There is nothing bad in the world. Without the serpent’s bite, i.e., without our egoism, which has suddenly surfaced and started to manifest itself, we would not run forward, we would simply remain animals in our world and would never be able to escape it.

We would have neither desire nor opportunities. This is why it is said: “For God knows that on the day that you eat thereof, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like angels, knowing good and evil.”

In other words, the serpent clearly does its job and is devoted to the Creator in everything. It is said that Adam and Eve’s eyes were opened through the serpent. “Your eyes will be opened,” they saw that they were naked, that practically they had nothing but a lofty goal. And although it is far away, it is beautiful.

This is why they need to become clothed, that is, to acquire new properties—properties of bestowal and love for their neighbor. This is called “dressing” yourself, your egoism. That is, the egoism is inside, and they correct it. By using garments, they make it similar to the Creator and rise, as the serpent predicted: “…and you will be like angels, knowing good and evil.”

Thus, with the help of the serpent, they revealed the great goal they must come to.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #16

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Question: Has this person Bilam ever existed in history?

Answer: It is quite possible he existed because every spiritual quality must be manifested in matter. Almost everything written in the Torah happened in our world.

Question: Did Bilam deliberately plunge into egoism?

Answer: The fact is that all the villains of the world performed their specific tasks.

Question: Did he go for it consciously, i.e., split the head of the serpent, attract evil forces from the serpent, and so on?

Answer: No. He existed in our world, but he did not know his vices just as the Pharaoh did not know he was representing the entire egoism of the world. He fulfilled his function because he was a pharaoh while believing this is normal correct behavior.

When the Creator said to Moses, “Come unto Pharaoh for I have hardened his heart,” Pharaoh did not feel that his heart was hardened; he was just doing his work. He did not even need to know about it because all the negative characters were not connected to the Creator; they are opposite to Him. Therefore, they lack awareness of their mission, which they perform purely automatically.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #16

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Question: Why is it not simply written in the Torah, in the story of Adam and Eve, that the Creator is behind everything? Then we would immediately know that He is first in the form of the speaker: “But of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat of it for on the day that you eat thereof, you shall surely die,” and then in the form of a serpent: “You will surely not die,” then again in the form of God: “What is this that you have done?” Why isn’t it written like this?

Answer: So that you yourself, as a result of your thousand-year development, gradually begin to understand what it is. And understand not from the stories, but from the fact that you will have to change.

If it were only written in a book, you would just read: “Yes, this is what happens in nature.” It would not have done you any good. And when you yourself have to suffer and reveal everything in yourself, when this revelation comes from within you and not because you heard it from someone, then this knowledge is yours.

You yourself must reveal this story only within yourself! And not listen to it from the outside.

It is so arranged that even if it were read to you, you would not hear it. Only to the extent that you begin to change internally, to reveal the original serpent in yourself, its contradiction with the purpose of creation, with the Creator, to slowly grasp various properties in you: the property of the Creator and the property of creation, and the snake and man, and Adam and Eve, when you begin to find all these definitions in yourself, then this story will take shape in you, and not before.

Everything must be born from within.
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Baal HaSulam, “The Prophecy“: Take this sword in your hand and guard it with your heart and soul, for it is a token between Me and you, that all those good things will happen through you…

The Creator, in a way, gives Baal HaSulam a higher power as a pledge: “As long as you keep the sword (that is, that which can be damaged with a sword, you will correct with the help of the same power), know that I am with you, in your soul, and my strength is with you.”

The sword is the power that cuts, chops. It can chop off heads, cut off unnecessary parts from you, and leave only healthy ones. Spiritual healing boils down to several processes.

The same is true in our world: medicinal treatment and surgical treatment.

In both treatments, there are two effects on humans. Either the unnecessary, harmful part is cut out or is destroyed chemically with the help of drugs. Or vice versa, either some part is sewn, bypasses are made, shunts put in the human body, or the functioning of the body is restored with the help of drugs.

In principle, there is only one approach. Both are called treatment. One by destructing, the other by restoring. Both are necessary.

Therefore, it cannot be said that the sword does harm when it chops off heads. It has to chop them off because they are egoistic heads.

But when a period of war passes, a period of recovery is needed. That is, people need to be given a different methodology, a different paradigm of life, and they must recover.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #5

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A bright path is tied in the middle of the firmament. This is the serpent of the firmament, called by astronomers, “The Milky Line” (Zohar For All , “Chayei Sarah,” Item 71).

The fact is that the Milky Way is not called that for nothing. This is the path that is determined for us from above by our fate, by the upper providence.

If you do not apply your efforts, you will be moving as if through the milky way from the beginning to the end , along the path of the original serpent. It will always press you hard and thus advance you to the goal because it is the angel of the Creator, His governing force.

However, if you take this upon yourself, then you are above the Milky Way, above the stars! You rise to a completely different level and determine for yourself how to advance.

Then heaven cannot reveal anything to you. It reveals the map of your life when you do not participate in it on your own, when you are forced. However, if you want to rise above these forces, you by yourself write in heaven your own life in heaven.
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Question: What is independence from the point of view of Kabbalah?

Answer: Independence is gained only in the middle line to the extent that you can rise above your egoism on the one hand and above the property of the property of the Creator on the other hand.

That is, you want to be independent of both your own desire and the desire of the Creator. By rising in the middle line above both of them, you achieve independence.

Our great teacher Baal HaSulam likens this to the example of the guest and the host. Suppose I come to visit you and you treat me to all kinds of food. Let’s say that you, as the Creator, know what I want because you created all the desires in me. You offer me absolutely all the dishes, everything that I can fulfill myself with, in exactly the quantity and quality that was aroused in me in advance.

