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Daily Lesson (Morning), April 13, 2024. Baal HaSulam. The Freedom (The Environment as a Factor)

Reader: We are reading from the article of Baal HaSulam, title, The Environment as a Factor. 

Reading: (00:25) This protection means that we can always add in the matter of choosing our environment, which are the friends, books, teachers, and so on. It is like a person who inherited a few stalks of wheat from his father. From this small amount, he can grow many dozens of stalks through his choice of the environment for his source, which is fertile soil that contains all the necessary minerals and raw materials that nourish the wheat abundantly.

There is also the matter of the work of improving the environmental conditions to fit the needs of the plant and the growth, for the wise will do well to choose the best conditions and will succeed. And the fool will take from whatever comes before him and thus turn the sowing to a curse rather than a blessing.

Thus, all the praise and spirit depends on the choice of the environment in which to sow the wheat. But once it has been sown in the selected location, the wheat’s absolute shape is determined according to the measure that the environment is capable of providing.

So is the case with our topic, for it is true that the desire has no freedom. Rather, it is operated by the above four factors. And one is compelled to think and examine as they suggest, denied of any strength to criticize or change, as the wheat that has been sown in its environment.

However, there is freedom for the will to initially choose such an environment, such books, and such guides that impart upon him good concepts. If one does not do this but is willing to enter any environment that appears before him and read any book that falls into his hands, he is bound to fall into a bad environment or waste his time on worthless books, which are abundant and more accessible. In consequence, he will be forced into foul concepts that make him sin and condemn. He will certainly be punished, not because of his evil thoughts or deeds, in which he has no choice, but because he did not choose to be in a good environment, for in this there is definitely a choice.

Therefore, he who strives to continually choose a better environment is worthy of praise and reward. But here, too, it is not because of his good thoughts or deeds, which come to him without his choice, but because of his effort to acquire a good environment, which brings him these good thoughts and actions. It is as Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Perachya said, “Make for yourself a rav and buy for yourself a friend.”

M. Laitman: Questions? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:30) He writes that everything depends on the environment he chose.

M. Laitman: Everyone is listening to the question of the friend, and someone will answer it. Yes? 

Student: He says that the need is to acquire a good environment to sow his seeds. But he says that you also have to make that specific place better, to better the conditions. Not only plant it but also make your conditions better. Then, he says that what actually depends on the wheat to come out good was the environment you chose. What does it mean to make the conditions better? That a person tries to make the ground better, to give it everything it needs? 

M. Laitman: That's not important? 

Student: That's what I'm asking because in the end he said, choose the environment and sit, now a result should come. He said that everything depends on the environment that he sowed his wheat. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Before, he said that you have to choose and make the conditions better of the place, so what does the result depend on? 

M. Laitman: All the things that can influence the wheat. 

Student: A person that recognizes that he's in a bad environment, can he make that environment better and work on it? Or does he need to let it go and start fresh somewhere, to choose a new environment?

M. Laitman: No, no, no, where he is he needs to do this. 

Student: Again, what does the growth of the wheat depend on?

M. Laitman: On what he chooses.

Student: In the initial environment or in his investment? 

M. Laitman: Why the initial environment? 

Student: He says, first to choose an environment, the place that will be good.

M. Laitman: But he doesn't choose it in a manner that he's moving from place to place. 

Student: What does it mean to choose a good environment? 

M. Laitman: That, he learns how he can benefit the ground and all those things. 

Student: I'm trying to understand where my choices in the environment is? That I have to make my place better, I have to work in it. What's the choice I had to begin with, that I chose this environment and not that one? 

M. Laitman: What you chose to begin with, no one knows, you don't know how you came to us.?

Student: That doesn't depend on a person. 

M. Laitman: That doesn't depend on a person.

Student: So only on how he improves the place he's in. 

M. Laitman: Yes. Okay, next, 

Reading: (08:39) “… The Necessity To Choose A Good Environment…”

Now you can understand the words of Rabbi Yosi Ben Kisma (Avot, Chapter 6), who replied to a person who offered him to live in his town, and he would give him millions of gold coins for it: “Even if you give me all the gold and silver and jewels in the world, I will live only in a place of Torah.” These words seem inconceivable to our simple mind, for how could he relinquish millions of gold coins for such a small thing as living in a place where there are no disciples of Torah, while he himself was a great sage who needed to learn from no one? Indeed, a mystery.

