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Daily Lesson (Morning) July 27, 2024.

Part 1: Baal HaSulam. Letter 13.

Reader: Hello, we are reading from the book of Baal HaSulam, page 699. We are reading from the “Writings of Baal HaSulam,” this is Letter 13. You can find the material in the study materials tab in the Arvut system. You can also send questions. If you ask a question in the study hall, hold the microphone close to your mouth and ask loud and clearly. “Writings of Baal HaSulam,” Letter 13.

Reading Letter 13: (00:42) Letter 13.

10 Shevat, Tav-Reish-Peh-Hey, January 25, 1926, Warsaw

To my dear ... may his candle burn forever:

I received your words with a heart full of longing, for you hide yourself from me. Still, you could speak to me in writing.

What you wrote, letting me know the exile in Egypt, I wonder; it is common knowledge. “They cried, and their cry went up to God from the work.” Then “And God knew.” If there is no knowledge of the Creator in the exile, redemption is impossible. And knowing the exile is itself the reason for redemption, so how do you intend to let me know at the time of redemption?

Truth will show its way, that one who regrets makes his regret known. He cannot withhold himself or hide. Indeed, I feel all of you together, that today has been replaced for you with tomorrow, and instead of “now,” you say “later.” There is no cure for this but to exert to understand that mistake and distortion—that one who is saved by the Creator is saved only if he needs salvation today. One who can wait for tomorrow will obtain his salvation after his years, God forbid.

This happened to you due to negligence in my request to exert in love of friends, as I have explained to you in every possible way that this cure is enough to recompense for all your faults. And if you cannot rise to heaven, then I have given you moves on earth. So why have you not added anything in that work?

Besides the great remedy that lies within it, which I cannot interpret, you should know that there are many sparks of holiness in each one in the group. When you assemble all the sparks of holiness to one place, as brothers, with love and friendship, you will certainly have a very high level of holiness for a while, from the light of life, and I have already elaborated on that in all my letters to the friends.

I also asked that each one will show his letter to his friend, and so should you. Test me from this day forth to understand and to hear me, at least with what you can do, for then “The Lord will open to you His good treasure.”

Tell ... that he should think for himself. What would he lose by corresponding with me? Why is he hiding himself from me? I do ask of him to make an effort to see the merits of the friends and not their faults at all, and connect in true love, together, until “Love will cover all crimes.” Have him look in all the letters I send to the friends, so as to learn, “And let him eat no more the bread of idleness.”

Where are ... and ... ? I have not heard a word from them so far. Do tell them to nevertheless hold on to their friends’ gowns and read their letters as much as they need, and not to forget that the first question is, “Did you expect salvation?”

If they expect salvation, can it be that they will say, “Is this the work that the Creator wants from them?” And if I had to save the lives of one of them, of the friends, I would certainly toil and labor more than you, much less the life of the King, so to speak.

Therefore, give much dowry and gifts to the King of the world, and you will be rewarded with the King’s daughter, and the salvation of the Lord is as the blink of an eye.

Yehuda

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:38) What is the remedy of love of friends? 

M. Laitman: Everything we need to attain, we attain it only through the connection of the broken vessels. This means that they have become distanced from each other, and this is why they only feel themselves. And in order to feel the Creator, the upper world, it is possible only through connection, the connection of the broken vessels. And this is what the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us, that we have no other work, nothing else to do, but only in that we connect together and ask the Creator to help us, that He will do the work more correctly. It's not that we connect, but the Creator makes connections between us, and we only want to be as clay in the hands of the potter. We pray, we ask of Him that He will do this work for us, so that once again we will be connected as truly one man. 

Student: Yes, we heard it so nicely in the article, we heard these words so many times, but now, in this time, the words of Baal HaSulam and the words of Rav seemingly have a completely different color, a new color. And indeed, we also heard many times how much all of the Kabbalists appreciate so much the love of friends. The Ari, who warned his students, woe if you do not have love of friends. So, there are many important actions, but there seems to be some inner force in this action that resembles nothing else.

M. Laitman: Yes, of course. Connection is the force of the Creator. As much as we yearn to reach it, we become similar to the Creator, to some extent. And we must not forget that. And try to be connected. In day, at night, in whatever it is, upon all of the states that we go through. There is nothing more important than, in general, there is nothing else; only connection. 

