The transcript has been transcribed and edited from English simultaneous interpretation, thus there may be potential semantic inaccuracies within it.

Daily Lesson (Afternoon) September 24, 2024

Part 1 Rabash. Record is. A Horse to Ride On

Hello, we're reading from the book writings of Rabash, part 3, on the page 1,642, an article called A Horse to Ride On. You can also find it on our website and Sviva Tova

Reading Article: (00:28) A Horse to Ride On 

The fathers are the Merkava [chariot/structure], as it is written, “And the Lord rose above Abraham.” The horse thinks that the owner gives it all its needs because he loves it like his sons. So why are the sons at home while it is in the stable? It is because it will make the house dirty. This is why the owner places it outside the house in its designated place.

However, the fact that the owner provides for the horse’s needs is not because of love, but in order for the horse to serve it. Otherwise, he would not pay attention to the horse.

The lesson is that when a person feels that he is the owner of the body, he tells the body, “I give you everything you need not because I love you. Rather, I give you everything so that you can serve the Creator. Everything that you receive is only to the extent that I can aim that it will benefit the Creator. Otherwise, I would not receive anything for you.”.

This is the meaning of the Masach [screen] and Ohr Hozer [Reflected Light], when we receive all the pleasures to the extent that it benefits the Creator. This is called “in order to bestow.”

M. Laitman: (02:42) What from here can we understand? 

Moderator: That we are the horse. 

M. Laitman: Yes. Let's read it once again. Yes. 

Re-reading Article: (02:59) A Horse to Ride On

M. Laitman: (05:15) It is an article, even though it is short and simple, but it has everything in it.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:30) The big question is how to detach ourselves from the horse, from the body, so that we would control it, so that we would say that we give it everything it needs in order to serve the Creator, and not that He is me. So, how do I detach myself from this horse, from the body, in order to serve the upper purpose? 

M. Laitman: The horse thinks that if the owner gives him everything he needs, it is because he loves him. That is the reason. Yes, like his sons. And why do the sons stay in the owner's house when he is in the stable? He writes it’s because the horse can make the house dirty. Therefore, the owner puts him outside the house, in its designated place. This is how the horse thinks. 

The owner thinks that the horse deserves it because it is a horse, and the horse thinks he deserves to be in the house. Because the owner is judging him in such a way that he could dirty up the house, he understands that the owner does it this way, not according to the will of the owner, but according to the nature of the horse. 

The owner tells his body that I give you everything you need, not because I love you, rather, I give you everything so that you can serve the Creator. 

But the horse is... We're not even talking about him. Everything that you receive is only to the extent that I can aim that it will benefit the Creator. Otherwise, I would not receive anything for you. 

How does the horse feel that he has such a great fall here, a descent? This is the meaning of Masach, screen, and Or Hozer, reflected light. When he receives all the pleasures, all the conditions, to the extent that it will be to the benefit of the Creator. This is called in order to bestow. That's it. Nowhere does the owner think the horse benefits, but rather that the Creator benefits. And that, in essence, is his approach.

And this is the meaning of the Masach and Or Hozer, screen and reflected light. When we receive all the pleasures to the extent that it benefits the Creator. This is what they call in order to bestow. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (09:43) How do I raise myself to a degree so that I would control the horse, and not for the horse to control me? So that not the body and bodily functions would control me. I would give the horse what it needs to serve me and work.

M. Laitman: You have here room to work on the intention, that both ways you would have given something to the horse. In such a way, you give the horse what it needs in order to do the work, and in such a manner, the horse feels that he must do for the sake of the Creator. Otherwise, he wouldn't have received anything from the owner. Even though the owner respects him, and it could be that he even loves him, but the owner works only on the intention.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:25) Rav, what did you learn from this example? 

M. Laitman: How each and every one, both the owner and the horse, receives by having between them the relationship of the owner and the one who is owned by him. How the Creator organizes each one in his own place.

Question (Turkiye 2): (12:44) It says in the article that I give you all you need to serve the Creator so that the Creator would benefit from it. Everything is around it. Can we define what is benefit for the Creator and can we measure it somehow? 

M. Laitman: For the benefit of the Creator, we understand that we're giving to the Creator a place to work, a place for Him to be revealed towards us, a place where He will correct the entire creation, that it's within the ability and desire and strength of the Creator to perform. And that's it. 

Question (Moscow 4): (13:45) If you read this article without a certain preparation, the article incites a person to think: Now I'll start tuning my body for it only to bestow to the Creator. Working on your body is not going to work. You can just drown there. So, is it for a layman, for your everyday person, or a specific person and his horse? 

