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Daily Lesson (Morning) July 31, 2024.
Part 3: The Importance of Participating in Social Activities – Selected Excerpts from the sources
The Importance of Participating in the Preparation for the Lesson
The Importance of Participating in the Lesson
The Importance of Participating in the Yeshivat Haverim
The Importance of Participating in the Meal
The Importance of Participating in Congresses
The Importance of Participating in the Preparation for the Lesson
Reader: Hello. in this part of the lesson, we're going to read select excerpts from the Scriptures on the topic: The Importance Of Participating In Social Actions. We're in excerpt number 4 from Rabash, which says this.
Reading Excerpt: (00:22) 4. RABASH, Article No.12 (1988) “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”
A person must make a great effort before he comes to learn so that his learning will bear fruit and good results, meaning so the learning will bring him the light of Torah, by which it will be possible to reform him. Then, through the Torah, he becomes a wise disciple.
What is a “wise disciple”? Baal HaSulam said that it is a student who learns from the wise. That is, the Creator is called “wise,” and a person who learns from Him is called a “disciple of the wise.” What should one learn from the Creator? He said that a person should learn only one thing from the Creator. It is known that the Creator wishes only to bestow. Likewise, man should learn from Him to be a giver. This is called a “wise disciple.”
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:48) He writes that you have to make a great effort before going to the study. What is that effort?
M. Laitman: He gathers all of the deficiencies that he wants to solve with the help of the Torah; and he comes to his studies with that.
Student: And how is that connected to a wise disciple?
M. Laitman: That while he has great deficiencies, he hopes to receive such a filling from the lesson that it will solve it. Relieve him from all the doubts, problems, questions; that he will get the right guidance.
Student: And this is called an effort to concentrate on the correct lack?
M. Laitman: Yes, yes, and then in prayer during the studies, that he doesn't let go of the question. He keeps going with it, and then he feels how this question comes to a solution.
Reader: The next topic is The Importance of Participating in the Lesson. Excerpt number five from Ohr Torah, by Isaac Eisik Wildmamn.
Reading Excerpt: (03:37) 5. Ohr Torah, Isaac Eisik Wildmann (Haver)
The main merit of studying Torah is for a person to study in a group and not alone, as our sages said, “Wise disciples, when they sit together and engage in Torah… for due to the depth of the Torah, one cannot fully grasp it unless he studies in a group … for by conversing together, each one makes his friend keener … for so is the way of the Torah, that whenever two lights unite together, they multiply.”
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (04:35) What's the connection of two lights together? I know there are sparks, that we have sparks.
M. Laitman: I guess, it's Hassadim and Hochma, Wisdom and Mercy.
Student: So actually, how he says that the conversing together, what is this conversing together? That's what causes?
M. Laitman: They want to check and scrutinize and research the reasons of creation as much as now, from what they're doing, from engaging in it.
Student: I feel that also in this thing, we have to constantly be in one intention. This conversing has to be with intention because conversing sounds very, I don't know, it sounds very internal. It's like inside the desire to receive, this conversing, it almost sounds like philosophizing between us. It’s that how it feels to me, is that not? Conversing together, each one makes his friend keener, for so is the way of Kedusha, that whenever two lights unite together, they multiply. I don't understand the conversing and these lights multiplying.
M. Laitman: That each one learns in the common vessel, in the general vessel, in a group and not individually.
Student: It's clear that in the group, you can't study alone, that's clear. And I'm saying that this conversing, this word, gives me a certain resistance.
M. Laitman: No, that means that they enter into depth.
Student: Into the root of the matter? Okay, understood, thank you.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:53) Can we maybe say that by working together, it's like the spice, it's like this spicy, the pepper or spice that adds a longing for the meal. And we want in the work, in the discussions between us to sharpen the deficiency. He writes that the conversing will reach this, each friend becoming keener. In what can we kind of evoke a longing in each other to want more Dvekut?
M. Laitman: Example, when each one gives the other an example. As much as we can enter scrutinies, you can say philosophizing but through that, we can attain the purpose of the Creator that's awakening us in such a way.
Student: And if we do this with one common intention, we actually, constantly, awaken one another more and more?
M. Laitman: Yes, that's through the studies.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:17) If I can nevertheless ask about this matter of conversing because as much as I know, in the Jewish tradition there's this respect to intellect, to the smart, the wise, the, you know, the especially bright, intelligent people. And also, we, it's a whole matter of discussion, conversing is discussions and raising voice. We sit quiet in the lesson, yes?
