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Daily Morning Lesson: October 31, 2025 

Part 1: Recorded lesson – June 24, 2022

Baal HaSulam. Shamati 153. A Thought Is a Result of the Desire

Reader: Hello, friends, in the first part of the lesson, we will watch a recorded lesson from the 24th of June, 2022, Baal HaSulam, Shamati 153, A Thought Is a Result of the Desire.

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Reader: Hello, we are going to be reading from the writings of Baal HaSulam and the articles of Shamati, Shamati 153, A Thought Is a Result of the Desire. You can find our study material on our site, in the Arvut system, find the study material button up on top. You can ask questions live. Pertinent questions will be aired during the lesson.

M. Laitman (Source Text/Commentary): (01:00) A thought is the result of the desire. 

That is certain because the desire is what the Creator created and before the desire, there is nothing—we have nothing to talk about. Creation begins with the Creator creating a desire and this force organizes around it, already, all of the other things. It stands opposite the Creator, according to the changes in it, it comes closer to the Creator. It undergoes all kinds of changes in its feeling towards the Creator, everything depends on the desire. And if the Creator would have created only a desire, then this desire would be under the control of the Creator, the complete control, and there would be no created being standing on his own authority under his own control. Being able somehow to think, to demand; rather, it's as we see the children that we give birth to—how are they different? When they start demanding and we're happy that he has a desire for this and that and he wants this and that, he develops, right? 

And by what will the desire develop? By the thought. This is why he writes, 

A thought is a result of the desire. A person thinks of what he wants, 

Meaning the desire activates, operates the thought according to what it wants. 

One will not think of what he does not want. For example, a person never thinks of his day of death 

Because this is not according to his desire. 

On the contrary, he will always contemplate his eternity since this is what he wants. Thus, one always thinks of what is desirable for him. 

Meaning, the desire determines the thoughts. That indeed, a thought is a result, a consequence of the desire. 

However, there is a special role to the thought, even though it is a result of the desire, something that is not so important in comparison to the desire, 

However, it intensifies the desire. The thought can change the desire. The desire remains in its place and it does not have the strength to expand and perform its action. Yet, because one thinks and contemplates a matter, 

That a thought operates in some direction. 

And the desire asks the thought to provide the desire with some counsel 

And tactics, how to carry out, how to achieve something, to change it. The desire, the thought can counsel it so that the desire will be carried out 

So the desire grows, expands, and performs its work in actual practice. 

M. Laitman (Source Text/Commentary): (05:01) It means that the thought is able to operate the desire in all kinds of different directions with different forms and forces; and then it is possible to reach something special with the help of the operation of the desire by the thought. 

It turns out that the thought serves the desire and the desire is the self of the person

That's what the Creator created, as we said. 

Now, there is a big self, a big desire or a small self, 

a small desire. What to do with a person who has, let's say, small desires by which he cannot attain something important? 

And a big self controls the small selves. 

A thought can help us here because the big desire swallows the small desires. 

He who is a small self and has no control at all, the advice to magnify the self, 

To make it greater, 

Is through the persistent thought of the desire, 

Meaning that if a person will constantly think, and of course, it will be in the right environment with the right books that will support the specific direction of this thought. Then by this he will establish and make his desire greater in the right direction in order to obtain something that is desirable and correct. It doesn't matter with which small desire he was born. If he has at least a small desire, we call that, The point in the heart, then it is possible to make it greater. If one will cling to the teachers, the books, the society, and by that his thought will persist more and more in the right direction. And the desire will already be able to take on the form and the force and the direction such that the person will obtain what he needs. 

That is, even though everything is in the hands of heaven, as we say, however, besides the fear of heaven. Because, nevertheless, a person was given the possibility to direct himself to the right goal, the right direction, to increase his pace of advancement. And it is all by him adding the thought to the desire, scrutinizing the thought, making it greater. In this way, his desire towards the right direction, the right goal, will grow and will help the person attain the purpose of his life. According to what he says here, 

He who is a small self and has no control at all, 

He has no control, he has a small self, the advice is to be able to make the self greater, the desire greater, 

Is through the persistent thought about the desire since the thought grows to the extent that one thinks of it, 

That a person constantly wants to take care of it, take care of it—this is how it grows bigger. 