But as we have seen, it is a simple thing and should be observed by each and every one of us. Although everyone has his own source, the forces are revealed openly only through the environment one is in. This is similar to the wheat sown in the ground, whose forces become apparent only through its environment, which is the soil, rain, and sunlight.

Thus, Rabbi Yosi Ben Kisma correctly assumed that if he were to leave the good environment he had chosen and fall into a harmful environment in a city where there is no Torah, not only would his former concepts be compromised, but all the other forces hidden in his source, which he had not yet revealed in action, would remain concealed. This is because they would not be subject to the right environment that would be able to activate them.

And as we have clarified above, only in the matter of the choice of environment is man’s reign over himself measured, and for this he should receive reward or punishment. Therefore, one must not wonder that a sage such as Rabbi Yosi Ben Kisma chose the good and declined the bad, and was not tempted by material or corporeal things, as he deduces there: “When one dies, one does not take with him silver, gold, or jewels, but only Torah and good deeds.”

And so our sages warned, “Make for yourself a rav and buy for yourself a friend.” And there is also the choice of books, as we have mentioned, for only in this is one rebuked or praised—in his choice of the environment. But once he has chosen an environment, he is at its hands as clay in the hands of the potter.

Student: (13:36) He writes that there are forces that are in the source that he did not discover, yet. How can a person in the environment continue to develop forces that weren't revealed, yet. 

M. Laitman: So he doesn't develop. How can he develop what has not been discovered? 

Student: Because he has said that you have to choose a better environment, what does it mean choose a better environment? 

M. Laitman: It's all according to the period, according to the revelation. According to the environment, according to the demand, that's it. So, there were different times, and we, too, are in the special times. And after us, there will also be who knows what times. Every period and it's on. 

Student: Now with our Ten, what does it mean that I'm choosing a better environment every time? That brings all the forces in the source to be revealed and developed.

M. Laitman: According to what we learn and understand in our times, in our environment. With the inner conditions with which we were born and we develop from, this is how we need to continue. 

Student: Towards what's written in the articles?

M. Laitman: Towards as much as we know to reveal.  As much as the Creator gives us in this generation to be revealed before us.

Student: I understand, but what is a better environment, because I'm working in the environment in my Ten? 

M. Laitman: Relatively, relative to the environment that you're in, for it to be a better environment.

Student: What is better?

M. Laitman: Closer to its correction.

Student: How can I measure this? 

M. Laitman: What did you want to have that you want to measure? 

Student: If I'm working in the environment, what's the measurement to see that it's better? I know that it's good because here we're studying Baal HaSulam and Rabash. Sitting with you in the lesson, that I can understand, but how do I see the environment plus one. How do I make it even better? 

M. Laitman: What you see before you, in what way would you improve, benefit the personal qualities that are in your environment? 

Student: That's my work with the environment? 

M. Laitman: Yes, you must make sure that your environment will rise upwards due to your efforts. And that's how it should be with each and every one of us.

Student: My egoistic qualities, that I'm with my source, what he says. With this, I see how to develop the environment in my eyes that it'll be better? 

M. Laitman: Yes, according to what you learned.

Student: There's no way I can make a mistake here?

M. Laitman: Don't worry, there's a protector above us, we are guarded. But how else can we, how did you think that we could advance if not that way? What else can we do? 

Student: Yes, is there a difference between me developing according to what I see, or the light that reforms brings us to a new observation, a new degree? 

M. Laitman: He does that, preceding your prayer. 

Student: What does it mean that the right work with the right intention, or it's not even important, only to invest the forces? 

M. Laitman: As much as you with your friends connect and invest forces, the Creator arranges you in a way that you will be sorted in a way that you'll do it, correctly.  That's it. If there are questions, please, I'd be happy to hear.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:19) If the Creator put a person's hand on the good fortune, what freedom does the desire have to choose a good environment? 

M. Laitman: To begin with, a person can choose nothing, he is born and develops according to the records in him. 

Student: What's choice in a good environment? 

M. Laitman: The choice of a good environment is where a person constantly checks his possibilities to enter a better environment. Where he will be able to develop more, meaning it answers his prayers.

Student: The wheat that is planted in the ground was planted with no choice and develops with no choice. What are we talking about, what do you choose?

M. Laitman: For wheat? 

Student: For example. 

M. Laitman: As a person, there is the choosing of a prayer. 

Student: What does that mean? 

M. Laitman: That, the way he wants to develop accordingly, he raises a prayer. 

Student: Choosing the environment is choosing a prayer?

