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In Accordance With The Upper

276.01Question: It is said that the embryo sees the whole world from one end to the other. What does it mean?

Answer: This means that the embryo has no restrictions. He is in full compliance with the upper force, with the mother’s organism or with the qualities of the Creator.

It does not include any egoistic desires and everything in it that is opposite to the upper, the Creator or the mother, is suppressed by the general system. This is how it develops inside the mother.

And although there are some moments when the opposition to the mother may seem to contribute to the miscarriage of the embryo, her body takes it all on itself, suppresses the difference between the embryo and her, and the embryo continues to develop.

The embryo practically does not use egoism. It is automatically fed, its waste is automatically removed. It has nothing of its own.

The spiritual embryo must work on annulling itself before what arises in it. And the physical embryo does this under the influence of the mother’s body.
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From KabTV “Spiritual States” 8/6/21

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Conception Is An Exit To The Spiritual World

608.02Comment: The first stage of a person’s spiritual development, like in the material world, begins with fertilization, when millions of sperms must enter the uterus in order for conception to occur.

My Response: True. In the spiritual, as in the earthly, a person must go through many states and choose the most correct one from them. This is similar to how a drop of semen makes its way through the birth canal into the uterus and reaches a place in it where it can connect to the uterine wall and begin development.

This is really similar to how a person in competition with himself, with his egoism, and not with other people, moves stubbornly and persistently forward, not allowing himself to get away from the goal. Even if he falls and loses strength, he still pursues his goal and realizes he is obliged to advance to it. It doesn’t matter at what speed, it doesn’t matter how smart and talented he is. The road will be mastered by the one who walks.

Question: So a person has to go through a thousand different states and only at one beautiful moment does conception occur?

Answer: Yes. Conception is an exit to the spiritual world, the first connection of a person, his soul, with the Creator. A person seems to be torn away from his egoism, from his personal benefit, and feels that a new quality appears in him, the quality of bestowal and love, which is higher than the egoism of our world.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 8/6/21

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Resisting Egoism

566.02And the Lord said to Joshua, “Be not afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall cripple their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.” (Prophets, Joshua 11:6)

This means: do not give the egoistic desires the opportunity to approach you. If you cannot deal with them, take up the defensive and do everything to deprive them of the means to fight you.

A big problem arises because these desires are so powerful that you can hardly resist fulfilling them. And the Creator is weak here. The problem is that we ourselves understand that we have to resist them.

Comment: But in this case, the Israelis were strong. They broke the chariots, i.e., hit egoism.

My Response: Yes, but egoism works in many directions and with great cunningness. Victory after victory, it is good. But why later are people suffering defeat, and moreover, a huge, general defeat? Because egoism is our nature.

And although it seems to us that we are winning, the victory, in general, is purely external. And in order to really lead the people to unity with each other and with the Creator, it is necessary to fight with the Creator Himself, who arranges all this, both weakens and strengthens. As it is said about Jacob: “You fought with the kings and fought with the Creator and won.”

To conquer means to force the Creator to help you recreate yourself. After constant effort, when you realize that you have no strength, this is a natural move.

Question: It turns out that neither kings nor Israel have any freewill? Those are heated up and these are heated up.

Answer: No, Israel has freewill so that it constantly strengthens its unity against egoism and understands that it cannot do anything—only to ask the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/2/21

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When The World Becomes Uncontrollable

115.06Zohar for All, Lech Lecha, item 22: You should know what is the power of Nimrod over Abraham to throw him into the furnace, which is Ur [Aramaic: light, flame] of the Chaldees, and how he was saved from the furnace.

The king of Babylon, Nimrod, represents a great egoistic force.

If you gather together all modern leaders and politicians who are controlled from above as puppets, you will see Nimrod. This is egoism, which does not know exactly how to perform. It sees that everything is falling apart before it, as our current so-called leaders see.

The world is falling apart. Neither money, which disappears who knows where, nor the army will help. What should we do? Start a nuclear war? That’s pointless!

