Question: You said that the importance of loving one’s friends can be divided into 620 steps. What kind of gradation is this?

Answer: From zero to complete love we have 620 positive steps, and from hatred to zero, we respectively have 620 negative steps.

So in our correction, we must go through the entire spiritual ladder.

Question: Sometimes you seem to love your friend and think about him. How can we increase the sensitivity and resolution of this love?

Answer: The Creator does this. He raises us to the stage of unity and love, and He makes changes in us.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/2/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Love of God and the Love of Man“

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The unification we want to achieve is a unique state in which a person feels that he is canceling himself to zero, dissolving into his friends, and disappearing in them.

As he loses himself, he feels that he is leaving the material world and entering the spiritual world, and receives a new desire and a new sensation there that is already all spiritual.

He feels that at the center of all this sensation a higher force, the Creator, is waiting and desires him.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 3/23/24, Unity Day for Purim, Lesson 1 “The Joy of Unity“

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You will thoroughly keep the Achoraim [posterior, back] for Me, for My name, then the abundance will do her thing and fill the letters. The qualities will become Sefirot, since before the filling they are called “qualities,” and upon their fulfillment for the best, they are called Sefirot, sapphire, illuminating the world from one end to the other (Baal HaSulam. Letter 14).

Achoraim are receiving vessels. If we use them for the sake of the Creator, if we want to bestow with their help, then the filling that comes through the receiving Kelim lifts us to the Panim (vessels of bestowal).

And so we begin to see what secrets, what lights, are in letters and words.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter 14

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Question: When I feel the fear of death, I close my eyes and pray. What else can I add?

Answer: By overcoming the fear of death a little, you can choose the way to deal with it and get out of it to a state of spiritual ascent. This is what Nahshon demonstrated to everyone.

Nahshon realized that only by setting an example to all the people would he be able to force them to throw themselves into the sea and cross it.

Question: If we, like Nahshon, depend on the people, then maybe the nation has not yet reached the state of “it is better to die than to live like this.” Can it wait?

Answer: You do not have to wait, you have to try to get closer to it.

When we unite our souls, everyone gets strength from everyone. And this helps us all to get out of the Final Sea, i.e., from the completion (Sof, the end) to come to the beginning (Rosh).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/28/24, “Nachshon’s Jump and the Tearing of the Red Sea”

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Question: What is the function of the nations of the world when the people of Israel fulfill their correction?

Answer: In relation to the nations of the world, the people of Israel are like the first nine Sefirot in relation to Malchut.
That is, they work with each other, connect, and internally correct themselves, but their main task is to prepare everything for working with the last Sefira Malchut. The nations of the world at this time are practically not correcting anything.

I am not talking about our movement, about those who join it. There were people who came from the Greeks, from the Macedonians, from nations very distant from Judaism and Kabbalah. They made a huge contribution to the dissemination and study of Kabbalah.

There are even people who lived two or three thousand years ago mentioned in our sources as great Kabbalists.
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From the 2^nd part of  the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/6/24, “The Holocaust Remembrance Day“

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Question: How does the desire for the Creator appear in us?

Answer: Directly from the Creator Himself.

Question: Does it turn out that it emerges selectively?

Answer: Of course it is selectively. The person in whom the desire for the Creator arises is called Israel. Isra—straight, El—to the Creator.

These people come to the science of Kabbalah. They do not know how it happens. There are millions of different cases.
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From the 2^nd part of  the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/6/24, “The Holocaust Remembrance Day“

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Question: Every ten makes efforts, but one goes in the right direction and another has long lost its way, although it seems we were all following the teacher. Does it mean that the Creator has favorites?

Answer: The Creator has favorites, it is true. Some strictly follow the Creator, and others do not put much effort into it.

Question: If you do see that someone has lost their way, can you correct him and help him?

Answer: This is someone’s personal work. The teacher is not there to point out his mistakes. If the student himself does not see them, the teacher cannot do anything.

Question: How can we anticipate these mistakes and become the Creator’s favorite?

Answer: I will start from the end: I would not recommend being the Creator’s favorite. It is very difficult because it requires a lot of effort. So we will continue as much as we know, and then the Creator will help us.

Ultimately, everyone will achieve complete correction and the end of all creation, but we want to reveal the unique attitude of the Creator. Therefore, we need to make sure we do what the Creator wants.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/25/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Environment”

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This is the meaning of the “remembering,” such as when one tells the one he loves, “Here is a bag full of gems, to show my love.”

In this way, the loved one strains to accurately count the sum of gems in order to reveal the love in his own heart, too (Baal HaSulam, “Remembering”).

Gems are concentrated grains of love emanating from the friends, and we feel it. Then, thanks to the fact that we unite, in this unity, we also feel the presence of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/25/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Remembering”

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Thus, clearly, they did not know Joseph. In other words, they attained him only to the extent that they valued him in their hearts.

Therefore, they depicted the image of Joseph as they themselves were. Because of it, they did not know Joseph and the enslavement began. Otherwise, the righteous would certainly protect them and exile or enslavement would not be depicted to them at all (Baal HaSulam, Letter 10).

The sons of Israel were at a developmental level controlled by egoism, and they could not yet rise above it and approach Joseph.

Joseph is a very high-quality bestowal that could connect them. Since they did not achieve such a connection, they remained in exile.

Moreover, their acquaintance with Joseph did not give them any advantage. They were unable to use his power to leave Egypt.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter 10

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Question: Who is a “neighbor”?

Answer: A neighbor, in principle, is any person with whom according to the plan of creation you must unite.

Question: How does this relate to a friend?

Answer: The fact is that you and your friend are, as it were, training on each other, practicing the basic principles of Kabbalah.

Any relationship can be expressed here.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/2/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Love of God and the Love of Man“

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