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Daily Lesson (Afternoon) August 3, 2024

Part 1 Baal HaSulam. Letter 22

We are reading from Baal HaSulam, Letter 22. You can find the study material on Sviva Tova and in the Arvut system. You can also send your questions live through those websites.

Anyone asking a question in the study hall is asked to stand up, hold the mic close to his mouth and speak loudly and clearly.

Reading Article: (00:27) Letter 22 by Baal HaSulam

To my soul mate ... may his candle burn:

I received your letter from the fourteenth of Tishrey [first month in the Hebrew calendar]. But my friend, why are you not pleased with the first order that I have set up for you, and you are asking for new ones? I have already told you that as long as you are not accustomed to the first order, you are not permitted to make for yourself other orders, neither easy nor strict. But here you are, pretending to forget, and you are knocking on my door seeking new orders. It must be the inciting of the inclination.

I must remind you of the first order I have given you, and may the Creator help you have no breaks with His work going forward, and only ascents ever upward until you are rewarded with Dvekut [adhesion] with Him, as it should be:

1. Be prepared for His work, approximately two hours after midnight, and no later (meaning from the eighth hour after Arvit [evening service]).

2. On the first two hours, engage in “midnight Tikkun [correction],” afflict yourself about the exile of Israel and the affliction of the Shechina [Divinity] due to their iniquities, and then prayers and litanies until the tenth hour.

3. From the tenth hour until the prayer is the time of delving in the holy books, Beresheet Hochma, and the like, and in the writings of the ARI. See that you thoroughly understand and internalize everything you learn. If you do not fully understand, give the Creator no rest until He opens your heart and you understand Him, for this is the most important—that the Creator gives wisdom.

4. Set times for Torah, without any cessation for idle conversations, God forbid. See that you dedicate no less than five consecutive hours. You can set them for whatever time you wish during the day, as long as you do not stop for any conversation in between, they are consecutive, and specifically in the study of the revealed. Be careful not to forget anything from the study, so repeat the learning as you should. Also, it would be good for you to learn to be a teacher; it will be very helpful for you.

Also, you can study in a group with whomever you want during those five hours, but do not speak of things that do not concern the study, not even of manners of worship. If the partner wishes to study only two or three hours, you can finish afterward by yourself until you complete the five hours. In the rest of the day, succeed in negotiations.

Thus, you have what is yours, now hurry yourself and take the Creator with you, so you will succeed in behaving as I have written for you, and the words of Rashbi in Idra Zuta will come true in you: “‘I am for my beloved,’ etc., all the days when I was tied to this world, I was tied to it in one connection, in the Creator. For this reason, now upon me is ‘His passion.’”

After a few months, when you have grown thoroughly accustomed to this order, let me know and I will add to you in the ways of the Creator.

In truth, I am not far from you at all, for it is all up to you, since time or place does not pose any hindrance in spirituality. Why do you not remember what I said on the festival of Shavuot [Feast of Weeks] about the verse, “My beloved is like a gazelle”? Our sages said, “As the gazelle turns his face back when he flees, when the Creator leaves Israel, He turns back His face.” I interpreted for you that then the face returns to being in the Achoraim [back/posterior], meaning craving and longing to cling to Israel once more. This begets in Israel longing and craving to adhere to the Creator, too, and the measure of the longing and craving is actually the face itself, as it is written in “Bless My Soul,” by Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi, “My face is to your prayer when you run to meet the Lord God.”

Therefore, the most powerful at this time is only to persist and increase the longing and the yearning, for by this appears the face, Amen, may it be so.

Send me many letters, and this will be encouraging to you, as well.

Yehuda Leib, son of my teacher and Rabbi, Simcha Ashlag

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:55) He writes that in the first two hours after he wakes up, to engage in the midnight correction, to afflict yourself about the exile of Israel and the affliction of the Holy Divinity. What does he mean? Is this something we're doing already today?

M. Laitman: That's something you should be doing, if you want, at midnight. It's called the midnight correction, Tikkun Chatzot.

Student: Rabash would do that as well?

