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Daily Lesson (Morning) December 6, 2024.

Part 1: Baal HaSulam. Introduction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, Item #7.

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Item 7.

Reading: (00:36) Now you will understand what is written (The Tree of Life, Branch 1), that the reason for the creation of the worlds was that He must be complete in all His actions and powers, and if He did not carry out His actions and powers in practice, He would seemingly not be considered whole. This seems perplexing, for how can incomplete actions emerge from a complete operator, to the extent that they would need correction?

From what has been explained, you can see that the essence of creation is only the will to receive. On one hand, it is very deficient since it is opposite in form from the Emanator, which is separation from Him, but on the other hand, this is the entire innovation and the existence from absence that He created, by which to receive from Him what He planned to delight them and bestow upon them.

Yet, had they remained separated from the Emanator, He would seemingly be incomplete, for in the end, complete operations must stem from the complete Operator.

For this reason, He restricted His light and created the worlds restriction after restriction down to this world, and clothed the soul in a worldly body. And through the practice of Torah and Mitzvot, the soul obtains the perfection it lacked prior to creation—the equivalence of form with Him. Thus, it will be fit to receive all the abundance and pleasure included in the thought of creation and will also be in complete Dvekut [adhesion] with Him, in equivalence of form. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (03:37) What are complete, perfect actions? 

M. Laitman: Complete are towards the Creator, whereas, He sees the wholeness or the completion of His actions. 

Student: How can I, being the opposite of Him, how can I make actions which are whole if I'm not whole? 

M. Laitman: As you yearn to complete the actions of the Creator in that which you, specifically, are incomplete, then you switch His actions to complete because His actions are us. And that's why, until we're whole, the actions of the Creator are us,  they will not be whole. 

Student: What does it mean to complete the Creator's actions? 

M. Laitman: The actions of the Creator is the Providence, the creation and Providence over the created beings. And we need to learn what our nature is and how we can complete in Him the wholeness, the missing wholeness. 

Student: We always talk about connection, unity, between us. How can we, as we aspire towards that connection and demand it, how do we actualize that wholeness? How do we feel between us that we've reached this place called wholeness? How to bring ourselves to that wholeness? 

M. Laitman: We need to resemble the Creator and He is the complete, the whole. And from that we will understand what form of wholeness we're lacking and how to attain it, and how to implement it.

Student: As I understand it, it's from the lack that we discover between us. There we can discover the wholeness of His actions, so to speak? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:31) What is the right attitude when beginning to engage in the perception of reality? We're told that the whole of reality is lights and souls or the upper light and the soul of Adam HaRishon. And that it's not about the mechanics of the work. The issue of the perception of reality is very difficult because many thoughts can't be expressed in words, you can't talk with the friends about them. It's a kind of flow, emotion, of introspection and inner search, and where you try to understand things, stabilize them, it's very personal. Again, what is the right attitude to have when beginning to engage in the perception of reality? 

M. Laitman: The correct attitude is where we see all of reality as the actions of the Creator. And then feel in our deficiency of reality those places that we need to make up or complete. And from this we will also become partners to the Creator in the wholeness of creation. And raise ourselves to a degree where we will truly merit to be rewarded being the creatures who are acting, operating, in order to complete creation.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (09:13) He wrote that the pleasure and joy increase and you will know that this will to receive is the magnitude of the soul as something out of nothing and it is considered to be the vessel of the soul, and that's the innovation. And here he writes that, on the other hand, all the innovation, the something from nothing which He created, is there to receive the abundance that He thought to give them and so on. I think about the Ten’s preparation for meeting the Ten in the morning, we should arrive with some kind of experience and also innovation. How can we come here with both experience and innovation, whether it is the preparation for the morning lesson or our own meetings? Because the innovation is the revelation of the lower one and how do we find the intention?

M. Laitman: In as much as we learn from the actions of the Creator, we, as much as possible understand what the purpose of our creation is. And, in such a way, we gradually come to complete creation.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:23) You just answered the friend that the lack we feel in reality is the place where we need to complete Him. I feel much lack, much lacking in reality. What does it mean that I need to complete all of that?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: How do I know what's the priority? 

M. Laitman: Priority? That, too, you need to feel and discover and advance that way. 

Student: Because I see lacks in the family, lacks in the society, the world as a whole, a lot of lack, a lot of suffering, sorrow. The Creator shows us many opportunities and avenues for prayer.

M. Laitman: Yes, that's true and we need to discover these deficiencies, and through our prayer, mostly, try for the Creator to complete them. 

Student: For the most part, these lacks as I feel them, they're clothed in something more mundane, corporeal. How can I – I don't know – pain of this sort or another, problems with my income and so on. How can I scrutinize it within to make these lacks more simple, simplified, so I can direct them towards the right place?

M. Laitman: I need to process those connections with my friends and learn with the intention that I want to see these deficiencies in a clear and open place in creation in order to be able through my actions to complete them.

Student: What actions can I take? 

M. Laitman: When we learn about creation, we discover that there are many lacks in it, and then we try to complete these deficiencies through our deeds.

Student: Outside, within or both, with respect to the actions?

M. Laitman: I would say that, in the end of the day, the whole completion is through a change in a person, himself. Where it seems to us that there are many problems and troubles in the world. That, too, I need to understand that I am the cause for them to appear before me. And to the extent in which I can correct myself and make myself a part that completes creation. To that extent, to that measure, I will see creation as more corrected.

Student: This is called, the soul of the person teaches him? 

M. Laitman: Well, also.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (16:02) He created the created being to reach perfection. Why is the created being supposed only to reach the pleasure in the thought of creation? Why not more, why is there even a thought of creation in that definition? 

M. Laitman: Because it includes everything. 

Student: The creature was created. Can you define it the same as the Creator? 

M. Laitman: No. 

Student: The question is, is there something before the created being was created? Can he reach that point because there is a limitation, the thought of creation, for the created being.

M. Laitman: I don't see that. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:00) It sounds as though we need to complete creation in order to reach the purpose of creation. So, to maintain the intention that we want to be partners in the process of creation, is that the right intention?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:28) Regarding what you said and what the friend just said, I need to turn myself to a part that completes creation. Let's say, you see something sad and you feel sad. Now, there is an emotional process you have to go through from a state where you feel sadness about something external, to a state where you now receive something good because the Creator revealed this to you. And you need to reach a state where you feel that you have an opportunity to correct how you feel, from sadness, sorrow, to turn it to – I don't know if joy but gratitude – something positive. How to undergo that emotional transition, it's a very sharp transition?

