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Daily Lesson (Morning) September 15, 2024.

“Continuing the Convention With an Ascent.”

Reader: Hello, today's lesson will be on the subject of “Continuing the Convention With an Ascent.” We'll read selected excerpts from the sources on the subject. You can find those on kabbalahmedia.info, as well as through the Arvut system, where you can send us questions live. Anyone asking a question here in the study hall is requested to stand up, hold the microphone close to his mouth, and to speak loudly and clearly. Note that every few tables here, there's a microphone. If you wish to ask a question, after receiving permission to do so, step right on and get a microphone. There are ushers who will give you one. And yes, let's begin with excerpt number 11, Baal HaSulam, letter 38.

Reading Excerpt 11: (01:07) Baal HaSulam. Letter No. 38.

The most important is the labor, meaning to crave to labor in His work, for the ordinary work does not count at all, only the bits that are more than usual, which is called “labor.” It is like a person who must eat a pound of bread to be full. All his eating does not merit the title, “a satisfying meal,” but only the last bit from the pound. That bit, for all its smallness, is what defines the meal as satisfying.

Similarly, out of every service, the Creator draws out only the bits beyond the ordinary, and they will be the letters and the Kelim [vessels] in which to receive the light of His face.

M. Laitman: (02:43) This means that we should pay attention to the fact that it's not that we are doing everything that needs to be done. What needs to be done doesn't count as exertion or labor. Rather, what counts is only what we may be able to do above our powers when we add greater effort, extra effort, and then what we do is counted as labor. And this labor is counted in the eyes of the Creator as effort on our behalf, exertion on his behalf. Clear? No questions? So, this should be for us as something we necessarily must feel in every action we take in the direction of the Creator. And that's how our exertion is weighed. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (04:57) Regarding the effort and how it’s measured, how can we measure or examine what kind of effort we make, and to be certain that we are doing the right thing, making the correct efforts in order to advance and not just to show off to others?

Student: A friend is asking, she says that according to her understanding from what you said, that it's not possible to measure the effort exactly. So, how can we know that we're making the correct efforts and not exerting ourselves just to show off to others that we're making efforts?

M. Laitman: Here we're not talking about others. We're talking about the person himself, that he has to try to make an effort as much as he would do it for himself, and how much would he do it for the Creator, and then even more than that add in an effort for the sake of the Creator as much as possible. And only that very last part of making a special effort for the Creator, only that is taken into account. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (07:08) It's very important for me to watch all your old lessons that you gave. It's a treasure, but there's so much of it, I don't know where to begin. That said, I set myself the goal to listen to one or two more lessons throughout the day in addition to the morning lesson of that day. To listen to some of the older lessons from the past. Is that correct to do, or is there another kind of study plan that is better?

M. Laitman: I don't think that's possible to invest so much time for studying. Besides studying, one has to also carry himself out in this world and take part in family, and children, education, and basically everything there is in life. The Creator didn't create all of that for no reason. He could have arranged things differently. So, it is not recommended to study three lessons a day. It's not going to add much. You'll just kill yourself that way. Even reading three hours is not simple and certainly not to really internalize it. Meaning, to feel that it sinks in, and that you digest it, and internalize it, that's not possible, it's not recommended.

Student: Is it correct to set myself a goal to throughout my lifetime to hear all your older lessons?

M. Laitman: Sure, that would be good, but it will enter you anyway, the same work that we engage in. For instance, let's say someone came to the congress, and these lessons were his first lessons. He will advance along with us, and yet in every lesson he'll receive something from the previous lessons even if he doesn't study them. So, let's agree that everyday you'll study what we're studying, and if you have additional time, then you can read something here and there. But three lessons a day, that's really not simple, certainly for a woman, and even a married woman. I don't really see how that's possible. You don't need to do that.

Student: Aright. So, what addition can be made to the inner work in the Ten?

