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

Daily Lesson (Morning), October 13, 2024. 

Part 1: Baal HaSulam. Lesson on the topic of "Baal HaSulam Memorial Day"

Reader: Hello, today, marking the date of passing, Rav Yehuda Ashlag, Baal HaSulam, we will read excerpts from the sources on the subject. Now you can find all the texts on Kabbalah media and through the Arvut platform. If you want to ask a question here in the study hall, please stand up, hold the microphone close to your mouth and speak loudly and clearly. And the first excerpt will be from Rabash, in praise of Baal HaSulam.

Reading: (00:44) Excerpt 1. RABASH, “Introduction to A Sage’s Fruit”

And here I come to praise my father and teacher, whose holy words shine in our generation, the generation of darkness and concealment. And concerning the concealment and revelation, I heard from him, the holy one, on the eve of Sukkot, 1942, in Jerusalem, when he entered the Sukkah [tabernacle] to see if it was properly built, “And if one corrects the discernment of waste of barn and winery, the discernment of Malchut, MAN de Nukva, considered the seventh millennium, one is rewarded with the tenth millennium, considered GAR. Such a soul comes down to the world once every ten generations.” Thus far the content of his holy words. From these holy words we can understand the greatness of the soul of my father and teacher, and his degree while saying them. He had told me several times that he had never said words of Torah without first attaining the words of Torah from inside the degree.

Reader: (02:56) Can we say that Baal HaSulam succeeded in his mission?

M. Laitman: I don't know his mission in full, but still, he gave rise to people with spiritual attainment. He wrote and left us with guidelines of how we need to build ourselves based on spirituality and how to advance. Meaning, he essentially organized, founded the whole process by which a person who wants to attain the Creator – revealed the Creator – that rises to his degree to some extent, what he needs to do and how he needs to work.

Student: But such a soul which descends to the world once every ten generations supposedly has an enormous task to do.

M. Laitman: Yes, we can't know exactly what it is but it has to be something huge. We'll continue in his footsteps, hopefully, we will, and we'll make the efforts to do it, to keep going. And what we get to, through our efforts and prayer, we'll try. At least, we can say that before Baal HaSulam, we didn't have any signs on the path, how to advance. And in what he explained and left us we can, somehow, understand, know, feel, and realize our progress. 

Student: Do we have some way to measure if we're truly doing our best to apply his methods? 

M. Laitman: The measurement is only our connection between us and with the Creator, there is no other clear measurement; however, that's what we should try to achieve. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:10) I read this excerpt several times and each time I read it I understood, maybe I didn't understand, but I thought about how far distant I am from this. But, Rabash writes here that from his holy words, you can understand the magnitude of Baal HaSulam's soul. What can you understand from that? If I read it simply from beginning to end, I don't understand anything here.

M. Laitman: However, the impression of where it needs to take you, how Baal HaSulam feels the height of that degree, that gives an impression.

Student: That's correct, there's a feeling that there's something high, exalted, lofty, infinite. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And he adds there, he says that he never said words of Torah before attaining them from the internality of the degree. Which, even more so, makes me feel how distant I am from that degree. What to do? 

M. Laitman: To hope in our heart that we'll be able to attain all those degrees that he acquired. And then after him, following in his footsteps, we can somewhat rise to these degrees as well.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:16) Why does Baal HaSulam have to enter the Sukkah in order to talk about the aspect of Malchut and Nukva, which is the aspect of the seventh millennium? How does the corporeal Sukkah, in any way, relate to what he's talking about? 

M. Laitman: First of all, because he's speaking in front of people who are not all in a degree close to him. It can also be that he's speaking to landlords. And then he has to give them some words of Torah clothed in something corporeal. So, I don't know, we have to, we can only imagine to ourselves why he did it this way and not another way. But still, it's good that he came in and said it. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (09:21) Why does such a soul descend only once every ten generations?

M. Laitman: Because it's too lofty, too high – attaining that soul requires many efforts – therefore it's only once in several generations. That all the souls that want to rise and rise from one degree to the next can ultimately, in a common effort, reach such a peak as what he writes about. 

Student: Baal HaSulam, such a soul, does it include within it all the souls?