M. Laitman: I think that we need to feel to what extent we're corrupted and then decide that the whole of the creation – of the correction of creation, is in a person. We have nothing besides that to do. Then, we need to concentrate on our society, first of all, and to see how we correct it, the Ten, the connection of the Tens.

Student: The first stage is cerebral, you could say? You need to say that there's some corruption revealed in me?

M. Laitman: The corruption has been disclosed in the creation of man and the person wants through this corruption he wants this. And we just need to discover it, open it up and correct it.

Student: The area I work in, the Avin, is completely different than the one where the sorrow was revealed because the sorrow is something external to me and the work is in a different place, altogether.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: The work has to be about increasing the connection, regardless of the situation?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: How do you know that you've succeeded in that action? Some corruption is revealed and it's now fixed. What are the indications to show you that you've succeeded in the action? 

M. Laitman: First of all, that's something we need to learn about that; and just like, for the time being, you can understand, the corruption is revealed in the place of lack of connection between us, lack of adaptation between us. And in a lack of desire, inner drive to be that which completes creation and that's it, that's first of all. 

Student: I'd like to take it another step forward: If the corruptions that are revealed become greater and greater corruption, it's easy to say. But an actual corruption, actual disturbance like that, it rattles the person, it takes him to a very unpleasant state. So, the more these corruptions that are revealed are unpleasant, let's say, then the opportunity for development is greater, accordingly.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (21:49) Why does the Creator shift the responsibility to the created being for completing creation?

M. Laitman: Because to begin with He created him that way so that the center of creation will be the Adam. And in him, all the lacks of creation are revealed that the Creator presented, made. And therefore, in the correction of man, there's the correction of the world.

Student: When we say the perfection of His deeds, what do we mean? 

M. Laitman: The perfection of His actions is that altogether the whole of creation is one system that is in its wholeness, its inner wholeness. It does not need to add to herself anything, and only a person who the Creator created with a specific, special intention, corrupted from his start and needs to discover the cause for this, and the path of His correction.

Student: So, until the will to receive corrects itself, the act is incomplete?

M. Laitman: No. 

Student: What is the completion of his actions, the perfection of his actions? 

M. Laitman: The completion of his actions is the extent in which the Creator wants all His actions to be revealed. And that all His actions will be disclosed and such the world will come to its correction that needs to come.

Student: It's still unclear because if He created everything perfectly with a single thought?

M. Laitman: Not complete, not perfect.

Student: Not perfect? 

M. Laitman: No, the world is not perfect; not even the world but the worlds. 

Student: Let's say the Creator created creation, imperfectly. 

M. Laitman: Yes?

Student: What exactly is incomplete in this creation? 

M. Laitman: The actions of a person, actually.

Student: How do you identify the gap – the difference between – the perfection of the Creator and the imperfection of the created being?

M. Laitman: From the experience of our work.

Student: What prayer can a person raise in order to complete something in creation?

M. Laitman: A person needs to discover the actions of the Creator and his own actions, and to see how different they are and in what order they're being revealed. And to this way, try and correct themselves. 

Student: Something's still unclear, I need to justify the Creator with respect to the whole process, all the corruptions and to see that everything is whole? Or should I tell Him creation is incomplete, imperfect, and I need to complete it? 

M. Laitman: Yes, I need to discover that creation is not complete and that the Creator created it on purpose so that I will have room to correct it. 

Student: What does it mean to justify?

M. Laitman: To justify that He created this for my benefit.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (26:25) Placing the soul in the body, what does it mean? 

M. Laitman: The Guf, the body, is called, desire; and, the soul, is called the light that fills the desire. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (26:51) It says He restricted Himself and created world after world in restriction until this world. What's created out of this restriction? It's a special action. Something is born out of restriction, it seems to be the opposite from what we understand. When you restrict, nothing is left but, here, from the restriction, all the worlds are born. What exactly is born? 

M. Laitman: He restricted His light, His presence. That's why a place has been made for the creation of the worlds.

Student: What is the opposite action that we perform to fill that restriction, to return through the process?

M. Laitman: We discover the incompletion of the creation, we correct it by completing it. 

Student: With what do we complete it? 

M. Laitman: Complete it with our actions.

Question (Croatia): (28:26) The corruption was revealed in the creation of man and we need to open up that corruption to discover it and correct it. What does it mean to open it up, what does it mean? 

M. Laitman: The Creator wants us to discover the corruptions He made on purpose and we can discover them according to the extent in which we grow. And according to the recognition, awareness of the imperfection of creation, we can add to creation, the wholeness of our actions.

Question (Women Spain): (29:28) We are responsible for the reality we see, so to what extent is each group in every country responsible for what happens to it? 

M. Laitman: I can't say that it only depends on some group that exists in that specific state or that region of the world. But we need through the connection between us to come to a state in which we feel the world and all of humanity has a perfect connection that corrects the world. 

Question (KabU 9): (30:23) When we correct ourselves, does it correct the whole of creation?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women Petah Tikva 25): (30:32) Why is equivalence of form a condition for adhering to the Creator and not a different action? 

M. Laitman: With equivalence of form, we equalize ourselves to the Creator with our intentions, our actions, and by that, correct reality. The Creator, seemingly, lacked or left out His perfection from creation, and gave us possibilities to rise through the imperfection of creation, complete them, perfect them—those places, those actions—by us correcting them, completing them. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (31:35) Why is it said that it's not a perfect state in which the created being was created? The Creator created him in the best state for him, so it should be perfect?

M. Laitman: The best state is not the state that the Creator created but that which the Creator intends for the created being to discover what's missing for him and will come to the correction and to the final state that the Creator intended for to begin with, with His forces.

Student: This should be the perfect state? 

M. Laitman: When we get to it. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (32:27) Sometimes, it sounds like the work of correction is one's personal work towards others. He needs to correct himself, he needs to annul himself, towards the group. Is that correct? 

M. Laitman: To begin with, it looks like, yes, but then we discover that it all depends on the connection in our Tens.

Student: How can we help each other make this correction or to utilize all the forces we have in the world Kli to, correctly, perform this correction, to hasten it? 

M. Laitman: In order to help and hasten the correction, each of us needs to care for the friends in the Ten so we will all understand. And all think how we connect quickly to one whole Ten by which we actually cause all of reality to reach its corrected state. 

Student: Each Ten works on different parts, different things, and they have different advantages over other Tens. How can we receive strength from other Tens to help each other in our correction? 

