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World Kabbalah Convention

for Students in Local Communities Around the World

“In One Prayer”, October 9–11, 2025

Lesson 3 – October 10, 2025: The Conditions for a Prayer from the Bottom of the Heart

Reader: Dear friends, Happy Holidays! We're going to begin Lesson 3 in a moment here of the Convention of “In One Prayer” The topic will be the conditions for a prayer from the bottom of the heart with our teacher, Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Those who want to ask questions, there are question stands in the Arvut system. Put up your question mark. Please make sure that your phones are turned off or on silence. Make sure you don't rise during the lesson unless it's terribly necessary. Please listen to the ushers. 

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Reader: Hello, friends. We are starting our second day of the Convention with Lesson 3. During this Convention, we're going through a gradual process, stage after stage: The first day, we started with this inner movement. We learned what the power of the prayer is, why it's important. And the second lesson, we talked about the prayer before prayer; and today, on our second day, we're going to start our morning with refining our deficiency on Lesson 3 on the topic of the conditions for a prayer from the bottom of the heart. Maybe before we start the lesson on this deep topic, Rav, we would like to ask you, what are your expectations towards this second day of the Convention? 

M. Laitman: My expectation is that we will feel in these excerpts that we read together, we will feel them in our hearts. And we will feel, everyone, that we are connected together and that we lack nothing besides filling our hearts with what we hear. So, that is all. 

Reader: So, we will start to fill our hearts with what we hear, we will start with Excerpt Number One from Shamati Number 209, Three Conditions in Prayer.

Reading: (02:26) 1. Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article No. 209, “Three Conditions in Prayer”

There are three conditions in prayer:

1. Believing that He can save him. Although he has the worst conditions of all his contemporaries, still, “Will the Lord’s hand be too short to save him?” If it is not so, then “the Landlord cannot save His vessels.”

2. He no longer has any choice for he has already done all that he could but saw no cure to his plight.

3. If He does not help him, he will be better off dead than alive. Prayer means “lost in the heart.” The more one is lost, so is the measure of his prayer. Clearly, one who lack luxuries is not like one who has been sentenced to death, and only the execution is missing, and he is already tied with iron chains, and he is standing and pleading for his life. He will certainly not rest or sleep or be distracted for even a moment from praying for his life. 

M. Laitman: This is what Baal HaSulam writes in his article, Three Conditions in Prayer. Do we understand it, are we connected to it; are we in the connection between us? We should already aim for such a strong connection so that from it we will reach those three conditions for a prayer from the depth of the heart – that is the question. Let each one ask himself and aim his heart to the center of the hearts. And from there, we will raise the outcry from our hearts straight to the Creator. This is called, a prayer from the bottom of the heart. 

Question (W Berlin): (06:14) In this excerpt – in its third part – there are these words, My death is better than my life. And we're talking here about a person who has reached despair from his suffering. But we learn about spiritual suffering, not about corporeal suffering. So, the question is how to move these corporeal lacks to spiritual lacks in our work here. 

M. Laitman: If we imagine to ourselves what life is, what suffering means, then we can absolutely depict to ourselves what spiritual life means and sufferings that stem from spiritual problems. This is within our power to do.

Question (W CzechSlovak): (07:59) How to achieve the emptiness in the heart that is necessary for prayer? 

M. Laitman: We need to insist on it and constantly dig and dig, and explore until we feel that we are in that pain, in that deficiency that we need to have in our heart in order to reveal to us the depth that we truly need in order to reach a connection with the Creator, a connection with the Creator. 

Question (W Petah Tikva Center): (09:42) How can I feel that not just my life depends on my prayer but also the life of my friends? 

M. Laitman:  For this, you simply have to go deeper in your thoughts about how much you need to be connected with all the friends, at least during the Congress. And then, more or less, you will feel this power of the connection that you wish to acquire. 

Question (Turkiye 1): (10:47) How can we reach this deficiency in the heart of the Ten? How can we reach deficiency and dissolve in the hearts of the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Only by being drawn to their heart and wishing to be incorporated with them, to enter into them. And this is my goal.