M. Laitman: No. We would finish a lesson with him. If I traveled with him, we would get up in the morning at five, let's say, maybe four, and would study for two hours. Then we would pray, have our morning meal, and go to the hot springs in Tiberias. Usually, it would take us about two hours also, just driving back and forth, and at the hot springs, and then when we'd return, we'd drink some coffee, study something, and then we'd just go into the afternoon, and that's it.

Then we'd have the afternoon meal, and then we'd go to sleep. Then we'd get up, and it would be, let's say, five p.m., and again, we'd drink coffee, and study some more. We would study until about eight p.m., and then go to sleep. That's it. That's how it was. Until, again, we'd get up before daylight, and again, do the same. If we went for three days, for example.

It's not that I don't know. I do know, but what doesn't pertain to me, I don't want to say, in how he behaved during other days. I'm talking now about the days when I traveled with him to Tiberias. That's it.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:58) He writes here that you should have no cessation in the work of the Creator, only to rise higher and higher. He gives us this schedule how to never stop the work of the Creator. He's given this item about five hours during the day. What are those five hours that we have to work during the day?

M. Laitman: I don't know. What's written is written. I don't think he writes this for us. You understand? He's writing to a person who received this daily schedule from him, and now he adds something, he makes it more accurate.

Student: So, what should we take from the schedule that Baal HaSulam gives us? Two hours after midnight, the correction, you say we should sit and be...

M. Laitman: No. No, you can't do that. Otherwise, you won't be able to stay up the whole day. So, you need to get up about an hour before our lesson starts. Let's say 5:00, 4.30, whenever possible, because if we start...

Student: We start preparation at 2:40 am. So, get up an hour before?

M. Laitman: Yes, thereabout.

Student: And what do I do in this hour?

M. Laitman: To say the morning prayers. To brush your teeth. And what else? And then to come here.

Student: Our meetings on Zoom with the Ten, with the friends. Is that part of the study?

M. Laitman: It's not part of the study exactly, but each Ten has its own customs.

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (15:27) At the beginning of the letter, it says, why aren't you satisfied with the first schedule and you're looking for new ones? We see here as well many times, the Rav tells us to do something, and we constantly look for new instructions. How to combine going after the first order Rav is giving, and also the fact that we have to constantly renew the inner deficiency.

M. Laitman: What can I do? You hear this, and you hear that. You hear yourselves, your own words, and you hear mine also, and you need to make a kind of summary out of that.

Student: A summary of what you're saying, and…

M. Laitman: And what you say.

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (16:36) At the end of the letter he speaks about the longing, the great, great longing and yearning you can hold when you're far from someone. But I feel like when I'm coming closer, even to a friend or something, it extinguishes the longing, and the longing no matter how painful they are, and longing can be super painful, but you don't want it to end. So how to hold the longing with such a degree, such a yearning, even though we come closer?

M. Laitman: It doesn't matter that you're coming closer. What are you coming closer to? To the Creator? You feel that when you enter here, you're entering the Creator's hall?

Student: I feel that specifically when I discover that I'm distant from the Creator, the longing awakens.

M. Laitman: That's clear, that's natural, but when you come here, do you feel that you're in the King's hall already? That there's no longing?

Student: Yes, sometimes it blurs it out, all this together and all that. It's only when I discover that, that's it, I can't be, I'm so far away. I hear something we're reading, I hear a friend speaking, I say, where am I, where is this? Only then it awakens, only then those longings and yearnings awaken.

M. Laitman: All right, it seems you need to think beforehand about the reason for which you're coming here, who you're coming to see, and how to incorporate with the people who come here to study; what kind of prayer, what kind of desire you need to show to the Creator. Think about that beforehand.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:00) How does the order of the day, the daily order, contribute to the increasing of the longing and yearning?

M. Laitman: A person has to have a certain working order.

Student: It doesn't sort of make things dry?

M. Laitman: No, the opposite.

Student: No, how the other way around actually. It feels like Baal Shalom gave him this order, so how does it work?

M. Laitman: It simply works. You accustom yourself to that, and that's how you live.

Student: I'm saying that I get accustomed to the order, but the yearning sort of disappears; it slips from between your fingers.

