The transcript has been transcribed and edited from English simultaneous interpretation, thus there may be potential semantic inaccuracies within it.
Daily Lesson (Morning), July 11, 2024.
Part 1: Baal HaSulam The Writings Of The Last Generation, Part 3, Chapter 2. The heading is The Religious Principle from Lo Lishma, One Comes to Lishma.
Reader: (00:20) Hello, we are reading from the book of the book of Baal HaSulam. Hello, we are reading in the writings of Baal HaSulam, The Writings Of The Last Generation, Part 3, Chapter 2, the heading is The Religious Principle from Lo Lishma, One Comes to Lishma. You can find the study material on our site, Sviva Tova and the Arvut System, and send live questions there. Whoever asks questions in the study hall is asked to stand up, hold the microphone close to his mouth, and speak loud and clear. The Religious Principle: From Lo Lishma [not for Her sake], one comes to Lishma [for Her sake].
Reading: (00:45) The Religious Principle: From Lo Lishma [not for Her sake], one comes to Lishma [for Her sake].
Providence has prepared the guidance of people in an egoistic manner, which would necessarily induce the destruction of the world unless they accept the religion of bestowal. Hence, there is a pragmatic need for it, and from that one comes to Lishma.
What Is an Emotional Need?
As a blind person cannot perceive color, or a eunuch the joy of sex, it is impossible to depict this need to one who lacks the emotional need. And yet, it is a must.
Performing Mitzvot [commandments]
Performing Mitzvot can become for one an emotional need.
Morality Manners
Morality manners means good attributes not in order to receive reward and without external necessity but based solely on altruism and a sense of responsibility for human society. It is achieved by education. However, education requires public approval to keep and sustain it after one departs from under the authority of the education. But public opinion does not stem from education, but only from the benefit of the public.
The benefit of the public is evaluated only according to the specific state of that public, which necessarily contradicts other states and countries. Hence, how will education help in that? The evidence is that the manner, and even the religion, sufficient for internationality, has not been created, as killing and looting rule everywhere, without any manners whatsoever. Moreover, the greater the murderer one is, the more patriotic and well-mannered he is considered. And today, it is international manners that we need.
Public Egoism Can Be Corrected Only by Religion
Public egoism can be corrected only by religion because education that is based on nothing can easily be ruined by any wicked person, and Germany is the evidence. If Hitler occurred in a religious Germany, he would not have done a thing.
Reader: (04:04) We’re going to repeat Morality and Manners.
Morality manners means good attributes not in order to receive reward and without external necessity but based solely on altruism and a sense of responsibility for human society. It is achieved by education. However, education requires public approval to keep and sustain it after one departs from under the authority of the education. But public opinion does not stem from education, but only from the benefit of the public.
The benefit of the public is evaluated only according to the specific state of that public, which necessarily contradicts other states and countries. Hence, how will education help in that? The evidence is that the manner, and even the religion, sufficient for internationality, has not been created, as killing and looting rule everywhere, without any manners whatsoever. Moreover, the greater the murderer one is, the more patriotic and well-mannered he is considered. And today, it is international manners that we need.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:56) What does the person acquire from education, and what does he acquire from public opinion?
M. Laitman: He acquires from education certain fundamentals that give him direction. And from public opinion, that positions him in a certain way relative to life, to the public, to himself, in a way that they both complement one another.
Student: Also, education, it's the environment that educates a person. So, what's this gap that he differentiates, here? What's the point that?
M. Laitman: The fact that he receives from the environment throughout his life for years. That arranges him more correctly, more certain, in a way that the public understands him, and he understands the public.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (07:35) Also, to continue that, can the public be educated through the public opinion, through the influence of the environment?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: So, what is direct education, there's a direct education for love of others? And there's public opinion that supports it, as well?
M. Laitman: I understand that direct education is when you teach children, even more adult kids, in a sort of direct manner; how one should behave and why? And they give them opportunities to exercise this new behavior.
Student: And what is the benefit of the public?
M. Laitman: The benefit of the public is for the public to feel how much it has benefit above the individual benefit of everyone. And it's worthwhile for them to connect according to a certain style because that fits the development of nature.
Student: Who will decide for the public? How will such an opinion be stabilized in the public, meaning that this is what we want?
M. Laitman: I don't know, he writes about it somewhere. But typically, he says that we need to establish an organization, a certain group, that will manage everything.
