Question: Does the hatred between friends and the desire to kill each other that is written about in The Book of Zohar always remain?

Answer: But of course! This separation remains, and a union is created over it, and, moreover, the greatest, most absolute love. But it must exist above hatred, otherwise it does not exist.

There is not one quality. Only the Creator represents one quality—the quality of bestowal and love. And creation must exist separately from the Creator, otherwise it will be lost. If we completely dissolve in Him, then we no longer exist.

How can we make sure that we exist and are equal to the Creator, similar in everything? For this there are two qualities in us: the original, absolute egoism, and the clothing on it, absolute bestowal and love, absolute altruism. One overlaps the other. But one cannot exist without the other.

That is, we are created from two opposite qualities, giving and receiving, and these two qualities complement each other.

Therefore, inside there is absolute hatred and egoism, which is converted in its external outpouring into love and giving to others.

And then a person remains a person, a creature, but completely equal to the Creator. This is not perceived by us. We don’t understand that. Egoism is called “help against you,” as if it exists opposite to you.

He is not standing in front of me, but inside me. It seems to me to be my opponent, but in fact, when you start to correct it, you see that you have something to correct, something to rise above, thanks to which you can learn, attain, and build yourself.

Therefore, it is the material from which you restore the broken statue. Without these egoistic pieces, you would have nothing to collect. You don’t really work with egoism itself. You work on gluing the pieces of souls together, you work on the connection between the corrupted souls.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #3

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Question: When a person striving for unification begins to investigate his nature, he sees that it resists this. Is this state called the entrance to Egypt?

Answer: Yes. He understands that, on the one hand, he must go toward unification. This property is called “Yosef” (Joseph). But the rest of his properties, which his brothers personify, are selfish. They absolutely disagree with this.

As a result, everyone ends up in Egypt (in egoism) and begins to somehow work with each other, to unite, to multiply, that is, to raise their connection. A person begins to understand how selfish he is and how his egoistic desires are destroying him.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/15/19

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Question: If everything is fine during the convention and everyone integrates into everyone else, and then you are suddenly thrown off and cannot feel the connection with the friends, should you just leave, or should you help them integrate at that moment?

Answer: Who gave you this state? The Creator, so turn to Him. If you feel that you cannot sit in the same place anymore, and that you cannot stand it another minute, and that you are simply thrown out of the group, turn to the Creator immediately. He gave you this state for a certain goal. The problem is that we act unknowingly and disregard the root cause.

The initial cause is the Creator, so you need to tie everything you feel in life to Him. He inserts everything you feel into you and revives these feelings in you. You need to turn to Him immediately and ask Him: “Why? What is the reason for this?” The moment you understand and perceive that it comes from Him, your attitude toward what you immediately feel changes. You begin to understand that it has a meaning and that it was given to you on purpose, so that you will lock yourself on the Creator, and that it is impossible to penetrate you any other way.

The Creator gave you fears, worries, and sharp hostile feelings, which means that He shakes you so that you have no other choice but to turn to Him. You do not understand what it is about, and suddenly you begin to remember that it is from Him, that it is Him.

We must get used to locking all our emotions and feelings on Him so that we will feel and understand that every big or small thought that may worry me or not is from Him and that He awakens it in me, He, He, He. Thus, I will begin to feel Him, and I will gradually be in contact with Him and begin to understand what He does, why, and for what purpose. This is the beginning of the method of the revelation of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 2/11/19

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The moment I feel that I am disconnecting from the ten, I fall into this world. And no matter what thoughts and desires I have at this time, I still will not leave the framework of this world.

And as soon as I join the ten with all my desires and thoughts and want to build a common network of connections with my friends, even if I do not feel any benefit or gain in this, I am already engaged in spiritual work, building a spiritual Kli.

It is a mistake to think that it is possible to achieve spiritual attainment, sensation, or understanding alone. This will not happen because the spiritual is in connection with other people. It all began with the breaking of the common soul, and therefore, the spiritual ascent is realized through the unification of the broken Kelim.

And they remain broken, that is, all their differences are preserved, but on top of them we need to connect. It is said about this: “Love will cover all transgressions.” Egoism is growing more and more, and above it, connection is growing more and more, which means climbing the spiritual ladder.

If I do not imagine it in this form, then I just go around in circles and do not advance. No desire can be realized alone. This is a cruel delusion, and one who thinks so is wasting his time and will die without achieving any spiritual revelation.

Spiritual advancement is carried out only through the connection in the ten. Until I was in a ten, I didn’t start any movement at all. The Creator leads a person to the right place, to a good fate, and says: “Choose it!” It is impossible otherwise. It is extremely difficult, but you have to turn the switch in your head in order to realize that spiritual advancement is possible only through drawing closer to friends.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 1/22/21, “Breaking the Barriers to Spirituality”

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The ascent to the first spiritual degree after which we begin to climb the spiritual ladder is the hardest step. The first contact with spirituality is the most important event because it means getting acquainted with the opposite world, with opposite relations, values, qualities, and laws.

Before that, we imagine everything only inside of our egoism, only envisioning spirituality. However, the spiritual world has in fact new, unknown properties and different values. As we begin to attain it, we become convinced how opposite it is from what we have imagined. As it is said, “I saw an opposite world.”

But when these confusions are dissipated, day after day, we begin to feel what actions we need to concentrate on in order to rise from summit to summit.

We do not know what the spiritual world is. Only at the first moment when we manage to connect in the  initial minimal measure do we reach a spiritual sensation; that is, we feel the connection between us, which is called Ibur (Conception), and then the next steps: Yenika (Nursing), Mochin (Adulthood).