And so his law, will he contemplate day and night, 

Meaning that he should try to think all the time in the right direction about the right goal and as much as he can be around this all the time thinking about it until his desire will change and will grow and we'll bring him to that goal, 

For by persisting in it, it grows into a big self until it becomes the actual ruler, 

Until his desire will be so great that he will achieve the purpose of his life, that he reaches the realization of the root of his soul.

Question (USA Northeast): (10:14) It sounds like the way that you're describing this process, as if almost the process that happens between the desire and thought is like some type of a self-sustaining loop, almost, it’s that like a perpetual, self-sustaining loop? Is this inevitable in our work along with prayer, you know, connection with the group, the books? 

M. Laitman: The Creator created the desire and this is what He gives a person, and therefore, if a person has a root of the right desire – this is called, the point in the heart, then the person can develop it. The Creator brings such a person to the right society, to the right books, and then the person needs, there, to grow stronger in his connection with the friends, in the study, in the right books. Then, by that, he can influence his point of desire so that it will grow, that he received from the Creator only a point—it's called, the point in the heart. Where the heart is just, in general, the desires in the person; but the point in the heart is the desire for the sublime spiritual role which actually every person should feel and attain. However, there are only unique individuals in each and every generation that discover that until it all ends in the end of correction when everyone will feel the point in the heart. Everyone will come closer to the realization and, They shall all know Me from the least of them to the greatest of them, as it is written. 

We who receive the point in the heart and, therefore, we're in a special group that is working to bring the hearts closer, to connect people together, to bring back all of the created beings to a single system called, Adam HaRishon, so we need to work that way. Therefore, even though we have small desires and we certainly are incapable of performing even the smallest spiritual actions. But if we come together, if we influence each other even without words – even without deeds but just in thought – as it says that, Everything is clarified by the thought. Then, by that, we can awaken each other so that each one of us will feel that he has something to do in his life. That he can advance himself towards the goal, even though his desire is small and confused, it's not scrutinized, that's it, but he can nevertheless operate. By what? Again, by the control of the thought or the desire. That even though I have a small desire and I wake up, sometimes once every day or two days. Or during the lesson, I'm present a little bit and maybe I fall asleep a little bit or other things—that doesn't matter. What is important is that I have a possibility. The fact that the Creator created me with a small desire, that is not important, but in this small desire, He gave me an opportunity and so I can advance that way. 

Now, what is upon me is only to perform all kinds of actions in order to operate my thought so it will constantly be about the purpose of life. About the necessity for connection, about the fact that everyone, everyone, the whole of humanity must reach the end of correction, Be as one man in one heart, everyone. And I have to work in that, not physically, that I will now do something but, rather, in my desire, that I will want this to happen. Then, by my actions, my internal actions when I think, I read, I also talk about it with others, maybe, I operate on my desire and the desire becomes already directed more correctly towards connection. Towards returning to the corrected system of Adam HaRishon. In this way, I also influence the whole world and most important is that the correction is that I know that through the thought, I can magnify and aim my desire, which is actually the most important. The Creator created the desire and through the thought that I will direct myself through the thought; by that I will direct my desire so that it will grow and will move in the direction of connection with everyone. So that there, from the Ten and onward in a broader and broader manner, there, we will make a form in which the Creator will be able to be revealed in us and to rejoice with us. There, we will reach adhesion with the Creator in this entire Kli that we will build will be called, Adam, and it will all be full with the Creator. By this, we actually build the house of the Lord, the Temple.

Question (Piter 3): (17:51) The spiritual, different spiritual desires from corporeal desires by the screen and the reflected light. So how is spiritual thought different than a corporeal one?

M. Laitman: By that, I want to attain what is desirable, connection; and in order to achieve that, I have to make my desires greater. I can make my desires greater by persisting with my thought. 

