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Part 1 Baal HaSulam. Introduction to the Book of Zohar, item 14

Baal HaSulam. Introduction to the Book of Zohar, item 14

15 de mar de 2024
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Daily Lesson (Morning) March 15, 2024.

Part 1: Baal HaSulam. Introduction to The Book of Zohar. #14

Reader: Shalom, we are reading in the writings of the book of Baal HaSulam. We are reading the “Introduction to The Book of Zohar.” We are continuing from item 14. You can find the study material in Sviva Tova and the Arvut system, and you can send live questions to our site. Whoever asks a question here in the study hall is asked to stand up, hold the microphone close to his mouth, and speak loud and clear.

Reader: (00:30) Introduction to The Book of Zohar, The Writings of Baal HaSulam. “Thus, you necessarily find that..” 

M. Laitman: (08:11) If there are questions, go ahead.

Student: (08:13) What is the first state? “Their existence in the state of Ein Sof in the thought of creation, where they already have their future state of the end of correction.” What is that first state? 

M. Laitman: The first state is the initial state where we can identify souls. That they exist in their desire the way the Creator created them. 

Student: And in it, it includes the future state of the end of correction? 

M. Laitman: Yes it includes all of the future forms in it, everything that is in the middle, all of it; except it still has to emerge to become revealed.

Student: What is the third state? 

M. Laitman: Is when they actually appear in their final form and then they're all incorporated with each other and the Creator fulfills them. 

Student: The second state?

M. Laitman: The second state is where they have to connect, to work on themselves, in order to take on the third state. 

Student: Why isn't the first state alone enough? 

M. Laitman: Because the right form is not there they are not connected; disconnected. 

Student: So, what does it mean that already in the first state they already have the future form of the end of correction? 

M. Laitman: The form is there, but it's not that they have attained it already, they haven't attained it. There is no attainment in the first state; it's what the Creator created and wanted them to feel, the state that is opposite to the end. 

Student: I'm reading the first state again: “The first state is their existence in Ein Sof in the thought of creation, where they already have the future form of the end of correction.” Can you explain that first state? Maybe read it and explain it. 

M. Laitman: In the first state everything's included, everything's there, but that form does not emerge in practice in front of everyone's eyes, it is not attainable. The final form is not attained, rather you have to work during the second state until you come to the third state and the difference between the first and third state is that work that the created beings have to invest from the first state to make it the third state.

Student: (11:36) In the beginning of the process, the Creator created the desire to receive, when do the souls come into play here in this process? 

M. Laitman: ‘The souls’ is a term for everything internal that belongs to the Partzuf, the created being. Anything inner where they receive fulfillment from the Creator.

Student: It says that after the shattering of Adam HaRishon, when do we talk in this pluralistic form of the souls? 

M. Laitman: I do not know, I cannot tell you that. I think that when the will to receive created by the Creator begins to feel its purpose, its role, its destiny and then we can talk about it as a soul.

Student: When do the souls, in plural, come to place? 

M. Laitman: When they begin to work on themselves in order to compress and gather together and discover the Creator as one. 

Student: Which happens in the second state that you just described now? 

M. Laitman: The work itself is in the second state, yes. 

Student: So, why is he saying that the souls were also in the first state, meaning if the souls are just in the second state? 

M. Laitman: We read this name, this term ‘souls’ with regards to any state where we have to point to the will to receive that was created in order to change to become similar to the will to bestow.

Student: (13:47) When we connect and do the intention towards the Creator, what state should we nourish, what does the Creator enjoy? The second state or..?

M. Laitman: I did not understand, when we connect, you say? 

Student: Yes.

M. Laitman: So, what do we connect between us? 

Student: Desires. 

M. Laitman: Our desires, yes to make it one big desire similar to the Creator. That He wants to bestow and we want to receive only in order to bestow to Him. 

Student: We need to depict in the complete state or to ask from the Creator for corrections? What does the Creator enjoy from us, connecting to the complete state or from us? 

M. Laitman: The Creator enjoys us wanting to get closer to Him. 

Student: Can this also come as a request for corrections? 

M. Laitman: Yes, it is accompanied by a request for corrections, to understand, to feel, to get closer, to connect, yes. 

Student: How to depict that third state where the desire to receive corrected. We understand the state of upliftment from desire to receive to bestow. What is it that the desire to receive itself kind of inverted, what is that third state? 

