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Daily Lesson (Morning), June 27, 2024. 

Part 3: Mishna. Pirkei Avot, chapter 3, item 1 The Chapters of The Fathers, Chapter 3, item 1

Akabyah ben Mahalalel said: mark well three things and you will not come into the power of sin: know from where you come, and where you are going, and before whom you are destined to give an account and reckoning. From where do you come? From a putrid drop. Where are you going? To a place of dust, of worm and of maggot. Before whom you are destined to give an account and reckoning? Before the King of the kings of kings, the Holy One, blessed be He.

M. Laitman: Questions? Yes, questions, yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:12) What does it mean to give an account before the King of Kings?

M. Laitman: I don't know but he says that we will need to do that.

Student: Does it happen at some point, at some place? What does it mean in the future, is it in a minute?

M. Laitman: You get a note to come to the courthouse in a certain state, in a certain year, in a certain place.

Student: And what happens there?

M. Laitman: You imagine to yourself, I don't know.

Student: Is there something that perhaps we can do in our work in the Ten with those things, let's say in a Tens meeting. To play with such a state, to discuss it, to, I don't know, to somehow bring it closer to us?

M. Laitman: Yes. Think about it, think about that sentence.

M. Laitman: Next. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (02:40) You might really be thinking that it talks about a life cycle of our life. But when you think about it, how can it be that something that comes from a putrid drop will give an account before the King of Kings? What should we really learn? Why do we need to know where a will to receive comes from? Why do Kabbalists always emphasize that the will to receive was created by the Creator?

M. Laitman: We are in that lowly drop and except for it, there is the matter around it that we need to organize it, to sanctify it. And in this way, we reach the implementation of that drop.

Student: So, maybe there's also the middle part there where he says that you are going to become a worm and a maggot. What does that mean?

M. Laitman: I don't know, what are you asking about?

Student: Can you read this?

Reader: And where are you going? To a place of dust, of worm, and of maggot. This is what the friend is asking about.

Student: So, he tells us, pay attention to where you're coming from, where you're going to. What does it mean, where you're going to? What is this thing? Where am I? So, does it mean that in any case, life is pointless?

M. Laitman: Yes, let's say so. Where are you headed? To the place of? Yes, and who are you going to give judgment before? The Creator?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (04:52) In this account, what stands in your favor and what stands against you?

M. Laitman: Your whole life is being calculated: How did you use them? That's it.

Student: So, what will the advocate argue and what will the accuser argue?

M. Laitman: That's towards each and every one, he has to calculate.

Student: Let's say our whole life we get opportunities.

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: Not let's say, that's the way it is. We get opportunities our whole life and otherwise, we wouldn't be here.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: What does it mean to use it correctly, when you say this is to merit and this is incorrect? So this is detriment to the side of fault, and how can you compare them?

M. Laitman: Be more similar and close to the Creator is for the merit; and the opposite is for the bad.

Student: And what among all those can we attribute to the person, himself?

M. Laitman: The opportunities he gets.

Student:. He gets opportunities from above.

M. Laitman: He gets them but, obviously, it's sent from above.

Student: At court, he's not asked what was sent from above. He's asked, how did you use the opportunities?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, what does it mean that he didn't use them correctly; and what does it mean that he did use them correctly?

M. Laitman: I guess that in order to resemble to the Creator is right; and the opposite is incorrect. 

Student: Are the opportunities according to quantity or quality? 

M. Laitman: Quantity and quality together, that's how I understand it.

Student: So, if we say it before us all the time, then life becomes very precise.

M. Laitman: Yes, a person each and every moment can judge himself and calculate. And to give a report to the Creator on every moment he got something from him.

Student: So, what will make him calculate every moment?

M. Laitman: To be in it.

Student: Usually we read at funerals, we read this excerpt. So should a person be in a funeral, every moment?

M. Laitman: That's a good place where you escort the soul.

Student: Yes, that's clear.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (07:58) A person is born, goes through his whole life, and then dies. I'm surrounded in my life with people who didn't hear about the wisdom of Kabbalah, didn't hear about Torah, the commandments. They live their lives.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: They live, they die, they come to this court. What will they be asked about? Everything they did was determined by the Creator, maybe they received an opportunity, but they certainly didn't use it because they never started studying. So, what can you judge them about if they didn't have?

M. Laitman: There's no judgment for them to get into, none. They didn't have an opportunity.

Student: In other words, the calculation, the account, is only with people who got the opportunity, went into the game like us. And in the end what came out of them.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: This is what it's about, basically.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, let's say if the majority of people, in reality, they don't have any account. We read it in funerals but most people who are there, there's no calculation with them. They didn't?

M. Laitman: Yes, correct.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (09:22) What I didn't understand is why if you pay attention to these things, you will not commit a sin, as it begins. Yes, pay attention to these things, and if you pay attention to them, you will not commit a sin. Why?

M. Laitman: Know where you came from and where you're going, you have to think about it. And before whom you are destined to give an account and reckoning. Those questions fill your mind, and they fill your heart, yes. And then you can know how to aim, how to conduct your ego. 

Reader: (10:33) And if I calculate today, I don't wait for the future, I do it today. And I see that I am at fault, what do I do? About everything that happened, I know I'm a criminal.

M. Laitman: Ask for corrections, ask to understand where you've deviated from the path. Where you can make corrections, what state you have to reach, that's it.

Question (Petah Tikva Center):S. (11:14) “Where are you going? To dust, worm, and maggots”. Is this still, vegetative, and inanimate?

M. Laitman: I don't know, it's not important. Item two.

Reader: (11:35) Item 2 Rabbi Hanina, the vice-high priest said: pray for the welfare of the government, for were it not for the fear it inspires, every man would swallow his neighbor alive. R. Hananiah ben Teradion said: if two sit together and there are no words of Torah [spoken] between them, then this is a session of scorners, as it is said: “nor sat he in the seat of the scornful…[rather, the teaching of the Lord is his delight]” (Psalms 1:1); but if two sit together and there are words of Torah [spoken] between them, then the Shechina abides among them, as it is said: “then they that feared the Lord spoke one with another; and the Lord hearkened and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before Him, for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon His name” (Malachi 3:16). Now I have no [scriptural proof for the presence of the Shechina] except [among] two, how [do we know] that even one who sits and studies Torah the Holy One, blessed be He, fixes his reward? As it is said: “though he sit alone and [meditate] in stillness, yet he takes [a reward] unto himself” (Lamentations 3:28).

M. Laitman: Okay. Yes, Reader?

Reader: (13:09) Announcements. This concludes our lesson. Have a good day and wonderful night.