Question: Who is the neighbor?

Answer: Anyone. If a person does everything it takes to keep our system in balance, then the only thing that matters for him is bestowal. In fact, it is easy. Try to think about the other and you will see how all the nonsense, all the problems disappear from your head. Just like this—from myself to the others.

Question: Is a neighbor really any person in the world?

Answer: Yes. Try it. Even at the corporeal level. At the Kabbalistic level, we already deal with the system of connections.

Comment: In order to do something for someone else, I need to get some kind of fuel. I need to understand why I am doing this.

My Response: You will be given fuel. You will also be given calories in order to act.

Question: But it is not natural for a person to think about the neighbor, right?

Answer: Ask for strength so that it will become possible.

Question: Why do I need all this?

Answer: By doing this you reach equivalence to the Creator.
[279029]
From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/26/19

Related Material:
Pave The Way To Your Neighbor
Comprehend Love Of Others Through Love Of Oneself
Cancel Self-Love

Filed under: Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: Did a man or a state called Adam HaRishon, the first man, ever exist? Did he suddenly feel the tree of knowledge of good and evil within him?

Answer: Yes. The tree represents states that one can aspire to and grow.

By tasting the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he sees that it is detrimental because he begins to receive from this life in his egoistic desires instead of rising above them, and at the same time, he completely loses the whole upper world.

We exist in a certain space that is unfamiliar to us. This space can be perceived by us in its entirety only if we reveal all our inner potential, all our desires. Then it will be called the upper world.

This same space can be perceived by us in a very limited form, in our small gray world that we now feel.

The difference between the worlds is the difference between life and death, because the existence in our world is like death. I always desire something, but can never find it. Since birth, my life is a slow death.

Question: Why was Adam suddenly compelled to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil? After all, everything was so wonderful.

Answer: The Creator deliberately set him up so that he would understand the state he was really in. As created beings, we can only feel something relative to something else.

When Adam HaRishon was in a perfect state, he did not feel it as perfect. He did not yet have analysis or synthesis, doubts, desires, aspirations, or their fulfillments. He did not know that there were differences between them. Everything is understood in comparison. Everything is felt through its opposite.

But he did not have that opposite. He had to fall into our world in order to gradually rise from it to the higher attainment, to the upper world, to see what the Creator had in store for him.
[279112]
From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #7

Related Material:
The Forbidden Fruit: The Second Failed Attempt
From Multiplicity To Unity
Correct Yourself, Correct The World

Filed under: Adam-The Common Soul, Spiritual Work, Zohar - No Comments →

Question: How can you completely reverse your perception of reality, your assessment of a situation and life?

Answer: You cannot think about how to reverse yourself. How do you know that this is possible? You need to navigate where you want to go and what you need it for.

You can reverse yourself under the influence of a relevant society but only if there are certain prerequisites for it, serious intentions. There must be some special estimates here.

It cannot be that a person says: “I am tired of being who I am. I want to be different.” He must carefully check everything, plan, create his own way to implement it. Nothing is going to just happen.

Question: Does society need to stop and start asking itself the right questions?

Answer: And why would it do this? Here we face the question: “What comes first?” What causes the question that arises in society? What affected society? What brought imbalance in it? And so on.

And then we can talk about what is needed to bring oneself back to a state of peace or balanced movement.

Life itself asks the necessary questions.
[277592]
From KabTV’s “Ask the Kabbalist” 1/12/21

Related Material:
Why Do We Try To Change Everything Around Us But Not Ourselves?
What Does It Mean To Change The World?
Why Did The Virus Distance Us From Each Other?

Filed under: Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: How many people throughout history have crossed the Machsom? Are there only a few, tens, or thousands of them?

Answer: Millions of people. However, we must understand that this is a process. Souls are not some blocks separated from each other, but rather, they are desires that constantly mix, change, and connect. That is, it is a complex integral system.

Question: Where do these millions exist?

Answer: They exist outside of bodies, in desires. After all, the most important thing is desire. The body appears to us as existing in the same limited volume as our world. In fact, there is no material world. Only the spiritual world exists. Therefore, we need to move to the feeling of the spiritual world and make certain that it is the one that exists and not this world.

