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Daily (Morning) Lesson July 02, 2024.

Part 1: Baal HaSulam. The Last Generation

Reader: Shalom, we're reading in the readings of The Last generation from Baal HaSulam. We're continuing in Part One in the Drafts and Additions in Section Two. You can find it in the writings of Baal HaSulam, and you can find it on Sviva Tova and the Arvut system and ask questions there as well.

Reading Item: (00:31) The Writings of The Last Generation, the heading Additions and Drafts, Section Two. The heading For the Introduction. One. I have already conveyed the basics of my views in 1933. I also spoke to the leaders of the generation but at the time, my words were not accepted, though I screamed like a crane and warned about the ruin of the world. Alas, it made no impression.

But now, after the atom and hydrogen bombs, I think the world will believe me that the end of the world is nearing rapidly, and Israel will be the first nation to be burned, as was in the previous war. Thus, today it is good to awaken the world to accept its only remedy so they may live and exist.

M. Laitman: (02:11) We see that the Jews, which is what, 0.2% of the world's population, nevertheless, in each and every generation, they stand in the center of things, and everyone is directed against them. Therefore, if not for their religion, there would be no reason to be each time under such pressure from all the nations and regimes, but rather, we need to understand that only the world's attitude towards us should change, and that doesn't depend on what time we're in. This was the situation before the recent revolutions, it was before the flourishing of the world experience, it doesn't matter. As he says, they will always find reasons for why we are not worthy of existing in the world. And therefore, the closer we get to the time of the last generation, the attitude towards us, our role, they'll apply on us such works, such states, that it is unbelievable to what extent this little nation can influence the historical process of the whole world. Yes, well, let's continue. And therefore, we need to learn what is going on, and when and how it will end, and how we can assist it. It is truly unnatural, unrealistic, not normal. But this is how it will be, and it will be even more. If at all times in history we were in between everyone, now in the recent time, we will be the only ones towards which the relations of all the countries will be directed, and all the regimes, and all people, because it becomes more and more conspicuous that the world is against us, against what we bring to the world. Whether we want to or not, it doesn't matter, to what extent we understand it or not, that also doesn't matter. For the hatred against us, nothing is required, but rather it springs from within, from within each and every one of the nations of the world. Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (07:17) He says that we have to awaken the remedy for the whole world. What remedy is he talking about?

M. Laitman: The connection, the love, the unity of everyone.

Student: So, what you said before is that we need as much as possible to come closer and to realize the last generation. That's our way?

M. Laitman: Yes

Student: Thank you.

M. Laitman: This may not be apparent, but if you actually hear what all the nations of the world are telling you, this is what they're saying, that all the wars, all the troubles, all the problems are because of the Jews. But from where? What is happening here? But this is what is happening, and therefore we have to explain to ourselves and to everyone that well, first of all, that it is true, but the solution is incorrect. The solution is not that you can obliterate this whole nation even though it's very small, but rather we have to bring the opposite force, which is the force of love, the force of connection, the force of unity, and then everything will fall into place. And this depends, first of all, on how we do it between us, because the solution is in us. 

Student: When you say the solution is in us, it's in Bnei Baruch?

M. Laitman: Also, in Bnei Baruch.

Student: Because actually I don't see anyone else that can bring to the people this salvation. I don't see.

M. Laitman: No, there are other groups, other organizations, there are people who agree with it. The thing is that we have to move from passive existence, where we simply come, we study, we pray, we get together for meals, to us beginning to awaken the whole public, the entire people of Israel to their historical role.

Student: That's exactly what happened to us in the unity evening. We gave everything shot, you know, and in an openly, and all the great friends here declared that this is our vision and that's what we're aiming towards. 

M. Laitman: So, we need to think about how do we carry it out. How do we actually carry it out? And then it will be possible to see to what awaken by this we awaken the forces of nature. And to what extent by that we open up for the Creator the possibility to work.

Student: It's really felt, and we felt it also in the unity evening, how even when we did workshops at the tables, how all of us are really feeling one another, that we all want in the same direction really.