M. Laitman: We're talking about a private person and a private horse. 

Student: So, doesn't it work like this, as if we work outside for the Creator, but then we receive the light that corrects my horse and my desire to receive. It's not that we affect our horse directly.

M. Laitman: Yes, you can. The fact that the owner provides for the horse is normal. But if he's providing for him, then why isn't he keeping him inside the house, but in the stables instead? Because in the house, the horse can break everything and make the house dirty. Therefore, the owner keeps the horse in his designated suitable place. But the fact that the owner nevertheless builds a place for the horse and puts him there, that's only for the horse to serve him.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have placed him there to begin with. So, from here, it turns out that the owner, the person, feels that he is the owner of his body, that his body is here is an analogy for the horse, that the owner says to the body, I give you food and, in general, I take care of you, not because I love you, but because you can serve the Creator.

I cannot serve the Creator in a direct manner only through you. And what you receive, that you receive only to the extent and into the aim that you also need to direct yourself to the Creator. Therefore, if you work in such a manner, then you are fulfilling my intention and continue my actions for the sake or for the benefit of the Creator. Therefore, it is counted as if the horse belongs to his owner, and he receives everything from him in order for it to be a benefit for the Creator, and that's what we call in order to bestow. 

Student: So, it's okay for the person with his private desire to receive, to talk to it, to convince it and attune it? 

M. Laitman: Yes, of course. Exactly in such a manner. He shows the good actions for the sake of the Creator, for him and for the horse in that instance. 

Student: How does a person know what kind of restriction should he put on his horse right now? 

M. Laitman: For that he needs to know his horse and do everything that is good for the good work that the horse will perform. He doesn't think about the Creator, he doesn't think about himself, he doesn't think about the horse. He thinks about how, through the horse, to do a good action for the sake of the Creator. 

Student: What if, as a result of those restrictions, the horse starts to act badly? 

M. Laitman: He needs to organize him. He's either sick, or he's spoiled, or something happens with him. He needs to understand that what the person does with him is a necessity. 

Question (English 1): (20:03) The separation of the body from the true self, the allegory of the horse in the stable and the man in the house. How do we start to do that? Can we keep saying to ourselves, “I’m not my body; you are something else. Can you start with simple things like that? 

M. Laitman: Yes. As we see here, according to the article, as it is written, Baal HaSulam says that the horse thinks that he gives him everything because he loves him, like his sons of the owner. And why are the sons at home while he is in the stable, if that's the case? Why doesn't he receive from the owner the same conditions? Because it will make the house dirty. That's why the owner places it outside the house in its designated place.

However, the fact that the owner provides for the horse's needs is not because of love, but in order for the horse to serve it. Otherwise, he would not pay attention to the horse. That's it. Now, the fact that the owner gives his son from the bottom of his heart, and to his horse, a little less. Let's say he loves the horse a little bit, but to the horse, as if it's a horse, and to the son, as if they are his sons. And it turns out that the horse cannot be in similar conditions towards the owner, because he doesn't have the same relation towards the owner as the owner has towards his sons. And that's the difference. 

Now, why doesn't the horse demand more from the owner, like the sons? Why can't the owner love him like he loves his sons? And here we need to say that he is incapable of loving the horse, on his part, towards the owner, as the sons of the owner relate to the owner. They cannot be in a similar relationship.

Student: Another question. For those who don't know what bestowal is, how do we even approach it? What advice would you give to those who struggle with bestowal, if approaching the idea? 

M. Laitman: The fact that a person does not feel where, in his case, are the sons of the owner, where is the horse, where is the stable, the designated place of the horse, where is the house of the owner and the sons, and all the relationship between them, that's the problem of the person who wants to understand this short story. That's it. Here you cannot relate to it in a different manner. Everything needs to be according to what is written.

The sons have a demand towards the owner, their father, because he gave birth to them, he brought them up, and they have no other choice. They come to him with that demand. But the horse cannot come to the owner with the same demand. It only shows the owner what he wants, and if the owner would like to, he will give to the horse, and if not, then he won't. That's the great difference between the feeling of the horse and the owner.

Question (Tbilisi): (25:04) There is a clear state of the fact that I have the worst qualities, and I have accepted this. This is the way I was born in this world. But there is also a bonus, upside to this. The Creator Himself has thrown a life-saving raft to me, and there are Rav and sources and the friends. So how do I, from the state that I want to crawl out of, and to bring contentment upon the Creator at the same time, how do I achieve the middle line through it? What kind of work do I have to do? 

