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Daily Morning Lesson: June 13, 2025
Part 1: Recorded lesson Continued – Oct 2, 2021 – Baal HaSulam, Shamati 6. What Is Support in the Torah, in the Work?
Reader: Hello everyone, we are learning from the writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati Article Number 6, What Is Support in the Torah in the Work? You can find this in the Arvut System and in our site (kabbalahmedia.info). You can also ask questions through the chat and questions will be asked through the course of the lesson. Article 6, What Is Support in the Torah in the Work?
M. Laitman (reading with commentary): (01:33:10) While engaging in it, interprets, while having some light, with the light that he attains, he can only use it when the light is in him. Now, he is happy because the light shines to him, that’s called a “Mitzva”.
Meaning if a person performs a certain action and with this action, on the spot he gets some illumination, then it is considered that he is in the time of the Mitzva. The light shines to him, and even though he’s not yet merited with the Torah, still from the light he receives, he finds his life.
Only from the light he can find the vitality, the liveliness of Kedusha [sanctity]. Whereas with the Torah, where he attains a certain path,
A ‘‘path’’ is the principal word here.
This path he attained, he can use it even when he is not engaging in it.
Meaning, even while he has no lights, this is because the illumination has departed from him. But on this path he attained in the work, he can use it — even when he doesn’t have the light, anymore. Meaning, this is the difference between Torah and Mitzva. The Mitzva is very important because it gives him, on the spot, it gives him a strong connection, a strong light, and the direction. Whereas the Torah doesn't get to that but it shines on the general path. A person sees his perspective, what he went through, what's going to happen, and in general, he feels the process and that’s what is important, you have both in our life. Let's say, I go to some line of work, I'm not very happy about it but I have a perspective. Eventually, I'll become something great over there, some, whatever I want to happen, there. There is an illumination from afar and there is an illumination for a short while in front of me. That is how we are in the spiritual work, as well. This is clear, right? I’ll continue.
Still, we must know that while practiced, a Mitzva is greater than the Torah when not practiced.
Meaning, if something illuminates to me on the spot, when I am engaging in a certain action, it’s more important than the general illumination. Then, with this general illumination, I don’t really feel.
When practiced, means that now one receives the light. This is called, “practiced”, when one receives the light in it. Hence, while one has the light, a Mitzva is more important than the Torah when one has no light, meaning when there is no vitality of the Torah.
That’s clear. It depends on what he gets more illumination from, either Torah or the Mitzva. Usually, the Mitzva is more important because it’s on the spot, in a concentrated manner, with great power. Whereas the Torah is more of a general force but this general force can sustain one on the path, establishes it, stabilizes a person. Whereas Mitzva works in a certain place. If it departs, you can seemingly remain in the dark.
On one hand, the Torah is important because one can use the way one has acquired in the Torah. On the other hand, it is without vitality, called “light”. In a time of Mitzva, one does receive vitality, called “light”. Therefore, in this respect, a Mitzva is more important.
Meaning, the Mitzva is more important because it acts in a certain place, in a concentrated manner. That’s very important for a person to hold him.
Thus, when one is without vitality, he is considered “wicked”, since now he cannot say that the Creator leads the world in a manner of “The Good Who Does Good.” This is called that he is called “wicked”, since he condemns his Maker, as now he feels that he has no vitality and has nothing to be glad about so he can say that now he thanks the Creator for giving him delight and pleasure.
Meaning, here, he gives us a very clear discernment, when we are connected to the Creator and when we are far from the Creator. That is according to the extent of gratitude we have to the Creator for giving us. If I feel in my life – it doesn't matter what life – until there's a knife here on my throat, if I believe that I'm in His hands and that He is The Good Who Does Good and There Is No One Else Besides Him, then I'm considered to be a righteous. It depends on the height of me being righteous, over what actions, what cases. However, a righteous is one who justifies the Creator with whatever happens to him. Accordingly, he gets vitality of Kedusha [sanctity]. When the Creator advances us, He does that by giving us more and more torments so that we, upon these torments, will rise with faith in Him, in The Good that Does Good. That's why we’ll feel, instead of these torments, we’ll feel the opposite form, connection and love. This is how we'll discover the Creator, upon the coarseness, just as we learn with you in the Preface about the Partzuf that has coarseness. In this coarseness, specifically reaches adhesion with the Creator.