M. Laitman: We only receive examples from other Tens, and that helps us, also, to think what we're lacking from that.

Student: And we have the center of the world group, right? Do we have such a thing towards which we can work? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And if I may ask, what exists, there, at the center of our global connection? 

M. Laitman: We have yet to discover but there is a certain form of our whole system that also has a certain center.

Student: Is that our general heart? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: How can this common heart be warm and loving, embracing all the Tens? Giving everything each Ten has to all the rest of the Tens, so that all feel confidence and warmth, and the love of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: That all depends on our connection and our intention, the connection between us and the intention.

Student: What connection and what intention do we need to have to have a warm heart that envelops everyone?

M. Laitman: That you read about this in the writings of Baal HaSulam. That all the Tens, we want them to be connected and for the wholeness of their connection will impact everyone.

Student: How is it possible for one to make a correction for another?

M. Laitman: Where everyone thinks about the general correction, that grabs within him, also, the individual corrections of each Ten. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (37:00) You said to the friend that the soul is a light that fills the will.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Here, it says that by engaging in Torah and commandments the soul attains the wholeness it lacked prior to creation. How can it be that the light lacks anything, how can the light itself be lacking? It sounds like it is the will to receive? 

M. Laitman: We measure the light also according to the vessels; and therefore, that light that is still missing to fill the Kli, to correct it, is the light that's lacking.

Student: But the soul is something within the person, no? It's like a little poke a person feels in him. 

M. Laitman: I don't understand what you're talking about, there is no such thing according to our definitions. No.

Student: But we say, as the friend said, that one's soul teaches him.

M. Laitman: Well? 

Student: So, the light that comes teaches him? That's the intention, the light that comes to the vessel? 

M. Laitman: He gives it the feeling of how incomplete he is.

Student: So, it's the restriction and darkness that do it? And then there's light that comes from there? 

M. Laitman: What you're adding, I don't think is correct. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (38:44) Can the perfection of his actions be attained without first attaining a complete, perfect intention?

M. Laitman: No. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (39:00) To come close to the Creator, to perform these actions that complete. Do I have to distance myself from my own qualities?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Now, the other way around: My inability to reach adhesion with the Creator, does it testify to the fact that I'm still stuck with the will to receive, and pride, and ego, and so on? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (38:34) Yesterday, I talked to a friend in the Ten, and we tried to scrutinize, to sort out what we lack. We very much want to connect, to come closer together, and we had many ideas about what interrupts us, corporeal things. And ultimately, we figured out that what we lack is simply a true, strong desire for spirituality, for correction. Now, we receive everything from the Creator, all the conditions and, also, things that look bad to us, negative. Also, by that, He's giving us a place to work, as you say. So, what do we do to accelerate this process, so we gain a strong enough desire?

M. Laitman: By the desire, through the desire to be stronger, more connected, we come to a state in which we become stronger and more connected.

Student: Here, also, we thought about the matter of Arvut. 

M. Laitman: Arvut and prayer, mostly. 

Student: So, maybe, not to think about my own desire but to always think about how I strengthen the friend's desires. And they do the same towards me. 

M. Laitman: Correct.

Student: And so maybe there, we'll have... 

M. Laitman: That's also correct. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (41:13) There's an effort to build up the intention, the prayer, the Arvut the friend talked about. This is always felt to be the main effort, and at the same time, there's this introspection where I check. I see how much I work only for my own sake, and I cannot emerge from that. And these things don't seem to synchronize to a single act. Are those two different acts, two different places for effort? 

M. Laitman: That's both. Where really, our actions need to be aimed towards one result.

Student: Here, in your answers, I think that Rav is directing us mainly towards an effort to connect through intention and prayer.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Now, in the books, I read a lot about a vessel that needs to perform restriction, and Masach, and reflected light. 

M. Laitman: We don't have this, or that, or that. Not a restriction, not a screen, and not reflected light, we don't. And therefore, there's nothing to talk about.

Student: My focus should be on connection, prayer and building up the intention, right? And not to look for actions that I don't exist in, yet. 

M. Laitman: No. I mean, correct, yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (43:09) Now, look, you made me jump from my seat now. After everything that's done, suddenly you say there's no connection between us. So, I ask,, see, it says that from the complete operator, there need to emerge complete operations. But what you're saying now, you're saying it's not happening, that your studies, your Zoom meetings, your congresses, nothing helps, nothing. So, I've been studying for many years now. I get out of my house, people drive across me, I drive around someone, I get angry on the road. So, you say we're not connected here and in Europe, you see what's happening in Europe. What are we lacking, can we just remain like this for many years? Are we dummies, what do we lack? 

M. Laitman: Desire.

Student: The meals, the congresses, the Zoom meetings, don't they help us change? 

M. Laitman: We hope but not yet. 

Student: What do you mean, not yet? My life is about to run out, and you say not yet, not yet, not yet. 

M. Laitman: If you have advice on that, I'm willing to hear.

Student: I don't know what to tell you, I don't know what to tell you. What's the solution? Fact is, you succeeded in doing this with a small group of people. What do the people lack? The other people lack to reach this connection that you talk about. I see that people after 30 years quit here because they didn't achieve it. So, what, do you want everyone to quit, to run away? 

M. Laitman: I don't want anyone to run away but I also can't hold them with force. But in each and every lesson, I need to disclose to them a little more and a little more, so that we can come closer to the Creator.

Student: Alright, so we get closer. Every day, we get closer, as you say. But the fact is, it's not happening. Forgive me for being so direct but 30 years, for 30 years, it doesn't happen. Every morning, Zoom meetings, Congresses, people devote their entire lives. They pass up on family even, because the wife says, “Where are you going every morning? I don't have a husband in the house. Many years. So, I hear Rabash say that until a person's house burns down, he can't move, he can't budge, the will to receive doesn't allow him to. So, what does he expect to happen? Do our houses need to burn down, why isn't it happening?

M. Laitman: If it is so important to you, then why don't you accordingly ask? 

Student: You have no idea how much I'm asking, I'm serious. 

M. Laitman: So, what you want to say is that either the Creator doesn't exist, or he doesn't hear Or my prayer is not reaching Him.

Student: Exactly that, my prayer doesn't reach Him. And we talked about it many times. The kidnapped persons are still over there, and there are wars, and you don't feel anything positive is happening. You keep feeling that nothing positive is happening, only negative, wars, nothing good happens. Everything gets worse and worse, and worse. You get up in the morning, you can't believe you live in such a nation where people treat each other this way. You ask yourself, how is it going to end? When will things turn around? When will something good happen?

M. Laitman: But you built this society.

Student: I built this society?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: I didn't expect it to turn out this way.

