a cup, air, a wall, a window, and so forth.

We use these names in our world, but by using them, we refer to the internal essence of the concept in the spiritual world. I say “a window,” but I refer to a window that exists in the spiritual world, while you understand which window I refer to. I say “the window is open,” and you understand what the meaning of an open window is in the spiritual world, although I convey the idea to you by using corporeal words.

This is how Kabbalists speak, and this is how they write their books. This is called the language of the branches that is accepted by all Kabbalists. This is the language in which the Torah is written, but ordinary people don’t know that because Kabbalists wrote it in order to speak to one another about the spiritual world, while people think that it is about our world. This is the secret of the Torah.

Question: It turns out that when your read Kabbalah books, the words don’t mean anything to you unless you understand their double meaning.

Answer: That’s right. I read only these words because I know the language, but I don’t understand more than someone who doesn’t know Hebrew. What is more, if a person doesn’t know Hebrew, it is even better since then he is not confused and does not imagine different things about our world.
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From KabTV’s “Encounters with Kabbalah” 7/7/15

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The Torah, “Numbers” 10:1 – 10:3: The Lord spoke to Moses saying: Make yourself two silver trumpets; you shall make them [from a] beaten [form]; they shall be used by you to summon the congregation and to announce the departure of the camps. When they blow on them, the entire congregation shall assemble to you, at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Gold is a desire to receive, and silver is a desire to bestow. Therefore, the sound of the silver trumpets that calls for connection is right for the people.

Blowing the trumpet means assembling all of a person’s attributes and uniting them. The problem is not in correcting one attribute or another, but in connecting them. The main thing is connecting them into one schema, into one unified desire.

Can you imagine trying to assemble and put together a human body according to the cells, the atoms, and even according to the DNA and RNA and so forth, an endless amount of mutual connections and their mutual work? It is impossible to create such a system!

We, on the other hand, must do it. We must create living matter out of our dead desires, out of the inanimate matter, in the same way that it happened billions of years ago before the evolutionary process began when the vegetative level emerged from the level of the still nature and then the animate level and then man. We must gather all that and tie it together so that a living desire will emerge, one that can be in the Temple, which means in some contact with the Creator in resembling and being equal to Him.

Question: Why is it written, “Make yourself two silver trumpets; you shall make them [from a] beaten [form]…”

Answer: There must be one desire that is unique and united, especially if it is given from above. We have no right to break it apart. The Creator is one, and therefore, everything that stems and descends from Him is given as one to everyone.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/4/15

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The Torah, “Numbers” 9:22 – 9:23: Whether it was for two days, a month or a year, that the cloud lingered to hover over the Mishkan, the children of Israel would encamp and not travel, and when it departed, they traveled.

At the Lord’s bidding they would encamp, and at the Lord’s bidding they would travel; they kept the charge of the Lord by the word of the Lord through Moses.

The cloud is good. It is a blessing that made it possible to work in concealment. The Creator concealed Himself, making it possible for us to work under His wing.

So, we didn’t need the Creator Himself, but only His concealment so that under it, it would be possible to develop ourselves to resemble Him, and if we can resemble Him through that concealment that He created for us, then this is true and correct growth.

To reach the revelation of the Creator, it is necessary to absorb all of the characteristics of the cloud into us. It must enter into me, be within me, because the concealment must exist within every desire of mine. It is necessary to work on this!
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/4/15

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