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Daily Lesson (Afternoon) June 12, 2024.

Part 2: Baal HaSulam. Shamati 66. “Concerning the Giving of the Torah - 1,2”

Reader: Hello everyone, we are reading in the writings of Baal HaSulam, the Articles of Shamati, Article number 66, Concerning the Giving of the Torah - 1. The study material is on Siva Torah and Arvut, you can also send questions live through the sites. Anyone asking a question in the study hall should stand up, hold the microphone close to his mouth, and speak loudly and clearly. So again, the Articles of Shamati, in the writings of Baal HaSulam, Article number 66, Concerning the Giving of the Torah - 1. 

Reading article 66: (00:41) “Concerning the Giving of the Torah – 1.”

I heard during a meal on the eve of Shavuot [Feast of Weeks], 1948

The matter of the giving of the Torah that occurred on Mount Sinai does not mean that the Torah was given once and then the giving stopped. Rather, there is no absence in spirituality, since spirituality is an eternal matter, unending. But since, from the perspective of the Giver, we are unfit to receive the Torah, we say that the cessation is by the upper one.

However, then, at the foot of Mount Sinai, the whole of Israel were ready to receive the Torah, as it is written, “And the people camped at the bottom of the mount, as one man in one heart.” At that time, the public was prepared; they had but one intention, which is a single thought about the reception of the Torah.

However, there are no changes from the perspective of the Giver—He always gives, as it is written in the name of the Baal Shem Tov that each day one must hear the ten commandments on Mount Sinai.

The Torah is called the “potion of life” and the “potion of death.” We must understand how two opposites can be said about a single subject.

We must know that we cannot attain any reality as it is in itself. Rather, we attain everything only according to our sensations. And reality, as it is in itself, is of no interest to us at all. Hence, we do not attain the Torah as it is in itself; we attain only our sensations. Thus, all of our impressions follow only our sensations.

Therefore, when a person learns Torah, and the Torah removes him from the love of the Creator, this Torah is certainly considered the “potion of death.” Conversely, if this Torah that he is learning brings him closer to the love of the Creator, it is certainly considered the “potion of life.”

But the Torah itself, the existence of the Torah in and of itself, without consideration of the lower one who must attain it, is considered “a light without a Kli [vessel],” where there is no attainment whatsoever. Hence, when we speak of the Torah, it refers to the sensations that a person receives from the Torah, and only they determine the reality for the creatures.

When one works for oneself, it is called Lo Lishma [not for Her sake]. But from Lo Lishma we come to Lishma [for Her sake]. Hence, if one has not yet been rewarded with the reception of the Torah, he hopes to be rewarded with the reception of the Torah in the following year. But when one has been awarded the wholeness of Lishma, he has nothing more to do in this world, since he has already corrected everything to be in the wholeness of Lishma.

For this reason, each and every year there is the time of reception of the Torah, since that time is ready for an awakening from below. This is because it is the awakening of the time when the light of the giving of the Torah was revealed in the lower ones. Hence, there is an awakening from above, which gives strength to the lower ones to be able to perform the qualifying act to receive the Torah, as then, when they were ready to receive the Torah.

Therefore, if one marches on a path where the Lo Lishma brings him the Lishma, then he is marching on the path of truth. One should hope that he will eventually be rewarded with achieving Lishma and with the reception of the Torah.

Yet, caution is required to constantly keep the goal before his eyes or he will march on an opposite line, since the root of the body is reception for itself. Thus, it always draws to its root, which is the aim to receive, the opposite of the Torah, called “the tree of life.” This is why the body considers the Torah the “potion of death.”

M. Laitman: That's actually the entire article. It's short, but it has a few good discernments, questions please.

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (07:49) What's the difference between feeling and to feel, and how does it connect to our desire? 

M. Laitman: A feeling is something personal and temporary, and to feel, or an emotion in general is something more general. It's a feeling that stretches out over time.

Student: But it all comes from our desire? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (08:41) I wanted to ask after we march on the path for many, many years and discover the evil in us, or the hatred in us, we discover that we have no love in our hearts, that our hearts are narrow, and it has no room in it to receive anyone. Do we have the right to receive the Torah now? 

