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Morning Lesson July 06, 2024.

Part 1 Baal HaSulam. The Last Generation, Appendices and Drafts, section 12

Reader: We’re reading in the writings of the last generation, in the Appendices and Drafts, section 12. Anyone who wants to, you can ask questions for assistance, anyone asking a question in the study hall is asked to stand up, hold the microphone close to his mouth and speak loud and clear. We are reading in the writings of the last generation, appendices, section 12, propaganda, circulation. 

Reading Section 12: (01:00) There are three rudiments to the expansion of religion: Satisfaction of Desires, Proof, and Circulation.

1) Satisfaction of Desires:

In every person, even in the secular, there is an unknown spark that demands unification with God. When it sometimes awakens, it awakens a passion to know God, or deny God, which is the same. If someone generates the satisfaction of this desire in that person, he will agree to anything. To this we must add the matter of the immortality of the soul, the reward for the next world, glory of the individual, the glory of the nation.

2) Proof:

There is no existence to the world without it, all the more so in the days of the atom and the hydrogen bombs.

3) Circulation:

People must be hired to circulate the above words in the public.

Egoistic communism precedes the altruistic communism, for once it has control so as to abolish property, it is possible to educate that the annulment of property will be due to love of others.

The second phase of communism, being altruistic communism, must be hurried, since the shortcomings and force used in egoistic communism deter the world from this method altogether. Hence, it is time to uncover the final stage of altruistic communism, which possesses all the pleasantness, and has no blemish.

We must also fear, lest the third war breaks out first, and communism will vanish from the world. In a word, there is no harder blow to the capitalist government than this above-mentioned perfect form of communism.

We are already witnessing that the capitalist regime is strong, and the workers of the capitalist countries loathe the communist regime. This is happening because of the coercion and the force necessitated in it because of the control of a small group of communists over an anti-communist society.

Hence, we are not to expect that the regime will be canceled by itself. Quite the contrary, time works in their favor. As long as communist governments surround the world, the coercion and subjection entailed in it will be revealed, which every ordinary person utterly loathes, since one will sacrifice everything for one’s freedom.

There is another thing: Since communism is not spreading in civilized countries, but in primitive ones, eventually there will be a society of rich countries with a high living standard and a capitalist government, and a society of poor countries with a low standard of living and a communist government. That will be the end of communism. No free person will want to hear of it; it will be abhorred as the concept of slaves sold for life is abhorred today.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:23) He opens up with this unknown source that demands unification with God. So, what is that, this spark? 

M. Laitman: The root of the soul through which a person feels that he is outside of that state that needs to be, outside of the connection with the Creator. 

Student: Can we describe from the psychological aspect of the person, how does he feel that, how does he feel this spark? 

M. Laitman: Like a hungry person that very much wants to fill himself, we can say the same here. A person who feels that there is something internal within him that is empty, and it demands fulfillment. And he doesn't know where to achieve it or what it is even precisely. 

Student: Okay, I'm trying to think in order for it to be easier to turn to every person, to this spark, to this hunger that exists within him. What is this feeling? 

M. Laitman: It's the feeling of the lack of Godliness. In truth, all he lacks is just adhesion with the Creator, but he doesn't know it, he doesn't recognize it. He only sees that life is empty and there's no purpose and there's no reason. And he doesn't expect out of his life actually anything. 

Student: What does he feel that he's lacking? 

M. Laitman: He doesn't know. 

Student: Not Godliness, he doesn't feel that he's lacking? 

M. Laitman: No, he doesn't know that, but that is already our work. To publicize what he should have, what he's lacking, and also how to achieve it. 

Student: And this lack of Godliness that is felt in him in an unconscious manner, it clothes in him as a lack for other things?

M. Laitman: Sometimes, but very quickly, he sees that this is a lie. 

Student: To what fulfillment does a person expect? 

M. Laitman: He doesn't know, he doesn't know. I lack something, my life is empty; or it could be alcohol or drugs, a person has nothing with which to fill himself. And in return for this lack, give something serious. 