M. Laitman: We can make external actions over the will to receive to make it as though it wants to bestow. As we know from ourselves that everyone can make some movements towards the other for the other in order to have some proximity, understanding, connection between them, right? That is what we are capable of doing but we cannot make such actions inside our desire. Our world is a world of actions and what we are required is to make changes in the desire, in the intention, the intention of the action and that’s a big difference because reaching the intention in order to bestow is not a created being of this world. It is rather acquiring on top of that created being a new quality which is the intention to bestow and for that we need the Creator. It is impossible to do otherwise, therefore over time we come to a state as we are in now where we have to see that nothing else helps us but only the Creator can change our nature. Then we connect between us so we have a strong, unified demand and we turn to Him and He expects it, He awaits it. Then bit by bit, He gradually changes our nature. That instead of the will to receive in order to receive in which we were born we gradually transform it to a will to bestow in order to bestow and then to receive in order to bestow. 

Student: The third state he's describing is the changing of the intention or is there something else here? 

M. Laitman: No, besides intentions we do not need to do anything, we have a will to receive; only the way we use it changes. 

Student: (18:11) The first state, the whole state is the action of the Creator, the end of the act in initial thought, I don't participate in it whatsoever. The third state is the action of the Creator, it is the correction of the stony heart as much as I understand. What remains is the second state and there are two states that are going on there, either in its due time or in Achishena, in haste. In haste, a person can realize his purpose and his existence and what is the need that the Creator created some other path, in due time, that path, is there freedom to the Creator being there? 

M. Laitman: There is freedom for the created being to be in the way of the path of hastening time or the path of in due time, correct. Certainly the path of hastening time is better, we can faster get to the correction, the state that we have to reach and in due time is that we come by pressures, even blows, that we suffer on the path in order to each time change and perform the corrections we must do. That is the path of in due time; a long path. 

Student: The question is: Was, on that path called in due time, if there's any kind of free choice there or we just receive blows and blows? 

M. Laitman: No, freedom of choice exists in any state on the path but if you don't use freedom of choice correctly, in accordance with the system, then there is pressure made upon us in a way that necessitates us to make actions and this is called in due time.

Student: (20:47) He writes at the end of 14, “To be brief, I will use these three states and I'll just call them the first state, the second state, and the third state.” He writes, “Now you should remember all that's been clarified here in every single state.” What does it mean to remember these three states in every single state? 

M. Laitman: In order to turn them around you use them, understand them, identify them. Identify them in our entire track that we go through until the final correction.

Student: In every passing state we need to think about those three states every state that I'm experiencing? I have to think about the first state, the second state that I'm in right now and the third state? 

M. Laitman: No, to keep it within in some way, it's not a problem. 

Student: Now, you said earlier that we connect together and we turn to Him and gradually He changes our nature. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Many times, personally, I'm reminded after all kinds of states that I didn't manage to ask, that I didn't ask, I'm reminded of it later. Now, here you're saying to do it together. Now, we are trying in the Ten for a long time to appeal together. We don't manage to understand or at least I can't understand how it is that we're turning together to Him. We do our Zoom meeting but something's missing there. I don't feel like it's together, I don't know what it is? 

M. Laitman: Together, is what the Creator, Himself, has to do, only He is capable of connecting us. Each of us is a will to receive that is very much enveloped, wrapped, in its intention to receive. So, we have to let go of this wrapper of in order to receive and somewhat clothe ourselves in order to bestow. That is what we are aiming to do. 

Student: When you say that we appeal together, is it physically together or is it..? 

M. Laitman: No, it is not that. It is now we are, let us say, studying this topic and then during the day we always try to think of this action: How are we doing it? In whatever conditions we are going through, each of us, at work, at home, on the street. 

Student: It doesn't need to be together physically, like there's a state like every friend in the Ten has a certain responsibility. He goes through a certain state to think that we need to do it together, is that the meaning? So, it's not like we have to synchronize somehow? 

M. Laitman: No. 

Student: (24:05) “A person does not correct that which is not in him.” You said only the Creator can change our nature. Does a person do something for a Tzaddik to be corrected in him? 

M. Laitman: Prepares himself for the change and demands the change.

Student: How does a person know how to do it in the best possible way and most precise what he needs to correct? What he needs to change, what he needs to ask to have changed and corrected?

