Question: What is a personality?

Answer: Personality is what we create from our spiritual roots, ourselves, by realizing our freewill in connection with the environment.

How can we imagine this? We are animals. A spiritual gene arises in us. It is neutral and must develop into a human being.

We develop it within ourselves through our efforts by yearning to connect with the whole environment, and eventually with all of humanity and with all souls.

Such a personal unity with all souls, which I realize independently through my own efforts, by my freewill, and I prefer to everything else, is called my soul or my personality.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What is personality?” 3/3/11

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Question: What is the function of issuing spiritual information through sound? What is this property?

Answer: This is a human property because a person is at a speaking level (Dargat a-Medaber).

If in other languages this level is called walking upright or thinking, then in Hebrew it is called speaking, because Bina de Arich Anpin descended from the head (Rosh) of this system into its body (Guf), into the executive part, and there formed a property called Garon, throat. All changes take place in it, and from there the upper light descends upon us.

A person who receives his spiritual power from there, and therefore this level is called a speaker.

If you start to carefully study what is written in the primary sources about how we express ourselves through the throat apparatus, you will be amazed at how there are all kinds of small intricate tools driven by our thoughts, feelings, and subconscious, which are launched from within us, simply through the way we communicate with each other.

Virtually all of our communication takes place through this gross apparatus. Some strings, membranes, stretch and vibrate there, which form a rough vibration of the air. But this vibration is launched from a very high matter, from the head (Rosh), and very wisely, very directly.

The essence of a person is expressed precisely through the throat, in which there is a connection with our inner image. Therefore, “speaking man” is the correct expression. Not walking straight or obliquely and not looking forward, but namely, it is the ability to express himself in communication with others through the vocal apparatus, which is directly connected with our inner essence.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call, Voice Telepathy” 1/23/11

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Question: What is logic?

Answer: Logic is a clear sense of the cause and effect connection between phenomena.

Question: But the spiritual seemingly does not conform to logic?

Answer: It is the spiritual that is built according to the most rigid, clear logic. Our world, on the contrary, is absolutely illogical. You just got used to it and are inside of it. It is a small world, a small mind, and so it seems to you that everything is logical here, like a small child for whom everything, so to speak, is logical: this is a toy, this is a car, etc. Everything is in place.

But if you dig a little deeper, nothing is clear, nothing can be understood. There is no logic either in us, in our life, in our communication, in our actions—in anything.

The biggest lack of logic is the fact that we exist. What is the point of living if it all ends, if all the little pleasures are so much less than the efforts to achieve them? Where is the logic if I spend 99% of my efforts and nerves striving to get 1% of something?

In general, where is the logic in a person’s life, in his actions? What is he clinging to? To his protein existence? What does he do in life? He creates a family, gives birth to children. For what? Only to their detriment. What do they have from this life except suffering?

We put an absolutely illogical existence on a pedestal as something special. Life! We praise it, we sing about it! But if this life is devoid of the great meaning of connection with infinity, then it has no meaning. Fools are all who live just like that!

But in the spiritual world, precisely in connection with the penetration into infinity, there is logic, there is a sense of the continuity of existence, a connection with the truth—the force of the world that holds this world and the upper world and leads us to a state above time, movement, and place, which means it is higher than our small, closed, limited world. Even during your earthly life, this force reveals a completely different universe to you.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What is logic?” 2/21/11

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Question: What is the correction of a Kabbalist who is already outside the body?

Answer: A Kabbalist exists in the general system of the universe and works in it. In this vast field everything is interconnected into one single organism in which rigid connections between its parts, like between cells and organs of the body, are constantly updated, overflowing, and changing. All this leads to the revelation of the overall system.

Question: What is the further goal of this system? What will happen when it is fully corrected?

Answer: I am not aware of such a state. It is not described anywhere. There are some hints in The Zohar, but these are just hints. Kabbalistic sources describe only part of the path up to the end of correction, and we do not know what exists after it.

