Question: What is matter in a person and what is spiritual? How can you distinguish between spiritual and corporeal life?

Answer: Only by its purpose, what is it exactly that you want. That is the only difference.

I can enjoy life, travel, sit with friends at a good table, and so on. And whether these actions are corporeal or spiritual depends on how we fill them, with what intention, what we talk about during the meal and in other situations.

Everything is conditioned by what goal everyone pursues being together with their friends. If our goal is to unite, to show each other how we want to be internally connected, then this is a spiritual action.

Everything depends only on our intention, on how much we strengthen our connection so that the Creator begins to manifest between us.
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From KabTV’s “Videoconference”

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Question: Should one be afraid of mistakes on the spiritual path?

Answer: If a person goes purely by the call of his heart, namely in accordance with his point in the heart, without considering any advice from “well-wishers,” then he will not be mistaken. Let him not listen to anyone, just go ahead!

Question: Are there any mistakes on the spiritual path at all?

Answer: No. Then the person will see it. He can twist somewhere, somehow, and even seem to be wrong, but this is also part of his life path. All the so-called errors are written in it in advance. A person learns from them.

Question: Should he build a framework around himself that would protect him? Or go only forward, no matter what?

Answer: I think we should just go ahead. But I emphasize that we are talking about a person who has found out for himself that he is interested in Kabbalah. He takes our courses, reads primary sources, and, in accordance with this chooses where it is better for him, which is more convenient, what is closer, etc.

Question: Does a person on the spiritual path need to be able to say no to himself and those around him?

Answer: I would not ask myself such questions. I just want to achieve the goal. Everything. Therefore, I do not take any vows in advance.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 7/19/21

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Creating Contact Between Two Worlds

This law is called the body of the mind and its image, and is a part of the Creator. (Michael Laitman, “I Will Know the Creator from Within Myself,” a modification of Baal HaSulam’s “From My Flesh I Shall See God”)

Everything that we attain in spirituality is a part of the Creator, the power of bestowal and love, as well as the power of getting outside of ourselves. Therefore, we ourselves must be attuned only to bestowal, to love, and to interaction with others. To this extent, we will begin to feel the power of the Creator—the positive force that surrounds us.

Our world and any phenomenon inside it consist of a plus and a minus, of positive and negative manifestations. In our world, we are created within a negative, egoistic force. Everyone grabs everything for himself and cares whether the other person gets more than him; if so he feels bad. This is our clear correlation with all objects in our world.

The spiritual world is built on the opposite property, bestowal, where any spiritual property is evaluated precisely in the measure of giving out of oneself, emanation.

Therefore, these two worlds are opposite; they do not communicate with each other and there is no connection between them.

The connection is manifested only in a person who, being between both worlds, can collect the plus and the minus in himself, meaning, his negative egoistic and positive spiritual altruistic properties. And he himself is a “load,” “resistance,” to which the plus and the minus are connected. In this case, he connects the lower world with the upper world and the Creator with all other earthly beings and with earthly nature.

It all depends on how we perceive the positive properties of the upper world and the negative properties of our world and create a contact between them.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 6/23/19

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We need to constantly pay attention to descents. We must not delve into them and weep, but we should regard them in a more serious, controlled manner, understand them, and be grateful to the Creator for having revealed them to us by His light.

In fact, these are not descents, but the revelation of the next corruption that I am given and thus enabled to correct the general vessel. In this state, it is clear to me that I must connect to my friends. This is the state each of us is in during the revelation of our individual states and the common states in which we feel descents, ascents, and different leaps, and correct them together.

As we feel the individual descents or the general common ones, we need to immediately yearn to connect to the center of the ten and try to hold on to each other. It is only by greater consolidation between us that we can correct these descents, this darkness, and these misunderstandings.

All the states are corrected by one single motion toward unity and not in any other way. There can be all kinds of states of inconsistency and lack of coordination, discomfort, quarrels, misunderstandings, distance from each other, individual states, or common states, but none of them matter. These states result from the fact that we are not united enough, and we can correct them only by our common unity.

The moment we yearn for and turn to unity, we should immediately ask the Creator to glue us together because we will not be able to unite without Him. We do not have any other glue that can keep us together.

First, we need to restrict each one’s own egoism so that we will not use it, and then we need to acquire a Masach (screen) above each one’s egoism, and the reflected light that is aimed at each other and then at the Creator. We need to receive all that from above.

The Creator reveals the next level of our shattering inside us, and He is also the one who has to correct it. We need to clearly attribute this to Him only. Just as we take a broken object to a place where it can be fixed, this is what our work comes down to, to determine who is the expert that can do it. The Creator wants us to acknowledge Him as a craftsman and a great expert.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 2/12/19

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Question: It is said in the Torah that Abraham was thrown into the fire of a red-hot furnace. When his father saw that he came out of the fire alive, he agreed to go with him. What does it mean?

Answer: The fact is that Abraham and his father Terah made statues out of clay, burned them in a furnace, and then sold them.

To come out of the furnace healthy and unharmed means to come out strengthened in the quality of bestowal and love. Therefore, Abraham was able to leave Babylon, i.e., all that was in it in egoistic growth and enmity.

The furnace is an internal analysis when you do not know what to do: everything is burning in you, and you do not understand where to go and what to do. This is resistance to your past, present, and future, which you do not understand. Such a burning, as the fire of hell, the unknown, the lack of understanding of the causes and consequences of what is happening, this is the furnace.

