Question: What, in essence, did we receive at the giving of the Torah?

Answer: At the giving of the Torah we deeply desired to become one man with one heart. But at the same time, we stood around the mountain of hatred, the mountain of egoism that had been revealed between us. Since we wanted to free ourselves from it and reach mutual love, we received the Torah.

If there are not many frictions between us, then we do not need the Torah, the force that corrects relationships between us. But if we discover mutual hatred toward each other and separation, like in today’s Israeli society, then we need the Torah, meaning the force of correction. That is why the wisdom of Kabbalah, which has been concealed for thousands of years, is now being revealed.

Kabbalah is being revealed precisely today because we have reached a state where we cannot manage without it. We must reveal all our mutual hatred in order to feel the need for the correcting force. Until the hatred is clearly revealed, the Torah is not needed.

That is why it is said: “I created the evil inclination”, meaning, we reveal our evil nature and egoistic attitude toward others, and then we need the Torah to correct it. For this reason, the Torah was given at Mount Sinai, the mountain of hatred.

Question: At Mount Sinai, did the people of Israel feel like one nation?

Answer: At Mount Sinai, we did not yet feel ourselves as one nation, but we were ready to come to that. Everyone was asked: “Do you agree to unite, or will this be your burial place?”

Question: What can we do if today’s Israeli society is so fractured that there are not even the slightest impulses toward unity?

Answer: That is exactly why the wisdom of Kabbalah is coming out of concealment and explaining to the people of Israel what their mission is. Otherwise, we will have no right to exist on this land. It is precisely now that the Ten Commandments proclaimed at Mount Sinai become highly relevant again.

After all, we have physically returned to the Land of Israel and have received the opportunity to reestablish an independent Jewish state on it. In the face of the division and hatred that are growing more and more between us every day, we are beginning to realize that we need the force of correction.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 560 – The Holiday Of The Giving Of The Torah,” 5/5/15

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Question: What is the meaning of the holiday of the Giving of the Torah (Matan Torah) and what does it mean that we have received the Torah? We do not seem to keep its commandments. It is rather the opposite. It says “do not steal”—we steal; “do not covet other’s property”—we covet.

How does the Torah relate to our lives today? Could the Creator have been mistaken when He gave the Torah specifically to the people of Israel?

Answer: There is giving of the Torah, and there is receiving it. The problem is that although the Torah was given to us, we never received it. Today’s Israeli society is very far from what it should be in living according to the laws of the Torah. Therefore we are still considered to be in exile.

Question: But we got the Torah, we have it!

Answer: We have the book that says “Torah,” but that is not enough. The Torah is the upper light that returns to the source. The light corrects our egoistic nature, and leads us to love and mutual participation, until we love others as ourselves.

This is called the realization of the Torah. The Torah is the light, as it is said: “I created the evil inclination and the Torah to correct it.” The Jewish people have the most developed egoism, and it is not for nothing that our people are called “stiff-necked.” Therefore we received the Torah for its correction—the light that reforms.

In the past, during the time of the First and Second Temples, the people of Israel used this light for correction. Later they fell from this level, which is called the destruction of the Temple, and they went into exile. It is an exile from a life based on the law of love of others.

Today no one even thinks about loving others anymore. Only the external traditions remain of the Torah.

Question: Have we not received the Torah yet because not everyone fulfills religious commandments?

Answer: We are not talking about religious commandments. The law of the Torah is to love one’s neighbor as oneself. Rabbi Akiva calls this the great rule of the Torah, which includes all other commandments. Therefore by fulfilling the commandments mechanically, a person should check: does this bring him closer to love of others, or does it maybe even alienate him? Does it create a split among the people and incite hatred?

Is this the Torah that we got? We have received the highest remedy, because the Torah is light, an upper force that affects us, if we fulfill special conditions. This force can correct our nature and allow us to open the upper world, to open our eyes and see where we really are.

The Torah is eternal, and with its help we can also achieve eternal life. But this is only on condition that we really find out what the true Torah and the commandment of loving one’s neighbor as oneself mean, which combines all the commandments.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 560 – The Holiday Of The Giving Of The Torah,” 5/5/15

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Lag Ba’Omer is the most Kabbalistic holiday—the holiday of light. Lag Ba’Omer means the 33^rd day (lamed-gimel) after Passover, meaning, when we come out of the egoistic desire into giving for the sake of giving, into desires for bestowal.

