Daily Lesson (Morning), April 19, 2024. 

Part 2: Baal HaSulam. The Freedom, subtitle: Ancestral Heritage

Reader: Let's go to the next part of the lesson. We are studying from the writings of Baal HaSulam, The Freedom article. We are in the subtitle, Ancestral Heritage.

Reading: (00:34) The writings of Baal HaSulam, The Freedom, Ancestral Heritage. 

All the details of the pictures that this will to receive includes, which we have defined as the source, or the first reason, whose meaning includes all the tendencies and customs inherited from his ancestors, which we picture as a long chain of thousands of people who were alive once, and stand one atop of the other, each of them is an essential drop of his progenitors, and that drop brings each person all the spiritual possessions of his progenitors into his elongated brain, called “subconscious.” Thus, the individual before us has, in his subconscious, all the thousands of spiritual legacies from all the individuals represented in that chain, which are his progenitors and ancestors.

Thus, just as the face of each and every person differs, so their views differ. There are no two people on earth whose opinions are identical, because each person has a great and sublime possession bequeathed to him from his ancestors, and which others have no shred of them.

Therefore, all those possessions are considered the individual’s property, and society is cautioned to preserve its flavor and spirit, so it does not become blurred by its environment. Rather, each individual should maintain the integrity of his inheritance. Then, the contradiction and oppositeness between them will remain forever, to forever secure the criticism and progress of the wisdom, which is all of humanity’s advantage and its true eternal desire.

After we have come to a certain measure of recognition of man’s selfishness, which we have determined as a force and a desire to receive, being the essential point of the bare being, it has also become thoroughly clear to us, from all sides, the original possession of each body, which we have defined as “ancestral heritage.” This pertains to all the potential tendencies and qualities that have come into his source by inheritance, which is the first substance of every person, meaning the initial seed of his forefathers.

Now we have found the door to resolving the intention of our sages in their words that by receiving the Torah, they were liberated from the angel of death. However, we still need further understanding regarding selfishness and the above-mentioned ancestral heritage.

M. Laitman: (05:01) We hope that he'll explain it to us, soon. Yes, continue, because here he didn't ask or answer anything. He just, as if, gave an introduction. 

Reader: (05:17) Can I ask? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question: He writes that society is warned to preserve the individuality of every individual, that it won't blur out by his environment.

M. Laitman: Yes, he doesn't need to resemble the environment, that the environment necessitates him. But he needs to protect his individuality.

Student: What in our world does it mean that a person is trying to just blend into the friends and be a zero, and to be in them? 

M. Laitman: That's like in Russia and in China, you have this spirit. That everyone needs to think a certain way, everyone needs to instruct themselves according to a certain global tendency of the whole nation.

Student: That's clear, I'm asking in our work when a person tries, makes efforts to constantly annul towards their friends, and lose that individual that he was born in. What does he leave for himself, what is that ancestral heritage he keeps? What does he process? What does he lose, what remains? 

M. Laitman: He, as if, leaves for himself a special impression that needs to become clarified in him from the forefathers. Through that in which he does not submit to the environment's forces, to society's forces.

Student: He doesn't subdue to the forces of society. 

M. Laitman: No, he does not subdue to them. 

Student: What does it mean that he annuls, isn’t it annulling subduing yourself to the, or surrendering to the forces of society?

M. Laitman: How does he find the words here? 

Reader: He writes in the second paragraph: Just as the faces of each one differs, so their views differ. There are no two people on earth whose opinions are identical because each person has a great and sublime possession with him from his ancestors which others have no shred of them. Therefore, all those possessions are considered the individual's property and society's caution to preserve its flavor and spirit.

Student: It does not become blurred by its environment. Rather, each individual should remain with the integrity of his inheritance. 

M. Laitman: Yes, it's clear here, right? What the society needs to do. Precisely, to stand on the freedom of choice of individuals.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:40) What ancestors is he speaking about here?

M. Laitman: About everybody.

Student: My father and grandfather, them? 

M. Laitman: No, your father and grandfather don't really act on you. 

Student: Exactly. You're my spiritual father, and let's say my grandfather is Rabash, and so on. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: All of us, we have the same ancestral heritage, the same one.

M. Laitman: Yes, I think it's Rabash, he cares for all of us. I'm like an organizer, no more than that, that is all. 

Student: What's the difference between us? 

