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Daily Lesson (Morning) April 27, 2025.
Part 2: Baal HaSulam. Shamati 21. When One Feels Oneself in a State of Ascent
Reader: We are reading in the writings of Baal HaSulam, the Shamati articles, Shamati 21, called, “When One Feels Oneself in a State of Ascent.” Shamati number 21, “When One Feels Oneself in a State of Ascent.”
Reading: (00:19) Shamati 21. When One Feels Oneself in a State of Ascent
I heard on Heshvan 23, November 9, 1944
When one feels oneself in a state of ascent, that he is high-spirited, when he feels that he has no desire but only for spirituality, it is then good to delve in the secrets of the Torah in order to attain its internality. Even if one sees that although he exerts to understand something, and still does not know anything, it is still worthwhile to delve in the secrets of the Torah even a hundred times in a single thing.
One should not despair, meaning say that it is useless since he does not understand anything. This is so for two reasons:
A) When one delves into something and yearns to understand it, that yearning is called a “prayer.” This is because a prayer is a lack, meaning that one is craving what he lacks, that the Creator will satisfy his desire.
The extent of the prayer is measured by the desire, since the thing that one needs most, the desire for it is greater, for according to the measure of the need, so is the measure of the yearning.
There is a rule that in the thing that one makes the most effort, the exertion increases the lack, and he wants to receive filling for his deficiency. Also, a desire is called “a prayer,” regarded as “the work in the heart,” since “the Merciful One wants the hearts.”
It turns out that then one can give a true prayer because when he delves into the words of the Torah, the heart must be freed from other desires and give the mind the strength to be able to think and scrutinize. If there is no desire in the heart, the mind cannot scrutinize, as our sages said, “One always learns where one’s heart desires.”
In order for one’s prayer to be accepted, it must be a complete prayer. Hence, when scrutinizing to the full extent, one elicits from it a complete prayer, and then one’s prayer can be accepted because the Creator hears a prayer. But there is a condition: The prayer must be a complete prayer, and not have other things mixed in the middle of the prayer.
The second reason is that at that time, since one is separated from corporeality to some extent, and is closer to the quality of bestowal, the time is better suited to connect with the internality of the Torah, which is revealed to those who have equivalence with the Creator. This is because the Torah, the Creator, and Israel are one. However, when one is in a state of self-reception he belongs to the externality, and not to the internality.
M. Laitman: Questions?
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:45) What is a complete or a whole prayer?
M. Laitman: A complete or a whole prayer is according to a complete deficiency. A prayer is raising MAN, raising a deficiency to the extent that there is a lack in a person; in words of Torah, accordingly, it is said that his prayer is complete.
Student: What is a whole deficiency?
M. Laitman: A whole or complete deficiency is when…there are several conditions to it. First of all, a person needs to feel that he needs it, that he cannot compensate for it, cover it up with anything else. This is number one. Number two—in short, he feels great distress that he is lacking something he needs to receive from the Creator and he doesn't have it and he cannot compensate for it with anything else. This is a complete prayer.
Student: How does a person come to a complete deficiency?
M. Laitman: That's all our work, because if a person truly feels that he is filled with a deficiency—a real one—to be incorporated with the Creator in his action, then he doesn't have other deficiencies anymore. Then, he is concerned only with increasing the deficiency.
Student: What in my work today can lead me to a more complete deficiency or a greater deficiency?
M. Laitman: A person, a person should reveal his deficiency in every situation and raise it as conspicuously as possible, to make it as conspicuous as possible, and not let go, not come down from feeling the deficiency which is a prayer that constantly speaks from within his heart.
Student: What deficiency develops from reading the sources? He always gives the advice of returning to the source. What develops in a person when he reads the source?
M. Laitman: Reading sources gives us the real deficiency, a deficiency that is good for us to be incorporated in—searching for it, scrutinizing it, finding it, and not let go of it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:02) He says there is a condition before you reach a complete prayer, you need to learn where your heart desires. What does that mean, to study where one's heart desires?
