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Criteria for Evaluating Friends

528.01Question: If I see that my friends have deviated from efforts to attract light and have forgotten about the goal, in what case do I work with this assessment and in what case do I look for a way to remind, give importance, and continue the search for how to attract more light? Are there any criteria?

Answer: There are criteria, but they are still unknown to us. We cannot pinpoint them.

We must always think about how to approach our friends and through them approach the Creator. That is all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/14/24, Writings of Rabash “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”

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The Intention to Love

527.02Question: What kind of intention should love have?

Answer: Love has only one intention: to love.

Question: But I love everyone egoistically. How do we come to true love with a good intention?

Answer: Here you already have work to do—to transform love from egoistic to altruistic. Try it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/11/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Joy with Trembling”

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Think More about Love

294.4Question: I have a desire to love, and when I come to the point where I can express this love, a strong fear appears and I feel I am afraid to love. Why does this fear appear?

Answer: Fear appears from the fact that you are afraid that you will not get an answer. But the fact is that we always get an answer.

The most important thing is not even an answer, but the fact that we have a question to the Creator, some kind of appeal to Him. Basically, this is what the Creator awakens in us.

Question: How do you tear yourself away from fear in order to go toward love?

Answer: Think more about love, and you will see that gradually the fear disappears. It is necessary only in order to further develop love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Joy with Trembling”

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How Can We Awaken Trembling?

261Question: It feels that when we work in a group, we only feel love. How can we awaken trembling?

Answer: You should think about how you will be more connected with each other so much so that no circumstances will separate you, and be afraid that love will disappear, that you will break it, that you will forget about it.

Question: How do we use fear correctly?

Answer: Use it so that it does not allow you to approach things you do not need on the spiritual path and does not tear you away from things that help you to move toward the goal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/11/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Joy with Trembling”

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