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Daily Lesson (Morning) February 15, 2025.
Part 1: RABASH, 298. Associating the Quality of Mercy with Judgment
Reader: Hello, we are reading from the writings of Rabash, “Assorted Notes”, Article 298, “Associating the Quality of Mercy with Judgment”. Pay attention, everyone who is receiving translation here in the study hall is requested to put both headphones in and lower the volume so that you do not disturb others. So again, we are going to read from the writings of Rabash, “Assorted Notes”, Article 298,
“Associating the Quality of Mercy with Judgment”, 298.
Reading: (00:47) Since man is born out of Behina Dalet [Fourth Phase], which is from the vacant space, and her aim is to receive in order to receive, if he remained this way, only from this root, it would be utterly impossible to turn her into working in order to bestow. Hence, when the quality of bestowal merges with him, namely the quality of mercy, by this he has the remedy of Torah and Mitzvot [commandments] in order to bestow, which can invert him.
We should understand this, since we see that it is human nature that he is immersed in worldly lusts. Sometimes, he has an awakening and desires to achieve Dvekut [adhesion] with the Creator. At that time, we see that during the awakening we have no work to emerge from corporeality and all our thoughts and desires are about spirituality. When we descend from our degree and return to our bad ways of thinking only about corporeal matters, it can be said that when the Behina Dalet is revealed in him, namely when he craves something, he cannot overcome his inherent will to receive. But when the quality of mercy awakens in him, which is the power of bestowal, then, too, he has no freedom of choice but to aspire for spirituality. Then, when Behina Dalet awakens in him, he turns astray again.
Therefore, we see that when a person has fallen and is under the control of the will to receive, he has no freedom of choice. And when the desire to bestow works within him, he does not need choice. It therefore follows that the choice that he has is only over who will be in control—the quality of judgment in him or the quality of mercy. But with arguments, conjectures, and reasoning, it is impossible to win when the quality of judgment rules within him.
Thus, the only thing that one can do is connect to books and authors that deal with the desire to bestow. Then the quality of mercy awakens in him, and he will yearn for spirituality without any effort. That is, the work can be primarily when neither is in control. At that time, he has the choice of who will be in charge.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:09) He says here, at the end of the article, that the main work can primarily be when neither is in control, and at that time he has the choice of who will be in charge. Why is the work then, the best kind of work when there is no control one way or another?
M. Laitman: I think this is clear to us from life. It depends on what controls the person, the will to receive or the will to bestow. Accordingly, he needs to examine and determine what is the force of control, of whom, and give an example accordingly. Our participation, our work, is to have the right response to what we want when we are under the rule of the will to receive, whether we like it or not, it rules us. What do we need to do? What means do we have so that we can shift ourselves to “in order to bestow”? That's a problem. And if we are already “in order to bestow”, then also there's a question. Why? For whom? When? How? How do I stop that and so forth? So, control is the issue. Controlling what? Controlling the will to receive. Because that's what the Creator created, and that's what the person has. And how do we gain control? By force that we receive from the Torah. And in the study of Torah, if we aim to acquire the force of bestowal, so bit by bit we reveal it in steps, then it begins to show itself, and we can then further use it more and more.
Student: When there is no control one way or another, where is the Creator's force of there is none else besides Him? Because there's this seeming fantasy that you're in control of yourself, so where's this idea of there is none else besides Him, where there is no control here or there?
M. Laitman: The Creator is not revealed, but He becomes revealed if we want Him to choose and work in this status between the two forces. But it's up to us to scrutinize it and reach a prayer, that we ask the Creator to get involved and help us choose.
Student: Meaning, prayer can be in every state, even when you feel that it is as if it comes from you, you still need the Creator's help. Because, I say that at the end of it all, we haven't just talked about this one time, that our awakening always first and foremost comes from the Creator. But when you have no control here or there, how do you feel that awakening as if it's coming from the Creator? Because there's a certain trick here that the Creator does to us.
M. Laitman: The issue is that many times a person would feel himself and what controls him the will to receive, and if he begins to feel the will to bestow, then he has to make an effort and scrutinize it more, feel it even more, to the point that the will to bestow also faces him, even though practically he feels the will to receive.
Student: Is that effort throughout the whole path to relate everything to the Creator?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: That's our effort?
M. Laitman: For sure. Yes, even before we call, we have to be certain that the Creator is in control, solely in all of reality, and our work is only to reveal this all.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (10:51) I was certain that we start with the will to receive, and I hear from Rabash here that the main work can only be when nobody controls. There are times when neither will to receive nor the will to bestow control me?