Student: (09:56) Rav, you say that only by us feeling the broken vessels and when we ask to connect them, we will feel the Creator between us more and more. And he says here, if there will be no knowledge of the Creator in exile, then redemption is impossible. And the knowledge of the redemption itself is the reason for redemption. And how will you tell us at the time of redemption? So I'm asking a simple question. Each day, why do we have to reach a prayer from such a connection, from such distress, that we feel the broken vessels between us? Indeed, we say all the time, as one man with one heart, every day we want to reach, as one man in one heart, we want to reach a single intention, that everything that we're doing here will bring contentment to the Creator. But at the end of the day, you feel more difficulties each time. You feel more and more importance, but along with that, it's more and more difficult. So I'm asking, why should it come out of this hardship, from the shattering of the vessel? 

M. Laitman: We need to see it as help from the side of the Creator, that He's showing us our true state more and more. It's not that we become farther away or worse, but rather, indeed, we are so. And this is the true state, which we discover out of our efforts. 

Student: When he says He's showing us the truth, what is the truth He's showing each time? How much do we have to get closer to Him, or to get closer to each other? What else to ask, essentially? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, everything you said. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:04) He says here, I feel all of you, that today has turned to tomorrow for you, and it's a terrible mistake, and all of that is because of your negligence to make an effort in my request of love of friends. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What does it mean to be negligent in my request of love of friends? What is that negligence? 

M. Laitman: The person forgets about it. He doesn't think that this is the only thing that we need to attain. And in that, all of the shatterings will be corrected. 

Student: To effectively forget seems like a direct result. We don't have control over what we forget or not. 

M. Laitman: Yes, but we need to check ourselves all the time. Did we achieve some connection? Did we rise from hatred to love, from rejection to connection, etc.? 

Student: Right, and if a person already tests himself, it's a great state. He can tell himself, I am in love of friends, I'm not in love of friends, but it's also a result already. Where is the point of negligence? 

M. Laitman: In that, we are not working on attaching ourselves together in order to be a place for the revelation of the Creator. Because by that we give Him contentment. 

Student: What is... What depends on us, on man, where he can say, I was negligent here, but not there, or we, we were negligent or not? 

M. Laitman: Our work is to check to what extent we're connected. And in cases where we're not connected, we need to try to reach connection. And it is actually the opposite, meaning all of the states where we are opposite to each other, we need to reach connection.

Student: So, in another article he says we always have to make inventions and be creative in love of friends. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, it has to be active, not passive, not to wait for something to happen?

M. Laitman: No, not to wait, but always to bring up the question of to what extent I am disconnected from the Creator? To what extent, I'm disconnected from the friends? And try to correct it. So, the negligence is in running away from this question, not being in it.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (15:43) It's written that I've also asked you to show your letters to each other, and so should you do, so should we write letters, or what? 

M. Laitman: Well, back then, letters were the way to keep a connection between the teachers and the students. He was far away. He was in Warsaw, they were in Israel, so the connection or communication was through mail, through exchange of letters. Nowadays, we can use many different kinds of connection, but nevertheless, the connection is necessary, and we exert in it as much as possible, in the morning and also at noon and in the evening, in all kinds of gatherings and lessons and meetings. This is what is important. The more time develops, we require all kinds of actions and all kinds of means that are more and more difficult, or more beneficial, because this is how the time develops. 

Student: The question if he means here that everyone will show the letter he wrote to the Rav, or that you should write to a friend, or?

M. Laitman: Perhaps, maybe yes, maybe no. I didn't see that there is a necessity in that. No. 

Question (Women Turkiye 7): (18:14) In the letter he writes, I ask that each and every one will show his letter to his friend, and you should do the same, and examine me from today to see and hear me in any case with what's up to you to do, because then the Creator will open His good treasure to you. The question is, how to make this examination? Can we do it? Can we examine what he writes and test it? 

M. Laitman: We can carry out, or try to carry out, what he proposes for us. And see to what extent it later on helped us in our advancement. These actions are simple actions, relatively. And we can see the results. 

Question (Women PT 6): (19:35) You said it's to glue us together. What are the means to check, to measure, if we can glue ourselves together or put ourselves together? 

M. Laitman: We can see our success in the nearing between us. In how we study and discuss and organize ourselves. That we try to be as one man in one heart as it is written. This is our effort. I need to feel the desire of the friend for connection as my own desire. And that both of us in these desires, this is called the heart's desire, that we want to be in a connection between us and a connection with the rest of our friends and with the Creator. This is how I need to build for myself the order of the world. That's it. 

