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Daily Lesson (Morning), August 30, 2024. 

Part 3: Select Excerpts on the topic: The Power of the Inner Dissemination in the Group 

Reader: (00:03) We are going to be studying select excerpts on the topic of the power of the inner dissemination in the group that are in preparation for the convention that's coming up. We have reached Excerpt Number Four, and it's coming from Baal HaSulam in the Arvut, Item 17. 

Reading: (00:24) 4. Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee],” Item 17

This is to speak of the Arvut [mutual guarantee], when all of Israel became responsible for one another. Because the Torah was not given to them before each and every one from Israel was asked if he agreed to take upon himself the Mitzva [commandment] of loving others in the full measure expressed in the words “Love your friend as yourself,” as explained in the article “Matan Torah,” Items 2 and 3, examine it thoroughly there. This means that each and every one in Israel would take upon himself to care and work for each member of the nation, to satisfy all their needs, no less than the measure imprinted in him to care for his own needs.

Once the whole nation unanimously agreed and said, “We will do and we will hear,” each member of Israel became responsible that no member of the nation will lack anything. Only then did they become worthy of receiving the Torah, and not before.

With this collective responsibility, each member of the nation was liberated from worrying about the needs of his own body and could observe the Mitzva, “Love your friend as yourself” in the fullest measure and give all that he had to any needy person since he no longer cared for the existence of his own body, as he knew for certain that he was surrounded by six hundred thousand loyal lovers standing ready to provide for him.

M. Laitman: Questions?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (02:59) Here, he's talking about the whole nation, could we say that the Ten is the whole nation? That this is what we're so concerned with, this is why we're cultivating this whole matter of incorporation, Arvut, an entrance even more and more into the Ten. And here again, he's bringing us back to the same nation, to the whole nation, to all 600,000 desires. Can we say that the whole nation is the Ten or is it more than that? 

M. Laitman: According to quantity, certainly it's more; according to quality, it could be not. 

Student: The whole matter of the spread of the people of Israel after the Patriarchs, is the whole matter of this force of Arvut that was missing?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: In the Tens of our forefathers, they were lacking that?

M. Laitman:  It's lacking. 

Student: Was there Ten missing, was there lacking?

M. Laitman: It's a matter of incorporation, which they lacked. The coarseness in them had still not become revealed during the time of the Patriarchs so they needed to have that expansion over time. In order that what was there in the Patriarchs would emerge in the sons and so on and so forth throughout the generations. And then when they connect everything, then you would have the revealed coarseness. Not that it would be in potential in the patriarchs in a drop of semen but that it would reveal throughout the generations. And then it would be able to become corrected and become revealed until it comes out to the air of the world, then everything that was in the patriarchs in the seed, and so until it comes out in bodies, in actions, in all the people. You cannot say that they are corrected; correction can only take place after we reveal all of those vessels, that we connect them, correct them and then we can reach that upper fulfillment of them.

Student: I wouldn't want to dispute the things that we learned about in the Ten, like your conversations with the Ten. That we're until eternity and to the end and even beyond that? 

M. Laitman: What?

Student: That we're incorporated in the Ten to the end. That we're, you know, even if we’re lacking everything within. 

M. Laitman: So?

Student: And here, it's as if Baal HaSulam is saying that there's some other nation with all the development of the desires like you explained. With all the ramifications, the whole diversity of the friends, etc. Why do I need them, isn't it enough for me that I have the Ten? 

M. Laitman: No, the Ten is enough only if you would see your path, your individual path. But in order to know all the paths of the Creator in relation to each and every one, you need the development of the Ten through the nation and through the whole world. Through each and everything you need that, so, it cannot be that everything would just conclude with the Ten. In principle, you can say I don't need anything other than Adam and Eve but we see that that's not the case. It needs to become revealed in each and every individual, in each and every detail. Therefore, on one hand, we do not need anymore, right? And on the other hand, we need each and everyone. Everyone is as important as everyone. Because without each and everyone's revelation, then everyone will lack that specific part. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:08) It is written, they didn't receive the Torah before each and every member of the nation was asked. So, this asked, what is this, some nice way of talking? Or is there a state that's happening?

