Lezione del giorno4 lug 2024(Afternoon)

Part 1 Rabash. Record 22. And You, Israel

Rabash. Record 22. And You, Israel

4 lug 2024

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

Daily Lesson (Afternoon) July 4, 2024.

Part 1: Rabash. Record 22. And You, Israel

Reader: Hello, we're studying the Writings of Rabash, Volume 3, Article 22. “And You Israel.” You can find the study materials on our website, Sviva Tova and Arvut. Article by Rabash, “And You Israel.”

M. Laitman: “And You Israel,” please. 

Reading Article: (00:36) Rabash. Record 22. And You, Israel.

 “And you, Israel, listen to the laws and the judgments... You shall not add to the matter that I command you, nor take away from it, to keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.”

We should understand what is a law and what is a judgment. The verse makes a precision, “You shall not add… nor take away… that I command you.” In both addition and reduction, everything must be only precisely as He commands.

There is a difference between those who walk in the work in order to bestow or in order to receive reward. Those who walk in order to bestow begin the work anew each day in both mind and heart. They cannot receive any support from “the day before, for it has passed.” Rather, they truly have no choice, but each day they must return to the foundations of the work, to the reasons that compel them to walk on the path of truth.

It is as though each day he should speak with himself that it is worthwhile to be a servant of the Creator, and the body asks him every day when he begins the work, “Give me the reasons why you are forcing me to give all my powers for the sake of the Creator.” And if it asks, we must answer; otherwise, it does not want to work. Thus, each day there are the same arguments and the same questions and the same answers.

When a person is drawn to work in the Torah and prayer and good deeds, but does not remember the purpose of the work, which is in order to bestow, the work is easier for him, since at that time he follows the general public. But when he remembers the goal, which is mind and heart, “the world darkens for him” because it is against the body, which is called “self-love.”

At that time, he has nothing to answer to the body, but it is a law that the Creator wants us to believe him that it is for His sake, that specifically through work in mind and heart, a person is rewarded with achieving his wholeness, and then his enemies, too, become his friends. This is called “with all your heart, with both your inclinations, the good inclination and the evil inclination.”

It is written about this, “You shall not add,” meaning to increase mind and reason in a place that should be specifically above reason. It follows that if he tries to understand and learn it within reason, if he thinks that by this he will be able to do more work because the body agrees where it understands within reason, this is called “You shall not add.”

Instead, we must believe in the Creator, that precisely through Him we will achieve completion, called “faith above reason.”

However, there is the matter of “judgment,” which is the opposite. There, a person must try to understand the Torah within reason. A person should try to understand the Torah that the Creator gave him as much as he can. If he sees that he does not understand the words of Torah, he should increase the prayers and litanies, where there is the matter of “understanding, growing knowledgeable, hearing, to learn and to teach.”

Here comes the second matter, “Do not take away,” but rather increase the Torah, as is explained about the hand Tefillin, called “faith,” as it is written, “And it will be a token on your hand.” Our sages said, “A token for you and not for others,” meaning that the hand Tefillin should be covered because it implies faith above reason, called “kingdom of heaven.”

Conversely, the head Tefillin represents the Torah, called Zeir Anpin. Our sages said about it the verse, “And all the peoples of the earth shall see that the name of the Lord is called upon you and will fear you.” These are the head Tefillin, where there is revelation, as it is written, “shall see.”

Torah is called “revealing,” when the peoples of the earth within a person feel the quality of the Torah that they extended, they “will fear you,” for then the evil surrenders and the good governs. This is call “judgment,” for “judgment” is revealing, and we must not take away from it but increase the knowledge of Torah. Conversely, a “law” means covering, which is above reason, when it is forbidden to increase knowledge.

M. Laitman: Yes, this is the whole article. Very kind of, what shall we do now? There is only one question. 

Question (Women MAK 98): (07:52) How to constantly renew our state in a qualitative way and not just not remember the past because it is unpleasant to me. 

M. Laitman: We don't need to be, no, we don't need to be immersed in the past, rather in the present and future. And the past is past. Hence, what we need is to connect to the future, and in relation to the future, to constantly yearn to advance and work. 

Question (Turkiye 2): (08:55) How is it possible to logically understand the Torah?

M. Laitman: Why not? The Torah is not against the logic. It is actually something that develops a person's logic. And therefore, it can be logical and accept each thing through examination, critique, take it conditionally, and with study Torah and a minute, with faith above reason. And there is nothing that bothers here.

Student: How can a person reveal the similarity between the mind and the Torah?

M. Laitman: That we learn, and on our path, it comes to us. When a person corrects his mind for it to be at the same level of the Torah, then the Torah will enter one's mind, and he'll work accordingly. 

Question (Women Moscow 6): (10:50) At the end of the article, it says Mishpat, judgment, that one must not take away from it, but increase the knowledge of Torah. Conversely, a law means covering, which is above reason when it is forbidden to increase knowledge. What in our work should we cover, and what should be revealed? What is  judgment, and what is law?

M. Laitman: We need to discover all that's possible and to hide all that bothers us, so it doesn't bother us. As a result, we will see that what was yesterday, or at some point in the past concealed the path for us, today no longer does so. Now it's incorporated. This is how we will gradually reveal to ourselves all the ways of the Torah.

Question (MAK 51): (11:56) Also, from the same sentence, Mishpat, justice is revealing, we must not take away from it  but increase the knowledge of Torah. What is the knowledge of Torah? 

M. Laitman: It is bestowal, giving, love, and relating to the Creator consistently. Love your friend as yourself. 

Question (Women MAK): (12:42) What is the desire to receive that I can use for bestowal to the other? 

M. Laitman: All that the other wants, if you are trying to give that to him, then you have to use the will to receive in order to pass it to him.

Student: What are these 613 egotistical desires that are first corrected to bestowal for bestowal and then for reception for bestowal? 

M. Laitman: Not all of them, not necessarily so in a certain order, each his own but in essence, first they are corrected in order to bestow and then in receiving in order to bestow, from the easiest desire to enjoy to the biggest one. 

Question (Moscow 4): (13:59) As I understand, the problem that this article presents is that we have to rise in faith above reason and not neglect the opportunity to increase the knowledge that helps us on the way. The question is, is this something that a person can do by self-control, or should we organize something in the group, some mechanisms in the group or organization? I can even give an example if this is appropriate. For example, even if we take the morning lesson, in the article it says, a man starts his work anew and we see from the questions they often repeat. On the one hand, we don't criticize the person that he didn't read, he didn't prepare in advance, he could have in one second find the answer on the website, in the archive, but he's asking. So, we go in faith above reason. On the other hand, it's as if we treat laziness, we allow laziness, that the person isn't prepared. Is this an inner question, or can we organize it in some way? 

