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Daily Lesson (Afternoon) April 25, 2024

Part 1: Rabash. Record 919. “Concerning the Environment.”

Reader: Hello, dear friends. We are studying the writings of Rabash, Volume 3, Page 2,079, Article 919, Concerning the Environment by Rabash. You can find the study materials also on Sviva Tova and Arvut. Here, in the study hall, everyone willing to ask a question should raise his hand and get permission to ask and hold the microphone close to his mouth and ask the question clearly. “Concerning the environment,” Article 919 by Rabash. Rav, please.

M. Laitman: We’ll hear, first of all, the whole thing, and then afterward a little bit slower, and then we'll enter into it.

Reading Article: (01:00) “Concerning the Environment.”

“‘And he took six hundred select carriages.’ Whose were they? If you say that they were from Egypt, it was already said, ‘All the livestock of Egypt died.’ If you say that they were from Pharaoh, it was already said, ‘The hand of the Lord is on your livestock.’ If you say that they were from Israel, it was already said, ‘Our livestock too shall go with us.’ Rather, it was from those ‘who fear the word of the Creator among the servants of Pharaoh.’ Thus, we learn that those who fear the word of the Creator are an obstacle to Israel” (Midrash Tanchuma, BeShalach).

This means that the primary guard is from an environment of those who fear the Creator. They are Pharaoh’s servants. Pharaoh is as the ARI said, that the exile in Egypt was that the Daat [reason/knowledge] of Kedusha [holiness] was in exile. Pharaoh would suck out the abundance, meaning he is the will to receive. They are called “working only for their own benefit” and they have no connection to the work of bestowal, for their sole intention is only to please themselves.

The keeping should mainly be from them, since on the outside, it seems as though they are working—engaging in Torah and prayer enthusiastically and making all kinds of precisions. For this reason, they are called “those who fear the Creator.” Otherwise, they would not be called so.

And yet, internally, they are enslaved to Pharaoh, meaning that their only aim is to satisfy their own wishes and needs, and they have no connection to the work of bestowal.

Such an environment creates an obstacle to a servant of the Creator because he wants to walk on the path of the Creator and sees their work when they engage in fearing the Creator, and he is impressed by their zeal, since when they work as Pharaoh’s servants, their bodies show no resistance because the efforts they make are also only for the body. Thus, there is no resistance here at all. On the contrary, the body agrees to give them strength.

It follows that such an environment is an obstacle to Israel, to one who wants to be “Israel” and not among Pharaoh’s servants. Because a servant of the Creator is impressed by the work of the servants of Pharaoh, he likes the servitude of Pharaoh’s servants and is lured after them. Thus, he absorbs their thoughts and intentions and thereby regrets all the efforts he has given in the work of bestowal.

Henceforth, he will have no strength to continue the work of bestowal.

But in an environment of unaffiliated, who are not of the type that fears the Creator, they have no connection to him because he knows that there is nothing to learn from them. At that time, there is no connection of thoughts because he knows he must not learn from the actions and thoughts of the unaffiliated. Hence, such an environment does not pose an obstacle.

Conversely, those who fear the Creator and are Pharaoh’s servants do pose an obstacle for Israel, and one must run far away from them.

M. Laitman: This is it, a short article, but it is very inclusive. If there are questions, please, if not, we'll read it again, and we'll talk about it. Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (07:34) Rav, it’s written in the article that the body agrees to give strength to a person, so at what point does this break in the body resist and doesn’t give a person the strength?

M. Laitman: The body sees that what it does brings it strength. Like in our world, we see that a person can work if he is respected, if people talk about him, and give him honor, money, all sorts of things that are pleasant to a person. Then he's capable of working and working hard. So, that's the whole matter of enslavement in Egypt, that the group, even if it's a group that enters under the authority that's called Pharaoh, then Pharaoh can enslave them by giving them the feeling that what they are doing brings them a great profit. It doesn't matter in what form. Rather, it could be honor, money, a certain attitude to them, a special one, a person from that environment that respects them, and so forth.

And therefore, there is strength here to carry out actions. Whereas, if the environment does not respect the external actions, what people do in general, then there is no fuel to work. Also, to show that he's doing something or that he's not doing something. Therefore, in that environment, which does not respect man's actions, it's hard to work. This is called that they have an obstacle, and are incapable of giving forces, of exerting, making efforts.