M. Laitman: A person's heart is his internal desire. A person needs to scrutinize—to what his heart wants to come closer, with what to be incorporated; this should be a person's concern, his work.
Student: What do I need to learn from that, from within my heart, that is always aimed towards them?
M. Laitman: Look, the heart is the center of deficiencies, and then a person scrutinizes to what he is drawn to, how much is he drawn to it? What stands on his way to reaching what he wants? That's the work.
Student: How much exertion, how much effort that we make influences the heart, the deficiency?
M. Laitman: The labor is mandatory. The labor brings a person closer to the results, to the filling. The labor relieves a person from all kinds of desires, actions that he doesn't really—that he's not really in them.
Student: The exertion, the labor, focuses me more to the goal?
M. Laitman: Yes, of course, only through the labor, because we all go through the same desires and states but it depends how we relate to them.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (15:36) According to what's written and what we said now, it sounds like looking into the sources and the study of Torah supplies sufficiently for a person to have the correct deficiency and the possibility to pray? It also sounds logical, yes? Why is it not enough? What's the difference between the deficiency that I acquire from reading and studying Torah a hundred times, until I understand it more, until it's received in my heart, relative to what I receive as a deficiency from the work with the friends?
M. Laitman: It depends on the human nature. There are those who yearn to feel the deficiency deeper and there are those who have a deficiency that doesn't really cover them.
Student: Where is the deeper deficiency revealed in the work, between the sources, a person with the sources, or a person with a group?
M. Laitman: The deficiency is revealed more deeply when a person tries to be in adhesion with the Creator and then he doesn't swap it for anything else.
Student: The person wants to yearn for such a deficiency all the time?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Where is it preferable for him to work? Where is it better for him to turn to? To the secrets of the Torah that are written here or to the work with the desires of the friends?
M. Laitman: There are times for this and times for that.
Student: In a person's feeling when he reads, the book gives him a real, pure deficiency that comes from the Creator in a clear way through a Kabbalist to you. There's just you, the Creator, and you trust it one hundred percent—you know the whole problem is with you. In the work with the friends, everything feels broken and without a pure deficiency. It's like this completely different work.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Why were we given these two things because throughout the generations there are many people engaged only in the Torah and only from that they received the whole deficiency and they rose up. What in our generation or why were we given this work with these broken vessels of the friends that we have in the feeling of working with the friends?
M. Laitman: In our generation, the most broken vessels are revealed and we need to be thankful for it, that Nevertheless, the vessels are revealed and felt according to the deficiency in that generation and then it turns out that in each and every generation. We are facing the resistance to the real prayer, to that depth of the heart where we cannot reach. And therefore, we need to yearn for connection among us. This is the solution through which we will come to a complete prayer.
Student: Not to follow the—these vessels are very heavy; it's very difficult to pray for them—the vessels of the generation that stands before us. It’s—you need to receive a lack from the book and to feel then that you can raise that lack to the Creator. You feel the lack that's revealed from the book, you can incorporate it and elevate it; it's a much easier action, in my experience, than trying to reach a prayer for the Creator from working with the vessels of the friends. I just heard that one needs to always yearn to be in adhesion and raise the lack but when we work with those vessels, it's much harder to do. Then, we do feel a distance and difficulty from the Creator—a distance from the Creator and difficulty in raising prayer.
M. Laitman: Yes, meaning we need to try and reveal the right deficiency for the goal so it will arrange our entire lives in the—around the work and connection, whatever it may be, that would always be facing the goal.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (23:31) What does a true lack for bestowal feel like?
M. Laitman: A person feels that the entire world feels that it's lacking only one thing—only one thing the world is lacking, a true deficiency for the Creator to be revealed between us.
Student: How do I examine my yearning, seeing that it stems from a desire to adhere to the Creator and not from the desire for a selfish benefit?
