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Daily Morning Lesson: June 1, 2025

Part 2: The Time of The Giving of The Torah 

Reader: We are in excerpt number one. 

Reading: (00:14) 1. Rabash. Letter No. 52

The festival of Shavuot—the time of the giving of our Torah—is approaching. It is known that Shavuot is regarded as Malchut in the worlds and the heart in man. It is as Baal HaSulam interpreted about Mekadesh Shevi’i (seventh sanctifier) that Shevi’i comes from the words Shebi-Hu (who is in me).

He means that the Creator is clothed in the heart, and the time when we can interpret that the Torah dresses in the soul. This is why it is called Shavuot and “the giving of the Torah,” meaning that at that time the Torah dresses in the hearts of each and every one from the whole of Israel.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:43) What does it mean that the Torah dresses in a person's heart?

M. Laitman: It's that a person feels, in these days, he has a connection with the Creator. Despite all the other days, all the other times. That's all.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (02:32) To continue your answer to the friend, we see that we want to be in connection with the Creator all the time and not let go of this connection. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, what's special about this time that we feel that we need to feel the connection with the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Because it's the beginning of the connection. Where through all kinds of actions, we come to a state where we have connection with the Creator. That is the holiday, the festival.

Student: You said we have to feel that connection. And I want to ask you, what is the difference between feeling that connection and telling myself I need that connection? Because there's a need and there's a feeling of that connection in you and you feel it more and more. What's the difference? 

M. Laitman: The difference is that in these days the Creator comes closer to his people, and we all feel that it is a holiday. Whoever does not feel, so it's worthwhile for him to open the heart and receive what these days, what is possible to attain in these days. That the Creator is within his people. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (05:11) How can I feel that the Creator is within the people? 

M. Laitman: That's truly a question. Because it is written, it could just be written. And we need to check whether it is the case. And what we lack in preparation for the festival of Shavuot, that we feel it less or more. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:16) What preparation should there be for the festival of Shavuot? 

M. Laitman: For the reception of the Torah. That's all. For the reception of the Torah. That is what we will learn. 

Student: And when the Torah is revealed in a person's heart, what happens in him? 

M. Laitman: Then a person feels the Torah. Because it is possible to feel it only in the heart, and accordingly, that's how we'll hope it will be. 

Student: And when the Torah dresses in his heart, what changes in him? 

M. Laitman: He begins to observe the Torah from that in which it dressed in him. 

Student: What does it mean that he observes the Torah? He observes it. 

M. Laitman: Observing is the desire of the Creator. It enters the person's heart, and the person, out of love and out of joy, observes it. 

Student: What did he observe before the Torah dressed in his heart? 

M. Laitman: He did not observe the Torah because his heart obligated him to. 

Student: So, what changes before the reception of the Torah and after the reception of the Torah in a man's heart? 

M. Laitman: That in the person's heart is the Torah.

Student: And then he doesn't feel the Torah? 

M. Laitman: If the Torah is not in a person's heart, then he doesn't feel it. 

Student: Why specifically in these days, on Shavuot, the Creator comes closer to his people? 

M. Laitman: There are a few hints about that, but really we cannot say why that happens. There are those who say that it is because of the Sefira account that we went through, and there are those who say that it is due to the Creator revealing. But these are outcomes, seemingly, reasons, seemingly. 

Student: And who comes closer to whom? Does the Creator come closer to the people or the people to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: The Creator comes closer to the people. 

Student: Why does the Creator come closer to the people and not the people have to unite according to the law of equivalence of form? 

M. Laitman: No, the people do what the Creator obligates them to do.

Student: Last question. What are we required to do in these days of Shavuot when the Creator comes closer? 

M. Laitman: We need to be in a prior preparation. During all these holidays, from Passover to Shavuot, we prepare ourselves for the reception of the Torah. And then, at the holiday of Shavuot, we are ready for it. And that is how we approach the holiday. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:25) A person searches for the Creator. Why is there Torah in the middle? What does it add? Why is there a need to reveal the Torah in a person's heart in connection with the Creator?

M. Laitman: The person's heart is a desire. From the beginning, it is an egoistic desire. Afterward, there are all kinds of states that a person goes through, and his heart changes. Until we reach a state where the heart identifies with what the Creator demands of it. And then, it is called that the Torah dresses in a person's heart. 