M. Laitman: This I can't say, I think so but again, this is. Let's say.

Student: What does it mean as far as we're concerned, to attain that soul, to attain Baal HaSulam's soul? 

M. Laitman: We want from all our efforts, our study, our connection, we want to become incorporated with his soul. And to some extent, according to our level of incorporation, to attain his greatness.

Student: How can someone of a lower degree than his grasp his greatness? 

M. Laitman: By trying.

Student: What does our measure of incorporation, how does it depend on Baal HaSulam?

M. Laitman: That we want, what else, simple, what else do we have to do? We want to rise above our state, to be more connected than we are, because we attain only through connection. And from somewhat attaining that degree, to try and dress into the garment of Baal Sulam, that's very high, very lofty. And hope that the Creator will give mercy and let us feel, understand, and see that state to some extent. 

Student: Yesterday, in the meal we held the Baal HaSulam memorial and also Rabash's memorial feast. I heard the friends ask what connection we have to Baal Sulam and Rabash because our connection is with you, with the Rav.

M. Laitman: And what's the question? 

Student: What kind of connection do we actually have with Baal HaSulam and Rabash? We have a connection to you and your path, your way? 

M. Laitman: Yes, it's true, the connection is through me but I, too, don't have a direct connection to Baal HaSulam. Therefore, everyone tries to be with their upper one and this is how we climb degree by degree. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (13:47) He says that in this generation of concealment and darkness that we are in, there is an illumination on us. Why specifically an illumination in this generation? Also, previously you said that we can build ourselves up to reach very high degrees. So, what's so special about a generation which is so dark under concealment; why does such an illumination come to it, specifically? 

M. Laitman: It doesn't depend on us, rather on the upper desire to be revealed in us, to bring us closer, and through us, to bestow to all humanity. Therefore, we must not forget about that and we all have to become incorporated with great responsibility that we'll see how much are we capable of bringing the whole world closer to the Creator and continue this way all the time.

Student: I'd like to continue what the friend talked about, many friends have been talking about recently in the meals. Indeed, our connection is with you and you let us feel Baal HaSulam and Rabash through you, of course. And you built something very special, here, I'm not sure that we even understand what you've built up here yet. But what is special about us, this group, this generation, which allows us to build this and to reach such high degrees, what's unique about it? 

M. Laitman: What's special is that we are a result of those special people who came before us and they gave us the thread, the edge of the thread that ties us to the Creator, and we have to try to hold on to it and rise by that. 

Student: When you say to hold on to that, how is this expressed in our daily lives? Because today, in the preparation for the lesson, we talked about how important it is for us to adhere to each other, to hold on to each other. So, what does it mean to hold on, to not let go? 

M. Laitman: This means that by getting closer between us, by connecting, by incorporating, we will feel the qualities of higher, loftier states. And thus we will necessitate the Creator to raise us to Him. These are certainly things that can happen, and it's close to us. We hope that we will get there.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:54) Baal HaSulam, Rabash and yourself, you're huge examples for us, indescribably huge with teachers. And you said often that each one of us will have to be a teacher to thousands, maybe even millions. So, what can help a person just adhere to the path, so he doesn't stray from it and possibly drag many people after him? 

M. Laitman: This kind of person that holds on to the path, wants to share what he has with the whole world and does everything for it and with God's help, succeeds. This is what each and every one of us should try to do.

Student: Yes, but with that the disruptions grow in magnitude, the more a person grows on the path.

M. Laitman: These are disturbances like for kids, external disturbances. It's like Baal HaSulam writes, if you look at them, you find them all like a pile of bones. Meaning we don't really need to do any act of heroism but just have to try well in our territory, and that will be enough. 

Student: How can a person truly, truly plant himself in this ground so as to become that formidable tree with good roots? 

M. Laitman: Just have to try and connect to all the people who are active in his generation who wish to act. Who are capable of that and try to involve them? In our time, it's possible. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (20:41) We truly do see Baal HaSulam's greatness, his writings that he wrote, the TES, the Zohar, it's enormous, writings on a very, very high degree. But then he concludes with, love of friends is sufficient for you, so simple. So, all his greatness, all his depth, he concludes with this saying that love of friends is sufficient. So, how can it be that such a huge Kabbalist, which arrives once every ten generations, how can he wrap things up with that kind of sentence as though that is the entirety of his Torah, his teaching?

