Comment: Look at what is happening in the world now. If we sort of rise above the planet and look at what is occurring, it is awful—floods, fires, disasters!

People do not want to believe that the very actions of people are beginning to destroy us. Some people think that this is some kind of punishment. The Turkish President believes that the fires in Turkey are the result of arson, etc.

But all the terrible consequences of the elements, for example, floods, are the result of the fact that a person settles in places where, in principle, he should not live. Even if he settles there, then the conditions of protection are not created because it costs money: “What if it just works out”?

That is, people themselves are often the cause of these disasters!

My Response: Logically, you may be partly right. But I would say that nature punishes us for not wanting to be organically integrated into its general background. That is why it happens.

All the problems that we stir up today, from the coronavirus to the rest of the Egyptian plagues, occur because nature pushes us out of itself. Internally it has a mind hidden from us and is no longer able to bear such an attitude toward itself.

It can only be accepted. But I think that in the end we will realize and understand this. People who are closer to nature feel that nature is intelligent and therefore it treats us this way.
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From KabTV’s “Algorithms Instead of People” 8/4/21

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Question: What is your secret of happiness?

Answer: My secret of happiness is to be in balance with the world—to feel that I am not interfering with the world, I am not interfering with people, I am trying to be an organic part so that people receive from me the right example of how to interact with each other and with the world.

I want to believe that I am telling people about this all the time.

Question: Do you consider yourself a happy person?

Answer: Yes. But this does not mean that I have already exhausted everything. I still have to achieve some big goals. And this makes it interesting and good.
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From KabTV’s “Meetings with Kabbalah” 7/29/21

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The most important thing for a person is to discover the sense of unity with the world because by doing so, we find absolute balance. If we clearly understand what kind of world we live in, what forces we must balance in us and around us, this, in principle, is the point of absolute health.

This is what the science of Kabbalah deals with. It states that we exist in a world where only two forces rule: the force of reception and the force of bestowal, which are split into many different sub-forces. If we want to come to balance, then our task is to balance these forces in such a way so that it is possible to receive, to bestow, and at the same time be in a state of absolute comfort.

Question: What is the simplest advice you would give to a person in life?

Answer: The very first and simplest advice are the well-known rules: “That which you hate, do not do to your friend” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
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From KabTV’s “Meetings with Kabbalah” 7/29/21

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Question: Why am I so attracted to your talks and lectures?

Answer: Because you hear about yourself, about your soul, about the way you can attain a whole eternal state, where life and death of your body have no effect on you, and where you will begin to feel that life is infinite and flows in a totally different manner than what you imagine today.

If we begin to gather, we will feel the transition to the next state, to the upper world, in the connection between us, because it is in the center of our mutual cooperation.

Just as astronomers say that there is a transition from one state to another in space, it is the same here. It is a unique transition, a transition from our world and an entrance to the next world.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 7/7/19

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Baal HaSulam, “Peace in the World“: We must know that the above-mentioned law of development, which is spread over the whole of reality, is certain to reform all evil to good and useful, and acts through the power of the government of heaven above, meaning without asking permission from the people, dwellers of the earth. However, the Creator placed knowledge and authority in the hands of man and permitted him to accept the above-mentioned law of development under his own authority and government, and handed him the ability to hasten the process of development as he wishes, freely and completely independent of the boundaries of time.

There is an active inevitable law of nature in time. Everything is arranged according to a timetable and there is time for each and every event. We cannot change anything and we act according to this timetable with the same developing force that tirelessly leads us through all the phases of our development.

It is a rigid system of nature. This is how it operates and we cannot escape it; we are bound to it, like tiny insects that must act according to it. Yet, although this development is necessary and takes place accurately and on time, there is a way to hasten and to improve it, and this depends on us.

We develop according to the plan in any case, like a train that moves from one point to another and must reach its destination. We can hasten our arrival at the last station and feel much better during our journey than if we participate in the process unconsciously and move and change not knowingly. Of course, we would perceive the final phase differently.

We would attain it and reach the same outcome anyway, but we would go through all kinds of conflicts along the way, we would fall and rise, quarrel and undergo disasters in every aspect of our lives. But it can also be the opposite way, by acting comfortably and feeling that we are led through this whole way like in a dining car.

On the whole, the wisdom of Kabbalah provides us with only one solution. If you want to advance no matter how, you can leave everything and not hear anything, return to your life and carry on together with everyone else, in unity with the whole globe, as long as it revolves.

But if you want to change your life for the better, while advancing toward the attainment of the goal of creation in which your place has already been determined, where everything has already been determined, and advance toward it consciously, wisely and quickly, you can do it with the help of the wisdom of Kabbalah.

That makes all the difference! This is our choice.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 7/14/19

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Lesson on the Topic “Annulling Before the Upper One” 

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 16

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Question: Today, people go out to all kinds of demonstrations without yet realizing that they are fighting not against injustice, uneven incomes, poor education, but against their own uselessness.

Now it is not only individual professions that are disappearing, but entire layers of the economy upon which countries were based. Not only high-tech, but also the most ordinary industries are letting people go.

Soon there will be no cashiers, there will be no people who distribute and receive. All this will be done by machines and algorithms.

Now we come to what we were talking about 15 years ago: how to occupy people. You have to pay them a basic income to keep them busy.

Today, they are already starting to talk about it: “Yes, we will pay people money. They should come and study history, culture, anything, water trees, plant new parks for 2 to 3 hours a day.” But they should treat it not as work but as some kind of action.

Do you see in this the first steps toward a society that you have been talking about all the time?

Answer: In general, this can be seen as a kind of a first step. But how are we going to raise a new person, someone who will have, not only the property of reception, but also the property of bestowal? And here, of course, people need to be educated.

This is why we say that they will be able to study a few hours a day, learn the mechanism of bestowal, listen to lectures, and discuss them among themselves.

Question: But until Israel realizes this, the rest of the world will not? Or can it run in parallel?

Answer: No, I do not think it can be done in parallel. It still has to come from here. The inner root of changing the world, whatever it may be and wherever it goes, still comes from the Jewish people.
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From KabTV’s “Algorithms Instead of People” 8/4/21

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Question: The very process of your teaching has led to the creation of the current structure of your organization, division into tens. Has the effect of self-arrangement of living matter in the form of people worked here and produced such a fairly clear structure?

Answer: It is written in Kabbalah that one must study in tens. It is desirable that there are ten people in the group. And then tens will gather in hundreds, in thousands, and so on. I am personally not involved in this, I just teach people. But they all clearly feel their unity.

Question: So they are already organizing themselves and you do not participate in it?

Answer: Yes. They monitor and strictly observe this. For them, being in a group of ten people is a sacred duty. Because this is the only way they can support each other.
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From KabTV’s “Meetings with Kabbalah” 7/29/21

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Prophets, Joshua 11:06: And the Lord said to Joshua, “Be not afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall cripple their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.

Question: If on the way to spirituality (to the Land of Israel) we are persecuted and attacked by egoistic desires, what does it mean that they are on horses and chariots?

Answer: This means that egoism with all its strength and with all its potential opposes connection and work in bestowal and love. There is a very difficult struggle ahead that cannot be overcome at once. There is a weakening of the people of Israel and they begin to moan.

But it is impossible without a fight. We also need to fight to identify our own negative qualities, not only external but also internal. This is how the people of Israel will move forward.

Horses and chariots symbolize all kinds of egoistic tools that seduce people and show them how sweet it is to live in egoistic desires and be bound together by egoistic competition.

In other words, it is the attack of the egoistic desire that greatly attracts a person.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/2/21

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