However, all our work consists in connecting into one group, into one desire accumulated from many desires aimed toward connection, toward bestowal. The main thing is that bestowing to the Creator will become more important to us than anything else.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 1/22/21, “Breaking the Barriers to Spirituality”

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Question: Why was The Book of Zohar, which was intended for our generation, written so long ago in the second century of our era?

Answer: Because it was written by sages who were in the attainment of the spiritual world at the greatest level, the level of complete correction of the soul,2,000  years ago.

Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and nine of his disciples, each of whom represented a special spiritual category, joined together, and in this connection formed the image of Adam, complete similarity to the Creator. Therefore, they were able to create for us, the lowest souls, a system of ascent from the lowest level to the highest.

This system already exists. They created a kind of plan for its reconstruction: how we can collect its pieces and glue them together with the help of the influence of the upper light.

This happens as follows: there are people who want to gather the pieces of their souls together, and with this aspiration they also call on the Creator, the upper force, the power of light, to create a glue between them. And so they gradually glue themselves together.

The correct interaction between the pieces of souls and the Creator at each stage of the reconstruction of the image of a human is the impact of The Book of Zohar—how we can unite with each other, gradually, step by step, evoke the influence of the upper light, the upper force that connects us, and we reconstruct ourselves and bring us to a complete, absolute, perfect state.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #3

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Question: Do Kabbalists ever lie?

Answer: Yes, but only for the sake of unity, in the name of achieving a special goal.

In our life we lack an understanding of what the highest standard is, i.e., the purpose of nature that created us exactly like that.

The goal is to lead us to absolute unity with each other, so that we all are as one common whole. Moreover, I must see this common whole, understand its laws, customs, motives, and thus educate myself.

As Baal HaSulam writes, the individuality of each person is preserved and, at the same time, you aspire to the common whole.

Question: Does the common whole mean some common goal, common truth?

Answer: The common goal is unity because, according to Kabbalah, we reveal that in this way we become like the Creator. It is in our common unity. Everyone is different and everyone is united.

Question: There are no examples of unity in this world, so it is difficult to understand what it is. Is this some sensory attitude toward your neighbor?

Answer: Yes, the attitude of “love your neighbor,” when I put his desires above mine. “Love your neighbor as yourself” makes a person an element of a common whole, and through this he begins to feel the Creator.

Question: Is this state achieved by a certain number of actions performed by a person?

Answer: Yes. Nullification of yourself, the vision that society is higher than you.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/22/19

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Question: In the original sources it is written that the Creator said: “I created an evil inclination.” What is it?

Answer: Egoism. And when we say: “the inclination” and it is evil, then who testifies to it? The man himself, the very bearer of egoism.

Question: What I receive is normal? But the fact that I use others for my own benefit, is this the opposite of the Creator?

Answer: It all depends on how you yourself assess it. This shows shame in relation to the Creator.

Question: It turns out that shame does not arise in still, vegetative, and animate nature. Does it manifest itself only in a human?

Answer: Only in a human, and even then not in everyone. Nature gradually develops us until we begin to feel it. Shame is the keenest feeling. It literally short-circuits a person to the Creator.

After a person has felt shame, true prayer can appear in him so that the Creator will correct his nature. After all, a person can endure everything except shame.

Therefore, the Creator leads everyone so that they are ashamed all the time, a little bit of this, of this, of that. And if He wants to seriously move a person forward, He gives the person such a feeling of shame that he is just ready to die.

Question: Can we say that nature, the Creator, moves us through life through shame?

Answer: Yes. Theoretically, you can take any person, delve in him a little and understand how you can impose such a feeling of trepidation on him from which he would even commit suicide. After all, shame nullifies egoism, and therefore he has nothing to live for. Therefore, there is only one way out: to destroy egoism, which means to kill oneself.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/22/19

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Question: Does what the upcoming year will be like depend on everyone?

Answer: Yes! It depends on everyone. And in the most direct way.

That is, I create my own life, myself, my own world. I just need to learn how to do it. The science of Kabbalah is called the science of receiving, how to get what you want from life.

Question: What should I create?

Answer: Yourself. And accordingly, together with this, you create the world in which you exist.

To create yourself is to make yourself what you dream of, what we need to come to. So that you do not regret anything, and for everything  you thank nature, the Creator, and people—everyone for everything!

I’m talking about lofty dreams—entering the level of eternity and perfection. This is prepared for everyone, but we must try to do it in the near future.

We can’t put it off. This is necessary in the coming year. So now we start working on it.

Question: Can I say, “Now I want to enter a state where I will be loving, giving, and existing in an eternal space”?

Answer: Yes. To this end, you should now begin to wonder how this is achieved.

And this thought of yours will make this goal. Man makes himself and the world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/28/20

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Question: How long does it take to attain the upper world? After all, it is probably not easy.

Answer: We all ask this question because in general these are our egoistic needs. But we do not ask this question when we look at a newborn. We know that it will take him at least 18 to 20 years to adapt himself to this world.

And here we are talking about moving from our world to the upper world and adapting to it. That is, we are talking about several years.

Today it is much easier and it does not happen in the same way that I went through in my time. I went through my stages individually. And today the world has become global. Since the late nineties of the 20th century the world has found itself interconnected.

Therefore, thanks to our mutual influence on each other, mutual assistance, and mutual dissemination, everything is accelerating.

Nowadays millions of people in the world are engaged in spiritual development within the framework of our organization and others. Kabbalah is open to everyone. People are finally beginning to understand what it means. Before that, they had a misconception about Kabbalah.

Today, by influencing each other with our thoughts and properties, we help each other. Therefore, the spiritual development of everyone takes much less time than tens of years, like it used to take before.

I see how people who now come to us, both young and old, literally in a short period of time enter into a sense of spirituality. From the very first lessons it is clear that a person already understands what is being talked about. It took me months and years, and nowadays, a year later a person is already different.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #2

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