M. Laitman: No, that's inner control. A person himself needs to do this.

Question (German): (15:32) A question with regards to the Tefillin. It's not clear to me, what does the Tefilin symbolize? The head Tefillin, the hand Tefillin, how can we realize these meanings in our daily life? 

M. Laitman: I can't say. A person that learns Torah and wants to come closer to the Creator begins to feel whether he needs the Tefillin or not. Will it help him or not? And then he begins to come closer to it. He buys a Tefillin and wraps it up on himself from time to time. By the rule, we do this in the morning. In the Shacharit prayer, the morning prayer. And that's it. 

Student: We have friends that do this, and I cannot overcome myself to do this, to perform this action. What do I do with this Hisaron?

M. Laitman: I don't know. It's a correction that only Jews do, and also not each and everyone, but all those who agree with it. And then each morning he wraps himself with Tefillin. And I'm not saying that it has to be for each and every one of my students. No. If you yearn to know the laws of Torah, then learn them and observe them inside and by that you'll reach everything. Everything. 

Student: I have another question.

M. Laitman: Please. 

Student: I don't have a Tallit or Tefillin but I feel like the friends want me to join them in this. Is it worth doing it? 

M. Laitman: I don't think. I don't think. There is nothing from this. You continue like this for the time being and then you'll see. That's it. The wisdom of Kabbalah does not obligate. Altogether, it's a matter of desire.

Question (Women MAK 25): (19:40) Please tell us. It is written that we cannot receive support from yesterday's day when it's passed. But we cannot erase and forget everything. We have a memory of previous days, we remember something. How do we correctly use this memory in our work? 

M. Laitman: Continue. What was yesterday, continue today. We don't need to erase anything. 

Student: And if some experience that's like a heavy burden, how to use it, we don't know, but there's still this tension, how do we use it? 

M. Laitman: We need to learn to erase it. Erase. Every day seemingly start anew. 

Student: And this erasing, is this forgiveness or justification? 

M. Laitman: It's the work in the heart. You don't want to drag with you all kinds of burdenings that you had from yesterday, from the times of the past.

Question (Women MAK 43): (21:06)  Is it correct to think that the hand Tefillin is faith? 

M. Laitman: No, you don't need to think that Tefillin is faith, and altogether that there's something special in these boxes.

Student: So, do I understand correctly that faith has to be covered, because only in concealment we can speak of faith? 

M. Laitman: That's true.

Student: And the left is Hochma and the right is Hassadim? 

M. Laitman: That's also not correct, meaning, faith is signs, but by no means, it's not that there's some quality called faith and on the left will be Hassadim. No. Truly, truly not, by no means, don't accept it that way.

Question (Women Heb 2): (22:59) In this paragraph about the argument, my first question is, what does it mean, Atzmo, himself? Who is that person asking himself? I just feel that often the Creator is in the body, and he's not in the mind, it's only the ego, the thoughts, and in the body. I feel the Creator, he stops me when needed. There are different calculations in the mind and the heart, so I feel about myself, I want to arrange it in some way. I hear him in the mind and not in my ego. It's as if I hear him in the body.

M. Laitman: You continue and soon you'll start to feel. And you'll start to connect to Him specifically through the body.

Question (Women MAK 107): (24:24) Can we arrange some reasons with the body? Can we reason with the body to arrange the work for bestowal? Let me repeat. Can we agree with the body to work for bestowal? What arguments can we give the body to help us in our work for the heavens? 

M. Laitman: We can summarize it. If you think about it all the time.

Student: Maybe we can find a solution in the circle.

M. Laitman: No. You simply need, when you want to work, through your intentions, to depict to yourself that they're in you, and you're aiming them towards the Creator, connecting with Him. And in such a way, the Creator understands and accepts what you have in your desire. The body has no connection here. The body is desire. 

Question (Women ITA): (26:24) Every day we must set ourselves the intention of giving. When will this service for the purpose become natural for us? 

M. Laitman: This will never be. Until the end of correction. In the end of correction, yes, you will be able to bestow in practice and to see that we're all bestowing.

Question (Women Spain): (27:23) What's the importance of Tefillin for the women in the work?

M. Laitman: There's no importance for a woman, because she cannot do anything with the Tefillin, that's why women do not need to place the Tefillin on themselves. Although, throughout history, there were several women that did do the Tefillin. But it's not correct, or a must, or we don't do it. 

Question (Karmiel): (28:23) Some of the friends are putting on the Tefillin during the  work, during the lesson. Should we do this? 

M. Laitman: No, whoever doesn't do the Tefillin process, does not do his obligation. He does it with other things, but not with the Tefillin part.

Question (Women Turkiye 10): (28:56) What should be the first step to do or understand what needs to be first?

M. Laitman: We need to first believe that in the Torah there is everything. And when we study together, we draw the reforming light. And it comes to us and purifies us from thoughts and desires that are egoistic. And fills us with the forces of giving, love. That's what we need to know. 

Question (Women PT 33): (29:55) Every day I ask the Creator to fill up the deficiencies of the friends and would cure those that need to be cured. And you said they need to use the same desire to receive. If you want to give this to a friend, you need to use the same desire to receive to give it to them. A question with regards to prayer. Should I know and ask each friend? I have 15 friends like this. What are we lacking to ask every day? 

M. Laitman: No, no, no. You need to talk about this. Maybe once a week or two weeks. How you aim within the group. To the purpose of creation. And that's sufficient.

Student: If we have different problems, each one is lacking something. Someone needs a flat, someone has a problem with health or with children. So I shouldn't concentrate on each one?

M. Laitman: No, no.

Student: Then what should I concentrate on? 

M. Laitman: We need to generally ask from the Creator what everyone is missing. It's health, sustenance, general kind of things. But for each and every one that's under the condition that a person, this friend, is in a very unique situation, maybe a dangerous situation, God forbid. And we pray for his health or her health. 

Question (MAK 104): (32:04) When you hear the sources, excitement eclipses the mind. And how to study in the mind and not in some excitement? 

M. Laitman: I don't know. Do it with the friends. 

Question (Asia): (32:41) With what kind of intention should we put on the Tefillin? 