Question (W Turkiye 7): (11:34) When I labor and exert, I feel it's me who's doing it. It's my might, my strength that is doing it. That's a very powerful feeling. In such moments when my effort blinds me, shuts my ears, maybe even shuts down my heart, how to feel that that force comes from the Creator, to feel my despair, to beget a true prayer. 

M. Laitman: You need to direct yourself through all the friends to the Creator. And then not to forget that you are connected with everyone. And through this effort, you will feel that the Creator is drawn to you – He is drawn to you.

Question (Moscow): (13:22) He's asking how to find a common denominator between us, different people, new people, veteran people. There's new people, there's veteran people here with different deficiencies. How to find that center, that common denominator, to be able to beat on together? 

M. Laitman: If all of us want to turn to the Creator, then our goal is what is common to all of us. This goal binds us also together in the same deficiency, and then our deficiency also becomes one for all of us. And so, let us direct ourselves to him, all of us together; and then in such a way, it will work out. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (15:01) We want to be the messengers of the Creator upon earth, how do the conditions for prayer help us with this? 

M. Laitman: They ask to be together, and then also upon each and every one of us, the same desire, their prayer influences us. And whether we want to or not, we become incorporated in the same inclination – in one inclination towards Him. 

Student: I want to crown the King before my prayer, the one that I want to serve, how do I do that? 

M. Laitman: You do it by your thought – by imagining to yourself how much the Creator is one, unique, and unified and that He has invited through his desire our desires so that we will unite between us in order to attain Him. So, the Creator has already done the work. We just need to discover this outcome of His work. And then we will lack nothing, only to depict to ourselves that the Creator's will is before us, pulling us to the same goal that we are now talking about.

Question (Veracruz): (17:40) What recommendation can you give us so that we will make a prayer that won't come through our ego but, rather we will be able to truly reach our heart? 

M. Laitman: We need to ask that the Creator will be revealed to all of us, and we raise, as much as possible from all of us, a request to Him that He will feel how we want to be incorporated in Him, to be in Him. This is what we expect. 

Question (Syzran): (18:46) I would like to be more refined here: There's a certain point that is very difficult to overcome. What do we need to add or do in order to reach and feel that you are in contact with the Creator? 

M. Laitman: The easiest way to achieve contact with the Creator is through the connection with all the friends – we can't say with all the friends but with the friends. This means that it's enough for you to be incorporated in your Ten, and afterward, from the Ten to direct your forces towards the Creator so that He will pull all of you to Him, this will be enough. You will feel how He is truly pulling you towards Him. He doesn't let go, he doesn't leave you. 

Question (New York): (20:00) How does the study of our sources, how does it guide our inner vessels and help us pray from the depth of our hearts? 

M. Laitman: Because in these sources, and also in your heart, is the Creator, and if you aim, if you calibrate yourselves to the sources and to the voice in your heart, then you're actually connecting with the Creator. You simply have to ask Him for it and it's possible to ask that you will be directed towards it so that you yourself, from your feelings will be able to build such a connection. So, everything is wide open before you – just ask.

Question (W Petah Tikva Center): (21:08) When all kinds of states of absurdity, of ugliness appear in a person and give a person great sufferings. Is a person capable of understanding that this pain and suffering give him the correct conditions for the prayer? But after he tries to come to the prayer out of this pain, he understands that one has no forces. How can one look at this pain from the side and use it as a condition for the prayer? 

M. Laitman: He needs to acknowledge, to recognize the source from which this feeling of pain comes – the Creator, why? Because in spite of his thoughts, in spite of whatever he thinks, a person is close to the Creator. This is why it is necessary for us to yearn for the point of connection with the Creator. And when we attain it, then we need to leave ourselves aside and depict ourselves in adhesion with the Creator. This will be the purpose, the goal of our prayer.

Question (Latvia): (23:19) There is a feeling that words are missing for the prayer. A prayer needs to be expressed in words or more in feelings? How should it emerge from us, what are my feelings? 

