The transcript has been transcribed and edited from English simultaneous interpretation, thus there may be potential semantic inaccuracies within it.
Daily Lesson (Morning) April 7, 2024.
Part 2: Baal HaSulam. Exile and Redemption
Reader: We are reading in the writings of Baal HaSulam, we are in the article Exile and Redemption.
Reading Article: (00:22) Harmony between religion and the law of development or blind fate.
“And among those nations you will have no repose and there will be no resting place for your feet” (Deuteronomy 28:65). “And that which comes to your mind will not be at all, in that you say, ‘We will be as the nations, as the families of the lands’” (Ezekiel 20:32).
The Creator will evidently show us that Israel cannot exist in exile, and will find no rest as the rest of the nations that mingled among the nations and found rest, and assimilated in them until no trace was left of them. Not so is the house of Israel. This nation will find no rest among the nations until it realizes the verse, “And from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him for you will demand Him with all your heart and all your soul.”
This can be examined by studying Providence and the verse that states about us, “The Torah is true and all its words are true, and woe to us as long as we doubt its truthfulness.” And we say about all the rebuke that is happening to us that it is chance and blind fate. This has but one cure—to bring the troubles back on us to such an extent that we will see that they are not coincidental but steadfast Providence, intended for us in the holy Torah.
We should clarify this matter by the law of development itself: The nature of the steadfast guidance that we have attained through the holy Torah, as in the path of Torah in Providence (see the article “The Freedom”), a far more rapid development than the other nations has come to us. And because the members of the nation developed so, there was always the necessity to go forward and be extremely meticulous with all the Mitzvot [commandments] of the Torah. Because they would not do so, but wished to include their narrow selfishness, meaning the Lo Lishma [not for Her sake], this developed the ruin of the First Temple, since they wished to extol wealth and power above justice, as do other nations.
But because the Torah prohibits this, they denied the Torah and the prophecy and adopted the manners of the neighbors so they could enjoy life as much as the selfishness demanded of them. Because they did so, the powers of the nation disintegrated: Some followed the selfish kings and officers, and some followed the prophets, and that separation continued until the ruin.
In the Second Temple, it was even more noticeable, since the beginning of the separation was publicly displayed there by unvirtuous disciples, headed by Tzadok and Bytos. Their mutiny against our sages revolved primarily around the obligation of Lishma [for Her sake], as our sages said, “Wise men, be careful with your words.” Because they did not want to retire from selfishness, they created communities of this deplorable kind and became a great sect called “Tzdokim,” who were the rich and the officers, pursuing selfish desires, unlike the path of Torah. They fought against the Prushim, and they are the ones who brought the Roman kingdom’s rule over Israel. They are the ones who would not make peace with the imperious, as our sages advised according to the Torah, until the house was ruined and the glory of Israel was exiled.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:46) He says about the people of Israel that it's a special people if I understand correctly that it has to reach its purpose. And in the third paragraph, he kind of says that the third or fourth, he says, and then the decree was, it's all the truth. And as long as we are saying that about all of this, that it's only a matter of faith, there's only but one remedy and it is to bring back the troubles upon us. We are from the people of Israel suffering more and more and they get some kind of study from that, or destiny from it, purpose?
M. Laitman: I guess we have not gone through all the troubles yet.
Student: It's not yet clear how troubles brings our reason?
M. Laitman: I don't know, that's how he writes about it, I guess in the end we'll see.
Student: In the previous article, they gave the example of the doctor, the doctor gives the sick person the understanding of what he's suffering from?
M. Laitman: I'm not going to make any calculations here, like in the study of the Gimatria or the Talmud or something. I'm reading what he's writing, and I'm trying to arrange my intellect accordingly, where I understand, I understand, where I don't understand, I don't understand.
Student: I'm trying to understand how from blows the people of Israel are supposed to feel that and it's not understood?