There is a completely different reality that is corrected and perfect, which even Kabbalists who have not reached this state cannot understand. They say in general terms that such high states, properties, and laws begin there, about which we know nothing.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What Is it to Be Out of the Body?” 2/21/11

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Question: Why does a person have such a quality as criticism?

Answer: It is just egoism.

Comment: As a rule, everyone is inclined to criticize others, not themselves.

My Response: This happens if you are in your usual egoism. If you strive to connect with others, then you begin to criticize yourself, whatever in you is the opposite of connecting with others.

If you want to advance to the goal, you have no other choice. You have to set a goal and a means for yourself, and criticize everything that is against it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What Is Criticism?” 2/21/11

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The main work of a person is only to be rewarded with feeling the Creator, that is, to feel that He exists and fills the entire reality. There is none else besides Him; there is only the Creator, and we are inside Him. The whole purpose of our studies and our entire life is to come to the feeling that we exist inside the Creator and we do not need anything else.

Eventually everyone will come to this; the difference is only in the number of cycles of life that will be required for this. But in the end, everyone will reach the purpose of creation and the purpose of their life. That is, they will discover that there is only one upper force, and we live only to reveal it.

Faith in the Creator means to feel Him. To believe is to feel. It is not like in our world where I can believe in what I do not see and do not feel in any way. In spiritual reality, believing is equivalent to feeling, revealing, and seeing.

We need nothing apart from this, and only toward this purpose are we directed throughout our lives. It seems to us that at every step something confuses us and distracts us from it. But this is done on purpose to give us the right direction to reveal the Creator from all this shattered creation.

That is why we circle and wander and encounter shattering after shattering, until we reach a state in which the Creator will finally be revealed. The Creator confuses a person, and He also leads a person out of the confusion and leads one through all these states, as if on dry land between the raging waves of the parted sea.

This is how we grow until we begin to understand and feel this system within which the Creator is concealed. Then we will see that it is precisely due to all the states we have passed through that we eventually managed to reveal the Creator and adhere to Him.

Thus, the Creator teaches us in the same way as we buy toys for our children each according to his age so that the child can play and develop, improve, strengthen their health, and gain experience that helps in life. That is how the Creator develops us.

That is why we go through so many circles of life. Despite the fact that we do not really understand what is happening to us in them, all human lives are a sequence of actions of the Creator who guides us through all these states so that we understand, feel, learn and are ready to perceive life correctly, that is, to reveal the Creator in full.

If a person wants to move toward the Creator, he needs a group of friends, ten people who aim for the same goal. He must stick to the ten and all the time check himself how he can integrate with the ten even more and help his friends so that everyone adheres to each other.

A person should make efforts not to forget that all the disturbances are given to us only in order to tie us even more to the process that we have to go through, that is, to reveal the Creator from each confused state.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/28/23, “The Whole Earth Is Full of His Glory”

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Comment: According to Kabbalah, it is very important to be no higher than others in a group.

My Response: You must feel superior to others only in what you can bestow to your friends. A small one cannot bestow to a big one. You should feel able to give them a feeling of mutual guarantee, that you vouch for them, that you have the strength, the power, and the ability to take full responsibility for their egoism and quench it to the end, over the edge.

It is like a mother who gives such a feeling to her baby; otherwise, the baby will start to worry, cry, get nervous, and feel some kind of lack. This is exactly what children in an orphanage lack; they feel with their skin that there is no one who will always provide them with everything.

In fact a baby does not need much, 50 grams of milk is enough, for example. It only needs the feeling that his mother, who fully covers all his needs, is nearby.

This is the same womb (the place he was before) now in a slightly larger form. Now the world has become larger and the child has begun to feel more in it. But this world should treat him the same way as before when he was in his mother’s womb.

This is how we should grow and gradually receive such a state from the whole world. Imagine how the whole world should treat me, and how I will treat it that way. This is the state Kabbalah calls for.
Birth is an even greater feeling of mutual guarantee, mutual bestowal, and mutual love.