M. Laitman: The difference? 

Student: If we all have the ancestral heritage, the same, we're like brothers, too.

M. Laitman: No, you have a father, another thousand, let's say, guys like you, who is your father. But it's not that you are completely similar to each other, you are actually different. 

Student: Yes, but that's physically, the genes of each and every one. What's up with the spiritual genes that are the difference between. Even though we all take from the same source? 

M. Laitman: It's unimportant that you aspire to the same source. In any case, everyone is different.

Student: In what, that's what I'm trying to understand. Spiritually, not physically, understand the physical difference. In what are we spiritually different?

M. Laitman: Each one in the DNA.

Student: What does that mean, in what am I different in my spiritual DNA from another friend? 

M. Laitman: Since you come out from another conditioning of spiritual records. 

Student: At some point, does a person understand, know, reveal what those spiritual records are? 

M. Laitman: If he reveals the root of his essence, so from that he can already start discovering his future state. That he needs to reach and that he needs to implement.

Student: In the corporeal world, each one has a different quality. Then each one can fulfill a different role in the Ten, I'm speaking physically. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: If I'm not even aware of my spiritual qualities, which this is reality right now. How can I do what you just said, to realize my role?

M. Laitman: You do that without them asking you. Through all kinds of reasons around you. They are there, they are surrounding you, and they force you. Until you receive freedom, freedom of choice, etc. So, until then, you don't know who is activating you at every moment and for what purpose. 

Student: Is there any meaning before you reach spiritual attainment, to really go deeper into these questions? 

M. Laitman: No, you'll only get confused.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:34) He writes that what the friend read that society needs to keep the uniqueness. It's not that a person needs to, a person, on one hand, annuls society. And society has to keep that person's specialty.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: That's what allows a person to have the freedom of choice. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: That's the right way to advance. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (13:03) When we speak about unity, so we're not speaking about one color that each one becomes similar but diverse colors. That's what he's speaking about, the whole picture. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (13:28) Each one has his special past, and he says that the contradictions are always going to remain in order to make sure that we keep the criticism and the advancement of the wisdom. Meaning, in our incorporation, anyway each one has a big asset but when we incorporate we get an even greater asset. 

M. Laitman: Yes, from our incorporation we close the system on us, which then starts working in a very close way with us.

Question (Petah Tikvah): (14:25) I want to annul towards society with my ego. I want to be in harmony, but I don't want to anoint my essence, my individuality. Is that right to think in that way?

M. Laitman: Yes,

Student: Like Baal HaSulam says that we're cogwheels and we need to spin around in harmony in the machine. It's not that we'll make all the cogwheels exactly the same.

M. Laitman: Each one needs to reach the root of his soul, and from that he will observe, keep his role. 

Student: I don't give up on my essence.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (15:12) Is it right to say that a person has to annul towards the Ten, to attempt it but the Ten doesn't need to annul the individual? That the Ten is what keeps his uniqueness, not that a person has to be concerned about it. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Also, as the individual I have to take care of the individuality of every friend. Not annul them but only myself.

Student: That explains what we were talking about.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (15:55) Baal HaSulam writes that we have assets, a spiritual asset in potential. To make it actual, is that a result of incorporation in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: To bring it out into practice, that is our work. 

Student: That means that in the Ten, we need what to do? 

M. Laitman: We need to find our extent of connection, which is developed, open, and big in the Ten. 

Question: (Belarus): (16:55) How does the subconscious, how is that connected to our forefathers, the environment, and the root of our soul? 

M. Laitman: Because the same upper force reveals in such a way toward us.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:15) I, also have a question: What are spiritual assets or spiritual DNA? 

M. Laitman: The root of the soul. 

Student: How does it come to a person? 

M. Laitman: It reveals to the person, gradually, but if there is a Kabbalist who looks at you, so he sees your spiritual roots according to his degree.

Student: Baal HaSulam's work with those few students he had, and we used to go talk to rocks. That awakened everything we see, the whole world, people awakening.

M. Laitman: Yes, it's from his work.

Student: When we work here we continue it, and that will also reach more people?

M. Laitman: Yes, certainly. In each and every one of our lessons, there's a great awakening in the whole world. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:30)  Does the spiritual work I do and try to delve in more, is that like a correction for some holy soul that was there, I'm like continuing its work? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: It’s like appointed to do this work?

