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Daily Lesson (Morning) January 26, 2025.

Part 1: Baal HaSulam. The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee). #23.

Hello, we are reading from the article “The Arvut” from Baal HaSulam, this is in item 23. You can find it in the study materials tab in the Arvut system. You can also find it in kabbalahmedia.info, and you can also send questions live during the lesson. So, we will read from Baal HaSulam's article “The Arvut”, item 23. 

The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee). #23 

Reading: (00:25) With these words, we clearly understand what we said above in Item 5 about the Torah being given specifically to the Israeli nation, because it is certain and unequivocal that the purpose of creation lies on the shoulders of the whole of the human race, black, or white, or yellow, without any essential difference.

But because of the descent of human nature to the lowest degree, which is the self-love that rules over all of humanity without restraint, there was no way to negotiate with them and persuade them to agree to take upon themselves, even as a mere promise, to exit their narrow world into the wide spaces of the love of others. The exception was the Israeli nation because they were enslaved in the savage kingdom of Egypt four hundred years in horrible torments.

Our sages said, “As salt sweetens meat, agony polishes man’s sins.” This means that they bring to the body great purification. In addition, the purification of their holy fathers assisted them, as said in Item 16, which is the most important, as some of the verses of the Torah testify.

Because of these two forewords, they were qualified for it. This is why the text refers to them in singular form, as it is written, “And Israel camped there before the mountain,” which our sages interpret as “as one man with one heart.”

This is because each and every person from the nation completely detached himself from self-love, and wanted only to benefit his friend, as we have shown above in Item 16 regarding the meaning of the Mitzva, “Love your friend as yourself.” It turns out that all the individuals in the nation had come together and became one heart and one man, for only then were they qualified to receive the Torah.

M. Laitman: Questions please?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (04:39) It is written that each and every one from the nation is completely detached from self-love. How can one detach from his nature completely?

M. Laitman: Apparently, the conditions that they're in were such that they bring them out of self-love. The enslavement works on a person such that he wants with all his strength to come out of self-love.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:08) What kind of slavery or feeling of slavery causes one to want to detach from self-love? 

M. Laitman: It's that self-love which is human nature, is in opposition to what a person thinks, wants, prepares himself for to understand and receive all kinds of impressions that we get throughout our life. So much so it works on him to such an extent that he's willing to come out, in whatever way there is, to come out of self-love. 

Student: It is said, they were suffering for 400 years, so it appears that real suffering from this slavery is required in order for one to agree to try another way or to really separate from this self-love. What can we learn from them? What kind of work do we need to go through? What kind of influence do we need to go through to exit self-love? 

M. Laitman: We have to exit nature, which is revealed more and more as pressuring us. So that we will invert ourselves in order not to be in self-love, and in such a way we will distance ourselves from that state. The question is, by which actions will we want to leave the corporeal nature and enter the spiritual nature?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (09:48) So, following what you're saying, what is really this force that you're talking about, that is special about the Israeli nation who's taking this role? 

M. Laitman: Apparently, with respect to the nations of the world, the Israeli nation, specifically, is not capable of feeling itself as existing and developing within self-love. And therefore, with all its might it wants to transition to a different stage.

Student: You said in the beginning that we need certain conditions. And here we see that in the beginning of the quote, thanks to the suffering in Egypt, it qualified us for our role. And we see to this day that as we go through different incarnations, as we go through different kinds of suffering, what is special about this Israeli nation? It has to go through such suffering to be qualified for this special role, to actually come to feel that they need to serve the Creator in the best way?

M. Laitman: I think that the fact that we exist under the revelation of the governance of the evil nature, is what brings us closer to become free of it, free of this nature. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:21) He says here that the goal of creation is to bring all created beings to the final correction. And he doesn't separate between different types of people, but there needs to be a passageway, which is the group called Israel. It's not clear why in corporeality there needs to be a group, which also doesn't understand its role on the one hand; on the other hand, nature requires it to do its role. Why couldn't there be just a team of points in the heart that will be the passageway each time? What's the point of this? 

