Today, humanity is immersed in animal egoism that constantly pushes it only to enjoy, satiate, fill itself with everything possible: food, sex, family, money, honor, power, fame, and knowledge. Everyone wants it all immediately and to have more of it than others.
However, it is the opposite when it comes to getting closer to the Creator because there has to be a recognition of evil: I must see my egoism as evil and renounce it.

There are two components to this process. On one hand I can experience huge blows that will lead me to the decision to abandon egoism as evil, if I see the connection between ego and blows. On the other hand I can develop my mind so that even if I feel a small blow, I would say: “That’s enough for me, I don’t need any more.” But both have to develop in me.

As soon as the awareness of evil develops in me according to my state, I will be able to do everything to get rid of it.

To do this, I need to join a group of like-minded people and try to unite with my friends according to the Kabbalistic method when, through our unity, we evoke the surrounding light, a special force, that makes us give to each other and raises us above everyone’s individual egoism.

Then the quality of bestowal that arises between us we feel as being at the highest level, above our ego, above this world. This state is called the upper world, the spiritual world, and the quality itself is the Creator, which we perceive as fulfilling us, as a connection between us.

As soon as we achieve this, new egoism immediately arises in us and we must again, according to the same system, turn it into the quality of bestowal, love, and revelation of the Creator.

And then an even greater egoism appears. And so on, over and over until we climb all 125 degrees of the spiritual ladder of the ascent to the Olympus of altruism, love, and bestowal; each time we bury the ego below us and rise above it like a mountain. This is how Kabbalah works.

At the moment, humanity does not think about it, forgets it, and is even unwilling to focus on it. But gradually people will feel it on a subconscious level and I hope that eventually they will come to understand everything correctly.

The path to this realization can be either the path of light or the path of suffering. On the path of suffering, I will constantly receive blows, which will eventually be connected to the fact that I am deeply egoistic and I will arrive at the decision that I probably need to use my ego less and will stop being an egoist in order to receive fewer blows.

Unfortunately, until humanity realizes this, it may plunge into great troubles more than once, including, as Baal HaSulam writes, into atomic wars. But the conscious application of the method of Kabbalah will help avoid this.
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From KabTV’s “Methodology of Kabbalah”

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The Book of Zohar is a very special book that summarizes the entire wisdom of Kabbalah. It was written 2,000 years ago in very difficult conditions when 10 Kabbalistic sages secluded themselves in a cave and worked with each other exchanging materials, impressions, and discoveries, wrote this book, and then hid it.

The Book of Zohar was discovered only after 10 or 11 centuries. However it is really becoming revealed in our time, 11 centuries later.

With the help of this Book, humanity will be able to exit its closed, miserable, limited state we are in now and achieve attainment of the upper world, the world of forces and systems that control our world. We will be able to rise above ourselves from the state of being controlled to becoming controllers, i.e., to the state of understanding what our existence is, its program, and its purpose.

The Book of Zohar speaks not only about the purpose and meaning of our life on Earth but of everything that exists; not only about our solar system and even the galaxy, but about the general structure of the entire universe, about what is above our universe that originated only 14 billion years ago.

The Book of Zohar allows a person to develop such sensory organs that help him see above matter, energy, and information, above everything that we can imagine today.

This is not mysticism and not a science of our time. This is special wisdom where a person with the help of The Book of Zohar acquires completely new qualities and begins to explore the world around him with its help. It helps him, guides him, and explains. And finally, he begins to understand its true meaning. This is what The Book of Zohar is.

It should lead us to a full understanding of everything that exists and help us reach the level of eternity, infinity, and perfection.
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From KabTV’s “Conversation about The Book of Zohar”

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Question: What is your favorite movie? Sometimes in class, you use Harry Potter as an example, in particular, the scene where he is walking through the wall at the train station. Why are you so impressed by this?

Answer: I give this scene as an example: if a person really goes forward, as through a wall, then he will pass all obstacles.

In general, I have no favorite movies. There are scenes that I have seen, and therefore, I can cite them as examples.

Question: What role would you like to play? Maybe, some character from the Tanakh?

Answer: There are no such roles. I just need to be corrected.

Question: If you had all the resources in the world, what movie would you make and what about?

Answer: I would make a movie, and more than one, about the role of man, about the possibility of achieving the revelation of the Creator, how to create such conditions for people to develop spiritually, how to raise children correctly, how to maintain a family in the right way, and so on. Practically, these are educational movies. They are educational both in our world and in the spiritual one.

Question: Do you think that it is exactly through such a transfer of information that one can explain to a person about spirituality?

Answer: Yes. Of course, spirituality cannot be revealed. But you can set up a person so that he wants to reveal it. The movie industry is capable of this.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 9/10/21

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #42 “What Is the Acronym ‘Elul’ in the Work?” 

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 82

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Man is born as a small creature whose senses gradually develop together with his mental activity. He feels the world around him, explores it, and explores himself through this world: how he reacts to the environment, how it depends on him, and how he depends on it.

This is the subject of psychology, that is, the study of man’s reaction to the revelation of reality in those properties, qualities, feelings, and mind in which he can develop within the framework of our world.

In other words, psychology can be defined as the totality of man’s knowledge about the world in which he was born and developed. Accordingly, “existence determines consciousness.” The difference between Kabbalah and psychology is that Kabbalah harmonizes a person with sensations above our world. Our world exists in the egoistic property of reception—this is how we know it and feel it. If we do not exit this property, as it usually happens with people, then we see it through egoistic properties and evaluate the surrounding reality accordingly.

