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Daily Lesson (Afternoon) April 20, 2024
Part 1: Baal HaSulam. Letter 57.
Reader: Shalom. We are going to be reading Letter 57 from the words of Baal HaSulam. You can find the study materials in Sviva Tova and the Arvut system, and you can send live questions to our sites. Whoever asks live questions here in the hall, stand up, hold the microphone close to your mouth, and speak loud and clear.
Reading Letter 57: (00:39)
May 1931, Jerusalem
To the famous and pious student ... may his candle burn:
I received your letter, and while you are sorry for what is not missing, you should be sorry for what is missing. This is the rule: Anything that depends on the Creator exists in abundance, but the vessels of reception can be activated only by the lower ones, since it is their labor in Kedusha [holiness] and purity for which He stands and waits. This is what we are concerned with—how to be rewarded with adding labor. One who adds to that and worries needlessly is only subtracting. Not only is it needless, it is also harmful.
Regarding the friend’s question that you ask, at the moment, I have no objection, and “Anyone who is shrewd acts with knowledge.” Regarding the rest of the questions to which you seek my answers, I will give you my one answer to all of them.
There is no happier state in man’s world than when he finds himself despaired with his own strength. That is, he has already labored and done all that he could possibly imagine he could do, but found no remedy. It is then that he is fit for a wholehearted prayer for His help because he knows for certain that his own work will not help him.
As long as he feels some strength of his own, his prayer will not be whole because the evil inclination rushes first and tells him, “First you must do what you can, and then you will be worthy of the Creator.”
It was said about this, “The Lord is high and the low will see.” For once a person has labored in all kinds of work, and has become disillusioned, he comes into real lowliness, knowing that he is the lowest of all the people, as there is nothing good in the structure of his body. At that time, his prayer is complete and he is granted by His generous hand.
The writing says about this, “And the children of Israel sighed from the work, etc., and their cry went up.” It is so because at that time they came into a state of despair from the work. It is as one who pumps into a punctured bucket. He pumps all day but does not have a drop of water to quench his thirst.
So were the children of Israel in Egypt: Everything they built was promptly swallowed in its place in the ground, as our sages said.
Similarly, one who has not been rewarded with His love, all that he has done in his work on purifying the soul the day before is as though completely burned the next day. And each day and each moment he must start anew as though he has not done a thing in his entire life.
Then, “The children of Israel sighed from the work,” for they evidently saw that they were unfit to ever produce something by their own work. This is why their sigh and prayer were complete, as it should be, and this is why “Their cry went up,” since the Creator hears the prayer, and He only awaits a wholehearted prayer.
It follows from the above that everything, small or great, is obtained only by the power of prayer. All the labor and work to which we are obliged are only to discover our lack of strength and our lowliness—that we are unfit for anything by our own strength—for then we can pour out a wholehearted prayer before Him.
We could argue about this, “So I can decide that I am unfit for anything, and why all the labor and exertion?” However, there is a natural law that there is none so wise as the experienced, and before one tries to actually do all he can do, he is utterly incapable of arriving at true lowliness, to the real extent, as said above.
This is why we must toil in Kedusha [holiness] and purity, as it is written, “Whatever you find that your hand can do by your strength, that do,” and understand this for it is true and deep.
I revealed this truth to you only so you would not weaken or give up on mercy. Although you do not see anything, for even when the measure of labor is complete, it is the time of prayer, but until then, believe in our sages: “I did not labor and found, do not believe.”
When the measure is full, your prayer will be complete and the Creator will grant generously, as our sages instructed us, “I labored and found, believe,” for one is unfit for a prayer prior to this, and the Creator hears a prayer.
Yehuda Leib
M. Laitman: What was your impression? Nothing to say? Yes? To ask? Everything is okay.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (10:29) He writes, one who adds in their labor and Kedusha and purity, stands and awaits, and then he writes, one who adds and cares needlessly, finds that he is detracting since when there is no need, he can even be harmful. My question is, how can we know in the Ten when we are adding, maybe actions that are redundant, that are just too much, maybe even harmful, and when it really adds to our inner exertion? Is there a way to discern?
M. Laitman: Good question, difficult question, tough one. A person has to feel in his heart when his heart is doing fine to speak to the Creator. He feels in the Creator, and he adds to Him, Blessed be He. And in such a way, he completes it. It's a matter of the work in the heart. Slowly, gradually, we reveal the relationship. It's like when conversing with another person, gradually we begin to feel them, begin to have a dialogue. And then we understand how we need to answer, and to ask, and to converse with them. And in this way, to be accepted, to be received by the Creator.
Question: (Women Petah Tikva Center): (13:10) He says that all that he worked yesterday, and the purity of the soul is burnt the next day. Why?
M. Laitman: Because everything we do in terms of the Creator works at that moment. There's no action that sort of stretches it across time.
