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Daily Lesson (Morning) July 15, 2024.
Part 3: Selected Excerpts from the sources on the topic of: The Ten As An Environment for Spiritual Development for Everyone.
Reader: (00:08) We are reading selected excerpts from the sources on the topic of The Ten As An Environment for Spiritual Development for Everyone. You can find the study material in kabbalahgroup.info and in the Arvut system. The Ten As An Environment for Spiritual Development for Everyone.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (00:28) In order to explain, as part of the ten steps that we're taking until the Congress. The second step we entered this week was the ten as an environment for spiritual development for everyone, that's also the topic we focused on last night in our gathering, building a spiritual society. And now, throughout the week, we're going to focus on it as part of the study material in the lesson. And we'll do it step-by-step until the congress.
M. Laitman: All right, go ahead.
Reading Excerpt: (01:06) 1. RABASH, Article No. 6 (1984), "Love of Friends – 2"
If several individuals come together with the force that it is worthwhile to abandon self-love, but without the sufficient power and importance of bestowal to become independent, without outside help, if these individuals annul before one another and all have at least potential love of the Creator, though they cannot keep it in practice, then by each joining the society and annulling oneself before it, they become one body.
For example, if there are ten people in that body, it has ten times more power than a single person does.
However, there is a condition: When they gather, each of them should think that he has now come for the purpose of annulling self-love. It means that he will not consider how to satisfy his will to receive now but will think as much as possible only of the love of others. This is the only way to acquire the desire and the need to acquire a new quality, called “the will to bestow.”
And from love of friends one can reach love of the Creator, meaning wanting to give contentment to the Creator.
M. Laitman: Questions? None. Let's go, #2.
Reading Excerpt: (03:15) 2. Maor VaShemesh, VaYechi, Twice
The essence of the assembly is for everyone to be in one unity and for all to seek but one purpose: to find the Creator. In every ten there is the Shechina [Divinity]. Clearly, if there are more than ten then there is more revelation of the Shechina. Thus, each one should assemble with his friend and come to him to hear from him a word about the work of the Creator, and how to find the Creator. He should annul before his friend, and his friend should do the same toward him, and so should everyone do. Then, when the assembly is with this intention, then “More than the calf wants to suckle, the cow wants to nurse,” and the Creator approaches them and He is with them, and great mercies and good and revealed kindness will be extended over the assembly of Israel.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:13) Dear friends, as we said before, we're, this week about, what we were saying yesterday in the meeting. We want the Ten to be an environment for spiritual development and we're going to keep discussing it this week so we can absorb this idea well. And from week to week, we'll get stronger as a group; so, let's speak about it, let's speak about the week we're going into now, into the next step. Into this principle that the Ten is the environment for spiritual development for everyone, the emphasis is for everyone. So, workshop.
Workshop: (07:05)
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (15:00) Summary of Discussion/Dissemination Update
Reader: (21:59) Announcements.