The transcript has been transcribed and edited from English simultaneous interpretation, thus there may be potential semantic inaccuracies within it.

Daily Lesson (Morning), September 16, 2024. 

Part 1: Baal HaSulam. Shamati 25,  Things That Come From The Heart

Reader: (00:03) Hello, we are reading in the writings of Baal HaSulam. Shamati 25,  Things That Come From The Heart. You can find the study material on kabbalahgroup.info and the Arvut system.

You can also send questions live through these websites. Anyone asking a question, here, in the study hall, is asked to stand up, hold the mic close to his mouth, and speak loudly and clearly. Shamati 25, Things That Come From The Heart.

Reading: (00:36) Things that Come from the Heart 

I heard on July 25, 1944, during a festive meal for the completion of part of The Zohar

Regarding things that come from the heart, enter the heart. Hence, why do we see that even if things have already entered the heart, one still falls from his degree?

The thing is that when one hears the words of Torah from his teacher, he immediately agrees with his teacher and resolves to observe the words of his teacher with his heart and soul. But afterward, when he comes out to the world, he sees, covets, and is infected by the multitude of desires roaming the world. Then, he and his mind, his heart, and his will are annulled before the majority.

As long as he has no power to sentence the world to the side of merit, they subdue him, he mingles with their desires, and he is led like sheep to the slaughter. He has no choice; he is compelled to think, want, crave, and demand everything that the majority demands. Then he chooses their foreign thoughts and their loathsome lusts and desires, which are alien to the spirit of the Torah. In that state, he has no strength to subdue the majority.

Instead, there is only one counsel then: to cling to his teacher and to the books. This is called “From the mouth of books and from the mouth of authors.” Only by clinging to them can he change his mind and will for the better. However, witty arguments will not help him change his mind, but only the remedy of Dvekut [adhesion], for this is a wondrous cure, as the Dvekut reforms him.

Only while one is inside Kedusha [holiness] can one argue with oneself and indulge in clever polemics, that the mind necessitates that he should always walk on the path of the Creator. However, one should know that even when he is wise and certain that he can already use this wit to defeat the Sitra Achra [other side], he must engrave in his mind that all this is worthless, that this is not a weapon that can win the war against the inclination, for all these concepts are but a consequence he has attained after the aforementioned Dvekut.

In other words, all the concepts upon which he builds his building, saying one must always follow in the path of the Creator, is founded in Dvekut with his teacher. Thus, if he loses the foundation, all the concepts are powerless since they will now be lacking the foundation.

Hence, one must not rely on one’s own mind, but adhere once more to books and to authors, for only this can help him, and no wit or intellect, as there is no vitality in them.

M. Laitman: This is the article. Questions?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:35) This morning we were asked, what we acquired in the Congress in this new state? And we said to ourselves that we acquired this special environment of ours with greater love and importance. We saw a stronger connection between us and the Creator. How do we continue to keep this property, this environment that we keep here every day? How will we look after it each and every day? 

M. Laitman: We need to be concerned about the connection between us, and mostly the connection is through the study and all kinds of actions that we perform in the individual group, each one his Ten. And also, we all unite together and keep the order that has to do with the general group. That's it, we need to see what is happening to us in the near time, what is it that we decide to do, to which forms we want to reach, this is how it is.

Student: To think what to do in the future, what does that mean? What do we need to say to ourselves? 

M. Laitman: Do we understand how to keep the connection and strengthen it? 

Student: Exactly, that's the question, yesterday in the lesson and the day before yesterday, we took selected excerpts and we said how do we continue to extend this power, we don't stop here but we continue to extend it? So indeed, how do we extend this power that we received from the Creator because we received something in the society. 

M. Laitman: Yes, in the society there is already a great force. But now by participating with this force, we need to bring it to actuality. This, already, depends on us.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:14) We experienced in the Congress this power, we could feel, we worked very hard to reach it. With a great deal of preparations, also during the Congress, the efforts we've all put in together. I felt they were very great, indeed, and here he writes in the article that when he is with his teacher during the lesson, I think we feel the connection, everything, and then when we come out of the lesson, he's led like a sheep to the slaughter, these are harsh words. I want to ask the Creator I noticed, during the day is looking for those small actions of connection. He's not looking for these great big efforts but these small actions, and I said there's a lot of power in it, is this correct? 

