Comment: I remember when I first came to you 21 years ago to make a film about Kabbalah. I expected to see all kinds of Kabbalistic symbols like red strings, holy water, and burning candles. I walked into your room, and there was nothing. I thought at the time: “There is nothing to film.”

It turned out that Kabbalah is not about “holy artifacts,” but rather about the levels of connection between people.

My Response: Indeed, the Creator is revealed between people, but only between those who have reached the next level of attainment and understanding. After all, Kabbalah speaks of what lies beyond our consciousness, beyond material perception.

That is why two ordinary people cannot perceive anything between them except the material world and its various problems. Only through proper connection can we gather into a special spiritual state where our connections begin to reveal the Creator, and the many variations of these connections begin to tell us about the Creator. That is how we are built.

Practically speaking, a group of ten people needs to come together, but not around a round table with crystal balls and burning candles. Those props are completely unnecessary. In proper connection with each other, people attune themselves to an altruistic relationship.

But it is not simple. The right kind of interconnection is achieved through studying Kabbalah and understanding the next inner stage of human development, above egoism, when each person rises “above themselves” in relation to their friends, and uses a special higher energy for this.

It may sound mystical, but it is not. This higher energy simply exists outside of us. The point is that the force in which we currently exist is an egoistic force of reception. There is an opposite, altruistic force, but it exists outside of us.

When we draw the altruistic force upon ourselves, and try to establish mutual altruistic relationships between us, then the higher force influences us, and alongside the natural egoistic connections between us, altruistic connections, which are unnatural for us, gradually emerge. These are called spiritual.

The proper interplay of egoistic and altruistic connections (like black and white intertwining in all vast metamorphoses) grants us the awareness of the Creator, the upper force.

At the same time, on the one hand we do not disappear as created beings because the egoistic force remains within us. On the other hand, we acquire the altruistic force and begin to perceive the Creator through it.

That is how He is revealed—in the correct connection between us.

Comment: You constantly say that our egoistic desires remain, and yet a contrary, altruistic structure is built over them. That is very hard for a person to imagine.

My Response: This is the unique and exalted state of a Kabbalist. He does not simply drift off somewhere unknowable, but alongside his egoistic perception of the world he also acquires an altruistic perception. Upon these two opposite forms of attainment, he builds himself between them, and there, in that fusion within himself, he discovers the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 6/11/17, ” How the Creator Reveals Himself in Relationships”

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