M. Laitman: So, don't sit, quietly, just make it to the point.
Student: Meaning, how do you achieve that effect without, first of all without blabbering or talking in an also logical way? Because there's also, like the friend said, there's this fear that the intellect is very dangerous.
M. Laitman: The intellect isn't dangerous, it just has to be to the point. And not that we won't deviate from the path of studies to only the intellect.
Student: What does that mean?
M. Laitman: That we'll go according to what's written, with no connection to the influence of the Creator from above, the three lines that we need to build, and so on.
Student: If it's possible, in the description of the Zohar, where one friend says one thing, the other continues, or contradicts him, and we read many stories like that about this.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: How do we achieve that same effect without talking, overly talking about it?
M. Laitman: You need to be in attainment.
Student: We, what can we do because we're not.
M. Laitman: We have to yearn to be in attainment.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (10:40) All lesson long, I was ready to absorb because I couldn't connect to anything in the lesson, not longing, not nothing. When people talk about yearning, you don't lower someone, you operate, differently. I couldn't connect to what we read, I didn't understand anything. It's not good to come out of a lesson like that, right? So, I wanted to ask you, maybe you have some kind of advice.
M. Laitman: Trying to connect to the lesson, even if you don't reach the right result, still, it does something.
Student: Even in this garbage I'm feeling right now, do you see benefit?
M. Laitman: There's this and that, it could be that you came with a deficiency and in your lesson with a deficiency, and you come out of it empty. And you have big complaints to the teacher, to the friends, to the Creator, to everybody, right? But still, you're thinking of these things, you're organizing them inside, how you should come the next day. And what you need to prepare of your own.
Student: Yes, but when the frustrations and angers are raised, what do you do with that throughout the day? Because I'm not going to hear the lesson, again, with all my angers and nerves. So, what do I do?
M. Laitman: You need to read all kinds of articles, even Psalms, all kinds of things that Kabbalists wrote in all kinds of states they went through. And to incorporate in it as much as you can. What can you do, you have to awaken the light of the Torah.
Student: In my state right now, I don't think I can awaken the light of the Torah. That's why I'm asking you.
M. Laitman: Why?
Student: Because most of the time I'm not in the books and the texts or anything. I'm immersed in other things.
M. Laitman: In what?
Student: In the problems of this world.
M. Laitman: You need to solve the problems of this world?
Student: Yes, no, well, until there's, when there's no necessities, that's normal, then you can't neutralize you. I can't even think about reading books in my free time, etc.
M. Laitman: That's not true, studying Torah should take you out of everything.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:09) Earlier, you answered that we need to long for attainment all the time, how do you really? I noticed myself that my longing for the doing dissipates, even in the Ten meetings. We work on one thing, and the connection between us, we do meetings, we're talking now about the morning lesson. Meaning the longing for attainment, it kind of, poof, it just disappears all the time. How do you, I don't know, embroider it into my life so that every action I will do it for them?
M. Laitman: So, what are you yearning for if not for attainment?
Student: It's like there are all kinds of mechanisms, even within myself, to say, oh, don't yearn for that, it's bad for the will to receive. You need to free yourself from that, all kinds of, like, discernments towards this topic. But in practice, when I come to the morning lesson, I'm not burning. I came here for longing for attainment. When I'm gathering with friends, or meeting with the Ten, or in dissemination, investing for my free time. I'm not saying, I'm doing this now to reach attainment.
M. Laitman: So, what do we do?
Student: That's exactly what I wanted to ask you.
M. Laitman: Where can you get a yearning for internality, to discover the Creator, how?
Student: In practice, we try in the Ten when we meet to raise the topic, in general. That's the purpose of the society, to generate that environment of ours. I'm trying to participate as much as possible in all the actions of the group, of the society, and as much as possible to put myself inside an environment. Even at home, at work, with the children, constantly making sure that everything will be as much as possible here so that it will kind of radiate upon me. But the bottom line is that it's not, each time I pick up my pencil to write something in the lesson, I'm thinking that it's for attainment.
M. Laitman: Meaning it's not burning in you to attain.
Student: It's not burning all the time.
M. Laitman: So, why don't you ask for it? To have a deficiency to attain?
Student: Sometimes it feels like it's a little bit audacious to do so.
M. Laitman: No, it's not, that's what the Creator is expecting from each one. That's also what's written, that you need to yearn for attainment. When will I reach the state of my teachers?
Student: How do we really succeed to lift up that glove that the Creator sends all day long, all the time?
