Question: Why must one first go to Egypt in order to get out of the egoistic state?

Answer: In order to realize who you are, that you are absolutely the opposite of the Creator, that you are not a human being but an animal controlled only by egoism. This is only possible if you are in a state called “Egypt.”

Question: Can we say that all of humanity is still in Egypt?

Answer: Yes. Absolutely all of humanity is in the state of Mitzraim (Egypt), when a person does not realize that he is controlled by egoism alone.

Mitzraim (Mitz Ra) in Hebrew means concentration of evil.

Question: So, in order to reveal love, one must understand hatred. It turns out that the Egyptian exile is a guarantee that a person will someday acquire altruistic properties in the future?

Answer: Yes. All this has already been planned and should only take on its material appearance.
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From KabTV’s ”Spiritual States” 3/26/21

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It seems that the Torah writes about adventures and great journeys: from ancient Babylon to the land of Canaan where Israel is today, from there to the Sinai desert, from the desert to Egypt and many years of living in it with all the events that took place there, and then fleeing from Egypt and crossing the Red Sea.

All this we should gradually separate from geographical places and historical events and place it inside a person as something that happens within him.

Each one should depict within oneself which qualities are called Egypt, the desert, Pharaoh, and Moses—all the details and characters of the story. This story should unfold inside a person and inside the relationships in the ten.

It is even harder to imagine this in the ten because it is closer to spirituality. We should build this process inside us in sensation so that everyone can feel how all the names the Torah mentions that refer to inanimate nature, plants, animals, and people as reflected in his feelings, thoughts, internal processes, and connections with others.

Gradually, a person begins to feel how the light of Passover works on him, that is, the light of transition from the corporeal state when he is in a group, studying but so far doing everything egotistically. He does not know what the intention for the sake of bestowal is because until he acquires a second nature, it is impossible to explain and depict it.

Just as the story of Passover describes the despair from the hard work for Pharaoh, so a person despairs to emerge from under the control of his egoism and to do something out of love for his neighbor. He does not find such forces, inclinations, and desires within himself.

Suddenly he feels that something is awakening in him, and he begins to understand that there really can be such a quality in a person called selfless bestowal.

It is because there is a special illumination that influences him and passes a new quality onto him. This is the change we need to yearn for. Of course, it does not come just out of a person’s effort but only due to the illumination from above. This is why all our work is a prayer, a request, that must be organized correctly in the ten regarding all the clarifications that we make when building our connection.

The entire process of the exodus from Egypt happens within the ten, within the ten Sefirot. Therefore, it becomes more and more obvious that everything is achieved through the force of the prayer, and we must direct all our efforts only to this: to pray together so that everyone feels his friend and is ready to help him.

Then we connect in our appeal to the upper force, we ask for the force of connection to help us find a mutual point between us so that everyone feels that they are coming out of themselves and becoming included in the common desire called the upper Malchut.

If each one is only inside himself, he is in the lower world. If he rises to the common desire, he already finds himself in the Malchut of the upper world. He thus enters the second phase of Passover, that is, the “transition,” taking a step toward the exodus from Egypt. He already wants not Pharaoh but the Creator to dominate over him so that the Creator rules within him. Therefore, he will have a special transition in order to change the upper authority from Pharaoh to the upper force.

One becomes more and more aware of how dependent and attached he is to his egoism, consciously or unconsciously constantly acting for one’s own benefit. Now he is beginning to think more and more about how he can act for the benefit of the Creator and for the benefit of the ten. This is already close to the exodus from Egypt and means that the lights of Passover are working on a person.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/31/21, “Pesach (Passover)”

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If I cry out to the Creator alone, my cry will inevitably be egoistic and will remain unanswered. However, if I cry out from the group, then certainly the desires of others will be added there and to this extent the request will be heard. Therefore, there is no point in turning to the Creator alone because in this way a person does not build but destroys himself.

It is obvious that we need to turn to the Creator together and ask Him to actualize our connection. From this connection, we can turn to Him with even greater strength and ask for force for mutual bestowal to each other, and from us to the Creator.

We exit Egypt, which is between us, we cross the Final Sea (Yam Suf) between us, we move through the desert between us, we receive the Torah, which will be between us. Thus, we advance until we all are connected in mutual bestowal, and in the light of this bestowal we begin to see a new world, not like our present one, but billions of times larger, infinitely vast.

In addition, it is eternal and perfect, a world where we feel and understand everything and never feel tired, we move forward without any difficulties and obstacles. All this depends only on the connection between us.

