Question: What is nature?

Answer: Our nature is the egoistic desire to receive, to enjoy ourselves, to be within ourselves, and for ourselves.

And the opposite nature that we do not feel is altruism: caring for others, love for others. We do not feel this, but we can somewhat imagine it from the example of how a mother treats her child, although these are also egoistic manifestations. In our world, there can be no true altruistic relation between one creature and another.

But by studying Kabbalah, we will see that this is still possible. There is the upper light—a special substance that can affect and change us. And we will become different.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/19/20

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Question: I study the wisdom of Kabbalah. I have a group with which I can share our common goal, but I feel that no one understands me in the group and that they are not strong enough for me. What should I do?

Answer: Still, it is worthwhile being in a group. It is better to be in a weak group than to work alone.

Question: But can freedom help me choose a different environment? Does it all depend on me?

Answer: No, an individual cannot do anything. He has to choose an environment in any case. If you think that the environment is too weak for you, move to another environment, but I don’t think this is the right choice. Fulfill yourself in the environment you are in, and you will see that what was given to you is the right thing.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 11/17/19

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The Creator can be revealed only by dissolving in the friends and rising to the level of the Bina. It is similar to a device that is needed to detect an invisible magnetic field. This device will show that there is a certain force acting on it and deflecting its dial. That is, it shows us not the force itself, but its reaction to this force.

We make ourselves a device for revealing the Creator, which works on the same principle as all measuring instruments of our world. We only have to organize everything correctly within us, and we will be able to discover the Creator.

The device must perceive the phenomenon and react to it, and then its reaction can be measured and the device can be used to estimate the force that caused it. We do not know what electromagnetic forces are, but we know how they act; they cause current to flow in a wire or the movement of a compass needle. We always see the reaction of the device, not the force itself, and we draw conclusions, naming it by the phenomenon itself.

In order to reveal the Creator, we need to build such a compass from ourselves, an induction circuit, a device that will reveal the upper force. The Creator is twirling everything inside us now as well, but we are not paying attention to Him. What change must one make inside oneself in order to discern Him?

All our work consists in this calibration, in tuning to the Creator. The problem is that I feel my own reaction to the influence of the upper force, and I need to decrypt it in such a way as to find the Creator in it. I respond to His influence within my desire, my body. Therefore, I need to calibrate myself so that my desire allows me to correctly understand the actions of the Creator.

And for this I need to annul myself to zero, so as not to demand anything for my egoism. Every device is first calibrated in such a way, set to zero, and then it can be used for measuring.

Our initial calibration is to want nothing for ourselves, so as not to be bribed and not to judge with bias. We carry out such calibration in the ten. If I try to join the center of the ten and want to connect with all my friends, I reset my device. Now, from this zero, I can begin to respond correctly to the Creator, to His impact on me.

Zeroing is already a starting point allowing one to get nothing for oneself, but only for the ten. I have no indicator other than my ten to verify that I receive nothing for my egoism. If there are friends in front of me who I think of, then I annul myself in front of them. It turns out that I personally become neutral, that is, zero.

In this way we build the correct device for the perception of the Creator. Under the influence of the upper force we begin to awaken to mutual bestowal in the ten. The Creator gives us the power of bestowal by which we reveal that He is between us. After all, we began to relate to each other in this way in the ten and we received the property of Bina, bestowal, the strength of faith above our resistance, our knowledge.

Resistance also begins to be felt more because a force comes to us that flows inside the ties connecting us, as if in an electronic device, and we feel resistance within ourselves. In this way we measure the difference of potentials: between bestowal—above, and reception—below, which are called “faith” and “knowledge.”

And these steps of faith and knowledge begin to rise: The strength of our egoism grows, and the strength of bestowal grows, and in this way we rise. The difference of potentials between Malchut and Bina, as it were, remains the same—the seven Sefirot of Zeir Anpin.

At first it was just zero. But then it gradually grew to seven Sefirot. Zeir Anpin is the Partzuf of my soul that has just been born. The soul grows in Bina’s abdomen due to its connection with Malchut, which annuls itself in relation to Bina.

Seven Sefirot of ZA—this is the place where I reveal all of reality. In this gap between knowledge and above knowledge are all the worlds, the whole universe. There is nothing else. Above Bina are already the properties of the Creator: Keter, Hochma, Bina. Below Bina are the properties of ZA, which has just been born. And Malchut is the desire to enjoy created by the Creator. Therefore, besides these properties that I develop between Malchut and Bina, there is nothing else—this is all my reality.
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From the 2^_nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 6/25/20, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 15

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Question: How does a Kabbalist at the next level of perception of reality combine perfect reality with an uncorrected, non-integral, evil, earthly reality?

Answer: The Kabbalist combines this in himself. We humans are special creatures that exist in both worlds: in a perfect higher world to the extent that we can enter into conjugation with an integral system and at the same time in our world to the extent that we still cannot get out of our egoistic world.

Do not think about our world as evil and bad. It is a special system, which, in the language of truth, exists only in us. Only in us is it perceived.

Therefore, we must correct only ourselves. Nothing that I perceive as our world, subjectively, exists. What seems real to us exists in us. You exist in me, I in you. This slightly complicates the perception of the overall picture, but, in general, this is so.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 5/17/20

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Question: How can you convince people that it is necessary to remain calm in any situation?