M. Laitman: That you're trying to bring contentment to the Creator while doing so.

Question Women (PT 5): (33:02) Tefillin is not necessarily for the women but I have this desire that we’re Israelis for all of us to be in faith above reason, in bestowal and for everyone to see that the Creator the upper force and that all of Israel are following the instructions. How do we do this?  Not necessarily with Tefillin, but so we are the head. We, I'm going towards correction. 

M. Laitman: We need to be connected together and to feel that in our connection, from connection, we are addressing the Creator. And that in such a state, if we do so, He fills us and bestows through us upon all of creation.

Student: Can we pray, maybe this is primitive, but can we pray for our men to succeed or not necessarily? 

M. Laitman: Yes, of course. 

Question (Hadera 1): (34:33) At the end of the article, the end of correction is revelation and then the nations will have fear. Is there a connection between what's happening inside a person and the external world? That something will happen.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Spain): (35:23) Can prayer fulfill the same thing as Tefillin?

M. Laitman: Yes, it can fulfill the same. The prayer can fulfill the same thing as Tefillin.

Question (Women Heb 2): (35:38) How does the prayer change reality?

M. Laitman: Prayer changes reality because a person who prays to the Creator, his appeal to the Creator and the response of the Creator to him truly changes a person and the general reality around him as well. 

Student: Sometimes a man wants to pray and he has some, it just says so, why are you praying?

M. Laitman: But it's written in the book, but not in the heart of a person. As it's written, inscribe it on the tablets of your heart.

Student: Everything is written. Can we change the Creator's decision?

M. Laitman: Yes. Through prayers and requests we can invite forces that appear to us as good.

Question (Women MAK): (36:51) The desire is corrected to the level of bestowal for bestowal, thanks to what? 

M. Laitman: They are corrected to the level of reception for bestowal. That is by connecting the vessels of reception with the vessels of bestowal.

Question (Women Ukraine 2): (37:36) There are states where you cannot connect to the lesson, to the intention, there is some, all you can have is some prayer. What should this prayer be like? So that this is a prayer for everyone. What should the prayer be like? 

M. Laitman: That it should be clear to everyone what you're asking.

Student: Asking this way, so it's clear to everyone what I'm asking for?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women ITA): (38:18) Is sensibility or something in particular necessary to feel the good qualities of the Torah? 

M. Laitman: Yes, a person needs to also demand to feel the Torah and how it fills his desires. And how he thanks the Creator for this. 

Question (Women MAK 26): (39:11) If he wants to increase the words of the Torah, he needs to increase his prayers and requests. And there, there are these concepts. Understand, learn, and teach. Are they like degrees in the study? And I have a question. If I understood something, then can we try and pass on our knowledge? We cannot do this without attainment?

M. Laitman: It's possible. To the extent that you can, you can pass it.

Question (Women MAK 62): (40:02) When he remembers the goal, the world becomes faint in his mind because it's against his heart. How should we feel the goal? Should we understand and feel it?

M. Laitman: Of course. How can you turn to the Creator without a goal? 

Student: Without a goal? When I came to Kabbalah, I had this realization that I found the goal, and I work in the group, and I always had this goal in front of me. But now, it's as if there's a new period where all the goals are broken. And I don't understand. Should I be looking for the goal, or I just follow the group? I don't know. I'm a little lost. 

M. Laitman: Go following the group. That's necessary. Incorporate in the group. But together with that, you nevertheless need to find for yourself, to depict to yourself the goal concretely, what you want. You need to give yourself an answer to that. 

Question (Kyiv): (41:35) You said to feel how the Torah fills up the desires and be grateful to the Creator. What does it mean that the Torah fills up our desire? 

M. Laitman: The Torah is the quality of bestowal, love, closeness, peace, etc.. This quality, this feeling, fills my desires.

Student: How to make it so that this feeling fills up the desire? 

M. Laitman: Ask for it. Ask for it.

Student: Ask for your desire, or for the friends, for the Ten?

M. Laitman: For everyone. Everyone.

Question (Women MAK 30): (42:42) I have a question. I remember that when I was a child, I used to see how Tefillin influenced the family. When my father would put on the Tefillin, there was such an attitude that they believe in this connection, have faith in this connection, and it causes more deficiency. But how do we now? Strengthen to choose something. How do we strengthen our Hisaron, and in what way to treat this as Tefillin? 

M. Laitman: We have stronger bestowal. It's the connection between us. If we connect and turn to the Creator together, there's nothing greater or more powerful than that, more exalted than that. 

Student: When we walk in our faith, then we should keep going.

M. Laitman: I don't know how you're going or where you're going. I'm saying how things need to be, all together as one man in one heart.

Question Women (MAK 97): (44:12) At the beginning of the lesson, Rav said that we should check the Torah within reason and the faith above reason. Checking the Torah in the mind within reason is simple, but how do we check the Torah?

M. Laitman: Same thing. Exactly the same thing. 

Student: Can I also ask a question? The Creator constantly gives us gifts, even in writing a prayer. When you sit down to write the prayer, you're lacking words, and then suddenly it's as if the Creator is moving your hand. How do we ask the Creator to give us the state of one man with one heart, with one gift? 

M. Laitman: Ask Him for a connection. Besides that, we don't need anything. Ask from the Creator for the connection of everyone in one body, in one heart, all together, without any differences.

Question Women (MAK 51): (45:29) I'd like to continue the thoughts of the friend, MAK 26. Can we teach without attainment? You said, yes, we can. Look, this happens so often when you think you understand something, and then time passes, and you understand that your knowledge wasn't full, it was only partial, or maybe completely wrong. How do we in general, to what extent can we help each other in the study, to what extent to know and understand the truth? 

M. Laitman: That is not something that we can measure or understand yet, but soon we'll succeed, soon we'll start seeing. 

Student: Rav, I want to add, until we have this feeling, when you understand maybe it's not worth doing anything, maybe to not distract others.

M. Laitman: You don't need to. It's not needed. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (46:55) I wanted to clarify something with regards to the Tefillin. We read the article where it explains about the Tefillin, the hand Tefillin, the head Tefillin. I heard the questions from the friends. I heard a friend from Germany who feels pain because he cannot overcome himself and put on the Tefillin. His friends in the Ten are inviting him, and he feels difficulty. I heard a friend from Spain who also has pain with regards to the Tefillin, that she can or she can't. Can we arrange this in some way?