Therefore, afterward comes a period of purification of desires: 33 days from Passover to Lag Ba’Omer and from Lag Ba’Omer to Shavuot. During these 50 days, we complete all corrections and become ready to receive the Torah, that is, the light that corrects the receiving desires into receiving for the sake of giving.

Before the day of Lag Ba’Omer, we are not yet considered to have completely left Egypt because we need to correct our desires, which have the characteristics of Egypt (egoism). But on the 33^rd day, corrections are achieved in the 33^rd Sefira, and we only have to correct the lowest part of the degree, the receiving desires.

Therefore, we can be sure we will certainly come to receive the Torah. From the day of Lag Ba’Omer, the light of the gift of the Torah has already begun to shine upon us, even from afar.

That is why the day of Lag Ba’Omer is so important in terms of correction. Before Lag Ba’Omer, we are still correcting and completing the exit from Egypt, and after that day we begin to prepare ourselves for receiving the Torah on Shavuot. It turns out that Lag Ba’Omer is a very special “day,” that is, a condition that a person goes through on the path of correction.

The exit from Egypt is carried out under the influence of the upper light, the enormous light of Hochma, which is revealed due to man’s awakening. As a result, one rises above his egoism and breaks away from it, but all this is due to the light coming from above. Desires still remain egoistic, but the light gives them the opportunity to rise above egoism to want to give.

All this is only due to the upper light, which holds us like a magnet. And now we need to implement this correction so that it is imprinted on all our desires. In total, 49 Sefirot need to be corrected in the 50 days from Passover to Shavuot, but after correcting 33 Sefirot, there is no doubt we will complete our correction. After that, nothing can stop it.

It is known that 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva died from an epidemic in one month. Such enormous egoism manifested in them that instead of loving one’s friend, which the teacher commanded, they fell into unfounded hatred for each other. Therefore they could not withstand the light of correction to be revealed in these days, and died. It was only on the day of Lag Ba’Omer that the epidemic stopped, and the students stopped dying.

Of all the disciples of Rabbi Akiva, only a small group remained under the leadership of Rabbi Shimon. There were ten people in this group who were able to connect with each other like the ten Sefirot, and thanks to this they wrote The Book of Zohar, the greatest Kabbalistic book, a commentary on the Pentateuch of the Torah.

Each time they received the reforming light (the light that returns to the source), corrected themselves with its help, and recorded their corrections and discoveries. This is called a commentary on the Torah. The light itself cannot be described. But when it illuminates desires that strive for unity, it reveals new forms of their unification and thus reveals itself, that is, the Torah.

There is a connection between the spiritual root and the material branch; therefore there are days in our world when a stronger common light comes. Therefore we must use this special time of the Lag Ba’Omer holiday and try with all our might to achieve unity. After all, this is the most favorable moment for it—all conditions contribute to correction.

Rabbi Shimon’s group made corrections to the ten main Sefirot at the time. But now, all of humanity must achieve such ten main Sefirot and then it will reveal the same desires and lights, the same state. The fact that The Book of Zohar has been revealed after centuries of concealment indicates that our desires are ready for final correction, and we live in the generation of the Messiah.

Rabbi Shimon died on the day of Lag Ba’Omer. The departure of the righteous from this world is not a day of mourning but a holiday because it benefits the world. After all, the soul of the righteous rises to an even higher level, which we cannot even discern.

Lag Ba’Omer is a celebration of Kabbalists, a celebration of the upper light, which must come and clothe in people’s souls. This is the same light that was in the 24,000 disciples of Rabbi Akiva, due to their unity, which later disappeared when they could not overcome their egoism, and they died spiritually. Therefore, historically, they also died physically from the epidemic.

Rabbi Shimon’s group revealed all this light among themselves, climbed the 125 steps of the spiritual ladder, wrote about it in The Book of Zohar, and hid it to the present day.

In our time, The Book of Zohar has been revealed and supplemented with a full commentary by Baal HaSulam, entitled “Sulam” (Ladder). This supplement allows us to gradually approach The Book of Zohar and reveal it, until we discover all 125 steps and achieve complete correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/17, The Holiday of Lag Ba’Omer

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Question: We know that in any endeavor, there must be someone responsible. Without that nothing gets done. So why, in inner work, is everyone responsible?

Answer: We see that in any work, if we want to succeed, for example, to build a Sukkah, we divide into teams.

Each team is responsible for its own part—electricity, cooling, heating, kitchen, and so on—and then we succeed. Everyone cares about the overall success, but works on their own portion. Still, everyone is thinking about the common goal.