M. Laitman: That they have a prior development that gives them the possibility to understand in which path of development they're in, and what needs to be done in order to go through this stage, to run away from the enslavement in Egypt. 

Student: But if we're talking about internality, which is the role, Galgata Enayim, which is a collection of people not connected to a certain nationality, it's a unique nation, which is like a team from all nations. There are 70 nations, and then there's this selection from all of them, and they need to be a passageway. He writes, there has to be a passageway because there's AHP, and that's the purpose of creation, there has to be a passageway because all at once it's impossible, that's clear. But why does there need to be a nation in corporeality that, seemingly, doesn't know its role, and still there's a demand from that group to do its role? So, what for? Why wouldn't nature just demand the people that are doing this role?

M. Laitman: That's exactly how it was done. It's just that here there is an example, that nature is taking us through something special, so that from that we will have to learn what nature wants, and what is upon us to do in order to move away from the suffering. 

Student: That's clear. The people in which nature awakens the point in the heart, they basically, are supposed to do their job to be a passageway for the Upper light. But those that He doesn't awaken and are still considered Israel from a corporeal perspective, what is their role, what for? For thousands of years they're not doing their job and only suffer, what for?

M. Laitman: Apparently, there is a global calculation for every nation and it's not a calculation which is with individuals.

Student: Why does there need to be a nation that doesn't know its role? Because the role of Israel is only to be a passageway. And being a passageway is only if the Creator awakens the point. You can't just be a passageway.

M. Laitman: The Creator awakens it, yes.

Student: Right, so why does He awaken it in some people and some not, but He demands it from everyone?

M. Laitman: Well, the demand from everyone is quite general. But only with individuals you might say He awakens them in a personal way. This is what we see throughout all of history, that there are such people in Israel, and in the nations of the world, who feel what they're going through, what is the reason and the form of development. And there are those who are not aware of it, but rather, well like all of the people on this planet - it's the law of nature.

Student: So, there is an obligation on them to be the passageway?

M. Laitman: It's not an obligation that they feel, but rather they exist in such a way.

Student: They certainly don't feel it, but you see that the Creator relates to them with judgments all the time, throughout history.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, I'm asking, what's the essence of this phenomenon?

M. Laitman: It's in order to develop them faster than the other nations. It's in order to develop them in a unique way, for a particular goal, a particular direction. 

Student: So corporeal blows and suffering develop people even if they're not aware.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So that would be the purpose?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:33) Maybe to continue what the friend is asking, why does one nation need to set an example for all the other nations? Why not a group in each nation giving an example for its nation?

M. Laitman: I don't know. There are many possibilities here, but this is what we see from the Torah. That the world was made like that to begin with.

Student: So, in practice, you don't really see that there is Israel here who is giving an example to everyone, and everyone learns from them?

M. Laitman: It depends on how you look at it.

Student: How to look at it? 

M. Laitman: Well, if you look according to the nature of creation, according to history, according to what is happening in the whole of humanity, then nevertheless, we need to say that there are special things in this nation, and apparently their development has to explain to the whole world a particular way towards the peak of development.

Student: Okay, so now Israel is not doing their job right now. What we see now is intermediate stages of development. 

M. Laitman: Let's say so.

Student: Now, Israel went through suffering in Egypt, there was no Torah, then they received the Torah, and now they have another way to advance instead of suffering. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Okay, so that was then, what about today?

M. Laitman: They're also advancing in the same way.

Student: It's just I see that the suffering Israel goes through doesn't push Israel to change. 

M. Laitman: Look, with history you can't say according to the time that they're in a particular state. It expands and it pushes the human race in different forms. And only after some time you can say that what we went through, well, we went through that, and whatever it did within us, it was done in such a way. 

Student: So, how to look at suffering as incorrect work of Israel, something they did wrong, and then that's the result, or it's a preparation for something bigger? 

M. Laitman: No, I think that we need to see our development through suffering, that this is the way that we understand more than other forms of development, and that we do actually develop, just not in the pace which is satisfactory. 

