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Daily Morning Lesson: October 8, 2025 

Part 1: Recorded lesson – Sep 30, 2020

Rabash. Letter No. 36

Reader: Hello, friends. In the first part of the lesson, we will learn from a recorded lesson from the date September 30, 2020, Rabash, Letter Number 36. 

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Reader: Hello, we will read from the writings of Rabash, an article on the subject of Sukkot.

M. Laitman: (00:48) Well, that's not how we start our lessons – we need to give some introduction to this. We are coming closer to the next stage in our correction; we went through preparations for all kinds of things. We learned about the shattering in the summer and, later on, we got closer to Rosh Hashanah – Selichot, forgiveness, and then Rosh Hashanah. And we went through Yom Kippur, that is, we learned about all of these stages in the correction of the soul, that all of those holy days that we celebrate in this world, these are symbols, signs, referring to what we actually have to perform inside of us. And this pertains to each and every person on his path to the correction of his soul – those who feel a need to correct themselves in order to come closer, to discover the Creator; and to be with Him in connection, in adhesion, so they perform these actions, they try to perform these actions. Now, after we learned together how we try to distance ourselves from our ego, from the will to receive in order to receive which is what Yom Kippurim symbolizes for us; now we're entering the correction. Yom Kippurim symbolizes for us a kind of restriction, Tzimtzum, where we don't use anything in our will to receive. This sign for the prohibition to use the will to receive is the prohibition for eating, drinking, wearing leather shoes, etc., washing. 

So, after we performed a restriction on our will to receive and we don't want to use it towards others or towards the Creator but only in the form of bestowal, now we are entering the next stage: How do we acquire this form of bestowal, to bestow in order to bestow? Where we finally are going to perform on our will to receive which is already clean of our ego, of the in order to receive. Now we want to use it in order to bestow, to give, to come closer to the form of the Creator. Then if this correction that we have to perform on the will to receive is that we have to cover our will to receive. Because besides the will to receive we have nothing, even if we want to give something to someone, we still use our will to receive,. We just have to invert it so that it will want to give, and if, when it wants to give, if it is willing to give something on the outside but in order to receive inside, in other words, in order for it to feel good as a result, that's something else. We perform such actions in this world, and by that, we don't change the nature of the action, we're still receiving. How can we perform actions where we truly, through the will to receive, we actually rise above it, and we give. And this action is completely equivalent, equal to giving, as if we have the Creator's power of bestowal, even though we remain in our own will to receive.

(05:19) So, to perform such corrections on our will to receive, so that it will enable us to perform actions of bestowal. This correction, this process, that we have to go through on ourselves, it is called, Sukkot. Sukkot comes from the word, Sechach - thatch - where we cover the will to receive after we decided on the day of Yom Kippurim not to use it. And therefore, we didn't eat, we didn't drink, we didn't and didn't and didn't. Now, we learn how this will to receive, we can invert into a Kli by which we will be able to come closer to bestowal, to an act of bestowal, to acts of Bina, to an act of faith. The symbol for this is the Sukkah from the word, Sechach - thatch, or Kisui - cover, that we want to cover our ego, our will to receive. That we already decided that with it we cannot enter spirituality as it is—that's on the one hand. On the other hand, we have nothing besides that. It is us, so how can we, in what form with which change, can we use it so that our action will resemble an act of bestowal? 

In order to reach an act of bestowal, we have to acquire the qualities of Bina, the quality of faith, this is what we learn regarding all of our desires. And, now, we will be studying it during this holiday called, the holiday of Sukkot. We have the first three degrees which are called: Keter, Hochma, Bina, the Rosh of the Partzuf. And besides that we have the Guf of the Partzuf, the seven Sefirot: Chesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, and Malchut. So, we need to know, how do we work with all of our desires in order to make them similar to the Ten Sefirot so that out of these Ten Sefirot we will perform actions of bestowal, each to the other in our Tens. And, later on, out of them, to the Creator until we will discover that in that same structure that we create between us called, Sukkah, a tabernacle. Sukkah is the connection between us, the soul that we put together when it reaches a state of mutual bestowal and it is filled with the light of Hassadim, the light of faith or the shadow of faith. Shadow because we make a Masach, a screen above us. We don't want to receive anything from the Creator besides wanting to bestow like Him. This is the first correction after we made a Tzimtzum, a restriction, on Yom Kippur and now we will try to to learn how we do it. There are certainly many details in order to make our will to receive resemble – well, at least in bestow in order to bestow – resembling, to resemble the Creator. There are many details in there but that's already work in practice, not with restrictions the way it was before in abstaining and distancing ourselves from the will to receive. Now, we're engaging in change, changing the will to receive a little bit. We try from it, above it, to build actions of bestowal, to already resemble the Creator to some extent; how can we do that?