Student: How will a person change if all that he's done is burnt?
M. Laitman: He needs to protect himself so that all his actions need to be timed so that he is in a state where the Creator can hear what a person wants to convey to him.
Student: When does the Creator want to hear?
M. Laitman: A person has to see, to feel.
Student: What is this labor that leaves a person in zero, as if he has yet to start? In what does it qualify the vessel? In what way does it create a qualified vessel in the end that he can then give him abundantly? How does that happen?
M. Laitman: Efficiency. That's what the Creator needs to create in a person.
Student: What changes in a person that he all of a sudden becomes qualified? What is that change that happens to him? He just opens the deficiency?
M. Laitman: Is that nothing to open the deficiency?
Student: There needs to be some kind of stamping, some kind of change, something that says, okay, now you deserve, now you're worthy.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: What exactly is that quality that needs to change in me?
M. Laitman: A deficiency.
Student: What's a deficiency?
M. Laitman: That you're missing, you're lacking what the Creator wants to give.
Student: What does He want to give?
M. Laitman: For you to feel what He wants to give, and when you feel it, and when you want it, then there's going to be a connection between you and He will respond.
Student: Does He want to give each and everyone here the same thing?
M. Laitman: No, no. Each one has his own thing.
Student: So each of us has to come to a state where he truly feels what the Creator specifically wants from him?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And that's only through prayer, or what else?
M. Laitman: That's enough.
Student: So all day long to demand that from him?
M. Laitman: I don't know if it's all day long, but most of the time.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (16:34) You spoke about the individual, but I want to ask about the Ten. To make this happen in the Ten, do we have to reach some kind of quotient, a sufficient amount of work for this outcry to take place?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: My question is, he wrote here that every single day, every moment, we start anew. And that's how I feel like every day we're starting anew, and also if there's a friend or two that from time to time comes to despair or to an outcry, but there's a lot of other friends that are still renewing the work, and we're constantly renewing. We don't reach this one outcry that they reached inside the work.
M Laitman: What do we have so much to renew? To renew what?
Student: Every day we say, today we'll pray more, today we'll be insistent, today we will ask, and it's every day new efforts. I'm truly immensely impressed by my friends, but it doesn't end. We're constantly continuing to innovate. When will we cry out in a way that he will answer? What's missing for it to be together and such an outcry that He will answer if we really want to renew it each time? And we seemingly are succeeding.
M. Laitman: Succeed meaning that you receive an answer.
Student: But we didn't exit Egypt, it seems to me.
M. Laitman: Well, I'm certain that not, actually.
Student: So what do we do? I don't know. We're truly exerting, and we're renewing the matter of innovation. It doesn't work out with this despair and this cry, because we're truly innovating all the time.
M. Laitman: What are you innovating?
Student: It's like we're coming to this prayer, this despair, no, today we will attain, today we'll triumph over him and defeat our, and it's like every day like that. And it's like maybe, like it's written here that the prayer is not wholehearted yet, but when? Kind of like what, just to continue, or what else is needed?
M. Laitman: Yes, you are required to continue. You need to continue on the one hand. On the other hand, you need to prod the Creator. Why isn't he giving you what you need?
Student: The feeling is that it's not a common despair. Maybe there's a part that's despaired in his crying out, but it's not coming to a prayer where we're together crying out, where he has to answer us. How did he come to that?
M. Laitman: Time, we need time.
Student: Is it possible that it will happen this Pesach? Is it not connected to the time? It just feels like it's a special time, that maybe.
M. Laitman: I can't say. It depends on the desire. To the extent the desire is ready, and complete, whole. There are different conditions. They have to come together, and then you will receive an answer.
Student: Simply, in the past, you said that you can't constantly be in a state of attack, and we're for a long time now in a state of attack. So just continuing this attack until it happens, or we can't be in a state of attack all the time?
M. Laitman: No, no, keep going.
Student: All of us.
M. Laitman: All of you. Okay.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (20:51) On one hand, in the beginning of the article that's written, the Creator stands and awaits for us to put forth great labor. On the other hand, it says the people of Israel sigh from the work because they are not qualified forever to be able to have anything stem from their work. It's like it's a sold game here. We're exerting and exerting, and we see that we have to come to a point where nothing will stem from all this labor besides prayer to the Creator. And He says, all that you can do with your hands, do. But we continue, and we have forces. What gives us the strength to not give up on this whole huge group?
M. Laitman: The Creator is expecting your prayer, your request, such that He will have to respond to it.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (21:57) Sometimes it seems like the only way to reach this great outcry of being despaired from one's forces is only if I can accept that a girl that's sitting in Gaza, or a child somewhere in the world that's hungry, or a friend that's trying to become pregnant, all of those lucks are mine, not just mine, but my Ten. That the responsibility for each of them is, for even the smallest things, any bad thing that's happening in the world, is because we are not doing enough. And beyond that, we also have to believe that if we were to pray, it will correct this whole situation, and each will receive what they want. But to walk around with that feeling that the whole world and every small pain of every child or mother is on our shoulders, it's a little difficult to walk around with that all day long.