I hear a friend from somewhere around the world, maybe he's a Christian or Atheist or Muslim, maybe to no religion, maybe Judaism, even though there aren't that many people like that. He heard this in the text. He understands that he needs to go and buy Tefillin and put it on. He comes home and he talks to his wife, and she might get a stroke because of what happened to her husband. So, we study Kabbalah. For a specific audience of students, and then we can feel that we should start doing something specific. We might end up in a difficult situation because of this. Someone lives in Germany and he's a Christian. Should he realize everything he hears about the Tefillin? 

M. Laitman: Of course not. We've talked about this extensively. Tefillin is placed in the morning prayer by Jews, and the rest not. 

Reader: When I read from the Rabash, I am not a man, I am not a Jew. How do I treat the words that I see here, in order to advance spiritually?

M. Laitman: Like you do this spiritually, not to buy and do the actual ritual or anything. No. That's how we do it inside.

Question (Women Spain): (50:03) Kabbalist works individually and sometimes with several people. How do we understand what's demanded from us personally in our environment, at work, with the husband, with the children? 

Reader: She says that the Kabbalist works internally, inside of himself, but he also has people around him. There's a family, there's work. How does he work with others using what he studies in Kabbalah?

M. Laitman: He does so for himself, silently. He doesn't even have to disclose that he studies Kabbalah to his relatives at home, at work. Certainly not.

Reader: It's interesting to know what should be the attitude to the others in the family, towards the colleagues at work, and so on. He has an inner world, his friends in Kabbalah, and there are other relationships with other people, the family and others. What should be the attitude to others? 

M. Laitman: Be like a good person. That's what's written. And that belongs to every person in every society that one's in. That's it. To feel what is demanded of us is already a special degree of a person. It's already a special connection between a person and the Creator.

Question (PT 13): (52:23) Just to add to what the friend said about Tefillin and culture, Baal HaSulam also spoke about this in great detail in “The Last Generation,” that each person should stay within his culture, within his tradition, and there is one religion for everyone, love your neighbor as yourself. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So in order to arrange this for everyone, I am a Jew, I was born inside of Judaism, I put on the Tefillin, yes, I do. Someone else was born in a different situation, and he doesn't have to do this. The main thing is to come to love towards the other, in the feeling. Please help us arrange this, that we don't have to perform any physical action.

M. Laitman: Yes, you're right, we talked about this more than once, and we do need to repeat these things. Yes.

Question (Volga): (53:24) I'd like to continue the friend's question. There is a tradition of the nation but we say that the world Kli is Israel, is the nation of Israel, as I understand, as I heard it. So we have these discussions all the time in our Ten and other Tens, and we constantly come back to this question. I'd like to understand, maybe we should approach this thing, that we start doing this, and start to familiarize ourselves with these concepts more deeply, with these traditions, and accept them. What gets in the way? I think this is a good, positive thing, it would add something.

M. Laitman: I don't think it's a very big quantity of laws, rules that a person needs to learn, if he belongs to this mass called Jews, and for others. It doesn't give anything, it will just confuse you. You need to study the wisdom of Kabbalah. And the Jews, in addition, have to also learn their laws, which they are obligated to observe, because without that, they won't be close to the Creator. 

Student: But, just to clarify, is this not something that can push us away, and prevent us from being part of the inner group, the central group? 

M. Laitman: I don't think so. I don't think that such a state can happen. The thing is, that we don't obligate anyone to pray, observe, have commitments, anything. It's all dependent on one's free will. And whoever there knows that he is Jewish and wants to observe it, that's up to him personally, individually. And we should not relate any importance to this. Each does whatever he wants. 

Question (MAK 24): (56:24) The article says, do not increase knowledge where we should have something. When he wants something from us all the time, we constantly go into contemplation. How do we increase our feeling without going into these thoughts? 

M. Laitman: Simply be more connected to one another, be even closer to one another, and that will help you feel the Creator closer.

Student: So, we shouldn't contemplate what this will bring to us? 

M. Laitman: It won't give you anything to try to understand it with your intellect. No. 

Question (Women Eng 1): (57:21) I think you've answered the question. I just want to clarify. Some of the Psalms, when we read them, they make you begin to feel, I don't know, you've got a very strong urge to do certain things, that when you read Shema prayer, it talks about putting the commandments on the doorposts of your house, on your gates, and you have this very strong urge to do it. Should we not do something that you have this strong urge to do? 

M. Laitman: It depends what. If it's towards people in a good way, then yes, please. But in all the other forms, no. 

Question (Novosibirsk): (58:32) There's nothing else apart from us asking altogether for the Creator when we formulate the prayer and read it out, how do you use the time to feel that we are asking altogether?

M. Laitman: Connect together emotionally as if you're in one place, in one desire, and from that desire turn to the Creator. Want to connect to Him, to fill Him with your attitude towards Him. That's what we need. You don't need anything else besides that. 

Student: Sometimes we read the sources, what's in our heart is the prayer. There are many different understandings. So we come to a state where we compile an address to the Creator and we write it down. On the other hand, I heard from you that we formulate this address and then we raise a common MAN here and now, and some friends that this can't happen.

M. Laitman: Each should think what is most suitable for him. And then you'll see what you're doing and you'll correct your prayers.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:00:08) I wanted to ask, I see that in the afternoon lesson you direct us very precisely. There is a morning lesson where you give us three hours of full-fledged wisdom of the Torah, very rich material, thousands, tons of everything. And then we soak up some crumbs and we come to the afternoon lesson. I think what's special about this is that you make it very precise, everything we've been through. If we are dispersed in some way, we're confused, get distracted, each one has his own fantasies. You direct us and focus us on what we should focus on to get rid of the confusion. You see how at the afternoon lesson, you don't have enough time to answer all the questions. And in the morning lesson, we don't have this chance. We cannot say that each one has the ability to ask. What do you think about the afternoon lesson? How do you feel this afternoon lesson within the framework of our study? 

M. Laitman: In the afternoon lesson, I'm addressing my students all around the world. And I want as much as possible to fill them within an hour. And what they need to take from the lesson is that formula. How to relate to the study, to the Torah, to the friends, to the Creator, mostly together. 

Student: I feel the morning lesson as practical Kabbalah. It's as if you put us in this sharpener that directs us very precisely. I want to thank you on behalf of everyone for everything you give us. I know that it's not easy for you physically. We are very grateful to you for this.

