The transcript has been transcribed and edited from English simultaneous interpretation, thus there may be potential semantic inaccuracies within it.
Daily Lesson (Morning) December 17, 2024.
Part 1: Baal HaSulam. One Commandment (Title: The Necessity to Observe the 613 Commandments)
Reader: Hello, we are studying the article 1 commandment from Baal HaSulam. We are continuing with the heading, “The Necessity to Observe the 613 Commandments”. You can find the article on Sviva Tova and the Avrut system, and in the writings of Baal HaSulam. The article One Commandment from Baal HaSulam, under the heading, The Necessity to Observe the 613 Commandments.
The Necessity to Observe the 613 Commandments
Reading: (00:35) The 613 Mitzvot, considered the holy Names, are private Providence for all who approach the reception of the Godly abundance. One must experience all these orders without a single exception. Hence, the complete ones crave them with their hearts and souls, to keep them down to their corporeal branches, as it is written, “In every place where I mention My name, I will come to you and bless you.”
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:46) What are those 613 commandments, and why, specifically, those that are complete, or seemingly complete, somehow, follow them with all their heart and their soul?
M. Laitman: People, who come to the general correction, they're called complete, complete ones - they specifically understand the content, the filling, the goal of observing, practically, the commandments of the Torah, that is why they treat it cautiously and they work to keep them in wholeness, completely.
Student: The 613 are commandments, right? Commands are corrections, right?
M. Laitman: Corrections.
Student: So, if they're whole, why do they approach them, like, with all their heart and souls crave for them? Why should they have something to correct, if they're whole?
M. Laitman: The correction is mainly by reaching a deficiency for those actions, and when the deficiencies are revealed in them for observing 613 commandments, then they observe them with all their might.
Student: And what does it mean, all the way to their corporeal branches, to keep them down to their corporeal branches?
M. Laitman: Although they observe them in their spiritual form, they also observe them in their corporeal form as well. You don’t feel any indifference, a distance between the corporeal and the spiritual observance, that's why they're called complete.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (04:55) He calls these orders that go through a person, the 613 commandments, from one existence to another corporeal, it's like some kind of orders that happen to a person. What does that mean?
M. Laitman: In the 613 commandments, there are many parts, where the main difference between them is the depth of understanding, of attainment, of being the order between the commandments. But they're all understood as a set. Each one must accept it and take it upon oneself, meaning to arrange a person's inner vessels, according to these 613 commandments.
Student: So, these are like actions and orders that come upon a person from above, or are these things that a person does, or is it both?
M. Laitman: It's both, meaning a person has to look inside of himself for all the means in his possessions to observe the 613 commandments, that appear in him.
Student: So, let's say in our state, we say there's like one commandment, we have to reach to the love of the friend or the friends. How from that is this set or this order, how is that born from this?
M. Laitman: Love of friends is like an opening, a doorway for the upper light that shines on people, who need to observe in the connection between them, mostly all the laws, that have to do with receiving those lights that appear from above.
Student: Meaning, that our efforts to reach love of friends is like an invitation of that light, that is called “commandments”, that operates upon us?
M. Laitman: Yes, it's like an invitation, where we draw these upper lights that come to fill us through the 613 actions.
Student: The question always arises, that in the connection between friends, how suddenly from that is the connection between the person and the Creator revealed? We exert love of friends, and, suddenly, two kinds are revealed - one is love of friends, and one is the love of the place or the Creator.
M. Laitman: In truth, in each and every commandment that you observe, even between the friends in a way that is seemingly very distant from the attitude toward godliness, nevertheless, we also observe our relationship to godliness, because we received it from Him. And we relate to the entire society as approaching godliness through that, how it wants to reveal Him. So, even in observing such commandments that are seemingly distant from spirituality, from the connection with the Creator, nevertheless we reveal in them the foundation, their origin, meaning all the commandments, all 613 of them are tied to the Creator, and a person can't really observe anything and not be in contact with the Creator.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (10:20) Why does he actually say, to come closer to the Godly abundance and not receive it? He says, that each time we approach the reception of the godly abundance, why do we just approach and not receive it? After all, we want to receive this abundance, not to come closer to it.
M. Laitman: Coming closer to and uniting with the Godly abundance is one and the same.
Student: He says, there's private providence in order to approach. What is this private providence? What does it depend upon?
M. Laitman: The private providence, that we have in keeping and observing the 613 commandments, is that we reveal in each commandment the desire of the Creator, the abundance that comes from Him, and how we are filled by this abundance and eventually approach the Creator practically. That's it.
Student: How much is this abundance that we want to come closer to it? How much does it depend on our environment and the friends?
M. Laitman: The abundance comes through the environment, and a person has to direct himself in this way that he needs to be included and incorporated in the environment and with its help, and together with it he approaches the Creator.
Student: In the preparation to the lesson we talked about confidence, that through the vessel of confidence the light enters in the connection between us. Is this the abundance we're talking about? This confidence where you really feel that in truth this is our vitality in life?
M. Laitman: Confidence is a type of illumination from above. It's not the reception of abundance, but before that it shines on us. From that even more so that we are able to, we are ready to receive that abundance, and it draws us, it attracts us, and it holds us.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (13:08) When we're ready to receive this abundance out of love of friends, that means that we have reached Lishma in each and every commandment?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (13:34) 613 is a lot, it sounds like a lot. Are there certain commandments, Mitzvot, that are the main ones with which we can…
M. Laitman: No, there's no such thing.
Student: You have to observe them all?
M. Laitman: Each and every commandment speaks of a part of the commandment that connects with other parts and unites with the Creator.
Student: And the observing of the Mitzva, it's important, the right intention, the right thought?
M. Laitman: Certainly.
Student: In these questions and these things, is it something that the members of the management can help us?
M. Laitman: I don't know about that, you ask them about it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:39) Do we need to know the order of the commandments, of the Mitzvot?
M. Laitman: No.
Student: A person discovers the Mitzvot out of the work with their friends, and gradually commandment after commandment is revealed. That's our path?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: A Mitzva is, when a person observes a Mitzva completely, corporeally and spiritually, that means to receive in order to bestow?