The ideal state is when we develop only in this direction, when this maternal womb develops to the size of infinity and includes everything that we see and feel in our world and in all the worlds. After all, this is the property of Bina; this is the upper mother, it is what is called mother nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Motherly Care” 12/31/12

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The work that a person has to do in this life is called from Lo Lishma to come to Lishma, that is, to rise to bestowal from the beastly state, which is called Lo Lishma.

However, Lo Lishma is also a high degree in comparison to the life of an ordinary person in this world who does not understand where he is, what he lives for, and for whom life is determined only by the demands of his body.

But at some point, development brings a person to a state called Lo Lishma. This is a very important period, which is actually even more significant than our idea of the state of Lishma.

In the state of Lo Lishma we do not yet reveal the Creator and we do not feel our connection with Him or our mutual bestowal. Yet this connection already exists, only it is not face to face, but rather it is from the opposite side. It is written about this that the Creator is like a gazelle that turns its face back when it flees. It is exactly in this position that we feel ourselves in Lo Lishma.

Sometimes it seems to us that we are close to the Creator and sometimes that we are far away. In this way we gradually begin to feel changes in His attitude toward us, and this causes great changes in us. This is how the Creator teaches us to be in contact with Him in all kinds of states and actions, and brings us closer to Him.

Although the Creator seems to be running away all the time, sometimes He looks back and invites us to follow Him. And He does it again and again until a correct and constant attitude is built within us from all His actions. After all, there is nothing static in spirituality; spirituality changes every moment. If something does not change, then it is not spirituality but corporeality.

Spirituality always brings changes in our relationship with the Creator. We should try to follow Him and react to all the changes we receive from Him, and so we will come from Lo Lishma to Lishma. Lo Lishma is a very important state, and it is necessary to know how to use it in order to then enter into Lishma.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/6/23, “From Lo Lishma (Not for Her Sake), We Come to Lishma (For Her Sake)”

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The wisdom of Kabbalah tells us about the soul, about the closest and most innate thing for everyone. It explains what to do with this internal structure, how you can develop it, and begin to feel it. After all, your “I” is hidden somewhere very deep within you, and you do not feel it at all. You exist in your animalistic body, which lives for some period of time and dies.

Imagine that your dog, pig, or donkey lives next to you. And you are kind of inside them. Your thoughts are in this donkey, your desires are in it, your motives are in it, everything is in it, in this donkey that stands next to you. And you yourself do not exist. You are near it, but you do not exist. Absolutely everything that is in you is in him.

This is how we exist in our world, without even imagining that we have to get out of it, break away a little, and find ourselves existing separately from the donkey standing next to us. Let him stand, let him live, and let us give him the most necessary things. It needs nothing but water and a bag of grain. Give it good grain and it will be content with that.

Everything else is the soul. But we do not even touch it, we do not tear ourselves away from our donkey.

Question: Do I still somehow associate myself with this donkey?

Answer: All the time. You live in it. Apart from that, you do not have a single thought of “Who am I?” This is what you do not have—disconnection from the donkey! You are up to your ears in the donkey!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Head over heels inside the donkey!” 2/2/11

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Comment: In our world, we always identify a person through their appearance. I see someone and activate my inner perception of him. It turns out that identifying one by his physical appearance is, in fact, incorrect.

My Response: Of course. Until we begin to feel a higher level, a person for us represents the parameters we can feel, that is, his appearance along with his character and qualities. This is all corporeal. The next level is when we begin to feel his soul.

Question: Do you mean the feeling of his soul in the material world?

Answer: There is no soul in the material world. The material world is a dimension where everything is arranged according to the principle of receiving. While the soul is a quality of bestowal. Therefore, it cannot be felt in the material world.

Question: But you say when we gain spiritual perception, this world does not disappear. So while in this world, you can also perceive another world?

Answer: Yes, you feel another dimension. But they do not overlap because they work on different properties, like radio frequencies.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Organ Transplant” 1/9/11

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