Answer:Selfishness is self-love. It’s not such love as when I think about simply being, but when I love myself beyond what is necessary for existence.
Question: But if the Creator sends me all thoughts, then what is my egoism?
Answer: Naturally the Creator sends you selfish thoughts. He does not hide it. He says: “I created selfishness.” And then He adds: “And I gave a technique for correcting it.”
Question: Where does the root of the need for comfort come from?
Answer: From the same egoism. Selfishness does not want any difficulties. They are a waste of calories, mental and physical strength; it does not appeal to any living organism since any living creature seeks a state of rest. And mechanical objects gravitate to this.
Question: What will happen to places like Las Vegas that are built only to receive worldly pleasures?
Answer: In principle, there is nothing wrong with that. If I do not harm others, and at the same time do not cause them hatred, then all these toys can be completely harmless.
As children constantly play games, so adults play the same games. Only adults are interested in playing with each other for money, so that there is some excitement. [267428] From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 5/10/20
Question: I have five brothers and five sisters. Now all the boys in my family are falling ill and one of them is in critical condition. I pray all the time of course, and I know this force. Will my prayers help or do my brothers need to do it on their own?
Answer: Both are necessary, both your prayers and their prayers.
Question: You say that I need to feel the world both inside me and on the outside, and that basically everything is inside me. What is the difference between inside of me and outside of me?
Answer: Of course we feel everything inside us, but this feeling is divided into an internal feeling and an external feeling. This is the reason that we feel we exist in space, in volume, we and this volume.
Question: Is atheism spiritual attainment or a distortion?
Answer: It has nothing to do with the wisdom of Kabbalah. The wisdom of Kabbalah has nothing to do with religion in any way.
Question: Are we required to perform certain actions once the desire to determine that everything stems from the Creator appears in us?
Answer: Yes, you need to perform certain actions. If we really try to determine that everything stems from the Creator, we need to gradually connect to the friends in the group and the whole world.
Question: Do I need to actively participate in the management of creation or is it enough for me to accept it and to be an observer and grateful for the Creator’s work?
Answer:You don’t have to be active and perform certain actions, but try to reveal that everything stems from the Creator in all your actions, thoughts, and feelings, and that He aims you to the connection with Him.
Question: How does the awareness that only the Creator rules help me attain the attribute of bestowal?
Answer: When you draw the Creator’s force unto you He bestows unto you and gives you that attribute of bestowal.
Question: When I look at other people and the importance and the yearning that they feel, do I need to want the same thing they consider to be important?
Answer: If you want to exit your state quickly, you need to prefer everything that is done by your friends and see it as the most important thing.
Question: What do we need to do in the women’s group so that everyone will discover that everything stems from the Creator and will forget about ourselves?
Answer: Read more articles in Shamati, be with us in the lessons, and care not only about the women, but also about the men in your group.
Question:What is the connection between a person, the Creator, and Satan?
Answer: Satan is the force that is in every person that does not want to reveal the Creator. There are no external images of Satan. [257424] From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 11/24/19
Question:The twelve tribes of the people of Israel were forbidden to mix between each other. On one hand, they were supposed to be united, and on the other, they had to fulfill the ban on marriages between members of different tribes and other prohibitions that are logically against basic unity.
You explained that each tribe, just like a certain organ in the body of an organism, could not mix with the others, but they all worked in unison.
Are the internal laws of the Torah the same as the laws of nature only at the level of society?
Answer: Of course. In general, in all of nature, at all its levels, there are different forces, and they do not become one, but in their connection, they appear as a single whole.
The operation of the entire world system called Adam (Man) was established in order to bring the system to a state similar to the Creator. Then there will be absolutely no difference between the internal connection of forces.
Moreover, within the system, its individual properties, individual forces will be completely different from each other, and their interconnection will be one and only.
It turns out that everything depends on the intention: What is the purpose we are doing this? But the properties themselves do not change; they are always opposite to each other. [267469] From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel” 7/29/19
Why do we send our kids to school? So they would become cultured? So they would have successful careers, make lots of money and earn people’s respect? In the end, we send them to school because we want them to be happy. It’s not as if we believe that school can really make people happy, but we think that without it, they will encounter even more hardships than life hands each of us anyhow.
