Question: Some time ago, you said that we have finally come into resonance with the world and now are mutually influencing each other. We learn that egoism is constantly growing in the world. In this resonance, should we somehow overtake and take control of this general egoism?

Answer: It is enough for us to properly adjust ourselves all the time to the world and to the Creator. We do not need to rule over the world because the fact that we will correctly resonate between the world and the Creator will lead everything to a state of correction.

It all manifests itself in intentions. Only work with intentions!

Question: Does this mean that our group determines the rhythm? Or does the world determine our capabilities?

Answer: Mutually. If we move forward, then we define. If we fall behind, the world determines. This is felt by the good or evil attitude of the world toward us. The world’s reaction to us clearly determines whether we are improving or not.

Question: What is happening to the world now is spinning more and more steeply. Should our connection with the world, our sensations, go into something qualitative? What else can we invest to make us feel like we are the link? Does it depend not only on us but also on the world?

Answer: It depends on us and we will try to push the world forward.
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From KabTV’s “Teacher—Student” 2/7/19

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Question: There is a condition for receiving the Torah. If you do not unite, meaning, if you do not become responsible for one another, then here will be the place of your burial. What is this law?

Answer: Either you receive this knowledge, implement it, cross the barrier between our world and the spiritual world and enter into the perception of the upper world, reach the state of adhesion with the Creator, or you remain here in this world like an animal, practically on an inanimate degree.

Question: Why is it all so rigid?

Answer: Because this is the condition to exist in the upper world where you are above your egoism.

Question: Does it mean that there was a historical fact when a large number of people were able to comply with this rule?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Were there any other such facts in history?

Answer: No. The Torah was only given once.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States”

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Between Esau and Ishmael

Question: The prophet Ezekiel says that first the war of Gog and Magog will be wedged between the sons of Esau and Ishmael, and then they will unite and go against Israel. What does it mean?

Answer: Esau and Ishmael are those who associate themselves with either Islam or Christianity. And Israel is in the middle, it has no other ideology except that any desire that arises in nature, because all nature consists of desires, should be directed only to bestowal and love, to the connection of each and everyone, which means to the Creator.

The mission of Israel (the middle line) is to show that everything in nature can come to balance, tranquility, mutual good connection, only if we direct ourselves, each and everyone together, to the Creator, that is, to the one common denominator, to the common source from which we came and to which we must return.

Ishmael is the right line, Esau is the left line, and Israel must merge them into the middle line.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/30/21

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Question: There are two states in our world. It turns out that I am either in joy or in hatred. Right?

Answer: Yes, at any level, not necessarily in sensation. It can be physical or any condition.

Question: Can it be both cold and warm at the same time? This does not happen physically.

Answer: But cold or warmth is felt in relation to a person. Kabbalah speaks of two physical parameters, which, in principle, may have nothing to do with it.

But all the same, he must bring them to a state so that they complement each other because one cannot exist without the other. Therefore, only their joint connection is perfection. This is not just a balance between two contradictions, but a third, new state.

Question: You once gave an example of this on a gustatory level: all vegetables have different tastes, and if you make soup out of them, you get something completely different.

Could you give another example from our life, what is conflict resolution?

Answer: In our life, we use it very little. Let us say we go through severe sufferings, and then we understand that thanks to them we have come to a state of light, joy, satiety, and pleasure.

Question: But does this happen at the same time.

Answer: Of course. This can be at the same time only if we begin to realize and master spiritual properties.

Kabbalah allows us to simultaneously feel sweetness and bitterness, joy, and sorrow. Therefore, in the spiritual world we can feel the combination of two opposite properties, and, according to Kabbalistic calculations, it gives us a feeling that is 620 times greater than in the material world.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States”

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Question: It is written in The Book of Zohar that in the Cave of the Patriarchs, Me’arat Hamachpelah, “me’arat,” translated from Hebrew means a cave, there is an entrance to Gan Eden (Garden of Eden). What does it mean?

Answer: The Cave of the Patriarchs symbolizes the connection of Bina and Malchut. Malchut is a quality of our world. Bina is a quality of the upper world.

And Me’arat Hamachpelah is a state a person goes through by combining our world and the upper world and begins to reveal what exists in the upper world in some specific qualities, not completely as it was the case with our forefathers.

Comment: It turns out that all the stories, in both The Book of Zohar and the Torah, come down to the fact that Malchut and Bina are the qualities of receiving and bestowing. It’s like taking our world, which is made of carbon and hydrogen and the connections between them.

My Response: Yes. Plus—minus, together form everything.

Receiving and bestowing are two main opposite qualities of nature. The quality of the Creator (bestowal) is a positive force and the quality of creation (receiving), which He created specifically so that the opposite of Him would exist, a negative force. And on the concurrence, fusion, symbiosis, of these two qualities, all matter exists.

As in mathematics, there is a zero and something different from it, only two qualities and from this state you can build any science.

Question: That is, everything that is described here, you just have to feel it? Otherwise, it will remain in you either as a story or just a dry explanation—Bina, Malchut and that’s it?