M. Laitman: Yes, don't get used to a state where seemingly everything is okay, everything is flowing as it should; but rather we should be responsible for everyone.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:45)  There's a feeling that something really big is about to happen. I remember a few years ago there were the tent protests in Israel, and then we kind of united as a group, truly an internality between us, and this movement of Arvut was created from that connection, a certain place to emerge out to the people happened. It feels like now, we're before, at least from what the Kabbalists are showing us, that we're before some new outbursts to the nation, but it just did not come together in form and place. How does every Ten can contribute to this move that we started in the unity evening and in the World Kli. How can we awaken and seek this place so that we will be able to approach the people? 

M. Laitman: We will search together. We will search together. Actually, as Baal HaSulam writes, we have everything; however, we just need to realize that each and every day we have to advance towards unity between us, between all of us, and we will succeed.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (13:27) In 1933, when the Nazis rose to governance, Baal HaSulam talked to the heart of the Jews, and his message was not received despite all the warnings, he writes. The question is today, almost 100 years later, can this message make an impression on anyone?

M. Laitman: I don't think we need to make such a calculation, but it seems to me that the people today are much more alert to their situation, the situation that they're in. And they're able to accept things that earlier they wouldn't even listen to.

Student: Are the conditions more ripe to receive the message today?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: What are Jews capable of hearing today?

M. Laitman: That first of all, indeed, everything depends on them. And that they, with their power, even without agreement, without awareness, they awaken the world with all the whirlpool that we see in the world, and this is what everyone says. And therefore, we have to advance in such a time where we explain to the whole world what is the role of each and every one, and what is the role of each and every nation, and what do we have to do in order to avoid a disaster.

Student: Are Jews capable of pointing at themselves as to blame for the ones that are bringing turmoil to the world?

M. Laitman: In a balanced way, when you explain the structure of the world and out of that it should be clear that there is a role here for every nation, and especially the Jews.

Student: What does our calculation need to be in dissemination?

M. Laitman: Our calculation in dissemination should be that we explain what process, what degrees the world is going through, and that the more we connect between us, we will advance toward the goal that already exists ahead of us.

Student: In addition to explanation and raising the awareness to Jews, to Israel, to all of humanity, is there another role upon us that we have to bring the people to maybe something else?

M. Laitman: We need to bring people to connection. And first of all, we need to understand that the connection of the world depends on the connection between us. This, now, is what we have on the path. 

That's it. Okay? Well, let's continue.

Reader Reading Item 2: (17:56) We must understand why Marx and Engels necessitated the ultimate communism, where each works according to his ability and receives according to his needs. Why do we need this strict condition, being the measure of “Let mine be yours and let yours be yours,” absolute altruism?

In that regard, I have come to prove in this article that there is no hope for communism to exist, if it is not brought to this end, which is complete altruism. Until then, it is nothing but phases in communism.

Once I have proven the rightness of the motto, “Each according to his ability and each according to his needs,” we must see if these phases can yield this outcome.

Today, the terms “bourgeois” and “proletariat” no longer suffice to explain the history of economy. Rather, we need more general terms: the “class of the diligent” and the “class of the stragglers” (above in the section “Debate,” Item 4).

After twenty-five years of experience, we are baffled regarding the complete happiness that the communist regime had promised us. Its opponents say it is the absolute evil, and its supporters say that it is heaven on earth.

Indeed, we must not cast off the words of the opponents at a stroke, since when one wants to know another’s properties, he must ask both his friends and his foes. It is a rule that the friends know only the virtues and not a single flaw, for “Love will cover all crimes.” The foes are the opposite: They know only the faults, for “Hate will cover all virtues.”

Thus, one knows the truth when hearing the words of both. I wish to examine communism thoroughly and explain its advantages and disadvantages. Mostly, I wish to explain the corrections, how all its shortcomings can be corrected so that everyone will see and admit that this regime is indeed the regime that brings both justice and happiness.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (21:43) There is a question here, he writes that when a person wants to know the matters of his friend, he must ask his lovers and his haters both, because there's a rule in our hands that lovers only know one's merits and no faults, because “love will cover all crimes” and the foes are the opposite. What does it mean to know another's properties with qualities of love and with qualities of hatred?

M. Laitman: We see to what extent the public is split into two, let's say, and then each part goes to the other extreme and doesn't want to hear or accept anything from those that are against it. So here, there's a question: To what extent the public, the entire society, the nation, should be concerned about the split between them and the connection between them? This is what he's going to explain.

