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Daily Lesson (Morning) August 13, 2024.
Part 1: Baal HaSulam. Letter No. 21, 50.
Reader: Hello, we are studying Letter number 21 from Baal HaSulam, which you can find in Sviva Tova and the Arvut system, and in the writings of Baal HaSulam, Letter 21.
Reading: (00:23) Letter No. 21
16 Heshvan, Tav-Reish-Peh-Zayin, October 24, 1926, London
To my soul mate ... may his candle burn forever:
I received your letter from the thirteenth of Tishrey [the first Hebrew month]. What you write me about, “I recognize how much I need external mortifications to correct my externality,” thus far your words, I say that you neither need mortifications nor to correct the externality. Who taught you this new law? It must be that you are not as attached to me as before, and are therefore learning other ways.
Know that you have no other trusted friend in your whole life, and I advise you not to correct your externality at all, but only your internality, for only your internality is destined to be corrected. And the main reason why the internality is corrupted due to the proliferation of sins is the filth, whose sign is pride and self-importance. That filth fears no mortification in the world. On the contrary, it relishes them because the self-importance and pride increase and strengthen by the mortification.
But if you do wish to cleanse the sins off you, you should engage in annulment of self-importance instead of the mortifications, meaning to feel that you are the lowest and the worst of all the people in the world. It requires much learning and education to understand this, and each time you should test yourself to see if you are not fooling and deceiving yourself. It also helps to lower yourself before your friend in practice.
However, you should be mindful that you lower yourself only before the right people. So if you wish to engage in it in practice, you can annul yourself before our group, and not before strangers, God forbid. However, you must know for certain that you are the worst and the lowest of all the people in the world, as this is the truth.
Indeed, my advice is straightforward and easy, and even a weak person can keep it to the fullest, for it does not wear out the strength of the body, and it is the complete purity. Although I have not spoken to you about it, it was because you did not need it so, since while you were with me in the same place, you would gradually recognize your lowliness anyway, without any learning or actions. But now that you are not with me in my place, you must engage in annulment of the self-importance in the manner just mentioned.
And the most important is to pray extensively and strengthen the confidence that the Creator will help you succeed in meriting complete repentance, and to know how to adhere to Him in one connection for eternity. This is the most important, and this is what distinguishes one who serves the Creator from one who does not serve Him. “Do not rest, and give Him no rest” until He forgives all your sins and crimes and brings you close to Him forever and for all eternity.
You should also cling to me in a way that the location does not separate us. Our sages said, “Cling to one who has been anointed and you yourself will be anointed.” This is an important principle in the teaching of the Baal Shem Tov, to mate with the righteous, may you be wise enough to understand it.
Believe me that on my part there are no preventions or heaviness. If I knew that there was more that I could do in your favor while being with you in the Land of Israel, I would certainly not leave you. But in truth, my journeying from you was also precisely for your sake.
Yehuda Leib, son of my teacher and Rabbi, Simcha Ashlag
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:52) Baal HaSulam writes that the internality being corrupted due to the sins or filth and its sign is the pride and self-importance. What is this self-importance?
M. Laitman: That he sees himself as separated from others, as special, unique.
Student: And he also says in advice that even a simple weak person, that's complete purity. What is this complete purity?
M. Laitman: Complete purity, it's disconnection from the evil inclination.
Student: How is that easy? How can a weak, simple person execute such a thing?
M. Laitman: Because it doesn't depend on the inner forces of the person. It only depends on the extent that he wants it. That he turns to the Creator, and he annuls himself, and in this way he can reach it.
Student: A person can actually, let's say a student right now asks during the lesson and the prayer with everyone, to be purified, to be cleansed from his self-importance, from pride, he can actually get to that?
M. Laitman: Well, I'm not certain that to do so during the lesson or during the time of the prayer is enough, but he needs to do everything that the Kabbalists recommend.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:48) He says here that each time he needs to try and see if he's not deceiving himself and the cancelling of self-importance. How does a person check that he's not deceiving himself?
M. Laitman: According to what he understands from his study, according to what the Kabbalists wrote, and he's in it.
Student: How do you examine that he's not in self-importance, and this is pride that I'm canceling that I'm in self-importance?