Student: So, but before the Torah dresses on a person's heart, he has some perception of the meaning of the Creator, and mostly that he wants to receive something from the Creator. He lacks something, and he wants to gain something from the Creator. So, what does the Torah that clothes in the person's heart teach him about the different attitude he has to have towards the Creator? How does a person's attitude and a person's approach change? 

M. Laitman: A person's vessels, his desire, his inclinations are already such that they are already such that they are ready to receive the form of clothing in which the Torah clothes in a person. 

Student: So, I'm mainly trying to understand what kind of attitude the Torah gives a person. What vessels do I need to demand when the Torah clothes? What do I expect to happen in my heart? 

M. Laitman: A person's nearing to the Creator causes the person that his heart changes, that his heart changes, and as a result of that he goes through different states in his nearing to the Creator until he is rewarded with the reception of the Torah. 

Student: Can a person understand what's wrong in his heart that he now needs to change? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Okay, so how can he understand what's wrong so he can better aim to gain what he truly needs to gain from the study of the Torah? 

M. Laitman: Through the actions of the person and the Creator, there is nearing here of the person to the Creator. And they become as one man in one heart. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (16:37) I listened to the replies you gave, both the friends who asked before me, and I'd like to receive more from you for some guidance. So I'll ask the question: how to focus my intention in my heart more accurately to see the Creator getting close to the people? 

M. Laitman: We need to study articles, mostly by Rabash, that speak about, a little bit about the form of the nearing, the direction, and then, the person can open up himself more. And all in all, being rewarded with the reception of the Torah. 

Student: So, you mean that a person just needs to open his heart more to his Ten? So it's through them to gain the light of Torah? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (18:27) What prevents a person from opening his heart towards the friends? 

M. Laitman: It's nature. The whole of the Torah that we study, and we want to measure it upon ourselves. All in all, it is so that the light of the Torah will clothe in us. 

Student: The light of the Torah clothes in a person, and then he becomes open to the friends, to others. Does it become easy? 

M. Laitman: Yes. By that, he becomes closer to the Creator. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:27) It's written in the Gemara that they sat there at the bottom of the mountain, and the Creator told them, “If you receive the Torah, that it's good, and if you don't, this will be the place where you're buried.” What causes a person to come to that state? 

M. Laitman: They were ready to implement on themselves all of the conditions that the Creator demanded of them.

Student: Yes, they were ready, but when above them I suppose there's this threat: where if not, then this will be the place you'll be buried. What can cause a person to feel, if we're not talking about external blows, what can cause a person to feel that? 

M. Laitman: They felt that they have ahead of them either a state of adhesion with the Creator, or a state of separation. They have already reached a state where they must decide.

Student: It seems forced, not free will. Of course, a person will choose adhesion rather than being buried, doesn't want to get buried. 

M. Laitman: He was in separation earlier also, otherwise there wouldn't be this holiday ahead of him. He chose unity, connection. This is why, accordingly, we set the holiday, the holiday of Shavuot. 

Student: Do you feel that we're close to that state? That we're at the bottom, at the foot of the mountain? 

M. Laitman: It depends on how we accept it. If we will try to read so that our heart will change out of that, out of what we are reading, then it is possible that all of us will change and will be rewarded. 

Student: Now another question. The Torah is a light. Is there a difference between, let's say, there are different ways to draw the light. We read Zohar, that's clear, you exert and you try to enter deeper in, above all the stories, there's TES, it's a different thing, there are questions that students ask. Is there a difference, or does it not matter? I come to the lesson, and we're in prayer, and the main thing is how I prepared myself and it doesn't matter what exactly takes place in the lesson. Or is there a difference in the different forms? 

M. Laitman: There is a difference. You come to the audience of your friends, and they're all ready, more or less, to actualize this holiday. And this is why we also carry it out in such a way.

Student: I'm asking because I see that you choose more, you choose questions, you want more questions from the students. We sit and we ask, pretty much the same people keep asking, and I guess I need to connect to that question, from that draw light, maybe in the past few years that has been the best way to draw the light? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Because we don't read Zohar or TES, so this is the best way?  

