Question: Why is pursuing the truth, even if it is wrong, restricted by censorship? Basically, the whole world is censored.

Answer: The whole world is a totally egoistic field only engaged in planting weeds at the level of still, vegetative, animate, and human, trying to create something out of them to conquer the world, win, defeat, and break it. It is natural. Our whole world is built on a completely different nature.

If some company creates a website where people would advocate an ideologically correct direction of human development, then, of course, they will have to come to Kabbalah.

Question: Could there be disputes and differing opinions?

Answer: Of course. There can be disputes in revealing the truth. But these are disputes not about who is right and who is wrong but what the truth is. The main thing is to have the correct ideology. It does not matter to me who is right or wrong. We need to find out the law of nature that is outside of you and outside of me. We scrutinize it, and we strive for it together.

Question: We know that Kabbalists of the past always had different opinions. Were these disputes aimed to identify a higher level?

Answer: Of course! They greatly encouraged the difference and variety of opinions. This is how truth is revealed. As it is said: “Truth is born in a dispute.” But not in disputes that are currently taking place in parliaments of different countries.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 12/6/21

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Question: Why do we have difficulties studying the material when the second restriction (Tzimtzum Bet)  is explained?

Answer: Because the first restriction is made upon the egoistic desire to receive that is naturally in us.

And with the second restriction, it is not entirely clear what it operates on. It operates on the fact that there is no opportunity to receive but only to become like the property of bestowal with no reception.

That is, there is this first opportunity when I receive and my intention is to receive for the sake of the Giver in order to give Him pleasure. And the second one is when I do not receive because I cannot receive in order to please Him.

Question: Can you give an example? Let’s say, I have several million dollars, and I do not use it at all because I understand that I will use them for myself and will not be connected with the upper force and it is important for me to be in touch with it. This is the first state.

The second state is when I determine that I can use some part, for example, a $100,000 not for myself, but for others. And then to the extent that I use this opportunity for the sake of others, I am connected to the Creator. Is this correct?

Answer: Yes. But this is not the second restriction. It is just using whatever resources you have.

If you do not have a Masach and you can only close yourself from receiving, then this is called the first restriction. If in addition to this you have the opportunity to fulfill yourself for the sake of others, for example, to receive something for the $100,000 in order to pass it on to others but nothing for yourself, then this is already using forces over the first restriction.

And if you cannot realize the second option, then maybe you have the opportunity to make yourself just like others without receiving. But these are purely spiritual concepts, and then you will become like others, not receiving.

Question: So can you give some examples of the second restriction in our world?

Answer: Yes. When you receive something from someone and pass it on to someone else; for example, if you received a million from someone and you have the strength not to take it for yourself but to pass it on, just as Bina receives from Keter and passes it down.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/16/21

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Comment: A person looks for his individuality and tries to express it through objects of this world and through his body. For example, many religions are against organ transplantation. They say that if a person’s organs are replaced, he will lose his individuality.

My Response: This, of course, is nonsense. If we believe that the person in us is our animal body, then we do so. If, for example, I needed a part of some organ and I can take it from an animal or from some other object, so what? Will I get its qualities? These are the same barbaric ideas as “You must drink the blood of the enemy and you will become stronger.”

Question: So Kabbalists do not see anything out of the ordinary in organ transplantation?

Answer: Our body is an absolute animal. What difference does it make what to do with it: Will they cut off a meter of my intestines if necessary or sew someone’s leg to me? If I walk with it normally, then why not?

A person should think about the soul, and the physical body just needs to be maintained, cared for like an animal, so that it gives you the opportunity to develop at the human level.
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rom KabTV’s “Close-Up. Individualist” 1/15/10

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Comment: Many philosophers and psychologists have written that we need to change ourselves.

My Response: But they wrote it from the point of view of morality. This is not at all the same. The science of Kabbalah speaks about changing the nature of a person, not just about a good attitude toward other people.

We ourselves cannot change our nature. And the philosophers had some kind of correction of the relations between people in mind: “We will beautifully limit ourselves, we will put ourselves in some kind of a framework.” This is so-called educated egoism.

And here the idea is completely different. Here we need a special force that will change us. The force that created our egoism in such a rigid form: to enjoy, receive, rule, fill ourselves, and absorb is this force that should make us the inverse, simply turn us over. Nothing else is needed.

Question: Why did nature not create us like this in the first place? Why was it necessary to invert us?

Answer: So that we become convinced that the egoistic basis of life is flawed, harmful, and evil and so we want to move from it to its imprint, to the next, reverse form.

This is what our desire will do. We have no one to ask, there is nothing around us. It is just that in nature there is such a trigger, a switch, that will do this work on us. If we truly recognize our evil and would like to move to the next level of existence, this will happen.

