Question: Pharaoh (Hebrew: Parah) is the main acting force. Your teacher Rabash explains that “Parah” means “Peh Ra” (bad mouth). What or who are we talking about?

Answer: We are talking about someone who denies that the world is ruled by a good force, the upper force of the Creator, and claims that the world is ruled by evil, an egoistic force, and that this is the only thing that should be developed and controlled.

Question: If you read the word “Parah” from right to left, you will get “Oref” (back of the neck). What does it mean?

Answer: This is the reverse side of the Creator. In practice, there is one upper force, literally called the Creator, which manifests itself both in a good form and in its opposite: as an evil force called Pharaoh (Parah).

Question: What does it mean that the Pharaoh sucked all the good out of the people who worked for him?

Answer: This is what we see in our lives: no matter what we try to do, nothing good comes out of it in the end because we use egoism only for the sake of reinforcing it.

Question: So it is impossible to enjoy egoism? As soon as we are fulfilled with something, this pleasure instantly fades?

Answer: Not only that, but there is an even greater egoism we fulfill again. Thus, we are always in pursuit of egoistic pleasure that in the end never fulfills us.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/26/21

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Question: The Creator constantly hardens Pharaoh’s heart. On one hand, he says: “Come to Me.” And on the other hand: “I will harden his heart.” Why?

Answer: Because the purpose of our egoistic development is to make sure that it is impossible to exist in egoism and to ask the Creator to free us from it.

This is the purpose of our being in the Egyptian slavery, in the slavery of egoism, to make sure that it is only to our detriment and that only the Creator can get us out of there.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/26/21

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Comment: When a person recognizes his egoism as evil, the quality of Moses (from the word Limshoch, to pull) is revealed in him and starts to pull him out of his ego.

My Response: Moses was raised by the Pharaoh’s daughter Batya. He grew up in this environment, acquired the wisdom of the Pharaoh, and became like the Pharaoh with all his egoistic attitude to life.

Question: Does it mean that even our altruistic inclinations are based on egoism and develop from it?

Answer: Well, we see what is happening, all of humanity is developing egotistically. Only now sprouts of our mighty egoistic activities are gradually beginning to appear: the things we have done to this Earth, how pointless and only to our detriment everything is. We live this life, spoil it for each other, and die. This is our existence.

It is this recognition of the evilness of our egoistic nature that we must reveal in this generation.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/26/21

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Rabash, Article 923, “And He Said, ‘When You Deliver the Hebrew Women'”:  “Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, ‘Every boy who is born, cast him in the Nile, and every girl, keep alive.’”

A son (Ben in Hebrew) means one who aspires to the Creator. A man (Gever in Hebrew) comes from the word “Mitgaber” (to overcome) and means the one who resists egoism and wants to rise above it.

Those people who regardless of the attributes of their gender want to rise to the quality of the Creator, bestowal and love, are called men because they overcome their egoism, work on it, and try to reach the next, altruistic level. Our egoism, called Pharaoh, commands drowning such people, destroying them within ourselves.

Question: Does it mean that there is such a force within us that tries to destroy these aspirations to exit egoism in advance?

Answer: Of course. The egoism that controls us is our main force.

Comment: But the force of egoism is under the control of an even higher force, the Creator.

My Response: That is correct. However, in general, Pharaoh is given the opportunity to rule over a person.

Question: So under whose authority is man: the Creator or the Pharaoh?

Answer: We are under the authority of the Creator who made it so that we are under the authority of the Pharaoh.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/26/21

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Question: Israel should have stayed in Egypt for 400 years, but they left earlier, after 210 years. Why?

Answer: They had to reveal the need to break free of egoism over400 years, but it was fully revealed in them in 210 years.

On the other hand, 400 years is the four stages of the development of egoism that they are still going through. We are going through it also because our earthly path does not stop here. Egoism still manifests in us until we completely reverse it into its opposite.

Question: A few thousand years ago, man emerged from an animal through a natural evolutionary process. Can we also call what we must go through now an evolutionary process?