Student: Specifically, this division we see in humanity, this great division we see is something actually very good, that we are in a certain opportunity. Is it correct to think this way?

M. Laitman: I would say this is still from above, but what corrections are we doing against it from below? That is the question. I don't think that we're going towards correction.

Student: Can we say that the correction from below is to discover the hatred and love towards friends in the Ten and to ask for that?

M. Laitman: Well, it's clear, this is how it is, how it should be, but even more than that.

Student: But more than that? What more than that?

M. Laitman: I think that soon he's going to talk about it. Yes, please.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (24:15) We learned that in the connection between us, we're not allowed to disclose the inner feelings of our hearts, with that, it also helps us unite better. When we reach the method of communism, will there also be a certain kind of privacy of sorts where you don't open up everything from within? Where that will help us erect this society?

M. Laitman: I don't understand what you're saying.

Student: It's written that we have to come to a state where, mine is yours and yours is yours. The question is how open do we have to be in this society? Do we need to still sustain, maintain certain privacy, not disclosing the inner feelings of the heart?

M. Laitman: No, we need to disclose it.

Student: All the way? Meaning to open everything up? Everyone needs to completely live with everything?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (25:16) I wanted to ask you, you said the connection between people and the world depends on the connection between us. As of today, what's missing between us, let's say in the Ten or in all the Tens, in order to really feel the state, we want to reach? What are we truly missing?

M. Laitman: We're missing connection. We're lacking the connection between the Tens, between people in every Ten. This is how we will be able to influence the world to bestow to it our inclinations.

Student: And daily, as we do the work of connection, is that not enough?

M. Laitman: According to what you see in the world, it's not enough.

Student: Yes, if we make such a calculation that we're very far, yes.

M. Laitman: Far or near, I can't say because it depends on spiritual forces. Therefore, it can change from one end to the other within a minute. But nevertheless, we're still not in a good state.

Student: And there are also forces on our side here, and there are also forces from above and to what extent is that, not a reward, but how our advancement in connection depends on our side and on the above forces?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And my question is, just like we were talking about the unity evening, there's also a matter of dissemination here in the countries around the world. So, what does each friend in Bnei Baruch need to do, what actions need to be done? There's an action in the Ten, and there's an action in dissemination so what action does every friend need to do? There's a system already and we know that we can do all kinds of work, but what can a member of Bnei Baruch really do in the matter of dissemination?

M. Laitman: I think that we can't speak about it in general here, because there are many people here, but it seems to me that each one must search for where he can contribute to the unity of the nation and invest in that as much as possible. 

Reading Article: (28:48) How happy we were when communism came to practical experimentation in a nation as big as Russia. It was clear to us that after a few years the government of justice and happiness would appear before the entire world, and as a result, the capitalist government would quickly vanish from the world.

Yet, that was not the case. On the contrary, all the civilized nations attribute to the Soviet communist regime every bad flaw. Hence, not only was the bourgeois regime not canceled, but it also grew twice as strong as before the Soviet experiment.

M. Laitman: Yes. This is something we see. We are already witnesses to what has happened there. And this is because they don't think that they have to accept the laws of the upper nature. They didn't have a purpose, a purpose for their connection and getting closer to the Creator. 

Reading Section 3: (30:26)Why did communism had to have taken the form of “each according to his ability and each according to his actions”? A communist government cannot endure over an anti-communist society, since a government supported on bayonets is unsustainable.

Communism built on waves of envy can only overthrow and ruin the bourgeois, but not benefit the straggling workers. On the contrary, when the bourgeois are annihilated, the arrows of hatred will aim at the stragglers.

Nothing can guarantee a powerful government over the future generations except religion. Even if the progenitors are idealists, and have taken communism upon themselves, there is no certainty that their progeny will pursue it. Moreover, if the progenitors accepted it by force and coercion, which is the conduct in egoistic communism, they will ultimately rise and demolish it.

A communist regime cannot exist atop an anti-communist society, as it would have to fight the anti-communists throughout its days. This is because every person is naturally possessive, and one cannot work without motivation.

