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Daily Morning Lesson: April 4, 2026.

Selective Excerpts from the Sources.

Part 1: Lesson On the Topic of- “The Exodus From Egypt Is Called “Birth”. (4-16-2022)

Baal HaSulam. The Meaning of Conception and Birth. Item 1.

Reader: Hello beloved friends, we are now together in building a spiritual society. Our whole lesson is under this banner “Building a Spiritual Society” and why? Because we’re together in the midst of the holiday Passover- Pesach truly in the middle after the first holiday before the second holiday we’re all together, the whole world Kli, all the burning points in the hearts in a lesson on Shabbat in the morning and we don’t want to miss out on the opportunity that the Creator is giving us day after day. So we chose to study today from a very special lesson that Rav gave in 2022. A lesson on the topic of “The Exodus from Egypt is called a spiritual Birth”. 

Again “ The Exodus from Egypt is Called a Spiritual Birth”. Before the lesson itself we will read together as we used to in the Tens. We will read the source excerpt which are in the study materials. There are selective excerpts from the sources in the second part of lesson and you can find it in the line up. Well, so you don’t have to go through the line up you can go directly to the excerpts in the second part. These excerpts will direct us inwardly and show us what needs to change in relations between us in order for the spiritual reality to be born between us. Altogether 6 excerpts not to long. So we will read them twice so that all the friends in the Ten will take part together. Let’s now read them together in the next ten minutes. Let the words of Baal HaSulam and Rabash truly seep in each and every part of us. 

Baal HaSulam. The Meaning of Conception and Birth. Item 1. 

Reading: (02:21) As there is birth of an individual, in relation to the construction of the bodies, there is birth of the collective. This is done by renewal of the spiritual force, meaning development of the concepts is birth for the collective, for in the spiritual, disparity of form divides the worlds from one another. This birth means arriving at the world of correction.

Baal HaSulam. Excerpt 2. 

Reading: (03:17) If we are speaking of the proliferation in the spiritual essence, it is similar to the corporeal case of being born from the mother’s womb—which is a dark and spoiled world with all kinds of filth and unpleasantness—into a world lit up by perfection, the world of correction.

3. Rabash. Article 3, Against Your Will -1

Reading: (04:08) Birth is as the verse, “A proselyte who converted is as a newly born child.” That is, each time we reacquire the quality of faith, it is considered a “new birth.” And the reception of the quality of “mind” is above reason.

4. Rabash. Article 16, The Difference Between the Work of the General Public and the Work Of the Individual. (1987) 

Reading: (05:02) When a “man” is born means when thoughts and desires that a person should be a man come into his mind. A “man” means one who wants to walk on the path of fearing the Creator, meaning that all his actions will be for the Creator, in order to bestow, and not for himself, as a beast, who has no sensation of the other. Instead, he specifically wants to work in order to bestow.

Although he has not yet been rewarded with this, “being born” means that he has begun to walk on the basis of “man,” meaning that he wants to build his work on the basis of fear of the Creator, called “man,” and a beginning is called “birth.”

5. RABASH, Article No. 6, “What Is, ‘The Herdsmen of Abram’s Cattle and the Herdsmen of Lot’s Cattle,’ in the Work?” (1991).

Reading: (07:04) In the “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” (Item 43), he says, “When man is born, he immediately has a Nefesh [soul] of Kedusha. But not an actual Nefesh, but the Achoraim [posterior] of it, its last discernment, which, during its Katnut [smallness/infancy], is called a ‘point,’ and it dresses in man’s heart.”

We should interpret that this “point,” which is still in the dark, reveals and shines each time according to one’s work on purifying his heart. At that time, the point begins to shine. This means that each time a person begins to ascend once more after the descent, he should believe that this is a new discernment from what he had during the previous ascent, for he has already elevated it to Kedusha. Thus, each time he begins a new discernment.

Since in every beginning a person must start over the acceptance of the kingdom of heaven, it is not enough that yesterday he had faith in the Creator. For this reason, every acceptance of the kingdom of heaven is considered a new discernment. That is, now he receives a part of the vacant space that was devoid of the kingdom of heaven, and admits that empty place and fills it with the kingdom of heaven. 

Reader: Now, friends out of what was created between us, between our hearts, when we were reading the excerpts now, when we had a workshop, we will approach Rav together so that he will imprint a spiritual form in us. We will connect to his lesson on the topic of the exodus from Egypt is considered a spiritual birth, with a prayer that we will follow him. Please.

Reader: Hello, we will read selected excerpts on the topic of “The Exodus from Egypt Is Called “Birth.” 

M. Laitman: (19:10) We will try to enter it to understand better what is it that we have to do in order to be in it, truly. In these excerpts, we need to implement them as fully as possible, and we will see the materials are very important, very sensitive. I would say this is the tip of the power of the development of the person, because it speaks about how to transition from the beastly degree, which completely depends on the upper force to a state where it starts to…when this beastly structure- this desire starts to get some independence, and it can make out of itself, it can resemble the Creator. 

This is our work, and this is what we will study now, again, more and more deeply and broadly, as much as possible. We will talk about it, we will try to be incorporated in it. We will not forget about the fact that we are together, in the extent that we feel that we are not one. We are not individuals, but rather all of us are here together, and we want to discover in this system a new type of connection between us. And it will be a new kind of connection, truly emerging out of our ego, to an upliftment, to feeling the upper force, to Arvut. So that instead of me, each one of us starts to feel the concept of "we," "us," and instead of inside of us, we will discover the Creator, according to our degree of adhesion with Him. That is, as much as we try to emerge each one out of himself, and to be incorporated in the others, to that extent we come out of Egypt. So please.

Reader: So, selected excerpts on “The Exodus from Egypt Is Called “Birth.” Number one.

Reading : (21:38) 1. Baal HaSulam, “The Meaning of Conception and Birth”

As there is birth of an individual, in relation to the construction of the bodies, there is birth of the collective. This is done by renewal of the spiritual force, meaning development of the concepts is birth for the collective, for in the spiritual, disparity of form divides the worlds from one another. This birth means arriving at the world of correction.

M. Laitman: Again.

Reading: As there is birth of an individual…

M. Laitman: Meaning that the will to receive develops and it takes on a new characteristic, a new form.

Reading: In relation to the construction of the bodies,

M. Laitman: From the will to receive itself as it develops more and more and more.

Reading: There is birth of the collective. This is done by renewal of the spiritual force, 

M. Laitman: That is, if foreign parts start to connect already against nature, they start to connect between them to become as one, then they reach a state where between them a new force- spiritual force is born above the natural rejection that they have between them. They reach a state where they start to feel that there is something more between them, a collective, general essence that is connecting them, and that general essence that is connecting them is called Creator, Boreh, come and see. 