M. Laitman: The Creator gave you a heart, and you, with the help of the heart, need to feel where you are located, either inside the house, with the owner and the Creator, or outside the house, without the owner, without the Creator. Or you are like a horse, where you are given whatever you deserve, and nothing more than that. Here it all depends on where you see yourself. The Creator wants us to see ourselves next to Him, together with Him, in His house.

Student: When I'm with you, with the friends, this is where I am, but I still cannot bring contentment upon the Creator, so I want to crawl out of this awful, terrible state that I'm in. 

M. Laitman: Well, I don't know. I truly don't see in me something bad, that you can go to the Creator and complain with it. You are given everything that is given to a person in this world, to a special person, and we need to take it and to be grateful for it, and to make an effort to show to the Creator how we relate to Him. 

Student: No, it's the opposite. I thank the Creator, but I just want to find the right path to bring contentment upon the Creator. Annulment, I annul myself. Prayer, I pray. What else can I do in order to bring contentment upon the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Nothing more. Not beyond that. That's it. Just that. To adhere to the Creator and that's it. And that is what you do. 

Question (Women MAK 30): (28:21) Can we have an attitude towards the Ten the same way as to this horse in the article? And what's the main thing in our work in building a common Masach? 

M. Laitman: The main thing in our work is to differentiate ourselves from the Creator and from all the means of connection with the Creator, and then we can aim all that in such a way that it will be aimed towards the Creator—the connection between us, our work, the conditions we are in—that it will all point out that if we come in the right manner towards the Creator, then all these means work for us. 

Question (Women MAK 97): (29:35) Can we say that friends in the Ten are the sons of the Creator and only I am the horse? 

M. Laitman: The fact that the friends in the Ten are sons of the Creator is very good, and what about you? 

Student: And I am the only one who is a horse. Maybe the stable is apparently the Ten, but I, because I'm not corrected, then I am disconnected. And I'm trying to work in order to bestow, and by this work I'm coming closer to the stable to be together with them.

M. Laitman: Yes, that's a close picture. 

Question (MAK 24): (30:34) At the end of the article it's talking about the meaning of the screen, the Masach. Do I understand correctly that we put the screen upon our horse that it will receive enough and not more, and the rest will give to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, how do we put this Masach, screen towards the horse? Is it individually done or with the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Only to the extent of our bestowal. What's our intention of the bestowal to the Creator? Only to the measure of this intention can I bestow upon the Creator.

Student: And the group can help with that? 

M. Laitman: Of course, the group can help. 

Student: What should we do in order for us together to correct this screen? 

M. Laitman: You asked correctly, together. What can we do together? That's the whole point, together.

Question (Women Petah Tikva 33): (31:38) How can I put my will to receive outside the house if I feel that all of me is a will to receive? So, what will be left of me if I leave it outside the house? 

M. Laitman: I have a very big desire to receive, and I can use it in order to do something for the Creator's benefit, and only this desire do I'm using, only this, and whatever comes to me outside of the desire to the Creator, I don't use it. That's it, basically. 

Student: Another question. If the Creator is the owner and the horse is the will to receive so who is the I, the self? 

M. Laitman: You. The intention of the desire to bestow to the Creator through the work of the horse. 

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (33:02) How practically in the Ten do we work for the benefit of the Creator? How do we give him a place to work so he can correct all of creation? 

M. Laitman: We come to all the creation, and we see how we can help, how we can correct our work so that it would be in order to bring contentment to the Creator, and then we change our relation towards the desires, and we reach the Creator.

Student: Another question. The self is the I. Is that what reveals in what control I am and that's what decides where to belong to in the revelation of the self. of the I? Yes. Can I also ask? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (34:13) Is it talking about the necessity that the person needs to receive in order to function in the world? 

M. Laitman: No, no. It's not necessary. 

Student: So, what is it talking about? 

M. Laitman: That you have to receive everything for the sake of bestowal. What concerns spiritual work. 

Question (Petah Tikva 35): (34:42) What is the right calculation that I need to do every day anew when I know that I'm bestowing upon the Creator? 

M. Laitman: As much as you can give to the Creator, with this you work for bestowal. 

Student: The Creator gives me constant desires, and through these desires He wants to see how I am aimed towards Him. He gives me these desires through the friends. So, what desires should I tell myself that I put them to the side, and what desires should I say that I need to use this for the Creator? What are these desires that I can tell myself that for certain these are the desires I can do in order to bring benefit to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: You try to differentiate between those desires, and after you detach them from all the other desires, and you take them, and you only work for the sake of bestowal.

Student: Meaning I want to use these desires in order to strengthen the connection between us and the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes. 