M. Laitman: Yes, actually yes. I think that once we know what is our heart and who we are, how according to our qualities, how remote are we from, how far are we from receiving the Torah, then we are holding the truth in our hands. We are unable to reach the reception of the Torah, we are unable to be connected in order to create a clear vessel for the reception of the Torah, for the revelation of the Creator between us. And once we have that feeling, that attainment, then we can reach connection between us and understand that this is the only thing we might be able to do but that’s what seemingly comes to our hands, and from the connection between us we will demand the revelation of the Torah.

Student: Amen. Do you have any advice, a practical one to do it now, all of us here? Can we ask for it? 

M. Laitman: Of course, of course.

Student: Are we ready for it? 

M. Laitman: We are ready, certainly, and for a long time already. We need to, as we are doing now, as we are sitting together now, men, women, we need to only prepare ourselves for the connection of the hearts, of the desires, our passions, our yearnings, our goals. We want to be connected to such an extent, as long as we connect in one heart, in one desire, and this desire will be only aimed at feeling the Creator inside of it. And we don't need more than that, just to feel the Creator inside our united hearts. In other words, in which we will feel the Creator, and we’ll continue to draw Him to us with love.  

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:48) There is a question here about time. He writes, Therefore, each and every year, there is a time of reception of the Torah because the time is ready for an awakening from below, because then awakens the time when it was revealed in the lower ones, the time of the giving of the Torah. This is why there is an awakening above, that gives strength to the lower ones, to be able to perform acts that qualify them to receive the Torah as they were ready to receive the Torah. Then my question is: we learn that spiritual time is cause and consequence. 

M. Laitman: No, but nevertheless the times according to how they came to be revealed in the past, these times are important. Although we don't bow down to the times and we don't make them, we don't sanctify them, but if something happened during a certain special time, we can also aim for that time.

Student: I’m trying to understand the mechanism. This planet Earth that revolves around itself and around the Sun for so and so many years, now it’s at a certain point in time, so we call it a certain time that it was then. It’s not really the same time, it’s just by the circling of planet Earth it’s called the same time in our count. 

M. Laitman: Okay.

Student: What’s the connection between this and a spiritual opportunity or an event that happened or is happening now? What’s the connection between the biological and the…? 

M. Laitman: You can ask about it regarding the very first reality, the first existence of that event. Why in such and such time, such a year, the giving of the Torah was given to Israel. Why on that day? On the one hand, the entire people, the entire nation, a big group, came out of Egypt, prepared themselves for the reception of the Torah, and on the other hand, from above, from the heavens, as we call it, came the upper light and worked on them, operated on them in such a way that they would want to receive it and to follow it. 

Student: That’s also a question, why it happened specifically at that time, but that was an event. I mean it’s something that happened when there was readiness on the part of the lower ones, they were given the preparation during the 49 days, the Exodus from Egypt, never mind. They came to Mount Sinai, at some point, to receive the Torah, great. Now, Earth revolves, another year, another year, another year, so and so many years, and today we are in the same angle of Earth and the Sun, and we call it the same day.

M. Laitman: Let's say. 

Student: Well, just for the sake of argument, I don't know if it's the same day. But what's the connection between having this opportunity now to receive the Torah and then? 

M. Laitman: I don't know, I really don't know, I don't get into it, and I don't wish to know. All I get from knowing on which time, which moments, which minutes, which seconds, in the revolution of the Earth around the Sun and the Moon, and all of us here on Earth. Why does it depend on such moments on such a day, and why does it depend on the position of all these masses that are attracted to one another up in space? I don't know, but it's also not important to me. What's important to me is how much I'm able to influence this system, which will be in this time prepared to work for me. 

Student: What does Baal HaSulam mean when he writes that now the time is ready for an awakening from below? 

M. Laitman: It's ready, it's qualified. We see that it happened once, without any awakening from below, and it's a sign that we can awaken that same root by ourselves. 

Student: But it can happen in a month or two from now, our awakening to this.

M. Laitman: Everything is possible, but we have no signs for it. However, the fact that it happened today, so many, such and such years ago, we do have a sign for that, and we can awaken it using our prayer, using the connection between us, when we ask for it to work on us today as well.

Student: In other words, we use it as an opportunity to do this work now? 

M. Laitman: Absolutely, it's not simply an opportunity, it's a clear sign, and this is the same for all the holidays, times for good, times, God forbid, for bad. Yes, that's customary this way.

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (19:07) If today is an opportunity to receive the Torah, how do we realize this opportunity? 