M. Laitman: There are times, yes.
Student: How do I identify those times?
M. Laitman: Not yet. If you long for the will to bestow, then after several actions of attaining the desire to bestow, you begin to see intermittently, in some different ways that you also have a will to bestow that awakens.
Student: But we are always in the will to receive, we always start from that state?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:52) According to what does a person choose?
M. Laitman: A person chooses according to what he sees in front of him. Because with respect to that he feels himself, and he always wants to belong to bestow.
Student: Why? There is no choice here, because he just wants to be in spirituality, in bestowal.
M. Laitman: No, we're not talking about a person who is born. We're talking about a person who is in the middle of his days, and now he feels who governs him, for what purpose, and what he wants to happen with him?
Student: To clarify, a person is at this juncture of choice between reception and bestowal, between judgment and mercy?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And what does he need to do?
M. Laitman: To choose.
Student: What are his measurements according to which he chooses one way or another, what precedes his choice?
M. Laitman: What precedes his choice is that he scrutinizes under what governances he is. There is the governance of the will to receive, and the governance of the will to bestow. And a person chooses under what governance he wants to live.
Student: Still unclear. With the force of what does he choose the control that he wants to be under?
M. Laitman: By having it, by being born and having these forces, these two forces - will to receive, will to bestow. Then he sees how much the will to receive exists in nature, controls everything, except what's in the person. There is a will to receive in the person as well, but still he has thoughts of bestowal. He identifies in the surrounding nature that there are also actions of bestowal.
Student: So, first he needs to feel the desire to bestow and then he needs to prefer that to the desire to receive.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Why would he prefer bestowal to reception? What pushes him to that?
M. Laitman: Because this aspect of bestowal belongs to the Creator.
Student: He can choose the opposite?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: So, why would he choose here or there? What causes him that?
M. Laitman: It belongs to the Creator. Bestowal is the aspect of the Creator.
Student: What is that state where, if I understand correctly, there's always a control, either reception or bestowal.
M. Laitman: Right. But he chooses where he wants to be.
Student: That's that state where, apparently, there is no choice at a certain moment whether will to receive can receive it, make a decision.
M. Laitman: When there's no control, it still means there's control. It's just unclear what it is. But completely without control, that doesn't exist. So, he wants to reach a state where he has, where the will to bestow controls him. And if he chooses the will to receive, and he continues his life, it proves him that he wants to be in a will to bestow.
Student: We surround him in order to choose to bestow.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: So, there is a control here, it's just up to the person to execute.
M. Laitman: Altogether, the totality of nature makes the person choose bestowal.
Student: Are we talking about one moment of choice and then he shifts over to bestowal?
M. Laitman: No, no, no, it's a process. It's a process where he learns from nature in order to belong to the will to bestow.
Student: And what helps the person choose to bestow?
M. Laitman: I would say, it comes from above. That force to push us to a will to bestow is the force of the Creator Himself. And what we need, we just need to make sure to reveal that the force of reception belongs to the will to receive, and this force comes to him without choice, and then he sees, with the inner qualities that he develops, he sees that there's also a will to bestow in nature, and then he sees that his choice in the will to bestow, even though it is against the will to receive, it is truth. And then, in the inclination to that, he attracts the force of bestowal to him, and thus he is impressed by that, and it becomes his nature.
Student: I don't hear that there is choice here, but agreement.
M. Laitman: There are states of choice, there are states of agreement, and there are states where he cannot do anything. He only agrees there that this is so.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:44) How does a person carry out that choice?
M. Laitman: That's already not according to the question. If a person chooses wanting the force of bestowal, which is the godly force, the upper force, that exists and controls all of nature. That's what he reads, that's what he hears. So, what he has is that he's looking. He's looking for how can he study and how can he attain that force of bestowal. So, he has to enter an environment which chooses that force. An environment that always yearns to reveal that force. And so in such a struggle he has between the force of reception that he's born with and the force of bestowal that he's now acquiring, when he is between them, he chooses with what he wants to continue. That's what he continues and discovers.
Student: Rabash writes that you get that awakening for a moment and then you have this yearning for spirituality. And you appreciate that or extend that time so there won't just be this awakening but that you'll be able to continue onward?
M. Laitman: Man is under the rule of the general will to receive. And other than that, what awakens in the person is the power of the will to bestow, in certain times. And he has to catch these sparks and collect them and use them against the general will to receive.