Passover, the exodus from Egypt, Pharaoh, Nachshon jumping into the sea—all this takes place inside the ten. Each state begins with separation between the friends and ends with a complete connection in the ten within which, to the extent of our unity, we reveal the upper force, the Creator.

When they speak about great events—about the parting of the Red Sea, life and death, about harsh wars—all this exists only inside the ten. There is nothing but one spiritual Partzuf of the ten Sefirot that goes through all these states.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/30/21, “Pesach (Passover)”

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Question: The Pharaoh forces all those who strive to reveal the quality of bestowal or the Creator (called Israel) to build the cities of Pithom and Raamses. What are these two cities? What are they in reference to the inner work of a person?

Answer: Building means filling the great desire called Pharaoh with egoism in both the right and left lines, in everything. But when we fill it, we see that this pleasure does not lead to any result except sheer disappointment.

Question: Your teacher gives this explanation: Raamses is Ra’am Sus, horse power, which symbolizes the work of man in order to fill his egoism. But then he suddenly feels himself at the edge of an abyss.

Pithom is Pi Tehom, mouth of the abyss. It turns out that you are left, as in Pushkin’s fairy tale, in a broken gutter?

Answer: Sure.

Question: There is also an explanation that these two cities are called Arei Miskenot, dangerous cities in Hebrew. Why are they dangerous?

Answer: Because of the fact that a person might never get out of his egoistic nature, rise above it, but will remain in these “cities,” getting deeper and deeper into them and dying.

Question: But won’t the evolutionary process oblige us to develop? Is there still a threat to stay in Egypt forever?

Answer: In general, there is essentially no such possibility because the Creator’s program is perfect and ultimately leads us to understand the need to leave Egypt. But, on the other hand, it is still a dangerous condition where a person can stay in it for a very long time, almost all his life.

However, he still feels a state of hopelessness. All the sensations described in the Torah are bound to appear in everyone. After all, in principle, many of us are already beginning to see that they just must escape from these states.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/26/21

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Question: Who are “Egyptians” and “Israelites” in spiritual work?

Answer: The Torah speaks of man as an object that includes the whole world. Everything is inside a person.

The Egyptians in us are egoistic forces; the Israelites are altruistic forces or forces that want to be altruistic but are ruled by the Egyptians (egoism).

Pharaoh personifies the complete egoism in which we find ourselves.

The Creator is the upper force that governs Pharaoh, Moses, and everyone else. His task is to bring all creation to be like Him, to altruism. But this requires awareness of egoism being evil and the way out of it.

Moses is a force that is a part of the Creator, which is inside man and pulls him forward toward the disclosure and understanding of the highest spiritual properties.

Interactions occur between these forces when a person feels which of his desires are egoistic, which are altruistic, which of them seek connection with the Creator, and which of them cling to the Pharaoh.

Thus, he sorts them out, and as a result of his work, he understands which voice speaks to him, he realizes that he is completely under the rule of the Pharaoh. Wherever he turns, the Pharaoh is lurking in him.

It seems to him that he is already working for the sake of bestowal and love of neighbors, that he is above all earthly egoistic desires, but he still continues to constantly reveal them inside. In the end, he does not just despair but becomes convinced that the Pharaoh owns everything, one hundred percent.

But at the same time, a special point, called Moses, stands out in him and it opposes Pharaoh. It enters into a fight with him and dooms itself to the ten Egyptian plagues, which our egoism must go through. So, man begins to understand that he can get rid of the ego. But how? It is not clear yet.

With this sensation, he enters a dark night where, on one hand, it is not obvious and not clear how the deliverance will take place, but on the other hand, he passionately desires it. This night is called the night of the exodus from Egypt, which we celebrate on Passover.
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Question: It is interesting that a person does not immediately become a slave in Egypt. According to the Tanakh, Pharaoh, through Joseph, invited the sons of Jacob and gave them the land of Goshen.

What does it mean that a person does not immediately feel Egypt as slavery in the spiritual work?

Answer: Naturally. There is even a semi-anecdote that once people marched with slogans “Long live the slave-owning society” because it was progressive in comparison to the previous one.

After the slave-owning formation, other ones appeared, and each time people rushed to fulfill their growing egoism more and more.