M. Laitman: For that, a person has to have his finger on the pulse so that his yearning will guide him; guide him toward the center of the group, the center of the matter, the biggest question: consideration of yearning for what exists in the center of everything, the heart of the group.
Student: What is the biggest question?
M. Laitman: The biggest question, meaning one without which—without solving it—I don't know what to do with my life.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (26:28) I heard you tell a friend that we need to yearn for a connection between us and that is the solution through which we can reach a complete prayer—through connection between us. What do I need to give up or what do I need to pay so that my Ten reaches that connection?
M. Laitman: Like each one of us, you need to invest all your strength, and around the clock as we say, in having the group completely united around this goal.
Student: I see you—well there’s a big difference between how I see you and what I can do in practice with the friends. The question is, I don't know how to say it—there is some level which I can never attain; I can never reach that and complete prayer only comes through connection. Again, there is a circle that doesn't close for me. I need to do my best—fine—but my best is very little compared to your best, so what should I do?
M. Laitman: First of all, each one has his own internal degrees he has to get through and no one can replace another in that—that's one thing. The other thing, that we need to invest in that according to how much it seems to us—where there are no more forces. But the main thing is to feel like we're exerting the last bit of strength; we'll feel that we're truly working on the correct deficiency.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (29:32) What is the difference—if I may ask—between the yearning of a young person and the yearning of a person who's a veteran on the path?
M. Laitman: According to the Torah, an old and experienced on the path is someone who invested a great deal of energy and strength and the Creator has helped him and he is inclined directly and deeply into the heart of the matter, the center of the group, therefore setting an example, connecting everyone in his heart.
Student: The question is about the construction of the yearning. We need to build that yearning, it's not something that comes naturally. It's not like you see something and immediately start yearning for it.
M. Laitman: Right.
Student: By nature, the older a person gets, the less he wants—he declines. Here, it's the other way around. What is there to the experience—the accumulation of yearnings that then creates a new, different yearning, each time anew for an experienced person?
M. Laitman: I think it's about persistence. A person doesn't depart from the trail on the way to scrutinizing the Creator, to approaching the Creator, and he scrutinizes his states and doesn't let go.
Student: Experience gives him this perseverance where he never stops.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Women Bogota): (32:04) How can we help strengthen the lack in the Ten when there's a feeling that the lack isn't strong enough?
M. Laitman: This is a correct sensation. One who works and wants to come closer to the goal will always feel that he's a little bit distant.
Question (Women Heb 2): (32:33) What are the signs that a person has reached a complete prayer?
M. Laitman: When he's before—right before entering the inner sanctum of the King, the inner hall.
Student: How can we reach a complete prayer in the Ten?
M. Laitman: The Ten is a connection of the friends where they—they only depict the world when they are connected, in the center of connection, they wish to reveal the Creator.
Question (PT 31): (33:50) What helps a person maintain the prayer over time until he's answered by the Creator; from where does he take the patience?
M. Laitman: Only from within the Torah—when he explores using the books of Torah to figure out what exactly is happening to him, in order to detect in that the desire of the Creator, the will of the Creator.
Question (Women MAK 70): (34:48) Why does a person feel satisfaction from the prayer? For what reason?
M. Laitman: There's a problem here. It's possible, that a person when one attains something through prayer, and he calms himself down because of that, but he remains with his empty vessels. Therefore, what’s possible to offer is that he does not give up until he finds the source he is looking for.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (36:21) The Kabbalist is in adhesion. He has no descents. Even if he has descents, he is like a flowing fountain, always ascending. Is that right?
M. Laitman: We are close to that.
Student: We have such states of ascent, and when we begin to descend, even if we resist that, it doesn’t really work out. The descent continues until reaching a state where—at least that is how I feel—a state of judgment where one feels repelled. So, the question is, how to go through the states of descent as quickly as possible, as fast as possible, to return to the state of ascent, to be like a real Kabbalist, always ascending.
M. Laitman: By connecting with the friends and with never-ending prayer.
Student: So, when it reaches a state of complete disconnection to still continue?
