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Daily Lesson (Morning) July 30, 2024.

Part 3: The Importance of Participating in Social Activities - Selected Excerpts from the Sources.

Reader: We are in a lesson on the topic of the importance of participation in social activities. In social activities. The study material is in the Arvut System, “The Importance of Participating in Social Activities,” titled “The Importance of Participating in the Preparation for the Lesson.”

Reading Excerpt: (00:35) 1. Pri Tzadik, VaYeshev, 3 - Twice.

The first Hassidim spent an hour directing their hearts to the Creator before praying. The word "directing" refers to the alignment of the heart, to focus the heart so that it is not preoccupied, coveting and lusting after the affairs of this world, but rather aligned and directed towards one's Father in heaven.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (02:12) How does a person align the heart?

M. Laitman: He tries to check his heart where his desires, thoughts, and tensions are, and all in all sees what he's aimed towards, his heart, and prays that the Creator will straighten his heart. 

Reader: Excerpt number two, Rabash writes.

Reading Excerpt: (02:51) 2. RABASH. Article No. 12 (1988), “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”

Prior to learning Torah, a person should examine the reason for which he is learning Torah, for any act needs to have some purpose that causes him to do the act. It is as our sages said, “A prayer without an aim is as a body without a soul.” For this reason, before he comes to learn Torah he must prepare the intention.

M. Laitman: Clear? Everybody agrees? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (03:51) We do these activities almost automatically now. We try to aim, to see the reason. I noticed that it's actually during the preparation. When the preparation begins, I get thrown off. The thoughts go in every direction, and I suddenly get tired. I have a long day. The preparation, before the preparation disappears, the whole reason disappears, everything disappears.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, what does it mean that I'm preparing myself for the lesson correctly? 

M. Laitman: So you pray? In order to calm and straighten the heart. 

Student: Yes, I ask the Creator to give me the right direction, but it always feels like…

M. Laitman: What? 

Student: Like I'm not doing what Rabash is talking about here. I don't have the right reason for the study. I come kind of automatically, and then I'm just washed over, so to speak. So where is the prayer? 

M. Laitman: Maybe it's the wrong prayer. The right preparation is lacking here. 

Student: So, the question is, what is this preparation? 

M. Laitman: Constantly think how you have to show up in the next lesson.

Student: So, that's in the day before?

M. Laitman: All the time. Before the lesson, you have to think, how do I come to the lesson? With which deficiency am I there? Who do I turn to? Who am I in contact with? And what do I need to attain? All these things need to be gathered together. That with this, you reach the lesson.

Student: Okay.

M. Laitman: From that, wait, wait, from that you need to raise a prayer to the Creator that He'll help you be in this question constantly and bring all your deficiencies to that lesson, that you try to get all the answers upon them that will help you hold on to the goal and reach the goal.

Student: Thank you very much.

M. Laitman: It's, constantly, you need to prepare yourself to be directed towards the goal. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (07:04) Every lesson is a completely different, completely different adventure.

M. Laitman: Well?

Student: In the preparation and in the preparation for the preparation, we do similar things because we can't know what kind of adventure we're going to have in the morning lesson. Should there be a difference in the preparation? Should we prepare ourselves differently from lesson to lesson?

M. Laitman: I don't know. There's a lesson before me, and I have to check all the feelings in the heart as it's written. I have to check myself, how prepared I am for the lesson. That in the end of it, I want to feel myself adhered to the Creator in my inner corrections together with my friends, and obviously with the Creator. That to Him I have to yearn, and this yearning has to come from a state of yearning to a state of adhesion. 

Student: If I could ask a little more technically, let's say, between the morning lesson and the noon lesson, there's always a big difference. There are different lessons in their essence. 

M. Laitman: The noon lesson isn't directed towards attaining the Creator, attaining the goal. It's more of a lesson. It's broader. That's how I relate to it.

Student: So, there's a very different preparation for these lessons. 

M. Laitman: Yes, of course. 

Student: Can I ask about the difference between those preparations? 

M. Laitman: Preparation for the morning lesson starts from the evening before. It's for the friends. But the noon lesson, it's for the broader public. To people who sleep in the morning and wake up towards the afternoon.

Student: Can I ask a final question? Many Tens, including us lately, we try to do the preparation for the preparation. We simply read the first article together. That's the preparation. We read it and try to awaken from the sleep into the state of the lesson. Does the Rav think that this is good preparation? Is this good enough?

M. Laitman: You have to do the calculation.

Reader: Excerpt number three. Baal HaSulam writes.

Reading Excerpt: (10:36) 3. Baal HaSulam, "Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot", No. 17

The student pledges, prior to the study, to strengthen himself in faith in the Creator and in His guidance in reward and punishment, as our sages said, “Your employer is liable to pay you the reward for your work.” One should aim one’s labor to be for the Mitzvot of the Torah, and in this way, he will be rewarded with enjoying the light in it, and his faith will strengthen and grow through the power in this light, as it is written, “It shall be health to your navel, and marrow to your bones” (Proverbs 3:8).

Then one can be certain that from Lo Lishma he will come to Lishma.

M. Laitman: Yes, questions? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:54) From the previous excerpt, a friend is asking.  What is the difference between preparing the intention and preparing the right line? 

M. Laitman: Preparing the intention is that a person tries to reach the intention, while performing it. And to prepare the right, is part of the components for it. We're not in that yet. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:31) What is to strengthen the faith? He says the student pledges to strengthen the faith prior to the study. 

