Question: We use four types of plants in Sukkot. What are these actions?

Answer: The four types of plants come from the fact that our egoism and in general our desires, even non-egoistic ones, consist of four levels. In Kabbalah, they are simply marked: one, two, three, and four.

If we bind them together, they gather into a state called Malchut. And if this state really consists of all the previous qualities, then they gather inside them the quality of bestowal and love, which binds all our desires and intentions, and we thus become like the upper light.

Four types of plants: willow, myrtle, palm branch, and citrus are the upshots of spiritual roots. Kabbalists did not just decide that this is how it will be, but saw in them a clear connection to spiritual roots that manifest in our world this way.

Willow, a plant that has neither taste nor smell, symbolizes the lack of importance for connection and correct relations between people. For us, there is nothing pleasant about them either in the heart or in the mind.

Myrtle has no taste, but it has smell. Taste is a sensation and smell is what we sense with our mind. We understand that unity, a good attitude toward people, is important, but this is not in our heart. The palm branch (date palm), on the contrary, has taste but no smell. And citrus fruits have both taste and smell.

When you hold all four types of plants together, you seemingly want to attract the upper light around us to them. This is the manifestation of the fact that your desire becomes whole, complete, and directed toward bestowal, and thus the upper light enters you.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/7/19

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After Yom Kippur passes, a person who has made internal corrections must restore himself in the right shape, in the right form. This restoration is represented by the construction of a hut-like structure called a Sukkah.

From the waste of the field and trees, mainly from the waste of agriculture, as well as leftovers of the production of bread and wine, we build a temporary home. By doing this, we embody those desires, intentions, and actions that were previously completely unimportant for us, were like waste, i.e., we did not pay attention to relationships with other people; now, on the contrary, we focus on how to treat others, how to come closer to each other.

It is from these actions, which were previously not used correctly, we are now making a cover on the Sukkah. Then we sit in it for a whole week and celebrate our new home. This symbolizes that we really want to build ourselves in a new way.

The construction of a Sukkah represents the construction of a spiritual Kli (vessel). The roof symbolizes the anti-egoistic quality, the screen.

Bread represents a special force, which is called the light of Hassadim, and wine, the force of the light of Hochma. These two forces must be properly coordinated with each other so that they clearly fill our soul. This materializes in the fact that we sit inside the Sukkah and have a meal.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/7/19

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Comment: Our soul consists of ten Sefirot. The first three Sefirot belong to the head where we make decisions and the other seven to the body where we receive pleasure from adhesion with the upper force that is revealed in the connection between us.

These seven Sefirot, i.e., the seven days of Sukkot, represent the Ushpizin: the seven sages from Abraham to David whom we invite to visit.

My Response: This is about the seven degrees of descent of the upper light: Hessed, Gevurah, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yessod, and Malchut. They descend to us from the head: Keter, Hochma, and Bina.

We must present ourselves in such a way that these upper lights enter the corrected soul and are assembled in the correct form from the shattered pieces of the common soul. If we assemble them, then the upper light can enter and fill them.

Comment: Allegorically, it is said that every evening we invite a guest.

My Response: By guests we mean special lights, the upper fillings of our soul. Hessed, Gevurah, and Tifferet are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And so on. Kabbalists have never associated them with any personalities because these are specific qualities in a person.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/7/19

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Question: To build a Sukkah means to build a Kli (vessel), and to cover a Sukkah with a roof means to make your desires ready to receive the light. What does it mean to receive the light? What is the connection between the light, the Creator, and the people who I suddenly begin to treat well?

Answer: Our souls are our desires. Only when they are corrected by altruistic intentions are they filled with the upper light, upper energy. In this way, we begin to feel the Creator who is inside us in our correct intentions.

The upper light or the Creator enters into us and fills us according to the measure of equivalence with Him that we reach.

When several people build correct communication between them according to clear laws, the feelings of mutual bestowal and mutual love begin to reveal themselves in this connection. And in them, since they are correct, that is, they are directed not for one’s egoist self, but for the benefit of others, we feel the quality of the Creator according to our equivalence to Him.

This quality of emanation and integration exists in nature, but in order to feel it, we build a suitable receiver within ourselves. If I create the conditions of bestowal and love within myself, then the field of bestowal and love that exists around me manifests within me, that is, a field of the same orientation is induced.

The Creator constantly sends us information through the inanimate, vegetative, and animalistic nature and, of course, through other people, but we simply do not recognize it.

Through every interaction with any person, the Creator wants to tell me something, but I cannot decipher it because I am on a different wavelength from Him, in different qualities.

This is not easy to implement, but the law is very simple, purely physical, like the law of induction [Faraday’s law] in our world. All radios and all receivers, in general, are built on the principle of similarity. The entire universe operates on this principle.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/7/19

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It is written: “Know, that man must cross a very, very narrow bridge, and the rule and the most important thing is not to be afraid at all.” How can we have only faith and no fear at all?

We need to cross a narrow bridge over the abyss while holding on to each other’s hands. It turns out that everyone depends on everyone. This is how we move from the degree of Malchut to the degree of Bina.

If we want help from above from the Creator, we must turn to Him with a prayer called raising MAN—our request. The help from above is called MAD.

Each one looks at the one walking in front of him. It is such a narrow bridge that I cannot see anything except the friend walking in front of me. Therefore, we must all be connected with each other and aimed at the Creator in order to feel how He leads us all. Then, in this chain, we will move from one side of the abyss to the other, from Malchut to Bina.