M. Laitman: I guess that's still ahead of you, you don't understand now, and you will understand later. There's no room for such questions.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:44) It seems like in the history of the people there's always some part that is trying to progress as much as it understands, the Torah and a part that even willingly breaks off of it or breaks away, we can also see that today. The question is that the Creator, or nature is trying to come in its calculation of connection in the people of Israel. Does He only take the calculation on those who are trying or in that whole package, also those who don't want part of it? Who needs to be in that connection? Those two parts are only that part that is trying in the Torah.
M. Laitman: That part that is trying to follow the Torah, it has to reinforce itself, bind itself together and go out against the part that wishes to retire. And by that, it's not losing itself since it retires only from the physical connection and the ability to make corrections. But nevertheless, he is connected to that source belonging to the people of Israel. Therefore, these incidents, the calculations in there, will not help.
Student: But the part that is trying to connect does it need to take into account the part that is kind of kicking away the Torah?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And it seems according to what's written, that the people of Israel need to understand that there is an upper force and that we need to sort ourselves, arrange ourselves according to it. And there's this phenomenon of the upper force today, that it doesn't even exist. So, the question is, does there need to be an explanation or dissemination that we do start to awaken people? Guys, there is an upper force, and we have work to aim ourselves towards Him or is it not relevant to our period of time?
M. Laitman: I think that it will become extremely relevant, but we need time, a bit more time.
Student: And from here at the moment does it feel like that we can take something to dissemination? Of all kinds of layers or forms or do you think that's not yet?
M. Laitman: We'll be able to take something. Humanity will face such questions that it will have no answer for them, have no support looking into the future and that's going to be the situation. We are on the verge of a change in nature. It will project such situations on us that we'll have nothing to say, no way to explain anything to ourselves, nothing. Soon, it's starting already but not everybody can see it.
Question Petah Tikva Center: (12:41) Really, to continue that, he writes that because they didn't want to make peace with those, according to the sages and until the house was ruined and this caused the exile. So, what's to make peace?
M. Laitman: Peace is from the word Shalom, from the word Shalem, whole. It's the name of the Creator. To make peace means to be under the rule of the Creator, to accept it with all your heart.
Student: What does he mean, that there is a need to make peace from the groups of people, or?
M. Laitman: There cannot be peace if you have different rulers and rules and different groups. That's not the right approach. It's politics. It's not peace according to the Torah.
Student: Peace according to the Torah is to simply be adhered to the Creator?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (13:47) He talked about there is supposed to be a change in humanity, a change in nature that won't enable humanity to remain indifferent, I don't know how to repeat your words exactly, but we know that all our work is in the Ten and in the connection between us. I am trying to ask and to constantly understand and feel it more, how do we in our work in the Ten, in our work in connection, how do we influence outwards towards all of humanity? With what intention, with what relations do we have to exert in our connection between us so that outside there will be less blows? Because this nature will probably not come in some kind of caressing, it will be harsh. How do we make the advancement to be good to all of reality?
M. Laitman: I don't think there will be a good progress or bad progress. I am thinking about how and when can we clothe our world inside the intention of the Creator. The time for that has not come yet. It's not time yet and therefore your complaints are not real, you can't carry them out yet.
Student: But what do we need to do in the Ten? Are we going to sit and say the time has not come? We have to exert to advance that time, right?
M. Laitman: For the time being, try within the worldwide Bnei Baruch such a connection in the way you wish to bring to the world, and you'll see how much more work you have there.
Student: That work that we're hearing you frequently, that the work and the connection between us, how does that effort of connection with those nine beside myself, how there does this remedy enter towards the whole world?
M. Laitman: I don't know how it can enter towards the entire world. Can you hear me or not? I don't know, I know only one thing. What is the place in which we can realize the method for the time being, and we should try to be successful there.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (16:39) If a person doesn't have part of the problem, can that be part of the solution? If a person isn't responsible for the problem, is it possible for them to be part of the solution?
M. Laitman: There’s no responsible or not responsible.
Student: I need to find the problem in me, in order to correct the problem that I see outside of me, yes?
M. Laitman: Let's say so.
Student: How to incorporate correctly in the Ten in order to find the problems that I see in the world inside of me?
