Question: How should Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education Center students prepare themselves in order to be ready for encountering the idea of dissemination at the ONE Convention?
Dr. Michael Laitman: A person need not pressure himself. He needs to feel comfortable. You need to come to the convention with high spirits, like you are coming to a party. You are not coming there in order to work day and night. No. You come to have fun with your friends, whether you know them or not, but you come to a festival, to a party, first of all.
Although you want to read and connect to others, but these things need to be as preparation to go to a party. You need to prepare. Maybe you go buy a new outfit, maybe a tie, maybe a shirt, maybe you get a haircut. What are we going to bring? Maybe a good bottle of wine or something? The thing is preparation. Preparation needs to be the same as for a party. That is the kind of spirit: no pressure. That is what’s most important. Come with a smile from one ear to the other, and behind the ears.
Student: Just to mention that everyone is invited to this party, everyone is accepted, new and veteran. Also, as mentioned earlier, there will be a training meant for everyone in order to exactly explain what is the wisdom of connection that stems from the wisdom of Kabbalah, and how anyone can be involved in it, all in this whole, happy festival atmosphere.
Question: Now to continue what you mentioned, to come really happy, like to a party, a student from New York is asking: I feel a lot of excitement about the ONE Convention. How can I help a friend feel the importance?
Dr. Laitman: Try! What can I tell you? There are many friends who want to make their friends excited. I think when we get ready for a convention in Israel, we need to build a lot of stuff—kitchen, buying tons of food. You have those general things, so I don’t know. Start cheering each other up. That’s the main thing. That’s all you need.
Question: How can the Russian Kli connect with the American Kli at the ONE Convention? Is it simply to have a mirror convention, or is something extra needed?
Dr. Laitman: In Russia we have very intense dissemination activities. We have kind of a never-ending convention, a three-month-long convention in Sochi. I was there a week ago and it truly was wonderful. They were trying to carry out connection activities. I think their activity is very important. They are learning many things first-hand, and their experience is something that is… there is nothing like it. I really hope that they will be with us in the ONE Convention in the U.S., at least partially, because the hours are opposite, and in the conventions I’ll have along the way to New Jersey—in Colombia and Chile and then back to Mexico and only then to New Jersey. I hope that they will be with us to an extent during my journey.
In general I think that these conventions preceding the convention in New Jersey will be as a preparation for the New Jersey ONE Convention. We will build it this way, because we are all still preparing for it, and it will develop. You need to see it as one 2-week-long convention. In the end, we will feel it with our big party in New Jersey.
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 »
