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Daily Lesson (Morning) May 5, 2025.

Part 2: Preparation to Convention Connecting to There Is None Else Besides Him

Lesson 1: There Is None Else Besides Him. #2

Reader: We're in a lesson on the topic of preparation for the World Kabbalah Convention “Connecting to None Else Besides Him”, May 22nd through 25th. We're going to be reading from the study materials from the convention on lesson number one on the topic of “None Else Besides Him”. We'll start with excerpt number two. You can find the study material on Sviva Tova and the Arvut system, and you can ask questions live. In preparation for the World Kabbalah Convention “Connecting to None Else Besides Him”, May 22nd to 25th, lesson number one. We're on excerpt number two in lesson one. Excerpt number two is written by Baal HaSulam in “The Meaning of His Names.”

Reading: (00:39) 2. Baal HaSulam, “The Meaning of His Names”

Come and learn the real wisdom, the reason for this whole entanglement. In the Creator Himself, there is no thought or perception whatsoever, and the reason is simple: All the thoughts that come into one’s mind are the very operations of the Creator. That is, it is not as one senses, that he extends them from some place or that they are born within him on the spot. This is a lie, the number one lie.

Rather, every thought, even the most slender, the Creator sends it to a person’s mind, and this is the power of movement of man, beast, and every living thing. That is, when the Creator wishes to move the living being, He acts in it by sending a single thought, and that thought moves it according to its measure. It is as one who sends rain upon the ground but the ground cannot feel who sent it the rain. Likewise, man is utterly unable to feel who has sent him the thought, for he will not feel it before it comes into the domain of his imagining mind. And once it is in his domain, it seems to him as part of his self. By this you will understand that there is no thought or perception of Him, for the simple reason that the Creator did not wish to send us such a thought that will be capable of attaining Him.

However, He has arranged for us an procession of thoughts whereby this entire procession, one must ultimately attain Him to the real extent. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (03:43) Baal HaSulam writes that the Creator sends thoughts, so we learn that the Creator rules through the desire, and thoughts are as a result of the desires of a person. So, it should have been written that the Creator sends him desires, and that is how He would manage him. Why is it written that the Creator sends thoughts?

M. Laitman: Because we feel what is passing through us, which is this thought.

Student: But it first goes through the desire of a person?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (04:49) He says that from the order of the thoughts, he attains Him. How from this series of thoughts do we attain the Creator? 

M. Laitman: I guess, ahead of us there are still a few more thoughts we have to absorb and change accordingly, and then you come to a state where you feel the One who is sending us all the thoughts, and how we should respond. 

Student: Do we have such a thought to achieve, the One that sends us those thoughts?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Why? Because we want order in life? Why do we want to attain it? 

M. Laitman: It's our desire. A person, unlike any other living creature, wants to attain the Creator.

Student: He says it's like the rain, when it comes down, you can feel the rain, but you don't know who sent it. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: How, from this rain, do we attain something of Him? And what is it to attain, if we can't attain Him? 

M. Laitman: When a person exerts, makes efforts to feel what the Creator is sending him, he becomes more and more sensitive to what he receives from the Creator, that it's coming to him from the Creator. And this way he advances, he develops. 

Student: What do we, from our common action, from the light that operates upon us, from reading the Kabbalistic sources, from all of that, how does that cause us to create a certain order in our thoughts to bring us to attainment?

M. Laitman: All in all, we need to try and enter, penetrate our feelings, and try to see who is sending them to us. And how can we respond to it in the correct possible way? 

Student: How are the thoughts that we allowed to happen, are they connected to the One who sends them? What's the connection between the thought and the quality, the attainment of the One who sent it? 

M. Laitman: In every thought that we receive, that we feel, that we're impressed by, there's also a part, a portion of the One who sent it. Therefore it's possible, by delving into the thought, you can feel the One who sent it.

Student: How do we sort between the thought and the One who sends it? I heard you say that there's a part of the Sender. How do we do this sorting, this distinguishing between them? 

M. Laitman: The difference between the thought and the Sender of the thought, we can separate them, and then check what exactly do we receive. And later, who do we receive it from?

Student: When you're connected with a person, it's clear that you want something from him and he wants something from you. Just like you want from him, he wants from you. Otherwise, you wouldn't be connected to him. When we're talking about the Creator, how can you know what He wants from you? How do you know what to give Him? What connection is there? I am the desire to receive, He's the desire to bestow, He's sending me a thought. What kind of connection do I have with Him? 

