Question: On Passover, we use a special tray on which we lay out six types of food. Why are these species chosen?

Answer: This food symbolizes particular types of forces and properties that we go through in order to get out of egoism and achieve altruistic properties.

This is all a way out of egoism into altruism. Therefore, it occurs gradually in our various properties.

For example, sitting at a common table, necessarily together, necessarily with a tilt to the left, reclining, represents that we are no longer pressured by Pharaoh, we are no longer slaves to our desires.

Four glasses of wine symbolize the complete exit from egoism, which consists of four stages of egoistic desire.

Matza represents bread that must be baked quickly because the spiritual exodus from Egypt is very quick and unexpected. Suddenly, a person is caught by a wave and carried forward. There is a change in his perception of the world.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/15/19

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Comment: The second Egyptian plague is frogs. As it was promised to Pharaoh, “They will go up and come into your house and into your bedroom and upon your bed.”

My Response: This is about spiritual qualities. That is, no matter what spiritual qualities I want to use, I see my egoism everywhere, which prevents me from doing anything. Therefore, I do not have any spiritual life, which I had at some level before.

Question: Does it mean that everything I do, I do for myself, both in the family, on the street, and even when I turn to the Creator, it is still so that He would help me. Is that how it feels?

Answer: No, this is not how it was for them. After all, these are the sons of Israel, who, in the midst of their egoism, yearn for mutual bestowal, for connection. Egypt, Pharaoh, is their common egoism. And they, while inside it, are trying to somehow be mutually connected by the good, correct actions that Abraham taught them.

Question: So, are we talking about people who are already trying to connect in some way? They are not just the people?

Answer: No. That is why it is said that they descend to Egypt, where they gradually develop and suddenly discover that seven years of satiation bring them to a state where, while in egoism, they cannot satiate themselves.

That is, they cannot acquire any spiritual quality and fulfill themselves with even minimal spiritual life, although they have an excellent corporeal life. In this respect, Egypt is simply a corporeal paradise, but not the spiritual one.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 1/30/20

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Question: We are studying the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah (Pticha) again, and everything is seemingly clear. Then something changes and there is a feeling that you are speaking on a very high level.

What can we hold on to in order to relate to this in sensorily? There is no logic and no feelings and everything vanishes. Could it be that we are doing something wrong? Could it be that we need to somehow change our attitude toward this or could there be some magical way?

There is a feeling that if we begin to study Pticha again in another year and a half or two, we will return to the same state, will come to a halt at a certain point, and then we will once again feel that you are speaking on a high level that we cannot attain.

Answer: It is not a high level, but the lowest spiritual level, and we have to ascend to it. The fact that you don’t understand what it is about is true. It is so that you will realize that you don’t understand anything and that you need to change your conduct and your attitude in order to understand something. After all, our goal is to somehow attain the feeling of the Creator.

I can, of course, remain on the same level and speak to you about Sefirot, Partzufim, worlds, etc., mechanically, about the work of the light. But my goal is to make all my students feel the writings sensorily or at least let them understand that they are not in it in their sensations.

How can we attain this specifically? By getting closer to each other, not by formally sitting in a ten. They need to yearn to connect in their hearts and to begin to feel the Creator in this connection. It is not easy. It takes a long time, but it is the way of reaching the upper world. This is the reason we were given this life. This is the way of the wisdom of Kabbalah.

You can also study the wisdom of Kabbalah formally, purely theoretically. And even not study it, but its application in our world, and how our world is deteriorating and what the wisdom of Kabbalah says about that. We can also implement the wisdom of Kabbalah in order for external unification and for dissemination. This is also very important, but it is not a person’s most internal work.

We are preparing several levels. On the highest level there are those who can connect with the Creator through the connection between them and convey the upper light through them, the upper energy, the attribute of love and bestowal.

Later this attribute will move to a lower level where people can connect to each other on a friendly basis and not spiritually. They will unite and will make up the mass of Bnei Baruch.

Since this mass has not transcended the Machsom completely and its major part is on the level of our world, it can connect with the masses on lower levels too and also with other nations and explain the attribute of unity to them, how important it is, and how it can save our world.

This is how we will advance. But we need to build all that.

I teach everyone, those who can understand that the most important thing is to ascend above yourself, to annul yourself with regard to the ten, and thus connect to the Creator who sets Himself as the highest level. The others will work on lower levels, but still each one has his own work he has to fulfill. This is the phase of human development we are in.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 4/4/19

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Question: Even if I do not understand what is written in The Book of Zohar and yet I read it, will I be able to reveal the degree above me this way? This seems strange to a modern person.

Answer: Yes, it is strange. But, nevertheless, exactly this is the necessary condition for attainment.

Everything is strange in our world. What about childbirth? Isn’t this a strange process? We are just used to it and so we think: “That is how it is.” But in fact, how can this be?

Take some creature supposedly from a different world and show it what we have in our world: a lot of unknown, incomprehensible, strange phenomena that do not have a clear cause-and-effect development. We just got used to the fact that one thing comes after the other because that is how we discovered it, how we learned it. It is the same in spirituality.