M. Laitman: So what do you propose?
Student: If you say that's what we need to do, then that's what we need to do. We will work. But the question is, if it's supposed to be that way all day long, to walk around with the feeling that the responsibility is upon us, for every pain there is anywhere, and we need to pray, so that's what we'll do.
M. Laitman: I hear you.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (23:43) What is the correct prayer? What is the correct labor? Because there's a collection of deficiencies on one hand. There's this labor that is non-stop, and we're constantly renewing it. But it's like a system. There's this feeling like we don't know what the correct connection that needs to be done is in order to connect all these deficiencies. In order to open these openings of prayer to the Creator. I don't know how to say it. It's just like there's a lot of work, and we're missing something that will raise up this outcry. Where can we refine the labor so that we don't work for no reason?
M. Laitman: You don't feel, or do you need to add additional exertion? In what?
Student: In opening the heart, yes. And I know that here in my head. I also have this feeling that in the Ten there were such states, in the Kli there were such states, but here something extra is demanded that we were not in yet, and it's not in our power.
M. Laitman: Not within your power? We need to ask of the Creator.
Student: What's to ask? It's not to ask, it's to compel Him.
M. Laitman: To compel, to obligate Him, to demand. That He will give you the prayer.
Student: Not just a prayer. A prayer is one part. For Him also to give us the strength to carry it out. The force to execute.
M. Laitman: And what are we lacking in order to demand it like that?
Student: For us to want this together, not just say, Okay, and we'll continue to work. Because then it's like a concession, and waiting for the result. On the other hand, to want the results to be bestowed with love, to let the friends, to give the friends, to help the friends, to grow the friends. I don't know really what each has their part, but to give us the right connection.
M. Laitman: You speak well, correctly.
Student: How does that help?
M. Laitman: Why doesn't it help? Because your prayer is incomplete.
Student: What's missing? That's the question. What's missing for the Creator to have contentment? It's also here somewhere. What's contentment for us to bestow it outward, outside of us? We're concentrating inside our Kli.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Yes what, I'm sorry. For us to bestow outwards?
M. Laitman: No, it's enough between us.
Student: Between us, okay, so what's the problem? We can ask right now, it can happen. Why do we have to wait?
M. Laitman: Go ahead. I'm with you.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (27:13) It's felt that we need to pray for one another. The question is whether in the Ten we need to come to reaching a prayer for each friend in the Ten or do the whole Ten need to reach a prayer for the whole of Bnei Baruch. Ask one, what is a wholehearted prayer?
M. Laitman: A whole prayer, a complete prayer, is a prayer for complete deficiency.
Student: So it's both? Both when I want each of my friends to exit Egypt, and also when we all together want all Bnei Baruch to exit Egypt, so that the Creator can be revealed in the world?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (28:24) Can it be that the second half of the deficiency is actually the recognition of how much the Creator abundantly gives me? And on that background, I feel my lowliness and shame. And then from that state of shame, I begin to raise a prayer. Meaning, the state of despair is actually a state of shame for my lowliness.
M. Laitman: I don't think so. Why are you ashamed?
Student: I feel lowliness. I'm impressed by how much the Creator is giving me, and I don't feel it as a reception in my regular life.
M. Laitman: What's next?
Student: At that moment, I understood that the only thing I can give Him is gratitude.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: But to reach this point of despair and aside from the work, that's a state of deep shame. Otherwise, why are we ashamed? Why are we despaired?
M. Laitman: Because we're not able to attain such a state.
Student: But the Creator is demanding. So, this is a state of constant deep gratitude?
M. Laitman: Including that, including that too.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (31:00) I hope it's okay if I'm asking again. You gave me earlier an answer that it's probably at a certain height that I might be able to understand the connection with the friends or feel. But my question was a little on the practical level. In the Ten, we're divided into pairs, and every day there's a pair that is connection duty. We used to have Shatz and Gabai, and our idea is that we have to bring out a mission or some kind of task or something from the lesson, or something that will bring spirit, that will accompany the friends. And sometimes it's something practical to discuss with a friend, or right in the Ten, more internal.
But the question is, sometimes there's a feeling that it's burdensome and even harmful, like Rabash, writes. And sometimes maybe we need that burden in order to take ourselves out of the self that we're in. Can you give some kind of advice? There's a way for us to discern what's correct, and what's not. Maybe just internal work, because it really is felt that this is our work, only prayer. And maybe for the prayer we need certain actions, external actions. I hope that's clear.
