Kabbalist does not ask the Creator to correct even the most terrible situation, he only asks for the strength to justify it.

We do not need to correct anything besides our attitude toward the world, and then we will see the world corrected. Let us say you want to stop a war, then you need to understand that you can stop it only if it gets stopped inside you.

Question: So, I do not ask for this war to end in the outside world. Do I ask for it to be stopped in my inner world?

Answer: Yes, this is exactly what the correction will be. If all people begin to think so, it will already be good.

Comment: But this is unnatural. A person wants the war to end first.

My Response: So, do this with yourself. This is the shortest way.

Question: Does It happen that on the material level there is still fear for the corporeal body, for the family?

Answer: Yes, you must still act on the material level, but at the same time understand that the most important thing is the action on the emotional, spiritual, and upper level. There you can balance all your qualities.

Question: When there is a war which side is the Kabbalist on?

Answer: He wishes to end the war by uniting opposing forces in the middle line.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/1/22

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Question: Who is more egoistic: the nations of the world or the people of Israel?

Answer: Today it is the people of Israel because it is revealed in them first of all, and at the end in the nations of the world.

Egoism is revealed to the extent that it is possible to correct it. The strongest egoism is found in the nations of the world.

Question: So is egoism more in the female part than in the male?

Answer: Naturally. We see that men are dreamers, they need a game, football, travel. A woman needs something stable: a house, children, and taking care of them. A man, even if he does this, it is only for the sake of playing, competing. He is in the air like a child.

A woman is more down to earth, and therefore development, birth, and progress are impossible without her. Although the power of progress is brought by a man, it is carried out precisely by the female part.
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From KabTV’s “Close-up. Reincarnation” 5/3/10

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Question: If we look at the history of humanity’s development, we can distinguish two main models of the family: the Eastern one, in which a man predominates, and the Western where a man has somewhat lost his role and, in principle, a woman is in charge. Which model is the most correct from the point of view of Kabbalah?

Answer: Neither of them. Indeed, there are two models, and the Kabbalistic model is in the middle between them. This division is also typical for the compilation of calendars: the Western model is a solar calendar, the Eastern one is a lunar calendar, and the Jewish calendar is a middle one based on the correlation of the sun and the moon.

The same applies not only to calendar dates, but also to forces, worldviews, approaches to life, science, art, to all kinds of prosecution and preventive measures in society, and so on. Everything is based on the middle line.

That is, there is no good and bad. There are opposite qualities that need to be assembled together, correctly combined, and upon their connection, we will acquire perfection. Only in this way will we be able to correctly use all the forces in nature without denying either the female or the male part. We just need to find a golden balance between them.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Siamese Twins” 11/7/10

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Question: There are different opinions about the reincarnation of the soul. There is even an assumption that the human soul, for example, can be reincarnated in the next cycle as an animal. Is it possible?

Answer: No. Firstly, this is impossible because the human soul is something that does not belong to any level. There are gradations in it on the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human levels, but these are gradations according to its power, according to its inner development.

The soul is a quality of bestowal, getting out of oneself; it is love for one’s neighbor, but not the way we interpret it in our world. It is simply a way out of one’s egoistic desire into the desire of another, a feeling of the desire of another more than one’s own. This quality is the soul.

The Kabbalist says, “I am in the reincarnation of souls” because these reincarnations, called life cycles, spiritual reincarnations, occur in him constantly during the material (animate) life.

He is constantly ascending from step to step, and each of them is called a world. He changes one world for another, for a third, and so on. Before him are 125 steps or 125 worlds.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Partnership Agreement” 4/7/10

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Question: You say that the highest destiny of a person is to acquire the quality of bestowal, the quality of the Creator. Is not this striving considered to be idolatry?

Answer: No, because I strive to put the Creator above myself and direct myself to Him all the time, to define Him more and more accurately. At the same time, I must constantly improve my qualities until I bring myself into full equivalence of form with the Creator, meaning to merge with Him.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/5/22

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Question: What is idolatry from your point of view?

Answer: Each person should determine that for himself.

Question: And how do you define it for yourself?

Answer: I believe that idolatry is the belief in the power of man. If a person relies only on himself and believes that there is no other force controlling the world, by this he raises himself to some kind of pedestal and considers himself infallible. This is clear idolatry.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/5/22

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The question about the meaning of life is the next degree in human development. We must go beyond death, so that it is not an obstacle for us, and begin to perceive the world higher, bigger, wider, and beyond our material sense organs.

Question: Does only a Kabbalist possess this knowledge?

Answer: No. Kabbalah is simply a technique for expanding our senses beyond what the body feels. Then we begin to talk about what we attain, about the boundary that we remove from ourselves.

Right now this boundary is limited by the existence of my body. If I begin to move this boundary further, then I include into my range of feelings an additional existence, an additional world. I explore it, I live in it, I communicate, I treat it the same way as I treat our world.

And then the question of the meaning of life disappears from me. I begin to understand that it is in its perpetual continuation beyond the limits of the current existence in this tiny volume.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Is Frankl Right?” 8/8/10

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Comment: When one of the friends feels bad, we automatically want to support him and say, “Remember Who it comes from.” At the same time, we understand that we ourselves are not so sure that everything comes from the same source because we are not in spiritual attainment yet.

My Response: It does not matter. Our efforts should be such that we develop feelings in us that will lead to the attainment of the Creator. We need to develop sensory organs, and then we will attain Him.

The problem is that we do not have the sensory organs for feeling the Creator, because we are not in the mode of bestowal, but are only in the mode of reception. We need to switch to the mode of bestowal, and then to this extent we will begin to feel Him.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. First Aid in Descents” 2/16/14

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