Question (ITA 4): (18:37) I didn't understand if the thought changes the desire, or just directs the desire towards a goal?

M. Laitman: The thought cannot replace one desire with another desire unless you have many desires. But the thought does not beget a desire, it takes care of the desire. Meaning, if you want to change your desire in some way, in some specific direction, to raise its intensity or lower its intensity, you can do it by the thought, yes. What am I trying to say here: You do not give birth to a new, to desire by the thought, you can only take care of desires that you have within you by the thought. In order to more effectively – in a way that's more beneficial – to take care of the desire, you need a stronger thought that is more directed. And this is why we also connect in Tens and use the books and we study, etc. It is all in order for us to have more and more possibilities to influence our desires, in order to direct all of them to the goal, to a single goal. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (20:33) When we increase our desire through thought and work, after all it's not sufficient in order to reach Dvekut with the Creator?

M. Laitman: In order to reach Dvekut, adhesion with the Creator, we need a strong desire. The Creator doesn't give us a strong desire, but rather these desires are revealed to us, all in all, from the complex, the entirety of the broken souls; and so strong desires cannot be revealed because it is all broken. A little bit is revealed here and there, some kind of awakening from some piece of the general soul. And according to that we awaken, so this general awakening by the surrounding light that is expecting us to build a place for it to be revealed in actuality. So, by this surrounding light, we have a connection between us and then we come to all kinds of opportunities like the group, like the study, and so on. It is all in order to magnify our desires – our desires are small, also, our desires are not directed correctly. We don't know why, what for, what is it that we are doing and where do we exist. It's like a little child who doesn't know where he is, but he has parents who do know what exactly is happening to him and what exactly they need to do with him, how to take care of him in order for him to grow correctly – it's the same with us. Therefore, as much as we want to grow, they bring us to a group, to all kinds of states where as much as we establish ourselves more correctly between us. We, by that, lead ourselves to the right direction and this is how we advance. There are many things to it. I can spread here in all kinds of different directions but this is what we need to do. 

Besides, the development of each and every one is no longer individual, we are already in stages where we are entering the last generation. Which means that we are already entering a state where the whole of humanity has to awaken. It's not enough that we have an awakening in a group or individuals as it was in previous generations. We have to realize that only us – above all the groups and languages –we need to see ourselves. That we, all of us and the most important is the thought that we all belong to a single desire of Adam HaRishon and we need to come closer and to become incorporated in that. Then, we will see how much the Creator will help us more in a way that will be more concrete, more tangible; this is what we have to think about. This hatred that is now revealed in the world, there is a reason why it is increasing more and more. Seemingly, it is unrelated to the human development, humanity should already understand and feel that that's it. It should stop the wars, it should be concerned about more important things but the opposite turns out. We will forget about flying to space, we will forget about all of these high things. If we will not advance towards connection between us, we will feel humanity from one day to the next, how much it is declining and it is immersed in things that are truly trash, the low things. Because the most important thing that we have to do is the connection between us into the system of Adam HaRishon. Therefore, if we disseminate this method, at least we talk about it, we explain these things so that humanity will know why is it that it is mistaken? Why does it enter, again and again such states? Then, by that, we can promote everyone towards corrections; it is a wonder that actually the more we will advance in our technology and science and culture and education and all kinds of things. It will be something that truly we, seemingly, can achieve everything. We can get to the stars but, at the same time, our life on planet Earth will be worse and worse – more lowly, murky, and we will seem like truly cockroaches that are in a pile of rubbish, truly like that. Because if we will not advance towards connection, then all of the other things will be the opposite—they will actually harm us, they won't allow us to develop correctly. Our life will be worse and worse. 