Student: And our role here, what's our role here at this point? To focus him, to give words to what he truly lacks? 

M. Laitman: Our role here is to explain to every person what we truly need in order to fill this deficiency. 

Student: He writes that the spark awakens at times and awakens passion. How do you awaken the spark in a person more frequently? 

M. Laitman: Start explaining that this is actually the purpose of man's existence. That he will feel that he lacks God and then his life would receive the right direction. And he would start to develop in this direction. 

Student: If that spark has already awakened, what is the work with it? 

M. Laitman: That he needs to cultivate it, he needs to read and hear everything that is related to this spark.

Student: This is the point in the heart, the spark? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Why are there such, like you said, that are heretics, and others are the opposite? 

M. Laitman: Why do some acknowledge it and others deny God? It doesn't matter if they acknowledge Him or deny Him. It depends on the external states that a person is in.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:33) Baal HaSulam, like a marketing person,  clarifies the needs here. He talks about the expansion of religion, which I understand is bestowal. A person can catch that idea if he has a point in the heart that longs for the Creator. Or he later gives this laundry list of all kinds of deficiencies that if they awaken in a person, he can grasp the idea. So, he writes the honor of the individual, the nation, the staying of the soul, proof. So, if you could detail this, elaborate on this: How does that have to do with the concept of bestowal? 

M. Laitman:  Well, you can relate these two things, all in all, this is about the soul. And so, to the extent that a person attributes importance to it, he invests more in advancing towards it and realizing it. 

Student: Basically, a person, according to what Baal HaSulam writes, can grasp the concept of bestowal and love. If you can just prove to him that, today in an age of atom bombs, you can't exist, or the honor of the nation. He can grasp the idea, not just a point in the heart. If he said only points in the heart, that's clear, but he talks about all kinds of deficiencies. Or even the staying of the soul, the next world. This could be every person, who doesn't want that?

M. Laitman: Yes, it is for every person. 

Student: It's enough for me to, say, believe in the next world, and that already enables me to move towards the concept of bestowal and love. He writes about it, that there will be such a stage in the last generation or also before?

M. Laitman: Well, towards that time. 

Student: Because today we don't identify anyone besides those with the points in the hearts that come. But you can't really go to those who want the next world or the honor of the nation, let's say.

M. Laitman: No, but bit by bit, our external life would change even more and then it would be relevant to talk about the purpose of life.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:21) About reward of the next world. 

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: What can be said to the public about the reward of the next world? 

M. Laitman: I think everything is permitted, I think everything is permitted. I only have experience with students who sit before me in the morning and in the noon. And both for these and those, we can say there's nothing that needs to be hidden from them, nothing needs to be hidden. The only question is can we explain it and explain it in a way that it will be a practical teaching so that they will keep it and succeed? 

Student: What's the reward of the next world? 

M. Laitman: A reward in the next world is that besides the fact that a person receives some reward, right now, he also has some reward in the next world, in the future.

Student: When is the future? 

M. Laitman: What? 

Student: When is the future, the reward of the future? The future is when, after one dies or before? 

M. Laitman: In truth, it doesn't matter so much. Well, let's say after he dies. 

Student: Okay, so what do I promise him for after he dies, that what will happen? 

M. Laitman: That some prize is awaiting him.

Student: Where is there a reward waiting? 

M. Laitman: Where, in the next world. 

Student: Okay, that's what all religions have told him throughout all of history, he doesn't need us for that. We have the wisdom of Kabbalah, the wisdom of truth, that clarifies the internality of the terms and everything. And if you delve into it and understand it, then you already think otherwise about this definition of reward in the next world. 

M. Laitman: Yes, so it's the next degree of existence beyond this world. So, there is this world, and there is yet another degree, a higher degree, which is the next world. 

Student: Meaning that this clarification of the internality of the matters, in my small mind, it seems to contradict the common interpretation of reward in the next world. 