Student: On the other hand, the path of suffering is a less preferable path.

M. Laitman: On the one hand, but on the other hand it is certain that by it, we develop correctly and quickly.

Student: When he writes to exit their narrow framework into the wide spaces of love of others, what expands in man's world? What changes in one who goes out of this narrow world to a wider space? 

M. Laitman: It's that he begins to see the whole of humanity as one group that is developing.

Student: Still, what is special about it? Because humanity now also gradually expands its view to a more integral global view. So, what is it here?

M. Laitman: What's in it? Simply, that this group needs to develop, and parts in it develop and influence each other. This is what we see.

Question (Woman Turkiye 8): (24:11) Why does suffering bring the purification of the body, and how do I know that my suffering brings purification? 

M. Laitman: We don't quite understand that and feel it, but rather as difficulties, hardships in our existence. But gradually, over many years, we begin to feel how much our nature doesn't let us rest. And how much we, nevertheless, must be accountable to ourselves. And how we need to change from one state to another. 

Question (Woman MAK 43): (25:34) How does the change of intention from Lo Lishma to Lishma change the perception of suffering? Can we say the suffering takes on the quality of bestowal?

M. Laitman: The suffering softens the way and it helps us to go from one state to another.

Question (Woman Moscow 8): (26:15) What does it mean to detach, to exit self-love in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: That within the Ten, we will feel more and more, how much we are close to each other, tight with each other. And that we converge in the center of the Ten, and we try to be more like one man in one heart.

Question (Zichron 1): (26:49) How does the purification of a single individual influence the whole nation? How can there be a state when everyone is like one man? 

M. Laitman: Each and every person influences the whole of humanity. And therefore we need to see how much we ultimately, even if we are very small and very broken into tiny pieces, we nevertheless are coming closer to the understanding and the feeling that we exist in a single system. 

Question (Woman Heb 2): (27:51) What practical actions will help us leave our corporeal nature and enter the spiritual nature?

M. Laitman: Only coming closer between us, only coming closer between us. Even though throughout history it operated mostly, especially on the Jews within the human race, but along with that, it also works in general, on everyone.

Question (Latin 1): (28:36) Why does Israel forget its role in the world?

M. Laitman: It's not that they forget, but against this understanding of development, there is also a difficulty in the development. The understanding of the development depends on the brain, and the difficulty in the development depends on the heart. These seemingly are different forces.

Question (Latin 26): (29:26) How can I identify and overcome the inner barriers of self-love, preventing me from reaching a state of love for others as described?

M. Laitman: Well, each and every one feels that he has such breaks ahead of him, that he's not capable of passing, even though there are moments when they're willing to, but it's only momentarily. Therefore, there is a problem here. We need to see all of these things with the perspective of the many years that humanity is going through, and whether something is happening to it, and what is happening to it along the way. We see that on the one hand, it does work on us, we develop. Relative to how humanity was thousands of years ago, today we're much more developed, that's on the one hand. On the other hand, it's not that we reach any achievements, truly in our brain, in connecting between us, but rather, there is no solution, apparently, there is no solution. And so here we have to go through some stage of emotional, internal development. This is the special thing that we have to do in our time. I understand that there are many questions here, because we haven't reached the understanding of our situation, the understanding of our development. Well, what can you do? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (33:41) I heard that there are barriers facing each one, and perhaps you agree for one moment, but then how do you grab hold of that moment and not let it escape?

M. Laitman: With attention, attention to the force that is developing us. What is happening with it so that we feel it or we don't feel it, how do we cope with it? Yes, there are many questions here that actually, there are questions that there are no clear answers for them yet. And therefore everything seems to be this way, in a fog. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (35:32) If we can ask about the suffering and torments that aid development but in an undesirable way.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: From spiritually speaking, I once heard you say, that any state where there's no match between, no accord between the light and the Kli, that causes suffering. Meaning, there's deficiency in the Kli and it pushes the Kli to evolve, to advance in the right direction. Now, if possible to just try and understand this mechanism. When a person really suffers in an unbearable way, then he turns to the Creator naturally. The mind doesn't help here. You get to a point of suffering, real suffering, then it's automatically built that way that one is searching, turning to the Creator naturally. Now, we say if we give a person understanding, of which he needs to be somewhat developed already, so if we give him an understanding that you can develop and you might feel suffering still, but you can direct it in a way that your development will be fast. So, what is the problem with this not working?