Question (Women PT 10): (21:09) When a person determines that he's detached from love of others, how can he return to loving the others? What's the advice? 

M. Laitman: The feeling of disconnection from love of others is a very good feeling. The Creator provides us with a feeling according to our degree, and we need to use it in order to connect above it, and nevertheless, to reach the feeling of love and connection.

Question (Women Rehovot 1): (21:57) What does it mean to see the friend's merits and not their faults? How does it manifest in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: This is the result of love. Just like a mother, she doesn't see in her child, in her baby, any faults. Everything that exists in him, it's all good for her, because she loves it all. Therefore, this is how we should also see our love, so that our love will be as close as possible to natural love. 

Question (Women Moscow 8): (22:41) How is it possible to maintain contact with the Creator constantly? How do you build this intimacy with the Creator? 

M. Laitman: This is all a result of effort. When a person gradually builds in stages, a place inside of his heart in which to connect with the Creator, so that his heart will be a place for the instilling of the Shechina, so that the Creator will shine inside of his heart. And in this way a person can be adhered to the Creator.

Question (Spain 1): (23:47) How can we illuminate in us and mostly in our friends this feeling of salvation? That it's now or never, and that we don't think of tomorrow? 

M. Laitman: This is a problem. This is a problem. Here we have to work against the habit that it's not so bad… if not today, tomorrow, if not now, later, tomorrow. And we have to fight against these thoughts, these feelings, and not to accept them, not to agree with them. Because one who agrees to that, indeed, he rejects or postpones the Creator's help, entirely. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (24:58) What does it actually mean, love covers all crimes? How am I a criminal? 

M. Laitman: You are a criminal from birth. Each one of us, each one. 

Student: In what? 

M. Laitman: In the will to receive. 

Student: That's what it means? 

M. Laitman: Yes, there is no other crime. 

Student: But I know the Creator put that in me.

M. Laitman: Fine. 

Student: So actually that's what I ask of Him in terms of asking for salvation, salvation from the ego?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Okay, and what is bread of idleness you shall not eat? 

M. Laitman: That above the indifference and laziness, we have to work on connection. 

Student: This means to recompense and give back to his King? 

M. Laitman: To give much dower and gift to the King, yes. And to understand that the laziness usually appears between the friends, because this is the vessel in which the Creator is revealed. This is what the Creator is expecting. And so we see that Baal HaSulam is constantly concerned that the friends will awaken towards connection between them. 

Student: He describes it like marrying the King's daughter. What does that mean? 

M. Laitman: That this is the only means and the special means in which the Creator is revealed according to the intensity. According to the connection between different vessels. 

Student: So, what does it mean to give dowry to the Creator or what are the gifts that we give Him? 

M. Laitman: This is what it is about, that we want to be connected in order to give Him contentment. 

Student: (27:12) You said that the detachment from the Creator is felt in each one according to his degree. What does that mean? 

M. Laitman: It's according to the natural elements that a person is born with. Upon which he needs to be connected with others, with his friends. And that's it. He doesn't need any more than that, but only to connect.

Student: It doesn't have to do with the efforts we make between us? Everyone gives their efforts according to their strength and feel detachment accordingly?

M. Laitman: Possibly.

Student: Because he said before that everyone should clear his heart, and let the Creator in. 

M. Laitman: That is also true. 

Student: So, it's not part of the detachment? Because my sensation is, many times you feel that you advance and you want to advance more and you feel more detachment. And your request for the Creator grows… your need. So is there a connection between these two things? 

M. Laitman: There is a connection between everything. 

Student: But the question is if this cleanness you talked about before, is it directly connected to making an effort every day? More and more? To get closer, and thus, our deficiency grows more? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: (28:54) I read this letter three times before the lesson and these words as if they don't enter, they slide off. Something doesn't doesn't come in with all of these love of friends and sparks of holiness. 

M. Laitman: Actually, I think this letter is very close to a person.

Student: Yes, it's very close. But these words, I feel like there's some habit in hearing them. Something doesn't enter.

M. Laitman: Well, we always have a war against the habit that being used to something truly erases everything. 

Student: So what to do? How to really be needy of these things? You need salvation. What is salvation? 

M. Laitman: Salvation is something that you very much want to achieve, to attain, but for the time being you can't. So the request for that state to achieve it is called a prayer. And salvation is when you receive some direction, some revival or a push, a drive in the right direction. That in that, you get closer to what you want. 