Question (Women Turkiye 7): (36:20) I can understand my ego starts up and wants me, so I can return to the Creator in this certain condition. How do the tendencies within me that need to be corrected being corrected when I leave my ego outside the house? 

M. Laitman: Because you use those desires. You only use those desires in order to bring contentment upon the Creator. Otherwise, you wouldn't use them at all, and in this way, you correct them. 

Question (Women MAK 113): (37:25) We put ourselves under the light of the Creator like the horse with its rider and then the horse puts us in the designated place. Is that correct? 

M. Laitman: Yes. Yes. 

Student: And we must continue, yes? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women Spain): (38:10) Why does the spiritual part of the horse, even though it seems to us that we know the horse, surprise us many times and gives us all sorts of disturbances even though we are trying to use the Torah? 

M. Laitman: Because to an extent to which he still isn't with his old desire, exist under my desire. He shows himself as someone independent, and I have to bring him to the state when all its desires, if we start working together, so all my desires will rule over the horse's desires, and then he won't have any issue. 

Question (Women Rehovot 1): (39:20) Is there a difference between the corporeal body and the horse and between the house which, in my opinion, is the place where we serve the Creator? Is the house also the soul? Is that what the allegory meant? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Another question. How in the Ten can we be above this stable and aimed at the Creator? 

M. Laitman: When you have the desire to be completely corrected for the sake of the Creator. 

Question (Women MAK 98): (40:20) I understood that my horse lives always at the house. How can I send it to the stable and to give him what he needs in order to serve the Creator? 

M. Laitman: You have to take the reins of the horse in one hand, you take a whip in the other hand, something you will hit it with to get your attention with and tell it that you will only treat its correct intentions. Point it out to him and you will make him, in any case, act only for the sake of the Master.

Student: Question not translated.

M. Laitman: You stand between the horse and its master, and you always direct the master towards the horse so that the master would know what he is working for. 

Student: But I understood that I should keep a certain distance in order for the horse to be happy with a little and not to bring it too close in order for the horse to know who the owner is. 

M. Laitman: Yes, this is why you need to have reins in your hands, and carrot and whip, so that this way you could control the horse.

Question (Women MAK): (42:19) What is the proof of the work that's being done for the benefit of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Otherwise, you wouldn't be meddling with this horse and this stable and all this that connects you to the horse. The main thing for you is that the horse and its actions would think about the Creator, what he can bring to the Creator with his work. This is the main thing for you. So, when you take all the desires of the horse and you wish to direct them towards the Creator, then you will definitely be successful in this work.

Student: What does it mean to bestow to the Creator as if I've got everything? 

M. Laitman: You have to act like this. 

Student: If I don't have in my vessels in my feelings, all these vessels, I want to bestow to Him, but I have nothing from which to do it. 

M. Laitman: If you don't have such big desires, then it's a problem. Maybe you won't feel them, but basically you can always find the desires that would be directed towards the Creator. 

Student: Another question. By hating myself, my body, can I at the same time give contentment to the Creator by it? Or I can work in such a way outside of me? 

M. Laitman: You cannot hate the body. You cannot take these desires and say, I hate, specifically these desires. You have to, in general, just take your desires and distinguish between them, the ones that you can direct wholly to the Creator, and the ones that you can only direct towards the creation. The main thing here is what he's writing here. 

The time when a person feels he's the owner of the horse, he tells his horse, I give you everything you need, not because I love you, rather I give you everything so that you can serve the Creator. Everything that you receive is only to the extent that I can aim that it will benefit the Creator. Otherwise, I would not receive anything for you from this work. 

Question (Women Moscow): (46:53) What is the symbol, the indication, the clearest one that will help me understand that the horse has now moved from the stable to the house and wants to be in equivalence of quality with the owner? 

M. Laitman: It wants to live in the house? 

Student: How can I simply quickly notice that it's happening and do something about it? 

M. Laitman: It's pulling you towards receiving. 

Student: Can I examine it against the friends or against the corporeal life, my desires? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes, in all those cases. 

Student: So, what should exactly I need to check? 

M. Laitman: Your desire, what it is directed towards.

Question (Women Ukraine 2): (47:55) About the harness. Can I understand that the harness is the intention, the harness that I hold the horse with? Is that the intention? 

M. Laitman: You cannot always connect harness, reins to the intention. 

Student: So, what is this harness that I hold on to? 

M. Laitman: Well, yes, you can say that it's intention. 

Student: You also talked about the whip. What can a whip be for the horse? 

M. Laitman: A whip can be any desire with which you whip the horse. 

Student: Each desire that I leverage for the sake of the Creator, that's how it turns out? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes. 

