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Daily Morning Lesson: July 31, 2025

Part 3: The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction - Selected Excerpts from the Sources, “Between the Straits” #55.

Reader: Hello, friends. The topic of today's lesson is Between the Straits. We are two days before the 9th of Av. So we will read excerpts from the sources, starting with item 55 from Pritz Hadik.

Reading: (00:22) 55. Pri Tzadik, Pinhas, Item 9

On these three weeks, on the 17th of Tammuz, the tablets broke, on the 9th of Av the Temple was ruined for the first time, and on the second, Israel were exiled. But indeed, all this was a preparation, for by this they were later rewarded with great light. It was said about the breaking of the tablets (Shabbat 87), “Well done for breaking,” for by breaking the tablets they were rewarded with the light of Torah, and on the 9th of Av the Messiah was promptly born, as it is written (Midrash Eicha) that the ruin of the Temple was a preparation for the building of the third Temple that will take place, and then will be the complete redemption, after which there will be no exile. 

M. Laitman: Basically, he explains to us about the whole process. I don't see questions.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:45) How can we describe a state where we advance not through shattering and corruption?

M. Laitman: I think that we have to read, we have to learn what is the exile and what is the era. Who is going through that era, that period? And essentially, how the people of Israel must accept it, must prepare themselves so as to… so that all the stages it goes through will not be, will not push them away, will not push them away between them and the Creator. The opposite, they will give the whole people an understanding of what they're going through. Every period explains deeper, more in depth, more in depth, it explains the nature of the nation, the nature of the Creator, of the exile between us. And in this way, we’ll advance.

Reader: We will read item 56, Rabash writes. 

Reading: (04:09) 56. RABASH, Article No. 5 (1988), "What Is, 'When Israel Are in Exile, the Shechina Is With Them,' in the Work?"

The people of Israel went out of the land of Israel and the Temple was ruined. In the work, we should interpret that the people of Israel went out and did not feel the flavor of Torah and Mitzvot, and their heart, which was a place for feeling the Kedusha, called “The Temple,” that place was ruined. 

M. Laitman: Yes. That means that the connection that they had during the time of the exile, they went through it, and it corrupted all the connections they had between them until they do not see the connection between them. That is called that the temple was ruined, shattered. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:27) How is it that specifically through the shattering, we advance?

M. Laitman: When we feel the shattering, when we're in it, and we learn that it's the result of the period we went through, we start gathering forces to come closer to correct the shattered state between everybody. And in this way, we can come closer to the correction and redemption.

Student: What is the sensation of the shattering in the person? What does the person feel? 

M. Laitman: In the shattering, first of all, he doesn't feel he has a connection with the others. The connection was shattered between everybody. It's hard to say because you have from one end to the other, there's people that don't even feel that they're in a shattering, and there are those that feel it a bit, and some that feel that it's, everything is completely ruined. 

Student: So, how do we reach that true feeling of the shattering that will push us towards correction? 

M. Laitman: I think that we need to understand what unity means, connection, Yashar El, straight towards the Creator, and how we, in such a case, need to behave, and from which depth we'll need to rise, what we need to renew, what our prayers should be about, all these scrutinies happen to us. They are called the time of the exile. Yes. 

Reader: Let's take some questions from the friends from the World's Kli. 

M. Laitman: Oh, there are many.

Question (Turkiye 1): (08:51) In  item 55, a building is described, a construction. At what stage of this construction are we? 

M. Laitman: We are after all the ruins that we've gone through, and we're at a time that we can correct ourselves and bring ourselves to a state that our vessel will feel as much as it is far from the correct state, from the good state. 

Reader: The building of the temple, he understands that it's built from love. So, to what extent do we advance in building the temple of love? 

M. Laitman: We're very far from it, but it doesn't testify anything about not the periods, or the times, or the forces that we need to correct it. But everything depends on us. 

Question (Latin 6): (10:28) It appears like the exile is a state that was created by the Creator. What's the reason for it? 