Student: Can I receive it or can I awaken it? 

M. Laitman: You can receive it but you can also awaken it. 

Student: How can I awaken it? I feel like the habit continues and it comes to some point that…? 

M. Laitman: No, no, no. The habit, as he writes, is the most terrible thing that we can bring up, and it stops us. It fixes us. 

Student: So how to always feel that I want to awaken? That I want to join? That I want to realize all of this? 

M. Laitman: Envy, lust, and honor bring the person out of this world, so it is written. So try to work on envy or lust or honor in order to advance. 

Student: And I guess that's the only way? 

M. Laitman: Let's say so.

Student: The love of friends that he writes here, he says it can complete all of the..?

M. Laitman: It is a means. 

Student: Love of friends is the means? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (31:56) I also want to ask about this. This disagreement to disagree with the habit, and to… This disagreement, how does it manifest? How can I check myself that I don't agree? 

M. Laitman: It's all about the feeling. How can we measure it? Later on, we measure it through the hardness and coarseness of the screens. But in the meantime, we don't have that. And so, as much as possible.

Student: Let's say, I notice that I don't have sufficient demand for that. How can I awaken myself to that demand? 

M. Laitman: Only through connection with the friends.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (33:06) Baal HaSulam writes here: And look at all the letters that I send the friends and don't be idle. He didn't interpret that in the previous letter, there was a fear that when they came out of Egypt, that if there will be a correction in the desert that they'll forget it. This also has to do with the blood of covenant, circumcision, all of that. So, he mentions it and he doesn't interpret, what is that labor? It's like the light that is given by the Creator, and Pharaoh draws all of this light that belongs to Israel.

M. Laitman: So, what is your question? 

Student: So, the question is, when he mentions it, what is required of us? That in each letter, he pays attention to that?

M. Laitman: That we become lazy, and we need to rise above it. Not to be lazy, not to idle. 

Student: And the labor is expressed in love of friends? That specifically in connection, we come out as a nation?

M. Laitman: Yes, above the laziness. 

Student: And he mentions that there can be a mishap in the desert?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: That we won't lose that force and so forth. 

M. Laitman: Yes, there are many words about that. 

Student: So most important is the labor in connection?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (34:53) I'm asking about the connection with the friends. I think I can put all my friends in the Ten around the table and begin to love them in practice. See their merits and not stop thinking about them for a while. In the same state, I perhaps open my eyes and I'm at a lonely table or I open my eyes and it's full of my friends. What adds a table full of friends versus a table empty of friends, physically? 

M. Laitman: I don't know. Why are you asking about things that he does not describe to us? 

Student: He does. He's in Warsaw. And….

M. Laitman: That’s not important. Don't justify yourself. It's not written about that. So don't ask about that.

Student: But he writes, I'm not with you, and still I'm with you and love you. And if you knew how much I'm with you. 

M. Laitman: So apparently, he has some vessels that he can feel even at such distances.

Student: So I'm asking with my friends most of the day. I'm not with them physically, but I'm with them in thought all day. And I think of them and see them in thought all day. And every day, I put them around the same table in the lesson. Now, what is it about the physical? Why does there have to be some parallel or equivalence between my thought, my inner world and my outer world? What's the connection between the two worlds in general? 

M. Laitman: Apparently, it still exists. Both the distancing and also the connection.

Student: But this body, when it looks at a table with ten beasts around them, doesn't love them, doesn't have any connection to them, doesn't feel or think about them. It's a machine body. What's the connection that this machine can act as if it loves someone? 

M. Laitman: Apparently by you playing with your body, with this machine, with this beast, you acquire certain important discernments towards the correct, true feeling of the connection.

Student: You told a friend about this body, you were born into as a criminal. Now, this body can only feel hate. As soon as I'm in this body, I feel how detached and disconnected I am from my friends. Other than that, can it feel something else? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: This body? 

M. Laitman: Yes. This body in which we exist, meaning this desire. Yes, in this desire, we can certainly feel other things as well. 

Student: That's what? The hero of heroes? 

M. Laitman: I don't know all of your definitions, and I don't agree with them. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (38:39) To continue that, we have a quote from this letter that we use a lot. You should know that there are many sparks of sanctity in each one of the group, and when you gather all the sparks of sanctity into one place in brotherly love and friendship, you will certainly have an important level of holiness for a while from the light of life. So this action of gathering all the sparks of holiness, it's not enough to perform it as an inner action, that I have to be in it all the time?

