Question: According to the fable of the rich man and his son, what does a young man, who is in the cellar for twenty years, feel?

Answer: He wants to come out of there, but he cannot. The whole world pressures him on all sides and nothing good illuminates for him to such an extent that he wishes he was not born. This is called a dark cellar.

Everything that he could desire is right next to him, everything one can possibly imagine: gems, precious stones, and gold, but he does not see it because he does not have the correct sight.

Sight means the reflecting light, the attribute of bestowal. The moment you acquire it, you immediately begin to see that you are in a different world.

You must be in the cellar for 20 years because there are 10 Sefirot of the direct light from the top down and ten Sefirot of the reflected light from the bottom up.

Question: At what point do we begin to count the 20 years?

Answer: We actually begin to count from the start, but these are not 20 years according to our time. Do not worry. The main thing on our part is to attain the resemblance of the Creator during this lifetime.

So, everything is still ahead. If an elderly person begins to engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah, he will still have enough time to reach the end of correction and to come out of the cellar.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 3/31/19

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Question: Did the translation of the Torah into Greek by seventy sages bring something to the world? After all, many were against it.

Answer: It was impossible to avoid because many Jews, first of all, stopped speaking Hebrew. Secondly, the gradual decline in the level of the people also played its role.

Of course, there was nothing positive in it. But in order to expand the boundaries of the real religion, that is, the true connection with the Creator, it was necessary to deepen and expand it into all the peoples of the world, and not remain the same as today’s Jewish religion, which is a very narrow, closed ideology that does not allow itself to be approached. It cannot exist that way for long. If it was not for the accelerated process of correcting the human soul, we would have seen all of Judaism disappear within literally one to two centuries. After all, all western Jews are practically absorbed into the nations where they live. Among American, French, and Russian Jews, there is a huge number of mixed marriages.

So, it is hardly necessary to work for the purity of blood here. That is why the Creator involuntarily forces us to accept as a Jew a person with a corrected spirit who aspires to the spiritual attainment of the world and not someone who performs some earthly actions and believes that this is the whole of Judaism.

A Jew is a state of the soul. If a person’s desires are directed toward bestowal and love for others and through them toward the Creator, toward the revelation of the Creator, and this is the most important goal for him, such a person is called Yehudi from the word “Yehud”—unity, rapprochement with the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 1/21/21

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The upper force manages all of nature, it is nature itself because the Creator is nature. Mind and intelligence are His highest component and He manages everything from this level.

When I say that I want to discover and to know the meaning of life, the meaning of my existence, the upper force that created me and manages everything, it means that I want to attain the Creator’s mind, His thoughts, capabilities, intentions, and plans. This is what I need in life.

So attaining the upper mind is most essential for me because otherwise I am under His absolute control. I can close my eyes, advance calmly, and let Him continue to manage me this way, but then I will not be able to participate in managing my life in any way and will not be able to change it.

The goal and plan of attaining the upper mind enable me to raise myself to this level, to enter my personal providence, and to intervene in what He does with me. Could it be that this is actually what He wants? I will be able to be His partner and to manage myself the way He manages me. I will finally be able to understand what He wants of me, why He calls me, why He pulls me and pushes me. I will finally be able to understand His attitude toward me.

Everything we experience internally and externally is invoked by Him, and I want to know for what purpose and how I should act. I may be able to perceive myself, the world, life, and other goals, everything, in a totally different way. I may be able to ascend to the infinite level of eternity and other special opportunities by attaining the mind of the upper. That is, attaining the thought of creation should solve all my problems.

This is the reason that we should yearn for it. Let’s try and reveal what we can acquire and the extent to which we can change ourselves and our fate.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 4/21/19

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During the reign of King Nimrod (from the word “Mered,” rebellion) in ancient Babylon several vectors of human development were simultaneously manifested there.

On one hand, Nimrod is like a tough, treacherous, oppressive ruler. On the other hand, people became more aggressive, demanding, and selfish toward each other.

In addition, Abraham’s father Terah began the so-called separation of the gods. He sculpted all kinds of figurines and told the Babylonians that each of them represented some kind of deity to whom one should pray, anoint, and light candles.

From a spiritual point of view, these are some unknown forces in a person that he wants to somehow please, understand, and cope with. This is the worship of deities.

It is said that Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the Lord. This means that he wanted to pull people out of their primitive animal state and raise them higher, incite their egoism, competition, and thirst for all kinds of gains.

Question: Against whom did Nimrod rebel?

Answer: In principle, there was no one he could rebel against, except against nature itself, which lulled people. He did not want that. He wanted his subjects to be selfish, competitive, move forward, and move his kingdom forward.