M. Laitman: The connection is specifically through what you want to receive from Him. If you have no thought and no movement relative to the Creator, then you, seemingly, don't need Him, then there's no reason to go on. Whereas to the extent that a person feels that he lacks something in life if he takes care of this thought, or rather, he climbs up this thought, this desire to reveal the Creator, the source. 

Student: The basis of this is what I want to receive from Him, that's the basis of our relation to Him? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:41) He says that the Creator doesn't bring us thoughts unless we are ready for them. What is that readiness? What kind of preparation needs to be done to receive that thought of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: We need to reach a state where we feel what comes out of the Creator and what is absorbed in us. And how do we react to that - more correctly, less correctly? You can correct your thought, the feeling that you receive, to such an extent that we would feel who are we getting it from and what we are getting from Him. This all depends on the efforts of a person. 

Student: It's more than once you said that the Ten is like a plate, like an adapter through which we can always see and feel what the Creator wants from us, within that connection between us.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What is the effort that's demanded of us all the time in the connection between us, for us to feel what the Creator wants of us? 

M. Laitman: The Creator is the source of life, and we always feel only Him. Between feeling what we receive in our desires and not feeling, but either way it always comes from the Creator, whether or not you feel that it's Him. And everything we want is to come to the feeling of the Source. Who or what you feel? Source of who or what we feel? And this, the search after the source of life, is the main thing in our lives. 

Student: When you don't feel it, when you don't have the feeling, where should my effort be that I do want to feel? When I feel that everything is okay, but this effort to feel the next thing, the next connection with the Creator, where is that effort? 

M. Laitman: Our effort to attain the Creator is in building a vessel from ourselves, from all the participants, and we direct it toward the Creator Himself. And we want to feel in that vessel the origin of life, the source of life. 

Student: It should be a common desire of all of us?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:28) A person is like a receiver, and the Creator is constantly transmitting thoughts to him? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: The effort to build a vessel, that's a different kind of receiver? 

M. Laitman: No. All in all, it's just a desire to attain the Creator. 

Student: The group or the Ten, when they are rewarded in connecting, do they get different thoughts than an individual person?

M. Laitman: Could be.

Student: You said that the effort, that if the Creator sends thoughts, and every thought comes from Him, so what is the person's effort? You said to respond correctly. 

M. Laitman: To hear. 

Student: Let's say, I got one thought, and now the thought that it came from the Creator, so that second thought didn't come from the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, where am I? How can I participate? 

M. Laitman: You participate in being able to mount the wave, ride on the wave that comes to you from the Creator. 

Student: So, I try and feel not only the current thought, or what He wants to tell me by it, and so on?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Can I ask Him to change my thoughts? For instance, now I feel that there are thoughts that are disturbing me. My mind is distracted. Can I ask for different thoughts?

M. Laitman: Yes, probably so. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:12) If every thought is sent from the Creator, even the smallest one, as we said, so what is the thought that appears in a person to adhere to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: That too is sent from the Creator.

Student: Where is the person's participation? 

M. Laitman: After that. 

Student: After the Creator sent him a thought to adhere to Him? 

M. Laitman: After he feels that what he hears comes from the Creator. 

Student: Is it enough to feel that this thought came from the Creator, to know that that's the source of my thoughts? Or is there another response needed from a person? 

M. Laitman: Of course, there is. Of course, it is required. If a person wants to enter, come in contact with the Creator, then he must react to what comes to Him from the Creator. 

Student: What's the right response to every thought that the Creator sends to a person? 

M. Laitman: When a person exerts and adheres to that thought that comes to him from the Creator, and appreciates it, and understands and feels how much he, through what the Creator sends him, to what extent he feels, to what extent he has a tendency toward the source. 

Student: What's the source of a person's response to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: The heart.

Student: If every thought is sent from the Creator, so a person's response, also the root is from the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Where is a person participating?

M. Laitman: He awakens himself to respond and respond correctly to what the Creator sends him.

Student: I still don't understand. It's like a loop.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Every response from man - the root, is in the Creator.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: What does it mean that suddenly there's something on behalf of man that he responded to the Creator? He's not responding to anything. Also, the Creator sends the response to him. If every thought comes from the Creator, so where is the person's response? What do they want of me? 

M. Laitman: What do they want from him? They want from him to feel what the Creator sends him. 

Student: To feel is one thing, to respond what's a response on behalf of man towards the Creator? 

M. Laitman: The response of a person to the Creator is that the person awakens to what the Creator sends him. 

Student: In what is a person active? He's activated. 

M. Laitman: No. He's both activated and he's active. 

Student: In what is he active? 

