Question: Could we say that the true-false analysis is conscious and sweet-bitter is not?

Answer: Yes, the sweet-bitter analysis is natural, unconscious, while true-false analysis depends on my development.

Question: Can society impose it on me?

Answer: Thousands of reasons can influence this. Mental analysis can be affected by many means. And it is very difficult to influence feelings because they are corporeal. It is possible, of course, but it is a long process, like a person getting used to some tastes, smells, or sights.

He seems to be entering a different mentality. Let’s say, when we move to another country, we cannot agree with things there but gradually get used to them, and they enter our nature.

We begin to feel: this is pleasant, this is unpleasant; this is sweet, this is bitter, and all this happens because the body is getting used to it. Just like pets get used to what we teach them.

That is, there are two types of analysis in us, and the only question is how we reconcile them with each other. The most important thing is to teach a person to try to develop his mental, rational analysis all the time so that he would explore the sensory one and understand whether something is really good or not. After all, what I do may be sweet but harmful, and it may be bitter but useful.

Comment: Let’s say you tell me now that in order to reveal the Creator I must connect with my friends in the group. Revealing the Creator, I contemplate, is a pleasant sensation for me, but uniting with friends is a bitter one.

My Response: To reveal the Creator for me now is very bitter. It is a feeling of absolute love, absolute connection, absolute concern for others. The Creator is hiding from us precisely because otherwise we would have pushed Him away with our hands and feet and would never have even thought to attach ourselves to Him. Therefore, it is better when He is hidden.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/22/19

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Question: Inside a man there are desires called “mixed multitude.” On the one hand, they fear the Creator, but on the other hand, at the same time they are workers of the Pharaoh. That is, a man uses the connection with the Creator for his own sake. This, as it is written in the sources, is the most insidious impure force (Klipa).

What does it mean that they fear the Creator? If the Creator is the property of bestowal, the power of emanation, the altruistic power of nature, how can one fear it?

Answer: The point is that we can use the connection with the Creator in two ways: egoistically and altruistically. That is, I may not relate to the Creator at all, but I can relate to Him with the understanding that I have a certain attitude toward Him and I want to deserve something from Him.

I want to reveal, to understand, to become aware of Him. I want to earn a connection with Him and get something from this connection. Thus, my attitude to the Creator is purely consumeristic: I demand from Him. And then my connections with the Creator represent a continuation of my egoistic inclinations in our world.

That is, I am already going further as it were, into the spiritual world, into my connection with the Creator, and demand that He reveal to me, reward me for my striving for Him, and so on.

Question: It turns out that, in principle, I fear the Creator. He is great in my eyes, but for my actions I demand payment from Him?

Answer: Yes, I demand either a reward in this world, or, as we die, then perhaps a reward in the future world. Such an egoistic attitude toward the Creator is called a “mixed multitude.”
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/2/21

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Question: What did you mean when you spoke about a purely psychological barrier when one is exiting the bounds of one’s own “I”?

Answer: Previously, in order to prepare a person for a spiritual ascent, it was necessary to do it through a psychological ascent. That is why I was saying this.

Today, however, it is much easier to do it in a correctly arranged group. If a person is in such a society, then it gradually forms him, places him inside itself, and begins to work on him within itself.

Therefore, today it is not necessary to pay so much attention to psychology. It is enough to place a person in a group, and if he is engaged in it correctly, then the group will do everything itself. Gradually, it will mature, and, as between millstones, will produce for you a more or less a spiritual being.

If there is no group, then nothing will work. There will be no spiritual growth. A person will turn out to be some kind of psychologist.
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From KabTV’s “Integral Course” 3/19/21

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It is written: “There is none else besides Him,” and with respect to the ten, this means that the entire ten connects with the single upper force that it must reveal. We establish a relationship between us so that this single upper force can be revealed within us.

The entire ten helps each other in this, each one supports the others and exists only in order to advance the ten.

After all, my entire spiritual life is only in the ten, and my duty is to connect all of them together to such an extent that according to this connection the Creator will be revealed within us. It is as if we have a microscope or a camera that needs to be focused by turning knob to adjust the objective lens. If we set it up correctly, then all our focuses are connected and we can see a clear, sharp picture.

This is what we need to do in the ten: to turn each one, each “lens” that is in the group so that we can see the Creator who is within us. Of course, as soon as we manage to catch Him in our focus, He immediately disappears, and we have to look for Him again and adjust the focus. And so over and over again, but each time we move forward by increasing the resolution and rising to a higher level of examination and implementation.

This is the work we must do every day and even every moment. The entire work is to bring the ten to a state where I see not ten people but ten qualities, and by connecting them more and more precisely, I feel the Creator on the higher and higher degree of the NRNHY.

