Question: If we come to the common desire to delight the Creator, in what way is our individuality preserved?

Answer: Each one of us has his or her own desire. We cannot single it out and somehow outline it, but it is separate and therefore does not disappear. We constantly develop and supplement it until we begin to feel the Creator within it.

Right now we are still at the level of Nefesh (inanimate), and the next level is Ruach (spirit).

Ruach is the level at which we feel that some changes are taking place within us. Then we will become more sensitive to our states, will study them more, and understand what they are talking about and how they can be connected between us.

At this level, souls correct themselves by transmitting the light they have received to others and thus connect with everyone.

Question: Is each individual given the opportunity to manifest itself in filling others or in achieving the desire to delight the Creator?

Answer: To delight others or to delight the Creator is one and the same. Basically, this is one desire that I send outward from myself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Anyone Who Pleases the Spirit of the People”

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Question: Purim is an awakening from above, and Yom Kippur is an awakening from below. But in any case, there must be some readiness for an awakening from above. How is this different from awakening from below?

Answer: In principle, we are always in favor of causing awakening from ourselves, from below. But at the same time, we must understand that awakening from below is accomplished by regretting our sins.

And awakening from above is already an awakening from the Creator when you begin to understand, feel more, and come closer to Him.

Question: Awakenings from above and from below should occur together, right?

Answer: No, of course not. One after the other, alternately.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/22/24, Writing of Baal HaSulam “A Lot Is an Awakening from Above”

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From The Zohar, Noah, There was a flood, and the saboteur was sitting in the midst of it (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 104, “And the Saboteur Was Sitting”).

Question: Corporeal suffering is a flood. Can a saboteur exist without a flood? And what is the difference between a saboteur in the flood and without it?

Answer: A flood is a state in which a person feels that he is being flooded from all sides, pulled down, and simply suffocating and dying.

And the saboteur distracts us from the Creator with the help of various painful sensations. His function is to frighten us, to show us that there are worse states, and He can plunge us into them.

Therefore, we must know how to position ourselves against it so that its impact on us is not so strong, serious, or threatening.

Question: What thoughts will save us during the flood when we feel that we are suffocating and nothing will save us anymore?

Answer: You must stick together and try to rise out of the water together, pulling each other out. To protect each other from the saboteur, it is necessary to unite even more closely and turn to the Creator that He can help you in this. This is the most important.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And the Saboteur Was Sitting”

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Comment: Sometimes I feel The Book of Zohar will open when the Hebrew letters and language are opened.

My Response: No, you do not have to wait for that. The Zohar may be revealed before then. That is not how it is accepted in our world when you learn a language through letters, words, and combinations of words.

Everything flows differently here, it flows through the upper light. Therefore, we must strive to simply feel what The Book of Zohar talks about. The main thing is to start feeling moved by it or toward it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “To Understand the Words of The Zohar”

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Question: How does The Book of Zohar differ from TES or Psalms  with respect to the power of correction?

Answer: The Book of Zohar is unique because it was composed by people who sought to uncover the mysteries of the spiritual world and present them to all of humanity. Kabbalists consider The Book of Zohar the most valuable book in attaining the Creator.

Question: Why is the language of The Book of Zohar so complex? Couldn’t everything be explained, for example, from the perspective of the physics of light or electromagnetic laws, so that one could first understand spirituality in the mind and then pass it all through feelings?

Answer: It cannot be so. The Kabbalists who wrote The Zohar presented us with this gift, the simplest and most accessible, to attain the upper light and through it reveal the Creator.

Question: What does self-sacrifice for the sake of the Torah and commandments mean?

Answer: It means that I neglect all the states that are comfortable for me only to feel the inner meaning of the Torah, commandments, and The Zohar.

Question: Reading The Book of Zohar always evokes amazing feelings. I started reading it independently a year and a half ago and was surprised I could do it. Then I started reading it in the group. Recently I realized that I stopped feeling it.

Answer: There is nothing to worry about. Various states of this kind happen so you elevate the desire  and aspiration to understand The Zohar.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “To Understand the Words of The Zohar”

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Question: When we are overwhelmed by the love we feel for the teacher and our friends in the ten, should we make a restriction on it? How should we work with it?

Answer: If you direct all of this toward the Creator, then you experience some ascent. And this happens every time, again and again.

Question: When can a ten be in a state of Nefesh?

Answer: The common light you reach will be called the light of Nefesh.

Question: If everything is good on the spiritual level, what does it mean “pleases or does not please the spirit of people”?

Answer: There are spiritual actions that force us to take a roundabout path, and there are actions where you move straight. This is essentially what determines success or failure in spirituality.

Question: How do we recognize the differences that are important to overcome to reach unity among us and those that can be accepted?

Answer: Anything that prevents us from connecting must be corrected.

Question: What does it mean to bring the left line to holiness?

Answer: It means that all your egoism, which is revealed in you at this moment, must be corrected into altruism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Anyone Who Pleases the Spirit of the People”

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Question: How does a Kabbalist attract goodness for the generation?

Answer: We are in an ocean of upper light. A Kabbalist can take some portion of this light from the ocean and transfer this light to them through the channels by which they are connected with other people.

Thus, we gradually connect with each other through all five channels of NRNHY.

Question: Do we pass goodness to others by engaging in dissemination?

Answer: Yes, this is a very important action. By disseminating, you pass a part of your efforts, a part of your soul, which is called the spiritual part, to others.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Anyone Who Pleases the Spirit of the People”

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Question: What should I do if I am constantly plagued by the fear that I do not understand something, and therefore I am hindering the entire process?

Answer: Everything will fall into place gradually. Just give it time and everything will gradually be corrected.

In fact you are constantly changing, sometimes in one direction, sometimes in another. And gradually the upper light influences you and shapes you.

Just like children who start school and gradually mature, so do you.

Therefore, support each other and move forward. It is very important. When you strive toward the light, toward the Creator, in an “united embrace,” you will see how everything starts to work out for you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “To Understand the Words of The Zohar”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Is the ‘Bread of an Evil-Eyed Man’ in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” Item 70

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Question: Today, the same dramatic events are taking place in the world as in the time of Mordecai. What kind of connection does the Creator require from us now as a group?

Answer: Absolutely the same unity as then. We must unite in such a way as to show all humanity how to achieve this unity and what it gives to each of the people in this world and in the next world.

By trying to achieve unity, we will invite the influence of the upper light upon us. Then, under its effect, we will gain such strength that will help us drive away our enemies so that they do not dare to approach us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/21/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “There Is a Certain People”

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