Student: I am going back to the previous letters, whether everyone in the last generation will have to move from Lo Lishma to Lishma? Or only the virtuous few?
M. Laitman: No, typically, it will be almost everyone if not everyone.
Student: Everyone needs to reach Lishma.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And what does it mean that the commandments, the Mitzvot, would awaken this state of his soul?
M. Laitman: He is talking about commandments between a person and his friend. That if a person is starting to do this and the environment supports him. Then he can see the benefit, the benefits of correction and of adapting himself to the upper force.
Student: Where is the correct relation between patriotism and nationality that he writes here? Because we see today that whoever supports internationally loses his patriotism.
M. Laitman: This is indeed not clear and not understood, and it changes from time to time. Let's put it this way: In order to establish these regimes, you need to have first a national force and later an international force, that’s how I see it.
Student: Meaning in our times, until the last generation we need to be more established, each in his nationality.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:35) Also about the same topic, he's presenting it as a contradiction that is not bridgeable. He says there's altruism and the feeling of responsibility towards the human society. On the other hand, he says that education is for the benefit of the public and the benefit of the public is according to the individual nation, which is in conflict with other nations, necessarily.
M. Laitman: Yes?
Student: So, what country would agree to educate towards altruism to the whole world if it loses its uniqueness? After all, a state is based on differentiation, on uniqueness, on separation.
M. Laitman: I don't think it has to be this way. I think that education should be for supporting a person's country. And then later, a generation later, or maybe several generations later, it'll come to the general correction of the entire world. That's how I see it.
Student: What will be the incentive for correcting this general desire? In each state, it's okay, it's even successful in some cases more than others. What's bad for them?
M. Laitman: No, there's nothing wrong with it but the fact that it doesn't do what it needs to do according to the level of its development, it will feel a deficiency in that, in all other areas. But nevertheless, this deficiency must appear.
Student: What we see, for the time being, is just the lack of controlling other countries.
M. Laitman: Right, that's for the time being.
Student: Here he's talking about manners, what is manners between countries, between nations?
M. Laitman: Each nation must show itself as being helpful to others to come out of its own primitive nature. And to rise up the degrees of connection.
Student: What does that practically mean?
M. Laitman: I don't know, I didn't even think about it much because it's still far off.
Student: Let's say it differently: Today we see this trade between nations and each nation has its uniqueness and contributes to it from the fact that it wants to benefit or profit from it. Let's say one has more oil, then he sells it because he gets more money and does more with that money. One has better technology, so it sells that. So, there is a connection between the nations, and it could already feel like one global village. But there isn't some feeling of responsibility towards others.
M. Laitman: No, no, that's not like that at all; on the contrary, I think this has to be revealed in another understanding of how much we are intertwined. How much we're connected and interdependent. Then, for the sake of true connection above trade and commerce and all the other kinds of connections, we'll need to feel each nation, the nation that belongs to it.
Student: Also, today we see common trouble, like the climate problem. And no state is able to fulfill the obligations that they took towards emissions and all kinds of other things that they committed to. They all understand that it's a common problem, they agree to do something, but they can't withstand it.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: So, either the problem is not understood as how big it is, yet? Or what would bring to such a desire that really will give responsibility to one another? What needs to happen in humanity?
M. Laitman: Clearly, if all the nations will discover the common enemy, that will help them unite. And then from their connection they'll be closer to the Creator, and they'll overcome these malfunctions that they see between them. But, for the time being, it's still far in the future. People can't see those things, they don't even want to see what disturbs them, between them.
Student: So, can we say that it's a stage of maturity that humanity will have to go through?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Like a child, I can't tell him, hey come out of the sandbox right now.
M. Laitman: Yes, it's a very important, very long, very lengthy stage. It has to traverse humanity from one end to the other end; it needs to give all of us the feeling of togetherness. And this togetherness is already an attainment that’s close to the Creator.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:34) He says that although education needs the public opinion to sustain and stand it after it emerges from education. So, I'm asking, first of all, what is it after it came out of education? What emergencies is he talking about?
M. Laitman: I guess that we're connected to one another, we're learning the different types of connections between us. And the influence on the people themselves and it's part of a certain process where we're experienced at maintaining the connection between us. And then we're not obligated to those habits that we've established, before.