M. Laitman: When you hold on to that, when you keep the order?

Student: No, I would want the order, the schedule, to increase the yearning, not for it to disappear.

M. Laitman: That's how it should be.

Student: But it doesn't happen this way.

M. Laitman: When you, according to the clock, organize your actions, aim yourself towards the Creator more, then you awaken a yearning.

Student: A yearning for what? 

M. Laitman: For God's work. 

Student: To be active in the work? Try to be active in the work? 

M. Laitman: Yes, to come closer, to connect, to pray. Everything towards the Creator. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (20:50) He says to be careful not to forget anything from the study, to be cautious, and therefore repeat it, and also know that learning how to be a teacher will be very helpful for you. So two questions, not to forget anything from the study, because often times we hear Kabbalists pray to forget? 

M. Laitman: Yes, but here he's talking about something you just learned, you just read.

Student: We have to work with the morning lesson during the day in the Ten, not to forget, remind friends about it, awaken them? 

M. Laitman: No, I don't think it's to that extent. But you need to be concerned and see if you remember something from the daily lesson.

Student: The second advice he says it would be good for you to learn to be a teacher. He's sending him to teach, right? What does it mean that it would be good to learn to be a teacher, it would be very helpful for you.

M. Laitman: He says that to him, he recommends. 

Student: He recommends what? 

M. Laitman: To teach. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (22:14) He writes in the end that the Creator is like a deer that turns his face back to the created being, meaning that He longs for him. What causes Him to long for us? 

M. Laitman: He awakens a lack in us. It's as though He's running away from us, right? So that's what He does. When we have such feelings that the Creator is distancing Himself from us, we have to see that as a sign that He expects us to come closer. 

Student: So, when He longs for us, He causes us to long for Him? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What makes Him long for us? The fact that we're exerting, we try, we do? 

M. Laitman: We're not coming closer, or we're not coming close enough. 

Student: Maybe they're trying to come closer, and we don't succeed, and then we pray? 

M. Laitman: Let's say, yes. 

Student: So we constantly need to be in exertion to make Him long for us, if I understand.

M. Laitman: Yes, yes. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (23:41) Following the friends question, Baal HaSulam writes that that's how you can reveal the face, through our longing. So what is required from a person to be in such a longing and yearning to reveal the face? 

M. Laitman: He wants what we all want, to reveal the Creator. To reveal means to see the face, where the upper light, which comes from the Creator, will shine on us. So, we'll seek the light, and through the light, its source, the Creator.

Student: This is the drawing of the reforming light? 

M. Laitman: That as well. 

Student: What is this light?

Laitman: Light. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (24:39) We know that Kabbalists don't pour ink for nothing. In item four, he says that when you decide on the study, don't stop for idle conversation, and then he says, also, don't speak things that do not concern the study, not even of manners of worship.

M. Laitman: Yes. During the study, when you study, you speak only about what you study, only about that specific topic. 

Student: Why is it so important, why is it so severe not to speak? 

M. Laitman: Because by that, you disconnect yourself from the topic of the study, the subject of the study.

Student: What does it mean, not even of manners of worship? 

M. Laitman: It means that we have no more than the study, and around that, we have to be connected together all the time and delving deeper. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (25:47) On the one hand, it's very clear why you need an order, a schedule, because the evil inclination will eat up my entire time. On the other hand, when you rely on these fixed things too much, you lose the creativity in the work and the thought. How do you combine creativity with these harsh schedules? 

M. Laitman: Erase creativity.

Student: Why?

M. Laitman: Because we don't need fantasies, we need to study. 

Student: But I heard in one of the lessons, it's important that we'll think about what we're studying, dissemination, many places need a certain freedom. 

M. Laitman: No, freedom you'll have at another time. 

Student: So what, dry out the creativity? 

M. Laitman: Don't dry it up, just study properly as you should. 

Student: No, we study properly, but I'm not saying we should imagine everything. 

Student: Fine, fine, you're right.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (27:01) In many Tens, we have people on duty, who are in charge of the schedule and the content of each day. As someone who's in charge of content once a week, sometimes more for the Ten, I wanted to ask: every lesson, is there a central message or messages in every lesson that we should adhere to? 