M. Laitman: I don't think that's the way. We need to be connected together in the Ten as one man in one heart. Then on this condition, to the extent we approach it the Creator will be revealed with all of its nature in the Ten, inside of us, in the body of the Ten. In that, we'll understand, we'll better understand the ways of His peace, and His unity and so on and so forth. That's really our work.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:41) He actually blames that Tzadok and Bytos, he blames them. He says they are responsible and it's because of them and they did this, they did that. That's very not typical. Why does he do that?
M. Laitman: I don't know if it's atypical or typical. Tell me what's the problem using words we can understand.
Student: He's calling them like so-called sages who have deviated from the path. When is it sages that deviate from the path causing ruin?
M. Laitman: I don't know.
Student: There's always a dispute within the people, there always have been disputes. This grasp versus that grasp.
M. Laitman: We can learn from the story what he's telling us and not more than that and not try to understand it from our today's intellect.
Student: I didn't understand.
M. Laitman: I can't understand your question. Because I don't live in the same world and the same times to which you are sending me. There are two sages greatest of the generation and they had a dispute.
Student: Can we conclude anything from this for today?
M. Laitman: Let's keep reading and see.
Reading continued: (20:22) The Difference between a Secular Ideal and a Religious Ideal.
A secular ideal stems from humanness and hence cannot raise itself above humanness. Conversely, a religious ideal, which stems from the Creator, can raise itself above humanity. This is because the basis for a secular ideal is equalization and the price of glorifying man, and he acts in order to boast in the eyes of people. And although he is sometimes disgraced in the eyes of his contemporaries, he still relies on other generations and it is still a precious thing for him, like a gem that fuels its owner although no one knows of it or cherishes it.
A religious ideal, however, is based on glory in the eyes of the Creator. Hence, he who follows a religious ideal can raise himself above humanity.
So it is among the nations of our exile. As long as we followed the path of Torah, we were safe, for it is known to all the nations that we are a highly developed nation and they wanted our cooperation. They exploit us, each according to their own selfish desires, but we still had great power among the nations, so after all the exploitation, there still remained a handsome portion left for us, greater than for the civilians of the land.
But because people rebelled against the Torah in their aspiration to execute their selfish ploys, they lost life’s purpose, meaning the work of the Creator, and replaced the sublime goal for selfish goals of life’s pleasures. Thus, anyone who attained fortune raised his goal with glory and beauty. In consequence, where the religious man scattered his monetary surplus on charity, good deeds, building seminaries, and other such collective needs, the selfish ones scattered their surplus on the joys of life: food and drink, clothing and jewels, and equalized themselves with the prominent in that nation.
By these words, I only mean to show that the Torah and the natural law of development go hand in hand in wondrous unity even with blind fate. Thus, the bad incidences in the exile, which we have much to tell of from the days of our exile, were all because we embezzled the Torah. Had we kept the commandments of the Torah, no harm would have come to us.
M. Laitman: Okay, that's clear. He writes about it very clearly for the people. So you have questions?
Question (Petah Tikva): (26:01) How to strengthen each other with the right intention, if I understood correctly here, he says we have some problem between Lishma and Lo Lishma, and that was always the battle within us. How to correct?
M. Laitman: I guess he will provide some advice later.
Student: Okay, we'll wait.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (26:36) I still want to ask, maybe it's not relevant, but it is relevant actually. Today, when we look at the people of Israel, the majority is people that say, they're traditional, believe that there's something, and even do all kinds of things to kind of, the most of them, you can see it. And nevertheless, with the war and all that, I hear this a lot from people, not on the news, you don't hear it there, you hear it from people, they say the fact that we had all the technology and all those abilities, and we were surprised, that's from above. That comes to give us some message. People say this clearly, openly, not just like that.
M. Laitman: So, what?
Student: Now, all that's happening now, also, they're saying it's from above, that's from above?
M. Laitman: So same thing after the Holocaust. Also, how can it be? Six million people were herded like sheep and terminated. How can that be? Where was the Creator? Or He did it Himself?
