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Daily Lesson (Morning) May 15, 2025.

Part 1: Lesson on the Topic Counting of the Omer.

Reader: Hello, for the first part of today’s lesson, we will watch a recorded lesson from the 13th of April, 2021. We’ll read selected excerpts on the topic of the Omer Count. You can find the materials in the Study Materials tab in the Arvut system. You can ask questions there as well. Selected questions may be aired during the lesson.

M. Laitman: You know that in our course we learn the process—a person who wants to rise from the degree of this world where he understands and feels only what's happening to him only through his five corporeal senses which is called the beastly senses which our body remains as a beast that way, the degree of an animal, and when a person wants to rise above that, meaning, to understand what he lives for. What's the benefit? What's the purpose? What surrounds him? Where he doesn't just think about his—in the regular things but he wants to rise above these desires, these corporeal desires. He thinks accordingly to develop in himself certain instruments, certain vessels that are called spiritual from a higher degree than the degree of an animal or of a beast. Therefore, these people who are ready for this according to the root of their soul, meaning if you look at the general system, the general system called Adam where there are certain parts in the system and the degree of a certain coarseness that they want to return to their corrected place in this system which is to develop their desires, correct their desires, and connect to the Creator this way, to reveal the Creator—that part that can be revealed in each and every one of them. If such people, according to their nature, their original conditions, after the shattering of Adam HaRishon, feel that they have a tendency to return to this previous corrected state which is what we call returning to their root. Those people need to go according to their correction program which is called the Torah or the instruction, the guidance. They begin to feel, to start with, just like Abraham asked the Creator, how shall I know that we will inherit? Meaning, how do we come to the inheritance of the land, to the inheritance of the desire, which is a spiritual one? How do we come from a corporeal degree to a spiritual one? The Creator said, I have a gift for you; I will give you this spiritual desire but gradually which will develop in you and then all of you, each of you and all of you together, can correct this spiritual desire because I will give it to you in a corporeal egoistic way, in increasing the ego which is called the exile of Egypt where you will feel bad in your life but that bad will actually be already some form of illumination from a spiritual degree, that the bad itself will be like a stimulus with which you will be able to overcome and reach spirituality through it. Meaning the feeling of disconnection from the good life, the spiritual life, from attainment of the upper force, from attainment of the purpose of life, is called exile of Egypt, the exile from spirituality. We actually feel that those of us who yearn to reveal the Creator, the purpose of life, why we are alive, for what we're living, which we started to begin with—those questions when it comes to free choice that Baal HaSulam explains in the articles Matan Torah, the giving of the Torah, and Arvut. It turns out that we are the opposite; we feel ourselves more in a state of darkness, not knowing what's going on, not wanting anything, opposite all the people that are around us who are living and enjoying, just like Baal HaSulam writes about the king's son who lives throughout his lifetime in the basement, in the dungeon, where he's given a little bit of feeling of life but it's of corporeal life and then they bring him back to the—every time they give a little taste of it, they put him back into the basement. That's our life and it's all in order to awaken in us a seeking force, a search for empty vessels that we will be able to advance, through them, to the revelation of truth. This is how we feel ourselves through ascents and descents, searches, each of us is confused and in a process that is very unique, very special, as each of us doesn't know, any given moment, what is happening to him and what he's drawn to, what is wanted of him. All these states are certainly very special states; it's a revelation of spiritual degrees but in the form of concealment. Where we don't understand what these states are and we don't understand the benefit of having them and we're not in good relations or not such good relations between us and between us and the Creator and with ourselves. All of this is just the revelation of the shattering because all the light and good that could be revealed, only through the connection between us, and here what is being revealed is the shattered Kli, the shattered vessel. We find ourselves, seeing ourselves, as the worst of all the people in the world. This is a good state. This is a state, as it's written to us, in the relations between us as well, just like between the sons of Jacob that were in a great quarrel, between them and sold Joseph, meaning the force of connection; Joseph, the one that collects them together—they didn't want him, they dispelled him. This is something that, well, the greater a person is in his soul, feels even more how distant he is from everyone and rejects everyone. The force of individualism operates in him in distancing everyone from him. This is what we call, anyone who is greater than his friend, his inclination is greater than him. What happens next? After we somewhat feel ourselves in these states and begin to define these states as the exile from spirituality, as all the descents and all the arguments, the clashes between us, all of this comes to us in order for us to understand that this situation is opposite to holiness, to connection, to in order to bestow, to love. The fact that we're in it is in order for us to discover a thing and its opposite because otherwise one cannot attain any state, even in our world, when we achieve something or attain something, it's always through the difference between two discernments that we achieve it. The discernment between them is what we call attainment. After we feel our life as truly being included within the force of evil and that's not enough but, rather, this force of bad is foreign and it rules over us. When I start to feel it as Pharaoh, meaning this foreign control, this foreign force, this big, cruel king that is ruling over me and I can't do anything about it. I'm trying every day and I'm telling myself every day that I am certainly doing all the efforts to leave him, to exit him, and nevertheless I see that again and again I surrender, I either forget or I put my hands up and give up. It depends on the coarseness of the problem that is increasing, the ego which is being revealed. Then, I see myself in a manner that these states are not leaving, they're not passing, there's no end to them. Then, as it's written and the people of Israel sighed from the work as they see there's nothing to do here that we're not capable on our own to leave our ego, to exit, to ever understand what it means: connection and love and one Kli, one heart. From this inner outcry, we get an understanding and a special force which takes us out of it. The exit from our ego is called the exodus from Egypt. Although this process is prolonged and is divided into many stages but altogether it's an exit above our ego. When we rise above our ego, through the upper force where it's clear to us and felt in us that it's not us but, rather, there's an illumination from above which takes us out, raises us above thoughts that are only for oneself, to thoughts of the friends, of the group, of the world, and through them, through all of that, to the Creator. When we start to think that way, that's called that we already are in the process of the exit from Egypt, until we come to a state in which we decide that we are disconnecting from our ego and don't want to use it at all. This is called the exit from Egypt, Pesach, Passover, to where we move from, we pass from thoughts for ourselves to thoughts and desires for the spiritual vessel, the general vessel—we say—through which we can come closer to the Creator and to give Him—through this, a revelation to bring Him contentment—through this because the greatest joy for the Creator is to connect and to settle and fill the corrected souls as much as they connect together. This is called Passover, Pesach, where we exit each of our individualities, the ego of each of ours and advance towards connection. 

