Question: It is said that after a person has seen certain words of the Torah in the book and memorized them, what entered the mind is already damaged. What does it mean?

Answer: It means that a person interferes with his feelings in the text.

Question: It appears that we need another influence from the book every time. And there is no way we can act differently?

Answer: You can, but it is not easy. Even in a person, you can see how when saying something he repeats what he saw, heard, and perceived the first time.

Question: How do you ensure that what you read enters your heart and does not require you to be impressed by a primary source every time?

Answer: You must move forward in connection with your friends because it continually cleanses you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/29/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Looking in the Book Again”

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Question: It is said that when a person completes the work and converts the left line into holiness, he says to the angels: go away in peace. Does he say this to both angels or only to the evil one?

Answer: To both because each stage begins from a neutral state. Both angels teach us to approach the Creator.

The right line represents the good angel, the left line represents evil, and the middle line represents the man himself, who will merge with the Creator.

Question: Why is it said: go away in peace and come in peace?

Answer: Because we want all our problems to be solved in the middle line, which is called Shalom (peace) from the word “Shlemut” (perfection).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/16/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Two Angels”

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Question: Should the recognition that we work in Lo Lishma (in order to receive) be accompanied by joy?

Answer: In every state we should be in joy, even when working in Lo Lisma because we are doing the work of the Creator.

Question: How can one be in joy when the recognition of evil increases literally every day?

Answer: Rejoice in the fact that the Creator shows you this, that you receive recognition of evil from Him, and ask Him to correct the evil.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/22/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Lot Is an Awakening from Above”

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There are two channels in a person for receiving information. The written Torah is an awakening from above, and the oral Torah is awakening from below.

Both channels instruct a person on what to do in order to advance.

Gradually by studying this even without specifying which part it is, written or oral, we are still moving forward.

The written Torah is what we read in the sources, and the oral Torah is what our sages transmitted to us orally. They conveyed the information, but prohibited writing it down.

Question: Do we understand correctly that the written Torah is perceived by the mind, and the oral Torah by the heart?

Answer: In some ways, you are correct. But in both of them, there are both feeling and mind.

Question: Which Torah do we engrave in the heart to serve as a key for adhesion with the Creator?

Answer: The written one.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Written Torah and the Oral Torah – 1”

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Question: Should the restriction be conscious, or does the light correct us automatically?

Answer: You cannot depict the right path for yourself. Therefore, it is better not to ask such questions; simply adhere to the quality of bestowal, to the Creator, from the bottom of your heart.

Do what you can. The less you think about yourself and the more about your friends, the closer you will get to the Creator. Correct the connection between each other until you lose the feeling of your own individuality and begin to feel only the common group instead of yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “After the Tzimtzum”

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Question: What should be the qualitative characteristics of our condition when large receiving Kelim of Haman can get out from under the restriction and receive for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: This is our prayer, nothing else. It is just our request to the Creator that He will correct our Kelim, connect them, and they will be able to receive the upper light (Ohr Hochma).

Question: We must be united in one desire. How to work with it?

After all, if we have the same desire, we think and assume the same way. But everyone has their job. How can we avoid the confusion of my work and the work of my friends?

Answer: Do what is in front of you, what is closer to you, what you understand. And then, gradually, new desires and intentions will open up in you, and you will correct them. That is happening gradually.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/24/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Haman Pockets”

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Question: According to Kabbalah, there are two ways of human development: the path of Torah and the path of suffering. I think everyone understands what the path of suffering is; all of us, the created beings, feel it ourselves. What is the path of the Torah?

Answer: Since humanity has a purpose to reach complete adhesion with the Creator as a result of its spiritual development, then the movement toward this is called the path of Torah. After all, the ascent to the Creator, compliance with His conditions, and similarity to Him are based on knowing exactly what He wants and what we must achieve.

In parallel, there is another path—the path of suffering, which develops us and pushes us forward. These can be man-made or natural problems, wars in general, and everything that humanity suffers from and what it would like to avoid.

Therefore, the Torah explains that if we want to live in peace without being involved in wars, then we need to consider what the Creator requires of us. If we do not do this, then He will urge us to correct with blows and suffering.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/14/24

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Children of Esau and Ishmael Did Not Want to Receive the Torah,’ in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Freedom”

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