Question: What does “Yom Kippur” mean?

Answer: Yom Kippur is Ki Purim, like the day of Purim. “Kippur” means “atonement,” “Purim” comes from the word “Pur,” which means fate.

Therefore, Yom Kippur reveals all our sins that we must gradually correct. From Yom Kippur to Hanukkah, we correct our bestowing desires in order to be only in bestowal, and from Hanukkah to Purim, we also correct the qualities of reception so that they are aimed toward bestowal. Thus, we come to the holiday of Purim.

There are certain prohibitions on Yom Kippur: people do not drink, do not wear leather clothes, and so on. This means that we find egoistic inclusions in all of our desires, and therefore, we cannot use them.

The five types of prohibitions correspond to the five types of restrictions because our egoistic desire consists of five degrees. Each degree corresponds to food, drink, clothing, and so on.

Question: Why is it forbidden to wear leather clothes on this day?

Answer: Clothes (Levush) means that you have a Kli (vessel), a certain correction, and then you can wear such clothes. However, you discover that all of your desires are egoistic, and therefore, you cannot wear them. There is a prohibition on using uncorrected desires.

In his spiritual advancement, a Kabbalist fulfills these prohibitions, meaning restrictions on his desires, checks himself and acts in this way.

Question: Do we also need to observe this in our world?

Answer: Of course, in our world, this exists as a custom. Otherwise, they would not have been passed down from generation to generation for the people and would exist only among Kabbalists who understand their essence and act in this way. Moreover, Kabbalists do this not on the calendar date of Yom Kippur, but every time they are in such a state.

Question: What does a Kabbalist ask for on this day?

Answer: He asks the Creator to help him to exit the boundaries of his egoism. He has no other requests.

There can be only two types of addresses to the Creator: the first is with gratitude for having received such a special work and the second is with a request for strength to rise even higher to the quality of bestowal.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States”

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Question: Must a Kabbalist justify the actions of the Creator like world wars and disasters or should he try to prevent them?

Answer: Preventing or justifying these are different things. A Kabbalist must in any case try to prevent these actions and also justify them.

Question: Can Bnei Baruch prevent a third world war? Or must we justify this action of the Creator?

Answer: This depends on us: on how much our unity will be revealed throughout the world, on how much it will become a safeguard for the world protecting it from its egoism. The problem is that egoism is constantly growing and it ignites and invites problems like world wars. There is nothing to do here anymore. You see that Baal HaSulam wrote about the possibility of a third world war and even of a fourth world war. We hope that our actions will nevertheless prevent this and will make it possible for us to disseminate the method of unity throughout the world. Act! Act among you and around you.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 7/14/19

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Prophets, the Book of Joshua, 8:1: And the Lord said to Joshua, Fear not, and be not dismayed; take all the people of war with you and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land.

Question: In fact, the city was taken by deception. Why is it necessary to work with egoism by deception? Why can’t you take it directly?

Answer: Because egoism is right: it wants to enjoy, to receive. It does not deceive anyone. It leads a person to pleasure, fulfills him. That is why it is so difficult for us to give it up.

We must act by deception, by thievish actions: to lure out the warriors of the city of Ai who are inside us. And it turns out that we are always acting in a bad, indirect way. Otherwise, egoism cannot be defeated.

Question: How can we figure out what is true and what is false?

Answer: Truth is something that comes from the Creator and should prevail in the end. And a lie is anything that works against it. However, everything is relative. Who said that receiving is bad and giving is good? There are completely different philosophies and methods where the opposite is true. And they speak absolutely from the heart.

Question: That is, the truth is understood only if there is a connection with the Creator?

Answer: If the Creator stands above this and says that it is true, then we must accept it, we will discover that this is really the truth and at the end of our actions.

Question: How can I hear what the Creator says? How can I get closer to this truth?

Answer: You must begin to act as He says, that is, to act anti-egoistically, and gradually you will see a deep inner, higher meaning in this.

Question: Is this a correct postulate: If my egoism feels bad, it is good?

Answer: In general, yes. But we are not talking about self-torture or any kind of torment.

It is necessary to work with egoism very nicely, pleasantly, directly. And the deception should be based on the fact that I deceive it the same way I deceive a child when I give him sweet medicine. Only in this way. And that is why I do not feel that I am deceiving, that I am transgressing something.