M. Laitman: You could do it that way. 

Student: Sometimes it's very difficult to grasp what was the main message of the lesson. Each of us, we grasped a point, but maybe it's not part of the main points.

M. Laitman: It's preferable that you discuss and scrutinize it. 

Student: Let's say, at the end of the lesson, we sit after the prayer, we try to share our impressions from the lesson, and from there, we try to understand what was the main message. Something is not working so well, but I can't place my finger on it.

M. Laitman: I answered you. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (28:22) About the Creator who is moving, who is distancing Himself from us, if I speak about the Creator personally, in my personal work, I have this indication of what's happening when He's moving away, my personal feeling, also checking it against the friends. The question is should we aspire to feel as a Ten when the Creator is moving away from us or toward us? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Maybe it's a personal feeling of mine, it doesn't belong to the entire Ten. Is that possible? 

M. Laitman: You can discuss that in the Ten as well.

Student: But if I bring it up, I'm bringing a left line that belongs to my own correction? 

M. Laitman: No, it's not the left line.

Student: So, I can bring it up to the Ten to test it, to check it? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So once we felt as a Ten, the Creator has distanced Himself, what should we do together? 

M. Laitman: Pray.

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (29:33) I feel the Creator is removing Himself from the connection, God forbid. If it happens in a split second, I don't see Him turning back and looking back. I feel like He's leaving me, and I'm angry, like a little child whose parents left him, and they didn't tell him. I suddenly discover that He's gone. How can I see that He is turning around, He's not leaving me? He’s simply taking a few steps, so I'll take a few steps toward Him.

M. Laitman: Also write it down in front of you. This is how it is. 

Student: I can't feel it, there's no problem writing it.

M. Laitman: Then repeat it several times. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (30:29) In the letter we read in the morning, he says that the place of work is between a man and his friend in the Ten, and the reward is during the study, between a person and the Creator. So during the study, how much should we focus on our studying together, during the study?

M. Laitman: I don't understand. As we study during that time, do we need to do what? 

Student: To focus on the study as a Ten, as a world Kli, not as an individual study. 

M. Laitman: That's what we always do though.

Student: But here it says, don't forget about the study, and focus on the study. It's a time between the person and the Creator, but how much? When we concentrate, we should also focus on our mutual study, beyond what we're learning, if there are words to explain it even.

M. Laitman: We need to always be aiming towards the Creator, at least during the hours when we study. 

Student: When we learn, I'm aimed at the Creator, or we are aimed at the Creator? 

M. Laitman: I am aimed at the Creator, and so with each one.

Student: What about sitting together as a Ten, or in the Arvut system? 

M. Laitman: Then you make this intention of being together, for each one has to aim himself towards the friends, and then together towards the Creator. 

Student: What does it add to the study, that I'm sitting with the book. Beyond that, what does it add? 

M. Laitman: It adds connection, and through that, the study itself is aimed at the goal.

Student: So, we want the study to bring us to connection?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And we have to hold on to that throughout the study? 

M. Laitman: Yes. What do you all want of me? It's as though you never heard about this. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (32:58) Can I ask about the morning lesson, following what was just asked? 

M. Laitman: No, no. That's an example for how one of the students wants to have us escape the study, move from the study to a place where he finds interest. But us, who knows? 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (33:31) You say after you complete five hours of study, you can focus on negotiation. What kind of negotiations is he speaking of? 

M. Laitman: This is from a person's work, when a person is working in some place. 

Student: So it's not spiritual negotiation? 

M. Laitman: No.

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (34:04) When we read the letter for the the Ten in the evening before, the letter for following morning, we feel together, we don't speak about any topics of the Ten, we just read the letter, each one shares an impression.

The question is the yearning, as you said, that we have to focus on the Creator. We feel very much together in those moments. Is this desirable together, where each one is yearning? 

M. Laitman: Each one should be incorporated with that.

Student: There's a feeling of being together without even thinking, we're already in that same place. Is that a correct feeling? 