M. Laitman: I don't think we need to do any external actions, no. It's enough what we have in the Ten, and among this kind of audience, the people who are sitting here or elsewhere, the way we are typically feeling ourselves, it's not enough. It's enough, rather, that we would not require additional discernment.
Student: I'm sorry, if I can nevertheless understand, is it enough for us to be in the lessons, in the workshops, and we don't need to add some kind of, let's say if it's to read something together, or discuss with a friend outside of those times?
M. Laitman: I can't say. Some people might be missing additional impressions from other sources.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (33:38) He wrote here, every single day, every moment, we have to start anew as if he has never acted in any way. How do we start, in a hurry, do we continue to do it this way?
M. Laitman: The next day means all the time, several times a day. One is constantly drawn to it.
Student: How from the state that he has fallen, for the sake of the matter, how does he immediately raise himself up, and not extend this innovation, this rising from the fall, but it rises immediately from his fall?
M. Laitman: No, it's not immediately. The Creator demands that it will pass through all of its systems.
Student: There is no such reality, there is no state where you can do this fast. Do we have to do this slowly, is it important like that?
M. Laitman: Not slowly, but the person should feel that that's what he needs now.
Student: What does he need to feel that will take him out of this state, that he will begin anew?
M. Laitman: Start anew, to begin anew, is to activate himself anew.
Student: How does he start activating himself anew after he has fallen, that's what I'm asking. From the moment he has received that hardship, and how does he start all over again now? How does he come out of that fast? That's the question.
M. Laitman: It depends on the fall. There might be a fall after which he has to be disconnected. Recognizing the disconnection, then coming back to the connection that will build it in him anew.
Student: Another thing you said earlier in one of your answers, is that a person needs to feel in his heart tendencies that he's in this dialogue with the Creator. To feel what's in the Creator and to try to add to him. What is my part in this discussion with the Creator? What can I add there?
M. Laitman: Deficiency.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (36:06) What are the harmful concerns that he's describing here?
M. Laitman: In essence, anything that helps bring a person into, that makes a person worry, it is connected from the Creator because a person receives this personal worry in place of collective or general worry.
Student: And how is that harmful?
M. Laitman: A person is caring for something unnecessarily.
Student: How to change that harmful concern to the labor that the Creator does expect?
M. Laitman: It means to raise the general deficiency above the individual deficiency.
Student: How do we find the forces for that upliftment?
M. Laitman: To add power, it's only through connection with a friend. A person doesn't have any more power.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (37:44) How to come to a state where the outcry for help will not turn off the gratitude and agreement with what he wants to give whenever he wants to give, and vice versa?
M. Laitman: Again.
Student: How to come to a state in which the demand for help from the Creator will not turn off the gratitude and agreement with his conditions, and vice versa?
M. Laitman: The question is correct. How to do it? To divide it precisely into two. Whatever I'm asking for the change, the changing state or to change the state will not extinguish my vessel, my deficiency.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (39:33) Is it worthwhile in some specific way to catch what is difficult for me to give up my ego? Let's say something that has to do with dissemination that I have to give up. We need to catch that thing and ask for it?
M. Laitman: I don't think it's the same topics we need to be focused on.
Student: We should concentrate in the Ten so it has nothing to do with dissemination but to ask for something specific that has to do with me like a lack that, and upon that to come to the Ten precisely with what's difficult for me specifically?
M. Laitman: In a sense, yes.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (40:52) What gives a mother the strength to wake up at night for her baby is the fact that the baby's relying on the mother, we always ask so the force has to come from a feeling of responsibility, so about what I asked earlier. Maybe it's difficult but I don't see another choice, I don't see another way to get the force if not from the feeling that there's a responsibility that it depends on us so the source of force is specifically that feeling which is very difficult but it's also the one that gives us the forces is that correct?
M. Laitman: No.
Student: The force can come from something outside of us?
M. Laitman: It has to come from the Creator.
Student: In order to get the strength from the Creator I have to ask to be connected to others, the question is, is He giving me the strength or the feeling that I'm connected and responsible for others, and from that I receive the forces, or does He give the force itself?
M. Laitman: Gives the connection.
Student: That connection gives me the feeling of responsibility?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (42:08) How to feel the Creator?
M. Laitman: How to feel the Creator? Only through the opening of the heart.
Student: What does that mean to open the heart to feel the Creator? To open to the friends in the Ten I'm exerting and I know what that means. What is it to open the heart to the Creator?
M. Laitman: The fact that I'm together with the friends and I open my heart to them and I want all of them to enter my heart, and I won't feel any difference in my heart between me and them. Well, let's say for now this is it.
Student: Is there a difference between an outcry and a prayer?
M. Laitman: Prayer is a prayer. We are building using our intellect, and our feelings, but it's a prayer. But a cry is something that comes out of me without planning it but on its own.