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (23:55) What are the indications that a person is ready to receive the Torah? 

M. Laitman: That he's ready to open his heart and receive inside of it all of the light that comes to him from the Torah, and that the Torah will fill his heart. 

Student: What does it mean to open his heart? 

M. Laitman: The Torah means light, and the person should open his heart so that this light will enter and fill his heart.

Student: And what does the opening of the heart of the person depend on? 

M. Laitman: On the support, on the environment. 

Student: Are Bnei Baruch ready to receive the Torah? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (25:23) I would like to continue, what does it mean to be ready for the heart to change? How can I always be ready for my heart to change? 

M. Laitman: Through a certain number of actions, we reach a state and a very special connection between us and the Creator. And so, this is also how we celebrate today. It's the day of the giving of the Torah. 

Student: We always undergo changes, in a single day we undergo many changes in the connection between us. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, I'm asking, what does it mean to be ready for these changes, for that connection? What do I need to tell myself at every moment, in my own inner scrutiny, that I'm ready to change my heart for the Ten, for the friends? What is that constant preparation I need to be engaging in?

M. Laitman: The will to receive that fills my heart is ready to take on such a form so that the heart, all in all, will feel the presence of the Creator that is filling him. And this is what a person discovers: that he has in his heart such a preparation, such willingness, and he asks for it. 

Student: It's a question of the presence of the Creator. Does it need to be personal, through the connection with the friends, or do I need to feel it within the connection between us all the time? 

M. Laitman: Both. Both. This means that, on the one hand, we do want to be worthy of and receiving the Creator inside this illumination from above that is called the Torah. And we hope for it to happen. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (28:46) It is very much felt that the Creator is coming closer to us, and I feel a big Yirah to miss out on this closeness. How do we make use of this Yirah right now? 

M. Laitman: We will learn more how we need to direct ourselves, our heart, our desire, our brain, and what should we receive into our desire. What form of the revelation of the Creator. 

Student: You gave us the advice to turn to each other, to turn to the friends. 

M. Laitman: We all need to be more and more connected between us, and that the essence of the connection will be directed towards the Creator. Towards His revelation.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (30:41) I would like to ask about what the friend asks about regarding the Torah being a spice. The first part of the equation is “I created the evil inclination.” Now, regarding the questions, if in that way we discover that coarseness. Also, a few times I heard that we read the sources, and I can't connect between the questions, and the source texts, and the right way to relate to all that. 

R. Well, keep going. I have nothing more to say. Keep going.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (31:36) To continue the friends' questions, you talked about the presence, the feeling of the presence of the Creator. If you're in the person as an individual and the feeling of the Creator's presence in the Ten as you told my great friend here, what is the difference really? 

M. Laitman: Let's say the measure of the revelation of the Creator. 

Student: Which means?

M. Laitman: That there is a state where we feel, in general, some nearing to the Creator. There is also a state where besides being closer to the Creator… 

Student: When a person feels the Creator's presence, and he feels what is called the Creator's personal care for him. And when we talk about the feeling of the Ten, maybe it's felt more as joy in the Ten from the connection, or when we hold a meal together and such things.

M. Laitman: Also, it's just that a person should feel the need for the revelation of the Creator to him. And this need is what will make him happy. This is what we want to discover first of all.

Student: The process of the Creator's revelation through the created being, are those the four stages of the prayer of the poor, the prayer of Moses, the prayer of David, and joy, and then return? 

M. Laitman: Possibly.

Student: What does the light do when it enters a person's heart? 

M. Laitman: The light that enters into the desire, this is the essence of the heart, it's a desire. So, the light changes the desire. It fills the heart, and it already determines how the heart will respond and change.

Student: When the light fills the heart, does it fill it with joy, with fear, with what? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Woman PT 38): (36:12) What kind of support do you need to give the friends so that we'll be able to open the hearts? 

M. Laitman: What support? Whatever she feels that the friends lack in order for them to reach such a degree of their development so that they're filled with the Creator's attitude towards them. 

Question (CzechSlovak): (37:20) What happens in this time of Shavuot between the Creator and the people of Israel, and between the people of Israel and the nations of the world? 

