The Book of Zohar, “Lech Lecha” Item 97: The first extension is the light of Nefesh, the force from which the body is built …

A spiritually born person is called Ish, and the spiritual force that animates him, the force of his existence is called the light of the degree of Nefesh.

[It]…extends by the force of the progenitors’ light of Nefesh. This is so because by the force of the great desire of the progenitors, which is a strong agreement from their light of Nefesh, they extend the light of Nefesh of the newborn from the spiritual world of Assiya, and it clothes in the semen that they produce, and the newborn’s body gradually builds out of this spiritual light.

Just as a person is born from the mother and comes out into our world, but before that he was inside her, so we are born into the spiritual world from within. Therefore, the uterus in which we are now is a preliminary place for birth in the upper world.

The world of Assiya is the lowest of the worlds. The first spiritual birth takes place in it when our eyes and feelings open. I am called Ish in it, and my energy, my understanding, everything that animates me is called Nefesh.

Assiya is the world of action because I do not understand anything yet, I do not know, I just develop via my instinctive actions.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #18

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Question: The screen is an anti-egoistic force that a person acquires in the process of studying Kabbalah. How would you define it? Is it property, a feeling, some strength, a state?

Answer: The screen is the ability to feel the world outside, above our egoism. What we feel in our egoistic desire is called our world. What we can feel above it is called the upper world or the spiritual world.

By acquiring the screen, a person acquires the ability to abstract from his I, from his personal benefit. He begins to perceive everything around him in a completely different form, not related to himself, but as it really is. This is its advantage.

That is, he is no longer a slave of his desires and aspirations, and he does not engage in conscious and even subconscious calculations for his own benefit. He precisely sees the objective picture of the world.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 8/20/21

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Apart from me, there is only one unified and unique force operating in all of reality. It fills the whole world I live in, but I am inside an airtight bubble that allows me to supposedly not depend on it.

And so I exist until I begin to want to break through the walls of this bubble I am locked within like a drop of semen that doesn’t have the possibility to enter the womb and start developing. I want to enter the upper in order to start developing. Therefore, I rip this bubble, come out of it, and start becoming more and more included in the Creator.

If I want to stop being a slave to my desire to receive and to start living in the spiritual world, I must take into account the greatness of the Creator more than the greatness of myself. And if I imagine that the greatness of the Creator is greater than my own greatness, that is, He is superior to me, then I can perform the actions that He demands from me: actions of bestowal, connection, and love. This means that I ask the Creator to elevate me to Him.

We are inside the Creator but everyone is locked in their egoistic bubble. If we come out of this bubble, we begin to feel a huge common upper force, that is, the Creator, the upper light. And if we do not break out of this bubble, we continue to exist in it as every person lives, immersed in himself and feeling nothing else.

Still, vegetative, and animate matter cannot get out of their bubbles and are doomed to exist inside them. They can be freed from them only thanks to man to the extent that they are required by man for his spiritual ascent.

All we need to do is to get out of the egoistic bubble that locks us inside ourselves.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/21, “Annulling Before the Upper One”

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“Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins” (Native American wisdom quote).

That’s right. What does this mean for us? You must first correct yourself, and then you will be able to see others correctly.

To correct yourself means to correct your attitude toward others; that is, make it absolutely kind, at least absolutely neutral. Do not perceive the other person as corrupted, evil, and so on. Then, on this condition, you can see the facts, the truth.

Question: How should I treat a person whom I instinctively, naturally dislike? He is my enemy.

Answer: You should do as it is written, “Who is the mightiest of the mighty? He who makes his foe his friend.”

Question: Could you give advice on how to do this?

Answer: Do to him all the good things that you would do if you loved him.

Smother him with your love. It is very difficult. But when the understanding comes that the world is built on this and we need to act in this way, even though it takes years, then everything becomes simple.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/15/21

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Zohar for All, Lech Lecha, item 96: The most hidden is given to the wise at heart. Three degrees cling to one another—Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama.

Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama are the three degrees of attaining the upper world, the three degrees of attainment of the Creator, coming closer to the Creator, and similarity to Him.

When a person is filled with the light of the first degree, the degree of Nefesh, he feels similar to the Creator in the state of smallness.

Nefesh is considered a force from which the body is built. When a man wakes up in this world to mate with the Nukva, all the organs agree and erect to enjoy it, and the soul and the will of a man readily enter that act, drawing the soul and permeating it into the semen that he lets out.

“Semen” means the spiritual inclination within us that was given to us, from which we begin to develop. This has nothing to do with eroticism. There is no eroticism in the spiritual world. There are desires and passions of bestowal, but not reception.

They are called by the same terms that animalistic desires and passions are called in our world because there is an imprint in the animalistic body as a copy of spiritual qualities and actions. Naturally, in the upper world there is no connection with what is happening in our bodies. In our world, this is just an instinct that promotes physical reproduction plus the development of egoism. No more than that.

Comment: Yet, the human instinct has gained a rather powerful character. It even influences our culture.

My Response: Everything in a person is like this, “love and hunger rule the world.” By love we mean animalistic passion.

In spirituality also “love and hunger rule the world.” It comes from the same force, but acts in different directions. Passing through the spiritual worlds, this force has its own quality and its own aspect of manifestation there. When it enters our world, it manifests itself in a completely different way in animalistic attraction, satiation, and pleasure.