M. Laitman: No, that each and every one feels within themselves this question, this deficiency that they need to answer, that is called a question and an answer.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:41) Also about the convention, and also about the things, and also about the Ten. I started to see the Ten as the beginning of, if not for me, then who? As a first stage of strengthening but of course not to remain in that in the end, is that approach correct?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (09:14) About the question that was asked here about Arvut. You answered that it needs to be asked within a person's inner question, he needs to give an answer and only then do we merit the light.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Don't we need the light before that to merit repentance or answer?

M. Laitman: That's something else, that's a different light. We constantly act with the light, we just don't speak about it. Because it's not light that qualifies the vessels, that corrects the vessels. 

Student: It's a light that illuminates the question itself. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (10:07) In addition to the Covenant, by which force was the Arvut made? 

M. Laitman: It's because there's a force of everyone being connected to the Creator, even before the creation. And when that package became detached from when we were connected and incorporated with the light. So, we need to reveal our necessity for correction in order to return to that same state but already in attainment, in prayer, and in our desire for that.

Student: It connects to what the friend asked about knowing the records that from the third phase are already shining to us all the time? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And we learn that as a nation we cannot receive the light of the Torah in practice before we put the quality of bestowal above the recognition by a rule. And also, a friend asked earlier about the matter of the sin of the calf under the mountain. We, in our work, the Tens are actually a simulation to a nation? 

M. Laitman: You can say that in some certain ways.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:58) This morning before the lesson we did a gathering of friends with all the friends from Brazil. All the men were there, it was very special. And it really touched me, our friend Ricardo talked about how it's really sensed that towards the convention, we're entering as individuals. And it's a very clear feeling that we're going to exit as one, that the whole Ten will be as one and not as individuals. What do we need to focus on especially now in preparation for the convention to become one in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: We haven't learned enough about how to connect?

Student: We learned, here he's talking about the fact that you need to take upon himself and to be concerned and care for each member of the nation.

M. Laitman: Every member of the nation is a bit too much for us, in generality and thought. But for the Ten, certainly yes. 

Student: What does it mean to care for the members of the Ten? What do I need to care for them for? 

M. Laitman: It's like you care about yourself. Try every concern that you implement on yourself, try to think that way at least about how you would do that in relation to the nation. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (13:52) You answered the friend earlier that it's not enough that I will see my individual path, I need to see the whole picture, because everyone's important.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: That's not understood, if I need to care for others as well, it's part of this individual path of mine, isn't it?

M. Laitman: That, no. That's already not so much.

Student: It's like it's not understood, and the private manner, each has so many details, so  many?

M. Laitman: You will reveal that, there's no problem with that. You will see how that all reveals.

Student: It's like I can't understand how it's even possible to ask from a person to hold on to such a broad picture that's so filled with endless details.

M. Laitman: Okay. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (15:01) What does it mean to receive the Torah?

M. Laitman:  What does it mean to receive the Torah? It means to receive the upper light that comes down to correct the shattering.

Student: What does it mean to study Torah?

M. Laitman: It means to study all the corrections that the upper light performs on the vessels. 

Student: Which comes first, is there a difference between this and that? 

M. Laitman: First, there's the person's effort, and then the Reshimot become revealed, the records become revealed, and the person reveals the reforming light in relation to each and every broken record. And then from the corrected vessels, he constructs and sees how they connect and put together the complete Partzuf.

Student: How to learn? 

M. Laitman: To learn in the thought that you are a part of creation, and you want to awaken it to correction. 

Student: I am trying, I've tried for some time but I'm not succeeding. What to do, to just continue trying? Or just pay attention to the success of my Ten. 

M. Laitman: You need to see your Ten as successful and that you incorporate in it. 

Student: That's my success and the success of my Ten?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:13) In the conventions, we come to the closest state of what's written here, as it's written as far as mutual guarantee and concern. I asked you about this in the previous convention, you said it's not enough. What do we need to do so that this immense effort that's being done and really this feeling that everyone's caring for you. And you can be in a quiet head, that this will truly be spiritual, and be close to what the Kabbalists are writing and not just on the corporeal layer of things?

M. Laitman: Pray for them. Raise a prayer so that they will succeed.

Student: But how do we all together make this convention into mutual guarantee?

M. Laitman: Yes, how? In words, in thoughts, in desire.

Student: What does each of us need to think about so that we will succeed? 

M. Laitman: In that he wants everyone to succeed. For that he has an inclination in his heart, in thoughts, in the mind, so that everyone will succeed, that's all. Where are we? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): We're in excerpt number five. 