This law exists in nature. This is what Kabbalah and Kabbalists speak about. Kabbalah is the science that revealed this law. It is the basis of its entire method: how to make nature transform us from small egoistic beings into altruistic ones (just truly altruistic, not pseudo-altruistic like in our world). Then we will really begin to feel a completely different nature, a different us, and a different world.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Fire Island” 1/1/10

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Question: Modern science makes discoveries related to processes in the human brain. How do you explain, in the context of egoism, that neural connections form a person’s behavioral principles?

Answer: But this is only an external manifestation of what we see. Egoism itself is a spiritual property of a person, inner forces in us. There are even more inner forces behind them, which we cannot define at all or even feel in any way. We feel ourselves only in some external manifestation.

I feel my body, warmth, movement, and so on, and that is how I perceive myself. However, I cannot attain my inner essence yet. This is how we exist. Egoism is our most inner force.

The upper force, which is absolute bestowal and love, has created within itself the property opposite to it, egoism. This is why we exist in this way.
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From Kab TV’s “Conversations” 11/1/21

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Question: Do stars affect our destiny? If so, is it worth studying astrology or cosmology to somehow influence it?

Answer: There is no point. It is written, “You shall not act on the basis of omens or lucky hours.”

We need to have a correct attitude to our lives. Apart from getting closer to other people, apart from learning to behave correctly with each other according to spiritual laws, which are the laws of connection, love, and friendship, nothing will help us to improve our destiny, avoid world war, or get closer to a good future.

Question: If we live in a volume called nature, the universe, then is it not logical that the stars affect our body, our thinking? After all, we are created from the same matter, from atoms.

Answer: The fact is that a person has a soul. It is said that this is a part of the Creator above, which is within us. It is not subject to any changes and metamorphoses, to anything that happens in our world.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/26/21

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Question: The Creator created the desire to receive and gave us the freedom of choice so that we would understand our oppositeness to His property of bestowal and come to the realization that we must ask Him to change our nature. But why is everything so confusing? Why have hundreds of thousands of years of human development passed and no one knows about it?

Answer: It is our egoism that confuses us. It is said that the Creator made everything straightforward and simple, and people took too many different paths out of this and eventually got entangled in them.

And all this so that we eventually would get to know ourselves and what the Creator has done to us, and understand how we can really approach our likeness.

Question: Does this take hundreds of thousands of years?

Answer: We are not talking about hundreds of thousands of years. After all, until a person has evolved from atoms, molecules, and all kinds of intermediate states, has grown from the animate level and reached a resemblance to today’s man, not so much time has passed. In fact, several thousand years ago, people were just beasts and did not understand what they were for.

And only five thousand years ago, from the time of Adam, the first man who began to comprehend the Creator, they began to realize this. Five thousand years is not much. And before that, we developed like any living organisms that only took care of themselves. Therefore, five thousand years is not a lot to understand yourself.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/19/21

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Question: Is a Kabbalist a better judge of character than a psychologist?

Answer: A Kabbalist understands the essence of people better than a psychologist. But on the other hand, it is possible that a psychologist can solve a person’s small specific problems better than a Kabbalist.

Question: In what cases would you recommend applying to a psychologist?

Answer: I would recommend applying to a psychologist to any person who does not study Kabbalah if he feels any difficulties in communicating with others or, maybe, in understanding himself.

But people who feel that they need to find out what they exist for, what purpose they need to achieve, already need a Kabbalist teacher.

Question: How can one figure out where psychology ends and Kabbalah begins?

Answer: If a person lives within the framework of our world, can cope with it, and is satisfied, then he does not need Kabbalah; psychology is enough for him.

But if he understands that without attaining and understanding the inner forces, those of his own and of the surrounding world, he cannot develop correctly, it attracts him, and he is hindered by the lack of knowledge about the internal mechanism of humanity, then he already needs the science of Kabbalah.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/15/21

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Question: What should a person learn from understanding two terms: “existence from existence” and “existence from absence”?

Answer: Existence from absence means that before that there was nothing that could be pointed out as existing. And what exists is matter, desire, which arose out of nothing.

By our efforts, we must create such conditions that this matter (our egoism) is transformed from receiving into altruism. In this way, we, as if, correct our nature, which the Creator deliberately broke.

We are special creations of the Creator, consisting of an egoistic essence that does not exist in any kind of nature except man. It is due to the fact that egoism is in us that we can change it to the quality of bestowal and love, as if turning it inside out.

And then we will get beings similar to the Creator instead of ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/19/21

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In the News (The New York Times): “Sigmund Freud gave us a psychology of selfishness. Children, he wrote, ‘are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.’”

Question: How would you define selfishness in terms of Kabbalah?

Answer: Freud’s definition concerns only the framework of our world, the framework of earthly egoism. And if a person tries to rise above himself, then he reveals against this a completely different type of egoism, a higher one.

He begins to understand that this is his inner nature, over which he can rise only if he touches the force that controls all of nature, so that it changes him.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/15/21

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