We need to make people feel that unity has become second nature to us. After all, we are coming together and striving to create a common system of connections that should shape us into an entirely new humanity.

From this unity, new, clearer, and more stable connections between people should emerge, and within them, social relations should begin to form on an entirely new level.

Even new enterprises, educational systems, and media systems should arise from this network. The system of our interconnection, based on unity and absolute equality, should begin to generate systems of a new humanity founded precisely on the formula of complete interconnectedness and complete equality. Then we will become like the upper force, because no one will dominate another. In this, we will fully resemble the Creator.

The truth is that humanity has never had the opportunity to become equal. For centuries, many have strived for freedom, equality, and fraternity, understanding that this is the ideal.

But we could not solve this problem because we were not developed enough, and inside us, egoism was always boiling. A few idealists thought about it, while the rest tried to extract selfish gain from it.

Now this problem has become global. Every person, every family, feels it. Thus, we now have the opportunity to rethink and redefine everything, because today we can attract the upper force and with its help correct ourselves.

In other words, our congresses will become centers, and in between them, we will build an ever-widening community of people who will be able to grasp the new idea—a completely new paradigm, a completely new foundation, upon which all human institutions must be rebuilt. This includes industry, economy, banking, human relationships, family ties, relationships between children and parents, and education.

Everything we have done on this Earth must be rebuilt in accordance with a global system of governance. Then we will truly become fortunate and happy.

I believe that our congresses will begin to carry this idea into humanity, and people will realize that it is essentially a source of new understanding and knowledge through which we can build a better life for ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Congress of all Earthlings” 8/23/10

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Comment: You say that we have entered a period where the process of correction is already taking place. But to us, it is not noticeable. We do not see anything except that everything is happening more intensively.

My Response: The process of exposing our egoistic nature is indeed happening, and it is becoming clear to everyone. Psychologists, sociologists, and politicians who think about these matters are starting to more or less realize that egoism, which is our very nature, is essentially what is destroying us.

People just think there is no cure for it, and so they throw up their hands and continue living as before: “What can be done? That is just how we are. We will keep devouring each other.”

That is why we need to develop the wisdom of Kabbalah to show people that it is not so. The process has begun, but it must be taken under conscious control and directed toward the goal by ourselves so that nature does not drive us toward happiness “with a stick.” Of course we do not yet see the egoism corrected, but we already see the recognition of egoism as evil. And that is the preliminary stage.

Already several million people around the world are able to hear that the egoism is meant to be corrected so that precisely through it, we ascend to the level of the Creator. If we make an effort to disseminate this knowledge, then by uniting among us, we will break through humanity’s disbelief, emptiness, and laziness, and give people the opportunity to understand that perfection and eternity are attainable, and that we are standing at the threshold of a very serious, elevated process.

We are not beings without a rudder or sails, without a clan or a tribe. We exist within the highest process of nature, within the Creator, who leads us from one end of creation to the other. We are now at a very critical, culminating point from which we can begin to move consciously, revealing worlds before us and feeling ourselves as part of the universe.

I believe that our current state is special. That is what the Kabbalists write. We must try to make these days of humanity more intense, more revealing of the great goal that stands before humanity. It was created by nature, and we will reach it anyway, but now we have the opportunity to consciously and swiftly realize it ourselves.

Question: Do you speak about the correction process not only with regard to the group but to all of humanity?

Answer: To all of humanity. The group is separate. Regarding our international group, which includes hundreds of thousands of people around the world who hear and are already absorbing this, we can say only one thing: this group is already a real spiritual force in the world, not by human standards but by spiritual qualities. If we measure not by numbers but by spiritual qualities, we are the greatest force in the world.

We must respect our community and understand what an opportunity we have to accelerate humanity’s development, to make it pleasant, easy, and inspiring, instead of allowing it to continue in division, anxiety, and fear of world war or ecological disaster.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Greatest Force In The World” 8/16/10

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Question: Is the inner desert a condition inherent to every person, or not everyone?

Answer: There are people in whom the egoistic desire has developed so much that they begin to feel dissatisfied with their lives.

It is like being in a desert. A person wants to know why this is happening. Is there a purpose, a higher program? Why does he feel such dryness, such emptiness in his life, from which no fruits grow?