M. Laitman: The prayer is revealing that I'm searching for which of my feelings can connect with the Creator. How do I turn to Him? And these states, these requests, the prayer, it forms this desire that I wish to reveal so that the Creator will be revealed in me. 

Student: But the prayer is something that happens within me, inside of me?

M. Laitman: That is true, only inside of you. Okay?

Question (Kyiv): (24:41) I remember the moments where I came to true despair and I understood where it came from. You always remain alone, kind of, in that point. How can we, in this point, learn how to connect to this prayer, the friends from the Ten and from the group? 

M. Laitman: We need to try to be together, all of us, to turn to the Creator from a single desire, from a single heart, and to awaken. To awaken the Creator's heart so that He will turn to us, then you will feel how He is turning to you.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (26:40) I'm trying to understand what Baal HaSulam intended when he said, My death is better than my life. I kind of imagine, in corporeality, a person who lost any meaning in life and he wants to commit suicide. And I'm trying to think, what is that feeling in spirituality? So, what is that spiritual death that he means when he says, My death is better than my life, that we need to reach? 

M. Laitman: That he doesn't want another life other than being in a state of connection with the Creator – this is the most important thing for him, the connection with the Creator. And he only wants to be in that state, and any other state is worse than death for him.

Question (W Turkiye): (28:15) During what states does the Creator not help a person? 

M. Laitman: The Creator doesn't help a person when the heart of that person is not directed towards the Creator – only that. Is this clear?  

Question (Reggio): (29:28) There are many different points of view, disputes. How can we, in the Ten, reach peace between all of these points? 

M. Laitman: We need to annul, each one has to annul himself before the other; and then, in one embrace, they will feel that they have only one deficiency, then they can turn to us.  

Question (W Petah Tikva Center): (30:19) Many Tens, especially younger Tens, scrutinize between them what the correct prayer needs to be. What is the practical advice that you can give these younger group Tens? 

M. Laitman: Practical advice: For a general prayer, for groups of beginners, we need to open our hearts towards each other. We need to connect all of our hearts into a single heart. We need to fill each one through himself the hearts of all of the others, then we will get a single heart with a single intention. And the Creator will certainly feel this heart, and He will turn to us and fill us. 

Student: Meaning, we need to scrutinize this prayer and seek this common deficiency, that common heart? 

M. Laitman: Yes, of course, what can we do? 

Student: Every day? 

M. Laitman: Of course, I would even say every moment, every second! We need to feel that we are connected in our hearts, and that the Creator is our heart, that he fills our heart or elevates our heart higher and higher. 

Question (Barcelona): (32:26) When, and from where, should we feel the prayer? 

M. Laitman: We need to feel the prayer in our hearts, that we direct these hearts together, all of us, to the Creator. And we expect from Him, in that same prayer that we direct towards Him that he will answer us, each one of us, and all of us together.

Question (French): (33:22) You gave many advices about prayer today to the friends. What one individual prayer do we need now during this lesson in order to achieve a response from the Creator upon us? 

M. Laitman: I think that we need to feel that we are all bound together and that one common prayer will help each one of us to feel that he exists in the heart of the Creator. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (34:20) Is the prayer presumably a result of the efforts that we have done? Is it from the degree that we are in, to where we have to go?

M. Laitman: Yes, but we can't judge according to that. We will truly feel how we all connect together and we feel the Creator's heart. This would be an outcome, a consequence of our efforts.

Student: This true prayer that we want, what is that prayer? 

M. Laitman: It's your prayer for connection with the Creator – for adhesion with Him; that He will simply be your Creator. 

Question (Moldova): (35:24) Kabbalists tell us that the true prayer is when we feel suffering from distance from the Creator. So, to reach a true prayer, do we need to come to that feeling? 