M. Laitman: You might say that on the one hand it is nearing, because everything happens through the revelation of the light inside the vessels that reach connection, and on the other hand, it's that they discover in the connection between everyone, the upper light, so they begin to recognize the Creator's actions, what does He want from us, what exactly we should implement according to His Torah, and in such a way get closer to the corrections. Okay? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (39:04) From everything we've discussed, the strongest point that comes up is that you lack nothing but to go to the field that the Lord has blessed and collect all the limbs and organs that have fallen from your body. So, how do we do that as friends, because it's a very powerful feeling.

M. Laitman: Check that this is what we lack, that the most important is connection above all the various disruptions, and we want to be inside the increasing connection. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (40:00) When we come to study the Torah, to learn Torah, and we hear the words of the Kabbalists, what Rabash, what Baal haSulam, what Rav says in the lesson, how should we prepare ourselves so that your words will format us so that we're more compatible with the upper light? What is the optimal preparation that will make us open to receiving that imprint? 

M. Laitman: The preparation, it seems to me, is in that we are ready to receive the reforming light, and we want it to happen. And we need to perform actions towards that, that awaken the upper sources of the light. And in this way, as much as we will connect between us and want it to happen to us within us, this is how we will succeed. 

Student: What does it mean, make your Torah permanent and your work temporary? What does it mean to always be in the Torah? 

M. Laitman: That our desires, thoughts, the actions of a person will be only in order to get closer to the Torah.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (42:01) Is the condition of being in the right intention, is it to truly, to always be happy with what you have? I think if everyone here were happy with what they have, they'd all open their hearts and be ready to come close together. 

M. Laitman: This is one of the important conditions. 

Student: We need to always say thanks for the past, for everything you did with us, and to be happy with what we have, and that hastens the process.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (42:39) How does a person go through that barrier of fear, when letting go of his heart and giving control over his heart to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: He reaches such a state where he feels that he has neither in his heart nor in his brain such forces by which he can manage his nearing to the Creator, but rather simply he has no choice. That is, on the one hand, he thinks that this is what he has ahead of him, and on the other hand, it's that nothing else remains for him. Nothing remains except to keep what the Creator wants from him. 

Student: And from that moment, what does he have confidence in? 

M. Laitman: His confidence is that he is among the friends, and everyone understands that they need to carry out certain actions of connection, actions of bestowal, and this is how they advance. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (44:57) What is the difference between the Torah dressing in the person's heart and the Creator dressing in one's heart? 

M. Laitman: I don't think there is a difference. 

Student: When it's clothed that way, a person doesn't feel that he's standing before the Creator. The Torah is a light filling his vessels. 

M. Laitman: Yes

Student: But the Creator is something beyond that. The Creator is revealed to the person. It's not the same as the Torah dressing in his heart. There is a certain gap, difference.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, I'm asking, how to reduce that gap between the Torah dressing in his heart and feeling that he's facing the Creator right now? 

M. Laitman: I think that this is through the connection that exists between the person and the Creator.

Student: What does he need to add to the Creator's, the light's clothing in his heart so it will be really like the revelation of the Creator for him, connection to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And even more so that it'll be collective, shared by all of us as a group. 

M. Laitman: We study those materials, and the questions and answers. We perform all kinds of actions. And this should be as a means for us to get closer to each other. 

Student: For that to happen… Well, because all the writings of Shavuot, regarding Shavuot, they speak about how the people face the Creator. This is a special kind of status. So what do we need to add to our connection so that we feel that we're truly standing before the Creator? What else should we add in our inner work, anything for His revelation in the group? 

M. Laitman: You need to search. What else from these vessels of the heart and mind you can direct towards a connection with the Creator? A permanent connection in all kinds of different states, and so on.

Question (PT 11): (48:27) If a person feels that he's not ready, not prepared for the light to enter his heart, he's afraid of that revelation, how to prepare oneself and not be afraid? 

M. Laitman: Through connection with the friends.

Question (Woman PT 23): (48:50) How is the opening of our heart expressed? 

M. Laitman: In that I discover a new depth in the questions. And this is how I get closer. 

Question (PT 31): (49:27) To receive the power of the holiday of Shavuot, do we need a greater effort, a greater connection? 