Question: (Petah Tikva Center): (11:06) Rav, we'll start from Lo Lishma to Lishma. I remember I performed many actions in the Ten to be respected, to be thanked. What is this obstacle, as it's written in the article?

M. Laitman: It depends on a person, to what extent he understands what he's doing and in what environment he's in. But it's impossible to speak just like that towards every person and towards every environment. It's only if a person wants to go on the path of the workers of the Creator, meaning in order to bestow, to reach in order to bestow, and he is in an environment which doesn't respect the intention in order to bestow, but rather the main thing for them is the action. Therefore, each one looks at the other, to what extent the person does more and more actions. In such an environment, it's hard to advance in the intention, because they're not looking at the intention. The intention is not seen by the eye. Therefore, a person wants to advance to the intention to be a worker of the Creator, which is only in the intention. So then, he has a problem. He cannot be in such an environment.

Student: And in this case, how to help yourself and the friends to go through this process of transition between Lo Lishma and Lishma?

M. Laitman: It's not for everyone. And it's not always felt, and a person needs to examine himself. Does he want to work, to truly work for the sake of the heavens, as it's called, to be the Creator's worker, to be the Creator's slave? Or is it enough for him just to see if he did everything that's written in the Shulchan Aruch and in the Siddur? I know people that from morning to the evening, they are looking in the Siddur, in the prayer book, and whether they said everything that's written in the Shacharit prayer, in the Menachot and the Revit prayers, and also in connection to what they're doing between this and that, according to the Shulchan Aruch. And that's what concerns them.

And then they think that they're okay. There are people who understand that it could be okay only on the condition that they identify with the Creator, which is a matter of the intention, in such a way that they try to work in the intention in order to bestow by identifying with the Creator. And then they have a different calculation.

Student: In this case, I understand I can't enter the friend's inner work and then my responsibility before the friends in the Ten. How do I give and support those who work in intention, that those that are still in Lo Lishma, how do I create an environment for development?

M. Laitman: Don't pressure people. Make it so that it will be light and in a free way for everyone, for people to grow by themselves.

Question: (Petah Tikva Center): (16:16) In the Tenwe can become the workers of the Pharaoh. Maybe it might, and became at some stage, a worker of the Pharaoh. Or maybe do we have some kind of protection when we're in Bnei Baruch that we don't leave anywhere?

M. Laitman: Nobody has any guarantee. No one. I think that Bnei Baruch is, of course, a special organization. But nonetheless, each one that is within it must constantly examine himself. Where is he directed? What does he want to reach?

Student: So, here this talks about individual work. This doesn't talk about the work in the Ten.

M. Laitman: No, no, it's only talking about the personal work of each one individually.

Student: And can the Ten divert from the right course?

M. Laitman: The Ten can divert from the path, yes.

Student: And then by checking myself against it, I can be mistaken. I think I'm on the right path, but I may not be on the right path.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, maybe it's sometimes in Bnei Baruch not on the right way.

M. Laitman: They have an opportunity to check themselves, to correct themselves. But basically, there is always that possibility. Yes.

Question: (Petah Tikva Center): (18:35) We learn that everything happens in one body, and then they say that the workers of the Pharaoh are in us. How to work with this?

M. Laitman: This depends on how a person positions himself, how he feels himself. If a person is always following where his thoughts are directed, then he can limit himself and look after himself in order to move forward.

Student: How can we strengthen the nation of Israel in us against the workers of the Pharaoh? In other words, how can we strengthen the nation of Israel in us against the workers of the Pharaoh in us?

M. Laitman: Through the environment that we will talk about it, and we will locate in what form we exist and form we're in, and to which form we want to come closer.

Question: (W Petah Tikva Center): (20:57) Here it says not to be inspired by people that are external and seem to be workers of the Creator. But how does a person work? They look at each other, they see that it's a great friend. He wants to do the same actions, and the same movements, or he studies from him, criticizes him.

