Question: How is it possible to strengthen the connection with the Creator  to get an answer to my question?

Answer: It is possible to strengthen the connection only through a correct response and not in any other way.

The more that the friends participate in a connection with the Creator, the wider, deeper, and stronger it will be. You will begin to feel more precise harmonies, meaning that you will notice the higher elements of the relationship between you: why, what for, and so on.

This only depends on the extent to which you conduct a connection to the Creator through the group.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 2/3/19

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Question: In our world there is the so-called wisdom of the crowd. What is the difference between this united consciousness and the one in the spiritual world?

Answer: The fact is that, in our world, when we want to invest together in some common cause, we partially annul ourselves. Therefore, everyone expresses their opinion in order to achieve some good overall result. We kind of subconsciously use this Kabbalistic principle.

Nullifying myself, I add up with others; “Let’s try together.” As a result, we get something more or less perfect, better than each of us had separately. This is, in general, the correct principle.

But Kabbalists say, “Let us unite, not in order to compose some beautiful appeal or solve some riddle, but to create an empty space between us, where everyone puts himself, free from egoism.”

That’s when I push myself away and want to be here with others, then we collect all our parts free from egoism. This consciousness has nothing to do with everyone’s self. Basically, it is empty because we do not have it. We only create it by our own efforts and then a higher level, a higher consciousness, is manifested within it.

Question: Jung introduced the following concept of collective consciousness: unification based on common archetypes that are accepted and understood by all members of the group. What is the difference between this kind of unity and the unity of consciousness based on self-nullification?

Answer: Kabbalists have different goals and a different technique. The technique depends on the goal, what I want to achieve. I want to achieve the property of bestowal, to connect above myself with others. That is, I want to portray a property from myself that is not within me so that it appears above me. In this case, I am, as it were, the basis over which I wish to portray myself.

Question: So, the difference is in the level of connection with the information field?

Answer: Of course! Rising in this way, I do not bring any of my indignations, errors, or anything into this field. To the extent that I do this, I begin to feel it, at least a little of its radiation.
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From KabTV’s “Meetings with Kabbalah” 3/29/19

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Question: In the ancient part of Hebron there is the Cave of Machpelah where, according to the Torah, our forefathers are buried: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. According to tradition it is said that this is the burial place of Adam and Eve.

“Machpelah” means double cave in Hebrew. We know that in Kabbalah, any name has some meaning. Why is this cave called a double cave?

Answer: It is because the Cave of Machpelah is a combination of two worlds—our world and the upper world. Although the bodies of our world rest there, the spirit of the people buried in it is the spirit of the upper world.

Question: When you say “two worlds,” do you mean two qualities: receiving and bestowal—Malchut and Bina?

Answer: Yes.

Question: It is said that the Cave of Machpelah is the second holiest place after the Temple, which was once destroyed. Is it worth visiting such place physically?

Answer: Yes, it is. Rabash wrote that Baal HaSulam went there. When Rabash asked him: “Why?” he replied that a person should strive for the place of his ancestors. All the forefathers are buried (although the word “buried” is an allegory) in Hebron.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/23/21

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Question: It is interesting that a cave is a special place in the earth where you can live. But, in principle, it is impossible to live in the earth.

From the point of view of Kabbalah, the earth is Ratzon, desire, and there is no life there. And suddenly, it turns out that there is a place in the earth where you can live. What is it?

Answer: Nature (naturally) or man (artificially) creates a place that has all necessary conditions for a person to exist as if outside the cave. In this case, the cave is both a protector and a guardian.

We know that the author of The Book of Zohar Rabbi Shimon and his son lived in a cave for a long time. As the sources tell us, many of our forefathers settled in such places.

But the point of the cave is not to burrow somewhere in the ground and hide from someone. Its meaning is spiritual.

That is, on one hand, a person in general annuls and hides from everyone. On the other hand, it is precisely in his humbling that he combines the properties of Bina and Malchut: the property of bestowal of the upper world and the property of reception of the lower world.

Thus, in the earth in which there is, in general, nothing suitable for human life, he forms such a place, creates in it (in Malchut) such conditions that would be equal to the air (the upper world), and so he lives. In other words, thanks to Bina, the quality of bestowal, you can live in a cave.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/23/21

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Question: What does it mean to make a covenant with the Creator? What covenant we are talking about?

Answer: Covenant means that we already have mutual conditions that say in my aspiration what I commit myself to do for the sake of the Creator, and I ask the Creator to help me be able to realize my qualities, my aspirations, for bestowal and love, for adhesion with Him.

Question: Can we say that a person is doing some actions for connection in the group? At first, of course, this happens without any feelings, and then when a person receives the quality of bestowal, he already begins to feel spirituality, which is called we shall hear, and enters a state of equivalence of form with the Creator. Is this already called a covenant at some minimum level?

Answer: Yes. But first, he simply performs actions with his eyes closed, without any obligations and reaches a state where actions for the sake of the Creator become the meaning of his existence.

Question: Does it matter, whether or not he feels good about it?

Answer: It does not matter what he feels, what he assumes, or what he will have in the future. That is, there is no time, no space, nothing! Only the maximum good influence from him to the Creator through people—not directly to the Creator, but through people. This is what he wants to implement.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/9/21

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Question: How does a person use their emotions correctly? How, with their help, does one advance and engage in self-development?

Answer: We can control ourselves and our emotions only through the influence of the right environment.

These are people who are more focused on the true revelation of the world. If you are among them, you can also correctly orient yourself, and thus all your feelings and emotions will come into relative order.