Thus, it turns out that they constantly find themselves in a new social environment, which they themselves create.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/26/21

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Zohar for All, Shemot, Item 81: He took that arrow that the bird had thrown from the left wing and smelled it. Then black fire came out of it, which is the color of the left, designated to Nukva, and is not included in the three colors of the rainbow—white, red, and green—which come from the three lines HGT, and there is no black in them. He said that they revoked the government of the Egyptians, who extend the light of left from above downwards, and that a Roman king would traverse the whole of the land of Egypt and appoint ministers and warmongers in Egypt. Also, he will destroy buildings that were built and extended from the left side and build the ruins that were ruined because they were from the right, for which the Egyptians have no desire.

Egypt is the main egoistic property. Israel, descending into Egypt, manifests itself there in order to plunge into this egoistic property with its altruistic property and as if dips itself into it to collect egoistic desires from there with the help of which one can ascend further.

The fact is that humanity and man cannot rise and grow spiritually if they do not have inner egoism. You can grow by developing the ego, but only using it for bestowal and love. It is said: “I have created the evil inclination…” because you cannot do without it. Therefore, all creation begins from the serpent, from the disclosure of egoism; otherwise, it is impossible. This is human nature, this is our essence.

Then this egoistic principle called “Egypt” constantly manifests itself in a spiritually growing person. But it has nothing to do with Egypt as a modern state or the ancient kingdom. Egypt means egoism into the various properties of which a person plunges each time in order to rise.

Suppose, being at a certain level, I fall into a certain type of egoism and rise. This is called that I was in Egyptian slavery and rose from it. Next time, I fall into a different type of egoism called Babylonian or Nebuchadnezzar. Having risen from it, I then as if fall into “Ancient Rome” and rise again. And then I fall into the final exile.

These are portions of egoism that are revealed in man, which I must use in order to rise above them.

As a result, it turns out that the property “Israel” (straight to the Creator) in us is constantly rising and growing thanks to the use of various types of egoism.

This continues until each of us uses all the egoism, all human striving for life in this world, in order to rise above it in unity, in love your neighbor as yourself, in an effort to comprehend the Creator, embrace Him, and merge with Him. This is possible only during four plunges into egoism and four ascents above it.

Each person is obliged to go through this, get out of all these states, and eventually achieve complete correction of the soul. The exit from this world to the upper world is the goal of our creation.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #8

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Question: When an artist paints a painting or when a scientist works on a problem, they don’t relate to the problem or the task they are facing as something bad. Why do we relate to problems we encounter in a negative way?

Answer: This only indicates how miserable a person is when he cannot ascend above himself and start to look at the world and at himself from the perspective of the Creator who leads him to eternity and perfection through all the states he undergoes.

So, the most important thing is to break away from our present selves and adhere to the Creator, to be His partners in His actions, and then to enjoy everything that happens, just like the Creator. Then you will not feel even a moment of suffering because you will begin to feel that all these moments lead you to attainment, to true happiness.

Question: Do all unpleasant states of a certain attribute seem like parts of one problem?

Answer: Of course. And we must grow up in order to understand this. A small child, for example, feels only one state, like sweetness or warmth, but we understand that we also need other states in order to achieve the goal.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 1/20/19

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Question: Can a person reveal spirituality by himself through inner reflection?

Answer: No. It is very difficult. It takes years and years of searching. I do not believe it is possible. In principle, there have been such cases in history, but I would not hope for that.

Only the method prescribed by those who have attained the positive force of nature can help us here. You need to follow it and reveal it in yourself.

Question: A single person is not capable of doing this, but can a group of people connect to the upper nature?

Answer: Yes. They find this positive force in the search for harmony between them.
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From KabTV’s “Challenges of the 21st Century” 4/24/19

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Question: What is the difference between the feeling that the Creator manages me and the feeling that only He manages me?

Answer: As we approach the Creator, we must constantly aim ourselves to this unique creative force— “There is none else besides Him”—and only with it to solidarize and attribute everything to it.

If we do this, we will eventually be able to actually begin to perceive everything around us as the outcome of the one unique force, which means to perceive Him through all of its different opposite outcomes.

As a result of the infinite revelations of the Creator, we will begin to feel Him as the force behind everything. This means that the attainment of the Creator as the one and unique happens thanks to the fact that we perceive Him as present in all the different attributes, forces, and opposite actions.

Question: And at the same time the one who perceives remains?

Answer: Of course. A person does not disappear in any way, and this is its uniqueness: it was created this way, so that when one attains the Creator he will become equivalent to Him. This is the reason that he does not disappear in any way, and does not destroy or annul himself. To the extent that he can increase the Creator and see His unity in all the opposite revelations of nature and of ourselves, a person can become similar to, equivalent to the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 1/27/19

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