Now you are asking: in our group, does everyone have to think about Arvut, or can we form a dedicated team for that? Teams are necessary for carrying out tasks that require practical implementation. But each person must have the intention to succeed, and that success is defined as the fulfillment of the condition of Arvut. Everyone must feel that they have come out of their own will to receive.

That is called exodus from Egypt and it is the condition for receiving the Torah. After that, the upper force comes and gives the ability to work with the vessels of reception.

The desire to attain Arvut must be present in each one, otherwise there is no point being in the group at all. Each can perform different actions according to the character of their soul and their capabilities, according to what they are able to do in the group, whether physically, mentally, or theoretically, but the intention must be shared by all.

You cannot divide responsibilities by saying, “You deal with the group’s intention and we will do the action.” Baal HaSulam says that Arvut must apply to everyone. Each one places the whole world on the scale of merit. Each one! You cannot shift this burden onto others because each person has their own vessel (Kli) that they must correct through Arvut.

From my Kli, I must provide my share of Arvut for everyone. He must provide it from his Kli, another from theirs, and so on. And if someone is missing, then because we are all connected, I will be lacking what he was supposed to contribute. I will feel: yes, the group is good, and I always get help, but still something is missing.

But I should not worry about whether I will be filled with Arvut or not. I do not know that. What happens is, a person reaches a state where he breaks free from the will to receive and begins to work in bestowal. That is called crossing the Machsom.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)

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Question: Lag Ba’Omer is mostly known as a holiday for children and teenagers who gather around bonfires in the evening. Aside from this, we know almost nothing about this day. What is the inner meaning of this holiday?

Answer: When I first heard about this holiday, I also thought it was just a tradition to gather around a bonfire, sit, talk, and sing. And mostly it seemed to be something for children, since adults do not typically sit around bonfires.

Lag Ba’Omer is also associated with Rabbi Akiva and his students, although this holiday is mentioned in sources that are over two thousand years old, meaning that they are more ancient than the time when Rabbi Akiva lived. This holiday represents a special spiritual state that was marked even before him.

Lag BaOmer also commemorates the passing of Rabbi Shimon, the author of The Book of Zohar who was a student of Rabbi Akiva. About 40 years ago, I used to go with my teacher Rabash and other students each year on this day to Mount Meron, where Rabbi Shimon is buried. At that time, about two hundred people would gather there to pray. Everything was very modest and quiet.

In the early 1980s, mass pilgrimages to Mount Meron suddenly began during this holiday with crowds of people, buses, and it became very crowded and noisy on that day. The inner uniqueness of the holiday was lost, and so we stopped going.

The essence of the holiday is reflected in its name: “Lag BaOmer,” meaning the 33^rd (Lag) day of the Omer count, which begins right after the first day of the Passover holiday. What exactly are we counting?

The prayer book describes the order of the count and specifies the inner corrections made on each day in one of the Sefirot. Usually such strictly Kabbalistic terms as Sefirot are not used in the prayer book, except in the context of the Omer count.

We must count a total of 49 days, each of which is named after a specific Sefira: Chesed in Chesed, Gevura in Chesed, Tiferet in Chesed, and so on. In this way, we count seven times seven qualities that exist within our soul. These qualities were corrupted by us, and now we seek to correct them within ourselves.

A human being is a desire. If one wants to attain their true fulfillment, they must return to their source, that is, to become similar to the upper force of nature, the Creator.

The Creator is the quality of bestowal and love. This means we must correct ourselves from the egoism in which we currently exist, to love for others. This is the meaning behind the counting of the days of the Omer.

Our corrupted, egoistic desire is divided into 49 parts (seven times seven). Each day we correct one part starting from the lightest desire to the heaviest, that is, from a small hatred to the greatest hatred: 49 degrees of hatred in total. Each time, we correct one degree until we have corrected all of the hatred overall.

Hatred is corrected through light. As it is said: “I created the evil inclination and gave the Torah as a spice for the light in it reforms.” Small portions of light act upon us and correct each of our corrupted desires.

The 49 desires must receive 49 portions of light so that through them they may transform from evil into good from hatred into love. This light can only be drawn through the correct study of Kabbalah, which is called the wisdom of light, the true Torah, since it deals with the correction of the human being.