Answer: Sure. The same upper force called the Creator controls us, gradually develops  egoistic properties in us on the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human levels. Each level consists of the same four sublevels.

Question: That is, as I live these levels develop within me. For example, the animate level in me is a person who works, takes care of himself, his family, and his entire material life. Then the level of the human within human begins to develop in me. How is it manifested?

Answer: In pursuit of great desires. On Earth even today, you can see tribes, peoples, and civilizations that live in the Stone Age, on trees, and in other conditions. The difference between them is in the level of the desires that exist in them. In accordance with them, these people develop an appropriate environment around them, relationships with each other, and so on.

Question: How can one determine that someone is developing at the human level? These are not just some altruistic qualities. There are a lot of altruists around who run and help everyone.

Answer: A person usually does not realize how these desires develop. For example, we look at a child and see that he is growing, he already has some other desires that are not the same as before. As the child does not understand this, so do we not understand it.

Our desires change. A hundred years ago, we were completely different people. We look at how people lived 100, 200, 300, or 1,000 years ago, and we see that they were quite different from us in many ways. Thus, we go through the stages of the development of egoism in us.

Question: Let us say there are two people before us. In one of them, the level of human desires is developing, but not in the other. What is different between them?

Answer: The rate of development of egoism in each of them.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/26/21

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Question: Passover celebration. It tells how the Jewish people came out of Egyptian slavery. In fact, for Kabbalists, it sounds different. We have our egoism—our nature, and here we talk about how we get out of this egoism.

Now I have the feeling that this is not a Jewish holiday but a world holiday, especially considering the events that have happened in the world.

What does Passover mean for the world? How do you feel about it?

Answer: The world feels bad. But It does not know the reason for it. It also does not know the cure for the fact that it feels bad. Like a child, it feels bad and that is all. There is no recognition of evil, that is, the cause of the suffering.

The reason for suffering is in the big, sudden increase in egoism, which sometimes freezes a little and then, suddenly grows with a jerk.

Question: So can you say that the world now feels like it is inside the Egyptian slavery, under the slavery of egoism?

Answer: It just depends on how people feel. They just feel bad.

Question: So, has the Passover celebration reached humanity yet?

Answer: I do not think it is quite right to call it a celebration. The world does not feel that its egoism is the cause of all its suffering.

This is necessary! If we begin to look closely at our egoistic nature, at how we treat each other, then we can conclude that our whole world is evil because we are so egoistic, because we wish evil to each other, we are in opposition, in contradiction, in conflict, with each other: internal, external, and so on. We are in the slavery of this egoistic force that guides us, twists us, and pushes us.

To realize the evil of our nature is the most important thing. Because after that, we can already come to an understanding of how to get rid of it.

Question: If we assume that a person begins to feel this, what are his thoughts? How does he get rid of this? Except for the inner cry: “I want to get rid of it! I do not want to be egoist!” What else does he need?

Answer: Nothing! Just demand that nature change us. Nothing else. We do not have to make any extra effort, because there is really nothing we can do. If we are inside egoism, then any of our attempts and actions will still be egoistic, and by this we will only deceive ourselves.

What we can do is get together, discuss our condition, come to the conclusion that it is simply terrible, and there is no way for us to get rid of it ourselves unless we can convince our nature to leave us alone, that we do not want to be dominated by egoism. Take away from us this alien will, this upper force, so that it does not command each of us and does not collide us with each other!

Question: Then, will the person have the feeling that he is under the rule of the Pharaoh?

Answer: Yes. In the slavery of the evil force of nature. Then he will begin to understand this story correctly. He will begin to treat it correctly, that in fact, this evil nature is created specifically, by a positive force, the Creator. Then we turn to Him personally, so that He removes this evil nature from us.

If we convince the Creator to remove this evil egoistic force from us that pushes us against each other and does not give us peace, then it will become a truly global celebration in which everyone is interconnected, in which everyone begins to treat each other correctly, with love, with awareness, with the understanding that we are one single system.

Question: What is called “the exit of the people from slavery”? The people—is it the whole world?

Answer: Absolutely the whole world.

