Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio.
Daily Lesson (Afternoon), March 3, 2024
Part 2: Baal HaSulam. Shamati, 78. The Torah, the Creator, and Israel Are One
M. Laitman: There are no more questions. No. In that case, what can we do?
Reader: We can go to our next article, Shamati 78, Torah, the Creator, and Israel are one.
M. Laitman: Yes, that means the Torah, the Creator, and Israel are one. Those who aim through the Torah to the Creator, they are as one whole.
Reading Article. (00:46) “Hence, when one learns Torah…”
M. Laitman: (02:38) Questions? No questions, yes? Just only Kyiv.
Student: (02:53) Kyiv. The Torah, Israel, and the Creator, they are the friends that they are coming together, there’s the Creator that we want to reveal, and what is this force that we need to draw in order to bring us closer to the Creator?
M. Laitman: The quality of bestowal between everyone, to the extent that you can realize this quality, then you come closer to the Creator, and you become like Him.
Student: When we learn the quality of bestowal when we study this article about this quality, what does it mean to study this article, what does it mean to draw upon us this force from the article?
M. Laitman: From the study of the Torah, learning the Torah is a work that is done with many goals. It starts when we simply read and translate and discern what is in our material bank, and then slowly we replace the words with spiritual elements. We sing, and we begin to understand what in actual fact has been said. These are the conditions.
Student: Question, you say that we change the words, the spiritual terms, what are those spiritual observations?
M. Laitman: The things that we already study, whether it will be opening or the study of the ten Sefirot, the light that comes for us from the Creator, how it works on us, what desires it opens up, how it is connecting us.
Student: Question, so we are a Ten that, we read these observations. How do we start to see in Rabash's words all those actions with the Creator that he connected, the vessels, the lights?
M. Laitman: We read in such a way that it will be clear to us what in actual fact is happening with us as we read. As we read what's going up, what moves, what comes down, in what way do we receive, we draw the light, in what way do we open ourselves towards the light, the light comes into us, and what does it do when it comes into us? All of that is our actions.
Student: (06:02) You started to talk about it now, how to turn the article into a conduit that connects between us and between us to the Creator.
M. Laitman: Yes. Okay. There is a line, and we need to turn it into a conduit, so that it will be a conduit.
Student: (06:41) Women MAK. Dear Rav, what does it mean to correct myself in the vessel of the Adam Rishon?
M. Laitman: To reveal the connection in one vessel, in one Ten, and from all this connection to aim, to direct our desires to an ascent and nearing, coming closer to the Creator. We want to ascend to His degree in order to be adjusted, adapted, and suitable to what the Creator is expecting from us.
Student: (07:34) Asia. To continue the question, so the intention turned into a conduit?
M. Laitman: Yes.
S. (07:49) Woman Spain. When we request a rope to help us, and then we hold onto the Ten, but it doesn't answer our request, what can we learn about it in relation to faith above reason?
M. Laitman: We need to always study faith above reason, in what way can we be more connected, so in such a way, we will let more of the upper light to come between us.
Student: Can I ask another question?
M. Laitman: Well? Yes, yes.
S. Is it okay to be angry towards the Creator?
M. Laitman: No, you only need to ask Him. To be angry with Him, because the Creator is the best, He is always good, complete good, and absolute good, and if we are upset or angry with Him, then that means that we don't understand Him.
Student: (09:30) Berlin. The light enters each and every one of us, or in the connection in our Ten?
M. Laitman: The light through us enters each and every one of us.
Student: (10:05) Woman Moscow 5. We receive the Torah for connection; therefore, we always need to connect within our hearts and our souls. How can we find the hidden Torah, which means how can we move from the private to the whole?
M. Laitman: That is done also by the upper light that connects us and shines on us, on our connection, and in such a way we begin to feel ourselves as one complete unit, and in such a way it's awakening us.
Student: The light and the... it's the same?
M. Laitman: It's two different terms.
Student: (11:08) Women MAK 25. It is written that the Torah teaches man the ways of the Creator. What does it mean to learn the ways of the Creator?
M. Laitman: Correct ascension to the goal of creation.
Student: (11:29) Woman MAK 67. What does it mean that the Torah will teach the man? Why a man is not learning from the Torah and the Torah is teaching him? It feels like the Torah is active and the man is passive.
M. Laitman: The person opens himself up to the influence of the upper light, and when that light acts on the person, it's called Torah and then the person receives the understanding of what he, the person, is doing, and where is he, the person, going.
Student: (12:15) Women Turkiye 7. How does the Creator feel when we do not understand Him?
M. Laitman: What the Creator is feeling I can't tell you, but you need to try to turn to Him in such a way that He will feel you.
Student: (12:51) Women Moscow 6. Israel is when we connect between us, and the Torah is when we draw the light, and the Creator is between us. What does it mean to connect the Creator to it as well?
M. Laitman: Yes, it's to do it for Him as well, yes.
Student: (13:15) Woman ITA. When we study, we feel like the guide of the Creator, that He wants us to come to Him. How are we nullifying ourselves towards Him, and to continue with our exertions?
M. Laitman: Each one needs to feel herself that she is the smallest, the lowliest of all the group. And then you will feel that the Creator is coming closer to you. Is it clear?
Student: (14:07) Woman Kavkaz 1. I need to hold the intention when the Torah teaches me. What does it mean to open up to it?
M. Laitman: Think in such a way.
Student: Does it have anything to do with the friend? Do I receive it from them?
M. Laitman: You step on yourself a little bit, and then you will start to receive through them.
Student: (14:37) Woman ITA. Good morning, Rav. It is written that the Torah the Creator and Israel are One. How to work with my Ten towards that?
M. Laitman: That’s how it should be from the Ten towards the Creator and towards the Torah.
Student:(15:14) Woman French. We are a bit sleepy in regard to this day. I wanted to hear from you the importance. Everyone is worried about the war, and there is an opportunity, and we must not miss it.
M. Laitman: Such an opportunity exists every day. Pray and ask in every possible way you can.
Student: (16:04) Woman MAK 88. I would like to… There is a feeling when there is a question, and there is already an answer within. You just need to go back to the sources, and now there is everything on the internet. The whole archive of your lessons. Sometimes in the lessons, there is a feeling, not just with me. It feels like the questions are repeating themselves. If to minimize the questions, will it bring more force in the study? Will it make more development?
M. Laitman: It is possible, it is possible. We will go through all that. It is not simple, but we will go through that.
Student: (17:15) Woman Heb 2. [Transmission problems]
M. Laitman: (17:22) We can’t hear it properly. I am sorry Carmela, but I can barely hear you. We will have to wait until the next lesson. All the best. Good luck. Thank you so much.