Question: What is the spiritual meaning of cleaning for Passover? Why do we suddenly have to clean everything up?

Answer: The Passover cleaning symbolizes that we must completely purify ourselves from our egoistic desires and intentions.

Question: And are all these states described in the Passover Haggadah (Legend)?

Answer: Yes. They are displayed there purely symbolically. This is called Seder Pesach.

“Seder” is the order of exit from Egypt, and “Pesach” is from the word “Pasach,” that is, the transition. This refers to the transition from egoism to altruism.

Question: In principle, this is a clear instruction on how a person crosses the Machsom?

Answer: Yes. But this is not a physical transition, but an internal one, for which you need to prepare a lot.

Question: And not just one person, but a group of people?

Answer: And how can it be that a person goes from egoism to altruism alone? This should be done in his connection with others, in his attitude toward others. He must transfer all concern from himself to others, all worry about himself to others, all his personal goals to general goals, all connections of himself with himself in connection with others. That is, he must completely turn his worldview around.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual states” 4/15/19

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Question: What is the teacher’s part in the system of the spiritual Partzuf? Is he Keter that illuminates or Malchut that absorbs?

Answer: The teacher’s role, just as the role of the Creator, is not the actual Partzuf. With regard to you and to your ten, the teacher and the Creator are the external forces that format the group according to its desire.

If a small child, for example, yearns for something, wants something, or does something, he is constantly corrected while he doesn’t even pay attention to that and doesn’t know why or for what purpose. He is given a toy, he is put in a certain place, and then in another, etc.

The teacher performs such external actions with regard to the group. The Creator is already the general force that operates everything, including the teacher himself.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 12/2/18

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Question: Is the concern of a mother for her baby a manifestation of faith above reason or does it have nothing to do with that? What triggers the mechanism of faith above reason?

Answer: There is no thing spiritual in any mechanism in the relationships between people, and especially physically, like between a mother and baby in which there is nothing spiritual. This can be summed up as an egoistic attraction of a mother to her baby. This attraction exists both among animals and humans and is nothing more.

The mechanism of faith above reason is activated by being found as much as possible in a group whose members have a single opinion and thought in which you mutually push each other toward activities that resemble spirituality, and gradually, according to your efforts, the Ohr Makif (surrounding light) bestows to you and develops in you the characteristic of Bina (the characteristic of bestowal, faith above reason). Faith is the characteristic of Bina, knowledge is Malchut—faith above reason.

Question: Does a person know how and when the light will bestow on him?

Answer: No, a person does not know. But if someone is studying the wisdom of Kabbalah and is participating together with their friends in this study, in the organization of events, then one will constantly think about how the upper light will influence them. He needs the light; therefore, he will strive to attract it.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 12/23/18

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The Egyptian exile is a very special state. Our entire corporeal world is under the rule of the will to receive, but it is not considered that it is under the rule of Pharaoh.

The fact is that the feeling of exile is caused by the exile from the spiritual world. Therefore, only a person who yearns for spirituality can gradually realize that he is not in it because there are egoistic forces in him that hold him captive and do not allow him to enter spiritual qualities. Thus, he discovers that he is under the rule of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.

It will take a long time before a person begins to notice that his whole life is controlled by the egoistic desire that does not allow him to bestow, to come closer to the friends and closer to the Creator, to treat everyone with love, to return to the state of a single soul as it was before the shattering of Adam HaRishon. This is what defines the exile, and the intensity of it is also different for each and every one.

There are people who do not feel they are in exile from spirituality at all. They just feel bad in this world because of various problems, but this is not yet considered exile. Exile means separation from bestowal, connection, love. If a person does not yearn for this, then he does not feel that he is lacking it, which means that he does not feel himself in exile.

Therefore, we need to clarify whether we are in Egypt, in exile from spirituality, from bestowal, connection, and love, or not. You cannot just say “I am in exile” if you do not feel suffering. If I suffer from the fact that I am in egoism and think only about myself and not about the friends and the Creator, then I feel that I am in exile.

After all, I would very much like to rise above these thoughts and worries only about myself and to care about my neighbor, but I am not able to do this. This is the feeling of exile. The more I suffer from the exile, the more I will be able to enjoy the exit from it and the redemption.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/12/21, “Pesach (Passover)”

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The Creator told Abraham that all those who seek the Creator will have to go through 400 years of exile, through four stages. During these four stages of exile, they will receive addition after addition of the desire to enjoy, which will grow more and more, in four degrees. And according to this, they will want to come out of exile and will finally come out.

The study of the Egyptian exile is not an easy phase because this exile is imprinted in us, and we feel it. We will go through different states: yearning for connection and rejecting it, descents and ascents.

It is a struggle. On one hand, this is a very powerful period, and on the other, it is not very pleasant. And so you need to stick together and try to go through it by correctly balancing the mind and the heart, both of them acting at the same time.

If you only immerse in sensations, it will be terrible. And if only in the mind, it will be only dry abstract reasoning. Therefore, you need to try to combine mind and feelings correctly in order to understand why you feel this way.