M. Laitman: Well, if he has pride as a result of it, then he sees the consequences. That this is not annulment.
Student: He also says that as long as you're next to me, meaning next to Baal HaSulam, it'll happen to you on its own. But when you're far from me, you must work on this in an active manner?
M. Laitman: Yes, because the student is still in a state where this externality influences him, where he is and how far he is from Baal HaSulam, possibly also from his friends.
Student: So, what's the difference between canceling one's self-importance when you're next to a Kabbalist or when you're distant from him?
M. Laitman: Because it influences the person. He's not yet corrected, and so to the extent that he's under the influence of his teacher, he keeps himself, and he's also under the influence of his teacher, and that guards him.
Student: And when he's far, he simply has to ask from above to be protected?
M. Laitman: So for him near or far is measured by the distance, by the amount of the influence of his Rav over him.
Student: So when he's far, what does he have to ask? Should he be afraid of it? What's the action he should do?
M. Laitman: He should ask not to become disconnected from his teacher and from his friends. As though he is together with them.
Student: And then from the connection, the cancellation of this self-importance will come, too?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:44) What's the meaning of the advice of don't correct your externality but only your internality?
M. Laitman: This should be clear to us, I think. That all of the external things at home, at work, here in the study with the group, all of the life of a person are divided into internality and externality. Internality truly pertains to the states of correction, to attainment, to annulment, to the ascents, and the externality is the opposite.
Student: What enters under the category of externality?
M. Laitman: Anything that is not directly connected to the correction of the soul.
Student: For example, a fast, is that the correction of internality or externality?
M. Laitman: It's the correction of the internality because we are doing it in order to be closer and more connected to spirituality.
Student: So, every external action that I can put the right intention in is actually no longer external?
M. Laitman: That might be.
Student: That's why I'm trying to understand the definition between internality and externality that he's talking about.
M. Laitman: Internality and externality, it means that in our internality we influence the Creator directly, and externality, it only arranges for us our life, our corporeal life around that.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:10) I wanted to also ask about annulment. So, when a student is by his teacher and there's annulment due to the closeness, is this annulment considered as an action of the student?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: So is it considered because he's nullifying or is it something that's done upon him?
M. Laitman: It is cancelled but under certain conditions.
Student: So, what's the difference between, what's the difference in the annulment where a student's beside his teacher or a student who's not beside his teacher?
M. Laitman: This is measured according to the measure of annulment of the student. This is how it is taken into consideration.
Student: But in relation to what does he nullify?
M. Laitman: He annuls himself towards what he needs to do.
Student: Why does Baal HaSulam relate here in such harshness towards this action? He is like saying, I didn't tell you this because you didn't need it. Why in such harshness does he relate to this act of annulment?
M. Laitman: Because on this depends the whole ascent of the person towards the Creator.
Student: Why does annulment raise a person to the Creator? Why in this action is there something like an elevator?
M. Laitman: The annulment of the will to receive. Annulling the will to receive all together according to how much I'm capable of it.
Student: So, the ability to annul the will to receive, what does it depend upon?
M. Laitman: The ability to annul depends on the preparation from the side of the person and the preparation from the side of the environment, the group. And as much as they know how to develop themselves towards the Creator.
Student: And this annulment, what does it sit upon exactly? Because it's like you're not suppressing the desire. It's not that you are turning it off. So, what exactly are you annulling that's called annulment?
M. Laitman: Your ego. Your ego. That's it.
Student: How do you annul the ego? That's actually the matter of creation. This is your matter. How can you annul it?
M. Laitman: You pray. You ask. You perform all kinds of actions so it will be canceled, that you want to rise above the ego.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:44) He writes about this annulment, meaning you should feel yourself that you're the lowest of all the people in the world. And one needs to study and learn much to understand this and each time he needs to try and see if he's not deceiving himself and also to lower himself before his friend. The question is, is that the measure towards this annulment?
M. Laitman: Let's say so. Yes.
Student: So is that a state I need to seek in the Ten? What's the lowest, most lowly state?