M. Laitman: We will succeed. We will connect between us and with the Creator. And we will reach all the best to you.

Reader: (01:02:53) Announcements.

Song: (01:03:33) 

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

Daily Lesson (Afternoon) July 4, 2024.

Part 1: Rabash. Record 22. And You, Israel

Reader: Hello, we're studying the Writings of Rabash, Volume 3, Article 22. “And You Israel.” You can find the study materials on our website, Sviva Tova and Arvut. Article by Rabash, “And You Israel.”

M. Laitman: “And You Israel,” please. 

Reading Article: (00:36) Rabash. Record 22. And You, Israel.

 “And you, Israel, listen to the laws and the judgments... You shall not add to the matter that I command you, nor take away from it, to keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.”

We should understand what is a law and what is a judgment. The verse makes a precision, “You shall not add… nor take away… that I command you.” In both addition and reduction, everything must be only precisely as He commands.

There is a difference between those who walk in the work in order to bestow or in order to receive reward. Those who walk in order to bestow begin the work anew each day in both mind and heart. They cannot receive any support from “the day before, for it has passed.” Rather, they truly have no choice, but each day they must return to the foundations of the work, to the reasons that compel them to walk on the path of truth.

It is as though each day he should speak with himself that it is worthwhile to be a servant of the Creator, and the body asks him every day when he begins the work, “Give me the reasons why you are forcing me to give all my powers for the sake of the Creator.” And if it asks, we must answer; otherwise, it does not want to work. Thus, each day there are the same arguments and the same questions and the same answers.

When a person is drawn to work in the Torah and prayer and good deeds, but does not remember the purpose of the work, which is in order to bestow, the work is easier for him, since at that time he follows the general public. But when he remembers the goal, which is mind and heart, “the world darkens for him” because it is against the body, which is called “self-love.”

At that time, he has nothing to answer to the body, but it is a law that the Creator wants us to believe him that it is for His sake, that specifically through work in mind and heart, a person is rewarded with achieving his wholeness, and then his enemies, too, become his friends. This is called “with all your heart, with both your inclinations, the good inclination and the evil inclination.”

It is written about this, “You shall not add,” meaning to increase mind and reason in a place that should be specifically above reason. It follows that if he tries to understand and learn it within reason, if he thinks that by this he will be able to do more work because the body agrees where it understands within reason, this is called “You shall not add.”

Instead, we must believe in the Creator, that precisely through Him we will achieve completion, called “faith above reason.”

However, there is the matter of “judgment,” which is the opposite. There, a person must try to understand the Torah within reason. A person should try to understand the Torah that the Creator gave him as much as he can. If he sees that he does not understand the words of Torah, he should increase the prayers and litanies, where there is the matter of “understanding, growing knowledgeable, hearing, to learn and to teach.”

Here comes the second matter, “Do not take away,” but rather increase the Torah, as is explained about the hand Tefillin, called “faith,” as it is written, “And it will be a token on your hand.” Our sages said, “A token for you and not for others,” meaning that the hand Tefillin should be covered because it implies faith above reason, called “kingdom of heaven.”

Conversely, the head Tefillin represents the Torah, called Zeir Anpin. Our sages said about it the verse, “And all the peoples of the earth shall see that the name of the Lord is called upon you and will fear you.” These are the head Tefillin, where there is revelation, as it is written, “shall see.”

Torah is called “revealing,” when the peoples of the earth within a person feel the quality of the Torah that they extended, they “will fear you,” for then the evil surrenders and the good governs. This is call “judgment,” for “judgment” is revealing, and we must not take away from it but increase the knowledge of Torah. Conversely, a “law” means covering, which is above reason, when it is forbidden to increase knowledge.

M. Laitman: Yes, this is the whole article. Very kind of, what shall we do now? There is only one question. 

Question (Women MAK 98): (07:52) How to constantly renew our state in a qualitative way and not just not remember the past because it is unpleasant to me. 

M. Laitman: We don't need to be, no, we don't need to be immersed in the past, rather in the present and future. And the past is past. Hence, what we need is to connect to the future, and in relation to the future, to constantly yearn to advance and work. 

Question (Turkiye 2): (08:55) How is it possible to logically understand the Torah?

M. Laitman: Why not? The Torah is not against the logic. It is actually something that develops a person's logic. And therefore, it can be logical and accept each thing through examination, critique, take it conditionally, and with study Torah and a minute, with faith above reason. And there is nothing that bothers here.

Student: How can a person reveal the similarity between the mind and the Torah?

M. Laitman: That we learn, and on our path, it comes to us. When a person corrects his mind for it to be at the same level of the Torah, then the Torah will enter one's mind, and he'll work accordingly. 

Question (Women Moscow 6): (10:50) At the end of the article, it says Mishpat, judgment, that one must not take away from it, but increase the knowledge of Torah. Conversely, a law means covering, which is above reason when it is forbidden to increase knowledge. What in our work should we cover, and what should be revealed? What is  judgment, and what is law?

M. Laitman: We need to discover all that's possible and to hide all that bothers us, so it doesn't bother us. As a result, we will see that what was yesterday, or at some point in the past concealed the path for us, today no longer does so. Now it's incorporated. This is how we will gradually reveal to ourselves all the ways of the Torah.

Question (MAK 51): (11:56) Also, from the same sentence, Mishpat, justice is revealing, we must not take away from it  but increase the knowledge of Torah. What is the knowledge of Torah? 

M. Laitman: It is bestowal, giving, love, and relating to the Creator consistently. Love your friend as yourself. 

Question (Women MAK): (12:42) What is the desire to receive that I can use for bestowal to the other? 

M. Laitman: All that the other wants, if you are trying to give that to him, then you have to use the will to receive in order to pass it to him.

Student: What are these 613 egotistical desires that are first corrected to bestowal for bestowal and then for reception for bestowal? 

M. Laitman: Not all of them, not necessarily so in a certain order, each his own but in essence, first they are corrected in order to bestow and then in receiving in order to bestow, from the easiest desire to enjoy to the biggest one. 

Question (Moscow 4): (13:59) As I understand, the problem that this article presents is that we have to rise in faith above reason and not neglect the opportunity to increase the knowledge that helps us on the way. The question is, is this something that a person can do by self-control, or should we organize something in the group, some mechanisms in the group or organization? I can even give an example if this is appropriate. For example, even if we take the morning lesson, in the article it says, a man starts his work anew and we see from the questions they often repeat. On the one hand, we don't criticize the person that he didn't read, he didn't prepare in advance, he could have in one second find the answer on the website, in the archive, but he's asking. So, we go in faith above reason. On the other hand, it's as if we treat laziness, we allow laziness, that the person isn't prepared. Is this an inner question, or can we organize it in some way? 