Student: They don't see where the Creator is, they say it's something out for the good. They somehow understand that it's somehow for the good, even though they don't really understand. But the question is, what can you say to people? You can kind of like, not pay attention but they say, connect, it'll be good. How will I connect with Him? What? They hate. That's already too hard of a solution. There's this perplexity, which is very, very big amongst the public?
M. Laitman: People are perplexed, even when we detect the hatred among the people, we don't see a solution for it. Or let's say, we wish to be connected, we wish to be as one mass. How to come to it? That's not clear to us. Because the moment we come out of that point once again we have this internal quarrel. So, what can we do? Do you have a solution? Nothing. So many wise people and not one solution. No, there's only one wise person.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (29:26) The ruin of the Temple came from the sages who went in the way that is Lo Lishma. That's where the problem came from. That's when the ruin took birth. Lo Lishma is in order to receive, Lishma is in order to bestow. Until we reach in order to bestow, there's nothing to expect from anyone. The only solution there, according to my opinion, is here. And we read this in the first article.
M. Laitman: And what happened since?
Student: I don't know. We're scrutinizing, we're trying to come to Lishma. Also, with the questions that I see here, they're not questions for, it's like, what? I don't understand. It's written here that Tzadok and Bytos were due to the fact that they didn't follow Lishma and from that, the Temple was ruined. We have to go back to Lishma. So what? Can we go on the street to tell them about Lishma? What do they understand from that? Did they ever hear about in order to receive, in order to bestow? Has anyone heard that ever? Except for us?
M. Laitman: Meaning, we need to disseminate, correct dissemination, to make it clear to all avenues among the people what we have to aspire to. Yes? No? So say?
Student: We, in the Tens, need to reach Lishma, first of all. I don't feel like we're in Lishma in the Tens. The problem is here, not somewhere else. The fact that we do disseminate, we have to disseminate. There's no issue with that. We have to disseminate, but the problem is within us. We have to reach Lishma, and I don't think that we are yet in Lishma.
M. Laitman: Okay, and?
Student: I don't know. Give me a stick, then I'll beat everyone. I'm joking. I don't know what, I really don't know what. It's an outcry, it's an inner cry that I have.
M. Laitman: An inner cry, that's what we're demanded of?
Student: All of us, from us and the people of Israel sighed from the work?
M. Laitman: So, what's the plan?
Student: I don't know. People scream like the friend, for everyone to stand up and scream. We want to reach Lishma. I don't hear that people want to reach Lishma. I told you, I'll say it again, that me and you pray, and we'll bring the friend in also, maybe someone else wants to cry. To cry out. I’m sorry that I'm saying what I'm thinking.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (32:45) I'm not managing to understand here. If the problem here is to reach Lishma or that they followed the way he calls it, the nice things in life or they seek things that have nothing to do with the Torah. It's kind of like, we know there's two degrees here. Where is the problem? After all, he says in the end here that all the problems would be solved if there weren't people that would use their surplus on the beauty things in life and replace that with, how does he say there, giving money to the seminaries in place of them starting to live a life of excess. I also feel that it's a problem. Also, Lishma, we already read that that was a problem. So, what really, according to your opinion, is the obstacle or what brings the troubles to us?
M. Laitman: I also think it's a problem. We are not aimed at the correct goal; we are spreading ourselves thin in all kinds of unnecessary directions. We aren't building ourselves, we don't honor, respect those people among us who have an answer for Lishma. We have to crystallize more and more and make a proper inner calculation, introspection and continue from there.
Student: Most of the people I live with, all my neighbors with all kinds of fancy cars, and I see only the attraction after the beauty of life. The people of Israel are not supposed to behave that way, or is that not the problem altogether? Really what's important, the joys of life are not the issue here, between those who study Lishma and not Lishma. There are those who, I don't know, the secular who don't have any connection to that question whatsoever?
M. Laitman: When religious people have connection?
Student: Maybe there's the Tzadok and Bytos, maybe there's the question there also between those who do say we'll use the Torah, either for Lishma or for our own benefit. So here there is a question, whether this is the dilemma, if this is the quarrel that brings the situation upon the people of Israel, or is there another problem here that Baal HaSulam writes here, which is that there are those who are completely disconnected and are spreading out their life on external joys, you know, things?