M. Laitman: How to realize it? To connect to be as one man in one heart, as we discussed and read about in the Torah, and this entire event to receive the Torah is to connect in the hearts so we can come to it. 

Student: Should we imagine in our hearts, in our minds, the occasion at Mount Sinai? 

M. Laitman: Its essence of course, not an image of it.

Student: What is its essence? 

M. Laitman: Its essence is the connection of the entire nation in one heart. 

Student: How does each one add his own heart to the one heart? 

M. Laitman: On that, there are many written texts and stories and sermons and explanations, many.

Student: How did they do it then, how did it happen that all of a sudden, all their hearts were arranged as they should be and they received the Torah? 

M. Laitman: It's possible that, A) they had no choice. We know that in itself it has an especially potent influence on the people, B) they really, really wanted to escape the rule and dominion of Pharaoh, that's the second thing. Indeed, they were afraid of this matter of the revelation of the Creator toward them, that it would be a temporary thing and they wanted to use it as much as possible. 

Student: How can we feel like they did? 

M. Laitman: To want, only desire. 

Student: Were they smarter than us, more knowledgeable? 

M. Laitman: No, no, it has nothing to do with wisdom, with intelligence, no. They weren't particularly intelligent or did not do anything special. Simply a desire of each one to annul himself, connect with others, with the entire people without any difference, without taking into consideration what happened before that with each one, each one had his own calculations, but they put them aside and they wanted only one thing, to rise above all these calculations and connect. They knew that only in this way, they're able to come out of their ego called Egypt and come to the revelation of the Creator, called the entrance to the land of Israel. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (22:55) He writes that the Torah is given for eternity, it's felt as a potion of life. So today, when we work in the world Kli which is essentially our desire to be straight to the Creator, today does attaining the Torah happen in the work of this society that we're building here, or does it have to be also connected to the physical, biological people of Israel that's surrounding us? 

M. Laitman: It can be any group, as long as they want to connect in the heart and they want this heart to be filled by the Creator with His attitude toward them.

Student: So, we can aspire for the reception of the Torah today in the world Kli? 

M. Laitman: Right now, go ahead. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (24:15) He says we have to be careful that the goal will always be before our eyes, or we will go in the opposite path because the root of the body is self-reception. What does it mean, what does it mean that the goal should always be before our eyes? What does it mean that the goal is not before our eyes? 

M. Laitman: Such a person wants to connect with others. He wants to be his one man in one heart, and in his connection with others, he wants the Creator to be revealed there and to strengthen that connection in the way that only the upper force can do. 

Student: Is it a kind of fear from the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Of course there's fear, there's a kind of spiritual fear toward that force.

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (25:28) All our efforts in the society to annul the will to receive, to annul before the friends, to unite with the right intention, all those efforts, are they only in order to discover that we cannot go from Lo Lishma to Lishma by ourselves, that only a prayer to the Creator that can save us from our will to receive? 

M. Laitman: No, it's not necessarily only from within our state, but we simply have to activate all kinds of forces that will help us reach such a level of connection where the Creator can be revealed. 

Student: So through all our efforts, how do we come to the understanding that only the Creator can help us? 

M. Laitman: We need to attain this knowledge along the way. We try to come closer to one another. After many actions, we see that we're unable to succeed, only the upper force, the Creator Himself can create such a connection between us that will let us succeed, such a level of quality of connection where the Creator can be revealed.

Student: The intensity of the efforts leads to subjugation, to submit before the Creator?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (27:24) To continue the friends’ question, if we look at what happened then when they received the Torah, they were in connection and received the Torah, but the world didn't change, the society didn't reach the end of correction. So, if I look at today's reality, let's say we do our work and connect and receive the Torah, who guarantees that today it'll be different, it will change reality? Meaning, how is today's situation different from the situation then? 

M. Laitman: The situation today is different than the situation back in the past in that today we have a people, a nation, we have a state, we have special conditions, we have power, we have Torah, we are capable of dealing with many problems for which we had no answer in the past. If today they would reveal to us what does it mean the giving of the Torah, what is the Torah that enters our heart and connects us together, I am certain that we would enter it in a completely different way. In the past, there were also great efforts and a lot of arguments and problems were revealed, but I think that today it would have been different. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (29:34) Basically, we have to do this process every lesson, recognizing the will to receive and then the desire to be corrected and connecting, and then praying together?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (30:02) It says that he must hear the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai every day, what does that mean? 

