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Question: You have mentioned repeatedly that the period of correction has now begun, prior to it was a period of preparation. What does the period of correction mean, and why was the previous time not considered correction?
Answer: It is because it was necessary to prepare egoism so that it would fully realize its own worthlessness, transience, hopelessness, emptiness, and its inability to be fulfilled or to lead a person to anything good or positive.
Ultimately egoism had to be prepared to understand that it exists solely for its own transformation, not to be destroyed by any means, but to be transformed into bestowal and love.
And so until this egoistic quality completely discredits itself in all necessary aspects, it is impossible to begin correcting it.
In our time, we have reached a state where we see clearly that the time has come, there is no way out. Either we face serious problems of ecological, military, and other forms of self-destruction, or we still have a chance to survive.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Opportunity to Survive” 8/19/10
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Question: After the generation that came out of Egypt died out and was replaced by the next one, Moses tells the new generation: “Remember Egypt.” But how can they remember it if they were never there?
Answer: There is no such thing as “they were never there.” After all, this is not about physical bodies but about spiritual states.
The Torah speaks of people who have gone through all the stages from Abraham, and in some sense even from Adam, to Egypt, and exited it with a great desire, with immense emptiness, with the “darkness of Egypt,” and now they feel that darkness as a desert.
The fact that they no longer care already indicates a correction: nothing grows here, fine; nothing gives fruit, fine. They are ready for anything, so long as they can rise above the Egyptian darkness, which evoked a negative attitude in them toward themselves and toward the Creator. Now they want to bring themselves to a state that even slightly resembles Him.
Therefore the state of the desert becomes desirable for them. Even if I have nothing, and I find myself in a state of complete emptiness, I am still glad of it compared to the state I was in before, where I enjoyed all sorts of egoistic acquisitions and felt at ease under Pharaoh’s rule.
Now it is the Creator who governs me. Although I do not see any fulfillment of my egoism in His governance, I perceive it as goodness. Even though I walk on hot sand without water, surrounded by snakes and scorpions, I rejoice in this desert because in it, the Creator rules over me. He goes before me and shows me the way, whether through a pillar of fire or a cloud.
Through the rejection of egoistic fulfillments, I feel that by rising above my ego, I am already following Him even into the desert.
This is the generation that must be born in the desert and enter the Land of Israel. That is, I have gone through all the inner stages from the Babylonian egoism that developed in the generations of the forefathers, then through the generation of Egypt, and later Mount Sinai and the desert. Now I approach the state called the “Land of Israel.” In doing so, I have built all these states within my egoistic desire.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/16/16
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Question: When Kabbalists communicate with each other, do they speak in an ordinary language or in some kind of incomprehensible language?
Answer: They may not say anything at all and connect via a shared screen. Why do they need this body if they can communicate with their souls, with a common screen between them?
Of course they can also talk to each other. In addition, they can communicate, and each limit oneself to a certain range and not open up to the other.
There is such an option and sometimes a need not to harm each other or to reveal themselves—all things happen despite everyone’s good intentions.
That is, there are a huge number of opportunities for Kabbalists to communicate: through books, through songs, through music. And they, as they internally construct these sensations and pictures, as they live in the material world and at the same time in the next dimension, they are in it in their senses, and thus they communicate, but only according to the law of similarity of form. This is the general, most global, most fundamental law of nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalists Say” 8/21/10
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Question: What is the desert that exists within a person?
Answer: The desert within a person is their egoistic desire that cannot be corrected immediately. One must come to this desert and try to dwell in it in order to eventually come out into a “land flowing with milk and honey.”
That is why our forefathers began with the desert. Abraham went into the desert, descended into Egypt, returned to Beer Sheva, and so on. Isaac and Jacob were connected with the desert their entire lives. Moses fled from Pharaoh’s house and met Jethro in the desert, and he traversed the desert.
Naturally, this refers more to spiritual actions than to corporeal ones. However, they also occurred in corporeality in accordance with the law that every spiritual force must at some point touch its corporeal branch and imprint the same sequence in the physical world.
Therefore we must come to understand what the desert is and how it can be transformed into a blooming, fruitful land, as it is written in the Torah. This does not depend on physically relocating, as in our world. In spirituality, a change of place means a change in one’s internal qualities.
“Place” in the spiritual sense is a person’s inner desire. If my inner desire is like a desert, then I dwell within it. And if my desire is like a seashore or a garden, then I live in a garden. Everything depends on how a person corrects their inner qualities. Based on this, one should understand what is described in the Torah.
The Torah describes the process that takes place within a person who transitions from the internal state of a desert full of scorpions and snakes to a flourishing land. After forty years of correction while wandering in the desert, we arrive at the land flowing with milk and honey.
Question: So does that mean the desert is bad?
Answer: The desert is not bad; it is the initial state from which we begin our development both internally and externally.
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From KabTV’s “New Life – 924,” 11/28/2017
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