M. Laitman: Also in that, also the environment and also the prayer to the Creator. 

Student: What is exactly the choice of the environment? 

M. Laitman: For there to be other people like him that want to reach the same goal. 

Student: He chooses that environment or is it chosen for him and put him there? 

M. Laitman: At first he doesn't choose, but it's chosen for him as we see that a seed is put into the ground and is watered, yes? And the rest of the things are already dependent on him. The extent in which he develops by the environment influencing him. 

Student: After he is planted in the ground, what else can he do there, he develops.

M. Laitman: He develops.

Student: What depends on that development?

M. Laitman: That development, nothing is dependent on him. But, after he comes to, well, I'm not talking about wheat kernels. 

Student: About us.

M. Laitman: About us, the moment a person comes to a certain age, he starts to, a desire begins to awaken in us, for some more exalted matters.

Student: After he's in the environment, in the Ten, what's choosing a prayer?

M. Laitman: The choice of a more correct connection. In strengthening the friends together. Raising everyone to a higher degree of mutual bestowal. Meaning, to the extent in which they bestow to one another and help one another, it's considered that they want to rise even more. And this way, through their connection, their bestowal, their influence, they raise themselves. 

Student: A better environment is a more connected environment to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Also between them and also to the Creator.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:11) If a person chooses the environment, there's always a question: How the environment is affecting him and how he is affected. Like with the previous friends, he writes in the end, Baal HaSulam here, that after he chose the environment, he is in their hands as clay in the hands of the potters.

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: The sounds that already makes him passive. And he's just like on their hands and as if he's relieved from doing anything. Where is man's part on his behalf towards the environment? The environment affects him one hundred percent. Now, how is he affected by that? 

M. Laitman: He's influenced by the environment and then after that raises a request. And according to his request, to the extent in which he invests from his forces in this, the Creator changes his ways, his conditions.

Student: The society makes him raise that request? 

M. Laitman: The society and the conditions with which he was born and developed, etc., yes? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (23:50) We read in the first part about the righteous and wicked. If I'm in a state of wicked, how can I choose an environment, or want to choose an environment of righteous? 

M. Laitman: You see, you're all wicked and you all came here without any initial good. And nevertheless, you came to an environment that wants to develop you in the right direction and a good direction.

Student: This choice is in errors, we were brought here. 

M. Laitman: Okay, but the Creator chose you. 

Student: After that, if I fall, I'm still in a state of wicked. So, how from this can I make the right choice, how to want to become righteous? 

M. Laitman: You'll get to repentance, you'll see, everyone reaches that. That's not a question. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (24:24) It seems there's two aspects that one is not even writing about. One is where you put yourself compared to society. In any smallest thing, if you drive somewhere, you can either listen to a lesson or something else. This is something passive, where you put yourself in every moment.  Now, there's also something active, in what am I contributing to society, and not when I'm passive. 

M. Laitman: There's an angel upon each and every one. There's an angel. That I received from Rabash, a perfect, complete explanation. There's an angel and by this angel, a person advances, that’s it. When he deserves to be a little freer, it happens. And a little fear, it's done. And this is like a child who grows by the parents. What do they give him to do, nothing. He gradually, the more and more he's around, he becomes freer and freer until he grows and rises up.

Student: I want to ask about the active part. You can be in a Ten and the fact that you're in a Ten, you live through them. Let's say, today, you're on duty, so you have a responsibility on the Ten, today. That's not another choice, that you take another thing upon yourself? It seems that the more responsibility you take, even though you can say everything's from above. Because the more responsibility you take, you feel the matter more, you're more in it. He's saying to put yourself like wheat in the ground, that's passive. Where is the active, to be more contributing?

M. Laitman: Our active choice is, daily, choosing more beneficial means to advance towards the purpose of creation.

Student: That is the main work. 

M. Laitman: Okay, well.

Student: Let's say we chose to be in the lesson. Like the friend said, we're already here, so what? Now, once we're here, what am I contributing to the morning lesson? It seems that that is what we need to engage in all the time.

M. Laitman: Correct, now we're already in the lesson, now we're already accustomed, etc. Now it's beyond that. 

Student: Same thing with dissemination, the Ten. Where am I contributing? Not only..

