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Daily Morning Lesson: October 14, 2025 

Part 1: Recorded lesson - Oct 17, 2022

Eighth [day] of Assembly and Simchat Torah [The Joy of Torah] - Selected Excerpts from the Sources

Reader: Dear friends, in the first part of the lesson, we will watch a recorded lesson from October 17th, 2022. Excerpts from Kabbalists writing about the “Eighth Day of Assembly and Simchat Torah.”

Reader: We are in a lesson on the topic of the “Eighth Day of Assembly and Simchat Torah.” You can send questions, as always. “Eighth Day of Assembly and Simchat Torah.”

M. Laitman: Yes, this is a great day, the eighth day of Sukkot, this is why it is called, the Eighth; and Atzeret means an assembly. We always talk about how to gather, how to connect, and here it is seemingly our assembly, our final direction. The conclusion of all of the connections that we were in – truly for almost – you may say, a year. And this is how we reach the eighth day of the holiday where we actually received what is called, All of the light that comes to us, To each one of us, and to all of us together from above. This light gathers us, it connects us, and we, as a result of it feel that we become more and more connected. And then to the measure of our connection, we feel that we're becoming a Kli. This Kli is ready to receive a certain illumination, at least a very small one from above, from the Creator. But nevertheless, it is an illumination from above. So, we feel now a bit more than last year, we feel ourselves together, and also that there is something common between us, which is the upper light that is filling us, embracing us, wrapping us. This is how we enter the last day of these holidays, which is called, Shemini Atzeret, the Eighth Day of Atzeret, or Simchat Torah [the joy of Torah]. 

Reader: First topic is the eighth day of assembly, item number one is from Zohar for All. 

Reading: (03:29) 1. Zohar for All, Pinhas, “The Pouring of Water“, Item 895

This is the meaning of what is written, “You shall have an assembly.” Atzeret means “assembly,” Malchut is where everything is assembled, the receptacle for all the upper lights. “You shall have,” and not another, meaning that the Sitra Achra has no part in it. Rather, you will rejoice in your Master, and He with you. It is written about it, “Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you righteous ones; and shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart.” 

M. Laitman: Yes, this means that – all in all, as a result of all of these holidays of this whole assembly, which we pull, extend through all the days of the holidays – it is to feel that the Creator is in our assembly. And we justify His creation, and what He did to us, and how He took us through all of the states to a state where we become the vessel for His revelation in order to show of ourselves, from us, the great joy and the inclination to make Him happy. 

Reader: (05:14) What exactly is assembled? 

M. Laitman: We assemble ourselves in the Creator; and now, because we finished all of the corrections, all of the assemblies. We can say that that place of Malchut, which is us who assemble it, who build it, who establish it, that the Creator is also there and we are all together. This is why it is called, Atzeret [an assembly]; Atzeret meaning an assembly, a gathering. 

Reader: And in the Atzeret, the assembly, is basically the revelation of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: We have the revelation of the Creator within the revelation of the created being. We also discover ourselves in a new greater form, a more important one, and also the Creator.

Reader: What makes this moment joyful? 

M. Laitman: The revelation of the Creator in the created being, this is the purpose of creation. It's not that it symbolizes for us the end of all of the corrections, but it is a very big part of our efforts, which we have made and we have assembled. We drew the Creator to us through all of the actions that we performed, and especially through the four species: That we draw everything to Malchut, and we want the Creator to be revealed in it.

Reader: So during the revelation of the Creator in this special moment of assembly and gathering, what's our work? 

M. Laitman: Our work is to assemble everything, we will read about it soon, and to be a place where the light of the Creator can be revealed as much as possible. And most importantly – it's not like we want to discover all the light that comes to us, but rather – we have to discover the joy out of the fact that we are in such a state. 