M. Laitman: It means that a person is obligated to reach such a connection with others it will be revealed to them that they are on Mount Sinai, connected as one man in one heart and the Creator who is in contact with them. And in this way, they come to hear the Ten Commandments.

Student: What’s the difference between receiving the Torah and reaching Lishma? 

M. Laitman: Lishma, for her sake, is a spiritual level, a spiritual degree, where each and every one from Israel must aspire to, must long for, and eventually reach. That is the meaning of Lishma, meaning to be completely, completely above the will to receive and to receive this inspiration from above that lets a person be in bestowal. Receiving of the Torah, you can say that it happened once and we need to long to reach the same state as it was once before. Meaning the connection between us will be so powerful that the Torah will be revealed between us. 

Student: What’s the desire that the Creator expects from us? 

M. Laitman: The Creator expects a desire for connection from us, a connection between us, and a connection with Him.

Okay, so we continue. 

Reader: (32:35) Yes, “Concerning the Giving of the Torah - 2.” You can find the article in the writings of Baal HaSulam, page 634 in the Hebrew edition. Article 161 in Shamati, Concerning the Giving of the Torah - 2. 

Reading Article 161: (32:52) “Concerning the Giving of the Torah - 2.”

I heard during a Shavuot meal

The matter of the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai does not mean that the Torah was given then, and that now it is not. Rather, the giving of the Torah is an eternal thing—the Creator always gives. However, we are unfit to receive. But then, on Mount Sinai, we were the receivers of the Torah. And the only merit that we had then was that we were “as one man in one heart.” This means that we all had but one thought—the reception of the Torah.

However, from the Creator’s perspective, He always gives, as it is written in the name of the RIBASH [Rav Isaac ben Sheshet], “Man must hear the ten commandments on Mount Sinai every day.”

The Torah is called “the potion of life” and “the potion of death.” We should ask, “How can two opposites be in one subject?” Everything we see with our eyes is nothing more than sensations, but reality itself does not interest us. Hence, when one studies Torah and the Torah removes him from the love of the Creator, this Torah is certainly called “the potion of death.” And if the Torah brings him closer to the Creator, it is certainly called “the potion of life.”

But the Torah itself, meaning reality in itself, is not taken into account. Rather, the sensations determine the reality here below. And the Torah itself, without the receivers, it seems we should interpret the Torah in and of itself as light without a Kli [vessel], where we have no attainment. This is considered “essence without matter.” And we have no attainment in the essence, even in a corporeal essence, all the more so with a spiritual one.

When one works for oneself, it is considered Lo Lishma [not for Her sake], and from Lo Lishma we come to Lishma [for Her sake]. Hence, if one has not been awarded the reception of the Torah, he hopes that he will receive it next year. And when he receives the complete Lishma, he has nothing more to do in this world.

This is why each year there is a time of reception of the Torah, since the time is ripe for an awakening from below, since then it is the awakening of the time when the light of the giving of the Torah is revealed in the lower ones.

This is why there is always an awakening from above, so the lower ones can act as they did then, at that time. Thus, if one continues on the path that the Lo Lishma will bring him Lishma, he is progressing correctly and hopes that he will eventually be rewarded with the reception of the Torah Lishma. But if the goal is not always before his eyes, he is moving in an opposite line from the Torah, called “the tree of life,” which is why it is considered “the potion of death,” as he is constantly drifting away from the line of life.

“I labored and did not find, do not believe.” We must understand the meaning of “I found.” What is there to find? “Finding” concerns the Creator finding us agreeable.

“I did not labor and found, do not believe.” We must understand, after all, he is not lying; this is not about the person himself, as an individual. Rather, it is the same rule with the whole. And if one sees that the Creator found him agreeable, why “not believe”? The thing is that sometimes the Creator finds a person agreeable as it is in prayer. It is because this is the power of the prayer—it can act like labor. (We also see in corporeality that there are some who provide by labor, and some who provide for themselves through prayer. And by asking for provision, one is allowed to provide for himself.)

But in spirituality, although he is rewarded with being favored, he must still pay the full price later—the measure of the labor that everyone gives. If not, he will lose the Kli. This is why he said, “I did not labor and found, do not believe,” since he will lose everything. Thus, one should subsequently pay one’s full labor.