M. Laitman: Yes. This is how it would be. It will be revealed to you even though you perform nice actions and great efforts. It doesn't matter. This is how you see it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:51) I want to talk about this state of lowliness. When a person feels his lowliness, it's not a very simple state. It's a state that's intolerable to a person. How in that state where he feels the hatred, the anger, all those negative forces in him, and he sees this lowliness, how does he operate from there? All that it feels like is to just run away from himself. To run from yourself is not annulment?
M. Laitman: That is true.
Student: So where does he find the forces from that state where all the harsh statements state he's in to do an act towards the friend, which is positive, actually?
M. Laitman: He asks for forces.
Student: Where does he find these forces in this lowliness? Because sometimes you see these outbursts, and..?
M. Laitman: There is no other source except the Creator and the one who receives them is the person.
Student: Meaning that when he feels that lowliness he has to actually do an action for the benefit of the friend?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (20:24) He writes here that he needs to know loyally that he's the worst of all the people in the world because it's the truth. How can a person altogether who's all ego feel such a thing? After all, his existence is that he justifies himself and sees himself above others, and this is what justifies things for him.
M. Laitman: No, it is possible. It is actually possible to discover to what extent a person is loathsome.
Student: And we need to ask for that or?
M. Laitman: Try to reach the truth, and then it is revealed.
Student: As in the advantage of light from darkness?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: He says, "You have to adhere to me so that the place will not separate between us," which is the main thing from the actions of the Baal Shem Tov to couple with… What is this action of to adhere to his teacher?
M. Laitman: To ask for adhesion. This is what I understand here.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (21:54) For the same point of he is the worst and lowest of all the people in the world, what I'm trying to ask is how all together is there a way to see this, to even come close to this because the tendency is I don’t want to come close to feeling that I’m the worst. How can you see something good in me, even wanting to ask for that?
M. Laitman: You will want it, the desire is…
Student: Meaning, there's nothing logical here.
M. Laitman: To me, it all seems logical, rational.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:42) Why do I need to feel lowly?
M. Laitman: Because it is the truth.
Student: How do I come to that truth? What is that truth that I need to come and feel myself as lowly?
M. Laitman: According to the extent that you get to know the world, humanity, your place, according to all of these things, you can feel the truth that you are the lowest of everyone. You are worse than everyone. You have something to rely on; you see all the flaws that you caused.
Student: Does this have to be part of my correction?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: That feeling?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And what is to tempt myself towards the Creator? That I need to somehow tempt myself towards the Creator?
M. Laitman: To bring yourself closer to the Creator. That's what you have to do. And here it all depends on your exertion and your prayer.
Student: But if I feel myself lowly, how can I annul myself before the Creator? How can this let me come and bring a true and real prayer?
M. Laitman: It's as it is written, "The Lord is high and the low will see."
Student: He says this advice even a weak person would be able to observe it in every way. What does it mean that a weak person can observe it?
M. Laitman: That he doesn't have forces to overcome. This is called weak.
Student: And here we can actually implement the Arvut between us where one will help his friend?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (24:56) It's written that the annulment of self-importance is to feel that you are the lowest and the worst of all the people in the world. I want to ask, lowly and the worst in what? In connection and adhesion, or in anything else?
M. Laitman: No, no, in connection and adhesion.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (25:32) What is to lower myself in practice, myself towards a friend?
M. Laitman: That everyone will see what you are doing, and they will see to what extent you are truly lowly.
Student: What does this mean, to walk lowly, to bow my head?
M. Laitman: No, in practice it doesn't mean that suddenly you bow down. But rather in practice means that you truly behave with the friends according to the degree of your lowliness.
Student: And what if I don't understand what that is exactly?
M. Laitman: If you don't understand it, then you need to learn more. It's not an excuse. Okay?
Question (Turkiye 7): (27:23) Could you explain the difference between the will to receive and the ego? And what is it that we correct, the desire to receive or the ego?
M. Laitman: The will to receive exists in each and every person, and it does not become refined. It does not disappear. Nothing happens to it. But rather, a person, according to his degree and the extent to which he attains who he is, what he is, can use this will to receive or not, and how much. This is what we learn. And in the wisdom of Kabbalah, we try to know about it, to study it, and then implement it in a group in our state.