(10:19) Well, actually, we are a will to receive and the Creator, the light, is the opposite of the will to receive. He is the will to bestow so in order to have contact with Him, we need to build, above our will to receive, a shield so that we don't receive light from the Creator directly because this is forbidden following Tzimtzum Aleph, the first restriction. It will simply burn us and, therefore, we have to build above ourselves, a Masach. This Masach that we build so that the upper light, the Creator, will not shine on us directly, it is called, Schach, thatch – actually, it is a Masach or a shield. I don't want to be in direct contact with the Creator because, well, first of all, it is forbidden, it is impossible, it won't give me any nearing to the Creator. And I will become a Klipa, a shell, a will to receive that just wants to receive and then it is in darkness. Rather, if I truly want to have contact with the Creator, I need to build above myself a Masach, a partition, and this partition will not allow me to have direct contact with the Creator because I am the will to receive and I only want to receive and the Creator is the will to bestow. Then, I want to have, between us, equivalence in our qualities and this is why I make a Tzimtzum, restriction on my will to receive and I don't use it. First of all, I don't use it the way it is, that's it. Then I start thinking that all of my actions should be only that I protect myself, shield myself, so that I do not use it in order to receive. This is considered that I'm building a thatch. A kind of a ceiling above me so that beneath it, beneath this ceiling, beneath this thatch, I want to hide. There are laws as to how I build this thatch out of desires and intentions, out of my actions with the friends, etc. When I build this thatch, I have to place it on the sides so we have to build these sides on us. On what height should I build these sides, from which materials of this world can I build the Sukkah which would symbolize for me the spiritual Sukkah? 

Sometimes, although it is a spiritual Sukkah, we sometimes speak in terms of this world so it would be easier for us to explain, what is it that we have to do inside, which actions. This is how we will advance together in order to build the Sukkah. A person who is in a Sukkah, that's our will to receive – Adam, a man, is our will to receive who is inside of such a wrapping. That he already makes upon himself a Tzimtzum, Masach, Ohr Hozer, restriction, screen and reflected light. Then, he sits beneath the Sukkah and whatever he receives from the Creator, it is considered that he is receiving the light of Hassadim. By this, he's building a Kli of Bina, his vessel of faith above reason, the very first spiritual Kli that we have to build. Then, when we start to build this Kli, we start to feel inside of it the qualities of the Creator and the qualities of bestowal. Not yet spiritual attainments in the light of Hochma that later will come inside of the light of Hassadim but, for the time being, only the light of Hassadim. It's what we establish within us under the thatch because we are covered because we cover ourselves beneath the thatch. And we should feel ourselves as being a Ten under the thatch – all of us, together, are inside of the Sukkah, inside of the thatch and we connect there.

(15:57) Above us, we build this thatch, the Masach since we don't want to receive from the Creator anything besides only to resemble Him in the quality of bestowal. And that quality of bestowal we establish between us, the Ten friends that are beneath the thatch. And, by this, we reach the realization of the first spiritual Kli; this is what the Sukkah symbolizes for us. There are additional details there, we will study it, we have more than ten days ahead of us to study these things. They are very important, there is enough materials about it because, by this, we have to build the Kli of faith above reason, the Kli of Bina. And to know how we are entering together into this Kli, how we put it together, establish it. And it is all—these are all the things that we need to do. Let's hope that we will be able to understand this, to explain it to one another. And this way we will advance to actually the first spiritual degree that we will try to achieve, to implement. We have lots of materials, many essays. This is a very exciting process because it is the beginning of the construction of the soul, the beginning of the construction of the spiritual Kli. And, finally, we want to reach a state where we will acquire faith above reason. We have to understand what is the Masach, which is the Sechach, the thatch. How do we do it, what are the qualities of this Masach, of this thatch also, and when are we supposed to sit inside of the Sukkah? Is it allowed to come out of the Sukkah, meaning of this Kli or only to be inside of it all the time. And always and we only add to this Kli more and more discernments, all of these things we will have to study. And we have lessons in the morning and we have lessons in the evening – in the evening, we usually probably repeat the materials that we study in the morning. Maybe add a little bit because it's not worthwhile for us to leave this issue of Sukkot, all of this time that, now, we were in, this time, now. We should take advantage of this time in order to reach the vessel of faith.

