Question: Biblical prophecies are predictions of events that are going to happen in the future. This information is received from the Creator by special people called prophets.

Predictions are information about events that are more likely to occur in the future. Moreover, predictions are divided into rational and irrational. Rational ones are predictions of some risks, financial indicators, weather, and so on. Irrational ones are all sorts of clairvoyance and fortune-telling.

What is the difference between prophecies and predictions?

Answer: Predictions can be attributed to the fact that people have some knowledge about the development of society, technology, science, and culture, on the basis of which they make assumptions about the future.

They do not have firm confidence in their assumptions, they just know all the technological, cultural, historical, and political moments of human development and by relying on their scientific experience, they can forecast the future.

In principle, this is the usual work of scientists that we turn and consult with for advice for the future. These are not prophets, but just smart people who predict the future with some kind of probability coefficient; since they also do not know it, but have knowledge of the current state of affairs, they can roughly say what may happen tomorrow.

Prophets are people who can immerse themselves in the system of governance of our world, feel the forces that control it, and can to some extent align themselves with these forces. Therefore, they do not predict what will happen based on some calculations, but simply say what should be and will be.

We see stories about such people in the sources and we call them prophets because due to their spiritual development, they rise above the limitations of our world, above time, space, and motion, and thus tell us what can happen.

There are no prophets in our time. We are at such a level that we are no longer waiting for them and do not believe in them. Yet, in general, prophecy does exist.

Question: It is interesting that for religious people all biblical prophecies seem to come true. For skeptics and non-religious people on the other hand, of course none of this happened. In principle, the prophets wrote so ambiguously that it was possible to interpret both ways. Why?

Answer: The fact is that the prophets wrote or spoke from the spiritual level. Those people who were at this level understood them and therefore accepted and saw what was happening. And those people who did not perceive the spiritual level, did not hear and did not feel either the prophets themselves or what happened according to their prophecies.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/21/21

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We are preparing for the convention as if we are going into battle with our egoism that stands between me and my friends. I must break this wall in my heart that separates me from everyone else and achieve such a connection with them that will not be an obstacle for the upper light.

The upper light is concentrated in the intervals between us that are created by the Creator. And we need to build bridges for Him over the barriers separating us so that the light can jump over them. It turns out that by this we increase the light to the height of the barriers.

The barriers divide us more and more and I feel how egoism grows and separates me from my friends, and at the same time my desire to step over these barriers and connect with everyone is also growing.

And due to the fact that we overcome the rejection that has grown to the height of the wall, and unite, we increase the upper light from the initial, minimal light of Nefesh, which was in Adam HaRishon, to the height of the Creator. We increase it by our own strength, in our understanding and sensation, and by making an accurate calculation of how much light we are able to receive.

The correction of sinners that reveal themselves to us allows us to attain the power of the Creator, to acquire His strength and character. And all this is due to our resistance to the desire to enjoy and the breaking that reveals to us the true distance between us. To this extent we will also be able to reveal the connections between us until we fully reveal the Creator in all His might.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/3/22, “Asking the Creator to Fill the Place Between Us”

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Question: Can a person replace real relationships with fictional ones?

Answer: I do not think this is necessary. After all, by developing further, a person will not strive for a huge number of connections. He does not need these connections at all. Why should I keep some hundred and fifty images in my soul, in my mind, and in my feelings? What will it give me?

Kabbalah says that I need to keep ten images inside me and in these ten images I should feel myself building correct interaction with all of nature! Absolutely with all of it. No more.

We are created in such a way that if I have the correct connection with the ten, then within this correct connection I can feel all phenomena, all metamorphoses, everything that only exists in nature. I do not need anything else.

Through the image of the ten, with which I am connected, that is, myself and nine other people, I can reach such a state where through our connections I feel the entire universe at all its levels and the entire upper world at all its levels. It only depends on the quality of our connections.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 12/6/21

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Question: What does it mean to be like the Creator? It sounds like a slogan: “I want to be like the Creator.”

Answer: To become like the Creator is possible through those manifestations of the Creator in us when we feel the oneness of all His desires and intentions, His absolutely kind attitude toward us.

We must reveal this and try to be like Him because everything that we can feel in our world, in any state, and in the upper worlds, can be felt only to the extent of the similarity of our properties to something that is outside of us. And then we will begin to open this source of sensations in us.

Therefore, our method is called the science of Kabbalah, which gives knowledge of how to reveal the Creator. That is, to reveal such thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions that are characteristic of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/14/21

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Question: Being at the congress means being integrated with everyone. But on the other hand, I want to do it quickly and run away, sit in a corner, and observe from the side what is happening. But one came from far away, overcame so much, and must integrate with the friends. How can we work with this state?

Answer: I think you need to detach from your “I.” Leave everything that arises in you for later, for when you go back home.

Do whatever everyone else does and try to feel what everyone else feels. You should not run to a corner and plunge into reflections and different thoughts. Participate as much as you can in the general common motion, in the common game, in the common action.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 2/13/19

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The Creator constricted Himself inside a black point to make room for us. This empty space is filled with the anti-Creator, the lack of light, which we reveal as an egoistic force.