Question (Tbilisi): (08:03) We gather in the Creator, meaning gathering in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Yes, the fact that we gather in the Ten means that we are gathering in the Creator. Because ultimately Israel, the light and the Creator are one; we have to reach a state where we gather, and the Creator is within us. And all of the upper light is standing to shine in us, that all of this becomes one.

Student: If we used to say Creator once, it used to be something very general. Yesterday, for the first time, there was a concrete picture of the Ten that appeared. I don't know, is it a kind of a correction? 

M. Laitman: It is all true when you participate together with everyone and make an effort. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (09:52) To assemble in the Creator, what does it mean as a Ten, what is this addition to our connection? Let's say the regular connection in the Ten. 

M. Laitman: One vessel receives one Creator; one vessel is when we all connect together and we want to incorporate, to connect, to assemble in a single desire. The desire, we can't make it one, but the intention that it will be directed from friend to friend and through all of the friends to the Creator, that we can aim. So we want in the disposition of our heart, to connect our hearts. To imagine to ourselves that we are in a single desire, meaning a single heart, so much so that the Creator, who is one, can clothe in this great desire that we have assembled from all of our hearts. And this is how He is revealed; this actually is what we have to do. This is the end of our work, the end of the correction. 

Question (Zafon 1): (11:31) Today we are celebrating the joy of the Torah. This holiday, like all of our holidays, is cyclical. Meaning that every year we go back to the same kind of initial point as we had last year. But, basically, in this year we've changed, we went through some renewal process. We have new thoughts, new feelings, and in general, I think, it's not a regular cycle but we are developing in some spiral, where each time we go to a higher degree in our development. Is that correct, and if it is so, if you can maybe expand on that? 

M. Laitman: We, from one day to the next, are rising and rising and rising on the degrees towards the Creator, according to the connections that we put together between us. These holidays helped us a lot, they gave us a lot of such connections of mutual connection; and also connection between us and the Creator. I think that you all feel that this is how it is happening already. And we will continue in that more and more until we will discover these states in actuality. That everyone, they all go through us more and more in a revealed manner, bringing us closer and aiming us. This is what has to happen soon, in the upcoming time.

Reading: (13:39) 2. Maor VaShemesh, “Intimations of Shmini Atzeret” - Twice

Our whole intention on the day of Shmini Atzeret [Eight of the Assembly] is for the Creator to unite with the Assembly of Israel and extend all the upper lights to the kingdom of heaven. The unification is mainly through the Torah, and the Torah and the Creator and Israel are one.

M. Laitman: Yes, read it again. 

Question (PT 35): (14:46) What does it mean that the Creator unites with the Assembly of Israel? 

M. Laitman: With the vessel, the Creator is the light of Ein Sof and He, in all of His actions, He assembles the vessels. He corrects them, He connects them together, and to the extent that they also make an effort out of themselves and an intention. Then the Creator can clothe in them and be as light inside of the vessel. And it all happens according to the equivalence of form, as much as the vessel begins to be similar to the light. This is what we're studying and this is what we have to start to feel: How we, through the connection between us, through our work, how we assemble so much so that the connection between us will be suitable for the single light that will fill us. 

Student: How do we continue this feeling from everything we collected in these holidays and feel actually more connected at heart? 

M. Laitman: We will continue, we will continue, this is why we also have today, a very special day, which is the General Assembly that should be felt in us as gathering all of the holidays that we went through together, and we hold it. This is actually a transition into a state where in all of the holidays we were under the rule of the holiday, the rule of the upper one. And today we're shifting to our rule, and here it's important not to lose the connection between us, but to the contrary. To strengthen it more and more –we're seemingly receiving a handoff from the Creator to us. That from here on, we are continuing the assembly and we are connected, and we are building for the Creator a place for His revelation. So that all of the holidays, no matter which ones, nevertheless, it's an awakening from above, it comes to us from above. It has already been determined, established in the upper lights. And we are entering states where all of these days will already be through an awakening from us, an awakening from below. And this is why, here, we have to pay attention, how do we extend those lights that came to us through the upper awakening? How do we draw them through the awakening from below, the awakening from us? 