M. Laitman: I don't see any questions and, therefore, yes, maybe we will just read and according to the materials, they will ask questions. Because all in all this is a very new topic, maybe for most of them. Again, out of our study, we would like to create connection between us in the Tens and a connection between the Tens, that is, into the general Kli of the worldwide Bnei Baruch. Both the men and the women and later on also our general Kli, the worldwide Kli with the whole of humanity. Since the whole world, in the end, has to enter the Sukkah of Peace, Peace, Shalom means, Shlemot – wholeness – into a Masach that gives us wholeness in our life, in our existence, in our spiritual attainment, in resembling the Creator, being in adhesion with Him. Let's hope that we will study this, and slowly, we shouldn't be running here because this is the Kli that we need. It's not that it's a stage on the way to some next state. But, rather, if we establish this Kli called, a Sukkah, later on, we just add to this Kli all of the things that we need to have until this Kli expands. Inside of it, we discover the whole of reality and we reach the whole of humanity which is inside of the Sukkah covered with this special Masach, and the Creator is above us; that way, through the Masach, we are connected with Him in mutual bestowal, mutual love.

Question (BB UK): (21:57) I was always under the impression that the thatch is made from scrap or refuse. What is that, first of all, do I have that? What is that refuse in a Ten, how does a Ten utilize that? 

M. Laitman: Write down this question, put it on the side, we will study it. We will study it really well; yes, but it's a correct question and we will study it. It is very important. 

Question (Beer Sheva): (22:44) How is the vessel we build in Sukkot different to what we build in Yom Kippur from the Ten Sefirot? 

M. Laitman: On Yom Kippur, we build the Kli through Tzimtzum, restriction. We prepare the Kli, there is no building there. There are upper forces that we ask that the Creator will give us so that we will disconnect from our will to receive. So, there is no construction of the Kli there. These are stages in order to come closer to the construction of the Kli but it is still not construction, it is seemingly the opposite, restrictions. We don't receive – no, no, no. That's what we have.

Question (Queens): (23:38) You emphasized that the Masach, seemingly, has the quality of Hassadim, and thanks to that, we connect in the group and enter the Sukkah. So, this direct light has to go through the Masach, otherwise, there will be a shattering?

M. Laitman: No, we are not studying these things yet. There is something to what you are saying but we need to learn how to learn about it and correct it – don't jump ahead. You see, I am being cautious, I am only giving you an introduction to what we are about to study, so don't spoil my introduction. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (24:25) According to what you said, let’s say we came to some part of the restriction on Yom Kippur, let's say. After that, what does it mean that we build this Sukkah? What, we develop the love between us in the Ten above what we feel, the actual thatch? 

M. Laitman: No, it's not that we're about to achieve love between us – it's not about love. Rather, we want to rise above our ego and to be in the form of mutual bestowal, it's not yet love. Love is considered when we are in a state of receiving in order to bestow, when we use the vessels of reception. To feel love, you need the vessels of reception;  here, we're only acquiring vessels of bestowal in order, let's say, not to touch one another with our ego, to keep our ego so that it won't harm us, hinder us. We want to rise and bestow but not more, not more. Therefore, we are beneath the thatch, beneath the Masach so that we hardly see the light that passes through it, the light from above, from the sun. This way, we symbolize, for the time being, our spiritual degree, how we are capable of being connected with the Creator, which is bestowal. That He wants to give us everything; now, we're starting to build safeguarding. That we will receive from Him only as much as we are able to bestow back to Him. For the time being, when we start on the restriction, we can only be connected with the Creator beneath the thatch. Which means that we have above us the Masach – we put branches, there, of all kinds so that light can hardly pass down to us, so that the shade needs to be more than the sun. This symbolizes for us that when we are in such a Sukkah, it symbolizes for us that we want to be under the Masach. Not to receive the light of knowledge but, rather to receive the light of Hochma that is clothed in the light of Hassidim. So that, there will be a little bit of addition there but, mostly, it would be the light of Hassidim—let's say 90% and 10% would be the light of Hochma. That is, according to how much we are capable of, according to the intensity, the power of the Hassidim. Later on, we will receive the light of Hochma but that will only come later and also it's not in Sukkot. Sukkah, it’s considered the shade of faith, shade of faith. 