Student: How to cry out correctly so we reach the cry in a correct way?
M. Laitman: I think you can do it alone. It has to be something quite big but together with the friends. When you're impressed each one is impressed by the other, and as a result, you turn to a cry. It's pressing on us in such a way that you can't hold yourself on it longer.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (44:42) So you can't really plan an outcry in the heart. You can't just get together and say Okay, let's plan to do it. You said it's impossible. It comes from inner work and from scrutiny within myself.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: What is a prayer? I think that it's like what's the definition of a true, real prayer because it seems like from birth, we have this concept of prayer that is.
M. Laitman: Prayer means work in the heart when we prepare a plea for the Creator which includes our state, our current state, our previous state, the state we wish to reach, and all of that we arrange for the Creator with a request from Him that He would give us such a future state.
Student: It's also written in the article in many places that prayer the Creator hears the prayer meaning He can't not hear. Which means that I need to make this prayer, or we together need to make this prayer with a special intention. We know that this, earlier or later, we know it's not immediately that this needs to be the answer. But earlier or later we have to be ready in advance even though the process is long but what needs to be included there in this prayer? So, it's like, I have to put something in there, my choice?
M. Laitman: You need to scrutinize it. I'm not going to tell you one, two, three, and do this and do that. Everything you have to collect and then ask for, that's work in the heart. That's why before the heart responds, and it's not clear to you, through the heart that's what you need. No one can tell you.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (47:01) The whole work with the friends I can't even understand what it means I've labored and you found or you haven't found. I can't understand what exactly am I supposed to seek here, and how I need to understand whether I found or didn't find. What is this talking about here?
M. Laitman: It speaks about you, meaning to incorporate in the group and in the same direction that the group is developing to be with the group.
Student: Is there some sign that will let me understand whether I found or not found?
M. Laitman: You'll gradually find you're standing before this question you don't know where you're looking.
Student: What if I don't know what I'm looking for?
M. Laitman: Do you know exactly what you're seeking? If not then it must be earlier, too early for this, only later you find out what you're looking for. You start searching and finding.
Student: Question, what we just read right now, what is it talking about, I have labored and found?
M. Laitman: In the article, it is said that for those who understand the article.
Student: So, this means I'll have to wait longer?
M. Laitman: Okay.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (49:13) I hope that I will express myself correctly. It's written there's no happier moment in a person's life than when he finds himself despaired from his own labor meaning he has done and exerted all that's possible for him to do and there is no remedy. What is to be happy?
M. Laitman: To be happy that if he comes to the lack that before him there is but one problem before him to cry out to the Creator for him to bind him to the goal that is the best possible state that he is happy from.
Student: That's the point, in the article wherever he feels that there is a lot of labor and exertion.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: My question is whether happiness is something that we need to develop here because he's not talking about happiness, he's talking about a state of happiness?
M. Laitman: When a person feels that he is filled, that he is satisfied.
Student: Is there a different kind of happiness here?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Can it harm us along the way?
M. Laitman: No.
Student: It can't be that the Creator blurs things for us?
M. Laitman: No, all that the Creator does is for our benefit.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (50:59) What will help us incorporate in the outcry of one another because it feels like that's what's missing meaning each can come with a cry, and you said that to us once that each of us is crying out alone?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: What will help us beyond each bringing her own outcry but also bring the feeling of incorporation in each of our outcries?
M. Laitman: It's not important, no, what's important for us to feel is the lack, is my lack and that my lack connects to the rest of the lacks but the lack of each and every friend, there's no need for that.
Student: Okay, so to the general lack of the Ten?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: What will help us with that? Because right now at this moment I feel personally that the difficulty is in connecting to me the general deficiency because there's all kinds of thoughts that deviate and bother. Our work at the end of the day is to connect.
M. Laitman: Connect to each one’s deficiency and it will be the deficiency the Creator wants to fill.
Student: What will help us focus on that, what will help us focus powerfully on that when we're connecting to raise a prayer?
M. Laitman: The prayer, that's what can help the prayer to be together in one heart.
Student: While we're praying to be in one heart so at the time, I'll give you an example, yesterday we did a scrutiny and I experienced we felt these clashes in the words of the friends, confusions or clashes and here it's like our work, how do we not let these clashes bother us and specifically find the general deficiency of the Ten?
M. Laitman: It's not so simple, we need to accept that it exists and it's there it will be and we have to accept that the Creator with his upper light is connecting our desires and our vessels become unified.
Student: Beyond the time and continuing is there something that we can in advance do, maybe prepare ourselves that this is what's about to happen and we don't want?
M. Laitman: We wish to reach a unified desire, unified where inside this desire we will reveal, we will discover how the Creator relates to us and that he enjoys us.