This concept does not exist however and they build it. It is written, "You have made me." That earlier we didn't have it between us, but rather we connect, and in this mutual connection, mutual support, in this mutual inclination, we begin to feel that there is something between us which we hold, which we give birth to, and this is what we make. As it is written, "You have made me." This is called the Creator. 

Let us try to make it tangible, let us try to feel it, that it does not exist without us, all of us yearning towards connection with the others, and in between us, that feeling, that force, that we want to be connected together and that we will live in that. We will constantly strengthen it. This is what we will discover as the upper force, the force of the Creator, and this is what we build, what we make. Certainly, there is an upper root, and it builds us, makes us, gives birth to us, but on our side, to approach Him, it is possible only in that way, when we connect.

M. Laitman (Source Text/Commentary): (25:09) So this is what he says, as there is birth of an individual in relation to the construction of the bodies, there is birth of the collective. This is done by a new spiritual force, meaning, when the collective becomes connected, even though each one is inside of his ego, but by wanting to come out of himself and to be connected with the others, even though he doesn't feel, he doesn't know, what is this connection. The force that is hindering him is called Pharoah. So they nevertheless try, each one of them, to rise above his state. It's like coming out of prison to freedom, with such inclinations. 

Meaning, he says, what is the development of the spiritual force, this new spiritual force? Meaning development of the concepts is the birth for the collective. That through our effort we need to try and try to reach a state where we are connected above the rejection, above the personal feeling, individual feeling of each one. For in the spiritual, disparity of form divides the world from one another, disparity of form. 

This birth means reaching the world of correction when above the disparity between us, and the disparity between us is in everything, but when we start to try and succeed in connecting between us above the separation, the separation remains. Later on it will be called Aviut- the coarseness of the Partzuf- of the world. But we, above this separation want to build a new force, a new connection, and this will be a spiritual force. In it we will start to feel upon the coarseness, upon the separation, upon the rejection, an inclination towards connection, holding each other in Arvut. In this way we build a world of correction, and in it we live.

Question (Kyiv 1): (28:07) It says here in the excerpt, that the development of concepts is the birth for the collective, so what's the connection between the two? 

M. Laitman: As much as we feel that we are separated, according to that, we can make efforts in mutual help. And with the help of the upper force, our source, so that we will succeed in connecting so much so that we will build out of all of our desires and qualities, in those little groups that the Creator had arranged to begin with, as it is written for us in the Arvut article “That the Creator places man's hand on the good faith, and He says, take it.” So we connect in this way between us, we try to connect, according to the laws of the upper nature, the spiritual nature, the laws of bestowal as much as we understand it. And this is how we advance towards connection, which is more and more with a higher quality, more and more powerful and through that we reach the revelation of the new structure between us, which is called Neshama, soul. Okay? 

Student: It turns out that each time we attain a more complete form each time? 

M. Laitman: When we start to connect between us in spite of or against our desire that is rejecting us from each other, repelling us from each other, through that we start to attain a new reality. Just like in anything that we feel ourselves. We don't feel ourselves. We feel the difference between us and the environment, between us and something that is outside of me. This is how I feel. This is how it is always with us. 

The created being is not capable of feeling something on its own. He exists and he feels only in the transition between something and something else. And this is how we discover our own existence. Even though we have this connection between us and we don't feel it, but when we grow, we're being taught how to connect between us even though we don't want it. 

So they explain to us that the force of rejection and the force of connection that we need to arrange and establish between us these are exactly the two forces that we need, because the force of rejection will be the force of the coarseness. And the force of connection will be the force of the clothing. These two forces, if they are established correctly, according to the person's degree, then by this we will feel each time in between these two forces we will feel the upper reality. By this we build a new sense. And this is how we advance more and more and more. We will have a greater force of coarseness, the force of rejection, and a greater force of connection that we will establish between us. And each time we will have a new structure. And in that new structure, from something and its opposite — from disconnection and connection, that will coexist one on top of the other, as coarseness and refinement and by that we will discover the essence of the upper force, our root. And this is what we are now reaching. And therefore the beginning of this construction is called the spiritual birth. Okay? 

Student: What is the beginning of this construction? 

M. Laitman: The beginning means that we need to relate to our forces of rejection in a rational manner. We don't just look at it that they repel us, that they are like that. We don't just flow along with our ego the way it was before, just doing whatever it says. But we want to add to those forces of rejection that are revealed between us, forces of connection that will be revealed between us. 

Then in this relation between rejection and connection, we build each time such portions of the force of rejection and the force of connection in a new state. Again, force of rejection and force of connection. And this is how we build what we call Partzufim.

Student: We are constantly in this work of separation and connection, but it's still not called birth. What is necessary here for it to be called a birth? 

M. Laitman: If we reach these states in an aware state, emotionally wanting to build it with our understanding, wanting to do it such that out of that we will have a new reality, that we ourselves reach this structure, then these are already spiritual actions. And this is how we advance.

Question (PT 32): (34:35) You must have answered, but I wanted to ask about the development of concepts. It means that each one has to have a deep recognition that there’s no other way?

M. Laitman: I don't know how it should be for each and every one. If we will follow the recommendations of the Kabbalists and do whatever they recommend that we do, then each one will develop in whatever he is, according to his roots, the way he should be. That's it. And also according to the coarseness and according to the refinement, according to the magnitude and the manner, the specific manner, we will see it along the way. We are now getting into it, getting into this work.

Student: And what does it mean that the disparity of form will divide the world from one another? 

M. Laitman: Where do you take these things from?

Student: It says, because in the spiritual, the disparity of form divides the world from one another. 

M. Laitman: In spirituality, the disparity of form divides the worlds from one another. These are just forms of reality. We will discover, we ourselves will discover these forms of coarseness and the different relations, and these whole gradations, these divisions, they will come out of our inner structure. This is what he writes here in general, that we don't yet have any discernments in the world or in these divisions, but it will come and we will see it. 

Question (Turkiye 3): (36:19) Does the development of the collective's understanding depend more on the connection between us or on dissemination?

M. Laitman: No, on the connection between us. The most important is the connection between us, and the connection between us has to be spiritual. That is, it has to take on a characteristic, a form, a force, a spiritual essence. Whereas dissemination, this is to the external audience according to the ability of this audience to absorb, to perceive our messages and to come closer, but for the time being to come closer from the outside. We, between us, in the connection between us, already build the infrastructure for both the individual and also the collective soul. Okay. No more questions, so let's move on to number two. 

Reader: Excerpt number two.