Student: Can it be said that we build this Masach by preferring the connection to the friends over whatever else I feel, the feeling of the friends in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: That is correct.

Question (Rehovot): (28:08) How will we know in the Ten that we have mastered the process of restriction, that we're ready? 

M. Laitman: The fact that we want to relate to each other only in order to strengthen the friends on the path, only in order to make connections between us that are stronger. This is considered that we rise above the Tzimtzum, the restriction between us; that I don't want to receive anything from the friends but only to have the power, the opportunity, the possibility to create more connections between us. Like with a rope. This is how I want to tie more and more connections between us.

Question (PT 25): (29:12) The Masach or the thatch, is that an action where we keep adding? Does it keep going on? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, yes, it is ongoing work because, all the time, our will to receive that is broken as a result of the shattering, entirely broken. It is revealed through this special engine that is bringing us closer to the end of correction. This is why each moment we can feel, this is why we feel changes related to time as we are alive. That each time, desires and thoughts and actions and the whole world is changing – how does that happen? It's through our desires that rise from the shattering and they reach our understanding, our awareness. Through them, through these desires, we see a new world—another moment, another moment, another moment, everything changes, everything is new. In such a way, we advance, this is why, now, our collective advancement is in building a Sukkah. A state in which we want to bring the whole of humanity into it, and it doesn't matter that they don't understand it, they don't know. They also will not know and will not understand, most of humanity is on the still degree. We have the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking, also in the human race, we belong to the speaking degree. And beneath us, we also have the animate, the vegetative, and the still of the human race, of mankind. So, we will try to bring as many of them as possible, to bring them closer to us but we should know that besides men, we have to correct all the rest, just like we build the Sukkah. All the rest, we take them and from them we build these components, the ingredients, the carriers of the Sukkah so by that, they take part in it. We will see how they will take part through all of these troubles that are now coming will greatly influence humanity; and humanity in the end will bow their head and they will agree with everything that is happening. They will come and they will actually tell us, do whatever you see fit as you understand it, we just want to be under your influence. It will happen soon.

Question (Moscow 3): (32:12) Can the Ten actually demand it? Give us a Masach, restriction, Masach, reflected light—can that be a prayer? 

M. Laitman: Certainly, the prayer can come from the Ten with a demand to the Creator – we want it this way, we want it that way, give us this, explain to us that, that can be. But only on the condition that it will be in the right path, in the right time; that is, are you asking for something that you deserve, now? Let's say a baby is crying and he wants to eat but it doesn't demand some piece of meat because besides milk, he cannot accept anything. First of all, it is about the nature of what you want to receive, that's one thing; second, is that he wants something that doesn't harm him; third, is that he's asking correctly so that the mother would know – even though, usually, she does know but maybe she wants him to know how to ask so that he will learn, so that he will advance towards her, etc. There are a few conditions here but if you understand these conditions pretty much, then turning to the Creator is a Mitzvah, a commandment. This is the only thing He's waiting for, that you will turn to Him.

Question (Tel Aviv 3): (33:41) Is it possible that we've come to the first stage of spirituality that you talked about in the introduction to the lesson and we're not aware of it? Because the years have been passing and we know, perhaps we've come to something but we're not aware of it. In short, the question is, is it possible that we are in a state that you're talking about but are unaware of it? 