Then we will begin to perceive The Study of the Ten Sefirot in our senses—as something happening in a person’s heart and the mind. We will understand what the screen and the Kli are in our feelings. We will begin to live in the spiritual world even if for the time being like infants who do not quite understand but already perceive and feel changes taking place in it.

This will be a real study of the wisdom of Kabbalah. We will begin to understand its language of branches, the language in which Kabbalists wrote in order to pass spiritual information from generation to generation using the words of this world.

The most important thing is to maintain the correct attitude toward spirituality, our connection within which the Creator is revealed as if through a properly focused lens. We adjust it by focusing our friends more and more accurately on one common point: all our intentions, feelings, and thoughts to be in order to become as one man with one heart. This means that we have found one common focus in which we reveal the Creator.

It is clear that each time our lens gets out of focus and we find ourselves further away from spirituality. But all this is in order for us to focus more on the ten despite all the disturbances and to attain the correct picture. The greater the difference between the descent, when we see nothing but this world, and the ascent, when we see ourselves as one and the Creator between us, the higher our spiritual degree is.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/10/21, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Comment: About three and a half thousand years ago, according to the Torah (Exodus Chapter 5),Moses demanded from the Pharaoh of Egypt to release the Israeli people from slavery in the name of God. But Pharaoh did not listen to him and ten plagues fell on Egypt.

From an academic point of view, it is believed that there was no such event, and even if there were, it was not on the scale described in the Torah. In religion, of course, nothing is tested, they just believe that it happened. Kabbalah does not consider these events as historical events at all but asserts that they are about spiritual processes that the people and Moses himself went through.

My Response: First, the Torah does not speak about individual people, but about the solely internal issues of all mankind. Secondly, we are not talking about physical problems, although they may have been manifested in material life in some way. But that is not the point at all.

Originally, all of humanity was created from an egoistic desire to enjoy. This desire goes through certain stages of its birth and development to the point where people begin to understand that they can no longer remain in egoism and must somehow get out of it.

The group that Abraham led from Ancient Babylon to the land of Canaan, or rather his descendants, the sons of his grandson Jacob, came to Egypt. As described in the Torah, they lived there for a long time and went through different stages, good and bad. But, in principle, the Torah speaks about the internal states of these people.

Moreover, when we talk about the people as a large number, we do not mean their number, but their spiritual power. That is, all this must be perceived and weighed within the framework of spiritual actions.

The same goes for the Egyptian executions. Executions are actions where a person or an entire group comes together under the blows of their egoism.

First, egoism must put pressure on them. Therefore, when the Pharaoh, symbolizing the ego, enslaves them, and when they feel they are servile, they are obliged to somehow connect between themselves to help one another. After all, if a person is beaten, he begins to shrink internally. This brings him to a completely different state where he tries to free himself from the ego. This attempt at liberation from egoism is the way out of Egypt.

But to get out of Egypt, this group must agree to be willing to rise above the ego. As a single spiritual union, called Partzuf (system), they must undergo a special purification from egoism.

Since this spiritual structure consists of ten parts, ten Sefirot, their purification consists of ten releases from the ego, which are called the ten blows or Egyptian plagues.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 1/30/20

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Comment: In the Torah, first there are acts of creation, and then, after two and a half thousand years, the Ten Commandments were derived for the people.

My Response: The commandments arise only in a person after his long development. It is very difficult to understand where they are coming from.

A person must plunge into an unearthly, spiritual egoism, which is called Egypt. This is what happened to the Jewish people according to the historical epic when they passed through Egypt, plunged into all the egoistic properties, saw them, and realized that they were the opposite of the Creator.

On the other hand, he realized that he was not able to get out of them himself, and all his properties stand before him like Mount Sinai, a mountain of hatred, the opposite of the Creator.

And all this is due to the fact that among these properties there is a point of “Moshe,” (Moses) called contact with the Creator, by pulling, like on a small thread, a person can pull himself out of this opposition into the likeness of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #10

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Question: Why is the sea that the children of Israel cross called the Final Sea (Yam Suf)? What does water represent?

Answer: Water represents life. This is the quality of Bina, the quality of bestowal and love. A person is born in water, everything emerges in water, this is the basis of life.

However, there are good waters and evil waters. When the water is not free from egoism, it is evil water, evil waves—for example, the Dead Sea or the sea that swallows those who enter it.

The sea that the children of Israel cross is called the Final Sea because there they completely leave egoism and cross the border between the quality of reception and the quality of bestowal.

Question: Is this boundary symbolized by the Machsom, the nominal barrier between egoism and altruism?

Answer: Yes, this is absolutely correct.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/2/21

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Our path becomes more and more precise every day, the direction is clearer and the desired and actual states are more defined. I measure my progress by how much strength I receive from the group, how much longing I have to reveal the Creator, and how much of this desire I can give the group. These two forces are keeping me accurately on the path to my goal.