Malchut is called this world, which we now feel egoistically, and Bina is called the next world, which exists according to the law of bestowal. Therefore, it is clear that the next world exists everywhere and is not revealed after a person dies. After death, there is nothing: the animalistic body dies and decomposes, nothing remains. But during this life, we have the opportunity to enter the true next world, the quality of bestowal, the quality of the Creator.

Not to be afraid at all means seeing the Creator before us who creates difficulties for us in order to teach us to walk, like parents teach a baby to take the first steps.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/21, “Preparing to Attack at the Congress”

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A ten can unite in such a way that it makes one common boat out of itself in which it will sail through the waves without fear of drowning in the sea of egoism. We want to build this boat from our mutual forces of bestowal and get into it together.

Waves are raging around our boat, sharks are circling, but we sit inside it and we are not afraid of anything if we try to keep together.

This boat is not built from ordinary material, not from wood or metal, but from our mutual guarantee, from our connection. In such a boat we can sail through the waves without being afraid of anything, because the force of the importance of the goal, of the importance of bestowing to the Creator, is keeping us afloat.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/21/21, “Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer”

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Prophets, Book of Joshua, 15:63; 16:10: As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusites dwelt with the children of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.

And they did not drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt among the Ephraimites to this day, and they became servants under tribute.

To the extent that the people of Israel do not correct themselves, they will remain dominated by the desires and goals called other nations. It will be so until the final correction (Gmar Tikkun).

Eventually, at the end of days, there will be no other nations left except the people of Israel, that is, all those who strive for the Creator. Moreover, we are not talking about nationalities or any nationalistic properties. Everyone can stay in their traditions and culture. The only thing that is necessary is to strive for mutual connection between them. This is what Baal HaSulam wrote in “The Last Generation” and all his other articles.

Today we need to come to a state where we overcome these nations in us and guide them toward the intention to act and build everything for the sake of the Creator. Then there will be no need to expel anyone. We banish our intentions and everyone remains in this new world.

The Torah does not say that you need to kill, destroy, or bury. All wars that were fought were mostly spiritual wars. The spirit of the people had to win in connection with others despite the egoistic opposition of the enemy.

Now the world is in such contradiction and fragmentation so that all this would be very quickly realized. And although it is still puffed up and we still want to subdue, conquer, and capture, inside it already manifests a huge emptiness and a sense of futility of any conquests.

This means that we are approaching the land of Israel in order to realize that only the Creator, the one and only, is the upper guiding force for all who want only one thing: to be able to reveal Him in unity between us, and then all egoistic desires will become altruistic. This will be the conquest of the land of Israel.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/9/21

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And when a person passes away from this world, that Nefesh will never move from the grave, … (The Book of Zohar, “Lech Lecha,” Item 98)

The grave is the force of the quality of judgment that a person died from. “A person died” means a transformation of our egoistic inclination. What does it mean that we came out of the womb? We turned upside down, left all the previous egoistic calculations and started new ones, altruistic ones, and entered a new world.

In the spiritual world, as in our world, the embryo passes through a narrow passage. “Narrow” in Hebrew is “Tsar,” “Tsarot” (suffering). This is a result of the absence of the light of Hassadim when only the light of Hochma, a force without mercy, acts on a person to give birth to him.

Otherwise, he will not be able to pass through this narrow passage and be born in the upper world, because he himself does not have the strength to create a quality of mercy from himself.

Question: So he must necessarily experience these Tsarot, this hardship of birth?

Answer: There is no caesarean section in the spiritual world. You can be born there only by going through a state resulting from the light of Hochma acting upon you. This light is very sharp, very heavy, and complex.

This state is called fleeing Egypt. A person must go through it because the light of mercy, the so-called quality of Hasadim, does not come from above but develops from the person himself. But one is still unable to develop this quality, therefore only the light of Hochma affects him, which causes his birth. In spirituality this is called crossing the Final Sea (Yam Suf). This passage is very dramatic.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #19

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For man shall not see Me and live (Exodus 33:20).

To see the Creator means to engage your senses of perception of the direct light, the so-called desires of the mind, the light of Hochma, and receive it in your desires. But you cannot do this because it will instantly result in a short circuit between the upper light and your desire, like plus and minus.

You need to build resistance between them where the difference in potential and energy will be created, which is transformed into a sensation of this degree to the extent that you can be between a plus and a minus, between your egoism and the light of the Creator.

When you are between them and are ready to resist straight fulfillment, namely you turn on your resistance and want to use the desire and the incoming pleasure to fulfill others, you begin to attain the next, higher degree.

Turning into resistance to your own egoism and fulfilling others is an ideal state. Then the upper light will pass through you, which will work for you as resistance.

This is perfection, this is where joy is, because all the qualities of the Creator, all the qualities of the upper light, and all the spiritual energy will manifest in you. Otherwise, you will simply short-circuit the plus and minus and turn everything into death.

Question: Are all other souls included in this resistance? Do I sense them in it?

Answer: No, only you are included in this resistance. What does it mean that you are working with it? By rising above your egoism, you connect with other souls in order to fulfill them. You put a barrier before your egoism and start working in the opposite direction.

At the same time you connect other receiving souls to yourself so the energy, light, power, and strength consumed by you, passes through you, and goes to them. In this you become like the Creator filling them.

The Creator stands behind you as a source of infinite energy, pleasure, and attainment. And all of it passes through you to others.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #20

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