M. Laitman: He learns it from life from the actual work. How much he is connected to the friends, thinking about the friends. How much he wants to get closer to them, how much he has not done it yet and he forgot and so forth. In short all the things that belong to connection in his Ten.

Student: These things obviously bother him, that's why he's asking to change them? 

M. Laitman: Not that they bother him, it is that, gradually, he comes to the understanding that it is not a disturbance, rather, it is necessary that in such a way ‘as one man in one heart,’ he comes to the Creator and demands. 

Student: So he doesn't ask because something hurts him, or he's uncomfortable with it but rather from an understanding that this is what needs to be changed?

M. Laitman: Also because it seems to be uncomfortable for him because if he continues in the same will to receive he was born with then he feels suffering.

Student: When the Creator changes that thing that he wants the Creator to change for him, does a person feel that here it succeeded?

M. Laitman: Yes, a person feels it, these are changes happening inside of him, inside his heart, inside his soul. 

Student: Is it correct that that request and that inclination is the most effective when we do it in the morning lesson, that here there’s..? 

M. Laitman: Yes, the most important is the morning lesson, that we connect and we decide and we determine and we execute.

Question USA Northeast: (26:50) It’s written in the second state, “no correction will come to the bodies, only to the souls.” So the question is, in the second state, it's “6,000 years in which the desire is supposed to be changed through working in Torah and Mitzvot.” What does it mean that no correction will come to the bodies? 

M. Laitman: ‘Bodies,’ means the will to receive that from that they are built they are comprised of that and that will to receive still does not receive the correction in order to bestow. 

Student: So all these changes during this period are not corrections? 

M. Laitman: Corrections but not into the bodies themselves.

Question Women Turkiye 8: (27:55) Are the corrected souls, do they help us, do they work together with us? 

M. Laitman: Yes, to the extent that we wish to be in contact with all the souls that are in that process of correction then we can also be assisted by them. 

Question Women Turkiye 7: (28:19) How do we build a common Kli of the Ten?

M. Laitman: To connect, there is nothing else, only connection between us and through the study in a gradual way to approach the correct states. 

Question Women Chile: (28:50) Should we concentrate on the correction in the second state from the thought that there is the first and third state? 

M. Laitman: It is certain that we have to be certain that there is the first state, second state and third state and if we are on the second state then we have to hasten the correction because we are mostly in that second state.

Student: (29:24) What do we correct? There's a soul which is a Godly part from above and we put it into the body where the desire to receive it is corrupted and eventually it's written that also the body will rot and come to correction. What do we correct in the end and where's the connection between them? 

M. Laitman: One is within the other, the soul in the body and in its light it changes the body, corrects the body, leads it to actions where it needs to exist. 

Student: Does the soul not necessitate correction? 

M. Laitman: The soul does need it but yes, we will learn later on about the soul's details, not for now. 

Student: And the goal is to correct the body? 

M. Laitman: The goal is to correct the body so that it is with an intention in order to bestow.

Student: How to depict the connection, what's the connection between the body and the soul? 

M. Laitman: The soul, you could say, is like the inner light of the Partzuf

Student: (30:57) If I can ask, generally, we're reading in the Introduction to the Book of Zohar and the Kabbalist writes to us about three states. How is the knowledge of these three states helping us in the reading of the Book of Zohar? What does it give to us in the reading? 

M. Laitman: It depends on how you read, what you do while reading, that is a very, very free, broad question. 

Student: How was the group of Rashbi that wrote the Book of Zohar, they wrote it from the first state or from the third state? 

M. Laitman: Of course, from the third state. 

Student: From the end of correction? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Even though they themselves did not get there? 

M. Laitman: Why not? 

Student: Because it was the individual end of correction. 

M. Laitman: So what? 

Student: Can a person come to the third state, to the personal end of correction without the whole world getting there? 

M. Laitman: Of course. 

Student: (32:15) He writes that division to body and soul is something that takes place during the second state. My question: During the first state is there a reality of the desire to receive? 

M. Laitman: The desire to receive exists at all times.

Student: I simply don't understand how the first state necessitates the division, the two systems of impurity and Kedusha, where's the root for it there? 

M. Laitman: Because to begin with it's comprised of two forces, reception and bestowal. 

Student: That happens in the first state, what you're saying right now, yes?

M. Laitman: Yes, yes of course and then by all kinds of actions these forces become separated then man receives an ability, an opportunity to correct both his will to receive and the intention to bestow. 