M. Laitman: Yes, 

Student: so why did he do it this way? We think with our ego that we need to do a lot, and the ego eludes us. I feel like when we do that very little, I actually feel there's a great deal of weight to it. So, if we can explain how this works, why does it work in this way? 

M. Laitman: We need to try to appreciate things that don't seem to us as close to spirituality. But we should measure each and everything that we have within us, and ahead of us. And connect to ourselves mostly those qualities and actions that truly bring us to a tight connection with the method of bestowal, the method of Kabbalah. And to pay attention to that and not to stray from it.

Student: This principle works also in reverse? For example, if we don't take advantage of these small opportunities as far as the Creator is concerned, then He, like in the article, He says that He throws a person out if he doesn't keep it? 

M. Laitman: Yes, but this already depends on the development of the person to what extent he is capable of distinguishing between the moments that he's in adhesion and the moments when he comes out of adhesion. 

Student: So how should we, because it's elusive during the day these little actions that we have to do Like adhere to the books, sit and read a short article, a few lines, it's enough. So, on the one hand, you see that it works, on the other hand, there's a kind of resistance to even the smallest things, there's a resistance. 

M. Laitman: Well, yes, the work of the Kabbalist is always against the desire of the body, meaning the will to receive. And so, you should always know that if there is no resistance, then the question comes up, where is he, for whom is he working? But if he's working against his egoistic desire, then certainly he feels resistance. And in return for it, he acquires spiritual powers.

Student: This principle that you just described accompanies the entire spiritual process? That the Creator doesn't want big actions from us, we are thinking, we're looking for, you know, these big things in our will to receive. But he's actually after the smallest things. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:50) If I connect to the outer world, and I've been affected by the majority. When I'm aiming to my friends, to my Rav, to my books and take great effort, is it enough for the majority to heal? Or can we do more with the energy we received in the Convention to heal the infection? 

M. Laitman: If I, constantly, want to keep inside of me a certain measure of connection between me and the large group that I met in the Congress and my Ten. Then through them I'm certainly connected to the Creator and to the general upper force. And I shouldn't be afraid of anything, that's it. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (15:00) The word environment describes the states, and we discussed it in the Ten yesterday. We thought, is there a state where, from His Rav, and the authors, and the work in the Ten we can place something in the midst of us, in the middle so it would look after us? That we would bring it out there all the time? 

M. Laitman: Yes, the connection between you, you need to hold on to it, to keep it cultivated, such that it will keep you.

Student: When we live here, we need to hold on in our minds, the idea that there's this opposition, let's call it, that sort of wants to take from these things, and then that creates a certain shield? 

M. Laitman: Yes, when we go out to the surrounding world, there, there are desires and thoughts and plans and whatnot. They all run around and pull each one of us in its direction, so we need to be concerned about not becoming incorporated in them. 

Student: The word, connection, is this what we aspire to? That the connection between us will be adhesion with the Creator? When we read a certain article, let's say this article, it has a certain flavor of connection, a certain light. Should we look in the articles for the connection that attaches to the specific light? 

M. Laitman: We don't know what light is and we shouldn't really try to depict it to ourselves in our own imagination because for sure we will be mistaken. We, simply, need to be drawn to a connection between us and then this concept of connection for us will take on an interpretation, a feeling, a form that will be more and more true.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:59) Connection between those who feel this external pressure on them, how do we do it? 

M. Laitman: We need to all be connected and especially to check those people that we know have disruptions that pull them sideways from the connection with us, and to continue in such a way.

Student: In what way can we give ourselves and others motivation to return to the study when the laziness and lack of desire take over us? 