The main thing is to keep raising the importance of the goal, which constantly disappears. Because of this fact, we will move forward all the time. It is impossible to proceed without negative forces because the advantage of the light is revealed from darkness.

And therefore, if the importance of the goal suddenly disappears and gives way to the feeling of gloom and darkness, this is so that we feel this state as “evening,” after which “morning” can come. It turns out that we awaken the dawn and the dawn does not awaken us.

Pay attention to what a huge influence the environment has on our life: newspapers, television, public opinion, news. We feed on these sources. If it were not for all this external information, we would live like animals; everyone would bury themselves in their hole and not be interested in what is happening outside.

I would not know what is happening in the world, what everyone thinks about, and what they want. But since I feed on information from the whole vast world, it shapes me.

Given this feature, if we want to advance correctly, we need to rise above this world in order to be above it. Therefore, in the group, one should mainly talk about the greatness of the Creator so that it is above everything else, so that it sounds in every word and sentence.

You need to make the ten more important than the whole world so that it pulls you up and not on the corporeal level like the whole world pulls you toward its insignificant values. I must feel how a higher force is acting inside the ten. Therefore, we should talk about the greatness of the Creator because before the great, it is easy to nullify ourselves.

The striving for self-nullification brings us to faith above reason. The power of the Creator, called the power of faith, becomes higher than the power of reason, that is, egoistic reception. And having nullified myself in front of the group that inspires me with the greatness of the Creator, it will be easy for me to nullify myself before the Creator and direct all my efforts to Him.

In return, I will receive the power of faith, bestowal, from the Creator and then I will feel that all reality, except for my little egoistic world, lives according to the law of bestowal, and the Creator fills the entire universe.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/6/21, “Raising the Importance of the Goal”

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Question: Once the sons of Israel received Pharaoh’s permission to leave Egypt, they left it in a hurry. Pharaoh, however, began to regret that he had let the people go and sent his army in pursuit of them.

What does it mean in the inner work of a person that Pharaoh regretted it, and why?

Answer: The fact is that a person running away from his egoism must exit it once and for all. The feeling of the boundary that one crosses is the state of the passage through the Red Sea.

The sons of Israel feel at this moment the strongest upsurge of egoism, which is forcing them to turn back and return to Egypt, to egoistic slavery, and, as before, to succumb to their ego.

They do not know what to do. On one hand, they are eager to go there, on the other hand, they are eager to stay here. In this state, they stand in front of the what is called the raging sea because all this happens inside a person.

Question: Inside one person or inside a group of people?

Answer: Inside each person in the group of people trying to rise above their egoism in order to connect and in the connection with each other to cross the egoistic barrier.

Question: Thus, as the Torah tells us allegorically, in front of them is the sea, behind them the chariot of Pharaoh, and the Creator says to Moses, “Lift up your staff.” Moses raises the staff, the sea parts, the waters divide in two. What does this mean?

Answer: This is the same technique as when a person advances with the help of a staff.

The staff means to go by faith above reason. The staff in Hebrew is “Mate” (lower), meaning lower than your opinion, your reason, your egoism. You have to lower your egoism so much that you ignore what it tells you and go above it. This technique helps a person pass through the Red Sea.

As soon as the sons of Israel crossed to the other side, the sea returned to its normal state and swallowed all the Egyptians. This means that this condition kills those who do not want to move by faith above reason in the quality of bestowal, connection, above their egoism. That is, you will have no spiritual attainment, no crossing the Red Sea. You will not be able to cross it and find an external quality that is higher than your egoism. Therefore, all our egoistic desires are drowned in the sea.

The parting of the sea symbolizes the separation between egoistic and altruistic desires. Part of them, the altruistic desires, come out of the sea, and another part, the “Egyptians,” perish.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/2/21

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Question: A person in Egyptian slavery initially enjoys being in it. We agree to work for Pharaoh (egoism) and we like working for him. This period is called seven years of satiation. Then, at some point, Pharaoh changes. What happens?

Answer: When Pharaoh changes, although we still exist in the same egoism, we realize that Pharaoh does not treat us kindly and does not wish us well. It turns out that we worked for him all the time not for ourselves, and nothing good remains for us from this.

Question: In the Torah, this work is called Avodat Perech (hard work). What does it mean?

Answer: There are many explanations for this concept. In particular, we never receive any fulfillment from this work. We never achieve something that would be worth so much effort.

Question: This is how your teacher Rabash explains this: “That is, the body agrees more to do the holy work with the intention to receive, and there is no need…. to aim to bestow.” Does it mean go, work for Pharaoh, and then everything will be fine?

Answer: Yes, but as time passes, it is no longer possible to continue working for him because you see how Pharaoh himself reveals to you that being in this slavery is pointless. You receive nothing from it. Therefore, a person has no strength to continue working for the Pharaoh.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/26/21

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