M. Laitman: The addition has to be that you examine yourself how you relate to the friends, to getting closer with the friends, that's what's important.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:38) I've been wanting to ask about this for a while now. When you dedicate some time before going to sleep to reading the next day's article, of course you can't read all the study materials of the morning lessons, so it turns out that you really delve into every sentence, right, but you hang on some sentences. But on the other hand, you do want to get to read the whole thing. So, what's better, to delve deeply into some few sentences, or one sentence, or to read as much as possible?

M. Laitman: It depends on your state. Sometimes reading one excerpt from the article will tell you more than reading many pages. So, it's impossible to say here how much you need to read. And in general, it's always best to just read the article that we're going to study tomorrow. And in such a way, gradually, you'll get used to digesting a lot of material.

Usually, we'd get from Rabash the article he wrote. He would use the typewriter, and we would receive this article typically two days before our gathering, before our meeting. And in our meeting we read it. It used to be on Thursdays. And the day after, Rabash would already explain this article. He would elaborate on it, answer our questions. And that's how we should do this as well. So, we don't need to run forward. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (15:16) How to know where the limit is in our exertion? There's always room to add more?

M. Laitman: It's always good to add. But you should determine clearly and specifically to what extent am I delving into the material and realizing it in the connection with the friends and how much do I give of myself to the family, to work, meaning everything has to be organized. And that comes from being in our world. You have to determine all those things. A person has to feel that he is in concern for his family. And definitely not to separate oneself from creating the family. Especially for men, this is a very obligatory condition.

So much so that many Kabbalists didn't accept singles as their students. And after you would speak to a person, and he really wanted to be a student, he would be told, go, get married, and then come study. The same thing happened with Baal HaSulam. Only a day after the wedding, a person could come and study. And in those days, women were not even part of this conversation. But today we accept both men and women. But take into account that these conditions to be married, for a man it is a must, and for a woman it is recommended. Also, Rabash was also quite strict with regards to singles. He would demand them to solve this quickly, within a month or two. And there were such cases where a person would look for a woman that would agree to get married with him.

And other than that, with regards to making a living, Rabash would not accept students who don't have a job, who don't work, and all kinds of excuses that say. Let's say they have enough money, they don't need to work, that was not acceptable as an answer for him. A man has to be the head of the family and to work. Just like everyone, say, eight hours a day. That was a rule for him. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:34) I understand that today these criteria are there, everyone knows. But still some friends remain for years without a partner or not paying the Maaser. It weakens us, because such friends can continue studying and then…

M. Laitman: We live in such times where the wisdom of Kabbalah already has to spread in the masses, in all of humanity. Therefore, we are slightly more lenient with the severe conditions that Kabbalists used to give their students, and we allow anyone who wants to come and study. But in principle, you should understand that this is what a person is allowed to do from below. But from above, he is given completely different conditions, exactly the way it used to be.

That one has to have a family, and take care of his wife and children, and work, and not to live from some donations from his parents or something of that nature. Even many times you could hear people say, I don't need to, I have enough to live with, I don't need to work. That does not relieve a person from the commitment to work. Rabash himself would say, go, go work. No one tells you you have to make money. Okay, you have some money aside, let's say, so you don't need to make money. But you still need to work. It's not the same thing.

Student: Sometimes you relate to these issues as you do today, but in general, should the friends, should the members of the Ten keep reminding the other friends, look, you don't have a partner, you're not married, and so on?

M. Laitman: No, just, I think that the friends need to help, they need to help, help find the right spouse.

Student: And if the friend resists?

M. Laitman: What, he doesn't want to get married?

Student: He wants to, but he can't find a match.

M. Laitman: So they'll convince him. And if some of his friends see this, see the bride and they approve it, let's say, so why does he need to look?

Student: Yes, maybe sometimes in the past you could see issues after the wedding, but these days it's a global trend. At least half the people are unmarried, so maybe there are no… are there no options here? One who isn't married, will he not advance?

