Question: Love is a quality of joy. Is it possible to call it faith?

Answer: No, these are completely different categories.

Question: Is it possible to live without fear if you believe everything around you is love and there is nothing to fear, and from that, you experience joy?

Answer: Yes, but you have to figure out why you are doing this. Is it, perhaps, for the reason to escape fear?
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/11/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Joy with Trembling”

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Question: In the article “The Last Generation,” Baal HaSulam describes how all types of nature, including humans, develop. All animals remain at the same level, but the human continues to constantly develop. What level should our development reach?

Answer: It should reach the level of the Creator. First, we must develop at the level of our world, and then our spiritual development starts rising from our world through the worlds of Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, Atzilut, Adam Kadmon into the world of Infinity.

When our physiological body reaches its final development, then only the inner essence of a person will develop.

The article says that a person has some kind of “mirror” through which he can see and understand the meaning of his correction. This mirror is located inside us, inside the brain, so to speak, and gives us the opportunity to correctly determine our properties, the properties of the surrounding world, and our connection with it.

The essence of the correction is to bring all of nature into global interaction.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation“ 2/4/24

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We exist in a single system, and when we communicate, even just physically without understanding anything else, we still make some inclusions in this system. Constantly!

The only problem is that, usually, our connections with each other are harmful, destructive, and egoistic. We do not help each other become active, useful elements, that cause good flows in the system that would pass through us to others.

To the extent that we cause flows of goodness to others, to that extent they flow through you. People do not understand this, and when they think evil about others, they attract evil to themselves. They include themselves in an actively negative element, and all evil goes through them to others.

Such people seem to succeed in something, but they only cause harm. To feel this, we must feel the system at least a little.

Even based on the purely speculative idea that we are in an integral system, that we are its private parts that pass through flows of information and feelings, we can conclude that we know about the universe, about us, and about the global world in which we exist.

We know hundreds of scientists’ opinions on this topic that have revealed this at the biological, geological, and zoological level, from Vernadsky to the present day.

But humanity is simply spoiling the vast, kind, revitalizing environment we find ourselves in. We do the same with our spiritual sphere as we defile the globe in its pristine goodness, health, and perfection.

If a person understood what he was doing, he would remain silent and give out only such thoughts, words, and desires that move toward the goal—the complete, apparent unification of humanity in a good way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Effective Wisdom Transfer” 12/28/11

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Question: What efforts are we talking about when it comes to building a Kli (spiritual vessel)?

Answer: We must build a Kli for the whole ten so that we can all fit into it together and turn to the Creator. This can only be done by connection.

Question: It is said that if you do not apply the necessary measure of effort, the Kli will disappear. What does it mean? After all, we know that nothing disappears in spirituality.

Answer: The appeal to the Creator, the desire to get closer to Him, the desire to unite with the friends, and to bring them all together eludes a person. All of this can disappear.

Question: But in any case, a person cannot lose it forever; all the same the Creator will lead him to acquire this Kli.

Answer: In the end, of course. But it is unknown how and when.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Completing the Labor”

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Question: In Baal HaSulam’s article 236 from the book Shamati, it says there is no greater curse than lack of faith. Who curses a person?

Answer: His egoism, when a person does not want to use the ego. It tears us apart from each other and the Creator; egoism rebels and sometimes we feel how it curses us.

The root of the curse is our evil inclination, which does not want to agree with what we receive, but demands more for itself. To protect from this, we must become humble and make ourselves as a zero.

Egoistic qualities are against our unity. They want us to neglect the Creator and what He gives us. Every day, new sensations arise within us. That is where we must understand ourselves and where we are going.

Everything comes from the Creator. Therefore, we must justify all His actions, come closer to each other, and by doing so, kill egoism.
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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: What is the connection between the Holy Shechina and Adam HaRishon?

Answer: There is a significant difference between them. The Shechina is a part of the Creator, while Adam HaRishon is the general form of all created beings.

Question: We always begin the fulfillment of commandments with some transgression. What changes when we have the opportunity to put intention on this commandment?

Answer: Your attitude toward the action changes, the correction of intention occurs, and then the action becomes a commandment.

Question: What does it mean to attain the upper abundance in practice?

Answer: The upper abundance is the revelation of the Creator. If you want the other souls to receive it through you, they do it with the light you received from the Creator.

Question: Can we say that in spirituality, the forces of good and evil stand before each other and are somehow equal?

Answer: No, because even the smallest particle of egoism corrupts everything completely.

Question: If the Creator wants to delight His creations, why does it say in the sources that He does not need practical realization?

Answer: The Creator needs nothing, not even to fill us. We need this to become like the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/22/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Mitzva that Comes through Transgression”

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Is the Difference between a Field and a Man of the Field, in the Work?”

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Michael Laitman on the Times of Israel: “Water Wearing Away Stone: A Metaphor for the Persistent Pursuit of Unity”

I received a complaint by Amir on social media, who wrote the following:

The more you call for unity and good relations, the worse it gets. And yet, you continue and continue. Don’t you see that nothing is working?

I would like to ask Amir back: What should I do? Does he suppose that I should simply get tired and say that it is enough already?

I cannot get tired because every day I see more and more development of evil—the human ego that wants to enjoy at the expense of others—in our world, and the more the ego grows without applying an intention to love, bestow and positively connect upon it, the more humanity suffers.

You might argue that if the ego just keeps growing, then we should simply let it grow and leave the generation alone, especially considering that the more I call for unity, the worse it gets. But this is no reason to stop everything and walk away.

I make no evaluation as to whether the world gets better or worse. I simply know that I must continue spreading the teaching of nature’s laws and the need for positive human connection, which we come to understand from learning those laws. I see no option of becoming disappointed and leaving this work. I simply must continue.

Amir’s complaint, however, is that people’s ears and hearts are shut to the message of unity, so any effort to spread such a message dissolves like water in sand. Everything, however, has its history, its beginning and end, and I thus hope that there will be an end to this period of accumulating suffering that humanity is currently in.

There is a saying that water can wear away stone, drop by drop. That is how it works. I simply must continue, and to do so against human reason, which complains and argues that such efforts are fruitless.
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Question: How can I check the correctness of my intention?

Answer: Usually, this check occurs when we perform an action, add an intention to it, and see from the result that the intention coincides with the action. For this, we deserve a blessing.

Question: If there is a result at the end, then the intention is correct. But how can we avoid deceiving ourselves in the process of acting?

Answer: There is no way to do that. You must complete the entire action, and only after its completion, see the result and understand whether you have fulfilled the commandment or not.

Commandment (Mitzvah) comes from the word “instruction” (Tzivui), which means an instruction from the Creator.

Question: What internal checks can we use to ensure that the actions of keeping the commandments are not superficial but contribute to spiritual growth?

Answer: This is clear from what we are studying. Everything that concerns coming closer to the friends, connecting, and turning to the Creator are positive and necessary actions. Everything else, as a rule, are negative actions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And You Shall Keep Your Souls”

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