M. Laitman: A person that wants to grow spiritually, he studies only the conditions that bring him spirituality. That's it. He doesn't look physically on people, that this is the way they are dressed, and this is the way they behave, and this is the way they speak. He doesn't look at any of this. He just knows how he can bring himself, and in what form he can bring himself to a state that he, in an internal way, is with those same intentions and thoughts as the people that are drawn to the Creator, people that want to come closer to the Creator.

Student: And it says to be cautious. How to know who to be cautious of?

M. Laitman: How do we know? This is why there also needs to be an environment that studies what to do, and whom to come closer to, and whom to keep a distance. In this way, they advance. It's not simple. This is truly daily work.

Question: (Petah Tikva Center): (23:10) It's the women who are clarifying the question, how to recognize these workers of the Pharaoh in the Ten because they are an obstacle.

M. Laitman: The Ten gradually gets clarified throughout the years, throughout the years, because each and every action in spirituality requires a lot of time. Until a person hears, until a person carries it out, until he sees what is the benefit, the result of what he carries out, it takes time, which is why it's not simple. It's not simple.

Student: What is our work? What do you recommend for Tens, how to improve, have the right attitude?

M. Laitman: According to what is written. This article is, it's a very, very sharp article.

Question: (Petah Tikva Center): (24:34) I wanted to ask: the obstacle, those that fear the Creator, the workers of the Creator, it's when I perform commandments, practical commandments, and I'm not paying attention to the attitude. Is this what the obstacle is?

M. Laitman: That's correct as well, yes.

Student: And I should work above this as well, not to do it at all, the commandments, external ones, or should we concentrate internally?

M. Laitman: We need both this and that. This gradually, little by little, throughout time, a lot of time, stabilizes in a person the correct point in order to see himself advancing to the Creator in a straight line.

Question: (Petah Tikva Center): (25:41) Since yesterday, I've been thinking, why is it so hard to hold on to the intention?

M. Laitman: Just from yesterday?

Student: Yes, once again, since yesterday, and I understood that nobody sees the intention. I don't have any interest in proving anything to anyone. This internal, very strong force that says, do pleasant things. Why do you need intention? How can we hold on to the right intention?

M. Laitman: He can always think.

Student: The force of the pleasure is bigger.

M. Laitman: But he, by thinking all the time about the intention, he holds himself above, to enjoy, in a specific way.

Student: But can he enjoy?

M. Laitman: Also, to enjoy from the intention, from coming closer to the Creator, but he identifies with the Creator, and also from, even if he always goes in the intention, he has pleasure because he feels that he is holding on to the intention.

Student: Is there a state when a person feels and his thoughts are open just like actions, and then he's ashamed of being in intention?

M. Laitman: It's quite weak.

Student: No, we shouldn't wait for this.

M. Laitman: No.

Student: I noticed another thing, even though I want to be an intention, I don't know what intention, there are different intentions.

M. Laitman: There are different intentions for unity. For the benefit of the Ten, and for the benefit of the Creator.

Student: The most painful state that the friends go through, I want to pray during the lesson so that there would be correction and recovery. There is only intention, there is an intention to ask to serve the Creator, and what Hissaron He wants to give. There are different things, there are different intentions, and we have to feel the Creator, and what intention He wants us to hold onto.

M. Laitman: I think that this confuses you. All in all, we need to be in the thought. Don't say intention, it just confuses you. We all in all need to be in the thought, to what extent and how I now pass contentment to the Creator.

Student: To ask ourselves and wait for the answer?

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, yes. From that question, and then there will be this direction towards the Creator, the right direction.

Student: And receive answers in this, or is there only the question?

M. Laitman: When you think about that, then little by little, you will locate the answer.

Question: (Petah Tikva Center): (29:36) With regards to the answer you gave me, Rav. I see our Ten that there are Ten friends, five have a family, and five are single. Is there a difference in conditions for those guys that are single, and those that are married? How to perform this transition from being single to being married?

M. Laitman: I don't know why he's concerned with it. In the meantime, don't worry about it. Single or married, the main thing is that he's concerned with stabilizing each and every one in order to bestow in such a way that everyone will connect.

Question: (W Petah Tikva Center): (30:54) Rav, thoughts for the Creator and the Ten, I see this as the first stage, and then after some time we realize we need intention for this to be constant, to ask for intention to be constant for bestowal. And then after this stage, this is clarified in the Ten, and we demand together.