Therefore, there is a difference in the understanding of the same text by an ordinary person and a Kabbalist. For example, a Kabbalist, reading the “Song of Songs” understands it as a great passion for bestowal, for the Creator, for adhesion with Him.

On the spiritual level, these are completely different qualities than on the animalistic level. It is because in our world there is only inanimate, vegetative, and animalistic nature, and the level of “man” does not exist here. “Man” is already a spiritual level in us, a quality of bestowal.

People in our world are called people or “human” according to the goal that they must achieve, according to what is prepared for them, but not according to the degree at which they exist for now.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #18

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Question: Are the steps of development of the embryo the measures of correction, the extent to which we can balance our egoism with altruistic intentions that the Creator forms in us?

Answer: Yes. The images of correct intentions represent the form of a spiritual embryo.

You can achieve this degree only through a group of like-minded people. There is no way to contact the Creator directly because the connection with Him passes through others.

By striving to connect with like-minded people, we seem to create a condition for contact with the Creator.

That is, the Creator is a force that dresses up in a group and acts on a person through it.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual states” 8/6/21

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Why should you take by force that from us that which you can have by Love? (Chief Powhatan)

By force, it seems to us that it is easier, that it is closer, that it is one action. And love, I have to fight against myself not against another. I have to show it. I need to make sure that the other person has felt my attitude toward him as correct and that I have already felt a certain response from him. That’s when you can say that I succeeded in my correction.

Question: Outwardly, should I show this love and the effort that I make on myself in order to love a person I do not love?

Answer: I have to play at it until I awaken the same reaction from the person to myself.

Question: So I should feel this mutual breath to feel the love between us?

Answer: Sure. Without this, it is considered that you did not show love, did not express it, that you, in turn, did not achieve love.

Question: This happens only when I overcome myself. Is there no such thing as simple, natural love? Is it not love?

Answer: No. This is all just philosophy.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/15/21

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Out of the desire—and with the extension of the soul that he extends there—another force is drawn, from among those degrees of angels that are called “persons,” and everything enters into the extension of the semen, and the body is built of them. This is the first, lowermost force of those three degrees—the Nefesh. (Zohar for All, “Lech Lecha,” Item 97).

This is about the spiritual gradation of a person. In our world, the following gradations are accepted: newborn, child, teenager, adolescent, young man, adult, elderly, and old man.

In the spiritual world there also are also degrees of a person’s development and elevation to the level of the Creator, up to the so-called seventy spiritual years, when one reaches full equivalence with the Creator.

Ish (person) is the first degree of a person’s spiritual development, the smallest equivalence with the Creator, the degree of Nefesh.

Just as in our world a little person is born from a seed, so here one is born from spiritual seed that exists in absolutely each one of us. The fact is that when it begins to manifest itself in a person, it makes him seek books, the environment, and the teacher.

Accordingly, he comes to Kabbalah, and while under the influence of the light that he attracts by reading The Book of Zohar, he develops this seed, this embryo of the future man in himself, and rises to the first stage—Ish.

The seed is the point in the heart.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #18

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Question: When you begin to study the wisdom of Kabbalah, you perceive everything like a fairy tale, like a new life, which is indescribable. But with time, perhaps because this is how I see things through my ego, everything becomes a kind of a routine.

It becomes difficult to come to the morning lessons, although I really want to. You have probably been in these states. How can I renew them so that I will constantly have the energy for this?

Answer: When you arrived at the wisdom of Kabbalah your ego led you forward to attain the upper world, to attain the Creator, to know and to understand everything, to control your life and the whole world too. You felt like a hero, as if you had found a gold mine.

When you first joined you received new impressions from every lesson and everything was fine. But then, after a while, everything became dark for you, and you began to draw away because the upper light began to operate on you and to show you that you don’t resemble it, and that you are very far from it.

This means that it shines for you, but you feel that you are being lowered, that nothing interests you, that life is waning away, and nothing is attractive anymore. You feel like some kind of freak, and that in general everything around is totally disgusting. These are the implications of the awakening of the upper light that you have summoned by your study.

You felt this after a year. I felt it after two weeks. I remember this as if it happened today. It is a terrible state. But at the same time it is a very interesting state. When you first feel it a person doesn’t know what it is, what it is for, and why.

So what’s next? Then comes a time of very serious work on yourself. You will not be pulled or pushed forward by sweets or by light blows from behind anymore. You will have to force yourself to move forward, to learn systematically, and then the darkness will gradually fade away.

Good luck!! The main thing is meticulous daily work. He who follows the path will overcome.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 6/23/19

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“And they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees.” It should have written, “With Terah.” However, Terah, Lot, Abraham, and Sarah went out because they wanted primarily to come out from among the wicked. After Terah saw that Abraham his son saved him from the furnace, he returned to doing Abraham’s will, and because of it, Terah and Lot went out with them. (Lech Lecha [Go Forth] Item 17, The Book of Zohar)

Take close relatives with you means that a person takes all his properties that are closest to him, from which he grew up and found the spiritual path with him.

Therefore, Abraham’s father, Terah, and his wife Sarah (egoism in him) accompany him in his spiritual ascent. He gradually absorbs them into himself and thus rises.

All these properties exist within us, and we must understand how to work with them.
The Torah (Bible) tells about the inner transformation of man, how he rises from his animal level to the level of perfection, eternity, the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #17

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