M. Laitman: Yes, it's correct.

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (35:01) It says that the measure of yearning and longing is the face itself. So you have to increase the longing and the yearning, because by this appears the face. What is the face? 

M. Laitman: The face is the Creator's illumination. 

Student: So when we yearn, when we long, what do we reveal? 

M. Laitman: We want to discover, we want to reveal the Creator. 

Student: So thanks to the longing, we discover the connection with the Creator, our tendency to connect with Him, to adhere to Him?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (36:01) If in the middle of the day a person wants to read some Torah, how should he read it? Does he need to take the Ten in his heart? Does he need to have the intention to give contentment to the Creator, and to read with this intention? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (36:32) Baal HaSulam is giving his student an order of ten hours of study throughout the day and devoting himself to it. Today we connect everything to the Ten, to the group. With our actions, we relate it to the connection between us, to connection. Inside this system of connection between us, what is the interpersonal responsibility of each one relative to the study? 

M. Laitman: By studying everything that the Creator requires I study, by that I fulfill my duty to the Creator, and to my friends, and to myself.

Student: The study for us is a means? 

M. Laitman: Yes, studying is a means. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (37:46) You said earlier that we have to think about what we remember from the lesson throughout the day. I want to ask something that wasn’t clear to me before. It happens often that friends who weren't physically in the lesson are people on duty. Then we have this problem, something is a bit scattered. 

M. Laitman: So you all need to think that you're studying together with them, to give them merit, virtue. 

Student: That's during the lesson, but during the day, when they're in charge of the content, they bring ideas that are not always following the general line of the lesson.

M. Laitman: It happens only with them, not with others? 

Student: It can happen with everyone, but someone who wasn't in the lesson, it's easier for them to get distracted and dispersed. 

M. Laitman: So teach them what you learned. 

Student: I’ll ask more clearly, someone who is not in the lesson, can we allow him to be someone in charge of the content, or he has to be attached to someone who is in the lesson? 

M. Laitman: That is preferable. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (39:15) I want to understand when the Creator is illuminating and is closer to us, people said that they either feel it or they are moving further away from the Creator or moving closer to Him. How do I know that I’m doing this correctly? Because I’m looking at our people, the people of Israel. I’m looking at what’s happening around me, also when I’m praying, I want the Creator to shine on the people, not on me or my Ten. I want to understand if I'm doing it correctly, or I'm not in the right direction at all. 

M. Laitman: I don't know if it's really to be preferred that we engage in that all the time, how the Creator shines upon the nation, the people, and how the people are impressed by that or not, no.

Student: But ultimately, we want the redemption of our people. 

M. Laitman: Yes, but it's not that you're always on that line. 

Student: Is it important for me to know the feeling if He's close to me or far from me, or is it not important? 

M. Laitman: No, that's not good. 

Student: I want to know if I need to measure it at all, or just continue. 

M. Laitman: Pray for the people of Israel in whole.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (40:46) You said that the Creator awakens a deficiency in us, it means that He is longing for us, and then he says that the remedy in this time is to increase the longing and yearning, meaning it's enough to relate the deficiency He awakens in us to Him. How does it become yearning and longing? What should we persist in, just to ascribe it to Him? 

M. Laitman: You always need to be oriented towards the Creator, that's it, oriented towards Him. Feel Him as much as you can, talk about Him as much as you can, listen to Him to hear something from Him. You yearn for a connection with Him. 

Student: Specifically in this opportunity when I feel a deficiency? 

M. Laitman: Always, all the time. What else do you have other than that? 

Student: What is this thing that He’s longing and the gazelle looking back when He’s running away? 

M. Laitman: That's fine. That's the relationship between the person and the Creator. 

Student: So you need to always do it? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And that's the remedy? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (42:15) In the middle of the article he said, your heart will open, and you'll understand. Compared to understanding with the mind, is the understanding of the heart, thanks to the opening of the heart, does it mean that it makes a change in me? This is the understanding of the heart? 

M. Laitman: That doesn't mean anything. 

Student: Can you speak a little bit about understanding thanks to opening the heart, can you open this up for us? 

M. Laitman: No. No, I cannot add on this topic. You want to be certain that you're opening your heart and... No, we need to continue. 