Question (Women MAK 36): (49:22) Is the horse, the ego that the person can work with? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And do I understand correctly that this is some sort of a measure of a revelation of the left line, specifically from the moment of revelation? It's given to a person so he can work with it, and not just to understand that it's ego? 

M. Laitman: No.

Student: I'll try to make it clearer. Once you answered that bestowal can be upon a certain measure, upon a certain quality, in a certain condition that is within the action. So, in regard to the last section, what is the specific condition that is in a certain action? 

M. Laitman: Usually we discuss those actions, and we understand that those actions do not lead to the horse, towards some sicknesses, and everything occurs in the situation where he is alive and well.

Student: Nevertheless, the conditions that belong to the egoism that with which the person can work? 

M. Laitman: Yes, of course. 

Question (Women MAK 56.): (51:03) To see myself alongside the Creator in His home, this image goes away each time, and so does the feeling. What is the reason for these exits, these ascents? 

M. Laitman: It's when the person has not yet taught himself how to work precisely with his intentions and desires. 

Question (MAK 24): (51:39) Can we use our desire, that desire that we want to use for the sake of the Creator, within the group, for the sake of the group, that will satisfy the Creator in such a manner? 

M. Laitman: Don't you have your own desires? 

Student: My desires are all aimed at the group. 

M. Laitman: So that's how you need to act. Channel all your desires towards the friends, and do it only together with them, towards their calculations, their intentions, so that all your intentions, all your efforts would be only towards them. 

Student: It seems to me that we lack maybe on the part of desires. We always aim the desires towards the Creator, and the group is more accessible, so that's one of the tools that if you do something for the sake of the group, then the Creator enjoys it.

M. Laitman: Splendid. I'm with you. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva 5): (53:09) Is the Rav a private horse, or is he the horse of the Ten? 

M. Laitman: The horse is the horse of the Ten.

Student: So, what does it mean that you train it, that you are getting used to serve the Creator? Where does it need to go? 

M. Laitman: A horse understands that it has to go according to the state that the Creator wants. 

Student: And how does it know how to understand the Creator in the Ten, within our mechanism? How do we do it? 

M. Laitman: We try to connect and understand a new state.

Student: Is it a goal that we need to be revealed for us, or is it something we need to be focused on? 

M. Laitman: That has to be revealed in our work. 

Question (Women MAK 97): (54:25) Who are we for the Creator, His sons or horses? 

M. Laitman: For the Creator, we are riders who can direct our horses towards the right goal.

Student: And why is the horse greater in its size than the rider, than the owner? 

M. Laitman: These are our desires, usually. With these big desires we can achieve a state where we fulfill them. 

Question (Women Turkiye 7): (55:35) How exactly do we come to the stage where we can separate the horse from ourselves? 

M. Laitman: To detach from the horse, you have to specifically see what your intention is. When you work together with the intention above the desire, and when you want to be inside the intention without the desire and play with it until you start feeling how much you are inside of your intention with the desire. When you are above the intention without the desire, you have to check your attitude with the intention and without one. 

Question (Women Moscow 6): (56:47) If it's difficult for us to ride, to control the horse, how to do so? 

M. Laitman: How can you handle the horse? Check all your intentions. Put to the side the ones that we understand are egoistical, and by this leave our Creator with our horse to the side. 

Question (Women Kavkaz 1): (58:12) How do we come from Galgalta to above reason? Is that the entrance to... 

M. Laitman: I'm not answering this kind of questions. From the get-go they are not smart.

Question (Women MAK 25): (58:33) What helps us above all the fire to always be aimed in our aims towards bestowal, towards giving? 

M. Laitman: Intention, and, by the way, your intentions every time become better.

Question (Women Spain): (59:13) If the horse is the corporeal body, then in the Ten we are a horse with many desires. How can we connect all these desires in order to tame the horse that we will have an opportunity to be in a correct connection to serve the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Only to an extent to which you are connected with your friends, and they think about your desire, how to detach it from ego, disconnect it from ego, and then you can see that this helps you be disconnected. 

Question (Women French): (1:00:39) I try to do this work every day, but I am lost within all my desires, and I don't know what's for the Creator and what's not for the Creator and I'm losing strength. I think that I'm only giving in order to receive. and I would like to give in order to give. Can you please explain? 

M. Laitman: Give in order to give. Bestow in order to bestow is only when you only want to bestow, both in action and in intention. 

All the best to everyone. Good luck to you all. Warm embraces. And kisses towards all the Kli. Until tomorrow. 

 

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