“Why” is a question from the mind and what I feel is a sensation. And when we connect the mind and the senses correctly, it gives us the right Kli that will allow us to come out of the exile. As soon as we organize such a Kli, we immediately feel that we are entering the upper world, the spiritual reality, and we begin to feel the forces operating outside of this world and the Creator who fills everything and directs everything.

But before that, we will have 400 years of exile, that is, four stages of increasing the desire to enjoy, and we must learn how to properly handle it. Until we figure it out, we cannot get out of our egoism. We need to uncover it, organize it properly, clarify it in ourselves, find out what we are gaining at its expense, etc.

There is a big, painful work to be done inside the egoistic desire: we want to get out, but we are not allowed. And each time we reveal how weak we are, how we do not really want to get out to anywhere, and we do not understand why it is necessary.

In such states, there is a desire to escape from this work, and now it is important to have the strong support of the group, the environment, and the understanding that there is no way out and you must continue. You need the right framework that will hold you at times when you are thrown up and down and in all directions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/12/21, “Pesach (Passover)”

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Question: At Passover, we eat Matzah and not bread. What does this mean spiritually?

Answer: The fact is that the rejection of egoism symbolizes the exodus from Egypt, from the power of the ego. By us eating Matzah, we seem to demonstrate what exactly the rejection is. A person should refuse to use bread because flour is one property and water is quite another.

Flour (the property of reception) and water (the property of bestowal) cannot be together. The holiday of Passover symbolizes the absolute separation between the property of receiving and the property of giving.

Question: Did the people who came out of Egypt go through all these states?

Answer: Yes, they felt that this was the way they should behave.

Question: And it was in such allegorical stories that they were supposed to describe everything? Couldn’t it have been something else?

Answer: No. There was no other way because spiritual properties had not yet appeared. How could you describe it? Only in the language of branches.

There are spiritual roots. It all happens in our inner forces there, and it is impossible to describe it because I do not know these forces, I am not familiar with them, I do not even have names for them.

And if I take spiritual roots and draw branches (consequences) from them into our world, because our world is arranged in exact similarity to the upper world, then I can already take the words “flour,” “water,” “Egypt,” “Red Sea,” and so on, and operate with these meanings while imagining that we are in the spiritual roots.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/15/19

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It is the feeling of exile that pushes us forward and obligates us to seek the center of the ten where we can connect together and then reveal our connection with the Creator. The sufferings of exile compel us to unite like a flock of sheep huddled together because they are surrounded by wolves.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/12/21, “Pesach (Passover)”

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Question: It is written in The Book of Zohar that once Adam tasted the forbidden fruit he must not touch the Tree of Life. Why?

Answer: Because this is the light, which will only make his corrupted state worse, as if you give a baby or an uncorrected person a weapon with which he can harm himself and others.

That is why now it is necessary to make sure that he enters the system of governance, which will force him first to correct himself, then to receive fulfillment in accordance with this and become the recipient of the forces.

Once he realizes what state he is in, he receives the forces for correction, not that he already had them and then received the opportunity to choose how to work with them. First, you need to acquire knowledge, an understanding of where and how you are going, break away from your imaginary perfection, and only then receive the upper light and correct yourself.

This is how we are in our world. Today, humanity still does not reach the upper light. It receives nothing, runs around, and does not know what to do with itself.

However, when it begins coming closer to the understanding that it should rise upward, then to the extent that it has a firm decision to correct itself and rise above its state from egoistic qualities to altruistic qualities, it will receive the force of light. Otherwise, it will only harm itself even more.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #7

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Question: According to what you say, a teacher has tools that help him withstand feelings that are multiplied by 620 times. How are these tools acquired?

Answer: The point is that spiritual work is carried out in the property of bestowal, not in the attribute of reception. A kind of amplifier appears in you because you begin to feel everything outside yourself and not inside of you.

You yourself become a sensor. Your whole ego, everything that you once absorbed and felt inside changes from an organ of reception to an organ of sensation.

Imagine your whole body becomes eyes, ears, tactile sensation, organs of taste and smell. You begin to feel through them as one single organ everything that happens around you, outside yourself, at infinite distance and infinite planes.

This is what is referred to by the expression that you begin to feel 620 times more. In fact, it is billions and billions times more than what we feel today. But you have the opportunity to feel and not explode from these sensations because you feel it as love from yourself and not inside of you.

Why does Kabbalah tell a person that he must exit himself? Because what you begin to feel, you cannot absorb. It will simply tear you apart because these sensations are billions of times more powerful than the ones we feel and experience now. Our world is generally considered  non-existent relative to the upper world precisely because of the insignificance of its sensations.

So we must first acquire an external sense called faith above reason, the attribute of love and bestowal, and then, once you are in this motion, you will be able to gradually feel the upper world.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 12/2/18

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Question: When the people of Israel were coming out of Egypt, the sea parted before them. What does this mean?

Answer: This is another final property. Therefore, it is called Yam Suf—the Final Sea, after which there is no return to Egypt. This is the final breakaway from egoism. There is no turning back.

Before that, there are all sorts of doubts and problems. And then in the desert, there will be doubts and problems, but they already are of a different kind.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/15/19

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