Student: Each of us truly has to erase her thoughts from herself and search for what the Creator does with us in that moment?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Women Turkiye 5): (54:38) Does our efforts have some kind of point of being realized, what does it mean that we complete our quotient of efforts?
M. Laitman: That we can work on returning to the Creator, replying to the Creator.
Question (Women MAK 113): (55:24) Every day a person prays and is in a state of choice and it feels inside the battle between good and evil and when he scrutinizes these things we come closer to Him and we begin to feel that this choice the Creator helped us do, is this what it talks about?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Turkiye 2): (56:17) I'm coming to a state of despair that everything is empty, that everything in me is empty, there is this fear that I won't be able to unite with the Creator. How do I cross this bridge, how do I advance from here?
M. Laitman: You have to be grateful. Be grateful for the state that the Creator brought him to, such a state that he feels himself empty and unable to do anything. And now he's completely, completely, 100% under the power of the Creator. If he can feel this emptiness relative to the Creator, that's it, that's the vessel.
Question (Kyiv): (58:08) He talked about feeling the attitude of the Creator towards us and how he will enjoy our work and the connection between us. How to nevertheless discern in this attitude of his towards us? What to add in our work in order for us to check our work?
M. Laitman: You should imagine that this is how the Creator is relating to you and that he's happy with you. And out of this feeling, you can turn back to Him.
Question (Haifa 1): (58:57) About the labor you reached in Kedusha and purity of the vessels of reception, the labor is in the intention to build, the intention to bestow?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And the moment I don't succeed, and I despair from that, I turn to the Creator? It’s done for what?
M. Laitman: It's all good, it’s all good.
Student: Rav, you once gave me a word that really helped me. It was when I was really feeling despair from my forces, and I felt like I was hanging between heaven and earth. May I ask you, Rav? Is the Creator managing me whether I feel that he's managing me or when I don't feel that he's managing me? You said to me, yes. Meaning that this exertion that I received from you gave me lots of force, and it changed so much in my perception where the Creator is managing me, managing us, even when we're not feeling.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Women MAK 23): (01:00:26) There are people who have concern for the corporeal world, but there's a feeling that we don't have the possibility to give all our forces for spiritual work. How to feel it, where all that I can do with my might, I do. Because there's always that feeling that remains that I'm not doing enough, and there's more room for work.
M. Laitman: It will come.
Student: Can I ask another question from a friend? What is a wholehearted prayer? Can it be one sentence? Do we need to truly pour my soul before the Creator with all the feelings?
M. Laitman: It means to connect fully to the Creator. And to feel all of his desires, with which you can compose your answer to him.
Student: Does the whole Ten need to reach despair, or is it only one of us?
M. Laitman: Each friend will come to it by herself when she needs to.
Question (Women Haifa 5): (01:02:02) We don't feel the mercy of the Creator because this quality is not in us?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: My question is whether we can put the focus on the revelation of that secret in the Ten?
M. Laitman: No. I want to help you only after the end of the correction. A complete correction.
Question (Women MAK 25): (01:02:43) Tell us, please, how do we discover this general feeling in the Ten that our efforts are correct and in time?
M. Laitman: We have to yearn to do it as quickly as possible, intensively. And when it succeeds, it would mean that that's how it should be.
Question (Women MAK 88): (01:03:21) What is the state in which I feel that there is no more strength, there are no more forces?
M. Laitman: For what?
Student: No forces of the bestowal? At least a prayer? And if I come to such a state and I share it with the friends, how to use this state? What to do onwards in this state in the Ten?
M. Laitman: Nothing. Just ask. Just ask.
Question (Hadera 1): (01:04:07) For me, the letter we just read is a continuation of the article that we read in the morning of Rabash, where the intention is being described. And we need to add to our outcry the intention. Can we ask about the article we read in the morning?
M. Laitman: No. I'm surprised by you again and again. How can you ask about such things when you have hundreds, maybe thousands of people who are not with you? Is your purpose to confuse us?
Student: No, to scrutinize.
M. Laitman: What do you mean to scrutinize? At the expense of everyone?
Student: I thought it might be beneficial to.
M. Laitman: No, no, no. What kind of scientists are you doing this?
Question (Women MAK): (01:05:14) How do we need to learn in advance to come to our despair from our forces? That without the force of bestowal we don't have a real life and to constantly be in prayer for bestowal to others? How to come to this empty Kli all the time?
M. Laitman: We have to remind one another.
Student: So we need to connect these requests to the Creator and He'll give us the force of bestowal?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Women ITA): (01:06:01) You already answered to the friend, but I want to ask you to tell more about how and what can help to feel the desire of the Ten in my heart?
M. Laitman: The desire of the Ten in the heart. That I can feel only the condition that I am connected with them. To that extent. Then I truly feel the efficiency that they pass on to me. That's a good connection. If you're asking about that.
