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Question: In the past, people mostly studied Kabbalistic texts on their own. Today it is possible to constantly be with a teacher in lessons and in zoom with friends, so there is little time left for reading. Maybe the reason for our slow spiritual development is that we do not work enough independently?

Answer: I don’t think that is the reason. It seems to me that we do not delve deeply enough with our minds and feelings into our connection with the Creator. But overall, we are moving toward revelation.

Question: In our time, we are given all the conditions for advancement, but at the same time the Creator adds egoism, and the external conditions in the world are worsening. Where can we find the balance point?

Answer: I think the Creator gives us absolutely everything. But we do not fulfill His demands diligently enough, and that is why the upper world is not revealed to us.

We need to be more connected with each other as one man with one heart and try from our unification to strive toward connection with the Creator. Then we will feel how long He has been waiting for this and with what joy He accepts us.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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What holds a man back on the path to the Creator and prevents him from drawing closer to Him?

The entire problem lies in the fact that, in reality, we do not yearn for the Creator. Instead, we seek Him merely because we want to receive something from Him.

True aspiration toward the Creator means striving to include all His creations within oneself and cleaving to Him in such a way that all my desires are solely about how to fulfill Him.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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And now he can extend from the past work, when he was always thankful and praising the Creator for the Creator always bringing him closer, and from this he had gladness. Now, on Sukkot, he can extend the gladness he had then (Baal HaSulam, Shamati,  96, “What Is Waste of Barn and Winery, in the Work?”).

Question: What is the difference between joy in a permanent home and joy in a temporary hut?

Answer: There is a big difference because in a permanent dwelling there is a certain force, which is much weaker in a temporary dwelling like a sukkah.

Therefore, a person should exert more effort to have the same illumination in the sukkah that he had in a permanent home.

Question: Isn’t the desire to return to the joy in a permanent home self-gratification? If so, how can we resist it?

Answer: It can happen. How to counter this? Don’t succumb to all kinds of weaknesses.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/18/24, “Sukkot”

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Question: When a person tries to calculate a reward, but realizes he is not experienced and does not really know how to do it, he feels shame and awkwardness. How can he work in this state?

Answer: This is a wrong feeling. When one wants to get closer to the Creator, he can wish and say anything. And it will always be welcome in the eyes of the Creator.

Question: How do we achieve constancy in our need for inner purification from egoism?

Answer: Constancy can be achieved only through consistent work in the group; otherwise, you will never have a Kli (vessel) in which you can receive light.

Question: What should we regret?

Answer: Not being able to turn to the Creator all together, on our own, and ask Him to let us adhere to Him.

Question: What is the pure work of receiving for the sake of giving?

Answer: It is to receive only in order to give.

Question: How do we know the measure of giving to the Creator so that we give the same amount?

Answer: Give all you want, it will still be less than the measure He has prepared for us.

Question: What kind of regret regarding friends leads to genuine regret regarding the Creator? Is it a regret of not knowing how to support my friends or not seeing them as great?

Answer: It is any kind. In the end, you regret that you cannot gather together with friends into one single desire and give it to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/15/24, Writings of Rabash “According to the Sorrow Is the Reward”

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