Question: How do you have the strength and patience to answer the same questions that you are asked over and over again?

Answer: First of all, there is a great love for a person who sincerely asks and wants to grow. He does not understand, and so he asks again. He still does not understand and asks once more.

To others, it might seem like it is the same question being repeated. But it is not like that at all! Each of you can ask the same question, yet you awaken completely different desires in me, different deficiencies in fulfillment.

If I am alone, I have nothing to say. I absolutely need an audience and a question that comes from people. I come to a lecture, feel the audience, and in that moment, I know what to say.

Sometimes I step onto the stage in front of thousands of people, and until the very last minute it is as if I am in a fog and don’t know what I will say. I can leaf through books beforehand, plan topics for the lecture, but I can never say in advance what I will begin to talk about.

Then suddenly contact with the audience happens, and that is it, I have caught their need, their desire, and I work with that desire.

So when thousands of people ask me the same question, each one is driven by a different desire. I perceive the desire of one, and another, and a third, I feel that it comes from a different place, and that is why it does not irritate me. Because each time it is as if a new question comes to me.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/25/2010, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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