The bayonets of the army will not invert human nature, and the idealists are few. Several thousand years of penalties rest on the heads of the thieves, robbers, and fraudulent, yet they have not changed their nature even though they can obtain everything legally.

It is similar to one who comes upon a society of thieves and murderers and wants to lead them and restrict them to legal ways by force. It must explode.

Double. Double. Double.Because the majority opinion is guaranteed to win, it is all the more so with the implementation of communism. It will not persist but through the majority of the public. Hence, we must perpetuate the moral level of the majority of the public in such a way that it will never be corrupted.

Religion is the only sound basis that will persist for generations. Communism must be transformed to the mode of “Let mine be yours and let yours be yours,” meaning absolute altruism. After the majority of the public achieves it, it will observe, “Each will work according to his ability and receive according to his needs.”

Before the majority of the public achieves this level of morality, it is forbidden to nationalize the property for the above-mentioned reasons.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (35:44) It seems like he is making a connection between the altruistic communism and the rise of anti-Semitism.

M. Laitman: No, but one does not depend on the other.

Student: Meaning, the same processes are happening in parallel.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, this means that if connection rises to the direction of communism like he writes here, will the level of anti-Semitism diminish in the world?

M. Laitman: I don't think so. I don't think so. Only if we are already in stages where the world receives some benefit, some success, from the communist regime, then certainly the attitude towards the Jews will change, and in general towards the development.

Student: Why does he write here about two topics at once, if they are not connected to one another?

M. Laitman: Why are they not related?

Student: Because I understood from you that you're saying that it's not necessarily connected, that if we go in the direction of this absolute altruism, then the level of anti-Semitism will diminish. Or maybe it will?

M. Laitman: I don't think so. I don't think so. anti-Semitism exists at the foundation of nature, and it can't stand anything that relates to connection.

Student: And what will resolve anti-Semitism? We always said that the connection between Jews is the solution for anti-Semitism.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, is the connection between the Jews not what's written here?

M. Laitman: I don't see that. I don't see that.

Student: The altruistic communism, is it not connection?

M. Laitman: It is a connection, but I don't know, I don't have anything to say. And I'm also not certain that what we are reading is precisely what he wanted to convey to someone; I remember these pages, I photocopied them, so, it seemed as though he was writing it truly to himself in these large pages. And it's not that they seemed like the way he wrote for publication, for print or something.

Student: So, when we talk about the importance of increasing the connection between the people, are we at some point supposed to aim at the things that he's writing here? Not in practice, but in some direction to start bringing the people to that direction?

M. Laitman: Yes. His heart was full of this, of this inclination. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (40:29) He writes in the beginning that he cried out in 1933, he spoke to all the leaders, and now with the invention of the atom and hydrogen bombs, etc. I don't quite understand what he was crying about: If the nation is not developed, if people are not developed, then what did he want out of them? What will they do? It's like something that is unripe, all of these things.

M. Laitman: Of course, but nevertheless, he thought that specifically in the state that was back then, that maybe through connection and nearing between people, they could correct the general situation.

Student: He also writes about the Russian experiment that ended up in destruction. So, it seems to me like a contradiction.

M. Laitman: It appears to us like it is. I don't think that he saw those clashes like we do. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (41:42) One of the conspicuous principles here is that he writes that education is insufficient, and even a majority is insufficient. Only religion is enough.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: I want to ask, I heard a few views. Before approximately a decade or a bit more, you stamped a new term called integral education. You had dozens of conversations, maybe even hundreds about this topic. So, these conversations, integral education, this whole method, how valid is it for our time or in general for future times?

M. Laitman: I nevertheless think that through education, we can change the direction that our generation is advancing in. And I support it.

Student: Because you just said he writes that it's not education, but religion.

M. Laitman: Well, we don't know how to differentiate it exactly, and not even sure what is the difference. And obviously the public even less than us. But religion in our time is also education. There's not a big difference.

Student: So essentially, what is an integral education of back then, and what's relevant for now or for the future?

M. Laitman: For today maybe a little, but in the future it will be. Where integral education will bring people to the understanding that we need to turn ourselves towards connection. That's the main thing. And to learn the laws of connection, observe them. And actually, in that, the world will change for the better.

