The Torah, Numbers 3:10: You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their Kehunah; any outsider [non-Cohen] who approaches shall be put to death.

If we examine this from the perspective of desires and their correction, an outsider is a desire that isn’t ready for correction and therefore cannot enter the Tabernacle.

He must be isolated and gotten rid of, expelled beyond the camp borders, and given time to wait internally, and then accepted gradually—in other words, to be absorbed somehow, for example, to get married or to build a family. This means drawing this desire to you if possible. However, if he remains a stranger, then he has no right to remain in the camp. This is the reason he is taken out of the camp and put to death because the concept of death refers to his mutual cooperation with the Light.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/31/14

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Question: What was Abraham’s appeal to the Babylonians?

Answer: Abraham is the property of bestowal (Hesed), the quality of love at a small degree (level).

Abraham addressed the Babylonians and asked them to remember how successfully they cooperated when their egoism was smaller. He advised them to rise above their divisive ego and live in love and friendship.

However, this work was unfeasible for them since it implied that people had to help each other and trigger the Reforming Light by asking the Creator to grant it to them in order to actually live in accordance with the rule of “love thy neighbor as thyself.”

It implied that each of them was a “different object” detached from each other by selfishness. Was it possible to build a bridge between them? It is a very difficult task! It can be achieved only with the help of Abraham’s property, Hesed (mercy, bestowal), when despite our alienating egos we still try to correct ourselves in order to reach a phase when our neighbor is as important and precious to us as we are to ourselves. This is how the principle of love thy neighbor as thyself is implemented in life.

Abraham gathered his adherents and led them out of Babylon to the land of Canaan. Today, it is almost impossible to imagine how they managed to withstand such a grueling, long walk through the desert. But it was not about a physical journey; rather, it signified that Abraham elevated his people from the egoistic degree called “Babylon” to the level of the “land of Canaan,” today’s the land of Israel.

In other words, it was an inner journey throughout which people gradually advanced from their prior desires and properties, and got farther and farther away from Babylon and closer to the land of Canaan. By moving forward, they elevated.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/31/14

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The left line helps us build the connection between us. Without the ego, we wouldn’t be able to acquire a form, so it isn’t destroyed. It is as if you place a sheet of copper or gold on it and begin to hammer it until a relief is formed.

It is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and this is the reason for all our sins because our intentions are really good. You are sure that you can work with all the intentions in order to bestow, but there is a short-circuit and everything is burnt; suddenly you fall into darkness.

We undergo states of ups and downs during the preparation period, in the transition process from Lo Lishma (not For Her Name) to Lishma, the intention to bestow. However, since they are minor, they don’t lead to great mistakes. We need this period in order to balance the two attributes in a person properly so that both the Light and the darkness, the desire and the attribute of bestowal, will be seen as equal, and a person will understand that it is impossible to do without them. The attribute of darkness and the attribute of Light are equal in the attainment of the Creator, and you can’t have one without the other.

A person must properly ascend above his desire to break forward, and to bestow even more. It is as if we all say, for example, how wonderful and good you are because you have done someone a favor, and under the influence of these words, you burst with enthusiasm and bestow even more! Then, you begin to regret it. This regret rolls you down from all the levels just like in the kids’ game of Chutes and Ladders when you advance and suddenly are thrown backward. However, in order to guard ourselves from that, we are given a certain period of time during which these two forces must be balanced properly in us.

The attribute of receiving is the upper mind since it is only thanks to the ego that we begin to understand and perceive the way things really are. The right line, on the other hand, is bestowal and love, and there is no Din (Judgment) here, no limitations, no contrasts, no domination or control. The left line includes everything in it. It is impossible to discover the Creator’s Light without it. The ego is our great helper, but against us.
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The Torah, Numbers 3:5 – 3:7: The Lord spoke to Moses saying: Bring forth the tribe of Levi and present them before Aaron the Cohen, that they may serve him. They shall keep his charge and the charge of the entire community before the Tent of Meeting, to perform the service of the Mishkan.

Question: From whom did the Levites have to guard the Tabernacle (Mishkan)?

Answer: Suppose I have a certain property that guards me from saying anything that I shouldn’t. Similarly, in spiritual work we cannot work with desires and attributes that are not corrected yet. We must understand that the right and the left lines must support each other because it seems to a person that he advances and that he wants to discover the attribute of love and bestowal, yearning to get closer to the Creator, but, in fact, we must examine this very carefully.

On the whole, the attributes of the right line that yearn to advance need the left line that restrains and beats them in order to recheck things more deeply, to compare them once more, to connect to others correctly, and to create an “safety cushion,” a special environment that supports this.

When a person becomes adapted to the new level, he yearns for that attribute of bestowal, but, when he enters this attribute, he loses his head and loses his self-control since he sees that it is all absolute love. He is immediately burnt like Nadav and Avihu, or he sins like Adam HaRishon.