Reading: (37:42) 2. Baal HaSulam, “The Meaning of Conception and Birth”

If we are speaking of the proliferation in the spiritual essence, it is similar to the corporeal case of being born from the mother’s womb—which is a dark and spoiled world with all kinds of filth and unpleasantness—into a world it up by perfection, the world of correction.

M. Laitman: Yes, this is how the Kabbalists describe to us these two states that we need to discover. That the more we try to discover the spiritual world, the world of bestowal, the world of love, the world of connection, which is spirituality, then by that we understand better and better what is our present state, in which we exist in darkness and lacking all of these spiritual forces. And this is how we advance; this is considered that we grow. We will study these things in a more precise manner, and we will see what it is. 

What is the darkness that we discover in states of reception, and what is the light that we discover in states of bestowal and connection? It's not worthwhile to depict all kinds of things the way it seems to us, that it is inside of the womb and outside of the womb. 

These are just external examples, but rather it's about the relations between us. The changes in them, the essence in them, in the relations between us those should bring us to a state of understanding what spirituality is.

Question (PT 31): (40:25) The more we try to connect, the more we feel the distance between us, the disparity, it looks like something that's unbridgeable. How do we work with this feeling of frustration?

M. Laitman: We work not with the feeling of frustration, we work with the feeling of joy. That the more we develop, we discover the differences between us, the oppositeness, the distance, and it becomes revealed more and more and more. It's like when you advance towards something, and then you discover details more and more. So this is what is happening. 

Therefore, as we advance we will discover how much each one is the opposite of the other, in contradiction to the other, and accordingly hating — it will be felt in our sensation as that each one of us hates the others. This is how it is. It's like the students of Rabbi Shimon who are ready to kill one another. Look at what the Zohar writes. The Zohar is not afraid it doesn't hide from us the states that people go through as they advance in spirituality.

Student: In this world, I check results by looking at things improve. Here in the connection, how do I check it? By feeling more remote, it means I'm advancing more?

M. Laitman: No, that's not that you advance. The fact that you feel that you're more distant, it means that you were given an opportunity to advance, it's not that you are advancing. You might say that you're advancing on the left line, but this is not a spiritual advancement. This is being revealed to you from above as a foundation, as preparation, as an opportunity to connect above this distancing and to reach true spiritual discernments.

Student: So the work in this distance is to continue to exert in connection in any case?

M. Laitman: Yes, in any case, we have no other direction, no other direction. If I don't know what to do, I need to take an example from the friends. If I have that, maybe I don't have it, but I need to think only about increasing the connection. 

Question (PT 31): (43:11) So we discover each time how different we are, distant we are from one another, but what is the relation of our connection? 

M. Laitman: Upon that, you need to discover, to reveal your effort to be connected, upon the distance to be connected. This is called love that covers all crimes. 

Student: In our current state, we see that the connection, this value, keeps changing. What is the connection between us now? 

M. Laitman: What is it now? You need to check it and see. But this is what you have to work on all the time, that the connection will be as tight as possible, as one man with one heart, according to your understanding, according to your feeling, on each and every degree, each and every state.

Question (ITA 4): (44:25) The question is, what is the meaning,  what is the meaning in Excerpt No. 2 that he is born from his mother's womb, which is dark and spoiled with all kinds of filth and unpleasantness? Why does it have to be dark and corrupt with all kinds of unpleasantness and filth?

M. Laitman: This is how we discover that we are coming out of the previous degree to the next degree, that we are rising on the degrees. And also the filth and all kinds of unpleasantness, this is how it seems to our senses, to the discernments that we exist in for the time being. But later on, as we ascend, we see that all of these things are necessary, and that we specifically from them, later on need to compose the spiritual reality. Nothing was created needlessly.

Question (Spain 1): (46:14) Each one has something personal, but how to identify the root of each one in having the ability to connect?

M. Laitman: We cannot feel this root for the time being because we're just beginning, and we're not in any connection. The form of connection that we discover according to our efforts will give us the understanding and the feeling of which vessel each one of us is in. It's only according to our efforts. There is nothing we can do about it. If we will not exert, we will not discover our soul.

Question (Turkiye 2): (47:15) How do we become aware of the lack of spiritual strength? How will I realize that the will to receive responds positively to everything?

M. Laitman: The fact that I want to reach the revelation of my soul, this brings me to the necessity to connect with others, because the soul is built out of me yearning to be connected to them. And in the connection between us, which I try to establish, what is revealed will be called the soul. And in that, I will be able to live in a spiritual, complete and internal form, to understand the truth in that system. And it's not what we see as the imaginary world of ours. It all depends on how much I rise above my egoistic will to receive, and I start to become incorporated with my friends as much as possible. And by that, I discover the new vessel, the connection. And according to the degree of the connection, according to its intensity — and its intensity depends on which contrasting forces I use in order to be connected above these contradictory forces; and then through something and its opposite, through rejection and connection to hatred, and the desire to kill, as it says there in the Zohar.

Until I do connect above it, and I build within me the form of love — love, not just like that. I just reach, close things somehow, reach some closure. So until we rise from hatred to love, to that degree, I build my spiritual Kli in the gap between the hatred and the love. And this is how I reach the revelation of the upper worlds. This is actually revealed eventually as the gap between the will to receive and the will to bestow.

Question (KabU 3): (50:21) If we understand perfectly, in fact, this spiritual birth is when we identify ourselves with the connection between us, we exist only in that connection, and no longer anymore with our individuality. Is that it Rav?

M. Laitman: Roughly so. That is correct. That’s it, so we can continue.

Reader: Excerpt number three.

Reading: (51:00) 3. RABASH, Article No. 3, "Against Your Will – 1"

Birth is as the verse, “A proselyte who converted is as a newly born child.” That is, each time we reacquire the quality of faith, it is considered a “new birth.” And the reception of the quality of “mind” is above reason.

M. Laitman: This means that each time that I receive a certain quality of faith, additional faith, it is considered that I am born. So, we have births, each time a birth, and another birth, and another birth, meaning the birth of the force of bestowal, which I add to myself. This is called a spiritual birth. 

Therefore, it's not like in our world that one is born, and that's it. But rather, each and every time, with each and every discernment, we have a new birth. Why is that? Because by that, we open up our eyes, our senses. By that, we begin to see anew, to understand anew. We open up our eyes. It's a new world. I didn't see it before. In depth, in distances, in the relations between these things, suddenly something is revealed that wasn't there before, and it is revealed with all of the details, from zero to one hundred percent of all of the details. So it is truly a new birth. This is what is happening to us in spirituality. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (52:56) So, when you're connected with the friends, you try to feel them instead of yourself, and suddenly you find yourself in totally different thoughts, external thoughts, and again, you have to start the work anew. So each time it comes to a new birth, from — how should I put it — you fall from it?