Question: Where do people exist after crossing the Machsom, and what do they do there?

Answer: They exist in their qualities. Everything that is outside of these qualities, all kinds of inanimate, vegetative, and animate matter (there is no human matter in our world; it is classified as animate) are perceived only in our earthly feelings. In reality, all this does not exist.

Feelings change, and this world disappears.
[279087]
From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 2/6/20

Related Material:
Spiritual Surprise
Machsom—Transition From One Quality To Another
Breaking Through The Machsom

Filed under: Body and Soul, Perception, Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: How is independence expressed when the Israelis leave Egypt? From what do they become independent?

Answer: So far they are only running away from Pharaoh, from their egoism. This is not yet gaining independence, but breaking away from slavery, and nothing more. There is a very long way from slave to master.

Comment: Let’s say a country gains independence, just as the Poles became independent from Russia …

My Response: What is their independence? They are all dependent on each other. And most importantly, they are in bad dependence, because it is selfish.

And if they begin to unite with each other in the properties of love and bestowal, then their dependence will be good, they will merge together. Then it will not be considered, as it is today, that they are linked by bonds of some kind. After all, if I know that you love me, then I am independent of you: I use your property of love as a property of my own independence, and you are mine. Then we are free, although the same connection exists between us.

We use our egoism as a link that ties us all into a single net and manifests itself in an eerily obligatory state. We see that we cannot get away from each other, on one hand. On the other hand, when we rise above the ego and build the property of love and bestowal over it, we gain the third level—independence.

The internal property of hatred, egoism, and the property of love, bestowal, create a third line in us—absolute freedom.

Question: As a result, we gain independence from the Creator?

Answer: First of all, from the Creator. Because the Creator is the only one who created this situation. So it is said: “I created evil and gave the Torah to correct it.” He is the first and only one. And I’m only secondary.
[278731]
From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #6

Related Material:
Absolute Freedom
A Free Slave
Freedom Is Born From Love

Filed under: Free Will, Spiritual Work, Zohar - No Comments →

A person who feels the quality of bestowal and love and who perceives his participation in the whole of humanity as necessary and desirable, gradually comes to the fact that this quality begins to prevail in him. In that way, he gets closer and closer to bestowal. One who wants to fully acquire this quality, he, as a a pray, asks it to act in him, and thus approaches the Machsom, the border between the two worlds, and passes through it.

It is a mesmerizing state, because we really begin to feel that our world consists of two systems. Our system, in which we are today, is purely initial, weak, specifically created so that, proceeding from it, we would want to be in the quality of bestowal and love despite our nature.

Question: Kabbalists say that the goal of nature is to transport the whole of humanity though the Machsom?

Answer: Yes. Absolutely everyone and everything.

The fact is that our world that seems to us to exist, is actually illusory. It is specifically created for us to want to get out of it, to choose the next world, the next state: the quality of bestowal as the most necessary, desirable.
[278858]
From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 2/6/20

Related Material:
Spiritual Surprise
Machsom—Transition From One Quality To Another
Breaking Through The Machsom

Filed under: Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Comment: It is said, “Adhere to the Creator.” Our dream is to reveal the Creator in our sensations. At the same time, you say that we will become independent of Him. There is some kind of contradiction in this.

My Response: Indeed, we are given two contradictory lines, the right one and the left one, above which we build the third, which is the middle line consisting of both of them, and at the same time above them.

The quality of complete bestowal and love is the right line, the quality of egoism and hatred is the left line, and using them, I build the middle line above them.

There is egoism, anger, greed, and envy inside me, I want to receive everything. And in you, as a host, on the contrary, there is bestowal and absolute love, and I can take them from you. You are completely ready to give everything. However, if I use you with my egoism, then I depend on you.

In addition, my humiliation is revealed here. This is what we see in the world today, depression and everything else, as a result of the upper quality, of the quality of the so-called upper shame.

To rise above this, I must completely nullify your influence on me. I can only do this when I apply both qualities. At the same time, I fully use my egoism, I receive everything that is possible from you, I pass through myself the pleasure that comes from you, but in order to give contentment to you.

As a result, I do not become a receiver, because I receive only for your sake. I am the giver because I give everything to you. And you turn into a receiver.