M. Laitman: We are actually even in the end of correction; however, the question is, are we in all of these spiritual states under our control so that we are in control of them? The Creator wants us to, seemingly, build reality out of this broken reality that He has brought to us. As if, just like we bring inside a box from the shop, from the store, we bring, what do you call it? The puzzle—we bring the puzzle to the kid, and we want him to put it together. We are willing to sit next to him and together with him, seemingly, to do it, but we want him to do it, why? Because, by him putting together these things, he starts to understand how it works. He starts to be in control over creation, he starts to be like the Creator. When he finishes the puzzle, then he becomes like the Creator and he reaches adhesion with Him, understanding, awareness, eternity, wholeness, just like the upper force, that's the purpose. We perform many actions of preparation, now, we're advancing and going forward in a more methodical way, because only now are we entering a state called, the last generation. 

Student: Nevertheless, is there a possibility that some Ten in the world Kli is in that state? 

M. Laitman: As much as I understand it, no; if you're talking about true correction? No.

Student: We're at the lowest, lowest layer?

M. Laitman: The lowest layer, that's not a problem; soon, we will also be in such states. I'm asking of you, please come down and come along with us and let's continue. Thank God we're still together!

Question (Turkiye 3): (36:41) What is meant, this feast, this holiday for Kabbalah wisdom? We see the effects of religions, can you explain? 

M. Laitman: This holiday is called, Sukkot in the wisdom of Kabbalah. The Sukkah, tabernacle – how shall I say – Sukkah is that we build Shalash, in Russian, what do you call it in English? Well, a temporary home, a temporary home, residence where if I take a stroll in the forest and I want to build some structure for a single night, let's say, like a hut. I take a few branches from the trees, I cover them and I sit inside like this, you know, one meter each side and this is called, a Sukkah. You can build a big Sukkah, you can build it to be tall. But actually, Sukkah means a temporary residence, a temporary place where a person is. We will learn why it is only transient, why it's forbidden to build a Sukkah, something that is strong and make it like a house. No, you should actually make it as something that is temporary; we will see why it has to be so. We will reach that. 

However, what else would I like to add to for the friends in Turkey, is that we are learning these things gradually on the path: The way that we should build the Kli and arrange ourselves so that we will somehow match ourselves to these stages. We went through the recognition of evil, then we went through, what is this evil, which is a will to receive, and we must not use it, this is called, the day of Yom Kippur, the day of atonement. Then we went through and now we're going through – well, before that – we had Rosh Hashanah, where we made up our mind that we were going on the path. And, now, after making the Tzimtzum, restriction, Yom Kippur, we are building the Kli – the Kli of Bina, to bestow, in order to bestow. Later on, we will also reach the general, complete Kli of receiving in order to bestow. We want to reach a state where we discover the Creator who is dwelling in the whole of reality. And we feel Him and understand Him, we have direct contact with the upper force Who is managing the whole of reality. And we will be in constant, permanent contact, connection with Him, and the whole of humanity should reach that. Then, this world rises above its corporeality; corporeality disappears wherever we now live and what we feel and we rise to the true, spiritual degree. There, this is where we need to exist, eternally. 

Question (PT 8): (40:35) For many years, we've worked together, in this time of the year, building a Sukkah, we built the largest one in the world. Yesterday, I got to be in the equipment shed and I looked at all the cables and all the equipment, it was like a point in ancient history. What is the reason we went from such a strongly physical state of working together and, certainly, there was great importance, great excitement in that. Now, each one sits in his own square on the monitor, and we do everything internally and everything is lying there in the tool shed and the warehouse.

M. Laitman: Doesn't your heart ache? 

Student: Actually, no, I feel happy, we are together preparing for Sukkot in a lesson. Many years, we used to work physically up there, and there was great inspiration. All the friends together, the World Kli, would come to Israel. 

M. Laitman: That is true, we don't quite understand what these changes—we don't understand these changes that we're going through – on the one hand, we do miss that. We do miss it, things, where we sit together and we sing and we eat and we do all kinds of things, it is missing. That's on the one hand, on the other hand, we have to understand why the Creator took it away from us. He truly, forcefully took it away and He's not giving us this possibility. Even if we will sit, we will have to sit following these laws of the coronavirus – keeping a distance of two meters from each other, etc. In short, He is not allowing it, He's not allowing it. Apparently, this is the form that we have to fill ourselves in for the time being, we're not capable of being close to one another. We will recognize, we will get to know that our ego, our will to receive is not allowing us, not giving us the ability to come closer. We will correct it until this whole partition of the coronavirus will be canceled and we will be able to truly be in an embrace, a true embrace with one another, no matter where we are. 

