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Daily Lesson (Morning) May 20, 2025.

Part 2: Preparation to Convention - Connecting to One Ten

Reader: Hello friends, we're preparing for the big convention in two days, so we are now in the topic of connecting into One Ten. We'll learn selected excerpts and scrutinize this process.  Connecting into One Ten. You can find the study materials on Sviva Tova and the Arvut system. You can also send questions through our websites. Connecting into One Ten.

Reading: (00:32)

We have to know that all the souls extend from the soul of Adam HaRishon, for after he sinned in the sin of the Tree of Knowledge, his soul divided into 600,000 souls. This means that the one light that Adam HaRishon had, which The Zohar called “upper brightness,” which he had in the Garden of Eden at once, spreads into many pieces. 

Reader: Reading again.

M. Laitman: Is that clear? The Creator created one soul, and afterwards it was divided into many parts. That's it. And this is what we learn about. And it depends on us how these many parts can connect, can reconnect into one soul.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (03:38) Do we have some kind of connection with any part from the soul of Adam HaRishon?

M. Laitman: We have a connection with all the parts of Adam HaRishon. Except we don't feel it, and in truth, when we think of ourselves, of our future. Then we learn that in the end, we have to be together as one man with one heart. Meaning, with one desire and to feel that system. That it controls us. Pulls us to development in some direction. This we need to both learn, feel, and attain.

Student: Beyond the attraction to the whole state or the yearning for it. What does it mean? A connection with some part of the soul of Adam HaRishon?

M. Laitman: A connection with some part of Adam HaRishon is expressed in us feeling ourselves. More and more dependent on each other. And drawn to some order, to some form, a special form, and in that form we will attain ourselves as one created being, as it was in the beginning. And there are many other discernments, but for now, that's enough. 

Student: Actually, there's not a little part of Adam HaRishon, but the expression to the Adam HaRishon is attraction to the whole state?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: We can't say that we feel just a part of it? 

M. Laitman: No. In truth, we can only feel that state that is called one soul. 

Student: What's in the convention, with all the preparations, that is an opportunity for contact with the soul of Adam HaRishon? 

M. Laitman: A congress is convening, it’s connection through certain actions that Kabalists talk about and which we try to do. We feel ourselves as parts of Adam HaRishon, and this is how we go through stages, stages of knowing, of development.

Student: The fact that we want to gather already connects us to those parts of the soul of Adam HaRishon. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:46) It says that the upper light spreads to many pieces. Does it lose its value in some way by spreading into numerous pieces?

M. Laitman: We are talking about the revelation of the light to the created beings in stages, in degrees, which is basically NRNHY. From the smallest light to the greatest light, that all the created beings that are in creation feel these degrees of revelation of the Creator to the created beings. 

Student: Every part feels some discernment in that light and not the entire light? 

M. Laitman: Each part? I don't understand. 

Student: It's written that after the shattering, it expanded into numerous pieces.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Every part that the upper brightness reaches after the shattering, will it feel all the light or certain discernments of it? 

M. Laitman: Partial discernments. Particular ones. And. But when it's revealed to the created beings, they will feel, understand, attain the general part of their connection.The general part of their connection, and this is called attainment. 

Student: Part of the light is felt in each one of the parts in a restricted way, but still, it will also receive discernments about all the light? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:54) Rav, the revelation of the whole light that we want to reach, is that the correction of all of our vessels, or is it connected to the size of the vessel? What does it depend on to discover that whole light? 

M. Laitman: The measure of light that we reveal depends on the vessel in which the light is present and revealed. This is why we talk about NRNHY, degrees of lights that are revealed all through the vessels, KHB ZON, and this is how we talk about it. But we have to attain it in practice, meaning out of the connection within us. The way the light is ready to be revealed, it depends on the vessel. Meaning, to the extent that we try to be as one man with one heart, in one vessel, in one desire, according to this, we will know how the light fills the vessel.

Student: In this convention that we're now going to gather, how much does it depend on this convention that we'll discover that whole light? 

M. Laitman: It actually depends on us, only on us. To the extent that the created beings who feel the shattering, the distance, the darkness, want to overcome that state and come to unity, to a union, to the extent of the attainment of the union, they reveal the upper light that fills them, all of them, and this is how they advance.

Student: What does it mean to feel difficulty? What difficulty should we feel in the convention, or maybe not? If I don't feel difficulty in the connection, so I don't have that effort, that special effort to reveal?

M. Laitman: We need to reveal to ourselves all of reality. How much we reveal ourselves, we discover that we are separate, and how much we need to be together, to incorporate together as one, and by this, feel the Creator.

