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Daily Lesson (Morning), July 10, 2024. 

Part 3: Equal As One: There Is No Strong Friend, There Is A Strong Society - Selected Excerpts from the sources. 

Reader: (00:05) We are reading select excerpts from the sources on Equal As One: There Is No Strong Friend, There Is A Strong Society. We are on excerpt #5 from Rabash.

Reading: (00:22) Excerpt #5 RABASH, Article No. 17, Part 1 (1984), Concerning the Importance of Friends

With love of friends, when friends bond to create unity among them, it explicitly means that they are equal. This is called “unity.” For example, if they do business together and say that the profits will not be distributed equally, is this called “unity”? Clearly, a business of love of friends should be when all the profits and possessions that the love of friends yields will be equally controlled by them. They should not hide or conceal from one another, but everything will be with love, friendship, truthfulness, and peace.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:35) In what are friends equal because we always say that in some kind of mutual common denominator you can't see it, but in what, yes, are they equal? 

M. Laitman: We need to accept ourselves in the group that we're all equal in the eyes of the Creator, in the eyes of each and every one. Of course, nobody can be equal to the other.  It's written that as their desires and thoughts and so on, as they aren't similar in this and that, they're not similar. That's clear but, still, when the Creator, to begin with, planned our place. How we connect between us in order to have some place of revelation towards Him. He already organized in that work for everybody, approach for everybody, connection for everybody with everybody. That's why we have to accept it in a way that that's how it is, above our minds. That all of us in our group are equal. 

Student: We're not similar here but I'll tell you what the problem is. There are criteria, seemingly, external ones, that towards that I see in my eyes and then I measure, friend. That's why I said, the way the Creator planned it, if I were to be able to see the whole picture behind the scenes, then yes, I would see that he's exerted this way and that way, because the Creator gave him these qualities or others. But we don't have that ability to see that. Maybe we need to take it above reason but in corporeality, there are clear rules. I see he arrived, he didn't arrive, he did, he didn't do, and then I can say, how could they be equal? Or is equality not belonging altogether to the corporeal world, and that there will never be equality, and it's not even worth even effort in that way.

M. Laitman: No, equality is in corporeal, we see that. And also in spirituality, we're not exactly, we don't understand what equal means. But this is how we have to relate to each and everyone.

Student: Actually, in spirituality, it's clear, everyone is in a common denominator, but maybe later we can see it in spirituality, so what do you expect everyone to do altogether, how to relate? If there's one, two, three, there are all kinds of conditions, yes, to observe this existence in the society. And I see that I'm not equal to others. I'm doing less, I'm doing more. 

M. Laitman: Each one, with his qualities, has to try and be like everyone, but in his own qualities. We have people that are very successful in corporeality. We have that are more successful in preparing food. There are some that are better at preparing, each and everyone.

Student: No, with those attributes and qualities, it's clear what to do. And the conditions give you the opening to seemingly perform critique. And all in all, I don't see that they're equal.

M. Laitman: So turn to the Creator.

Student: So that's what we have?

M. Laitman: What else do you have? He made people different from one another. That each one is different than the other, that's why we have all the trouble. 

Student: But there are other options. We can change the conditions, we can demand from... 

M. Laitman: Whatever you do, you won't be able to do something against what the Creator is planning. He planned it this way, that's it. So we were born with our six senses, then he planned something else, so we change orders in our society, and so on. Nations, relationships between nations, it's not us, we didn't do it. We just have to try and complete ourselves with nature. And in that way, we can reach a state that the Creator will enjoy us. Upon all His corruptions, we will make corrections.

Student: Okay, I have to give an example, otherwise it won't go: Let's say, for example, we in the Ten decide that we have a meal, you don't come, on a regular time. Sometimes you come, sometimes you don't. Then we decide that we're going out to some volunteer activity, you don't arrive, I come. I'm starting to feel already that I'm not equal with you. Because we decided, and you're not withstanding the decisions of the Ten. So what do we do? 

M. Laitman: What do we do?

Student: I'm bigger, you're not. 

M. Laitman: So decide, you have to decide what you do, I don't know. 

Student: Or do I need to ask the Creator that, maybe I'm not seeing it right, maybe you did come. Maybe it's my eyes that don't see, I don't know what.

M. Laitman: This is something we have to discuss. I don't know. But first of all, don't decide like right straight out of the air.