M. Laitman: Right.

Student: So how does Baal HaSulam say that we have to dress into that and about the reward in the next world and so on? 

M. Laitman: This is why I'm saying that here it's possible to explain it in the ordinary way, the way people think about it. That this world is while we're living, physically, and the next world, it's when we die, and we already feel our existence in the soul. 

Student: So, we can dress into that? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: The Kabbalist knows the truth of the matters, the internality of the matter, which is different from what he gives to the common people, is that right? 

M. Laitman: Yes. Which anyway you want to look at it, this is how we do it in practice. This is how the whole world understands it, so to try to go and cancel everyone's view is not something that we do.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:42) You spoke about importance, how do we explain this importance of love and connection? And I ask, if he says we have to use education, how do we get to thorough education? Because if he says education, it means that this spark exists in everyone, basically. How do I educate children from childhood to love? What is education? 

M. Laitman: Well for connection we should say, love is a confusing word for us, for connection. We need to understand that the connection between us is actually the work that we were given here in this world so that we will discover the need for connection between all of us, men, women, children, between all of us. And with this deficiency, we will reach the next world; and there, we continue with the laws of the next world to bring ourselves closer to connect and to be as one man in one heart. 

Student: Do you see today that we are able to enter the education system and talk to them about the next world? 

M. Laitman: No, no. 

Student: So, what can we come and say? Let's say, I want to put an hour a week or two hours a week into the education system and provide an explanation about connection, what is connection? You said love is something big, we can't talk about love, I accept that. How do I then talk to youth or kids about connection, what should I tell them? 

M. Laitman: I don't know, I'm not a teacher or an educator but as he writes we need to get close to that. To somehow explain to all ages that connection between us is truly something that will save us. 

Student: We had a Ten meeting, yesterday, and we're taking the issue of our vision and the whole process the organization is going through very seriously. And starting from this Sunday we're going to all have workshops and discussions to prepare for the coming Congress. And I told myself after the gathering of friends, why can't I, also, sit with my family and kids and talk to them, similar to how I talk to my Ten? Is that correct to do such a thing? To talk to them about the importance of the Jewish people, that what we're actually studying here is something very unique? Maybe education is that we embed this into our families to talk about it, not to be afraid about it. 

M. Laitman: I don't know, we need to think about it, we need to think about how do we disseminate these things, at least in our families. 

Student: That's what I'm doing now, I'm thinking with you and everyone else out loud to clarify it because I feel that there's some maturity. Especially because of what's happening today in the country because of that, because of this picture the Creator is showing us. I feel there's a deeper need in families to strengthen the connection between us. I hope that I'm not mistaken because I think there's nothing really more strengthening between us. 

M. Laitman: Try, try, please, we are with you in that.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (23:08) What is the difference between proof and propaganda? 

M. Laitman: Proof means proof, evidence, it's something that serves as serious and ultimate proof; whereas propaganda, or circulation as he calls it here, is something more light. 

Student: Can we relate it to how true it is or how much it has falsehood in it, too? 

M. Laitman: No, I don't think that this is about that. It's only about the force with which you can enter the wide public, the broad public.

Student: And across these three foundations he writes, I think, the expansion of reason and satisfying desires that everyone might have that. He doesn't need to be persuaded.

M. Laitman: No, not necessarily. 

Student: So where can we help the person to provide him the path for this development? 

M. Laitman: In whatever he is, on that same level that he is in his spiritual development, we can connect to him and draw him onward.

Student: A person who already has the point in the heart, he also needs proof and propaganda? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Why, if he already has the inclination, why does he also need that?

M. Laitman: Because he's not always in that state, and nevertheless, he needs support. 

Student: As an organization we need to do all three things? 

M. Laitman: Yes, each one of us and also everyone together.

Reading For Expansion and Circulation: (25:14) We will continue with the headline For Expansion and Circulation.

We must remember that all the agony, poverty, and slaying, etc., can be corrected only through altruistic communism. In that event, it will not be hard for a person to give his life for it.