M. Laitman: No, that's inner control. A person himself needs to do this.

Question (German): (15:32) A question with regards to the Tefillin. It's not clear to me, what does the Tefilin symbolize? The head Tefillin, the hand Tefillin, how can we realize these meanings in our daily life? 

M. Laitman: I can't say. A person that learns Torah and wants to come closer to the Creator begins to feel whether he needs the Tefillin or not. Will it help him or not? And then he begins to come closer to it. He buys a Tefillin and wraps it up on himself from time to time. By the rule, we do this in the morning. In the Shacharit prayer, the morning prayer. And that's it. 

Student: We have friends that do this, and I cannot overcome myself to do this, to perform this action. What do I do with this Hisaron?

M. Laitman: I don't know. It's a correction that only Jews do, and also not each and everyone, but all those who agree with it. And then each morning he wraps himself with Tefillin. And I'm not saying that it has to be for each and every one of my students. No. If you yearn to know the laws of Torah, then learn them and observe them inside and by that you'll reach everything. Everything. 

Student: I have another question.

M. Laitman: Please. 

Student: I don't have a Tallit or Tefillin but I feel like the friends want me to join them in this. Is it worth doing it? 

M. Laitman: I don't think. I don't think. There is nothing from this. You continue like this for the time being and then you'll see. That's it. The wisdom of Kabbalah does not obligate. Altogether, it's a matter of desire.

Question (Women MAK 25): (19:40) Please tell us. It is written that we cannot receive support from yesterday's day when it's passed. But we cannot erase and forget everything. We have a memory of previous days, we remember something. How do we correctly use this memory in our work? 

M. Laitman: Continue. What was yesterday, continue today. We don't need to erase anything. 

Student: And if some experience that's like a heavy burden, how to use it, we don't know, but there's still this tension, how do we use it? 

M. Laitman: We need to learn to erase it. Erase. Every day seemingly start anew. 

Student: And this erasing, is this forgiveness or justification? 

M. Laitman: It's the work in the heart. You don't want to drag with you all kinds of burdenings that you had from yesterday, from the times of the past.

Question (Women MAK 43): (21:06)  Is it correct to think that the hand Tefilin is faith? 

M. Laitman: No, you don't need to think that Tefillin is faith, and altogether that there's something special in these boxes.

Student: So, do I understand correctly that faith has to be covered, because only in concealment we can speak of faith? 

M. Laitman: That's true.

Student: And the left is Hochma and the right is Hassadim? 

M. Laitman: That's also not correct, meaning, faith is signs, but by no means, it's not that there's some quality called faith and on the left will be Hassadim. No. Truly, truly not, by no means, don't accept it that way.

Question (Women Heb 2): (22:59) In this paragraph about the argument, my first question is, what does it mean, Atzmo, himself? Who is that person asking himself? I just feel that often the Creator is in the body, and he's not in the mind, it's only the ego, the thoughts, and in the body. I feel the Creator, he stops me when needed. There are different calculations in the mind and the heart, so I feel about myself, I want to arrange it in some way. I hear him in the mind and not in my ego. It's as if I hear him in the body.

M. Laitman: You continue and soon you'll start to feel. And you'll start to connect to Him specifically through the body.

Question (Women MAK 107): (24:24) Can we arrange some reasons with the body? Can we reason with the body to arrange the work for bestowal? Let me repeat. Can we agree with the body to work for bestowal? What arguments can we give the body to help us in our work for the heavens? 

M. Laitman: We can summarize it. If you think about it all the time.

Student: Maybe we can find a solution in the circle.

M. Laitman: No. You simply need, when you want to work, through your intentions, to depict to yourself that they're in you, and you're aiming them towards the Creator, connecting with Him. And in such a way, the Creator understands and accepts what you have in your desire. The body has no connection here. The body is desire. 

Question (Women ITA): (26:24) Every day we must set ourselves the intention of giving. When will this service for the purpose become natural for us? 

M. Laitman: This will never be. Until the end of correction. In the end of correction, yes, you will be able to bestow in practice and to see that we're all bestowing.

Question (Women Spain): (27:23) What's the importance of Tefillin for the women in the work?

M. Laitman: There's no importance for a woman, because she cannot do anything with the Tefillin, that's why women do not need to place the Tefillin on themselves. Although, throughout history, there were several women that did do the Tefillin. But it's not correct, or a must, or we don't do it. 

Question (Karmiel): (28:23) Some of the friends are putting on the Tefillin during the  work, during the lesson. Should we do this? 

M. Laitman: No, whoever doesn't do the Tefillin process, does not do his obligation. He does it with other things, but not with the Tefillin part.

Question (Women Turkiye 10): (28:56) What should be the first step to do or understand what needs to be first?

M. Laitman: We need to first believe that in the Torah there is everything. And when we study together, we draw the reforming light. And it comes to us and purifies us from thoughts and desires that are egoistic. And fills us with the forces of giving, love. That's what we need to know. 

Question (Women PT 33): (29:55) Every day I ask the Creator to fill up the deficiencies of the friends and would cure those that need to be cured. And you said they need to use the same desire to receive. If you want to give this to a friend, you need to use the same desire to receive to give it to them. A question with regards to prayer. Should I know and ask each friend? I have 15 friends like this. What are we lacking to ask every day? 

M. Laitman: No, no, no. You need to talk about this. Maybe once a week or two weeks. How you aim within the group. To the purpose of creation. And that's sufficient.

Student: If we have different problems, each one is lacking something. Someone needs a flat, someone has a problem with health or with children. So I shouldn't concentrate on each one?

M. Laitman: No, no.

Student: Then what should I concentrate on? 

M. Laitman: We need to generally ask from the Creator what everyone is missing. It's health, sustenance, general kind of things. But for each and every one that's under the condition that a person, this friend, is in a very unique situation, maybe a dangerous situation, God forbid. And we pray for his health or her health. 

Question (MAK 104): (32:04) When you hear the sources, excitement eclipses the mind. And how to study in the mind and not in some excitement? 

M. Laitman: I don't know. Do it with the friends. 

Question (Asia): (32:41) With what kind of intention should we put on the Tefillin? 

