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Daily Lesson (Morning) August 9, 2024.

Part 1: Baal HaSulam. Letter No. 39

Reader: Hello, we are studying from the writings of Baal HaSulam, from letter 39. You can find the material in the Study Materials tab in the Arvut System. You can also send questions live. If you ask a question here, wait for the microphone and ask loud and clearly. 

We are in the writings of Baal HaSulam, letter 39.1927 London

Reading: (00:44) Letter No. 39

To the famous Hassid … may his candle burn:

Regards to you.

I must inform you that I just received a very distressing letter about my sacred pamphlet being handed over to external ones to abuse it as they please. Now you will understand my stern warning to keep a secret, and why I have not sent the pamphlets until now. This is what I feared, so I wanted to first send the pamphlets to the MARAN and to the rav.

Indeed, that which I dreaded came to me, and the hands of illiterate have betrayed me, doing what I did not order, after my stern warning not to disclose my secret to any person, whoever he may be. And now they have defamed me in the eyes of the generation and have failed me on the path of my exalted work to bring contentment to my Maker. Who can forgive them this? Heaven will testify to my labor in all my strength to extend His holiness to that generation.

And yet, the Sitra Achra [other side] always finds her people, doers of her missions, setting obstacles before me wherever I turn to benefit others. Thus far are my words. “Those who are with us are more than those who are with them,” and the Creator does not deny my reward. Bit by bit, I am paving the way, at times less, at times more, but always with profit (reward), until I am rewarded with taking down all the enemies of the Creator with the help of His great and terrible name.

As for you, do not fear the fear of fools. Those who slander, my little finger is bigger than their waist. So the Creator desired, and so He made me, and who will tell Him what to do and what to work? The merit of my law is greater than the merit of their fathers. Similarly, the contemporaries of Prophet Amos defamed him and said that the Creator had no one on whom to instill His Shechina [Divinity] but that stutterer, as it is written in the Psikta [a Midrash].

However, it is written, “A truthful lip shall be established forever, and a lying tongue is only momentary,” for in the end, the truthful people are the winners. Amos remains alive and existing forever, and who has heard or knows what had happened to his adversaries?

So it is here. The sayers can harm only their own kind, so it follows that the storm swirls on the head of the wicked, the truth lives on and does not weaken by all the lies. Instead, it grows even stronger by them, like a sown field that is strengthened by the manure and dung that are thrown in. With the Creator’s will, the blessing of the field increases and multiplies by them.

I still do not feel the harm that will come to me through them concerning the dissemination of my teaching, so I do not know how to calculate a way to instill light and save it from their evil. And yet, it is certain that if I feel any harm, I will take my revenge against them, as is the law of Torah, and I will contend forcefully with them. I will do all that is within the power of my hand to do, as it is the Creator I fear, and there is no other force but Him.

As a rule, you should know that it is not for my own need or my own glory that I composed the book. Rather, it is only for His sake, for I noticed great confusions in the writings of the ARI because the ARI did not write or arrange them by himself in the full depth of this sublime wisdom. When Rav Chaim Vital heard and wrote the words, he was still not in the degrees of wholeness necessary for attaining those words at their root. He was young then, thirty years old, when studying with the ARI, as it is written in Gate to Reincarnations (Gate 8, p 49). It writes, “Now, in the year Hey-Shin-Lamed-Aleph [1571], and I am twenty-nine ...” Then, on Passover he was already serving the ARI, and the Rav [ARI] fell ill on Friday, July 21, 1572. The next Tuesday, on the Fifth of Av [July 25, 1572], he passed away.

You therefore find that at the time of his demise, he [Chaim Vital] was only thirty, and the ARI lived thirty-eight years, as it is known. And he wrote some more there (Gate 8, p 71), that at the time of his passing, Rav Chaim Vital was not by his side [the ARI’s]. These are his words verbatim: “Rav Itzhak HaCohen told me that at the time of my teacher’s passing, when I came out of his room, he (Rav Itzhak HaCohen) entered and cried before him saying, ‘Is this the hope that we all hoped in your life—to see great good, Torah, and wisdom in the world?’ He replied to him, ‘If I found even one complete righteous among you, I would not be taken away prematurely.’ While saying it, he asked about me (about Rav Chaim Vital). He said, ‘Where did Chaim go? Has he left me at such a time?’ He was very saddened. He understood from his words that he had some secret to pass on to me, so he (Rav Itzhak HaCohen) said to him, ‘What shall we do from now on?’ He (the ARI) replied: ‘Tell the friends in my name that from this day on they are not to engage at all in this wisdom that I taught, for they did not understand it properly. Only Rav Chaim Vital shall engage in it, alone, in a whisper, and in hiding.’ He (Rav Itzhak HaCohen) said, ‘But is there no hope at all?’ He said, ‘If you merit, I will come to you and teach you.’ He replied to him, ‘How will you come and teach us if you are now departing from this world?’ He replied, ‘You have no knowledge of the concealed, of how my coming to you will be,’ and he promptly passed away.”

