Question: Baal HaSulam’s article in Shamati 248 says that “He who rushes—gains.” What is one who rushes?

Answer: A quick person is a person who wants to strengthen his or her actions in coming closer to others. He does not wait for his friend to love him but tries to be the first to love the friend, as it is said: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

The one who acts quickly, looking for ways to come closer to his friends, is always ahead.

Question: The sources say that the Creator is the first and the Creator is the last. Does my effort between the first and the last help in being quick?

Answer: Your work is to try to love your friends and the Creator with all your strength and desires.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Let His Friend Begin”

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Question: As a rule, the tightest connection between us occurs after some conflict or dislike for a friend. Can we provoke these states ourselves, or do we not need to do this?

Answer: No, in no case should you provoke anything negative.

Comment: But through kindness and love, the connection is somehow felt less.

My Response: I understand you. But to do this, you need to see that you still need to add kindness and love to your friends so that you may feel that you are getting closer to them.

Question: What could it be?

Answer: Kindness and love. Every minute, every day.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/12/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Let His Friend Begin”

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Question: Why is the process of our connection taking so long?

Answer: We constantly receive questions, answer them, come to prayers, and get closer and closer to the Creator. But still, it takes a lot of time because the distance between us and the Creator is great.

Question: What helped King David be at such a high level of emotions? We read his psalms every day. Feelings of this degree are simply unattainable.

Answer: That is why King David is considered the first king. All our prayers are from him. They all come from what he wrote.

Question: Do we meet with Klipot during the preparation period or only when we are on spiritual degrees?

Answer: Everything that prevents you from approaching the group and the Creator can be safely called Klipot (unclean forces).

Question: When you know the answer to your question, is it worth asking? Or should you wait until you have a question you do not have an answer to and only then ask?

Answer: If you think the question is worth for everyone to know and hear the answer, then ask.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/14/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “My Adversaries Curse Me All the Day”

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Question: Let’s say you come to the lesson and only read the text with everyone, or you come to the lesson, read the text, and pray for your friends, or you come to a lesson and see that you have no strength, and you ask the Creator to give you the strength to pray for your friends and to be in the intention. Do these options attract the light of the Torah differently?

Answer: Certainly, the preferred option is the one that most awakens the prayer to the Creator. It depends on what you want from the reforming light that returns to the source.

Ideal is the desire to awaken all the friends, the ten, the group, and to rise together with them to the Creator and provide Him with a common Kli so He can fill it up to the final correction.
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From the 1^st part of 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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Question: 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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The 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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Question: 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 1^st 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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Question: 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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Question: 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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Question: 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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