Question: How can The Book of Zohar be used to improve the situation in the world? I really do not want to read it abstractly.

Answer: Then read it with the thought that you are thinking about the world. Then you will understand this book more deeply.

Comment: But the text of the book has nothing to do with the events that take place in the world.

My Response: It does not matter. Read The Book of Zohar with the intention that the world will get better even if you do not understand anything. It is like medicine. Take it, and then you will see how it works.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 11/12/23

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Question: How can a Kabbalist see all others on a better degree if he himself is on a higher degree relative to them?

Answer: Kabbalists see others as better because they work in bestowal. For them, the whole world is people who strive for the Creator, only they add themselves to this kind of people in last place. They justify the whole world, the Creator, and not themselves very much.

A real Kabbalist truly sees the degrees of other people, especially those below him. But he annuls himself, minimizes himself, and makes himself equal with them. In general, there are many ways of spiritual work here.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Descends and Incites, Ascends and Complains“

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Question: The Torah describes the laws of communication with the upper force. Do these laws manifest themselves in our world as a root and branch?

Answer: Some do because the Creator is the whole of nature around us, Elokim, in gematria is the same as Teva (nature). And if we treat it correctly, then, naturally, we will influence correctly the upper force called the Creator, and by this, it will influence us correctly.

Comment: That is what is confusing. On one hand in The Book of Zohar, which in principle comments on the Torah and decodes it, it is written that the Torah does not say a single word about our world but only about states outside of time and space.

My Response: It is about the forces that are above our world.

Question: Yes. On the other hand we see some manifestations of things in the Torah in our world also. There are some well-established traditions. How can one figure it out?

Answer: Very little is said about our world because our world is a world of consequences. If we begin to correctly impact the upper force, the Creator, according to the fact that we will become more and more correctly like Him, then naturally, His influence on our world will be positive for us.

In other words, a commandment is an action to change an intention for oneself to an intention for the sake of bestowal, for the sake of the Creator.

Such an action is possible only when a person is in direct contact with the Creator. And before that he performs simply mechanical actions in our world, which are, as it were, preparation for spiritual ones.
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From KabTV’s”Spiritual States” 11/21/23

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Day to day utters speech, and night to night tells knowledge (Psalms 19:3). That means everything flows smoothly from day to day and from night to night.

Therefore, a person should try to make these transitions smoothly. Then all the nights turn into one night, and all the days turn into one day.

A day is a state when we have the greatness of the Creator, the greatness of the quality of bestowal. And the night is when we are in exile from this state.

 Sit, O dear ones, sit, and we will renew the correction of the bride on this night. Anyone who bonds with her on that night will be kept all through that year, above and below, and will complete his year in peace. It is written about them, “The angel of God camps around those who fear Him and will rescue them. Taste and see that the Lord is good” (Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai [Rashbi], Zohar forAll, “On the Night of the Bride,” Item 150)

The point is that to all your corrections you need to add a global correction for all, for all nights and days, put them together so that they all turn into one day, and this day shines on a person.

Kept all through that year means a person is protected from darkness.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 11/12/23

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Question: Is it enough to simply study the system of spiritual worlds to develop spiritually?

Answer: No, it is not enough. The Kabbalah methodology explains how the system created by the Creator cascades from above downward under the influence of the upper light, which builds all the degrees.

Now, we must climb the same degrees from below upward by working with each other.

In principle, a person’s spiritual development should include both types of study: theory and practice. One is impossible without the other.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 11/7/23

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Question: Why is so much importance attached to the fact that “one must not let one’s mouth cause the arrival of an evil thought”?

Answer: When you speak out loud and breathe something positive or negative out of yourself, you connect with the entire world and are awakening positive or negative waves in it.

Question: But a bad action is more harmful than mere slander, correct? In principle, Kabbalists always wrote about slander as something very terrible that destroys the system, but they did not talk about actions at all. Was this something that goes without saying?

Answer: Yes, of course. It is clear that the bad actions of an individual harm others. But even if the negativity comes from words or thoughts, it is bad for the whole system.

Comment: But I cannot control my thoughts.

My Response: Correct yourself so that these thoughts do not arise in you. The main thing is to try.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 11/12/23

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The word Hatan [bridegroom] also indicates descent, as we learn, “Come down from your degree and marry a woman” (Rashbi, Zohar for All, “On the Night of the Bride, 128”).

Hatan (groom), from the word “Nahut,” Nahut Darga, means that the groom descends from his height to the bride, and takes her as his wife.

In other words, the Creator clothes himself in people so that they can begin to attain Him. In this case, He approaches them and they can study Him. A person begins to feel that he has a longing for understanding the meaning of life, spiritual ascent, and the closeness between people.

This is how the first encounter between the Creator and the soul of a person takes place.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 11/12/23

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Question: It is written that one’s greatness is measured by one’s measure of Dvekut (adhesion) with the Creator, meaning one’s measure of annulment before the Creator. What does the measure of one’s greatness mean?

Answer: To the degree a person can rise above his egoism, meaning to ask the Creator to annul his egoism and to replace his property of reception with the property of bestowal and love in connection with others, is the degree of his spirituality.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Descends and Incites, Ascends and Complains“

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