And, therefore, taking care of our ego, also, cannot be in the direction where we want to overcome the ego. We have to connect between us above our ego, and by that to give examples and to give forces to that. Meaning I don't cope against my ego, there are no longer such actions. This was in previous generations when a person would develop on his own. Today, it is only by us overcoming it together, all of us, and this atmosphere, this field, that we establish between us, this field of connection, the field of love, of participation, of Arvut. This field should actually save us and take care of us and bring us to a new state; otherwise, we will not succeed. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (28:53) We talk a lot about the fact that we have the individual desire and also individual thought which operates upon this individual desire. But, in addition, I heard from you, now, that there needs to be a united desire? 

M. Laitman: A goal, a goal, a single desire. Well, sometimes we speak this way but it cannot be because we cannot check it, we cannot measure our desires. But the direction needs to be, not the same desire but the same goal so that each one has his own desire. The desire is our foundation and it is personal and individual in each one, but that all of our desires will be, more or less, directed towards achieving a single goal. As it is written, For our hearts will rejoice in Him; that we all aim to reach a connection in the Creator.

I cannot reach, bestow, but only bestow to whom? If I bestow to others, then together with him I can bestow to the Creator. And therefore the minimum of many is two, that at least two must be together, and then when they are aimed towards the Creator, they can reach Him because then each one of them has to annul himself before the other. And then through this mutual annulment and a mutual connection above the annulment, they reach establishing the form of the Creator, the image of the Creator, in their common desire.

Student: So, as a result of the connection, what happens with the desires?

M. Laitman: When the desires connect, they become incorporated in each other into a single system. This is what happens if they are able to work towards the unification of the desires. But this happens only if they are aimed to reaching mutual bestowal, and to that extent they are already incorporated in the Creator. And this upper force of bestowal, which is the Creator, influences them and connects them. 

Question (Belarus): (32:06) We touch each time our feelings but in this matter of the feelings and desires, our feelings and thoughts are connected. Where in this chain is the feeling?

M. Laitman: You should use the definitions that Baal HaSulam gives us, there is a thought, and there is a desire: The desire comes to us from the Creator; by that thought, we are able to make it greater and to aim the desire. Don't bring feelings into here, this is very confusing.

Question (Tbilisi): (33:18) I am interested in the reason, desire begets thought but many times the thought takes on a split into two different ways, and you don't know how?

M. Laitman: But you can scrutinize that only in the group, not alone. Only through the group, when you connect to the group, and you become incorporated in them. By that, you scrutinize these things and then keep going.

Question (ITA 1): (34:23) In the Ten, there are many different opinions of what is spirituality. How can I take from here the thoughts?

M. Laitman: Spirituality means what I attain with the intention to bestow, that is all. I have a desire, if this desire works in the direction of bestowal, then the intention to bestow that rises above the desire, it is actually spiritual. And what I achieve with it is called spirituality. For us, in the wisdom of Kabbalah, it is called, Ohr Hozer – Reflected Light.

Question (MAK 6): (35:35) Why is it often that the thought is more disconnected from the desire? And you always seem to be like wise about things, and I'm not sure what you're asking.

M. Laitman: Yes, it happens, but it doesn't matter. You need to aim yourself such that all of your thoughts will be in order to make the correct desires greater. 

Question (Haifa 2): (36:11) How can I sustain the thought if I feel that I have no desire? And can I use the desire of the Ten in order to keep this desire?

M. Laitman: You need to become incorporated in them and then start scrutinizing it. Again, get incorporated in them and then start scrutinizing it.

Question (Latin 1): (37:10) How is my work in dissemination, daily connecting towards bestowal, towards humanity? How does my work in dissemination influence the world, humanity, and my work in the Ten?

M. Laitman: Within a very short period of time, we will see the extent in which we are all, and all of the world, are entering all kinds of problems, limitations. Whereas there will be also in food, energy, in balances that have to do with the climate and all kinds of things. Eventually, this should lead humanity to the question of what to do with our existence, with our lives. Because this is really how could it be that we are so developed on one hand, but we are in such despicable states, not good states. It's through this that the upper force brings us to a change in everything that will happen, and this is how we will advance to corrections. Look at the way that we will all be now, in the near future, more and more dependent on nature, on the environment, on everything there is. Where we will be as really small ones within this whole big system which actually controls us.

