How do we exit our egoism? We exit our desire to enjoy and want to be in connection with each other. Therefore, nobody pays attention to himself anymore but only to what is between us. And between us is spiritual space. It is outside of me.

I am my egoism, outside of it is the force of love and bestowal, the Creator, a place called the upper world. There is the goal of our lives, the purpose of creation, which we must reach.

Each time, to the extent that we rise above our egoism, our “I,” and take a step toward a friend, we begin to feel the spiritual world, the upper force, a reality outside of us, outside of our ego. Thus, we have the opportunity to move away from the coronavirus. This virus pushes us out of our egoism; it forces us to exit our “I.”

This is the most effective and proper remedy. Exiting egoism is the solution to all the problems; the virus is sent to cure egoism. It shows us the need to rise above our egoism, above our “I,” and connect with others. This is how we find the right remedy and properly correct our state.

I must run away from myself, the egoist, into the space between us, to where the spiritual world, the Creator is. But I do not understand what “between us” is. This is a space that I don’t feel the existence of, yet. But we must strive for connection, then we will feel that on this bridge between my egoism and yours is the upper world, another dimension, that is one level above us.

This is where we find the land of Israel (“land” means desire and “Israel” means straight to the Creator, Yashar-Kel), this is where we can yearn for the Creator and be able to feel Him, this is where He exists. This is where the future world is, our spiritual eternal life—everything is only there, in the connection between us.

Therefore, loving the friends as yourself is the main law of all corrections within which the Creator dwells.

Connection with friends becomes more important to me than myself. The more important my friend is, the greater is my advancement, and the further removed I am from this world until the spiritual world becomes more important to me, that is, love and bestowal to the friends, our connection becomes more important than myself.

It means that I break the barrier between Egypt and Israel, cross the Red Sea (Final Sea), the final borderline beyond which there is no turning back. After all, prior to this, there is still a danger of returning to Egypt.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/1/20, Lesson on the Topic “Pesach (Passover)”

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Question: Is it worth taking care and worrying about the health of the planet and not indulging in excesses, not getting involved in chemicals?

Answer: Kabbalah says absolutely nothing about that. It says that you must engage in attaining a higher goal. Then everything else will also return to normal and will naturally fit in your efforts to correct the soul.

Do just that. Do not waste your time on preservation of nature and everything else. Nothing of the kind is needed. You have no idea what the laws are behind all this.

If you strive for your soul’s correction, then you naturally include all other conditions for the world’s correction.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 1/26/20

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Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”: Thus, it has been made clear that the revelation of the Creator is not a one-time disclosure, but an ongoing matter that is revealed over a period of time, sufficient for the disclosure of all the great degrees that appear from Above downwards and from below upwards. On top of them, and at the end of them, appears the Creator.

It is like a person proficient in all the countries and people in the world, who cannot say that the whole world has been revealed to him before he has completed his examination of the last person and the last country. Until one has achieved that, one has not attained the whole world.

Similarly, the attainment of the Creator unfolds in preordained ways. The seeker must attain all those ways in both the Upper and the lower.

The goal of our development is the attainment of the Creator. If He could be revealed at once, swallowed at once…. But it is forbidden. It is in the gradual understanding of His true and inverse properties, and again, true and inverse, in the transition from the left to the right line, and at this meeting point between them that the attainment of the Creator begins.

It is difficult to explain, but it comes to a person from his practical sensation. Just like in our world we can talk a lot about what we learn, what we comprehend, but when we actually comprehend something, this feeling cannot be conveyed. It was as if born in you because you comprehend it. And one who does not comprehend does not feel anything. In other words, this is not just knowledge but a derivative of the effort.

Therefore, the revelation of the Creator is built precisely on not being afraid of the friction between “I understand—I do not understand,” between “true—false.” The main thing is the effort. When you constantly make efforts and try to literally beat your head against the wall, then they gradually create properties in you where the Creator is revealed.

But the revelation of the Creator does not happen directly. Baal HaSulam writes: “This is not a one-time action but rather a gradual revelation of all the huge levels during a certain length of time.” This means that the important thing is not to retreat, and then, eventually, you will have internal prerequisites for the revelation of the Creator.

Question: What are the right efforts? What should I attach them to?

Answer: The goal of all your efforts is to try together with your friends to find the common ground between you, which is called the center of the circle, the center of the ten.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 1/12/20

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Question: Why does the Creator need us to attain Him?

Answer: To make a person equivalent in form to Him, to raise a person to His level, and also everyone else, not at the same time, but gradually. We need to achieve this goal in the next 200 years.

Question: Does this mean that we have to resemble the Creator in “His image and His likeness”?

Answer: In His image and in His likeness refers to the same form of bestowal and love, connection with others, as the uppermost attribute of nature, called the Creator.