M. Laitman: If we feel fatigue, and as a result of the fatigue, lack of desire to continue studying and exerting in connection. Then maybe, indeed, we need to remove some of this load from us. And following some time, come back to it. It is forbidden to constantly be under stress and pressure, and running after spiritual attainments and under pressures, etc. Everything will work out according to the process. Just don't let go completely and do not disconnect. But rather keep it on a small fire, a low flame, keep ourselves like that all the time. And in special times, when we have a gathering, a lesson, then we connect more, this is one thing. And second, also, when we talk we should try to pay attention to what we talk about, remember things, take a notebook where you write down what you heard, what you discovered, that's it,. 

Reader: (20:56) I hear from you that there is this great power in the society after the Congress. How to extract it and turn it into action? 

M. Laitman: This is to the extent that we have a connection between us. We are connected to the friends and to that extent, we will also be able to arrange for ourselves such actions, even in extra connection in some way. 

Student: Something else has to happen or it's the same routine, the familiar routine? 

M. Laitman: Actually, it is the same routine; maybe add in some way certain excerpts or a letter, or something that speaks about some kind of event or incident that is close to it. 

Student: Specifically, in terms of exaltedness, upliftment after the Congress, it's easy to be tempted to foreign desires because it feels as if it's above all the states, there's no problem. How to guard yourself against that?

M. Laitman: To guard yourself, to the extent that you go, and visit, and touch, and get closer. Or you become incorporated with some foreign things to that same extent, first you have to make sure that you will keep yourself, that you will elevate yourself higher. 

Student: If there's a friend, that he feels that he left the Congress with heaviness, not with inspiration. What is his work during that state? 

M. Laitman: To go over the materials again by himself, bit by bit, so that he will learn what we talked about, what we learned about with the materials. And it will penetrate him more. 

Student: The person who left the Congress with heaviness means that he did not do well in the Congress? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (23:39) I heard before that we received this power of the Congress, and in participating with this power, we need to bring it from practice, from petition to practice. What does that mean? 

M. Laitman: It means that this force that we received, and we feel that we have some of it, now we need to bring it more out and use it in the connection between us. 

Student: After the Congress, I feel a great deal of gratitude – to you for these supreme efforts, to the Creator, to the friends who realized all the advice. There's a great deal of gratitude. What does that mean, what do we do with it? What does it mean to realize at the beginning to practice? 

M. Laitman: Simply, this force that the Creator revealed in us, and we feel this force that it exists in us. So, we need to join this force and actualize it in the connection between us, wherever possible. 

Student: Meaning, wait for opportunities for connection or initiate them? 

M. Laitman: Not wait, to initiate! To truly bring it to actuality. 

Student: In the Ten, of course, first of all, right? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Also, about the article because it's all related, it says here that the person has nothing left, all the intellect, everything. He just has to renew the adhesion in his teacher and in the books. So, what can we take from one degree to another? 

M. Laitman: The measure of adhesion that we had, what remains of it, the external connection with their friends, as much as we can add to it. And how much from these elements we can reach a new connection. 

Student: But, even the degree of adhesion is somehow erased. 

M. Laitman: Well, it should be renewed at every point, at every stage. 

Student: So, what's left is to renew it again? 

M. Laitman: Yes, of course. It's as we climb up on degrees, we leave the previous degree. Meaning we use it as the ground level, and we rise to the next degree. And then again, wherever we are, we take that as the surface, and we rise to a higher degree. This is how the entire ascent is.

Question (KabU 4): (26:59) About the excerpt, it says, “when he comes out to the world, then he sees, and he covets, and he clings to the desires of the majority that wander the world. Then he and his mind, his opinion annul to the majority. As long as there's no power to sentence the world to a side of merit, they subdue him and he mingles with their desires”. What is the meaning of sentencing the world to the side of merit? 

M. Laitman: That the whole world is under the control of the Creator, a force that is Good And Does Good. And this is how we are being operated by Him. And of course, we are being operated by Him for a good, beautiful, spiritual goal. And this is how we will advance. 