M. Laitman: And that as well, yes.

Question: (W Petah Tikva Center): (31:45) Similar question. We said we need to be in thought. How to please the Creator? What does it mean to please the Creator?

M. Laitman: What's pleasant for Him?

Student: And this is when we're united, in the way we're united?

M. Laitman: Yes, to the extent that we're connected, and we think each one about the ten, and to the extent that we support and help each other, and from that, all in all, the Ten is filled up with the light of Hassadim, and reveals within it, within the light of Hassadim, it reveals the upper force.

Student: What does it mean to pass on? Since the Creator is everything, He feels and sees everything.

M. Laitman: Yes, but if I need to reveal Him, then I need to build a place where He can get revealed.

Question: (Petah Tikva Center): (33:34) A person that wants to be a worker of the Creator, to acquire the intention. What does he need to absorb from the friends? What does he need to adhere to? And what should he filter out and not make space for?

M. Laitman: To the extent that they're prepared to be close to one another, to make efforts for unity, this is the main thing.

Student: And what should he filter out? What should he not be impressed with?

M. Laitman: What not to be inspired by? There are many thousand and one states, I can't say, but from what to get inspired is from unity between the friends, from mutual help, these things.

Student: It depends on the person himself, on the example he gives to the Ten?

M. Laitman: Such examples are needed for the Ten, and then the person will get from the Ten these examples, which he takes part in the strength.

Student: Meaning, what he demands from the friends, he first of all needs to give them?

M. Laitman: If he's able to, as much as he's able to.

Question: (W Petah Tikva Center): (35:08) Moses had a great strength, that even if he grew up in the house of the Pharaoh, he was the king's son. He resisted and he felt that he is Moses. We are in the Ten, and we're like these forces, these little ones of Moses, and then there's a lot of things that disturb us. How in the work towards the center, in the center of the Ten, where seemingly each one gives his little Moses, that helps him to realize the Moses in all of us, and also to come out of Egypt. How do we do it?

M. Laitman: Through work in the Ten, unity in prayer to the Creator.

Student: Let's say I don't have strength, and I'm in the Ten, and I want to, I would like to give to the friends, like they give me. What can I do?

M. Laitman: Learn from them, and all in all, be similar to them.

Question: (W Petah Tikva Center): (36:32) I understood the answer to the question, that in what way I'm pleasing the Creator now? Let's say the answer is love the neighbor and be concerned about his deficiency. Is this a fear to fall into Lo Lishma, and be lost in your impressions there of the friends? I want to please the Creator, and He directs me to please them. I don't know how to not go into this greater coarseness here.

M. Laitman: Yes, so we need all in all to find ourselves an environment that you could subjugate yourself to. And then gradually you will get connection with the Ten, with the Creator, and you'll be able to rise above your huge ego.

Student: It's the same work in the Ten of me finding in them a new environment.

M. Laitman: Yes, you can't do anything about it.

Question (Women MAK 25): (38:18) In what way can we differentiate and escape that confusion from the Pharaoh's workers, and there could be these nice things that a person can aspire towards?

M. Laitman: Try to sort it out between yourselves, okay?

Student: Yes, but should this be a clear feeling, or should we clear a way to orient ourselves?

M. Laitman: Both, try.

Question (Women MAK 86): (39:50) That work on the left line is individual, if I understand correctly, and from that individual work of the left line with the group, we can only go on the right line. Is that also, correct?

M. Laitman: Also correct.

Student: If we can ask to be in thoughts, can we do so in faith above reason?

M. Laitman: You can if you're able to.

Student: We can ask the Creator for it, right?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Tbilisi): (40:34) From the article, I understand that if in faith below reason, when a person does the work, then the body does not resist him. The moment he reaches faith above reason, then the body starts to resist him.

M. Laitman: Okay, okay, keep talking.

Student: So, there's this huge gratitude to the Creator for that, that He is raising us, with your help out, of such darkness and we reach faith above reason.

M. Laitman: Well, we have to clarify this.

Student: The word intention, can we formulate it in such a way that this is the responsibility before the Creator gives to the creations this responsibility?