M. Laitman: But connection between the souls is a correction of the broken vessel of Adam HaRishon. Therefore, it's not just goes without saying, it's not trivial, it's a very serious and lofty action. 

Student: And for that, he needed all of his expansive writings, the Zohar, the TES, just to say that we need to connect together? 

M. Laitman: Well, first of all, Zohar and TES are not written for everyone and other writings, it's not for everyone. But still in order to prepare humanity for the highest, final correction, he truly labored on that. 

Student: Is there anything in his writings except for love of friends? Is there something deep in these writings that we receive other than love of friends?

M. Laitman: After connection, beyond connection, you have all the secrets of nature. It's all only drawn to connection.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (23:29) What does Baal HaSulam give a person, offer a person, on his path to correction that no other Kabbalist can offer? 

M. Laitman: In our time, I think his method especially brings us closer to the Creator. It's not that there are no other methods – there certainly are and they certainly are also successful. But his method for the broken souls who find themselves having no other means in their hands. So, these people come and use his method and succeed. 

Student: What is Baal HaSulam's method because Rabash, in his very first article, starts and says that it's all about following the path of Baal HaSulam. So, what is the path exactly? What is Baal HaSulam's method? 

M. Laitman: What we can generally extract from all that he left us. All those stages of rising above the ego, connecting between us to Tens, advancing towards the connection as one man and one heart, and so on. 

Student: There are such guidelines in all of his writings that he wrote over the years. What do you think he wanted to happen? All of his compositions, his writings, they've changed reality, the interpretation for the book of Zohar and so forth.

M. Laitman: I think that he established the whole wisdom of Kabbalah in a new and healthy form, and therefore the world with such a difficulty and effort accepted. 

Student: What he did with the wisdom of Kabbalah, did that ease things for the world? What exactly did his actions do? 

M. Laitman: He brought every person closer to his purpose. 

Student: In our times, do you think we need another such maneuver of coming closer to happen? Or is the closest to the wisdom of Kabbalah at its best? 

M. Laitman: The wisdom of Kabbalah is already among us and we just want through our mutual effort to bring together all our impressions and present that to the Creator.

Student: When we come to study his writings, on what does it depend that we'll be able to attain even one half of a percentage from what he wanted to give us? It seems that his writings contain infinity, what he wrote, what he left us. It seems there's an infinite amount of what you can attain there. So, I want to ask, on what does it depend that we'll be able to attain, even one percent, of what he left behind? 

M. Laitman: Only to connect as one man in one heart and from the connection to raise a prayer, a prayer to Him to dress into us. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (29:10) I'm going to ask it this way: Why don't we succeed with these two sentences, what you just said? If that's the whole mission, the whole assignment, why am I not succeeding, maybe everyone else is? 

M. Laitman: Generations don't succeed on the one hand, and on the other hand, they still advance. However, according to the data that they receive from their spiritual environment, this is what they can realize in the meantime. And I think that this is actually, it's actually not that horribly slow as the complaints I'm hearing. Rather, we probably do not understand how the whole of reality is so vast and rich and infinite. And we, on our degree, wish to do actions that are on a very high degree. So, until we achieve the magnitude of the action and the accuracy that is required, then we're still on the way.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (31:26) How can a person know if the Creator is interested in him following the path? 

M. Laitman: Say it slower.

Student: How can a person know if the Creator wants him to follow the path? 

M. Laitman: Kabbalists, write to us about it.

Student: Alright, and I also wanted to ask, is there anything we need to do in order to turn to the Creator correctly? I feel that I'm doing something wrong, incorrectly.

M. Laitman: Turning to the Creator correctly is possible on the condition that he's connected to all people. To the extent that he's connected to all people, he's closer to the Creator. 

Question (PT 31): (32:37) We see that implementing the Rav's Torah happens usually after he's depart, gone. Does it have to happen that way?

M. Laitman: Yes, usually that's how it happens.

Question (Women PT 2): (32:54) How do Baal HaSulam and the Rabash's article differ in their approach?