I am the receiver and the giver. You are the receiver and the giver. We become absolutely equal to each other. Then there is absolutely no difference between us at the degrees of “creation – Creator.” I fully reach the degree equal to you.

Moreover, since here I am the leader, the creator of this new relationship, I become even higher than you. After all, I manage the whole process: I create it, I invent it, and I implement it.
[278801]
From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #6

Related Material:
To Stand Before The Creator And Become Like Him
On The Middle Ground Between Good And Evil
Perfect Attainment

Filed under: Spiritual Work, Zohar - No Comments →

Question: Is faith a feeling of the Creator? Do I believe you because you are great and strong in my eyes?

Answer: No, this is not at all the same faith the wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, the term “faith” means the characteristic of bestowal, the characteristic of Bina. Whereas the fact that you just believe me, is not considered in the wisdom of Kabbalah because it lacks any basis, just like in any other science.

Question: Which is to say, I don’t have to believe you?

Answer: That’s your business.

Question: But often what you say actually happens. And I believe you.

Answer: That is because with my words I connect previous concepts in you that could not be connected. And this is pleasant, calming, and freeing for you.

The linking and connection of opposites that appear in you because you are listening to me gives you a connection with me. Through your egoistic senses, you begin to feel that it is worthwhile to listen to me, because in a way like this I put concepts in you that were previously incapable of being connected, which could not complement each other.

While now, they complement each other and you think that you have faith in me. But this is not the faith of which we are speaking.

Faith is the characteristic of Bina that can only be attained from above through the bestowal of light. The upper light bestows upon your egoism and you begin to feel within it a characteristic that is its opposite, the desire to bestow, to fulfill someone. That is what is called faith.

And this is not the same faith about which religions speak. The wisdom of Kabbalah doesn’t work by means of things like these.

Question: It follows that I still have a long way to go to get to true faith?

Answer: What difference does that make? You are on the way in any case.
[258932]
From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 12/22/19

Related Material:
Faith—Feeling The Creator
Faith Is A Vessel Of Bestowal
Kabbalah And Faith

Filed under: Spiritual Work - No Comments →

Question: The entire world is a system of connections between the inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels of nature, and between people. Today, we see the world through our egoistic connections. Everyone feels them differently. What does a Kabbalist see?

Answer: A Kabbalist very clearly sees all connections: how much people give to each other, care for each other, are connected to each other. He sees this in the measure of his correction and thus feels the whole world as existing in the quality of bestowal.

And he constantly reaches other attainments built on oppositeness from the quality of bestowal and love, and two systems are revealed to him: the receiving and the bestowing. And he must work in order to combine them.

Question: Can we say that a person who has crossed the Machsom sees absolutely all connections between people?

Answer: That is correct. However, he will not use them to the detriment of the system itself, which is called the Creator.
[278815]
From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 2/6/20

Related Material:
Does A Kabbalist See The World As A More Corrected Place?
Practicing Kabbalist
The World In The Eyes Of Every Generation

Filed under: Spiritual Work - No Comments →

The Ninth Commandment says “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” You create completely new conditions in the world and risk distorting the entire harmony between the forces of the world if you pronounce false conditions and enter false parameters.

Question: Do I move even further away from my neighbor in this way and consequently from the Creator?

Answer: Yes. All the rules are built so that man does not move away from the Creator.

Comment: In Kabbalah, the Creator is the purpose. We can only attune ourselves to Him through society. Therefore, if I bear false witness against my neighbor, then I move myself away from the Creator. It is a pity that we do not see it. Then we would observe these laws.

My Response: No. Then we would just be machines. We would not have the freedom of choice.

Comment: It is so hard to observe all this.

My Response: Not hard, but impossible. There can be nothing else in nature . We have to agree with that. We must understand that this is the only way for us to be properly attuned to nature, to its highest law, which raises us above our animalistic nature.

Therefore, we have to agree with this ascent, give in to its forces, and then everything will work out.
[278621]
From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/26/19

Related Material:
You Shall Not Bow To Your Ego’s Opinion
The Essence Of Torah
Difficult Spiritual Rules

Filed under: Commandments, Spiritual Work - No Comments →