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Daily Lesson (Morning) October 15, 2024.

Part 2: “Hitkalelut” (Incorporation) - Selected Excerpts from the Sources, #6.

Reader: We are continuing from number six by Baal HaSulam.

Reading: (00:22) 6. Baal HaSulam, "600,000 Souls"

It is said that there are 600,000 souls, and each soul divides into several sparks. We must understand how it is possible for the spiritual to divide, since initially, only one soul was created, the soul of Adam HaRishon.

In my opinion, there is indeed only one soul in the world, as it is written (Genesis 2:7), “and breathed into his nostrils the soul [also “breath” in Hebrew] of life.” That same soul exists in all the children of Israel, complete in each and every one, as in Adam HaRishon, since the spiritual is indivisible and cannot be cut—which is rather a trait of corporeal things.

Rather, saying that there are 600,000 souls and sparks of souls appears as though it is divided by the force of the body of each person. In other words, first, the body divides and completely denies him of the radiance of the soul, and by the force of the Torah and the Mitzva [commandment], the body is cleansed, and to the extent of its cleansing, the common soul shines on him.

M. Laitman: Questions, please.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (02:20) When we read such a text, how should we relate to this word called a soul, this term?

M. Laitman: I don't know how to say it. There is the will to receive which the Creator created. And it exists in everyone, in each one, and part of them, and at the same time in that will to receive a part of God above can clothe in it. I don't know how to say it, some part of the Creator, according to the law of equivalence of form. This we understand, even from our own nature where in order to receive a soul, the will to receive must assume, take upon itself some qualities, and then that soul can clothe in him. This is what we can say. 

Student: So, what is a private soul and a collective soul he's talking about here?

M. Laitman: So, the common soul is all the desires that were created. They can all connect between them and acquire the form of mutual bestowal, and this is called the common soul.

Student: So, if we are in this quality of mutual bestowal, we can say that there's a common soul there?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Above the will to receive, of course. When we say that it clothes in the will to receive, what does that mean?

M. Laitman: Clothed in the will to receive means that although they are opposite from one another, the common soul receives the form of bestowal, and then the upper light, the Creator, can clothe in it to a certain extent.

Student: Now, we are entering a week, at least in Israel, that we're almost not going to work, we're going to be together a lot in the holidays, and such an incorporation, corporeal incorporation, how can we use this in order to connect more to what we just heard, that a soul? What vessels can we use in order to connect to that degree?

M. Laitman: We have to set up lessons for ourselves for such a week and try that they will all lead us into feeling one connection between us. This is what I think. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:42) About incorporation between the Creator and the created being. It's written that He distanced himself from around the middle point and He is unfelt, He is concealed. But still, He does all the deeds, He gives us everything. He's working in us, we just don't feel that. So, the question is, what does it mean that He's outside of us but still working in us? How can that be? Or maybe in some stage of development He did go in, but I'm trying to understand theoretically. If He distanced Himself, why is He still working inside us? 

M. Laitman: He distanced himself as inner light, but He can shine in us as surrounding light.

Student: But what is the measure of the action that He's performing in us? What's the quality of that action? In what is He really doing everything? And in what are we working without Him? It's only expressed in our feelings? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, by distancing Himself, He gives us a feeling of independence. It's only a feeling, right? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:31) He writes that at the beginning, the body separates itself from the radiance of the soul, but with the power of the commandments, the body is cleansed. So, what is a cleansing? Because we only feel how the will to receive grows. It doesn't feel that it's cleansed.

M. Laitman: No. Here, I guess, when he's talking about the refinement of the body, it probably means that the will to receive diminishes. 

Student: What does it mean? In its size? In its intensity? 

M. Laitman: In its intensity.

Student: And what replaces that? If it diminishes so something else has to take control? What is cleansing, actually? What's the process?

M. Laitman: His screen becomes refined. 

Student: But he writes that according to the extent it was refined, the soul can radiate. So, the refinement of the screen causes more illumination of the common soul?

M. Laitman: Surrounding light. Yes.

Student: Also, when we ascend in the degrees, also there, there's a cleansing or a refining of the screen? 

M. Laitman: In each degree, there is the refinement of the screen and the hardening, the thickening of the screen. 

Student: From above downward, we learned that there's a cleansing or a refining to let more of the parts of the Guf or more coerced desires enter the process. But what does it mean that from below upward, there's a refining of the screen? Why do we need that? 

M. Laitman: We also learned that in the Partzufim. 

Student: So, from below upward, the screen is cleansed. There shouldn't be an addition of a screen? 

M. Laitman: You have Galgalta AB, SAG. Tell me where you have the refinement of the screen. We learned that it must be for the creation of the next Partzuf, but for building the Partzuf itself, no?

Student: I can't understand the process we're going through now. It's a process of refining what we want to attain. Our next degree?

M. Laitman: It doesn't matter to me. Tell me what you see from where you are speaking. 

Student: In the process we're going through, let's say as a Ten, the will to receive grows, and then it's not clear why we need a refining of the screen and not the opposite. We should have a bigger screen.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, I don't understand what I'm missing out on here. The question is correct.

M. Laitman: Yes. To the extent that we go forward, the Aviut, the coarseness grows, and the screen has to be bigger, and the light that will close in the Partzuf will be bigger. Until when? Well? 

Student: Until we reach Gmar Tikkun? The end of correction? I can't understand how the process combines with what he's writing on here. What do we need to attain in our next stage, at least that? 

M. Laitman: In our next stage, what? 

Student: Our next stage of work. We're in a state, and we want to attain the first state of spirituality, the first degree?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, we need the will to receive to be refined, or should we attain a screen?