Question: Is there some kind of power that comes from the environment and allows me to manage myself more effectively?

Answer: Yes. It is the power of bestowal and love, of good connection. You can feel it from others.

Question: And negative qualities, such as laziness, envy, jealousy, and arrogance can also be used in some way for the benefit of others and yourself, for your own self-development?

Answer: Sure. They are given to us so that we can make an inverse realization of them, to move from egoism to altruism, to bestowal and love.

Question: How does one imagine envy in an inverse form?

Answer: If I envy others who have more distinct traits of bestowal, love, and connection with others, good mutual assistance, and so on, then this envy plays a huge positive role, and I need to develop it.

If I’m in the company of good people and I don’t envy them, then I don’t use the opportunity given to me to gather the best from them.

Question: And if we take a more complex quality, such as arrogance?

Answer: This is also a good quality. Any quality can be used both for good and bad. If I don’t have arrogance, then I’ll take from everyone what’s in them. And if I am arrogant, that is, I value myself, my ability to make a special person out of myself, then I will only look at the good sides of others.

Comment: In this way, you can inversely evaluate and try to use each quality. Let’s say anger is what drives me to act. I can be angry at myself for not being better than I am.

My Response: Sure. There is nothing evil in nature. All qualities are given to us in order to use them correctly. They all have to be good, it all depends on their application by a person.

Question: So the very definition of “bad quality” is fundamentally wrong?

Answer: Yes. It’s our egoism that drives us to use them.

Question: Can good qualities be bad?

Answer: It depends on the person. A quality cannot be bad in itself.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 4/12/21

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Question: The act of creation: “Behold, I have given you every seed bearing herb, which is upon the surface of the entire earth, and every tree that has seed bearing fruit; it will be yours for food” corresponds to the commandment: “You shall not steal.”

What is this seed-bearing herb?

Answer: People must grow using their properties all the time just like a plant emerges from the ground.

We must turn over the soil, plow it, meaning wrap the property of egoism in the property of altruism and add water, the property of bestowal, the property of love. Only then will the next level be reached from the seeds, our embryos. The earth is the right environment for growing seeds.

Question: How is this connected to “You shall not steal”?

Answer: “You shall not steal” means “you shall not act.” Make it so that something grows out of you in spirituality and do not steal from spirituality for yourself. All this so that you have the intention to bestow, to always grow upward and not snatch spirituality for actions with the intention to receive.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar,” #11

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Baal HaSulam writes in his article “Four Worlds“: That is, each name is discerned as giving and receiving, for there is no thought or perception in His essence whatsoever, but rather in influences that come to us from Him.

So the whole creation is the revelation of the action of the Creator, the names of the Creator. A person who follows what happens and connects it with the root, dedicates a name to the Creator. This means that the name is what a person receives when he explores and attains the giver.

Question: What does it mean to follow what happens?

Answer: When we see all the actions of the Creator that descend upon us, we can more or less understand what happens in our individual feelings, and we give Him names based on that. This means that we give Him only personal, subjective names. It is like a small child who suddenly cries out: “Mommy is bad” when she yells at him because of something he has done. We are the same.

Question: What is the difference between a created being that has no name and created beings that have names?

Answer: Created beings that have names are desires that have already attained a resemblance with the Creator to a certain degree and so they have names of their own. A name indicates the level of attainment of the Creator that the created being is on.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 2/24/19

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Question: What is the difference between the people before and after receiving the Torah on Mount Sinai?

Answer: Before receiving the Torah, the people are considered just a gathering of people.

Question: But why? After all, they were already called “Israelites” in Egypt?

Answer: They were called so by their natural aspiration. But what it meant, they did not know and did not understand. Therefore, there is nothing to say about their spiritual state, it was only minimal.

They partially began to feel themselves in egoistic bondage during the second half of their stay in Egypt and later in their attempts to get out of it.

But when they approached Mount Sinai, they were faced with the need to accept the Torah, the upper force, the quality of bestowal and love, and started using this quality to correct themselves, then they gradually revealed the meaning of the light of the Torah.

The light must transform human nature in all its 620 egoistic qualities from “receiving for oneself,” self-gratification, to the quality of bestowal, in order to please and fill others.

Thus, initially, Abraham gathered people around him who simply strive for the quality of bestowal. Therefore, they were called “Israel” (Yashar-El), directly to the Creator.

Then they began to examine themselves, their egoism, meaning that “they entered Egypt.” And only after leaving Egypt did the correction of their egoism begin and the Torah was given, instructions for its correction. This is the difference between the people before and after receiving the Torah.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/9/21

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Question: When a person performs actions for the sake of the Creator without any taste in his work, that is, his egoism does not receive a reward, then he begins to doubt what he is doing. This is called “Hirhurim” (doubts) from the word “Har,”(mountain).

He comes to this mountain of doubt: “Am I doing the right thing? Am I on the right path? Why do I need this?” And he begins to hate this state, this quality, the Creator. Is this what is called “approaching Mount Sinai”?

Answer: Yes. All the contradictions that are revealed due to the natural egoistic nature of a person do not allow him to go further in the direction of bestowal, love, and connection. Then he begins to hate these qualities, his egoistic nature, and to fight with himself.

Question: Does it then turn out into a nightmare state when a person does an action against his nature for years and does not receive any reward for it?

Answer: His reward is that he is able to perform actions exactly against his nature. The work itself becomes a reward for him.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/9/21

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