M. Laitman: We fill our time as much as we can in all things that regard attainment, that's it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:57) These are my friends and only with them I will be able to acquire the quality of bestowal. I wanted to ask, what is faith in the friends, what's the belief in the friends?
M. Laitman: Believing in the friends, that they are with you on the path till the end, until you attain the Creator in the connection between you, that's it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:40) It's talking here about a lesson because we have many gatherings and activities.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: So, we're talking about the lesson that, maybe, the question is every gathering of ours needs to be accompanied by the source that we need to gather around it?
M. Laitman: Well, it should be, it's a desire. Yes, that's also what we're accustomed to.
Student: And this source, do we need to specifically talk about it, or do we need to somehow, because it's not clear. There are activities that are a connection of the Ten that you can feel that they're not accompanied by a source excerpt or readings.
M. Laitman: That doesn't matter, you already incorporate it in the morning lesson.
Student: From the morning lesson, we have a certain fuel that lets us continue it throughout the day?
M. Laitman: Yes, you need throughout the day to think, to try and make an effort. Here, it says: you have to try and make a great effort before he studies, and then during the study, and after the study. Meaning to constantly feel that you're in an effort and according to that, you reach fairly quick; and just don't let go of these things.
Student: And when we gather, let's say during the day, so this effort how should it be expressed?
M. Laitman: When you reach connection between you in the middle of the day and you want to raise the essence of this connection, above all of this life, with your work and all kinds of burdens and problems. You want all these disturbances to, specifically, give you an even higher degree to rise on to connection, and more and more. And in this way, each and every day, you'll reach another degree and another degree.
Student: And another question, if possible: Let's say, during the gathering, in the middle of the day, so let's say there are many friends that cannot talk or participate. What's worthwhile, what's recommended to do?
M. Laitman: You should think about them and, supposedly, connect them in your thought, in your prayer. Connect with them and that they will escort you.
Student: But let's say in the meeting itself, let's say there's only two or one that can, let's say, read the excerpt, and all the rest are, they can just listen in their ear.
M. Laitman: Okay, you don't need more than that.
Student: There's no necessity for talking, if it's not possible?
M. Laitman: There's no need, and except for that, you can also, from the morning, you can fill up your phones with those excerpts, that you can follow it.
Student: Meaning for each to have the access to read all that?
M. Laitman: Yes, of course.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (23:02) During the day we make an exertion above reason. Now above reason, it means that I cannot measure whether I'm really doing something or not. So, this effort, how is it considered?
M. Laitman: It's considered an effort.
Student: Even though, I don't know, it comes out?
M. Laitman: Even if you don't know as much as you know or don't know, the Creator organizes it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (23:41) A lesson on the importance of the study, first of all, I want to say thank you. Thank you to you and thank you to all that we have here. I simply don't know how life would look with this thing called the study of the morning lesson. Each time awakens a new, simply oxygen, it revitalizes us. So, it's this important thing for this deficiency and altogether. And during the lesson, we're actually learning how to connect, we're learning how to connect between us and how to connect to the Creator. It happens in many, many lessons. I come out with a greater awakening, with a greater and more scrutinized lack, and a greater longing. It wasn't there when I entered the lesson. But when I think to what extent I connected to the Ten, I don't know how to measure that. Are we connecting during the lesson? How does this thing called our connection work during the lesson?
M. Laitman: We still don't understand that, yet. It's still not a Partzuf made from it and not a degree. So, we'll scrutinize it.
Student: It's something that is kind of like materializing each time as we get closer to it?
M. Laitman: Yes, yes.
Question (Women Turkey 7): (25:15) For someone who cannot work in a group, how can he advance in this work?
M. Laitman: If he doesn't have a group, he can't advance.
Student: At all?
M. Laitman: According to our method, a person must be in a group. It can be virtual, not physical. A group of a few people, or on the contrary, it can be many.
Question (Women PT 6): (25:50) What is the result that the Ten needs to come out of the morning lesson with?
M. Laitman: We talked about it a lot, I'd ask all of you now, what's the result of the morning lesson? I think the main result is that we have a great gratitude to Rabash and Baal HaSulam and to all the friends. That thanks to them, that I, thanks to them, reach a state that I've awakened and woke up and came. And for sure I took another step ahead towards the purpose of creation, and that's important to give gratitude. That's the result of the lesson, that I come out of here and I'm happy, joyful from having a connection with more people that are looking towards the Creator and the end of creation.
Reader: (27:29) Announcements