Question (KabU 4): (28:07) Why, specifically, when I fail to sentence the world to a side of merit, that they subdue me and I mingle with their desires? 

M. Laitman: Because then I'm weak, I don't have the power to resist. 

Student: Specifically, when I sentence them to the side of merit? When I can't sentence them to the side of merit, why do I have to sentence the people outside to a side of merit in order to not mingle with their desires? 

M. Laitman: No. There is me and there is what is outside of me, there is a connection between us. Now, do I receive impressions in my connection with them; do I accept that or relate to that as something important? And then I receive their thoughts, and desires, and goals within me, I absorb them. Or, even though I do feel them, however I reject them. I do not accept them because I realize that they received it as a bad addition, coming from the evil inclination. From all kinds of external influences that do not belong to our way, that's it. So, it's either this way or that way, I have to see which way they are directed and do I agree to go along with them. 

Question (Kyiv 7): (30:06) Sometimes we say that all of our thoughts and desires come from the environment. Sometimes we say that it all comes from the Creator. What's the difference and how to think correctly about it? 

M. Laitman:  Again?

Student: Sometimes we say that all of our thoughts and desires come from the environment. And sometimes we say that it comes from the Creator. What is the difference between the two and how to think correctly? 

M. Laitman: Of course, everything comes from the Creator, even if I think that it comes from the environment or from certain friends, it all comes from the Creator. There is None Else besides Him. He determines and He operates in everything that happens in reality. He holds the whole of nature, the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking, He holds it by Himself. And this is why I need to associate everything to the Creator and only think of His actions that He wants me to attribute it to myself. In what way can I be in adhesion with Him? And in the adhesion with Him, there I find those same qualities that I want to have for myself.

Student: Why do we say that it comes from the environment? 

M. Laitman: Because the environment helps me. The environment helps me to establish contact with the Creator. 

Question (Belarus): (32:12) The article doesn't write specifically about the group, but it writes about adhesion to books and to Rav?

M. Laitman: Rabash wrote it, I think, it says here, in 1944, before I came to him and the environment, the society was founded, the group.

Question (PT-22): (32:43) How can we follow the teacher forcefully or in practice? 

M. Laitman: It is a matter of adhesion and annulment. That we get closer to the teacher and we annul ourselves before him. And, here, we enter a struggle because there are many disruptions and we do not understand that these are disruptions. And we are not willing to reject them, and this is how they accumulate, like waste, that hinders us from being in a tighter and tighter connection with the Creator. That is the problem, so we have to work against that. 

Question (Turkiye 9): (34:01) What are the actions, according to the method of Kabbalah, to be connected with the friends, the society, the Creator? What actions do we need to perform? 

M. Laitman: What are the actions? 

Student: To be connected. 

M. Laitman: Well, we talked about it for a long time already. Anything that is convenient and good for the friends, for the group, I need to do that in order to enter my connection with them, more and more. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (34:57) If we feel fatigued and as a result a lack of desire to continue in the studies and to exert a connection. We need to take off that burden a little bit and after some time to come back to it. Shouldn't we be in constant tension, and pressure, and chasing spiritual attainment? It's the first time I hear such words. I think I used to hear other ways?

M. Laitman: What?

Student: That if I can't pick up the pace, then I have to overcome even more, and work above reason. 

M. Laitman: Yes? 

Student: And this morning I hear for the first time, that there is a state where I have to downshift. 

M. Laitman: What I meant by that is that today we're talking about physical actions. So, in that, maybe we need to slow down a bit.

Student: The Rav distinguishes between physical actions that my beast cannot handle versus my inner efforts. 

M. Laitman: Yes, 

Student: The first time that I hear about it; maybe you can elaborate on this, on the difference? 

M. Laitman: There's nothing to elaborate, there are many states in man's life where he cannot be under physical pressures. From the environment, from life – and it's worthwhile for us, for him to slow down a bit. Come down from that state and it's better for him to adhere to his inner state, his inner connection. 

Student: What happens when he feels this inner load, inner pressure that he cannot take? 