Meaning, don’t think that we’re getting rid of all our problems, the troubles—it won’t disappear, it won’t go away; the will to receive will only grow more and more. It’s only that we receive an opportunity every time to rise above it like a mountain you’re climbing and climbing, and rising and rising. Then, we will grow this way till we reach the degree of the Creator. This is called, over all the crimes that we rise above, love will cover.
Question (Kiev 3): (01:41:36) If we don't receive any light, so what connects between us, what advances us? What gives us the force of livelihood, what happens?
M. Laitman: If you're not getting a response from the Creator, it’s a sign that you—between yourselves—are not doing any serious action to come closer. Because were you to make an effort to come closer, to make an action of coming closer, you would have at least discovered that you are incapable and you’re still trying, and you're incapable, and you still can’t. And a few times when you’re trying to connect and you’re incapable so out of lack of choice because you are despaired. You would have turned to the Creator because you can’t connect, and then you would get help from Him. To the extent that He lets you come a bit closer, He would also give you a feeling that He is mingled in this action and He is among you. Specifically, the presence of the Creator between you is what connects you together and this is how you become a group – are you hearing this? Only this way, that the Creator will dwell among us, this may connect us. When we're trying to connect between us, between us, between us, and we are incapable, and then we understand that only He can connect us and then we turn to Him demanding, asking, begging. Then He connects us by coming to be between us, by appearing between us. And then what happens to us is, Israel, the light, and the Creator are one.
Student: Everything you just said, it seems that we're doing it and it’s happening between us, we’re speaking about it. We discover this evil, the lack of ability to connect. We pray every day and we don't scatter out, and we keep doing it, so that’s an answer to the previous question. There was a question, how it happens, that the light is accepted. So, we understand that we’re not getting any light and what you explained now, it seems that it’s all happening with us but we still don’t have the light.
M. Laitman: You still have what you do, just continue and demand from the Creator that we will feel Him closer between you. That you need Him now that He's responsible for your connection, that you want Him to come, that you want Him to appear, that you want Him to connect between you. And He will maintain the connection between you. That without Him you can’t because right away you fall apart, and just going in all directions. And you want Him to be in the connection between you – to keep this connection between you, so demand it from Him.
Question (Moscow 7): (01:45:41) In this article, there is a clear discernment in connection with the Creator, that a person has gratitude or not. And you added to believe that the Creator is The Good That Does Good. My question is a person is in connection with the Creator when he believes that the Creator is good that does good? Or when he is sure and feels that the Creator is The Good That Does Good?
M. Laitman: I don't think that we can really give a clear answer to that at the moment because we don't have the right vessels in which we can accept this, distinguish and organize all these things. Let's keep on going and we'll get an answer, ask from time to time and the direction of question and we'll scrutinize it.
Question (German 3): (01:46:49) Can you explain when you say to ask questions about what we read. So, in the Preface, it is clear that when we deviate, you bring us, back. But now, we started studying Shamati and the purpose is to study Shamati in a certain way but the questions go all over the place. I just want to ask how to ask questions about your explanations or do we just try to be in the request that the light connects our intentions?
M. Laitman: You should listen to what we're talking about and you should try, if you asking, to ask something similar things. I have nothing else to tell you.
Question (ITA 4): (01:48:02) Does the Torah have nothing to do with the Bible, it is just a system of lights? Is reading Zohar or Shamati considered a Mitzva?
M. Laitman: No, it doesn't matter what you are reading, it is completely unimportant what you are reading. What matters is what you're trying to get out of it. All these books related to the Torah – what we call the Pentateuch, the Talmud or the Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES), Talmud, Mishna. It doesn’t matter what you read from this library of books. All of them are part of Judaism even though it says the word Torah, so that is what's written, Torah is the light, the upper light that illuminates on a person that a person wishes to attain in order to correct his ego. As the verse goes, I have created the evil inclination I have created the Torah as spice, the light in it reform. This is why it doesn't matter what you are learning from all of all these books. What matters is what do you want to get out of your study? If what you want is to correct yourself and you bring yourself to identify yourself with the Creator, then it is considered that you are studying Torah. If you don't want that and what you are learning is a wisdom, that is how it is called. When you learn to come closer to the Creator, to identify yourself with Him, to unite with him, then according to the action of the unity you want to attain, you are considered to be a Jew (Ihudi), that's it. It all depends on what a person intends to have as a process of this study. So, don't look at this external shape - what a person engages in, or what he seems to be on the outside, the clothes he is wearing. Only, that you should understand what is his purpose by learning. If he is learning about the actions of the Creator in creation in order to resemble the Creator, yes, then he is considered to want to be Yashar El – straight to the Creator. If he is studying, and for him it is not important to resemble the Creator, then he is not a part of it.