Question (Women KabU 2): (28:30) The most important thing for me at this point in my life is to have adhesion with you. I am amongst the lowest of the low. How can I expect to have adhesion with you?
M. Laitman: You need to try to adhere to the Creator. This is what is correct. And the Rav, along the way, you will see how he is great or small, he can help you or not, but the most important is adhesion with the Creator. That's it. This is what we need to aspire to, to ask and to reach, both the men and the women.
Question (Kyiv 1): (29:37) It's written here in the article that the main thing is to let go in the prayer and the confidence that the Creator will merit you in complete repentance. How can you truly reach such a state of complete repentance?
M. Laitman: Well, first of all, it's to ask. First of all, to ask that the Creator will give you forces and signs that you can adhere to Him completely. And that depends on you, on your request.
Student: What signs can the Creator give that..?
M. Laitman: That you feel that you don't have it. And when you will start to carry out actions to get closer to the Creator, you will feel how far you still are. Along the way, this is revealed.
Student: The signs of adhesion with the Creator, are there such a long the way? Not just signs of distancing?
M. Laitman: To the extent you understand Him more, you feel Him more, to the extent He is close to you, all of these signs, you discover them on the way.
Question (Moscow 1): (31:17) When we discover our lowliness, should we say that it's also me?
M. Laitman: Of course. I discover my own despicability and how I'm lowly, and zero, and I need to discover it. Once I discover it, I try to correct it.
Student: Meaning, our task is only from the side of the created being to agree that all the terrible things that are being revealed in me, all this despicability is to just agree that this is me and to let the Creator join me.
M. Laitman: Yes, yes.
Question (CzechSlovak): (32:25) Is the lowliness we are talking about connected to shame?
M. Laitman: There might be a connection to a certain extent, but that's not the most important. The lowliness is according to what we discover about ourselves in clear vessels, to the extent that we are weak and dishonest, etc..
Question (MAK 10): (33:20) Patience in the work in the Ten, or towards friends, and self-annulment, is it the same thing?
M. Laitman: No, but these things are connected.
Question (Turkiye 2): (33:58) What kind of prayer do I need to come to in order to unite with my friends?
M. Laitman: What kind? If we have different kinds of prayers, I could tell you, but there is no such thing. I need to reach such a prayer that the Creator, through the friends, will give me the correct feeling, the correct understanding, the correct ascent. That's it.
Question (Novosibirsk): (34:45) When a person is in a state where he blames me in a disclosed manner about something, do I already need to accept it? On one hand, he is not looking to correct himself, he doesn't see himself as the lowest. Meaning, what's correct? To always be silent and correlate everything to myself? Or to check and see the one who's critiquing me so that he will also hear a certain truth and closeness on his behalf?
M. Laitman: Try to annul yourself as much as you can, and show everyone and also that person that you are in annulment. And this is a spiritual action. Give him an example in that.
Question (Women Turkiye 8): (35:57) In the article it talks about the annulment of self-importance and pride. How do we reach such an annulment of self-importance and pride? How do we do this, internally, externally?
M. Laitman: Through prayer. We can't do it, if I'm capable of doing it without a prayer, then I make a lie with myself. It's only through annulment. To ask for annulment as much as possible. And the Creator will do it. All of the corrections come from the Creator.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (36:49) How do we know when to give a prayer and when it's a time to overcome?
M. Laitman: If you're capable of it and it is correct to overcome, then overcome. Then what should you ask for? That you're not capable of it? Then you ask.
Student: Sometimes they say to overcome above the superhuman ability and all that.
M. Laitman: These are already the degrees of overcoming. But when to overcome or not, it's according to what I said.
Student: So he continues until he sees the end of his ability, and from here he activates his prayer.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Women PT 14): (37:40) Also in acts of annulment before the friends, we can reach pride. How do we get out of it?
M. Laitman: Prayer. Prayer.
Question (Women Turkiye 8): (37:55) What is the difference between correcting the externality and correcting the internality? Can you give an example?
M. Laitman: The correction of internality, they don't know in short because it's internality. And externality, as you, let's say, so far you didn't do something, and from today onwards you execute something that you couldn't do before.