Then, we need to instill this connection between us meaning to build out of ourselves a system of connection between us and it's not built immediately and not through one action but, rather, through many actions, many gradual actions which are called the “Days of the Omer”, the Omer Count where we begin to discover, through them, through this upper illumination in us, begin to reveal in us desires which we can already connect between us through them and to come to a state in which we will all be connected, as it is written, to be as one man in one heart. That is already in the reception of the Torah but the rest, for the time being, from Passover to the receiving of the Torah, to Shavuot, it's called, where we count seven weeks in which seven times seven, 49 discernments, as we count desires that are being revealed in us, different desires, each time greater and bigger and through them we try, between us, to connect. This is called the Omer correction. 

How should we say Omer in other words? It's a collection of reeds. Do we know how to translate this? In short, we are collecting and collecting from the field. It's called the field that is blessed from—by the Creator—we collect these, in a way, these sheaves which we can collect together, well usually then we can make bread out of it which is what man can eat and not the sheaves themselves which are basically straw for eating, for beasts to eat. Well, thus far, let's answer the questions first. We only have two, as usual, and then we will continue onwards. 

Question (ITA 4): (17:15) How do we arrange our nature with this principle that we find ourselves with this growing Aviut? How can we make our donkey swallow this in a good way? 

M. Laitman: That's all the work that we are trying to do. We, now—I'm just trying to go through the plan, in short, with you, what we have before us. You know that we, through the daily study open before ourselves that path that we need to go through and to understand it theoretically. We can't really implement it yet. It's not something that we can say, oh, we're exiting Egypt so it will be very clear to us what we need to do and what path we need to pass until the end of correction. This is how we want to spread out our plan with you. Today, for the time being, we are in a state which is seemingly where we're rising above our will to receive called Pharaoh. We are, seemingly, already no longer dependent on him. It's like there's been a restriction that took place upon all the egoistic desires and what happens to us now? Pesach is considered that we've exited Egypt from the will to receive in order to receive and we've entered something new. What is this new thing? We don't know. We don't understand. That's already spirituality. Imagine to yourself that something opens before us but we are not familiar with it whatsoever. How can we discover where we are? Therefore, a period comes which is called the Omer count where we count and count and count the desires which are revealed in us, in the connections between us, with the group, which we make a—how should we say again, Omer in English, we say, I think, sheaves—in Russian it's called snop. It's like a collection of many of these sheaves, of many of the stalks of wheat. When we collect all these desires which are revealed in us and their correction is that we collect them, we bundle them together and then, after we've come to collect them together, then the group comes to a state in which it is as one. They're all connected as one. Then, this structure is already ready to receive the upper light. It's considered that we have reached the giving of the Torah, Matan Torah. This will be our next station which is called Shavuot. Shavuot is because we're counting, in Hebrew Shavuot, seven pure weeks that you have; seven Shavuot is weeks. Then, we will be connected together and, in this connection, we are then ready to receive the upper light, according to the connection. The upper always illuminates but according to our correction we come to the knowledge in which we're similar to Him and then in accordance with the equivalence of form, He is revealed in us. This is called the revelation of the Creator to the created being which is what happens to us in the state that's called the standing of Mount Sinai. This process, we're learning together and we're going through it as well. Just like we learned prior to Passover, what happened in Passover itself, now what happens after Passover. Meaning the connection between us and the group, to the Tens, the Tens that will strengthen themselves and one another in order to be truly as much as possible as one and, through this, we will come to such a connection in which they will resemble the light and then the light will be revealed in us. Altogether, that is the condition of the reception of the Torah, the reception of the upper light.