M. Laitman: Yes, to complete his labor. Questions?

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (40:31) It says here when a person studies Torah and the Torah pushes him away from the Creator, then it’s called a potion of death. What is that state that you study Torah and it pushes us away from the request? 

M. Laitman: Let's say he becomes smarter, instead of growing in faith he grows, he is concerned with growing in knowledge. 

Student: Can it happen to us? 

M. Laitman: It can happen to anyone; it doesn’t matter who.

Student: How to avoid it, how to not come to it? 

M. Laitman: Yearn to be connected in our hearts and not through the intellect. 

Student: It depends on my environment, or only on me? 

M. Laitman: On the environment as well. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (41:25) It says that a person has to pay one's full labor. Many times, we come, we give our all, and the connection then disappears and once again we have to labor and reach connection. Why does it happen, why are these entrances and exits and when does the time of the finish come? 

M. Laitman: Entries and exits are as usual, we learn it. All in all, it’s to our benefit in order for us to add more and more labors until we are rewarded with the full measure.

Student: What is this full measure? 

M. Laitman: This I don’t know. Until we come to such a number of prayers, desires, passions, that the Creator gives. 

Student: What changes in a person in each new effort? 

M. Laitman: It’s like a new desire.

Student: And each one has his part in his desire that he has to correct? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: That’s the Arvut between us? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (43:01) I didn’t understand the last paragraph, it says I labored, and you found, believe. On the other hand, it says in spirituality, first you find favor and then he has to labor.

M. Laitman: There’s this rule that a person who has already justification, that he’s favored already, then he can come to the Creator, reach the Creator through efforts, through prayers. 

Student: What is this justification, he found, find favor or not? 

M. Laitman: He feels this way as a sign from above.

Student: What does it mean to find favor? 

M. Laitman: To be favored means that he feels that the Creator is coming closer to him. 

Student: He can feel it because he labored or without laboring? 

M. Laitman: Without, it’s impossible. 

Student: So it’s like corporeality seemingly, he has to labor and then? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (44:30) Right, each and every year is the time of the receiving of the Torah because the time is qualified for an awakening from below since then, the time for the lower ones to receive the Torah. I’m asking, why is there a time that favors us to receive the Torah? 

M. Laitman: Time is only a sign, it’s not like it’s time the way it is now, at 2.45 P.M., that’s the time.

Student: Is there a special time, more special compared to today or tomorrow? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So there is a time. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Why is there a time in the system where it is easier to receive the Torah, what changes in the system? 

M. Laitman: Because the world revolves and returns to the same points on its way.

Student: On the other hand, he writes that there’s no cessation from the side of the Creator. 

M. Laitman: It doesn’t matter, I’m telling you what I understand. Earth revolves, the Sun, the Moon, all those spheres revolve and return to the same states that something happened in the spiritual system, and now too, we use it. We have no other way to connect ourselves. 

Student: So what’s so special, what can we extract from this day, how do we take advantage of it? 

M. Laitman: Today is a special day because so and so many years ago on this day, the people of Israel received the Torah, received the Torah. They were at Mount Sinai and received the Torah and the Creator showed it to them. Well of course, you need to interpret this correctly, not corporeally, but this is what they saw. The whole nation saw the voices.

Student: How can we see the voices, receive the Torah, be in that occasion? 

M. Laitman: We cannot and we should not return to it. We should only aim for this time and this day and try to approach it with our vessels. 

Student: What’s special about this day? What more can we receive from it except for the impression and the knowledge that it once happened? 

M. Laitman: Nothing, nothing, none. There is no holiness in this day and no holiness in the Sun or in the Moon.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (47:52) Continuing the scrutinies, the Torah awakens in us feelings, forces within. Sometimes they contradict one another, and they cause confusion or even a bad mood. Is the attitude to the Creator the correction or is it a deeper scrutiny of these forces or states? 

M. Laitman: The connection between us is the main thing that we awaken through our connection with the Creator. 

Student: You're talking about the time we're reading the sources, how can we relate it to the connection? 

M. Laitman: I don't know, I think that each one is trying to find some personal point for himself in each article and connect that point to the Creator. 

Student: You just said the connection between us, how to tie it to the Creator through the connection between us? 