This is how we will have to feel in order to decide, correctly, that we're looking for this balance with the upper system. It's the upper one and it's not that we decide and do whatever we feel like. We'll feel, from the moment we won't know how to get to the evening, and from the evening we won't even know how we'll make it to the morning! That's how it's written.

Question (PT 31): (40:08) Let's suppose that there is a state where we decide in the Ten to go out to an attack, and every friend in the Ten increases his desire by 5% through the thought. How does this common field influence all the friends in the Ten?

M. Laitman: It's very influential, you'll see, you'll discover how connected you are to one another. Even those that don't want to be connected – even those that resist the connection in the Ten. They, too, will feel the extent in which they are connected, inevitably, and this will convince them.

Student: Will the influence be a lot greater than the sum total of how much each one grew in himself?

M. Laitman: That's something else: Bestowal from connection is already a spiritual force, and it operates on a completely different plane. A person will also feel this corporeally, that it influences, that society is pressuring him, aiming him, etc. But there's actually a spiritual matter here that maybe we don't discover now, and usually we don't discover them in our Tens, yet. But we need to try to be more sensitive to the common force that we have in the Ten, in each and every Ten. To the extent in which you are under his feeling or not. And then you will see that there are such forces there that you're simply blocked, obtuse towards. But there's plenty to reveal.

Student: These forces open up within me?

M. Laitman: Through the efforts.

Question (Karmiel): (42:36) All the thoughts and the desires come from the Creator; here it says something that seems to contradict it? That we have our own thoughts, and through them we can influence our desires. Can you explain what is our part here, and what is the Creator's part?

M. Laitman: The Creator awakens desires in you, and certainly the Creator evokes thoughts in you. You cannot operate upon the desires, directly, rather through changing the thoughts and especially if the thoughts connect. And you want to operate from the common thought, then it turns out that you can work on these thoughts and change, and from the thought, influence the desire – this is how you change your direction. Try, we need to think together, talk about the thought, what you're connected by, what you want to attain, etc. The extent in which you come to a certain decision between you, a common decision, by that you can operate upon the desire. And each will feel the extent in which his desires change. This needs to work. 

Question (MAK 3): (44:31) A thought about spirituality and a prayer, are they similar or different?

M. Laitman: Prayer is also thought, the prayer organizes our thoughts, and by those thoughts we operate upon the desires.

Question (PT 29): (45:02) What is the difference between a deficiency and a desire? 

M. Laitman: Desire and deficiency is the same thing, only desire is more clarified, more scrutinized. And the deficiency is still only in the feeling, and the desire is already a feeling, direction, and clearer goal. The desire is already with a vector, with a direction, from where and to where; and the deficiency is a potential lack. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't even know that it's missing.

Student: So, we should focus on the desire, not the deficiency.

M. Laitman: We need to build our deficiencies, correctly, yes.

Question (PT 6): (45:59) First of all, about the support of the Tens to each other. There are Tens in Bnei Baruch that take part, come to the lesson every day, during the day they participate in the Zoom meetings, in the lesson summaries, they're 100% active. Other Tens are not like that, not everyone comes to the lesson, or they leave in the middle. We hear this from friends around us, it's clear to us that two Tens do not connect together into one Ten. But how is it possible for one Ten to support another? How can we connect in the right way in order to help each other?

M. Laitman: Try, I don't know, you need to think how to do this I don't know. I want to build an ideological group, all together, that will be in my place, and will be able to decide all these things and lead Bnei Baruch onwards. I, truly, hope that we will succeed to build such a thing. It needs to be a group from 10 – 15 people, something like that, and they will start to manage these things in my place. But what you're asking now, I don't know. I don't know, we need to try, and we need to learn from life.

Student: Until this ideological group will be built, I'm asking about the guiding line. There is a concern, I guess, to connect between the Tens in some form, so we won't actually connect. You're always saying we should not connect the Tens but what is allowed in the mutual support between the Tens?