He tells himself he needs to investigate the desert in him. This means he escapes into the desert, like our forefathers, looks for purpose, and does not find it. He plunges even deeper into inner scrutiny, tries to figure out why he feels such emptiness in life, and is unable to do anything.

This is the state of the desert, where one searches for sources of water, for wells, like Abraham or Isaac once did. There are many stories in the Torah about wells, which are so necessary especially in the desert. After all, if a person feels the dryness of life and has nothing with which to revive his soul, he must find a source of living water, that is, an upper force capable of answering him—what the purpose of his life is, its essence and meaning.

He is looking for the force that created these two states—drought and water, that is, egoism and the desire to love, evil and good. When he finds out that they come from the same source, he wonders how this can be. After all, people believed there were two forces: good and evil. Even Abraham himself once made idols in ancient Babylon, half of which were evil and half were good.

It is by going into the desert and digging wells for water that he finds the middle line. The middle line is the same upper force that brings both drought and water. This is the answer to man’s search: the feeling of drought and desert is given in order to seek and find the upper force that is the source of both phenomena.

Question: How do you find the upper force in the desert?

Answer: It is precisely because a person feels the drought and the absolute emptiness of life that he reveals the upper force.

Question: Why specifically in the desert?

Answer: A person must answer the question of why there is such dryness in his soul. And then he finds a well with living water, which is located precisely in the desert.
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From KabTV’s “New Life – 924,” 11/28/2017

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Comment: In order not to frighten the masses, you cannot reveal everything Kabbalah speaks about. After all, many things are revealed: horoscopes and so on.

My Response: Kabbalah explains the general method of correction, and that is it. What else can it say? It cannot explain why things happen one way to one person and another to someone else.

Question: But did horoscopes originate from Kabbalistic sources?

Answer: No, it was before Kabbalah. Horoscopes go back to very ancient methods of unraveling the path of man in this world; that is, to the most ancient methods of exploring nature and oneself; it has nothing to do with Kabbalah, which was revealed in Ancient Babylon only three and a half thousand years ago.

Comment: But at the same time, it still describes everything that exists in perception of this universe.

My Response: It does not matter. Kabbalah does not ask this question at all; it does not care how the fate of man in our world will turn out in his animate state; it has nothing to do with our body. To us the soul is important, the point in the heart and how to develop it is important.

What is Kabbalah by definition? It is the revelation of the Creator to man in this world. How does the Creator reveal Himself? In desire. Which one? In the one you develop from the point in your heart.

And everything else? Everything else is important only to the extent it applies to this desire, to this point in the heart. As soon as you start going into some kind of horoscopes, into human physiology, into the animal body, this is no longer Kabbalah. Then you should go to the gypsies and fortune tellers, and they will tell you things. By the way, real experts in this field can predict everything correctly.

Question: But in any case, if a person has to live his physical life, does he reveal his soul in the same process?

Answer: Yes, but Kabbalah does not speak about the physical world! This science speaks only about the development of the soul and about what you can feel in it.

I spoke about it with my teacher. He confirmed that the fortune tellers and soothsayers can tell the truth, as they possess this technique. But we do not have this technique, we do not need it. What difference does it make to me what happens to me? I have only one calculation: how to end my life with the highest score possible.

Is that what a fortune teller is for? To do this, I have to think only about the point in my heart! Let the body die, just let me bring it as close as possible to my spiritual correction.

Question: What should I do to not renounce the body altogether, but use it to the fullest?

Answer: Kabbalah does not allow us to renounce the body. You have to live a normal life: work, study, give birth, raise children, and treat this life exactly the same as everyone else around you.

Question: So how can you maximize using your body to achieve the goal?

Answer: Involve yourself only with achieving the goal, and everything else—as needed.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Horoscopes and Fortune-Telling in Kabbalah” 8/11/10

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Question: You have mentioned repeatedly that the period of correction has now begun, prior to it was a period of preparation. What does the period of correction mean, and why was the previous time not considered correction?

Answer: It is because it was necessary to prepare egoism so that it would fully realize its own worthlessness, transience, hopelessness, emptiness, and its inability to be fulfilled or to lead a person to anything good or positive.

Ultimately egoism had to be prepared to understand that it exists solely for its own transformation, not to be destroyed by any means, but to be transformed into bestowal and love.

And so until this egoistic quality completely discredits itself in all necessary aspects, it is impossible to begin correcting it.

