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Daily Lesson (Afternoon) August 2, 2024

Part 2 Rabash. Record 436. Three Prayers - 1

Moderator: We have an additional article from Rabash 436, Three Prayers. 

Reading Article: (00:18) Three Prayers 

“But three are called ‘prayer’: a prayer for Moses, the man of God, a prayer such as which exists in no other person; a prayer for David, such as which exists in no other king; a prayer for the poor, this is a prayer. Of those three prayers, which is the most important? It is a prayer for the poor. This prayer precedes the prayer of Moses and precedes the prayer of David and precedes all other prayers in the world.”

“He asks, ‘What is the reason?’ It is because the poor is broke-hearted, and it is written, ‘The Lord is near to the brokenhearted.’ The poor always quarrels with the Creator, and the Creator listens and hears his words, since when the poor prays, he opens all the windows of the firmament, and all the other prayers that rise up, the brokenhearted poor delays them, as it is written, ‘A prayer for the poor when he envelops.’”

It should have said, “when he is enveloped.” What does “when he envelops” mean? It means that he causes a delay, delaying all the prayers in the world, which do not enter until his prayer enters. Atufa means delayed, from the words, “the Atufim [enveloped] for Laban” (The Zohar, Balak, Items 187-188).

We have the prayers of Moses, David, the rest of the prayers, and the prayer for the poor. What is the difference? What are the answers that the poor quarrels with the Creator? What does it mean that he delays, as though there is a queue and one follows the other, or is there a mess before Him? 1) The difference between the prayers of Moses, David, the rest of the prayers, and the prayer of the poor. 2) What is the relation toward the poor because he quarrels with the Creator? 3) What does it mean that he delays all the prayers until his prayer is accepted, as though when the poor prays, only he should be treated, and it is impossible to answer the prayers of the rest of the people at that time?

Prayer is called “work in the heart,” meaning a lack—that which the heart feels that it is missing. Sometimes, a person feels that he lacks Torah, which is the quality of Moses, and sometimes he feels that he lacks the quality of the Messiah, meaning that he is concerned that redemption has not yet come to the whole of Israel, called “David, the King Messiah.” So, it is with the rest of the prayers, each according to what he feels.

But there is a prayer when a person feels that he has nothing and he is just like a beast, without faith or fear of heaven, which are the whole basis of Judaism. For this reason, he quarrels with the Creator over why He created him as man, meaning making calculations about himself and he is worried and concerned over his situation, namely that he has no lack other than his self-benefit, and that he has no feeling of others except where it concerns his own benefit.

He is seemingly angry with the Creator about this, why He created him a man with a mind and heart that must yield some benefit to the world, while both the mind and the heart are preoccupied only with his own benefit. And if He did create him a man, why does he not feel the existence of the Creator?

He wants to believe but his heart is numbed and his faith brings him no sensation so he can know or feel, as our sages said, “Know before whom you stand.” When he speaks to people, even to beasts and animals and birds, he feels that he is speaking to someone, but when he speaks to the Creator or when he learns the teaching of the Creator, he does not feel the existence of the Creator.

It follows that he has nothing because he lacks the very basis, namely faith in the Creator, so he cannot aim in order to bestow for he does not feel the greatness of the Creator to make it worthwhile for him to annul himself and all his possessions before the Creator.

He is always angry and quarrels with the Creator over why the Creator hides Himself from him so he will not feel Him, and he is always angry over why the Creator has left him, meaning why the Creator allows him to say as though the Creator created him.

Afterward, when he comes to a state of birth, meaning when he comes to his own authority, when he feels that he is a separate being from the Creator and stands in his own right, he should believe that the Creator is standing near him but there is no such faith over him, and then he has grievances over why the Creator made it so he would not have the power of faith so he can believe that the Creator is standing next to him, as it is written, “For the matter is very close to you; it is in your mouth and heart to do it.”

Hence, before one is answered for this prayer of the poor, how can it be said that He will answer him the prayer of Moses, which is the Torah, before he has faith, which is the primary foundation? Also, when he prays for redemption, it is also impertinent to answer him, and likewise with the rest of the prayers before he has the basis that the Creator even hears a prayer. Hence, no prayer can be answered if the prayer for the poor has not been answered.

This is considered that it delays all the prayers, which means only that no prayer is accepted before his prayer is accepted, for it is the basis. Afterward, it is possible to be saved on other things, as well.

Question (Women Italy): (09:31) We are very poor because we are opposite of the Creator. But mercy, supplication, lack, fill a prayer that changes our heart. Is it there that the qualities of the Creator can enter? We are different from the Creator, and we know that pleading and mercy is a prayer that changes the heart. Is this the place where the Creator's quality comes in? 

M. Laitman: Yes, in the same place where a person prays, if he merits an answer, it comes to the same place. It is a place of deficiency. 

Question: (Women Kavkaz 1): (11:09) Can we say that there is a possibility to pray from a deficiency of the disparity of the ego or from the feeling of completeness? How can the work in the Ten change? Maybe we should talk more about completeness, the greatness of the Creator. To convince each other that we are just being in this completeness, about the distance that we are between the completeness that we would like to achieve, to what we are actually in. Is that a good deficiency for a prayer? 

M. Laitman: Continue and always try to change the prayer; and then you'll see how accordingly the Creator will answer.

Question (Women Turkiye 7): (12:31) I can pray when I'm really suffering but I want to be able to stay in a prayer without suffering. How can that be possible? 

M. Laitman: So, for what reason will you be in a prayer? If you don't have suffering, if everything is good, then with what are you turning to the Creator? 