Question (Women Turkiye 9): (38:23) How can a person hear the words of his Rav all the time and hold onto him?
M. Laitman: It's not simple. But we need to.
Question (Women Germany): (38:44) How do we reach being in an eternal connection with the Creator?
M. Laitman: If we want to, the Creator has mercy.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (39:08) To connect with the friends and to adhere to the upper one. What is the connection? What is the difference between these actions?
M. Laitman: First adhere with the friends and then through the friends adhere to the Creator.
Student: To connect. Connection and adhesion. Can we say that with the friends it's an embrace and with the upper one it is Zivug, coupling?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (39:50) I think that if I just lower myself, then pride can join it. I lower myself before the friends, and I'm the lowest one. Is it correct to work in the opposite way, to annul in that I want to elevate the friends in my eyes?
M. Laitman: From the heart?
Student: I mean, is this the right action? Or nevertheless...
M. Laitman: How will you raise it if you have no forces?
Student: I will ask the Creator to give me the greatness of the friends.
M. Laitman: Well, without that, you won't raise them.
Student: In my eyes.
M. Laitman: Try, check it on yourself how it works.
Student: I'll explain. It's just that what is important is not the action but the intention. Why am I doing it? In order to see the friends as great, not to see myself as small.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (41:07) He recommends to his student to cling to him, and he says, cling to the righteous, those that are anointed. In our case, it means to cling to you, you are our teacher.
M. Laitman: Well?
Student: How do we adhere to you in heart and soul?
M. Laitman: Study every day and perform what we are trying to perform between us.
Student: Because it seems like one of the important things is really to adhere to Rav, because he brings this thing down to correction. So I say this, it needs great wisdom to adhere to the righteous. That's the essence of it.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: So this only refers to our Rav, or the other righteous, Baal HaSulam, Rabash, Baal Shem Tov?
M. Laitman: To those, certainly, yes.
Student: But, at least I feel that all of the things that come to me come through you. Even though when you are nice to me, also when you are angry towards me, in all of these states I feel that everything that comes to me comes mostly from you. And there I think that something actually happens. I don't know what it is. But, on the other hand, we learn that the Ten is very important, and there, there is a great revelation. How do we combine these things correctly between the Ten and you?
M. Laitman: You connect the Ten to what's happening to you, with the rest of the great ones. Try to connect the Ten to those actions.
Student: Can I even imagine these righteous inside of me? To see them as though they are living inside of me?
M. Laitman: No, I don't think so.
Student: Just these daily actions that we come and study and we draw something even if you don't understand what it is.
M. Laitman: Yes. So, Letter 50?
Reader: Yes, Letter 50. So, we're moving on to Letter 50 by Baal HaSulam. It's in the Arvut System and the study materials, also in the books of the Writings of Baal HaSulam, in Hebrew, page 749. Letter number 50 by Baal HaSulam.
Reading: (43:41) Baal HaSulam Letter No. 50
11 Elul, Tav-Reish-Peh-Zayin, September 8, 1927, London
To the honorable students, may the Creator be upon you:
I received your letter from the portion Shoftim [Judges], along with the innovations in the Torah of all except for... and I do hope to receive his letter today.
It would be very good if you wrote your innovations in the work of the Creator, as well as your questions on the matter. And it makes no difference whether I answer you and comment, or I do not write and do not comment, because your very question is half the answer, while I bring before the Creator to answer you in due time. I am surprised that you still do not sufficiently understand it.
I do have one comment for you: When you write me innovations in the Torah, you do not understand at all if the ways of which you speak are already in your possession, or at least on your degree, meaning whether you can do them or they are above your degree. Rather, wait for the Creator to grant you the understanding how to do them. Likewise, you should be mindful to always interpret as a prayer to the Creator, so you are rewarded with the innovation you have attained or an intimation, as an apology for not being rewarded with it yet, and so on.
The beginning of our longed for, pleasant future is approaching us, and so I crave and long for you to be next to me in body and in soul (meaning that you would draw near me, and not me to you, which is impossible, as well as pointless).