I have elaborated in copying the words of Rav Chaim Vital’s book, Gate to Reincarnation, so you would see that the ARI forbade Rav Chaim Vital to teach what he had learned to others because at the time, he did not sufficiently understand what he had heard from the ARI. This is why he would not even arrange the writings he had heard from his teacher, and his successors arranged them, the third generation—Rav Yaakov Tzemach, Rav Meir HaCohen Paprash, and Rav Shmuel Vital.

Each of those compilers did not have the complete writings of the ARI because six hundred pages from the writings were stolen while Rav Chaim Vital was alive. Out of those, Rav Yaakov Tzemach compiled the majority of Tree of Life, as well as some other compositions. Rav Chaim Vital ordered another part to be buried along with him in the grave, and so they did. He left a third part as inheritance to his son, Rav Shmuel Vital, from which the famous Eight Gates were compiled.

After a long time, Rav Yaakov Tzemach assembled a large group of students, who dug the third portion out of the grave. From them the first and next editions of Tree of Life were composed, as well as Olat Tamid, and other compositions.

You therefore see that each time, the compiler had only a third of all the writings, which together make up one entity and one structure. I wish it were enough, but since they had only a small portion of the writings, they did not understand the depth of the wisdom at that time, and they terribly confused the matters by not understanding how to arrange them.

Know for certain that since the time of the ARI to this day, there has not been anyone who understood the method of the ARI to the fullest, as it was easier to attain a mind twice as great and twice as holy than the ARI’s than to understand his method in which many hands fiddled—from the one who first heard and wrote them through the last compilers, while they still did not attain the matters as they are in their upper root. Thus, each inverted and confused the matters.

And now, by the Creator’s will, I have been rewarded with a conception [impregnation] of the soul of the ARI, not because of my good deeds but by a higher will. It is beyond me, too, why I have been chosen for this wonderful soul, with which no one has been granted since his passing until today. I cannot elaborate on this matter as it is not my way to discuss the concealed, but I did find it my duty to ease your mind because ... before a flow of great water from servants that burst out at their master and expel from their water mire and dirt, to fall under the work that their animate soul has worked, since they still did not completely understand how to separate it from the spiritual soul. You should know that one must not fear such forces, which spring forth only to wash away all holiness, and the Creator saves us from them.

I think you will believe me, as it has never been my way to fabricate, exaggerate, or pursue respect and gain a name among the fools, which, until today, I have tolerated and had no desire to even fight with them.

To reinforce your not being confused by their armies of the Sitra Achra [other side], I will give you a clear sign that we received from the ARI, by which to know who is a true righteous and who is not a true righteous, but is worthy of being righteous, for which he should be treated respectfully, too. Do you believe that we should cast lots [flip a coin] about it, to know who is serving the Creator and who is not? After all, the signs and the tokens do not determine in this matter, as is known among the Hassidim, so it is a lot that we need, God forbid.

Rather, know that Rav Chaim Vital asked the ARI that question, and it is explained in the book Gate of the Holy Spirit, the seventh of the Eight Gates by the ARI, page 1. Here are his words, word for word: “The sign that my teacher gave me was to see if all his words come true, or if all his words are for the Creator, and he will not be wrong in even one of his words (relating to a letter that he learns from his friend, that he needs, etc., as it is known to those who know the wisdom of the hidden). He should also know the secrets of Torah and how to explain them, and then we can definitely believe in him.” Rav Chaim Vital ends with this sign, and these are his words, verbatim: “According to his words we can know and recognize his greatness and merit to the extent of his knowledge.”