M. Laitman: Okay, let's continue, continue. For the time being the source of the problem is quite concealed yet.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (36:26) I do want to say what I think, and I think that the solution is dissemination actually. You said earlier that there is a lack, something that never was, and we're in a period that people really want, and we have the solution. Ten years ago, we went out, we tried to lower the connection towards the people, the Arvut movement, but there was no lack back then. But today, really, everyone wants, they don't know how, and we know how. So why don't we arrange it and give it to them, we have it, the solution. And they want the solution here. So what, where is it stuck?
M. Laitman: The solution is stuck as usual for many years, thousands of years, in the execution, application. That's quite simple.
Student: Today we really have an invitation from the people. They're ready, they're willing to do, really, everyone's ready, just how, how, what's the connection, what's the solution? We have actual models for all these things. Back then we took them in a circle, in couples, in all these different ways, even go down to the lowest levels of things but we have to come out of this shell somehow, but Lishma Tens, I understand our brother here, I am also like him, I really, really want it but maybe that's what's making us stuck, that we are here so busy with ourselves and how are we going to get to Lishma while the country's on fire?
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (38:34) One more discernment, maybe, that is worthwhile. I hear here a lot of these absolute definitions that, oh, that we're ready, there's a demand and they want. We need to understand that the situation today is so exposed and this disaster that happened here, to the people of Israel is far from being some understanding that it's a result of something. And to come and approach and use it as if there's a jumping board here. I am not impressed that there is a readiness for this thing and that usually, what happens in all kinds of things like that, is that you try to take it, it can evoke a certain anti-resistive action and that's what we need to be very delicate with such a thing. Meaning it's clear that we need to talk and everything but this tendency that now everything is clear, and everything is ready and they're just waiting for someone to come. I'm not impressed that that's how it is at all. We have to be super, super delicate here, sensitive and consider that people have been through a trauma that they still don't understand where they are. That's all.
M. Laitman: That's true. That's true.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (40:03) I lately talked to a lot of people, secular, religious also, at work and they all agree with this sentence, love thy friend as thyself. Everyone agrees with that, everyone wants that. In what way, that doesn't matter, or maybe it does matter but I think that the problem is maybe that we need to raise the pace of our work, internally and externally. But more importantly internally, meaning every day we need to rise up more, more work, more demand, more searching within that can add to the yearning to reach the goal. Maybe this is the place where we can work on it together. Like a little child, when he's growing, he walks on two feet, left, right, left, right and we see this slowly, slowly, he grows until he can run, let's say. And we have to take those examples, these simple examples, and to add within us the work that we're learning here from Rabash. That's what I recommend.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (41:47) I want to go back to what you said that we’re in a lack when it comes to execution. What did you mean by that? Throughout the years maybe we didn’t perform or execute the matter of dissemination in a successful way so what, how do we need to do this?
M. Laitman: I don't want to say anymore, I don't. There's no doubt that we need to go out and widely disseminate to the entire people, the way Baal HaSulam wanted and Rabash wanted, and we need to also do it. There's no way around it, just to do it. We have the content, we have friends, people, we have the material, we have the infrastructure, we have it all. We need to start working, working it. I seriously hope that we'll start doing it. Each and every Ten must provide a recommendation of what it recommends doing. Who's collecting these notes? Board World Kli?
Reader: Yes, boardworldkli@gmail.com. Every Ten in every language can send it there.
M. Laitman: And then in two weeks' time, whatever we receive we'll write it down and we'll start working.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (45:10) Why not utilize it now, when we have the power of the lesson? The Tens are here, sitting here. Because when we disperse, you see when the Tens gather, not all the friends are in it. Right now, we're in the lesson, there's the power of the entire society, of all the Tens. You're here, and people will sit and start to do work. The power of the lesson is tremendous. It's a shame to miss it.
M. Laitman: What do I need to do?
Student: As you said, no, let's sit on it. We have half an hour; we can sit on it right now.