M. Laitman: You alone? Of course not. 

Student: It's impossible, so what is it about then? 

M. Laitman: We see that besides the demand to each and every one in himself, there's also a demand for connection between us. 

Student: What does it mean for a while, for the time being? There are times when everybody makes an effort and then it happens? 

M. Laitman: Yes, we have to be in the general effort in the ten in order to connect as one man with one heart. 

Student: And if even one does not add, then it doesn't happen? 

M. Laitman: Well, that's already a problem.

Student: So it’s always a common effort, it's not enough if a person sits down and imagines to himself..? 

M. Laitman: No, alone there is no use of that. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (40:33) Tell me, there has to be a feeling of suffering that comes first, so that it will be a drive, the person will have a drive towards the goal?

M. Laitman: If he needs it, he'll get it.

Student: He writes here about the redemption, that they already felt it. Meaning, there was already a large group that was already in a state of suffering because of the feeling, and a lot of scrutinies here and there. The moment they answered the feeling of exile in the state of suffering, meaning lack of connection between us, then there is the possibility to come out. So long as there are such scrutinies and questions, these are all just calculations?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: I'm trying to scrutinize between us. I don't want us to reach a state of necessity through an external state, so how can we raise this necessity for connection as he writes here? 

M. Laitman: To try to be connected with each and every one of the friends in the Ten, and all of them together as one man and one heart, and to maintain that state, even though changes will always come. 

Student: Yes, but we need torments of love, not other sufferings?

M. Laitman: Well, there's many details about this. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (42:29) At the end of the letter, he says, ..and if I had to save the lives of one of them, of the friends, I would certainly toil and labor more than you. All the more so, the lives of the King, so to speak. What is it about here, about the relationships between the friends or more than that? 

M. Laitman: That the relation to the friends has to be like the relation to the Creator,  and hold it that way, hold that kind of relationship. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (43:27)  I wanted to ask about the familiar passage that they already asked about, but I want to ask some questions about it. You should know that there are many sparks of holiness in each one of the group, and when you assemble all the sparks of holiness to one place as brothers with love and friendship, you will certainly have a very high level of holiness for a while from the light of life.

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: I wanted to ask, what are sparks of holiness? 

M. Laitman: Sparks of holiness are those sparks of reflected light, where a man wants to connect to the Creator through his friends in connection and love. 

Student: Thank you for this amazing definition. I wanted to also scrutinize, a spark is something that comes out of a collision as he writes, when two flintstones clash, a spark emerges. So when I come to connect with a friend, and I feel there's some resistance there..?

M. Laitman: So he wants to rise above that resistance and connect, and from that comes a spark. 

Student: Meaning this makes it a spark of holiness?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: When he wants to correct something and do something here. He also writes  that love covers all crimes, meaning the more we work with the friends internally, truly with a desire to get closer, we discover our true nature, that we're egoists and we cannot connect to each other.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So the technique is very clear, what he writes about. That by our nature, we're a will to receive. We discover we cannot connect with others, and then we need the Creator. And then he says, that we truly have to reach that point of, do you expect salvation? The first question is, did you expect salvation. But he says here to assemble all the sparks of holiness that are in each one in the group. Meaning I truly have to go friend by friend and check my attitude towards him, my relation to him or..?

M. Laitman: This is from the general connection with the friends in the Ten. You wish to rise and be in that general tendency of the Ten, that's what you're drawn to. And then from that you wish to carry out this connection.

Student: Meaning if I try to connect with the group and I discover collisions, this means that it's good work, I'm actually advancing on the path?

M. Laitman: It's not yet good work or progress, but it's already the conditions that you can rise above that to greater adhesion. 

Student: Okay, and if I recognize, friends also asked before, if I recognize that I don't have conflicts with the friends, I and them we're fine, everything’s good, we’re connected. This may be a bad indication, like a red light? 

M. Laitman: Yes, that the connection between you is not yet complete.

Student: Another question by a friend that we also had yesterday. If we connect, if we gather between us, then we feel that there is connection, not some idleness, but we actually feel connection, we feel joy out of our meeting. How can we transform that to holiness? How can we give that to the Creator? Because seemingly there's no need for the Creator here, we already have connection and..?

M. Laitman: No, connection can't be without the Creator. Just plain connection, how can that be? We're talking about connection that is first over the spiritual laws and also for the spiritual goal. You can't achieve connection without the Creator, even just a part of the connection.