That is, through the corrections that we are going to do now, we will rise above the corporeality to the degree of bestowing in order to bestow. And then we will no longer feel the physical distances between us. Indeed, we will be under a single thatch, in a single Sukkah. All of the worldwide Bnei Baruch and, later on the whole world will enter into the Sukkah. Apparently, this is what we have to do and this is why we are in such a state where, on the one hand, it is truly a shame about the way it was before. But everything that the Lord does, everything that He did and does, it is all for the better and we have to accept these states in such a way and continue onward. So, on the one hand, there is sorrow – I do feel some sorrow about what is happening about the fact that we've lost something from the past. And we invested so much in the Sukkah and in all of these things. And we will see if next year we would be able to build this Sukkah, or maybe we will already feel the Sukkah – and for sure we do want to feel the true spiritual Sukkah. It's called, the Sukkah of Peace, Sukkat Shalom. 

Student: The state you're describing, well, that's a blessing. If so, then it's very good, it's a new degree. We now have to attain something internal, something that will include all people in the world. 

M. Laitman: I'm telling you that on the one hand, for sure this is how I see things, but on the other hand, there is also something where we were able to do it physically to have some kind of connection between us, and we lost that as well. Maybe, for sure, it is to our benefit that we will reach a higher spiritual form. But it seems to me that that physical form, also, either it will come back to us. We won't until we reach the complete correction, but if we do reach the complete correction, it is considered that we reach Sukkat Shalom, the Sukkah of the entire world. Where the whole of humanity is entering beneath the screen, the Masach, and this Masach would be to bestow in order to bestow also to receive in order to bestow, that is the true Sukkah, the Sukkah of David. Because King David, Malchut, becomes corrected in receiving in order to bestow. So that the Masach above it is not separating but rather connecting everyone who is beneath the Masach with the Creator Who is on the outside. And then He comes to us as a guest into our Sukkah, He also fills us and He adds to the light of Hassadim His light of Hochma – Himself. Well, all of this we will study, how do we do it, how do we reach these stages, and hopefully, we won't only learn it but actually implement it in practice.

Question (Ashkelon): (47:31) Can you remind us: What is this special state called Yeshiva, sitting? We're also studying now sitting under the Masach of the teacher?

M. Laitman: Sitting, that means that we don't stand, we sit, we sit either on the floor, on the ground, or we sit on a stone as it was in the past, or a chair, or on a sofa. There's all kinds of ways to sit, but sitting means, Katnut – smallness – where I diminish myself, I have no legs, no vessels of reception, yes? Where I'm like a baby who cannot use his feet, his legs, so, that's what we mean by sitting. So, anyone who's in a state of sitting, he's willing to restrict himself, diminish himself, and by that, he's ready to enter into connection with the others, that's the meaning of sitting. And everyone has to sit together in a circle under the thatch, and I hope we actually come to that.

Question (Florida): (48:56) Can we say that when we build the Sukkah, we build, we in fact build the Partzuf, that is, the Tzimtzum of Yom Kippur? 

M. Laitman: Correct. After Yom Kippur, after the restriction we now start building the Partzuf, although in Katnut, in smallness, under the thatch, only with the light of Hassidim. But this is the beginning of the construction of the Partzuf, correct.

Question (PT 8): (49:36) Actions that we were not able to correctly implement virtually, one of them is the meal. How, if at all, can we bridge the gaps? I mean, it's a very important spiritual action that we are failing in implementing, what should we do? 

M. Laitman: We don't do any of it because you don't deserve it; this is what we can now do, this is what the Creator is allowing us to do for now, because we deserve nothing more – that's how it is. 

Question (Hungarian): (51:09) Can we simply say that the Masach is actually the coffer we hide behind the friends in the Ten, and that we relate to the Creator by serving the others? 