Comment: In general, this is a positive property. After all, we want our children to compete and develop in this way.

My Response: Competitions can also have a different character. A person can compete for not being selfish and not to conquer everyone and everything.

“Nimrod” in a person is a negative property that to this day develops in mankind at an indomitable speed.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 6/11/21

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Question: Throughout all times, different nations of the world mention prophets and prophecies. What is a prophecy?

Answer: Prophecy is a person’s perception of the program of creation and its source, i.e., the upper force and its revelation in a certain format, in quantity and quality, before the rest of the people

The real prophets are Kabbalists who attained the Creator through the equivalence of their properties with the properties of the Creator and who tell us about His properties, His program, and what we should be according to it.

Question: Is there a connection between prophecies and predictions? Is it the same thing?

Answer: A prophecy is a vision of a more distant future, it is vague in time. And the prediction is something more specific, for the near future.

In every generation there are people who can prophesy and predict. But whether they are ready, whether they allow themselves to do it, is another question.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 6/13/21

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Prophets, The Book of Joshua, Chapter 3:7: And the Lord said to Joshua: This day I will begin to make you great in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so will I be with you.

This proof is necessary both for the Israelites as well as for the rest of humanity, that is, for those who walk the path of Joshua and those who are outside this camp who don’t accept the properties of bestowal and love as the most important thing, as connection between people above all egoistic motives. Those who do not perceive this should bow down, understand, accept, and begin to implement it.

This must penetrate a person from above. In no way can it simply be accepted: “I want this, so I start and do it!” This is an internal restructuring of the entire human system, which can take many, many years.

Question: Does the Creator want to show that He will stand by Joshua Ben Nun as He did with Moss so that the miracle will happen and everyone will see?

Answer: It should be such that, on one hand, everyone will understand that it is a miracle, that the Creator does it. And on the other hand, so that people can see it, realize it, accept it, and implement it because they are ready for it.

This happens at the boundary between the probable and the improbable.

Question: But when we ask for the manifestation of the Creator, the manifestation of a miracle, can we see that the Creator is with us?

Answer: Please. But for this, you must be ready to see it all. In other words, we must reach such a state that this can be revealed.

Question: Will others see that the Creator is with us?

Answer: If they have the appropriate qualities, they will see it, and if they don’t, they will not. It all happens according to the law of equivalence of form.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/11/21

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Question: Does a prophecy work by itself or do we need people who support and explain it? Is it possible to turn to prophecy and find out what will happen? How does this system work?

Answer: I cannot say how this system works. However, the fact is that the general principles of the spiritual world, its laws, are explained in Kabbalistic books. I have, at least, described them all, and for many years I have been teaching classes on these topics every day. So, I have nothing much to add here.

Regarding the future, in principle, it is already possible to talk about it in our times because we are at the end of days, the end of times. I think there is nothing special to add here either.

It is only a question of how to rise to the last degree: either by good forces, which we must develop and invoke ourselves and summon from nature, or by evil forces. If we do not invoke good forces, then evil, egoistic forces will push us to this “by a stick to happiness,” as they say.

Question: Does it mean that humanity is facing the last degree?

Answer: In general, yes. It consists of several stages: preparation, action, then reception, awareness, and feeling. Now we are in the preparation period.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 6/13/21

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Question: Is it possible today to introduce a connection similar to a spiritual one in modern cities in order to bring people to good relationships?

Answer: I do not know how we can do that. After all, it is necessary to educate people; it is necessary to show them what they have in modern cities. Everyone enters their own cell, closes the door behind them with a couple of locks, checks whether they are closed, whether their neighbors will disturb them. Unfortunately, this is the only way we can feel somehow safe.

A person, first of all, subconsciously thinks about this. We pay attention to our clothes, our houses and apartments, how we behave, and our personal vehicles, etc. All this comes from our inner need to protect ourselves. Maybe a person does not feel it so much, but it is so! This is the root of the problems of thievery, violence, and anything at all.

However, if we provide a person with security regardless of any external conditions, and he will not have a tendency to isolate himself from others, on the contrary, he will feel that he is always ready for communication, for even greater rapprochement, then we will have a completely different construction, architecture, the science of space distribution. Then everything will be different.

Instead, today we have a tendency to make a minimal environment safe for myself wherever I am: in a taxi, in the subway, it does not matter where, but I still feel that I am among others. This is my place, this is my security, this is my life, my cell.

Therefore, we need to educate people toward more friendly connections, and then, based on this, to the extent that they feel safe, they will expand their boundaries and change the appearance of cities, apartments, and everything else.
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From KabTV’s “Conversations” 6/9/21

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