The explanation is as previously written, that when a person is righteous and Hassid, and engages in Torah and prays intently, angels and holy spirits are created out of him. This is the meaning of “One who performs one Mitzva [commandment] has acquired for himself one advocate.” The follies that come out from his mouth become a chariot to the souls of the first righteous, to go down to teach Torah to that man.

He also says there that if the Mitzvot [commandments] are incomplete, incomplete angels and spirits are made of it, which are called “tellers.” It is about that that he gave the above-mentioned sign that if the Torah and Mitzvot are complete, he is rewarded with complete attainment and knows how to explain all the secrets of Torah. If he is lacking in it, meaning knows how to explain only some of them, his works are certainly incomplete.

Indeed, all those who can be my adversaries, it is because they do not even understand my words, so how can they be deemed complete righteous? Thus, I have given you a clear sign.

I have already written you that my book needs no endorsements because I did not add even a single word to the words of the ARI, and I have also given references to every single concept, showing their place in the writings of the ARI, and the ARI does not need the endorsement of our contemporaries. I did this deliberately, seeing the ways of the Sitra Achra against me in advance. My own work and additions in all those two commentaries are hardly recognizable. Thus, how will they hold out the campaign against this notebook? If they do have complaints about my teaching, and I am more proficient in the writings of the ARI than they are, this is not an argument. They should not have spent their time on vanities; they had time to study the words of the ARI, and since they folded their hands idly, now they will eat their own flesh.

My regards to you and to ... and ... Tell him that all his ways are as this deed, whose intention is good but the deeds are not good, and everything follows the act. But what can I do to him? He is my flesh and blood. Therefore, let him inform me in great detail the whole story and how it unfolded from beginning to end, and I will reply to him.

I also ask that you will let me know your thoughts about this letter, and more of what is happening among them in great detail and elaborately, for I need to know all the details in order to maintain the shield, for the work of the Creator is no small matter.

Yehuda

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (21:52) I read this letter and I feel bad. It feels like it shook all my confidence in this study, even coming here. I'll give you an example of what he writes here. He says, ‘what we will do from now on, and the ARI said, tell the friends in my name that from now on, they shouldn't engage in the wisdom I taught at all, because they didn't understand it properly.’

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: I'm asking myself, where is my confidence, that I come here and I don't have a mistake in my study, that it's worthy and correct, what I'm studying?

M. Laitman: Whatever you were told in general, you need to feel you're giving yourself over to the Creator.

Student: What students did the ARI have? Weren't they Kabbalists who had attainment? Who sat and studied? 

M. Laitman: That doesn't matter.

Student: How could it be, they don't understand what he's saying?

M. Laitman: They understand, but each one of them still has his own approach. 

Student: Okay, here, too, everyone has his own approach. What unites us?

Student: You need to abandon your own personal approach to this and connect together. In that connection, you will want to receive from the Creator, through the teacher, what he wants to give to you?

Student: When he writes, I didn't even find one righteous among you, ARI said, if I found one righteous, I wouldn't leave the world. Who is that righteous? Who is that righteous that he says, if there would be one righteous, he wouldn't leave this world? What does it mean? 

M. Laitman: He would have remained in order to teach him. 

Student: Wasn't Chaim Vital righteous?

M. Laitman: Supposedly, he wasn't as righteous as he should have been. There are degrees.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (24:13) Yes, I also thought about the same excerpt the friend mentioned. But starting with this, ‘you shall know that since the time of the ARI to this day, there was no one who would understand the method of ARI in its root. It would be easier to attain a mind holier and greater that's twice as the ARI's.’ So what is this unique method of the ARI, and why is it so hard to attain?

M. Laitman: It needs to be a vigorous action of general and complete annulment in each person, who wants to accept the method. And that doesn't happen in a regular way, as when you study the Gemara, etc.. Here annulment has to reach the height of the souls.

Student: The method of the ARI, is it a method for the masses or for individuals? 

M. Laitman: It's a method for individuals, but in our times it's for the masses.

Student: And the masses are able to comprehend his method? 

M. Laitman: As we see, for the time being, no, there are none who are worthy.

Student: So why? Why such a method is ultimately sealed? 

M. Laitman: Wait, you want the method to descend in degrees all the way down to humanity?

Student: No, not that the method will be lowered, but yes, that it will be accessible to people to ultimately connect to the upper one.

M. Laitman: It's actually accessible to people. It's now in every store, in every bookstore, for example, everywhere. You can go on the internet. You can find everything, everything that you need to begin and advance.