The problem in attaining the spiritual attributes is that when you reach a certain attribute, you become that attribute, and everything completely changes in your mind. You don’t control your old self anymore, and therefore, in advance you must create a counterweight to the state in which you will be, your future state. This isn’t easy.
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The Torah, “Numbers” 3:1 – 3:4: These are the descendants of Moses and Aaron on the day that the Lord spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai. These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadav the firstborn Avihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed Cohanim, whom he consecrated to serve as Cohanim. Nadav and Avihu died before the Lord when they brought alien fire before the Lord in the Sinai desert, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar, however, served as Cohanim in the presence of Aaron, their father.

Nadav and Avihu wanted to do what was most sacred, but they were not ready for it. So, the deed itself caused their death. However, these were not people, they were characteristics.

It is necessary to look at everything simply. Suppose that we are assembling some kind of machine or apparatus from a wide variety of parts. Suppose that we are designing, creating, embedding, cutting, painting, and gluing them, and other additional activities. The same thing also happens in spiritual work. The correction of the characteristics of “Nadav” and “Avihu” is through burning them with fire, even though they hurry ahead.

So, it is necessary to accept the Torah not as a tragedy that is talking about the sufferings of people, but as a guidebook for spiritual correction. Suppose that we have a group consisting of ten people, ten internal characteristics that are mutually connected. Among them are characteristics that must be burned, killed, cut, glued, and so-forth. As a result of this, from all of this, we get a circle of all of our characteristics.

Question: Does this mean that we remove everything that is superfluous?

Answer: They are not superfluous since new forms must be discovered.

Question: Nadav and Avihu had no children. So, after their death, Eleazar and Ithamar needed to help Aaron. However, if the firstborn had children, would they serve with Aaron?

Answer: If Nadav and Avihu had children, it would be necessary to raise them, meaning to elevate what remains of the characteristics of Nadav and Avihu to the level of HGT because fathers and sons are two linked levels. Certainly, it would be possible in a case like this that it would be necessary to replace one Partzufim with another. We have examples like this. However, then Nadav and Avihu would not be the same characteristics that they were, and they even wouldn’t have been called by these names. If they had continuity, they would have become regular levels: fathers – sons, and fathers – sons – grandsons.

However, the principle of spiritual work is very simple: in unity, attain the characteristic of mutual bestowal within which the Creator is revealed.
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The twelve tribes of Israel who wandered in the wilderness as a single whole, swallowed the wilderness into them to the degree that they discovered the ego, worked on it, and digested it into the characteristic of unity between them.

When they approached the borders of Israel, they united as a whole, and they became the characteristic that could begin to conquer the ego. They didn’t just rise above the ego as they did during the forty years of wandering in the wilderness when the ego was revealed 100% and they acquired it in the form of their spiritual potential, but they had no connection with it.

Now with their entry into the land of Israel, they took the ego like a bulldozer with a scoop and digested it by transforming it into altruism. Not only did they rise above the ego, but with its help, they could bestow, receive, and cooperate reciprocally between them. This was the conquest of the land of Israel in which there were seven nations—seven profoundly egoistic characteristics—that must be worked on through our internal wars.

So, the people began to fight against them by processing the ego and constantly shoveling it inside themselves. The conquest and subjugation of the ego, working with it for bestowal and love, is called “receiving for the sake of bestowal” and marks the conquest of the land of Israel. “Land” (Eretz) is derived from the word “desire” (Ratzon). “Israel” means “Straight to the Creator” (Yashar El). After that, the people of Israel could attain the level called the “Temple” (Beit HaMikdash). Acquisition of the general desire with which it is possible to discover the Creator fully, His highest revelation, is called the building of the first Temple (the level of Mochin de Haya) where the Upper Light is revealed.
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The Torah, “Exodus”: He was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread and drank no water, and He inscribed upon the tablets the words of the Covenant, the Ten Commandments.

Man’s desires that rise to the level of forty, the level of Bina (wisdom), lose their foundation of egoism, and acquire the possibility to receive the form of spirituality on them. Thus, the stone that the commandments are made of, meaning man’s foundation of egoism, receive the form of the Ten Commandments.

The gradual transformation of our first essence of the attribute of bestowal and love is expressed in the Ten Commandments takes place under the influence of the Light, the Creator. We are not the ones who do it, but we want it to happen and bring ourselves to such a state. Thus, the Creator writes these things on man’s “stony heart.”

When we understand that our heart is made of stone, and understand that the Creator has done this to him, then He softens it. We want that the Creator will change its form only to the attribute of bestowal and love, and then He performs this act on us. This is called that He writes the Ten Commandments on my heart (on the stone), and the heart turns into the two tablets of stone on which the Ten Commandments are written.

The process of recognition happens gradually. A person’s stony heart is not revealed to him immediately, only to the exact extent that he is willing to accept it and be responsible for it, to understand and agree to that it is his normal and natural foundation and it is so needed. We thank the Creator that He created us as He did, since it is specifically in this state that we can raise to the summit of the Creator, to the point of resembling and being equal to Him.

Recognition and understanding come to us only to give thanks to the enlightenment of the Upper Light. Otherwise, nothing happens! Nothing depends on us except the yearnings, all the more so since in most events the yearnings are in the form of an impulse that is not stabilized and not conscious.