M. Laitman: No, I'm not saying that we're not allowed to connect between the Tens, I'm saying that, first of all, the Ten needs to be a Ten which feels itself, As one man is one heart – that's already the end of correction. But when we're talking about something that is stable and exists and is felt in each and every friend from the Ten. And then such Tens can connect and create between them such a connection that there will be like two Tens as one.

Student: Okay, now a question from a different angle: You talked before about humanity that is declining and that we're now entering the last generation. What is the order of actions, should humanity awaken and realize that it is a part of a single system? Is that the first level of awareness or is it already in such a state and it only has to connect together?

M. Laitman: I didn't understand. Humanity needs to understand that they all belong to one system and that we must connect to this system, and we need to explain this to them. They will have to understand and grasp this – like it or not – and by this, this is our work. 

Student: Can we say that the first stage in our explanation is that humanity first of all has to understand that it is a part of a single system?

M. Laitman: Yes, that it belongs to one system.

Student: What does it mean, a single system? 

M. Laitman: One system of humanity, that everyone belongs to one mankind, and that's how you belong, to one system, one network. 

Question (Czechoslovak 3): (50:29) What is the relationship between thought and intention?

M. Laitman: We talked about the fact that the main thing is the desire, and we can increase the desire, diminish the desire, and by that, control our fate through thought. And upon the thought we can control, and through the books, the study, connections between us, of course, and so on. So first of all, the ability to control the desire by the thought is what we need to see in us, how we do this, how we come to the control. And the desire comes from the Creator. This is truly the upper force, where our entire universe, all our nature, and we can control this desire and be above it through the thoughts. As we concentrate them, aim them, correctly. 

Question (Zafon 1): (52:14) We learned that the desire and also the thought are a force. So, how does a Kabbalist identify that the force of the desire is more dominant, and it controls the force of the thought? 

M. Laitman: I can't explain because we don't yet have such words between us. Work on this and you will see what desire is, and what intention is, and what thought is, and how to change these things through persistence with desire. 

Question (Ashkelon): (52:56) What is the difference between the work in the heart and the work with the thought, as he describes in the article? 

M. Laitman: You can change the thought by all kinds of external factors; and you can't change the heart through external, internal factors but rather, the way it changes, it changes, but not exactly in your hands. But through persistence, through thought, you can change the heart, the desire in the heart. Try to work on it.

Student: I'm trying to understand. What is the work in the heart? He explains what is the work with the thought, what is the work in the heart? 

M. Laitman: The work in the heart where we change our desire, we intensify it and aim it each time more and more towards the goal. The heart is the desire, the mind is the thought.

Question (PT 25): (54:10) We learned, and you also mentioned it, that actually the whole matter of creation is the desire, this is the only thing that was created. So, what is actually a thought? Where does it come from? What does it develop from – what is it?

M. Laitman: If Adam HaRishon were to be in one body, and one desire, and one intention, then he would have no thought, rather, he has everything in place. Because his parts shattered, he shattered into many pieces, so the connection between the parts begets now all kinds of such connections, mutual influences. And also within each and every shattered part, there is, now a – how should we say this – a broken connection, not instinctive, not direct between the mind and the heart. Therefore, the mind can influence the heart and also the heart can influence the heart. I'm sorry, the heart can influence the brain, but that's not for now.

Student: Wait a minute, so the thought is the result of the shattering, actually? 

M. Laitman: Let's say, yes.

Student: Baal HaSulam writes in A Peace in the World, I think, that the difference between man and the still, vegetative, inanimate is that he has a new gradual order of development, of the development of the force of the thought. Why does that exist in men and not in the still vegetative inanimate? What is this mechanism?

M. Laitman: No, it exists in still, vegetative, inanimate, but they can't use it. A man can use his inclinations, even his desire, moreover his thought, and the control of the thought upon the desire, and thus, aim himself towards what resembles the Creator. It's not yet like the Creator, where he changes his desire according to the way he decides. But through the thought, He brings Himself to a state in which His thought changes His desire.

Student: This happens only on the fourth degree of the desire, this ability.