M. Laitman: Will not advance. We have to meet all the conditions of the spiritual society, and that is expressed in the form of family.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (24:07) Can it be said that getting married, going to work, meeting all the conditions, that all this attests to a special connection with the Creator which is mandatory for spiritual attainment?

M. Laitman: Yes, that's very true. 

Reading Excerpt 12: (24:42) Baal HaSulam, Letter 18.

One who assumes the complete burden of the kingdom of heaven finds no labor in the work of the Creator, and can therefore adhere to the Creator day and night, in light and in darkness. The Geshem [“rain,” but also “corporeality”]—which is created in coming and going, changes and exchanges—will not stop him since the Keter, which is Ein Sof, illuminates to all completely equally. The fool—who walks under a flood of preventions that pour on him from before and from behind—says to all that he does not feel the cessation and the lack of Dvekut [adhesion] as a corruption or iniquity on his part.

Had he sensed it, he would certainly have strained to find some tactic to at least be saved from the cessation of Dvekut, whether more or less. This tactic has never been denied of anyone who sought it, either as in “the thought of faith” or as in “confidence,” or as in “pleas of his prayer,” which are suitable for a person specifically in the narrow and pressured places, for even a thief in hiding calls on the Creator. For this reason, it does not require Mochin de Gadlut to keep the branch from cutting from its root.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (27:16) There are situations where one friend makes great efforts to come to the congress and participate in duties. Suddenly he comes across a situation where he doesn't see this concern from another friend. And sometimes, he sees from another friend the complete opposite. He does nothing, but he does nothing, and he can't justify that friend. So what to do in those situations?

M. Laitman: If he cannot justify the other, that is his problem. That's his problem. We, nevertheless, must accept every friend as ideal, who carries out everything, and longs for the spiritual goal with all his strength. If we see him as somewhat different, worse than that, it already says that it's necessary for us to correct ourselves. To raise ourselves to a degree where we begin to see everyone as complete righteous, and to that extent also see yourself with them.

Student: If I, as a friend looking from the side, how can I help such a friend justify, or rise, ascend?

M. Laitman: How can I justify myself? I don't know how I can justify myself in such a state. I can see some flaws in the others, but they indicate to me what I have to correct about myself. In such a case, I am grateful to the Creator and to the friend for being shown the flaws in me. And in general, the world in front of me has to look to me as if it is completely corrected. So that the Shechina, the presence of the Creator is dressed in everyone. And everyone, with no exception, carries out the desires and conditions of the Creator. And if I don't see that, then actually I need to correct myself all the way to the degree where I see everyone as completely corrected.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (30:42) You talked about having a wife, children, family, work. You said that the conditions from above haven't changed, but us, because we want to spread to the masses, then we ease the conditions so that more people will join. But still, why is it so important maybe for new students, why is it so important to have a job and have a family? What is the spiritual principle here?

M. Laitman: It's precisely a spiritual principle that a person enters a burden, as we call it, the burden of Torah and Mitzvot. A person enters the burden of family. He has to make sure to provide them with what they need for living. And he feels that, and he has to feel that as his obligation. And in doing that, he corrects himself. 

Student: Still, sorry for being insistent on this. Why do you need this burden? Why this burden? What does it do to the person?

M. Laitman: Because it's against our nature. A person doesn't want to be owing anything to anyone. It ties him and locks him, and he very much doesn't want that state. It burdens him. What to do? To build such conditions, family, work, studying, so that everything will stabilize in his life in a way that it flows. And then he'll see how everything is precisely organized according to the conditions. It's really not good to shape life the way the person wants, and then later discover that it's not exactly what the Creator wanted. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (34:09) You said that we need to see all the friends in their ideal form.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: In the beginning of the lesson you said that we need to incorporate and to exert as much as possible. A person needs to exert as much as possible. How can I see my friend who doesn't come to the morning lesson as though he is in his ideal state?