M. Laitman: Certainly, yes. This is why the whole essence of this holiday is revealed inside the connections, the actions, the special means. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (50:44) The connection between us and the connection between ourselves and the Creator, do both depend on the extent to which we keep, observe the Torah? 

M. Laitman: Certainly, you can say so. 

Student: Do we need to get closer to that? To what it means for us to keep or observe the Torah? 

M. Laitman: We need to be ready with our vessels to keep the Torah.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (51:32) The giving of the Torah comes to a person alongside love of friends?

M. Laitman: It's not that it's always together, but it could be as the cause. 

Student: Again, it could be as… 

M. Laitman: It could be it's not together, but it could be as the cause.  

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (52:19) Sorrow and pain, are they a useful means for opening the heart? 

M. Laitman: It's not enough. It's not enough. There has to be an opening of the heart that is revealed through joy by the expansion of the vessels. And this is how every person can be accepted to be present in this holiday. 

Student: So, it means that joy is actually a stronger means than feeling pain. So, that's what you need to aspire toward.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Now, I feel that there's always a great divide between what's in my heart and the words that come out of my mouth. There's something in my heart where the moment I open my mouth, I see a tremendous gap. Same thing with the questions. I would like to ask much more from the heart, but there is always this divide. How to reduce this gap? What is the advice for helping a person to speak from the heart, to learn how to open the heart? 

M. Laitman: You should ask. Here, everything depends on the prayer, on the request. That his prayer will be accepted. 

Student: That brings me back to, even in prayer, if a person doesn't feel pain, if nothing troubles him, how can he come to prayer? There needs to be some kind of motivation pushing him to pray. Even just to want to open the heart, you need something to motivate the person. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, let's say, through joy. If I wanted to ask a question or to speak with the friends from a place of joy, which you recommended as being stronger, more useful than pain, how to do that? How to find that joy? It's not that I'm a sad person or anything, but joy, it feels like it's a different kind of joy that you're talking about. 

M. Laitman: Each and everyone is in certain revelations of joy and sadness that are unique, personal. And therefore, it is a problem. It is a problem to say that it is suitable for one person, but maybe not suitable for another person. 

Student: If I now feel joy, I'm in elation, inspiration, assent. How do I convey that to the friends? What do I pass on to the friends? 

M. Laitman: First of all, if you feel joy, and this joy can also be suitable for your friends, then you operate towards the  through fields, and this is how you'll advance

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (57:25) What is the use of all the corporeal things in our life? Why don't we live just only in the Torah? 

M. Laitman: You will discover the whole connection that the Creator has with the created beings and between the created beings and the Creator, and you will see that from this connection comes to us our obligation to be connected, to be those who decide, and determine, etc. This is how we need to be connected as one man in one heart.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (58:43) Where do we see that we're developing into one man in one heart? 

M. Laitman: Ask.

Student: It's a very serious problem.

M. Laitman: Apparently so. I don't know. But this is the condition that you are all going to be like one created being. 

Student: That's exactly what we don't see in reality, because each part of the vessel, each friend asks from his own place and it's all true, but it's not going in the direction of one man in one heart. It's as if each individual is developing, each one will become a kabbalist. Does it mean that he'll be connected to everyone else? No. It seems like each one is developing according to his own way. Where do you have this one man in one heart? It's written, but i don't see it happening. When does it happen? Can it even be seen, witnessed?

M. Laitman: This is written about the state where all the created beings can connect themselves under such a condition as one man in one heart. 

Student: So, I'm asking where in our development is their connection? 

M. Laitman: At the end. 

Student: What do you mean, the end? 

M. Laitman: At the end of the development. 

Student: At the end of the development. So, why, why do we have the demand right now to connect? 

M. Laitman: Well, get started, and then it will be clear to you what is it that you are doing. 

Student: We learn how each part connects to the Creator and how to do the spiritual work. I'm asking, where in this work is there a connection with another part? Where is the demand for connection here? We see that in this development, also it's in the questions we ask, we ask how to justify the Creator, where will the Torah be clothed, it's clothed in me, and I don't see that we're doing some work on connection in a profound way. I don't know what clothes in this friend, that friend, what he'll think what attainment he'll reach…Where is there a connection? Such connection where I know that everyone connects, but now you say that it's in the end, so I don't know what to do now.

