Read like it Is the First Time
Question: What does it mean to look at a book anew each time?
Answer: It is as if you do not remember at all what you once read and you look at the book like it is the first time.
Question: If we have to perceive a text every time as if we were seeing it for the first time, then what about the fact that some passages from the Torah or The Book of Zohar pop up in your memory and literally resound in you?
Answer: It does not matter, do not fight it. Everything will settle down on its own and take its place.
Question: There are people who speak quotes from sources without using any of their own words or who remain silent. Is it good?
Answer: On one hand it is good if they really know the original sources and can play them back from memory. But beside this, you need to be free and as if travel through all the original sources and be connected with them in many ways.
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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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