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Daily Lesson (Morning), July 21, 2024. 

Reader: (00:00) We will read selected excerpts from the sources on the topic of Ten as an environment for spiritual development for everyone. We're reading from Number Ten, Rabash writes: 

Reader: (0:18) RABASH, Article No. 2 (1984), "Concerning Love of Friends"

We must remember that the society was established on the basis of love of others, so each member would receive from the group the love of others and hatred of himself. And seeing that his friend is straining to annul his self and to love others would cause everyone to be integrated in their friends’ intentions.

Thus, if the society is made of ten members, for example, each will have ten forces practicing self-annulment, hatred of self, and love of others.

M. Laitman: Questions? None? All right. Let's continue.

Reader: (01:30) #11 from Noam Elimelech, Likutei Shoshana

One must always pray for his friend, as one cannot do much for himself, for “One does not deliver oneself from imprisonment.” But when asking for his friend, he is answered quickly. Therefore, each one should pray for his friend, and thus each works on the other’s desire until all of them are answered. This is why it was said, “Israel are Arevim [responsible/sweet] for one another,” where Arevim means sweetness, as they sweeten for each other by the prayers they pray for one another, and by this they are answered.

M. Laitman: What?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (2:50) It looks like, initially, working in the Tens versus in the general group, it strengthens some part but weakens another part. What is the addition in the Ten that you don't have in the work relative to the entire society? 

M. Laitman: Mutual help, first of all, mutual support.

Student: We’re you seeing the friends better with you? 

M. Laitman: No, that you feel them, a shoulder, you feel, your friend's shoulder. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (3:39) But this happened in society before, meaning, before the Tens. We had like, you know, wake-up calls and connection. We felt the connection of work with the friends on a certain level. 

M. Laitman: It could be, I don't know but we are following the method of Baal HaSulam and Rabash; and therefore, that's how we do it, and that's it, that's what I, that's what I advertise. What is in their doctrine, in their Torah.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (04:35) Ask about the Tens: We started a social action, here, its purpose is to strengthen each and every Ten. And specifically, from the discussions of each Ten within itself, we discover opposite states or kinds of shatterings inside the Tens. All kinds of problems, it could be all sorts, we’re not going to get into it. But from what we understood from you, from the lessons, from talks, the general direction is not to make sweeping changes in the Tens because it might weaken the society. What might seem as a reinforcement, here, will be revealed as a weakness, actually. So, another thing and I want to hear if this approach is correct, is not to make the change but to let the Ten, itself, deal with its own problem in order to grow stronger within itself. To see the challenge, it has in order to grow stronger and not to run away from it. Like, you know, I don't feel good in this Ten, I'll turn to the team to put me in another Ten. Is that a correct approach?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Does the Ten have the ability to solve its own problems? 

M. Laitman: If it follows the method, certainly, yes.

Student: Putting it according to the method?

M. Laitman: Meaning that we don't need to discover, here, some forces and new methods. It's enough for us to feel the Ten and consider it in every moment that we need. And this will strengthen the Ten and accompany it, onwards, until the end of Correction.

Student: If I'm not happy about my Ten, I think the friends with me do not provide me with all the conditions in order to advance, spiritually. I would want to have another Ten, I see other Tens who are stronger. That's what I see in my eyes, and I'm convinced that in another Ten I'll feel much better. So, I'm going to my Ten and I'm scrutinizing it with them.

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: This is before I'm changing Tens.

M. Laitman: Yes? 

Student: So, what's the correct way to approach such a scrutiny, such a discussion?

M. Laitman: I don't know, you know your Ten. Try to be straight with them, honest with them and that's it. Connect with them and explain to them what your problem is. 

Student: Okay, the Ten has its own spiritual root? 

M. Laitman: Yes? 

Student: These specific bodies have a certain special connection?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And if we change friends in the Ten, even randomly, does that harm, creates confusion? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Why?

M. Laitman: Because it's already arranged that way.

Student: What did we have until now? I mean in the last few years, the last decade, that we allowed ourselves to change all kinds of friends in the Tens and swap and change?

M. Laitman: Yes, then, seemingly, you decided through this, you defined also the spiritual forces, the upper ones that are operating in you, as well.

Student: And if we change Tens tomorrow, again, we'll change the balance.

