Question: Before the land of Israel was called Eretz Israel (“Eretz” from the word “Ratzon,” desire; “Israel,” “Yashar Kel,” straight to the Creator), it was called Canaan, from the word “Ahnaa,” to belittle oneself. What exactly does a person belittle?

Answer: Belittling is a preliminary quality that must be present on this earth, in this desire. In order for the desire to become directed toward bestowal, love, and connection, it must go through the state of Ahnaa, the suppression of its egoism.

The preliminary stage of the suppression of egoism, its preparation for higher altruistic actions is called Ahnaa or Canaan.

Before a person enters the Land of Israel, he must lower his egoism. Therefore, at first, this piece of land was called Canaan and then it became known as the Land of Israel.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual states” 5/21/21

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Question: When do I reveal the name of the Creator, during a descent or during an ascent?

Answer: Every state I am in is made of a desire to receive and the light that fills it.

Their coupling, i.e., the vessel filled with the light, is called the name of the Creator.

The name of the Creator is a state I attain and I call the Creator by a certain name according to that state. The fact is, He always remains Atzmuto, He Himself.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 2/24/19

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Question: If the time has come, and at this stage of development, all of humanity should be connected in sensation, for example, at level “38,” and they are connected at level “36,” then are these two missing steps activated and some external force begins to correct?

Answer: If we do not work inside ourselves enough at the level of sensation, then external forces are activated that carry out this work, although, of course, it is of poor quality, since it is performed without our desire, and not at our behest, at our will.

Therefore, we will have to go through a very long period of suffering, realizing their meaning, and correcting them. This is a very bad, long journey.

And if we understood and knew how we should act in order to get closer to each other, then any small negative impulse from nature would push us and do all our work.

Question: That is, at the level of forces and intentions, correction can take place in a split second, and if this already manifests itself in the matter of our world, then it can drag on for years, hundreds and even thousands of years?

Answer: Yes, this is what we see in history.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 5/14/21

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Question: Suppose, someone gave me a cup of coffee and naturally I can enjoy it to a certain extent. But if I could somehow magnify in my own eyes the one who gave it to me, then could the pleasure be endless?

Answer: Depending on who gave it to you. It could be either an English queen, or some great sage, or some man of art. It depends on what you appreciate.

Question: And if I do not appreciate that queen?

Answer: Then it would be just a cup of coffee to you.

Question: And how does it happen with the Creator?

Answer: It is the same with the Creator. It depends on how you demand from Him, whether bestowing to Him is a reward for you. In that case, even if you do not want to receive but only to bestow upon Him, it will already be a pleasure for you.

Question: But how can you magnify Him?

Answer: If you want the Creator to be important to you, you must ask Him to reveal to you not Himself, but His greatness, because if He reveals Himself, you will enjoy the fact that the Creator is already in front of me, that He has come to me.

But if you begin to seek Him in order to be able to bestow upon Him, then you will only ask Him for the importance of His property of bestowal and love, and not Himself.

Question: Even if I do not know who He is?

Answer: You do not have to know. You will even be afraid of Him revealing Himself because it will immediately enslave you and you will not be able to get away from it. Therefore, you have to ask not that He Himself will be revealed, but His importance.
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Question: From the point of view of Kabbalah, creation is the desire to receive. Desire has no place. Therefore, in the Torah, we are talking about the development of the same desire, which is constantly undergoing some kind of transformation.

It is written, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Now the earth was unformed and void.” What is this initial state that a person discovers in himself, the earth, the desire that was unformed and void?

Answer: A person does not know how to work with his desires. He has only an initial yearning to attain his spiritual root, but what to do and how to work with it, he does not know. Therefore, for him, everything is foggy: unformed and void.

Question: What does the “flood” that happened later mean?

Answer: These are all stages of awakening of a person to a conscious, clearly directed spiritual work.

The “flood,” “Babylon,” “Canaan,” “Egypt,” “land of Israel”—these are the stages of a gradual change of desire in a person at all degrees inanimate, vegetative, and animate until he comes to the full equivalence of form with the Creator.

Question: Is the land of Israel the final stage?

Answer: Yes, but in fact we cannot reach it yet. We come to this Earth, and it, what is called, spews us out.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 5/21/21

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Question: “Mountain” in Hebrew is “Har” from the word “Hirhurim”—doubt; “Sinai” is from the word “Sina”—hatred. Does the concept of Mount Sinai symbolize the state of a person who is in doubt?

Answer: Doubts and hatred precede the correct understanding of the Torah. Our generation is in this state.