M. Laitman: The Masach is the power to resist our will. As we learn in the Preface to The Wisdom of Kabbalah – or in TES – we learn what the Masach is. You have the will to receive and upon it, you have to make a restriction so as not to use the will to receive, completely. And then we say, no, we can use the will to receive a little bit, otherwise how can we ever come into contact with the Creator? But on the will to receive, we place a Masach, a screen, a Masach which is restriction; and then a Masach where we can use the will to receive if it works in order to bestow, that's the meaning of the Masach. The Masach is the power to resist the will to receive in its direct form, the will to receive. But if I use it in order to bestow to the Host, then that's permissible. When I'm sitting facing the Host, and there's refreshments in front of me, and I say, no, no, no, no, thank you to the Host, I don't want any of it, I'm not hungry, and so on. Later, I tell Him, look, I understand that this isn't nice, so I take something, I take a little something off the plate, right, some delicacy I take it and I eat. What do I eat? Meaning, I receive pleasure from Him, but my thought is that by this, I give Him pleasure, I delight Him. 

So, the reception of the pleasure, I must enjoy what I receive from Him, but I wrap this pleasure up, the pleasure that I receive from Him, it's wrapped up. It's all for Him, and then I feel the pleasure that I receive; I feel that it's wrapped around with my Ohr Hoser, reflected light. And in such a way it can enter my will to receive, and then I enjoy both the refreshments and the fact that I've given contentment or pleasure to the Host. So, I have two forms of pleasure that I receive in this way. And in that way it's permissible for us to enjoy, and in that we resemble the Creator. He gives us pleasure, and us, by receiving from Him, give Him pleasure. I have no way of giving Him pleasure unless I receive in that way, because I don't have vessels of bestowal; I only have vessels of reception. 

Question (Salt Lake City): (54:42) Spiritually, are we under the Sukkah, all year long?  

M. Laitman: From the moment we build the Sukkah, the thatch – the first Masach – and come under it with the force of bestowal. Then it can be said that we remain under it all the time through to the end of correction. But, we don't have to be under the Sukkah for over a week, because a week, it's like the 7,000 years, it's like the whole of creation. And so, if we observe this, then after this week, it's as though we're traveling with the Sukkah above us all the time. We got the Masach, we clothe ourselves with it, and we continue on with this Shiur. 

[no English translation] All of this is in order to influence. And so after Sukkot, we have a holiday called Hanukkah, when we actually reach the level of building and then to the general correction, which is Purim. 

We'll go through all these stages. faith above reason, again in practice, and the Sukkah symbolizes this for us, the shade of faith.

Question (PT 29): (57:09) Can we say that the Sukkah is like to the Garden of Eden? 

M. Laitman: No, no, and don't jump up like that. Why is it worth a while for you? Just listen to what we say and don't add any other words? 

Question (Zichron 2): (57:42) Which restriction do the people of the world need where we build a Masach and invite them to join us? What restriction did all the people of the world go through so that we are building a Masach and inviting them to join us? 

M. Laitman: Guys, let me tell you, I have this blacklist where I put people who have bad microphones, and then I never let them ask. If you try asking again, you won't get to. It's impossible this way – if you all disregard the connection between us, then I disregard the connection with you, I have no choice. This is the only way I can teach you. Fix your microphone and ask another time.

Question (Rehovot): (58:46) You said that inside of the Sukkah, there's the feeling of the light of Hassadim, which is the Kli of above reason. Can we say that the light of Hassadim is that I ascribe each and everything to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, of course.

Question (Haver): (59:11) What is the meaning of a spiritual meal in the Sukkah, together? 

M. Laitman: A meal means to receive in order to bestow. All those lights, the fulfillment you receive, and so, the Seuda, the meal, especially as a Ten that we hold under the Sukkah. It symbolizes the connection between us with the common Masach above us, we enter a connection with the Creator, and we receive from Him in order to bestow – it's a great thing.

Question (PT 27): (59:51) Can I continue the scrutiny that you had with the Electricity Department about physical versus virtual? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: We see, and it's very conspicuous, that over many years we performed many actions with our hands and legs – people put in a lot of effort, exertion. And now things are taking on a different form, we see it in Congresses, we saw it in Rosh HaShana, in Yom Kippur, now in Sukkot. What should we learn from that? Besides this transition from externality to internality, what is the most significant thing that has to change in us? 

M. Laitman: With all our energies, with all our strength, as we used to have a big Sukkah, where we could receive any guest, anyone who came. We very much hope to create such a Sukkah in an even more meaningful way during this holiday of Sukkot, in our connection all around the world. Where we let our mind, emotion, our imagination, our vessels of sensation, such an impression, where we feel that we are sitting in the Sukkah together, all of us, all the world.