M. Laitman: Faith is the main thing. A person who feels that he's lacking faith, so that's great help from above. That's what he feels. That's why he needs to strengthen, meaning, he needs to overcome himself and to adhere to the friends. And to try and search for all of his future, all of his qualities, to direct them towards strengthening faith. 

Student: So, what does it mean? He needs to aim that he will be lacking faith, that he will have that deficiency? 

M. Laitman: That he'll discover that lack of faith and from that, he will grow, strengthen.

Student: Yes, but he says prior to the study, he wants a result from the study. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What's the right result that he wants from the study?

M. Laitman: To get the force of faith. And then through that force of faith, which is the light, also, that he will clothe that force on everything he does. He will have all his deeds in order to bestow. 

Student: In other words prior to the study, it needs to be clear to him that he's lacking faith? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, how does he come to the study, when it's clear to him that what he is lacking is faith?

M. Laitman: He gradually reaches that understanding, that recognition that he's lacking faith. 

Student: Let's say a person made the preparation at night. He in the Ten read articles. They did everything they needed to. He went to sleep. Now, he gets up in the morning. So, if he did everything correctly, should he be getting up in the morning with, wow, I need faith? I'm going to the lesson to get it? Or are there other stages in between? 

M. Laitman: That could be. 

Student: So, that's already a great situation.

M. Laitman: He has to search. He has to ask. To search for faith, yes.

Student: In the previous two articles we read, it said that a person has to come to the very request from the King. Just requesting is already the reward?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, why does he say that he's lacking faith here? 

M. Laitman: Here, it's even deeper inside. It's not just connection with the Creator but he wants a force of faith to get from Him.

Student: So there are two things here. One is to turn to the Creator and two, to ask Him for this, for the power of faith?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (16:29) Is it important what order of actions a person does when he gets up? He says here, first of all the reason and then faith. Is there importance to it? 

M. Laitman: Well yes, because if he remembers the Creator, he starts building a line from within him to the Creator. Then, he needs the force of faith. 

Student: The force of faith? Before he thinks, what is the reason he's going for it? Does he first need to know why he's going to the lesson? As he writes here, the reason? 

M. Laitman: I think before that. Before a lesson, before everything, I have to aim myself towards the Creator and feel that I'm lacking faith. That's why I have to come closer to the Creator, to connect to Him. For this to come to the lesson, to incorporate in society and so on.

Student: The reason, I understand. Can it help to write it down? It's like the thoughts throw you here and there. It's disorganized.

M. Laitman: Okay, fine. Do it.

Student: So, is it okay to write it down and then see what..?

M. Laitman: Yes, yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:36) We’re talking about the importance of participation in the preparation for the lesson. And a friend in the Ten yesterday told me that they don't read the article in their Ten from the next, for the next morning. They get together. They read excerpts. They do a workshop. But they don't necessarily read the article. It's too long. So I wanted to know, is it important to read the article of the next lesson? Is it something that's essential, or is it not mandatory? And reading other stuff is okay as well?

M. Laitman: Meaning the article that we're going to read tomorrow?

Student: The day before. 

M. Laitman: To read it in the meeting. Well, it can be important. 

Student: Let me put it this way. How should the Ten prepare for the lesson the next day? What's the right way for a Ten to prepare itself for the next morning lesson? 

M. Laitman: We need to reach a connection between us. To aim ourselves correctly to the lesson, to our meeting. And to get a deficiency for the lesson in the meeting we're going to have the next day. That's the main thing. And except for that, everything depends on what else is necessary for us. 

Student: The preparation for the lesson begins from the end of this lesson?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: During the day, what do you think are the right means, the right instruments to bring ourselves to be connected together during the lesson the next day? 

M. Laitman: It's desired that in our meeting, a virtual meeting, we will read an article of the next day. We should ask the questions and say goodbye. Then everyone, until the next day, is cooking in this article. 

Student: Do you recommend that we talk in a workshop? 

M. Laitman: Yes. If you can, why not?

Student: Okay. If Tens don't have a long time together. They can meet together for 20 minutes during the day. That's their virtual time. So, what's the right thing to do during those 20 minutes?

M. Laitman: To read. To read the materials, that's it. If they have a bit more time, so an article, if a bit more, so questions and answers. 

Student: And if we meet before the noon lesson. That’s the time we have. Should we read the material we'll be reading during the noon lesson, or can we start working on the next morning lesson?

M. Laitman: I don't recommend doing this and that and this after that. Because if you read the article of the next day, and then in the lesson, you'll start studying the article of this day in the noon lesson, so you'll be confused. Still, we want cause and effect, beginning and outcome, the middle point and ending.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:58) We already talked about it. And you said that the importance, as you mentioned today as well, is for the morning lessons. You said, it's preferable after the morning lesson in the morning meeting between us, to go over the materials we read in the morning lesson. To kind of digest them and process them better as much as we can. To get from them what we could. And in the evening, prepare ourselves for the meeting in the next morning lesson, as you said. Is it correct to continue this way? 

M. Laitman: You have to see for yourselves. It depends on the groups. How many times they meet. What they call an evening meeting, and so on.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (23:54) This lesson is about the importance of participating in social activities. It's not just a morning lesson. Every social activity we do as a group, as a Ten, should we calculate, decide which activity we can draw our faith from? Are some things more important or less important? Or in principle, is any activity that we determine as a social activity we can extract from it, Ein Sof, infinity? How should we look at it? Because it's not the same importance for every activity I see.

M. Laitman: You need to think about it on your own and determine on your own. 

Student: So, it's a Ten’s decision to say?

M. Laitman: Yes, a Ten’s decision.

Student: And that's besides the morning lesson. It’s other activities.

M. Laitman: Okay. So, that's it.

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