Question: If my friend is ill and I want to get connected in him so that the Creator can cure him, should I interfere in this or let it remain as it is?

Answer: You should get closer to your friend in your soul, connect with him, and help him in your feelings—not physically, but internally. You will see how quickly he recovers.

Question: Should we help each other regardless of what the Creator gives to everyone, or would we be interfering with the Creator’s program?

Answer: Yes, by doing this we would be interfering with the Creator’s program.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “I Shall Not Die but Live”

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Question: How can we ensure that the cause of pleasure is always only the Creator and not pleasure itself, i.e., that the pleasure would come from the fact that the Creator has it and not vice versa?

Answer: The fact is that we, who consist of the desire to receive, are constantly connected with the Creator and are always directed toward Him.

Our problem is that we do not feel or realize this. Therefore, Baal HaSulam says that all our work is to direct our mind and heart to the Creator.

After all, when we direct our thoughts to Him, our work is called work in the mind. And when we direct our hearts to Him to give Him everything, this is the work in the heart. Thus, we adhere to Him with both our mind and our heart, two fundamentally different properties that we have for connecting with the Creator.

In order for both the mind and the heart to always work only for the Creator, it is necessary for our feelings, thoughts, and desires to be in 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: When reading the primary sources, it seems that the Creator sets very strict conditions for us, and egoism shrinks. How can we love the Creator in a way that we gladly agree to fulfill these conditions?

Answer: The Creator’s conditions seem strict to us because they are too heavy to fulfill individually. But if we implement them with mutual assistance, they are perceived as doable.

There is no greater pleasure, happiness, and sensation of an open world than nurturing such feelings toward the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Mind and Heart”

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Question: The ten can lead a person to fall and in the same way to rise. Can one friend lift the entire group? And how can this be done?

Answer: No, he cannot. Indeed, in this case, all the friends must completely reset themselves, i.e., cancel themselves and completely adhere to him. And he will cleave to the Creator. Of course, it is possible to do this, but we still need help.

Question: Why does it happen that one person can bring down the whole group?

Answer: It is the same. Take examples from our lives such as climbers working in one team. If one falls, they all fall.

Question: Lately, there has been a feeling of emptiness. I do everything to unite with the ten, but the emptiness only grows. With what thoughts should I feed this emptiness? Or is it better to leave it blank?

Answer: You all have to unite as one ten over this void, and then it will gradually decrease and disappear.
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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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Question: How can we try real bestowal so that the heart and mind serve exclusively the Creator?

Answer: It depends only on your request, prayer, and nothing else.

There is no golden key or secret lock cipher here. Just check yourself for the purity of your thoughts and feelings directed toward the Creator, correct them all the time, and ask Him to correct, direct, correct, and accept.

We must put our hearts and minds together and try to make them work in the same way toward the goal. That will lift us to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Mind and Heart”

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Question: What determines the state of affirmation of the Creator’s power over oneself and how can we develop it?

Answer: It depends on how much you think about it, get closer to such thoughts and desires, and ask the Creator to make them the strongest in you. Gradually, this work leads to choosing the necessary desires and qualities to build the right Kli.

Question: How can everything we receive from the Creator be accepted properly and directed back to Him? What does it mean to constantly strengthen and maintain the circle of bestowal between me and Him?

Answer: We try to determine the intentions, desires, and thoughts of the Creator and why He does what happens to us. That way we will be getting closer to Him all the time.

Question: What is the identifier of my corrected qualities? And what is the quality of bestowal in the corrected qualities?

Answer: The quality of bestowal in the corrected quality can be determined by how much you rise to connection and mutual help with your friends. That is the most important thing, as it is said: let a man help his neighbor.
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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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Question: What kind of tool is it that either creates or destroys?

Answer: These are our thoughts.

Using thoughts correctly means understanding that they all come from the Creator and are clothed in our friends and us. Of all our thoughts, we must determine which ones will help us move forward and which ones will not allow us to move forward. That is our choice.

Question: How can we go beyond the desire to receive in our thoughts?

Answer: Any thought reveals itself in the inner qualities of a person. Therefore, our job is to transform these qualities under the influence of the upper light into the qualities of bestowal.
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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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Preparation to the Lesson

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

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Is Preparation for Reception of the Torah – 1”

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Question: How do you protect the heart from selfish pleasures?

Answer: You have to start tracking what your heart feels. What exactly does it want? How does it seek to connect with the Creator? Is it the proper connection?

Comment: The right intention fades and turns into “for yourself.”

My Response: There are no excuses, you should check for this.

You have no other goal but to ask the Creator to open your soul, correct it, and fill it. That is what we need—three actions: to open, to correct, to fill. That is what you should ask the Creator for.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Mind and Heart”

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Comment: The science of Kabbalah aims at the development of feelings. There is a strong desire to feel everyone in the ten. We are working and uniting, but there is a lack of feelings for each other.

My Response: Your egoism prevents you from being in clear connection with each other so that together, you can force the Creator to unite with all of you.

Question: So, do we need to run away from egoism?

Answer: Do not run away, but organize the correct connection between yourself and the Creator. That is what the science of Kabbalah teaches us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Mind and Heart”

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