The Creator is everything. There is none else besides Him. He has no name, title, image, form. He is not limited by time or space, absolutely by nothing. He is above all limitations and worlds. It is just everything there is.

But although the Creator fills everything in infinite measure with infinite number of sounds and forms, we must prepare to perceive Him. For the sake of connecting with us, He wants to develop us so that we gradually grow, expand our sensory organs, and are able to feel and understand Him in all His might.

To do this, we need to infinitely develop our organs of perception, which means to exit the egoism that restricts us and drives us into a narrow framework and forces us to evaluate everything only from the standpoint of our own benefit or harm. And with such an approach, it is impossible to get closer to the Creator because He is above such a calculation.

It is only man, intentionally created as an egoist, who, when he comes out of these limitations, can correct himself with the help of the Creator and understand and feel what the Creator has done for him.

Without this, it is impossible to attain the concept of the upper force because we are not in the dimension where it operates: beyond the desire to receive, beyond egoism, beyond our perception.

We perceive reality with five senses, and that is why we see such a world. But the Creator is not limited by anything, and He cannot be felt by these material organs we feel the world and the universe with because all this is perceived due to limitations.

The Creator is the force of bestowal. He wants to give, to grant, to love, and to fill. This is how His desire is revealed to us. But outside of us, we cannot say a single word about the Creator. We do not know if He has thoughts and desires. Most likely not because He is above all this. The perfect one cannot be subject to emotions—bad or good—because He is not limited by anything.

Therefore, He cannot have bad or good feelings. All our feelings are caused either by a lack of something or by filling. But all this is not inherent to the Creator. The Creator is absolute kindness and He only wants to fill everyone with goodness.
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From KabTV’s “Basic concepts in the science of Kabbalah” 2/20/22

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Question: Why is it said in the primary sources in the “covenant of eyes” that one should beware of looking at women?

Answer: In our world, we have a set of very simple and clear desires for food, sex, and family. These are the three basic human desires, which, in principle, animals also have. This is what we must, first of all, direct to correction.

The strongest and most vital of them is food. And after it, the most necessary for existence is sex. It proceeds from the fact that we must connect the opposite elements of creation so that we again get a whole closed system.

And the woman personifies, as it were, a person’s desire for physical union. And so, there is a special condition here that we should beware of even looking at them.

Speaking about spiritual states, a woman symbolizes the egoistic desire to receive, to bring closer to herself, to be filled directly from the source of pleasure.

Question: If I have thoughts like, “Why is the Creator not revealed to me directly?”, then are these all egoistic thoughts that should be guarded against?

Answer: Yes, that is the point. Basically, we need to beware that all the properties that are in us in a natural animal form (food, sex, and family) are aimed at attaining the Creator and to use them for one’s own sake only in the intention to achieve this goal, to attain the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/28/21

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Question: To what extent do the catastrophic phenomena occurring today in nature, in social relations, and at the level of changing the goals that people set for themselves accelerate or delay the revelation of the programmer who created the universe?

Maybe He is deliberately pushing us to some kind of turning point after which there will be no other way out?

Answer: But, we still have no way out. We have only one way: either to develop according to His plan automatically or to apply our own efforts to this.

His plan is for these beings that He created to comprehend Him and find that everything He created was created in the form of great good. And since they do not want to comprehend this, they exist in an opposite world, in opposite sensations, in their egoistic desires.

Nothing new is proposed here, only to change our nature from egoistic to altruistic. And then, having mastered it, we will understand that the world, the universe, and the cosmos have a completely different picture. In our corrected brain, this will be reflected correctly.
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From KabTV’s “Virtual World” 2/9/22

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Question: In Kabbalah is there such a thing as a covenant of the eyes? What does it mean?

Answer: The covenant of the eyes is a high union, already into the light of higher comprehension, the light of Hochma.

As in our world there are people who say, “I heard,” and there are those who say, “I saw.” In Kabbalah, sight symbolizes the light of Hochma and hearing is the light of Hassadim.