Reader: Number three, Zohar for All. 

Reading: (18:11) 3. Zohar for All, Tikkuney Zohar, Correction No. 13

The Eighth of the Assembly is a celebration in itself. In it is the springing of the Torah, to water the tree that is planted in the garden, and its roots and branches. It is like the cycle of the Earth, in which all the festivals are celebrated. 

M. Laitman: Yes, this is the last day that seals for us all of the holidays – it assembles for us all of the holidays, and it stops them, this is why it is called, The Joy of Torah. Meaning all of the light that we can discover from above, it is revealed inside a single vessel, and we draw this light. It's not one, the light in itself includes many lights, and we, thus, receive it through: Israel, the light and the Creator are one. That is, He wants to tell us that the Eighth Day of the Assembly, it's a holiday on its own. It's not that it's connected to all of the previous holidays. But rather we, through all of the previous holidays, have prepared the place for – or let's say the trail, the path – for the upper light, so it can come down from above to us.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (20:05) How does it work that all the holidays are from the Creator. And then there's suddenly some moment that comes from us? What, why this inversion?

M. Laitman: Because this is beginning to be our work already, on the eighth day of the assembly, to make it into the day of the joy of Torah. That we, with our intention, we want to unite, as he writes in Excerpt No. 2: To unite the upper light with the vessel, with Malchut. So that the entrance of the nine lights into Malchut is called, Simchat Torah – the joy of Torah. Then we discover how much we are reaching the upper unification - Israel, the light, and the Creator are One. And this is already by us wanting it to happen, by us drawing the upper light to Malchut. 

Student: What is the right response on our part? 

M. Laitman: We want that the upper light will be revealed in Malchut, and we cause the connection between them.

Student: What did we do so far? 

M. Laitman: So far, we didn't do these things in actuality. Until now, we were not concerned about having a connection between the first nine and Malchut. But rather, we prepared the lights, we prepared the vessels; but a true connection for it to exist, why is it called, An Atzeret, an assembly? Because they all come together, they connect, and the upper light enters this connection, according to the equivalence of form between the light and the vessel. And this is why this day is called, The joy of Torah. When the upper light called, Torah – or the entire full NRNHY, even above NRNHY, because it's no longer divided into five lights – it enters into the correct assembly of the vessels that were broken. And now they become connected, so much so that it is called the assembly of Israel. That, it assembles the entire vessel, or many vessels into a single vessel, and many lights are revealed as one light. And the individual Malchuyot are revealed as a single Malchut. This is why, this is actually what we celebrate., and so this is why we say that Israel, the light and the Creator are One.

Student: What does the Creator put us through until this point? 

M. Laitman: All of the corrections, all of the individual corrections; and now, He seals it, signs it, concludes it. 

Student: When we respond to all the corrections that happened on part of the Creator, how do we continue to work with them? 

M. Laitman: In that we enter the great Zivug, the coupling, the connection, which is called, The joy of Torah. When the upper light that is called Torah, it enters into the vessel that has been prepared for it. And there is a unification between Israel, the light, and the Creator; meaning between the upper light and the vessel, and it is all revealed as one - one receives One.

Student: We read before that in the Eighth of the Assembly, all the holidays are in it. 

M. Laitman: Yes, because all of the corrections that we performed throughout the year are all revealed on Shmini Atzeret and Simhat Torah. We have no greater day than receiving the upper light inside of the corrected vessel.

Student: What is great about this day though? 

M. Laitman: That the light, the Creator, comes in and He settles, dwells in the created beings. We don't quite feel it, and in general, who is taking part in these celebrations, who appreciates them? Because we haven't reached in practice, in our world, this state, this light has not been revealed. But when we will get closer to it, you will see how much the world will change.