A quality is extracted from the fire, with which you can advance. It was from the past quality, which is called Terah, that a new quality, called Abraham, came out. It is no longer Abram, but Abraham, the germ of the soul.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #17

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Prophets, Joshua, 5:13: And the captain of the Lord’s host said to Joshua, Remove your shoe from your foot; for the place upon which you stand is holy. And Joshua did so.

Question: Why take off your shoes?

Answer: Shoes are what separates a person from the earth, which symbolizes desire. All one’s desires should be uncovered to analyze, separate, sort, and correct them. By taking your shoes off, you begin to come into contact with the next egoistic level and can begin to correct it. This is a constant, never-ceasing work.

Comment: It would seem that once he enters the land of Israel—he is there.

My Response: There is no such thing as “he is there.” Every moment consists of many spiritual operations.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/5/21

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Prophets, Joshua, 10:27: And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, unto this very day.

Question: Once the kings were strangled, Joshua commanded them to hang them on five trees and leave them there until evening. By sunset, they removed them, cast them into the cave in which they were hiding, and laid large stones at the entrance to the cave.

Why did they hang them on the trees after they had already killed them?

Answer: The tree is the Tree of Life, which represents the spiritual laws of nature. A person, at the moment some kind of a king, represents a certain egoism that is hung on a tree. This is its correction.

There is no question about any revenge or any other calculations. It only says that egoism, when it is corrected in this way, is attached to the general Tree of Life and enters into the system of correction. Therefore, all the “kings” (egoistic desires) are eventually corrected and connected to the general system in the correct form.

Laying stones at the entrance of the cave so that this will never happen again symbolizes the final correction. It is no longer possible to work with buried desires since they have already been corrected.

It is written that this burial was left “unto this very day,” which means, until the end of days. At the end of days, it will become clear that all this was only a correction.

Question: Still, what does “unto this very day” mean? Is it in order for us to see this?

Answer: In order for us to understand by what they are guided. These are not years or millennia, but degrees. On our degrees, we too should be guided by this.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/26/21

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The Book of Zohar, Lech Lecha, Item 24: He weighed several times and saw that the whole world was planted and established from there. In other words, because he weighed many times and did not succeed in drawing light into there, by that, the force of the Din in her was disclosed, from the Masach that was made in Malchut after Tzimtzum Aleph. At that time he saw and recognized that the whole world was established from that Masach, meaning that Malchut, which is called “world,” was established in it.

This is about the appearance of Isaac (the force of judgment). Abraham is the property of mercy and love. You cannot advance with this property, you cannot build anything if there is no property of coarseness, strength, and limitation against it.

You cannot rise only with properties of bestowal and love. You need to have a force like an army. You cannot survive on mercy alone. It is good when it is paired with a good force. And if it is just kindness without force, then it destroys everything and causes a general mess.

Question: What is a screen?

Answer: The screen is the anti-egoistic force that appears in Abraham. It is called Isaac. Abraham must restore this force in him, develop egoism in him, and control it with the help of his quality of love.

Imagine there are as if two people in you, one is egoistic, the second is absolutely altruistic, all bestowal. And you are like an expert between them.

In order to rise above the egoistic force by kindness, you must correctly match both forces in yourself. Thanks to them, you are like on a swing, going up and up all the time.

Any advancement is based on shifting from left to right and from right to left, either step-by-step or as an anchor in the clock. So, here we are shown how the dynamics of human advancement toward the Creator is possible.

The screen is the property that connects the right and left lines, plus and minus, the property of giving and the property of receiving, Abraham and Isaac, so that they can work together, so that the property of mercy would not be destructive.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #17

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What is the truth?

The mind is defined by the person’s sensation in the analysis of “truth and falsehood.” (Michael Laitman, “I Will Know the Creator from Within Myself,” a modification of Baal HaSulam’s “From My Flesh I Shall See God”)

The most important thing is to constantly analyze the states we go through from the point of view of truth and lies. Lies mean egoistic sensations and measurements and truth means altruistic ones that go beyond the interests of our body that we can feel and measure independent of ourselves in their true form.

Therefore, altruistic sensations are true and egoistic ones are purely subjective and by no means true. They depend on how people who believe that they are right are able to convince others.

This is the Creator’s part given from above. Our attempts to bestow from ourselves and to develop such properties in ourselves create the sensation of the Creator.

It has nothing to do with imagination and is exclusively determined by sensations. That is, spirituality is felt in desires and by no means in the mind.

This is very interesting, but in order to become a Kabbalist and, in general, a spiritual person, one does not need to be clever. This requires no reason, but only the development of feelings. But it takes a lot of intelligence to develop these feelings.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 6/23/19

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Question: The Creator chose us and brought us to the group. But since I have only corporeal experience of connecting with other people, what is the difference between a connection in a corporeal society and a spiritual one?

Answer: You have a different goal in a spiritual society. You connect with each other by completely different principles, with a different goal, and you behave differently.

The support of your friends in the group is very important here. And since you want to achieve a certain goal, this support is completely different than in a regular civilian group. Here you must teach each other, unite with each other, inspire each other, make sure that people do not fall-out, and so on. That is, this is a serious, huge work.

Practically all spiritual work is carried out not between us and the Creator but between ourselves.

But this is a whole system. So, if you understand what is being done in a civilian group, here you will have to learn it all in a new way and try not to mix the two approaches.
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From KabTV’s “Videoconference”

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