M. Laitman: Differ from what? 

Student: Rabash's articles are written in a certain way and Baal HaSulam's articles are written a different way. They have a different approach to writing.

M. Laitman: I think it's only a matter of, not the approach but some kind of, maybe language, that each one grew in different conditions and wrote, accordingly.

Question (Women Romania 1): (33:49) Did Baal HaSulam have a group of friends or students with whom he tested, tried to implement his writings? 

M. Laitman: Somewhat, to a small extent here and there, I heard, I saw, that it was existent.

Question (Women PT 6): (34:21) Who is Baal HaSulam for you, Rav?

M. Laitman: I think that this was an angel; that in his form, he entered our world and did what he did. And left us with an open path towards the final Correction. 

Question (USA Northeast): (35:04) Why do we celebrate a person's death rather than his birth? 

M. Laitman: The person departed and we can no longer feel him, connect to him, and that's where we remained. Especially with such a great teacher like Baal HaSulam, so what do we do, well, as we did. A memorial meal, a prayer, discussing that a little bit, that's what we got. All the rest is in spiritual ascent, in spiritual work, with the Creator according to the writings of Baal HaSulam.

Question (PT 31): (36:28) This principal Baal HaSulam had not to speak about something he hasn't attained, yet. What can we take from that for our work? 

M. Laitman: This is to the extent that each one is able to understand and realize. 

Question (PT 29): (36:54) I heard you recommend to a friend to be connected to all people and then he can perform correct actions. Is the goal not first of all to come closer to those who follow the path rather than all people?

M. Laitman: No, I didn't say that at all, someone falsified this. A person does not need to be connected to everyone and go out to such activities. Rather, most of the advice of Kabbalists are specifically in limiting oneself. That is, restricting the circle through which he connects to others. With the friends that he studies with, that he's doing some activities with them and that's it. But just any people, what kind of need is there to get to know many, many ordinary people – what, is he going to be president or what? 

Student: Is it correct that you need to primarily be connected to the Ten, friends who study here? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, if all of one's spiritual life is here, then it's safer for success.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (39:07) We as a group sit here, a few hundred people in front of you, the majority of our group is dispersed throughout the globe. Some are closer to each other, some are thousands of kilometers distant and we have to march towards connection, that's our work in this life. From you we see mostly persistence as a foundation, we have to persist day to day. And I wanted to ask, you talked about how Baal HaSulam, he said about, rather you said, that Baal HaSulam said that you need to look at the disruptions and they become bones. So, there are disruptions which feel very, very harsh, like a steamroller that prevents you from rising back and rejoining the process. But as you said, Baal HaSulam says, look at them and they become bones, a pile of bones. So, I want to ask, some disruptions will come which will feel like a steamroller to a person. How can he in that state look at them and turn them into a pile of bones? How can you maintain such an outlook? 

M. Laitman: This is something you have to try to build between you. Let's say, I look at the Czechoslovak group in front of me, Vilnius, New York 2, and others, other groups. And many individual people, they're not individuals, they're connected but some are not even sitting together. So, we have to try to clothe ourselves in the boundary of the Ten, the group. And then, within those boundaries, we will find what Baal HaSulam wants to convey to us because if there's no group, that's impossible to reveal. So being in a complete Ten, in a group, each and every one must see to that, that he has that. And then try from day to day to raise the Ten to a higher and higher level. And so, each and every one who will want to do that, knowing that this is what his spiritual calculation depends on, so then, that's how we'll succeed. For now, at least until the end of the holidays, we'll continue that way and afterwards, we'll go to a topic on the next level. 

Student: How can the group, the Ten, give power to a friend who's undergoing such a, receives such a disruption, like a steamroller? And help him look at it so that it becomes a pile of bones?

M. Laitman: We have to hug him, not physically, internally, hug him to take him out of his present connection, perhaps, and attract him to a higher state. Well, we'll have to discuss this more, these are actions on the path that we'll try to do.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (43:52) Baal HaSulam came out of a religious population, as did Rabash. And you, Rav, offer the wisdom of Kabbalah to the whole world and today, people of every sector, every religion and language, study it – men and women. Now, we, however, have our closed groups. As you said, the person doesn't have to open up to all people, be very social, and so on. So, how do you see the future? On the one hand, we have to open up and disseminate, and on the other hand, we have to maintain the inner connection between us. 