M. Laitman: Yes, each time, every time, this is how we transition from state to state. And why is it called a new birth? Because any addition starts from zero, and up to one hundred percent that is revealed. And then, once again, an addition from zero to one hundred percent that is revealed. The hundred percent that is revealed is called Ibur, Yenika, Mochin. Later on, we will see these three stages that have to be in each and every state that develops. This is how it will happen to us.

Student: I simply want to understand the birth in spirituality. At some point, will there be such a state where you get into and you don't come out of it, or will there always be…? 

M. Laitman: It's impossible that you reach some new state without you refining and getting rid of, or standing in the old state. How can it be? If you don't let go of the previous state, how can you be born in the new state? You have to be in such revolutions each time, that whatever you had as the Keter of the lower one, it becomes the Malchut of the upper one. You have to invert each time, you have to invert, otherwise you have no renewal, otherwise there's no new birth. Otherwise you just keep going like most people in our world.

Student: My last question — all those states, they grow in an amplitude, we get deeper each time?

M. Laitman: We need to discern here where is the quantity and where is the quality, we can't understand it now. It's like with a little child, you give him something, he doesn't know, he doesn't know how to compare these states with those states, so later on, when he grows a little bit more, he will have the experience in each and every state, and also the memory with relation to each and every state. So this is how we can also identify the states that we’re taking. It's clear?

Question (PT 6): (56:11) Also to clarify this concept of birth — he said that if these foreign parts begin to connect against their nature to be as one, they come to a state where a new spiritual force is born in them. Is the birth a result of the connection in the Ten, or a renewal in the work of the individual, of my own perception?

M. Laitman: It's only with respect to the person, it's only with respect to the person who attains, that's how we speak of it. 

Student: So what is birth in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Birth in the Ten is that I, who am in a Ten, and I connect with them, I reach a certain connection with them, a new connection, in its essence, and I feel inside of our connection a new world, a new Partzuf, with all the elements in it. This is called a new birth. 

Student: And what is the exodus that is also called birth? 

M. Laitman: The exodus from Egypt, it's when we disconnect from the will to receive in order to receive, we run away from it, and we take upon ourselves only the spiritual development. We want to gather only forces of bestowal. 

Question (H 10): (58:02) He asked what I wanted to ask. Can you see me? Can you explain, before you can go through? 

M. Laitman: Where's your microphone? 

Student: You can't hear?

M. Laitman: No, not good. Now we don't hear you at all. Where is your microphone? He  disconnected. Okay. All right, so we'll continue onwards, if there are no more questions.

Reader: Excerpt number four.

Reading: (58:44) 4. RABASH, Article No. 16 (1987), "The Difference between the Work of the General Public and the Work of the Individual"

When a “man” is born means when thoughts and desires that a person should be a man come into his mind. A “man” means one who wants to walk on the path of fearing the Creator, meaning that all his actions will be for the Creator, in order to bestow, and not for himself, as a beast, who has no sensation of the other. Instead, he specifically wants to work in order to bestow.

Although he has not yet been rewarded with this, “being born” means that he has begun to walk on the basis of “man,” meaning that he wants to build his work on the basis of fear of the Creator, called “man,” and a beginning is called “birth.”

M. Laitman: (59:45) Yes, this means that what happens here is that we, I, each one of us, those who are capable of deciding that he just wants to carry out the Creator's will as much as possible, and he operates only according to this desire, in that direction then it is considered that he is developing the person, the human, Adam, out of himself. One who is not capable of it, he tries, but he's not yet capable of it, he's called a beast. That  is a beast, it's also not just some person walking on the street, even though it's written they all seemed as beasts, but rather, these are two degrees: those who are making efforts but haven't yet reached in order to bestow, they are called a beast. Those who can already perform actions in order to bestow, according to the power of these actions, they are called Adam. Okay, so we had number four. 

Reader: Number four again.

Reading: (01:01:16) 4. RABASH, Article No. 16 (1987), "The Difference between the Work of the General Public and the Work of the Individual"

When a “man” is born means when thoughts and desires that a person should be a man come into his mind. A “man” means one who wants to walk on the path of fearing the Creator, meaning that all his actions will be for the Creator, in order to bestow, and not for himself, as a beast, who has no sensation of the other. Instead, he specifically wants to work in order to bestow.

Although he has not yet been rewarded with this, “being born” means that he has begun to walk on the basis of “man,” meaning that he wants to build his work on the basis of fear of the Creator, called “man,” and a beginning is called “birth.”

M. Laitman: (01:02:18) Well, it's clear to us, the principle — if from this point on I wish to resemble the Creator, then from this point on, as I begin to work this way, we can say that a man, Adam, is born.

Question (Moscow 6): (01:02:44) It seems that the spiritual is like a non-stop process, but it's like some disturbance that we have, that we want to reach the end of correction, Gmar Tikkun, and there everything stops. 

M. Laitman: Speak clearly and repeat it. 

Student: Do you hear me?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: From this excerpt, it seems that spirituality is a non-stop process. Meaning there's no stopping, no cessation, but we have the goal of reaching the end of correction, and we cannot see beyond that. Doesn't that stop us?

M. Laitman: Nothing stops us, and your question comes from the fact that you can't see the path. The path is, according to cause and consequence, things keep revolving, revolving, or incarnating, and a new world opens up each time.

Question (ITA 1): (01:04:05) How is the new birth revealed to us? Is it through states of fear, of despair?

M. Laitman: Yes and no. Not necessarily that it has to be with fear and despair all the time. Rather, in order to accelerate our development we  sometimes feel states of fear and despair, but it's all in order to awaken us and to advance us. 

They always raise you in sanctity and never demote you. Nobody wants to put us into negative sensations. Rather, there's no choice, and we don't build any systems for ourselves that would advance us quickly, correctly. Then we get such forms of awakening that are unpleasant, and they do it. Nevertheless, they become the forces of our development.

Question (Latin 7): (01:05:14) Can we say that the difference between the collective, the general desire we have to serve the Creator, and the feeling of the need to serve Him, it's about the placement of the screen?

M. Laitman: Yes, of course. 

Question (ITA 4): (01:05:58) What is considered according to the Kabbalists, to live on the degree of Adam, man? Outside of the Ten also in the daily life, where should I aim my thoughts, where should I aim my heart?