Question (Moscow 6): (26:05) The days of the holidays are the preparation? 

M. Laitman: Throughout the year we make corrections, and on the Eighth of the Assembly we get the result. It's like we have several such days for all the year which are very great days, very high; however, we don't quite give them the right attention because these days, these states, are still far from being revealed in our world. And when we will reach it, when we will come closer to their realization, then we will see how truly great they are – even though earlier they were hardly noticed.

Question (Piter 3): (27:10) We went through seven special days in this Sukkot and went through states, the guests in the Sukkah stay, different states. What's important to take from this holiday to merit the joy of Torah?

M. Laitman: Connection, with one word, it's only connection. This is what the Creator from all of the created beings, that they will connect together as it was prior to the shattering of Adam HaRishon. All of the desires, all of the thoughts, all of the yearnings, that it will all be together with the intention that each one is bestowing to the others and he wants to connect with everyone. And in this way, if we will start to get closer to each other, we will start to feel how much our world is a spiritual world. It is good, beautiful, that's it. If there are no questions, then let's continue. After these holidays, again, we're entering a year, the cycle of the year. And we will see how we will continue it so it will already be on a different degree, a higher one. And that we will feel the relation between us also differently. It's different, higher, with greater understanding of who is it before me, that it's not just my friends, but rather parts of my soul. More and more, that we will feel it like that; this is what we need to pay attention to.

Reader: (29:11) Summarize the holiday or the whole period of holidays we went through, because we felt inspiration?

M. Laitman: No, let us, first of all, finish this study – whatever they write for me I have to keep it. If I have something before me that I'm very meticulous about reading it, and explaining it, and being precise with it. Later on, we will see the fact that you were asking if I can have kind of a scan over all of the holidays, I think it would be better if it will be a topic for a workshop, for a discussion, but not that I will tell you about it. Because when you speak about it, you become more incorporated with each other, and there's a greater benefit of that. Let's see. 

Reading: (30:21) 4. RABASH, Article No. 894, "Simchat Torah” [The Joy of Torah] - Twice

It is written in Shaar HaKavanot that Torah is called Zeir Anpin, and if he bestows upon Malchut, it means that Malchut is already fit to receive the abundance. Therefore, Zeir Anpin, who is called “Torah,” is happy.

This is called “the joy of Torah.” We can interpret this according to what Baal HaSulam said, that one should be happy that the Creator is happy that He can bestow upon the lower ones.

M. Laitman: Yes, well, again.

M. Laitman: If there are no questions I don't have much to add here. The Torah, Zeir Anpin, when it starts to shine to Malchut, this is considered that the Torah is revealed in the lower ones, in the souls, in people. This is called, The Joy of Torah – Simchat Torah – that is the upper light that fills the corrected vessels. Everything is actually around a single action and a single purpose.

Question (Kyiv 1): (32:41) Where in our connection in the Ten can we find this quality of Zeir Anpin of the Torah? 

M. Laitman: We don't have it, we are preparing a vessel for it and if the vessel will be ready, the connection between us, a mutual connection where we all want to bestow to everyone, each one to the others. Then in such a way, we reach a state where we make the Creator happy, or we give joy to the Torah, to the upper light that will clothe in the vessel because this is His desire. This is what He created the vessels for, in order to fill them and make them happy. 

Question (Darom 1): (33:39) What are the signs that the Torah shines to Malchut? 

M. Laitman: When a person feels that he is beginning to attain the intentions, the purposes, the desires of the Creator within him, inside of him. In his connection with the others and beginning to work together with them in one heart. 

Question (Latin 2): (34:27) The joy of the Torah, should we assume that the Creator is happy with us, that we're engaged in this work? 

M. Laitman: Yes, the fact that we want to assemble, even in a way that is not corrected yet, not complete, it doesn't matter. It's like little children, as much as they grow, it gives happiness to the parents, and it's the same with us. When we, from one day to the next, want to be more connected and to gather, and to connect in order to be suitable for the upper light to be revealed in us one day. This gives joy to the Creator. He's happy with us.

