Question: What does “the king of the city” mean?

Answer: It is written, “There is no capital without a leader.” Therefore, the king of the city is the upper leader, the master of the city, that is, of some part of the population of the country, which is in his full control.

Question: If we are talking about the kings of the cities of the seven nations, then they must be the most egoistic ones, right?

Answer: Every king should represent the nation that is under his control.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/13/21

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Question: What does “the seven nations inhabiting the land of Israel” mean?

Answer: The seven nations are those desires that have not yet found their correction, the correct intention to the Creator.

The land of Israel before the arrival of the Jews was inhabited and other people lived in it. As we see from the books of Prophets, the people of Israel who came here were supposed to drive them out. This was done in accordance with the directions and commandments.

In the internal, spiritual sense, the exit of the sons of Israel from Egypt, i.e., from their egoism, the passage of the Red Sea, then the desert, and other barriers mean certain stages of their rise above their egoism. Then, after forty years [the ascent from Malchut to Bina (mercy)], they felt that they had the opportunity to take possession of the level of Bina.

But at the same time, they discovered that when they were included in Bina, they felt the desires of supposedly foreign people, new egoistic properties, in themselves. Therefore, they had to subdue these properties, correct them, after which they became sovereignly existing at the level of the land of Israel, at the level of desires striving towards the Creator.

In other words, having reached the level of Bina, they felt that they have seven desires, seven nations, inhabiting the land of Israel that need to be expelled.

All this happens only with the desires of a person. There is nothing but desires. Now they are depicting our corporeal world for us and then they will draw the upper world.

Question: What does it mean to conquer these seven nations (seven desires)?

Answer: Change them from egoistic to altruistic.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/13/21

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Question: Why should we keep our individuality when we annul ourselves between us?

Answer: We don’t keep anything. I simply want to resemble the Creator. Whatever changes in me at the same time makes no difference. This is the only thing I try to attain.

Question: But a person still loses his individuality.

Answer: We don’t have any individuality. What individuality is there in me? In what way am I special? In the revelations of my ego?! There is nothing special about it.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 9/15/19

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How can I overcome any state I am given? If I check it against my friends, I will realize that I can work in any state. You must check yourself from both sides, from below and from above: on one hand to feel lower than all the friends and at the same time to be an active member of the group and invest in it.

This means that at the same time I am in the lowest and in the highest state and then I correctly establish myself relative to the ten. We always check ourselves relative to the spiritual Partzuf that we are building.

I annul myself relative to the center of the ten. The ten is my boat, the ten Sefirot, the group. There is no individual in it, only our common connection that the Creator wants us to achieve on His terms.

He is creating inner conditions in each of us, egoism and inner qualities, in order for me to discover all the qualities that I have and with all this baggage I join my friends and create one circle, sphere, boat, spiritual vessel.

Everyone’s job is to unite all comrades into one vessel, filling them with their own properties, and to feel that this depends on him.

Everyone’s job is to connect all the friends into one vessel to fill them with their qualities, and to feel that everything depends on him. Instead of Malchut, the lowest Sefira of all, I can be Keter, the highest Sefira. This is how I check myself and the ten and work with my friends.

Of course, all this is not done by me but by the upper light. As I annul myself before the Creator and do what He wants from me, I reveal how He does everything and how I, by clinging to Him, understand more and more what is happening to me.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/17/21, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #62 “Descends and Incites, Ascends and Complains”

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It’s a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies. (Che Guevara)

“It’s sad not to have friends.” It is sad indeed. It is necessary to have friends because without that it is impossible to move toward the goal. Only to the extent that you get closer to other people can you move toward the goal, because the goal is between everyone, between people, between friends.

“And it’s even sadder not to have enemies.” I would say that if I don’t feel opponents it means the Creator doesn’t push me toward the goal. And that’s why it makes me sad too. There must be opponents, strong and tough. It depends on how capable you are.

Question: And what are you doing with these opponents? How do you defeat them?

Answer: I do not defeat them. I take them into account, and choose my path further. Opponents direct me.

Question: So this is an adjustment that cannot be removed?

Answer: In no way. I am very grateful to them for that.

Question: And if, as it often happens now, one destroys opponents, is this the wrong way?

Answer: This is from internal mediocrity; I cannot say otherwise. Because you have to respect your enemies. Because this is the next line, the left along with the right line. And only the right combination of these two lines can get you to the goal.

Therefore in no case despise; do not destroy; do not take away enemies. Take them into account all the time, no less than you accept the forces that supposedly help you in achieving your goal. Enemies help you in achieving your goal even more, you just don’t see it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/4/21

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Question: What do the twelve tribes that enter the land of Israel represent?

Answer: The twelve tribes of Israel symbolize the twelve forces that reveal the Creator in their joint desires so much that their common desire is called Eretz Yisrael, the land of Israel, the desire of Israel. “Eretz”, from the word “ratzon” – “desire.”

Their work is to connect with each other to such a level where there is no difference between them, where they all turn into one common desire that is in full connection with the Creator, in full similarity to Him.

Question: Why are there twelve?

Answer: Three lines in each of four stages give the number 12. This is already the structure of the spiritual Partzuf, the structure of the common soul.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/13/21

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Question: Isn’t the revelation of the Creator creating something out of nothing since there was nothing like it before?

Answer: The revelation of the Creator in each of us is really like the creation of man itself. In my egoistic desire, I begin to transform myself to be equivalent to the Creator, to build the man inside me called Adam (from the word “Adomeh”—similar to the Creator).

In principle, everything is simple: I must understand who the Creator is and help others reach this state too. This is called building man out of an animal. In this way, I will also become like the Creator.

Question: Let’s say I see a neighbor in front of me. What can I give him?

Answer: You can give him the method by which he will gradually become like the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/19/21

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Question: What does it mean “Do not deviate from the Torah either to the right or left.”

Answer: It means to abide by the Torah not in the right or the left line, but in the middle.

That is, you must take into account your egoistic foundations. They do not disappear, you must constantly correct them from the right line and follow the middle line.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/13/21

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Question: I spoke to many psychologists and tried to understand what the problem with psychology is. They say that it is very difficult to find methods of managing egoism because it is constantly growing, especially nowadays.

How do Kabbalists deal with the fact that egoism is constantly growing? How can we counterbalance it?

Answer: Kabbalists say that there is no need to counterbalance egoism, there is no need to do anything with it at all. You just have to work all the time to master the quality of bestowal and love, rise above the ego, and not stay on its level. That is the approach of Kabbalah.

By rising above egoism toward the quality of bestowal, love, connection, interaction, and communication with each other, we begin to understand how diverse egoism is, how strong it is, and how difficult it is for us to deal with it.

But at the same time, we reveal qualities in us that are opposite to egoism. And then, based on the combination of egoistic and altruistic qualities, we can understand both psychology and the science of Kabbalah.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/15/21

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Question: Are there clear instructions as to which egoistic attributes match which level? In other words, on which level do we need to correct certain egoistic attributes?

Answer: The same egoistic attributes that are revealed in a person in our world each and every moment need to be restricted and should not be used.

If a person does that, he begins to feel that he is in a certain egoistic state, in the attribute of bestowal. Now he can already increase this attribute with regard to others, with regard to the Creator, and thus ascend to upper levels and feel the upper nature, His attributes of bestowal, love, and unity.

He begins to understand the origin of our world and why it is managed in this particular way. A person sees and understands all the causes and effects of what happens here. He reveals all that as he attains a certain level in the spiritual world.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 10/6/19

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