Question: How can the sufferings of love for others and for the Creator help us shorten the time of our advancement?

Answer: Through suffering we do not shorten anything. Suffering is not a means for acceleration and correction. Happiness, joy, and unity are the means for accelerating correction.

Question: Even the sufferings of love can help us?

Answer: The suffering of love is very personal. Therefore, it all depends on how a person experiences it and how he correctly perceives it.

Question: You say that happiness and joy are means for accelerating correction. What is happiness for a Kabbalist?

Answer: It is hastening the movement toward the Creator. Being happy means feeling that you are getting closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Love of God and the Love of Man“

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