And one shouldn’t forget that on the way to this state, man feels that he is a ruler of the world, like the son of Pharaoh. He feels that everything belongs to him, that he can do anything and wants everything, that he has a right to everything, like Moses in Pharaoh’s palace. It is vividly described in the Torah. But in our world, it doesn’t have to return in a physical form.

So the gradual refusal of egoistic reception brings us to ascend to the level of the opposite attribute, of complete bestowal.
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The four legions match four legions of angels. The legion of Judah represented the celestial legion that is led by the angel Gabriel.

The angels are the forces of nature. If, for example, we let go of a glass of water in the air, it will fall to the ground, which means that there is an angel that pulls this glass to the ground.

When we integrate everything according to what the Torah commands we can reveal the four forces that sustain a person in the right integration between them. The result of the right connection of all the 12 tribes of the Israel nation is the revelation of the four major forces: Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin, and Malchut, the four angels, the four pillars, that hold everything together and lead us forward in a rigid but just manner.

This is tremendous pressure since everything is aimed at our precise development. Spiritual laws are not democratic at all. Their revelation obligates a person to exert himself to a certain measure; therefore, every law is accompanied by a tough force and at the same time by correction. There is no democracy here. Democracy is a concept that was invented in order to get rid of the imperial dominion. But a monarchy, propped up by Kabbalists is the best and most reliable.

The spiritual worlds were created so that there is only one force from above, the king of the world and everything else is subordinate to Him. It should be the same in the corporeal world. I don’t see any positive changes in the world since the monarchs have disappeared. A king is responsible for his state and for his people. They are his subjects so he thinks and cares about them. In a democracy, however, it is just about looting the state where every politician pulls the blanket to his side, wanting to bury all the others.

In the time of monarchies, both the leadership and the state treasury were more efficient. If the king had the support of the sages, everything was aimed at the benefit of the state. All the kings of Judea had a council of sages by their side, the Sanhedrin. Besides, there were always prophets that blessed them and the state. We can read about this in the “Book of Kings.”

When we speak about spiritual roots that are fulfilled in our world, we should mention that the king had to keep certain laws, because the Creator was above him. The daily routine of a king was clearly performed according to his spiritual level. It is a lot of work!

King David describes his attainments in the Psalms and King Solomon in the Song of Songs. The Song of Songs is the most holy book, which is about the unity, the complete love between the created beings and the Creator. These are the high spiritual levels that the kings, the judges, and the prophets were on.

Despite the rigid hierarchy, people who were not priests or Levites could also be members of the Sanhedrin. They all had to arrive at one decision, not by a democratic vote but by mutual concessions, which is a totally different attitude towards the world.
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The emblems embroidered on the four major banners conform to four terrestrial creatures that surrounded the Throne of Heavenly Glory:

1. The human image at the foot of the Throne corresponds to the Reuben banner embroidered with plants that have roots that bear external resemblance with a human being;

2. The exterior of a lion under the Throne replicates Yehuda’s flag with a lion depicted on it;

3. Ephraim’s banner embroidered with a bull corresponds to the heavenly image of the bull;

4. The eagle embroidered on Dan’s flag is similar to the image of the eagle at the Throne.

Spirituality is a world of forces. Therefore, the four emblems on the banners symbolize spiritual qualities: Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, and Yesod.

When these forces interact and affect the ego, each force demonstrates its certain properties. Egoism per se has no shape, nor does it desire anything but receiving. Whereas, when the quality of bestowal and love influences it, the ego manifests its selfish impulses.

Therefore, the image of a lion or the face of an eagle, etc., signify the states that one can achieve if one is ready to become a tool of manifesting the Creator’s properties. This denotes a very high qualitative level because the face of the animal turns into the face of a human—Adam (one who is similar with the Creator).

The face of man, as the face of the sun, emanates energy when it reaches the state of bestowal.
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The Light emanates from the East, for there the sun rises. From there comes the eastern wind, the most harmful of all winds. From the west comes snow, hail, heat, frost, and heavy rains.

The South, a source of blessing of dew and rain. is the source of the blessed dew and rain. From the North is sent “darkness” and malicious forces.

(The Torah, “Bamidbar”)

The location of the banners of the camps of the Jews corresponds to the four sides of the Light.

A unified system called the common soul consists of twelve parts (the twelve tribes) that relate to and are connected with each other in accordance with the four sides of the world that signify the four parts – Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin and Malchut.

And the banners must stand against each other:

Bina – Hochma

Malchut – Zeir Anpin

Each part consists of 3 lines, a total of 12 parts (12 tribes). Their location represents the pairing of the vessel of the common soul.

The Torah specifies which banner they have to be under. The banner symbolizes the private purpose of each camp that has its own characteristics and properties. Therefore, the one common goal is expressed in them in a slightly different focus, from a different angle.

As an example, a human body consists of various organs. Each in their own way senses the body’s movements, supports, etc. In the same way, thanks to the variety of properties and the way they connect among each other, the properties of the general force, the Creator are shown.

The property of bestowal shows up as a result of huge egoistic differences. Bestowal is as absolute like a mother’s love: Do whatever you want; I still love you.
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