M. Laitman: Well, if not now, at least yearn for it. 

Question (Ekaterinburg): (35:57) We gathered here in Yekaterinburg with the grace of God, we prayed for each and every friend to be able to come here so they won't be sick, to be able to overcome all the disturbances. I don't remember when we had such a thing, but thanks to this prayer this Congress could really happen here. So, how do we need to thank the Creator for this prayer now? It's already a prayer on its own that we're actually here.

M. Laitman: Yes, so what do you have to do now? Thank Him, simply calibrate your heart to gratitude to Him, that's it! From here on, it will work for you. 

Question (W Buenos Aires): (37:52) Here we feel that we are all in the same deficiency and the same need to adhere to the Creator. How to shut our eyes and feel that what we need is to all go out together in an outcry to the Creator, and for that to be that gives meaning to our lives?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: How can we go out in an outcry together, all of us to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Pray, pray, this is what you need to do. Connect together, everyone, and from your connection, cry out to the Creator, that’s it

Question (W Kyiv): (39:05) Each of us has many qualities, states, desires. It would appear that you can't reach one common prayer. Should we concentrate on that which we want to ask, or on who we are appealing to and who we stand? 

M. Laitman: It is the same thing. You’re all together, before the Creator, and if you will connect all of your aspirations, all your prayers, all your requests, then this is exactly what He will hear. 

Question (Sochi): (40:00) Something constantly bothers a person to be in prayer in the Ten. And you ask yourself, why didn't you ask, even though it's clear that a person has to go through this. So, I'm asking from the other side of things: Can we learn how to receive pleasure from the prayer in order to aspire for it? 

M. Laitman: For that, you need to ask; for that, you need to turn to him. Only in such a way will the Creator answer you. 

Student: But what bothers, how to find that point to discover what's bothering us precisely to be in this prayer? 

M. Laitman: I think that's just nonsense, your nonsense – simply your nonsense. That you don't want to shut your eyes over anything except the connection between you. And from that point of connection to turn to the Creator. For that, He will always answer for such a desire.

Question (Sochi): (41:25) Let's say there's a feeling that awakens the heart and helps. There's some kind of drive to the Creator. It's like a certain trigger?

M. Laitman: We need to awaken it all the time, we must. 

Student: Okay, it awakened, there's an appeal to the Creator, but you're saying that we need to put an emphasis on this connection. It turns out that we've advanced, and now we need to aim ourselves more to the Creator. No matter what's happening with us, we need to continue and request a connection with the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Stop and ask about that until you get it –  until you discover the connection with the Creator. That is all.

Question (W Moscow): (42:28) I have a question about the prayer: We have many corporeal disturbances, spiritual disturbances, mostly in the connection between us. But it always appears as if we are asking, Give us, give us, give us. How can we change our prayer qualitatively so that what will be important for us is the connection with Him?

M. Laitman: That's exactly what you have to do. This is what you have to do.

Student: What are we missing, connection, what? 

M. Laitman: The only thing that's missing is always connection, only the connection. 

Student: Meaning, it's not the words that are important whatsoever, right? It doesn't matter what we're asking; it's important how or what.

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, yes. Open your heart, and everything will be okay! 

Question (W Petah Tikva Center): (43:30) I was left yesterday with what Rabash told us, Prepare for your God, Israel. And today we're reading that the prayer is the work in the heart. 

M. Laitman: I don't understand what you're saying.

Student: To the extent in which one is lost, that's the extent of his prayer? 

M. Laitman: It's, yes, infinite, it's an unlimited prayer – from all the friends, the men, the women, only to one Creator.

Question (Georgia): (44:43) Is the reason that we are here, the greatness of the friends, and the endless greatness of the Rav, and one desire, which is to nullify and want to delight the friends, and the Rav and World Kli, such that there's no desire for myself but only a pure desire to dissolve, because that's how Rav teaches us, and that is the will of the Creator. Is that a prayer, Rav, does that answer it? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, this is precisely a prayer which we need to develop, and He will answer it, and everything will be okay. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (45:37) What does it mean to feel the lack of the Shechina prior to the prayer. And where can you feel it in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: It's not clear to me what you want of me. 