I must also apologize that last Tishrey [first Hebrew month] was a very favorable time but you were not near me then. I looked for ... all through that month but he was nowhere in my area, and I only saw one or two of you. Naturally, I was sorry about that all through last year.
The reason for it is the pride and self-importance that have snuck into you, and to that extent the unfounded hatred among you (due to it) in clinging to materialistic friends who are not from our society. ... Clearly, if you hate one of the members of the group, it is a clear sign that you are not in complete love with me, as well.
And although the evil inclination shows you that friend’s death, meaning that his actions are bad and sinful toward the Creator, you should have prayed and trusted the Creator for his sake, that He will certainly help him because he is my student.
And if you already understand about that friend that the Creator cannot help him, and that my prayers also cannot help him at a time of need, then the judgment reflects back on the hater. From now on, come and see, and pay attention that you do not fall into that trap again.
... You also need not notice at all if I actually, verbally expel a friend... judge him favorably, in truth.
Let me tell you the truth: There is greater unity in my departure than in my nearing. Like any craftsman who toils in his craft to complete his work in the best way, a stranger must not look at him in the middle of his work because he will not understand his conduct in his work, except for a craftsman as great as he.
I have elaborated on that so you may know that your soul depends on it.
Although I do not tend to offer private guidance, I must still comment on what I have already warned you several times: No one should share the “innovations in the Torah” that he attained, nor should he “admonish” whatsoever. Even the desire for it is a terrible flaw.
The exception is what I have permitted while I am away—to share innovations in the Torah with one another from what I have already said, as accurately as can be explained, but very precisely, without any additions of one’s own.
Also, you must not speak of the words of Torah that I said, and which that friend has not heard from my mouth. It must be concealed attentively and wisely.
I find it necessary to warn about the above because I feel that you have already stretched the line that you have given yourselves. Know for certain that by this keeping you will be granted with saying innovations in the Torah before the Creator, and to admonish yourselves. But one who scatters his qualities in those will not be established in the eyes of the Creator. In that matter, an ounce is as much as a pound, and the Creator will help you and guide you to the doors of truth.
Yehuda Leib
M. Laitman: Yes. Yes. Is there anything to ask?
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (52:25) What is my connection with the friends, which is the connection to Rav? How, by giving a good attitude to a friend, or maybe the opposite attitude towards a friend, it is also directly towards Rav?
M. Laitman: All in all, what you do in the connection between you in all kinds of manners, by that you are building the system, which belongs to your attitude towards the Creator. And each who raises the friends when he raises the Creator, and by that when he raises the friends, he does the same with the Creator. Like that, if you are in all these actions towards the upper force.
Student: But how does Rav feel this thing? How I, as your student now, when I, let's say I give a bad attitude towards, when I relate badly to a friend, how do I see it in Rav? How does Rav feel at that moment?
M. Laitman: Well, how does Rav feel, that's up to him, but that's his business. And how he relates to you, that's also his business. But we need to correct all these things.
Student: He says, he cautions us not to fall into the trap where he says that if you already say that the hand of the Creator is too short to help the friends, and my prayer is also not worthy of helping him at a time of need, God forbid, then the judgment reflects back to the hater. What does that mean?
M. Laitman: That it's prohibited to make such a calculation.
Student: What calculation should I not do?
M. Laitman: What is he saying? Read the sentence.
Student: He says, if you already understand about this friend that the hand of the Lord is too short to help him, and my prayers are also not worthwhile to help him at a time of need, God forbid, then the judgment reflects back on the hater himself. Come and see, and be attentive from here on not to fall into this trap anymore.
M. Laitman: Well?
Student: When I seemingly ask for a friend, if it's not a true prayer, if I don't do it from the bottom of my heart, that I don't really want a true correction, a true connection, what exactly does it mean here? That I shouldn't look at a friend at a time of trouble, and the Creator is not helping him?
M. Laitman: You don't see it correctly. For the time being, you see yourself and what you're creating.
Student: This means that I don't see through the friend my own correction, and there is no correct request for a true connection, a true correction in my connection with the friends?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And how can this be manifested in the friend when he says that this is a trap that I can fall into, and it comes back to the hater himself? How do I feel that indeed I performed this action incorrectly?