M. Laitman: No. If the friend doesn't come to the lessons that everyone is coming to, then he can't even be my friend. A friend means the one I want to connect with. And if that's how he behaves with regards to the lessons, I can't take him as a friend.

Student: I also want to ask about marriage. We have many single friends, and the single friends exert themselves sometimes more than the married friends. How to relate to that?

M. Laitman: Okay, so what? But still they have to be married. Meaning, if he is single today and he has more free time for, let's say, all kinds of tasks for the Ten, for the group, that's what he ends up having because he's single. And if tomorrow he gets married, and the day after he has kids, and then he needs to put some efforts into the home or work more at his work, then what can he do?

This is how the world is built, and this is what it demands of him. So we don't need to pay attention exactly to how many hours one invests in the study or in the group. But if he has a family, then he has a debt towards his family. Yes, what can he do? This is mostly relevant to women. For men, this is relevant to men, sorry. For women, this is more natural to feel that way.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (37:31) We had a couple of singles' evenings planned out a while back, but I'm not sure about the details. But I heard they both were canceled because not enough people signed up.

M. Laitman: Okay.

Student: So, I wanted to ask of you, I think that if you're a little bit more involved in that, the name singles' night, it's intimidating to people, they're shy, and so on. But I think if you give a lecture there, we can really gather those people and add to the importance of it, because we have many single people in our society, and it does seem like there's no great importance to this subject. Now, I have a question. If a person gets divorced, he has an even greater burden than a married person. He needs to pay alimony and child support. It's a huge burden. Does he still have to get remarried?

M. Laitman: I can't give an answer to this. It depends on all kinds of circumstances, conditions that he has, and she, and the family that they have now, and why they got divorced. I can't say. So, there's no one clear answer to this. 

Student: Another little question. Here and elsewhere, there are many instances of people living as a couple, but they have separate bank accounts, but they're married, though. Is that an issue?

M. Laitman: Yes, this is really something I've heard about more than once, that in family life they run a separate account for each one. I don't understand that. I didn't grow up that way. I wasn't born into that. So I understood that everything that you make belongs to all of the family, and the husband and wife together make decisions on how to distribute the collective income. That's it. Or, even to make it simpler, which is what I do, I just give everything to my wife, and she does whatever she thinks is right. And then my head is free.

Student: Yes, so there is an issue here when the money, the assets are shared, right? Because most of the problems in relationships are around money and spending. So that gets rid of many problems, right? Because if they have, if it's all shared, then there's a thing there, right?

M. Laitman: Usually throughout life, the men, Kabbalists especially, would give what they benefit to the woman, and the woman would take care of everything, food and everything. A woman is called the home. And so that's customary for us. That I give her all my income, and that's it, and I don't care about anything more than that. Unless she asks, and then I can get involved in doing something. But basically, it all goes to the woman.

Student: Just in conclusion, if you could please give a lecture to the single friends to add to the importance of it. Not just an answer to a question in the lesson, something like that, an actual lecture. For me, a quarter of my Ten aren't married. And there are many people talking about how this is a new normal, right? Being single. So, raising the importance of being a couple on the path.

M. Laitman: According to Kabbalah, a person who's not married is called half a body. And therefore, before he gets married, he's not worthy of treatment from above, from the Creator. Baal HaSulam would not accept any student if he wasn't married. Only after you're married, you have a family, then you can come and study. And that is according to the spiritual law. Not what someone thinks is right somewhere. So, take that into account, explain that to everyone.

We, because we are an organization who opens, who's open to everyone, we don't make any limitations before anyone who comes. But in truth, it doesn't give a person who's not married, it doesn't give him complete help from above, from the Creator. Even if he studies, and even if he's smart and successful. Still, the lack of family will stop his progress. That's what I can say.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (45:13) Just maybe to finalize this issue. It's very easy for people to get married, but just as easy for people, it seems, to get divorced. So, what do Kabbalists say about that?

