Question: If I understand correctly, is Kabbalah about creating difficulties in order to later feel the spiritual?

Answer: No, Kabbalah is not about creating difficulties; it is about revealing the Creator, the quality of bestowal and love, in each individual and in everyone together through the correction of egoism.

Question: But isn’t correction about breaking the ego?

Answer: No! You can try breaking it if you’re stubborn. But if you’re not, you’ll gladly exchange it instead. Let’s say you go to a store, return ten empty bottles, and get a bottle of beer in return. Is that a bad thing?! You benefit from it. Instead of empty desires you can’t fill, you get one full “beer.” Sure, you give up ten, but in return, you receive one full one. Who would refuse that?

Comment: There’s also a beneficial egoistic calculation here—what feels good to me.

My Response: Of course! There’s nothing without calculation. Kabbalah comes from the word “to receive.” You just need to understand that you actually receive much more when you give up your empty, egoistic desires. So ultimately, it can be said that “love your neighbor” is a means of self-fulfillment.

Question: Let’s say I return ten bottles and receive one full one. Is the process of correction like making that full bottle?

Answer: No, that’s not your job. That’s not you. You just need to exchange one for the other. All the “bottles,” the “recycling station,” all of it already exists. You just have to want to make the trade of your empty desires for one full one.

Question: So basically I’m not really doing anything? I just add a tiny grain to the process and the rest is the system?

Answer: You only contribute your desire to exchange, nothing more. Both the empty and the full “bottles” already exist. You just need to want to exchange them.

Question: But it won’t work automatically?

Answer: No, never. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have freewill. Otherwise, you wouldn’t truly exist. You have to do it!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. I Am the System?!” 9/28/10

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