Question (Hungarian-Polish): (01:51:21) He writes in the article that the Torah is important because one needs to acquire what he requires in the Torah. What is it that one needs to acquire what he's got in the Torah?
M. Laitman: Out of the experience when one goes through a few actions of ascents and descents, connecting to the group, coming closer to the Creator, wanting to build connections between all the friends according to what he is learning. The way the Sefirot are connected and the Partzufim, same Sefirot in the Partzuf in order to bestow to the Creator. If he learns about it in order to come closer to the Creator, he is considered to be studying Torah. And then accordingly the light that reforms shines on him and brings him closer to realize this action, a connection to reach adhesion with the Creator. Whereas, if he just gets it like sort of facts, knowledge, wants to know about different drawings or maybe he wants some remedies – how to be healthy or some other things. Accordingly, he is not studying Torah, it’s just a wisdom. That’s the difference between someone who is aimed to the Creator and someone who is not aimed to the Creator.
Student: If in my mind, is the thought that comes from the Creator that I need to do a good deed towards the friend and I did not do that Mitzva, I will be thrown from the connection with the friends?
M. Laitman: No, this comes to teach you that you have opportunities to connect to your friends and you are disregarding them. So try to initiate actions on your own accord without getting them from above. This is coming to you as an example, this is what the Creator would want to receive from you and to make of you, to see in you. And you missed that opportunity, and now it's your time, your turn, to do it yourself.
Question (Latin 12): (01:54:52) You said that Mitzva is inner light, so the question is to connect to the friends. The fact that when I connect to the friends is that a Mitzva for the friend and for the Ten?
M. Laitman: If I'm connecting to the friend in order to cause our mutual desire, when we connect to induce coming closer to the Creator, this is called, a Mitzva. A Mitzva is considered any action that tries to reconstruct the broken vessel of Adam HaRishon, and try to resurrect it and establish it. Just as the friend is a brick and I am a brick, and we are connecting these two bricks together; that is called a Mitzva. And if we cause a connection of all the broken parts of the vessel, this way we will reach the general correction. That's why each and every Mitzva is considered to be every action of connection that we try to realize between us. Of course, it is only happening by the light that reforms, when we can feel how different we are and how much we need to be connected and accordingly, we will advance.
Question (Haifa 2): (01:56:49) You said that we should ask the Creator to connect between us. Why do we need this connection? What can obligate me to want the connection to make me turn to the Creator?
M. Laitman: Because otherwise you're not resurrecting your soul. Your soul, that’s called you on your behalf, as part of all the shattered pieces, the shattered desires. You're concerned from your point – from your shattered point – you're concerned to connect the whole vessel to you. That’s called you are resurrecting the Adam HaRishon on your behalf, the entire system. And then, according to that, you reach a state that you and your personal state, you become Adam HaRishon. And each and every one has to do that from his own point. That is actually your Gmar Tikkun, all in all, that you are concerned in connecting everyone from your efforts. From your point to the heart, you are correcting yourself and by this you reach identification and connection with the Creator, simple.
Question (Haifa 3): (01:58:36) It says that He is a master, the landlord. Where is He a landlord?
M. Laitman: That is what the Creator is called, we're not going to get into all this philosophy. The Creator is one who acquires because He sustains all the souls, He is the landlord and we can either justify Him or slander Him.
Question (Tel Aviv 4): (01:59:11) Now we’re here in the lesson, friends are making efforts to connect. How from here do we aim all these desires and all this exertion in the right direction?