Question (Women Heb 2): (01:07:00) We're talking about prayer. The whole world prays. Religious, secular, even a thief in hiding prays to the Creator. But the Creator gives us what He wants to give. And that's what we're asking. What's the code? What's the password to ask the Creator to give us what we have in our hearts? Because for years we've been praying, all of us.
M. Laitman: I guess they're not praying correctly. And that's why He's not answering.
Student: I once saw a clip from you that you said, if we want to reach the waves of the Creator, we have to aim our heart like radio waves. What's the code? What's this wave that we will aim at the Creator in order to reach Him and feel Him?
M. Laitman: What do you want? Let's say you're getting a radio bandwidth. On a radio, let's say, a channel. What are you going to pass?
Student: I want to see the good world that He wants to give us. We're constantly praying for that. The whole world, where we're all together. In love thy friend as thyself. That's what we're all the time talking about. To feel the Creator, His warmth, His love towards us. Just like we feel your love towards us.
Student: We learn and we can also imagine to ourselves that the upper world, the upper system, the Creator, is absolute love. And all that happens in all these actions and all the discernments in this world are just matters of absolute love, meaning of the upper world. And if we want to turn to the Creator, to that upper system, we really, like the friend said, we need to adapt ourselves. And how does that get combined with, and we talked about this in this lesson, how do we combine both despair and joy?
It's really very difficult because where there is absolute love, it cannot be without joy. So, we probably need to refine our feelings and prayers to such an extent that this despair, in its essence, will be very, very much suited to the upper system, which is love and joy. So is that possible to do only with a request to the Creator that we're not capable of combining these? For us to ask for this first? For this combination?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Women MAK 45): (01:11:04) The correct prayer, is it a complete agreement in my heart to the Creator and all that He gives me, and then gratitude to the Creator?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Is the correction possible only when the correction begins with us agreeing in our hearts to what the Creator gives us?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Does the Creator really answer our prayer and give us the correction? And the ego can't grasp this? Because for him it's painful? So, what's correct? How can I know what the friend needs?
M. Laitman: Through connection. Through connection.
Student: To ask the Creator for connection?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Women MAK 56): (01:12:19) You said that we need to feel the desire of the Creator in order to return to Him with an answer. So, the answer that we're coming back to the Creator, is that love of others?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Is that the only answer the Creator is seeking from us?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Women MAK 98): (01:12:45) I have a question. From what moment in life, in our physical life, does bestowal become spiritual?
M. Laitman: Bestowal is spiritual.
Student: Can it be already in our lifetime, or does there need to be some kind of transition?
M. Laitman: No, no, not past. Bestowal is spiritual.
Student: Meaning it can happen in our life right now?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Women Eng 1): (01:13:31) The qualities of the Creator is merciful, compassionate, and time and time again, we are given blows to show how far we are from this quality. And it makes me feel very sad when we are so different from the Creator. What should be the intention for this Passover so that we can be freed from this self-love which is holding us and keeping us imprisoned from the Creator?
M. Laitman: We are approaching such a point where we will feel what the Creator is thinking of us and feel also how do we bestow to Him. And then it will be the place of correction, soon. We just need to be a bit more encouraged, connected, and embrace more.
Question (Women Heb 2): (01:15:10) I don't know, but I feel that there is a feeling that we're lacking the urgency like a sword is laying against our neck and we're meeting and doing workshops, etc. But how to come to a state where the sword is against your throat and now we need, not in two weeks from now.
M. Laitman: No, we don't want in two weeks. We want today or the latest tomorrow.
Student: How can we come to this feeling of urgency?
M. Laitman: To want it to happen. Want it to happen.
Question (Women French): (01:16:09) How does my attitude to others, to society, to each friend define my attitude towards them?
M. Laitman: It's certain that this is how it is.
Student: Can we say that if I love my friend and from this love, I turn to the Creator, through love to the Creator, then the love of the friend and the love of the Creator can make it such that my prayer will be answered?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: To feel the lack of the friends to connect to them. Do we need to feel words or forces or feelings? We need to feel the lack of the friends and connect to them. Is that feeling like words or more like a force that's felt in the feeling in the heart?
M. Laitman: It's the same. It's one and the same. I can feel what I wish to give to a friend without words and I can also pass it through the words.
Question (Women Latin 22): (01:18:11) The question is about the demand. If we have yet to come to this demand in the Ten, is it a sign that we're not making the correct efforts and how do we exit that state?
M. Laitman: Connection. What might be missing in the Ten is, first and foremost, connection.
Question (Women Latin): (01:18:45) The article says that one who has not merited his love, whoever has engaged in the purification of the soul yesterday is burned completely tomorrow. When a person finds himself in such a lowly state and has no strength for such despair, the love of the Creator appears with this great feeling of faith for us to be able to continue and bestow our demand.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: I really want to thank you, Rav, for what you recommended to me in the past about connection with the girls, with my friends. That has brought forth a very positive result for all the friends.