Student: A person that develops spiritually does he also attain the first state or only from the second state onwards? 

M. Laitman: No, the first state as well.

Student: (33:34) Last question please: What's missing in the first state? The desire to receive, that's there, what is it missing as far as, so it won't remain there because he says he has already all the whole future state but nevertheless it necessitates the second state the 6,000 years and the corrections each has to go through corruption and correction and all that. With that, he says that all the future Torah is already there, the form is already there. 

M. Laitman: The future form is there somewhat under concealment but it is not in a tangible future sense. 

Student: But it's not whole, it’s like it has to go through that whole process to become complete? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: (34:24) The Creator created a corrected state and corrupted it so that it will be corrected or did He create a corrupted state?

M. Laitman: I do not know what existed before creation but we learn creation from when we already have a will to bestow and a will to receive and how they are incorporated with each other. 

Student: I'm asking because what's better for the created being that's in the second state already? Is it better for him to want to reveal his corrected state, that to be in it, let's say sometimes we say, come to the lesson, feel that you're sitting inside the group of Rabbi Shimon and from there you'll already enter the lesson. Or a person needs to try and deepen and discover what's not okay and jump towards that corrected state. What's preferred, what's better? Is there a way to depict the state that's already corrected or enter into the consciousness of the lack of correction and try to enter from there? 

M. Laitman: Certainly a person first needs to discover what is the difference between him and the desired state and then that gap, that difference that allows him to build a prayer and turn to the Creator.

Student: He actually wants to discover his more corrected state the one step above him that's corrected that way. 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes let us say so. 

Student: (36:21) I heard that we have to hold on to these three states all the time.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: What does it mean to hold on to those three states all the time? 

M. Laitman: That there are these three states and you are in one of them and you have to discover something from the remaining two states to the extent that they can assist you.

Student: What does that mean, that every scrutiny a person does he needs to hold on and remember that he's not just in the scrutiny but it's within this whole system? 

M. Laitman: You are in the scrutiny and the correction and you need to move towards the next state. 

Student: The next state isn't the third state? 

M. Laitman: It is a more corrected state.

Student: Meaning it's some field where you're closer, where you place yourself. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: (37:31) What work is there in the second state that's not in the first state? 

M. Laitman: The second state is already in the midst of the work which is the revelation of the shattering, the distance and he already knows he can already discover what he needs to do and that’s what there is in the second state and from there he's moving towards, aiming towards reaching the third state. 

Student: So the second state is just the implementation of the script of the first state and there's nothing to do in the second state, it's just to take into action what's in the first state?

M. Laitman: No, actually the main work happens in the second state because he discovers how not corrected he is and how much more and what exactly needs to be corrected and he organizes his strengths, his forces, and his demands in getting closer to the Creator and by that he realizes the second state; the second state is the main correction.

Student: The demand to the Creator, which I hear, is the only thing that exists in the second state, does it not exist in the first state? 

M. Laitman: It is not clear, it is not, it is not revealed.

Student: What is that revelation in the second state? 

M. Laitman: There are revelation in the second state is that a person wants to correct his will to receive, to make it in order to bestow and he demands from the Creator the force for that. 

Student: All the demands of forces appear also in the first state, completely whole? 

M. Laitman: That is a question of how much he uses them, yes.

Student: So it only executes something that exists. 

M. Laitman: For sure, there is no doubt.

Student: So where's his choice there? What kind of work is there? 

M. Laitman: That he discovers, reveals what he's built from the broken will to receive and so on and so forth and what he has to achieve in order to bestow by which he comes to similarity, to adhesion with the Creator. What does he need then, just to do it, just the deficiency that is. 

Student: But still, that lack too it all stems from the first state so what does a person do, actually? 

M. Laitman: Everything exists in the first state besides correction.

Student: What's missing in the first state which is whole? 

M. Laitman: Why is it whole? 

Student: Well, he writes that the first state is whole. 

M. Laitman: That is perhaps with respect to the created being but it's not the third state, it's only the first state. 

Student: (41:00) Before a person comes to the wisdom of Kabbalah, he's living in this world. Is he in the first state, is that called the first state? 

M. Laitman: No. 

Student: No? 

M. Laitman: He does not discover that he's broken, that he lacks corrections.

Student: That's the second state not the first state. 

M. Laitman: Still, it is how he comes into the second state. 

Student: Okay, so what's the first state? When do we get there? 