M. Laitman: In that he wants to respond to what he received from the Creator, and this is his participation.

Student: In what does a person's response change? What does it do? What change does it make? 

M. Laitman: It brings a person closer to the Creator. 

Student: Are there thoughts that you have to resist? 

M. Laitman: There are.

Student: How to work with the thoughts? Every thought that comes, you have to respond to it, you have to resist it. What's the work here?

M. Laitman: The work is to first of all sort, and then absorb, and after the absorption - reaction.

Student: What do you sort the thoughts into? 

M. Laitman: I sort these thoughts by the extent to which these thoughts are included in me, incorporated in me, and by which I can move toward the Creator, more and more.

Student: And thoughts that I can't move toward the Creator, that are opposite, what about them? 

M. Laitman: I don't want to accept them, to hear them. I don't want them to exist in me.

Student: Do I have a force to resist a thought? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (25:56) A thought is a will to receive? 

M. Laitman: No.

Student: So, what is it? 

M. Laitman: A thought is what a person... What there is in a person's feeling toward the Creator.

Student: The thought is a connection between man and the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: I heard that a person needs to first sort, then absorb, and in the end respond. Sorting, absorbing, and responding. So, can a Ten, a group, help a person absorb more thoughts from the Creator than a person can on his own? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: The group adds like a field that helps a person absorb more and more thoughts from the Creator?

M. Laitman: Put it this way, yes. 

Student: And when a person has thoughts that he doesn't want to receive them, he feels that they're disturbing him, rejecting him, I guess they also come from the Creator. Because there's no other thoughts, There is None Else Besides Him. Can the group aid him? Can he aim himself more correctly?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: It turns out that the group is like this big receiver that a person can connect to, and with the help of the friends he can... 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (28:13) Beginning of the work with the thought to ascribe it to the Creator, is that towards the intention? Like we say, in phase four that he also enjoys and also feels the Giver? Meaning, the work is towards the intention of the Giver? 

M. Laitman: It's not immediate. It needs to go through several interconnections between the Creator and the person, and the person and the Creator, and then the person comes to a situation where he understands what was sent from the Creator, how it was sent. And as a result, he already feels how he should respond.

Student: The work, as you said, what was sent, how was sent? In order from there to reach the right response, so that's towards the intention of the Creator in what was sent?

M. Laitman: We will continue this later. 

Student: Because the difference between us and the Creator is in the intention. The difference between if we ascribe it to spirituality or not, so it's in the intention to bestow or not. Should we search for the element of bestowal there?

M. Laitman: Of course, we do.

Student: He writes, after he explains how all thoughts come from the Creator and a person has no way to feel it, but he also made an order of thoughts, that from that order he can finally attain Him. What is this order that we have to focus on? That it's like the window to enter the feeling that it's from the Creator. 

M. Laitman: He should sort the thoughts that awaken in him and depict to himself that it comes from the Creator, that there is none else besides Him, and what the Creator expects of him, of the person. How should he respond, as opposed to how he responds from the present state?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (32:17) The sentence that everything will be clarified in thought, is that related to what we're talking about now? That the thoughts come from the Creator and the way a person responds to them. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (32:46) The first recognition that a person is the created being and he's activated, not active, but activated, if you go deep into that, it already puts a person in a big problem. That he doesn't determine, and there's a big system of forces that activates him. It's like in any connection between upper one and lower one, there's an activator and somebody activated. Also, a student in school doesn't understand that there are thousands of people that planned his whole path. Also, a child doesn't understand the parents' thoughts that are planning how to raise him. And a student here can't really understand this whole system working on him. All the thoughts of the Kabbalah as a teacher thinking how to help him advance. And there's a gap between what a person thinks that he does, that he's active, and the true reality that he's activated by a great system working on him. If he does reach that recognition that he's working as a student, as a child, in front of a parent, and so on, how does he use that recognition to grow? There's also happiness by being taken care of. There's also frustration that you're a bit tied up. How to use it in order to grow correctly and not…

M. Laitman: Search for There is None Else Besides Him.

Student: This search to understand that there's one force working on you, the good that does good, that wants to raise you to a better place, it could be in a feeling, but the frustration that you see the gap between your nature and your little petty thoughts. What am I going to do? How am I going to make money here? How am I going to work there? You feel like a kindergarten kid playing in a sandbox compared to an entire system that wants him to grow. That gap brings a lot of sorrow and frustration. There's a feeling that there's nothing you can do, if a person discovers that. 