M. Laitman: You can.

Question (Siberia): (41:51) I wanted to clarify maybe in the actions, if there can be some criteria clarified for the Ten. Maybe we should lower certain friends who are not doing certain duties. But on the other hand, we have these unconditional justifications, like you told another student not to pressure. There are these two polar opposites, that we don't even know how to approach. We do this daily work, and we forget about this work, but the amplitude is such that we need to clarify this somehow. How to clarify it?

M. Laitman: Hear, listen to our clarifications, and try to swallow them into yourself somehow.

Question: (Petah Tikva Center) (43:09) What obstacle can there be within an environment of Kabbalists?

M. Laitman: From an environment of Kabbalists, meaning between people that are moving forward.

Student: Those that decided they want to work for the Creator, what obstacle can there be between them?

M. Laitman: Between them, there can be many obstacles, little ones. Obstacles, they have to deal with them.

Student: If I understand the article, he's talking about different societies. So, if I don't look at how people dress and behave, but rather here, within my Ten, within my group. So, what obstacle can there be between us? What should I be cautious about? Or the moment that I am here, the Creator places me in this environment, then I don't have what to worry about, basically because externally, it doesn't really concern me. We're concerned only about the internality.

M. Laitman: It can be in the external, you're also not doing what's necessary. This also can be a demand for you.

Student: What demand?

M. Laitman: All in all, we have to be in a group that behaves according to a set of rules.

Student: Again, I'm trying to understand, within the Ten, this work in the Ten, which is not this type of those that work for the Pharaoh.

M. Laitman: If not, the workers of the Pharaoh, everything we want, everything we study, everything we do, is in such a way that we're not the workers of the Pharaoh.

Student: Everything that Baal HaSulam is directing us here is basically this struggle between internality and externality. Do we have this in our society? What externality is there in our society? What should I be cautious about?

M. Laitman: Of being at the point when you prefer the external over the internal. Is that clear, right?

Student: In our society, what? Meals, or what is it?

M. Laitman: I don't know, I can't say.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (46:16) On the one hand, I need to be cautious to work with friends that don't have an intention. On the other hand, we say that we need to justify every friend. So, what do I need to justify? And what are those things that I shouldn't justify?

M. Laitman: Here, we have to know, each one has to know his attitude to the internal and external and your attitude to his internal and external. Then you can compare and see.

Student: What does it mean to bow your head in the Ten?

M. Laitman: To bow your head before the Ten means to not take your mind, your head into account, but you consider the point of view of the friends.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (46:26) I'm reading what another student said. When we do the work in the ten, we're doing it in external actions mainly. We don't know how to do internal actions. We're still not in spirituality. So, if all of the work is external, how can we seemingly be sure that we won't fall into that?

M. Laitman: I don't know, but the fact that you say that there is no spiritual work, I need material work.

Student: What should we define as spiritual work? How do we know if we're doing it? According to what?

M. Laitman: Spiritual work, in my opinion, is what the spirit of the things itself compels me to act.

Student: The spirit obligates me? I don’t know how to work with it. It needs to be something tangible. We need to work with it and see that this is the spirit of the matter, and we go according to that spirit and not according to the action. Let's say there's a meal. We do this meal because of the spirit that's in that meal?

M. Laitman: Of course, that's what we do.

Student: How to be sure? How does a person know?

M. Laitman: I don't know. This has no answer.

Student: How do we do it? I continue up until the next action of the Ten?

M. Laitman: He continues to look, to act, and not sit quietly.

Student: How to make sure that this works until we truly reach the point where we can actually grip onto something? How do we not take it as reason and calm down and say, I'm near Bnei Baruch?

M. Laitman: So, don't calm down.

Student: What are the means not to calm down?

M. Laitman: I'm always asked this question.

Student: At a certain point, this question also tires out and then?

M. Laitman: There's nothing to say to this.

Student: Can the society always give reminders and renewals?

M. Laitman: Yes, the group needs to do this.

Question (W Petah Tikva Center): (50:13) Dear Rav, you said to lower one's head towards the Ten, meaning not to take one's opinion into account. And the question that if I don't take my opinion into account, then where is that place where I can add to see what to add, and what to improve in the Ten if I don't use my own opinion? I need to hear the friends, to hear what's better to do and then just to carry out like a soldier.