M. Laitman: This is indeed what seems to be a clash between internality and externality. And still, we have to try and maintain that, that I have a life in the group and a life in the world. And to the extent that I can change this or that towards a more corrected direction, I do so, that's it. We, we’ll have to revisit again and again the manner of connection between us and try to rise. 

Student: How do you see the future, the next degree of the wisdom of Kabbalah, of the spread of the wisdom of Kabbalah throughout the world? Baal HaSulam's vision, right, how do you see the next degree in terms of internality and externality? What will it look like? 

M. Laitman: Baal HaSulam saw far ahead, he would see the things that, already see the things that have to become revealed because he saw all the forces that are set up for it. I'm not as high as he is and therefore I don't see as far as he does. What I'm trying to say is that we will try, we'll make an effort. We'll go through these holidays, these stages, they're very important, and I hope that with great seriousness, we'll be able to begin discovering what belongs to our soul, yes. But each and every day I'm seeing you more closed in, more focused, unified and in agreement with the steps that all the spiritual forces are putting through.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (47:46) Can you, still, l maybe describe our next degree? What do you see? 

M. Laitman: No, no, only that it is probably a more connected state, more understandable and closer to the Creator. 

Student: What about the holidays that we have coming up, we have another week of connection. What should we do over these days to complete this degree, and maybe, accelerate the coming of the next degree? 

M. Laitman: An attack through the connection to the Creator. 

Student: An attack on what? 

M. Laitman: Through the connection to reach the Creator.

Student: That's an attack of the heart from within?

M. Laitman: Yes, there's no more. 

Student: Are there actions we have to perform to strengthen this attack, anything that will help us more? 

M. Laitman: To be more consistent, persistent.

Student: I have more questions about Baal HaSulam: Today, there are many organizations and groups that study and teach Baal HaSulam's writings, teachings, it's spreading – it's earned a space, a place. So, what is our role, Bnei Baruch, what is our specific mission, our duty with respect to Baal HaSulam's vision and teachings?

M. Laitman: We study and disseminate Baal HaSulam's method of correction of the souls. We hope that many, many more people will come and take part in that. This is it, strengthening our Tens, strengthening the groups, strengthening the study in various languages. 

Student: How do you relate to other groups that advise teaching Baal HaSulam's methods and teachings, in whatever way? 

M. Laitman: I don't see in them anything that disturbs us, on the contrary, let them rise. Not that I'm taking part in that, even though it could be, but certainly I'm not against. 

Student: If Baal HaSulam was a high soul that comes down once every ten generations, he gave us everything in detail down to the last detail, right? Why do you need a continuation, what does Rabash add to it? Why do you need other Kabbalists, what's the addition? 

M. Laitman: Addition to Baal HaSulam, after what he gave the world, this can only be in practice. That we organize a network of connection between us and in that network, we try to teach all people of the world. And we further and further disseminate his method. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (51:52) Rabash opens up the articles in the Society. In the first one, he says, we've gathered here to realize Baal HaSulam's method. So, from that sentence, Baal HaSulam writing it in his social articles, he writes that, well, can you conclude from that, that Baal HaSulam's path is the path of love of friends?

M. Laitman: Yes, it's possible.

Student: Okay, now, you always direct us towards Rabash and Baal HaSulam, towards your teachers. So, if you needed to tell us, look at Baal HaSulam, how he does one, two, three, so that we take an example from that, which will help us continue on the path above every situation. What would you tell us to look for in Baal HaSulam, specifically?

M. Laitman: I would have to think, if to answer you at all, and if so, then what to take into account and in what order. 

Student: Sometimes you tell us that you owe to the Rabash, you have this commitment. So, if we want to join your commitment towards Baal HaSulam and Rabash, what is that commitment, how can we join?

M. Laitman: You have to walk in your path. 

Student: What do you mean by your own path?