Student: Because then he says that public opinion does not stem from education but only from the benefit of the public. And only after, we understand how the whole system works.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And like you said before, every nation will want to think about the other nations. It's like we're learning here how the system is working, every Ten within itself. And it's trying to contribute to the whole society. We're truly building a system like that here. I'm asking whether in this process, there is some ending where you say to yourself, here we understand the system. We understand that the observation of existence between us is new every day and here we really understand where our benefit is. Because we really feel that this building of the system is endless, every day you feel like you need to build something else and something else. And you're always missing something else in the building and you're scrutinizing more things. The question is what is the end of, when do you conclude knowing the system?
M. Laitman: Yes, all the way up to, the complete awareness. I don't know, I'm not at the end of this awareness. But it's certain that it has to come to the feelings of the public and it will determine for it what it should do.
Student: In this process where each and every one for himself, is he supposed to take it personally to say, I want to reach the end of correction? Because by me doing all that I need to do in order to reach the end of correction, I'm impacting, influencing the whole system to reach that recognition of the system as well?
M. Laitman: Yes, I think so, but these things are so distant, we can't even think about them, portray them, imagine them. We lack the vessels for it.
Student: We also learn how we have to depict the future state, our higher, more exalted state as we will be closer to the upper force, to the Creator, in His qualities. So why can't we depict it and acquire, and come closer to believing it?
M. Laitman: Because when you say now that, it's better and so on and so forth. We don't know what is better. It's not yet inside of us as a clear piece of information.
Student: You're saying, the better is something that's concealed and unclear?
M. Laitman: Yes, that has to be revealed. And who knows how many steps it's going to take.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:39) You said earlier, the feeling of togetherness from one end to the other in humanity, is actually a feeling that's closer to the feeling of the Creator.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Is it correct to understand from this that the whole axis of development of humanity is the feeling of this network, of this dependency?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: In our times if I understand correctly, Baal HaSulam also relates to this not only here, but also in the Peace In The World. In our times, the world, I understand it's not happening at the moment. But the world is already entering a certain global interdependence that never was before, is that correct?
M. Laitman: When?
Student: From our century, more or less, the 21st century?
M. Laitman: Global interdependence?
Student: Dependency between all the parts of humanity upon earth.
M. Laitman: Where was it? Did I miss Communism or something?
Student: No, the meaning is how the world is connected, economically, trade, industry, flight. The world is connected, the internet is one global village.
M. Laitman: When they started to discover that there's some benefit to being connected, interconnected but it's far from what we're talking about.
Student: Clear, now, the question about this distance between where we are today and that feeling?
M. Laitman: Unity.
Student: Yes, exactly.
M. Laitman: That we have to come to?
Student: Yes.
M. Laitman: That's from one end to the other. We are only moving farther and farther apart. We don't think of coming closer, people, governments, not at all, completely. This has to happen through certain disasters, calamities, I don't know what. But I don't think we're moving in that direction.
Student: That's exactly the question, meaning the distance appears to the extent that we're dependent on one another, we don't want this, whatsoever. It's not the state of mind, the leaders are still, how the whole leadership is built also each wants to grab control and governance. And there's no thought or direction whatsoever to how we would consider one another, it’s not there. So, the question is what, you're saying disasters, there's no way that we can enter a faster path of consideration?
M. Laitman: I don't know, it's possible that suddenly people will think in that direction, will yearn for it, and will want to come closer to it, I don't know. Today, it looks even more far away, compared to yesterday and the day before, that's what we see. But it's always like that in advancement, the more you advance, the more those things appear distant to you, unrealistic; but it's really all a result of you coming closer.
Student: So that maybe is the point of light maybe, just like in a spiritual process where recognition of evil grows, and this also points towards advancement. So, we're advancing on two axes, it seems very far but we're also advancing.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (27:02) Is there an alternative where advancement won't happen through disasters? We see, sorry for, but we have, let's say, this world disaster, COVID. It made a quick change. In a few months, the whole world started to behave differently. Is that the only way, or could it be also in a positive way?
M. Laitman: Of course everything can happen positively, and that depends on us. But I don't think we're worthy of that so, as much as we can, we need to behave pragmatically. Meaning, for connection, advancement, dissemination, everything we need in order to establish the next stage. But how much of it will come through the reforming light, the upper light, I cannot say. COVID did something, but today it can't help us.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (28:40) I had this thought: Let’s say, according to the effort of a certain generation, arrive, let's say, higher souls arrive to the next generation. Is there a connection between?
