Question: Our spiritual environment includes friends representing very different cultures and traditions. How do we learn to appreciate and accept all the richness and diversity correctly?

Answer: We are absolutely not interested in these cultures and traditions. Our interest lies solely in connection to become one person with one heart. That is what we want to feel above everything else without considering anything else.

Question: Can we examine the goals of each person at our meetings?

Answer: No, we must select one common goal that is most relevant for us today and pray for it.

Question: Why did the Creator give us the right environment and, in addition, the illusion of this world? What does He want?

Answer: He wants you to identify your spiritual desires, refine them within yourself, and pray for the Creator to answer them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Raising Oneself”

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Question: When we talk about a friend’s flaws, do we mean his internal qualities or some external actions? For example, we made a commitment to come to the lesson on time, but my friend does not come, and of course, I see this. Should I justify this flaw?

Answer: In fact, Kabbalists say that everything that I see as wrong in others is only because it is in me. That is, I see in another person a reflection of my bad qualities.

Comment: Yes, but…

My Response: Your reaction is entirely justified, but this is generally true. A corrected person will never see bad qualities in anything or anywhere, even when facing the most disgusting and blatant egoistic properties! Because he does not resemble these properties.

Question: Let us say you and I are in the same group. Do you notice that I am absent from the morning lesson? Do you make excuses for me? Do you think it is your fault that I did not attend the lesson?

Answer: Yes, I am guilty too.

Question: Do you have any complaints against me?

Answer: No. Only regarding myself. But here we are talking about a very high level.

Question: Until we have reached this high level, how should we react when we see damage caused to the group by a friend? Does everyone have to justify?

Answer: You must correct yourself until you see the whole world corrected.

Question: If I alone see some flaw in a friend, I can still say that it is in me, but when all the friends see this flaw, this is an entirely different state. Right?

Answer: It does not matter. We must reach a state where we see the world corrected, and only the Creator manifests there. Regarding this state, we see ourselves as somehow still uncorrected. Therefore, there is no such condition that could not be justified in our world.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 1/16/24

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“Not all who want to take the Lord may come and take. This is why we need the righteous of the generation. By adhering to a real teacher, whose desire is only to bestow, and then one should do things that his teacher likes, meaning hate what his teacher hates and love what his teacher loves, then he can learn Torah that will not be a potion of death (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 245, “Prior to the Creation of the Newborn”).

Question: What does it mean to bring contentment to the teacher, and how does this manifest itself in the ten?

Answer: The teacher requires only one thing from you—to approach the Creator through the ten all the time. That is all. Do you want to be liked? Do this action, nothing else is needed.
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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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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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Comment: There is a certain perception of reality. Some parts of the universe seem to take us aside, while others, on the contrary, lead us.

My Response: These are all manifestations of the Creator. There is no difference between what takes you away, what leads you, what properties, feelings, people, or reasons.

All these direct me to the Creator or are how He leads me to Himself. He leads me by confusing and addressing me in various ways. Every minute He takes me somewhere else, and I need to cling more and more to the understanding that all this is Him, according to the principle, “There is none else besides Him.”

Then I will gradually begin to see through these interferences, through all His exercises with me, that He wants to teach me to distinguish Him inside all these scenes that He plays before me, including playing Himself.

The Creator wants me to attain His thoughts, His mind, His desires, and His intentions regarding me and everyone; He wants me to attain the internal motor that controls the entire universe.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Creator is Everywhere“ 12/24/11

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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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