For this reason, the holiday of Lag BaOmer is connected with Rabbi Shimon, with The Book of Zohar, with Mount Meron, with everything that relates to the inner part of the Torah, to Kabbalah. Rabbi Shimon, through writing The Book of Zohar, passed down to us the method of correction.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 559 – Holidays And Festivals: Lag Ba’Omer,” 5/3/15

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Question: On the holiday of Lag Ba’Omer, bonfires are lit everywhere, children roast potatoes and celebrate. Yet on this same day, Rabbi Shimon passed away. I do not understand the connection. What are we celebrating?

Answer: A person remains in this world until they complete their mission, if they manage to complete it. Rabbi Shimon did.

As it is written in The Book of Zohar, he ascended with his students through all 125 spiritual degrees and reached the final correction of the soul (Gmar Tikkun). His students, together with him, attained those same upper degrees, from the height of which they wrote The Book of Zohar.

Therefore his departure from our world brings not sorrow, but on the contrary, joy. Because this person revealed the entire path to the final correction of the soul to us. He prepared the way for us and the upper lights that can come and correct us. That is why we celebrate the day when he completed his work and left this world.

If a person does not know what they are living for, then they cry when they die or when others die. But for the righteous, who spend their entire lives correcting their soul, there is no issue in transitioning from one world to another.

My teacher Rabash once answered my question about death by saying that just as you take off your shirt in the evening and throw it in the wash, so too when a person dies, they shed the wrapping of the soul called the body, and the soul remains. After all, the soul is what matters, and each time it clothes itself in a different body, just as the next day you put on a new shirt.

Question: Where does the soul remain?

Answer: The soul is a force that exists in the same space in which we live. You just do not feel those dimensions. Do you feel radio waves or TV signals? You do not perceive many phenomena with your senses. Only if, for example, you have a radio receiver can you catch the radio waves, but on your own you do not feel them.

It is the same with spiritual phenomena. You have no tools to detect them, and therefore you do not feel them.

The soul is a special kind of energy that exists here. If, through studying the wisdom of Kabbalah, you become similar to it in your qualities, then you will begin to feel it, you will start to reveal that you have a soul. Until you reveal it, you do not have it. If you have not revealed it, then it means it does not exist for you.
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From KabTV’s On the Radio Station 103FM

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If we attempt to unite, we discover that our nature is absolute evil, complete egoism that acts solely for its own benefit and to the detriment of others. Even if we think we have some good intentions toward others, these too ultimately turn out to be hidden egoism.

With the help of the light that returns to the source, we gradually reveal our egoistic qualities—from the lightest to increasingly heavier ones—and correct them. In this way, our evil egoistic desire is graded through 49 degrees.

Through special actions, we draw the light to ourselves; it is a special force of nature that corrects our egoistic qualities. We do not know how the light works on us; we only notice the result of its influence—the changes within ourselves.

We reveal 49 degrees of egoistic desire within ourselves, and transform them into 49 degrees of ascent toward bestowal and love for others. But the main thing is to correct the first 33 degrees within ourselves. According to the calculation, if we correct ourselves up to and including the 33rd degree, the remaining degrees will inevitably be corrected as well.

We will still need to demand corrections and work on them. But there is already a guarantee, a certain additional force that ensures the correction of the remaining degrees.

After all, the final degrees are the most difficult. They are at the very end of correction, and the process proceeds from the easier to the increasingly more difficult. The last desires are very heavy, but we already have confidence that we will be able to correct them.

Moreover, we can ignite these last desires. They are so heavy that they ignite upon contact with the light that returns to the source. Inside them rages such powerful egoism that they begin to burn and radiate light. These most egoistic desires, directed solely toward self-receiving, undergo the most difficult correction—to receive for the sake of bestowal.

Therefore, Lag BaOmer (the 33^rd day of the Omer) is a special holiday that signifies our inevitable attainment of the special day of global correction, which is called Shavuot, the festival of the giving of the Torah.

This holiday is called Shavuot because it comes after seven weeks (shavuot) of counting the Omer. Moreover, it is the festival of the giving of the Torah, through which we corrected our egoistic desire into a desire for bestowal and love for others. This corrected desire shines entirely with its bestowal, love, and the connection of all into one nation.

The holiday of Shavuot symbolizes the possibility of our connection into one single nation.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 559 – Holidays And Festivals: Lag Ba’Omer,” 5/3/15

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Question: The holiday of Passover tells about the way the Jewish people came out of Egyptian slavery. In fact, for Kabbalists, it sounds different. There is our egoism, our nature, and we talk about how we come out of this egoism.