Student: And what's the difference between integral education and religion that Baal HaSulam writes about?

M. Laitman: Religion is much more internal, much more difficult, much more serious. Whereas by you educating people to religion, you have much greater forces in the connection between them.

Student: So, what will we have to start with? Religion or integral education?

M. Laitman: I think that from integral education.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (44:59) Rav, I don't know if it's suitable, but it came up in the conversation now, and Baal HaSulam speaks explicitly about religion. We usually refrain from mentioning it, but overall, if you look at the whole world, there's a big mess of people who are going towards religion. Maybe they interpret it differently, but certainly we're in times now where you can see this change. It's a situation that can continue like that. Maybe this is the time to examine how to turn to this huge audience, how to relate to it, because it's a huge force. The majority of the world is moved by religion one way or another, and we do not even address them. Maybe we should prepare for it.

M. Laitman: We're not turning there. We can't turn there, and we are not. But what Baal HaSulam means when he says religion, it's not exactly what we're thinking. It's not just to observe the customs in each nation, but rather that religion is a special attitude towards the upper force. And that's why we're not touching this, because the world is still immersed in all kinds of approaches, different ones, and it's still not executable to change things.

Student: Is it correct to think that this is something that is similar to the story of the spies, that they took honorable people, but most of them took the wrong way other than Yeshua B'Nun and Caleb B'Nephuneh?

M. Laitman: That is correct. But I don't think that we have the forces or understandings, and we haven't received yet the permission for execution to do these stages.

Student: I feel in your answer, I don't know if it's true, but it's not that we won't have to reach it or cope with it at some point, but it's still too early.

M. Laitman: It's still too early for sure. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (47:51) In the article, The Essence of Religion and Its Purpose, Baal HaSulam writes that religion is the method for recognition of evil, and we can reach this recognition only by engaging the love of others in order to reach the love of the Creator. And what was missing in integral education is this component of reaching the love of the Creator. So, this combination seems to me that it could work, because if it's only connection, now all these connection games and things like that, today everyone is engaging in it. So, there's no higher purpose in that also.

M. Laitman: Yes, I agree with you.

Student: Maybe when he writes about religion here, maybe he actually defines it, that it's a method for recognition of evil.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (48:54) As of now, is there a change in the solution to the problem of anti-Semitism?

M. Laitman: What change?

Student: I don't know, it feels like the whole thing dissolved a little bit 10 years ago. You talked a lot about it. We even did a film about it, and you say very clear things there. Now I suddenly hear that maybe the fact that there is anti-Semitism, that it's an internal part of each and every one, that's clear. The fact that you always awaken and push us, that's also clear. The question is, is there a change in how we think of the solution to this phenomenon?

M. Laitman: Yes. Yes, I don't see it yet. The world left antisemitism for a while because of its problems, which is the war in Ukraine and all kinds of other problems with weaponry. But it has yet to pass.

Student: There's no question about that. Obviously, it didn't pass. Well, Europe is now busy with the immigrants and the right, but once things will come to balance again, they'll come back to us.

M. Laitman: For sure.

Student: We can see these cycles, but in conversations with people, in the end, we always reach this point that we as Jews have a certain role in the system, and to the extent that we don't operate in congress with this role, it brings up a response in the system from the upper force, but inside the system. And if we'll start work in a way that matches our role, what is expected of us, the role to which we're destined, there will be a change also in that aspect. Is that still correct?

M. Laitman: It can still be correct. I don't know yet. If it has been revealed in matter, then I can't yet say.

Student: Okay, so again, I'm asking, is there something else we should look at or think about in relation to this problem, in relation to this pressure?

M. Laitman: I understand that only connection between us is the remedy for every state.

Student: Okay, fine. Can I ask something else about religion?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, as the friend said here, he writes about it all the time that this is seemingly the solution that can hold on over a long time, from generation to generation, and there is nothing else. And like you said, it's this story about the way a person relates to the upper force.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Is there some number of principles that characterize this thing that he calls religion? 

M. Laitman: Maybe we will understand when we continue.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (52:22) A friend is asking, in Israel today, everything that one says, the other one contradicts. Even the pressure of war doesn't produce unity, even for a temporary time. Based on what can we start this attempt to start an inner connection in this nation?

