Gmar Tikkun is the complete, final correction of egoism into bestowal and love when we turn the ego into the opposite quality.

Here, the science of Kabbalah comes to our aid. With the help of this methodology, the upper light affects the egoistic desire gradually raising it to new desires: to bestowal, love, and connection with others. This is a serious change of our essence into its opposite.

Question: Can we say that this is a change from an egocentric perception of the world to a holistic perception of the world?

Answer: Of course.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 6/17/19

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MAN is an acronym for Mei Nukvin (female waters). A woman in Kabbalah is always associated with desire, a man with bestowal. A woman is a desire to receive, a man is a desire to give. Therefore, female waters means the rise of desire from the bottom up to the Creator. Moreover, they encourage the Creator to begin creation, correction, and fulfillment of these desires. In this case, requests from the bottom up are called prayer or MAN.

Question: Is that the MAN (manna) mentioned in the desert?

Answer: This is the MAN (manna), which the Torah says that every morning people picked up and fed on it.

Question: Very often in Kabbalah the term Machsom [barrier] is used. What does it mean?

Answer: Machsom is a state that a person must go through along the path from the sensation of only our world to the sensation of the upper world. In other words, this is the borderline between ours and the spiritual world, a kind of psychological barrier.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 6/17/19

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Question: Why is the spiritual world called “upper”?

Answer: We call it the upper because it is above our properties. Our properties are the properties of receiving, and therefore, we are very dependent on our egoistic desires and their fulfillment.

And the upper world, these are properties that consist of the desire to give, fulfill, love, and nourish others. Since they (the properties) are independent, free in their essence, they are called upper.

In addition, they are closer to the Creator in their attributes. He is absolute bestowal and love. And therefore, everything that is closer to Him, we define as above us, i.e., closer to the root cause.

Question: Speaking of the upper world, we often call it spiritual. What does the word “spiritual” mean?

Answer: The upper world is called spiritual because it is not material.

Question: Is there a difference between the terms “spiritual world” and “upper world”?

Answer: No, these are common, unspecified names.

Question: What is spiritual attainment?

Answer: The comprehension of nature in the quality of bestowal, equal to the Creator, is called spiritual attainment.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 6/17/19

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Remark: The form of corporeal reality is similar to the spiritual one. The difference is only in the quality of the material. There is no detail in our reality that would not have a root in the upper world.

In other words, our world is the world of consequences and the spiritual world, or the world of forces, is the world of roots, i.e., root causes.

My Reply: Everything is very simple. There are reasons and there are consequences. The cause is the upper world, and the effect is our world. Depending on this, we can define them like that.

Question: You said that in the spiritual worlds there are such phenomena that have no consequences in our world. There is a wider range of various sensations there and are not all of them materialized in our world?

Answer: Yes. What do the spiritual world and our world mean? The spiritual world is what is felt in our desires that are corrected into bestowal, into love for others. Our world is what is felt in our uncorrected, selfish desires.

Naturally, there is a difference in sensations because both worlds, their boundaries, calibration, and everything else, are determined only relative to a person. Therefore, we can talk either about what is felt by an ordinary person in our world, not corrected in his egoism, or by a person who has already risen above his egoism and feels what is happening in the intention for bestowal or love for the neighbor.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 6/10/19

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Comment: In the spiritual world there are only objects with independent, conscious desire. For example, a pencil does not exist there because it does not have that desire.

My Response: As with all inanimate matter, it has the common desire of this matter: to maintain its form. In the spiritual world there is no still, vegetative, or animate nature because all the desires of these levels are directed only to self-preservation.

An ordinary person does not exist there either. This is all imaginary nature because it does not emanate, does not produce anything from itself. It is busy only in order to maintain its existence in the most comfortable form and nothing more.

Question: It turns out that the entire spiritual world is exclusively in our brains?

Answer: Of course. Where else? After all, there really is no space. The spiritual desire is called space.

Question: But do the roots of all material objects and phenomena exist?

Answer: That is mandatory. They are in our desire and therefore are reproduced in it.

Question: Can you tell what, for example, is a table in the spiritual? What is being done to it, how is it being used?

Answer: There is a certain force or, as we call it, Reshimo (information record), which draws this table in us.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 6/10/19

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Question: What is the shattering of the Kelim?

Answer: The shattering of the Kelim means a single desire breaking into a multitude of individual desires.

Question: Is there an example of this in our world?

Answer: I doubt it, since even the desires are not very visible to us in this world. I can give you a technical example. Let’s say the engine in my car had been working properly for many years. Suddenly, something happened to it and it fell apart into many different parts that needed to be fixed, tuned, and reconnected.

Question: Kabbalists use language in a very interesting way. You can say “the shattering of the Kelim” or you can say “the sin of Adam.” Are these two different languages?

Answer: Yes. The sin of Adam is the language of the senses and the shattering of the Kelim is the Kabbalistic language or the language of mechanical properties.

Remark: The Kabbalistic language is good insofar as it does not evoke any associations in us, while the word “sin” is associated with so-called sins although, in principle, it has nothing to do with them.

My Comment: Yes, it is. But then, when you delve into the science of Kabbalah and understand how it defines each state, it does not matter how we denote it.

Question: Why didn’t the Kabbalists from the past explain this? Only the most recent Kabbalists Baal HaSulam and Rabash began to explain the Kabbalistic terms.

Answer: The fact is that previous generations were simpler. They were not as confused or full of egoism, nor did they live in such a complex world as we do. Therefore, all of it was clear to them.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 6/17/19

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Aviut is a selfish desire that separates a person from the Creator. This desire must be overcome and not destroyed. One has to rise above it by using it correctly as a lever with which you can turn the Earth upside down.

Therefore, egoism in the usual state and when it separates us from the Creator it is called Aviut, the thickness of a desire. When we use it correctly, then Aviut turns into Zakut, to brighten, and, conversely, help us recognize, study, and approach the Creator.

Question: Aviut is coarseness, the size of our desires? Are they divided into four stages?

Answer: Yes. They are divided into the inanimate, vegetative, animate and the human levels.

Question: Is it advisable not to translate Kabbalistic terminology? For example, Aviut as coarseness, etc.

Answer: Of course. As in medicine, the terms in Latin are accepted, in music, in Italian, and in Kabbalah, Kabbalstic. You just need to remember the definition.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 6/17/19

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Question: When I reach a state higher than the one I am in now, will I be able to give my name to this state? Or will I only reveal the names that we study in Kabbalah?

Answer: That is correct. You will reveal these states as they are called in Kabbalah. You will look, say, at a wine glass and say: “Oh! This is called a wine glass. Wine-glass.” Actually, you never knew this word before, but when you see this object, you will understand what it is called.

And this is so with everything that you find at any degree of any world. This is where the name comes from in Kabbalah. Only from attainment.

In our world, names are given from the attainment of the root and the branch. Since everything that is at the level of our world comes from the upper world, the Kabbalists, knowing these roots, gave names to the objects of our world. Therefore, this is how terminology in our world came about.

All this is described in Kabbalistic books. In fact, this was done by Adam 5,780 years ago.
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From KabTV’s Fundamentals of Kabbalah,”1/5/20

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Spiritual Actions and Worldly Terms

Comment: Many Kabbalists and even philosophers of the Middle Ages write that in all primary sources there isn’t a single word about our world, only objects and phenomena that are above time, space, and motion. Even back then people already knew about such things.

The great Kabbalist of the 20th century, Baal HaSulam, writes in his Study of the Ten Sefirot, (Talmud Eser Sefirot,) “The authors of the Kabbalistic books use the ‘worldly’ terms only as symbols to denote the higher, spiritual roots.”

My Response: The stories of Kabbalists might seem strange to us, but they describe only spiritual events and actions, not what is happening in our world, although they use worldly terms to describe them. Therefore, the story is perceived as if it really happened in our world. But the fact remains that it could take place or couldn’t.

Question: It turns out that not all spiritual states described by Kabbalists have materialized where a person and all of humanity must go through. Is that the case?

Answer: They can’t all materialize. A person’s and humanity’s experiences in their spiritual development isn’t everything that is displayed in our world. A person experiences special internal events and a struggle with himself, with а general and private egoism, unification and separation within a group. In general, all this is internal work. Does it have a reflection in our world? Such reflection is very insignificant as a rule.

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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel,” 3/24/19

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Question: In order to express something higher, we must rise from the branches of our world to the roots of the spiritual world. But the tree must have a trunk. Is there any analogy in Kabbalah to the trunk?

Answer: On the emblem of our organization, the roots are shown on top, the branches are below, and between them is the trunk and a horizontal line, which represents the transition from the upper world to our world, and vice versa. This is what is called “Machsom“—the boundary between the two worlds.

The trunk symbolizes the communication line through which the light descends from top to bottom, and from the bottom up, there is an upsurge of our desires and efforts.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 10/27/19

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