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

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

Answer: The world feels that it feels bad. But it does not know what the reason is. What the cure for the fact that it feels bad, it does not know either. Like a child: he just feels bad and that is it. There is no recognition of evil, that is, it does not know what the cause of suffering is.

And the reason for suffering is a large, sharp increase in egoism, which sometimes freezes a little and suddenly grows with a jerk.

Question: Does it mean that it is impossible to say that the world feels like it is inside Egyptian slavery, under the slavery of egoism?

Answer: It depends only on the way people feel. But they just feel that they feel bad.

Question: Has the Passover holiday not reached humanity yet?

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

But it is necessary to feel that! 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 such egoists, because we wish evil to each other, and we are in opposition, in contradiction, in internal and external confrontation with each other. We are slaves of this egoistic force that guides us, twists us, and pushes us.

To recognize 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 will his thoughts be? How can one get rid of this? Except for the inner cry: “I want to get rid of it! I do not want to be an egoist!”—what else do we need?

Answer: Nothing! Only to demand from nature that it 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 we will only deceive ourselves with them.

What we can do, however, is to gather, discuss our state, conclude that it is simply terrible, and that there is no way for us to get rid of it ourselves unless we just convince our nature to leave us alone, that we do not want to be under the control of egoism. Take away from us this alien will, this upper force, so that it does not command each of us and does not push us against each other!

Question: Will a person then have a feeling that he is under the control of the Pharaoh?

Answer: Yes, that he is a slave to 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 was created in such a way on purpose. By whom? By a positive force, the Creator, so that 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 that pushes us against each other and does not give us peace, then this will become a truly worldwide holiday in which everyone is interconnected, in which everyone begins to treat each other correctly—with love, with knowledge, and with the understanding that we are one, a single system.

Question: What is “the people’s exit out of slavery”? Are people the whole world?

Answer: Absolutely the whole world.

Question: What about the leader who leads them? The Torah says Moshe or Moses—what is it?

Answer: This is from the word “Moshech,” pulling. It is the force that pulls people out of their egoism.

This force comes from above. The force of recognition of the evil in which we were, and the good in which we can be.

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

Answer: Everyone should feel from within himself that he is shouting, that he wants this. We need nothing else. There is no need to follow any people, leaders, redeemers, messiahs, and so on. We do not need anything else.

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

Answer: Freedom from egoism, freedom from the fact that you are under the influence of evil all the time and it is your inner evil that pushes you to be evil to others. All this is the holiday of redemption. This is the holiday of spring.

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

Question: Then why do we not just concentrate on this point?

Answer: We do not want to, we resist with all our might just not to get 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 exit it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What to do to make people start doing it?

Answer: If we do not want to do it, we will be forced to. But everything will be fine.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/15/22

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Question: On the first evening of the Passover holiday, it is customary to hold a special meal at which the Passover Haggadah is read, which is the telling of the Jews’ escape from Egyptian slavery. Is this story a simple historical narrative or does it have a deeper meaning that applies to today?

Answer: The Egyptian exile dates back to the age of the forefathers, followed by the age of the sons. The patriarch Abraham began to gather disciples from all over Ancient Babylon. He taught that it is impossible to advance and come closer while everyone is in such internecine strife and selfishness, as it happened then in Babylon.

The construction of the Tower of Babel symbolized the ultimate form of selfishness that had grown to the heavens. The whole of Babylon was torn apart by mutual hatred and misunderstanding, which is called “the confusion of languages.”

Abraham told his students that there is a single method for all mankind, but it is impossible to force it on people because it requires maturity from a person. The essence of this method is “love covers all crimes.”

Each of us is inside our egoism, but we must build a connection between us on top of it. Egoism is unfounded hatred of one’s neighbor. If I see my neighbor’s lawn is greener or he has bought a better car than mine, then I start to hate him.

This is hatred for no reason. If my son bought a nice car, I would only be happy. The more successful my children are, the happier I am, but every success of my neighbor spoils my mood.

This happened on a small scale within the neighborhood, yard, and house. But today, the whole world has turned into a Babylon: rich people and poor people are all arguing, defending their opinions, and disagreeing with each other.

We do not know what a good, peaceful life means when you do not feel any pressure. It is like living in paradise. There is no time and space and everything goes smoothly and easily. Everyone helps each other, lets them go ahead. If you need something, everyone rushes to your aid. You can be sure that you will always be supported at the right moment.

We are not used to such a life and cannot imagine it. Abraham explained to the Babylonians that it is impossible to continue living in our growing egoism and quarreling with each other. 99% of all our forces are spent on survival in the conditions of this internecine struggle.