M. Laitman: That’s certainty. Specifically, these states when a person feels that he’s being disconnected, those are the states where he has to add all of his strength and energy.
Student: Even in states where one feels judgment upon him, he should still resist that?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And how should you relate to the friends in that state, to go through that state quickly?
M. Laitman: That he is not able to be without them.
Student: And he needs to share that with them, or just go inside himself and incorporate with them?
M. Laitman: It’s enough to be connected to them.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (38:54) I wrote down what you said. You said that in the prayer one should not stop and not take rest until he discovers the Creator. What guarantees to the person that he won't fall into a kind of lack he cannot emerge from, or fall into some danger? How can he know how to approach the lack without stopping there and really scrutinizing the lack deeply? How does he know he has an anchor?
M. Laitman: The anchor is the adhesion.
Student: With the Creator?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Adhesion to what in the Creator?
M. Laitman: Adhesion in the Creator.
Student: To His qualities, to bestowal?
M. Laitman: It is all together. It is hard to make these discernments in the Creator.
Student: So, he adheres to the Creator and then he looks for a lack, so as to have what—more room, a bigger vessel?
M. Laitman: He is looking for what to add to the attainment of the Creator, to the feeling of the Creator.
Student: And what is the advice? For not stopping in that feeling of lack, how can he tell that the end of the lack is coming?
M. Laitman: I don't know about the end of the deficiency, what a person might feel it, but the revelation of the deficiency in him—he has to anticipate that, he has to expect it, pray for it, be ready for it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (41:09) When I read the source texts, for me it's like a checklist. I check to see if what's written there exists in me or not. In advancement, that's what we do through our inner work, with the friends and our intentions. But I don't advance through the sources. I don't read the sources to go into them and advance; I don't understand that form of work where you enter into the source text and through that seek advancement. So, I'm asking, what is that thing? Because he says that if a person has something he wants to scrutinize, some innovation, he goes to the source, he reads it a hundred times, and he finds something new, a new path. What is that kind of work?
M. Laitman: This work, when we wish to reach adhesion with the source, be exactly in the same direction, the same coverage, the same tendency, as it happens in the Creator.
Student: How to find a question in the source? Because when I read the source, the source texts, everything seems clear to me. I understand it all, I don't find a question.
M. Laitman: Are you reading it with your questions?
Student: I can't find questions that are strong enough for me to need to enter the source text and look for answers there.
M. Laitman: I'm not sure what to offer you, what to advise you. Try to think all the time, without ascents or discents, to be constantly in a deficiency aimed at the Creator.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (44:04) So, to continue that, reading the same thing a hundred times—how important is it to try to understand the sources cerebrally?
M. Laitman: As much as you can understand it, you should understand it.
Student: So, it's important to try and understand them, yes? And the question here is, the desired outcome from reading the source, is that understanding, or a lack, or are they the same thing, actually?
M. Laitman: You can say it's the same thing. Also, to understand the sources, a person should attain the essence of his exertion. Well, it will come.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (45:17) I wanted to ask about the yearning. Is it the condition for a person's spiritual advancement, and how to build such a yearning?
M. Laitman: You build a yearning out of prayer. The prayer starts from afar, it can have all kinds of forms, but it continues to develop more and more until you begin to feel it as surrounding the person. And that's how he connects to the prayer, and inside this connection, he begins to attain the source.
Student: What is the source?
M. Laitman: The source is the Creator, who invites all the deficiencies that a person goes through.
Student: You mentioned several times that yearning aims one towards the center of the group, the central matter, the greatest question in life. And also you mentioned seeing the Creator through the center of the connection. What does it mean to see the Creator or reality through the center of connection, through the group, the center of the group?
M. Laitman: When a person feels, when he feels that that point for which he is yearning and that he wants to be connected to—he is already connected to it, except he didn't find yet the correct vessels inside of him in order to reach the adhesion in it. And that's what arranges him, that's what saddens him.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (48:45) How to remove thoughts which are unsuitable for study, for the time when we study?