M. Laitman: And.
Student: The Tens should discuss it right now. In 30 minutes, you're getting information, you're collecting all the ideas, and we can go out to do some practical actions.
M. Laitman: Okay, let's say that, so, let's go. Every single Ten, doesn't matter how whole it is or not, needs to give now an answer. What our role is and where we are at the moment and how we are going to implement this practically, truly, in our lives. Not fantasies and things like that but only practical things. Please.
WORKSHOP
Focus Group: (47:27) Okay, let's try together to understand what we're doing.
Student: I can say from my understanding that, first each one needs to ensure that he's taking a role on himself, one role inside the society. In short, I feel everyone needs a role in society. And to ensure he has a role relative to external dissemination. There are many, many roles to take on here from within the system. Each one needs to make sure he has such a role inside and outside, facing inside and facing outside. In addition, anyone who has the ability to create content and then to do it, as we hear from the friends here each one is in contact with a different part of the people, feeling different deficiencies and he knows how to answer those deficiencies that he’s coming into contact with. So each one will create a different type of dissemination and maybe through that we’ll be able to cover a large part of the population.
Student: (49:20) There is no essence to any explanation without our coming from connection. To think from the head and the intellect of every person, there are a million people that say and know how to say things that are smarter and more correctly than us. What’s special about us is that there is an inner force and that force within comes from being connected to the sources and to come from a connection. I would put the emphasis on those things and less on all kinds of external wisdoms.
Student: (50:26) What is our role, where we are and how do we realize it in practice in our lives, in practice, in essence? So, our role is to explain that the salvation is in the connection. We people of Israel cannot escape this role, we need to reach mutual guarantee, everyone has to be responsible for everyone else, we cannot just enjoy cars and vacations and making money, rather if we don’t work relative to that the blows will grow to the worst part. I don’t know how, maybe in form of circles or more seriously, that’s the role. And of course, of connection. We need to reach Lishma, from there the power will flow, but it has to pass into action. Rav said, we’re failing the action; we are directed correctly but it’s not enough. It won’t be enough unless we work on it, so I don’t have an idea, specifically circles or something else, that’s the question, let’s discuss it, let’s surround it more specifically.
Student: (52:05) I don’t know how to say that we need to be ahead. We need to be like just like the friend said here, we need the connection between us to reach Lishma. We need to advance everyday like the friend said and to add and add. To increase internality over externality. And outwards we also need to work. There’s some dead-end here, it’s also something that the Creator has to open and it’s also something that we haven’t put our forces into it yet and we need truly to engage in this. It’s not like we’re going to solve now in half an hour, let’s go around and everyone is going to say something and we’ll go home, it’s a process, a deep serious process that needs to be continued every moment, every day until we build ourselves as a Rosh, as a head; also the content itself, I’m not impress with, like we said here that we have everything. I don’t feel like someone who doesn’t want to develop spiritually, that we still have explanations that are clear and simple to how to get along in life and how to come to agreements and to all those things about, essential things, not just like that. There’s a lot more work that needs to be done and a lot of development of content in the ways of dissemination.
Student: (53:36) Just like the media today is filling us with all this nonsense and their goal is to do everything on these networks. Let's say, on YouTube and Facebook where people are today. Where people are we should reach these places around their real lives. How can life be better day in and day out? With education with, the right attitude in the family, things people can relate to, they can identify with, relate to, not just in the air. Talk about economics, depression, the heavy things in the public that are going on. Simple things that are now really hard in the public and I think that inside those conversations on YouTube, on Facebook, it doesn't matter where you can open it up more generally and be there 24/7 for people, let's say. They can’t sleep at night they can go there at night to have a discussion with someone. It's got to be something that’s running 24/7 for everyone. In here in Israel and everyone abroad can also go in there. The Creator gave us the internet and these things that work so freely specifically so we can go and do our work there.