M. Laitman: No, it's not done simply like this. This has worked for a long, long time. So, calm down and just start to work on this.

Question (W Petah Tikva Center): (51:24) Rav, if I'm about to do some action in the Ten, even the smallest one, even to speak in our workshop, and before I do that action, I identify the intention for myself. Let's say there's a certain desire for honor. What do I do with it? What do I do with that intention that I identify for myself? Do I reject it? Do I not do this action because I identify this intention for myself? Or just identify this intention?

M. Laitman: I don't have an answer to this.

Student: It simply causes me not to do something and then I realize this is also a mistake.

M. Laitman: Yes, this is also a mistake, but maybe this is preferable.

Student: Until the intention changes?

M. Laitman: Yes, check every time. Check.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (52:18) I have a few questions from what we spoke about from the current answer. A person wakes in the morning. There's a morning lesson. He checks his heart. He sees that he's entirely in the ego and he says, okay, I'm an egoist. It's better for me to remain in the house. Is this correct?

M. Laitman: How can this be?

Student: So, he must come?

M. Laitman: Yes, of course.

Student: Okay, another question. There's the Ten. There's I and my friends around me. These scrutinies of the Pharaoh's workers. I know I need to do it towards myself to see how I'm more and more like them and to pray for correction more and more. This is towards myself. It's towards my friends in the Ten, it's written about them that I always need to judge them favorably to see the virtues of the friends and not to see them negatively. Do I understand correctly?

M. Laitman: Yes, correct.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (53:22) It seems like this force that Rabash cautions us against is very strong because it's really the last one before the exodus from Egypt. This is the Pharaoh's last weapon. And also afterward in the desert, we know that it's that force that causes all the obstacles. How should we always be guarded against it?

M. Laitman: Yes, this is the main thing.

Student: How can we always be guarded against it?

M. Laitman: This depends on the construction of the environment and the extent to which it depends on the environment to the good, and also to the bad. We have to figure out what our environment is about, what should we strive for, what kind of form, and what's happening to us from time to time, once a week, to perform analysis and analysis, and in this way be in advancement, move forward.

Student: With certain criticism, critique in the Ten or by oneself?

M. Laitman: Yes, in the Ten.

Student: Meaning to see all these different routines that we did and how we made more efforts?

M. Laitman: Yes. This article is truly an entry into inner work.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (55:30) Sometimes a person makes a lot of effort just to follow his intentions. And at the end of the day, he sees how weak he is in it. Even when we're talking about in the Ten, we need to be in intention, yes, but in the summary of the day, everyone says, wow, where were we? Where did we run away to? We don't even know where everyone was. How do we dive deeper into following the intention not to be weakened?

M. Laitman: I didn't understand the question.

Student: How do we strengthen this thing to go after the intention to not be weakened at the end of the day?

M. Laitman: Maybe during this descent, we can measure the extent to which we understand our true state and we can rise from it.

Student: It's complex to see this. Is there a true state? Now, when we want to rise, what should we do?

M. Laitman: You rise.

Student: How?

M. Laitman: I don't perform a calculation with regards to my evil inclination, but only with the qualities and thoughts and desires that I can correct and through my yearning for the good and try to rise above.

Student: This is the work of a person towards the Creator, just him towards the Creator?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Let's say a person now is alone with the Creator and he wants to go deeper into the intention. What are his means at every moment to do this?

M. Laitman: He needs every moment to try and direct himself at an ascent, at a spiritual ascent.

Student: How do we do that?

M. Laitman: This is through an effort in the intention, meaning to try to find such forces, intentions, thoughts, desires, that through them I can climb higher and closer to the Creator.

Student: And if a person really tries but he doesn't succeed, if he takes a book from the sources now, is this also a good place to do it?

M. Laitman: I don't think so. I don't think that it's so effective.

Student: The last thing that I want to know is: How does a Ten enter into this picture?

M. Laitman: You can do this with the Ten? You asked a question about an individual person.

Student: To know the Creator, he needs to go deeper, into the intention on the other end. When we look at the end of the day, we saw how we didn't succeed and ran away from the intention.