M. Laitman: Yes?
Student: Meaning, if we make efforts and we see the world around us, that there's no chance for it to develop. Meaning there's no chance for it to be so maybe that's correct, but it could be that we're building a place for souls that are higher to enter into..
M. Laitman: Yes
Student: So, actually what we see around in the existing state, it could be that the same society will want a higher, purer desire.
M. Laitman: Yes, this is called, accelerating the time, hastening the times.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (29:49) It sounds like we're living in a certain system. In which we're all incorporated in everyone, the world outside, our friends here in Bnei Baruch. And the actual root of reality that we see on the outside, is here in us, at home. Our unity, the connections between us, the efforts we make, the reflection is over there but the source is here.
M. Laitman: Yes, let’s say.
Student: To what extent do we need to feel that there's no point in correcting something outside because we're living in a certain program where the root is here. And the source of the program is here with us, because we have the wisdom and the sources. And, if we concentrate and correct and build the right systems of connection in us, our systems of correction as a society? Then actually, through being incorporated and integrated in the whole world, we are also performing the correction on the outside?
M. Laitman: Yes, it's like that, it's clear that it's like that, the world doesn't need correction, we need correction. And through our connections with the rest of the world, we're not aware of it but, we will see, and we'll come to recognize these connections, and this is how we're going to pull the whole world toward correction. Yes.
Student: It's very exciting because it shows how the processes that we're doing through on Sunday, and the scrutinies together here and the work that we're doing in the Tens. And the exertions that the friends are doing in order to come to the lessons are truly that's how penny by penny add up to a great sum. Thank you.
M. Laitman: Okay.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (32:03) In the first excerpt we read today called, the Religious Principle from Lo Lishma we come to Lishma, he's actually summarizing reality in three sentences: He says, Providence has prepared the guidance of people in an egoistic manner, which would necessarily induce the destruction of the world. Necessarily, If they don't accept the religion of bestowal which we said was the Wisdom of Kabbalah. Hence there is a pragmatic need for it, and from that we come to Lishma. Baal HaSulam is actually saying in these three sentences if I understand, correctly: The Creator arranged for us egoistic Providence that will lead eventually to the ruin of the world, destruction of the world. And that's why we need the wisdom of Kabbalah, without the wisdom of Kabbalah, the reality will reach destruction. How do we succeed or what's the way to succeed to explain this to someone. Even to myself I'm saying this because I'm reading these verses, even though I'm studying here for many years. And it's not, I understand that we have to come, and I have some inner desire to advance to spirituality but here he's saying something much harsher. He's saying that without this, the destruction of the world, that's it. How do you manage to pass such a message to someone?
M. Laitman: The way you got it, slowly, through the studies. You are raising yourself higher and higher and you are starting to see the world in a way that everyone is closer to one another. And how far we are still from the Creator.
Student: Again, I'm saying, it's not that we're distant from the Creator it's that we're going to the destruction of the world, it's a different statement. Let's go, come closer to the Creator, that's one way. The other way is, please note, guys, in a moment you reach a point of the destruction of the world. It's not that there is a lot of choice here, this sentence doesn't leave a lot of choice, anywhere. It's either you enter the wisdom of Kabbalah and work according to this method called, the religion of bestowal. Or that there will be the destruction of the world, very sharp and harsh. Now, this is a message that is, I would say it this way, if we take everything that Baal HaSulam says and he sees this from his attainment, then it's like that. It's not a question whether it's like this or not, it's like this. And now, how do we manage to bring such a message to someone?
M. Laitman: No, so we don't need to do it like that. It's just like when speaking to kids. Gradually, we can tell them, and according to their development we can explain to them more and more.
Student: For many years, I heard from you that you're saying that our leaders, there's no point in going to them, they won't understand. But rather, we need to do the correction from below, from the people. Will the people manage to understand this principle and begin to operate accordingly, and not the leaders? Because the truth is that if the leaders would, kind of, grasp this maybe it would have been easier to go from there?
M. Laitman: If you're talking about the leaders that we have right now around the world, they're not leaders, they're ushers, bad ushers.
Student: They're the ones that are causing the destruction in the world, like that he's talking about, right? I don't know but in these three sentences he kind of summarized everything. We can now continue to read more and more about how to go this way or that way, but in the end this is the point: Either the Wisdom of Kabbalah or the destruction of the world, choose.
M. Laitman: Yes, but you can't say it like that.
Student: Yes, I understand, and that's why I'm asking; how without great disasters without great suffering that people will tolerate, how can you even explain this?