Student: The soul of Adam HaRishon, is that one Ten, or is it a collection of a few Tens? 

M. Laitman: Adam HaRishon is each part of the common Kli, common vessel, that is incorporated with all the souls, and one who feels that state is regarded as being in those degrees of Adam HaRishon. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:13) But if I could continue, the more a person advances and rises, he starts feeling that soul of Adam HaRishon. So, what happens to all the Tens? They go and gather into one Ten? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And in the convention, what do we want to feel in relation to that soul of Adam HaRishon? What could we feel? 

M. Laitman: At the Congress, we have an opportunity to connect all of us into one center, and to feel in it what fills it. And this is called the soul of Adam HaRishon. 

Student: I want to ask about the convention itself. What we're going to have in two days, the tension between the work in my private Ten to the world Ten. What should happen here? 

M. Laitman: What should happen here? All of us yearn to reveal our connection in its fullest power, and then we will feel ourselves as parts of Adam HaRishon, which is the created beings in this world. And in the meantime, through that state, we want to rise to greater degrees of attainment.

Student: There's two parts of work. There's work in my private Ten, and now there's a feeling of a convention, of one big Ten, that I also have to feel that? 

M. Laitman: Correct.

Student: What are those two types of work? 

M. Laitman: That you want from your personal state to be incorporated in the general state. And in that general state, you need to come to attainment of the general state, meaning light and vessel. They are general to everyone.

Student: In that general state, I need to take something to my private Ten?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What? 

M. Laitman: Everything that you attain. 

Student: And what can my Ten give the general Ten? 

M. Laitman: Your Ten should be connected and try to be as a center to all the groups, to all the Tens.

Student: In the routine, we're working in our Ten, day after day, that's our focus. In the convention, what is the work when we're all making efforts to connect? How should we work in general?

M. Laitman: Participate. This is what I want to say. In these days, until the congress, and including the congress, we are all in all in constant tendency, leaning toward connection. And therefore, at the congress itself, we want to feel in practice, in actuality, how we are incorporated, and how we work out of the connection. And therefore, the congress is an opportunity for connection. 

Student: Usually, in a convention, what we say is to absorb, to incorporate, to annul, such actions that, I don't know how to say, passive, that you come and something will work on you.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What is the active part of a person towards the other participants? 

M. Laitman: To incorporate practically with others, in others.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (23:09) What's the difference between a regular day and a congress day? 

M. Laitman: What's the difference? 

Student: Yes.

M. Laitman: A regular day is a regular day. In a day of a congress is a convening of many people who want, on the same day, to reach their center, to be incorporated, to incorporate in one another. And in this way rise to more and more spiritual degrees. 

Student: Is there room for, if not for me, who is for me, on the day of a congress? 

M. Laitman: Yes. From beginning to end, you have that element called, if I'm not for me, who is for me? And each one must check it, intend to it.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (24:21) Most of the day, or throughout the day, I'm concerned, I'm correcting myself, but in the day of a congress, I'm concerned also about myself? 

M. Laitman: Of course. What is the difference between a day of a congress and a regular day? It's just that we assemble together and want to feel how we can, all of us, influence our situation.

Student: Is there a difference in the type of prayer?

M. Laitman: Yes. During the congress, we are all drawn to connection together. When all the thousands of people who are friends in our world, they all think about how to be connected in practice.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (25:50) What's the correction that a person goes through in a congress? How does he enter, and how does he want to come out?

M. Laitman: He wants to annul himself. As a…. as one individual vessel, and that in that vessel, in that vessel, he will feel how much he is like a part, like a general desire in the world, and how much he can invest in all the individual desires to connect them to the Creator. 

Student: Which private desires does he connect to the Creator? Whose? 

M. Laitman: Of all his friends, all the participants. 

Student: What exactly is his correction? What is he correcting in that part? 

M. Laitman: What does he correct? He corrects his incorporation in everyone and wants to feel them as a whole, as one whole. And in this way, continue the ascent. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (28:24) During the congress, let's say there's a congress in Kazakhstan or Guadalajara. Beyond annulment, how else can we incorporate in those conventions that I'm not with them in contact unless they're on the screen or something? 

M. Laitman: We need to be ready for a connection with all the groups that during the congress want to connect and participate in the common work. And to continue in this way.

Student: That is a preparation. I understand we have to be ready and be focused on it, but how to really work during the convention, or even from today, in order to really incorporate and practice. 

