Question: Let’s say a person comes to a state that he evaluates as bad, but at the same time he justifies the Creator.

What is the difference between simply justifying the Creator and faith above reason?

Answer: Faith above reason is a way to connect with the Creator. And the justification of the Creator is an action that leads a person to faith above reason, to connection with the Creator.

Question: If I am in a bad state, it is understandable. And when I am in good state, what does it mean to justify the Creator?

Answer: You are already justifying if you are in a good state.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Clean and Righteous Do Not Kill”

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Question: When obstacles or difficulties arise (which the Creator creates), how does one examine whether it’s given to strengthen oneself or whether to just avoid it? How can you determine that you shouldn’t bang your head against the wall?

Answer: Such a thing cannot be! Everything is always directed only toward creating unity with the group and with the Creator. Only in this way can we determine the correctness of our actions.

Anything that leads us to unity with the group, humanity, and the Creator is correct, while anything contrary to this is incorrect.

Thus, I do everything, as well as those mechanical tasks that I am obligated to do that are required by my boss, spouse, or someone else.

But even here, I apply the correct intention; I do this in order to perform certain mechanical actions in this world and attach the necessary intentions to them, for what purpose do I even exist. And then all these seemingly completely unnecessary actions for spiritual ascent become useful.

Question: Suppose, in a certain situation, we perceive something as a negative influence; we feel bad and it’s hard for us. How do we still understand when it’s worth putting in even more effort, or whether we shouldn’t tackle it at all? You once said: “Apparently the Creator does not allow this to happen.”

Answer: This can only be said after you have absolutely done everything and nothing worked out, then it shouldn’t have worked out! So failure itself becomes success, the most correct result.

But how do I know that it should be like this, that this is correct? After I have exerted all efforts, I have no problems with what happens! I don’t evaluate anything at all, and it turned out as it turned out. The main thing is that I maximally invested myself as much as I could.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Attitude to Difficulties“ 12/23/11

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Question: How do we come to a state that the words of the Torah stay in the heart?

Answer: If your heart is not connected to other’s hearts, keeping what comes from the Creator is impossible.

To distinguish whether it is connected with the hearts of your friends, you must constantly check for yourself what you are studying, and then you will know.

Question: What does it add to a person if he discovers “carving” on the tablets of the others’ hearts?

Answer: He discovers how the Creator helps others, and this gives him the strength to ask the Creator to help him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/4/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Freedom”

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“My heart is Halal [hollow/slain] within me,” and then he is awarded freedom from the angel of death (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 178, “Freedom“).

Question: What is this state of “my heart is hollow within me”?

Answer: A hollow heart means that a person cannot fill it with good deeds.

Question: If we are grateful for the teacher and for the friends, are these good deeds?

Answer: These are good deeds, and they will keep you in spirituality so that you do not fall.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/4/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Freedom”

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Question: In our work together, do we attain first everything revealed to us by the great Kabbalists and then are rewarded with the concealed part of the Torah? Or does it happen in parallel gradually?

Answer: No, first we attain what we can with our efforts and mind, and then through the connection between us, we reveal more.

Question: At what point does the soul begin to teach us? After all, we only have a germ of a soul.

Answer: It does not matter. The germ is what is revealed to us. We receive everything through the soul.

Question: What is the danger of premature revelation of the secrets of the Torah to a person? Or is it impossible at all?

Answer: Firstly, it is impossible. Secondly, it would just confuse a person.

Question: If while living in the physical world, I have no opportunity to attend lessons, but I have a strong desire, like someone is pulling me toward spirituality, then is it the soul teaching me or the Creator pulling me?

Answer: It is the soul.

Question: What should we come to at the current degree to focus on the next one?

Answer: To unity, unite as if you have everything in common without disagreement.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/24, Writing of Baal HaSulam “One’s Soul Shall Teach Him”

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The souls of Cain and Abel were extended from the name Elokim. However, because of the filth that the serpent cast in Eve, the soul of Cain was the first to come out of the letters ELEH, then Abel came out from the letters MI (Rashbi, Zohar for All, “Heaven and Earth”).

Cain and Abel are two opposing forces that exist within one force called “Earth” and their connection transforms the Earth.

Question: And what does it mean that one killed the other?

Answer: These are not physical properties but properties of nature. It is about one force killing another, and then that force revives. At first glance, it looks like a fairytale description, but in reality, this is what happens to spiritual forces.

Question: Interestingly, The Book of Zohar was written thousands of years ago, yet to this day, if you analyze it purely externally, it creates an impression that there is some set of words that no one can decipher. Why is everything so hidden?

Answer: No, it is not just a set of words! And it is not hidden. The Zohar is incomprehensible to a person not in the spiritual world. And for someone who has attained it, it is a plain description, and that person effortlessly travels through all levels of the spiritual world.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 1/21/24

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Question: There are, as it were, two desires in a person concerning his friends. In his egoistic desire, he sees the flaws of a friend. With the altruistic desire, called the sixth sense or the screen of spiritual attainment, he sees his friend’s greatness. What should one do when he is only in his egoistic desire?

Answer: Then he must work so that his altruistic desire will appear. Until it is present, a person cannot see any positive qualities in a friend. He is building it, but it is yet to form in him.

Question: Rabash, however, writes in his articles that a person should try to see, within his egoistic desire, the importance and greatness of the friends. Is it possible?

Answer: Yes, we should try. Try to understand, even purely egoistically, that you need it. Therefore, you need to make efforts to implement it.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 1/16/24

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The thing is that one should do all of one’s work by way of “If I am not for me, who is for me,” that no one can save him, but “by your mouth, and by your heart to do it,” that is, a discernment of reward and punishment (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 217, “If I Am not for Me, Who Is for Me?”).

Question: What is the heart, and what is doing it with the mouth?

Answer: This means addressing the Creator both out loud and internally. It means expressing it internally and with our lips in all our opportunities to talk with Him.

Question: What is goodness for the Creator? What must we constantly think about to be His sons?

Answer: The main thing for the Creator is whether we are getting closer to Him. The ultimate goal of spiritual work is the revelation of the Creator to all of us. We must constantly think about this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/2/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “If I Am Not for Me, Who Is for Me?”

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Question: What does it mean to feel a separate Sefira?

Answer: The Sefirot are qualities.

When we approach the Creator, we begin to feel these qualities, and with their help, we hold on to the Creator more and more.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/24, Writings of Rabash “What Are ‘A Layperson’s Vessels,’ in the Work?”

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Question: Sometimes, a friend who is highly critical of himself underestimates his contribution to the group, and his natural reaction is to reject praise. What should be the approach to it? Should we show respect for his contribution to the group?

Answer: Usually, we tend to reject signs of respect and recognition, but this is just to somehow give back.

Kabbalists write that this is not necessary because when we do not push away but, on the contrary, thank and exalt our friends for appreciating us so highly, it develops a bond in the group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/3/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Honor”

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