M. Laitman: We are advancing with you, a lot. We are already on a road, on a track, that is going straight to Gmar Tikkun. And on that road more and more people will join, all kinds of ways, paths, more and more people. And that's what we need, just to keep on going, and the main thing – except for my work and the group – is the connection between us in the general Kli of Bnei Baruch, and from day to day. Also, the dissemination is becoming more important, it’s very important. Because, actually, we need it to implement our destiny. Our work is to connect between us in order to give contentment to the Creator from each Ten’s own private vessel. And so, we must first be concerned about the connection in the Ten in order to bring contentment to the Creator. And according to that, we’re going to start feeling that we are coming closer and closer to Him. Obviously through descents and the falls, and disappointments – this is on its way, for sure, we already understand it has to happen that way – love will cover all crimes. And afterwards what is before us is dissemination to the whole world, to all of humanity. To start explaining to them that still there is a plan in all of creation in the state we are in. That it doesn't just come for no reason, and that we are entering such descents that are very dangerous. They can bring us to world war, as Baal HaSulam says, the 3rd and the 4th, if you won’t correct the state. And the state can only be corrected only by explaining to everybody what these pandemics and more problems will come in a lot of places. Not only about the virus, but in relationships between countries. What we see before wars, where everybody starts to argue and everybody is confused, and who knows where it can start from. And only if we try to explain to everybody, and don't disregard our powers, our spiritual powers not corporeal. That's why don't start weighing us the way you do countries or other forces, no. We are on a different height, on a different level. That’s why if we are speaking, if we are working, even if it's not felt like the other forces of governments and states. But our force is working, that's why we still must – in a methodical way – keep bestowing through the internet our opinions in every possible place. That these forces are being revealed to show us that except for connection there is no solution. And we must still think in the direction of connection, not by some kind of Marxism or communistic, or socialist, or capitalist or whatever. No method but connection without adding anything to that, and that’s what we need to do. We need to do it in a small group, that it's clear to us that love will cover all crime. And according to that tendency, we need to explain that to all humanity. And you will see, as much as we are really close to it, and people will understand that in our world there is no choice: either we are going in this path or we enter a third world war, as Baal HaSulam writes. So, let's try to explain it to ourselves and to everybody – we can't move away from all the problems of the world because we are the force of connection that can bring the knowledge and understanding to the whole world of what we need to do.
Question (Novosibirsk): (02:05:36) It says that the Torah protects and saves a person when he engages in it. And after that he explains that when you engage in it, it's called, the quality of Mitzva.
M. Laitman: Torah is the light that shines in every state a person is in – ascents, descents. But on the ascents, if the force of the Mitzva joins in, the Mitzva is stronger than the force of the Torah because the Torah is the general light. That I know how to advance, and where we need to advance and how, and the general laws, it’s not my private state. But the Mitzva, that’s called that, now, I’m in some action from myself also from above, and then my private light shines on me for now. So, the light of the Mitzva while working, it's stronger than the light of the Torah. But when there is no light of Mitzva, so the light of the Torah sustains me and takes me to the right place, to the right directions.
Question (W INFO): (02:07:09) How does the connection between us affect the dissemination?
M. Laitman: How does the connection between us affect the dissemination? I think it's simple, we’ll just know more and more, as much as we need to be connected, also men and women. And to try and explain that if we won't connect according to the conditions that we see in nature and in our inner nature, we could fall into war. They are already speaking about it in a few places in the world where it can just burst out. Actual world war is coming from China, Japan, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran and Turkey – and that's only in Asia. Then in Europe, and Russia against Poland against the Ukraine, and all the European market, who knows what's going to happen there with England and America. Meaning, we see that the world is very tense and everybody is going through very tense states. That from a little match everything can explode; that's why we have to explain that all of this is happening, not in order for it to explode, but for us to understand that in our times as Baal HaSulam writes too, there is no solution for the world war but only connection. That we will raise the importance of connection more than any war – that's why we have to understand that we aren't attaining anything. In the past you would maybe get areas, lands, you acquire things. But today nobody needs it, everybody is in such a connection that, if you want us to work for you – you pay and we work, it’s not worth going to war. Meaning, the war on behalf of the system is ready for connection. But the system itself is still not organized and that's what we need to do. But there is no real reasons for war, this whole ideology has gone bankrupt. What is there, really? We are in a state that we supposedly have no reason to work for because the world is full of all kinds of results of our work, that we need to destroy it all in order to have an ability again to do something. We have warehouses and stores that are just overloaded with products. We just need to shut off the factories, we need to shut off businesses and to just bring ourselves to social borders only. The rest is only according to the needs, necessities: How much do people need in order to clothe themselves and eat and live at home? Let's organize all these things and no more than that.
Student: The friend asked about the quality of the connection between us in the Ten. Does that also affect the quality of our dissemination?