M. Laitman: Yes, it depends on which commandments.
Student: Which commandments? What, there are commandments, that are to bestow in order to bestow?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (15:40) He completes this paragraph with, in every place where I mention My name, I will come to you and bless you. What is this, that He mentions His name and then He blesses us? Meaning, all 613 Mitzvot are His names?
M. Laitman: “In every place where I mention My name”, means, refers to when a person makes a blessing before keeping the commandment, before observing the commandment, and by that he brings the Creator closer and he receives a blessing.
Student: Because from what I understand from the reading here, is that the Creator Himself mentions His name, and not a person. He says, in every place where I mention My name, meaning a person does it?
M. Laitman: Also like that, it can also be from the side of the Creator.
Student: How do we need to work with this?
M. Laitman: A person yearns to be in contact with the Creator, and then in each action, where the a person arranges his connection with the Creator, he feels that the Creator is expecting it and is prepared to fill him.
Student: Each time I mention a holy name, I assume there's 613 names, I need to feel something internal about the correction?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:51) The article is called “One Commandment”...
M. Laitman: On the whole, it's one commandment, to come close and join the Creator.
Student: So, this one commandment, he's mentioning, it talks about the measure of necessity.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Is there a sign about which commandment to take upon himself? Practically, because there are a lot of them, it seems impractical to keep all of them. Sometimes I need to say, this will bring me closer to spirituality compared to this action. How to know, maybe according to the intention?
M. Laitman: This is not for us yet. But we'll come to such states, where you will see. How much is required, demanded of, and available to a person in observing it.
Student: Or of everything?
M. Laitman: No, not everything.
Student: Each one has something different.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:17) Every action has a different thought, a different intention, or all of the commandments are the same intention and thought?
M. Laitman: No, different intentions, desires and actions in each and every commandment.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:52) He writes, “the 613 commandments considered the holy names are private providence for all who approach the reception of the Godly abundance”. This private providence, what is it exactly? Is this like the mediator, and when we are in Ten we have one providence, and when we attain the Kli, we have an even greater providence, like parents and children?
M. Laitman: Mostly, I don't know. You're asking about things that we'll learn about, we'll get to later. You can extract thousands of questions from here. Let's continue and see.
The Wisdom of Truth.
Reading: (20:44) Earlier sages chose a private way for themselves, and I have chosen a general way, since in my view, it better suits the Godly matter to be clothed in eternal letter combinations that will never change. I wish to say that with physical success, they will not change at any place or at any time. For this reason, my words are limited.
Because of the above reason, I was compelled to express spirituality in a general manner. Yet, instead, I chose to explain all the details and spiritual combinations down to very small details, which have no other source or origin other than this collective, meaning the purity of Kabbalah. And since I clarify the spiritual details without clothing in corporeal combinations, it will do much good to the development of attainment. This wisdom is called “the wisdom of truth.”
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:31) It's completely not clear, what he's talking about. Is he talking about, that he decided to express the whole wisdom in names of Sefirot that have no corporeal clothing, or it's not a form of expression, or his attitude towards... What is he talking about here that is different than those who preceded him, that they don't talk in private versus general?
M. Laitman: As much as I understand, he wants to say, that his entire approach is to speak to each and every person, and not in a general way that speaks abstractly about things, rather he wants to enter a person and touch their... those strings, those parts by which he can arrange each and every soul, for its existence.
Student: For us, it means that our attitude towards what Baal HaSulam is teaching us is what string on my heart he's playing.
M. Laitman: He's doing it already, we don't need to worry about that. Rather, through the general inclination, we'll find the private order of things.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (24:50) It's like Baal HaSulam is already, at this point, giving the highest level there is in the spiritual state. We have Sefirot that have their corporeal branches, but he also really says, he immediately gives the approach, the method, to adhere to the upper goal and all the orders of correction. If you're not connected, then you can suffice with a little bit of a commandment, a commandment and you're satisfied. But what do you attain there? But if you're not adhered to the goal, then, and that's how you discover the correct, real deficiency. Can we say it like that, because he's like, disclosing here, like a method to a person, that how to reach the purpose of creation altogether?
M. Laitman: Seemingly, yes.
Student: But those who came before him, they're the ones who created these orders of correction and of desire. So, the same branches that came from the branch, the method of correction?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Where do they fall, actually? Why does a person's deficiency micro, if he goes stage after stage, is it because it's in concealment? Is it because it's concealed? Can you say it like that, that the goal is concealed?
M. Laitman: It's more accurate to connect it to the deterioration of the generations, where each and every generation is also seemingly a concealment on the divine light, that everyone is in, and they wish to ascend relative to godliness through it.
Student: Baal HaSulam is actually like, like he writes, the generation needs this.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (27:14) I didn't understand the difference between the earlier stages, private way, and the way that Baal HaSulam chose, the general one. What's the difference between these two ways?
M. Laitman: The private way, the way I understand it, is set up for a select few. The general way is suitable for everyone. That is why Baal HaSulam chose it in order to open up the wisdom of Kabbalah for a generation that needs it so badly.
Student: The earlier stages, meaning the previous Kabbalists?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Why was there a necessity for a change here of the method? What was updated here?
M. Laitman: Whatever the early ones corrected and established had already affected the souls that continue them all the way to our generation. And here, we can also reach attainments from those sources, just like them, that's just like they did.
Student: Why does this approach, this way, advance us more?
M. Laitman: Naturally, because it's adapted to our souls, very simply. It's suitable for them. We used to have a few individual Kabbalists in each and every generation, and they would reach attainment, where you can see it, although he says that there's no generation without such as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, nevertheless we see that we've come to a state where everything is running out.
Student: But still, seemingly the method is really open to everyone, but still select few enter, and not the masses. Many study it, but only very few attain it, so what has changed here?
M. Laitman: This I don't know, this has nothing to do with me, but it's up to the Creator and how He arranges everything.
Student: Rabash also continues in the general way?
M. Laitman: I wouldn't say so. He's close to anyone who's trying to come closer to the Creator.
Student: What does he call the wisdom of Kabbalah, the wisdom of truth?
M. Laitman: Because it reveals to a person all of that space in which he exists.
Student: How do you keep the precision of this method in all the things that are around and all that, how to keep the authentic matter of it?