M. Laitman: Then he has the prayer, he has the society, he has many things before he has to make some decisions. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (37:12) About the Dvekut with teacher, you always say that you give us everything. I think on Saturday, you had to leave the lesson early, and two friends gave us a very impressive Q&A session in which the veteran friends answered all kinds of questions. It gave us this impression of the power that we have in those friends and the ability for us to continue in your legacy. Now, the question is how do we navigate between the confidence of knowing that we have everything we need and can continue after you? And the fear of making a mistake that would paralyze us? 

M. Laitman: It's good, confidence is good, the concern, the fear is good. If we have both confidence and fear, we combine it into our ascent, the connection between us for the revelation of the Creator in a higher and higher degree each time. That's what we need.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (39:31) The text says to hold on to Rav, the teacher, the books, and the environment. But if I don't hear you and I don't understand what's written, and I can't stand my environment, then what can keep me on the path? 

M. Laitman: Connection with the group, connection with the Creator and, nevertheless, connection with the Rav.

Student: In a Congress, I felt there was a desire to connect. And now, to the same extent, I feel distancing. I try to connect these two feelings but I don't know how to overcome the feeling of distancing.

M. Laitman: Where did it come to you from, where did this feeling, the feeling of distance, distant, where did it come from? You, simply, got up this morning and you feel that you were distant? 

Student: We always say that There Is None Else besides Him. 

M. Laitman: Okay, so why don't you turn to him? That Creator, just like yesterday, He gave you a feeling of connection and closeness. Now He's giving you a feeling of being distant and you're moving farther away. What to do, only to ask of Him to bring you back to the feeling that you felt yesterday.

Student: I'm asking questions because I see you opposite me. The Creator is not always opposite me, so I don't always remember that I need to turn to Him. 

M. Laitman: The Creator is always near you, always. No one is closer to you than Him. So, you have nowhere to run away from Him; on the contrary, you need to imagine him closer and closer to you. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (43:04) Each one of us is made of a point in the heart and egoism. Even after the shattering, the point in the heart maintains some covenant but the parts of the ego cannot unite. So, what are we trying to unite, here? 

M. Laitman: We are trying to unite our yearnings, our aspirations, for the Creator. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (43:57) What is the moment of holiness? What does it mean to be in holiness? 

M. Laitman: It means to be in contact with the Creator, connection with the Creator because the Creator is holy. Meaning, he is found only in the will to bestow. Therefore, those who are also in the same desire or that are coming closer to Him are called, holy. 

Student: If there is no past or future, and every day we are renewed, we begin anew. What is the right prayer, or everything that was, will be, and is? Or maybe I should only focus on the present moment and ask for the correction right now? 

M. Laitman: When we speak about the past, present, and what will be in the future, it points to our attitude to the Creator as the source of everything. When we ask of Him in the current moment to change us, we are speaking of the connection with the present, the present moment, and we ask about that. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (45:57) When a person is with himself, he can maintain a significant connection with the Ten and with the Creator but it takes of him a very cerebral and also heartfelt effort. And if he needs to speak to people, he cannot operate such an effort. So, why do we have such states, what for? 

M. Laitman: You ask questions that are totally off topic. 

Student: It's very much to the point, the only time when a person is with himself is in traffic jams or whatever, but when he's not with himself, then? 

M. Laitman: There are many moments in life that we have no idea why we're going through them.

Student: I'm asking how does a person maintain a connection with the Creator when he's in an environment with other people 

M. Laitman: Above them. 

Student: What does it mean above them? His brain needs to hear what they're talking to him. 

M. Laitman: He has another brain to hear what he is saying to the Creator. 

Student: Can you explain what do you have to do when you're in an environment with people and you need your brain and your heart to hear them? You need to have a dialogue with them.

M. Laitman: Try to be above this, yourself, as if you're speaking to someone above what you're being obligated to speak and do here. And then you'll see that you can be on these two planes, two levels. 

Student: And how does this connection that you have to keep with people, how does it benefit, how does it help you in your connection with the Creator? 