M. Laitman: I can't say. 

Student: Because a person can say, okay, I understand it intellectually, but I can't. Until I suffer all the way to the end, I don't understand.

M. Laitman: This is what he gets, he deserves. 

Student: He writes here that because the people of Israel suffered much, that makes them qualified. Now, what happened in the past, I'm asking from a spiritual perspective, there's a certain qualification. How to awaken it, how to make it felt in the person? 

M. Laitman: Through connection with others, what we call the prayer of many. 

Student: Meaning, what depends on us is also people who didn't yet arrive. If we connect, it influences them,  there's some click?

M. Laitman:  Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (38:30) When you say that we have to look at everything with a broader perspective, not to enter a certain moment, but look at the whole process of evolution as something very long and big, at Israel, and also the nations of the world, where are we in that process? 

M. Laitman: We are in a process where we begin to understand that our development should cause a change in our inner development. It's not that externally nations will get closer to each other and so forth. Rather, the development should lead us to get closer through inner discernments, that we’ll recognize that to the extent each one aims for development, by that we bring about the hastening of the collective development.

Student: What makes it into inner development? What suddenly brings a person a change, such that he understands that everything is internal?

M. Laitman: That's development. Bit by bit, it nevertheless influences indirectly to deeper and deeper points. 

Student: What is this transition from an external form of development to an internal form of development? What causes this transition? At what point in time and why?

M. Laitman: It's just a form of development, there's nothing to add, that's how nature develops.

Student: Okay, and if we look at our development, we go through different stages of development where Israel, the Israeli nation, is something that is forming, it's like a little child without a mind, without an understanding that gradually develops and starts to get an understanding of what he is, what is his role.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And we have nothing to do about these stages of development?

M. Laitman: We can speed them up.

Student: How exactly? 

M. Laitman: By being more sensitive to the force of development and what it wants to lead us to, and how we can be together with it in the same direction, making the same steps forward. 

Student: But He has a plan, and there are stages of development where we can see that it is working in a slower pace than how we grasp the states, and what is my sensitivity to His… How does my sensitivity to His actions upon us change these times, how does that work? 

M. Laitman: Each and every one can participate in that and awaken this force of development to influence in a more conspicuous way on us, to advance us. It all depends on our desire, to what extent we awaken this desire. 

Student: My sensitivity, even of an individual to the situation, changes the orders, changes the plan of creation, changes the times that it takes. 

M. Laitman: The process has to work on us, it has to happen, but we should speed it up.

Student: I understand that if I develop sensitivity, then I'm more sensitive to His plan, but I don't understand why this sensitivity hastens the times, and the change in the plan accelerates the pace of development, so it's more internal. Why is that? What is happening here? It's just that I join this process, I enter it with my emotions, but how does that change the times?

M. Laitman: Because you change your sensitivity, you change your attitude to the developing force. And by that, you influence the collective, the whole, through the Ten, through bigger constellations of the public.

Student: The sensitivity of an individual changes something for everyone? The more I join it, it accelerates things for everyone?

M. Laitman: Somewhat, yes. 

Student: Another question, we know that the Congress, from our experience, always accelerates our development. You always say that the Congress is equivalent even to a year of study, if we do it correctly. How can we use correctly, the upcoming Congress, to bring about an even faster inner development? 