M. Laitman: This happens also on the previous degrees, but not according to the decision of man, not according to – 

Student: An independent decision.

M. Laitman: Yes, yes. 

Question (PT 35): (57:17) What is the reason why, if I don't meet the framework of the morning lessons, I automatically become distanced and I feel that I'm not directed towards the goal?

M. Laitman: By what could you connect with others? By what will you receive the reforming light, the surrounding light, if you're not connected to everyone? And the connection is only during those hours of the morning lesson. And after that, during the day, you're just implementing here and there these things in the connections between you. And also, sometimes you come to connections – sometimes you don't. And so it works out that these two, three hours are your entire connection between you and spirituality.

Student: The lesson is the most critical for the connection between us?

M. Laitman: But it's not the most. It's the actual critical point, whereas if you let go of it, you're in a void, you're in a space.

Student: And how can we help friends that cannot be with us now in the morning lesson?

M. Laitman: I don't know, try to connect them to the lesson in all kinds of ways. 

Student: In all kinds of ways? 

M. Laitman: How can it be that you don't help one another be in the lesson? 

Student: Well, they have necessary issues or issues of health, so they can't be here.

M. Laitman: I don't truly accept those kind of things. Just like Baal HaSulam worked, and Rabash, worked in their lives hard, they had hard labor in their life, but nevertheless, they kept those lessons. So, there's no choice, there's no other choice. I don't understand what needs to be for a person that he doesn't appear in a lesson. If during this time – let's say he's working – he's there in Australia or someplace, I don't know where, and then, during this hour, he works. So the moment he is free from work, he turns on the lesson because it's recorded – there's no problem to download it, and he's in the lesson. And then, corresponds with the department heads, and is even listening the lesson with his group. I don't understand, let's say Australia, they have a time where, for us, it's a completely different time zone. So they gather, the Australian group, and they hear the lesson, or at least part of them. We hear it during the right time with us, and the other part, we hear the lesson during the time that they're capable, according to their time zone. But they have to do something, the fact that a person doesn't hear the lesson within those 24 hours, it's like you're leaving the connection.

Question (PT 18): (01:01:02) Can we control our thoughts?

M. Laitman: You can control the thoughts through the environment: That's the books, the authors, the group, the study. All those things influence you and control or arrange for you your thoughts. I'm not saying that it's simple but they do control, what am I trying to say? Where you mean that you can't control your thought, scrutinize whether it's a thought or it's a desire. It could be that you're getting confused; and actually it's your desire that is bothering you to be concentrated in a certain thought.

Student: How can I notice it if it's a desire or a thought?

M. Laitman: Think, first of all, examine this, and then we will talk. It's worthwhile. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (01:02:22) You talked about harsh times that will come soon in the world. What will they come for, so that our thoughts will change?

M. Laitman: Of course, it's in order for us to come to corrections; if we don't perform corrections prior to that, then we're evoked, awakened by the bad forces that we should have corrected in the previous state. If we didn't correct them, they awaken these forces and pressure us until we perform corrections, already, from the not good states.

Student: It's simply a wonder, from 2008, even before, whatever you say is what happens in practice. Even regarding the crisis, regarding the virus that you talked about. And there is this impression that what you say happens in actuality, but we don't draw the right conclusions from it in humanity. Even I, myself, let's say now there's already a war that is going on, so you say that my thoughts actually changed, I don't know. What is the problem here, why am I advancing so slowly? How come people are not listening to anything? It's like these are two parallel processes that do not join, and one of them does not influence the other.

M. Laitman: It's a correct question: Why is there no conclusion from the state that we're going through? Humanity doesn't want to hear yet, and we ourselves don't want to hear anything that compels us, that obligates us. Obligates us, that we don't want to hear, that's the problem. Therefore, humanity more and more is coming closer to problems – bigger ones, global ones. And also more individual ones until we will be ready, humanity will be ready to observe this. 

Reader: We will do a break and then continue. So let's sing together. 

Song: (01:04:57)