M. Laitman: To connect with Rabash and Baal HaSulam, to the extent that you understand and feel and thus keep going. 

Student: What does it mean to connect to Rabash and Baal HaSulam, these names? What does it mean to connect to them? 

M. Laitman: To try and realize their method, the method that lies in their articles. 

Student: Is that something we need to discover, to feel what Baal HaSulam's direction is what Rabash’s direction is. Can we discover that or can we understand already what that direction is? 

M. Laitman: We can understand it.

Student: How can we understand, how can we tell that this is Baal HaSulam's line, and so on? 

M. Laitman: Yes, even in their first articles, they already reveal to you the line, the order.

Student: For example, Baal HaSulam's Matan Torah, so that we feel that we're following Baal HaSulam and Rabash, and of course your path, that we're attached to our teachers. 

M. Laitman: That it's connection, connection from smaller degrees and then to the highest degrees, which reach the Creator.

Student: This path has many stages and sub-stages, and sometimes you're at a great distance from attaining the goal, right? How to know what way to walk, even though you don't see the goal, you have to be precise. And you lead us through that, through a great distance and we need to know where to place our feet. How do we know how to walk correctly when we're so far? You always see that you have many trails, many paths. How to know how to walk it correctly?

M. Laitman: Anyone who studies Rabash and Baal HaSulam, according to their articles, from the easiest and to the highest. He goes on the right track and is certain to advance.

Student: In conclusion, what can we ask Baal HaSulam for? 

M. Laitman: I don't know, what do you want – either knowledge or wisdom or Torah, at least one of the two. 

Student: Can he give both? 

M. Laitman: I don't know, Alright, keep scrutinizing.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (57:34) I want to ask about the essence of the correction: If there is such an act as justifying the Creator, this act is something a person can do. I understand it, I feel it, I feel it in my heart, I can feel it in my heart if I'm justifying something that happens to me or not. Now, connection, when you say connect more, it's the same as fly off into space, it's unclear, you can't measure it. At the end of the day, I cannot tell if I'm more connected or less. Why is it so, I'm trying to understand the essence of this action. Even don't do to your friend what you wouldn't have done to you, that's right, I can measure it, what I hate, what I wouldn't have done to me, and that's what I'm not supposed to do to others. But connection, everyone wants to do that, to achieve it so much, but does anyone know what it means to connect more, to be more connected today than we were yesterday? No, it's vanishing, why? 

M. Laitman: I wish to be connected to my friends in such a way that what they want in their heart, I will feel that I want it in my heart. That they will manage my heart, what I'm drawn to, how much I wish to get to know the others and so forth.

Student: Yes, I understand your language, the Hebrew words you say, but I don't understand what it means to actually do it. Their heart, my heart, how am I supposed to know? What I'm trying to say is, I'm trying to understand the essence of this correction. I, even, understand why I'm not supposed to succeed in this correction, because if I succeed, it means they were egoistic actions, so for that reason I need to turn to the Creator, I understand that. Because without that I wouldn't be able to extract myself from my ego. So, we need to reach a state of despair, turn to the Creator and pray, and so on, that's clear. But from the side of the work, I'm asking about the work, not about the complaints. Why can't you measure connection, come closer together? I don't understand what it means to come closer together. 

M. Laitman: The measurements of connection are still not present in our feeling, in our mind, we can't measure.

Student: Will we be able to, at some point? TES describes all those Sefirot, will I be able to measure?

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, they will, we'll be able to weigh them, yes. 

Student: So, I can explain to myself, I can tell myself that I'm not born in spirituality yet, and so, like a little child, I cannot measure anything, and I relate to it that way. 

M. Laitman: We are at the entrance to quite some serious work.

Student: So, there's a question here: If we don't know how to measure that yet, why shouldn't we work with things that we can measure, like don't do to your friends what you wouldn't have done to you? Or are we above that?

M. Laitman: That's something we have to do anyway, there's nothing to say about that.

Question (Women Heb 1): (01:01:16) What is the main explanation given by Baal HaSulam that we would like to convey to the people of Israel in the upcoming year?

M. Laitman: That we have to rise above our ego, that is all.

Question (Women PT 6): (01:01:37) I heard you say, I heard us talking about attacking – coming closer, connecting to the Creator, what is an attack, how to do that correctly? 