M. Laitman: To connect. To understand that the future depends on how much we are drawn to it. And by that, I also change time, space, and form, of development itself.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (45:12) About suffering and agony, in our work in the Ten, in the connection between us, each one has troubles and sufferings. But the feeling is that the higher suffering is when there is no connection, when we don't manage to connect, or there are thoughts and desires that repel us from connection. It starts to be a more qualitative sorrow. And we also understand that when we rise to a higher degree of connection, that all the problems we had and the troubles, they were purposeful, like a friend was saying, and they were directing us to a higher degree of connection and nearing. So, I wanted to ask, how does this connect with incorporating with the sorrow of the public? How does that influence us? How do we use this ability to justify the Creator and the states that we're going through towards a greater connection for the general Arvut, with the entire public? Can we use this technique somehow?

M. Laitman: The technique is simple. To the extent that we connect with everything that we've prepared and made, we need to realize the connection. So accordingly, we will feel how much we advance, we understand, we become incorporated, we feel. And that is essentially the desired work. 

Student: When we shift the Ten to the scale of merit, what does that mean? That we made some place?

M. Laitman: That you are building the place, that there is some part of creation here, if we can call it a part of creation, that needs to become revealed and then fulfill this place. 

Student: Shifting in the Ten is closer to us. We understand the inner effort, above reason, and the connection between us, and justifying the friends and wanting to have a place.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: How does this method work towards the world? Should we justify the way the Creator relates to the whole of reality?

M. Laitman: I don't know, I don't think it's the same steps, I don't think so. I think that here we'll have to rise, to kind of pace and steps that are big, bigger steps. I don't have more to say, but we should become ready for it.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (48:50) I heard that we need to pay attention to the force that is developing us and cope with it. What does it mean to pay attention to the force that is developing us?

M. Laitman: Meaning, to try to feel what He wants of us in each and every stage of development. That the Creator changes His action towards us every moment, and we as if need to listen to His voice.

Student: This attention should be in the Ten, in the connection between us? We need to reveal this inner sensitivity in the connection between us, each and every one?

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, correct. 

Student: And what do we discover there? It's in our connection with the Creator, what He wants from us?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And how do we actually strengthen the connection between us and the Creator in this form, when we show more sensitivity towards each other?

M. Laitman: You speak amongst yourselves, and you discover what you all think together, and how is it possible to connect among you to such an extent that it will bring about your connection with the Creator. And that's basically everything, that's our whole work.

Student: Because I also heard before that we have to cross a stage of inner emotional development. So, what is that stage? What do we have to go through in order to go through this stage? 

M. Laitman: That we will understand that the change has to be in the extent of our connection, the connection between us. 

Student: What will make us open more to each other, not be afraid? What will make us open up more, open our hearts to each other, not to be afraid of it, not to be afraid because we can feel that, we don't open ourselves enough towards each other.

M. Laitman: I don't feel, I don't feel that we are open to each other. I don't feel that each and every one is developing or opening up his heart to receive the others as closely as possible, without any barriers. This is a big problem, that our heart is the hardest. There's nothing harder in nature than man's heart.

Student: What else do we need to do in order to open up this hard heart? Because it's really felt, that it's placing a wall, so what do we need to do? 

M. Laitman: To ask, to pray to the Creator that He will help us open our hearts to become incorporated in each other. But this needs to be a constant inclination collectively of everyone towards a single place.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (53:39) I heard, you say a sentence now that felt very special in the Ten. There is nothing harder in nature than man's heart.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: You see that in nature, the hardest material known to man is a diamond. The diamond is actually very appreciated, very precious, very rare. So how, when we want to get closer to each other, preparation for the Congress, in order to draw the light, how do we soften our heart? Just like when a diamond is processed in such a way that it becomes something very precious, very precise. How do we open our heart towards the friend more than the efforts we're making now? What is the first step towards an inclination towards the friend? What should I see in him, how should I see him? What am I supposed to receive within him, what should I not receive from within him? What change should I demand in me, in him? We truly want to succeed in that.

M. Laitman: We have to connect the hearts. To connect the hearts and and reach a state where you feel it as one heart.

Student: If I detect that in that hard heart, there are parts that need more softening, what softens our hard heart the most? For example, I'll ask in a different way, maybe. When I want to ask for a friend, when I try to detect his lack, his desire, with respect to the Creator, and I feel that in truth, I have no connection to this lack. Sometimes, it's completely the opposite of everything that I think, and I realize that there’s a problem here. We heard that we need to ask for the friend, but how can I ask for something that I don't feel it's me? How can I connect it, or him to me?