M. Laitman: The whole world changes by continuing to play the same game in the will to receive, and they are looking for ways to find the fulfillment. Each and every moment is more optimally set up for it, whereas Baal HaSulam in all his writings, he tries to awaken in each and every person the innermost point in his heart. That's why he relates to that, and he says, “I wrote my things to every private person”.
Question (Women MAK 51): (33:16) In what Mitzva do we start the work of correction?
M. Laitman: The work of correction begins after he feels that he understands that he touched the other end, that the Creator has tossed toward people in this world. If he feels that he's touching it, he's touching the Creator. It means that he got to the other end.
Student: With which commandment do we start that work in correction?
M. Laitman: With the commandment of approaching the Creator, revealing Him.
Student: Are the steps of correction of our desires always persistent?
M. Laitman: The order of correcting the desires is seemingly random for each and every person. It's not identical between people.
Student: What is bodily success?
M. Laitman: Bodily or physical success means observing the 613 commandments, corporeally, and spiritual success, is when a person attains the spiritual fulfillment in them.
Question (Women Petah Tikva 25): (35:28) How do we, as a Ten, bring the rule into expression, the general expression, without the inner expressions losing their meaning?
M. Laitman: If we observe the commandments correctly, and we move from one commandment to the next, we don't forget anything from the previous commandment. As Baal HaSulam writes, there are like steps in a ladder, rungs in a ladder, and we just climb using them. And each commandment includes the preceding commandments.
Question (Women Heb 2): (36:28) How does a person stabilize his connection with the Creator?
M. Laitman: A person stabilizes, arranges his connection with the Creator by devoting himself to adhesion with the Creator.
Student: What are the signs that the Creator is expecting this and is willing to fill us?
M. Laitman: Those signs are the inclination of a person toward each step of the ladder, each commandment, and the Creator responds to that.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (37:26) In the end, the success of a commandment is spiritual abundance?
M. Laitman: Yes, eventually that's how it's revealed.
Student: And the spiritual abundance is supposed to guide a person somehow?
M. Laitman: Possible.
Student: Could it be that not also? Like some testament where he writes in some place that he worked correctly?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (38:15) He writes that he purposely differentiates his speech and things that are not made with corporeal matters, only spiritual, because it will stop someone's attainment. How in the work do I disconnect myself, or how do we disconnect ourselves from corporeality? Because many times he also warned us not to fall to corporeality. Or, in the Lo Lishma, so that we don't, like many, fall in those places. How to remain constantly in his intention of …?
M. Laitman: Although there is a connection between spirituality and corporeality, in our work we need, typically in the beginning, we need to create a separation between them, and understand that these two things have nothing to do with one another. Only later, when a person is rewarded with a certain understanding, a certain connection with spirituality, he can then adapt his corporeality to spirituality.
Student: Were you describing now that a person can attain this certain differentiation, this separation? I don't know how to call this, is this the private providence, really, of the attainment of private providence?
M. Laitman: Certainly, everything is in private providence.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (40:51) Baal HaSulam in the Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot 156 says that a person should be careful about materializing something, and that's why I make commentaries about every word, every word interpretation, so I want to give the precise internal matter of the point, and a person needs to go over it again and again, and to remember it well. What in the wisdom of Kabbalah, from the side of a student, what does one do by wanting, wanting from his teacher to repeat and go deeper in this precision that's going on here, to not materialize the Torah in any way?
M. Laitman: I didn't get it.
Student: He's talking about wanting, he says, “I'm talking about these spiritual details without clothing of corporeal combinations, and it will do much to the development of attainment”. The Kabbalist who has attained, now he wants to bring all of humanity to this attainment, where he says that the wisdom of Kabbalah will be advertised and published. On the other hand, he says, in the Introduction to TES, he says, even if I take all of what the Kabbalists have said from the beginning to the end, and I'll make them even more precise, so no one will error, and I'm not succeeding, so I'll do it in TES, that's where I'll put the inner light and the commentary for the words and all that, and if someone repeats this, it will really be more precise and get where it's at. From the side of a student who's trying to go over what the Kabbalist writes and says, and to be more precise towards the words he tells him, what is he kept from by this? What is he being protected by, by not materializing something?
M. Laitman: To not materialize, means that we should not imagine observing the commandments as being clothed in the matter and the substance of this world.
Student: We understand a person who does that, he gets sufficient by that, he has no need all of a sudden?
M. Laitman: He connects the corporeal world to the spiritual world.
Student: And one who learns Kabbalah, what is he supposed to do?
M. Laitman: One who studies Kabbalah has to ensure that he learns in such a way where these two worlds are not connected to one another.
Student: But we want to connect.
M. Laitman: What he wants is to check, what makes him want it.
Student: One, who materializes, wants to pull the spiritual Torah to his corporeal world?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: One who wants to learn Kabbalah, come closer to the Creator and the spiritual body, what is he doing?
M. Laitman: He seemingly wants to raise himself upwards.
Question (Moscow 1): (44:44) How to set a goal to achieve these 613 commandments, 613 steps? In the material, it is clear - you take your car out, you go, you work, you buy it, you gain. But here the intellect doesn't understand what to do and how to measure it.
M. Laitman: To keep the 613 commandments in our world does not mean that we can observe them in our world. There are things that are immediately clear, that we have no access to, no grasp in them. We need to try to come to the keeping of these, the observing of these 613 commandments, mainly in our desires, those desires that can bring us to the spiritual observance. Meaning, in order to bestow.
Prophecy
Reading: (46:52) There cannot be mistakes or lies in prophecy, as how can there be a mistake in the light of truth that stems from the Creator? Rather, it is as certain as the rain and snow that fall from the sky on the ground and do not return there until their mission is successfully accomplished. Yet, there is a difference in the receiver, in the ground: Soil that has been prepared by stone removal and by plowing is better suited to receive than unprepared soil. Everything depends on the preparation.
