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Fear and Love Must Be Balanced

945Question: Fear and love together are perfection. And if there is less fear than love, what is this condition in the ten?

Answer: Fear and love must be balanced to support each other and exist together.

Question: If these qualities grow as we move forward, we will become like a high-voltage transmission line.

How can one bear this tension since it will increase?

Answer: The voltage will increase, but you will tolerate it. Connect love and fear with your friends and see how it will come into balance.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/11/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Joy with Trembling”

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Ascent of Malchut into Bina

934The garden of Eden means the ascent of Malchut into Bina where she receives Hochma, as Eden means Hochma. And then Malchut, called “garden,” receives Hochma in the form of “Eden,” and this is “the garden of Eden” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 84, “What Is “He Drove the Man Out of the Garden of Eden so He Would Not Take from the Tree of Life”?”)

Malchut is the lowest degree. Raising Malchut into Bina means correcting Malchut when it rises to the level of Bina with the help of prayer (MAN), receives light, and corrects itself so that it can use its desire for the sake of bestowal.

Question: Is the lowest degree our connection in the ten or my personal work?

Answer: This is the initial work of any person, it is one’s connection with the ten. If a person does not have connection with the ten, one does not go anywhere.

As a result of connection, you gain strength and confidence that you are acting correctly, and then go down and raise MAN.

With this MAN, prayer, you turn to the Creator, and He lifts and corrects you. And you, based on your corrected state, begin to correct all ten Sefirot in the place from which you ascended.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is ‘He Drove the Man Out of the Garden of Eden so He Would Not Take from the Tree of Life’?”

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How Is the Tree of Life Formed?

938.02Question: How is the Tree of Life formed from the Kelim (Vessels) of the friends that I feel?

Answer: When you try to come closer to your friends and connect to their roots so that you can bestow to each other together, then the real Tree of Life is formed from which you feed, receive vital juices for fruits, and move forward in this way.

To do this, you must connect with your friends.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is Eating Their Fruits in This World and Keeping the Principal for the Next World, in the Work?”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—83

557Question: How do we increase our desire (Hisaron)?

Answer: You can increase Hisaron (desire) only by connecting with your friends because then they show you to what extent Hisaron (desire) can be even greater.

Question: Will we ever come to the point where the property of faith will no longer be necessary for us?

Answer: No, on the contrary, you will have a greater and greater need for faith, even at the final correction. It is a spiritual force that makes us similar to the Creator.

Question: In the corporeal world, we get old and physical strength diminishes. What will compensate for our strength in spirituality?

Answer: New strength that you will receive.

Question: How can we fulfill you?

Answer: Only by the fact that you will be connected with each other and will fulfill the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Rewarded—I Will Hasten It”

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Criteria for Evaluating Friends

528.01Question: If I see that my friends have deviated from efforts to attract light and have forgotten about the goal, in what case do I work with this assessment and in what case do I look for a way to remind, give importance, and continue the search for how to attract more light? Are there any criteria?

Answer: There are criteria, but they are still unknown to us. We cannot pinpoint them.

We must always think about how to approach our friends and through them approach the Creator. That is all.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/14/24, Writings of Rabash “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”

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Think More about Love

294.4Question: I have a desire to love, and when I come to the point where I can express this love, a strong fear appears and I feel I am afraid to love. Why does this fear appear?

Answer: Fear appears from the fact that you are afraid that you will not get an answer. But the fact is that we always get an answer.

The most important thing is not even an answer, but the fact that we have a question to the Creator, some kind of appeal to Him. Basically, this is what the Creator awakens in us.

Question: How do you tear yourself away from fear in order to go toward love?

Answer: Think more about love, and you will see that gradually the fear disappears. It is necessary only in order to further develop love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Joy with Trembling”

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How Can We Awaken Trembling?

261Question: It feels that when we work in a group, we only feel love. How can we awaken trembling?

Answer: You should think about how you will be more connected with each other so much so that no circumstances will separate you, and be afraid that love will disappear, that you will break it, that you will forget about it.

Question: How do we use fear correctly?

Answer: Use it so that it does not allow you to approach things you do not need on the spiritual path and does not tear you away from things that help you to move toward the goal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/11/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Joy with Trembling”

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Strengthen Faith in the Creator

534Question: The basis of our work is faith above reason. The more faith we have, the more light there is. We should not take the attainment of the lights of the Torah as a basis.

How can you not be impressed by this in your mind so that the ability to work in the quality of faith increases?

Answer: By working only on bestowing to the Creator, you will receive as much as you want.

Question: How can we use the light of the Torah correctly to continue to strengthen faith in the Creator?

Answer: To do this you must hold on to your friends, work together, and constantly raise yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is ‘He Drove the Man Out of the Garden of Eden so He Would Not Take from the Tree of Life’?”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—82

281.02Question: Why is the desire to receive, which should be corrected from degree to degree, in a deplorable state, like dust under the feet of the righteous?

Answer: Because the desire itself is not to be corrected, the intention is.

Question: What is this state in the ten when the righteous in me sees the end of the wicked in me?

Answer: Enter this state and you will see.

Question: What does it mean in the ten when the right side of a friend stands in front of my left side, and vice versa? How to work with it?

Answer: If, even though we are one against the other, we still combine our efforts to get closer to each other, then we get a full interaction.

Question: The wicked always justify themselves. How can we move from this state to justifying the Creator?

Answer: Start talking to each other, and then together you can realize that the only thing you are doing is criticizing the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Prior to the Creation of the Newborn”

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Better Not to Hesitate

275Question: Each of us undergoes spiritual development individually. Is there a possibility for us to unite our souls and go together?

Answer: Yes, that is exactly what you must do.

Question: And then there will be no secrets?

Answer: Secrets may still exist, but they will not hinder collective unity and progress.

Question: When can we move to such a level?

Answer: Right now, there is no need to wait. You should constantly strive for greater and greater connection between you and then between you and the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “One’s Soul Shall Teach Him”

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