M. Laitman: Yes, okay? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (27:54) I remember the example you gave with the child. That, you play before him, make him laugh, and once he laughs, it makes you happy, too. It seems that this is how it is in the environment, that even though you're the seed, and they help you grow. But Rabash recommended that we come and act before the society, no matter what state you're in. To make them happier, and that will affect you, too. It seems that that is our work in increasing the environment. That way, it comes back to us, and you also affect your own wheat, as we say. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (28:28) Well, maybe to add, that in the eyes of the will to receive, I come to the environment to get forces and grow. But in the eyes of the will to bestow, I come to contribute to the friends. To be the salt and the water, and the attempts to bestow. And the prayers to give forces to the friends. 

M. Laitman: Okay, yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (29:09) Can the environment help a person really do his soul searching? That a person can constantly do that calculation? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: How? You talked in the first part that a person needs to be afraid that he's going to miss out on his incarnation. How can a society press on him to understand that he got an opportunity and he won't miss it out? He got the best condition, and he might miss out on it. 

M. Laitman: He'll pray, he’ll pray. 

Student: How does the environment help put pressure on him for that? 

M. Laitman: The environment gives him an example and he feels as if he's behind, as if he's not keeping up. So he raises a prayer, connection with the friends, and this is how he advances. 

Student: All these calculations that, here, you only take from this world Torah and good deeds. How can you awaken that in the environment more?

M. Laitman: The environment can do everything to a person. It can influence him from one end to the other.

Student: How on the Ten can you awaken it to that?

M. Laitman: Example, example.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (31:00) When one arrives in a new environment, their success in that environment seems according to developing new habits, the habits of the environment. Then, they'll absorb more quickly and they contribute more quickly. I see many habits of great friends around me that seem out of reach. How to install, how to install new habits.

M. Laitman: In that case, a person usually adheres to the environment and goes with them as much as possible in serving them, that's it. 

Student: I want to adhere, more, every day. 

M. Laitman: Please, go even deeper and deeper into their society. And that way they will gradually accept you more. And you will feel them more and more, and that's how you'll change.

Student: Yes, I'm still filled with corruptions from my previous life. 

M. Laitman: So what? 

Student: From my past life, I'm still full of corruption. I want in place of that, I fill my day with nonsense. I want to fill my day, like these friends fill their days. 

M. Laitman: Okay, so you adhere to a new society, a good society, and then this way you'll try.

Student: Just patience, I'll eventually absorb new habits.

M. Laitman: So jump up, you think it'll help you, what do you want, you have no choice. Yes, jump around. We can only work under the framework that the Creator gave us. Okay, clear? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (34:02) I have two questions, if possible. First question: I want to ask about the greatness of the society and the friends. First, a person needs to have the intention that I'm in the group in order to receive the force of the Creator. In order to incorporate, to feel annulment before the friends. If I have such a feeling, is it important who's here, who's there, who are my friends, how their desires, their vessels? I need to incorporate, and then receive the force of the Creator, yes? Or, it's important who my friend is and who's here and who's there.

M. Laitman: Yes, as much as society that I value will be greater, stronger, more influencing me, so I'll advance quicker.

Student: We read that the thoughts of a person are not under his control, and we know that the intellect is the servant of the heart, yes? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Yes, so how can we receive the influence of the society in the correct way so that we'll receive good thoughts? Because the whole action begins from the heart, how to do that? 

M. Laitman: What did he mean?  How to get good thoughts from the society, I adhere to the friends, I value them, I appreciate them, I love them, so then I get good thoughts from them, good thoughts, and that's how I advance.

Student: Maybe the question was not clear. In the society, there's a certain impact on us, the influence on us, yes? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: That's for sure, how do we receive the influence of the environment in the correct way so that we will be able to attain, first of all, good feelings and then also good thoughts? Is that clear? 

M. Laitman: First good feelings, then good thoughts, that's clear?

Student: Yes. And that's the influence of the light? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes.

Question (Moscow): (37:26) The person needs to choose the correct environment in order to grow his point in the heart, in order to come to a certain Arvut with the Creator. 

M. Laitman: Yes, correct.

Question (Women Hebrew 1): (37:52) If I choose a good environment, that means the good environment according to Baal HaSulam is my Ten that I choose each time? Or is there other environments? 

M. Laitman: No, that's your Ten. 

Student: Always think about the ten, no matter what environment I'm in, even if it's hostile. Meaning, if the external environment is hostile, if I think about the Ten, it all passes? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women Turkey 7): (38:29) When we are in a working environment and we feel weak, how can we regain our strength and where can we find it? Thank you.

