A Student Or A Free Listener

Question: According to what criterion do you decide if you are a student or just a listener?

Answer: A student is someone who wants to study with a certain teacher, to do what he says, to follow his instructions and receive from him.

A listener, on the other hand, is independent and can choose what he wants to do: whether he wants to listen or not. He is not obliged to anything in any way, and he doesn’t implement the method.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/7/16