M. Laitman: The state that you are talking about does not even belong to first, second and third states.

Student: So what are these states? I thought it's some story that they're telling us: Here's your path, this is what you have to go through. 

M. Laitman: For those who are going to work, yes correct. 

Student: Yes, so what you basically said is that you're either in the game or not.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So one day a person his point of the heart awakens and he comes here to study. 

M. Laitman: Yes, a soul begins to develop in him from that first state.

Student: Meaning the first stage a person has when he comes to the wisdom of Kabbalah is that he's in the first state, he's not in the second state. The second state is a more advanced state in the work?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What characterizes the transition of one who studies Kabbalah from the first state to the second state, what moves me to the second state? 

M. Laitman: The second state is that he sees how broken he is and how he can correct himself by the light that reforms. He demands it, attracts it as much as possible and thus gradually comes to the third state where he collects the lights and Kelim and they’re included in each other and thus he emerges to correction. 

Student: The track between first state to second state to third state, it's something that's in me, it's unique, it's a one-directional, one-two-three or do I go one-to-two, one-to-three, then go back to this? How does it work? 

M. Laitman: First, second, third.

Student: (43:29) A person goes from one to two to three but at any given moment he can decide that or to identify that those three states don't exist, like some uncorrected state? 

M. Laitman: Yes, of course.

Student: Also in the first state in order to move to the second state, there's a state of feeling of perfection?

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, you could say that.

Student: (44:03) The first state is not only a Reshimo in the person? 

M. Laitman: It is also the Reshimo, also the records. 

Student: But it's not a state that as an individual one has gone through.

M. Laitman: Why not? 

Student: Because that's man before Adam before even the first shattering before the first restriction. That's the first state, isn't it?

M. Laitman: The first state no. No it has nothing to do with the restriction of course not. This is already talking about the state of the souls, therefore it speaks of a person. 

Student: So, Adam HaRishon before the shattering? 

M. Laitman: Not Adam HaRishon, an Adam, a person like you, you understand? He now needs to go through corrections so the first state is where he scrutinizes within himself: Who I am, what I am and somewhat reaches the second state and begins to correct himself. 

Student: So the first state is our state?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: (45:30) I heard from you, more than once that it's important to get to know what the desirable state is and what the existing state is. So I want to scrutinize: Can a person reach that without revelation without exiting from the ego? 

M. Laitman: No. 

Student: Meaning one who didn't experience his ego in this way never came out of the first state?

M. Laitman: Why, no even if he did not come out of the ego yet he can identify himself as being in the first state. 

Student: The transition to the second state only the Creator moves him there, that's the emergence out? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: (46:38) In the third state he says we have to reach pure bestowal so that we can truly enjoy all the abundance He wants to give to us. What is pure bestowal? 

M. Laitman: I do not know, imagine to yourself that just like you see the world egotistically, truly every bit of it and it will be the opposite. 

Student: What I understand here is that in the first state the Creator gives us some plan of creation and accordingly we learn, we learn from the existing state to the desired state. The end result in the initial thought and in the connection between us we reveal that plan bit by bit. My question is if only in the final correction, the final correction of the souls, only then can we enjoy all that abundance. So is that a collective final correction of all of us or an individual? 

M. Laitman: Both this and that; we will get there and we will see. 

Student: (47:56) It's written here in the beginning of 15 that when you look into these three states you will find that they necessitate each other in absolute necessity and it says “if one of them disappears then the others would disappear as well.” But what does it mean they necessitate each other? 

M. Laitman: Because they emerge from one another gradually in order and if one of those states was not in existence or disappeared then there would be no room for the rest of the states. Okay?

Question Kyiv: (48:58) It says here that “the first state is their reality in the Ein Sof where they are already in the future state of the final correction.” What's the connection between that first state, the Ein Sof where there is the future form and me the simple person in this world? 

M. Laitman: There is no connection whatsoever.

Student: In what state am I in, in the second state according to this scheme? 

M. Laitman: In no state, not in any of those states. 

Student: How do I get closer to that? 

M. Laitman: You read a few times what he writes and then try to implement this between the friends in the Ten, in the group.

Student: We as friends that yearn for it, in what state do we begin? 

M. Laitman: From the first state.

Student: From the Ein Sof, from that high loftiest state? 

M. Laitman: No, that is a state that you start from being like animals and now we are trying to build connections between you, relations between you from the second state.