M. Laitman: We need to search. We need to search the platform that is going to fit everyone.

Student: Can I ask another question?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): Baal HaSulam says here that he turned to the leaders, and he told them that the end of the world is coming, and Israel will be burned first. I think today, too, if someone would come out to the street with such a big sign, nobody would look at it. People don't want to think about it. Nobody wants to think about the day of their death. There is a feeling here that Baal HaSulam is such a state which was just before the establishment of the state of Israel. For the first time after 2,000 years, Jews come here from all kinds of different places, different states. They are looking for a way to live together, how to build the right society. And all the methods that he examines have flaws. They are all egoistic methods. One says to people, you should live good in such a way. The other one says you should live good in that way. And he says that the only remedy that he has, a remedy for this state, but this remedy is not suitable for the people. Only people who ask, what is the point in life? What is my role? What is my calculation with the Creator can take the remedy of Baal HaSulam? Those who just want to have a good life and don't want to know too many things and just want to enjoy this way or that way, how is it possible that a remedy for the question of what is the reason for life will work for people who don't have that illness?

M. Laitman: I don't know. For the time being, it's not a solution. All right.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (54:30) We learned from you, from the way you explained it to us, that to each one you give an explanation that is tailor-made specifically for him, especially with questions about Torah and Mitzvot, commandments. To one you say, yes, of course you have to do it, and then somebody else asks you and you said, no, there's no need for it. Did I say such a thing? So, we can learn from that. Also, that when we go out, every audience have their language. The goal is to connect them and bring them closer to the Creator. Help them discover the Creator.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, that's one. Two, about these additions and drafts that we are reading one after the other. Any such excerpt we need to see what it pertains to, then it will be less confusing. Maybe we can find a small group of people who are responsible for it to make it more clear.

M. Laitman: I don't know.

Student: Me neither. And the last question, with your permission, you said everything can change instantaneously because it depends on spiritual forces. And the question is whether we can influence those spiritual forces that can change reality.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: What do you mean by spiritual forces? What are these spiritual forces?

M. Laitman: Forces of bestowal that activate the world. We, if we come closer to the forces of bestowal in the connection between us, then from the connection between us, we can bestow and influence the forces of upper nature.

Student: Naturally, inside of us, there are people who are closer to these forces.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And more capable of, I don't know how to express it, to communicate better or draw them to us. How do we, this core, we all want to make this change. How can we start operating these forces in order to influence the circles that are close to us? Seemingly those that are closer to us. Maybe we don't even see them. We don't know that they exist. But...

M. Laitman: We need to only care more and more to be adapted to the upper nature, upper force, and how to influence nature. But how will we influence the upper forces?

Student: Thank you.

M. Laitman: Next.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (57:24) I'm asking about the connection to religion. In a kingdom of priests and a holy nation, in a kingdom of priests, how will the world look at us if we are a kingdom of priests? If I'm in a kingdom of priests and I say, mine is mine, yours is yours, I have nothing to give. I don't have anything of my own. A pipe should say, his is yours and yours is yours. Then I have the pipeline between the one who has the abundance and the vessel that should receive the abundance. My question is, we, if we say come and give of ourselves everything we have and we are a kingdom of priests, we have nothing to give. Only what the Creator gives us is what we can give. So, is the whole of anti-Semitism about the fact that we are not linking this whole thing, as he says here about religion, that we say, what is his is yours? And this is how we become a pipeline between the Creator and this nation, these people. And it's not that we are the ones who are providing.

M. Laitman: I don't know. Very simple. Don't know.

Student: The question is, what should the people of Israel give? To a nation from the nations of the world. A method that they themselves will work with it or the actual light coming from the Creator to pass it on to this nation. And this nation should only be entirely connected. Let's say and then say about people of Israel, there's none else besides you. 

M. Laitman: Try to be a light upon the nations as it's written.

Student: So, I'm asking about the actual light for the nations. Does it mean that this nation says the people of Israel are the only ones who provide for me? And I only expect all of them to get provision. And my question is about the provision. Is the provision, is that we teach them a method? Like we mentioned, integral education, etc., or do we actually pass on to them light? And they receive it because they're already prepared for it.