M. Laitman: I think that what we need is to yearn for connection. And how it will happen, in what way it will happen is however the Creator chooses. How He leads us from the state of shattering to the state of correction.

Student: And building this yearning, we do it in the Ten, towards incorporating with all the other vessels, right? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Is that the right way to look at it? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes. This is what we need to correct. In our connection.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (30:57) One of the unique things in this upcoming congress is that many centers have to build a congress locally, and it demands a lot of exertion. We hear how around the world, a lot of friends are taking responsibility to put together a congress of logistics, and content, and being concerned of the friends. How can we incorporate with the exertion of other friends? 

M. Laitman: We need to be connected to them in all their steps in building the group, the local one, and broader, and broader, and broader, and to do exercises, activities in how we come to the general connection. 

Student: For example, I look at a friend that now lifts a hundred kilos, and I look at him doing it. I see he's doing it, I see he's purposeful, and he's doing it for the friends, but he's lifting those 100 kilos. How can I incorporate with that action? 

M. Laitman: If you don't have the same strength that there is in him, then you can't do it.

Student: I'm left with some inspiration of observing it on the side. How do I take part in this? 

M. Laitman: That impression, inspiration pushes you to correction, to a state where you feel what you're lacking in order to be like him. 

Student: I need to look at the friend's exertion, to get inspired from it, and to want to be like him? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: That's my prayer to the Creator, to be in some envy?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: It turns out that if we look at the screens and we need to feel envy, I want to be like those friends, and I'm asking for the Creator, for the forces to be like them? 

M. Laitman: True.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (33:35) Sometimes, in congresses we have duties and we do things, but sometimes things don't work. Most of the time it does work, but there are malfunctions here and there. We are working with thousands of people in a congress, etc. And then there's a feeling of lack of connection where you feel that in this situation, specifically, you have a problem. What do you do then? 

M. Laitman: We need to be close to the Tens, to the groups, to people, in order that by participating with them, every time to try and rise to a higher spiritual degree. 

Student: We're all working in annulment toward the center. The feeling that we get, is it the same feeling? 

M. Laitman: You can't compare between what you have in each one and what you have in a part, the connection between them. It's impossible to scrutinize that.

Student: And in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: In the Ten, yes, that is possible.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (35:36) I heard Rav say that when we attain Adam HaRishon, we feel the form, the special form of Adam HaRishon. What is this form? Is it eternal, or does it always change?

M. Laitman: The form we attain is a form of bestowal. That from our connection, we as if illuminate towards everyone in one illumination. That illumination is felt. Usually, that illumination is called inner light. That's it. 

Student: How does this illumination clothe us, in our inner feeling? 

M. Laitman: That's where it starts, that's where it exists. Because the Creator clothes in us, and the clothing of the Creator in us, we feel it as a revelation of the upper light in our vessel.

Student: And when we connect with each other, now in the cCongress, are we rebuilding Adam HaRishon in Bnei Baruch? Do we resemble the form of Adam HaRishon in Bnei Baruch?  

M. Laitman: Of course, that our actions in connection and coming closer to one another, we do feel that we're in an action of incorporation, connection, closeness to one another, understanding, feeling, a common feeling. And it is all revealed in us. Because in this way, when we come closer between us, we can discover the general upper force, which is the Creator. 

Student: And now when we are in the congress, we are having Congresses in Hungary, Pennsylvania, Kiev. Does this maybe even help us to build our form of Adam HaRishon when we are spread all over the world?  

M. Laitman: Us being spread around the world, that was prepared for us from the beginning of the world. And we need to feel the closeness between us to such an extent that we will feel as much as we build in our incorporation the structure of Adam HaRishon, the soul of Adam HaRishon. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (40:19) A question about the manner of the work at the congress. I wrote it, but I don't know how to ask. How do you come to the congress with those impressions that you've collected in the work in the Ten? The subjugations you did, all kinds of comments you received, all kinds of insights you received thanks to the work with him. How do you work like that at the congress? How is this work expressed when you are facing the world?

M. Laitman:  It's a private feeling, personal, and let's hope we reach it and feel it. More than that, I don't have an ability to say. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (41:24) From the beginning of the lesson, we've been hearing about incorporation. What exactly becomes incorporated in what? 

M. Laitman: We are incorporated together in our desires and in our goals. We are depicting to ourselves that the process we're going through is bringing us closer. And to the extent that it brings us closer to one another, it also works more and more in one vessel.