M. Laitman: I think that at the end of the day it's not worth talking about that we flew away, we didn't succeed. We have to start the night by being calm.

Student: So, beyond the person's work towards the Creator, is there another intention of the Ten itself? This common one that they need to go deeper into?

M. Laitman: If the Ten talks about this, this is enough. And apart from this, say what's usually said, I trust my soul to you, then pray before bedtime.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (1:00:40) If the person is not in the intention, he looks at them and he sees that they're doing actions just like him, that they fear the Creator, work for Pharaoh. How do we rise above such an environment?

M. Laitman: If he sees that truly in the environment our work is of the Creator, he has to exit and gradually connect to a different environment.

Student: He’s talking about his Ten.

M. Laitman: What does he understand about his Ten? What do they do?

Student: They do the same actions.

M. Laitman: What do you mean by the same actions?

Student: The same external actions, which he feels is all in order to receive.

M. Laitman: No, you can't say if it's for reception, because the intention is not part of man. With regards to the actions, everyone does the same action. You can't tell from externally what's happening, whether someone's doing something for reception or bestowal, or if he's a spiritual animal, as it is said, or truly a spiritual angel.

Student: You said we need to respect the internality and not externality in general. We also respect the externality. We respect those friends who are investing a lot of hours.

M. Laitman: This is in order to give a person strength, a lot of strength, to be on the path, to support him. We empathize. There was this famous character Baade Yoma. He came to study for one day.

Student: So basically, it's not a mistake, right?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (1:02:56) During the examination, can it be a Ten that carries out the conditions of Bnei Baruch? Their love between them can be Lo Lishma? Can it be?

M. Laitman: Yes. Lo Lishma or Lishma is an intention and it's externally; it's not visible. It can be doing exactly the same thing and the intention be somewhere else, not be directed at the heart, not striving for mutual help, and this is the main thing.

Student: I see that the Ten is connected, but maybe they don't have such good relations towards another Ten. Is this a sign of something being not right?

M. Laitman: Yes, this is a sign. We have to check.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (1:04:18) A question from Europe, my friend from Germany. A worker of the Creator needs to be on guard, to be aware to guard himself, not to have negative influences from the environment. The question is, how do I myself examine that I won't turn into something that influences the environment negatively? How do I seemingly guard them for myself?

M. Laitman: Move forward. Continue doing what you do, and that's it. Those that are not concerned all the moments of their life about advancement, of course they’ll fall.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (1:05:20) You previously said that the Ten too can deviate from the path. What does it mean that the whole Ten deviates from the path?

M. Laitman: Yes, this can be. There can be a blow from above, from the Creator. And that's it. It comes out. They get off the path, that all the Tens are on and are not able, don't understand, and can't detect where they are falling.

Student: Where is the security then of the Kli and everyone?

M. Laitman: We should hold each other all the time.

Question (W Petah Tikva Center): (1:06:30) What are these good relations in the Ten? I understand that good relations in the corporeal world are when I try to be good because I need something. But what are these good relations in the Ten?

M. Laitman: When we support each of the friends since we are in the Ten, and we want to help each friend to advance more and more towards the Creator. In this way, our Ten will rise, as a whole, closer and closer to the Creator.

Question (W Petah Tikva Center): (1:07:42) Let's say I found an environment which evokes in me greatness and subjugates me towards them. So, then this environment obligates me towards them because I love them.

M. Laitman: Yes, let's say.

Student: On the one hand, I really enjoy that, but on the other hand, I really suffer. What does it depend on?

M. Laitman: What are you suffering from?

Student: From being unable to agree that I'm being subdued.

M. Laitman: You have to subjugate yourself.

Student: And the place where I need to lower my head, it seems to me like it's not the correct work, it's not out of love. And the place where the environment subdues me, I feel it as love.

M. Laitman: We'll talk about this next time.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (1:09:06) Rav, you are our teacher. You know where to go, and we're blind. We try to go step-by-step, each one as much as he can. Each friend is sure he's going correctly in each Ten as well. If it wasn't sure, it would change its direction. It turns out there's still such an element of a present from the Creator. There are certain favorite ones. Each one is investing but one Ten is going towards the path, and one deviated a long time ago. Although it could be that we're all following what you're saying. It turns out that Rav has these favorite ones, and the Creator has these favorite ones?