M. Laitman: You have to learn how to explain it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (36:59) What happens when you advance internationally before you advance nationally, what's the damage?
M. Laitman: There has to be a certain balance; however, you advance internally so you need to bestow, externally.
Student: Let's say in our times, approaches that advance global identity before nationality; is that good?
M. Laitman: I don't know how advanced that is or not and what is it advancing really, I don't know? I have no desire to come closer to this and to begin to investigate it and turn to it.
Student: The meaning is like organizations like the UN, the EU.
M. Laitman: No, no. Everybody knows it's all a lie. No, no. We tried.
Student: What are the conditions that have to take place in humanity to move to the path of Torah, instead of destruction and ruins?
M. Laitman: Only the Wisdom of Kabbalah taking in all kinds of forms that people can accept.
Reader: (38:59) Public Egoism Can Be Corrected Only by Religion
Public egoism can be corrected only by religion because education that is based on nothing can easily be ruined by any wicked person, and Germany is the evidence. If Hitler occurred in a religious Germany, he would not have done a thing.
Reader: (39:37) Natural Egoism You will not break natural egoism with artificial means such as public opinion or education. There is no cure for this but a natural religion.
Double benefit. (40:00) The religion of bestowal is salutary for both the body and the mind; hence, it is necessitated and agreed upon more than any method in the world (see below at length).
Motive Power (40:22) There are two discernments in it: The attracting force, from before, or the impelling force, from behind.
How can education help when one is free, without any motivation for the duties on which he was brought up? After all, there is no attracting force in them, and they are also devoid of the impelling force.
The Remaining of the Soul (41:02) This is a given, as it is a part of God above. However, it is not included in the wisdom of Kabbalah because no object is attainable. Indeed, the soul appears to the person who carries it only through actions, and its actions are only attainments of Him.
It is therefore clear that the maxim, “Know yourself and you will know everything,” is from... philosophical, since in Kabbalah we should say the opposite, “Know everything and... attain yourself.” An object is not attained at all, only actions, which are attainments of His names, meaning only subjective.
Five senses. (42:08) The power in commandments is similar to corporeality, where the actions stimulate the senses. And when the senses remain ... in the memory brain, they become there images of benefit, detriment, and property. And when the mind or the will or the guard ... looks in the image of the memory, one gradually scrutinizes the images and brings the truths closer, meaning the beneficial or the property, and rejects the falsehoods, which are the detrimental.
Man’s knowledge grows according to the clarity of the scrutiny. And if in mathematics, he should attach to it images that are beneficial for clarity and validity. They also save time because these help him, as in existing property. The same goes for playing music, healing, and an attribute.
It is similar with the power of spiritual actions, which ... the commandments that stimulate man’s spiritual senses. There are two kinds of senses here, or RASHRAD [acronym of Reiyah, Shmia, Reyach, Dibur (sight, hearing, smell, and speech)], which are ord ... as well as HGT NH [Hesed-Gevura-Tifferet Netzah-Hod] of the body. It is so because perpetuation of good deeds from ... in one who works the spirit of “love,” and when it accumulates into a sizable amount ... in him the sense of “fear” of committing a sin and losing the love. And when he is sure ... of himself that he has the sense of love and fear, a sense of boas ... over his friends who were not rewarded with it is born in him (and this is property).
And following the three senses... “eternity” is born in him as a mighty one who controls his spirit. According to all the sensations of these four senses, “glory” is born in him as he admits the existence of the Creator.
And with each commandment that he adds, the five above-mentioned lower senses and the flavors of the commandments intensify in him. When they accumulate to the required amount, the five higher senses, sight-hearing-smell-speech, are born in him, to actually see His glory and hear the voice of the Creator, smell the fear of Him, and speak before Him.
And when one is rewarded more, images of the impressions of the five lower senses and the five upper senses remain in him, and he looks as though through the mirror of the brain at these impressions and sorts out the beneficial and the... and rejects the detrimental. And according to the clarity of the scrutinies, the knowledge of the Creator will increase.
M. Laitman: (46:10) We can see what stages a person has to go through in order to reach the revelation of Godliness, the knowledge of the Lord. Yes, let’s continue.
Luxury and Accumulated Property (46:40)
As in corporeality, so in learning.... in external teachings there is economics.... and medicine is regarded as scrutinies that help the standard of living for... as luxury. This is the first degree of property. The second degree is accumulating property, which is not as usable as wealth. This is the science of... and an attribute and playing music.
