Question: In Shamati 101: “A Commentary on the Psalm ‘For the Winner over Roses,’” Baal HaSulam writes that only the one who has attained the light of faith can say: “My work is for the king.” How does one achieve this during the preparation period?

Answer: During the preparation period it is necessary to strive for unity, and when you reach it, then you will understand what you have achieved.

Question: A person goes through many states and sees that he cannot do anything and that only the Creator can lead us through all states. A feeling arises that during the preparation period, we are preparing a special Kli for meeting the Creator. Is this Kli called Shoshanim?

Answer: It does not matter what it is called. What matters is what you experience. You passionately desire the Creator to take you by the hand and lead you into these states like a little child you take by the hand and he walks with you.

This is what we need to expect from the Creator’s actions on us. And then we will see the whole world from end to end and feel that everything is filled with the light of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/14/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Commentary on the Psalm, “For the Winner over Roses”

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Question: What does it mean to be invited to spiritual work, and how do we verify this?

Answer: When a person receives some desire, even the smallest opportunity for spiritual work, it is said that the Creator is inviting him.

Question: Should we feel suffering on the path and does it have a specific role?

Answer: Suffering has a very high role since it brings us closer to the goal of creation.

When we experience suffering, we want to escape from it. But in this way the Creator gradually directs us toward Himself. And step by step, we come closer to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/18/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Sing unto the Lord, for He Has Done Pride”

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Question: When you feel that you are in a sacred environment where everyone shares the same love for the same thing as you, there is a sense of a tremendous gift. I would like this gift to spread to other people as well. How can we make others feel the same, common love?

Answer: Approach your friends and together organize a request to the Creator for Him to manifest Himself more.

Question: Should we ask the Creator for blessings on this work every time?

Answer: Always! In the ten it is expressed in the desire to receive strength and knowledge from the Creator about how to work with your life in order to raise it to the degree of the spiritual world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Field that the Lord Has Blessed”

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Question: Can the memory of a past perfect state be a way of returning from an imperfect state to the next perfect state? Or is this knowledge not necessary to remember?

Answer: Usually, we strive to be in new states. Therefore it is better not to remember the old ones. Even if you remember, it will not give you anything at that moment. Every time, everything happens anew.

Question: If I see my ten as perfect and I attribute this perfection to myself as well, since I am part of this ten, is this pride?

Answer: No, if you get such a feeling from the ten and want to join, it is not pride.

Question: How can pride in the work help develop humility?

Answer: To kill one’s pride, a person must become proud that he is destroying it.

Question: The feeling that you are already perfect is like a film on your heart that does not want to reveal self-love. How do you remove this film from the heart?

Answer: The best way to cleanse the heart from its surrounding film is to rub one heart against another.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/18/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Sing unto the Lord, for He Has Done Pride”

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Our Sages Said, ‘King David Did Not Have a Life,’ in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 7, Item 9

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Question: We must attract the light of Hochma within reason. How can we check in the ten that we do it for true reason?

Answer: It is only with the help of the light of Hassadim when you want to bring everything to life with this light.

Question: What is the difference between attainment and knowledge?

Answer: When you are talking about full attainment or full knowledge, there is no difference. But when we go through the stages of spiritual attainment, there is a difference between attainment and knowledge.

Question: The sources say that there are many paths in the Torah. Does this mean that every soul has its own path? Or are there many different paths to the goal in Kabbalah?

Answer: No, in the end we must all connect and move along the same path to achieve complete correction.

Question: Is it possible to say that the ten in itself is a righteous man?

Answer: No, the ten must reach a state where they will be united and be called righteous. And at each degree, it will be like a different ten. So its every righteous person will always look different.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/16/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Why We Need to Extend Hochma”

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Question: It is written, “He who could guard the harmful must compensate the harmed with the best kind that one has.” What does it mean to pay compensation in spirituality?

Answer: Just as it is customary in our world when we have to pay for all crimes and defects.

To pay means to replenish. Usually we pay by asking the Creator for corrections. Meaning, every incorrect action by which I caused harm, I have to compensate by correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/9/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Difference between Core, Self, and Added Abundance”

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Similarly, if the collective is adhered to a true righteous, who has already been awarded knowing, the collective can do things with faith (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 149 “Why We Need to Extend Hochma“).

The true righteous inside a person is a quality where one only wants to help others, to bestow. This is what is called “righteous” in a person.

The collective in a person is a state where he is caring for the whole society and is ready to sacrifice oneself for it.

Knowledge of the righteous and faith in the collective within a person are practically the same thing.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/16/24, The Writings of Baal HaSulam “Why We Need to Extend Hochma“

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Question: When we first cross the Machsom, do we receive the spiritual vegetative level? Now are we at the animate level?

Answer: The animate level is not as small as you think. That is a very serious level. We are yet to leave the Domem, the still level.

Comment: I want this to happen as soon as possible.

My Response: As soon as possible? Then you have to make an effort.

Question: It is clear that the still level is the fundamental level of support of a form in the universe. What level does “I did not change My HaVaYaH” belong to?

Answer: This is the general level. The four letters of HaVaYaH mean the four levels of creation: Domem, Tzomeach, Hai, and Medaber (still, vegetative, animate, and speaking).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Still, Vegetative, Animate, and Speaking”

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Question: The Creator twists and turns us, and raises us. What is the solution for a ten to become like an embryo and understand what He is doing to us?

Answer: You must decide to hold on to each other and turn together. Whatever the Creator does, let Him do what He wants, but you do not let go of each other.

The most important thing everyone should receive from the ten is a willingness to connect into one single system called a Kli. Under your general pressure, this system will move toward the Creator until it catches Him itself. That is your task.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Two Discernments in Attainment”

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