M. Laitman: I didn't say that connection comes at the end. It comes gradually. In every action, there is some part of the general act of connection.

Student: So, what should we expect right now as we celebrate the Torah? What is your guidance? 

M. Laitman: Now, you need to look forward to having between you an inclination towards a general connection between you and from all of you to the Creator. 

Student: If not connection, there will be separation. There's nothing in the middle. Either we develop towards connection, or we develop towards disconnection, separation. How to develop towards connection very accurately and not separation? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: That's what I'm asking. That's the question. Because we have the Torah, we have all the source texts, but the development should be towards connection only and not anything else. Because otherwise it'll be, as we say, well, development towards separation. There's always development. That's not the question. But development towards connection. How to be meticulous about that? 

M. Laitman: By demanding connection with all the friends.

Student: Who do I demand it of? 

M. Laitman: Who do you demand from? 

Student: Yes. 

M. Laitman: From the Creator. 

Student: That's enough? 

M. Laitman: Yes. From the upper force. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:04:02) Maybe continuing the friend's question, is it proper to say that we connect only in intention? Meaning that our connection can only be in terms of the intention, us wanting to bestow upon each other? 

M. Laitman: You feel yourself, let's say, like now, here, where there are 400 men sitting, that you do have to connect between you as one man in one heart. 

Student: Yes. Yes. So, if we want, I'll try to explain the conflict. On the one hand, we do want to connect and bestow upon each other. On the other hand, there's the will to receive, which hinders us. So, in the will to receive, you cannot connect. Now, the question is, in our current situation, current state, can we connect only in intention? Just intending, being inclined towards each other? 

M. Laitman: What's wrong with that? 

Student: It's not bad, but the question then is, if that's the only place where we can connect, what does it mean to receive the Torah? I heard you say that one receives the Torah in the desire, in the will.

M. Laitman: As much as my desire will identify with the other desires of the friends, accordingly, we will be close, and we will be able to connect. 

Student: But what is there in my desire? I feel that in my desire, I feel it can't perform that action right now. But if I, I don't know. So what is the intention? 

M. Laitman: The intention is what a person intends for in his actions. 

Student: If I want to bestow upon a friend and not receive anything from him, the friend wants to bestow upon me and not receive anything from me, can we connect in that way?

M. Laitman: That you want only to bestow to him and not to receive anything? 

Student: Yes, and he does the same towards me. 

M. Laitman: Then you are completely separated. There is no such thing that one does not want to receive anything from the other. It is possible, but then you are disconnected from each other. 

Student: So, where do we connect? 

M. Laitman: You don't connect because you don't want to connect. 

Student: From where will we get that desire?

M. Laitman: Where will you get it? You have before you, as we said from the very beginning of the lesson, that you want to be connected to the friends, and therefore you come to them. You discover that between or among their actions there are those that they want to get closer between them through their actions. And this is what you also ask to carry out. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:08:31) There is the work of the light and the work in the vessel being suitable for the reception of the light. Now, in Passover, we received some results from our work, and then we…

M. Laitman: Continue onwards.

Student: Yes, we continue preparing to receive the light of Shavuot. Where is the boundary between the outcome from the light and the preparation from the vessel? 

M. Laitman: I don't understand what he means by... 

Student: Where is the transition between the outcome and the preparation? 

M. Laitman: The transition between the milestone? 

Student: Yes, the previous outcome, and then the preparation for what's coming. 

M. Laitman: Yes. From where does it come? 

Student: Yes, where is the transition? 

M. Laitman: It comes from above. 

Student: What comes? There is some decision between us from below? 

M. Laitman: In every minute there are many actions between us of the light that it performs, and therefore, we expect such actions of it that will be felt in us as connections between us, as one man in one heart, etc.  

Student: The outcome, when we receive the light for a great holiday, like in a holiday, it's felt as joy, certainly because it comes from the Creator. But it arrives in us as a kind of desperation to advance more and more. So, how much of the joy... We can't just sit down and say, oh, we're so glad that we received something. We also need to enter a state of despair. But how much of the joy should we hold on to, and how much of the despair should we hold on to? 