Student: Meaning that before there is true connection, there has to be a feeling of the exile as he writes here?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Sorry for asking more but there were a few days when we had questions around that. If friends connect, then in spite of the resistance of each one they perform an action, an internal action towards connection. They want to connect in spite of all of the states. They connect all the states and they discover joy, they discover that we are connected. How? This feeling, even if it's false, but at that moment that joy, the feeling of connection in spite of the lack of connection, how can we raise that to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: That we wish to correct, correct our tendency towards connection. Of course it still has some flaw.

Student: So in such a state search for the flaw? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Okay, I get it.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (49:28) The lack of connection is a state that we can interpret as exile? 

M. Laitman: No, lack of connection is a feeling that comes inside the connection, and it points to the flaw that's in the connection. 

Student: Beyond that, there is exile that has not yet been revealed? 

M. Laitman: Perhaps, depends on what level. 

Student: He says that there is one friend who is hiding from me or disconnected from me, and my advice for him is that he should see the merits of the friends and not their faults. I want to ask about that point. Sometimes we touch it, if we go even a little bit to the left line in order to see our state, suddenly a part opens up between the friends  where seemingly we see some fault. A friend doesn't come, maybe he doesn't pay Maaser or he does certain things, and I actually come from the desire to see how we can use it. Because he says there is a point here that we must not go after, he says cover it with love, don't open up these things, see the merits of the friends, not their faults. So I wanted to ask about this transition from exile to redemption, where the Creator is important, and He is revealed between us. There is an intermediate state there which could be the left that burns and destroys, or there is left that promotes and builds.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So what should every friend, even in an inner process right now, even if he doesn't bring it out, what is his work? If suddenly he recognizes that he sees something, some fault in the connection, some flaw in a friend. Is there some inner work that he can do with it? 

M. Laitman: Yes, first of all he can pray for the friend, and try to be in his lowly state and rise with him together, and thus help.

Student: And why the one who didn't do it apparently is hiding from Rav, what does it mean? He says here, tell… that he should think for himself, what would he lose by corresponding with me, why is he hiding himself from me? I do ask him to make an effort to see the merits of the friends and not their faults at all. God forbid, so why the fact that he’s not exerting to see the love of friends means that he is also hiding from the Rav, what does that mean? 

M. Laitman: Because he’s not revealing to anyone his true state.

Student: Seemingly, there is some fault in him that disconnects him from the friends and also from the Rav? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And he actually requires correction, no one else? 

M. Laitman: He needs the correction. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (53:13) One who can wait for tomorrow will obtain his knowledge after his days, God forbid. What is this tendency towards postponing things that people have? 

M. Laitman: Not to go into troubles, not to start awakening things that are unpleasant.

Student: Is there some advice, how to not postpone things but actually cope with them and avoid this tendency to postpone? 

M. Laitman: Yes, to be in a willingness before that. 

Question (Women PT 6): (53:56) Is the heart of the person a place in which the Shechina dwells, or are the relations in the Ten in that place? 

M. Laitman: Everything appears within man's heart. 

Student: How to build inside of the heart in stages, slowly, a place in which we can connect with the Creator, how do we do it? 

M. Laitman: Through building a place to connect with one's friend. 

Question (Women Moscow 8): (54:28) If we already discover that we’re thieves, but we still don't have such unity that can correct us, then what does correct us, which deeds? 

M. Laitman: That together we can start from externality and move into internality. 

Question (Women PT6): (54:54) Is the idleness, the laziness mostly expressed in a lack of inner work? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Nahariya): (55:07) What is spiritual idleness or laziness? 

M. Laitman: Spiritual idleness, meaning that I am disregarding the spiritual goals.

Question (Women Moscow): (55:23) Is my yearning towards the friends, and from there to the Creator, does it break apart my ego, neutralize it? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Africa): (55:39) How an action of gathering between us brings the attainment of the revelation that brings salvation in the blink of an eye? How does this action bring the revelation that brings to salvation in the blink of an eye? 

M. Laitman: At the moment, I don't have an answer.

Question (Women Moscow): (56:15) Did you expect salvation? What kind of salvation, from what, what should a person expect? 

M. Laitman: A disconnection from the friends, which is called exile, everything that appears in a lack of connection between him and the friends is called exile, and he expects it to be replaced with redemption.  