Question (PT 35): (35:32) How does it connect that the Creator receives contentment from what we build, this Kli for the reception of the light? How do we connect it to the joy we feel between us, right now? 

M. Laitman: You can't feel it yet because your joy is still not matching the joy of the Creator, it will be revealed according to the equivalence of form. But bit by bit, you'll come closer to it. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (36:11) I heard you say before that we will gradually begin to see in our friends that they're not our friends, they're parts of our soul. That we will feel that, and we have to pay attention to that. And I wanted to ask, what does it mean that we feel the friends as pieces of my soul, what changes exactly? 

M. Laitman: I can't explain this to you, it's an inner feeling: That we are so connected that it's impossible to separate us internally, we cannot be separated, this is what we need to feel. It's a call to be, As one man in one heart; so then, you will feel how much each one is getting closer or moving away in a way that you feel him inside, that he is moving away or coming closer. And then you will constantly be concerned about, where is he, do we see him or not? Why? Yes? No? This is the connection; there is more additional degrees and matters in that, but at least like that.

Student: Yes, I understand what you're saying, maybe still you said to pay more attention to it. What do we need to pay attention to because there is some inner communication between us, I assume, of concern. What attention can we add, here? 

M. Laitman: Pay attention that we attain the final goal together through our mutual incorporation, the most internal one that you can imagine.

Question (Turkiye 4): (38:06) How is it possible to come from the state of Hosha’ana Rabbah to the state of Simchat Torah? 

M. Laitman: They are close to each other: Hosha’ana Rabbah is that we ask and we expect Hosha’ana. How shall I say it with other words – salvation, salvation. And this is why it brings us joy. That we have been expecting so much to be free of our ego, not because we wanted it, but because it doesn't allow us to be grateful to the Creator, to bestow to Him, to engage in bestowal, to resemble the Creator, and now we are able to. This is what Hosha’ana Rabbah, the great salvation that the Creator did for us. 

Question (Tel Aviv 4): (39:34) Why, after there's a feeling that we've achieved some degree of new connection. It actually, there's this sharp state that comes, that if you don't add this seed, then everything's lost?

M. Laitman: This is how it is in spirituality, always, that the final action seals, concludes, wraps everything that was before it. And this is why it scrutinizes the entire action, the general action, all in all, as one; everything is felt in the end.

Student: Is it really that sharp, that if you don't add, everything's lost? 

M. Laitman: No, not that everything is lost, there's no such thing in spirituality that everything is lost. But nevertheless – how can I express it – that we feel it in the end. And until then, we have to add and add, patiently, with inner persuasion, and most importantly, with a connection between the friends in order to hold each other, and then we all reach the summary.

Student: And from that, we're happy, that we can give the effort? 

M. Laitman: We're happy  that the Creator is giving us an opportunity to see that without connection between us, we will not be able to get closer to the goal. That inside, the connection between us is the goal. And therefore, as much as another step and another step, we go through on the path, we see that only through the inner connections between us, without paying attention to all of the external phenomena that want to cool us down, this is how we advance. 

Student: And this is called, The vessel in which we can receive the Torah? 

M. Laitman: Yes, this is the vessel. 

Question (PT 4): (42:12) The next degree of connection is felt as so gentle, so subtle. How can we develop this subtlety, this feeling because it truly feels like it's concealed and evasive, slippery?

M. Laitman: You have all of this in the friends. If you start working with them, you'll see how much there is subtlety, how much here you have to open your heart, and open it, and close it, and open it, and close it. And then through all kinds of such actions, you will start to build a screen and an attitude. You will see where your coarseness is, all of the different manners of connection – it is truly, it's all ahead of you. 

Student: But these are the same actions that we do all the time because it feels as though we're missing out. We're performing a single action but it actually exists in a different place.

