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Survival Technique

Posted on May 17th, 2023 at 7:15 am

Question: Is it our task to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah to people as widely as possible?

Answer: The task is not in the wisdom of Kabbalah, but in making a person understand that he is offered a method of existence in our changing world. After all, whatever one was taught and whatever one has is absolutely not enough for our world because it is beginning to be governed differently.

Today a new governance is descending into the world, the analog governance of the Creator. The upper world is approaching our world. Moreover, these two worlds are opposite and they do not coincide with each other, so there is a sense of contradiction between them. We feel this in the form of huge, global, internal crises.

Without understanding the singular analog control system where we have to perceive the world as one single whole, we will not be able to do anything. I will not be able to manage an enterprise, trade, world finance, the country, any part of it, or the common world—nothing!

Another matrix is being dressed on our world, a matrix which binds all people together. And if I don’t treat everyone this way, if I don’t make decisions on this basis, then I won’t succeed. It is like I’m solving this problem according to the wrong equation.

Therefore the world does not need any wisdom. It needs to know that tomorrow it will have nothing to eat and will not be able to escape from climatic, environmental, and other impacts. Tomorrow money will disappear. There will be some kind of problem in the world; revolutions will begin such that people will stop working. Millions of people in cities!

If earlier a person had a piece of field that could feed him, today billions of people live in cities! Looting and murder will begin; people will starve to death. After all, such huge conglomerates need to be supplied with thousands of truckloads of food per day! Imagine that nothing works—no ports, no railways, nothing is delivered, loaded, or accepted. And this can happen in more than one country. What’s next?

We need to explain the problem to the world as well as how to solve it! They themselves don’t have a solution. So what if they change the government? What can one person do?! How will he be able to restore order? How will he be able to overcome, say, a month of downtime in his country?!

Comment: But this has been the case throughout the entire development of mankind!

My Response: No! There was never such scale! There was no question at all that humanity should unite. Today this is a requirement from above.

Start looking at the world normally! It becomes integral, meaning, globally connected. And if we don’t look at it that way, if we don’t have such decision-making technology, then we won’t be able to do anything! Not a single banking transaction. You will, it seems, egoistically correctly calculate with your mind everything that needs to be done, and in the end: “We wanted the best, but it turned out, as always, the opposite.”
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Methods of Survival” 2/6/11

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 5/17/23

Posted on May 17th, 2023 at 7:00 am

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — The Time of The Giving of The Torah

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 52

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Audio Version Of The Blog – 5/16/23

Posted on May 16th, 2023 at 10:55 pm

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What Is the Mind?

Posted on May 16th, 2023 at 7:52 am

Question: What is the difference between intellect and mind?

Answer: Intellect and mind are to some extent synonyms because both mean the ability to think logically.

Of course, there is a very large share of heredity in the genetic spiritual Reshimot and our natural data, but, in general, it can be developed, because mind and intellect develop along with desires.

The mind of a Kabbalist, just like the mind of an ordinary person, is just a servant of his desires. Desire is matter. First a desire appears and everything else is an accomplice to achieving the desired.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What is Mind?” 2/25/11

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The Mysterious Part of Humanity

Posted on May 16th, 2023 at 7:42 am

Question: What is a “woman” in spirituality? What is a woman in your understanding?

Answer: This is the most difficult question because a woman is a mysterious part of the universe, Malchut, meaning desire, which is the only thing that was created by the Creator. In our world, the personification of the Creator is a man, and a woman is a representation of creation, of the created being.

Basically, if we are talking about man and woman, we mean two parts of a person created by the Creator. Both parts complement each other and only together can come to correction.

The female part is more passive and is inclined to fulfillment, reception, to being approached as a companion, because she helps and accompanies correction. Indeed, women resist the process that humanity must go through less.

A man represents the part of creation that needs to be corrected first. He actively corrects himself (if he is engaged in it, of course), and therefore it is more difficult for him. He needs women’s support. He does not agree that he needs correction as a woman does. In this respect, he is disobedient to the Creator, that is, to the force of nature that shows him that it is necessary to move toward the goal.

This confrontation with the Creator is impossible for a man without a woman’s help.