M. Laitman: This is actually how we grow. And we don't really feel during childhood that we are inferior, undeveloped. No, each one feels himself, his age, the desire in him. 

Student: We have a necessity to advance, to go to our next stage that's more developed. We have a bit of a feeling from it. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: But we don't understand how we could take ourselves there. The gap brings a frustration, which is also a force that pushes you. But how can we advance?

M. Laitman: I don't think it's a problem. We simply need to be in an environment that is developing, evolving around us, and with those friends, those systems that humanity has built. And then we will advance, more or less correctly, toward life's purpose.

Student: There's the matter of Achishena, of hastening the time, a desire to already... How do you implement that desire? 

M. Laitman: Only through the greatness of the environment, because we have no other means. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (37:34) After the Creator sent a thought, and a person feels that it came from the Creator, could we say that that gives contentment, that's what the Creator wants? To feel that it's from the Creator, is that giving Him contentment? Is that what He's expecting? 

M. Laitman: That the thought comes from the Creator and that the person feels this way? 

Student: Yes. 

M. Laitman: That he feels in this, that in this he gives contentment to the Creator? 

Student: Is the fact that I'm feeling that it's from the Creator, is that giving Him contentment? 

M. Laitman: I wouldn't think that this is so. It's not everything. 

Student: What does give Him contentment? What are we lacking?

M. Laitman: What's missing here is the work that a person does, and the change he wants in the environment, and by what he can advance the environment, the friends, people who are closer or farther, by what he wants this environment to go forward and to pull him. 

Student: If a thought comes from the Creator to come closer to the environment, I start implementing that thought, and then, I guess, I'm already coming closer to the Creator. If a thought came from the Creator to take advantage of the environment, so what do I do with such a thought? 

M. Laitman: To take advantage, you mean manipulate it in such a way that it'll be more beneficial to the person? 

Student: Yes, for his own benefit. When everything comes from the Creator, also good thoughts that contribute something to society, and also to exploit society. So, in the first case, it's clear, I go and I implement. But on the second case, what do I do?

M. Laitman: I need to move away from the environment. 

Student: From that thought? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: The question is if a person has such a force to stay away from it?

M. Laitman: He has the strength because he received it from the environment. 

Student: Or maybe, he has to ask for help from the Creator to stay away from that thought.

M. Laitman: Yes, that too.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (40:58) How to define in the language of Kabbalah what a good environment is? 

M. Laitman: That's pretty simple. The environment that influences me so that through it I am directed in my steps toward the Creator. 

Student: If I take light and vessel, where can I find a place there called “a good environment”?

M. Laitman: The vessels that influence a particular vessel are called the environment of that particular vessel.

Student: That's the state of the shattering. 

M. Laitman: No, no, no, without breaking, without anything. Simply, this is how it turns out to be with respect to a person.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (42:38) I'm sure I have to make my response better from the thoughts that come from the Creator. And I have an environment where I see there's a connection with the friends that can change my response, and there's the light that reforms. The light, I know, came from the lesson. From the connection with the friends, it's not easy, but there's annulment and incorporation. But it's general, and it's like this general help. But a thought is something very precise, it's very specific. The Creator awakens a specific point, and my ability to respond depends on something general, kind of scattered. So, it's not clear.

M. Laitman: I still don't hear the question.

Student: Let's say now, like, I have a thought to exploit society in some very specific point. A thought on Tuesday at 4 o'clock. My response is already made of the heart and mind I got from society, from the study. So, Tuesday at 4, my response is from what is already in me. So, now I recognize that my response isn't good, I want to make it better. So, I come again, and I try to connect with the friends more, to annul myself, to subdue myself, to get some new heart and mind from the connection, in order that next week, at Tuesday at 4, I'll get the same thought - and I'll have a different response. But it's like, it's not precise. It's like, I try to connect with the friends, that that will give me good thoughts. It's like very general, it's broad, it's like I don't know what exactly to correct. Let’s say, I attain some greatness of the society in a Ten’s meeting on Friday in order for Tuesday to have good thoughts. So, it's like the cause and effect isn't precise. I'm working in general, and drawing light, in order for some thought to exploit society, will have a more correct response. So it's like connection between the things, it's like a remedy. I don't know how it works. Now, we advance in this way. That's okay. I can live this way. The question is if I can work more precise, more…

M. Laitman: It all depends on the connection, connection in the Ten. Because the Creator doesn't look at the person. He looks at the person within the Ten. And according to this, corrects him. 

Student: How do I bring the thought that the Creator awakens in me, bring him to the Ten? Can He just come with me because I come? It's just incorporated with me?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Or should I direct the connection in the Ten in some way?