Judaism must present something new to the nations. This is what they expect from the return of Israel to the land! It is not in other teachings, for in that we never innovated. In them, we have always been their disciples. Rather, it is the wisdom of religion, justice, and peace. In this, most nations are our disciples, and this wisdom is attributed to us alone.

If this return is canceled, Zionism will be canceled altogether. This country is very poor, and its residents are destined to endure much suffering. Undoubtedly, either they or their children will gradually leave the country, and only an insignificant number will remain, which will ultimately be swallowed among the Arabs.

The solution for it is only altruistic communism. Not only does it unite all the nations to be as one, helping one another, it also endows each with tolerance to one another. Most importantly: Communism produces great power to work; hence, productivity will compensate for the disadvantages of poverty.

If they assume this religion, the Temple can be built, and the ancient glory restored. This would certainly prove to the nations the rightness of Israel’s return to their land, even to the Arabs. Conversely, a secular return such as today's does not impress the nations whatsoever, and we must fear lest they will sell Israel’s independence for their needs, and needless to say returning Jerusalem. This would even frighten the Catholics.

M. Laitman: Well, he writes about it with such brevity that it's even difficult to ask. Who would like to ask? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (29:04) If we take Baal HaSulam's words seriously, the situation is very bad. Again, he writes this at a time where Zionism, where at its best, the fighting spirit, the new Jew, leaving everything behind. And he writes to us about what we see today. Those who have money just buy apartments in countries that are in the area. Everyone's talking about a double citizenship, those who can, those who can't. Obviously Zionism, the way it was, already went bankrupt; people are not connected to the soil, they're connected to globalism. And he says if we don't establish altruistic communism quickly, we won't be here. 

M. Laitman: Yes, I agree, this is what it seems like. Okay, I see they agree with you.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (30:27) He says here that all the suffering and slaying has no correction unless in the altruistic Communism. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Does Rav think that in the world people are aware that the bourgeois regime brings damage? That consumption society brings damage? 

M. Laitman: Look, for many years, already, I stopped reading any serious writings by philosophers or historians so I can't really tell you what people, what they think in the world about the state that we're in. I don't know, I don't know but according to what I understand from the wisdom of Kabbalah, we don't have ahead of us a rosy time, no. Rather, now everything depends only on us, to the extent that we are ready to build a shield and a sword and stand on our ground. 

Student: What does it mean to stand our ground? 

M. Laitman: That this is our soil, our ground, and we are willing to stand here in order to bring ourselves to the upper force that rules here. 

Student: About the freedom that people who feel that they need to give up the freedom that the possessive system gives them, the bourgeois system. Where is the point where a person will feel willing to give up his freedom? That he'll get something much greater for giving up his freedom? 

M. Laitman: This already depends on the extent that we will publicize the results of our correct development. What would each and every person receive by attaining the correct connection, unity with the Creator, etc.? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (33:28) The higher point that we should aim a person to is, what? It's that connection, love thy friend as thyself, but it necessitates the person to go through recognition of evil first. Because, otherwise, okay, everything's fine, I love the others, I'm already connected. 

M. Laitman: Yes, of course, this should be revealed, the bad should be revealed, accordingly. 

Student: Meaning there needs to be some maturity in the people we disseminate to. That they have some spark of the initial recognition of evil.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (34:12) He writes, we should hasten to the next stage of Communism which is altruistic Communism, because the deficiencies in power using the egoistic communism pushes the world away from the whole system. Then he says that if we don't realize the opportunity, then at that time, it might pass from the world. The name of Communism will be so stained that everyone will just puke from listening to it, I think we're already at that point. So, do you see that in the future there will be some option for terms like altruistic Communism to be accepted in public opinion and not awaken aversion?