Answer: I wouldn’t say this is possible. I know that for myself. I, too, suddenly begin to shake. You don’t have to be calm.

Sometimes it is impossible to immediately realize what is happening. Egoism knocks you out so hard that it takes a while for you to come to your senses. The Creator purposely does this to show you how new egoistic desires appear in you on a higher level. So there is no getting away from it.

The main thing is to be in the common system, in mutual support. Imagine what would happen if you had such a lesson every day that brought you to a normal state. It would give you spiritual calibration, balance you. And you would gradually look at the world differently.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah.” 4/19/20

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Question: Since I began to study Kabbalah, my life has fundamentally changed for the better, and I have become a completely different person. Does this mean that I’m on the right track?

Answer: Possibly, but not necessarily.

Question: Does non-kosher food prevent me from revealing the Creator?

Answer: I cannot say so.

Question: If someone gets sick, does it mean that I’m doing something wrong?

Answer: We are connected with each other, and therefore, we are as if responsible for one another.

Question: If there is none else besides Him, then what demands can be made to a person?

Answer: The claim is that the Creator wants to educate a person, and his response is unsynchronized and inadequate.

Question: What should the first step in attaining the Creator be?

Answer: The first step is to set off on the path “there is none else besides Him.”

Question: Who, in your opinion, is the Creator?

Answer: The Creator is the common force of all nature, the single unchanging force which manifests itself within relation to us in absolute bestowal and love, but is attained by us to the extent of our resemblance to it.

Question: Is our world like a computer program, a stimulator of the world? What do you say about this option?

Answer: Our world can really be called a specific computer program, because everything in it is absolutely determined, organized, and defined. And I cannot confirm the rest of what you have said.

Question: Should the connection between people be corrected on the earthly level?

Answer: Yes, definitely. We must establish peace, good connection, and love, and reveal the property of bestowal in both worlds, on both earthly and spiritual levels.

Question: What should I do if I change myself, but see that people around me do not change?

Answer: This suggests that you yourself have not yet changed.

Question: When I bestow, does this bestowal depend on the sensitivity of a recipient?

Answer: This is true, bestowal depends on the perception of the recipient of my bestowal. There necessarily must be reciprocity here. I cannot evaluate my bestowal on my own, it can be done precisely by the one to whom I bestow.

Question: Sometimes it happens that it looks like nothing good has happened, but you feel joy inside. What is that?

Answer: This is the joy that is within you. You just do not know why. 🙂
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/26/20

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Question: What kind of connection, what attitude, does the Creator have toward a person?

Answer: It is a direct connection. The Creator created the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate nature and man, and He manages all these levels. The first three levels function only in order to sustain and to support the existence of the human nature.

The human nature is also divided into four parts: still, vegetative, animate, and human levels in a person.

The last level, the human level in a person, feels the need to reveal the Creator, whereas all the other parts, which means all the other people in whom the last part of the development of the desire has not been revealed, don’t feel the need to reveal Him yet and it does not concern them. They live a peaceful animate-level life.

Those in whom the desire to reach the human level in a person has already developed begin to feel the need and the necessity of attaining the force that manages them, the force that is above us. On the whole, such people come to study the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 12/1/19

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Question: What does it mean: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself”? What does it mean to love yourself?

Answer: To the same extent that you can egoistically imagine how to love yourself, you must also love another.

Naturally, it will be different at different levels. The more you rise with the help of your growing egoism, the more you will love yourself. And this will serve as an example of how you should love the other even more.

Question: If a person grows on the spiritual level, does he become better in everyday life and change on the physical level?

Answer: No. A person who grows spiritually is absolutely invisible in our world in his growth, in his changes. After all, this does not happen in properties that people can detect, determine, and measure.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/26/20

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Comment: People tend to use good feelings and altruistic love.

My Response: Indeed, people have this quality. It is clear that they want to use everyone for themselves. But that doesn’t mean we should do the same.

If I want to rise above animal life and not exist only for the number of years that I have been given in this animal body, if I want to reach the level of perception of eternity, perfection, all of nature now, before my body ceases to exist, then I must change my attitude to the world.

Even for purely egoistic reasons, I should do it.

Question: How many years should it take before a person changes his egoism to altruism?

Answer: This depends on the person and the time in which he lives. In our time, it can be quite fast, 5 to 15 years—but these are years! They are still years.

What do you want? Why are they given to us? Imagine that your life is coming to an end. What did you live for? To feel all the good and the bad? And then what?—With no one and not for anyone.

So you need to use the years to achieve exactly the goal with which you remain onward.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/19/20

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Question: The Creator is between us. Do I need to ask the Creator to correct me or to correct the whole ten, the whole world ten? Does the Creator hear me wherever I am or only when I am in the ten?

Answer: The Creator feels the created being only to the extent that he resembles Him.

The Creator’s attribute is bestowal, while a person’s attribute is receiving. In this state, a person does not feel the Creator. We can see that on ourselves.

If a desire to reveal the Creator appears in a person, he can fulfill this desire only if he creates the right conditions for that, such as being in a group and working seriously on the connection with the friends.

If a person unites with the friends in the group, he will begin to feel the Creator through the ten. A person actually feels the connection with the Creator to the extent that he merges with the ten, and not in any other way.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 12/1/19

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