The Creator inverts Himself inside out like a garment and shows us His inverse side. When we feel this inverse side of the upper force, we call it darkness, evil spirits, and all kinds of negative epithets at the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human degrees.

That is, against every good state on the rungs of the spiritual ladder there is a bad state. In the contrast between these two states, we have the opportunity to develop sensations to evaluate the advantage of light from darkness.

Everything is revealed only from its opposite. Therefore our advancement must happen in this way and we should not be afraid of negative states. Every time we fall, we have to understand that we lack a stronger connection between us. The Creator, who is concealed inside this connection, will pull us forward.

Every time, we need to equip ourselves with the support of the Creator more and more, depict Him between us, and make sure that He is present in all our thoughts and actions. The most effective means to attract the Creator is our prayer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/3/22, “Asking the Creator to Fill the Place Between Us”

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Question: Throughout the history of humanity, the word “leprosy” always evoked fear. This disease is characterized by a very interesting feature: its incubation period lasts from three to ten years during which a person outwardly feels healthy, but in fact he is very sick. Our path of development and our life are somewhat akin to this disease.

The Book of Zohar says that we can reveal the Creator and real life only in connection with others. It also calls the desire to use others for one’s own sake and to rule over everyone a house infected with leprosy. Why?

Answer: All my desires, my heart, is my home. It is infected with leprosy because we want everything only for ourselves.

Comment: The Book of Zohar says that if the house is infected with leprosy, then it should be burned.

My Response: Not necessarily burned, there are different types of leprosy treatment. The house can simply be destroyed, the stones and logs can be disassembled, cleaned thoroughly, and reassembled. To do this, you need to turn to a Cohen.

“Cohen” is the quality of bestowal and love with which you should compare your heart and your qualities. The fact is that in our egoism there are four levels, which are called “first, second, third, and fourth.” By comparing, you can see at what level your heart is corrupted. In accordance with this, you can burn the house, or disassemble it, clean it, and sometimes you can build a new house on this place. In general, there are different types of correction.

The Book of Zohar speaks only about the correction of the heart. In this life, a person does not need anything else, only this is his task.

Question: Is there no need to do anything else?

Answer: You need to provide yourself with the most necessary things.

Our world was created specifically so that we could provide for ourselves at this level, and from it, we could independently become similar to the Creator. It is because once you provide for yourself as an animal, you can grow a man within yourself.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up—Anamnesis” 2/19/10

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The feeling of your insignificance is a great and honorable feeling because a person bows his head before a higher power. And of course it is important for what purpose and by what means he does it.

On the other hand, it is written: “And his heart was high in the ways of the Lord.” That is, it seems one should be proud, increase one’s desires, opportunities, and the means to advance. How do these two directions fit together?

In fact, both of them guide us toward the same goal. There is not a single property in a person that would contradict the achievement of the goal. After all, we proceed from a perfect state, from merging with the Creator, where we were at the very first point of creation.

The Creator gave birth to us as a black point immersed in the infinite upper light. And from this point we began to develop due to the fact that the light entered this dark point opposite to the light, “created from nothing.”

All the properties inherent in us were formed from the collision between light and egoistic desire. And therefore, in all reality there is nothing but this opposition between egoism and bestowal, light and darkness, the properties of the Creator and the properties of creation.

Therefore we only need to correct our attitude to this and return to the previous state. And for this we figure out our fragmentation, the opposite of light, and feel distant and confused. But at the same time, we have all the data to collect this, like a child’s game of assembling a Lego set, and to put each part in its place.

And in addition, we have an upper force that influences us and all the Kabbalists of the past around us who help us, with what else we will reveal. And inside this circle is our world group Bnei Baruch, and inside it are our little tens. And all this is inside a system that works, heals, and restores itself.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/27/21, Shamati #230 “The Lord Is High and the Low Will See – 2”

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There is a well-known biblical story about Lot’s wife who when leaving Sodom looked back and turned into a pillar of salt. This means that we must not look back into bygone states and wish to return to them or we will turn into a pillar of salt.

When we learn about other spiritual states, such as the exodus from Egypt, we can see how a person can emerge out of them. But there is no way out of the state of “Sodom” because you do not exchange anything with anyone, you do not communicate, do not take, do not give. There is nothing here! You really turn into a pillar of salt, that is, into a material that does not deteriorate.

You preserve yourself in this state, and that is why it does not have any continuation.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/7/21

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Question: What does it mean to become a slave of the house of Israel?

Answer: It means subjecting yourself to the quality of bestowal and love. The house is a vessel (Kli), and Israel (“Yashar Kel“) means “straight to the Creator.”

Question: What does it mean that a person instructs the Creator to do something?

Answer: Sometimes this can happen because the Creator wants it. As it is said: “My sons defeated Me. If a person himself, through his own efforts, strives for correction, for the purpose of creation, and adds everything from himself that is possible, then this is how it appears.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/27/21

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