Student: Just to keep practicing? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (43:11) In the beginning of the letter it says that his student needs to hold on to the correct order, not the easy one necessarily or the difficult one, neither easy nor strict. It's clear that according to our conditions we can't follow this order, so according to which principle should we build our order, our schedule so it would truly advance us? What do we hold on to as we build our schedule?

M. Laitman: One who wants to be with us, connected with us, according to our daily schedule, knows how we conduct ourselves when we get up, when we go to sleep, when we pray and the times when we study, morning, noon, evening. 

Student: It's a little different for women. 

M. Laitman: Right. Women have certain differences in that respect, women are exempt from commandments that are time-restricted, she can arrange her own regimen. 

Student: So how to understand that you've constructed the schedule correctly or you cleared too much time, for example, or you're too free? 

M. Laitman: There are certain crucial things you need to do. I don’t know, it's difficult for me to say when it comes to women, but you see how he writes to the men. I don't know what to do about the women, truly. I don't know how to organize a woman's schedule. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (45:31) I wanted to continue what you told me. I say to myself that the Creator is not leaving me, I’m repeating it, but I still feel alone when I'm alone at home, that I was left alone and I'm angry. The question is, from this state can I ask the Creator, if it's for friends, or for my friends, or for the nation if I don't feel the connection? Do I even have the privilege, the right to ask anything in this state? 

M. Laitman: According to what do you feel that He is leaving you? 

Student: As I said I don't see that He is turning back. I suddenly discover that I'm alone and I feel like I'm afraid. 

M. Laitman: Maybe you feel that you're alone because He gives you that feeling, because you're leaving Him. 

Student: I understand, but can I pray for my friends in this state? 

M. Laitman: That's preferable.

Student: Even though I don't feel Him?

M. Laitman: That doesn't matter. A prayer for others, for the friends, for the many is extremely beneficial. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (46:58) You said as much as possible to feel Him, to talk to Him, to hear something from Him. How do I know what am I hearing, is this the Creator or my ego? 

M. Laitman: You heard it from the Creator, yes. But you shouldn't be absolutely confident about that, you need to be concerned. As he writes that a person has yearning for the Creator, a yearning, and at that time he feels that it's the Creator awakening towards him beforehand, and only then the person awakens towards the Creator. Meaning you always need to understand that the Creator is first.

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (48:13) Who's developing a deficiency in me? 

M. Laitman: The Creator, There's None Else Besides Him.

Student: So if He's developing a deficiency in me, my spiritual work is not to want the deficiency to be filled. 

M. Laitman: Why?

Student: Because how will I continue to work with Him? 

M. Laitman: Have Him give you a greater lack, and a greater lack still, and each time you’ll  receive a bigger fulfillment. 

Student: But isn't the fulfillment blocking the deficiency? 

M. Laitman: No, to the contrary. If you fill yourself up with something very tasty, does it satiate you, or do you want even more? 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (49:18) Hasten yourself and take the Creator with you, and may you be able to behave as I wrote. He gives all kinds of advices, he says, take the Creator with you. How do I do it, how do we do it? 

M. Laitman: You hold that connection with the Creator always, as though you're walking hand in hand with Him. 

Student: What does it mean?

M. Laitman: Behind Him or next to Him, and if that doesn't suffice then the friends also.

You're all being closed up in together, you and the Creator, and the friends are all around that. 

 

Student: How does the Creator know that I long for Him? Am I telling Him I long for You? 

M. Laitman: There's no question about that because the Creator created you as He did all of us and He therefore feels everything we feel. There's no secret here. 

Student: Even without words? 

M. Laitman: Without words also, but for you to understand yourself better, it's still preferable for you to say the words. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (50:59) Where can I obtain a deficiency? 

M. Laitman: As Rabash would say, deficiency, a lack, isn't sold in the grocery store, so how to purchase deficiency? Look at the friends, look at your friends. Read the writings of Kabbalists and be envious of all of them. That's it.