M. Laitman: If you wish to become Adam, a man who resembles the Creator, you have to constantly carry this idea with you and try, everywhere you are, to make these calculations of what does it mean to be a man, according to the states that appear in you. It's not something you have to disclose to everyone, of course not. Rather, within you, you need to try and be in those calculations. How can I, with the states that are revealed in me, inside of me, each and every moment, how do I try to resemble the Creator, at least to some extent?

Question (Romania 1): (01:07:06) When we give to the group, do we exert an influence on the group, and can we measure this influence?

M. Laitman: My bestowal to the group, my influence on the group, I can measure it. Not now, but later I'll be able to measure it, yes, relative to the friends' attitude towards me and towards the group. Everything is measured according to the merging of the forces, for and against, and that's how we measure it. This web of connection between us, it's built, when this network of connections gives us the feeling of a relationship between us, both in quality and in intensity.

Question (Ashkelon 3): (01:08:26) Adam is similar to the Creator, and the fear of Heaven, and the fear of the Creator from the excerpt sounds like the infrastructure for building Adam. This doesn't quite connect in me to being similar to the Creator, being dependent on Him, but it's not something identical to Him.

M. Laitman: So hang on. You haven't performed any actions by which you can resemble the Creator in order to feel what's happening inside of you, and to say that these are the qualities of the Creator, the true qualities of the Creator. You need to discover these qualities in you, and say, this is the Creator. 

Question (PT 32): (01:09:18) It says here in the beginning of the excerpt, when a man is born, it means that thoughts and desires come to his mind and heart that we should be Adam, man. It sounds as though it comes to him from some external factor outside of the person, these thoughts. So, who does that depend on, that such thoughts and desires will come to the person?

M. Laitman: This is the upper plan, in order to bring each soul, each and every part and each and every soul to its purpose, to correction, to the end of correction. And that's how we advance. A person only receives those things from above. From the end of correction, each state comes down to us, only in this way.

Question (PT 6): (01:10:27) At birth, there is the force that pushes the baby out. And also, in Egypt, there is Pharaoh, who chases after the people of Israel, and he forces them to cross. Where is the force that will help us- Bnei Baruch, that it will compel us to?

M. Laitman: There is one upper force. It is in charge of all the actions of each one individually, and all of us together. That's it. So, we speak of it in all of its individual manifestations, but it's one force, one desire, that is working from the end of correction, on all of us and each of us individually, in order to bring us to the full, to the complete state of Gmar Tikkun. 

Reader: We've reached excerpt number five. Number five.

Reading: 5. RABASH, Article No. 6 (1991), “What Is, ‘The Herdsmen of Abram’s Cattle and the Herdsmen of Lot’s Cattle,’ in the Work?”

(01:11:30) In the “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” (Item 43), he says, “When man is born, he immediately has a Nefesh [soul] of Kedusha. But not an actual Nefesh, but the Achoraim [posterior] of it, its last discernment, which, during its Katnut [smallness/infancy], is called a ‘point,’ and it dresses in man’s heart.”

We should interpret that this “point,” which is still in the dark, reveals and shines each time according to one’s work on purifying his heart. At that time, the point begins to shine. This means that each time a person begins to ascend once more after the descent, he should believe that this is a new discernment from what he had during the previous ascent, for he has already elevated it to Kedusha. Thus, each time he begins a new discernment.

Since in every beginning a person must start over the acceptance of the kingdom of heaven, it is not enough that yesterday he had faith in the Creator. For this reason, every acceptance of the kingdom of heaven is considered a new discernment. That is, now he receives a part of the vacant space that was devoid of the kingdom of heaven, and admits that empty place and fills it with the kingdom of heaven.

M. Laitman (Source Text/Commentary): (01:13:39) Okay, let us read it again. In the introduction to the Book of Zohar, it says, when a man is born — born spiritually — he immediately has Nefesh of Kedushah, but not an actual Nefesh, but the Achoraim of Nefesh, the posterior, which is its posterior, called during its smallness, infancy, a point, and it's dressed in man's heart, in the general heart, towards the goal, to live, towards the Creator, the general desire. A person doesn't know about it, doesn't scrutinize it. Rabash says we should interpret that this point, Rabash says that we should interpret that this point, which is still in the dark, reveals and shines each time according to one's work on purifying his heart. At that time, the point begins to shine. According to how much a person yearns, exerts to purify his heart, to bring it to the form of bestowal. This means that each time a person begins to ascend once more after the descent, he should believe that this is a new discernment from what he had during the previous ascent, for he has already elevated it into Kedusha, sanctity, and each time he begins a new discernment. 

We need to understand that all the descents and ascents, they move us forward. They cannot have an ascent without a descent, and the descent builds the Kli, the vessels — it reveals the vessels that we would later correct, and in this way we advance. Since in every beginning, a person must start over the acceptance of the Kingdom of Heaven. What is the Kingdom of Heaven? That he annuls himself towards the Creator, so He would rule over him. And it is not enough that yesterday he had faith in the Creator, that he annulled himself towards the upper force. For this reason, every acceptance of the Kingdom of Heaven is considered a new discernment. A new state, a new degree, he starts from a new zero. That is, now he receives a part of the vacant space that was devoid — that he did not correct yet. And so his spiritual vessel, this vacant space, he keeps getting a fragment of it, a small part of it, that was devoid of the Kingdom of Heaven, because he determined his devotion on it, so he admits that empty place and fills it with the Kingdom of Heaven. Meaning, in the form of bestowal, as much as you can, more whole, more pure, and that would be the dominion of the Creator on the vacant space that appears to a person. Questions?

Question (Latin 12): (01:17:39) What is the right form to pass on to the friend in the Ten? Our emotions are feeling that he is the chosen one, that he was chosen by the Creator. What is the right way to pass on a new scrutiny, or new scrutinies, to a friend?

M. Laitman: To show the friend that you love him. That is, that will cause or bring about correction with certainty. That's what is recommended. And although we don't want to hear such advice — I remember myself also, the ego doesn't let you hear it, but that's what we have to do.

Question (Bulgaria 1): (01:19:03) If we don't have any choice, any free choice to be born in our world, what is our choice to be born in spirituality?

M. Laitman: We don't have choice to be born in spirituality. Nobody asked you before you came to the wisdom of Kabbalah if you want it or not. Nobody asks you if you wish to be born spiritually or not. 

Rather, the Creator places a person's hand on the good faith, and He says, take it, this is for your benefit, and if you want it, you take it. And you keep going. And if you don't want it, then He will nevertheless apply pressure on you until you do. And the participation of a person is by trying to understand that he must accept this and follow his powers to the Creator, to be partners with the Creator. The Creator scrutinizes the things, and the person accepts it, and gives gratitude and advances.

Reader: Yes, so let's sing together.