Question: When we say that we should hate our egoism, what do we mean?

Answer: Egoism should be hated only because it is directed against the Creator and stands in the way between me and Him.

And at the same time, we must respect it. Egoism is considered an angel, the force of the Creator, so there is no way to go anywhere. As a result, respect and hatred are combined. You just need to learn how to work with the ego correctly.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/19/21

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At that time, the great priest, Michael, takes the Ruach and offers it as an offering of sweet savor before the Creator, ZA. It sits there in ZA de Atzilut and is refined in that bundle of life, on which it is written, “Neither has the eye seen a God besides You.”

Afterwards, it comes back down from there to the Garden of Eden on the earth and is refined with all kinds of refinements, dresses that clothing of the air of the Garden of Eden once more, and sits there now in a crown that is twice as big as what it was prior to its ascent to ZON de Atzilut. (Zohar for All, Lech Lecha, item 102)

The ascent is performed by a special force that acts in the same way as, for example, a magnet, wind, or the force of gravity act in our world.

Just as there are four degrees in the corporeal world: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human, so in the spiritual worlds of Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, and Atzilut there are four different forces that carry out the ascent.

These forces are called the angels Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, and Rafael, and they lift a person up the degrees of the spiritual worlds. In principle, every world has its own force. Nevertheless, they all work together in each of the worlds, despite the fact that one of them is the leading one there.

The very first force that lifts a person to the upper world is Michael, “Mi-kaEl” – “Who is like the Creator.”
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #18

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Question: What does it mean to be careful of underestimating any particle of creation and trying to see the Creator that manages creation through every particle in it?

Answer: The most effective, simplest, and healthiest thing is to get closer to the attribute of the Creator, to study and to explore it. Then you don’t get confused.

Question: Sometimes what I don’t wish for impacts my development best. Why is that so?

Answer: Of course, because I don’t understand what I really need, meaning what is best and most beneficial for me, because I am in my egoistic attributes. It is therefore best to do what Kabbalah books advise and then I will surely reach the goal faster.

Question: How can bad attributes turn into good and beneficial attributes like the Creator initially planned them? Where do human efforts come in or is it a miracle?

Answer: Of course our efforts are necessary and play an important role. We are the ones who do it and not the Creator. In fact the Creator doesn’t exist.

There are two forces in nature, the negative force and the positive force. We just need to use them correctly. When the two forces cooperate mutually and correctly, we can take what we need from each of the forces.

Question: I would like to complete three laws of dialectics by a fourth law that can be expressed by what Hillel said when he entered the framework of the wisdom of Kabbalah, “everything that is rational is real, and everything that is real is rational.” If reality doesn’t become rational, it ceases to be reality.

Answer: I agree. Both you and Hillel are right.

Question: How does the level of attainment of different friends in the ten affect its spiritual height?

Answer: The spirituality of the ten is the degree of their unity. So according to the degree of its unity, the whole ten begins to feel the upper world and the Creator who is revealed between them but each one in his individual way.

Question: When will humanity mature? Is our society like fruit on a tree waiting and counting the days and months until it ripens?

Answer: When you can love everyone, the sweet fruit will be revealed, the fruit of the tree of the Garden of Eden. You will pick it and feel its sweetness.

Question: Is the feeling of the Creator, connection between people, like the feeling of waking up from a dream?

Answer: Yes. At first I want to lose consciousness and fall asleep, and then it is the opposite, I want to wake up and see.

Question: Is the transition to the spiritual world related to the sufferings of the body?

Answer: No. of course you grow tired of the study. You need to work and to study with the ten and to put lots of time and effort into it, but these are not sufferings.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 7/7/19

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Question: How long can it take for a person today to acquire the power of the Masach?

Answer: We cannot say anything about acquisition of the Masach in our time, because this is a special time when people are not moving towards the spiritual alone, as it was in previous generations.

Now for the first time, literally billions of people in the world unconsciously aspire to the Creator. They do not understand it, but they strive for Him. Therefore we cannot say specifically how the correction will take place in our so-called last generation.

Question: Can several participants in this process have a Masach at the same time?

Answer: I think that the Masach should appear in parallel for many and they will be able to help each other.

Question: At the end of September we are planning a big virtual congress with thousands of participants. When so many people gather and study certain materials related to the construction of the Masach at the same time, can it cause them to acquire the Masach?