Student: The text is open to everyone, that's clear, but how to approach the text or the method. That is felt to be locked.

M. Laitman: That's a thing a person should start feeling with his soul.

Student: Well, more to ask, he says, from this day on they shouldn't engage in my wisdom because they didn't understand it completely. In parallel to you, do we understand the wisdom you're teaching?

M. Laitman: Somewhat, yes, of what I teach. I'm not on the degrees of the ARI.

Student: Another thing, he said, even if I've found one righteous among you, I wouldn't be departed before my time. What's the connection between the students and the departure of the teacher? 

M. Laitman: What is the teacher for? If there are no students who can receive from him, he is cancelled, revoked. Right? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (28:17) Baal HaSulam writes here, if he will feel a damage, he would avenge them. It's probably not about corporeal vengeance here, but spiritual. What is that spiritual revenge on part of the Kabbalists? 

M. Laitman: I can't tell you about that. I don't know. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (28:52) I'm asking you to look at a specific excerpt, a short one. If the reader can read it? Where does it start, from the clarification is?

Reader: As written, that when a person is Hassid and righteous and engages in Torah and prayers and worships angels and holy spirits are created out of him. This is the meaning of one who performs one Mitzva has acquired for himself one advocate. The follies that come out from his mouth become a chariot to the souls of the first righteous to go down to teach Torah to that man. 

Student: It's very clear from this excerpt. I wanted to ask. When I study Torah, angels and holy spirits are created out of me? 

M. Laitman: From a person of the degree, he mentions there? Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (30:27) Rav, what is annulment that has to be at the level of the souls? 

M. Laitman:  I'm not sure how to explain it. When a person annuls everything he has, as though only the soul remains.

Student: There’s no me? There’s only the Creator? It's all outside of me? That's how I feel based on what you're saying.

M. Laitman: There are other souls, and the connections between them, the parts of the souls, there's more. He needs to work between those to connect them together for the ultimate and final correction. 

Student: Another question. What confusion, Baal HaSulam talks about? He says there was a great confusion among all the students there?

M. Laitman: I cannot say. They were all very unique, special people. Not regular people. But it seems to me that the time itself wasn't proper for the revelation of the ARI to the world. 

Student: Rav, I feel if I take that time versus today, if we all go as one according to how you direct us, so there shouldn't be really any confusion. We all go according to the direction the teacher guides us.

M. Laitman: But each day to make the goal clearer, and maintain our togetherness, so that we're all as one man in one heart, and so to advance. From making the lines uniform towards connecting ourselves to the soul. If we conduct that examination each time. It’s impossible to say that it's permanent, constant. But then we will succeed. 

Student: When you say to refine it every day, so it's to come every day from an effort to connect and see what we lack, and ask for that, not to give up at any moment?

M. Laitman: How can you advance, if you're not aimed towards the goal? 

Student: This effort, it has to come from a core that you know you can go with safely the whole path?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So what do you do with friends who aren't like that? You said before that we have to correct all the souls? 

M. Laitman: We need to pray for them, too. For this entire large group. To hope that more and more people connect to us. To maintain those who are here with us. To make room for everyone. That's all.

Student: Make room for everyone.         

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (34:33) Rav, Baal HaSulam is a reincarnation of the soul of the ARI?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What does it mean? He received something special from the uniqueness of the ARI?

M. Laitman: In each one, there are some parts of his own previous incarnations. There are no new souls. And we need to help each and every one to correct what is upon him to correct, and to connect with everyone so that we can reach our common goal. 

Student: The same uniqueness of the soul of the ARI that went to Baal HaSulam also went to Rabash?

M. Laitman: I cannot say. That does not pertain to me. And so, I cannot speak for someone else. 

Student: When Baal HaSulam writes here about the confusion in the writings of the ARI, and we understand that it's… that he, to some extent, continues him. So, he as if criticizes himself. He explains to us why everything had to be written to then correct that confusion.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (36:19) He gives a clear sign here to who's a true righteous, if you can explain that sign in the text there.

M. Laitman: I am not capable of clarifying things which do not pertain to us. These are matters sublime, lofty. We will reach them sometime. 

Student: Yes, but it's a question of how the students who come know that the teacher is real or not.