M. Laitman: Then you're not operating according to the forces. 

Student: But we decided.

M. Laitman: You defined once and that's it.

Student: When is it locked, these forces that you cannot continue to change things, even corporeally?

M. Laitman: I can't say, there are different societies, there are different Tens. But you need to understand that it's not simple.

Student: In the future, do you see changes in the Tens; or from here, it keeps getting together like organs in the body?

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, why not? 

Student: Will we see changes in the future or not?

M. Laitman: Almost none.

Student: Meaning those people, those flesh and blood people, that I see with me, I'm going to advance together with them until the end of Correction?

M. Laitman: Yes, yes.

Student: And everything that seems to me like it's not good for me in the Tens, and all kinds of disturbances and problems? 

M. Laitman: You may change your opinion. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (10:17) It seems from what the friend asked that if each Ten must take care of itself. And this is what it will be like until the end of correction, when we see from the reality on the ground that there are sometimes problems that the Tens cannot solve. There may be someone dominant who dictates to the Ten what to do. And so, I think it's very important that Tens will be able to turn to the teams that care for Tens, highly experienced friends. And everything is considered seriously but we see that there are situations where friends might leave because one person starts to manipulate or take control of a Ten. And then it's very important to have a connection with the system, there is a system there, there is support and friends should feel comfortable turning to it. Is that okay, as far as you're concerned, turn to teams that support this? Or no matter what, don't turn to that and remain in the Ten and what's there is there because many people leave because of such incidents. 

M. Laitman: It's not because of the situations. It's due to a lack of desire, it's not correct.

Student: I'll give you an example: Someone very aggressive, he attacks friends in the Ten, he obligates them. So, there's a feeling of, you know, no one can balance that person. 

M. Laitman: There's a possibility to approach the manager, I don't know how to call them. Those who manage the society above the groups, above the Tens, and to talk with them. That's it but that's how it is in every democracy.

Student: Here, it was possible to understand from what was asked, that each Ten has to take care of its own problems and it's closed off until the end of Correction?

M. Laitman: No, it's not closed off like that until the end of Correction but for all the problems that you feel along the way, we need to relate in a manner that these problems are necessary, usually, if not 100%. And you just need to respond to this in all kinds of ways, kind of in a roundabout way; we will learn this. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (13:17) So, just to make it clearer, the Tens we had before was a balancing act until we reached the current Ten? Because we changed Tens four or five times. 

M. Laitman: No, that was the form of development, it doesn't matter what was. It was a stage of development. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (13:51) I'm under a lot of pressure of losing myself in the Ten but that's my thing. But what I see in life, a person doesn't change the family he's born into. There, in the family he acquires all the discernment he connects to other groups for all different needs, but he doesn't lose this root from the family. We have a teacher, he doesn't change his students, he doesn't say, oh, you succeeded, or you failed. I look at my students, my kids, that I give them lessons, now they're all in serving in the army, but I'm not connected to them, but I still feel them. I enjoy from hearing about the successes and the descents and ascents. What I’m trying to say is I’ve got a Ten but I'm not thinking about changing anything. All the fears, all the states, all the anxiety, everything is in the Ten. I mean, the sorrow of the public that we just read about, I feel how much they yearn to reach the goal and that's my correct sorrow. Today, I don't know, maybe tomorrow is going to be different. The Kabbalist who wrote to us the directions, the method, how to reach the purpose of creation, he wrote it from his place of attainment. And we here, what did we attain? Only in the Ten, I can receive. 

M. Laitman: Maybe you can get to the conclusion of what you're trying to say. 

Student: The conclusion is changing Tens, I don't know? 

M. Laitman: So that's your opinion, okay.

Student: So, stay in the Ten, work there and the Ten needs to connect to other groups. 

M. Laitman: Very well. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (16:10) Can you be a part of society and advance spiritually without belonging to a small group, a Ten?

M. Laitman: No, without a Ten, it's impossible. In the beginning, of course, yes, but afterwards, after a year or as much time as it takes. A person needs to really enter a Ten and to see how he  becomes in it that friend, a member.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (16:42) To be part of a small group, like a small Ten, or to be part of a larger group of 30 to 50 people?