M. Laitman: You can change from one state to another.

Student: So, upon this connection with people, I have to be in connection with the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (47:54) If you can explain what he wrote here: “Only when he is inside holiness, he can argue with himself and have clever polemics about how reason guarantees that he will always go in the ways of the Creator”. Can you explain that? 

M. Laitman: If he is in such a state where he is in holiness, in order to bestow, and he can correctly scrutinize the states and tie himself to them, draw them near to him. Then from that he will advance correctly.

Student: What are these nice polemics and how reason dictates that he will always be able to walk in the ways of the Creator? What does it mean that he can have these nice arguments, clever arguments?

M. Laitman: No, no, this is, seemingly, against the path of the Creator; the path of the Creator is a very thin line, a very narrow line, a very straight line. And here, out of his polemics, this line becomes cumbersome, twisted.

Student: Another thing, he writes, “in other words, all the concepts upon which he is building his building should be founded in adhesion with the teacher. Thus, if he loses the foundation, all the concepts are powerless”. What does it mean to lose the foundation of adhesion with his teacher? 

M. Laitman: He has to be adhered to the connection with the Creator.

Student: With the Creator?

M. Laitman: That's it. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (49:45) I wanted to ask, what does the Rav leave behind him? 

M. Laitman: What I leave behind me? A building, no other group in Israel has such a thing, such a building; it is registered under the name of Bnei Baruch, under this foundation, this organization. And I leave behind what we managed to do in these past years. Again, The Book of Zohar and the new edition, and other books that Rabash wrote, Baal HaSulam, and also me. I leave my students, those who still want to advance toward the Creator. I hope that the students, the next generation of students, will be more flexible, wiser. Will know how to connect and find points of mutual connection, the correct points of mutual connection. And not that some force of exploitation of others is working through them, that's it. In short, the sum total of the group, not you but the group that will rise from all the students of Kabbalah will honor, will value, what is written by Baal HaSulam and Rabash. And will want to adhere to what they've done and to move forward, that's it. 

Student: What is the most important for you? What is the most important for you, that the students will take? 

M. Laitman: It's important for me that the students will remain in this building, learn from the books of Baal HaSulam and Rabash. And keep, more or less the times that we've decided on, the schedule. That's it, more than that, I don't know what to say.

Student: When he writes here that one has to be in adhesion with his Rav, with his teacher, and then he receives his thoughts, his desires, etc.. What is this adhesion when the student begins to receive, so the student can receive everything that is inside of his Rav, that it becomes his form? What is this adhesion so that the Rav formats the students? 

M. Laitman: I don't think that the conditions are right for us to get into it and explain it. If such a time will come, with someone who will be a Rav, a teacher, and those who will be his students, they will discover it.

Student: That's clear but in our connection, when we work in our Tens? 

M. Laitman: You just need to look after the Ten and stick to all the laws of the Ten, the laws of connection, where the goal is to reveal the Creator. 

Student: So, the Tens in all the world Kli, here and all over the world, in what way do they receive more your thoughts, your intentions? How do they become more similar to you? 

M. Laitman: If they want to be adhered to Baal HaSulam and Rabash, that is the way by which they attain everything. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (55:54) Following the congress, there's a feeling like the lemon that was completely squeezed, that we lost all our forces. Are we doing something incorrectly? 

M. Laitman: I think we feel only one part of what's happened because they have no physical forces, they have no inner forces. But to advance, they are able to advance using our material, they should sit down together and read. In general, when people are not clear about what to do, they need to sit down, open up an article, let's say, Rabash, and read. Read, read, read, until it will start to work on them. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (57:15) I have a fear that you will not be with us, and the importance will diminish. Sometimes it happens when you're not in the lesson, there is a decline in the importance in the group. What would you say about that? 