M. Laitman: The reason for the fulfillment? 

Student: It appears like the exile was created on purpose from the Creator. So, what's the reason for this? What's the purpose of the exile? 

M. Laitman: The Creator wants to show us our true state towards His purpose, which is the corrected state between us, and a good, strong connection. This way, we need to try and understand where it works on us, what we need to do in order to correct, or close to it. There are many actions that we need to do upon ourselves. I think it's very soon. 

Student: Is it possible to hasten the process so that the exile will be shorter? 

M. Laitman: That's what we learn, please. Learn from what's written. And from that, you'll bring redemption closer. 

Question (New York 2): (12:27) Here he says that the people of Israel did not feel the flavor of Torah and Mitzvot, and that that led to the ruin of the temple. So, specifically, flavor of Torah and Mitzvot, why does he say that? And what is in their power, whether to feel the flavor or not? And how is that related to the ruin of sanctity? 

M. Laitman: We have two states. One state is that we're all connected between us and the Creator. And an opposite state, that we're disconnected between us and also disconnected from the Creator. That's why there's not much for us to do. The work is clear. The state is clear. We just need to think of our unity, of our connection, and only to direct ourselves towards that. 

Question (Haifa 3): (14:08) In order to hasten, for us to advance towards redemption, are we missing fear of heaven, or like we learned in the first lesson, that fear of heaven is His treasure? 

M. Laitman: Yes. That is also lacking.

Student: Talking about the greatness and sublimity of the Creator, does that add the fear? 

M. Laitman: Yes. Just don't make mistakes. 

Student: God forbid. Together, only in a Ten. 

M. Laitman: Also together doesn't mean anything. First you need to learn in what we're connected, in what we can be disconnected, what do we learn, how can the studies help us come closer in every step, and how we reveal upon ourselves from the distances. This way we can come closer and reach the good state. That's before us. 

Student: To labor in love of friends and to add, will that bring us closer to equivalence with him? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Kyiv 1): (15:55) It's written here in the excerpt that the people of Israel do not feel any taste in Torah and Mitzvot. And the question is, there are friends who seemingly, yes, constantly feel flavor in Torah and Mitzvot, they're always in the lessons, and there's those who the taste has dissipated. Their intensity, their yearning lowers. How do we need to protect them and keep some common level of taste for us all, or to restore that taste each time so it will be for everyone? 

M. Laitman: A yearning for towards the Creator, and checking ourselves, it must awaken us to wake up and push us towards the complete connection. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:18) We learned that there are several kinds of shatterings. There's the shattering that happened there in the worlds, a shattering in the sin of the tree of knowledge, the shattering of what happened in the ruin of the Temple. How do these phenomena happen in us? What's the difference between these shatterings, and is there some kind of difference between them, or some flavor that you can distinguish between them? 

M. Laitman: Of course, there's a difference between the shatterings. Just as, via sense, we learn that each and every detail changes the state. We need to learn, and we'll feel ourselves that we're in all kinds of states, and by what we can make them better or change them. 

Student: And we in the work try to feel the connection between us, and from it we feel a certain break between us. We need to, do we need to relate to it more to what we learned in the source, of what we learned in The Study of Ten Sefirot about those shatterings? Or is it more connected to the states that went through 2,000 years ago? Where is it that, where is our connection more? Where does our shattering felt more in us? 

M. Laitman: Our shattering is felt in the same place, the current place we're in now. Our shatterings explain to us the harm that happened in the connection between us, and that's what we need to concentrate on. 

Student: So, last question: is there any point or need to learn about the different kinds of breaking or shattering? Will that benefit us if we try to understand? 

M. Laitman: No, no, no. No, we will feel it from within our feelings.

Question (Hungarian-Polish): (19:50) How can we build a temple quickly in our heart? 