M. Laitman: That's a problem. The hearts are still in distance from each other. 

Student: When we receive some opportunity for connection, some state where the Creator shows us a place for correction, and on the other hand, He also reminds us, He gives us the end of a thread, and He reminds us that He exists, meaning He doesn't just bring us darkness or an unpleasant state, but with it, He also brings us the end of a thread. Now, there are states, where He brings us, that He brings us without the end of the thread, only after the state you recall that, oh, there's the Creator, how did I miss it? I had an opportunity, I received a blow, some darkness. Why does He bring us states like that also? Seemingly, there's nothing to do with them. Or, maybe, there is something to do with them?

M. Laitman: There is what to do. Yes, you should be sorry for going through such states.

Student: To regret it. And this sorrow advances the person?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (58:35) I apologize for the question, but what does it mean to receive the Torah?

M. Laitman: What is what? 

Student: To receive the Torah. 

M. Laitman: Receive what? 

Student: The Torah. 

M. Laitman: What is to receive the Torah? It's about discovering my whole path of development that I need to go through. 

Student: And if the condition to receive the Torah is to be united, to be as one man in one heart, this is a sign that we didn't receive the Torah yet? 

M. Laitman: A sign that probably not.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (59:52) It says that each and every person from the nation completely detached himself from self-love and wanted only to benefit his friend. He only wanted to benefit his friend. What is that? 

M. Laitman: In what form of influence over the friend will I work so as to cause him to reach his correct form of development. 

Question (Turkiye 4): (01:01:26) What was it in the enslavement? What was it in the slavery in Egypt that made them detach from self-love? How did the enslavement in Egypt cause Israel to detach from self-love? 

M. Laitman: Because they felt the slavery so much that they couldn't bear staying in it anymore, and therefore they had to escape Egypt. So we have to try to feel in our attitude to the world, to any other people that we are in such relationships and states between us that we can't bear ourselves. And then we can get closer to redemption. 

Question (Woman Turkiye 8): (01:03:07) You have heard you say that we should connect our hearts, but it seems that this condition of connecting the hearts is always renewed, so how can we make this connection stable, permanent? 

M. Laitman: I didn't hear you well. 

Student: I heard you say that we need to connect our hearts, but it seems that the connection between the hearts is something that constantly changes, it's constantly renewed. So the question is how do we maintain stability in the connection between the hearts? 

M. Laitman: We have to maintain the direction, that I wish to be connected with all the hearts together in one heart. Then I will certainly hear the matter of truth that exists in the inclination of each and every heart.

Question (Woman Moscow 6): (01:04:58) Thanks to what can we increase our sensitivity, so that we can hear the Creator every moment? 

M. Laitman: Getting closer among the friends, more and more and more. Then we'll feel how much our hearts are bound in a certain kind of connection. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:06:00) Yesterday we were in this concept of Arvut. It was so emotional, so strong, that this word was in the air all the time, Arvut. And a friend asked a very emotional question, and you answered in a very strong way, and the afternoon lesson was amazing. The question is, we know that the nation entered this condition when they were in a dead end. They were forced into it. So, for us, in order to reach this leap called Arvut, can we reach it through mutual help, or do we have to be forced into it? 

M. Laitman: Meaning, we have to get to mutual aid, either we get there ourselves, or we're being pushed there. So what do we think? 

Student: What do you think? 

M. Laitman: I think that we need to try and get there as much as possible. And then we will feel that we're getting closer. There are many more hurdles on the way that we have to cancel in order to be in Arvut. Meaning, if I could be instead of the friend, and the friend could be instead of me, and so each could be instead of the others that way, then we get closer to Arvut.