M. Laitman: You didn't expect? 

Student: Okay, so let me say it this way: What else can we do, in your opinion, for something positive to finally happen? Enough with all those troubles all around.

M. Laitman: I don't know, make a correction.

Student: You return to that. You say there's no connection, what are we lacking in terms of connection? What's lacking?

M. Laitman: In connection, connection is missing.

Student: So, what is that connection you talk about all the time My heart is aching, already.

M. Laitman: Until we are all as one man in one heart. 

Student: How? How do you get there, it sounds like some mirage. It's so simple what you say. But then I ask myself, this thing he's talking about, what is he talking about? And now you said, what made me jump up? You say, you have no connection. It's been so many years. You have no connections. What are we doing here even? What's wrong? Or what do we need to add?

M. Laitman: We need to add a desire for connection. 

Student: And we don't have a desire for connection?

M. Laitman: No. 

Student: Where does it come from, this lack of desire for connection? Do you see anyone here who doesn't want to connect? 

M. Laitman: I see here everyone that each is in his desire and doesn't want to emerge from it in order to connect with his friend. 

Student: So, what should he do, kill himself? 

M. Laitman: Go out of his desire.

Student: And that's what's difficult for us?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: It's so difficult, it's impossible.

M. Laitman: Okay, it's difficult, correct; but not impossible. 

Student: It's not impossible? 

M. Laitman: No, with the help of the Creator.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (49:08) The friend made me jump out of my chair in turn because he, himself, I want to remind him that when the IDF succeeded in some action, he made a great effort to prove, to show that it was us. The exact time it happened, we asked that question and we got the same answer. And it happened in the same instant and it's a wonder how it happened simultaneously. So, I'd like to remind the friend that there are many points of light. And in that day, the friend talked about it all day, that the good things that happened happen because of what we do, our work. So, I wanted to remind our friend that we are doing excellent things, good things, and we'll continue to connect and be together through to the end of Correction.

M. Laitman: Amen.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (50:24) The Creator finalized reality with one thought, the state that's hidden from us, the end of Correction. And also, the incomplete state, which is the shattering, and these two states are concealed from us, actually. The perfected, complete state is certainly hidden and also the imperfect state because to say that things are imperfect by looking at our corporeal world, I don't think that's right. The wisdom of Kabbalah doesn't engage at all in these temporary, mundane things. So, can you give a definition for what the incomplete state is? The state from which I can say, oh, I'm incomplete.

M. Laitman: Every state that is before the end of Correction can be called incomplete because it has before it a certain action that it needs to perform in order to become more complete.

Student: For example, yesterday I had an argument with a friend in the Ten. Just an example: He has his opinion, I have mine, we didn't connect. Is that an incomplete state?

M. Laitman: Of course, that's incomplete but in every situation we need to come to an understanding that we're on the way and we need to make efforts to connect.

Student: An incomplete state, that relates to spirituality, right, not corporate reality.

M. Laitman: Yes, especially. 

Student: So, there's this point within a person's will where he can say that it's some external force that comes, it's not me. Some external force came and revealed to me that broken state. As Rabash explains, when you turn on the lights, no, if you clean your room when it's dark, you don't see anything wrong. But when you turn on the light, you see a spot here, a spot there. You turn on two lights, you see more of the dirt, right? So, we need to draw the reforming light in some way that will give me an explanation, a definition of that incomplete, broken state. And then I'll be able to say, oh, I’ve found it, right? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (53:17)  What will complete our prayer?

M. Laitman: Nothing will complete it. Why does it need to be completed? If the prayer is not complete, then I need to complete the prayer through the next prayer which discloses my deficiency, my appeal to the Creator, more. 

Student: There are three conditions to prayer, right? As it is written in Shamati. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, which condition to focus on, to focus our efforts on? 

M. Laitman: Well, there's a condition to be concentrated in who you are and what you are. And what you would want in order to come from your state to the corrected state.

Student: There's praise and gratitude, there's lack and there's faith. Which of those should we focus on, which one helps the most? 

M. Laitman: Certainly, praise and gratitude we're missing, and prayer and request, also we're lacking. And when we need to connect the two of them. We come to a state in which, more or less, it builds our Kli, both in the coarseness and in the refinement.

Student: (55:35) Is there a certain order of priority? Where to place our focus? With what to start? 

M. Laitman: Our focus, we need to first put upon building the society to the extent in which we're connected. And as much as our connection is actually needing to be whole, as it brings us a place that is whole to receive the light in it.

Student: I feel that I lack joy in my prayer. I'm always focusing on the, please, I want, oy, oy, oy! But how to approach the lack with joy? 

M. Laitman: Altogether, our society lacks joy, yes, and that's a deficiency, truly. But I don't think that if you add to this now – let's say you bring now from the store a kilo of deficiency or a kilo of joy – that everything will just work out, no. This needs to emerge from one's heart. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (58:28) Is it possible to describe the perfected state of a Ten? 

M. Laitman: Where we are all so connected that each of us completes the others. And all together, between us, the structure of a complete Ten is established. 

Student: We tried several times, maybe it's I who can't imagine it. Should we invest in that more? Or should we just advance through problems, where some problem, when some problem is revealed, then we solve it, another, and we solve it. 

M. Laitman: Maybe it's possible like that, but it could be without problems being revealed. Where we simply want to rise from our state, which does not disclose problems to us. We want to rise to a more corrected place. 

Student: So, a more corrected place, I don't know, maybe it's me, I can't imagine it. 

M. Laitman: Where all the friends are connected, where each cares for the other a little more. That there is between us some thought of anxiety each for his friend. That we are all wanting the well-being and health of everyone, all of us wanting the ascent of everyone. There's a lot of what we could say.

Student: I see that what you say is that I need to build it, myself. I need to build it in the Ten not receive it from you. So, in the Ten is it worthwhile to work in the Ten on that image of the perfect Ten? From experience, it hasn't worked, yet, should we invest in that?

M. Laitman: It's worthwhile to talk about it. Yes, it's worthwhile. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:01:12) You talked a lot about connection today, how much we lack connection and the desire for it. You also mentioned that we should place our focus, first of all, on building the society. And the extent to which we're connected, and how our connection needs to be complete. I, as a person, I came from Austria, I was in that group for a long time. Now, I try to be a lot more connected to the society we have in Germany, German speakers. And I hear that there's a very strong desire for our spirit, the spirit of Bnei Baruch, to be there, as well. There are many students, I want to give an example: There are many students who are looking for a strong connection with Israel. They're every day in the lesson, they have Tens, they study from you, they learn from you every day. It's an example for the whole world but a certain component is missing, the spirit. We've noticed that in recent years, we put all our emphasis on the Ten, connection in the Ten, connection in the Ten but somehow it still, it fails outside of here, abroad. The spirit you now talk about, concern for each other in the Tens, it fails to build up a society. What can you recommend for our students outside of Israel? Can we help them somehow so that something, maybe something should come from Israel to them? Or should they, or do they themselves need to take care of it?

