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Student: We have a question from a lady who saw people dancing and singing at conventions. It’s kind of pressuring.

Dr. Laitman: If she has no need to jump or dance, then that’s fine, she needn’t worry about that. People at the convention need to feel relaxed. No one is compelling or forcing anyone. We have all kinds of habits—singing together, being connected in this way, holding hands, whatever—but it really is not mandatory. If you want to, do it. If not, don’t. Just come relaxed, free. I don’t think anyone will feel uptight there.

This Q&A is based on the Special Q&A Session with Dr. Michael Laitman in Preparation for the ONE Convention, which took place on Sunday, June 16. Watch the whole video & stay up-to-date with ONE Convention preparation materials here »

Question: How can I help during the ONE Convention without missing anything? It is my first convention. I’m arriving on Thursday, Aug. 7. I very much want to be of help. Any task is fine with me.

Dr. Michael Laitman: It’s the ratio. We are going to be at a place where we don’t attend to ourselves. We will have most things prepared in advance. We get there with all the equipment. It’s a place we know, a place where people know us. Food will be ready. It will be prepared by the hotel. We won’t have to buy, carry, serve, or do anything. Everyone will be sleeping in hotel rooms with beds, showers, etc. You’ll have everything.

All that is left is to absorb, to open ourselves and accept everyone, so that in the connection among ourselves we will feel the upper world. That’s all. So that is our only problem.

What duties have you considered? I recommend that people who were never at a convention be given no duties. I’m against it. It happens in Israel too. A new person comes, and during the lesson, they make him serve coffee. They need to sit, listen and gather impressions. They cannot connect to bestowal, to the group, etc. You shouldn’t do that. You “teach the boy according to the boy’s way.” Don’t put him into spiritual acts that he doesn’t feel as being spiritual. Therefore, you need to give these people the best seats to participate as emotionally as they can with everyone, so that they feel no pressure from others. In short, treat them as children. They’re beginners, so they’re babies.

This Q&A is based on the Special Q&A Session with Dr. Michael Laitman in Preparation for the ONE Convention, which took place on Sunday, June 16. Watch the whole video & stay up-to-date with ONE Convention preparation materials here »

Student: There are many questions from students in the Education Center about integral education. This is very new to them.

Dr. Michael Laitman: I have a question for them. Did they study only “The Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”? Or did they also study the essays of Rabash?

Student: Let’s mention to the students and everyone what our friends from the Education Center actually study.

We have the first course which is the Fundamentals, where a person learns about the essence of the wisdom of Kabbalah according to the fundamental articles by Baal HaSulam. They also hear a bit about that when we start realizing the wisdom of Kabbalah we start feeling the need to disseminate it, publicize it to the world, and start doing it also through the method called “integral education.” But we’re not yet doing it in practice.

In the next, intermediate semester, one studies that a bit deeper. We learn the whole system of creation—the Sefirot, Partzufim and worlds—as well as how Kabbalah becomes realized in our daily lives.

Dr. Laitman: Where do I find these worlds? Inside the connection. Do they study that or not?

Student: Yep. Starting with the very first semester we learn that there was the shattering of the vessels.

Dr. Laitman: So if it’s in the connection, then we have to actualize the wisdom of connection. If we actualize the wisdom of connection within us, in a group, that’s in a group. But it’s time for us also to draw into our group and the rest of humanity…

Why have we come to it? That’s the Upper One, the Light. Do they know this concept?

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Question: In what way is attending the ONE Convention bestowal to the friends? How do we prepare for the maximum amount of bestowal to pass through us to the friends at a convention?

Dr. Michael Laitman: We need to determine—say once every two weeks, maybe even once a week, because I have a few trips in between—this type of lesson on a weekly basis and study things If you want we’ll go over the materials, we’ll have on the landing page of the convention site, and we’ll all advance together, so we all are on the same page in terms of the necessary materials, so that afterwards we will be more into the convention. I recommend this not just for the American Convention but for all the upcoming Conventions that we’ll have on the way to New Jersey, in Latin America.

Student: We’ve planned at least one more lesson, but now that you say, sure. If we’re on a series of Congresses in South America and North America, so maybe once a week is great!

Dr. Laitman: Yes, please! Choose a morning, something more comfortable for you because it’s the evening for you, and we’ll do it. I’ll be happy to. I get pleasure seeing you on screen. We see Chile too. I was in contact with South America and Chile yesterday.

Question: In terms of coming to the convention on the same page with the necessary materials, you alsomentioned that in the preparation talk we had a week ago, that we all have to come to the convention on the same page, so to speak, at the same level. What do you mean by that?

Dr. Laitman: It’s not an internal level, where a person who is not at this spiritual level is not worthy of the convention. No, this is a bit of information that you need to know so things won’t seem weird to you—desire, connections, Sefirot, a little bit; corporeality, spirituality, bestowal, reception, connection, breaking of the vessels, correction of the vessels.

Think that we will study. Prepare the material and we will study. The situation that I feel now is already compelling me to speak in a special style, i.e. if previously we thought of speaking in a certain way, once you come in contact with people, you see that you have to speak differently.

This Q&A is based on the Special Q&A Session with Dr. Michael Laitman in Preparation for the ONE Convention, which took place on Sunday, June 16. Watch the whole video & stay up-to-date with ONE Convention preparation materials here »