M. Laitman: That we are connecting desires and we want to use them as one big desire.

Question (Women PT 23): (01:02:03) What should we improve in our environment so as to allow the friends to advance correctly in spirituality?

M. Laitman: To study together as we do now but then they should review this at home in order to perceive what we went through in the lesson.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:02:46) It was asked in the beginning of the lesson and also now it was asked. And you said that the first step is to rise above the ego, the first step in Baal HaSulam's method. Today, we live in such a world where on the global level and on the personal level we see that the ego brings a person to ruin, brings the world to ruin, that we need something new, to build something new. Now, when we come to a person and offer him to give up his ego, give up the pleasures of this world, so to speak. The alternative doesn't seem so attractive as to make a person run towards the solution we offer. So, the question is how can we bring a person, each one of us here – and also each one in the world? That feeling that to exist above the ego is better for the person and for the world? 

M. Laitman: I don't know, we should continue and study until we get to such conclusions that everyone can understand. 

Student: The suffering is not tangible enough, palpable enough, so that a person will run from it like from fire. They say, eh, it'll be fine. How can we come with positivity, not talk about the sorrow? How can we say we have a method that will help you put your life into order and the world into order?

M. Laitman: You cannot show to anyone in the world that being in bestowal is more joyful and happier than being in reception. You can't show that, that's why it's still hidden.

Student: How can we strengthen ourselves with this value of being in bestowal above everything that happens to us on the personal level and on the global level? 

M. Laitman: To strengthen yourselves that you can do both, corporeally and spiritually. In a spiritual sense, when you raise the importance of the spiritual corrections above all. As much as that can be alive and influential on you, that's with regards to spiritual corrections. As for corporeal corrections, that too, it all depends on the group. There are groups that are truly strong. I know a few in Russia that are willing to go forward. They're not afraid of revealing something opposite to what they hoped for and worked for.

Question (Unity 3): (01:06:44) How did Baal HaSulam manage to bring the wisdom of Kabbalah closer? The wisdom of Kabbalah was concealed before those who receive only for themselves. But our generation is the most egoistic.

M. Laitman: Baal HaSulam gave us only the paths for how to approach the either corrected state or corrupt state and a few pieces of advice in between. And that is sufficient for those who want to go forward. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (01:07:44) You said that in order to realize Baal HaSulam's method at this stage, we need to close ourselves in the Ten, more. What do you mean, to close ourselves in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Be connected in the Tens to the point that you'll see that you can finish your entire work there. 

Student: How can we see ourselves completing our work?

M. Laitman: If you connect to the Ten in a correct spiritual form, then you begin to discover in it all of the spiritual discernments that The Study of the Ten Sefirot discusses.

Student: The first step of connection in the Ten, what is it, so that we can discover TES, The Study of the Ten Sefirot? What is the first step towards that revelation in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: It's when each one starts seeing his friends as though they exist in him. Try that then you'll see what kind of change that brings up.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:09:33) I wanted to ask about faith: Often, we talk about how faith removes a person's limitations. And I wanted to ask how does a Kabbalist reach such faith and adhesion with the Creator?

M. Laitman: I think that's not possible to explain, and faith is a force that comes above all, above the mind, above any calculations. Rather, a person receives it from within the soul and when he receives it and begins to build his whole attitude to reality on that, and to the Creator. Then he sees how the power of faith is a wondrous power and then, he'll see that anything can happen with the power of faith, that's it. 

Student: Can we develop such faith together?

M. Laitman: This depends on the subtlety of the soul; the more subtle the soul is, the more a person feels the power of faith.

Student: (01:12:02) You told our friend, previously, when he talked about the TES and the interpretation of the Zohar, he also mentioned the Last Generation articles. And there, he says that he commands us to love each other, commands love of friends. And you said that, beyond that, you have the secrets of nature. What are those secrets of nature? 

M. Laitman: Secrets of nature. We'll reveal that later on. Okay, what else do we have? 

Reader: We can continue to the next excerpt or move on to excerpts on the subject of incorporation. 

M. Laitman:  Let's move on then. 

Reader: So, a song first.

Song: (01:12:50)