Question: Who is the leader that leads them? The Torah says Moshe, Moses—what is it?

Answer: This is from the word “Moshech”—pulling out. It is a force that pulls people out of their egoism. This power comes from above. The power of awareness of the evil we were in, and the power of good, which we can be in.

Question: Do you think that humanity should reach out to this force?

Answer: Everyone should feel that they are shouting, that they want it. Nothing more is needed. There is no need to follow any people, leaders, deliverers, moshiach(s), and so on. Nothing needed.

Question: What is freedom then? After all, this is a celebration of freedom.

Answer: Freedom from egoism, freedom from the fact that you are always under the influence of evil, and it is your inner evil that pushes you to be evil to others. This is all a celebration of liberation. This is the spring festival.

Only egoism is the cause of our suffering. There is nothing else. There are only two forces in the world: positive and negative.

Question: Why don’t we just hit this point?

Answer: We do not want to, we put our hands and feet up, just to avoid getting close to it, because we are all egoists. Only in egoism do I feel myself and the whole world. I cannot imagine how to feel the world outside of this quality.

Question: In principle, does the wisdom of Kabbalah speak only about this—how to feel who you are, your nature, and how to get out of it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How to get people to start doing it?

Answer: If we do not want to, we will be forced to. But it is going to be all fine.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/22/21

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Question: Why must one first go to Egypt in order to get out of the egoistic state?

Answer: In order to realize who you are, that you are absolutely the opposite of the Creator, that you are not a human being but an animal controlled only by egoism. This is only possible if you are in a state called “Egypt.”

Question: Can we say that all of humanity is still in Egypt?

Answer: Yes. Absolutely all of humanity is in the state of Mitzraim (Egypt), when a person does not realize that he is controlled by egoism alone.

Mitzraim (Mitz Ra) in Hebrew means concentration of evil.

Question: So, in order to reveal love, one must understand hatred. It turns out that the Egyptian exile is a guarantee that a person will someday acquire altruistic properties in the future?

Answer: Yes. All this has already been planned and should only take on its material appearance.
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From KabTV’s ”Spiritual States” 3/26/21

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It seems that the Torah writes about adventures and great journeys: from ancient Babylon to the land of Canaan where Israel is today, from there to the Sinai desert, from the desert to Egypt and many years of living in it with all the events that took place there, and then fleeing from Egypt and crossing the Red Sea.

All this we should gradually separate from geographical places and historical events and place it inside a person as something that happens within him.

Each one should depict within oneself which qualities are called Egypt, the desert, Pharaoh, and Moses—all the details and characters of the story. This story should unfold inside a person and inside the relationships in the ten.

It is even harder to imagine this in the ten because it is closer to spirituality. We should build this process inside us in sensation so that everyone can feel how all the names the Torah mentions that refer to inanimate nature, plants, animals, and people as reflected in his feelings, thoughts, internal processes, and connections with others.

Gradually, a person begins to feel how the light of Passover works on him, that is, the light of transition from the corporeal state when he is in a group, studying but so far doing everything egotistically. He does not know what the intention for the sake of bestowal is because until he acquires a second nature, it is impossible to explain and depict it.

Just as the story of Passover describes the despair from the hard work for Pharaoh, so a person despairs to emerge from under the control of his egoism and to do something out of love for his neighbor. He does not find such forces, inclinations, and desires within himself.

Suddenly he feels that something is awakening in him, and he begins to understand that there really can be such a quality in a person called selfless bestowal.

It is because there is a special illumination that influences him and passes a new quality onto him. This is the change we need to yearn for. Of course, it does not come just out of a person’s effort but only due to the illumination from above. This is why all our work is a prayer, a request, that must be organized correctly in the ten regarding all the clarifications that we make when building our connection.

The entire process of the exodus from Egypt happens within the ten, within the ten Sefirot. Therefore, it becomes more and more obvious that everything is achieved through the force of the prayer, and we must direct all our efforts only to this: to pray together so that everyone feels his friend and is ready to help him.