M. Laitman: This happens all the time and will happen because a person is born this way, is grown up, matured, he must see before him some great example. Therefore, I recommend that you get accustomed to walking alongside your teachers, that's it. I, too, had a great teacher, he passed away in my hands. But nevertheless, everything continued, I asked him about it, and he used to say that this is how it should be. So, there's nothing intimidating, here, we are nevertheless mutually connected. No one is leaving, no one is coming. It's all what passes before our eyes, it's just child's play. But we must be above all of it. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (59:25) I want to thank all the friends who came from the world Kli. I remember the excerpt that we read in the Congress about how a person doesn't feel the treasure that he has in his hand until somebody comes from the side and shows him that. And I truly feel this way, that here in our group in Petach Tikva, we received a huge, crazy, awakening from all the friends that came from the world Kli, that they invested, and contributed, and acted, and connected. The feeling of how much we depend on each other, it's truly tangible. It's less a question, more of a request from all of us: All the friends who are now going back to their homes, that you, God forbid, shouldn't feel that you're leaving spiritually, in the spiritual sense, that the connection is weakening. But rather it's the opposite, we very, very much depend on you, and we want you to feel also how much you depend on us, and let's keep this connection together.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:01:01) I want to clarify the order of the work. There is a certain content that comes from the side of the friend, some influence or bestowal. Through it I understand that I have to annul and relate everything to the Creator, that's pretty much clear. But my inner scrutiny, in which I engage all the time, and inside of which I begin to understand that there is something called the ego, and there is something else. How to relate to all of this, how to sort everything that is happening? Also to just annul or receive it that it is from the Creator, receive the egoism that is talking with me, how should I classify it? 

M. Laitman: Everything you're thinking and feeling is all your ego. And you should work from within that.

Student: So, technically, I bring myself, even in terms of my thought, into my Ten, or the sources, and then I come out of it. In this way, I come out of it each time? 

M. Laitman: I can't imagine to myself what you're saying but, maybe, it's correct.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:02:39) There are disruptions that are clear to us naturally, lack of strength, fatigue, I want to sleep. There are disruptions that we do not understand, they somehow stick to us like dirt. Towards them also, is there a limiting screen or should we advance the way we advance? 

M. Laitman: One way or another, we'll get through them. Anyone who advances will get through them, and beyond it, it's your business.

Student: Meaning, each one of us will have something that will always stick to us like dirt?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:03:31) Kabbalists tell us that the connection between us and the Creator is through the Assyria and the individual doesn't have a direct contact with the Creator. It looks like the gap between the group and the individual is closing so much that. Is there a future between the group and the individual because you can't even tell the difference between a group and an individual? Some of the friends in this society are in so much adhesion with the Rav and the books. You can't even tell the difference between a group and that individual. So, he's asking, what's the future between the group and the individual? What's the future between the group and the individual?

M. Laitman: It's still very far from us. 

Student: You said in the beginning we should try to appreciate things that don't seem too close to spirituality. How can you appreciate something that you've already downgraded in your eyes? 

M. Laitman: I don't know what he's talking about but the importance rises by thinking about it, thinking about those things.

Student: So, what must we do with downgraded levels of importance that we see from friends? If a friend doesn't want to go to like a Yeshivat Haverim or like a trip or something. How must you relate to it because he's also the Creator. So, if you need to upgrade your importance in something, and a friend is showing you a downgraded form of the Yeshivot, how do you relate to it? 

M. Laitman: Yes, try, nevertheless, to accept them and to do it. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:06:58) What is more correct, to pray?

M. Laitman: Don't pray for my long days and the connection with me but for the connection between you and with the Creator.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:07:27) The article speaks about adhesion with the Rav. About two weeks before the Congress, there was a very serious scrutiny here around the matter of working in the Ten, And you gave a guideline that we should focus on the Tens. There were many, many questions from different angles, they tried to turn things around and check and examine it. And Rav's line was very clear and sharp: The work is in the Ten. My question is how does a group manage to keep adhesion with the Rav, even when we don't have this hand that catches us by the ear and places us in a place where maybe it doesn't seem to us as the most important? Because, nevertheless, it's a Congress, a big society, a lot of inspiration. We can do many beautiful things together but Rav actually put us in this work in the Ten. Today, we can feel how important, how great it was. But before the action itself, we couldn't just jump there. So how does a society manage to keep such a line in a way of adhesion with the Rav, also when it's not, let's say, close to Rav? 