Question (Tbilisi): (22:57) We want to escape our egoism now. Only because we feel bad from it. How do we replace this feeling in wanting to escape egoism because we want to bring contentment to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Excellent question because that's exactly all our work. I'm very happy that you could say that in a clear way, in a short way. Really, this is the whole point, the intention, the meaning is to change it, not to think of ourselves, not for our own benefit but to think of the Creator and for the benefit of the Creator. For the benefit of the Creator, we can think and yearn to carry out this intention only under the condition that we're connected because the Creator is revealed in the connection between us. In practice, if you want to bring Him contentment, you need to reach connection with the friends and then you can have the ability to be revealed in you. His whole pleasure is being revealed in the created beings and to feel that they're enjoying His revelation. It's just like a mother, what does she do, what does she want towards her kids? Just for them to be healthy and happy; no more than that. Same thing with the Creator. You cannot bring Him any other contentment unless you give Him the possibility of filling you and delighting you. This is the way that you can delight in pleasing Him.

Question (Turkiye 2): (24:53) By including ourselves in the importance of the purpose, our ego and will to receive is growing. How can we overcome this and make an attack? 

M. Laitman: From day to day, we are growing our ego, as much as we advance towards connection and towards the Creator, our ego in each of us and in all of us together is, more and more, growing and being revealed. It grows and is discovered according to the intensity that the upper light can illuminate in it in such a way that we will start to feel Him, to feel the upper light. Do you understand? Because if you have a small Kli, the light in it only gives the feeling of life, this small animalistic form of life. A bigger Kli, a greater desire is even greater light and so on, also in an egoistic way, it's like that and, also, and in order to bestow. Therefore, certainly, day after day, we feel ourselves in ascents and descents and each time anyone who is greater than his friend, his inclination is greater than him and that's how we grow. This is why there is no way to elude being in descents and be more of an altruist in order to bestow during your ascents. Anyone who is greater than his friend, his inclination is greater than him. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (26:57) We come out of ourselves to the connection with the friends in the Ten. What does it mean that we begin the counting of the Omer? What do we count and how do we advance? 

M. Laitman: We are not quite in the Exodus of Egypt, like I said and we are not yet truly in the Omer count but the Omer count is considered that, in us, desires are being revealed that each of those desires that we correct becomes a count meaning a desire that can receive the upper light in order to bestow. That's why the upper light fills the desire according to the measure of equivalence in bestowal between the desire and the light and the light illuminates inside the desire and this is how we need to go seven times seven, forty-nine desires that we have from Malchut to Bina. These are seven Sefirot and each of them is included from, seven, that's why we have forty-nine Sefirot from Malchut to Bina. When we reach the degree of Bina, we come to the fiftieth Sefira and when you count these fifty corrections, fifty Sefira, counts, we discover this light in its totality which fills all these Sefirot all together. Altogether, it's already the revelation of the Creator. The Creator is called it all, the collective, the inclusive one. This state is called the holiday of the giving of the Torah, Shavuot we call it. Shavuot because we counted seven shavuot, seven weeks. This is, along the way, our corrections. 