M. Laitman: The Creator does have favorite ones, that's true. And those who are walking straight behind the Creator, and there are those that are not so exerting themselves too much in this. So, there are both, this and the other.

Student: But you see that a certain Ten or friend deviated.

M. Laitman: And what can I do?

Student: To redirect them?

M. Laitman: Redirect?

Student: To rebuke them. I don't know. It's like Rabash used to say that has he deviated or is it personal work? You shouldn't go into it?

M. Laitman: That's not the reason a teacher is next to the student, to give him instructions. If the student doesn't detect mistakes himself, the teacher can't do anything.

Student: So, how do we really locate those mistakes in advance and how do we become the Creator's favorite?

M. Laitman: I wouldn't recommend being one of the Creator's favorites. This is not easy. I don't know how to say it. It's very tense. So, we'll continue as much as we can, and the Creator will help us.

Student: So, we shouldn't be concerned if a Ten deviates, or a friend, and then they will return to the path?

M. Laitman: Eventually, of course, everyone will achieve a final correction at the end of creation. But we want to find a special attitude of the Creator towards us. That's why it's important for us to do what the Creator wants and be rewarded in this and be sure of this.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (1:12:55) In the Ten, there's a friend that comes every day of the week, but he sleeps throughout the whole lesson, and then during the summary he says, thank God. And maybe there's a friend that comes two or three times, but he's felt that he's entirely in the lesson and the intention is truly in the lesson. Who would you follow from the two?

M. Laitman: Perhaps after the one that comes every day.

Question (Petah Tikva Center Center): (1:13:42) When I look at it, you also said previously, that every moment we need to dedicate ourselves to bringing contentment to the Creator. I see that I just make mistakes just for myself, and I don't succeed in dedicating anything to the Creator. It seems to me it's just impossible. What can I do from here when I see that I just measure something. I see that I'm doing just nonsense. it's just completely opposite to what we need to do without any intention to the Creator. What forces should we draw from there?

M. Laitman: Ask. Ask to get an answer. Ask for a response, for an explanation. Why is it so? What does the Creator want from you? Ask. You want to, all in all, come to serious work against the Creator, so start.

Student: It's possible to ask, but I feel that I'm distancing myself from the Ten in such a request. What do I need to do with the Ten?

M. Laitman: No, not necessarily, why?

Student: I feel like I'm doing that work in mistake and I'm not in connection, I'm not asking the Creator for the correct things. This was work in the Ten, but now I see that I don't think about the Creator. I'm not truly aimed at the goal. So, what do I need to ask of Him right now to understand what He wants?

M. Laitman: Start from who you are. The main thing is to always be in intention that you want to get closer to the Creator. That’s it.

Question (W Petah Tikva Center): (1:16:13) What to do if you're constantly under criticism by specific friends? It's not that they come and say it but it just seems so.

M. Laitman: But it just seems to you. I'm telling you seriously, it seems to you this way. You build such, you arrange their attitude to you in such a way as if it should be, and you're right and you justify yourself, but this is not right. It seems to you mostly.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (1:17:20) Question: Those that feared the Creator and worked for Pharaoh, they also came out of Egypt. How can it be that those that work for Pharaoh nevertheless, came out of Egypt and they're constantly causing obstacles? What is this quality that can come out despite that it works for the Pharaoh?

M. Laitman: They came out of Egypt because they were fulfilling half of what the Creator was demanding.

Student: And what's the other half?

M. Laitman: And the other half we’ll do together.

Student: What does it mean together?

M. Laitman: We don't understand all of this, and the general calculation is very complicated.

Student: The person wants to try and try, and the Creator will pull me?

M. Laitman: We don't have to answer this question. I don't think you're able to enter the depth of the Creator's thought.

Student: So just rely on him and that's it?

M. Laitman: Yes, just rely on him. This will work for sure. We are done with the women and the men also. So, let's finish the lesson.

Reader: Thank you very much to Rav and to everyone. I'm going to say the schedule for today. And we'll end with a song.

Song: (1:23:04)

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