M. Laitman: That also, I do not understand. I understand that our lives aren't so sweet, that there are problems that crop up throughout life. And that not everyone can go straight through it. They get stuck on such things where they want to flee, to escape. But with respect to the correction of the soul, a person must continue, and suffer, and persevere, and correct the state until he completes that correction. That's it. Nothing more to add. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (46:47) I'm engaged with a meeting between singles in our society, and of course, I'm more in contact with the women about that. And you said that for women it's recommended but not mandatory. And many times I hear this excuse from friends that Rav said it's not mandatory for a woman to be married, and more than that, I hear it from young women. What would you tell them?

M. Laitman: The thing is that in our times even though we don't relate to marriage in such a way where the man and the woman have to really want to be together. Maybe the woman wants to make a family but the man is disinterested, and still, in our times, if a man wants to get married and raise a family, and the woman also expects that, yearns for that, we need to rush them towards that decision.

So that they'll agree to raise a family as quickly as possible, and in the easiest way possible. The Creator takes into account specifically the family cell where you have a wife, a husband, and children, and specifically to that cell, He relates as, He sees that as His creation. And from that situation, from that state, He acts to raise them up towards the next degree. What can I add on this?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (49:31) There’s another question. There are women who think that if they have children, it will push them away from the path and that prevents marriage. Because if a man could say I want kids if we get married, and the woman says it might push me away from being able to attend lessons, and so forth. So, what's the relationship to that? 

M. Laitman: This is certainly in contrast, opposed to the process that we need to go through by nature. We need to see how to connect together as a family. And when the Creator thinks of the family, He thinks of a husband, wife, and children. And that's what the Creator relates to as the natural unit which He needs to develop. And therefore, in every place we have a man, a woman, and children. It mustn't be less than that, all right?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (51:48) A couple, man and woman who live together in our society but they're not officially married because it's not their first marriage. So, does that matter? And if it does, then what's the significance of this?

M. Laitman: There's this concept of being known as a couple. They're known to people to be a couple, right? If it's like that in the society, as in the past, families were created. Here's the husband, here's the wife, they begin to live together, and they have children; they count as a husband and wife. It all depends on the society, on the times. But as a matter of principle, our teachers saw a husband and wife as a couple who make a covenant between them, marriage, and they take upon themselves added responsibilities like that, and they become a unit within the society. And that's what I can say.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (53:45) In nature, everything is connected. Every tree, every plant, everything is connected. We as humans are also connected. And is it so if you choose to be alone, not in marriage or relation, you put yourself out of the system, the connection?

M. Laitman: Yes. Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (54:53) So, just to understand something small. We know we work in the Ten. So now we have to understand that every friend in the Ten is not he himself; it's he, his wife, and his family. That's an individual inside a Ten?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (55:19) I just want to ask about Maaser. First, should a man pay Maaser from his own earnings or what the family collects as income?

M. Laitman: From the sum total of the family's earnings.

Student: So, a woman should also agree on that?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: If she doesn't agree, what we can do?

M. Laitman: Then we divide it and the man will pay only for himself.

Student: How important is to pay Maaser? Like, for example, can we make like a classification? First of all, men should go to the lesson, then second of importance is to be married, or to pay Maaser. How important is on the scale?

M. Laitman: No. It is not all the same as important. The studying in the group, in a Ten, attending the lessons, and working and paying Maaser, the tithe. That’s how you can divide those things. Yes, 1,2,3.

Student: For example, it's very good to raise the importance of being on the morning lesson. In the group, in the Ten, and how about paying Maaser? For example, some friends can raise the importance of the morning lesson every day, sending quotes, clips, and is it the same if I, for example, raise the importance of paying Maaser every day?