Today, world leaders are practically deprived of their power. They have nothing to lead with. The police are also very limited. What can be done with people?

The world is becoming unmanageable. This is Nimrod who feels that everything is slipping out of his hands. Abraham is revealed as the radical who seems to be organizing all this. As the saying goes: “These Jews again.” After all, Abraham is considered the first Jew.

Here we can draw a parallel between today’s Israel and everyone else in the world that will very soon treat us like this: “This is it, we have found who is to blame! We will destroy them and everything will be fine.”

Therefore, Nimrod throws Abraham into a furnace. The same will happen to us. However, we will overcome it, and because of that we rise even higher.

Question: Is it necessary to go through this stage historically? After all, we have already been through the gas chambers.

Answer: The fact is that we can go through this furnace internally and not externally. Externally, it is a very long way, decades of all sorts of problems. It is enough for us to go through some difficult state internally and to be born as a new person through it.

This is preferable to us as representatives of Abraham, to the entire world, and even to the haters from the side of Nimrod because they will feel bad themselves. Thus, you can go through everything in a quick, easy, pleasant way of the recognition of evil when you understand that there is evil in you, but at the same time you are already holding a cure for it in your hand.

Comment: The problem is that people want to live peacefully and not to worry.

My Response: They cannot continue like this. The crisis has only shown itself a little. It stuck out its head like a snake and then hid it. Now it will not only stick out its head, but also open its mouth.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #17

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The Importance Of The Right Environment

530Question: Where is the best place for a person who studies the wisdom of Kabbalah to live? In which country? In what environment?

Answer: The environment certainly matters. You need to have 10, 20, 30 people studying the same thing next to you. But the condition that precedes this is a good Internet connection.

Question: There are many programs and videos on spiritual geography that talk about the Land of Israel, about special forces in this place, etc. Is there something in this for a beginner? Should he strive to visit here?

Answer: There is nothing in this for either a beginner or an advanced one. Nothing! It is only important to have the right environment that does the same thing he is doing, and a good connection.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 7/19/21

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Brace Yourselves And Be Strong

945Baal HaSulam, Letter 12: “But what I ask most of all is that you brace yourselves and be strong, and the Creator will be with you. Do speak to the sagging friends to join us, and foreign fears will depart from them, and if they make the house vacant, there will be room for idols. Do not fear the blaze of the swirling sword on the way of the tree of life.

And if you wish to know, I will inform you that I do not find myself far from you at all, and one who feels remoteness, it is because of himself.

Baal HaSulam writes to his students rom afar and guides them and instructs them not to be afraid of anything.

The problem is that the Creator tests a person to see whether he is ready to see only the one unique upper force in everything and not to see anything else but Him.

It is only through unity within the group that a person can turn to the Creator directly. Otherwise, his appeal is very weak because it goes through the whole system of the shattered vessel.

There should be no superstitions here. Superstitions refer to foreign forces other than the Creator. There should not be any other objects that can influence a person, only the Creator through some puppets He operates through strings. These can be one’s relatives, friends, troubles, all of which are basically managed by the one unique force.

So if a person frees the Temple, the place where the Creator is revealed, of different idols, of different foreign sources that influence him, he makes room that the Creator eventually fills.

Baal HaSulam writes: “And if you wish to know, I will inform you that I do not find myself far from you at all, and one who feels remoteness, it is because of himself.” It only seems to you this way because of your uncorrected attributes, while I feel you in my attributes, and so I am among you, right by your side, together with you, in constant direct contact with you.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 2/12/19

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The Beginning Of The Development Of The Altruistic Property

232.07Question: In spirituality, there is the concept of three days of semen absorption in the womb. What do these three stages mean?

Answer: These are not three stages but three forces: right, left, and middle, which must unite and continue their development.

Intrauterine development in the corporeal world lasts 38 weeks—about nine months. This corresponds to the nine Sefirot through which the embryo develops. His corporeal development proceeds in the same way as the development of a spiritual embryo.