Student: So, this is something that we should include in our intention, in our thoughts, or how do we do it? 

M. Laitman: We need to be together and to imagine to ourselves that we are together in one heart, with a single thought, under the single Creator, under a single screen, Masach. Where we don't want to receive from Him but only to bestow to each other and to Him, and that's what we'll build. You wait, we have a few days, and we will prepare ourselves and we will constantly try to do such exercises, and perhaps we will attain the essence, the meaning of the spiritual Sukkah. Because, again, there is nothing that comes from the heavens for no reason, which is redundant, right? It all comes in order to promote us. You're elevated in holiness, never demoted, and I very much hope that we're going to attain something new. Although with that, I will tell you that I greatly regret the fact that we're not together in the Sukkah as we had it, because that corporeality also attested to something. I remember how much Rabash was concerned about his Sukkah. How he would build all the decorations and everything – all sorts of things – and how he related to the Sukkah with awe, right? And here, today, we are as if neutered, but that's not actually true. We will be able to build these things in our hearts, in our sensations if we learn, we study good and well. We have ten days and we will build, constantly build in our knowledge, in our feelings, in our imagination. Wherever we can and however, we will build our first spiritual vessel called the Sukkah. 

Reader: (01:03:45) I think that this question keeps coming up. On the one hand, you say, that's what I hear at least, that it's good that we are on a new degree, how beautiful it is that we're now building it in such a way. On the other hand, I also regret very much that we can't do it physically. So, how do we hold this? It's good, and a joy together with I really regret it?

M. Laitman: I think that all we have today are conditions, which force us to work spiritually, in a spiritual way. We don't have the option to now occupy ourselves with all the wood and iron, right? And that is a lot of work, instead, we have to invest all that effort into the construction of a spiritual connection between us. And that's right, that's how it was done from above, and we have to accept it as advancement. It's the next stage – we moved up a grade. Now, we need to build the connection between us, called the Sukkah, with all its details and to invest all of our time and effort in scrutinizing this connection between us. Because by that, we build a vessel called faith above reason, which is the first spiritual vessel in which we feel that we are in a connection with the Creator through the thatch. And that we are connected with each other, and in practice, we enter the spiritual state. And that's why this option was taken from us, the option of building a Sukkah, as we used to. And we will do it more humbly, each one in his own house if he can, and that's what we will do. 

Student: How do we convert, transform, all the forces that we invested? We used to really invest, like the friend said before, days upon days in building this and all of it. How do we take all of these forces and direct them to what you now talked about, building the spiritual thing? 

M. Laitman: That's what we all need to think, especially those who used to build and knew what needs to be done. They invested days and nights into this, to build it, and so on; yes, we need to do that, we need to transfer all these things to spirituality, spiritual work. It's like today we have meals, what do we have in the meals? I drink a bottle of beer and, I don't know, maybe a sandwich I eat something, and that's sufficient. It used to be big meals where we sit together and sing. We need to bring all of the difficulty of this undertaking into spirituality.  

Question (ITA 4): (01:07:24) Can you give us some advice on how to build this Sukkah in the Ten through the spiritual work that you were talking about today? 

M. Laitman: We will learn that together, that's something that's still ahead of us to do.

Question (Haifa 1): (01:07:46) In order to reach the right prayer between us in the Ten through connection, in order to be rewarded with this force called faith above reason. The friend read in the preparation excerpt that we have to depict it as if we are already there. How can we connect these two states between, as if, and reaching the right prayer, what's the connection between the two of them? 

M. Laitman: We need to play at it as if – you know, like children. And by that, we invite the reforming light, and it builds these qualities in us in truth. And that's how we reach the truth, s, acting or playing, that's a very serious thing, and we need to use it. It's clear to us that it's all an act but in these relationships we have in the group, we understand that we're still egoistic. But it's as though we're together, as though we want to help each other – as if we want to rise above our ego. And from all of these make-believe efforts, and we do want to help each other because we understand that we depend on each other. We raise a prayer to the Creator, and all of this is egoistic and all as if, yes? But by that, we draw the reforming light. And then from as if, it becomes the truth.

Reader: We will now move to studying with friends, and before that we'll sing a song. Shalom, friends. 

Song: (01:09:37)