M. Laitman: Difficult to say. It changes from time to time. There are such periods in the development of human society where special attention should be paid to the group, to the study. And there are periods where more attention should be given to the connection of families and less to the group, and the study, and so on. It changes. But regardless, the most important is studying in a group, working in and being connected to a Ten. Being married, and also try to have a job, work and sustain your family, alright? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:00:56) I heard once from you that a woman who maybe herself doesn't study but she supports the studies of her husband, she receives from him all that he gains. He brings it to her. Does that still stand?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Meaning, if there is a wife, a woman who is very concerned about not having enough time to be in the lessons because of family concerns, but if they support their husband, everything comes to her, it's all her gain.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Based on everything that was said, we received a comment from a friend who's with us for a long time but he's single, and he says it's too painful for me to hear this, and I can't connect to the lesson. How to not look at this topic in a way that rejects friends? On the contrary, we want to help them, help them get closer, help them become whole. So, in short, how to not reject?

M. Laitman: The thing is that a person doesn't feel that if he's not married, then only half his soul participates in his correction. As we say, half a body. What to do about that? Try, attempt to convince him. Of course, being single is convenient, easy, you're a master to yourself, but it's not a solution to the problem. Because a man must be married, and only from that state can he begin to correct himself. 

Student: Married people get that, but the thing is, today the times are very difficult when men could be above thirty, above thirty five even and not used to the burden of family. It's very hard to change this habit. And I don't know, I too don't have a solution, so I'm asking how, right now. We have a dear friend with us many years on the path, and he wants. It's not that he doesn't want to get married. He wants to, but it doesn't work for him. There are different problems, and it's not one friend. So how do we not reject them but somehow help them?

M. Laitman: I don't know. Those are very serious and case-specific questions that need to be solved with the help of the Ten, and try to solve those issues. I cannot say. There is no perfect one-size-fits-all solution, and the group has to feel that it's their problem. Not that it's one individual out of the group that's problematic. It's the problem of the entire group.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:05:18) We don't have such incentives that, let's say, there's a Ten only for those who are married and those who are not married. And then we could say, you might be married or not, or pay Maaser or not, and we accept you. Maybe tomorrow he'll say, I come to the lesson once a month, and that would be fine. So, that weakens the strength.

I don't know how to relate to a friend who doesn't meet the conditions. How can I make decisions with him, be in workshops with him if he doesn't pay Maaser and is not married? The others did put efforts into that, and he didn't go through some disaster that prevents him from doing these things as well. How do I justify him, what do I do?

M. Laitman: We decide according to what we see. We see that he's not married, we see. We see that he doesn't pay the tithe, the Maaser, we see. And whatever else you care to mention, we can see these things. So, you don't need to philosophize, alright? Just accept it as given and make a decision accordingly.

Student: If all those three conditions are not happening, it means he's not one hundred percent a friend?

M. Laitman: Of course he's not one hundred percent.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:07:20) Many times you can hear from singles that they want to find love. To find a couple based on finding great love, what are the criteria for finding a partner?

M. Laitman: The criteria for finding a partner? To want it first and foremost. To understand that without that, it's simply impossible. You must be the head of a family; you must have a family.

Student: There should be a feeling?

M. Laitman: No feeling. You're tasked with this mission, you must get married and have a family. 

Student: How do I decide that this will be my spouse?

M. Laitman: That doesn't matter. 

Student: How?

M. Laitman: It doesn't matter. Ask your friends if you yourself cannot determine.

Student: No, I'm married.

M. Laitman: So, are you trying to justify yourself?

Student: No, it's just that I see that I hear from people saying I can't find someone because I have no love towards them. Great love. A lot of things come to…

M. Laitman: You need to think with your head. The Torah doesn't speak of some great love. And love is something that's born within the family, gradually, throughout life. And what happens when a guy and a girl meet? You can't make anything out of that. They just need to check how compatible they are. That's it. I don't want any more of those questions. It all leads to kindergarten level discourse. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:10:30) Besides prayer, what else can allow us to be in complete adhesion with the Creator both in ascents and descents? 

