Question: You say that our world is an illusion. Which signs along the way indicate that we are advancing toward spirituality and that we are not moving from one illusion to another illusion?

Answer: I am searching for the truth. At the moment I don’t know and I don’t understand the upper worlds. I am simply looking for the force that manages our world. I am looking for the most sublime state I can be in, and this will happen only if I ascend above my egoistic nature.

I yearn for the lever that will raise us above the ego so we can be united, since there is no other way. There are two forces in the world, the force of connection and the dividing force, plus and minus, and we need to acquire both of them and control both of them, and I need to try to do that.

Question: Will I feel the same reality when that happens?

Answer: Of course you will immediately feel where you are. Systems of coordinates will begin to change in you. Everything will change because you will be on the level of the forces that manage our world and not below them like everyone else, and then you will have no more questions.

Question: So does this mean that at the moment I am moving in the dark?

Answer: Of course, but we are in a world in which physical laws operate and you need to obey them whether you like it or not since you are inside them. If you create new forces in you, you will find yourself under the influence of the spiritual forces.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 7/14/19

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Question: Increasing numbers of  people do not want to enter into formal marriages today, and in many places, common law marriage is considered a de facto legal, marital relationship. Interestingly, according to statistics reported in a study I read about, 70% of men living in a common law marriage consider themselves single, and 90% of women in the same situation consider themselves married. How can you explain such an opposite attitude to this situation?

Answer: They want to think that way because we educate both men and women incorrectly. Man does not feel responsible. It is more convenient for him. It is easier to live in a common law marriage because it does not obligate him to anything.

But we also know other statistics: people live together for a long time, get married, and after a while get divorced. Moreover, this happens in the overwhelming majority of cases. If they had not entered into marriage, they would have continued to live together.

The fact is that man was not created as a machine—I live with someone. Does this oblige him or not, does he enclose himself in a framework that puts external pressure on him and commands him? If it overwhelms him, he will try to escape from it.

Man was created to strive for freedom. If against the framework that oppresses and obligates him, he does not have internal compensation, which should be laid in him by education, then he will run away, get divorced, and will not think that it is necessary to be included in this framework. Therefore, the institution of marriage has practically exhausted itself today.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Common Law Marriage” 11/8/09

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Question: If I have developed my soul and I live in two worlds, what happens next? Will I not live and work like everyone else?

Answer: Why not? You remain in the same life, but you suddenly begin to feel that there is a field that fills everything between you and others called the Creator.

Instead of air, everything is the Creator; you are inside Him and He is inside all of you.

You begin to feel that you exist forever, infinitely, in perfection.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 7/7/19

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Question: How can one not work out of fear, but out of a yearning for love, for unification? I understand that both on the path of suffering and on the path of light suffering and pain await me, and my ego doesn’t want that. How will I be able to escape from this steamroller not out of fear regarding myself or regarding my relatives, but for the sake of the common goal?

Answer: First, you have nothing to fear. Nothing bad is waiting for you, you are on the spiritual path. All of your problems will be internal: by working against your egoism, you will not know what to do with it, but the Creator intentionally arranges it this way for you so that you will require Him even more.

Everything that you will feel as problems on the way are only calls from the Creator to get closer to Him, pay attention to Him, that is all. You will not have any other problems.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 7/14/19

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Question: If I myself, with my willpower, overcome some egoistic desire, is this not a screen yet?

Answer: This is not a screen, it is not overcoming egoism, but just calculating when with the help of a big desire you conquer a lesser one.

Question: Kabbalists write that the way out of the egoistic nature is possible only under the influence of the surrounding light (Ohr Makif). When reading Kabbalistic books, a person draws this force and it changes one’s nature.

How can I be sure that this is not my subjective, psychological attitude?

Answer: The fact is that you begin to understand what is written in the books, you reveal their internal content for yourself.

Question: So, there is some indicator that can show me that now I have risen above my egoism?

Answer: No. There are no indicators here, the person himself understands everything. This is explained to him from above.

Question: But is this still subjective?

Answer: Everything is subjective, since a person perceives this in one’s desires, egoistic, anti-egoistic, no matter what. Nevertheless, it is perceived by one.

Question: And there is no objective verification?

Answer: When he begins to compare his feelings with what is said in the books, he realizes that he is in the correct perception of the world.

Question: That is, if a person says that he has a screen (Masach), then no one can check it. Or are there any signs?

Answer: Yes. People who have similar qualities can feel and check it.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 8/20/21

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #2, “Shechina (Divinity) in Exile”

Lesson on the Topic: “Everything Is Obtained by the Power of Prayer”

Writings of Baal HaSulam: “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 46

Lesson on the Topic: “Sukkot“

Selected Highlights

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