M. Laitman: It's prayer again. Again, prayer.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (56:31) He writes in the beginning, I received your letters along with the innovations of the Torah from each and every one. What are these even? What are innovations in the Torah?
M. Laitman: Well, each goes over the verses from the Torah, what he thinks, how he would interpret them.
Student: Then he says to them, don't tell each other your innovations in the Torah that you learned. It can spoil a friend?
M. Laitman: Yes, where each puts into the other his corruption.
Student: So, how do we share with the friends in our insights or questions?
M. Laitman: As little as possible.
Student: So when we read an excerpt, we shouldn't talk about it?
M. Laitman: You read an excerpt and each is impressed with it himself, and that's it. And after that, they see the results maybe in external actions of the friends.
Student: So it's better to keep it for oneself?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (58:00) He gives advice here that if we see, if the evil inclination shows us the person sins before the Creator, we should pray for him. That's his advice. Many times we see that seemingly a person gets greater pleasure in seeing the friends in his lowliness, in accusing him instead of praying for him. So what do we do in such a case?
M. Laitman: Try to come out of such a relationship and to try and see a friend in a nice way.
Student: Sometimes a person feels sorrow that he can't pray for the friend, and then naturally a prayer emerges. He wants to see the friend in his greatness. Sometimes there is no sorrow. It just goes over the person. It's either this way or that way. Seemingly he's not really actively participating in it. That's at least my impression. It's just like a film that he's going through. So is there something to do?
M. Laitman: Be cautious.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (59:26) He writes that even if they don't understand at all his answer to their question and the innovations of the Torah that they bring, or their question, if it's in their possession or they're on this degree, so apparently they're not certain. That's how I understand it: if they're on this degree or above the degree and they have to watch out, then always interpret things as a prayer to the Creator that they will be rewarded with this innovation that they have attained. What does he mean?
M. Laitman: Pray in order to understand.
Student: Pray to attain it?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: I can say that sometimes when I ask a question, your answer, after I delve into it, can take some time. It directs me. It gives me some direction.
M. Laitman: So, now my guidance is, try to add to this more forces of scrutiny, more forces of prayer.
Student: So, what should I watch out for? You said you should be careful, cautious.
M. Laitman: You will discover everything along the way. Start digging into it, and you'll see.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:01:22) The recommendation of Baal HaSulam not to say things that I understand or think but to quote pretty much, and precisely. Is that also correct for our workshops?
M. Laitman: I don't know. I can't say. But if you're relating seriously to what each and everyone says, and then try to say what's written.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:02:02) He writes a few times about this matter: That by distancing from them, it's actually to their benefit. What is this issue?
M. Laitman: He's giving them freedom in the work, in the Torah, in their connections. He's allowing them space to grow.
Student: And it is next to them, then he says, "In my distancing, there is greater unity than in my nearing." How can such a thing be?
M. Laitman: Because he's distancing, he's giving you the ability to be closer to the friends.
Student: Why does the teacher obstruct the students from connecting?
M. Laitman: Probably, yes.
Student: How can that be? I don't understand it.
M. Laitman: So it is. Think that it's like that.
Question (Haifa 1): (01:03:08) During the day, we will have a workshop about the excerpt we heard in a morning lesson, and every friend tells us what he learned from this excerpt. Is this forbidden? Should we stop having such workshops?
M. Laitman: Why?
Student: Because you said not to share with the friends.
M. Laitman: No, no.
Question (Women PT 6): (01:03:29) What should I ask for when hatred towards a friend is revealed?
M. Laitman: Ask for love, ask to see the truth to the extent in which the Creator is Good That Does Good, and operates only out of love, and we need to learn from Him.
Question (Women PT 6): (01:03:51) What does it mean that the students, Rav to the Rav, innovations in the Torah?
M. Laitman: I don't know. I'm not right, corresponding to what you're talking about here, maybe, or something like that in one sentence. It's not customary amongst us.
Reader: Next, we have The Ruin as an Opportunity for Correction. So, we'll move on to the next part. Let's have a Nigun first.
Song: (01:04:27)