Student: But this a strict condition that either this will be our burial place, this condition has to be there or we jump, right? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:08:31) Yesterday we talked in the Ten, we had a Yeshivat Havarim, and we discussed the question, how will we care for the friend more than ourselves. Most of the friends agreed that we do have to care for the friend, but the second part, which is to care more than myself, almost everybody agreed that it's impossible. Veteran friends with experience on the path, there is some point there where we truly feel some enslavement, slavery, that the ego doesn't really allow us to make this transition, that the friend is a part of me, or even more than my me, and everybody feels that. And we don't know how do we truly make this transition. 

M. Laitman: All of the actions that we have to do  on the path of correction, they are actions that the Creator does, and we only reveal the need for it within us, that we want Him to do it. So try to do it that way. 

Student: The need exists there. The need exists, and Kabbalist tells us that you have to do, then hear, that there is a general consensus that it is impossible. 

M. Laitman: How do you all know that, that it's impossible? 

Student: That is what it feels like. We do believe it is possible, but… 

M. Laitman: So you try and you saw it's not happening, you let it go, and today it's already accepted that way. That's not good. 

Student: So at that point we actually have an opportunity to jump, to leap at that point? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: How do we do it in those points? How do we not miss out there? 

M. Laitman: To jump, like you say. Yes, jump to a state that you don't know how to go through.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:11:12) You talked about making a place in your heart for the friends, let them enter there. How do we do it? 

M. Laitman: Speak to your heart and see. 

Student: How do I persuade it? There is a resistance. 

M. Laitman: Speak to it, speak. 

Student: What is hindering? Because you can do things in an external way, actually give to the friends, bestow to them, but it's truly felt that it's difficult to expand this place. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Do you have any advice? 

M. Laitman: Only prayer. Only prayer, but don't think that it could just happen by itself. No, without prayer you cannot attain. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:12:45) I don't know how to ask exactly, but there is a feeling in recent time, at least I feel, that there are waves. It's not resistance, it's a great force that blocks you and you can't move. You read what needs to be, what is the corrected state, you feel it and everything, but I'm so far from it. You have no place to put your foot down. What do you do in such a state? No, not a state that the friend is talking about where it's nice and pleasant, let's go there. No, it's impossible, you have no forces. 

M. Laitman: That's the point of truth. If a person feels that he's powerless to make a step forward, then he needs to connect to the friends.

Student: Yes, there you can feel that something was opened up for you with mercy and you walk very carefully, but it disappears very quickly and again you enter a state where not only did you forget what happened, it's not you forgot what happened, you didn't just forget, you're completely the opposite of it. I look at the friends, they're so far away from you. What to do there? 

M. Laitman: Ask for an ascent to connection. Ask for an ascent to connection. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:14:40) How to improve in prayer? 

M. Laitman: That's a very broad, general question, which everyone asks. How to improve in the prayer? It's in each and every moment, you need to grow stronger.

Student: From this lesson especially this inner development, the external despair, your words and  Rabash, besides prayer we have nothing to give, you feel like the Creator always brings us back there. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: I'm trying to go deeper, I'm trying to write about this, I'm trying to sing it. I don't know if we need to add in quantity, in quality, in more friends. It feels like each time, because also there's no way to measure, so there's no way to make conclusions, and it feels like everything depends on that.

M. Laitman: Yes, enter the friend's heart and never leave there. I understand that it sounds like, it's words without any emotion, or maybe it's a feeling, emotion without words, we need to think about it. 

Student: It's very powerful, also in the lessons it's very powerful. There's lessons where we make more of it for prayer, also it sometimes doesn't feel like it depends on me. It's like the Creator gave me situations that bring me more burning. Throughout the day I put reminders, I stop, sometimes for a minute, sometimes five minutes, sometimes life takes me, and again, I want to improve, that's like my first question, and I don't, and I feel like everything depends on this. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:17:40) I wanted to ask if the first stage, like you said just now, is to enter one's friend's heart, when there's the external problems that pressure a person, is the first stage disconnecting from those troubles and try to make an effort, and to actually aim it towards connection? Because I feel like somewhere, this external pressure, from the world, from humanity, is something that kind of blocks us, and gives us some… it limits us. How to overcome this correctly? 