M. Laitman: If you're performing an action in order to be more connected with the friends, this action is in the right groove. But only on the condition that you're thinking through it to be more together and close with everyone. 

Student: What does it mean, more enclosed because I'm coming out of a certain connection, and I want to reach a certain connection? What does it mean that I'm more enclosed with them?

M. Laitman: A stronger connection, more inclusive, that you are becoming more incorporated in all the different manners. That you want to feel your friends in all of their different forms, the way that they're all connecting. You want to incorporate all of these connections and to become incorporated with that. 

Student: Should it be expressed in a greater deficiency for connection with them? 

M. Laitman: Of course, without a deficiency, how can you start any action? 

Student: But, let's say in the end of some process of connection, I should feel a greater yearning to be connected, or should I feel more connected?

M. Laitman: Both, one has nothing to do with the other. It's like if you have some good food, you enjoy the food, and along with that, the deficiency grows in you.

Question (Karmiel): (45:01) How is the custom of bringing out the books of Torah from the Holy Covenant, how is it related to the joy of Torah? 

M. Laitman: This is a custom, we're not learning about the customs here. What's important for us is what's related, what's needed for the soul. 

Question (CzechSlovak 3): (45:19) Is the timing of Simchat Torah for each Ten individual? Or is it tied to the calendar day? 

M. Laitman: That is also a question which is not to the point, we're not related to times. We're related to spiritual states, so after we correct the vessel, then comes to us Sukkot, Ushpizin [the guests]. When we get lights that corrects our vessel: Chesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, Malchut. We get the joy of Torah, when all of the light is assembled, is incorporated and it fills the entire vessel that we have corrected.

Question (UK 2): (46:35) How do we express this joy of the Torah in our Tens and groups? Or do we conceal it and feel it only internally? 

M. Laitman: We're talking about an inner feeling, just like the whole Torah is referred to as the inner wisdom. That everything is felt internally by the person in his heart; and externally, there are customs – many different customs – but that's typically for the common people. We're talking about our inner states, how our desire is changing and gets more and more ready to be filled by the upper light. 

Question (Moscow 6): (47:52) In this new degree of connection, it appears as though created beings disappear and behind each created being is the Creator, and only one connection remains, is it so?

M. Laitman: Yes, that's right. 

Question (German 4): (48:32) What does it mean in Excerpt No. 4, when he says that the Creator is happy to give to the lower ones? Who are these lower ones and what is the lower ones? 

M. Laitman: We are the lower ones, we want to receive from the Creator the correction of the vessels and then the fulfillment of the vessels. And by that, we come to equivalence and adhesion with Him. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (49:10) You said that we have to reach a connection with each other, what is this connection you're talking about? We see we were all sitting together here, we're connected. And how can we reach, you talked about inner connections, how can we reach inner connections? Are we engaging in inner connections? We're not? 

M. Laitman: That is probably insufficient because we don't feel in the connections between us, some unique upper force that connects us, and that is called, Inner connection. And that this reveals to us a new upper reality, a reality that is in qualities of mutual bestowal between us. And that we feel ourselves being above this world, in mutual bestowal and mutual love. 

Student: What’s missing?

M. Laitman: What's missing is relation between us. Instead of an ordinary relationship, that it will be a relationship of mutual bestowal. 

Student: How do we reach this relation that you were talking about – we were talking all around the topic. But practically, how can we reach those conditions to truly feel our internality, our inner relation, to reach this work, to reach this thing, to truly reach this inner need? 

M. Laitman: To grab hold of the moment and then ask the Creator, demand Him to connect between us in connections of bestowal. And, let's pay attention that we want to be only in bestowal, each one in his group. Not outside the group but each one in his group, to pay attention that he relates equally to all the friends, only in bestowal, with this attention, in connection. And he wants that feeling to grow and become clarified as the upper light that fills the gaps between us.