Answer: No. It is not just a dry explanation. After all, the quality of bestowal does exist, it is fundamental, the only one that exists in the entire universe, in all the worlds. And besides it, the quality of receiving appears, in something opposite from it.

The quality of bestowal develops the quality opposite to itself, the quality of receiving, and thus creates all the worlds relative to itself until the state when they become similar while remaining opposite to each other.

Everything that exists consists of this. And a person has to find two worlds, equalize, and unite them in himself.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/23/21

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Question: There is an expression: “And the Lord shall become King over all the earth; on that day shall the Lord be one, and His name one.” What name is this referring to? What does “And His name ‘One’” mean?

Answer: “The Lord shall become King,” which means the force that manages will be revealed and will be clear. “Over all the earth,” over the whole desire that He created. “On that day,” when the whole light will illuminate all the desires. “The Lord” means the only force of good that fills everything. “And His name one,” His name means the ten Sefirot, HaVaYaH, will become one whole. This means that the infinite number of tens will begin to gather together and assemble into one ten, into one HaVaYaH, into the one name of the Creator.

Question: If I understand correctly, the revelation of the names of the Creator is the revelation of the system of ten Sefirot through which the Creator bestows unto the creation in different ways, by different names.

Answer: Yes, absolutely.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 2/24/19

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The Force that Leads to the Intention for the Sake of Bestowal

Comment: The 16th century Kabbalist the Ari wrote that the numerical value of the words “Gog” and “Magog” is 70. This probably explains what was written in The Book of Zohar that Gog will bring all the 70 nations of the world with it to Israel.

My Response: This is a complete Kli (vessel). The Creator will lead all the desires created by Him to a common state where they will have to discern all the opposite relationships among themselves in order to ultimately unite into harmony.

Comment: And the prophets write that Gog will gather all the nations of the world and lead them to war against Israel.

My Response: Yes, because Israel is not considered one of the 70 nations, it is not among them, but arises as the sum total of all the nations of the world when in an attempt to fight among themselves, they begin to understand, under the influence of this force called Israel, that it is drawing them to the Creator (Yashar-El—straight to the Creator). In this case, Israel leads all the nations of the world through the war of Gog and Magog to the Creator.

Question: As we know, Abraham created a group of 70 nations assembled on an ideological basis in Ancient Babylon, and they became the people of Israel. And then all of the 70 nations of the world began to fight against the people of Israel. It turns out, as it is said in Kabbalah, that “the people of Israel” means intentions and the “70 nations” means desires?

Answer: Correct.

Comment: And since the Creator Himself is the property of bestowal and love, then, in principle, this property should win.

My Response: Israel is the representative of the Creator in this world because it gives direction to desires. There are 70 desires that must unite with each other with the intention “straight to the Creator.”

Question: Does “Israel will win” mean that every desire of the nations of the world will be given the correct intention for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: Yes. In no way does it imply here that someone is destroying someone else. It is just that these 70 desires that exist in every person and in general in all of humanity have an egoistic intention to act only for their own sake.

And Israel is the force that is able to show, convince, prove, and lead all these desires to gaining intention for the sake of bestowal, to mutual bestowal and love. And then all these so-called 70 nations of the world, i.e., all the desires that are in every person, are directed to the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/30/21

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Kabbalah says that every object down here in this world corresponds to the upper root in the spiritual world. Spiritual Jerusalem is the point of connection between the egoistic desire of a person in need of correction and the desire to bestow of the upper force, the Creator. Therefore, it is called the perfect city, the city of peace.

Just as a person who goes to Jerusalem cannot be considered to be in this city, even if he has already traveled 80% of the way, so a person who wants to achieve correction, revelation of the Creator, a sense of the spiritual world, goes through many different states, until finally he reaches the last state, the state of entering Jerusalem, to a place near the Temple Mount. Then he can say that he is in the heart of Jerusalem.

This shows us that we need to put a lot of effort into our lives to achieve the revelation of the Shechina, the Creator, the upper spiritual force, and only at the last state do we finally come to this. This is symbolized by the road to Jerusalem, which can be very long, thousands of years, many kilometers, but in the end we will come to the goal.

Baal HaSulam disliked modern Jerusalem and called it a place of Klipot, evil forces. But in the future, Jerusalem must become a holy city.

Rabash was also critical of Jerusalem as a place where all the world’s religions, all kinds of currents, riots, and hatred for each other collided. Let us hope that this temporary face of Jerusalem will soon change.

Therefore, the attitude to Jerusalem depends on which city we are talking about: the material Jerusalem or the spiritual one, today’s or the one that should rise in the future.

I was born far from Jerusalem. My grandfather, who was a very religious man, told me a lot about this city with great trepidation. I was only six or seven years old, but I felt how eager he was to get here and connect with this place. Even just talking about it was a huge pleasure for him. But he was born in exile and died in exile, never having seen Jerusalem.

When I was immigrated to Israel and went to Jerusalem for the first time, I entered through the gate to the old city, I felt as if he were accompanying me, and I was realizing my grandfather’s dream. It was very exciting.