Student: What are these desires that appear, that we correct and they become a Sefira after they're corrected? 

M. Laitman: By correcting our ego in the connection between us as, one by one, we can overcome those desires and correct them in order to bestow to one another and from us to the Creator; where we start to compose and make our desires to be connected in such a way that the upper light according to a certain adaptation will be able to settle in them.

Student: These are desires for spirituality, to discover the Creator but for ourselves? 

M. Laitman: No, no, no, those are desires not for ourselves. These are desires for connection between us in order to give a place for the Creator to be revealed. By this, we can bring Him contentment in practice. When we connect in our connected desire, corrected desires, the Creator can be revealed. We are correcting or connecting the system of Adam HaRishon which is shattered—the same desire that's in us, between us—if we correct it, the upper light can illuminate in it and we will feel Him. That's called the revelation of the Creator to the created being. 

Student: Say we discover the general desire for connection in the Ten, what does it mean to correct it to bestow? 

M. Laitman: When you work in being as one man in one heart in order to reveal the general force of bestowal called the Creator, where you want to reveal the state in which each bestows to others and you all hold on to bestowal and connection, which is called the spiritual world, the upper world, through that, you are discovering your initial spiritual state. 

Student: What does it mean to rise to the level of Bina in these states? 

M. Laitman: Through this correction you come to mutual bestowal between each other, with each other inside the Ten, and you become a vessel of bestowal. That's considered that you've reached the degree of Bina. Then, you feel the quality of Bina that is revealed in you and, then, that's already a spiritual state. 

Student: This counting of the Omer, can we define it and really divide it to 7 times 7 is 49? 

M. Laitman: After we try to bring every state between us in the Ten to mutual bestowal, we start to feel that there is a method here, that there is a certain continuity, that desires are being revealed in us which reject us, states of darkness, states of a lack of connection, not a desire to overcome them and so on. These are states in which nothing illuminates. That's why they're called states of Katnut, of smallness.  And then, in these states, we try to correct specifically from these being revealed in us, as these egoistic desires are being revealed in us, we start and try to correct these states between us until the power of connection will be adapted to the power of the light that needs to be revealed. I'm willing to answer all the questions, just understand that here, the first time, we're talking about a spiritual action. If we do it, we will succeed. If we don't, it will be done with time. But this is truly what stands before us, where we will rise above our ego and connect between ourselves. 

Question (Spain 2): (34:16) In the exile, we're in a state where we don't even understand our confusion. So, how will we know how to work correctly in collecting these sheaves in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: It's simple. That we discover that we're in a connection between us, but in the connection between us, no form of bestowal is being revealed, no spiritual force, and accordingly, any light being revealed by the upper. It doesn't shine to us. So, it's a fact, a proof that we have not come to connection, and we need to work on this. The work on connection is what we need to do according to what we learned, and in prayer upwards to the Creator so that He will correct each of us as much as we need to correct in a personal way, and connect between us so that we will all be as one man in one heart. Our correction is not on us, it's on us to ask, to demand for it to happen. This is the point that we need to make a connection with the Creator in such a way that we turn to Him, ask, demand from Him, correction. That's the beginning of the revelation of the Creator to the created being, where the Creator awakens to the creature and says, you have to correct us, you need to connect between us, we want you to be revealed between us, and so on and so forth. That's called, my sons have defeated me from the side of the created beings, and this is what we need to stand upon. 

Question (ITA 2): (36:32) When you spoke about the sheaf, then I thought about an optical fiber. These fibers are the Ten. What causes all the Ten to be connected in a way that the light shines in them quickly? 

M. Laitman: This comes from above, the force of connection, it's not in our hands. We just want to ask, and we can only ask for it. But the force of connection is not between us. We just want to get acknowledged for the fact that we are not capable of connecting, and when we try to connect and can't, beyond all those efforts, we turn to the Creator with a request, with a demand for Him to connect between us. That's called, He who makes peace in the heavens will make peace between us, a connection between us, and this is how, until He does this, it's all attained through the force of prayer, as we learned. Only we need the prayer to be as much as possible from the heart, meaning to try and try in the connection between us until we will really want for there to be connection. Then to the extent of the desire for having connection between us, we turn to the Creator for Him to do the connection. And then He connects between us and we begin to reveal what spirituality is. Because spirituality is revealed in the correction of the shattering of Adam HaRishon, of the soul of Adam HaRishon. And then we feel, in the connection between us, the spiritual state already. 