Student: Does the person need to reach a state where they are always in the choice of bestowal?
M. Laitman: No, no, no. That's the goal.
Student: And then you're always on these degrees of reception, bestowal, reception, bestowal.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:25) How do we grasp these sparks of bestowal?
M. Laitman: The sparks of bestowal we can catch them in several ways. One way is that I am in an environment that is entirely making an action of bestowal, and I observe them, I feel them, I'm with them. I submit myself to them. They appear to me as great strong, and powerful, and then, that's how I receive from them the tendency to bestow. So, that could be one way. It could be through a struggle I feel within me. How it happens between the force of bestowal and the force of reception, which exists in a collision. And then I make an effort on my part that I increase the force of bestowal opposite the force of reception, and there's more.
Student: During the time of the lesson, it's felt that Rabash that we now read, or the things that Rav says, that we're hearing at every moment, they stream to us many sparks of bestowal. How can we catch more of them?
M. Laitman: This is by incorporating between us, connecting between us, and then when we connect between us, in each and every one, a greater force is formed from the sum of all forces he's trying to incorporate with.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (25:08) That inclination to care about one another and to request for one another, to give, or as it's written, to incorporate, that inclination is what brings us to the desire to bestow contentment upon the Creator?
M. Laitman: Yes, but we make it several times greater.
Student: Does it depend on the extent to which we hold on to that together, even for a single moment?
M. Laitman: We need, from this moment to the next, to try to acquire all the force there is in nature. That in it will reveal the force of bestowal.
Student: We'll feel it together.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (26:06) What does a person need to annul within, in order to incorporate with those forces you just now talked about, all those forces that exist in nature and all the friends and all the environment?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: What action does he need to carry out within himself in order to incorporate with those forces?
M. Laitman: Only connection with his Ten first of all, and with more such organizations or groups around his Ten, to connect them, to attract them, to push them to the central point between them, and there to incorporate together.
Student: In that central point, that's where we shift to another control, to the desire to bestow.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And there is still, when the person's under the control of the will to receive, and there's this prayer, this deficiency where he puts in all the effort possible in order to relate everything to the Creator, as it's written, to pray all day long. How do we reach a state where a person awakens themselves, because that's what really builds their vessel? How does he not miss out on that prayer?
M. Laitman: He doesn't lose himself because the force of reception with which he was born that is developing in him so far he lives in it and demands to feel the center of creation, the force of reception. And when he now also wants to build from the sparks, the records of the force of bestowal, then he makes efforts, and by these efforts, he feels that added forces of bestowal increase in him, and that's how he matures and connects to the desires to bestow of more people who want to reach the force of bestowal, and so forth.
Question (Women Turkiye): (28:56) How is it possible to be secure that this desire to bestow to the Creator comes from true choice?
M. Laitman: I can't promise anything. I can't determine that it'll come from some type of records and from free choice. This is something that depends on me and doesn't depend on me. But we keep asking, through mostly connection between us, that all the friends I study with, and we always think, firstly, we hear that we have to be connected, and the connection has to happen between forces of bestowal in each and every one of us. Therefore, when the Tens come and connect, each and every one through his Ten, wants to incorporate with all the Tens, even people who are not connected with them and that's how we come to a great force that chooses the Creator, a force that will help us, that will help us advance to Him and attain the force of the Creator Himself, which is the force of bestowal that is at the center of nature.
Question (Kabu 5): (31:11) Why is the will to receive called the quality of judgment?
M. Laitman: Because it determines the main nature of reality, which is the will to receive.
Question (Turkiye 7): (31:34) What is precisely the control of the Creator in the work where we choose to bestow?
M. Laitman: The rule of the Creator is above all kinds of controls of other forces, and we just have to ask Him to govern us from there.
Question (Moscow 1): (32:10) It's unclear how we reach a state where no force controls.
M. Laitman: This is something a person feels in himself, that on his path there's such a development, such a point on the path that gives him a feeling that he exists between the force of bestowal and the force of reception.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (32:45) You said that we need to constantly seek the force of bestowal. What is this action of seeking the force of bestowal? Because a moment ago I heard that you said that we incorporate with one another with friends in the Ten, we give impressions of the force of bestowal. So, what do I need to search for here? What is the search?
M. Laitman: That's how you search.
Student: The impression is that if we give forces to each other, so, what do I need to seek? What is this action of searching?