Question: Does a huge hatred manifest in a person before he unites with other people?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But an ordinary person, reading the Torah, imagines Egypt, Mount Sinai, several hundred thousand people standing at its foot, while we are talking about some kind of internal states, hatred, love?

Answer: Yes, we are talking about the contradiction of a person with what surrounds him.

Comment: There is a lot of confusion.

My Response: You cannot do anything. We left this state three thousand years ago and long ago stopped understanding the Torah as it really is. Today we are studying it like children at school, like some kind of fairy tales. And that is why it happens.

In fact, the Torah is a coded instruction for connecting people. With the right unification between them, a higher power manifests itself, which absorbs and surrounds everyone. It becomes clear to everyone where they exist, to what extent, that this is an eternal, perfect existence, and not some unfortunate, base, earthly one.

Let us hope that we will reach the state when the holiday of receiving the Torah really comes and we will see it in it’s true form.

Once it was given to us, and now every generation and every person must decide for himself whether he is receiving it or not on the terms that were set.
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Question: Is the Creator a good force?

Answer: Regarding creation He is kind. And not regarding creation, we cannot say anything about Him. We speak about Him as about Atzmuto—He by Himself—meaning, acting neither positively or negatively.

Comment: And like in a good fairy tale, of course, the good force always wins.

My Response: In fact, this fairy tale is kind, and it is not a fairy tale. This is a planned program of creation. Its ending is visible in the spiritual world. When we rise from the degree of our world, from things that are happening in the earthly senses, to a level higher than our perception, to the so-called “Lishma” (“for the sake of others”), then we see the future.

Now we are beginning to understand that the present and the future flow both in the forward and in the reverse direction. Therefore, when we ascend to the upper world, we can clearly see its future states. Kabbalists see this.

Question: Do they see it all in forces and not as it manifests itself in our world?

Answer: Of course. But they see it and tell us about it. Where did they get it from? How could they describe everything? From the fact that they discovered it all.
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Question: What does spirituality mean?

Answer: Spirituality is when I am connected to the Creator through people and sometimes directly. However, it is better and more reliable if I form connections with the Creator through others.

Spirituality is the correct connection with the Creator. If it really is correct, it runs through people, and the quality called the Creator is manifested in it.
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Question: The Jews had to constantly fight for connection. But why, even if we look at what is written in the Torah, did they first fight with external enemies, and then began to fight against each other and with those Jews who accepted Hellenism?

Answer: All the Jewish wars were between the original representatives of the Jews and those who wanted to break away from this nation and preach other values but also remain part of them.

They wanted to convince the entire nation that the new values that the Hellenes or the Romans carry are correct. Supporters of the observance of true national values rebelled against them. Wars were fought between them.

There were practically no serious wars between Jews and Romans and Jews and Greeks. To a certain degree, they happened later, and more with the Romans than with the Greeks.

The confrontation that consumed the entire country greatly bothered the Romans who did not know what to do with it, and therefore, sent their representatives, governors, up to the point that they were forced to send troops.

Question: It turns out that the conflicts within the nation caused a kind of response from the upper force, which was manifested precisely in the fact that the Greeks and Romans came here and did their job.

If we transfer this to the internal war, then can we say that the “Greeks” are my desires?

Answer: All that a person is made of is his desires. They are all egoistic and are divided into several degrees. One of these degrees is called “Romans,” the other one “Greeks,” and so on.

If you, as a Jew, do not cope with them, then you become under their control and enter a state of war. You are forced to destroy them, and they destroy you until you get a certain result from these clashes.

That is, those wars that you cannot fight internally within yourself, ideologically, you will have to fight outside of yourself, physically.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 5/14/21

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Comment: In all Kabbalistic sources, two forces are always considered, for example, Haman and Mordecai, Moses and Pharaoh, etc.

My Response: There is nothing else in nature but plus and a minus.

Question: In principle, can we describe this simply in terms of the interaction of two forces?

Answer: No, you cannot describe it as two physical forces. Between them there are many possible actions, conditions that cannot be revealed, and therefore they cannot be described in any other way than allegorically, in the images of our world. You cannot take plus and a minus and say, “This is how they approach each other, this is how they move away…”

Therefore, Kabbalah uses the language of our world to explain all the problems of our correction to people. When a person begins to correct himself, he feels these qualities, but try to ask him: “What do you feel?”—he has nothing to say. It is because he feels the forces and can only explain them in their embodiment in our world. This is the problem.

The main thing is that we go through this, feel this, and achieve this.
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