Student: So your recommendation is to discuss.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:00) Rabash gives us advices how our business should look. He says everything will be with love, with truthfulness, friendship, love and peace, four things for this business. He says that it's not worthwhile in this business called unity or love of friends, for friends to use this for their own benefits. That he should draw a little bit more to himself profits from our common business. And he says That all that we profit In this business, we need to reinvest into the business with love of friends. That's kind of, in this short little excerpt, there's maybe all the principles of how the society needs… 

M. Laitman: Can you speak clearly and not start doing all kinds of…?

Student: I'm saying that all the principles of how to appear are in this excerpt. If there's love in this society and friendship and love and truthfulness and peace, then all the things that we see before me may appear differently. Because we're saying that, for example, if a mother looks at a child, she looks at him with love and there's no flaws to him.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And if she sees the neighbor's child and there is no love and there's many flaws to see.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So we need to define the fund fundamentals of the society upon these principles, that's what I'm saying 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (09:44) We learned that a corrected state is each according to his ability and one's needs. Now, ability is actually what the Creator gives a person. Or does that change, too? 

M. Laitman: That's as much as a person uses his qualities in order to do what society demands.

Student: Let's see what she said right now about the criteria, why don't we say that each simply tried, checks his ability at the moment. It could be that it will change in the future but for the time being this is his ability. You should say this is what I'm able and I want to give 100% of my ability. And we're always afraid it's not so correct. 

M. Laitman: Not each one but you see that, I guess, I didn't come to some meeting so the group tells me that I'm not okay. 

Student: It's a good example, here in the Ten, we decided that we have to do something and a friend didn't do it. So there's two approaches: One, we say everything's okay the Creator didn't let us, and above reason we justify Him and we don't even talk about it. The second approach says through love to come to that friend to ask why it happened, how we can help. So what's the right approach? 

M. Laitman: You decide, you decide. If it's in the force of the group, the group has to decide what's the right thing. The group itself also has to organize the rules the laws 

Student: About the Tens. After what we started talking yesterday, why are we afraid to say, let's say a friend says this is my ability for now, this is what I can do. And it's good he has a framework with other friends that have the same abilities and he's equal and he's supported. He gives like everybody as much as he can, but if there's friends that understand differently, like we learned about the truth. We learned Baal HaSulam in the first part, that the truth can also change until we reach the absolute truth. And we also learned from the Rabash that a person feels the truth but doesn't have the forces. He has to wait for it to come and he hears from all kinds of places that it wasn't the time yet. And it's not upon us and it weakens and there's no force to do it but if we have a group that those friends think, yes, we support one another that we will go for it. So why not to make a framework for those friends that do believe it and are willing to go for it? 

M. Laitman: Are we, is there a Ten that we're preventing them from going ahead? 

Student: No, everybody goes ahead, but not according to their abilities.

M. Laitman: Okay, no Ten comes to another Ten to demand anything. But in the Ten they can demand, as Baal HaSulam also writes.

Student: But let's say in the Ten, there's different people with different abilities. And it's difficult when the friends are different in the Ten. You're saying, right, it's bestowal, you have to be concerned about everybody, you'll get forces from above. The question is if the force only comes from above, if you're trying to invest in the others? Or still, there should be some equality of friends going together and getting more powers. 

M. Laitman: Both, both. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:15) He's speaking about profit from love of friends. So what is that profit that we divide equally?  

M. Laitman: Profit from love of friends, you don't know what it is? 

Student: How do we divide it equally? He says to divide the profit from love of friends equally.  

M. Laitman: That's what they want to happen, to have happened.

Student: It's something spiritual, it's a sensation?

M. Laitman: Yes, so what they receive together, that's what it's going to be.

Student: So they don't even divide it, it should be something one for everybody, not a division. 

M. Laitman: I don't know exactly about that, you do it and you'll see whether it divides or stays as one. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (15:14) I want to ask about the incorporation between us. Does it depend on only demanding from the upper one? 

M. Laitman: A demand from the upper one, according to your demand from the upper one, we can incorporate together.

Student: So there can be a different state that we incorporate?

M. Laitman: There can be. 

Student: I see that friends can annul towards one another. Friends can use this tendency to do a lot of things for the friends in society. And the more they do, it seems that there's even more of a difficulty to incorporate between us. So it's felt like something before us, how we advance through this. 

M. Laitman: We'll advance. 

Reader: (16:23) 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.

Workshop: (18:44)

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (57:29) Thank you friends. As we said, we will continue this Sunday, this discussion, that’s the actual direction. Let’s conclude with Rav’s words. He said,“Truth, buy and don’t sell. Meaning the approach to truth needs to be very direct. That a person needs to constantly examine himself and try to see himself from the side. And try to enter into the friends and change his place with the friends without the friend knowing. Simply, see himself from all kinds of sides, from all kinds of angles, and then recommend to himself what the needed change is.”

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:07:06) Congress update

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