M. Laitman: That you're trying to bring contentment to the Creator while doing so.

Question Women (PT 5): (33:02) Tefillin is not necessarily for the women but I have this desire that we’re Israelis for all of us to be in faith above reason, in bestowal and for everyone to see that the Creator the upper force and that all of Israel are following the instructions. How do we do this?  Not necessarily with Tefillin, but so we are the head. We, I'm going towards correction. 

M. Laitman: We need to be connected together and to feel that in our connection, from connection, we are addressing the Creator. And that in such a state, if we do so, He fills us and bestows through us upon all of creation.

Student: Can we pray, maybe this is primitive, but can we pray for our men to succeed or not necessarily? 

M. Laitman: Yes, of course. 

Question (Hadera 1): (34:33) At the end of the article, the end of correction is revelation and then the nations will have fear. Is there a connection between what's happening inside a person and the external world? That something will happen.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Spain): (35:23) Can prayer fulfill the same thing as Tefillin?

M. Laitman: Yes, it can fulfill the same. The prayer can fulfill the same thing as Tefillin.

Question (Women Heb 2): (35:38) How does the prayer change reality?

M. Laitman: Prayer changes reality because a person who prays to the Creator, his appeal to the Creator and the response of the Creator to him truly changes a person and the general reality around him as well. 

Student: Sometimes a man wants to pray and he has some, it just says so, why are you praying?

M. Laitman: But it's written in the book, but not in the heart of a person. As it's written, inscribe it on the tablets of your heart.

Student: Everything is written. Can we change the Creator's decision?

M. Laitman: Yes. Through prayers and requests we can invite forces that appear to us as good.

Question (Women MAK): (36:51) The desire is corrected to the level of bestowal for bestowal, thanks to what? 

M. Laitman: They are corrected to the level of reception for bestowal. That is by connecting the vessels of reception with the vessels of bestowal.

Question (Women Ukraine 2): (37:36) There are states where you cannot connect to the lesson, to the intention, there is some, all you can have is some prayer. What should this prayer be like? So that this is a prayer for everyone. What should the prayer be like? 

M. Laitman: That it should be clear to everyone what you're asking.

Student: Asking this way, so it's clear to everyone what I'm asking for?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women ITA): (38:18) Is sensibility or something in particular necessary to feel the good qualities of the Torah? 

M. Laitman: Yes, a person needs to also demand to feel the Torah and how it fills his desires. And how he thanks the Creator for this. 

Question (Women MAK 26): (39:11) If he wants to increase the words of the Torah, he needs to increase his prayers and requests. And there, there are these concepts. Understand, learn, and teach. Are they like degrees in the study? And I have a question. If I understood something, then can we try and pass on our knowledge? We cannot do this without attainment?

M. Laitman: It's possible. To the extent that you can, you can pass it.

Question (Women MAK 62): (40:02) When he remembers the goal, the world becomes faint in his mind because it's against his heart. How should we feel the goal? Should we understand and feel it?

M. Laitman: Of course. How can you turn to the Creator without a goal? 

Student: Without a goal? When I came to Kabbalah, I had this realization that I found the goal, and I work in the group, and I always had this goal in front of me. But now, it's as if there's a new period where all the goals are broken. And I don't understand. Should I be looking for the goal, or I just follow the group? I don't know. I'm a little lost. 

M. Laitman: Go following the group. That's necessary. Incorporate in the group. But together with that, you nevertheless need to find for yourself, to depict to yourself the goal concretely, what you want. You need to give yourself an answer to that. 

Question (Kyiv): (41:35) You said to feel how the Torah fills up the desires and be grateful to the Creator. What does it mean that the Torah fills up our desire? 

M. Laitman: The Torah is the quality of bestowal, love, closeness, peace, etc.. This quality, this feeling, fills my desires.

Student: How to make it so that this feeling fills up the desire? 

M. Laitman: Ask for it. Ask for it.

Student: Ask for your desire, or for the friends, for the Ten?

M. Laitman: For everyone. Everyone.

Question (Women MAK 30): (42:42) I have a question. I remember that when I was a child, I used to see how Tefillin influenced the family. When my father would put on the Tefillin, there was such an attitude that they believe in this connection, have faith in this connection, and it causes more deficiency. But how do we now? Strengthen to choose something. How do we strengthen our hisaron, and in what way to treat this as Tefillin? 

M. Laitman: We have stronger bestowal. It's the connection between us. If we connect and turn to the Creator together, there's nothing greater or more powerful than that, more exalted than that. 

Student: When we walk in our faith, then we should keep going.

M. Laitman: I don't know how you're going or where you're going. I'm saying how things need to be, all together as one man in one heart.

Question Women (MAK 97): (44:12) At the beginning of the lesson, Rav said that we should check the Torah within reason and the faith above reason. Checking the Torah in the mind within reason is simple, but how do we check the Torah?

M. Laitman: Same thing. Exactly the same thing. 

Student: Can I also ask a question? The Creator constantly gives us gifts, even in writing a prayer. When you sit down to write the prayer, you're lacking words, and then suddenly it's as if the Creator is moving your hand. How do we ask the Creator to give us the state of one man with one heart, with one gift? 

M. Laitman: Ask Him for a connection. Besides that, we don't need anything. Ask from the Creator for the connection of everyone in one body, in one heart, all together, without any differences.

Question Women (MAK 51): (45:29) I'd like to continue the thoughts of the friend, MAK 26. Can we teach without attainment? You said, yes, we can. Look, this happens so often when you think you understand something, and then time passes, and you understand that your knowledge wasn't full, it was only partial, or maybe completely wrong. How do we in general, to what extent can we help each other in the study, to what extent to know and understand the truth? 

M. Laitman: That is not something that we can measure or understand yet, but soon we'll succeed, soon we'll start seeing. 

Student: Rav, I want to add, until we have this feeling, when you understand maybe it's not worth doing anything, maybe to not distract others.

M. Laitman: You don't need to. It's not needed. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (46:55) I wanted to clarify something with regards to the Tefillin. We read the article where it explains about the Tefillin, the hand Tefillin, the head Tefillin. I heard the questions from the friends. I heard a friend from Germany who feels pain because he cannot overcome himself and put on the Tefillin. His friends in the Ten are inviting him, and he feels difficulty. I heard a friend from Spain who also has pain with regards to the Tefillin, that she can or she can't. Can we arrange this in some way?