But what if selfishness is so huge? It dominates us; it forces everyone to fight for their opinion, and compels everyone to consider themselves the smartest. It is impossible to fight your nature, and it is not necessary—you just need to rise above it.

Everyone has their own opinion, as it happens between relatives, but we are all united by a family that we all have to take care of together. We need to take this example from life. Let’s say my children do not share my political views: one has more conservative, right–wing views, the other has left-wing views, the third has become Orthodox religious, etc., everyone votes for their own party.

But if we are one family, then despite this, we love everyone and help everyone. It is important to us that this is a person close to us, a member of our family. That is how we have to take care of all the people—as if they were one family.

Then we will not pay attention to the difference of views. If someone wants to live differently, let them live. Everyone can stay with their ego if they consider themselves obligated to love others above it. Others think differently from me, but I do not put pressure on them or try to convince them by force. Everyone is free to remain as they are, which means that all crimes will be covered by love, just like in a good family.

I cancel myself in front of others and do not dictate my opinion to them, but on the contrary, I am ready to join in their desires and help them. And so everyone does relative to the others, thanks to which we create a special, warm common field, which is called the feeling of a family or one people.

We are enveloped in a cloud of love, mutual participation, unification, warmth, reciprocity. It is something completely new. It did not exist before, it is built precisely on this principle of “love that covers all sins.”
Everyone stays with their egoism, but we know how to deal with it. After all, egoism is given to us by nature, and it is obvious to us today that we cannot do anything about it. But from Abraham, we got a technique that allows us to overcome this egoism and unite.

Those who know how to connect above egoism are called Jews (Yehudim), from the word “Yehud” (unity), or the people of Israel, Yashar-El, that is, straight to the Creator. The nation of Israel was created on this basis.

After leaving Babylon, from petty strife, Israel finds itself in a period called the Egyptian exile, which is slavery to its egoism. Egoism dominates us and does not allow us to connect. No matter how hard we try, no matter how hard we work, nothing works.

It is called slavery, which is exhausting work on our material. We try to build something out of it between us, but nothing comes of it until we realize that we need to rise above our ego. It happens after many blows and hard work.

As a result, we decide that it is impossible to continue to exist like this. This is the situation we find ourselves in today. Otherwise we will just destroy each other in an internecine war.

We need to really realize that our life is slavery. The power of evil that lives in us eats us and destroys us. Then we will agree to rise above egoism as we did once before. We do not know how to do this, but at least we are fleeing from mutual hatred, we want to get out from under the power of the Pharaoh.

This means that we are leaving Egypt, running in the dark to no one knows where. We only understand that we can no longer exist in it. And then we come to Mount Sinai, seeing what kind of hatred (sin) exists between us.

We agree to rise above this hatred and unite into one person with one heart, to achieve mutual guarantee, to accept the Torah, that is, the method of unification. The main rule of the Torah is to love one’s neighbor as oneself. That is when we are born as the people of Israel, as it says, “Today you have become My people.”
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From KabTV’s “New Life 537” 3/25/15

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Question: There is some similarity between Moses and the current state of the people of Israel today. Moses does not feel confident about the people of Israel or the Pharaoh although he is in contact with the Creator. The current state of the Israeli nation is also quite insecure.

Answer: It doesn’t matter. If there is a specific direction, if we understand that we have no choice, then despite the conditions that force us to escape from Egypt and to jump into the Red Sea, we do what we have to do.

Question: But you say that the modern Israeli nation doesn’t feel that it is in Egypt. Perhaps a certain force should appear or someone who can explain and start this process?

Answer: This is exactly what we are trying to do. Our group, our organization, wants to show the whole nation of Israel that there is a way to be saved. Let’s change our lives! After all, things are constantly getting worse; the world is becoming more and more hostile, and the Israeli society is disintegrated and divided. Our security is in an increasingly growing danger.

The blows that we feel do not come upon the “nation of Israel,” but upon “Egypt,” upon our ego, since we do not want to exit it. Israel in us, the desire to bestow that wants to come out of exile and to ascend, does not feel the blows. When we are in the ego, it feels the pain, but the moment we leave it, we become disconnected from the “plagues.”

Question: What should we do in order to stop falling into the ego?

Answer: The only thing we should do is to unite. We have the method of connecting for the whole people of Israel, and it is the means to be free of all our troubles.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalists Write: The Night of Passover Seder” 3/4/13

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