M. Laitman: No, there are no groups of 30 to 50 people, there are groups of Ten, no more.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (16:54) What about Tens who are not certain that their structure is not, they're not sure the structure can bring them to the goal? For example, a Ten, but everyone has a different framework. 

M. Laitman: We need to check, I don't know. That's why we have people who are responsible for the Tens. That's it?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:28) I want to connect what we learned in the Letters to the matter of the Tens. We learned that you have to be rewarded with the light of faith and connection with the Creator as a sword and shield. And the question is, relative to the Ten, how should a person feel that he's using it, he’s rewarded with something real? Is there a sign that he was rewarded? Or as the friend said, I have faith. I feel the good, None Else Besides Him, The Good Who Does Good, and that's it. 

M. Laitman: That doesn't mean nothing. It's not worth anything either. 

Student: It's got to be a practical test?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: How the friend works, whereas to the friends, how do you test it?

M. Laitman: Yes, first, that he doesn't disparage or disregard what's happening in the Ten. He's connected to almost every person in the Ten. Is in connection, correctly, with the manager of the Ten and the Tens. And then, he is already in that same framework that can lead him to the goal, to the final goal. Because it's not simple to get there, it's not simple. He can go around, and it seems to him like he's advancing but after many years he will see that it's not so. Therefore, we need to be more persistent.

Student: About the Ten, if I may ask: Let’s say, people gather who feel a need to advance spiritually around their teacher. They took them, 16-18 people, and said, here, you're a group of friends, work according to certain principles, build a Ten. When can you say it's really a Ten that it is forever, until the end of Correction?

M. Laitman: It is best for the Ten not to be more than ten; and for it to be in all the meetings and all the exercises, together. 

Student: If among these 16-18 people, there are people with different levels of commitment. 

M. Laitman: 18 people cannot be a Ten. 

Student: 16 friends.

M. Laitman: Also. 

Student: Let's say that within this group, there are people in different levels of commitment. One says, I am like that.

M. Laitman: It’s always like that.

Student: It can be a Ten or you need a mutual base, where everyone decides. We agreed on a, we signed a covenant, we all follow it. And if out of 18, four or five people decided to do it, that's the Ten? Or it's incorrect, everybody's in the Ten.

M. Laitman: All.

Student: So, this attitude we discussed, the light of faith and work, is with everyone that you were assigned to? 

M. Laitman: That's it. Wonderful. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (21:11) What to do when there's resistance? On the one hand, you say that you can't make changes in the Ten. We have a problem that our Ten doesn't have enough room on the table every day. 

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: And it's always, we don't want to change the state. 

M. Laitman: Where is it? 

Student: What do you mean, here, right in the middle? Tens like that, we have 16 people in the Tens, it's too much. But you say you can't change things, we have to do something with that but we're not doing anything. 

M. Laitman: Think about it, that's not now in the few minutes that we have left here, to make decisions. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:15) This discussion we had last Friday, because it feels like we're burying this opinion, we had a question that came up. If Tens want that it's time to change Tens, and a lot of people said that there is such a feeling. So, that's something that should be scrutinized, after all. 

M. Laitman: I don't know if there's such a feeling and there's a decision, and we know precisely what we want?

Student: And I'll link to the Rav and to what the society says, it's something else but the feeling is there, and it came up for discussion. I'm just saying, it feels like it gets swept under the rug. 

M. Laitman: Okay, so we will be able to continue with this at another time. That's it. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (23:08) Well, today we meet 6.30 p.m. The entire World Kli, we have a virtual gathering in the Arvut system, and our topic today is the importance of physical gathering, specifically physical gathering. Not necessarily on the level of the Ten, we as a Ten meet physically, but several Tens are friends who study, and we live in a certain area. So, the importance of that gathering of friends that are not necessarily from the same Tens, but they meet physically and do a mutual action, a lesson, a meal, a picnic, something of that nature. So, we wanted to ask today, specifically, at the time our society, the spirit of society is in, how do you see it? Can it contribute to strengthening a society, if we meet on this level and do shared activities? 

M. Laitman: I don't know, I didn't see such meetings, I didn't come closer, I didn’t come close to them to be able to respond. Okay, we'll conclude.

Reader: (24:20) Announcements: Thank you and have a good day.