M. Laitman: Only by advancing against the corruption and towards the correction, and that we're all being drawn to it. That's it.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (20:31) I heard that you said that what broke is the connection between us.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And ever since the connection between us was broken, people, humanity feel bad, we always have trouble. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: When or what is missing so that we will start to connect the lack of filling, the suffering that we're suffering, to the connection between us? 

M. Laitman: We need to correct the shattering. While we're correcting the shattering, we also see how it's working on us, how much it's distancing between us. And against that, we ask for corrections. That's it. That's what we need. It's all already spread out before us. We can feel the distance between us in all kinds of ways. Against that, to make efforts to connect above it. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:02) When does a person begin to connect all the mess he feels in his life to the lack of connection between us? The lack of connection is felt. The question is, when will I understand that that is the source for the troubles and not something else? 

M. Laitman: That's already an advanced state. I think that if we make the efforts and put an emphasis only on that, then we'll truly reach a state that we're told of the shattering of the Temple.

Question (CzechSlovak 4): (22:58) Do we need to feel the depth of the shattering between us in order to reach the correct desire, a big enough Kli? 

M. Laitman: Yes, of course. One depends on the other. We're not just learning about the world, about reality, about the souls. We're learning how it works between us, and how far we are from one another, how we don't want to connect, can't connect. We're not searching for the connection. In all kinds of ways, levels of shattering, it takes place between us.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (24:00) If I understand, there's the feeling of the shattering, the separation between us, and there's the depth of the shattering, to feel that we're truly distanced from one another and from the Creator. So, at what point, because you can tolerate it, we suffer it, we live in separation, we live individually, where is that point where we can't suffer it anymore, we can't tolerate it anymore, and we have to make a change? 

M. Laitman: That depends on us. That depends on us. We can keep going and existing this way, and cannot really pay attention to what the action of the shattering does to us until we say enough, and we must rise. I think that in general, the people I see now from Israel and the world, they are ready for this. We just need to want exactly what we must ask for, and to ask for it. 

Student: Ready for what? 

M. Laitman: Ready for the end of the exile, for correction. 

Student: And what is the request at the end of the exile? 

M. Laitman: The request is that we will be able to connect above the forces of the separation. 

Question (Lithuania): (26:28) You said that some feel the shattering more and some less. How to feel the shattering more? 

M. Laitman: As much as we will learn more and want to come close to one another, or want to discover our corrected state, then according to that, we will feel our state, ourselves as much as we we are in the force of evil. 

We can just keep going like this: oh, not too bad, if not today, tomorrow, or the next day, who knows when, and we agree, and we keep suffering, and time just stretches out. That's why it is worthwhile to be closer to one another and to hear and learn from the friends to the limit of as much as they take care, the limit of… the limit of their suffering. That we definitely must rise to the pinnacle of our existence.

Question (ITA 1): (28:47) The continuous destruction leads us to spiritual advancement but this means that every spiritual achievement will be destroyed and surpassed by a new, higher state. Is there anything left?

Student: Are the ruins that we've been through leading to spiritual advancement, meaning, whether all spiritual advancement we go through has to go through the ruins so that then we'll be able to reach higher spiritual achievements? 

M. Laitman: Yes, we need to go through the revelation of the shatterings because only from that we receive those vessels that we can make an effort to rise above them and to connect between us. 

Question (Latin 4): (29:46) What is the relationship between the states of ruin or destruction and their opportunity to reach spiritual development, and how can the Ten approach this in order to serve for spiritual development? 

M. Laitman: The Ten must yearn for the state of connection in all its actions, in all the opportunities, and that state of connection that they want to attain must show itself that it's right before you. That's why, let's come close to recognize it and see that it is there, and that it's not hiding. That's what's important for us. 

Reader: We'll continue soon with more questions. Let's read a beautiful one, number 56 that we have, a student of the ARI writes in 57 in the “Gate to Introductions.” 