As for the light of Hassadim, we cannot say exactly what we feel. We hear, but it is not a full realization. Full realization is seeing.

Accordingly there are prophets who said, “I saw” or “I heard.” “I saw” is an absolutely complete comprehension of the Creator and we treat such a prophecy as the highest.

The division into “seen” and “heard” is in everything that happens to us. Of course, we receive everything from the Creator. Whatever each of us experiences in life comes only from Him.

He alone fills us and moves us all the time. But the most important thing that we desire is absolute comprehension, and it can only be in the light of Hochma, that is, in vision.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/28/21

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Question: Can I pray without believing?

Answer: How will you pray? To whom? Why? For what? After all, you have absolutely no connection with the Creator.

Of course, you can pray to get this connection. Then your request to the Creator, who is practically absent in your sensation, should be that you begin to feel Him. From this sensation that is beginning to manifest in you, you will gradually develop a connection with the Creator. This is how it should be done.

Do not be afraid to turn to Him. Do not be afraid to talk to the Creator as a friend, a partner, does not matter who. He really understands you. You should just start a dialogue with Him, and it is a dialogue when you tell Him everything and want to get an answer from Him.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Asking the Creator to Fill the Place Between Us” Lesson 7

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Question: What is a blessing and what is a curse for a spiritually developed person?

Answer: A person who feels that he is in a world he does not understand but feels it was created for him and he wants to attain it, to understand it, and to adapt himself to the world or the world to himself, i.e., enter into correct interaction with it, gradually studies nature and seeks how to get closer to it.

If there are certain informational records in him, even if it is a small child, then he is already developing. He feels that he needs to understand the meaning of life, why it is given to us, and what it is all about. Such a person seeks this out and gradually finds it.

The fact that he is guided toward attaining the meaning of life is called a blessing. But if one feels that he is being led further away from it, it is a curse.

Question: Is receiving for oneself a curse?

Answer: In general, yes. Using one’s egoism, that is, using any desire or quality for one’s own benefit, enjoyment, fulfillment, and for power over others, is to a person’s detriment. Such actions are not, let’s say, damaging to others, but to oneself.

Question: When a person has an intention for the sake of bestowal and rises above his egoistic thoughts, is that a blessing?

Answer: Sure. This is truly a help from above.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 2/8/22

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Medium published my new article “Mommy, Why Is There War?”

The deplorable bombing of a children’s hospital in Mariupol, southern Ukraine, brings to mind the story of the mother who told reporters that her son asked her, “Mommy, why is there a war?” She said that a few weeks prior, she had eased her son’s concerns by saying that people no longer fight wars like they used to, that we are past that. Now, she and her son were hiding in the metro station, a makeshift bomb shelter, while her husband was on the frontline.

Many children ask such difficult questions these days, a consequence of the terrible circumstances they have been thrown into without forewarning. But children understand war better than we think. After all, their lives are a daily struggle. Since they have not acquired the social skills that enable us to maneuver smoothly through social situations, for them, every day at the kindergarten or at school is a battle.

To give them a true and helpful answer, we should tell them that our ego is the cause of all the wars. The ego wants to satisfy itself and not take anyone else into consideration.

Subsequently, we should tell them that just as children might squabble over a toy, grownups squabble over parts of land. Likewise, when children fight, they might hit each other with a stick or a plastic shovel, while adults use tanks and airplanes.

Nothing changes from childhood to adulthood: Another person has something I want, or that I think should be mine, and I will take it by force if I have to. This is how the ego works, and this is the reason for all the wars.

A child who is hiding from the “toys” of the grownups will understand the message very clearly. This is our chance to explain, regrettably too vividly, that fighting is not good, that if we care for each other and share with each other, everyone will have more and we will not have to fight for what we want or to protect what we have.

Once children internalize the lesson of sharing, it will stay with them for life. It will help them in their relationships with others throughout their lives, and hopefully, thanks to their mothers’ clear explanations, they will be able to avoid wars in the future.
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