M. Laitman: Don't know.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:00:05) Rav, I heard you now, or at least what I heard, that seems to me the most important message, is that it's not upon us to change but to adapt ourselves to the upper force. That is, if I hear you correctly, if I understand you correctly, this is our task. If we will succeed in understanding it, delving into it, to understand what does it mean to adapt ourselves to the upper force, all the nations will come.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, that's our task.

M. Laitman: Yes. Okay. 

Reader: Section 4: (01:00:38) Nationalization before the public is ready for it; it is similar to wrecking one’s dilapidated house before one has the means to build a strong one.

Just division does not mean equalizing the diligent to the stragglers. This would be ruinous to the public. Rather, it means equalizing the stragglers to the able.

Egoistic communism exists now thanks to a group of idealists that leads it. Yet, in future generations, the public will not elect idealists, but only the most capable, who are not limited by the ideal, and then communism will take on the form of Nazism.

Reading Section 4 again: (01:00:38) Nationalization before the public is ready for it; it is similar to wrecking one’s dilapidated house before one has the means to build a strong one.

Just division does not mean equalizing the diligent to the stragglers. This would be ruinous to the public. Rather, it means equalizing the stragglers to the able.

Egoistic communism exists now thanks to a group of idealists that leads it. Yet, in future generations, the public will not elect idealists, but only the most capable, who are not limited by the ideal, and then communism will take on the form of Nazism.

M. Laitman: Any questions? Yes, no questions?

Reading Section 4: (01:01:57) In the egoistic communism, the employers wish to reduce the consumption of the workers and increase their productivity, for there is always a doubt whether it will be sufficient. Imperialism is better than that, since the employers want to increase the consumption of the worker and equalize the productivity to the consumption.

M. Laitman: Yes. Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:02:49) He writes that we need to equalize the stragglers to the able, not the other way around. In what way should they become equalized?

M. Laitman: Both of them need to exist in an equal manner.

Student: So, we need to bring the stragglers to those who are capable. In what, in what they receive in what they give?

M. Laitman: In what they receive.

Student: So, it only puts a greater load on the diligent ones, the capable ones, that they'll actually give more.

M. Laitman: That's for sure. But you don't have another form of bringing everyone to connection.

Student: That is, the capable ones are obligated, in order to exist by themselves, they must exert even more so that everyone would have what they have. Otherwise, there would be lack of equality and injustice.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:04:09) Rav, in social or spiritual development, when should we proceed the act before the intention? When should the intention come before the act?

M. Laitman: Action before intention we need until the intention becomes before the action. It will be before the action.

Student: Let's say here he speaks...

M. Laitman: Let's say at first there needs to be an action more than the intention, and later, the intention before the action.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:05:00) Let's say I want to implement one in the future, but not now, this principle of an act before the intention. So, why does he say that if we do a nationalization before the public is ready for it, it's like one who's wrecking his dilapidated house before he has the means to build a strong one?

M. Laitman: That's what happens.

Student: The question is, when do we know when the act will lead to the inner moral change, and when we shouldn't make this external change because it will result in ruin?

M. Laitman: That we feel according to the opinion in the society.

Student: What should it be so that we can make an external change?

M. Laitman: It needs to be from the connection of everyone.

Student: And when there is still no connection among everyone, but we perform an external action so it will lead to a connection between everyone.

M. Laitman: Yes, these are the preceding forms to this.

Student: Is there some principle for it, because the boundary between the external act that will lead to an inner change, versus not performing an external act before there is an inner change that is ready for it, is very confusing.

M. Laitman: Why?

Student: On the one hand, there is a council that says that the hearts will be drawn after the actions. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: On the other hand, there is another council that says, if you are too early with the deed, you will cause ruin.

M. Laitman: Yes, sit and don't do is best.

Student: Yes, so how do we scrutinize the boundary? When will the act lead to an inner change, or when the act is unripe and will only result in ruin?

M. Laitman: When it's accepted upon most of the society. When it is accepted upon most of the society. Okay.

Should we move to the next part? Yes. What do we have?

Reader: We'll move on to the next part of the lesson, Letter 56 by Rabash. Before that, let's sing together.

Song (01:07:36)