If I start eating it, I will eventually be subject to my desire. I will not be independent because I am completely dependent on my desire and on you. Even if I refuse, the desire to use this desire and these pleasures will not disappear in me and I will remain dependent on you.

How can I act in order to be independent both of you as the host, as the Creator, and of myself, my egoism, as a creation, a creation, to rise above it, to be above it? Imagine what an opportunity the Creator gives a person! How can this be done?

If I start using my egoism to eat your treats, but not for my own sake (although I enjoy it), but in order to please you, I make you (because you want me to enjoy it) into a consumer, my “client,” a guest. And I myself turn into a master.

Here we get a very interesting reversal of our states, our statuses: I rise above everything. The Creator made it possible for a person, as His beloved child, to rise above himself and above Him in the middle line. In this way, we gain independence, independence, eternity, perfection, and absolute freedom!

The Creator needs us to attain this because He is perfection He cannot create anything imperfect.

Question: Is this state of independence called perfection?

Answer: It is the only perfection.

Comment: On the other hand, we say that we are dependent on each other, that all souls are tied to each other and we are all one organism.

Answer: Yes, we, the creatures, depend on each other, but not on our egoism, which is created in us by the Creator, and not on the Creator Himself.

In order to rise above myself, I need to connect with others, to achieve the quality of “love your neighbor,” the property of bestowal. If I do this by rising above my egoism, which remains in me, and I use it with the quality of bestowal and to become like the host, the Creator who wants to treat me, then I rise above everything and become absolutely independent.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #6

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Question: What does the Tree of Life symbolize?

Answer: The Tree of Life is the force and the goal to which we must come. We get to understand it precisely with the help of the serpent.

There are many trees in the Garden of Eden. You can walk there and eat whatever you want. This means that there is a part of our world where you normally exist. And there is such an egoistic quality that when triggered it does not allow you to live in peace and you must begin to ascend from it to the upper world.

This egoistic quality is awakened not simply out of the blue, but as a result of the serpent’s work on you. He makes you taste the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

Then you begin to feel that you need to rise above your beastly life because the Garden of Eden is a place for animals, for angels.

And the purpose of creation is to raise you higher. Therefore, you need this serpent, this huge egoistic desire, that will wake you up and give you the opportunity to rise. You need to taste the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. Between the knowledge of good and evil you raise yourself, absorb both good and evil, and become a real person, similar to the Creator.
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Zohar for All, Chayei Sarah, Item 72: Similarly, several groups of lights of Klipot came out to the world from that first, upper serpent by which Adam was seduced. And they are all appointed over the secret deeds of the world.

Question: It is written that the serpent used to have legs. Was it something similar to dinosaurs?

Answer: It means that the serpent, that is, our egoism, was able to exist independently.

At first, egoism appeared as a separate quality, and once it was absorbed into us and mixed with the rest of the qualities, it lost its limbs and now it is located inside all our thoughts, forces, actions, and decisions. Therefore, this serpent no longer exists independently, so to speak.

Question: What is this construction: Adam, Eve, serpent?

Answer: Adam, Eve, the serpent, the Creator, the world—all this exists within one person. Absolutely everything!

Comment: I recently saw a painting of some fun-loving artist: Adam and Eve are near a tree, the serpent closes Adam’s eyes with its tail and attracts him to her. People imagine all sorts of things about this.

My Response: We should not imagine anything because we are talking about the qualities of a person. Adam is the desire to bestow, to exit oneself. Eve is the desire to receive, a part of our nature. Therefore, egoism has no direct contact with Adam.

Adam, as if, is eager to get out of the person. But not Eve. This is our quality to be filled, to receive, to gain, and therefore, egoism is accumulated in her.
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A bright path is tied in the middle of the firmament. This is the serpent of the firmament, called by astronomers, “The Milky Line,” where all the thin stars are tied and stand in it in great numbers. They are gathered and stand in it like myriad, innumerable mountains, and they are appointed over the secret deeds of the people in the world (Zohar for All).

The stars symbolize the upper forces that determine our earthly path from above. Therefore, we believe that the stars determine our fate.

Question: Are you saying that from astrology, the science of astrologers, you can learn something about what happens at the level of matter?

Answer: Sure. Completely. Fortune-tellers, soothsayers can tell you this. But the fact is that they will only talk about events within our world, practically what should be, and not what you can change and fix yourself. And they can’t say anything about what is happening above our world.

Question: If I attract the forces of, say, The Book of Zohar, can I change the story of my life?

Answer: Of Course. Absolutely!

Remark: And I thought that the mise en scene does not change, the attitude changes.

Answer: Your feelings change, the mise en scene changes. Whether you are standing at gunpoint, this is one mise en scene, or you are sitting quietly on the lawn, drinking coffee, enjoying the singing of birds is another mise en scene. It all depends on your choice.

How you change yourself internally will change the external theater, the external environment. You have both an internal and an external state prepared for you of how to advance, either in a good way or in an evil way. It depends on what you choose: either to be pushed with a stick to happiness or to rush to it yourself.
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If we consider the biblical story of Adam and Eve from a spiritual point of view, then first the property of Adam is revealed in a person: he feels good, calm, he does not harm anyone. Then the egoistic property Eve is revealed, and then the property of the serpent.

After Adam and Eve started to feel their egoism, they revealed the feeling of shame. They needed to get dressed, that is, to acquire some property of bestowal in order to hide their nakedness.

When a person, feels his inner properties, feels the egoism in him, along with the property of bestowal and evaluates one against the other, he starts to feel vicious and as if hides it in himself under his clothes.
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