Also, there are certainly differences in the receiving prophets. One is not at the same degree as the other. This greatness or smallness is measured by the preparation in that prophet: One in a lower degree due to absence of superb preparation will necessarily miss some inclination in the course of the light that pours upon him, of which it could be said that the light of prophecy does not suffer any mistakes. Yet, one’s smallness causes him multiplication in letter combinations, which is multiplication of conduits and vessels until he attains prophecy.
Prophetic Success Is Speed.
Reading: (49:13) Although the truth in the prophecy ultimately appears in the desirable success, a prophet of a smaller degree still compels a longer way upon the people to whom he was sent. Conversely, one of a great degree, whose preparation is more complete, will suffer no deflection upon receiving one’s prophecy from the Creator. Hence, he will not multiply the vessels and conduits, for which his prophecy will be clear, concise, and easily accepted by those to whom he was sent.
The Small May Succeed More than the Great
Reading: (50:32) Besides the above words, it is possible for the smallest of prophets to succeed in his prophecy even more than the greatest prophet—concerning the above-mentioned speed—since he relies on revelations of prior prophets who paved his way for him. Obviously, it also depends on the development of his listeners, since clear and concise words require a more developed generation, so they can understand him. If these two additions are added to one of small degree, he can succeed far more than a great one.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (51:41) If I understand correctly, the principle, he says that the smaller prophet in his attainment, let's say, because things are less clear to him, he doesn't feel them fully, so, when he comes to explain them, he uses many words, as they say, a lot of combinations of words, etc., of letters, etc. And the greater prophet sees them much clearer, and that's why he can explain them much simpler, yes?
M. Laitman: It just depends. Depends on the generation, depends on all the other secondary conditions.
Student: When we come to explain, to disseminate, and we're small in degree, what does our effort need to be to try to explain, like he calls it, quickly, in a short way, or to expand on our explanation because we don't understand correctly enough?
M. Laitman: Each one has to see the goal, where his audience will feel that it's advancing thanks to his explanation.
Student: The most important thing is that the audience will receive, that they receive something from us?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And the precision is secondary?
M. Laitman: No, they will feel that they're advancing, except each one according to his mind, his preparation.
Student: And we need to try for the explanation to be short?
M. Laitman: I don't know. It could be the other way around, actually.
Student: I'm asking what he calls here “the speed”, that the prophecy through the speed.
M. Laitman: It doesn't depend on how many hours he's sitting down to study.
Student: When he says “speed”, he doesn't mean how much we managed to help our audience to reach the correct understanding quickly and simply? What is speed here?
M. Laitman: Speed means that they will understand him faster, those who study with him.
Prophecy through the Generations
Reading: (54:38) Although Moses received the Torah and the laws for all the generations, to such an extent that the prophet is not entitled to make any innovations, his prophecy was only given for a time. This is supported by the verse, “A prophet from the midst of you, from your brothers, like Me, will the Lord your God raise up for you, and to him you will listen.” If Moses’ prophecy were enough for all eternity, why would the Creator raise other prophets like him? Clearly, his prophecy was effective only for its time. When that time is through, the Creator sends another prophet to continue and complete His will.
Yet, the prophet is not permitted to renew or take away anything, for this would mean that there was a deficiency in the prior prophet. Rather, the words of the Creator are always complete, as it is written, “I am the first, and I am the last.” Rather, his only task is to extend that same prophecy to those generations that are no longer worthy of receiving from the first.
And the last prophet is the Messiah, who completes them all. He, too, is certainly not permitted to add or take away, but his success will be greater, since the whole generation will be fit to accept his words and be completed through him. This is so for two above reasons: either because of their greatness, or because of his contemporaries, or because of both.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (57:28) I want to understand, what is such a degree of attainment called “a prophet”. Because, if the Creator is revealed to him and says to him, say so and so to the people, it's simple. It's like an angel, a messenger, whatever he's told, he has to say. In the stories, Joseph saw it, and the story is Jonah didn't want, and so in the end, he did do it. Moses was contemplating, how will I say to the people, he said, don't worry, I'm coming with you. But he has clear things that he has to pass along. So, where can you say about him: small, great, saying this way or another way?
M. Laitman: We don't understand what's happening with a prophet, what's happening to a prophet. Rather, the way you see it, the way you understand it.
Student: I saw 15 years ago, that there was someone that said, oh, soon there will be very big antisemitism, and it will break out. We're seeing it now with our senses. There was someone who said, soon there will be great unemployment, and today everyone said, what are you talking about? And today we're seeing that there will barely be any jobs. So, can we say that that's a prophecy?
M. Laitman: No. No. There are people who are sensitive to what's happening.
Student: Just like that, a sense?
M. Laitman: Yes, a sense.
Student: Meaning, what we're calling a prophet, we don't actually know what a prophet is.
M. Laitman: We don't know. We certainly don't know.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (59:44) He wrote that the combinations of letters are eternal and exist in nature, and I understand that these are the forms that the will to receive clothes itself with in order to feel the light. Where does Baal HaSulam enter here when what the prophets are seeing in the process a person has to go through? After all, these are truly godly manners, how a person arranges himself towards the light. So where does all that enter here?
M. Laitman: To arrange a person to be able, capable of gradually understanding what he needs to arrange, to keep, to observe. Here the Creator needs plenty of messengers.
Student: The prophets are actually messengers of the Creator that are sent to a person to find his way?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:00:49) What's the difference between a prophet and a Kabbalist?
M. Laitman: A Kabbalist understands what's happening, perhaps, but it's not a prophet. He understands what's happening, but also does not understand what's happening. And a part of what's happening he can observe through faith, and a part he cannot. A Kabbalist does everything from within his attainment. Therefore, a wise person is preferable to a prophet. There are attainments in Kabbalists that are greater than a prophecy.
Student: Both a Kabbalist and a prophet, their role is to be a conduit for the upright, right? Can we say that?
M. Laitman: Perhaps you could say that, sometimes.
Student: I want to understand what the role of the prophet is. His role is that he receives a command?
M. Laitman: Their role is to receive a command in order from above and pass it down below, or to arrange corporeal things in such a way that they'll be able to enjoy a prophecy.
Student: And the Kabbalist doesn't have such a role? What's the role of a Kabbalist?
M. Laitman: The role of a Kabbalist is to teach the people in his generation, or close to his generation. He's teaching them that they will be closer to the attainment of prophets.