Development always happens according to the law of negation of the negation. When an upper degree is born, it is born as an opposite to the previous one, out of negation, out of falling out from the previous degree, in spite of it. Therefore, it is always strange: the very process of birth in our world and even more so in the spiritual world.

On the other hand, it cannot be different because the ascent to the next degree is a change in the entire paradigm of existence, a change in the entire philosophy, methodology, and attitude to the world.

Therefore, to rise to the next degree means to be completely reborn. This happens only under the influence of the upper light.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #7

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The ascent from this world to the spiritual world is realized thanks to the fact that we increasingly need the help of the Creator. And to help us acquire His qualities, the Creator gives us the burdening of the heart, the feeling that we cannot cope without Him. Everywhere we are convinced that we are not capable of fulfilling any spiritual conditions.

But we are also unable to ask the Creator; we do not know how to do it. This shows lack of faith. That is, we do not feel the Creator, we do not feel that He exists and that He is waiting ready to help us, and that only with His help can we fulfill spiritual conditions, achieve connection and bestowal, and see the world as created from one source.

Therefore, we will have to reveal more of our force of evil, which does not allow us to connect with each other and with the Creator. And when we feel that we are not capable of connection and bestowal, it means that the Creator shows us the Pharaoh who stands between us and leads us to the wall, prevents us from moving toward connection and drawing closer to become one man with one heart.

And all this burdening of the heart is the result of not believing in the Creator, that is, the lack of feeling that this force exists and that it is only this force that puts all sorts of obstacles in front of us.

It is the Creator who sets the Pharaoh, our egoism, against us so that we may be convinced of our inner helplessness. I must act, but I feel that I am not able to, I do not have the strength to overcome my egoism even in the smallest way.

And the further we go, the weaker we feel, incapable of performing the slightest action of bestowal. But the Creator has deliberately arranged for us to plunge into egoism, which shows its complete power over us, the power of the Pharaoh in whose slavery we are under in Egypt. Only the Creator can save us by pulling us out of egoism, not any other force. Thus, we increasingly need the force of bestowal that the Creator can give us.

These two forces, the force of the Pharaoh and the force of the Creator, stand against each other, and Moses is us, the force in the middle that wants to outweigh toward the side of the Creator and rise above Pharaoh, to get out of his control. But this force is very weak. And only in the measure of our faith in the Creator, in the fact that He can save us by snatching us from the hands of Pharaoh, do we establish the dominion of the force of good over the force of evil.

The Creator sends out ten blows, awakening the force of Pharaoh. He says to Moses: “Come unto Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart.” And why does He harden Pharaoh making him stronger and stronger?

Moses is the force that wants to escape from Pharaoh and pull us out of egoism. Moses sees that he cannot go out on his own but must cling to the Creator, cling to Him as a baby clings to his mother with all his strength. It is the only way he feels safe and secure.

Both forces come from the Creator: the force of giving and the force of receiving. It is upon us only to pray that the force of bestowal will prevail over the force of reception and allow us to perform practical actions of bestowal.

And when we learn to perform altruistic actions, we will feel the presence of the Creator in them, His force, and His help. So we will begin to collect our desires of bestowal from which we will then form a spiritual vessel, our soul, the form of a spiritual group.

Therefore, the main thing is to consider where is it that we receive the Creator’s invitation to perform a spiritual action for the sake of bestowal, to realize our inability to fulfill it, and the need to turn to the Creator for help. Then we receive this power from Him and perform the action of bestowal. This ascent above egoism is called the exodus from Egypt.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/17/21,“Pesach (Passover)”

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Question: The first Egyptian plague is  water turning to blood. What is this blow from the Kabbalistic point of view?

Answer: In the spiritual sense, water symbolizes the quality of bestowal and blood the quality of reception.

For a time, the children of Israel lived in the quality of bestowal, from which they fed, through which they existed united among themselves. But suddenly this quality no longer unites them.

Even the minimal amount and quality of connection that they could achieve disappeared and they felt completely disconnected. They saw that the Pharaoh wanted to rule over them to such an extent that there was no connection left. And so they couldn’t go on like this.

The plague by blood is the first realization of their egoistic intentions, which lead them to absolute death.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 1/30/20

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Even if it seems to me that everything that happens to me depends on myself, on my friends, or on some other random reasons, in reality everything comes from the Creator.

If I perceive it this way, it means that I am always standing in front of the Creator and not in front of the Pharaoh or any other forces. This is what I need: always imagine myself standing in front of the Creator.

Then what I should do is try to see Him through all the influences He awakens in me, to understand that everything comes from the upper force, that there is nothing else besides it. Through this attitude to everything that is happening, I will already know how to respond. I have to connect as much as possible with the friends and connect with the Creator together with them until we reveal Him between us. Then the Creator will correct the connection between us and He will fill it.