Answer: Yes. This can cause the Masach to appear in many people, and generally move all participants forward into spiritual space.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 8/20/21

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Prophets, Joshua, 8:26-28: And Joshua did not draw back his hand that he had stretched out with the spear, until he had completely destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, a desolation to this day.

Question: What does it mean that while the battle is going on Joshua’s hand hasn’t been drawn back?

Answer: The raised hand symbolizes the direction of a person, his intention: to destroy these desires so that there is not a single one left that could ever be used in some way.

It is written: And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, a desolation to this day. To this day means never to use egoism again. That is, we are talking about a part of egoism that is corrected precisely by its destruction.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/19/21

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In one of his articles Rabash says that we should see the Creator who guides us to Him behind every friend. We should perceive the friend as if the Creator is behind him and then we will see that the world suddenly becomes transparent, airy, and there is nothing other than you and the upper force, that “there is none else besides Him.” While everything else is but His presentation so that you will gradually focus on the Creator and see everything else as His attributes.

You will eventually reveal Him, and then you will see all the actions in the world on the levels of inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature and the human level, everything that happens before you, as the bestowal of the Creator who develops your attributes. By developing these attributes correctly with regard to the Creator, you begin to develop inside you the essence of the levels of still nature, the vegetative, the animate, and the human level, Aviut (desire) on the levels 1, 2, 3, and 4.

This is how you measure your connection to the Creator that can be on level 1, which is the level of still nature; level 2, which is the vegetative level; level 3, which is the animate level; or level 4, which is the human level. You connect all that to the Creator and then eventually everything is revealed to you. This is how we should actually assess good and evil.

Comment: But we need to ascend to this state in order to assess things internally this way and connect to society.

My Response: It all depends on the extent a person who has heard this from me gradually begins to clarify and implement this in life and to relate to the world responsibly, because he relates to the Creator through everything around him.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 7/21/19

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Having entered together with the people of Israel into the land of Canaan, which was practically deserted, Joshua Ben Nun turns it into the land of Israel so that there would live a nation who would completely strive to the Creator.

This means that he turns the empty desire “Canaan” into the desire “Israel,” “straight to the Creator,” so that people who were under his command and under command of Moses, by uniting with each other and striving for the Creator, create conditions for the revelation of the Creator that they want to establish.

Question: You say that this land was empty despite the fact that seven nations lived there. What is this emptiness?

Answer: If people living on earth are not connected with the upper force, do not work for it, do not strive to connect with it, i.e., to rise from their desire, called “earth,” to its degree, then there is no sense in their existence.

Therefore, the intention of Joshua, which he wants to convey to the children of Israel, is to raise them from the knees, not to bow before their egoistic essence, but to wish to unite with the Creator.

This is the task that Joshua is facing now.

Question: Even if the earth is inhabited by people and it gives great fruits, it is still considered empty?

Answer: Yes, but this should not frighten anyone. If a person aspires to the Creator, then the emptiness along the way just are just “scarecrows,” all sorts of obstacles to his spiritual development.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/9/21

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Question: What does it mean to adhere to the Creator and at the same time be His partner?

Answer: To adhere to the Creator means to adhere to Him in complete merging, in complete similarity, in full awareness and understanding. I am independent, and at the same time, precisely because of this independence, because I am the same as Him, I adhere to Him.

At the same time, I represent the female part and the Creator, the male part. All of us together, men and women, represent the female part in relation to the Creator.

Question: So women can be proud of this?

Answer: A woman is the essence of creation more than a man and has a greater ability to reveal nature in relation to the upper force. And in a man there is more from the Creator, more independence in action than in a woman.

Therefore, in our world we are in a state where, in completion with each other, we can achieve such a manifestation of our nature when together we form a single whole similar to the Creator.

As a result, all male and female souls will unite and become one single soul, which is just like a female soul in relation to the Creator.

Question: Do the male and female principles also exist within one person?

Answer: Of course. In every person, both among men and among women, there are different combinations. And the male foundation is always more prevalent than the female one in the degree of bestowal.

At the same time, in relation to one person, I can act as a female principle, and in relation to someone else, as a male principle. For example, in relation to the upper one I am the feminine principle, and in relation to the lower one, say, a student, I am the male principle, and so on. These all are just stages.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #19

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