The most fundamental book on Kabbalah, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, begins with the question of the meaning of life. This book includes information about the entire universe from the moment of its creation to its correction and the achievement of the most complete state. It is very specific, covers everything, and is intended only for Kabbalists.

The “Preface to the Study of the Ten Sefirot” explains why a person needs Kabbalah and knowledge about all the worlds, their structure, interaction, and functioning.

From the first page, the reader is led to a very simple question. Do you wonder what the meaning of life is? What do you fill yourself with? If you are satisfied, go on living as you have lived.

But if you ask yourself this question and feel empty, if you ask about the meaning of life and do not understand what it is for and this question weakens you so much that it makes you depressed, gives you a lack of motivation to do anything, then this book is for you. It will tell you where you really are, what your purpose is, what you can really realize now, and what to achieve.

A person is offered eternity and perfection, otherwise it is not worth living.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up, Summing Up” 4/7/10

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Question: How will work with artificial intelligence and robotics end? Is artificial intelligence better than natural? Or is it all really a conspiracy against humanity?

Answer: The machine will always be just an auxiliary part next to a person. It will never be able to manage itself, invent laws, and implement them.

Man is made of different material. It has higher matter, the property of bestowal, in addition to the property of receiving, and has the possibility of rising above itself. We still do not know these well enough and do not use them.

And I know this for sure, and therefore I say that a person can have no doubt, the machine will not take possession of him. You can, of course, create a robot that will chase people and beat them with a stick, but nothing more. A machine can trick us at ATMs or anywhere else, but it won’t be smarter than a human.

Artificial intelligence is not intelligence, but just a calculating machine. In principle, they have not gone away: the same zeros and ones are counted, only faster. And a person does not just count zeros and ones, but also has emotions. We need time to realize this. Therefore the passion for artificial intelligence will gradually pass.
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From KabTV’s “Meetings with Kabbalah” 1/5/22

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Preparation to the Lesson

Lesson on the Topic “Pesach (Passover)” 

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 68 

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When the situation in the city of Shushan becomes threatening, Mordechai turns to Esther, the wife of King Ahasuerus, for help. Esther asks all the people to fast for three days for her sake. Fasting means that they renounce all egoistic fulfillments. And if they really endure it, then Esther will be able to turn to the king with her request.

And then in the “Scroll of Esther” it says that the king cannot sleep and when he starts to leaf through the annals, he sees that, it turns out, there was such a case when the Jew Mordechai saved him.

He calls Haman to him and asks: “What would you do for a man who saved the life of the king?” Haman, thinking that it was about him, offered that honors be paid to this man. And then the king instructs Haman to do all this in relation to Mordechai.

This is about how it will end in our days, in our time, with all who rebel against the Creator and want to use the egoistic forces of nature to rule themselves instead of the power of the Creator, which consists only in uniting everyone up to love.

The desire to conquer others, to rule over others, just as egoism still rules over us, all this will change and truth, altruism, unity, and love will triumph.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/15/22

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The Scroll of Esther tells that during the feast the queen tells the king how Haman planned to destroy all the Jews. And when the king asks: “What can I do for you,” she replies that she wants to save her people.

Then the king orders Haman to be hanged on a tree. The tree (Etz Chaim or the Tree of Life) is all that is good that descends on us from heaven and descends from above down on everyone in the world except for those who have the grain of Haman in them.

The tree of life is the desire to give, to unite, to spread, and to continue the property of the Creator. Hanging Haman on this tree, meaning our selfish desires, means that they have no right to life precisely because we use them in this way. We kill them with the property of bestowal and love, we deprive them of fulfillment.

In other words, the desires themselves remain and selfish intentions are mortified.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/15/22

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Comment: Scientists have come to the conclusion that some words have not only have energy, but also, first of all, an informational effect on human DNA. Let’s say some old lady is sitting and saying incomprehensible words with negative energy that affects a person like a curse.

My Response: All incantations, slander, and all kinds of spells have a certain meaning. They can affect us because these are desires that are clearly directed from one person to another. Our influence on each other has been tested for hundreds of years.

Some people affect others with more force, others with less. These are not just sorcerers, shamans, and wizards. There really are such forces in the world.

However there is no need to yield to the fear and run to various conjurers or pay money to be cleansed, etc. You just need to understand that everything exists in nature and we need to be above this. If we wish good to bring connection between people in order to rise above evil, then by this we will be able to lower all evil and cover it with good.

Question: Are you saying that all these phenomena exist only in the egocentric perception of a person and the further he moves away from such a perception of the world, the more the influence of these forces on him decreases?

It seems there are different types of negative energy. For example, the evil eye is when a person influences another with his desire, and a curse is when he needs to say certain words in addition. It is clear that there are desires behind this, but is there any power in these words?

Answer: All this is in desire and not in words. A person can say nothing and still affect the other.

Question: Is there no special meaning in the uttered words ?

Answer: If the one who speaks puts some inner effort into it, then of course he also gives an effect to these words.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 2/8/22

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Question: You say that selfishness needs blows in order for a person to give up his addictions. But what does it mean that the system is proactive and always shows what will happen if we do not use the method of correction?

Answer: We have two options. Or we go driven by nature and we will continue to be pushed by it, but with huge hard blows at all levels. We see that this is already happening quite systematically as the global crises unfold.

The global connection between us is the most terrible thing that can be because our higher state is beginning to unfold, but in a negative form on the earthly level. At the highest level, we are all completely interconnected. When this manifests itself in the material world, where we are connected in a bad way, in bad relationships with each other, then this leads us to mutual destruction.

Therefore, we need to quickly reveal the technique of proper integration so that people see this next level. If you see what happiness is, you will have the strength to change yourself.

I see from our Kabbalistic practice how this works, and I hope that this will come to the people.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Summing Up” 4/7/10

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Question: How does one not go mad from the news about the war? It automatically increases the level of anxiety and is perceived as a signal of potential danger.

Answer: Yes, I understand that. We just need to understand the meaning of the war, what we must do to reach the highest goal—connection.

In the process of war, we must identify in ourselves as well as in the enemy all the pros and cons that are necessary for connection so that there will not be war. That is, already during the war we need to create something opposite to it.

We will see that we can turn the means of war not against our opponent, who is just like me, but against the enemy that is within me. Then I will already be at war with my egoism and will rise above it and thus get closer to others.

For me the war will become not a war between people, but a personal war with my ego. As a result, I will be able to defeat it and reach a true victory over myself.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/1/22

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