Question: You said that as a result of the spiritual work, the ten will become like one body and appear before the Creator. How does this happen?

Answer: This is done by the Creator from above. But in order to help Him as much as possible, you must be ready to unite in one desire and strive for one goal.

Comment: We try to do this during the lessons and at all our events, but it does not work out.

My Response: No, it is slowly working out, but it has not yet come to the point where you feel it in your sensations. To speed up this process, you need to focus on making sure that your desires are similar to each other.

Question: We compose a prayer every day and try to build a common desire. Is it better to focus on one thing?

Answer: Yes, on what is important to us today.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/29/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar”

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Question: Can we say that the path of the Torah is the path of education?

Answer: Of course, the Torah is the teaching about educating a person or, more correctly, a society. We must educate ourselves to be kind, good people who support one another and rise above our physical nature.

Question: If a person decides to follow the path of suffering, i.e., the natural path of come what may, can he come to spiritual revelation?

Answer: Maybe, but this is a long path where one will endure great suffering.

Question: Does a person have freedom of choice? For example, do I have a choice in the case that I am considering whether I should follow the path of the Torah or the path of suffering? Or do we not have this choice?

Answer: Everyone has it. Not at every moment in time, but we have it. Unlike inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature, a person can choose how to advance.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual states” 3/14/24

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Question: You said that the Creator understands the human heart in prayer. How can we turn to Him so that He understands as much as possible of what the person is telling Him?

Answer: It should be understood as much as possible by the person himself. And you do not have to think about the Creator. If you precisely turn to Him, worship Him, and want to get closer to Him, the Creator will always understand you.

Question: What does it mean to worship the Creator in prayer?

Answer: He does not need us to belittle ourselves in front of Him. But depending on how much we see ourselves below the Creator, we can get closer to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Written Torah and the Oral Torah – 1”

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Question: You have said that thoughts have more power than words. However, in the case of slander, we see that if a person expresses it aloud, the punishment for it is much harsher than for slander that slips through one’s mind. Why is it so?

Answer: Because in this way he spreads his point of view that he has no right to spread regardless of whether he is right or wrong. And for this he must be punished.

Question: Doesn’t it spread through thoughts?

Answer: No, ordinary people do not spread it through thoughts. Slander manifests through their actions, through everyday relations, but for the most part through speech.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/7/24

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Question: How do we quickly skip over unclear states of fogginess on the spiritual path?

Answer: If you know that everything you go through is intended only to compel you toward greater integration, then you can quickly overcome any state. You can go through a hundred states per minute and fly over all the bumps as if gliding.

My Comment: But you’ve said that a person transitions from state to state so quickly and does not even realize which one he’s in.

Answer: No this is incorrect. If I don’t understand, then what is the point of going through them? I need to understand, grasp, and feel each of the states, but all this happens in a fraction of a second, you could say, or even beyond time.

You feel yourself existing in this moment and in a certain state. That is, in relation to the purpose of creation and the correct integration into the spiritual system with your freewill, you feel where you are approaching this system or moving away from it.

It is such a start-stop movement. There is no calculation going on here; I will do it one way or another. No! It is simple, forward-backward, backward-forward. You move forward, then you are pulled back, and then you move forward and you are pulled back. All the time you move like that, like along a triangular saw; you’re lowered down, you are moving further forward, then you’re lowered down, you are moving further forward, and again you’re lowered down.

Question: But how can you determine whether you come out of this state or not? Where is the beginning and the end, and aren’t you stuck for a long time?

Answer: The fact is that when there are sensations, the brain should not work because we are desire, not reason. If I feel and that feeling is sufficient for me, my brain practically does not get engaged.

Why does a person rest when he is at home in his armchair, in familiar surroundings? He does not need to activate the brain. His feelings are activated, although, on a very small level, and that’s it. As soon as there is a sensory disturbance, the brain immediately switches to high gear.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Acceleration of States” 12/26/11

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Question: It is said that after a person has seen certain words of the Torah in the book and memorized them, what entered the mind is already damaged. What does it mean?

Answer: It means that a person interferes with his feelings in the text.

Question: It appears that we need another influence from the book every time. And there is no way we can act differently?

Answer: You can, but it is not easy. Even in a person, you can see how when saying something he repeats what he saw, heard, and perceived the first time.

Question: How do you ensure that what you read enters your heart and does not require you to be impressed by a primary source every time?

Answer: You must move forward in connection with your friends because it continually cleanses you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/29/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Looking in the Book Again”

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Question: It is said that when a person completes the work and converts the left line into holiness, he says to the angels: go away in peace. Does he say this to both angels or only to the evil one?

Answer: To both because each stage begins from a neutral state. Both angels teach us to approach the Creator.

The right line represents the good angel, the left line represents evil, and the middle line represents the man himself, who will merge with the Creator.

Question: Why is it said: go away in peace and come in peace?

Answer: Because we want all our problems to be solved in the middle line, which is called Shalom (peace) from the word “Shlemut” (perfection).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/16/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Two Angels”

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Question: Should the recognition that we work in Lo Lishma (in order to receive) be accompanied by joy?

Answer: In every state we should be in joy, even when working in Lo Lisma because we are doing the work of the Creator.

Question: How can one be in joy when the recognition of evil increases literally every day?

Answer: Rejoice in the fact that the Creator shows you this, that you receive recognition of evil from Him, and ask Him to correct the evil.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/22/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Lot Is an Awakening from Above”

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There are two channels in a person for receiving information. The written Torah is an awakening from above, and the oral Torah is awakening from below.

Both channels instruct a person on what to do in order to advance.

Gradually by studying this even without specifying which part it is, written or oral, we are still moving forward.

The written Torah is what we read in the sources, and the oral Torah is what our sages transmitted to us orally. They conveyed the information, but prohibited writing it down.

Question: Do we understand correctly that the written Torah is perceived by the mind, and the oral Torah by the heart?

Answer: In some ways, you are correct. But in both of them, there are both feeling and mind.

Question: Which Torah do we engrave in the heart to serve as a key for adhesion with the Creator?

Answer: The written one.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Written Torah and the Oral Torah – 1”

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Question: Should the restriction be conscious, or does the light correct us automatically?

Answer: You cannot depict the right path for yourself. Therefore, it is better not to ask such questions; simply adhere to the quality of bestowal, to the Creator, from the bottom of your heart.

Do what you can. The less you think about yourself and the more about your friends, the closer you will get to the Creator. Correct the connection between each other until you lose the feeling of your own individuality and begin to feel only the common group instead of yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “After the Tzimtzum”

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