Student: He's asking, what is it to feel the deficiency of the Shechina before the prayer, and how can you feel it in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: The deficiency of the Ten will be the deficiency of the Shechina.

Question (Lithuania 1): (46:34) We gathered in the Convention and we can really feel the joy and gratitude to the Creator and all the possible feelings. Do we need to upon that also seek disappointments, despair, reaching the prayer in the Convention, and how distant we are from the friends in the Ten, and how far we are from the Creator? And is it possible? 

M. Laitman: You can find your connection with the Creator and your connection with the whole world group, and this will practically be the same connection. It will be one united Kli in which you will discover yourselves – the connections between you and with the Creator. 

Reader: This is exactly our time to stop for a moment, and get strengthened in our prayer with a song. Let's sing a song together. Let's sing a song together.

Song: (47:43) 

Reader: We'll continue, first of all, this is the new song from Ziv Khalaf and the friends, with all the songs of prayer that our friends wrote for the Convention. We'll continue, we'll take the first condition that Baal HaSulam wrote about, and the condition actually engages in faith and confidence in the Creator, and we'll read other conditions that Rabash and Baal HaSulam wrote about this. So, Excerpt Number Two, Rabash writes:

Reading: (51:58) 2. RABASH, Article No.6 (1984), "Love of Friends – 2” - Twice

We must also use faith to have confidence that we can reach the goal and not despair mid-way and flee the campaign. Rather, we should believe that the Creator can help even a low and ignoble person like myself. It means that the Creator will bring me near Him and I will be able to attain adhesion with Him.

Reading Again: (52:33) 2. RABASH, Article No.6 (1984), "Love of Friends – 2”

Question (Astana): (53:27) What prayer does there need to be for us to be able to give our heart to the friends when it's a stony heart, the heart is fossilized?

M. Laitman: It means that you need to have such a prayer that it will dissolve this heart of stone and turn it into a heart of flesh. And the prayer should be that the Creator will fill this heart – that's all.

Question (Belarus): (54:26) How to learn to ask from the Creator without placing conditions so that His actions will be fulfilled, our lacks. 

M. Laitman: Most important is to ask. Like a little child constantly having complaints, demands, requests from the parents, I want this, I want that, and they give it to him. So, ask. 

Student: Here in the first part, it is written that one should, God forbid, say that the landlord cannot save his vessels. I want to ask about that state. What does it mean, and how do we come out of it? 

M. Laitman: We need to ask, and constantly try to ask for a more internal desire, that is closer to the goal. Then, you will see that the Creator will ultimately answer, you don't have a long way ahead of you, you just have one request between you and to the Creator.

Question (W Turkiye): (56:13) In the previous excerpt, it was written that the prayer is the loss in the heart. What does it mean, the loss in the heart, how do we reach that? 

M. Laitman: This is how a person feels, that the work is work in the heart. 

Question (W Romania 1): (56:50) How can we reach a state where the prayer and the gratitude become the foundation of our connection in the group of Ten? 

M. Laitman: Just continue, continue, continue together with everyone; and raise your requests, the requests of the group, directly to the Creator. 

Question (W Turkiye 5): (57:37) What is the center of the heart and how can we feel this point? 

M. Laitman: How can we feel? Only through effort, effort and exercises, exercises and effort; and you will feel it. The Creator doesn't want to be hidden from you – it's the opposite – He wants you to be close to Him.

Question (W Africa): (58:24) When thinking and feeling the connection of the friends, there's warmth and joy in the connection. How do we get from that state to the complete deficiency of the whole prayer: The deficiency when we suffer and yearn for the Creator?

M. Laitman: That, out of the fact that you feel how much the friends want to discover the Creator, you take this deficiency and you ask of the Creator to come closer to them. 

Question (UK): (59:36) How do we overcome the prickliness and the venom that we see in our own hearts. And the feeling that we're utterly lost in the darkness of the ego as if paralyzed to this world? How do we overcome that state? 

