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: What is a city wall that protects a city?

Answer: These are intentions of people that they surround themselves with in order to unite within these intentions and hold on to the upper force.

Comment: But we are talking about cities in which seven nations lived.

My Response: It doesn’t matter. All the same, they and even the sinful cities also held on to the upper force. All these properties felt the need for the upper force.

Question: If we say that such desires as “sinful cities” exist in us, then are they the ones surrounded by the city wall?

Answer: Yes. But you want to control them. You do not fully relate to the Creator and do not completely place yourself in His hands. Therefore, these cities are sinful.

However, this does not mean that they are all that bad. We are far from them. To reveal the “city of the sinner” in us is a great height. So it is said that all sinners in the Torah are great personalities.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/13/21

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Question: What does it mean to “rend one’s garments”?

Answer: This is a sign of sorrow. Garment means a screen, covering. This is a correction. However, if this correction turns out to be insufficient, incorrect, or bad, then it is as if it were torn apart.

Or, on the contrary, when a loved one dies, we rend our garments. This is a symbol that the force that was with us while he existed has disappeared somewhere.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/27/21

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Question: In Kabbalah, the most fundamental spiritual state is restriction. What is a restriction? What are we restricting?

Answer: We restrict using our ego to the point where we can begin using it in the direction of bestowal and connection rather than in the direction of rejection and reception.

Egoism is our nature. If we want to begin sensing the spiritual world, meaning, what is not clothed in inanimate, vegetative, and animate matter, but seemingly beyond it, then we need to reorient ourselves and change the direction of using our qualities from reception to bestowal.

Question: Does this apply to all kinds of desires, particularly the basic ones: food, sex, and family?

Answer: A person must reach a state where he uses all his desires, both the basic and the rest of them, not for self-enjoyment. If these desires are necessary for our existence, which is called “neither praised nor condemned, “then we can use them.

The truth is the restriction is placed on the intention. Therefore, I can use everything necessary for the functioning of my body, there are no restrictions on this. It will not hinder your entrance into the upper world.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/16/21

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Question: What is the difference between restriction and screen?

Answer: Contraction is when I simply reduce reception from an external source, maybe from people or from nature, it doesn’t matter what. That is, the desire remains but I cut it from use, from filling.

And the screen is no longer just a reduction in the use of one’s desires, but their conversion to bestowal, to the opposite, not to receive into oneself, but to give to others.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual State” 11/16/21

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Question: Why were the people born in the wilderness not circumcised?

Answer: The desert is a state where the property of Bina is lacking. In this state, it is impossible to soften egoism and correct it to the level of readiness to bestow. Therefore, circumcision is not feasible in the wilderness.

It says: “cut off the edge of your heart”—that is, that part of desire that cannot be corrected.

Circumcision is the extreme part of Malchut (the foreskin), which is cut off as a sign of agreement with the Creator that the fourth part of Malchut, i.e., my egoistic desire, is incorrigible. It is corrected only by cutting it off and throwing it on the sand, on the ground.

Question: How can one understand that this desire cannot be corrected?

Answer: A person cannot understand this. Circumcision is made by his previous stage—father, either spiritual or physical.

Question: Why does man stop falling immediately after circumcision?

Answer: Because the children of Israel enter a state where they can obtain spiritual food for themselves, that is, turn to the Creator. In principle, they can already start feeding on the land.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/20/21

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Question: What does “fall to the ground” mean?

Answer: Falling to the ground is a feeling of the power of the ego over us that we cannot cope with. The earth symbolizes the original, fundamental egoistic desire.

The same thing means “to lay ashes on your head,” i.e., to raise the highest level of egoistic desire (Behina Dalet) above yourself. How to mend oneself in something to the nature created by the Creator, not correcting it, but only submitting to it.

Question: What does “to get land by lot” mean?

Answer: To receive the land by lot means that I completely subjugate to the will of the Creator and I accept all the desires that are aroused in me, called “earth” (Eretz), as blessings, regardless of the form in which they come to me.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/27/21

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Question: What is MAN?

Answer: From the point of view of Kabbalah, MAN is raising the desires of a person to the Creator and a request to correct them. However, according to the description in the Torah, it seems to be the answer of the Creator from above to people. Basically, it is the same thing.

When a person raises his desires to the Creator, then in fact this is the Creator sending him such help. It turns out that a person’s food, MAN (manna), the quality of Bina, as it were, comes from the Creator. Although everyone is filled with the same MAN, everyone has their own sensation.

When the people enter the land of Israel, MAN (manna) stops falling because they no longer need it. They have received the land, now they must properly cultivate and use it, that is, correctly combine Malchut and Bina.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/27/21

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Comment: Wise people say that it is necessary to give, you have to restrict your desires.

My Response: And why don’t you do it? Because you don’t believe these wise people.

Comment: No, because it’s hard. We humans are trying to do this. Sometimes it works out to restrict our desires, in most cases not.

My Response: It is necessary, it is needed, it is profitable. But is this the task that we face in any case or can we avoid it? There are a lot of questions here. Why do I want to change myself, change my nature? What does it give me in the end?

Comment: Revelation of the spiritual world.

My Response: What does revelation of the spiritual world mean? To reveal the quality of bestowal and love for everyone in oneself,  that’s what it means to reveal the spiritual world.

We reveal our world in our egoistic desire and what we observe around us, we see in this desire. Everything that enters me and fills my egoism is called “this world.” Whoever has more egoism feels this world as big. Whoever has a small one, like small children or animals, plants, etc., to this extent he feels this world. So the spiritual world is felt only in the quality of bestowal and love.

We need to think about it: “What will it give me?” I must, after all, learn to respect and appreciate the spiritual qualities, the qualities of bestowal and love. And if I really see that they are so important, necessary—not for me, but for the world, others, because I should not think about myself—then I will go for it.

Love is something that does not apply to me, but to others. I fill others with my good qualities, feelings, and desires if I want to do everything to make them feel good.

To love your neighbor means to make any person in the world your neighbor and give him even more than you give yourself.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/16/21

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Question: You often say that if a person asks for himself, by doing this he harms his soul. Is it worth asking the Creator to change my destiny?

Answer: What for? Behave as you should, try to be better and better, and then the Creator Himself will change everything. To the extent that you try to obey His rules, He will obey yours.

Question: Let’s say I made a choice and acquired the quality of the Creator, am I still under His power, in His qualities?

Answer: Not in His, but in your qualities. You take His nature. It becomes yours. In this case, you get your own power and the opportunity to realize yourself. And you are already under your own power, and not under His.

Having risen above the egoistic nature, you control your destiny with the help of the altruistic nature, and thus you exist eternally in the best condition.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/26/21

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