M. Laitman: To maintain it—meaning to constantly be connected intellectually and emotionally to the question we now wish to scrutinize, and to see the question through his own state, and try together with the Creator to be in that same point.
Student: It feels as though when we study, the Creator gives me thoughts which are entirely corporeal.
M. Laitman: Corporeal?
Student: Yes, earthly, and I want to share the same intention as all the great friends.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: So, what can I do if there is a great distance between this and that? I want to emerge completely—or rather, I can't emerge from the thoughts about corporeality and corporeal nonsense.
M. Laitman: The Creator wants you to ask Him, only ask.
Student: Even when He makes it more and more difficult to ask for something proper, I need to return to the intention all the time? How to succeed in that, is there a method?
M. Laitman: To be connected to everyone.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (51:23) What does it mean that the Creator wants the heart?
M. Laitman: Wants…?
Student: The heart.
M. Laitman: The heart. So, all of man's desires are called his heart. …besides that he’s missing nothing.
Student: He writes here about the time of ascent, that a person can read the words of the Torah, and then the heart can be vacated from all the other things, and only then you can elicit a true prayer, a complete prayer. But what to do when not in that state? You can't pray.
M. Laitman: Try not to leave those thoughts.
Student: How?
M. Laitman: To think about it constantly. To constantly think about it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (53:13) The article talks about—it's called, When One Feels Oneself in a State of Ascent. So, it says that when one feels oneself in a state of ascent, he’s high spirited, and he feels that he has no desire for anything but spirituality, and then it’s good to delve into the secrets of the Torah in order to attain its internality. So the state he describes here is one where a person is fulfilled, he has worked correctly towards connection, with a good attitude towards the friends, yearning to be in bestowal like the Creator, and so on, and from that he feels a state of ascent?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And then he needs to delve into the books of Torah?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: But why? What's missing? He already was in a state of ascent, working correctly with the friends, towards the Creator, and so forth. Is there anything besides that?
M. Laitman: There are many things.
Student: What? Where is it written?
M. Laitman: First of all, he has to reveal his personal state. How he feels himself relative to all kinds of points that surround him. And then he will discover that all of these descents that he’s been to, that he used to feel, they're all there so that from them, from within them, he will discover their correct connection.
Student: And now he's in a state of ascent from having worked correctly, following the advice of the sages, he worked with the Ten, and he came to something closer to the Creator, and he feels an ascent, and out of that he feels now—if I understood correctly what you're now saying, that's what I'm asking—that now he can go back and find the places where he deviated, and now he can supposedly… How to use it, what to do with it, what you meant?
M. Laitman: To pray so that the Creator will make it even more.
Student: So even if a person works correctly, completed the degree, you can still ask for a deeper lack? A more accurate lack—I don't know. What else can you do in that state?
M. Laitman: We ask the Creator to be more in adhesion with his true spiritual state.
Student: Last question. We're now preparing for a congress. We want to prepare properly and with God's help reach some kind of spiritual upliftment there from all the preparation and efforts that everyone invested. So, the aspiration is to go deeper then, to break through. When we'll get there, we'll get there, but in the preparation that we're doing now, is there anything we can do in order to aim for, to make sure that during the congress we can break through even deeper, and not to just stay in this cycle where we reach some kind of high and then fall? Is there some advice for that, or will we just wait and see?
M. Laitman: Let's prepare for that.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (57:29) The secrets of the Torah, are those our source texts?
M. Laitman: Those are secrets of the Torah.
Student: And what is the internality of the Torah that's hidden within them?
M. Laitman: It's also given to us as part of the secrets of the Torah.
Student: And I understand that it's not a matter of quantity, how much a person reads. Because I heard you say once that Rabash would just read, take a little verse from Psalms and he could just be occupied with that short verse the entire day. So, a Kabbalist can take a very short verse. What can he extract from it? What kind of internality to advance with towards his correction?