Student: (55:48) I identify with friends that we quite don't have solutions. As if we had them. Go out. And scream them out loud. And I'm certain that's the same for all the friends because we need to come to the heart of friends. Of the people where each is in his own just and only in each, he's sure that he’s right and we have to come to that from our connection. I have no orderly formula, but we do need to try to practically take things outwards. I have nothing orderly or clear, but It’s burning for a very long time. That we as a society. Need to try. Go out. With something to incorporate in the people, not to incorporate but to. We just need to understand that we’re certain with it and that we’re sure that if we do the work like the kabbalists and that that’s the only chance we have and we want to implement this chance, so the solution, let’s say formula just like we heard in the lesson mathematically does not exist? Just in connection it’s also not perceived amongst the people, but we have to take it outwards.
Student: (57:33) I think we should wean ourselves of this delusion of grandeur where we can tell people how to behave. No one will come to hear anything from us that's not related to the Wisdom of Kabbalah. Where are we, what do we have to show, is someone here the expert? These people can talk about economics, what can I say about economics? All these other topics to start explaining to people how they need to live, good grief, who are you? This new age on a dime and to have a solution for life. We only have these sources that nobody else has. We have a Kabbalist who's our teacher and still with us. Thank God, we need to work on getting what we’re studying here what’s written in the sources to bring it outside. How? I don't know. Feelings, quotes, such things have to start working with all this thing around it, Oh my God. We have no, no success to show for it, something we can show, look we've done something; all we have is a Ten. Anyone who ever came in contact with the Ten, if it's not incorporated with it to a small degree and understands that’s something special, it's the only thing. From there we have to come out and to there they have to go back to there's nothing, somebody circles. Go outside, outside of the Knesset. We have thousands of tents with circles, they are all empty. Nobody wants to sit in circles. People are dying. People are uncertain if this country will continue to exist. Circles and who's going to sit in circles?
Student: (59:35) First of all I'm very impressed by the friends in the Ten and I'm envious that you feel these lacks on the outside. Always incorporating those deficiencies and the frustrations is something that’s really raises the matter. I think nevertheless, our whole engagement is also absorbing these things, all these frustrations and brings them here. This is where we lose all these lacks and add to the connection between us in order to come to this complete deficiency, like we talked about in the beginning. And with that, we've taken examples from the friends, and from Baal HaSulam, Rabash, and Rav, how as much as they give in the internality, they also give in externality. And they give everything in order to disseminate, even if there's no responses and no relation that you could say that someone's relating to it. It's because it's the truth and it needs to go out.
Student: (01:00:46) Baal HaSulam went to speak to Ben-Gurion. So if we have a way of finding out how he got to him, what he told him, if it's written somewhere, that could be... Do you guys know that letter that Rabash invited Ben-Gurion to his son's wedding? It's in the archive. He writes I'm sorry I received your invitation after the date of the wedding. I wish I could sit with you and your father and continue the interesting things that we talked about. It's interesting what we talked about. That's what's interesting.
Student: (01:01:28) He wrote here that the challenge is not to bring a solution, but to bring people to engage in Torah, to be excited by the ideas of Baal HaSulam and Rabash, and the sages throughout the generations, and start feeling the potential that's in them. Talk about this, discuss this, and to be excited about that. It's not important that there are people that are smarter than us. There's nothing like the spirit between us. Although we're not in attainment, it works. The people I talk with on my podcast within half an hour start to feel that there's something, and this connects to what you said, in the Ten. This exercise needs to be done every day, and let people hear and see this, and strengthen them. Let them do this with their circles. Instead of going to religion or that we need slogans.
Reader: (01:02:23) Friends, who have ideas, anyone here in the study hall can vote. You can put up the question marks if you have any good ideas. Each Ten wants to speak clearly, shortly, precisely and allows many friends to express their ideas in the remaining time that we have. If we have any constructive things, please bring it up, and also send. Of course, anyone who doesn't get to speak, send it to BoardWorldKli@gmail.com. Those who didn't get to speak, and also those who said they will send it. Send it.
M. Laitman: Let's go. He has a question. Well, what happened?
Student: (01:03:38) No, Gilad said you can give your ideas from what we discussed.