Student: Was Baal HaSulam both a sage and a wise and a prophet?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: So what's the difference between a big prophet and a small prophet like he's describing here? Why is the one who's lesser in his stature succeed?
M. Laitman: As you can understand, just like you can bring a professor to first, second, third grade in school, he has no connection to the students. He can't explain anything to them. That's a lack of compatibility.
Student: In the eyes of humanity, whoever knows the future, what's happening in the future even just prophesied precisely people in this world. And what are they different from the prophets that see a broad picture of reality and describe it?
M. Laitman: Well, I don't understand who in our world, if he's not a prophet, what does he understand about the Torah?
Student: There are people who knew what to describe what's going to happen hundreds of years from now, what they possessed there?
M. Laitman: Either it's a result of studying and they have this map before them, or they attained something very simply.
Student: From where can a person who doesn't learn Torah guess or prophesize what is going to happen in the future to humanity?
M. Laitman: There are many people who can tell the future. They have an inner sense for it. And there are those who don't have it.
Student: What is that inner sense? Is this correct? I don't understand what it is. That inner sense. How do they have attainment, actually, if they don't study Torah? Where does it come from that they suddenly have?
M. Laitman: It comes from above. It comes from above.
Student: That inner sense, is it for corporeality only?
M. Laitman: Also for spirituality sometimes.
Student: Why does the Creator use factions that are not? Prophets or Kabbalists?
M. Laitman: That's his business. He's above it all, and He's running it all.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:06:38) I wanted to continue the scrutiny about the difference between a prophet and a Kabbalist. Baal HaSulam is calle….because of what is he called a prophet?
M. Laitman: I don't think that you can call him a prophet.
Student: What exactly is a prophet? What does a prophet do that a Kabbalist doesn't do?
M. Laitman: A prophet is someone who can see a few steps ahead.
Student: And what does a Kabbalist do?
M. Laitman: A Kabbalist doesn't see it, but he can talk about the degree in which the world exists and how to bring it closer to all kinds of people.
Student: In the Kabbalist's explanations, when he describes the trend in which the world is going towards, is that not called a prophet?
M. Laitman: No. It depends on how much he opens it up.
Student: Let's say, what Baal HaSulam opened in the last generation.
M. Laitman: The scope of his vision speaks like a prophet.
Student: What is the Kabbalist different from a prophet?
M. Laitman: The Kabbalist is different from a prophet, is that he attains things with his mind, his quality. He clothes in what comes to him from the future. And he lives the future as the present. That's a Kabbalist.
Student: Does the world need Kabbalists or prophets?
M. Laitman: The world needs only people who adhere to the Creator. Neither these or those, but those who adhere to the Creator.
Student: How does he identify the adhesion of people to the Creator?
M. Laitman: By the fact that they are all adhered to the Creator, they have nothing more to do in this world.
Student: Also, earlier you said that a person needs to express his expression of adhesion is his devotion to the Creator. In what can a person increase his adhesion to the Creator, his devotion to the Creator?
M. Laitman: Only by observing the commandments Baal HaSulam wrote about, the chief of which is the unity of friends.
Student: Do you become more devoted to the Creator in the implementation?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And that for you is considered adhesion?
M. Laitman: It's what Baal HaSulam writes, it's before me. I need to look at it constantly and accordingly to keep it in my mind and my heart.
Student: By observing what Baal HaSulam wrote, by that I become adhered to the Creator?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:11:18) You just said to the friend that the Kabbalist lives the future. If I heard correctly. What does it mean that the Kabbalist lives the future? If I heard correctly.
M. Laitman: The Kabbalist lives in the present.
Student: He doesn't feel the future that's about to come?
M. Laitman: Maybe he does.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:12:04) With your permission, if it's okay, I have five questions. Is there any permission?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Does the prophet in each generation suit his generation?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: How does the person know that he's performing his mission according to what the Creator defined him?
M. Laitman: According to his inner voice.
Student: Is it correct to say that the role of the Rav is to guide us towards the correction of the soul?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Are the 613 commandments an absolute value or a principle?
M. Laitman: Absolute value.
Student: Can Rav and the students forgive one another?
M. Laitman: Possibly.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:13:20) In relation to prophets, I actually heard that he is listening to some inner voice. How does he know the difference, how to differentiate between the truth and imagination?
M. Laitman: I'm not in contact with him, I can't say.
Student: Also, for his generation, what are the conditions for them to receive correctly?
M. Laitman: They receive according to how they advance.
Student: For example, I lived in New York a while ago. There were prophets on every corner. And in the public, they walk on the walkways and you can see them. There are many people listening as if they have some kind of, that their ears are just glued to it. So how does the public feel the difference between imagination and truth?
M. Laitman: A person who is walking around, of course, cannot feel it. He takes everything as truth.
Student: How does the prophet kind of organize his thoughts in such a way that they will be able to perceive it?
M. Laitman: That's how it works out for him. I don't know. Not in that degree.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:15:40) We learn writings of Kabbalists that teach us about the system of vessels, lights, the way to cascade, also the path of correction, screens, holding the right intention. How do you go from a state that you hear about it or study about it, and let's say maybe understand something out of it, to a state that you live in it?
M. Laitman: The screen. If you acquire a screen, then you can implement what you heard from the prophet.
Student: Where does that screen come from?
M. Laitman: From a higher degree.
Student: A big part of our education is from teachers we learn. You, Rabash, Baal HaSulam send us to work on the connection between us, which is a place of work and a place where spirituality has to be revealed. Also to see the group, the Ten as an upper one. Because of that, how do you receive or build such a screen to give a person that he lives in that spiritual dimension and not only hear about it?
M. Laitman: That depends on the root of his soul, the person's soul.
Student: There is a feeling that it's not something individual. As if we were educated to think, I annul in a group, and in the group something happens. With time, it seems that there's more truth than me with my thoughts, my egoistic thoughts, that don't take me anywhere.
M. Laitman: So?
Student: Is there a common root of a group?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: How does a group update itself to live in a spiritual connection?
M. Laitman: Through joint actions.
Student: What's their foundation? What's the core of those actions?