Let us hope that Jerusalem will regain its title as the “Perfect City,” and we will reveal the Creator to the creatures in it so that “everyone will know Him from young to old” since “My house will be called the house of prayer for all nations.” I think that time is near.

The Book of Zohar says that Jerusalem is like a heart in a common organism, and therefore the world cannot exist without it, just as it is impossible to live without a heart. Jerusalem is the center of all material and spiritual reality, the foundation of all creation.

I very much hope that we will see how the ten spiritual qualities will be combined with the material desire in this place. When this connection takes place, that is, they reach equivalence at the point of connection, then our world will receive nutrition, nourishment with forces and filling from the upper world. This will affect all religions and beliefs, and all will come to the state of which it is said: “My house will be called the house of prayer for all nations.”
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From KabTV’s “The Peace” 4/27/21

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Zohar for All, VaYetze, 15: The reason that the book begins with the words, “The sun rises and the sun sets” is that it is the Hevel that sustains the world, to bring man into the high faith of the Creator.

All this we need to translate into Kabbalistic language. “The sun rises, and the sun sets” speaks about the fact that the upper light shines upon a person, and by its rising and setting, by its alternating influence, it causes the appearance of new desires in a person.

“The sun rises” means that I begin to desire something, the light causes a certain excitement in me. When it disappears, I am left with an empty desire. This is the best condition: I begin to yearn for the light that I have felt and do not know how to reach it. Here a person has the opportunity of freewill: to yearn by himself to be similar to the light.

Now the light will not come to me by itself. It showed me some good condition and disappeared. What to do? I cannot live without it anymore.

Then I come to the conclusion, through a very long path of suffering (or through Kabbalah very concisely and quickly), that I myself need to be like the light. There is no need to wait for it to come and fill me up. It will not come again! It just showed me an example of how I can be happy, eternal, and perfect. Now I have to reach this state by myself. It is possible.

It already depends on me. I do not need to wait for mercy from nature, from the Creator.

Kabbalah only says that after I have received the light or felt the emptiness that we feel in the world today, I can still come to fulfillment.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #13

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The holiday of Shavuot does not require one to keep any special traditions and lasts for only one day, and therefore passes almost unnoticed. But in fact, this is a very important holiday because it is the basis on which humanity received the method of correction, the way to achieve eternal and perfect life for all mankind.

Therefore, Kabbalists greatly honor the holiday of Shavuot, which symbolizes the reception of the upper force, the method of correcting the world, called “Torah.”

The name “Shavuot” is due to the fact that this holiday comes seven weeks (Shavuot) after Passover, that is, the liberation of a person from his egoism, which is called the exodus from Egypt. After leaving Egypt, he goes through correction for 49 days and on the 50^th day, reaches a special degree in his corrections, and becomes worthy to receive the Torah, to reveal the upper light that purifies and fills him.

Shavuot is also called the festival of first fruits because it is celebrated at a time when field work ends and you can already enjoy the harvest.

This means that we have achieved the correction of our desires, and after the holiday of Shavuot we can use them to receive the upper light, to reveal the Creator within them for the sake of bestowal. The revelation of the Creator in the desires of creation and the equivalence to Him in quality—all this symbolizes the holiday of Shavuot.

When celebrating Shavuot, the gift of the Torah, it is customary to eat dairy food, because the Torah symbolizes the bestowal of the upper power to humanity. Milk is a symbol of giving one to another, like a mother feeding a baby with milk. There is no more vivid and natural manifestation of bestowal than mother’s milk.

Shavuot symbolizes the Creator’s bestowal to His creations, revealing His feeling, understanding, attitude, and love to us as if through the mother’s milk. In honor of this, we eat only dairy food on this holiday.

Receiving the Torah means that the Creator gives us a method of correction so that we can change from a state that is opposite to the Creator and become like Him in qualities. In this way, we approach the Creator and can receive from Him the inner fulfillment, the upper light, which is a very joyful event, which is called the holiday of the gift of the Torah.

Every person on earth is able to use the Torah to correct himself and achieve love for his neighbor and love for the Creator, to open his spiritual vision and feel himself inside the eternal flow of life along the infinite axis of time.

To do this, we only need to learn from the science of Kabbalah how we can get closer to each other and through this rapprochement form a place for the revelation of the positive force between us, mutual bestowal, love, and unity. And so we will come to the correction of the world, so that it does not look, unfortunately, as it appears to us today.

Every person who wants to achieve a happy, eternal life must use the inner, practical part of the Torah, which is called the science of Kabbalah. With it, he will be able to correct himself so that he can see himself living in a perfect and eternal world and find eternal life for himself. If he uses the Torah correctly, it will raise him to the level of eternity.

I greet you all on the holiday of Shavuot and wish everyone to get at least a little from the science of Kabbalah in order to see that the upper force this way wants to give us its “milk,” a sense of maternal warmth and eternity. We will feel that the Creator cares for us as a loving mother cares for her infant.

I wish everyone success in this!
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From KabTV’s “The Peace” 5/11/21

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