In our time, we have reached a state where we see clearly that the time has come, there is no way out. Either we face serious problems of ecological, military, and other forms of self-destruction, or we still have a chance to survive.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Opportunity to Survive” 8/19/10

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Question: After the generation that came out of Egypt died out and was replaced by the next one, Moses tells the new generation: “Remember Egypt.” But how can they remember it if they were never there?

Answer: There is no such thing as “they were never there.” After all, this is not about physical bodies but about spiritual states.

The Torah speaks of people who have gone through all the stages from Abraham, and in some sense even from Adam, to Egypt, and exited it with a great desire, with immense emptiness, with the “darkness of Egypt,” and now they feel that darkness as a desert.

The fact that they no longer care already indicates a correction: nothing grows here, fine; nothing gives fruit, fine. They are ready for anything, so long as they can rise above the Egyptian darkness, which evoked a negative attitude in them toward themselves and toward the Creator. Now they want to bring themselves to a state that even slightly resembles Him.

Therefore the state of the desert becomes desirable for them. Even if I have nothing, and I find myself in a state of complete emptiness, I am still glad of it compared to the state I was in before, where I enjoyed all sorts of egoistic acquisitions and felt at ease under Pharaoh’s rule.

Now it is the Creator who governs me. Although I do not see any fulfillment of my egoism in His governance, I perceive it as goodness. Even though I walk on hot sand without water, surrounded by snakes and scorpions, I rejoice in this desert because in it, the Creator rules over me. He goes before me and shows me the way, whether through a pillar of fire or a cloud.

Through the rejection of egoistic fulfillments, I feel that by rising above my ego, I am already following Him even into the desert.

This is the generation that must be born in the desert and enter the Land of Israel. That is, I have gone through all the inner stages from the Babylonian egoism that developed in the generations of the forefathers, then through the generation of Egypt, and later Mount Sinai and the desert. Now I approach the state called the “Land of Israel.” In doing so, I have built all these states within my egoistic desire.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/16/16

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Question: When Kabbalists communicate with each other, do they speak in an ordinary language or in some kind of incomprehensible language?

Answer: They may not say anything at all and connect via a shared screen. Why do they need this body if they can communicate with their souls, with a common screen between them?

Of course they can also talk to each other. In addition, they can communicate, and each limit oneself to a certain range and not open up to the other.

There is such an option and sometimes a need not to harm each other or to reveal themselves—all things happen despite everyone’s good intentions.

That is, there are a huge number of opportunities for Kabbalists to communicate: through books, through songs, through music. And they, as they internally construct these sensations and pictures, as they live in the material world and at the same time in the next dimension, they are in it in their senses, and thus they communicate, but only according to the law of similarity of form. This is the general, most global, most fundamental law of nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalists Say” 8/21/10

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Question: What is the desert that exists within a person?

Answer: The desert within a person is their egoistic desire that cannot be corrected immediately. One must come to this desert and try to dwell in it in order to eventually come out into a “land flowing with milk and honey.”

That is why our forefathers began with the desert. Abraham went into the desert, descended into Egypt, returned to Beer Sheva, and so on. Isaac and Jacob were connected with the desert their entire lives. Moses fled from Pharaoh’s house and met Jethro in the desert, and he traversed the desert.

Naturally, this refers more to spiritual actions than to corporeal ones. However, they also occurred in corporeality in accordance with the law that every spiritual force must at some point touch its corporeal branch and imprint the same sequence in the physical world.

Therefore we must come to understand what the desert is and how it can be transformed into a blooming, fruitful land, as it is written in the Torah. This does not depend on physically relocating, as in our world. In spirituality, a change of place means a change in one’s internal qualities.

“Place” in the spiritual sense is a person’s inner desire. If my inner desire is like a desert, then I dwell within it. And if my desire is like a seashore or a garden, then I live in a garden. Everything depends on how a person corrects their inner qualities. Based on this, one should understand what is described in the Torah.

The Torah describes the process that takes place within a person who transitions from the internal state of a desert full of scorpions and snakes to a flourishing land. After forty years of correction while wandering in the desert, we arrive at the land flowing with milk and honey.

Question: So does that mean the desert is bad?

Answer: The desert is not bad; it is the initial state from which we begin our development both internally and externally.
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From KabTV’s “New Life – 924,” 11/28/2017

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