Reading: (31:14) 57. Introduction of Rav Chaim Vital to Shaar HaHakdamot [Gate to Introductions]

Said the youngest in the city, the smallest of them all, Chaim Vital: “When I was thirty years of age, my strength withered. I sat in wonder, my thoughts perplexed, for the harvest has ended, the summer has gone, and we have not been saved. There has been no healing to our plight, no cure for our flesh, and no remedy to our affliction—the ruin of our Temple, which today has been in ruin for 1,504 years. Woe unto us for the day has ended, one day of the Creator, which is a thousand years. Also, the evening shadows have grown longer, which are 504 years, more than the second half of the day. The time has fully passed, and still the son of David has not come. It is known that our sages said, ‘Any generation in which time the Temple is not built, it is as though in its time it is ruined.’ I turned to search to know what is this and over what has the end of our exile been prolonged, and why the son of Yishai has not come.”

M. Laitman: Yes. That is how Malkhul writes, Rav Chaim Vital, in his introduction to the Gate to Introductions. Well, what can we do? We need to understand that we are in a state that were, between the state that was, and the state that is coming before us, and as much as we give more forces, we will come closer to see, to see a state, a desired state in the eyes of the upper force, and all of us. And that's how we'll come closer, yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (34:00) Why doesn't the Son of Ishai come? 

M. Laitman: He probably has certain conditions that we have not taken into account. A deficiency. We're lacking a deficiency. 

Student: Two thousand years, we're already just reincarnating, so what are we lacking? Where is that deficiency going to come from? 

M. Laitman: What we're missing is to only understand who the Creator is that's concealed from us, and to what extent we can draw Him, invite Him to come close to us and be revealed between us. To the extent in which we can prepare a Kli for His revelation. And that's it, there is no more. In our case, in our state, we need to just discover in what and for what we need the Creator. 

Student: Who is the Creator that is concealed from us? Who is He? 

M. Laitman: Who is the Creator that is lacking, that is missing? Is that upper force, which sustains within it the whole world.

Reader: Let's go to more questions.

M. Laitman: Yes, okay. 

Question (Women Spa): (36:24) What is that whole prayer in the Ten that will build the third temple? 

M. Laitman: The complete prayer is one in which we don't pray for ourselves, for our ego, for our will to receive, but rather, we pray for the unification that is lacking between us. And to the extent in which we feel a lack in that, and we pray for that, to that extent we will come close to it illuminating upon us, and bestowing, and exist between us. 

Question (PT 23): (37:22) About the desired state, what will help us come closer and connect? 

M. Laitman: We need to learn, just like we're learning now, what are the corruptions in us, and what are the corrections that we need to awaken in the system between us, between us all. And that is how, with certainty, we will come closer to the corrected state. 

Question (PT 23): (38:07) I heard that you said that it's worthwhile to be closer to one another, and hear and learn from the friends on the limit to their suffering. How do you do that? What is the limit you meant? 

M. Laitman: What I meant is that we have been through many states already, and there's more states that we need to locate between us, and let's hope that this, that we're coming close to it. We're coming near. 

Question (H 10): (39:04) I saw you said a few times today that we have to learn. What does it mean to learn, or to study? What do we need to learn? How to learn? 

M. Laitman: What's written in our books. That's it. What is written in our books. 

Question (Women Turkiye 8): (39:51) How can we reach true love towards our friends and from that build a third temple? How to reach true love towards our friends? 

M. Laitman: This is what we need to depict to ourselves. The extent in which each and everyone is willing to leave himself and to connect to the general heart of all the friends where we want to discover the Creator. 

Question (Women Turkiye 7): (41:09) We come to the lesson every day. Sometimes we even force ourselves to come to the lesson and exert a lot for it. So, what will change when we'll start

feeling the taste in the Torah? Will we have a stronger desire that will pull us to the goal? How will we feel? 

M. Laitman: In the same desire that we want to operate from us all. In that desire its filling will be revealed, which is called the upper light, the Creator. That's what we need to reach. 