M. Laitman: The action of searching, that is, there person, let's say, looks between his friends in the Ten when they wish to connect, then he wants to collect from each and every one his force of bestowal.
Student: Meaning, each time to increase the force of bestowal means to seek for that force?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (34:13) My investment in the group, in the Ten, it influences my choice. My investment yesterday influences my choice today. What is the connection here?
M. Laitman: Usually, we can carry with us the impression from yesterday to the forces we have today, but it's not mandatory, and our impressions are still not that strong. And therefore, each time something changes.
Student: It turns out that there is nothing to look through here in finding the force of choice.
M. Laitman: We don't need to scrutinize why we have this or that kind of forces, because we still have many answers, and it's not going to be clear to us what to do, but what's clear to us, what we do need to do each and every moment, is to be drawn to the force of bestowal, the force of bestowal between us.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (35:48) Can you explain a little bit more about this connection of ours and how it connects to the force of bestowal? What happens when we see just these inclinations, but I'd just like to understand that a bit more.
M. Laitman: How do we connect between us to extract the force of bestowal together?
Student: To take all these inclinations and to bring them together to a central point, to one focused request.
M. Laitman: That's what we need to do. Difficult, that's because it is opposite to everyone's individual will to receive. Each one thinks about himself and draws into himself, and this force of bestowal is a force that works the other way around, in the opposite direction, from each one outwards, outside ourselves. That's where we need to connect. And that will be a force which will be opposite the force of the Creator that awakens in us. And then with our force, we will stand against the force of the Creator and we'll demand from Him that He'll help us.
Student: That's the point. Outside of us, what you explained to us now, between us, we more or less can get along. But when we need to gather it and connect it to a request to the Creator, I think here I feel…
M. Laitman: That's what we need to work on.
Student: How?
M. Laitman: Try to connect. To see each and everyone as a partner and try to connect, so that the general force will be one, and it will direct us straight to the Creator.
Student: Do you think we can do that?
M. Laitman: We have to do it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (38:46) We see the influence of the environment, and we see that that's what a person can do. I'm asking in relation to the word “study”. The studying itself, is that the middle line that can bring a person out of that loop? From his confusion in that he is in the quality of judgment?
M. Laitman: The study must influence the person according to the person's desire, how much he wants to transcend, to rise through his study, from receiving to bestowing.
Student: As preparation now to the Convention and preparing for these articles that we're going to be reading at the convention, on one hand we need, I'm not speaking about being open to the friends and receiving the influence of the light, that's also what we don't talk about, but the study itself, how do we do that?
M. Laitman: By the study, we only want to acquire the force of bestowal from above.
Student: We need to aim at that?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (40:25) You said that we need to try to see everyone as a partner, that we always try to connect and see. I see that through my ego that there are friends who are more or less inspired, but I try to see everyone as this equal, so how do I do that above all the rejections, not just according to what I can be impressed by, but I need to see each and every one as a partner. And also general people outside of this, to somehow add them to this common effort. How can we belong to such an effort?
M. Laitman: To belong to the state where everyone wants to connect?
Student: How can I make myself try to connect to each and every one, to make each and every one here my partner?
M. Laitman: So, imagine to yourself that you are, you very much want, you wish, you are thirsty to see a common force among all the friends, that there is an inclination to it in each and every one, that you truly want to see between them only that tendency, inwards, to the center of their connection, and from that center to the Creator.
Student: Where I see before me an inclination that is opposite to that?
M. Laitman: So, tell yourself that they have eyes and see not, meaning, that can't be real, it's just how it appears to you based on your egoistic desire.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (42:34) What does it mean to incorporate between Tens?
M. Laitman: To incorporate between the Tens, that's after each and every Ten achieves its center. From their center they want to work towards the Creator, so, between them there is also the same tendency from each Ten to all the other Tens. Then the common force there is in each Ten connects with these collective forces in the other Tens.
Student: When there's connection between two Tens, what happens to those two Tens together?
M. Laitman: That their force of connection is now working.
Student: Why don't they become one Ten?
M. Laitman: It's not enough, it's insufficient.
Student: Why, two drops of water that connect as one drop?
M. Laitman: That's exactly it. When two drops connect to a single drop, then the force, the law that worked on each drop individually, now works on both.
Student: What exactly connects between two Tens?
M. Laitman: Qualities. Qualities. Ten Sefirot here, Ten Sefirot there, and then this Ten Sefirot connects to that Ten Sefirot.
Student: Then why they're still two Tens, they’re one Ten?