Song: (01:20:30) 

M. Laitman: (01:23:44) We're now going to women, on the same part that we've just been through. We'll answer their questions, and then we'll get back to our regular material, the one you were reading over the past month.

Question (W Internet): (01:24:08) Birth is something that happens to a person individually or to the whole Ten together? 

M. Laitman: Also individually.

Question (W MAK Israel 1): (01:24:19) How to strengthen the Ten in the process of the birth so that the whole Ten will go through that state and not just a small part of it?

M. Laitman: Although birth happens to each and every one individually, to the extent that we participate in it between us, we accelerate the process of birth and the birth itself, the individual birth as well, the personal one. So it's worthwhile for us to participate in the development before the birth and the birth itself, just as we read in the Torah that they were speaking about this role of women, these who assist the birth, everything that belongs to it. It's a very important role, and the entire group has to be as midwives who are helping us to be born.

Question (W Moscow 17): (01:25:34) What are we missing, lacking, in order to reach the spiritual birth?

M. Laitman: What we're lacking in order to reach the spiritual birth — well, we have to first become pregnant, to conceive. What does it mean to conceive? That each one would feel that inside he's got something of the Creator, and he wants to develop this discernment, to grow it, to give birth to it, so it would exist, so he would be in it, inside the thing that is born. So it turns out as if a person gives birth to it himself.

Question (W Heb): (01:26:27) What is the purposeful and correct form of hatred that should be revealed between us so that we don't become immersed in it?

M. Laitman: We need to hate all the forces of separation, generally speaking, because they interfere with even aiming ourselves at the goal. We need to respect the forces of unity that help us, that support us, that give us that form from which we can be born. And those are the things women, especially, can feel a correspondence — seemingly — between what's happening in the corporeal birth and what's happening in the spiritual birth. It's not identical, but the processes are the same.

Student: How is it possible that the hatred will not control us when it is revealed? What should we do?

M. Laitman: The importance of the goal. What difference does it make who is before me, with this corporeal character, with his corporeal qualities, with his external form that might repel me? What difference does it make? The important thing is that if the Creator assembled us, gathered us, then we belong to the same soul, meaning to that innermost structure that exists in the system of Adam and Eve. And we need to be an elite unit that becomes as one man and one heart. So I have no choice but to accept him. And I understand that wherever I don't want to accept him, it's my ego, and I have to work against it. And the more this person repulses me, I have to work against this repulsion and try to accept him in this way. That's it. This is the nature of our work.

Question (W MAK 20): (01:29:19) Why do I see only my friends as moving away from me, but I don't feel that I'm moving away from them? I always just try to justify myself, but it's very hard for me to justify the friends. What should I do?

M. Laitman: Imagine that when you see them moving away from you, it's you who is moving away. This way the Creator wants to show us how we are, how distant we are, and not that they are distant. It's called, each one judges according to his own flaws. If I see the friends moving away, 

Question (W PT): (01:30:06) if two friends want to bestow, how is it possible that hatred appears between them?

M. Laitman: Because each one is still in his will to receive, and he interprets the meaning of bestowal differently. So, a great hate can appear between them, and the students of Rabbi Shimon they wanted to bestow — such a great desire appears between them that they wanted to kill one another. How can that be? Because we are advancing on two legs.

Question (W Heb): (01:30:46) What does the difference between us give us, the hatred and the distance that are revealed?

M. Laitman: It gives us the ability to connect and to turn the differences into a great power of connection, and to turn the resistance to connection — resistance to connection — and by that bring ourselves into a more beneficial, more massive, more effective vessel, a bigger vessel, because even in our world if we wish to build something strong, powerful we need to have opposing forces to work together.

Question (W MAK Israel 1): (01:31:36) Is the state of fear an individual state, or should I mention that this is something that the entire Ten feels? Should I constantly check myself through the friends?

M. Laitman: Both. It depends on the state a person is in.

Question (W Moscow 18): (01:31:53) How is it possible to reach the feeling of fear towards the Creator?

M. Laitman: To think more and more — do I want to give Him pleasure through the Ten, through my Ten, or not, and how much yes, how much no, and where do I stop, and I say up to this point and no more, and so on and so forth. This is my measurement, how I measure myself relative to the Creator, how much I allow myself to approach Him, so I won't be too close, that it will be above my abilities, my powers. A person has to pay attention — where does he stop in spirituality? Can he take another step forward, or it's not worthwhile, not recommended? That's a good idea. And in this way, he sees himself, he sees how he can protect himself.

Question (W MAK 26): (01:33:12) When a person wants to accept fear from the Creator, to reach fear from the Creator, what are the first actions he has to do on the path?

M. Laitman: It can't be toward the Creator, unless it passes through the friends. Only through the friends can it come from, so we have to take that into consideration. There's no measurement relative to the friend and relative to the Creator. We only measure relative to the friends, the group — it doesn't matter, it's all measured according to the relationships in the society, in the group.

Question (W German 6): (01:34:02) During the process of equivalence of qualities with the Creator, so in the beginning we overcome the rejections, but we also have to leave things that we used to be drawn to before?

M. Laitman: No, if they don't interfere with our connection, then no, we only need to think — how can we become closer in our hearts?

Question (W Heb): (01:34:42) What will let us not be afraid of that empty void that's revealed?

M. Laitman: We are now speaking with women. Tell me, most of you have gone through birth, have given birth. It's full of so much pain, danger, blood, pain, unpleasant situations. But does anyone take that into consideration when she wants to give birth? No. And after going through so much suffering and torment in the last birth, is she afraid of getting pregnant again and giving another birth? No. How come? It's illogical. It's irrational. How can it be that a person goes for such suffering, and sometimes it's a place of mortal danger, but nevertheless he goes for it and is drawn to it, attracted to it. We see that there is a force in nature that is more powerful than all the dangers combined. A desire to be born. The same thing is in spirituality. If we awaken this force to be born in the spiritual world, we are not afraid, we can go all in, come into the birth, and give birth from within us against our nature, give birth to a new desire, a desire of connection and of love. In effect, we are giving birth to the Creator. 

Question (W Heb): (01:36:55) How to accept correctly hatred that is being revealed towards me?

M. Laitman: Hatred that appears towards me, I need to accept it as coming to me from the Creator, and not that He hates me or through these people He passes hate to me. Rather, through these people, He gives me a place for correction that I have to subjugate myself. Not that I agree necessarily with these people and their conditions, but I take into account that it comes from the Creator, and I have to patiently cope with it and measure it and live through it.

Question (W Moscow): (01:37:52) What stops us when we try to get closer in our hearts to one another?