M. Laitman: With a child that comes to school, you cannot explain to him about the teacher. It's just an adult, a big person who knows what to teach you. 

Student: Sure, but there are many who pretend to be able to teach Kabbalah.

M. Laitman: Wherever you fall, wherever your heart directs you, there you shall study.

Student: Another question he says about himself that… What book, by the way, is he talking about? The Study of the Ten Sefirot or something else?

M. Laitman: Etz Chaim, The Tree of Life.

Student: Yes, so he says that I don't need endorsement, and in other places we know he went and got endorsements. And here he says he doesn't even want to get an endorsement, and he says he doesn't have to because he added very little, not even a word to the words of the ARI. And when you read the books, it looks like he added much more. 

M. Laitman: Look, this isn't university here. Don't think that with your mind you can study and explain and understand what's happening here. Let these things be until you know, until it's better clarified. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (38:46) There's a point there where the Rav Chaim Vital asks the ARI, and the sign that my teacher gave me is if there's truth in all his words or if his words are for the sake of heaven, he won't even cancel one letter of his words relating to the secret of one letter that one studies from his friend. He needs to, to those who know the wisdom and the secrets of the Torah. What does it mean to learn one letter from his friend? 

M. Laitman: This speaks of faith. Faith. That's what you should learn.

Student: How is it possible to study faith?

M. Laitman: By studying all the texts, connecting together, seeing what's written, and that's how you grow closer.

Student: There has to be a special connection between people to get there.

M. Laitman: Gradually, slowly you build up.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (40:09) What we learn from Rabash, to follow the path and method of Baal HaSulam, in what we engage, is there any element that is related to what the ARI brought to the world? 

M. Laitman: Yes? 

Student: I'll ask again differently. Do we engage in the wisdom of the ARI?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: How do we feel the ARI then? How can we feel him in our study as we advance? 

M. Laitman: We study TES, The Tree of Life, we study the Torah of the ARI. 

Student: When we study the TES and the Tree of Life, are we actually engaging in the method of the ARI, or it's locked to us as it was locked then when the ARI departed? So I'm asking, how much of the light that came to the world then, do we actually engage with in our generation as Bnei Baruch? 

M. Laitman: More so. We receive more. It's a matter of the times.

Student: So I'll refine the question. How much of the Torah we engage in, does the ARI work in it as well? Meaning, not in quantity, how much, but does the ARI also work towards us when we engage in the writings of Rabash and so forth? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (42:23) It says you should know that from the time of the ARI to this day, there was no one who understood the method of the ARI, fundamentally. Can we say that Baal HaSulam gave us the method of the ARI? 

M. Laitman: Yes, Baal HaSulam is the first, after the ARI, who understood and to an extent opened up the method of the ARI. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (43:07) He tells us this, if you merit, I will come and teach you. And he told him, how will you come after you pass away from this world? And he told him, you don't understand the concealed matters. But still he says, if you merit, I will come and teach you. So how do the students know that they merit the Rav coming and teaching them?

M. Laitman: They will know. They will know. He asked the ARI that, right? And just continue, all of you, and you will see that it's possible to come to that. 

Student: I'm asking, how can we not budge from the spirit of the Rav, let's say, when it's us together?

M. Laitman: We just need to follow his instructions, that's it. It's a simple thing.

Student: But you know how it is, sometimes in the Ten, every word that Rav says could be interpreted this way or that way. 

M. Laitman: So we need connection. That exactly indicates a lack of connection, a distance between the people of the Ten. There's nothing else to do, we need to work on that. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (44:53) First time I notice, look what he writes here, I see the damage that came to my, the spreading of my wisdom, but if I felt some damage, I would avenge them as the way of Torah and everything that I can do, I shall do, because I fear the Creator, and so on. Listen, first of all, who does he write this to? It's very difficult, harsh things?

M. Laitman: To his students. 

Student: Students or his environment?

M. Laitman: No, not environment, the students are his environment.

Student: We once learned that he came to Israel and he saw the Jerusalem people studying, and he told them, I don't understand what you're doing here, you're just like a parrot, and there's nothing internal. Those he was mad at. 

M. Laitman: Could be. 

Student: What does it mean that he writes that there could be damage? He says that one who doesn't study correctly could be harmed, and I once asked you, but so how can I bring harm to the study? Like here, can I bring harm to people?