Question (Moscow 7): (38:56) Our first point when we enter the counting of the Omer is that we exited from Egypt. We rose above the nature of reception. So those 49 days or 49 Sefirot that appear, is this sort of clear state from Sefira 1 to 49? Is it like a clear state one by one, or that each desire appears in a new and different way? 

M. Laitman: This process is very precise, because we're entering into a spiritual system, an upper system. And therefore, we can count each and every time this process, which is revealed, each and every Sefira being revealed. And this is how we throughout 49 days discover 49 desires that are different ones that are in seven Sefirot, in the ZAT, the lower seven Sefirot of the Partzuf of the soul. That's where the seven, which is included of seven, because we're all connecting between us to one connection. And therefore, we count it in a clear way. That is how it is written. We will even bring the text and translate it so that you will see how it is written. I corrected in the Sefira of Malchut, and Yesod, and so on and so forth. Until we correct seven, and another seven, and another seven. That's how it is. Seven times seven, 49 connections. Connections through those desires where each and every new desire is revealed, through it, we connect to all the rest of the sefirot. Until all 49 Sefirot are connected together, these desires to one desire, to the number 50 we call it, which is all together, at which point we come to the degree of Bina, the general Bina, which is called Yom, a state, a day of the giving of Torah in which we receive the upper light. Because we made the Kli in order to bestow, and then we receive in it a light that can be revealed. That's called the Torah, this light that is being revealed. 

Student: Every additional desire that appears, seven, and another seven, and another seven, we then understand clearly that it's this and that desire and not another one? 

M. Laitman: I think that we need to bring them from the prayer book where it's written about each and every desire. We have a special day, meaning with every 24-hour day, that's what we call it, morning, day, and evening, for each and every desire that is being revealed, that you have to work with it in darkness and in light, and also in discovering in this an action from the beginning to the end. We need to reach this in practice. Now, Omer went to bring you maybe the prayer orders so that we can read and read it. We're supposedly supposed to read. We're not supposed to read it. We're supposed to implement it, realize it, where we correct a certain new desire that is revealed until it shines in the upper light, until we reach every Sefira, like a sapphire that illuminates. This is how we compose, put together the Partzuf of the soul, and this is where we start to reveal the relationships between us and the Creator until we reveal Him fully. And then the whole upper light is revealed in this soul, in our connection this way, until the end of correction. This is the actual process that we need to go through. Well, you'll find there something that is suitable to read, and there are many things there. 

Reader: Yes, we can read maybe one sentence. It's very long here, but in principle, every day that we count the Omer... 

M. Laitman: Meaning, each time that the upper light is revealed, that we need to enter into our vessel, we need to correct the vessel, and then what do we do? 

Student: I'll read one sentence. Translators, don't stress, just follow my words. So, every day that we count, we say, thanks to the counting of the Omer that I made today, what the flaw that I made in this specific Sefira will be corrected, and I shall be sanctified with the holiness from above. And by that, great abundance will be bestowed upon all the worlds.

M. Laitman: Meaning, day after day, the desire that's revealed in each and every one needs to be corrected, and to all the rest of the desires, the rest of the friends, and all together, we then reveal a special light, an individual private light, and then that's how we collect these corrections, these lights, until we come to a special light called the giving of the Torah. 

Question (Petah Tikva 4): (45:50) In our Tens, is the work of counting the Omer practical for us now, or just… 

M. Laitman: No, we have yet to exit Egypt. We just need to learn. This year, we're learning a process that we need to go through from the beginning to the end of correction. They were learning. As much as each of us can implement it and realize it, we will see. We will see. I can't say. It all depends on us, on all of us. As much as each of us and all of us together can connect between us and bring the key to correction, and this is how it will define that we are truly advancing. Otherwise, this whole study is truly theoretical. We are not rising above our egos in order to begin to correct the Omer. Meaning, in order to correct our desires in order to bestow. We are not performing a restriction upon them. The exit from Egypt is a certain restriction upon the will to receive in order to receive, and the beginning of the work in order to bestow.

