Rabash, Shlavei HaSulam, “A Congress is no Less Than Ten”
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Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot,” Item 19: Egoistic reception of pleasure carries a drop of lethal poison, and thus we increase our debt two-fold… As a result this takes the last remaining spark of life away from a person, as if he is met by “the angel of death, bearing a drop of poison on the edge of a sword, and the person obediently opens up his mouth, swallows the drop, and dies.”

The moed of the first fruits of the harvest occurs the day after the Sabbath during week of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  This moed provides a picture of putting G-d first in our lives and honoring Him above ourselves as we are set free from bondage in Egypt. In this moed we can see the resurrection of Messiah as the "first fruit" of those who are asleep.

Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-07-29Video: ENG 41.6MB Audio: ENG 7.42MB

Question: If we don’t really understand the state of having to unite together as one man with one heart, then what should we focus on or imagine while reading The Book of Zohar?

Question: During the Congress, how can we keep from forgetting that the Light influences us if we work correctly, that darkness is an integral part of the work, and the group is what holds us up during a period of darkness?

Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-07-14Text: ENG 0.28MB

A question I received: Quantum physicists are getting more and more lost in their research even though they keep investing more strength and resources in it. Why has the field of science seemingly reached a dead end?

The Merriam-Webster Word of the Day for February 25th was proscribe.

1 : outlaw
2 : to condemn or forbid as harmful or unlawful

They provided this information regarding the origins of the word: