Question: What is the relationship between the corporeal way and the spiritual path?

Answer: I don’t know what the corporeal way and the spiritual way are. They should be unified by the goal I adhere to; I go by that.

The spiritual goal is the revelation of the one upper force that manages our reality, which you can call the Creator or God. It makes no difference. Best of all is to call it nature.

If a person chooses the upper force, then he dismisses all but what is actually necessary for his physical existence because, after all, he is still in a corporeal body.  It needs to exist under special conditions: a person needs food, a home, different services, medical care, etc. To have all that, a person must work.

It turns out that in addition to the work required to serve one’s mortal body, a person needs nothing but aspiration to reveal the upper force in order to serve his soul.

Thus, the thousands of unnecessary, empty actions, hobbies, and occupations disappear from a person’s life. I feel free! I have time for everything.

For example, I engage in preparing for the lesson, I read,  and I participate in different TV programs. In addition to the morning lessons, I also give lectures and write articles that are published in various newspapers. I have time for everything.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/10/16

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Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 5:26: Would that their hearts be like this, to fear Me and to keep all My commandments all the days, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Fear is the quality of awe before the fact that a person has an opportunity to correct himself, but he constantly misses this opportunity to merge with the upper force, to rise to its level, and to become like Moses.

It says in the Torah that everyone must become Moses, that is, to completely correct himself.

Question: Moses often said, “I spoke to Him and convey to you what He told me.” What does it mean that he hears the Creator?

Answer: This means that he feels Him within himself. The sensation of the Creator at the level of Bina is called hearing and at the level of Hochma it is vision.

Before people enter the land of Israel, Moses repeats the laws of the Torah to them.

The entire Torah speaks about one single principle, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” However, at each level, it carries an increasing capacity, deeper egoism, and according to it, the height of spiritual ascent.

Each level looks different. It’s just like with children: in principle, you tell them the same thing, but they understand it differently, and you treat them differently. Everything depends on the internal desire of a person, his requirements and his abilities to absorb your message within himself.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/30/16

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Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 5:25 – 5:28: And the Lord heard the sound of your words when you spoke to me, and the Lord said to me, “I have heard the sound of the words of this people that they have spoken to you; they have done well in all that they have spoken. Would that their hearts be like this, to fear Me and to keep all My commandments all the days, that it might be well with them and with their children forever! Go say to them, ‘Return to your tents.’ But as for you, stand here with Me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which you will teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.”

Moses starts to line people up dividing them into tens, hundreds, thousands, etc. This is a proper distribution of the desires to their levels and their gradual correction in accordance with the depth of their egoism.

Desires in a person mean people and their individual personalities. This is what a person sees outside of him.

All those seven billion I see around me are my internal desires that I perceive as existing outside of me. Had I not seen them outside of myself, I wouldn’t feel them the way I do now. And when they seem to me to be living in this world, I immediately begin to feel that I confront them.

And then who am I? I am an uncorrected point in the heart. Therefore, I feel myself in a confrontation with them. I have to reach love toward each one of them despite the egoism dividing us.

In other words, my egoistic heart is in front of me in the form of external objects. Only when I’m ready to contain the entire outside world, can I say that I am corrected.

But we don’t need to correct ourselves. We don’t have any forces and predispositions for it. We must give it all to the care of the Upper Light and allow Him to do it! Therefore, the Kabbalistic method is intended for placing ourselves under the influence of the Upper Light.

And when a person begins to realize this, his life becomes easy. Therefore it is said, “To those who fear me, tremble before me, the Torah seems very simple.”
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/30/16

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The real goal is to find out the source of sufferings, their function, and to learn to use them correctly for our benefit.

The source of sufferings is the basis of the entire creation. Sufferings are created by the Light of the upper force that wants to fill the creature, and therefore leads and develops it. We can develop only through suffering that eventually leads us to the question about the meaning of life.

A person must rise above material pleasures, such as food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge and understand that there is an absolute and eternal fulfillment. The same Light that created sufferings will now fill them.

It doesn’t matter what we are suffering from, any suffering is a lack of fulfillment. This is why drugs are used so widely today. There are so many desires, a person wants this and that, and something else. And if he takes a drug he wants nothing and he can soothe the pain.

However drugs soothe the suffering through disconnection of the mind, specific receptors in the brain. And the Upper Light, while filling a desire, increases it and makes me want more and more in order to reach absolute and eternal fulfillment.

I don’t cancel suffering, suffering and the Light work together. It is called fulfillment in the middle line when I make sure that the suffering remains. I don’t try just to fulfill and extinguish it in order to lose all desires.

I appreciate my suffering that gives me an opportunity to constantly fill it and enjoy, moving from suffering to fulfillment, as if satisfying my hunger like in the way we try to increase our appetite before a meal, we go for a walk, eat something spicy, or talk about food. After all, the correct use of suffering brings pleasure.

People are ready to pay a lot of money to restore their appetite for food and sex; they pay psychologists to support their desire for family and avoid divorce. All desires are for our benefit and we shouldn’t suppress them. Even pain is good, because it indicates disease and compels us to go to the doctor and start treatment.

Suffering performs a very important function, therefore we shouldn’t just remove it, but we need to use it correctly. This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah does.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 6/23/16

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Question: Is “there is none else besides Him” the most important intention in everything that we do?

Answer: You should also add that the Creator does everything and therefore everything is correct and for a person’s good. And you see it incorrectly to the extent of your incompatibility with the Creator’s attributes.

Question: Should I think about why I do everything I do during the day if I want to reveal the Creator? What should the answer to this question be?

Answer: First we should always ask, “What should I do and for what?” Then I should decide whether to perform that action or not and implement my decision.
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Question: If everything that we get from the Creator is designed for our good and for correction, and everything negative is a change in the form of our desires, what must be “cleansed” from our lives?

Answer: The Creator throws an immense amount of “garbage” into our lives and we need to select the necessities from it and discard the rest. We must sort out what is good and what is bad, what is imperative and what is not imperative. This sorting makes us into a correct creature. Based on it, we understand how the Creator operates.

Before us is a pile of garbage in the form of so-called values: sports, movies, travel, power, wealth, etc. All these lure us so that we cannot differentiate good from bad, light from darkness, the logical from the illogical, and the purposeful from the empty.

If we sort everything correctly, we see that there is almost nothing left to choose from except our inner thoughts and feelings. All the external influences that we get, say through the television or computer screen, are essentially empty.

By separating the necessary from the unnecessary, we constantly choose so that these clarifications will ultimately reveal before us an immense mechanism, the immense system called the Creator.

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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/10/16

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Question: We discussed the point that Pharaoh is the force that keeps us apart in the group, that he is the cause of our being divided and of all the quarrels between us. Pharaoh is a force of nature.

How can we actually work with this force in the group? How can we work with such powerful forces? What can we do with them and what can’t we do?

Answer: Pharaoh, egoism, stands in your way when you want to get closer to each other. You have to get closer to each other to start feeling it. First you will feel that he is the good Pharaoh, the seven years of satiety, and then the evil Pharaoh, the seven years of hunger, at the end of which the ten plagues attack the egoism, by which you will be thrown out of egoism so you come out of Egypt. All the work is only to get closer together over all the disturbances.
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Question: The wisdom of Kabbalah engages in the revelation of the Creator, but where is He? Is He beyond the universe, meaning beyond its borders, or on another dimension, meaning within the universe but in a parallel space?

Answer: The Creator is a field we exist in. He evokes different sensations in us so that we will begin to feel Him.

Therefore the greatest punishment is when the Creator disappears, when He is concealed from us. We feel the connection between us, but we don’t feel the field, the Creator.

The wisdom of Kabbalah is divided into two parts, one part is meant to lead a person to feel the field. The other part is to investigate the field by becoming similar to it. When we change, we feel the field, the Creator, through our changes. The Creator remains constant and only we change until we fully attain Him.
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Question: If there is none else besides Him, then is there a creation?

Answer: Creation appears only when it begins to reveal the Creator. It does not exist prior to that.
Thus, we cannot speak about creation without the Creator or about the Creator without the creation.

In other words, if the desire created by the Creator obtains the property in which it can attain the Creator, then it is called creation. Yet, the part that is still unable to accept the property of the Creator, which means revealing Him within itself, exists in the embryonic state and it is not a creation.

Therefore all people in our world and everything we feel now is a virtual creation, the existence of matter in the state anticipating the spiritual. Creation is called the created desire that has obtained freedom of choice and implemented it in similarity to the Creator.
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From the Convention In Moscow, Day Two 5/3/16, Lesson 4

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Question: Can you define the term “upper forces?”

Answer: The forces that operate in the upper world are altruistic forces, and the lower forces that operate in our world are egoistic forces and therefore we are all egoistic. The Creator says from the beginning, “I have created the evil inclination…,” which means that if you have any problems or complaints, turn to Me personally, and then He immediately adds, “I have created the Torah as a spice.”

Our world is the embodiment of all the evil that was created in us. The evil force, egoism, is the force that generates thoughts and actions only for its own sake, for its own pleasure, momentarily, which is revealed at the moment on all levels of nature: on the still, vegetative, animate, and the human. Living within ourselves is called evil because such a life is short, flawed; we are always locked on ourselves, on satisfying our immediate needs in order to maintain ourselves in a more or less comfortable state.

Let’s imagine that we have created a machine that operates for some time only in order to maintain its functioning and then to happily die. What is this inefficient, unproductive product of the Creator—a person who thinks only of itself, and, consequently, has negative efficiency?

Initially, there was no intention to create a biological machine, as a man and in general all of nature, to live only in order to multiply in great pain and great trouble. In our current state, all of a human life is a desire to survive somehow, to suffer as little as possible and eventually leave this hard, temporary life, to disintegrate into elementary particles, and to put it simply, to rot. Of course, you can not see any perfection or anything in the action of the Creator that would speak of it as of something higher, wise, purposeful.

Therefore, we don’t see anything wise about our life, but quite the opposite: from the first moment a person comes into this world he begins to get closer to his death. And if life is so short, there is nothing inherently good. This creation can not be created by an absolutely perfect Creator, and that we live, does not fit into His plan of creation to delight.

We don’t understand how the Creator, who is absolute and perfect, created such a world; what we undergo in life does not fit into His plan of creation to delight His creatures.

The thought of the creation is to bring the created beings contentment so that they should praise the Creator, resemble Him, so that we would attain the same level of perfection and eternity on which He exists. In order to raise us to His level that is totally opposite from the level we are born and live on in this world, we were given the Upper Light, the upper force, and also a manual telling us how to spur, summon, and fulfill that force so that it will gradually change us and raise us to His level of eternity and wholeness.

This level is totally different from the corporeal level that is characterized by the temporary egoistic desire to fill ourselves right now, no matter what will happen later. A true altruistic level is not what we call altruism in our world, but an intention to ascend above our egoism and to acquire a form that is opposite from it.

Therefore it is written: “I have seen an opposite world.” This is what we must attain in our world. In other words, while living in our egoism, we have to begin to change it, to rise above it, and to turn it inside out. But we don’t have the forces, the capabilities, and understanding to do so. We only suffer from our existence inside it.

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, if a person suffers, it means that you can already speak to him, because as an egoist he wants to get rid of the suffering, of the ego. If we offer him to help him get rid of what constantly oppresses, beats and humiliates him, he will probably agree. This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah offers us.

Kabbalah was hidden as long as we were not disappointed with egoism and believed that it was somehow possible to live with it and to establish some kind of relations between us. And when we realized that we are advancing to the worst possible state, the wisdom of Kabbalah was revealed. When a person begins to feel that the end of civilization is near, when he no longer believes in a bright future and asks himself about the meaning of life, this is the state for which the wisdom of Kabbalah offers a solution. The solution is to change man’s nature into an opposite nature and thus acquire an absolute eternal happy state instead of the current state, which is finite, miserable, and vicious. This is how we can change our fate.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/20/16

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