M. Laitman: That too, I have to awaken the points in the hearts in the friends and connect them together and then that connection, to try to elevate it to such a level where the Creator is revealed in it. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (49:34) Is it possible that we don't suffer enough from a lack of connection between us? 

M. Laitman: Of course.

Student: How do I reach a state where I can't tolerate any longer the lack of connection between us? 

M. Laitman: You don't need that, you need to approach the right connection out of love and affection and not because I can't stand it anymore. 

Student: But the people of Israel received the Torah when they couldn't stand any longer the will to receive, the Pharaoh and left for the desert, and this desire was created in him. So we should also go through these stages within and reach the state where, since it's so difficult for us to remain loveless, that we would want love.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (50:43) He writes here when he received the quality of Lishma in whole, he has nothing more to do in this world. In receiving the Torah, there is this thing called Arvut, mutual guarantee, as one man in one heart. It means that I sign with my friends, my people, that until the last one enters, I don't enter. Here he says that when he received the Torah, he leaves this world and he enters the spiritual world. Right now, it seems like we are the spearhead among the people and if we receive the Torah and we're the head, we’ll enter the spiritual world. I'm asking about the Arvut relative to reality and this people and this world. How do I accept Lishma on Mount Sinai and I'm the one who's holding reality back. Reality was waiting for me, when I enter, reality will fold upwards. That's the question, how because I'm a guarantor to all of reality and to the nation, to all the friends. How do I receive Lishma in full as the heel, as the last one? 

M. Laitman: Yes, to the extent that you perceive the situation as you depict it to us and moreover, when you come to such a state, you will probably complete the ascent of everyone to Lishma. 

Student: So there is such a reality along the way, there is such a state like that, yes? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: In Shamati 4, then he feels that he leaves all his friends and the world behind and the state that prevents him from going in is lack of faith. How? You said earlier about one of the questions, you answered we should receive it right now. Nothing is stopping us from receiving it, we are ready. In other words, we have sufficient faith to fold upwards this moment by the reception of the Torah. What is this point that we all cry out together and we break this wall between us and the thought that shows us as faithless slaves? 

M. Laitman: We need to work on the connection between us to the point that we connect as one man with one heart and the Creator will fill our whole Kli, our whole vessel, our whole, one thing for everyone. 

Student: But as long as we have that answer, that we will work and connect and then we will receive, then we will cry. Anyone who has tomorrow will never receive the Torah as you wrote.

M. Laitman: What do you want from me? 

Student: I wanted to ask, why is there this lie here? 

M. Laitman: There is no lie. 

Student: You’re telling us to our face that we’re united. 

M. Laitman: No.

Student: You said it today. 

M. Laitman: No way, I didn’t say it. If we were ready, we’d be receiving, the law is a law. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (55:19) About the fact that the person has to complete his labor, you said earlier that he feels that he found favor with the Creator by coming closer to Him. Meaning, he feels the Creator gave him greater yearning for Him. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Then you said about completing the labor is through prayers and efforts. What are those efforts? 

M. Laitman: Efforts in connection with the friends, that we will all be in one heart. 

Student: We said there are entrances and exits in those prayers and we can’t avoid it, it’s for our own good.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: But can we ask Him to increase the pace of these entrances and exits? 

M. Laitman: It all depends on us. 

Student: On what? 

M. Laitman: The Creator gives the maximum frequency that we can tolerate.

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (56:28) How do we ensure that the desire we will have to receive the Torah, everyone in one thought, that it will not be for our own benefit? How do we ensure that it will not be to our own benefit? 

M. Laitman: Not for our own benefit, how do we see to it? We simply guard all of our desires and thoughts to keep them only for the benefit of others and through them to the benefit of the Creator.

Student: Can we ask that all the friends, the Creator will protect them from these thoughts? 

M. Laitman: Yes, by all means, turn to them and ask. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (57:26) Every lesson we end it with your blessing. Aim us, guide us, how can we bless Rav during this holiday of the giving of the Torah, what do you need from us? 

M. Laitman: What I need from you is connection, that you will connect among yourselves and to me and that we together will connect to the Creator and He will hear our outcry, Amen. 

All the best to you. I recommend to you to receive the Torah and bring it to the whole of the people of Israel and to the whole world and let's hope we come to this. Thank you.

Reader: (59:26) Announcements. 

Song: (59:37)