M. Laitman: What's right is to try to embrace, to hug the friend's heart. 

Student: And also when there's this overload of troubles, of disturbances, how to aim your whole heart and perform this action? It seems like… 

M. Laitman: Through such action you leave all the troubles, all your problems, and you connect only to Him. 

Student: And I shouldn't expect a result, like the troubles will go away, or something will happen there? 

M. Laitman: No, no.You're not expecting them to vanish. You're engaging in something else altogether. 

Student: So, just another last question. How to concentrate on this thing, to embrace the heart of a friend? How? It needs to be some point, some prayer, some freeing up time to do it. How to concentrate on that point specifically? Through all the disturbances?

M. Laitman: Disconnect yourself from your own heart, and connect it, meaning, connect your heart to the heart of the friend. 

Student: What do I need to discover there in the friend's heart? 

M. Laitman: You need to discover that  you understand, and you feel from that heart what you wanted to feel and understand. That you've reached is the point of perfection, of wholeness.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:22:22) Without preceding sufferings that are towards this result, where a person receives this manner of it not being for others, where he wants to connect to the heart of the friend and starts to feel it; without those preceding sufferings, even if you now tell us and I understand that it eventually will come, I feel like without that preceding feeling of difficulty and confusion, I can't now enter the friend's heart. It will kind of not be a real place. On the other hand, we want to advance in a way that if I already know that I have to do this, then I want to advance in this way, but I feel that I won't have enough discernments of the state I want to exit. And I'm also trying to exit my state, and therefore I'm going to connect. So also to run away from sufferings is not correct to do either. So, I'm asking, how to combine the need for this preceding state called suffering, from the state that I'm in, that we as a nation are in, or that we're in Egypt, and how to also use it, but also be in the right trend and the right inclination already to kind of want to enter the friend's heart without losing those sufferings?

M. Laitman: We'll think about it together. 

Student: Just to be more precise, I feel like I need them both, but if I try to do this, I lose that. 

M. Laitman: Yes, I understand.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:24:41) Yesterday you gave us a very strong image of the fire that burns down the false desires and brings up the life of really, truly wanting to give. And I want to share that we did this exercise in the Ten, German 4, that we imagined and went into the fire together, asking the Creator to burn down the desires that are false and to allow the flame to give, to make stronger, and to be together with the friends without external clothing, as you told us. And I want to give thanks to you that you gave this to us, this strong image of how we can connect and include each other. Is this a good way to actually come together in the Ten? To do this exercise and to imagine ourselves we stand in this fire? How can we do this best? 

Student: The friend was relating to what happened in the morning lesson yesterday. We were talking about the fire of Arvut and how you have to burn all the negative desires. So, that's what the question was about.

M. Laitman: Maybe again. 

Student: How can we keep this fire burning that you gave to us in the Ten? We made an exercise out of your image. How can we keep it alive, this fire in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: That is the nature of fire, to reach the center. We don't need to perform any special actions. There are all sorts of actions, but we do those unconsciously. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:28:24) I heard that Rav said that there are many questions that are actually not questions, because there are no clear answers to them, and therefore everything seems foggy still. This fog, the more we advance becomes thicker or should it be clarified? 

M. Laitman: Yes and no. Yes and no. It does become thicker.

Student: So, there is supposed to be less and less understanding of what I need to do? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Less and less understanding? So, what gives a person some indication, some grip on he is going forward, he is going correct towards the truth?

M. Laitman: It's an inner feeling, I cannot say, it's an inner feeling. 

Student: I also heard you saying that we need to jump, to jump to a state that is unknown of how to go through. What is to jump? 

M. Laitman: To jump here means to accept it and have it cover you, envelop you on all sides.

Student: What's the action a person needs to do in order to jump? What is that action? 

M. Laitman: That you accept it, you don't retreat from it, to maybe go to a different side, but simply to search, to look for contact with Him on the other side of that. I can't continue. Wait actually, what's going on with the next part? 

Reader: Should we move to the next part of the lesson? But before that we'll sing a song. 

Song: (01:31:26)