This is our work at every moment of time. The states that arise between us on this path can be called Egypt, exile, the exodus from Egypt, and so on. However, in essence, this is the ten, which must constantly strengthen our connection, advance more and more in order to reveal the Creator in the connection between us, the upper force, which is the only one that controls everything.

This force appears to us in the form of Pharaoh, or the Creator, or various villains and righteous people. However, it is the Creator who plays with us all the time in order to awaken the ten and each of us for connection above all the changes that He caused in us, above all the disturbances.

Then we begin to understand the language of the Creator, to recognize what He wants from us, how He addresses us, how He plays on us as if on a musical instrument. We feel what changes He makes in us and how His lights spread inside our connections in the ten, that is, fill our Partzuf.

Accordingly, we can respond to His address and respond to Him. We have a common language, as it is written, “I am for my beloved, and my beloved is for me.” The Creator speaks to us by changing our specific desires in the ten, and we want to connect on top of all the states; this is our response to Him. As a result we get a real song, He speaks to us, and we speak to Him, and we sing the song together.

The main thing is to picture that everything is inside the ten and not run away from it, but combine all the states together, into one system: seven years of satiation and seven years of hunger, Pharaoh, the Creator, and Moses. Then everything will fall into places wonderfully and easily.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/16/21, “Pesach (Passover)”

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“What makes the desert beautiful,” said the little prince, “is that somewhere it hides a well…”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Wells are hidden under the sand. They exist everywhere. The root of life is everywhere, in everything. The most important thing is for us to relate to the meaning of life, to the root of life, and not to what we see outside.

Question: Tell me, is the desert burning inside me? Many people today have the feeling that there is no life.

Answer: You simply reveal something that was not there anyway. There was no life before either, only now you realize it. And so what you are revealing now is better than what was before.

Question: How can I, burning inside, understand or believe that if I overcome this state, a well will be there? What kind of thought is that?

Answer: That there is a meaning to life, there is a purpose, there are great forces of nature that can lift us up and revive us, lead us to the source of life if only we seriously wish it.

Question: How can I grasp this idea in such a desolate state?

Answer: Only if you gather yourself together with the rest of your friends. You must come together, you must understand that this is only done together. Only in the environment.

Question: The environment, are they the same as me, desolate inside, looking for a well?

Answer: That is precisely what they must understand, that this well is hidden in the connection between them.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/31/20

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Question: If everything is predetermined by the Creator, is the only thing in my power to relate to it differently and to go through it in a different pace?

Answer: Everything is totally and precisely predetermined from the beginning of the spiritual path to its end, and there is nowhere you can escape from it. You must reach the root of your soul which has descended from point B to point A, and you must return from point A to point B by your own efforts.

This process can be described by three lines. The first line (1) is the descent from the world of infinity to our world. The second line (2) is the history of our world, our corporeal path (6,000 years). And the third line (3) is the ascent back to the world of infinity

Descents and ascents have practically no time. But we are returning to our root.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 12/30/18

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Zohar For All, VaYera, Item 375: Similarly, on a day when there is Din in the world and the Creator sits at the throne of judgment, that Satan is there slandering above and below. He is there to destroy the world and to take people’s souls, since he is Satan, the angel of death.

Comment: We say that there is no one in the world beside the Creator. Yet, it turns out, there is also Satan.

My Response: In the “warehouse” of the Creator there is not only Satan but also Pharaoh, good and evil angels, the angel of death, and so on.

Question: What about “There is none else besides Him”?

Answer: That is why they are in His “warehouse,” and He uses them, sends these forces in all directions, and He just controls them, pulls the strings. We are under the influence of both good and bad forces. Moreover, they are allegedly bad because everything is for good.

After all, in order to move us forward, it is necessary to push us from the opposite side. Here He is revealed to us in His different guises, with different faces: kind and evil, bad and good.

All this is in order to show man the inner meaning, to show him life, history, geography, all the development of humanity, the inner world of everyone, and so on. We must discover this from two opposite qualities.

What does the Creator do? He takes control over Satan and works through him. The good is clothed in evil in order to influence our evil and by this counterattack lead us to good. Otherwise, we, as egoists, would take the good in such a way as to selfishly seize it.

However, when this good is clothed in evil and as if the external evil from the Creator opposes our evil, then our discontent manifests and problems arise. We are forced to do something with ourselves.

Gradually, we become softer, open up, and become ready for the revelation of good. Then the Creator releases the good out of Himself, and we merge with each other. This is the only way we can influence each other: good for good and evil for evil.

It will not work out otherwise because others will not understand you. Try to treat well those who treat you badly, and you will see that by doing so you only awake even greater evil. But internally, one must still act with love and kindness.

On the outside, you must behave the way they do because only in this way can you force the opposite side to accept the method of correction. This is an elementary corporeal psychology. The Creator also works with us according to this principle.

There is nothing complicated about this. You just need to go a little deeper into the system of relationships that exists between us, see that it works, and use it precisely to understand the internal system of the universe and reach your spiritual ascent.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar,” #7

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