M. Laitman: Acquiring a deficiency for a higher feeling and to demand it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:18:40) Every Kabbalist needs to teach people Kabbalah?
M. Laitman: No.
Student: How does he know?
M. Laitman: How does he know? It somehow becomes clearer to him.
Student: A person who isn't a Kabbalist yet but only studies, can he teach?
M. Laitman: Like a school teacher.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:19:21) In the process of a person being devoted to the Creator, he discovers a gap that he isn't adhered to the Creator. How to criticize that state correctly? Should a person criticize himself, the Creator, what he's doing, incorrectly?
M. Laitman: That's according to what you see with your eyes. To what extent the person who is devoted to the Creator, to what extent it seems to you how he should behave, and how the people around you behave.
Student: There are states that, like something stuck in your throat, or you just shut your mouth, or you swallow it, or you wouldn't. There are a lot of forms of relation. What's the right thing to do in that state?
M. Laitman: The most correct thing is to annul. To annul before the higher providence, the guidance.
Student: Does that mean to let the state work on you without responding?
M. Laitman: Your reaction, your response is that you nullify yourself.
Student: And if you can't?
M. Laitman: That's already a problem.
Student: So there, what should the criticism be about, or what should you overcome?
M. Laitman: You criticize yourself, and you overcome yourself.
Student: And what to ask for?
M. Laitman: For the strength to overcome.
Student: That the state will keep going, or that I'll be able to keep going?
M. Laitman: No, what do you mean, that it will continue? We're talking about how we come to a state where we cancel it. And you're asking about how to continue.
Student: I don't understand. If the Creator is working in a way that it's hard for a person to adhere to the Creator now, it's hard to justify it. It happens. So I'm asking for forces of what?
M. Laitman: You ask for the strength to remain in adhesion with the Creator.
Student: What does that mean, that I'm ascribing it to Him? So I do that, but what else does adhesion mean?
M. Laitman: That you already adhere to the Creator, and whatever He sends you, doesn't push you away from Him.
Student: And if criticism awakens a panic, can I still adhere?
M. Laitman: Yes. Yes. In our learning, there are ascents and descents. And if yesterday it seemed to a person that he was ready for all kinds of actions, even extreme ones, today it might be that he doesn't have it. It depends on the light that shines on him. Therefore, it may take another day, another two days, but he should determine seriously for himself some process.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:23:53) Could it help in such a state to insist on the connection with the Creator in order to be the connector to the friends? That is the main thing? Because it could be that I'm going through a state that at least to adhere to the friends, and also you have the forces to give something to the friends.
M. Laitman: That is a lie, that is a lie.
Student: So why do I have friends for? Why are they here? Compared to states that are personal, that happen to a person individually. Where is the connection?
M. Laitman: The connection is in that you... Well, answer him.
Student: I think, like you said, to adhere to the Creator, that means that the friend is adhering to society, to this field.
M. Laitman: He's speaking correctly. He says that you have no way to adhere to the Creator. Practical possibilities. But to adhere to the society, you do have a possibility. Start advancing them toward the Creator, and you'll see how you advance yourself.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:25:53) What's to advance the study to the Creator?
M. Laitman: To awaken them, to shout, to help, to invigorate them.
Student: But how do you know if your actions were successful in bringing them to the Creator?
M. Laitman: I do them seemingly openly, and then I see. What are their reactions?
Student: You see reactions, but you don't know if in practice, internally, as a result a connection was made with the Creator there.
M. Laitman: What I think is enough for me.
Student: So, the main tendency is to help them advance to the Creator?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And what is the result is, in the end, it's not in your hands anymore?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:27:06) I heard you say that if a person wants to do certain actions that are good for society but he sees that he doesn't have the forces, so he should take a day or two, but determine a certain process for him.
M. Laitman: So?
Student: What is determining a process?
M. Laitman: That he wants to advance to the Creator in the current state.
Student: It's not something specific that he has to do?
M. Laitman: No. Sometimes he doesn't quite know what.
Student: What does it mean to determine a process?
M. Laitman: That he wants to advance with his heart and soul toward attaining the Creator, toward adhesion with the Creator.
Student: But he felt that before, too. He didn't have the forces. He couldn't advance. So what makes it more…?
M. Laitman: He wants to scrutinize and criticize all of his inner wrestles and organize them correctly as much as possible for progress, for advancing.
Student: And he does that scrutiny alone or with a Ten?
M. Laitman: Alone.
The Essence of Prophetic Success
Reading: (01:28:53) The essence of prophetic success is to extend the upper light to the dwellers below. The one who brings it the lowest is the most successful. Above and below are measured in spirit and in physical benefit, since the physicality obtained by prophecy is the point that gives people footing, and it is known that the focal point in the work of the Creator is the first footing.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:30:03) The first footing, or the difficulties of the first footing, what is that first footing, the first grasp?
M. Laitman: It is the main point of the first footing, it is how a person approaches it, how he adheres to it, how he wants it, how he wants his actions, his action to be revealed at the end of the labor, where he sees that where he now wants to be adhered, to be corrected, where does he feel there, the point of heaviness.
Student: And that first footing, what does it grab on?
M. Laitman: To the fact that he doesn't understand, doesn't feel, doesn't detect, where he can grip in his connection with the Creator. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, I have, yes, give it to him.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:32:32) He writes, the one who brings it to the lowest is the most successful. What does it mean, the one who brings it to the lowest is the most successful? What is that action?
M. Laitman: Lower down means so it is clearer to more people.
Student: He continues that the physicality obtained by the prophecy is the point that gives people the first footing. What is the more physicality that he means?
M. Laitman: I don't know. I don't know. He also says because the physicality that is obtained by prophecy, I'm not a prophet, I don't attain that spirituality.
Student: We're reading this now, and we're not prophets, so what's our relation to this?
M. Laitman: Each one, in whatever he feels that he has some grasp on, he tries to hang on.
Student: How can I know that I'm hanging on to what I can hang on to and no less than that? To measure it, is there a way to?
M. Laitman: By what?
Student: Asking, I don't know.