M. Laitman: I don't know, I don't know, I didn't live overseas, you understand? That's why I can't say, I don't live that state that they're living. 

Student: Friends who come here and we see all those who come here, they feel a certain special spirit. And they have this yearning then to come here, they come here several times a year. They say, here it's B’nei Baruch, here we feel connected to you. And somehow, they can't awaken the friends outside of Israel other than the virtual connection they have, being in the morning lessons, virtually. There's still a great divide. Do we have some responsibility, maybe? Can we activate something? Can we do something to make this connection stronger to convey this spirit to them? How do you see that? Or should we ourselves be discussing it or should we let it go? I'm talking about the friends here in Bnei Baruch.

M. Laitman: I don't know, there are many forces overseas that influence each and every one. And this attracts them, the friends from one group to different directions; and here seemingly there isn't, there's here a warmer society, I don't know.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:05:18) What the friend is asking – I think it's not only abroad, it's a kind of puzzlement regarding the focus of the work that being in the Ten. Recently, in recent years, we keep saying that all your concerns should be about the Ten, all your work, don't run away from that concern for the friend. But also, then if you come to the meal, maybe, and you want to sit next to a friend, then he's angry with you because he wanted to save these seats for his Ten. Or maybe in the table next to me, two people came to the lesson, right, but I'm with my Ten, I'm not concerned about that. So, that's the question. What kind of concerns should we have? It's not only abroad, as friend said. People felt this here also, they were very, very hurt by the state of things in the meal, and Yeshivat Haverim, and so on. So, should we say that all the work is in the Ten, and one who doesn't focus entirely on the Ten is simply running away from his spiritual work? Or do we have to also cultivate this general society, the warmth of it, here and then also abroad?

M. Laitman: I think that those partial Tens that feel themselves truly in shattering need to battle, go to battle for more friends to come and participate and not from time to time, however they feel like it. But rather, I feel that it's my obligation to come and participate in the lesson and to be present before them, and to sit in the chair, like that. And it's not that I don't feel like it today, I don't think I lacked, I missed, ever. I remember a certain morning that I did, I managed to not come to the Ten. But that was because I went to deliver invitations, that was in place of the morning lesson. So, I went into all kinds of mailboxes and threw in our business cards in all those mailboxes. We didn't see anything from it but besides that time, I did not miss, I did not miss. And I don't think that a person can do or build such a state for himself. 

Student: There really are Tens with a full table and the friends feel, like you say, that they have to be here. And there are Tens which, the way they formed, it's not the state. Two or three may come to the lesson. So, what kind of responsibility do we have as a society to make sure they have a strong Ten? Or do I just say, my Ten is good and fine and they need to work on it, on the friends not coming, the other Ten. So, to what extent are we obligated to help those friends? Because that friend, who will he turn to? Let's say the friends didn't come to the lesson, they didn't feel what you say. What next, how do I help him, where's my responsibility, my commitment to generate? To create a strong society for him where he can actualize his point in the heart?

M. Laitman: These are correct questions but we need to do something.

Student: Is it the responsibility of the group as a whole or each Ten?

M. Laitman: No, no, each Ten, each Ten. Let's say we see that out of Ten, you have two or three. How's that possible, what's happening with all the others? 

Student: They didn't come, they didn't come. Maybe we sit here and the rest of us didn't show up. Should the society be concerned?

M. Laitman: Of course, because it already means that it's sick, that his society is sick. And then we need to return to connection, to mutual help, to all kinds of actions that will awaken and awaken them.

Student: Another example: We come to the meal, there's one person sitting there and around him a few reserved seats. And there's another friend who comes from campus, straight from campus, and he wants to come sit and we say, no, don't sit here, this is for our Ten only.

M. Laitman: There's this way and that way, it depends on how you agreed in advance. If I'm coming to some place and I'm told: “here our group is gathering, I'm sorry”. I leave and have no thoughts or feelings towards them. They want to sit together, to sit together, to talk together, together say L'chaim. It's their right. 

Student: And the society, should we make sure that new students that arrive, the new student that arrived will have a place to sit with people?

M. Laitman: That needs to be special people in the society who care for those who reach a state of being without a group in the society, that don't have a place or the room.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:12:26) To continue with that: Our work is becoming more and more so work within the Ten; it's my family, it's my life, it's everything for me?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: I care less about the other Tens. My Ten is my greatest concern.

M. Laitman: Okay, that's natural.

Student: That's natural, okay, so from what is coming up here, more and more. We see that the society, the sum total of the Tens in the society is lacking. Is it also natural to lack such a feeling? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Do we need to increase it, to reinforce it? 

M. Laitman: Yes, we associate to the big group certain actions that it must perform upon us, and only it can do. 

Student: For example, what actions? 

M. Laitman: Well, I don't know how you divided all these things. Let's say when we do holidays, evenings.

Student: We have these orders and programs, right? Here we have the morning lesson. All the Tens are sitting here from all over the world, and after that we'll sit down for a meal, and we have the Yeshivat Haverim, the Assembly of friends on Sundays. We have dissemination we do together. So, what action are we lacking in order to feel like a society if all that is insufficient?

M. Laitman: I feel the whole society when I either receive from them or give them. But if I have no giving or receiving towards them then I don't feel. 

Student: Do I even need to feel the society? If I have the feeling of the Ten, let's start with that. I have a sense of the Ten, I have worked with the Ten and I don't find that I lack anything. Do I need to try to find to add something? 

M. Laitman: Yes, more connection with the other Tens.

Student: How does that connection manifest? How is it expressed? 

M. Laitman: That you're doing something for them. 

Student: What, what should I do for them? 

M. Laitman: Something, I don't know, work in the kitchen.

Student: That happens. 

M. Laitman: It happens, okay. Well, something, I don't know, I really don't know. 

Student: When you feel us here, Petah Tikva, do you feel that we lack some feelings? 

M. Laitman: No, I don't know, I also don't know that. 

Student: To add more: You said we lack a sense of happiness, joyfulness. What kind? 