What is the result? Very few are happy, the majority are struggling, and many don’t even finish. And worst of all, other than some learning habits and techniques, school gives no tools for life, no skills of human relations, no experience in cooperation, no understanding of human nature, and no idea about the world we live in or where it’s going. With a few exceptions, schools get an F in education.
Why does this happen? Because in order to succeed, we need to redefine education. We need to think of education as a process of adaptation to the laws of nature. Education should both teach the laws of nature and assist us in adapting to them.
When we are born, we are nothing more than little animals. In fact, we are more helpless than any animal. We have no instincts to guide us, we cannot find our mother’s nipples, and we cannot even urinate without making a mess. No animal is more helpless than man. But this helplessness is exactly where we can gain the most. By learning every aspect of our existence, from the most basic to the most exalted, we become conscious on a far deeper level than any animal. If we realize our potential, then the human being, which begins as the most inferior of creatures, ends as the most sublime. But only if we realize our potential. This is the purpose of education.
Education should teach us that nature is whole, complete, integral. It is an indivisible entity that appears to us as separate pieces only because we perceive ourselves as separate, and therefore perceive everything else as separate entities, as well. Education should help us see the world for the integral whole that it is, and feel ourselves as included in it. It is not intellectual knowledge that we need, it is a very palpable experience.
Because it is so vital for our lives, education is not for kids and adolescents; it’s for everyone. In fact, it is more for grownups than it is for children, since educated grownups can educate their children, while uneducated grownups might spoil the children’s education even if it is good.
Correct education is done in groups that work on their unity until they become one whole. This develops in them the integral perception and allows them to perceive reality as integral, as well.
Without understanding and experiencing this wholeness, we will not know how to deal with the global crises we are experiencing at an increasing frequency and severity. Without grasping that we are whole and therefore mutually responsible for one another, we will not survive the integral reality that is encroaching on us.
Today, an educated person is not one who is well mannered; it is one who is internally connected to humanity, to earth, to everything. This is the only education that will carry us through the crises, and the only education that will make us happy.
Be it a plague or a war, a flood or an earthquake, a revolution or a financial meltdown, in the end, there is always one culprit: the Jews. In America, too, many already blame COVID-19 on the Jews, as is the case with the riots engulfing the tormented country.
In the 1950s and ’60s, the Jews stood shoulder to shoulder with the blacks in their fight for equal rights. No one remembers and no one gives them credit. Now, too, they stand shoulder to shoulder with the protesters. No one will remember and no one will give them credit.
The Jews donate to various charities and NGOs more money than any ethnic or racial group. But what do people say? “First they stole it, now they’re giving us the crumbs to buy our gratitude.” Of course, not everyone says it, but a great many do, and an even greater many tacitly agrees with them. It’s always been like that and it’ll always be like that until we learn what fundamental flaw we Jews have in our approach.
Jews are the only nation that has ever been tasked with bringing peace and love to the entire world. We gave the world the most altruistic motto ever conceived, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” yet we display the complete opposite of it: internal enmity and odium. We may sympathize with stranger’s pains, but we loathe our own co-religionists. And even though they don’t verbalize it, deep down, this is what Jew haters hate about Jews: that Jews hate each other.
When we became a nation, we were given a task: Unite “as one man with one heart,” and thereby become “a light unto nations.” For centuries, we have been trying everything to avoid our vocation. We talk about morals, ethics, justice, but we refuse to talk about love.
Morals are a miserable surrogate for love. Just as a mother doesn’t need morals to tend to her child because her love guides her, if we cultivate love among us we won’t need morals, and we will treat each other beautifully.
Then, and only then will non-Jews say, “Now we respect them.” [267708]
Gematria is a person’s or soul’s particular internal state, which consists of a spiritual desire (called a “Kli” [“vessel”]) and spiritual light (called “Ohr”) that fills the desire.
