ZAT are incorporated in one another, and in each there are seven Sefirot HGT NHYM, which are also found in Malchut. In the lower land there are seven lands, as well: Earth, Land, Arka [Earth in Aramaic], Valley, Oblivion, Aridity, and Universe. Our earth is Universe, the highest among the seven lands. Arka is the third among the seven lands (Rashbi, Zohar for All, “Heaven and Earth”).

Question: We know that “earth – Eretz” comes from the word “Ratzon – desire.” What are these seven kinds of desires?

Answer: These are the seven symbols that represent the earth. According to what kind of power we want to distinguish, is what we call it.

Question: Should I discover these seven kinds of desires in myself?

Answer: No, we are not dealing with this. The study of Kabbalah touches on this a little, but, in general, we do not operate with these names.

Question: So when a person enters spirituality, one discovers such parts in his or her desire and corrects them?

Answer: Yes, but those are already high degrees.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 1/21/24

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Question: Is there a difference between integrating with the friends or allowing them to integrate with me?

Answer: Both should take place at the same time. You must give your friends a place in your heart and at the same time get closer to them to be present in their hearts.

Question: Where does the “angel of death” come from if there is none else besides Him?

Answer: This is the opposite side of the Creator.

Question: What should be the actions of the ten so that what is written on the common heart is not erased? Or can it be erased and written again?

Answer: Yes, it can, but first of all, we must ensure that what we want to receive is preserved.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/4/24, Writing of Baal HaSulam “Freedom”

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Question: The Creator gave us tablets and engraved the word “freedom” on them. This means that the heart is identical to the tablets. But I cannot do this engraving on my heart myself. How do my friends help me do this, or do I help them?

Answer: We work together to accept with all our hearts what the Creator wants from us. Thus, we engrave the words of the Torah on a living heart.

Writing on my heart means that I write on my feelings. Just as letters are carved on stone with a hammer and chisel, so do we. The deeper we can carve them, the more justified our existence becomes.

Question: But what is written on our hearts is erased. Is there anything we can do to carve the words of the Torah once and for all?

Answer: No, only if we are connected with the friends, then the records on our heart will be preserved.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/4/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Freedom”

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Question: For our great teachers there were conditions to hide the secrets of the Torah and reveal the tastes of the Torah. It turns out that while studying the tastes of the Torah, we follow a well-trodden path and must reveal the secrets of the Torah through our own efforts, and then this is our path. Right?

Answer: Not really. It depends on how close you are to others who are moving with you toward the attainment of the soul. After all, we attain a common soul.

Therefore, there are a few things here that we need to figure out. By being connected with a certain number of souls, each of us can receive help based on this connection. As Baal HaSulam writes: “This is why the great ones hide many things. And except for this part, there is great benefit for souls from what they receive from innovations of the Torah of others.”

There are different cases. We are usually very happy that we have a connection through souls in order to connect with others who have attained, and therefore we can ascend and reveal much more than each attains on their own.

Question: Were the great Kabbalists forbidden to reveal the secrets of the Torah?

Answer: No, it depends. Otherwise today we would not have any Kabbalistic books at all.

Question: Were there any Kabbalists in history who fell from their degree?

Answer: No. The Kabbalist goes through such conditions when he already holds on to everything with absolute confidence, and no one will ever push him off this path.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “One’s Soul Shall Teach Him”

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Question: What is the act of carving the words of the Torah on one’s heart?

Answer: The heart is egoism. And you must write down on your heart with spiritual light all the conditions, all the laws of bestowal.

Question: If I feel my heart is made of stone, what can I write on it?

Answer: Try, you will see that on one side, it is stone, and on the other, it is alive.

You will feel liberation from egoism to the extent that you begin to rise higher, higher, and higher in turning to the Creator. This manifests your rapprochement with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/4/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Freedom”

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Comment: You have said more than once that the perception of reality, i.e., everything that surrounds you, is your dialogue with the Creator.

My Response: Not only mine but everyone’s! We are all in direct, constant dialogue with Him because the Creator is nature, and what we feel in us or around us is all nature or the Creator.

If we clearly understand that this is His address to us and want to tune in to Him, then we relate to nature differently, i.e., we try to find mutual understanding, a two-way connection with the Creator.

This means that we already treat the environment around us and ourselves as His manifestation. That is, I myself am also a manifestation of His thought.

Question: How do you perform this action?

Answer: I begin to listen to that point in me that feels everything. What does it feel? It feels the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Creator is Everywhere“ 12/24/11

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Comment: During seminars, connection meetings, and conventions, we go through different states, find some point of unity among ourselves, and try to constantly hit it. But it seems that these actions will no longer have the same force as the first time.

My Response: No, it is not like that. There should be even more impressions from these actions! Here we are not dealing with momentary egoistic findings when we use the effect of surprise or some kind of novelty.

We do not need novelty! On the contrary! As we move forward, our egoism is pumped up from time to time, and by climbing it we feel much greater internal actions during the same external actions.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Head Against the Wall” 12/21/11

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Question: What is the root of honor?

Answer: It is in egoism.

Question: I have no desire to climb the spiritual degrees, but I invest as much as possible in the work and leave everything to the will of the Creator. Is that correct?

Answer: No, it is not correct. It is necessary to also make efforts by yourself.

Question: When a person has done a lot of work at a convention, has become a great righteous in his own eyes, and sees himself above the rest, he becomes a big problem for the ten. How can we help him get out of this trap, since as a rule it does not end well for him?

Answer: Usually in this case, the person leaves the group. But we have to wait. Maybe we should just talk about this case, not about this particular friend, but in general, as if it happened in a different place.

Question: Is the desire of a student to reach the state of righteousness an egoistic desire?

Answer: If a friend wants to reach this desire at the expense of others, then it is egoistic, and if he simply raises himself, this is not egoism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/3/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Honor”

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Question: What are qualities that cannot be revealed to someone?

Answer: Some personal impressions and experiences. And although at the preparatory stage they are such that there is nothing forbidden in them, it is still better if a person more or less hides them from others.

Question: Can we share our feelings with the teacher; can we open our hearts to him?

Answer: It is better not to, but you are free to ask questions during the lesson. There is nothing secret that you have to hide; you don’t have it yet.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “One’s Soul Shall Teach Him”

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The quality of freedom, which we receive as a result of spiritual work, is the desire to be above the desire to receive. That is, as one gets closer to the Creator, one falls under His influence and begins to transform all of one’s desires, intentions, and qualities to similarity of form to the Creator.

Question: Why is this called a quality of freedom, because it actually falls under the influence of the Creator?

Answer: Liberation from egoism is freedom for us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/4/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Freedom”

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