M. Laitman: That's clear, we're lacking happiness from the connection.

Student: Okay and what should we do to add that joyfulness because you said, on the other hand, it has to erupt from one's heart. It's not that we're going to sing and dance so how to bring that joy to be truthful and not artificial? 

M. Laitman: That depends on the devotion of the soul but what can I say? We're lacking, it's lacking.

Student: About the previous discussion it still didn't settle for me. If each Ten works within itself and becomes stronger, will we naturally, all Tens, unite to a single society? That's the process? 

M. Laitman: Even if every Ten?

Student: Each Ten in itself, this Ten, another Ten, the Ten next to us, each Ten works in itself to connect. Will we naturally also connect as multiple Tens?

M. Laitman: I don't see a reason for that. 

Student: Okay, so there's no reason to connect then between us?

M. Laitman: There can be a reason because we're not a society yet, a whole society.

Student: I don't understand: The Ten, should I lack anything besides sensing my Ten, do I need to look for that? Or do I need to settle with living inside my Ten and through that, through that, I reach everything else?

M. Laitman: We need to try, through the Ten, to discover all of society. And in this way, reveal everything. 

Student: Inside my Ten, I can feel all of society? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And I need to do other actions to also feel the whole of society? Or that's not needed, I can just work within my Ten? 

M. Laitman: No, of course, like I said, you didn't hear?

Student: I didn't hear. 

M. Laitman: You heard that through my Ten I connect to the general whole of the Tens, to all the Tens. Then I feel inside me the vessel of all the Tens because the feeling is still in me, in a person. 

Student: Yes but it's distributed across the Tens in the society, so I'm trying to understand the goal of the Ten.

M. Laitman: The goal of the Ten is to bring me to a meeting, an emotional meeting, internal, with all the other Tens.

Student: And what's the goal of society? 

M. Laitman: Say society and not Tens, with all the Tens.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:19:25) So, we have a very precise discernment here. From Abraham until Rav Laitman, all the Kabbalists said something simple. You have a friend, do you love your friend as you love yourself? If not, you should still do work. Meaning there is something here that everything appears in the connection between us. Now the basic unit, let's say, is the Ten. If through the Ten, if we do the right work through the Ten we'll discover the connection to the society, the world, everything but only through that, not other place. Now, let's say a friend is very concerned about the world Kli. Now, does the friend, from his Ten, does all of his Ten, is taking care of the whole world Kli, and that's their concern? Or it's his concern, or someone else's? So, the question, it seems, should be I now something jumped for me, of course, you know, our whole life, everything, every time something jumps? Or it's something that comes from the Ten. How do you make that distinction?

M. Laitman: It could be that you can't even make the distinction but only with due time. 

Student: But is it correct to make that distinction? To want to make it? 

M. Laitman: No, not so much. We don't know where our thoughts are from, our desires are from.

Student: So, what is it that the Ten is as one, that through the Ten everything is measured and examined? 

M. Laitman: That we all connect and we discover that in that connection there's a new desire, a new force, a new understanding. 

Student: So, it's something that dwells in the Ten? And this is the truth, really? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, it's not my previous truth what I thought or I felt? 

M. Laitman: No, no, now you discovered something that was in you before but you didn't scrutinize it, yet. You didn't raise it up from inside.

Student: But it's clear that only inside the Ten it is found and that's the work. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Now, the question is are we going towards more general things beyond what the friend said? Let's say we have the lesson, we have the gathering of friends, we have a congress to get ready for. There are actions that are collective, meals, beyond that, do we need more actions of the whole society? Or it's actually an escape from dealing with the work in the Ten, which is the true workplace? 

M. Laitman: I can slice this way or that way but we have to see where we are still behind – whether in the internality of society or the externality of society.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:22:57) When we develop the sensitivity, we can identify gifts from the Creator. If He wouldn't come and take me from my home as a friend and take me back home, there's no chance in the world I would be here, no chance, it's a gift. To identify these gifts, for instance, to me, it's like the example of, let's say I eat chocolate today, and the friends around me are eating chocolate every day. It becomes habitual. If I think about myself, if I would be here every day, maybe I too would go into some habit. Friends here can ask questions as much as they want – friends on the screen have to wait, i's uncertain that they'll get the opportunity to be heard. Dear friends, everyone who's sitting here, every day you have chocolate. Every day. We appreciate it because it's very special and thank you to the Creator and to Rav Laitman.

M. Laitman: Thank you. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:24:10) I make an effort and inside the Ten, now I see that the Creator appears to me in a way that friends are awakened. They come to the lesson, they have a growing desire and some of the society fall to darkness, spiritually, it's very hard to take them out of it. You speak to them, you hear things very strange, opposite to what we study. So, now I love both this part and that part but the gap is. The question is how do I work with those who fall to darkness? They don't want to hear, let's say, the reading material, they don't want to come to meetings. What do I do with them?

M. Laitman: What we do towards friends that are still in bed, how do we try to get them out of there, do the same thing. I used to live in Rehovot and I used to come here. It's about a half an hour drive to B’nei Brak, not Petah Tikva, to B’nei Brak. Every morning on Shabbat, I used to come, I used to lay down on the benches in the study hall. That's it, it was normal, I don't think there are any problems for a person, I'm saying, at least until 60 years old, I don't think there are any issues. So, maybe there's a problem to come here for the morning lesson. Please, I'll have a place here, don't worry.

Student: Yes but he resists. I'm willing to come and pick him up and bring him back but he resists. He doesn't want, he says, “I don’t feel that I don't want to come. Another friend says, I don't even want to be in a public place. I'd rather be at home, connect that way.

M. Laitman: That's a matter of a habit, that's a habit. No more than that. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:27:10) I want to continue the scrutiny between the Ten and society, at least to try. Let's say practically, I'm sitting in the lesson. I feel a certain internal state of my own as a result of my preparation, of my effort but I'm under the influence of society. So, this society that is affecting me and determining my state, that's my Ten? Or is it more than that?

M. Laitman: I don't know, check yourself. 

Student: I, also, can't be certain but the feeling is that it's not just my Ten, that it's all of us all together. And also, sometimes it happens that you turn to us. Typically, it's something negative, like you say, why you are asleep, but you turn to all of us, not to my Ten or this Ten or that Ten. And then our response is, whether it's everyone's inner feeling or a comment from you. So, everyone takes it to their Ten, or it needs a group response or what?