M. Laitman: Our nature, the Creator. He hinders us. He is the disturbance to us. I want to come closer to the friend I see. Something stands between us. Rabash would say, you see, the Creator puts a spike in your wheels, doesn't let you advance, doesn't let you come closer. Why? Because otherwise you won't need His help. And so you have to see that you ultimately have to turn to Him, ultimately you cry and you go into a wall, but you see that the wall is the Creator. You forgot about Him. You didn't take Him into account. You don't turn to Him. Turn to Him and see how He solves all your problems. There are no problems from His perspective, but turn to Him. So our whole problem, in all the states we go through in all our world, is to lower ourselves and turn to the Creator and hinge all our life on Him.

Question (W Moscow 8): (01:39:31) Progress, success on Him. How can hatred become love?

M. Laitman: The higher, upper awakening comes from the upper root, the upper light, through two systems, Kedusha and Klipa. And therefore, we also see in our world that hatred and love are close to each other. It's the same intensity in both, but it depends on how you work with it, in favor or against. And so, we just have to know how we ride both of them. And this is called free choice. How do I choose what will govern me, or what will I take control of? Hatred or love? There's no more than two. Only love comes out of the Creator, but our nature inverts it and leads us to hate. And if we understand it, then we transform the hate to love, and we receive the final correction. But it has to be consistent work that you're always in.

Student: Why do you also need to overcome love?

M. Laitman: Typically, love that appears in us is love from the side of Klipa. And love of Kedusha, sanctity, that I already have to build on my own and against my desire. Love of bestowal rather than love of reception. So, in every phenomenon, there are two opposites. 

Question (W KabU 2): (01:42:06) The disturbances that the Creator sends — is that like a test to see if we really remember to turn to Him for help?

M. Laitman: The disturbances the Creator sends us are not like a test. You could say a test, but they are the same influences upon us so that we grow on top of them. It's like we give something to a child and we want him to invest physical strength in that, intellectual strength, and then overcome and succeed in solving the problem we present to him. Because that's the way to acquire something in our world, to rise from one degree to another. That's how we advance. So, the whole wisdom of Kabbalah is built this way, and that's how we advance. And it's not that the Creator tests us. He doesn't need to test us. He knows what we are. He makes us, and He holds all our data. It's a joke to say that He's testing where we are now. He creates all the states we're in, so He has nothing to test. He designs us to begin with. So, it's not that I need to show the Creator who I am. Rather, I build myself by that, and then I see who I am. Towards the Creator, there's nothing to be shown. We are completely open and obvious to Him in every sense. 

Question (W KabU 4): (01:44:12) The fact that we believe that we're separated, that our perception is like that, that's what prevents us from coming out of Egypt.

M. Laitman: What prevents us from exiting Egypt is that we feel ourselves more convenient on our own, and not in a common heart where the Creator is revealed. And each time we escape to that state where we are isolated. Though I got used to it, I feel good if I'm on my own. And here I need actually the opposite. I need to feel good if I'm connected to others, if I serve others in such a way I can bring them fulfillment through me. Something we have to do slowly, bit by bit, but give each other such examples.

Question (W Kavkaz 1): (01:45:41) What's that empty space, that new void that we discover in the Ten?

M. Laitman: It's the space between us that we need to fulfill with light of Hassadim and then light of Hochma. The spiritual space, the spiritual place appears between us in the desires and relationships between us. If we pay attention to it, then we discover it as an empty place between us. And then to the extent that we nevertheless want to fulfill it. And if I turn to the friend and I can't reach him, I can't enter him and feel a response from him. So what do you do? I turn to the Creator. I ask the Creator to open my heart and the friend's heart in such a way that these hearts will come together. That's how it is. Only by prayer.

Question (Internet): (01:47:21) How can I come out of Egypt, to understand that there can be good without bad, if it even took the sons of Israel ten blows to understand it and come out?

M. Laitman: Ten plagues we feel as we want to advance, to get closer. And there are disturbances on the path. And these disturbances are deliberate. The Creator sends them so as to strengthen us and understand what's the essence of coming closer. It's like in our studies at school or university. We have to solve problems. And by their solution, we start understanding what's going on. And therefore, we don't have a choice. We have to reach some construction of ourselves in ten degrees. These ten degrees are exactly the structure of our soul. So we can't, we mustn't disregard this and not accept it or escape it. We have to be inside this development until we realize what our progress is made of. And that's how we will advance. It's very important. Without the ten plagues, we can't prepare ourselves to exit the will to receive in order to bestow, from this world to the spiritual world. It's not just blows. It's blows over on our ego. We're talking about the children of Israel in Egypt, suffering the plagues. One time we talk about it like Pharaoh suffers the plagues, another time like the children of Israel do, or the Egyptians. 

It's all inside the person who wants to rise from in order to receive to in order to bestow. And these plagues go through his will to receive while he's under the rule of the Egyptians, of Pharaoh. And then as a result of understanding that he suffers these plagues because he's still in the will to receive, so he also understands that these plagues direct him correctly towards the exit. And there's nothing else you can do. It's like labor pains. You can't give birth correctly and in a healthy way without contractions.

Question (W Heb): (01:50:38) So a person needs to ask for blows to develop?

M. Laitman: No, we just have to be ready for it. Ready means not that I'm ready to suffer it, but I have to be willing — more accurately, meaning I understand this needs to happen and I'm going for it. It's very similar to labor pains.

Question (W Moscow 3): (01:51:25) What is this new sense we're building? Is it a balance between the mind and heart when they become equal?

M. Laitman: It's not a balance between the mind and heart that we had beforehand. It's a force of bestowal that appears inside the force of reception and thus begins to evolve. 

Question (W KabU 5): (01:52:02) How by building a spiritual structure, we're rebuilding the general soul. 

M. Laitman: It says the Creator will be impregnated in me for your sake. Meaning that what appears in us is that a new state begins to form in us, a new degree. And that's a part of Godliness that impregnates in a person, that begins to develop in a person. And the person helps it develop, even though he suffers, even though he has to restrict his ego, give room to a new force that appears in him. And this is how we begin to enter — well, not birth yet, but at least impregnation, conception. And then there's a very serious process happening there, which is the process of conception. 

Question (W KabU 8): (01:53:29) Kabbalah — is that state of the one who gives birth? Is that how we can be the birth mothers in Egypt?

M. Laitman: No, that's not us. Even though we each need towards the friends to be playing that role, both men and women, it doesn't matter. It has nothing to do with the corporeal gender. It has to do with the spiritual world. We have to help each other. One shall help his friend. And how can one help his friend? By setting an example, by showing an example of what to do. And even though the friend might not understand, not see, not respond — maybe even further than that, even distant respects it or disregards it, or just something that doesn't pay attention to it, or even treats you worse than before. You have to continue in whatever way you can to do it better and give the friend all that he requires in order to develop. Anything but leave, if he still wants to achieve the spiritual goal. Even though he seems to be walking opposite, in the opposite direction, we still have to guard him and let him, give him place to develop. And as long as he doesn't actively harm the Ten.