M. Laitman: No, no. Did he say? Gilad said that it's good if you send your ideas to BoardWorldKli @gmai.com.
M. Laitman: If it won't spoil this, won't spoil that, please do it. I think that if you start now to read your things, and his, and his, like that, then you'll spoil the momentum that already has been crystallized here.
Student: (01:04:36) The question is what to do if in the term we don't have one opinion, each one has an idea.
M. Laitman: Work on it becoming one opinion. So they need to send it.
Question (Peter 3): (01:05:04) We want to support our friends who gathered at Petah Tikva, as you are taking upon yourself this great work. We will pray for you.
M. Laitman: Thank you very much.
Question (Latin 1): (01:05:29) Just spoke about music. The question is how to find a one point of view, because every friend said something very different than the other.
Question (Women Ukraine 2): (01:05:59) Dear Rav, a friend said, and maybe I'll say it in the name of many friends, we have to, first of all on our behalf, not to try to understand something within what's happening, but to make all the efforts in order to impact the heart and draw the mercy of the Creator. And to enter into the work in the Tens with Hassadim, through reading Psalms, as a daily portion, a daily dose for this time. And by doing this we'll be able to help the quality of the dissemination.
M. Laitman: You're writing meanwhile? Yes. The email address? BoardworldKli.gmail.com?
Question (Women English 1): (01:07:12) I think we need to pray for the friends more, we underestimate prayer, and this is our weapon. When we pray, we connect better. And through our connection we disseminate better. In English, this English room, a few minutes ago there was only three friends with camera on and I began to pray for the friends. And in less than 30 minutes of praying, this English room was filled with more friends. Some of these friends were in my prayer. This is the power that we have. When we pray, the Creator answers and we get to pray more.
M. Laitman: Thank you.
Question (Czech Slovak 5): (01:08:25) We are discussing in our Ten that we feel we need to be more personal in the spreading of the knowledge of Kabbalah. And we need to add more value to ourselves, to this knowledge to make it more accessible and more simple connecting with the outer world. This is what we came to.
Question (Czech Slovak 1): (01:09:14) On one way, we are making the illumination of Kabbalah. Of course, we must, but only a minority of people are interested in starting to learn the root. I think that we should be focused on the second line. It means integral education or topics which people are interested in at this time. And this is personal development, relationship because this part of education is, let's say, egoistic. People are interested in it. And I think that we must go inside this topic and bring inside this impact of Kabbalah and how to implement it in the school, on the topic where people are interested.
M. Laitman: Thank you.
Question (Kyiv 3): (01:10:29) In our Ten we landed around this idea, something we have felt for a while since last Passover that the focus in our lessons has gone to the Israeli Kli. The remaining time is dedicated to the rest of the world. We talked about how the rest of the world needs to wake up and be more active because it's certain that the nations of the world will bring the people of Israel to the Creator. There's a desire to have such a connection in the Ten, between the Ten’s, in order to incorporate the Israeli Kli and to understand how to support it and advance it. Because we know, we see, we feel how much work the friends in Israel are doing. But there's also a kind of despair that they're not able to awaken the people of Israel. And we want to help in doing it, but there's so little time for us. We want to know how to connect correctly and push Israel.
M. Laitman: You probably need to write to Board World Kli. And to summarize with them in what manner and in what way to talk to them. In what way the whole world Kli will be able to participate more actively. In all the projects in our matters, the lessons, the questions. It all depends on you.
Student: In my personal opinion, I haven't discussed it with others, but since a year has gone by, when you went down to the study hall, you're focused more on the Israeli Kli. It's not happening by accident. I guess there's a thought behind it?
M. Laitman: It's possible and I probably need to distance myself from everyone. You're right.
Question (Holland): (01:13:11) To develop, let's say a mutual sense of deficiency, of the seriousness and importance of dissemination. Why dissemination? Because we can develop let's say, truly helping others in the world to reveal the Creator. And to have this sense that we have the opportunity of bestowing there to everybody. That it is very serious that it is very urgent and we need to develop this deficiency together, mutually. Together with the world Kli and not only Israel.
M. Laitman: Very well, what else do we need to do?
Reader: There are announcements.
Song: (01:15:49)