M. Laitman: After they're connected, yes.
Student: At our upcoming Congress in a few days, what is our work there?
M. Laitman: Our work will begin from where we're now, and very quickly we'll do all the steps to become worthy and confident that we're going for connection at the common point.
Student: In the Congress, I'm searching for connecting in my Ten, first and foremost?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And then what can I search for beyond that?
M. Laitman: From the center of your Ten, all your friends who participate with you, also want to look for all those central points in all the Tens.
Student: There's a bigger feeling of something more common at the Congress.
M. Laitman: So, we have to try to hold on to it correctly.
Student: How? Because that general environment just pulls you into it, you feel something greater.
M. Laitman: No, it doesn't carry you, it neutralizes your personal search.
Student: So, how do you focus now, not to become dispersed, but to focus on working in my own Ten, despite all the...
M. Laitman: So, you are coming to the Convention when you are as one. And every Ten, let's say, your Ten comes to the convention, then all your Ten, when you're in the Convention, you are as if one. And thus, each and every Ten comes in such a connected way. And if not, then during the Convention in the first lesson, you already begin to achieve that. And now you're beginning to search for these Tens, each one his Ten.
Student: What is the center of the Ten? What am I searching for?
M. Laitman: The center of the Ten is what you collectively want to happen to you.
Student: The common search is our center?
M. Laitman: Not the search itself, but the product of it.
Student: Now during the Congress, I'm speaking with many friends, I'm inspired by many friends, I'm feasting with them, singing with them, and I'm always searching within my personal Ten to seek that center, the common center?
M. Laitman: No, that's what you catch and what you develop. You have nothing to... you're not searching anymore. But now when you feel your Ten as one man and one heart, and you are in the correct connection among you, then you wish to also be connected to other Tens.
Student: But our work always renews, it's not that we reach a peak and then continue onward, but we always need to strengthen in connection.
M. Laitman: Of course, so?
Student: So, how do I seek connection with other Tens if I always have what to search for in my own Ten?
M. Laitman: That's what you do. So, try and see.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (48:22) Continuing the scrutiny with the friend, what does it mean to grasp properly onto the upper force at the Congress correctly.
M. Laitman: Every gathering has a certain tendency, a certain collective force. And that collective force is... It's called that it comes out of the center of the Ten, or the center of the gathering. The convention is the gathering, and thus, we have to try and feel it. The more we aim from the center of the convention to the center of reality, that's where our meeting is with the Creator. That's all.
Student: The center of this existence, how does it give each and every one of us in the Ten feel that common force of the Congress?
M. Laitman: According to how we aim ourselves at that common center between all of us. We can, we might feel it.
Student: So, how do we do a correct preparation prior to the Congress, so that will be directed grasping that force correctly?
M. Laitman: It's that all of us, that's a certain Ten, if you yourselves more and more and more incorporated together, then from the incorporation together we want to extract the force that is truly aimed at the Creator.
Student: How we do not lose that force during the Congress? Let's say, that we met at the first lesson, we developed a certain force, we felt a greater force of bestowal that is more directed at the Creator. How do we not lose that force?
M. Laitman: You're always with it, you're always on it. Throughout the Convention we're doing exercises and we examine ourselves and test to see how we don't leave the framework of connection between us.
Student: Despite these breaks we do between?
M. Laitman: What are the breaks? That's even better, the breaks actually help us become deeper incorporated. We'll learn about it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (51:55) I saw many examples here of connection, and I see that we all have some very powerful center of the Ten and these actions of bestowal. I want to bring that to my virtual Ten and it's very difficult. What tools do I have? I ask the Creator but I don't know what else to do. How to bring that, how to break this barrier between virtual to physical?
M. Laitman: Therefore, we already come connected in the Tens to the Congress, as you now see here in the whole. Let's say, you have here 30 Tens, 50 Tens, it doesn't matter. That's how it's gonna be at the Congress too, where there coming as many Tens, each one tries to find a place to sit with a Ten, his Ten, because that's how it's comfortable and good for him. That's how he enters into the socket, and, accordingly, that's how he connects with them. And general connection we relate to the Creator. We want to present to Him our vessel from all the Tens from all the people who come to participate at the Congress, we connect and turn to the Creator. And we want Him to receive us to accept us. That is all. How He will accept us and what He will do with us, that's what we'll feel.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (54:26) When a person is lucky to find themselves in this environment in this holy environment and has an awakening to bestow, how does a person choose between opportunities to bestow when there are too many opportunities? When he's torn, and when friends ask - you can help here to disseminate, you can help with the duty here, you can be with your Ten virtually, or you come to another gathering of a Ten. And a person is torn, and this is a good problem to have. And the person wants to help everywhere, but how does a person choose between the opportunity to bestow when there's most impact, and it's not the most pleasure, not for honor, not for...