Question (W Heb): (01:55:21) What are the blows in the connection between us? What are the ten plagues on my ego?

M. Laitman: It is that we come to a state where I see that if I still remain with the will to receive, even just a little bit, I can't achieve spirituality and I never will. But what can happen though, is if I tear all of my connection with the will to receive, and that is the correction I must do. Ten plagues means that in all the ten qualities, ten Sefirot, right? That I tear the connection with their individual Malchut. And so I remain with nine Sefirot without the Malchut, and then this Malchut is replaced with Malchut of Heaven, corrected Malchut, Malchut of Bina. And that's the spiritual birth.

Question (W PT 6): (01:56:53) What's demanded of us to do when the Creator creates a distance between us — only to pray, to ask?

M. Laitman: But pray, non-stop.

Question (W MAK Israel 1): (01:57:08) There's always a fear to harm the Ten with my ego. That's why I want to annul myself. The result is that the Ten isn't connecting, so how should I annul correctly?

M. Laitman: I have to invest all my strength in order until the Ten will connect, because that's my Kli. That's what was given to me, and I have to engage in that. Day and night, as much as possible, the more the better, because that's the key to my success. 

Question (Hadera 10): (01:57:51) It's more convenient to be alone, as we said before. That's what's written that Pharaoh didn't know Joseph. 

M. Laitman: No, no, let's not go into Pharaoh who didn't know Joseph. I don't like these interpretations without any basis, but we need to understand that besides connection in a spiritual sense, as much as possible, without that, you don't come to the development of the soul. If you want to attain your soul, you have to be connected to your friends, at least to some extent, and always try to achieve that connection.

Question (W PT 6): (01:58:51) What's the birth that the whole world Kli has to reach? What is the birth that the whole Kli has to reach?

M. Laitman: What's the birth that the whole world Kli has to reach? What is the birth that the whole Kli has to reach? This is called the birth, where all the forces come together, and from their connection, a new state is born.

Question (W Moscow): (01:59:22) When my nature is revealed, suddenly a fear from myself shows up. What do I do?

M. Laitman:  That's good, it's actually good. Why is it good? Because you have no choice. You won't be able to find the right strength to advance by yourself. Only if you turn to the Creator, that's it. That's where the solution is.

Question (W Heb): (02:00:00) How can we support this process of birth?

M. Laitman: Supporting the process of birth, we can do that only through our connection and the Creator. What else? As usual, there's nothing else.

Question (W Kavkaz 1): (02:00:20) Through which mechanism of spiritual work is the whole born? Through what mechanism of spiritual work the whole is born?

M. Laitman: The whole is born in connection between us. When we try to be as one man and one heart, in that desire we shape between us, that's where the Creator is born, that's where the Creator is revealed. If there is such a connection between us, there we will identify the appearance of the Creator. And if we can't achieve such a connection, there won't be an appearance of the Creator. That's why it is said, "You have made me."

Question (W Heb): (02:01:12) What does it mean, connecting to all of the Malchut?

M. Laitman: I wouldn't interpret that. I don't like interpreting these quotes unless we actually study them. 

Question (W PT 2): (02:01:37) It's said that he who works on purifying his heart, his point shines more. What does that mean? 

M. Laitman: The point where the Creator is, the center of the heart, it shines more if a person is worried about the purity of the heart, which means how much he's willing to organize all his forces in order to bestow.

Question (W Kavkaz 1): (02:02:05) How can we raise new qualities that are revealed in us into sanctity?

M. Laitman: We don't need to bring up these new qualities. It happens from above. The general system itself clarifies and sorts out and develops and surfaces the qualities for correction.

Question (W MAK 21): (02:02:29) What does it mean that the point is clothed in the heart? What does the heart compare to that point?

M. Laitman: The point clothes the heart, meaning our will to receive. In it, there is a point called the will to bestow, coming to us directly from the Creator. And it resides in my heart and your heart and the other's heart and everyone's. If that point awakens, the person awakens towards spirituality. If it doesn't, it's very difficult to awaken a person towards spirituality. He can be brought to a society, and by the surrounding light from that society, his point in the heart will awaken as well. But that's already in an indirect way.

Question (W Moscow 3): (02:03:24) Is birth when a new perception of reality takes place in us?

M. Laitman: Of course. Spiritual birth means that a person begins to feel that he lives in a new world, a new reality, where only the upper force operates and there is none else besides Him. And a person feels how he belongs to it, and he relates himself to it. Okay, what are we doing next? 

Reader: So we have the staff and the serpent, continuing on 184. We can do that. 

M. Laitman: Do we have other options? First of all, I see internet. What do they want?

Question (Moscow 2): (02:04:22) If a friend has problems with the law, where is the limit that we can cover — love covers crimes with love. 

M. Laitman: I don't know a friend who messes with the law. As much as we can help him, but within the framework of what's legal, and also take care of the well-being of the group so that it doesn't hurt any of us. And that has to do with where we live, the country, the laws there, and so on. I recommend being very cautious. If you can help, help, but in such a way that will not make a connection between him and the group. 

Question (KabU 2): (02:05:19) What does it mean that a person gives birth to himself? How is that possible?

M. Laitman: A person cannot do anything besides giving the Creator an opportunity to do something. And so it's not that the person does anything. It's not that he — how can he give birth to a new state he didn't have? Only by the prayer, the awakening that he's given an opportunity from above, and he realizes it.

Question (Latin 7):  (02:05:54) If we come closer to the Creator, should we feel His greatness, and by that want to adhere to Him more than need Him?

M. Laitman: All of that is considered advancing towards the Creator.

Question (PT 23): (02:06:15) The answers to the women — do we also have to implement between the men? Because sometimes it seems that there are answers that belong only to the women.

M. Laitman: No, there are no answers to men and answers to women. It's the same answers, the same system. And each and every one can take it and implement it. What you hear from the men, the women can do, can implement, and vice versa.

Question (Unity 2): (02:06:50) What's the difference between our work by being born independently and the spirit? 

M. Laitman: Wait, wait, I didn't understand what you're talking about. What does it mean that we ourselves get to be born not inside the group?

Student: According to our own desire we have a small point of desire. 

M. Laitman: You can't use this little desire that you have to achieve the spiritual. 

Workshop: (02:07:44)

Song: (02:29:59)