M. Laitman: It seems to me that we will have to go through another, one more stage of recognition of evil in our development. And then we will be able to publicize to everyone that, as he writes, altruistic Communism can be the next stage in the development of the world. We need to write and shoot, I don't know, create all kinds of such creations, productions. That they will explain to everyone in all the nations that we have no choice. Rather, as Baal HaSulam writes here, in order to save the world, in order to save mankind, like a surgeon, he doesn't take into consideration what hurts a person or doesn't hurt him but rather he sees that he needs to do something with the knife, so he does it.

Student: What he is afraid of has been realized, Communism's name was already stained, it's already a curse, a joke. All the bad things history has already loaded the word, Communism with. Like he describes here, that people will be poor, that there will be bayonets, and all of that has already happened. Now, how can you erase that memory from the human database? 

M. Laitman: I don't think anyone is concerned about that, absolutely not, so don't say Communism or Fascism or all of these things. I don't want to hear these appellations, humanity already has all kinds of connotations for them. What's important is that I will feel good, I will have a good life with complete security for my children in the future, this is what a person sees. And also, he doesn't look ahead, the generations ahead. He doesn't have such a vision but only the next generation that emerges from him, actually that is all.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (38:36) Baal HaSulam plays with three expressions: altruistic Communism, Judaism, and religion. Could you maybe put them in order? Does he mean the same thing, different things? Altruistic communism, is it, what is it, it's the wisdom of Kabbalah? Is Judaism the wisdom of Kabbalah? What does he mean with these three terms? 

M. Laitman: Just like you don't hear these things, I don't hear them, either. Whatever it seems to a person, and he ties these concepts together, I don't feel any proof for that.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (39:21) Actually it's possible to use a different branding, not to use the word Communism behind this. We can say cooperative society or anything else with the same exact principles. Whatever is easier for people to hear.

M. Laitman: No, it will confuse. 

Student: So, we should use this word? 

M. Laitman: I don't know but we don't have a choice, we have no choice.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (39:52) I have to say that it's very hard to read, at least some of these things. Some of these things have been realized, but let's say he writes all of Zionism will eventually be canceled, abolished. 

M. Laitman: Well, you could say it's already happening, today, almost.

Student: It is, it almost happens today, but later on he says this country is very poor, etc., and we will be uprooted from the land. We see that actually people are immigrating to Israel and Israel is not a poor country. There are a lot of pressures on us and right now we're really in some sort of an existential fight. But things seem to be different from the way he was anticipating 70 years ago. I mean, these are drafts, right? 

M. Laitman: It's not just that, it's also how people lived on the ground. Today we don't live in such a way; you have countries that are very big, living without agriculture, and so on. Again, this is something, we need to accept it the way he sees it from his perspective. 

Student: So how should we relate to it, how should we relate? I mean, because there are things here that seemingly, well, I don't agree with. And I also see in terms of the reality that we're living in today, that reality is a bit different. 

M. Laitman: Reality is different, we live in an unnatural reality. This is, well, I don't have more to say, I don't have more to say. You're right, to some extent.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (41:53) I truly see that he writes in something that seems to be suitable for the 1980s, 1990s, when Communism in Russia was canceled. What he writes here is that communism has an interesting characteristic, which is the cancellation of personal possession, that's the main characteristic. I heard in many places that why is Capitalism now falling? Because there's no feeling of possession; seemingly people in a virtual world don't feel that they have possession, you don't feel that you have any money in your hands. So seemingly, we have reached the annulment of personal possession. I think that he wrote this for the previous time and now there is already the annulment of property so we can actually realize it we've reached this time in the virtual time, this is how it feels like.