M. Laitman: I don't know what that state is exactly. When a person is in the middle of the Congress, and he seeks who to connect with to what Ten, right?
Student: When there are many opportunities, like he's invited to attend a gathering, and he also can be with his own virtual Ten, or he's asked to work in the kitchen, and it's all at the same time, and a person wants to help, but where to choose?
M. Laitman: Most important, he should choose for himself. What's Ten is closer and more understood to him, according to language, according to people, according to all kinds of parameters. He should choose them, and go with them, and cooperate with them, and that's how he should be until the end of the congress.
Student: Just help with the duty. You can help in the studio, in the kitchen, somewhere else, all at the same time, where to pick?
M. Laitman: You can shift from one Ten to another, yes. The main thing is that you incorporate with them.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (56:40) What the friend wants to clarify is, if I have a few opportunities in front of me to bestow, regardless of the convention, in the preparation for the convention, I have several opportunities. How do I choose the right opportunity? One opportunity has, let's say, a place to overcome rejection. Another opportunity has I can overcome pleasure. Another opportunity is to bestow to a friend, or to bestow to the Rav. How do I make the most precise choice for a bestowal?
M. Laitman: What falls upon me, that's what I take and go with it.
Student: But I have a few options, how do I choose?
M. Laitman: He needs to choose.
Student: According to what?
M. Laitman: According to what's closer to him.
Student: According to what's easiest, hardest.
M. Laitman: Easiest.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (57:55) First of all, we can really begin to feel how the importance of the Creator bubbles up in the World Kli, in the society. We are in a Convention of entering Lishma. I heard and read things you've said, and also what Kabbalists write, that I have to come to the Convention seeing that all the friends are already in Lishma. And I have to work opposite that. And there are really all the conditions to do this work towards the Creator, that He will complete my work. And like you told the friend before, that I have to make the efforts I have to do. I'm really asking you to help me connect my inner work in the Convention to see everyone in Lishma, and what we call connection in the Ten, the center of the Ten. Where does it... I know my work, I don't know how to take it to connection in the Ten.
M. Laitman: Try it. Try it. If you don't know where it is, seek where the connection is between them. And progress accordingly.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (59:34) Rav, we begin to aim towards one upper governance, that’s how we start the work. And he says that the real choice is actually where there is no control.
M. Laitman: I do not know, what you are thinking.
Student: He writes at the of the article that real work, the real choice, is the where no one is in control, something like that he writes. The main work can be when no one is in control, then he has the choice to chose who will be in control.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: So, a person has to try to bring himself to that neutral state?
M. Laitman: It is not a neutral state. He is under influence of many forces, and each and everyone of them balances the other forces, so that’s what plays out. He needs to then choose who will be in control, meaning, he still has not reached the conclusion.
Student: What are these balancing forces that bring that state?
M. Laitman: Remain with that question. If I tell you, you will just shift to the next question.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:01:58) We come to the wisdom of Kabbalah in order to change. Now, in the Convention I need to put a goal in front of me to understand what do we need to be attentive to the mind, the heart, what is it?
M. Laitman: This, and that, and this other thing. The heart, the mind and also the feelings.
Student: But I do not control my feelings.
M. Laitman: But you were given them, what you do control, through that, you control your feelings.
Student: I need to always talk about it with the Ten? I can’t just be with myself in that.
M. Laitman: Yes, talk about it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:03:21) Do we have to aim the efforts to what will be revealed at the Convention?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Where to put the efforts, where to put the focus of the efforts - what is going on in the Convention or what we…
M. Laitman: On the point of the connection between us. The point of connection between us, that is where we need to direct ourselves.
Question (Women Petah Tikvah 6): (01:04:04) What is the most meaningful help of the women, the global women group to the Convention?
M. Laitman: As much as each one and all of them, that is the blessing for success.
Question (Women Rehovot 1): (01:04:23) How does the state of the Ten being ready to connect with other Tens come into effect?
M. Laitman: It is that each Ten acts as this example which is connected and wanting to be connected with all the connections of all the Tens.
Song: (01:05:35)