Student: What do you mean through annulment towards the friends? It's only about annulment? 

M. Laitman: Annulment, too, yes. 

Student: What else? 

M. Laitman: In connection.

Student: Exactly, this concept of connection. What do you mean when you say connection? 

M. Laitman: The concept of connection is that I want to be connected with the other in heart and soul, meaning in heart and mind, and that we will feel ourselves as one. 

Reading: (52:22) 5. RABASH, Article No. 18 (1987), "What Is Preparation for Reception of the Torah? – 1"

We must remember the known rule that there is no light without a Kli [vessel]. That is, there cannot be filling without a lack. It is impossible to enjoy something without yearning for it, and yearning for something is called “preparation,” meaning a need. The need for something determines the yearning, and the level of the pleasure corresponds to the level of the yearning.

It therefore follows that prior to the giving of the Torah, there had to be a preparation for the reception of the Torah. Otherwise, there could not be joy of the Torah. That is, they had to prepare the need to receive the Torah, and the need yields the above-mentioned yearning. According to the level of the yearning, so is the measure by which we can enjoy the Torah. 

Reading: (53:52) 6. Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article No. 242, "What Is the Matter of Delighting the Poor on a Good Day, in the Work?" - Twice

When one receives an illumination from above, even while one has not been purified, if he takes this illumination in order to raise himself from his lowliness and approach bestowal, it is considered that the Lo Lishma brings him Lishma, meaning that he is walking on the path of Torah.

This is called “One who is happy on holidays.” A holiday is a good day. And certainly there is no greater good day than when some illumination shines for a person from above, which brings him closer to the Creator. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (56:07) This illumination from above that develops us and brings us to Lishma, should it be felt by us somehow in the Ten, some awakening? 

M. Laitman: It is felt by the one who awakens it, this light is felt by the one who summons it, invites it, anticipates it, not in everyone. But for the others, this light shines as a surrounding light so, it's farther but it's still bringing them closer. And if there are in the Ten a few people who are practically attracting the light, then the others receive from it an addition, an addition of surrounding light. 

Student: What is it like, who are these people in the Ten who draw the light? How do we draw the light? 

M. Laitman: They want to be in bestowal, in practice.

Question (New York 2): (57:23) If we're all different and there is no equality between us, then how do we relate equally to all the friends? 

M. Laitman: We'll never be equal because, being equal, means that there is no one and third, second or third, it's just one. We're not equal according to our desires, and that means we're also unequal in our intentions, in our actions – we're not equal in anything. No one is identical to another in anything, no. And yet, we're all drawn to a single source, which we think of as a single source, until we begin to equalize with the Creator. And when we get to a state where the Creator shines on us, then His upper light truly does connect us and make us into a single assembly. But if not for that, we would never get closer and feel each other as belonging to a single root. We'd have no way to connect. 

Question (Odessa): (59:21) We'll continue the question by the friend from Kiev. If suddenly, in some manner, I'm able to draw light I'm not saying that I'm doing it, but let's say, if through the friends the Creator is showing me my uncorrected qualities, then I want His light to work on me, not on the friends. Am I thinking correctly, and how do I do it? 

M. Laitman: I want the upper light that each of us in the group can somehow attract, will influence everyone, and bring everyone together, and then together we come to a single vessel. 

Reader: We're in a subtitle, Joy from the Study of Torah. Number Seven, Rabash writes,

Reading: (01:00:25) 7. RABASH, Article No. 22 (1985), "The Whole of the Torah Is One Holy Name" - Twice

During the study we must always pay attention to the purpose of the study of Torah, meaning what we should demand from the study of Torah. At that time we are told that first we must ask for Kelim, meaning to have vessels of bestowal, called “equivalence of form,” by which the restriction and concealment that were placed on the creatures are removed. To the extent that this is so he begins to feel the holiness and begins to have a taste for the work of the Creator. At that time he can be happy because Kedusha [holiness] yields joy, for the light of doing good to His creations shines there. 