M. Laitman: That's a problem, that is a problem, how to raise people to a degree that's above them, above their reason. And for them to understand that it's for their own benefit, for their own good. Egoistically, it's possible, but spiritually, absolutely not because in the middle there's an inversion. I hope that you will go through a few such exercises and then you'll be able to forge ahead. But I have no doubt that you must take upon yourself the fact that the Ten is the closest spiritual organization to each and every one. 

Student: This center of the work in the Ten, this central pillar, that we all adhere to, there is a place where it will always be this way? Meaning the revelation of the Creator, the revelation of Rav, even for a group of students, will always go through this physical structure of the Ten?

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, open up the Torah, where it speaks about the structure of the collective of the Jews. And you'll see Tens, hundreds, thousands, who is heading each Ten, each hundred or each thousand, that's how it is. 

Student: But who will push us there? 

M. Laitman: You, what do you mean, who will push you? 

Student: But how, it's above reason. 

M. Laitman: That's exactly what you're saying, you wish to be above reason, to advance, there is no other choice. Although there will be all kinds of fluctuations, if you stick to it, then you will be able later. All kinds of blows will come to you, small blows, but through them, you'll be able to connect correctly. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:12:14) In the text, it says, “we have the wit and the confidence that we have when we're in holiness, that we can advance with these insights and defeat the Sitra Achra, the other side. One should know that all of this is worth nothing”. Is it truly worth nothing or is it more about, this is an approach that we should adopt? 

M. Laitman: An approach. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:13:53) In the article, Baal HaSulam speaks of the fact that adhesion to the Rav and to the books is a virtue, a Segula. What is a Segula?

M. Laitman: Segula, remedy, is a special power that exists in a certain action that this force helps us rise above our ego. 

Student: What is the Segula, the power of the adhesion? 

M. Laitman: Adhesion is a state that we may reach, or may not reach; however, the Segula is a force by which we do rise above the ego and adhere to that which we should adhere to. 

Student: It sounds to me as though the connection between us is also a Segula, a special power?

M. Laitman: The connection between us is also a Segula to an extent, yes.

Student: How is it possible to relate the adhesion to the Rav to adhesion with the friends? How are these two connected? 

M. Laitman: The adhesion amongst the friends is adhesion to our work; and adhesion with the Rav is adhesion to our next degree, the higher degree. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:16:07) We just now connected into a Ten in May this year, and we are having scrutinies. How do we realize that we're advancing on the path of connection? What can be the criteria to understand this work correctly? Maybe what is happening with us is just a game of the ego?

M. Laitman: If we, from time to time, ask the Creator for help in ascending above our ego and some of that actually happens, then it means we're advancing.

Student: How do we acquire faith above reason just as it exists in you and in Rabash, and in all the great teachers? 

M. Laitman: It comes with time, with time. And regardless of what you yearn for, it will all come. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:17:38) Rav, today we're leaving, and one of the thoughts that I have is simply a request of when will I be able to come back, here? And at the same time, I feel pain because when I come back, I will come back without a Ten. Because when we're here together with you, in the same room, together with the friends, it's like a different dimension. How should I understand this situation? 

M. Laitman: Understanding it is a simple matter, you'll return to your places, to your families, your children, your husbands, and you'll continue living and studying together with us, that's it. And once a year, you'll have a place here to come and again be in the Congress, and the time will come, and the opportunity, maybe you'll be able to come here for a more prolonged period and not necessarily during a Congress but to live here with us for a little bit, yes!

M. Laitman: There are women, here, who have resided here for a while, lived with us. Alright, what else do we have? 

Reader: (19:24) We're going to move to the next part of the lesson, before that, we'll sing a song!

M. Laitman: What's the next part? 

Reader: We're Continuing The Convention In Ascent, we have more excerpts.

Song: (01:19:40)