Then we connect in our appeal to the upper force, we ask for the force of connection to help us find a mutual point between us so that everyone feels that they are coming out of themselves and becoming included in the common desire called the upper Malchut.

If each one is only inside himself, he is in the lower world. If he rises to the common desire, he already finds himself in the Malchut of the upper world. He thus enters the second phase of Passover, that is, the “transition,” taking a step toward the exodus from Egypt. He already wants not Pharaoh but the Creator to dominate over him so that the Creator rules within him. Therefore, he will have a special transition in order to change the upper authority from Pharaoh to the upper force.

One becomes more and more aware of how dependent and attached he is to his egoism, consciously or unconsciously constantly acting for one’s own benefit. Now he is beginning to think more and more about how he can act for the benefit of the Creator and for the benefit of the ten. This is already close to the exodus from Egypt and means that the lights of Passover are working on a person.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/31/21, “Pesach (Passover)”

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Question: The Pharaoh forces all those who strive to reveal the quality of bestowal or the Creator (called Israel) to build the cities of Pithom and Raamses. What are these two cities? What are they in reference to the inner work of a person?

Answer: Building means filling the great desire called Pharaoh with egoism in both the right and left lines, in everything. But when we fill it, we see that this pleasure does not lead to any result except sheer disappointment.

Question: Your teacher gives this explanation: Raamses is Ra’am Sus, horse power, which symbolizes the work of man in order to fill his egoism. But then he suddenly feels himself at the edge of an abyss.

Pithom is Pi Tehom, mouth of the abyss. It turns out that you are left, as in Pushkin’s fairy tale, in a broken gutter?

Answer: Sure.

Question: There is also an explanation that these two cities are called Arei Miskenot, dangerous cities in Hebrew. Why are they dangerous?

Answer: Because of the fact that a person might never get out of his egoistic nature, rise above it, but will remain in these “cities,” getting deeper and deeper into them and dying.

Question: But won’t the evolutionary process oblige us to develop? Is there still a threat to stay in Egypt forever?

Answer: In general, there is essentially no such possibility because the Creator’s program is perfect and ultimately leads us to understand the need to leave Egypt. But, on the other hand, it is still a dangerous condition where a person can stay in it for a very long time, almost all his life.

However, he still feels a state of hopelessness. All the sensations described in the Torah are bound to appear in everyone. After all, in principle, many of us are already beginning to see that they just must escape from these states.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/26/21

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Question: Who are “Egyptians” and “Israelites” in spiritual work?

Answer: The Torah speaks of man as an object that includes the whole world. Everything is inside a person.

The Egyptians in us are egoistic forces; the Israelites are altruistic forces or forces that want to be altruistic but are ruled by the Egyptians (egoism).

Pharaoh personifies the complete egoism in which we find ourselves.

The Creator is the upper force that governs Pharaoh, Moses, and everyone else. His task is to bring all creation to be like Him, to altruism. But this requires awareness of egoism being evil and the way out of it.

Moses is a force that is a part of the Creator, which is inside man and pulls him forward toward the disclosure and understanding of the highest spiritual properties.

Interactions occur between these forces when a person feels which of his desires are egoistic, which are altruistic, which of them seek connection with the Creator, and which of them cling to the Pharaoh.

Thus, he sorts them out, and as a result of his work, he understands which voice speaks to him, he realizes that he is completely under the rule of the Pharaoh. Wherever he turns, the Pharaoh is lurking in him.

It seems to him that he is already working for the sake of bestowal and love of neighbors, that he is above all earthly egoistic desires, but he still continues to constantly reveal them inside. In the end, he does not just despair but becomes convinced that the Pharaoh owns everything, one hundred percent.

But at the same time, a special point, called Moses, stands out in him and it opposes Pharaoh. It enters into a fight with him and dooms itself to the ten Egyptian plagues, which our egoism must go through. So, man begins to understand that he can get rid of the ego. But how? It is not clear yet.

With this sensation, he enters a dark night where, on one hand, it is not obvious and not clear how the deliverance will take place, but on the other hand, he passionately desires it. This night is called the night of the exodus from Egypt, which we celebrate on Passover.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/13/16

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