M. Laitman: To talk about this, and to participate together in something, that really helps. I don't know what else to say. 

Question (PT 23): (39:19) You said that each has an angel. What depends on a person for the angel to advance him? 

M. Laitman: What depends on a person is what he wants. What does he want the angel to lead him through? How to guard him, how to help him advance? It all depends on a person and a person's prayer towards the Creator. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (40:02) In what does it depend which angel each person receives? 

M. Laitman: That's what a person wants of his life, where he wants to advance towards. How does he want to be brought to a certain goal? It all depends on a person, he chooses his angels. 

Question (Kiev 1): (40:43) You said that we're choosing the environment, we create mutual bestowal between us. First, through external actions, but what does it mean that we enter into inner bestowal of the environment? What is that system of forces that we're choosing? 

M. Laitman: Around us there's a lot of people, and according to the state we’re in, or according to the connection we have with them, that's how they affect us.

Student: It's clear that I have friends, and they influence me. They obligate me to come to the lesson, to study the material, to awaken one another. But what stands behind the friends, behind the external environment? What system of forces operates upon me there? 

M. Laitman: The Creator, the Creator, Himself, and no one else.

Question (Nikolaev-Sochi): (42:02): It was said in the article that Rav Yossi Benkisma, during the passing of a person. There's nothing we can bring to a person that gold or precious stones but only Torah and good deeds. That expression is, kind of like, something refreshing, on one hand. On the other hand, it's hard for a person to think about the day of his departure. But it gives great importance in the choice of the environment, the investment in the group. How to hold on to the, in focus to that point that during the time of one's death, nothing will help him except Torah and good deeds?

M. Laitman: The time of death isn't the time of death, it's a new birth. That's how we have to understand this, the death, itself. That, it's clear that what escorts you is what you enter that new life with. 

Question (Italy 3): (43:22) What remains in the desire to receive when we enter a new environment? What is the role of the development of the angel? 

M. Laitman: Angel is a force, like gravity, the wind, all kinds of forces. They are called angels, there's nothing about them that we can change. If we're rewarded, the Creator will exchange them. Just like in our life. More sun, less wind, and so on, that's how it changes. 

Reading: (44:40) “... The Mind's Control Over The Body…”

Some external contemporary sages, after contemplating the above matter and seeing how man’s mind is but a fruit that grows out of the events of life, concluded that the mind has no control whatsoever over the body. Rather, only life’s events, imprinted in the physical tendons of the brain, control and activate man. Man’s mind is like a mirror, reflecting the shapes before it. Although the mirror is the carrier of these shapes, it cannot activate or move the shapes reflected in it.

So is the mind. Although life’s events, in all their manners of cause and effect, are seen and recognized by the mind, the mind is nonetheless utterly incapable of controlling the body, to bring it into motion, meaning to bring it closer to the good or push it away from the bad. This is because the spiritual and the physical are completely remote from one another, and there is no intermediary tool between them to enable the spiritual mind to activate and operate the corporeal body, as has been discussed at length.

But where they are smart, there they disrupt. Man’s imagination uses the mind just as the microscope serves the eyes: Without the microscope, we would not see anything harmful, due to its smallness. But once we see the harmful being through the microscope, we distance ourselves from the noxious element.

Thus, it is the microscope that brings man to distance himself from the harm, and not the sense, for the sense did not detect the harm-doer. And to that extent, the mind fully controls man’s body, to push it away from bad and pull it toward the good. Thus, in all the places where the attribute of the body fails to recognize the beneficial or the detrimental, it needs only the mind’s knowledge.

Furthermore, since man knows his mind, which is a true conclusion from life’s experiences, he can therefore receive knowledge and understanding from a trusted person and take it as law, although his life’s events have not yet revealed these concepts to him. It is like a person who asks the advice of a doctor and obeys him even though he understands nothing with his own mind. Thus, one uses the mind of others no less than one uses one’s own.

As we have clarified above, there are two ways for Providence to make certain that man achieves the good, final goal: The path of suffering and the path of Torah. All the clarity in the path of Torah stems from this. For these clear conceptions that were revealed and recognized after a long chain of events in the lives of the prophets and the men of God, there comes a man who fully utilizes them and benefits from them, as though these concepts were events of his own life. Thus, you see that one is exempted from all the ordeals one must experience before he can develop that clear mind by himself. Thus, one saves both time and pain.