 Again, Excerpt Seven.

Question (Tbilisi): (01:02:43) Following each and every Congress, you say we advanced – there was never such a feeling of advancement. And after these holidays, there's a very clear feeling of advancement. It's expressed in joy for the friends, for the world, Kli, and gratitude to the Creator and to you. 

M. Laitman: That's true, I truly receive such letters from everyone, from many. 

Question (Tel Aviv 4): (01:03:21) What are vessels of bestowal? There are vessels of reception. What are vessels of bestowal? 

M. Laitman: Well asked! Vessels of bestowal mean vessels that have no ability to receive in order to bestow but only to bestow in order to bestow. These are vessels of the coarseness level Root, One, and Two. Vessels of reception are coarser vessels, thicker vessels, they have a greater will to receive. They can receive in order to bestow if they are corrected. And these are vessels with the coarseness level Three and Four.

Student: Why is it called a vessel? Usually, we say the force of bestowal, the ability to bestow.

M. Laitman: No, no, no, it's a vessel, they receive the light in order to bestow. They are actually the vessels.

Question (Queens): (01:04:35) There has to be a demand for the Torah; if there's no deficiency, does the joy come nevertheless? 

M. Laitman: If there's no deficiency for the Torah, there's no joy of the Torah because there's no vessel for it to clothe and then from its fulfillment, there will be a sense of joy. 

Question (PT 35): (01:05:02) Paying attention means to pay attention to the friends? 

M. Laitman: Through that.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:05:23) Baal HaSulam wrote somewhere that if a person receives, if he would know what the quality of bestowal is before he has the vessels for discovering bestowal, if he would discover what it is, he would cut off his hands and legs, meaning there has to be a preparation. So, my question is this: How to be in gratitude for the concealment the Creator is giving us, that we will truly be in gratitude, and along with that, to yearn for the revelation of the Creator. That is, to keep the concealment on one hand, but to yearn for His revelation and to even add joy to this. 

M. Laitman: All of that falls into place and comes to us in a single feeling, a single feeling; that's why it is called, Coupling of striking, you understand? You always talk about such things where there are seemingly opposite actions together. We'll come to it, and you'll see how it happens beautifully one inside the other. 

Student: That's it, it's impossible to reach a result without putting these three things together.

M. Laitman: In spirituality, it does happen, in spirituality, it does happen.

Student: You cannot receive the Torah so long as you don't reach this necessity. Abraham also received a guarantee from the Creator?

M. Laitman: True, correct, yes. That Isaac will be from your seed, and you will sacrifice him, and so on. Well, we learn all of that, but we don't understand it until it all dresses in a single vessel. We'll wait a bit more, and you'll feel it.  

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:07:43) How can we now catch the illumination and not let the opportunity just pass by? 

M. Laitman: All of this depends on the friends. One person cannot hold on to it. If all the friends are around him, and they hold him. Then it's like in a system of Arvut, that we are in a boat, and we all make sure that we sail smoothly.  

Question (Moscow 1): (01:08:32) What I received from the Creator, this is why I give Him contentment?

M. Laitman: Of course. 

Reading: (01:08:44) 8. RABASH, Letter No. 36

If a person wishes to do plentiful good deeds and study of Torah, but cannot, he should not regret it but be happy while working in the right. He should be content with what

ever he can do, and praise and thank His name for being able to do a small service to the King. Even a minute a day or a minute in two days should be to him like finding a great treasure.

And even if it is a simple deed, meaning without vitality, he should still try to be happy and derive vitality from being allowed to serve the King. This is how he should be during the study, meaning whole. This is regarded as Torah, which is right, as it is written, “On His right was a fiery law.” For every opportunity, one must praise the Creator. 

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Reader: We'll go to studying between friends, but first we'll sing a song together. 

Song: (01:10:17)