M. Laitman: A screen. 

Student: So, what does it mean to attain a screen in the state that there's only a growing will to receive? It just grows. It doesn't get corrected?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, what is that screen? That everything we do just increases our will to receive. It doesn't bring us to some part of the screen. Or maybe it does. I don't understand it. Our work, this is what it feels like, that we're getting a bigger will to receive? 

M. Laitman: You can say so. 

Student: What should we do so our work will bring us a screen upon that will to receive?

M. Laitman: We need to try to receive in order to bestow. What do we have for this? Do we have coarseness? We have coarseness. Do we have a screen? We do. And the operation of the light on the vessel, on the will to receive, to the extent that we want to bring the will to receive closer to the light, there will be a collision between us, a coupling by striking. And then it is called that coarseness, which completely separates us from the light. That coarseness can use the power of the screen and the reflected light. And then we can come into such actions with the light that the light will permeate us, enter us, and shine in us because our will to receive from within the will to receive will turn into in order to bestow. And according to the intention to bestow, the light can enter the will to receive.

Student: What should we do between us for it to be considered that we're bringing our desire closer to in order to bestow? 

M. Laitman: Between us, we should perform actions so as to cancel the will to receive as it was without the screen and put on it a screen on the will to receive, and to try from the smallest level to bigger and bigger levels to receive in order to bestow.

Student: To actually receive, or maybe to scrutinize, or what? 

M. Laitman: No, we don't scrutinize, we scrutinize and receive. Tell me why not.

Student: I heard you're saying, because the scrutiny is, we do a lot of actions between us, or we have a lot of states. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And I asked about the scrutiny as opposed to reception, because not in everything we can already receive it in order to bestow. So, I was asking about the scrutiny, but you said in practice we have to accept it and aim for it to be in order to bestow. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, it's like a command, it's a task to do. 

M. Laitman: It's an instruction that we can realize, because our coarseness is still big. Coarseness of four, three, two, one, and root is already less.

Student: So, we can actually receive in order to bestow in the connections between us, our inner connections, I mean, not now to start doing it externally or anything. 

M. Laitman: What do you mean? 

Student: To make the connections between us, that they have different styles, to make them, to really have the intention to bestow to the Creator, to really advance towards it already. 

M. Laitman: The Creator is in all of these connections, in all of them. And we, when we begin to check the operations of receiving in order to bestow, we see how much in each and every act we aim for Him or intend for Him. 

Student: And we can do it now according to what you see or feel from us, the whole Kli? 

M. Laitman: We're still in concealment. 

Student: That's obvious, but can we break through into there? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, what does it depend on right now, beyond what you said before, that task? 

M. Laitman: Only to help one another. Only by helping one another, nothing but that. We need nothing but that.

Student: What to help especially?

M. Laitman: In everyone, all of us understand, all of us being in one desire, one vessel, one screen, we will understand in it that this is the operation we have to do. That's it. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:34) Try to ask, when a person grows older, his body becomes less, let's say, essential, or gets weaker. You see, when a person gets… you can do less things with your body. 

M. Laitman: Flexible?

Student: Less flexible, you get sick, you get things that happen to every one of us, every age, we get weaker. The more we get older, we feel it more. Does it affect anything on the inner work or maybe it strengthens it? What does it do? What attitude should we have towards it? 

M. Laitman: If they grow spiritually, according to what I saw in Rabash, they have flexibility that is very special. This is what I can say.

Student: Why does the Creator make it like?

M. Laitman: That?

Student: That a person who grows older, his body gets weaker. Should have been the opposite. Rationality says something else.

M. Laitman: Because he's not growing up in spirituality, he's growing up in corporeality, in his years of life. 

Student: So, I didn't understand the answer. 

M. Laitman: You're saying why doesn't a person get stronger? Because he's not growing in his years of life. He's just growing in that he's growing old.

Student: Oh, okay, but supposedly a person, let's say a person that's developing spiritually, I'm not speaking about a regular person. A person developing needs to get more of a possibility to bestow. I don't know what happens internally, but on the outside, a person also has to pass things on, to give, to be vital. So why is it organized in a way that it's the opposite, that the body gets weaker? 

M. Laitman: Yes, you're right. There's more pressure on him from the surrounding light, and I wouldn't say he grows weaker. That he's becoming refined from his screen. I mean, he loses his screen, and over those degrees of coarseness that he did before his screen and reception, now he cannot do it. That's true. But he does it, grows weaker because his desire is dealing with the upper light, and therefore he cannot resist it, cannot face it, stand against it.

Student: Why does it affect the physical body of the person? Why should it? 

M. Laitman: The physical body, I don't think. I don't think the physical body.

Student: I'll come back to my question. Let's say a person is already in attainment and advancing, he has a lot more to give.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: That's why he needs forces to give it, he needs. So again, I'm not asking about internal work. I guess internally a person is on his degrees, and there's nothing to ask about it. I'm saying, why is it organized in a way that as a person gets physically older, it becomes more difficult? Why isn't it easier? 

M. Laitman: You're asking about a beast. 

Student: But we live in this beast. What can we do? 

M. Laitman: So, look at all the still vegetative inanimate, they're all like that. 

Student: But they don't have a spiritual purpose. I'm asking about a spiritual person. He's marching on the spiritual path?

M. Laitman: Yes. But if he's on the spiritual path, then he always has possibilities to pray and receive additional forces.

Student: It depends on him, on his environment. What does it depend on exactly? 

M. Laitman: It depends on his environment. 

Student: That needs that force?

M. Laitman: Yes. Yes. Needs it. Okay, guys. How do we advance onwards?

Reader: We can go to the next part. We have social time.

M. Laitman: Social time? Ok yes.

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