M. Laitman: Until he can extract all the fulfillment of his heart from there.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (58:43) When we come out of a lesson full, not with a lack, full, satisfied, each of your sentences is an arrow straight to the heart, it expands us, it fulfills us. So, what do we do with that feeling when we're sated, grateful, what to do with that power when it's revealed?
M. Laitman: You have to add a deficiency. What does a person add to what's been revealed to him, this form of reality.
Student: What does it add right now? How to add a lack to the feeling of satiation that he emerges with?
M. Laitman: He needs to try and add to it a true deficiency by gluing himself to the friends. And through that to reveal his vessels for the Creator.
Student: And a person who comes out of the lesson with a lack, with no fulfillment, what about that?
M. Laitman: Well, as much as he can. I talked about it.
Student: Okay, so now the other state. When a person feels that he left the lesson full, fattened, with many discernments, satisfied, what should he do in that state? He feels gratitude for everything he's received, no complaints, to the contrary. So what should he do now throughout the day?
M. Laitman: The fact that he felt the filling from the Creator who filled him, he has to be grateful for it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:01:22) We just watched an hour of recorded lessons before you came here, and then we had another hour with you. And there is an enormous difference. How can we watch a recorded lesson and still have the same yearning, the same excitement as we feel now after a lesson with you? How can we add something of our own so as to reach the same state that we are now?
M. Laitman: I don't know. What do you feel now?
Student: I don't know. Perhaps it's a personal matter, each one can perhaps describe it differently. But your presence makes things very accurate, very precise in terms of the work. And when we watch a recorded lesson, then each one is where he is, but it's not the same thing. How can we add to the recorded lesson to make it the same as things are, like this?
M. Laitman: I guess it can't be like that, because in my lesson, in a lesson with me, you connect somehow. And then the filling that we attain, in general, it fills everyone. And that's what advances us.
Student: Ultimately, it's the same goal. We need to adhere to the Creator, to approach the Creator, to pray. Why would it matter if it's a recorded lesson or a live lesson? Ultimately, the goal is the same. So why is there such a difference?
M. Laitman: Look, the difference, this gap, I think stems from the fact that everyone hears—that each one hears with a slight deviation compared to the others. And that's what prevents you from attaining spirituality as one man in one heart.
Student: So, if I understand what you say correctly, during the recorded lesson, we need to think more about each other, focusing on how we are listening to it together?
M. Laitman: Together, yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:04:39) Perhaps before watching a lesson from 2003, like the one we just watched, maybe we need to prepare, for perhaps a longer duration, to sit and connect until we're prepared, ready to watch the lesson. Maybe that's what we lack, more preparation. What do you think?
M. Laitman: It’s possible. Sometimes I yearn for connection with my friends and other times I feel like they get in my way to some extent. And that's not a personal thing.
Student: In the lesson with you right now, I don't think there is any feeling like this. I agree with the friend, every sentence is an arrow into the heart, a very focused, sharp feeling. We want to reach a point where we'll be like this for the entire lesson, the entirety of the three hours.
M. Laitman: Let's do it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:06:27) To continue the scrutiny, the relevance of the lesson when you're seated here before us, it's much more accurate, much more matching our current state. That's why we have such a difference. We're watching a recorded lesson from 2003, and although it is a very interesting lesson, what I feel at least is that it doesn't speak to our situation today exactly. So the question is, is it right to watch lessons from so long ago, instead of listening to something from, well, something more recent that speaks more about our condition? Because without a doubt, when it's a live lesson with you, it's something completely different, there's no comparison.
M. Laitman: So, what do you propose?
Student: I thought perhaps it would be correct to watch lessons from the past, well, three years, let's say. From 2003, of course, there's value to these lessons—of course, but it doesn't speak to our current condition exactly. Even though watching those lessons now, I understand things which back then I didn't understand at all. There is a value to it, but they're less relevant to our current situation, our current times.