M. Laitman: Together, everyone – that's the answer. Together, everyone. 

Question (Chile Sur): (01:00:30) What do we need to ask ourselves in order to know whether we have faith in the Creator and thus begin to perform actions that are loyal to Him?

M. Laitman: You just want to get from the Creator the direction, what to do, how to advance with what you have in your hands, in order to be rewarded with adhesion with the Creator. 

Question (W Turkiye 8): (01:01:19) How can I aim all the desires of my heart, not for my own benefit, but towards the unification and upliftment of my Ten? 

M. Laitman: Connect your Ten with this question to the Creator.

Question (W Petah Tikva Center): (01:01:39) How will we be able to know that we're on the right path corporeally, that we're truly following the will of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Only according to your questions, you'll receive answers, and it will be clear to you how to advance more precisely. 

Reader: (01:02:27) Rabash writes here not to despair in the middle of the work and escape the campaign. What's considered eluding the campaign or leaving it? 

M. Laitman: You focus on the questions that are necessary to advance on the path. 

Reader: So I'm here in the Convention, I have thousands of friends, and I've somehow run away from the campaign, or I'm not there.

M. Laitman: Yes, I think about something else. 

Reader: So, how does a person come back to the campaign? 

M. Laitman: Maybe he needs to get a blow, a strike. 

Student: And how to do this, not with a blow? 

M. Laitman: In order not to get it through a blow, he needs to get an embrace from the friends.

Reader: You said something today that caught my attention because you say that we have to connect to the heart of the friend. You said, connect to the heart of the Creator, what's the heart of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: The heart of the Creator is this desire, the center of the desire, where He is expecting us to ascend to Him. 

Reader: The prayer that we're talking about and building, is a prayer a result of our efforts? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Reader: It's not an action, I'm praying. 

M. Laitman: No, it's a result. Because to begin with, we don't have a prayer. 

Reader: We have no prayer in us? 

M. Laitman: No, we don't have it.

Reader: So when we say to pray for the friend, to pray to the Creator…

M. Laitman: We need to find the words. We need to find the deficiency, but it's not that we now already begin to pray. There's no such thing. 

Reader: There's no such thing, it's like new to the ear, we have no prayer in us.

M. Laitman: No, we have no prayer in us. Of course, we pray to the Creator that He will give us a prayer.

Student: So we have a prayer to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: No, we pray to Him that He will give us the prayer. 

Reader: What is the prayer that we pray to the Creator? What is that thing that I ask from the Creator, do I have that?  

M. Laitman: If you discover a deficiency that only the Creator can answer then you raise this deficiency to the Creator. 

Reader: What do I receive? 

M. Laitman: What asked for.

Reader:  I receive the prayer from the Creator?

M. Laitman: You receive an answer to your prayer to the Creator.

Reader: When you say, we have no prayer in us, does the Creator put the prayer in us?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Reader: What is that thing He puts in us?

M. Laitman: The deficiency.

Reader: Towards Him?

M. Laitman: Towards Him or towards something else but such a deficiency that we feel that only He can help us, only He can answer.

Reader: So, our prayer is to find lack towards Him?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (W Warsaw): (01:06:03) Can a prayer be without a request but only gratitude?

M. Laitman: It can, a prayer can be just gratitude. That too, yes!

Question (Bulgaria): (01:06:45) We are talking about prayer: Is it a personal appeal to the Creator or is it the appeal of the Ten?

M. Laitman: It’s your connection in general which is directed towards Creator that you want Him to answer you, you want Him to answer that question.

Question (W Turkiye 6): (01:07:24) We know that the flaws that we see in friends are actually our flaws. When we pray for a friend nevertheless these flaws awaken in our thought. How can we pray such that it won’t happen – that we only see the merits of the friends? 

M. Laitman: That we need to change the way we relate to the friends; we need to recognize the greatness in them, what are their prayers, and connect with them and  their prayers so we have a single prayer. Then you will see how quickly you’ll receive a reply from the Creator in return.