M. Laitman: No, no, no. That's too soon.

Student: So, it's a general work, a general field. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (46:40) I heard before that a person has to get on the wave that comes from the Creator to him. What does it mean to get on the wave? 

M. Laitman: What the Creator wants, the way He wants to activate him, to pass something to him, to awaken him. So, a person needs to feel that interrelation from the Creator to him and the same forces that he feels are working on him.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (47:41) Rav, is there an incorporation in the thoughts, are we incorporated in each other's thoughts? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What influences this incorporation? What helps us incorporate more? 

M. Laitman: I understand. The incorporation is already the next degree, that what we bestow is because we're in one physical system. The Creator sends some desire or a form, and through it we absorb it and respond. How can we change ourselves? In order to respond correctly to the force that's awakening us from the Creator, that's something we need to learn. 

Student: And when we read the writings of Baal HaSulam, are we incorporated in the thoughts of Baal HaSulam? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: How can we enhance it? How can we incorporate more in Baal HaSulam? 

M. Laitman: That's from the importance. How to learn, how to be connected together, how we from this are adhered to Baal HaSulam and so on. 

Student: In other words, there is a wave, a thought that the Creator sent to Baal HaSulam. He was probably in some sort of adhesion with Him, I don't know how to define it. And by reading, we try to get into the wave between the Creator and Baal HaSulam, which is much higher than our own wave. And the same goes for Rabash and the same goes for a lesson with Rav. We are incorporated with thoughts from a higher wave. 

M. Laitman: And somewhat, yes. 

Student: The fact that we're sitting together, does that influence our thoughts? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Why? Is this something physical or how does it work?

M. Laitman: It influences. 

Student: In other words, the physical presence already creates incorporation of thoughts? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So now, a person has to go through processes in order to make it more internal.

M. Laitman: Correct.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (50:59) To continue the friend’s questions, we brought these excerpts on There's None Else Besides Him because we are approaching a congress that we have in two weeks, connecting to There's None Else Besides Him. The physical gathering, the mass of friends, of many points in the heart together, in the same venue, how does it influence a person's thoughts?

M. Laitman: As much as you stay away of all other thoughts and purposes, and you'll be closer to one another, to a common goal. 

Student: In such states, such as congresses, is it easier for a person to respond correctly to the Creator?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And we need to come to a common thought between us? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (52:10) I heard, you said that the Creator looks at the person within the Ten, and according to this corrects him. How should one position oneself in the Ten correctly so that the Creator will correct him?

M. Laitman: He needs to yearn to reach that same state where the Ten can absorb him, and he won't feel towards the Ten any tension. 

Student: And what should he do in order to come to that state?

M. Laitman: He needs to change himself. 

Student: By what actions does one change oneself? 

M. Laitman: In his relationships with the friends and the Creator.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (53:28) When we sit with the friends and make efforts to connect, you can feel the positive force. We also say that the Creator is good and does good. From where do the foreign thoughts come, which are foreign to connection, foreign to spirituality? 

M. Laitman: From the same states that we didn't correct yet. And when we correct them, we'll feel that it's working correctly.

Student: So, those thoughts act correctly, because the vessels are still not corrected, they are felt as opposite? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And what does it mean to adhere to the thoughts of the Creator?

M. Laitman: To adhesion.

Student: On top of all that is revealed, I have to aim myself to adhesion? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (54:55) What expands, broadens, a person's vessels of perception? 

M. Laitman: A person's vessels of perception are expanded by overcoming, and connection with his friends, more and more. 

Student: In the physical incorporation we will have, how is it, how should a person absorb and expand, broadens his vessels of perception correctly? 

M. Laitman: In the physical incorporation, a person needs only to discover the tendency of his heart. If he's in that, he'll succeed. 

Student: You said, that responding correctly to the Creator, this is what we need to learn. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: What does it mean to learn to respond correctly to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: To learn correctly means that I am depicting to myself connection of all my friends and the Creator that is managing us in a way that we already can't be any more closer between us. 

Student: Can it be said that a Ten is moving to a new state in a corrected way, in a new degree, through our thoughts?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (59:16) Until now we spoke about personal thoughts that the Creator sends to everyone. Does the Creator also send a thought to the Ten, to a body called Adam?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: How can we identify, because each of us has different thoughts, how can we identify this more precise thought that the Creator sends to a Ten and act accordingly? Because we get scattered, dispersed. Can we somehow focus on it?

M. Laitman: Yes.