It is a way of recording a definitive state of the soul. The totality of all feelings, perceptions, states, memories and intentions that the soul undergoes can be expressed by means of letters or letter sequences known as “Gematria.”
Since ancient times, Kabbalists, i.e., people who attain a soul and increase their closeness with life’s causal force of love and bestowal, known in Kabbalah as “the Creator,” have recorded information about the spiritual states they experience, and all such records are known as Gematria.
In other words, when we attain the soul, we perceive through a new sense called a “screen” (“Masach”), an intention that equalizes between the Creator’s light (“Ohr”) and the desire (“Kli”) of the created being. Gematria thus becomes an expression in our world of what we perceive with the screen.
What, then, is the significance of Gematria, i.e., recording spiritual states in our world?
The significance is that by reading the letter sequences and words, we do not simply read stories, fables, parables or any other corporeal information, but we shift from one spiritual desire to the next, discovering our soul, i.e., our increasing closeness with the Creator, through the changing letters and their sequences.
Every letter in Gematria is a spiritual symbol, and every word is a matrix. It is like a encrypted secret code where every word, letter, sequence of letters and words, and every word’s root, stems from the relationship between the light, the Creator’s quality, and the vessel, the soul.
The more we approach Gematria with the intent of attaining our soul, the more we will sense the harmony registered in the connection of the forces of nature that are expressed through its letters.
Kabbalists created the Hebrew language to express their spiritual attainments, and in addition to the 22 Hebrew letters, there are expressive points, called “TANTA” (“Taamim, Nekudot, Tagin, Otiot”), which express the letters’ connections and developments.
The 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet break down into:
9 letters from Bina;
9 letters from Zeir Anpin;
4 letters from Malchut, and
5 more letters at the ends of words.
The 5 letters at the ends of words symbolize the positioning on the Parsa. The exit of the light builds the expressive points (TANTA) that disappear. Vowels are nearly never used. They are just hinted at.
Ultimately, the significance of Gematria, the words, letters and their sequences, is that it contains the revelation of the Creator to the created beings, and by reading it, we can attract such an influence upon ourselves, drawing us closer to the discovery of our soul’s connection with its Creator.
Question: I am a first year student in Kabbalah classes online. How soon can I feel the Creator in a group?
Answer: It does not depend on which course you are studying, but on how much you want to master this method. Try to get as close as possible to some group and together with your friends make such contact where you stop feeling the egoism separating you from them.
Or vice versa, you will feel it more and more, but at the same time overcome it. Thus, you will begin to move toward the revelation of the Creator. [267301] From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 5/10/20
Question: Does a Kabbalist believe that there is an attribute of freedom in each person? Or is it not an innate attribute in every individual?
Answer: It is an innate attribute in every individual, but it is very limited and is not necessarily expressed in this life.
Question: I want to complete my whole correction and reveal the Creator in this life. Where is my freewill? What exactly depends on me?
Answer: Get rid of everything that is unnecessary, choose what is most important and necessary for the revelation of the Creator, and that’s all. This is how you will solve your problem. This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah does.
Question: Do I need to give up my needs in order to attain freedom?
Answer: We cannot give up any of our needs. We can simply reassess our values internally so that we can engage only in what is necessary for the attainment of the most important goal in life.
Question: In what way is the implementation of my freewill expressed every second?
Answer: You should gradually reach the point where you determine what your most important goal is and move toward it correctly.
Answer:Every Kabbalist is a free person because he ascends above his egoism.
Question: Can we say that freewill comes down to the creation of the correct external and internal boundaries of one’s conduct and living up to them, and the more you adhere to them the freer you are?
Answer: Freewill is expressed by one’s total devotion to the right environment.
Question: When does a person stop living from one day to the next and thinking only about himself?
Answer:Whenever he wants to. There is no other answer.
Question: Are there limits to freedom?
Answer: There are no limits to freedom. It is all in the desire to bestow, and so it is infinite.
Question: What can you do if you feel great doubts before making a choice, how do you choose?
Answer: Always choose connection and kindness with your group and not any other way. [257337] From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 11/17/19
Question: What does egoism mean?
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