M. Laitman: Only the connection in the group. 

Student: And about the confidence in the ascent. In the ascent, I have confidence because of Mochin of Gadlut. And this is the upper knowledge, and this is where gratitude is important, yes? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And in the descent, it's faith above reason, only the prayer for correction?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Reading Excerpt 13: (01:11:27) Rabash. Article 300. “A Land Where You Will Eat Bread Without Scarcity.” Twice.

One must engage in Torah day and night, that the night and the day should be equal for him, as written in The Zohar (BeShalach). In other words, the state of completeness called “day,” and the state of incompleteness called “night,” should be equal. That is, if his aim is for the sake of the Creator then he agrees that he wants to bring contentment to his Maker, and if the Creator wants him to remain in the state of incompleteness, he agrees to this, as well. The consent is expressed by doing his work as if he were rewarded with wholeness. This is regarded as “agreeing,” when the day and the night are equal to him.

But if there is a difference, to the extent of the difference, there is separation, and on that separation there is a grip to the outer ones. Hence, if a person feels that to him there is a difference, he must pray to the Creator to help him so there will not be a difference for him, and then he will be rewarded with completeness. 

One must engage in Torah day and night, that the night and the day should be equal for him, as written in the Zohar. In other words, the state of completeness, called day, and the state of incompleteness, called night, should be equal. That is, if his aim is for the sake of the Creator, then he agrees that he wants to bring contentment to his Maker. And if the Creator wants him to remain in the state of incompleteness, he agrees to this as well. The consent is expressed by doing his work, as if he were rewarded with wholeness. This is regarded as agreeing, when the day and the night are equal to him. But if there is a difference, to the extent of the difference, there is separation. And on that separation, there is a grip to the outer ones. Hence, if a person feels that to him there is a difference, he must pray to the Creator to help him, so there will not be a difference for him. And then, he will be rewarded with completeness.

M. Laitman: (01:15:02) Meaning, this means that we first examine ourselves. How we feel in a state called day and a state called night, and how different these states are. And in accordance with that we ask the Creator to make them equal for us. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:15:48) [No translation]

M. Laitman: In that for a person, they need to be important equally, each of these desires. Because the conditions come from the Creator. And the person needs to relate equally to both states.

Student: Meaning the importance of the Creator is what equalizes them, what connects them? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:16:53) The quote, this is regarded as agreeing when a day and a night are equal to him. It seems connecting from home is night. And being there physically is the day. Could it be agreeing is asking even from home?

M. Laitman: Excuse me, could be what?

Student: Could be agreeing is asking even from home? 

M. Laitman: Can you repeat? Repeat please, repeat with us. Is agreeing? What is the question? 

Student: Is the agreeing, is that asking even from home? Not from the night, from the home?

M. Laitman: It could be that, yes.

Student: Because there are friends who think that the study physically agrees with the state of day, and the study from home is the state of night. And because it says here that you have to relate to both states equally, is this the correct understanding, that you should treat learning from home equally to physically?

M. Laitman: No, it is certainly not equal. You can’t compare studying from the study hall for the place of the study, or to study from home, no.  

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:20:08) I could feel this difference. Like, truly like night, when they felt it in the heart. My question about the excerpt. Not to the degree of the difference, the extent of the difference. There is separation, and on that separation there is a grip to the outer ones. What are the outer ones? 

M. Laitman: Those who don't feel clearly the difference between day and night.

Student: How does it influence me in my work? 

M. Laitman: You are nevertheless connected to the whole world. And even your group. Also, the group receives differently day and night. Day is when the Creator illuminates, and night is when the Creator is concealed, is hiding. 

Student: Meaning, my goal is to constantly increase this importance in order to equalize between the states?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And that will influence the outer ones as well?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:21:39) I also would like to scrutinize this question. We have in Vilnius a small center. But because everyone is in different Tens, they don't show up physically to the center. If we could gather once a week for a meal, for a lesson, but we'll sit. Each will be connected to his Ten through the computer. How much can that help us? 

M. Laitman: Check, I don't know. 

Song: (01:22:50)