Student: So, let's say a person comes to the Congress. He has a desire for spirituality. We all have the same goal, no matter where we are. And he meets another friend or friends who also have a desire for spirituality. What should happen now? What is this action of incorporation between desires? What do we want to happen? 

M. Laitman: What we want that will happen between them is an action of connection. That even though, let's say, they are in a distance of time and place, still they will try to find between them common points that will help them incorporate.

Student: So, in incorporation, I want to feel a special desire of the friend to spirituality? 

M. Laitman: In incorporation, yes. That is only one form. In incorporation, there is much more.

Student: What other forms? What more will happen? I felt his desire is a little different from mine. What do I do now? How do I connect my unique desire with his unique desire? What is this act of connection? What am I trying to do? To turn them into?

M. Laitman: You want to incorporate. You want to incorporate together. And, and you feel that it brings you closer together? 

Student: To simply try to attach their desires together and turn them into one vessel? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (45:18) Rav, in our work, it is always to come to a deficiency, common deficiency. How do we come to common praise? 

M. Laitman: Do you have another word instead of praise? 

Student: Praise, gratitude? Thanksgiving? 

M. Laitman: How to come with a special heart? Oh, gratitude. Okay. So, that's the work that has to be our purpose in the work of the Ten.That's the work that has to be our purpose in the work of the Ten. That's why, I don't know what else we can add.

Student: In the morning after the lesson, we have the prayer. The letters in the prayer book express everything, but at the congress we have a common work. There's different work. So, what's the mechanism that leads us to praise the Creator? Because if it's only a deficiency, it's incomplete. 

M. Laitman: So, you need to connect together and try and feel in the connection between you how you can give gratitude to the Creator. Or building the group and the vessel. And you are on the path to attainment. That's it. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (48:16) I'm looking for the point of excitement before the congress. You have, for so many years, you've been through so many congresses. Are you excited by the congress? Does it excite you? 

M. Laitman: I would be more excited if I wasn't so incorporated with the general vessel. But now, it's a bit different. Because I want to feel everybody. I want to also feel in parts men, women, veterans, new people, and so on. There's all kinds of discernments. 

Student: I too want to be excited, but I'm not excited. I'm not thrilled. What's the advice? What will awaken me? 

M. Laitman: But it's not the first time you come to us and incorporate with a big audience. That's why I'm asking you, so, how do you usually get excited? How do you awaken yourself?

Student: When I know, when I feel that there is a great benefit in the action, this thrills me. If I feel that there is great benefit from the action, it thrills me. I believe it's natural. And here, why is the... I hear that there is benefit here, and I know that after a congress there's always benefit. And yet, I'm not thrilled about it.

M. Laitman: I don't know. Ask yourself more. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (50:55) I heard before that the power of the light depends on the power of the vessel. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: I also heard that during the congress, a person should collect all the individual desires of all the participants and bring them to the Creator. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: That you and the congress person should collect all the individual desires of all the participants and bring them to the Creator. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What does it mean to collect everyone's desires and bring them to the Creator?

M. Laitman: Each one has a desire that a person wants to implement and feel through that same desire what he's drawn towards. And that's why, with that desire, we're expecting to connect. And in this way, each and every one with everyone and all of us together with the Creator. Let's hope that we'll be able to implement it.

Student: So, when I look at a friend at the congress, how do I put on such glasses that make me feel, see, their yearning for godliness, which I connect to the Creator? How do

I penetrate the external envelopes, wrappings, and feel the depth of their hearts, their yearning? 

M. Laitman: We don't need to be in struggles with our ,and disturbances, private disturbances of each and every one. What we need is to incorporate one in the other and one in the other and in this way, scrutinize the questions. If we try to solve these questions, we will reach our place. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (54:05) I come to the congress to incorporate with any desire in front of me. Men, women, new, veterans, anyone I encounter, I work with. It's an opportunity. I still have the same complex. What is the unique force of the incorporation that I have with my friends in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: What are my friends? 

Student: Mine are the friends that I'm in my permanent Ten that I connect with and study with.

M. Laitman: That's the Ten. 

Student: That's my Ten. Now, there's a congress and there are many Tens around me in the same area for several days. I want to incorporate with everyone, right? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, how is incorporation with each friend who has a point in the heart different, who is with me at the congress, how is it different from incorporation with my own Ten?

M. Laitman: Incorporation in your own private Ten is an incorporation that you are holding in the center of your vision, and you don't let it, you don't let it go. You just help it rise and constantly try to include everyone. To include everyone. 