Question (Women Moscow 5): (01:20:04) Rav, please tell us. I say to myself that I feel every friend. It's like I'm talking to them. But what does it mean to feel the Ten? How to enter this system called Ten?
M. Laitman: It depends only on the person. You can ask the Creator. But in principle, that's your work.
Student: Ask Him to give me the feeling?
M. Laitman: Ask anything you want, in any language. It's easier for a woman to ask than for a man than it is for a man.
Question (Women Hadera 3): (01:21:11) The love of others that the Creator is aiming us towards, towards every person in every situation. What to do with the slander that's revealed in us and outside of us, towards a person in different states? Close your eyes or ears. What to do when slander appears and prevents us from reaching love?
M. Laitman: To pounce on such a bad thought and strangle it. Clear?
Question (Women Turkiye 5): (01:22:09) Is labor to see the fear in us? What's the correct labor?
M. Laitman: The correct labor is to see how we can benefit the connection between us. That's it. Benefit the connection between us.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (01:22:44) Is the state of despair from one's own forces what assists us in making a restriction? Is that like the step towards the ability to bestow?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (01:23:16) And all that you can do with your hands, do that verse. And the thought that it's like a mother who's begging for her child for the Creator to save, have mercy. So, my question is whether eventually we are supposed to be one Kli, one deficiency that's begging and asking the Creator to have mercy on His nation?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (01:23:58) You said to a friend earlier that each needs to feel from the Creator what the Creator demands of him. How will I know what the Creator wants from me?
M. Laitman: I don't know. As usual. It's connection. Instead of disconnection, bestowal. Instead of taking someone.
Student: How from a state that I'm completely disconnected from the Creator, and don't understand anything, how will I create that degree? How will I know what He wants from me to not enter that dialogue with Him?
M. Laitman: Turn to Him, ask of Him. In every language, every form of request.
Student: Even if it's external?
M. Laitman: Of course, we start from an external form.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (01:25:10) You said we engage in the answer to the Creator. So, we have to divide our outcry into two parts. In the first part, I ask for a change of the situation, but for it not to turn off my deficiency. And what's the second part?
M. Laitman: I don't know. You're saying to not to extinguish the deficiency?
Student: No, my outcry is made of two parts. One that will not turn off the deficiency. And what's the second part? I'm continuing to cry out?
M. Laitman: I don't know what you want. You're asking me what to want?
Student: I want to remain in adhesion.
M. Laitman: So that's what you should ask for. What's the problem?
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (01:26:26) You said we need to be in the Ten in one desire to turn to the Creator. What does it mean to be in one desire towards the Creator? All of us together? In the Ten each of us has different needs. One for connection, one for the Creator.
M. Laitman: Between you. We need to speak between you so it will be clear what you need.
Student: What does it mean what is needed in the Ten?
M. Laitman: What do you need? You don't know what you need? Start with the first article.
Student: We all aspire for adhesion with the Creator. Above the ego. But each of us sees this differently.
M. Laitman: So, each one prays differently.
Student: This tears up the Ten, doesn't connect it.
M. Laitman: Why? You aspire to the one Creator. Generally speaking, with the same desire but through different expressions, so what?
Student: But doesn't this divide the Ten into different parts?
M. Laitman: No.
Student: So to be in that desire of adhesion in the Creator above the ego, above externally it's separating between us.
M. Laitman: What's separating us? I truly don't understand you.
Student: A few lessons ago you gave us advice that if we're eighteen, twenty women it's worthwhile for us to divide. You said yes, we should divide. It turns out that 12 are for remaining and six are for leaving. And it's truly poisoning the Ten. How to rise above this in the yearning for the Creator above this thing. Really filling that place and not leaving it.
M. Laitman: Ask of the Creator. What do you want from me? Ask of the Creator.
Student: What to ask? For a decision?
M. Laitman: Sit down, that's it.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (01:29:39) I have a question about the scrutiny of the deficiencies in the Ten. We use in the workshops the vessel of the rules of the workshop. We have completely immersed ourselves in that. And it's a translation of spiritual rules. Can we do the same thing with the scrutiny of our deficiencies in the Ten in order to try to scrutinize one desire?
M. Laitman: You can.
Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (01:30:11) I feel like every address of mine and every appeal eventually is from a very egoistic place. I'm either asking to get an answer or I'm thankful for something. It's always returning to my ego. And then I'm actually in despair. So what can I ask the Creator for in order to give Him pleasure truly and not for myself? Because it all brings me back to there.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: This is actually the feeling of a cry. Is this desire to exit my egoistic nature or not yet?
M. Laitman: No, not yet.
Okay, ladies, also gentlemen. The lesson is over.
Reader: (01:31:06) Announcements.
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