Question: In the first eight weeks, the embryo is called “embryo,” and then “fetus.” In Kabbalah, it is believed that fetal formation takes place within 40 days. Why?

Answer: In the first three days, the semen attaches to the uterine wall. Then 40 days of initial fetal development follow. And then: three months plus three months plus three months of fetal development.

We will not analyze each stage now because they contain such parameters that even our medicine does not know.

Question: In one of your teacher’s articles it is written that the Creator places one form inside another—an altruistic form begins to unfold within our egoistic form. Is this what we are talking about?

Answer: Yes. In Hebrew, this is called “Tzor tzura betoch tzura“: within the egoistic desires that make up our nature altruistic desires begin to develop, properties of bestowal and love, the ability to feel others.

That is, conception, germination, development is the beginning of the development of an altruistic property.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 8/6/21

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Conscious Development

237Comment: In the spiritual world, the act of conception, birth, and development is accompanied by rage, anger, even suffering. After all, a person is forced to go by faith above reason as if with his eyes closed.

My Response: Only at the beginning. And then it happens inside a person in his
constant tension to keep the intention for bestowal, for love, and for connection with others and with the Creator.

Question: You write that to annul oneself to the upper is a very hard work. What is this annulment?

Answer: It is in suppressing one’s egoism and gradually rising above it to bestowal, love, altruism. All these efforts take place inside a person.

If in an ordinary embryo  it happens automatically that it, as it were, annuls itself in relation to the mother so that it develops, then here, we do everything consciously.
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To Harden The Hearts Of Kings

232.01Prophets, Joshua 11:18-11:20: Joshua made war a long time with all these kings. There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon; they took all in battle.

For it was from the Lord to harden their hearts, (that they should come) against Israel in battle, that they might destroy them completely, and that they might have no favor, that they might destroy them as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Comment: The Creator hardens the hearts of kings—that is, egoistic desires—for war and says to Israel: “I have weakened them, go and take them.”

My Response: This is about our inner desires which we must cover with the intention “for the sake of the Creator” and transform from reception into bestowal. Yet not by our actions but by our intentions. That is the whole problem. With intentions, you do not know how much work you still have to do and whether you are doing it correctly because you must act completely on your own. And when the Creator indicates against whom to act there is no choice.

Question: But at the same time, the Creator also points to egoistic desires: “Stand up, fight against Israel!” He confronts me with my desires. And this is called help?

Answer: The Creator’s help is in that you are defeated. In the state of descent you discover your weakness, complete powerlessness, and you can ask. You must not defeat anyone except your egoism! Therefore, all the work is aimed at weakening your ego.

Your “I” is the intention: what you want to achieve! And your nature is the egoistic desire. And that is why such a duality awakens in you all the time.

Question: And what is not mine in me?

Answer: The intention to give, to love, to connect with others. Something that sometimes awakens in you and subconsciously does not give you peace. This is not yours; it is the help of the Creator from above.

Question: And I ask for this to come?

Answer: Yes, although you do not ask for it yourself. The Creator awakens this request in you and provides all possible assistance. And help can be “for” and “against.”

In this case, the help is “against” when egoistic desires are heated up and they say: “Go to Israel!” This is the same as when the Creator said to Moses: “Come unto Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart.” That is, “I have warmed him up against you. So, he is ready. But I am with you, don’t worry, go!”
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/2/21

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What Material Is The Screen Made Of?

232.05Question: What material is the screen made of?

Answer: The screen is made only from the connection between the quality of bestowal and the quality of reception; when I rise above them, I start taking from above what I need from them and putting them together in the right combination with each other.

Question: At the same time, is there also a third force, the Creator?

Answer: The third force is called the screen.

Question: As far as I understood, if we, people, were engaged in the correlation of the right and left side and found such a screen, would we get away from wars, from any problems?

Answer: Naturally! Each of us and all of us together would be engaged in the correct combination of our negative and positive qualities so that they complement each other. And so we would achieve harmony every time. This is what we must do.
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