Question Turkiye 2: (50:40) Good morning, Rav. How can we maintain the inner light of the Partzuf so it's always alive?

M. Laitman: It is as if we want to keep the connection between us and then it won’t depart. 

Question ITA 1: (51:19) In a few moments where we pray or connect between us and the Creator, do we feel the third state? 

M. Laitman: No, we do not feel the third state it is still far.

Question Darom 1: (51:44) I wanted to ask those who go on a religious path, it's not hastening time.

M. Laitman: It has nothing to do with that. 

Student: But he goes through all the suffering like everyone goes through in due time? 

M. Laitman: Yes, he lives in this world. 

Student: Another question: Baal HaSulam writes that the righteous ones even after their death they don't merit reaching heaven so what do they merit?

M. Laitman: I do not know. I think we're still a little far from that. 

Question Latin 1: (53:09) If I identify a correction but I can't do it on my own, is that that awakens a prayer and asking for correction? How do the corrections happen with the prayer? 

M. Laitman: Prayer which you raise in order to receive correction that is exactly the prayer. Where you know the current state, you know the state you want to reach, you need to reach and you activate the prayer so that the Creator will give you the forces to move from the first state to the second state. 

Student: Haifa 1 (54:02) Is this correct that Baal HaSulam refers to bodies as 613 desires before the correction? The same desires corrected in order to bestow or what's called a soul?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question Women Heb 1: (54:28) In the second state do we receive everything that was prepared for us in the first state? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And each one has the same states or personal states? 

M. Laitman: Each has his own. 

Student: Thank you. 

Question MAK 4: (55:00) The second state is when my nature in order to receive appears in me as an evil nature, then I have a prayer to reach the third state? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: (55:29) A friend is asking whether the difference between the first state and second state is recognition of evil? 

M. Laitman: You can say it, somewhat. 

Student: How does it cause that? 

M. Laitman: She causes the person to want to correct himself somehow and to not do such things and somewhat do that. Then when he sees that he does not succeed then he activates a prayer to the Creator. 

Student: In the first state there's no recognition of evil at all? 

M. Laitman: No, maybe in potential a little not the same force that pushes him towards correction.

Student: In the third state when there's already recognition of evil, the correction is on top of the recognition of evil or it's being canceled? Meaning it's unique to the second state or it stays all the way to the end? 

M. Laitman: I think it is best to talk more generally. The recognition of evil is revealed in the second state you activate forces and reach the third state; that is it. 

Student: Thank you. 

M. Laitman: That is it? Wonderful.

Student: (57:04) Thank you, what is that state that ultimately a person receives but not for himself rather to bestow contentment? How does that mechanism ultimately work? 

M. Laitman: I do not understand you.

Student: He writes here, one second, he writes, “When they become worthy of receiving for themselves, receiving all of the good and pleasantness of the thought of creation and they merit strong adhesion with their Maker by which they do not receive all of that from their desire to receive but rather from the desire to bestow contentment to their Maker by which He will receive joy from them receiving from Him.” But I'm trying to understand, how do I work with that, how do I receive something but actually not receive it? 

M. Laitman: You receive but with the intention to bestow with it. 

Student: But how does the intention precede the action? 

M. Laitman: The intention needs to precede the action. 

Student: I hear this for years and I can't seem to understand how to practically do it. 

M. Laitman: Well try, pray.

Student: There's a certain mechanism we need to work with here. 

M. Laitman: You need to turn to the Creator and ask Him for the forces that you will be able to receive in order to bestow. 

Student: He will bring the intention before my action? 

M. Laitman: Yes the intention needs to come first.

Student: I'm asking about this prayer for the Creator, He'll bring my intention first if the prayer happens He'll put my intention before the action? So only the Creator can do it. I just have to pray for it. 

M. Laitman: Yes, of course, this is a simple thing the intention always needs to be as the intention that goes with the action. 

Student: I think we're not talking about the same point.

M. Laitman: It could be you need to wrap the intention with the action you are about to do.

Student: That's clear, it really is, I'm trying to understand, I'm still in a state where if I receive something the moment I felt some flavor, it's like, oh wait a minute, where am I? Do I take it or did I want to bring contentment? I'm trying to understand this point where I am. Does it need to precede my action? 

M. Laitman: To proceed for sure. 

Student: And only the Creator will give that to me? 

M. Laitman: Yes, okay, that is it.