Student: My personal Ten, I keep it at the center of my, the inner center of my vision, it's constantly at the center, constantly. How do I begin to add to that center of the vision more incorporation with more desires, more deficiencies, more friends who are not from my Ten. What do I do here? What am I gradually building? 

M. Laitman: In this you are building a point that is common for everybody. And with that desire that is in the center, that you determined, you come to a solution. 

Student: What is that center? The center of the Ten?

M. Laitman: It's a center you determined, that towards that center, the Ten exists.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (57:52) At the congress, how do we simply connect to Him, like the topic of the congress: connecting to None else besides Him? How do we feel? How do we make the Creator the common theme between us? That His manner of providence on us will be revealed. We read many excerpts, private providence, we read all kinds of excerpts at the congress now that we come one by one. How do we connect so that… how do we honor the Creator in this congress? 

M. Laitman: You need to think about it, actually all the time, that you cannot through some blessing or prayer, in one sentence, express all the connection, all the connection between the Creator and the created beings. That's why, I don't know what else to add. Do you have a question?

Student: How can we use the congress so that the Creator will direct us onward? How do we feel that He’s leading us, where He’s leading us? 

M. Laitman: If we can depict the Creator, that He’s connecting all the forces and drawing us after Him, by this, we are in the right advancement. That's it, that's what I can say. 

Student: I'm asking if it's important that we come out with some achievement at the congress, that we come closer, truly closer to the Creator, to His providence, to His leadership, His guidance, so it will be a real result at the congress.

M. Laitman: The difference between incorporating in a congress or not during a time of congress is very… the difference is very big, because you feel that you have, in the Congress, you have an opportunity, an ability to express yourself by opening yourself also to devotion and also to reception above, and that's why it's an opportunity to participate correctly. That's it. All right.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:02:13) It's written that each one is a small spark, but we're all a big light. It's also written the King is glorified in the multitude of people. You see people doing huge efforts to connect all over the world, despite many obstructions, corporeal ones, etc. It's very important for people to meet physically and virtually, and I really want to continue the friend, to realize the purpose of this convention, this Congress, so that there's none of us besides him will operate in our society and take us up. I wanted to ask, what prayer should we have in our hearts constantly so that all the friends will connect like a plug to the electricity, to the grid, that each of us is a tiny spark, but all of us together are a huge light? So, what prayer can be raised so we will all feel that great light that awaits us? 

M. Laitman: Yes. I understand what you want to ask. But, how are you able to discover the inside of your hearts? I don't know. It's not simple. But we have a few days before the Congress, and then the Congress, and then a few days after the Congress, that if we're incorporated together in one desire, and we're aiming it to one Creator, so it doesn't matter where each and every one is in every moment. We will be able to bestow to the Creator. We'll be able to tell Him.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:05:39) I heard that each one who comes to the Congress brings his Ten with him. He brings his spirit, the connection, his impressions from the Ten. And he should maintain it all the time. What happens when two such impressions meet? Let's say someone goes to Hungary, someone goes to Pennsylvania, Chile, Kazakhstan. He comes there and meets a friend who comes with impressions from his own Ten. What happens in the encounter between the impressions?

M. Laitman: The vessels incorporate 

Student: What does that mean? What is the addition that we are expected, or that we want to feel as a result? 

M. Laitman: We want from our incorporation to reach a state, the final state. And that's why…that's why the congress as an incorporation of everyone in everyone in itself is a very special form of connection. That's it. 

Student: In this form of connection, are there different flavors in it? 

M. Laitman: Of course, everything. If the vessels are different, obviously the tastes are different too.

Student: Is it worthwhile to somehow document it or write it down in order to bring it back to the Ten afterwards? 

M. Laitman: No, you'll just get confused. 

Student: So, to simply be in it? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:08:23) I wanted to ask, what does an environment that constantly reminds me of the presence of the Creator look like? 

M. Laitman: How does the environment that constantly reminds you of the greatness of the Creator?

Student: The presence of the Creator. 

M. Laitman: The presence of the Creator. When you feel from them support, pressure, that you want… Question again?

Student: What does an environment that constantly reminds me of the presence of the Creator look like? 

M. Laitman: You feel that it's an environment that obligates you, and that you feel pressure from it ,and it's not a cruel pressure, it's a pressure of support.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:10:55) I've been having a question since yesterday that I can't find the answer to, although it's very basic. When a person comes to a place he wants to respect, he brings something, some gift. What should each one feel that he's bringing to the Congress? 

M. Laitman: He brings to the Congress his yearning.He brings to the Congress his yearning. That he supposedly scatters them between everyone, all the participants, and each one can take that yearning and work with it.