Question: Do we have to reach this level of development while we are in our corporeal body?

Answer: Yes. Of course, this is not easy, it is a complicated supreme task, but we must strive for it.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 1/26/20

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Question: There are four degrees of understanding the Torah in the abbreviation PARDES. How can we understand Kabbalah without understanding them?

Answer: The fact is that we are not studying actual Kabbalah yet, which represents these four levels of understanding the Torah, the world, and nature.

We are just starting to develop our tools for understanding, knowing who we are, how we perceive reality, how we can influence ourselves, etc. We are yet to reveal all the levels of attainment: the still, vegetative, animate, and human levels.

In the meantime, we are outside of them because we talk about attaining the internal structure of nature: its structure and the mechanism that manages everything.

But in principle, we are climbing the steps described in the Torah from its secret to its simple understanding.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 2/2/20

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Question: If we unite and feel mutual rejection, but we continue to overcome the rejection, does the feeling of the Creator above the hatred appear all of a sudden as a complete surprise or does it happen gradually?

Answer: This feeling is prepared internally in several stages and then it is revealed. What is more, just as it happens suddenly, it can also disappear suddenly or gradually fade away. These revelations differ from one individual to the next.

Question: Does each one have his own revelation?

Answer: There are several typical ways of revealing the Creator for the first time, and then a person already summons it himself by the actions he performs.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 1/12/20

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Question: After several years of studying the wisdom of Kabbalah, there are those who are happier and who are doing better at work, but on the other hand, there are those who become sadder and nothing in their corporeality makes them happy. Does it depend on a person’s character, or is it about a person’s level of development, and a person gradually changing?

Answer: A person undergoes many different states, so I cannot give you one definite answer to this question. We all change all the time. Everything depends on the society that we live in. We constantly undergo ascents and descents. What is more, if we carefully guard ourselves and know that we have to undergo states of ascent and descent, we have to organize the right society that will lend us a hand when we are in a state of descent and will seriously support us and pull us out of any state of descent to a state of ascent. This means that everything depends on the society.

Question: If that’s the case, a person can be happy even in a state of descent since he knows what to expect in the future.

Answer: Of course. If you understand that the descent was given to you in order to ascend in the future, there is no problem in rejoicing during the descent. The system works like a capacitor or any other device of accumulation. You operate in a certain spiritual regime, accumulate something, and then everything disappears, and so you must connect to the society in order to be nourished by it.

When this period is over, you will begin to ascend again, and to attain and accumulate again, and so on.

This means that it is according to different periods that you have to give spiritual energy to the environment, or the environment gives it to you. And thus, in these sequential periods, in this sinusoid, you will advance.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 2/2/20

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Question: Do we need to learn to act in front of each other?

Answer: Yes, we need to learn how to act as actors on the stage, to understand the elements of the game, to play along with each other, to inspire one another. It really affects us.

It seems to me that I see my friend acting, or maybe I do not understand at all where he is playing and where he really is. This doesn’t matter to me at all. To me, it is important to get inspired by him so that I myself aspire to the goal, even in a make-believe way.

Question: Can a person act by himself?

Answer: Of course. I know who I am and how selfish I am. Therefore, I want to act with myself, that is, to elevate myself higher.

Question: The fact is that we constantly act: in the family, at work, and in the spiritual group where we want to develop. We act out the principles that the Kabbalists wrote about in order to achieve the goal within such a group.

Why should I act by myself? Shouldn’t I be honest at least with myself?

Answer: You can be honest with yourself and act at the same time, knowing your two levels: one is “Me,” and the other is “Who I want to be.”
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 3/25/19

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Question: I have heard that our corporeal actions have no affect on the spiritual world. But as I started to engage in Kabbalah, I see only corporeal actions here. What is the point of studying Kabbalah then?

Answer: The essence of our world is that a person who is disconnected from the spiritual world can begin to correct himself and the whole world from an independent position; when not in the spiritual world, one can each time choose how to influence it.

That is, we exist in the corporeal world, outside of spirituality, to live as we want and enter the sensation of the spiritual world and abide by it when we wish.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 2/9/20

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Question: Why is the sensation of something born in the junction of opposites?

Answer: How else could it be? I can’t feel only sweet or only bitter or only sour. I can feel something from another because I have receptors and there is an internal recording.

Inside me there are as if cones with prepared tastes, and therefore I can try, compare, and say yes, no, etc. That’s how it goes in everything.

Question: A person must make some kind of internal movement in order to move on to a diametrically opposite sensation, for example, from hatred to love? What happens at the time of this qualitative transition?

Answer: A person begins to feel that one quality is perceived from another. This isn’t a transition, but rather the inclusion of both properties.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 12/29/19

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