M. Laitman: I don't know, I don't know. It's a sign that you need to keep scrutinizing this.

Student: Maybe another thing: Let's say we have a Congress. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, two, three days before, even if I'm on the street somewhere, it doesn't matter, there's a big change in the feeling, the upliftment. So, that, too, emotionally, it's not specifically connected to these friends in my Ten. Is that correct? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, my work, if something from outside determines both my negative and positive states. Sometimes, same thing, sometimes there's a feeling that I can't rise that I am just under something very heavy. And then after a minute you would say to everyone. Why don't you wake up? And it feels that way and so my work needs to only be in the Ten, as we learn that everything is clothed in the Ten? Or still I need to relate to what's happening outside the Ten? 

M. Laitman: You must do this and that.

Student: What we're asking here is we want to learn what goes into the Ten and outside of the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Okay, you didn't help us scrutinize it but you talked.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:30:28) Regarding, who do we make happy? It's like a bit like going to a wedding. The Creator and the Shechina are far away and I'm sitting in a table with my Ten. And they are the tools to work, that's where we discover discernments and states. That's in practice and the audience on the outside are in potential. This feeling of the longing to B’nei Baruch, the longing to every frame on the screens still awakens something. But who do we really bring joy to? Who do we want to bring contentment to? This concern to know in a relatively stable feeling that has to be renewed when I go into the study hall, and even if I look closed, the heart surfaces. Even if my things are down and I'm not really inspired by the friends you, like the Kabbalist wrote to, you want to embrace everyone. Maybe, what we lack is, Who do we ultimately bring, want to bring joy to and to remember that the Ten in practice and the Tens in potential rely on each other? Regarding the meal, there the order is missing. We go out of a serious state here, there's a discharge of the tension and we get to the meal even though there's preparation there on the stage but it's a bit. Something loses the stability, so we need order. Either there's a representative from each Ten going down and setting up the chairs for his Ten and we know no one sits there. But there's an usher that says there's a long table over there for people who don't have their Tens and then they don't know where to go. Regarding what our friend brought up, he said that Israel didn't come out to exile but to cleanse the souls of the nations. This phenomenon in the time of Bibi that we see who's attached to us it's unbelievable. And probably their role is to go and join more of the nations of the world. I know that it's time for somebody to rise from us, from the little students that's engaged in building programs and values for dissemination. There's really a lot of ideas and means, today, we just have to organize everything so that after we test things and know that there's a good, precise program with references and explanations and so on that we can bring it up. There's different considerations but we can give tools to all our friends in the world especially with AI today. That there is no obstacle of language and human explanation because when the ego sees a human being, the rejections arise immediately. But if you see a movie or animation, you're open, even if you see something very violent, if it's animation, it's barely, it's, you know, you can even look at it and analyze it. We have this ability, I know, and I know that there are friends who are on fire to rise another degree in dissemination.

M. Laitman: Okay.

Student: The friend also, Baal HaSulam was even willing to teach rocks, so look at who we are among, we should be very pleased from what we achieved.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Reader: (01:35:33) Friends, I just want to ask everyone to ask shortly, there are many questions also around the world Kli, let's take it into account.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:35:45) Now I need to jump out of my chair! Because the scrutiny that the friend started concerns me very much. I was here for three months now, and I want to bring the spirit. I have to leave today and I want to bring the spirit from here to Germany and to the whole world Kli. And I need to testify, and I try to make it short. This experience here is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Every friend in the world Kli has to come here. I experienced the friends from PT 3, I knew I have to have friends who I can be with every morning. I prayed to the Creator, please, where can I go and the friends of PT 3, they included me. They make a lot of exertion, translation to include me and I experienced with them what it means to be Am Segula because they are the Segula. They bring the connection every friend from the world Kli needs to come here to feel it. There were rockets flying over me and the first time in my life, I had to take shelter because of this. I was afraid but it doesn't matter, because we have the friends. We are here in the center of creation. Every friend has to experience this, maybe PT 3 was role modelling the Hitkalelut, they adopted me for a short period of time. I will come back, not only for the friends but also because the Creator gave me my woman, but the creation and the purpose of creation is here. This is why I come back. Everyone needs to experience this, that we come here. There is no question that I get up for the morning lesson. I need to sit here. I need to be with my Rav and every friend needs to experience this, so you all need to come to the Congress. We need to experience this together. You come in here between, and I want to give thanks to this holy society to incorporate me. You are the greatest of the generation, I know it, I experienced it. You here, you, you as my Rav, teach me, teach us how we bring the Segula to the world. So, thank you very much, to you. 

M. Laitman: You, too. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:39:19) I wanted to continue the scrutiny of these great friends that started about the Tens and society. So, I wanted to ask the connection, let's say, between me and a different Ten or the society, is that I have to reach an agreement with my Ten, one desire. And then we, as a Ten, work with a certain way with another Ten, or a few more Tens? That's the approach, right? Not that means an individual scatter with other, like in the big society. 

M. Laitman: The principle is that we will be connected in Tens, that doesn't come from us. It's from thousands of years ago. This is how Kabbalists would arrange themselves that's based on spiritual roots. Now after that, the Tens then connect to more and more to the point that all of us hold everyone, and thus we achieve corrections.

Student: So, every action towards a Ten or towards a whole group, should come from us together, something that we agreed and then we work.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:41:05) To continue this topic: First of all, we have a Yeshivat Haverim this Sunday. The topic is gifts of love. So, in practice, there's going to be a big gathering here. It'll be very nice with the whole world Kli, the friends are gathering and we'll all be sitting in Tens, mainly in the world Kli. Everyone's in the Arvut system experiencing their own Ten, here, we might experience a bit more, not only our own Ten. But the question still, we as a Ten – me with my Ten – how do I, how do we as a Ten, receive the gift from society?

M. Laitman: I don't know, you're asking me things that you all have to reveal on your own inside the Ten and with respect to the greater society that's here. And that's only you can discover that and each Ten has to discover that in their perspective.

Student: During the Yeshivat Haverim, friends are going to speak and they're going to open their heart, and we as a Ten are going to experience it together. How do we take that special feeling that is created between us? How can we as a Ten give a gift back to society?

M. Laitman: Ask your heart, I can't say anything about that. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:43:13) To continue: When you put the group together and there weren't Tens yet, you invested in society a lot. We had this central group of 200 men going together. There was a very special spirit, here, very magnetizing, pulled a lot of people. I'm not looking in nostalgia but it was really strong. Then our work in the Tens started. We split into Tens, the Corona came there in the middle. In a certain way, can you recognize this process as something that led to a deterioration of the big society? 