I hear a friend from somewhere around the world, maybe he's a Christian or Atheist or Muslim, maybe to no religion, maybe Judaism, even though there aren't that many people like that. He heard this in the text. He understands that he needs to go and buy Tefillin and put it on. He comes home and he talks to his wife, and she might get a stroke because of what happened to her husband. So, we study Kabbalah. For a specific audience of students, and then we can feel that we should start doing something specific. We might end up in a difficult situation because of this. Someone lives in Germany and he's a Christian. Should he realize everything he hears about the Tefillin? 

M. Laitman: Of course not. We've talked about this extensively. Tefillin is placed in the morning prayer by Jews, and the rest not. 

Reader: When I read from the Rabash, I am not a man, I am not a Jew. How do I treat the words that I see here, in order to advance spiritually?

M. Laitman: Like you do this spiritually, not to buy and do the actual ritual or anything. No. That's how we do it inside.

Question (Women Spain): (50:03) Kabbalist works individually and sometimes with several people. How do we understand what's demanded from us personally in our environment, at work, with the husband, with the children? 

Reader: She says that the Kabbalist works internally, inside of himself, but he also has people around him. There's a family, there's work. How does he work with others using what he studies in Kabbalah?

M. Laitman: He does so for himself, silently. He doesn't even have to disclose that he studies Kabbalah to his relatives at home, at work. Certainly not.

Reader: It's interesting to know what should be the attitude to the others in the family, towards the colleagues at work, and so on. He has an inner world, his friends in Kabbalah, and there are other relationships with other people, the family and others. What should be the attitude to others? 

M. Laitman: Be like a good person. That's what's written. And that belongs to every person in every society that one's in. That's it. To feel what is demanded of us is already a special degree of a person. It's already a special connection between a person and the Creator.

Question (PT 13): (52:23) Just to add to what the friend said about Tefillin and culture, Baal Hasulam also spoke about this in great detail in “The Last Generation,” that each person should stay within his culture, within his tradition, and there is one religion for everyone, love your neighbor as yourself. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So in order to arrange this for everyone, I am a Jew, I was born inside of Judaism, I put on the Tefillin, yes, I do. Someone else was born in a different situation, and he doesn't have to do this. The main thing is to come to love towards the other, in the feeling. Please help us arrange this, that we don't have to perform any physical action.

M. Laitman: Yes, you're right, we talked about this more than once, and we do need to repeat these things. Yes.

Question (Volga): (53:24) I'd like to continue the friend's question. There is a tradition of the nation but we say that the world Kli is Israel, is the nation of Israel, as I understand, as I heard it. So we have these discussions all the time in our Ten and other Tens, and we constantly come back to this question. I'd like to understand, maybe we should approach this thing, that we start doing this, and start to familiarize ourselves with these concepts more deeply, with these traditions, and accept them. What gets in the way? I think this is a good, positive thing, it would add something.

M. Laitman: I don't think it's a very big quantity of laws, rules that a person needs to learn, if he belongs to this mass called Jews, and for others. It doesn't give anything, it will just confuse you. You need to study the wisdom of Kabbalah. And the Jews, in addition, have to also learn their laws, which they are obligated to observe, because without that, they won't be close to the Creator. 

Student: But, just to clarify, is this not something that can push us away, and prevent us from being part of the inner group, the central group? 

M. Laitman: I don't think so. I don't think that such a state can happen. The thing is, that we don't obligate anyone to pray, observe, have commitments, anything. It's all dependent on one's free will. And whoever there knows that he is Jewish and wants to observe it, that's up to him personally, individually. And we should not relate any importance to this. Each does whatever he wants. 

Question (MAK 24): (56:24) The article says, do not increase knowledge where we should have something. When he wants something from us all the time, we constantly go into contemplation. How do we increase our feeling without going into these thoughts? 

M. Laitman: Simply be more connected to one another, be even closer to one another, and that will help you feel the Creator closer.

Student: So, we shouldn't contemplate what this will bring to us? 

M. Laitman: It won't give you anything to try to understand it with your intellect. No. 

Question (Women Eng 1): (57:21) I think you've answered the question. I just want to clarify. Some of the Psalms, when we read them, they make you begin to feel, I don't know, you've got a very strong urge to do certain things, that when you read Shema prayer, it talks about putting the commandments on the doorposts of your house, on your gates, and you have this very strong urge to do it. Should we not do something that you have this strong urge to do? 

M. Laitman: It depends what. If it's towards people in a good way, then yes, please. But in all the other forms, no. 

Question (Novosibirsk): (58:32) There's nothing else apart from us asking altogether for the Creator when we formulate the prayer and read it out, how do you use the time to feel that we are asking altogether?

M. Laitman: Connect together emotionally as if you're in one place, in one desire, and from that desire turn to the Creator. Want to connect to Him, to fill Him with your attitude towards Him. That's what we need. You don't need anything else besides that. 

Student: Sometimes we read the sources, what's in our heart is the prayer. There are many different understandings. So we come to a state where we compile an address to the Creator and we write it down. On the other hand, I heard from you that we formulate this address and then we raise a common MAN here and now, and some friends that this can't happen.

M. Laitman: Each should think what is most suitable for him. And then you'll see what you're doing and you'll correct your prayers.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:00:08) I wanted to ask, I see that in the afternoon lesson you direct us very precisely. There is a morning lesson where you give us three hours of full-fledged wisdom of the Torah, very rich material, thousands, tons of everything. And then we soak up some crumbs and we come to the afternoon lesson. I think what's special about this is that you make it very precise, everything we've been through. If we are dispersed in some way, we're confused, get distracted, each one has his own fantasies. You direct us and focus us on what we should focus on to get rid of the confusion. You see how at the afternoon lesson, you don't have enough time to answer all the questions. And in the morning lesson, we don't have this chance. We cannot say that each one has the ability to ask. What do you think about the afternoon lesson? How do you feel this afternoon lesson within the framework of our study? 

M. Laitman: In the afternoon lesson, I'm addressing my students all around the world. And I want as much as possible to fill them within an hour. And what they need to take from the lesson is that formula. How to relate to the study, to the Torah, to the friends, to the Creator, mostly together. 

Student: I feel the morning lesson as practical Kabbalah. It's as if you put us in this sharpener that directs us very precisely. I want to thank you on behalf of everyone for everything you give us. I know that it's not easy for you physically. We are very grateful to you for this.

M. Laitman: We will succeed. We will connect between us and with the Creator. And we will reach all the best to you.

Reader: (01:02:53) Announcements.

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