M. Laitman: There is nothing with which to…
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:34:56) I understood that the spiritual commandments we still don't attain. Prophecy, obviously not. So how to work with this text, let's say during the day, what in this is for us?
M. Laitman: Still, take from this whole text sentences, even perhaps isolated words that can pertain to you, that you want to scrutinize and get a grip on them.
Student: I could succeed?
M. Laitman: Yes, try.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:36:00) You were saying about before, like about the ground, when you plow the ground. I feel the lessons we have here every day are preparing us for something very special. That's going to be, we're going to have a convention two months from now. So with all the questions and scrutinies now, how much are we really plowing the ground and now preparing it to receive all this abundance, that all of us together will reach this good of receiving this abundance, feeling it? I feel that the lessons every day, I also hear it from the friends every day, they say, what a lesson we have this morning, what a lesson we have this morning. What is this preparation that we're doing every day between us?
M. Laitman: You need, according to what I think, from next week, you need to start seeing your whole Kli, your whole vessel as one Kli, one vessel. And to see that all of it is directed toward the congress.
Student: This direction to the congress, I feel it's very important in the prayer in the Tens. That every Ten will have a true prayer from the heart, from a true deficiency. What do we need to add to this prayer? Or how to bring this deficiency that it will be more true, that we’ll really pray to the upper force to give it to us, to give it to us.
M. Laitman: It all depends on you. It all depends on you.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:38:49) First footing, does it come through a common prayer?
M. Laitman: I don't know.
Student: The result of it, the point itself in a person, is it a personal grip or a common grip?
M. Laitman: Personal.
Student: Personal. And the next stage is for the common place? The next stage from this onward, is it already something mutual between us? Because that's what gives the strength to open the door. Mutual space realm.
M. Laitman: Could be yes, could be no.
Reader: We read this. Do you want to read it again?
M. Laitman: The main focal point in the work of the Creator is the first footing.
Rav Reading: (01:40:48) A general force and a particular force. Their uniqueness is the unity of the Creator and the Shechina. A particular force is the prohibition of reception on reception down to the lowest degree. The general force is increase of bestowal to the point of with all his heart and soul. Who can explain this to us?
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:41:35) Maybe it's that if a person existed alone in the world, he would still be able to make a restriction, not receive anything. But to bestow, he needs more people. This is why he says a particular force is prohibition on reception, but a general force is increase of bestowal to everyone. Because to bestow you need more people, you have to come out of your personal vessel. But in order not to receive, you can still do it in your personal vessel.
M. Laitman: Yes, but you, when you're restricting yourself, you don't restrict others.
Student: This is why he says that a particular force is prohibition on reception to the lowest level.
M. Laitman: To the lowest level, meaning on you.
Student: That concerns only me, so to speak. But for bestowal, you have to have incorporation.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:42:37) This is what Baal HaSulam writes. There is the correction of creation, and there is the purpose of creation. So the correction of creation is particular in general, to be corrected, until it comes to the purpose of creation, which is bestowal, in general.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:43:05) He says it's like the unification of the Creator and the Shechina. It's like a principle that we learn in TES and everywhere. That the force of Abba comes, that makes the prohibition on reception and determines that it's impossible to receive at a certain degree. What cannot be done makes the limitation. And the force of the Ima is what you can do. You can bestow, so that gives the force of bestowal. Maybe that's according to the same principle.
M. Laitman: Okay. We have 15 minutes left. I wanted to ask. How do you think how ready for the convention? Well, each one. And what percentage are you ready for the convention?
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:44:48) I don't know if we can say that there's some readiness for the Congress because there's two more months and there's a personal readiness that I'm alert, I remember that maybe 10-15 years ago there was this alertness of preparation, there was like an attack, there was this spirit where everyone was just charging, storming this occasion of the Congress. Right now, it's not living in me, and I don't feel it in the society despite the great desire in terms of management of this event to lead it. And it's certain that there is a desire but there's a feeling that… I got to talk to a few friends yesterday, that we have an even closer occasion sooner that should have been the first stepping stone toward it, which is the 29th, which is not a unity event but it's a Hanukkah event where we convene all the forces from the whole country and in the world Kli, and that's where we should be aiming. Further goal is two months from now but the sooner goal is where we have to prepare and prepare the whole society, and excite the whole society, and I think that this is where we should be aiming in terms of songs and content, and there was a page filled with content that we will be reading and the material content was ready. So especially this upcoming event so we need to wake up.
M. Laitman: Okay the words are right, they're good, they come out of the heart, yes
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:46:55) I don't understand why we need to get ready for some congress. When we walk into a lesson, within the lesson there are moments that will never return. Very powerful moments. In these moments we can really put the thread in the needle
M. Laitman: Yes,
Student: Why do we need to wait for the next moment, for the next moment, for the next moment?
M. Laitman: In our world, time determines a lot of things. That's why when we determine time, we count how much more we have for that moment even though you're right, that the matter of time doesn't exist
Student: There are moments in the lesson where if we could stop for a minute and get into the common intention, common prayer, we would make a true leap. I don't know how to realize it, but that's the feeling.
M. Laitman: You are right, you're right. That is something we have to reach, yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:48:32) You asked how ready we are for the congress. I think it depends on the the situation in the Ten, in each Ten although there's a general movement right now. At least I feel, when we try to incorporate to scrutinize the topic of incorporation to adopt the deficiency of the friendly in order to raise it, and we still don't know how to work with it and I'm talking about our Ten. So I think that's missing this topic of incorporation, to adopt the deficiency of the friend and to elevate it. It’s still blurring
M. Laitman: How do I acquire a deficiency from all the friends?
Student: Yes.
M. Laitman: And this way, each and everyone. That's always lacking, but we need to do exercise about that. Work that each and everyone will feel that he's not prepared because he doesn't have a deficiency of the friends. So, how could he receive anything for them? And for himself, he doesn't have what to receive. But only for the friends — to receive in order to be bestow. So he needs to feel as much as he is incorporated from the force of the friends, as much as he receives in the desires of the friends, and as much as he bestows upon them. That's a problem.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:50:42) Is it important how much of the day I'm in this? Because when you asked, I feel messed up. I'm already at five percent. Five percent of the time in the day, I succeed in thinking about the friends and their deficiencies. What about the rest of the 95%? I have no idea what to do. How to approach it? Another percent today, how? Or should I focus on these five percent and work on them? So, how do I increase by another percent?