M. Laitman: Okay.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (43:16) I don't know how to say it, but I'll try. There is a feeling that out of what is written here, that seemingly there is some resistance. Not to me, I'm trying to flow in the people, in the nation. This thing about the immortality of the soul and the godly spark etc., it relates to a certain loss of freedom of the individual. I can explain it because when I talk to traditional people, most of the people in Israel have some tradition in them, they all feel a bit remorse. They see me with Yarmulke, Kippah, and they come and say, no, I do put Tefillin, and I keep the Shabbat. There's this feeling that it's not enough, why not enough? Because each one knows that if you will get into it, they will lose their freedom. There is I think, this psychological dilemma, and most of the people in Israel feel it, between I would like to be free, like the whole world, to be modern and free, and whatever people see on the media. Versus what I inherited, or what I see at home from my father and mother. That we should go to the synagogue and keep these things, that's one aspect. And as for Communism, even the fact that I have to live with cooperation or sharing, it also means that I will lose my freedom. So, I think the main resistance is that people are afraid of losing their freedom, both through religion and through Communism. How can we overcome this resistance?

M. Laitman: I don't think so, this needs to be a new foundation. That the life of society becomes higher, loftier than the life of the individual. And the social life will be in kindness with respect to the life of the individual. That's something that resembles the initial Kibbutzim, that spirit. 

Student: He speaks here about proof. Proof usually is something that was done and you say, see, it worked, it succeeded. What kind of proof do we have for such a thing? How can we prove the message that you say here?

M. Laitman: No, you can't, you don't have proof, it all can be artificial, and success is not success. Rather, there is someone that helps here and there is a mechanism that works in favor of such Communist societies, no, no. That's not their proof, you won't have.

Student: So how do we bring this message that it's better to live in a society that has a lot of richness and true freedom in such a society, and a person can actually actualize himself? How can we convey all of this against this resistance of, don't tell me about religion, or about sharing, I don't want to hear about it. 

M. Laitman: I don't have a clue. We'll talk about it more, we'll see.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (47:13) He wrote, “we should also be very much afraid that the third world would awaken because Communism would be abolished from the world”. Why specifically communism would disappear from the world if there is a third world war?

M. Laitman: Because it's the closest to those people that were in that kind of primitive life. And now they want to rise in some way similar to the more developed nations. That's why he writes that. 

Student: He says that we, that altruistic Communism must be hurried because otherwise people see that it is bad. And so, we have to show them the final stage of altruistic Communism. How can we show that, what does it look like, altruistic Communism? 

M. Laitman: I don't see it anywhere. Perhaps before that, it used to be possible to see in various socialist countries. But today it's not there, that's not happening anymore. 

Student: Will it be possible to actually show it?

M. Laitman: No, what will you tell them? Look, these people once wanted communism, look what happened to them.

Student: So how does he propose to us to hurry it up? 

M. Laitman: He advises this for his time, which was quite a few years ago, 50, 60, 70 years ago. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (49:21) I just want the friends to see what we're reading, sometimes it's confusing. Now we're reading drafts, not even drafts, well, because The Last Generation, it's things that he wrote for himself. These are things that the friend found that are related to the first article. But these are just notes that he made for himself. We shouldn't expect this to be a complete text with all of his intentions to be clarified with these words he wrote for himself, that's one. Two, when you look at what he wrote, there's a lot of logic here. What he writes is that the more we will actualize what was Zionism in the time, nothing remained of this Zionism. But what was in it, as an inner essence, if it disappears, all of our existence here will be baseless. We have no future here and we can see this from what everybody says. So long as there's no covenant between us, no destiny, something that connects us to a higher purpose, but only with all the enemies around us, then there's no future for the existence of the country. This becomes very clear, even from various movements that try to suggest a future for Israel, I think that we can see that our society is breaking from within. Externally we do exist, and also what he writes, and we can see this very nicely, is that even those people who look at us from the outside, he calls them Catholics. They too would feel that if there's no inner foundation that connects this nation, it will disintegrate. Even those who support us outside see that we have no foundation for our existence, there will be no continuation to this story. I wanted to ask, when he writes about the consolation of property, in turn it reminds me a bit about what he writes about  in the Arvut article. That the people of Israel should be like priests who have no inheritance. Is this what he means, the annulment of the will to receive? 

M. Laitman: Probably.

Student: Before that he says that we can educate people so that the annulment of property would be due to love of others. What does it mean that we can educate people that annulment of property would be due to love of others?