M. Laitman: Five, please.

Reading (18:52) 5. Baal HaSulam, "The Love of God and the Love of Man"

Is written in the Midrash, “Israel, one of them sins and all of them feel.” Rabbi Shimon said about this: “It is like people who were seated in a boat. One of them took a drill and began to drill under him. His friends told him, ‘What are you doing?’ He replied, ‘Why do you care? Am I not drilling under me?’ They replied, ‘The water is rising and flooding the boat.’”

M. Laitman: Yes, that is a clear picture of the Arvut, the Mutual Guarantee. So, it's forbidden for a person to do such actions that can, even somewhat, even a little bit, to harm others. But he needs to constantly think about how to benefit them. More, there are no questions, okay. 

Reading (20:03) 6. Baal HaSulam, Letter No. 4

You lack nothing but to go out to a field that the Lord has blessed and collect all those flaccid organs that have dropped from your soul and join them into a single body.

In that complete body, the Creator will instill His Shechina incessantly, and the fountain of intelligence and high streams of light will be as a never ending fountain.

M. Laitman: Okay? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (20:57) What is the search to find the organs that were flaccid?

M. Laitman: Connection with friends.

Student: But what am I looking for in it? How do I search for this connection between the parts?

M. Laitman: That you feel that you're not connected enough with them and you seek how you can connect. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (21:38) Would it be correct to say that the alternative, the search for after an alternative, is the expression of the flaccid organs?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:00) A field that the Creator has blessed, is that my Ten? And is the group also a field for me? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: What's the difference between this field and that field in our work?

M. Laitman: One is individual, the other one is general. 

Student: In the Ten, it's the friends, and of course all that we read before in the previous excerpt, that it's practical bestowal. How should I relate towards all kinds of states where I'm in front of the group? 

M. Laitman: The group is, all in all, the sum of the individuals in the Tens.

Student: How is the individual impacted by the Tens? Let's say my Ten, for the sake of it. How is it influenced by the other Tens? What's that field that operates upon it? 

M. Laitman: You need to check that and see, to learn from that, how everyone influences you through your Ten. 

Student: Meaning that the big group influences the individual through the Ten that's in the middle.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, I can't directly receive from the group, from the Ten but only through my Ten directly?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: As a Ten, what action do we need to do in order for us to truly have the influence of the group upon us? 

M. Laitman: To connect between us and to connect to the environment, to the generality of the Tens that will influence through that to us.

Student: To connect between us, somewhat the logic is, there's some kind of rationale. But what do we as a Ten need to do in order to connect to the group?

M. Laitman: To serve. 

Student: To serve, meaning every action that we do for the benefit of the group, from there we can connect?

M. Laitman: Yes. Reader, where are we?

Reading (24:20) 7. Maor VaShemesh, VaYechi

The most important is for everyone to be in one unity and for all to seek but one purpose: to find the Creator. In every ten there is the Shechina [Divinity]. Clearly, if there are more than ten then there is more revelation of the Shechina. Thus, each one should assemble with his friend and come to him to hear from him a word about the work of the Creator, and how to find the Creator. He should annul before his friend, and his friend should do the same toward him, and so should everyone do. Then, when the assembly is with this intention, then “More than the calf wants to suckle, the cow wants to nurse,” and the Creator approaches them and He is with them, and great mercies and good and revealed kindness will be extended over the assembly of Israel.

M. Laitman: Questions? There are none. Okay, so you can read the last one. 

Reading: (25:49) 8. RABASH, Article No. 30 (1988), “What to Look For in the Assembly of Friends"

Each one should try to bring into the society a spirit of life and hopefulness and infuse energy into the society. Thus, each of the friends will be able to tell himself, “Now I am starting a clean slate in the work.”

M. Laitman: Questions? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (26:30) I want to ask about that state where a friend brings the spirit of life to the society. What stands out the most and causes an impression is when you see the friend exerting, he is in some labor beyond his nature, his regular nature.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: It's as if you can feel the intentions, as if. But we know that even according to our own emotions we can't recognize it, so definitely not the friend. So, what is it that I'm feeling there, if not the intention? 

M. Laitman: What you feel? I don't know. You have a method of how to feel, how to understand what you feel? 

Student: What is that method? 

M. Laitman: Ask for an explanation from above. Okay, finish.

Reader: (27:27) Announcements. Conclude.