M. Laitman: Of course, if you have one body that has no parts that feels itself that way, as living and existing in working and studying. Or that instead of one group, you have twenty, there's a difference, there are various different forces. Some think this way, other thinks that way, and so forth. Let's say you have 20 groups, here it's a lot more, so they're all studying together. Sometimes they meet together and now it's even more, you're even eating in that team, right? So, it turns out that there are big differences among you. And yet, the spirit in each and every Ten is unique and it prints itself onto each and every friend. So, it's not simple. 

Student: How should we relate to this new state? We learned from the Rabash, we finished the article to The Completion of the Zohar, also in the order of connection and society, The King Is Revealed in the Magnitude of the People, the more, the many, so the more forces work. It's a story of the forces of the many, and we said it vaporized a bit, so how should we approach this, what should we do? Because on the one hand, it is felt, that the connection inside in the intimate place of the Ten, the work is a lot more delicate and in quality. But the deterioration of the general society, that the King is revealed in the multitude?

M. Laitman: Yes, we still don't feel and don't understand what connection really means. What does it mean that a few people connect together – even two, connecting as one? That we don't understand, we don't, what to do? So then, and then, how can we feel what's the difference, the distance between unity and connection, or unity and separation? We still don't feel it that well but over time, and we've already started, we're moving there. Yes, it's truly not a simple matter. So, we have to be more sensitive to that which has to do with separation and what has to do with unification. And how much can we aim ourselves to a state of separation versus a state of unification? And let's hope that we'll make it.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:48:47) You answered a bit, I'll say it anyway. In the last convention, at least in our Ten there wasn't unity but there was a feeling of the Creator. You also said that you were inspired by the warmth and advancement.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And since then, we also advanced and we want to reach Lishma, and to reach that state that the feeling we have as one man with one heart. And not to discover that there's a force connecting us and we're not in one heart but that the force is connecting us, and we're all in the same feeling. I wanted to ask what to do, you said that we should see if we're connected or separated. So, what should we focus on in order to advance to that in the upcoming Congress?

M. Laitman: Okay, we'll discuss that more. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:49:53) We're advancing through exercises. There's an exercise that we're doing every day, we think of a friend. Back in the day there was a Ten on duty that prepared the group for the morning lesson. I'm just thinking if all Tens are thinking of the Ten on duty that they will be able to connect and be a pipeline to the whole world Kli. So, every day we can feel a certain Ten and they will be our pipeline along with the exercise. And see how we bring the spirit of life into each and every Ten?

M. Laitman: Very well, we'll work on that, too. 

Question (Hadera 1): (01:51:37) The feeling of wholeness in the work is also in degrees. Meaning we have to reach a first degree of the feeling of wholeness but as long as we're just dealing with this world, how to make it better, how to feel good in this world. So, we're just pushing back the end. We're not reaching the degree of really feeling what's wrong inside us. We're engaging in the feeling of evil but we're not searching for the reason. Only by searching for the reason that causes bad, we'll be able to advance towards the first degree of the wholeness. Is that right?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Moscow 7): (01:52:40) The purpose and our intention should be to give contentment to the Creator. In what work does a person give more contentment to the Creator –in Lishma or in Lo Lishma? 

M. Laitman: In the work, the work of Lishma, certainly man is making efforts towards the unity of the Creator and brings Him great contentment. And in the work that is still not Lishma, he's like a child or a baby that is trying but it doesn't work out. But then his desire is taken into account and not his ability. That's what you should understand. 

Question (Romania 1): (01:54:10) In order to understand the intention of the Creator, maybe I should try to put myself in His place and think that He sends us certain problems because He cannot do otherwise? And that He feels pain when He sends us those problems. 

M. Laitman: Ok, it’s a correct question.

Question (Kyiv 1): (01:54:55) We were speaking today that the corruptions we see in the world, in reality, it's for us to fill them from the connection in the Ten in our big group. How can we complete what's happening in the world today, through the connection in the Ten or in the big society? 

M. Laitman: We try to connect between us. On top of the fact that we're all in distance from each other and even opposite to each other. And since the most important thing is to be connected. Therefore, we do everything in our connection and we measure our merit in our ability to connect above the problems given by the Creator. 

Student: You said today to see the bigger group through the Ten? How to see the bigger group through the Ten and to participate in the broader society through the Ten?

M. Laitman: It's a problem, for that we need to move forward, advance.

Question (Haifa 2): (01:56:55) The problem inside our Ten can that affect other Tens and should we take that into account?

M. Laitman: Well, you should be a good example for the others but sometimes we learn from negative examples. How a certain Ten overcomes and then brings us that as an example, that's it.

Question (H 10): (01:57:57) I'm left with a question from all these scrutinies that there's a feeling we have to find the center. Are we searching for the center of the Ten, the center of the group? Talking about it a lot? What is that center, how to start recognizing that center in the first action?

M. Laitman: First action is to imagine to ourselves what could be as a center of Bnei Baruch. And around it, to depict the rest of the groups and our activities, that's it. We will be talking about it more in practice. We're not doing this yet.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:59:05) I wanted to ask about the Congress and the preparation. You once gave an example that you said a preparation to a Convention is like stretching the bow and arrow and the more you stretch it, the further it reaches. So, in order to make this preparation better in quality, what should we do? Because we're doing a lot of actions, a lot of efforts. Let's say now there's some time until the Congress, we're doing all kinds of actions. In order for these actions to become a preparation, what should they be? Just to say it, to mention it? 

M. Laitman: No, this doesn't do much by itself, all our work begins from feeling a deficiency, a lack for it. And a lack is felt in the heart so if the lack in the heart is ready or is not ready, that's what we need to examine in ourselves now and begin our preparation work from that.

Student: The deficiency for the Congress, itself, you're saying? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: But now, the way I see it on behalf of the deficiency is that I remember a Congress we were in, a few concentrated days. You feel we have a great privilege and, also, it kind of crawls in there, why didn't we prepare more? You got such an opportunity, a rare opportunity, that suddenly you appreciate it. It's like a gift that you can't explain in words, this feeling of the Congress. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And I'm telling myself, if we see such a great thing, that we have to refresh it in order to take advantage of every moment now to get ready to that state. And in that state, we're all concentrated on one thing and we can truly reach a big breakthrough. There's a very big potential, so how can we as a society, and the purpose is that we raise a degree in the preparation. How do we raise a degree in the preparation?

M. Laitman: From the beginning of our study until today and from today until the purpose of creation, until the end of the Correction. What can we do so that the Congress will be like the end of the Correction? 

Student: Do you recommend during the day there are Zoom meetings in the preparation to the lesson, every time they mention it, that it will be in the background and we won't forget it? 

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