M. Laitman: Simply that this is how we want to educate the generation. That the annulment of property indicates that we do want and agree and are working towards that. 

Student: So, out of this aspiration for love of others, even if it is corporeal, it can lead to a state where a person would be willing to concede his own good.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (52:10) I simply want to share the feeling of how life in Israel is now. If we look into the depth of things, into the state that we have in Israel, we have reached a state where a person feels lack of confidence. That we are surrounded by Arabs and every moment they can throw us out of here. We exist in this state, I don't see any reason for optimism. Everywhere you go you just see fences, and in Galilee, we have maybe 17% of Jews left. I think the Creator has established this state already. He hasn't brought us there, but He gave us some window of time, but it seems to be closing really quickly. Also, in terms of the economic situation of everybody here. Each one goes to work, and nothing is left, everything goes to the Capitalists, they leave you a few crumbs. So a society that is able to provide people an education based on values, I think today it can carry many people, easily, because we are already in that state.

M. Laitman: Okay, no, no, we're not going to expand the argument. Where are we, in Section 13?

Reader: (53:34) Yes, we're in section 13. 

M. Laitman: Read. 

Reading Section 13: (53:45) Thus far, I have shown that communism and altruism are one and the same, and also, that egoism and anti-communism are the same. However, all this is my own doctrine. If you ask the communist leaders themselves, they will deny it unreservedly.

Instead, they would maintain that they are far from any sentimentality and bourgeois morality and seek only justice by way of “let mine be mine and let yours be yours.” (All this has come to them because of their connection with the proletariat.) Thus, let us examine things according to their perception and scrutinize this justice that they seek.

According to the development of today’s governments, the terms “bourgeois” and “proletariat” are no longer sufficient to explain history. We need more general definitions. They should be determined by the names “diligent” (which in the second regime are the capitalist, and in the communist regime), and “stragglers.”

Any society is divided into diligent and stragglers. Some twenty percent are diligent, and eighty percent are stragglers. It is a natural law that the class of the diligent exploits the class of the stragglers, like fish at sea, where the strong swallow the weak. In that regard, it makes no difference whether the diligent are bourgeois capitalists, or managers, supervisors, or intellectuals. In the end, the same diligent twenty percent will always suck the cream and leave the meager whey to the stragglers. But the question is how much they exploit the stragglers, and which kind exploit the stragglers more—the bourgeois or the managers and supervisors.

M. Laitman: This is clear, it's what we already talked about. Okay, Section 14. 

Reading Section 14: (56:57) The basis of this entire explanation is the manifestation of the substance of creation, spiritual and corporeal, being nothing but the will to receive, which is existence from absence. However, what this substance receives extends existence from existence.

Thus, it is clearly known what is good and what the Creator demands of us, namely, equivalence of form. By the nature of its creation, our body is but a desire to receive, and not to bestow at all. This is opposite to the Creator, who is all to bestow, and not to receive at all, because from whom would He receive? It is in this disparity of form that creation has become separated from the Creator.

Hence, we are commanded to deeds in Torah and Mitzvot [commandments] that bring contentment to the Maker, and to bestow upon one’s fellow person in order to acquire the form of bestowal and adhere once more to the Creator as prior to creation.

M. Laitman: Okay, we'll continue in the next lesson.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (58:33) Just to finish this because that's the last excerpt we will have. Just before the next part, I'll give a short introduction, otherwise the friends will not understand what's happening here.

M. Laitman: But we don't get to the last excerpt now. 

Student: This is the last lesson and then. Okay so we'll keep it for next time. 

M. Laitman: Yes. Okay, so we're moving to? 

Reader: (59:06) We have Letter 66 by Rabash, and we have Pirkei Avot. I have a letter by Rabash. 

M. Laitman: What is Rabash, too? 

Reader: (59:18) Letter 66 that we can read. 

M. Laitman: Okay.

Reader: (59:26) So we'll move to the next part of the lesson, before that let's sing together. 

Song: (59:32)