It can be compared to a sick man who does not wish to obey the doctor’s orders before he understands by himself how that advice would cure him, and therefore begins to study medicine by himself. He could die of his illness before he learns medicine.

So is the path of suffering compared to the path of Torah. One who does not believe the concepts that the Torah and prophecy advise him to accept without self-understanding must come to these concepts by himself by following the chain of cause and effect from life’s events. These are experiences that greatly rush and can develop the sense of recognition of evil in them, as we have seen, without one’s choice, but because of one’s efforts to acquire a good environment, which leads to these thoughts and actions.

M. Laitman: Questions? I don't think there are many questions here. The language is very easy and nice and clear, and we understand this. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (53:23) In the example of the doctor, there is another known phenomenon, which is that: Until a person feels that he is sick, he doesn't go to their doctor. Even if he doesn't feel it, he, still, rejects it until he really feels like he has to go. 

M. Laitman: According to his mind. 

Student: According to his mind, yes. We see, how it's not enough that he knows the doctor can help him, and he even knows that it's worthwhile for him to go earlier, for then he will suffer less. 

M. Laitman: So what do you want to say?

Student: That a person is a foolish creature, that doesn't learn so much from anything. We see there are sages and all that, but the majority of them are rejecting.

M. Laitman:  So, first of all, we have to give everybody medicine against stupidity. 

Student: Yes, meaning for them to feel that they're sick. Here, he has to bring this to those who are the people of the Lord, and to use them like the advice of the doctor. Even the advice of the doctor he doesn't use immediately, unless he really feels that he's sick and suffering. Moreover, the advice of the people of the Lord, it's much more than taking the simple advice of the doctor, which is to take a pill. Here, you have to love the friends, to change his nature, things that are completely foreign to one's spirit. How can a person receive the advice of the people of the Lord, where, now, he's suffering and recognizes the evil. To the extent that he just must have that medicine, that remedy? 

M. Laitman: We need to educate him in such a way. To bestow, to affect his relatives, to speak on the media, on such phenomena. You have to educate a person. Nobody wants to go to the doctor, there are people that are afraid of getting a shot, a shot.  So, what's about that? I'm afraid, I can't go, that's it, what can you do? 

Student: Well, what to do? The question is, is it even possible to receive the advice without recognition of evil? 

M. Laitman: No, with no recognition of evil, you remain in the same nature. You need recognition of evil of your nature, and that'll help you get rid of what you have. And instead of that, acquire good qualities. So, how is that possible? 

Student: Bust the recognition of evil develops, the question is, can you develop recognition of evil in the way of Torah?

M. Laitman: Education.

Student: What's education? 

M. Laitman: Education, that, you tell a person that as much as it's bad to be stingy or a coward or whatnot. And also, somehow, you let him fill those things in a better way. Meaning, gradually, by advancing from a negative place to a positive place. By the environment, by games, through, by help.

Student: How can a person be impressed by that? 

M. Laitman: He will be impressed that he's getting rid of alien things that are bad for him, and acquire good things. 

Student: For the time being, it seems like his environment is what's causing bad things, that his current qualities that are bad are actually the good ones that he's filled with.

M. Laitman: And it's not to that extent. If a person is sure that what he's in now is a good thing and it gives him pleasures from here onward, too, so you can't approach him, no. It's only under the condition that you see that he's suffering, and somewhat suffering at least.

Student: Okay, he's somewhat suffering, but not to the sufficient extent that he should go to the doctor and get a medicine. 

M. Laitman: That already depends on the environment. If he suffers in something, so the environment can convince him that the suffering It comes from a certain reason and not from a different reason. And how to advance in order to correct it, that's already something we use. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (59:16) When we receive importance from the environment, is that considered the impact of the intellect upon the body? 

M. Laitman: Let's say.

Student: Yesterday in the meal, it was a preparation for the morning lesson. And this morning, PT 32 gave this huge preparation. It brought forth such a, that in a way that the friends should not fall from the prayer from us having to hold on to one another.

There's that prayer of five minutes that we want to be together, and gratitude for that moment, where you understand how everything depends on you. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: How do we hold on to that now as we're exiting the lesson, actually? 

M. Laitman: We repeat it a few times a week, until it becomes a second nature.

Student: L’chaim, l’chaim, for the preparation of the Ten on duty. 

M. Laitman: Good, maybe we'll hear, I didn't hear about it.

Reader: (01:00:59) We'll conclude with a song.