Question (Holland): (57:03) It says in the article, truth will show its way, that one who regrets makes his regret known. How do we work with this regret in our Ten? 

M. Laitman: We have to build above that, a yearning for adhesion. 

Student: This regret, what is actually this regret and that you can express it in the Ten? So what does this mean, make known?

M. Laitman: From my lack of resemblance or accord with the Creator, that's what the sorrow is from, that I don't become similar to Him. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (58:21) Baal HaSulam writes here that we need to increase the love towards the friends… As I've explained to you in 70 different ways that this would fulfill all of your lacks. When the teacher gives you such advice to increase the love of friends, how practically can the friends implement this advice? 

M. Laitman: You have to discuss it amongst yourselves. This is what the friends have to solve between themselves, and as a result everything else will succeed for you. 

Student: When you yourselves discover the deficiencies in the connection between you, then you will succeed for sure. So we should discuss the deficiencies we have between us? How later can we cover it with increasing the love, it seems like an emotion. How can we increase this emotion towards the friends? 

M. Laitman: As it was said, love covers all crimes. 

Student: I imagine to myself the group of Baal HaSulam, when the Rav writes to them to do this, to increase the love of friends. What do they do? They gather, and then they all suddenly feel in the Ten, love? How practically is it realized? 

M. Laitman: Everyone checks himself, his relation to each one in the Ten, and when he examines that, he sees what he has to correct. This is his present work.

Question (Baltia 2): (01:00:58) I reached such an understanding, that the true exile is a state of a person when he completely, all the way, acknowledges that he doesn't have the quality of the Creator, he doesn't have the quality of love. Only from that moment it is possible to raise a prayer. Only then the person feels that he doesn't succeed in having any intentions towards connection by himself; only when he reaches this awareness that you are like a rock, a stone, you don't have that quality. From that moment the prayer can begin, and this statement that the prayer of the poor is heard first means that in that state of the prayer of the poor, that's when the prayer begins. 

M. Laitman: True. 

Question (Georgia): (01:02:10) If a Kabbalist is awaiting for some special event in the future, how does he combine the two approaches, on the one hand salvation today, but also waiting for some special opportunity following some time? 

M. Laitman: Well, that all comes from the surrounding light, how it depicts the future. 

Student: Another question with your permission. Sometimes you answer people who are impatient, calm down, the way it takes time, it's a long way. So how do we combine these approaches? 

M. Laitman: We have to be very impatient and yet also be the opposite and develop patience within you. 

Student: In every meeting of the Ten we should check ourselves if we’re not in some extreme state? 

M. Laitman: Yes, exactly. From here comes the revelation, the understanding, as written, love covers all crimes.  

Question (KabU 14): (01:03:48) About five days ago I heard the lesson about the ascent from Malchut to Bina and it really touched me. I went to the hospital to get all the help I need to quit smoking and to get myself into order so I can be a strong student for you. I wanted to join with my friends in the Ten at this lesson, but they’re not able to connect right now so I am sitting with friends in a different Ten. My question is, what can we do to help the Creator move faster to bring my Ten back together, so we can sit in a lesson and be connected with the Kli and with you? Thank you. 

M. Laitman: Pray, you should pray. More than that I can't tell you what can help, but the prayer certainly helps. 

Question (PT 13): (01:05:16) You said that connection in the Ten, we should feel that it exists only thanks to the Creator, and first we have to feel collisions and hatred when we gather. Indeed, should we all feel hatred and collisions before we have the right connection? 

M. Laitman: Possibly, you need to look into it. In the end you need to do what you have to do.  

Question (Turkiye 2): (01:05:55) If the Creator does everything, what is it that I do,  or should do? 

M. Laitman: You have to ask the Creator to do it. Make your desires His desire, then you will succeed.

Question (Women Ukraine 2): (01:06:25) Please tell me, when you want to perform certain actions and you give importance to these actions, you study the sources, but then there is a state where you fall into sleep. What is that state? 

M. Laitman: I don't understand. 

Student: When you understand the importance of certain spiritual actions, but you’re not capable of performing them because sleep simply takes over you, what does it mean? 

M. Laitman: It's a state that happens. 

Student: Should we fight that state? 

M. Laitman: Always fight only in getting closer to the friends. 

Student: But it's not through envy?

M. Laitman: Possibly, it's possible. All right, we have concluded the Q&A, what are we doing next? 

Reader: So we'll move to the next part of the lesson and first sing a song.

Song: (01:07:38)