M. Laitman: Do you have something to increase with?
Student: I don’t know, even the 5% come from above, from the Creator. It's not like I did something special. So I don't understand how, the next time you ask, or when we ask in the Ten, I'll be able to say that I'm at least 5.1 percent.
M. Laitman: Yes. Yes, that's a problem. That is a problem. How do we attain in us a deficiency to receive from above more than yesterday?
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:52:35) Yesterday, we talked about making room in our hearts, clearing room in our hearts for the friends. And now, I spoke about how a person acquires a deficiency from the friends. Because for himself, there's no point approaching Him. So he has to acquire a deficiency from the friends. And that's always the problem. The friends spoke about incorporation. How do we connect all those things that seem to be in the same area — clearing room in our hearts for the friends, acquiring deficiencies for the friends, incorporation? How do we connect this process into where we are right now?
M. Laitman: It’s the vessel and the light. The vessels are all of our desires, and the light is the filling that needs to be.
Student: But it's becoming clearer and clearer that making the Kli, which is our role together, requires acquiring a common desire, incorporating with the friends, and clearing out the room we talked about yesterday. And now, how do we go another stage in this process? I think most people here understand it. But how do we go through to another stage in realization? How do we truly clear up this common place in order to create the common play — each Ten and all the Tens together?
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:55:10) Let me ask in a different way, what does it mean to be ready for the congress?
M. Laitman: To be ready for a congress is that I know, towards my vessel, how to conduct myself in the congress in order to reach my personal correction.
Student: I feel that being ready for the congress is am I ready to be connected with my friends? And I can do this examination each day. I feel that I'm ready to be connected with my friends, and I feel that I'm also ready for what is called the congress, which is like the next degree, and I can be in connection with the next degree. When does this stage in a person ripen, when he begins to grasp that there is such a reality of the friends? Is it going to happen in the upcoming congress?
M. Laitman: After a person discovers the despair from his own forces, and that nothing can help him, even him and the Creator can't help him, because the deficiency in order to reach the realization, it's in society. And then, he has no other choice but to incorporate in society in order to reach the place, that same state that the Creator must save him.
Student: The point of connection with the friends, the feeling, this ability, when it comes, a person finally feels a kind of alleviation later and everything, he feels that there is hope and everything, he suddenly gets the complete opposite feeling of how he thought it was going to be. In the beginning, it's all like a constriction and restriction. Afterwards, everything opens. First, it's all about limitations, and you don't want to be incorporated. Afterwards, it opens up and it becomes like a person's new life. The upcoming congress, if we can depict it this way, is it because the congress shines on us? That stage, that point, do we have to feel what the congress is about to give us, or how we give to the congress? How does this reciprocity work between what I give to the congress and what the congress projects on me?
M. Laitman: the congress is the general work in order to attain the general calculation.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:59:43) It is felt in the society, or at least I feel it, as you asked how to feel for the Congress, each one asks himself how much great common deficiencies felt during the lesson, and at the same time Congress' final goal to do everything for the sake of the Creator. So there's a big gap between our common deficiency, and when you put it vis-a-vis this goal of doing everything for the sake of the Creator, so it increases the common deficiency even more. So, it feels more than ever that everything depends on us. Hence the question, how do we come to be even more concerned with one another, because if we don't advance toward caring for each other, toward the greatness of our society, how will we be able to do anything for the sake of the Creator if we're not between us? So that's the question, how do we care more for one another?
M. Laitman: Who else has something to say?
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (02:01:05) I heard Rav say before that there's both general work and personal work with the Congress. What does that mean?
M. Laitman: In general, that all of us need to give space, a common room in our heart for the Convention, and to hope that the Creator will fill that place on His own. That's what we want.
Student: And what is the personal work?
M. Laitman: The personal work is that each and every one needs to annul himself, and to connect to the others, to adhere to the others, to participate with them in a way that it'll be clear that in this mutuality he can come out of himself and incorporate in them, in his friends.
Student: Is there also a feeling of responsibility that each one should feel?
M. Laitman: Yes, of course.
Student: Because if one doesn't go all out, then he hurts.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: So is it general, is it personal, this responsibility?
M. Laitman: Personal, each and every one. Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (02:02:54) I heard how to behave in the Congress in order to come to a personal correction. These days, these two days go by quickly, and it takes a lot of exercise, a lot of practice in order not to miss out on these two days. How do we make this preparation and really know how to behave, with what intentions I should come and in real time not to miss out on it?
M. Laitman: I don't know, but if you're all together, speaking between yourself here and there, you have some spare time, a few minutes, try and scrutinize it.
Student: Is it correct to start this exercise from now?
M. Laitman: Of course, this is already late.
Thank you.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (02:04:02) Can I ask something of the friends, like an example of this process? To ask something from the friends. As an example of personal work, A frien and I wrote a song, a blessing, and we succeeded in this, but we need your power and the power of the Creator to produce this song. And we need your prayer for the Creator to bless us in opening the current heart through this song. And then we can, we will increase, amplify this prayer, and rap to all the friends so there's a place in their life where they receive a possibility to give every drop that is in their hearts to the preparation for the Congress. To the Congress we need to be together in our thoughts, which is to kind of envelop all the personal deficiencies of the friends. And then directed toward the world clearly. So please Creator, connect us with this desire and all the individuals and everyone together until we have success and then in the desire to give you contentment. This is what we want.
M. Laitman: Okay. We heard you already. All right. What do you want?
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (02:06:08) Rav, I wanted to update in your presence and everyone. And beginning today, as of now, the noon lessons, you will not be given them. The friends will be given the morning lessons. The noon lessons. So, I wanted all of us to take responsibility because we continue to connect in the noon lessons to read sources, to answer questions, and be together. And part of our preparation for the Congress is part of a special development.
M. Laitman: But you can bring me the daily lessons and questions, and we can also read them. How do you call it?
Student: The noon lesson.
M. Laitman: Yes, the noon lesson. Okay. That's it.
Song: (02:26:13)