M. Laitman: Certainly, there are no new souls.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:06) I think there's a body, and there's reason. About what was said, the reason I keep holding my views and opinions. In the body it's the will to receive, that's where I want to annul. Is that right? 

M. Laitman: It's not completely correct, but it will change. 

Student: What does that mean, it's not the final, correct? 

M. Laitman: You'll see that you don't have what to hold on to.

Student: That's the end of correction? 

M. Laitman: I don't know what's the end of correction or when it'll be, or even in two days from now. That is all.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (20:20) Rav, we learn that the corrections we do in the final, the last generation, the days of the Messiah. That we connect, and we pray, and draw the strongest lights. Those strongest lights clothe on the upper ones. Is it right to say that our work adds the forces of the light to the upper ones? Then the upper ones can descend and help us rise? 

M. Laitman: Well, let it be that way for now. It still needs to change, though. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (21:10) Maybe I'll also share my feeling of what happens here in Passover. There's like a feeling, at least for me, that the incorporation between us is more important than the connection. It's, as if, the connection disappears, and I get more importance to the incorporation of what's happening here. 

M. Laitman: Yes, correct. Let us hope that we will realize this incorporation, okay, friends?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:03) What's the difference between connection and incorporation, what's that discernment? 

M. Laitman: Connection is this external connection, and incorporation is a connection in all of its details.

Student: What does it mean, external? What's an external connection? 

M. Laitman: That one connects with the other. That incorporation is that in all of their qualities, they incorporate with each other. 

Student: They're in the same physical space, I don't understand?

M. Laitman: I don't want to insert more words so that there'll be questions on that. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:59) You said that a Kabbalist that looks at a student, he can see the root of his soul, from the degree he's on. 

M. Laitman: Well?

Student: What does he see, the Kabbalist? 

M. Laitman: I don’t know, the spiritual root of the student.

Student: What, he sees it in the system?

M. Laitman: More than that, I don’t know. And it's also not worthwhile for you to know. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (23:57) I'm asking about what the Creator does in the Exodus. I feel that fighting to be connected to the Rav and my friends. My necessity to exist so I can keep being connected to their friends. I feel that the Creator is slicing me away. It's like He's tearing me away from this desire to want to be connected, He's breaking it. He won't let me hold on to it. It's like He puts my love and the friends at one point, and supposedly my life in a different place. What can I do because I'm trying to put my forces in order, so it'll be efficient, that it'll be good? Why does the Creator keep breaking a person's ability to hold on to the connection with the love and the friends? Why does He do it opposite? 

M. Laitman: It doesn't really turn out the opposite. It's not according to what you would want it to be. But it's exactly according to your nature and your Reshimot, your records, and that is how it goes correctly. Simply agree with what is happening and do what is in your hands to do. 

Student: If I can’t agree?

M. Laitman: You can agree, you can, there's nothing that doesn't reveal in a person, that he’s incapable of doing, he's capable. And that we are not in a broken state, like you, it's just because it hasn't surfaced in us, this true point. And with you, it has surfaced, so, go ahead, realize it, that is all.

Student: Let's hope that at Passover we will exit from Egypt.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (26:48) It was a very special lesson today. It's like we started something new. 

M. Laitman: Because look how many people came. 

Student: I think Passover is always a time that we work less, we'll be together more. What are you expecting of us in this Passover? 

M. Laitman: I expect that we will continue opening from today onward, more and more, the internality of the connection between us until we will all grasp onto it . And turn to the Creator, and He will pull us out from the exile. 

Student: What do we have to put more of an emphasis on? 

M. Laitman: We need to emphasize one thing only: That the connection between us will be increasingly higher and stronger. And that it will include everyone, men, women, worldwide, so that we'll all be able to rise, like in a hot air balloon. 

Student: Does that mean to open the heart, to devote ourselves? 

M. Laitman: To open the heart, we will speak about that. We'll talk about opening the heart, incorporating in each other. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (28:44) I want to thank you for this special lesson. I just feel how all the friends here are so connected to one another. It's just, I'm looking at the friends, I see one by one how everybody is yearning so much. And to also state that calmness that you're projecting. It's as if we ascended one degree, this feeling where you see a friend that is so bringing all of his emotion out here, it's just. I have no words to add, L'chaim, friends.

M. Laitman: L'chaim to everyone, L'chaim. 

Reader: (30:12) We’ll end with a song.