Student: What should we focus on beyond intellectually understanding the topic? 

M. Laitman: Those states that we have yet to go through. We need to be in such a connection that each of us wants to rise above one's individual ego to a connection between us. And when we come to those states in practice, in the connection between us, then we will be able to start counting the extent in which we are collecting our desires for connection, which is called the Omer count, until they are bundled together in a connection in order to bestow a mutual bestowal between us, at which point we are ready to receive the Torah. That's it, you cannot receive the Torah alone but rather only when a person is connected with others to a certain extent, which is called 49 days of the Omer Count. Meaning that we add up seven times seven of our desires. We don't know exactly which are those seven and which desires those are. It's still in a state in which we're correcting them, but when the result of this correction needs to be, that we receive the Torah. On the 50th day, it's called, the giving of the Torah. And then we understand and feel more what we've come to. The process is the same process and nothing has changed here. We're just talking today about the fact that we need to, in practice, come to a state that each and every desire that is revealed in each of us wants to rise above this desire and to bestow to his friends, and that is how when everyone connects between them in mutual bestowal, come to a state in which when they reveal the illumination from above that is revealed through our connection between us. There's nothing new here, just in a more clear way. 

Question (Holland 1): (49:52) Sometimes a person can experience like a real, a repelling reaction towards the revelation of ego. I'd like to ask where, what does it say about a person where he is in his state of correction, because sometimes it appears that this repelling force is, for example, more in the belly and the resistance force is more in the heart. So, if there's really this repelleness, what does it, how does it relate towards the revelation of the vessel, the new vessel? 

M. Laitman: We need to understand that all these states, also beginners and also more advanced students go through this, only each in his certain intensity of it, and there are more descents, more ascents, but eventually it's, it belongs to everyone. This is why there's no one wiser than one with experience. We just need to continue with what you understand and feel and can do, and then there's no one wiser than one with experience, because when you go through that state, you can somewhat say something about it. But to learn in advance about those states, it's impossible. It's not something that you can do. To simply be as much as possible in the preparation of the environment, and this way you very quickly find a connection with it, you establish yourself, stabilize yourself, and then you can understand that situation. 

Question (Haifa 3): (51:55) This whole process is actually done by the light. So, what remains for us is actually through the study and persistence to understand and work this, go through this process out of awareness and patience? 

M. Laitman: This is true. This is true, and we talked about it, that most important is patience, but we have to assist what we're going through. We have to help that happen, and this is where to help means how much we can support each other, give an example to each other. By that, we hasten the times. Israel, meaning one who yearns for the Creator, Yashar El, straight to the Creator, is one who hastens, speeds up his development, and doesn't just flow in the general currents of the world, but how does one discover himself as yearning for the Creator by making efforts in life to achieve that, to reach this direction, to reach the corrected state where he's connected to the Creator. So, that's why we study. It's not going to help us to just sit and wait. We have to do actions, and Kabbalists explain to us what are the actions we can do in order to speed up our development. That's what's up to us, and that is the whole purpose of the wisdom of Kabbalah, that it enables us to speed up our development. And then what others go through, in many life-style skills, through a lot of time, we can do it very quickly.

Question (KabU 3): (53:58) What is exactly the meaning of the sheafs, in this excerpt?  

M. Laitman: Repeat, please. 

Student: What is the meaning of the sheafs?

M. Laitman: Omer just means that we collect the stalks of wheat from the field, and then we can collect them into sheafs, and then we can get bread from it. It represents the action where we take the food of an animal and turn that into the food of a human. That's the issue, that from the will to receive with its fulfillment, we can shift to the will to bestow with its fulfillment. So, that's the symbol of gathering these stalks of wheat. And this is what has been done everywhere in the world for a long time. So, we have to understand what's the difference between the level of an animal and the level of the human. The animal exists for itself, it doesn't have any concern for others, so it only connects to others in a simple, direct, egoistic way. What is the food of the human? The one who connects himself to others and finds food, finds nourishment not by just getting something from others, but what he can get from the connection, the actual connection to others. It's a different essence. 

Reader: Dear friends, we'll go to a live lesson with Rav, and sing a song first. 

Song: (56:30) He will make peace on us and on all of Israel, and if He wills it, amen. He will make peace on us and on all of Israel. He will make peace on us and on all of Israel.