Question (Latin 2): (42:11) What we need in order to build the temple, is it to increase the fear and give gratitude to the Kabbalists and love to the friends.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women MAK 43): (42:43) It's written that the exiles are preparation to receive the light. But at this point, I don't even have a cry that comes out of the heart. Can this silence also be a form of self-annulment, and if so, how to hold on to this point not as a descent, but to serve the Creator from it? 

M. Laitman: Everything you said is not correct. It's all not correct. You need to listen to what to be attentive to, what the Creator awakens in us.

Question (Women Spain 1): (43:34) According to what's written, every generation that the temple wasn't built in its days, as if it was shattered in its days. So, how should we take responsibility on that today? 

M. Laitman: We need to take responsibility. Of course, there's someone from above that is arranging things for us, correcting, connecting us, and we try to be under its commands, under His desire. That's why we also are called Israel. Isra is straight, Yashar, and El is the Creator, straight to the Creator. That's where we're aiming ourselves, and that's how it will happen.

Question (Women Rehovot 1): (44:55) I heard you saying that we have to understand what unity is, the connection of Yashar El. What does unity mean? 

M. Laitman: Unity is where we all convene together in the connection between us in one point, and in this way, we approach the Creator. That's it.

Student: You always teach us that love will cover all crimes. In the Tens between us, how can we cover all crimes with love? When the anger outbursts, when the shattering is revealed in the Ten, how do we cover with love? 

M. Laitman: We don't know. We don't even know what love is. That all comes to us from our connection. 

Reader: Maybe we should read another excerpt. Baal HaSulam writes, in quote 58, from letter 60.

Reading: (46:13) 58. Baal HaSulam, Letter No. 60

There was a precondition from the beginning of the reception of the Torah, but afterward, since the time of the making of the calf, the package has been taken apart, since wars occurred and the children of Levi killed three thousand men by the word of the Creator, and then the grievances against Moses and Aaron, and the spies. Naturally, all those did not add love or unity.

Afterward, after the coming to the land [of Israel], it was still not quiet. Hence, it was irrelevant to ask anyone to uphold this prime commandment. However, in order for the Torah not to be forgotten from Israel, they began to engage in the rest of the commandments although they had abandoned its main point, since they had no other choice. Perhaps this is what our sages meant when they asked about the ruin of the Second Temple, that there was no idolatry there and they were proficient in Torah, so why was it ruined? They said it was for unfounded hatred. Perhaps this means that it was because they could not engage in the heart of the construction of the Torah, which is “love your neighbor as yourself”. 

M. Laitman: So many questions.

Question (Croatia): (48:35) How can we actually reach the love in our Ten if, let's for an example say, that I'm cursing the Creator even for the state's in corporeality, and I feel that this is not the right thing to do. How can we, how can I create that bond in our Ten and the bond between us together with the Creator if that curse is between, is between me and the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Love in connection inside the Ten is built from nearing between the Ten. Where those friends become together. They restrict or diminish the distance between them to become one man in one heart, and then in such a way, they will feel the extent to which their heart as well becomes one heart.

Student: Can I just, can I just continue one more thing? The friend was also asking, he wants to continue to elaborate. Well, okay, sorry, maybe this is not exactly to the point, but I was thinking how to relate to the corporeal things in the situation. It's not always, it's not always connected to the goal, but sometimes it feels uncomfortable with some situations that you find yourself in. And you want to work with the Ten, you don't want to think about yourself, you just want to go out from that and invert it in the Ten so it can be beneficial. How do we do that? Or is that even related? 

M. Laitman: No, they're not connected, and you need to continue. And we need to continue. 

Question (Women Turkiye 8): (51:50) In 57, Malchus said, “We have not been, we did not reach salvation yet.” What does that mean, in his words? 

M. Laitman: That they did everything in order to reach bestowal to the right vessels, to a desire to receive that works correctly with the upper light, and doesn't still see that this is how it's happening. Ben David, the son of David, has not come, has not arrived. And therefore, they're perplexed what to do. And with that question, why Ben Yishai, why the son of Yishai, does not come, he remains with that question towards the Creator. And that's what we have.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (53:31) How can we not go according to the laws of the shattering, to give it a punch and go according to the laws of correction. Not the way that we have a desire, a necessity, but we understood the whole thing. Now let's give it a punch, to kick it. 

