Question: Do you think it is possible to increase people’s happiness index in the existing conditions of cities?

Answer: I do not know. Today they build such houses with large rooms on the first floor: an equipped gym, rooms for holding all kinds of events (birthdays and others), a place for mother and child. If necessary, you can organize a kindergarten there and anything you want.

After all, they do try to equip high-rise buildings like small cities so that you would barely need to leave them.

I think that nature will eventually force people to respect the environment more and more and in accordance with the relationships between people, houses will be planned that will meet the trends toward rapprochement and distancing between them.

However, it is not easy. First of all, we need to educate people, and then in accordance with the level of their perception of the correct education, when they become more suitable for each other, we can somehow arrange them into groups.

Once in Moscow, they tried to build high-rise buildings for certain types of people: for architects, or musicians, or engineers, and so on. In our time, however, I do not know.

It is hard to say what the cities of the future will be like. People will begin to feel a spiritual need for being close to each other in order to feel more connected and draw spiritual elevations from it, not in the form of floors, but in the form of spiritual ascent. There is room for a stretch of the imagination here.
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From KabTV’s “Conversations” 6/9/21

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Prophets, Joshua, Chapter 2:1: And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men out of Shittim to spy secretly, saying, Go see the land and Jericho.

Joshua sends spies to the land of Israel for two reasons: the first, in order to know in advance where they are going and the second, to be afraid of the place where they are going because huge new desires are revealed there.

If you can overpower them, then you can conquer the land of Israel, that is, choose those desires that the egoism holds in itself with horrendous force, snatch them from it, and use them for bestowal.

Question: If earlier this verification was not successful because the spies came and said: “We are unable to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we,” is it possible now?

Answer: Yes. However, this is not just another check, but a correction. Therefore, this is not just some action, some game just in case. This is a very serious job.

Frankly speaking, if I imagine the state of being at the entrance to the land of Israel, then I get scared because these are such huge internal egoistic obstacles that shake a person and he must overcome them. But how? Where to get strength from? Unbelievable!

Question: What is the city of Jericho within us?

Answer: It is a terrible city. To this day, it is very problematic. There was even a prophecy that it should not be restored. As you drive up to it, you see what an alien and ancient this place is.

That is, it is a place that is practically impossible to correct. It really is on the border between impurity (Klipa) and holiness (Kedusha). Therefore, Jericho must fall first.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/11/21

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“Prophets,” Joshua, Chapter 1, items 2-3: Moses my servant has died; and now arise cross this Jordan, you and all this nation, to the land which I give the children of Israel. Every place on which the soles of your feet will tread I have given to you, as I have spoken to Moses.

Question: What is this border Jordan within a person that we must cross in order to enter the state of the last generation?

Answer: This is the border behind which nature begins to demand from us the fulfillment of new, additional spiritual laws. If earlier, before entering the land of Israel, we could behave at a certain, rather mediocre level of communication, then, crossing this border, we can no longer act like this.

These borders are very clearly marked on all sides: depending on when you enter, how you enter, from which side. However, in principle, the laws of the land of Israel (Eretz Israel) mean crossing not physical, but spiritual borders.

This crossing does not take place somewhere in the mountains or on land, but within a person, when he feels that, from this point onward, he should direct all his thoughts only to the Creator and only to the quality of bestowal. If we do this, then we will indeed cross the border and enter the land of Israel.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/19/21

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Question: What are the expectations of a slave who despite the threat to his life remains loyal to the king?

Answer: It is a very good question, but you are asking it on an egoistic level: “How much should I receive to sell-out the king? And up to that level, I will remain loyal to him.” Or in other words: “How much is the king worth? Where is the borderline when the slave will sell the king?”

There is no such borderline! The slave says: “You can kill me, but I will not give up the king!”

Question: Where does he get such force?

Answer: From the king. A man cannot have such power. A person can part with life. See how easily people leave their corporeal body: they fight, they get killed, they die, they jump from high places to their death.

But according to the wisdom of Kabbalah, corporeal life is totally irrelevant. It is about eternity. Actual eternity. No matter what you propose to me, in whatever manner, I will not relinquish the king.

But this happens gradually. This attribute is called the light of Hassadim in which a person begins to reveal the upper world. In other words, the upper world is revealed to him only to the degree of his loyalty to the king.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 3/24/19

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Question: Lately evil thoughts that I could not even imagine before have been entering my mind. How should I relate to them and how should I work with them?

Answer: Everything stems from the ego, which has always been in you but is now gradually being revealed, and you have to fight it a little. The best thing, however, is to turn to the Creator above them. Here everything is very simple. It is a very good thing that such evil thoughts are starting to emerge in you.

I personally am very happy when such evil thoughts emerge in me because if these thoughts are revealed, it means that they were already in me and now are revealed in order to disappear from the world later on. They are felt like an illness before it recedes, which should be felt very sharply.

So, you should be glad about what is happening.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 3/24/19

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We exist in a system called human society. There are many flaws in this system. It simply devours itself in its egoism. But this is what we have and there is no other state. The Creator, who placed us in mankind among eight billion people, shows us everything in this form.

We get what we deserve: in the family, in society, in schools, universities, at work, on the street, in relations between people, in wars between countries. All this is the result of our broken vessel, our properties.

We need to accept this as a given and see how to improve this system, how we can contribute to this through clarifications. According to Kabbalah, we live in the era of the final correction, in the so-called last generation. Therefore, we need to see ourselves connected with all the systems revealed to us in the world.

You cannot separate yourself from the public. We must be connected with all of reality, and although we do not share people’s corporeal view of life, we live together with them in this world. Therefore, we need to be connected with them in a correct way as much as possible and influence them as effectively as possible in order to change their attitude to life.

If there is a pandemic of a disease spreading all over the world and there is only one remedy for it, then I have to use it according to the doctors’ instructions. There are many other factors behind vaccination: medical lobbies, politics, money. The opinions of doctors, the interests of businessmen and politicians are all mixed in this cocktail. And this is why we find ourselves in such a confusing situation; the entire world is in bewilderment.

However, there is nothing to do because our nature should have already been more corrected, but it is corrupted and we pay for this with our suffering, misunderstanding, delusions, and in the end—with our lives.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/22/21, “Advance By Overcoming”

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Fear should always serve as an incentive, a reason to turn to the Creator. After all, the Creator gives us unpleasant sensations in order to turn to the source they come from.

And why do we get blows from the source? Because we cannot properly connect with Him face to face, we turn our back to Him.

From our side it is Kelim of reception and from the side of the Creator, Kelim of bestowal. He turns to us with his Kelim of bestowal, but we do not want to accept Him because we are only ready to receive egoistically for now. Therefore, we feel His address as a blow with a stick instead of a carrot. That is the whole point.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/21/21, “Advance by Overcoming”

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We live in the era of the last generation when we need to start correcting ourselves. All of humanity, willingly or not, is already entering this process.

Problems will come one after another ranging from a small pandemic to a big war. All this is in order to make us feel connected and dependent on each other.

This dependence will be revealed to us to the extent that each one holds the destiny of the other in their own hands and there is nothing to bribe him with to act for my benefit. He is free to decide my destiny as he pleases—either to execute or to pardon.

There is nothing I can do about it. Everyone will decide the fate of a friend, which is at his full disposal. The pandemic will teach us, all of humanity, that it is all about mutual dependency.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/21/21, “Advance by Overcoming”

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