M. Laitman: Clear.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:08:05) So, the lessons, it's infinite. Even the lessons from 2003, we get everything from it, an infinity. But I think the difference is that we can't ask questions. In a recorded lesson, we can't ask questions. But in a live lesson, we ask. And we then integrate with the friends who are asking questions now, and that is a very important thing.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:08:46) Teacher, I hear them ask, and the distance between us is frightening. They talk about arrows to the heart, and so on. I don't want to insult anyone, but I don't feel that. For a long time, I've been feeling that I'm not learning anything. I may be here—whether it's live or recorded, I'm not learning anything. It feels like you're demanding something which is already beyond this current motion. He wrote about studying without books, and one friend said that one's soul teaches him. Aren't we demanding anything above this level of recordings and questions and answers? For them, it's exciting because they see themselves in the recordings. But for me, I never even go into those archives, I never watch it, it's not interesting to me. I like the present and the future. So what to do in a state like that?
M. Laitman: Well, prepare questions in advance. Come to the lesson, hear the source, and begin to ask.
Student: I have many questions. I don't ask because I don't get any answers, even now. You have a lack for something, for meaning, but you know that you won't get it—if a change doesn't come from above, nothing will happen. You can watch a hundred lessons, and it all depends on some transformation that comes from above, and that's it. And everything else, it's Lo Lishma. It's again—there's some person who decides, and does, and acts, and determines. I've never determined any state I've been in, or how I respond to it.
M. Laitman: Thank you for the correction, I need to try harder.
Student: What do you need to try harder?
M. Laitman: To be more precise, or accurate.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:11:13) I heard one of the things you said to the friend was, I think the gap stems from the fact that everyone is listening, but each one listens with a little deviation from the other. And that's what doesn't allow us to attain, because spirituality is one man in one heart. That's what you told the friend. We are an outcome of the shattering, and because we are the outcome of the shattering, I understand—I understand it when you say that there's a gap between, a difference between each of us. Even now we have the great friends, each one says a thing, and each one is saying a different part of the puzzle. Yes, we understand, each one of us is different, and if each one stands up and speaks, you'll hear 150 different opinions, and everything is right, everything is correct. So, what do we need to add into that difference between us to create the one?
M. Laitman: The main thing is to reach one heart, so everyone, each one here, would feel how distant he is from this one heart. And what should each one do with his personal, internal effort in order to reach that one heart.
Student: What should we do?
M. Laitman: What you feel.
Student: Instead of feeling, thinking about what I need to do, I feel suffocated. I can only cry.
M. Laitman: To what extent you're not incorporated with the friends.
Student: And I should regret it, I should be happy about it?
M. Laitman: Regret it, of course.
Student: Regret it. And what to do with that grief?
M. Laitman: This grief is your prayer that the Creator will cover this grief.
Student: That feeling of grief, to reach a prayer, do we all need to feel that feeling of grief?
M. Laitman: Not all of us, but most of us.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:14:19) By the way, there are requests to nevertheless show lessons from that time period. I feel, when I watch, that the lessons from 2003 are arrows straight to the heart. They open up, well, there's a very powerful place of discernments, as the friend said, that he's hearing things he couldn't hear before. Meaning, there's a certain readiness now for the vessel, for the Kli, to hear the things you already said.
M. Laitman: Okay, you have a certain mailbox where you can send invitations.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:15:09) Yes, me alongside the whole team, we're responsible for the study materials. There are many different opinions and desires. And today actually—today we have a meeting with the greater forum of management and friends to think about how to make the lessons deeper. But any friend here and all over the world who has a desire to listen to various kinds of recorded materials and lessons, turn to us, and we'll try scrutinizing and see.
M. Laitman: Okay, so with that, we finished our lesson, our first lesson. What's next?
Reader: Yes, we will now summarize the lesson in the Tens. Eight minutes, summary in the Tens, and then we'll continue.
M. Laitman: And then?
Student: Summarizing the lesson.
M. Laitman: Okay, so I'll be out of your way.