M. Laitman: We want to hasten the states, these upon those, et cetera. You're right. But the fact that we are not ready, we will never be ready, ever. We will always be late, and late, and the main thing for us is that we want to advance ourselves. We always demand something that wasn't there, and what is needed according to the writings of the Kabbalists, that this has to happen in us, but it has yet to happen. And so therefore, we need to see ourselves standing, all of us together, and asking from within the heart, which is common between us. 

Student: How will we get the courage not to be afraid of the shattering, to go against the opinion of the world? 

M. Laitman: I want to do. You're asking already? The desire that needs to awaken in a person. And?

Student: I'm asking to do it without a desire, to just do it. That's like in this world, you can do it without a desire, and make the process start. 

M. Laitman: How, if you have no desire? I don't understand that. The whole of the wisdom of Kabbalah talks about how the desire changes, and we reveal the correct desires, gradually, from us to the Creator, more and more, until the Creator answers it and operates upon us. 

Student: Let's say there's still no desire, but there's a first spark, there's a group of people, they're ignited. They already won the idea?

M. Laitman: That's not enough. It's not enough. The fact that they're ignited. It's like a little child that's turned on. 

Student: So, how do we speed up the times, like you said, that we're not just waiting? 

M. Laitman: We need to connect between us. Discover the desire in us all. More or less, in each, according to how it is. And that desire raise above all the desires. And to try to be connected to Him, to it, and this way remain. Keep ourselves this way, and wait until the Creator answers us. 

Student: But we need to overcome, to do something against what we're doing now. That's what I'm searching for. In order to burst through. Burst through this barrier between us.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, if I'll constantly learn of a shattering, and shattering, and shattering, and I'll be sorry with Malchut for another 500 years, I want now to burst through. Is it possible? 

M. Laitman: Here I need to ask, what do you need it for? 

Student: That's an inner necessity that is cooking inside. 

M. Laitman: Well, so according to that necessity, do. 

Student: So, that's going against the opinion of the world, of society.

M. Laitman: That's not important. That is not important. It's not written anywhere that you need to be surrendering before the world.

Student: So, maybe that's advice for us, of all society. Even if we're going against the opinion of the world, not to be afraid? 

M. Laitman: That's what we learn every morning. How we turn to the Creator, and show us all to ourselves and to Him the extent in which we want to be connected between us as one man in one heart, and with Him, with the Creator. 

Student: Against our current reason? 

M. Laitman: What is our reason, our opinion? I don't know. That from one day to the next, day to day, you change your opinion. So, that's it. Therefore, that's how we have to go.

Reader: We'll end the lesson with an excerpt, and then we'll keep going. 

M. Laitman: We'll conclude the lesson with an excerpt, and, and really take something with us. 

Reader: Rabash writes in 59. 

Reading: (01:00:35) 59. RABASH, Article No. 24 (1987), "What Is Unfounded Hatred in the Work?"

Since there was unfounded hatred in the Second Temple, meaning that they hated the “free,” meaning to work for free, without any reward, but rather not in order to receive reward, hence, even though they engaged in Torah and Mitzvot and in charity, because they did not have the aim to bestow, there was no room for the Kedusha to settle there due to the oppositeness of form between them. This is why the Temple had to be ruined.

The order of the work is that we need Torah and Mitzvot and charity so they will bring us to work for free. That is, they are only means to achieve the goal, which is to achieve Dvekut [adhesion] with the Creator, which is equivalence of form, as it is written, “And to cleave unto Him,” and our sages said, “As He is merciful, so you are merciful.” 

Reader: So, with that we will end this part of the lesson. Thank you, Rav. And now, let's summarize this special lesson in a Ten , please.