M. Laitman: Of course, yes, even if we don’t feel it, but in dissemination there is quantity and quality. There are such things in dissemination that are affecting quality more, even though it's not felt. Yes, it's worth it to be concerned about the quality of the connection between us and from there to try and already start disseminating.
Question (Haifa 1): (02:12:32) You said that overcoming for us is above the rejection, every time connection above rejection. And you said that the rejection becomes stronger and stronger. So, what happens if I have a rejection with a friend and I can't overcome it? Besides detaining myself, is that harming the Ten as well?
M. Laitman: Try and write him a letter instead of speaking, try and do all kinds of things. Come to him and tell him, I can't connect to you because that's what I feel inside. I have a rejection from connection with you on one hand; on the other hand, I want you to help me to be above this rejection. That's it. Let's together overcome this rejection and by that you will be implementing the law of love will cover all crimes.
Student: He doesn't let me be in his space. He says everything is through the Ten, it’s as if we’re avoiding it.
M. Laitman: Come to him and tell him, beg him, subjugate your head before him and see what happens.
Question (PT 18): (02:14:29) This is about dissemination, what we talked. While importance and greatness and strength are always things in short. What can one do with that?
M. Laitman: We need to start developing it. You can do it, I know you’re successful at it. So even more and more, if you have ideas, please turn to the people who are taking care of it and try, together with them, to do something. If you see that they don’t understand you, write me, maybe I can help. I’m waiting!
Question (Latin 1): (02:15:38) A movement ago, you recommended that we don’t mingle with all kinds of other ideas such as socialism, idealism, capitalism – only with our message, focus on connection. But at the same time, the population on earth is very polar – fascism in various places. And if we talk about mutual guarantee, connection, it seems as though we are communist or socialist, even though that’s not our intention. What can we do with that? If we take into account that Baal HaSulam suffered – he wasn’t allowed to disseminate his ideas?
M. Laitman: What can you do? Baal HaSulam suffered greatly, they didn’t even know where to bury him after he died – that they won’t hurt the grave, destroy it, to such an extent. Because there were people who used to come and stomp on the place where he was bury, with their feet. You don’t know how much hatred he awakened in people that they felt that it goes against their approach to life. Because a person who writes about general love, that you have to be above everything, and the main things is to love everybody and connect with all humanity. And that the Creator is a force of love and that He doesn’t belong to anyone, personally. He just erases all distances between humans, between societies, that’s why everybody hated him – everybody hated him. And we need to understand that, also, to us we have some kind of rejection, so that’s tiny according to what he felt. And still, look how he used to work?
Reader: (02:18:40) A Kabbalist evokes hatred or love in the world?
M. Laitman: If whoever has a different ideology, so he awakens hatred because they feel, in him, someone who goes against. Let’s say I’m a socialist, or a democratic, or a Marxist or capitalist – it doesn’t matter what. Even in philosophy, or whatever you say, everyone can say what the Kabbalist says. So, in somewhat, it’s different – more of contradicting his own. That’s why the wisdom of Kabbalah, it supposedly, it was on the side from all other businesses that the world used to do – philosophies, everything. But what can you do? If we discover that creation includes two forces – plus and minus, the force of reception, the force of giving. And that’s why we have to learn about them and we have to see how they expand through the degrees of the still, vegetative and animate, so we will also know the same world that we exist in. Let’s say, if we knew precisely how the forces of bestowing and receiving work in a living body so that everything that happens in man – from his brain to his foot – we’d understand everything in a whole, complete way. We could heal everything and change everything for the good. With the vegetative, same thing, with the animate, except for man, also. And with the still, we’d understand what the still even means. That we don’t understand the earth, we don’t understand the stars, all these things are still concealed from us -– we don’t even understand ourselves. And there are so many things here, and it’s not worth telling about it because it will just confuse people. That’s why Kabbalist don’t run to open up all the secrets of the Torah and the secrets of creation to people because people, humans, still aren’t in a degree that they can use it correctly. And then you have that prohibition that you don’t put an obstacle before the blind.
Reader: But what I want to understand is if a Kabbalist awakens love in the world, what is the result?
M. Laitman: And who loves them for it, who? You can speak about love whenever you want.
Reader: The students?
