Question: As is written: “Sons, life, and nourishment do not depend on merit, but on luck.” What does this mean?

Answer: This means that the results of a person’s efforts, aimed at having sons and other fruits of his labor, depend not on the effort itself, but on the influence of the Creator on those efforts, on how much effort a person puts into becoming a conduit for the upper light.

Question: How do we free ourselves of regret and suffering that the Creator rewarded us according to merit rather than sending luck? What should the correct prayer be?

Answer: The correct prayer is a request for the success of your friends and that you will hold onto them and rise together with them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/29/24, Weitings of Baal HaSulam “Explaining the Discernment of Luck”

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The correct Kli (vessel), which corresponds to luck, is our desire to receive when a person understands where he is and in what form he can unite with the Creator and perform the action of the reflected light, which raises him in accordance with the Hisaron (deficiency) that he created in the Creator. This is how they connect.

Question: What are the merits that make the light of Hochma shine?

Answer: These are the merits of using the opportunity to place your Kli under the upper light, which will be able to receive the light of Hochma in the middle line.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/29/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Explaining the Discernment of Luck”

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar”

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 3. Part 10, Item 71″

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Question: Today our feelings are based on vessels of reception. At what point can we trust the heart to work from the desire to bestow? How can we avoid deceiving ourselves?

Answer: Act as best you can; the Creator does not require more from you. He knows all your intentions, thoughts, and abilities. He understands them clearly.

There are no options here to go around the Creator or to do anything differently, just open ourselves directly to Him.

Comment: Of course, you cannot deceive Him. But it turns out that we are deceiving ourselves and do not even understand it.

My Response: Ask the Creator, just in case, to open you and see what is inside you. As it is said: “Thou hast hemmed me in behind and before.” You must ask the Creator to open your heart and mind to you, to correct them, and to bring them closer to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Mind and Heart”

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Question: If a person has fear, he or she must strengthen their faith in the Creator. If the fear is not leveled, one should not ask for it to be taken away because it comes from the Creator.

In this case, how do we work with fear correctly?

Answer: It does not matter. You can even ask the Creator to take away the fear and annul it. Even better, ask Him to raise you above this fear. This is the most important. It is good when you can react like that.

Question: But I do not want to fear the Creator, I want to be like Him, to adhere to Him, and to love Him. Is it possible to replace fear with love?

Answer: No, because we are egoists, there must be fear first, and then love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person”

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Question: We are egoists. How can you moderate your egoism that wants everything at once and be content with a small, but common achievement for everyone?

Answer: We perform many actions and turn to the Creator with many requests.

Each of them, as it were, returns to us. Thus, we divide what we receive from the Creator into small parts, and little by little, we receive for His sake.

That is how we gradually get closer to the Creator, in the ten, and not each individually.

We must reach the Creator in a state where we can beg Him to give us a small part of His light, which we can endure to receive for the sake of bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/1/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Sweat of Your Face Shall You Eat Bread – 2”

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Comment: During the pandemic the power of prayer was tested in several parts of the globe.

In most of the studies, it turned out that the prayer did not have a significant effect in preventing death or the severity of Covid-19.

My Response: This is what was supposed to be proven.

Question: So tell us, does prayer help or not?

Answer: Prayer helps. It helps the one who is uttering it and also the one for whose sake it is uttered.

Question: What prayer does the Creator hear?

Answer: The Creator hears a prayer that comes from an open heart. It means, the more natural the prayer, the closer it is to the Creator.

Comment: One that is not written somewhere in prayer books.

Answer: Yes, of course, no printed or written words whatsoever.

Question: Just from myself?

Answer: Yes

Question: In what cases can one raise such prayer? I understand that it is hard to do on demand. In general, in what cases can one raise such prayer?

Answer: In cases of real suffering and when these sufferings are closer to natural sufferings—mothers, children, or close friends; this kind.

Question: Does it mean that there should be some connection? There should be a connection with someone, and then I can truly sense all of it.

Answer: Yes

Question: And the Creator hears such a prayer?

Answer: The Creator hears such a prayer and it advances correction.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/18/23

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Question: I am capable of more effort. I feel it, but cannot do it for some reason.
How can a person use their full potential?

Answer: Just exert with all you have to unite with your friends and from your friends to the Creator.

Comment: I feel like I can do anything, but in the end they are mere specks.

Answer: No, these are not specks! These are sparks, small portions of upper light that should be cherished.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/1/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Sweat of Your Face Shall You Eat Bread – 2”

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Man is discerned as having three bodies:
1. The inner body, which is a clothing for the soul of Kedusha [holiness].
2. Klipat [shell of] Noga.
3. The serpent’s skin (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 247, “A Thought Is Regarded as Nourishment”).

Question: What role does Klipat Noga play in correction?

Answer: Klipat Noga is between holiness (Kedusha) and impurity (Klipot) and facilitates correction by sometimes being in Kedusha and sometimes in Klipa. With its help, we correct creation.

Question: How do the desires and thoughts of the Klipat Noga differ from the snakeskin, and do you even need to learn to discern them in yourself?

Answer: This will happen gradually, like in small children who still do not discern anything and then begin to feel more and more all kinds of nuances that exist in every desire, in every action.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/27/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Thought Is Regarded as Nourishment”

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