M. Laitman: If you're in a Ten, and you're studying together, and you, in the time you're supposed to study, you're starting to think about the soccer games, and so on, and how it's like from week to week, and that's what you're thinking about, by that you're causing damage to the group studying next to you, studying the words of the ARI. 

Student: What is that harm? What can I cause them? 

M. Laitman: You're not together with them. 

Student: What then happens to the Ten?

M. Laitman: Your place amongst them is empty, or even the opposite.

Student: So what happens then? I delay them?

M. Laitman: Yes, because you're all counted as one, the entire Ten. 

Student: So what can be done to not cause that harm? Let's say, how can I keep my Ten? 

M. Laitman: Keep yourself, that's enough. So everyone needs to guard himself, that's it. And give the others an example of how you hold yourself.

Student: I understood.

Question (Petah Tikva Center):  (47:49) The ARI, we learn, it's as if we only study the upper system. I don't really know the advice he gives to the work of the lower ones, and then I don't feel like I'm walking, following his method, because I don't feel that I do the commandments or advice that he gives me.

M. Laitman: Rabash tells us this openly, that we need to connect together, be as one man in one heart, that we need to think only about that, and to pray. When will my actions reach the height of the acts of my forefathers?

Student: Yes, so when we read this, I feel like we're trying to follow what Rabash and Baal HaSulam tell us. I feel them and the advice that I'm, the counsels that I'm trying to follow, they're like the parents telling me what to do. But the ARI, I don't feel that way. I don't feel that he is my spiritual guide.

M. Laitman: That's because you haven't read his works regarding connection, regarding annulment, yes? 

Student: Yes. Is there such?

M. Laitman: Barely any. 

Student: Hence, I'm asking that in our work, we have the Rabash and Baal HaSulam, but do we to some extent need to feel our connection to the ARI or the degree that we have? 

M. Laitman: Connection with the ARI. 

Student: So how to feel him, Rav? 

M. Laitman: This is what Baal HaSulam yearns for.

Student: So Baal HaSulam's yearning, I have to basically imagine it as the ARI.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (49:59) Can we have the reader read the second excerpt from the lesson preparation? Maybe as a response to the friend also. Can you find it? 

Reader: Yes, the lesson from the lesson preparation. This is from the ARI, the Gate of Reincarnation. My teacher, the ARI, cautioned me and all the friends who were with him in that society to take upon ourselves, before the morning prayer the commandment to do of, love your neighbor as yourself, and to aim to love each one from Israel as his own soul. For by this his prayer would rise comprising all of Israel and will be able to ascend and make a correction above. Especially our love of friends. Each and every one of us should include himself as though he is an organ of those friends. My teacher sternly cautioned me about this matter. 

M. Laitman: Yes. That's the most important thing. Again, we return to the same rules. Connection between us is the proper vessel in which to receive the teachings of the ARI, the revelation of the Creator, and so on and so forth. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (51:54) Without confusion there can't be correction. And from what I understood from Baal HaSulam is that the whole examination is very important. Based on that we can build our society. Yes? Another question. When we study materials of Baal HaSulam or ARI, there is nothing redundant there. We could say there is nothing that doesn't have value, right?

M. Laitman: Correct. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (52:52) Baal HaSulam writes here, the other side always finds its messengers to create obstacles. Is there a situation where the Sitra Acha appears in the Ten?

M. Laitman: Yes. Yes. 

Student: And also in the letter Baal HaSulam describes that negative forces appear due to the Sitra Achra, the other side. Now, perhaps the revenge he mentions is with regards to these negative forces of the Sitra Achra?

M. Laitman: I don't exactly understand what you mean or what you want. But in general we have to try to remain in Kedusha, holiness, to bestow in love and connection. That's it, full stop. You don't need to fiddle with all those things which just end up confusing us, right? 

Question (Kyiv 1): (54:05) When we talk about the ARI, we always talk about Baal HaSulam, about TES, his commentary on the Tree of Life, and this is such a complex knowledge. But here we write about love of friends and such emotional things. So how do we correctly grasp the ARI? In what light? 

M. Laitman: The key of connection. We need to reach this perspective that there is one Creator and one rule: connection between us and Him. That's all. That's all that we need to see, and to promote, assist in that as much as possible.

Reader: We'll move to another part of the lesson, which is excerpts for the commemoration of the ARI’s Memorial Day, and before that, a Nigun.

Song: (55:17)