Likewise, in spirituality, the scrutinies that can be used... are for a spiritual standard of living, and a non-accumulating property.
There are also higher scrutinies that do not serve for the standard of living, but only as accumulating property and for important possessions such as wealth and the attribute, and philosophy.
However, both come from spiritual images that were once absorbed in the senses. And choosing the beneficial for oneself or for others is called “the knowledge of the Creator.” Know that the wisdom of Kabbalah also contains these three kinds of property.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (48:30) Can we explain what he wrote, here, because if I understand it correctly, he says that in corporeality there are two levels of knowledge, let's say. There is knowledge that you need for everyday life like economy, medicine and so on and so forth. And there is a second type of knowledge of property, like math and attributes, maybe astronomy and music. And he says that there is the same in spirituality. So, what are those two levels of spirituality?
M. Laitman: I can't say but it's connected to the feeling of the environment, spiritual or corporeal.
Student: He says that in spirituality those scrutinies need to serve the standard of living and not accumulating property. There are other scrutinies that do not serve for it, I don't understand it?
M. Laitman: That there is such a level in spirituality which is above, it doesn’t affect us. There's such a thing, that's what he's writing.
Student: So, is it accessible or not? What is the purpose?
M. Laitman: The purpose, I don't know. Just to know that it exists.
Reader: (49:52) Psychophysical Parallelism
These are two manifestations of the same entity, like thunder and lightning. This is the meaning of “good deeds and Torah.” However, a person first feels the psychic explanation, and then the physical one. It is similar to love, where the giver of the present first feels with one’s mind that the giver loves him, and then sparks of love flow and spread through him....A revealing head is psychic, and inside, it clothes ...
The Root Cause of Every Error in the World (51:29) The root cause of every error in the world is an idea—when taking an idea or an image that was once clothed in a body and presenting it as an abstract object that has never been in a body. That is, it is when it is praised or condemned according to that abstract value.
The problem is that once the concept has been stripped of a body, it loses significant parts of its initial meaning while it was clothed in a body. Those who discuss it according to its remaining meaning must necessarily misunderstand.
For example, when truth and falsehood work in the body, we praise the truth according to its benefit to the individual or to the... and we condemn the lie according to its harm to the collective or to the individual. However, once truth and falsehood have been stripped of the bodies and become abstract concepts, they lose the heart of their meaning... and acquire sanctity or impurity in their abstract form.
And according to... it is possible for the evaluator to praise the truth even when it does great harm to the collective or to the individual, and to condemn... the lie even when it is extremely beneficial to the individual or to the collective. This is a grave mistake that harms the... and one is not free to ask oneself who sanctified this truth, or ... defiled and forbade this lie.
Benefit, in Fact, Everyone Admits It (54:02) Those who dispute it, it is... that they benefit... and a moral conduct that at times contradicts the physical benefit. However, essentially, morality and religion are also utilitarian... everything, except spiritual happiness, and what is the difference?
There is not a fool who will exert without benefit for the body or the mind.
Double Benefit (54:50) Accordingly, the law of bestowing upon others is necessary for all the people in the world... as it is beneficial for both the body and the soul according to the wisdom of Kabbalah.
A Vague Complex that Must Be Resolved One at a Time (55:12) The main problem is that here there is a... complicated made of several interweaving doubts:
First: Even when not taking into account the validity, the question remains whether it is actually beneficial.
Second: Even if it is beneficial, is it feasible?
Third: Who are the people to be qualified for training the generation to such a sublime matter?
Fourth: Perhaps this operation will evoke the public’s contempt and mockery?
Knowing (56:21) Knowing comes in one of three ways, empirical, which is by physical observation, or historical, using documents and papers, or mathematical, by joining of sizes and templates through knowing.
And the wisdom of Kabbalah is more confirmed than all three above mentioned ways. There is also a fourth way to know, through philosophical deductions, either by deductions or by inductions, meaning from the general to the particular, or from the particular to the general. This is strictly forbidden in the wisdom of Kabbalah, since all that we do not attain, we do not know.
M. Laitman: (57:31) All right, we'll stop here. What do we have next?
Reader: We have a letter by Rabash.
M. Laitman: Please?
Reader: We'll go to the next part, then, and let's sing a song.
Song: (57:50)