If we study super-psychology or—without taking into account psychology at all—are engaged in Kabbalah, then we enter a completely different realm of understanding the world. Kabbalah calibrates a person so that he evolves into attaining properties opposite to the material world. If we perceive our world in the egoistic property of reception with which we were born and developed, then it is psychology. And if we rise from egoism to bestowal, love, and exit our “I,” exit what we call a man in our world, then it is Kabbalah.

And then, in this new property, we reveal completely different relationships between us and the forces of nature. We begin to understand what a soul is—the relationship of a man and the higher force that develops him.

Therefore, we can say this: the egoistic property of our world in which we were born and developed brings us understanding of this world and ourselves. We call this psychology. And attaining the property higher than our world—the property of bestowal, the property directed from me toward the surrounding world that brings one to the spiritual level—is called the science of Kabbalah.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/15/21

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Question: How can you reveal the true relationship in the ten? How can you start rubbing hearts and see the mutual guarantee?

Answer: Don’t think about anything bad and don’t talk about it. It is necessary to develop only good states among yourselves and to support each other as much as possible when each of the ten forgets about himself and thinks only about others.

To the extent that you push them toward the goal, you yourself are moving toward it, this is the only way you can advance, and not otherwise. I say this as a teacher because my personal advancement in Kabbalah depends on how successfully I push you forward.
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From KabTV’s “Videoconference”

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Comment: It is known that shame is inherent only to man. When we say “burn with shame, be ashamed of your deed, ashamed of your thoughts,” we refer to man. But I look at the world today and think: “Where is the shame? Where is the shame of being rich in this world where the whole world is starving?”

My Response: People remove everything from the world that is unpleasant to them, maximally. And so they bring themselves to a state where they have nothing to be ashamed of.

Question: That is, we are constantly afraid that we will be burnt by shame and we seemingly erase it?

Answer: Of course. Instead of correcting yourself so that you are not ashamed, correcting the world so that you do not see such manifestations you are ashamed of, it is better to erase them.

Question: You said: “There are two ways out. The first way is to erase the shame and the second way is to work with it, to correct the world.” Almost no one goes for the second one. Everyone goes for erasing the shame. Correct?

Answer: Of course. It is easier. In erasing the shame, you are not erasing it alone. You are gradually changing the laws, the restrictions of society, and therefore, society becomes such that it is no longer ashamed of what it used to be ashamed of, and people feel better. You kind of introduce such laws so as not to be ashamed.

Question: So what have we turned the world into?

Answer: We have built it on the clear basis of egoistic desire without any moral foundations. This can be seen especially in our politicians—in all of them. They have no ideals but only one thing: “I am a fakir for an hour.”

Comment: But such a world should in theory explode.

My Response: Yes, but it will explode not because we become different, but because we are in nature, which ultimately accumulates all negative phenomena in it and then raises humanity to a new level.

Question: And the negative phenomena in it are from us, from what we are?

Answer: Only from people, not from animals.

Question: So we actually transmit all the hatred there?

Answer: We are at the lowest point in the development of all nature.

Question: If our shamelessness constantly enters nature, then forces accumulate there to subdue us?

Answer: The worse the better. It is nearer to the end of egoistic rule.

Question: So you expect much bigger problems to follow after these viruses?

Answer: It was always like that. At all stages of human development, this was how it moved forward. It strives toward some new goal, egoism manifests in it, humanity still survives until it is thrown out from within to the next stage.

Question: Then where will nature lead us with its strong blow and pressure?

Answer: To the fact that we can no longer exist according to egoistic laws. We will have to change our behavior, our laws, our inner foundations. This is a very difficult job, but humanity will come to a state when these lies all around us— these fanatic rules—present, human rules—they will manifest in an explosive way.

Question: And the injection of shame will be introduced in man by nature?

Answer: Not only shame. There will even be no shame. It will be the revelation of the true state that we must achieve. And it will stand before us as a model from which we cannot escape. And we will definitely come to the conclusion that love and hunger will rule the world and not some false slogans invented by modern savages.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/2/21

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So that you do not come among these nations, that remain with you; nor shall you make mention of the name of their deities, nor exact oaths [by their name] and you shall not serve them, nor bow to them.

But cling to the Lord your God, as you have done to this day. (Prophets, Joshua, 23:7-23:8)

All the desires and intentions that exist in a person need to be analyzed, identified, and corrected because man was originally created opposite to the Creator.

It is written, “So that you do not come among these nations.” This means that there still remain uncorrected desires between the Israelis.

Question: Will other nations still remain within the last generation, which is already being formed?

Answer: Yes. The fact is that we are corrected gradually. What was not done in previous generations, we are correcting today.

Even what was not corrected during the writing of The Book of Zohar and during the times of other generations of sages and great Kabbalists, we must correct in the final form by rising above ourselves and acquiring the quality of bestowal and love.

This is a very difficult job that has fallen to our lot. It will continue until we complete the final correction of the remaining desires. And they are very serious ones and are called the days and wars of the Messiah.

Comment: It would seem that it is difficult in the beginning, and then it should become easier.

My Response: No, it is not so. However, we acquire qualities, powers, knowledge, and the Torah, that is, a system that has already been mastered before us. Today a new generation is already beginning to embrace it.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/30/21

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