Student: I try, for years, and lately I hear from you… 

M. Laitman: There are ascents and descents in this. 

Student: I want to obtain the correct deficiency, a big deficiency, and for it to be not only mine, because I'm a small part only. Just like I'm here, I want to have a huge deficiency between us, a Kli. I don't know how to attain it. 

M. Laitman: The lack you receive from above, so perform actions which accelerate the time, shorten the time which it takes us to receive it. Try with the friends to awaken a lack, awaken a lack in the public through dissemination, for example, and various such things, and then you'll feel that you're receiving a lack.

Student: Another question, I heard that you explained that a light comes into the vessel and then it departs and that causes a deficiency. Other than dissemination and study… 

M. Laitman: There's nothing else.

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (53:47) How do you combine a deficiency of one friend with a filling of another friend, that another friend receives. How do we pass the filling from one to another? 

M. Laitman: We don't deal with that each. Each one who has a deficiency, that's because that person needs a certain fulfillment, and he needs to receive that from above, from the Creator. 

Student: So what do I do with a friend's deficiency? 

M. Laitman: He needs to be concerned with that. You can give him an example or show him where it's written about in the books, but we're not the upper force. We don't need to fulfill the friend's lacks.

Student: In what do we connect? 

M. Laitman: We connect in order to awaken the force of request, the force by which to receive a reply an answer from the Creator, for that we connect. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (55:04) Baal HaSulam gives the student a very clearly defined schedule. We have our own schedules, but in practice there are many friends who are having a hard time to meet our schedule. 

M. Laitman: So they can shorten it maybe? I don't know. Coming to the morning lesson, that’s a mandate, that’s how I understand it. Beyond that, certain schedules and routines you have during the day, it's preferable to have those also. 

Student: There's a circle around us of thousands of students, thousands of people who watch us, support us, and the morning lesson is not something they can maintain. Their lifestyle, their framework does not allow them to do it. So the question is, what should we recommend to them? What can help them come closer?

M. Laitman: You all need to encircle them, surround them, and work on them. 

Student: Meaning what is their morning lesson, that they would get up and do it at 2 A.M.? 

They didn't adopt such a lifestyle, they can't maintain it, but they support the idea. 

M. Laitman: Fine, then ten minutes before they go to work, let's say, and ten minutes when they have their lunch break, and maybe half an hour, or even an hour possibly. After that, study with them in the evening. 

Student: This should be enough for them to develop spiritually? 

M. Laitman: For the time being start with that.

Student: Is the idea eventually to bring them to our schedule?

M. Laitman:  No, no, completely not. If a person is tied to some extent to the Torah in the hours of the morning, but mostly it's about studying in the afternoon, when coming back from work. 

Student: Is their study different from a content perspective or different in other areas? 

M. Laitman: You're asking about a regular person. Of course it's not related to the study. 

Student: It's a person who connects to the idea, to the content, to you. He wants to be here, but his conditions don't allow him to be here in the early hours of the morning. I'm asking about him, not just someone off the street. 

M. Laitman: So I told you what to do.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (58:13) A friend like that turned to me, from these circles. He used to study with us, now  he's distanced himself, but he still appreciates Rav Laitman, he wants to hear what we're saying. He said that lately he's hearing Rav give many answers that for him, as an external circle, it's really blocked the lesson for him. 

It's not a complaint. I'm just saying I understand. I try to explain that Rav is passing on responsibility on the study to the students, and that's what's happening, so I heard from the veteran students. I'm asking about our responsibility towards such a circle. We need not only to take responsibility of the lesson for us, but also for those other thousands of people. How do we take responsibility for those circles, not only for ourselves? 

M. Laitman: That's something we should discuss separately. I cannot answer that right now, how to take responsibility over the external circles. That's not a question for now. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva Center): (59:31) He writes that neither time nor place will disrupt him in his spirituality. How can you maintain the time and the place to adhere to the goal in the Ten?

M. Laitman: I don't know. Let's say that you want to profit something, gain something through me and the group, something you dream about, and you think about that all the time, and you're certain that without us you can never get it. So you're always focused on me, on the group. That's it. How is that possible? It's possible, because the Creator also later gives you a desire for that, but you need to start.

Alright, excellent, so I see that for today, everyone's sated.

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