A woman is a great helper in terms of correction. She gives strength and support and provides security. She was created in such a way that without her a man is not able to correct himself. But the main correction is on him.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Woman” 1/23/11

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Living By the Laws of Bestowal

Posted on May 16th, 2023 at 7:31 am

Question: Why are the phenomena that are called “spiritual advancement” composed of opposite things? How can this be logical in the perception of a Kabbalist when it is completely incompatible for an ordinary person?

Answer: It is because an ordinary person has a small animalistic mind. He exists only in it and sees only those events that his animalistic state observes and nothing else. A Kabbalist, however, develops an additional vision, sensation, and additional Kelim, desires internally.

Our animalistic desires give us bodily sensations of our world. But by studying Kabbalah and being integrated with the group, with the friends, we develop external desires in ourselves and begin to feel everything in them outside of ourselves. It turns out that I feel the friends as myself.

Naturally, this happens gradually, from a small percentage to a large one. There are 125 degrees in feeling the friends. But when we exit ourselves in this way, we begin to feel the upper world. There are completely different laws in it, inverse to our world, the laws of bestowal. So, it is said: “I saw the reverse world.”
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What Is Logic?” 2/21/11

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Becoming Incorporated in the Upper Mind

Posted on May 16th, 2023 at 7:28 am

Comment: You said that you do not use your mind, but you connect to a certain spiritual degree and then you can feel it.

My Response: No, it is not that I exist without a mind, but simply in order to attain a higher degree, I annul my mind and connect to the mind of that degree. Of course, I have a mind. It was given to me in order to annul it and acquire a higher mind instead of it.

Moreover, this is not meditation or Yoga exercises; it is a person’s inner work. The next degree is always a greater connection with the souls outside of you, with the desires of the group, with the desires of the environment that also aspires to reveal the upper world, the Creator.

Hence, if I make efforts and try to connect to my students, it doesn’t even matter what world I am in, whether I am alive or have already died, since the body does not have any significance at all; then, by acquiring a greater connection with them, I acquire the ability to ascend to the next degree, to be incorporated in it.

This pressure and effort to attain the higher degree is based on my annulling my mind and wishing to be included in the upper mind. That is exactly how one acquires it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What is Mind?” 2/25/11

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A Happy Ending for All Mankind

Posted on May 16th, 2023 at 7:24 am

Our whole path to the Final Correction (Gmar Tikkun) is called the path of correction. We are getting corrected like you get your car fixed by a mechanic. It will be fixed for you, and then you go somewhere in it. And where we will go next, we do not know.

Attainment of the Creator, becoming equal to Him, is the first stage of our vast, long existence. This attainment is endless! Where to and how onward is unclear. Are there concepts of time and causal movement? After all, this is a completely different mind.

Even in the spiritual world we are talking about, material concepts no longer exist. Still we can talk about it because our and the upper world are connected to each other. And that one is even higher, through the spiritual world. That is why we can’t imagine it.

But don’t worry. Whether we want to or not, we’re going to get there anyway. So, this is the end of all of humanity, but a happy ending.

Question: Then as partners of the Creator will we move together with Him to another degree?

Answer: Yes. We are already together, as equal partners, we will go somewhere further. The Creator wants us to become absolutely equal with Him on the way to that degree. Therefore, He leads us through the path of shattering and correcting; it is the same as when you break something in order to understand how it is made, and then gradually assemble it. And then you already know everything: both its purpose and its work. That is what we are doing now.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What Is It to Be Out of the Body?” 2/21/11

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Frozen Language

Posted on May 16th, 2023 at 7:17 am

Every letter in Hebrew is a symbol of some state that always includes the property of bestowal, the property of receiving, and their combination.

For nearly 6,000 years from the appearance of Hebrew, there have been no changes in it. The writing and grammar have remained absolutely the same. They do not change because the spiritual world from which everything comes does not change.

This is a frozen language because its origin does not lie in our world. Our world is constantly changing, but the spiritual world is not.

However, during the many years since the appearance of Hebrew, people have changed significantly. Had we met a person from the far past, say Moses or Abraham, and they started talking with us, we would have a hard time understanding their oral speech. However, we can easily read written texts.

They are written in the same way as modern ones, with even more precision, since for the last hundred years of its usage on a daily basis spoken Hebrew has been terribly distorted. However, this does not change anything in the Kabbalistic sources.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Voice Telepathy” 1/23/11

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