M. Laitman: One hundred percent hold on to the joy. That is clear. And 0% hold on to the despair. 

Student: From where will come the power to invest in the request for the Creator to fill it? If we don't hold on to, if we keep 0% of the despair? 

M. Laitman: I don't quite understand what you're asking. But I think that what we need, we need to hope that each and every day the Creator will interpret our behavior between us as a prayer. And therefore, we will change from one day to the next, from one day to the next. 

Student: I aim for us to receive something which will show us how to build a proper, complete prayer. We heard something in the recorded talk in the first part of the lesson about true prayer and how we need to give thanks, to have gratitude for everything that the Creator gave us. Of course, joy and gratitude, when it comes, it comes from the Creator, but in the middle there, you have the present, there's the now, and we need to fill it up with a lack, with a place that the Creator can fill up. I'm happy that we received everything that we have received, and I'm very happy for the Creator to correct everything and for everything to be whole again, but in the middle, inside, where to…because you have Yippee on the one side and the other, but here now I want, I'm full of despair. I'm happy that we share the despair together, but still there's a lack, there's a hole, there's something that needs to be filled. So, how much of this, and how much of that should we invest into the prayer? Or perhaps you start with gratitude, and then the lack, and then faith and gratitude again. Or is it all together? Is it all together, or are there stages? 

M. Laitman: There are stages, and we need to try to shift between them, first, second, third, etc., and see what is it that we acquire, which vessels. This is what is important.

Student: And it's according to what the Creator gives. 

M. Laitman: Yes

Student: So it's a measurement of what we received, and we hope for what we want to receive.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:16:15) I heard your answer, the answer you gave the friend. We are 400 people here, and we all need to connect together as one man in one heart. We have one more day until tomorrow's convention, Shavuot, Congress. What does it mean that in each Ten we need to yearn for that, yearn to feel the complete, the whole vessel, the whole of Bnei Baruch, to feel together all of us as one heart? 

M. Laitman: No.

Student: So what do you mean that all the 400 people here will feel as one man in one heart. 

M. Laitman: That each one, out of the desire that he feels, he directs himself, meaning the desire within him, towards connection with the Creator. Connection with the Creator.

Student: And how does that enter the connection between us? We need to feel one desire, one will that the Creator can enter and fulfill, and then we'll feel that we're together with Him. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, each one yearns to be in connection with the Creator, and that turns us into one heart? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:17:54) I'll ask like this. Let's say there's a parent and a child, and the parent looks at the child, observing him constantly, and assessing what's proper to give the child according to the child's development. He won't buy him a bicycle until he's ready to start walking. But we say that in the light, there's no change. Everything depends on our work and the extent to which we prepare ourselves to receive the light. And that's how we create a connection of love, bestowal, a connection between us, and so on. And between us and the light, there's also a medium, an in-between stage, like the parents, which opens the tap, a faucet, regarding how much light we're ready to receive. So, the question is, what kind of signs can we give the upper one? What kind of sign does He have to receive from us in order to know that He can turn it on a bit more? 

M. Laitman: That we are pleased with how He's managing us. 

Student: And what form should it take? When can you give the upper one that feeling that we're ready for a little bit more of the light? 

M. Laitman: This is according to our readiness. Depict the upper one, in what way you can awaken Him to open up the faucet.

Student: There's work that we need to do together. Each one needs to do the work, but there's work that we need to do together. Something has to flow through the society. There needs to be a feeling that we're ready. I mean, there are many questions and doubts, and the path is unclear. That's fine, that's part of life. But there needs to be some kind of upliftment, some gratitude to the upper one, and an admission that we're ready for a little bit more of the light. How should this manifest in the society? 

M. Laitman: You need to feel in the society that you have an opportunity to raise your deficiency and receive from above an answer for it. 

Student: An opportunity. 

M. Laitman: Yes. Why are they showing me that I have two minutes?

Reader: Yes, the lesson is at an end. It's time. 

M. Laitman: The lesson has now ended? 

Reader: Yes, it's the time when we conclude, and summarize the lesson together, and pray, and so on.

M. Laitman: I'm sorry. 

Reader: So, we'll now hold a workshop in the Tens and summarize the lesson. Okay, so...