M. Laitman: Also the students, I don’t felt. I actually get letters from students who left us, he writes, I hate you. I learned how to hate you. So what do you hate? By me explaining what love is, you feel that against that, the force of hatred awakens in you, rejection. And you can’t balance the two, you can’t ascend towards the Creator on two lines, so scrutinize why you hate. I understand where it comes from, I have nothing against that person, but he has to understand, meaning that he didn’t take anything from our method, except for hatred.
Reader: Sometimes we say that the result of the efforts of our dissemination should be that people come closer, understand more. On the other hand, maybe we should receive this rejection from them? What should we accept from the public as a result of dissemination – rejection like Baal HaSulam got, or coming closer?
M. Laitman: I really don’t know what to tell you, it really depends on the development of human society. I think from time to time, still, even though that there will be rejection with that there will be more understand in what we will do. And understanding to people that, still there’s no other way; and Bnei Baruch are weird and that everybody rejects them. But there’s no other choice – what they say, that’s what happens. Not that we specifically want to tell them, oh you will see what will happen. Of course not, it’s like with children. We just want them to understand that there’s a plan in creation. And toward that plan, we need to bow down, accept that plan above our reason and to try and and do. And then, it will be for all our benefits – that our world is in a state that it needs to ascend to an even higher degree than it’s existence. That’s why today we have the recognition of evil in our state, from everything. That it’s not worth it to keep going in the existence in the way that we are now, but to rise to a new level of existence.
Reader: In the article, he also says what you should get from the learning and from the lesson is vitality in the Torah and good strength. On the other hand, we learn that the Torah exhausts a person, it shows a person his evil inclination?
M. Laitman: It sure that we’re always coming closer to the purpose of creation on two legs – both left and right.
Reader: And here, the emphasis is that you should maintain; the main thing you should get is the sustenance, the life.
M. Laitman: Yes, but upon feeling a lack for it. How can we advance ahead if we won’t feel a deficiency in our current state? We always need to discover what we’re lacking and to see that in the next state, that it’s aimed toward the goal, I attain what I need and that’s how we’ll keep going. That all I’m lacking is the vessel, the force of bestowal.
Reader: So, the path of the Torah that saves and protects, even when you don’t engage in it, that it shines even when you have the recognition?
M. Laitman: Yes, in general, so we won’t run away from the path, and the Mitzvah is already that you can do an action with the screen and reflected light and advance ahead.
Question (Kyiv 2): (02:27:00) How do the Mitzvot, or the system of the Mitzvah, connect it to the rules of the Arvut?
M. Laitman: All in all, all the Mitzvot are to correct the will to receive from bestowing in order to bestow to receiving in order to bestow; and in this way, they bring us closer to the goal.
Question (Turkey 1): 02:27:35 How do we become aware of the light that advances us? How can we check this progress in the Ten?
M. Laitman: Demand it, and then you’ll start feeling that he shines – very simple. And what you need in order to feel him, how to awaken him? You need to be more connected that that’s also by that same light. And by your demand, start working in a practical way.
Question (Latin 7): 02:28:34 We, as Bnei Baruch students, should we work in this world according to what our ego dictates? Or should we cover the ego before we work?
M. Laitman: We have to work with our knowledge of the process of correction to everybody, at least in an informative way. To explain to everybody that there is a path in human development and not that we search for it in war or competitions.
Question (Almaty 1): 02:29:21 A question came out of the article in our Ten: The center of the Ten is the place where all the boundaries, we’ve overcome them with all the light of the Torah and Mitzvot?
M. Laitman: Yes, correct.
Question (MAK 25): 02:29:48 Is there room to say that the Torah is like the light of the sun? And the Mitzvah is connected to mutual love in order to come out. And out of this love to absorb every ray of light?
M. Laitman: The Torah is the light that we receive from the Creator from above, from the place of our connection from we are – from Ein Sof; and the Mitzvah, the commandment means that man overcomes his rejection from the others. And that from the connection, as much as he connects himself to the others, he invites the light of the Torah from above that shines to the extent that they want to connection. That’s called, a Mitzvah, a commandment, as much as we want to connect between us, the upper light can bestow upon us and connect us. So, our efforts to connect between us, that’s called, a Mitzvah because it’s, love your friend as yourself. That’s the main Mitzvah, it’s actually the only Mitzvah that includes everything in it. And the Torah is the light that shines upon it, upon our efforts to connect. The Mitzvah is our effort and the Torah is what shines from above.