Question (Women MAK 88): (13:15) I would like to scrutinize a Prayer for the Poor from a state of abyss. Can we say that a prayer of a poor brings us first to the connection with the Creator?

M. Laitman: You could say so but it's not exactly like that. It's just different combinations, too. 

Student: How can we get rid of complaints to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: A person will write for himself what he wants to turn to the Creator, and then in different moments throughout the day, to try and check if what he wrote down is correct or not. If he awakens a problem that he wants to change his prayer, then it's a step forward. 

Question (Kyiv): (14:42) It is written that not all the prayers can be accepted, if the Creator did not answer to the Prayer of the Poor. What does it mean that He answers the prayer of the poor? 

M. Laitman: I'm the one who has nothing, nothing at all; therefore, if a person asks from this, then the Creator answers, because he has a Hissaron, a great deficiency. 

Student: How does the Creator answer my Prayer of the Poor? 

M. Laitman: You see, slowly, slowly, in different ways.

Question (Kyiv): (15:38) Is there any way we can read or are there examples of the Prayer of the Poor? We have examples to other prayers but to the Prayer of the Poor, what kind of form should we pray? 

M. Laitman: There are Siddur in these prayer books and there you can find all kinds of prayers. And you need to take this Siddur and read, and then you'll see how the Creator is answering you. 

Question (Bulgaria): (16:31) We have gathered here in Sofia with dear friends from Petah Tikva. If we sing a Niggun from Baal HaSulam or Rabash, and there is a kind of? Can we miss something from the heart when we sing it from our heart? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes. 

Question (MAK 24): (17:18) We have many reasons to pray. We can pray for everything, anything, anytime. But for us, what is the main prayer for us that needs to be included in every prayer? 

M. Laitman: You need to decide this in the group. Give it time and decide what's important for you; what is important for you to ask the Creator? 

Question (MAK 37): (18:07) It is written in the text that there should be a foundation for a prayer. What is it? 

M. Laitman: The foundation of the prayer is what you want from the Creator. For this, you need to think carefully, to discuss it between you and then you will have a serious prayer. 

Student: Should the foundation of the prayer be group or individual? 

M. Laitman: Individual is rare but when it comes from everyone in the group, then the Creator answers, clearly. 

Question (Women Lithuania): (19:04) What is the Torah and what is the right way to approach the Torah? 

M. Laitman: Questions, questions for the Creator and to try and understand His answers.

Question (MAK 39): (19:52) The quality of the Torah is the love of the Creator that has been revealed to the person?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: And the main prayer is after all from the heart and then the heart starts to cry. 

M. Laitman: From the heart, only from the heart.

Question (Petah Tikva 35): (20:18) We see that the Prayer of the Poor is the prayer with the biggest deficiency that the Creator is, right away, answering. What is to argue with the Creator? It says that to argue with the Creator. 

M. Laitman: To fight, to quarrel? No, this isn't for us, for now it's not for us. 

Question (Women MAK 19): (20:56) The Prayer of the Poor can be the connection between the three prayers? 

M. Laitman: No, no, it is a specific prayer that can come, only, from a person that feels that he is separated.

Student: In a state that it's better for me to die as to live, should we be in gratitude? 

M. Laitman: Not to such an extent, but close to it. 

Question (Turkiye 2): (21:44) How can I protect myself from external shadows so that I can pray a pure and true prayer? 

M. Laitman: Consult with the friends in your group. You have a good group and try, try and say that I want to ask about this, and about this, and to ask for this. They'll tell you if you're right or not, if you should or not. Maybe they have advice that would be better. 

Question (Women French): (22:58) When you pray with Siddur or Psalms, is it more important to concentrate on the words or to concentrate on the feelings, rejections or deficiencies? 

M. Laitman: In Psalms, or a particular part of the Siddur, prayer book, something that's close to you, so read from there. You don't have to speak in your own words.

Student: And when we read, what should we concentrate on: The words or about what we feel when we pray?

M. Laitman: Also, the words because you are speaking to the Creator.

Student: What is the between the strength, the power of the prayer from the mouth, that comes from the heart or something that she reads? What should we choose in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: I, very often, see people writing a prayer for themselves, that they then read to the Creator from what's previously written down. Sometimes a person cannot even speak in prayer but sings. And sometimes he really cannot bring a word, not a melody, but remains with a shut mouth; this is also called, a prayer, the Creator feels what is in the heart of a person. That's why it's very important, nonetheless, to come out to the Creator like a mother who might not hear, maybe, but feels, wants to say what deficiency she has, and gives to him like this.

Question (Women MAK 56): (26:15) The first prayer should be the Prayer of the Poor, 

then the prayer to David, and then the prayer to Moses?

M. Laitman: No, not necessarily, what you have and is bothering you most, take that with you and turn to the Creator.

Question (Woman Russia 10): (26:48) Do we understand, correctly, from those articles that not until we come to the final Correction, we will connect around the sources. We will always have a request to add more deficiency for the prayer? The light that is in it will change our desires.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: The most important is to connect our desires to the Creator and to ask for correction and adhesion with Him? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women MAK 25): (27:35) When we pray together in the Ten, do we need to scrutinize what to ask? Or just to ask whatever comes from the heart? 

M. Laitman: The best is to receive from the Creator.

Question (Women MAK 27): (28:00) We need to ask for the quality of bestowal from the Creator. How does a person ask for a quality that is, from the start, not in him? 

M. Laitman: You can ask, we, to begin with, only want to receive. But from life, from relations with others, we also give and that's why it's also possible this way and that way. 

Question (Women Turkiye 8): (28:35) Sometimes there seems to be a contact with the upper power in prayer. In such moments, there is a fear of asking for the wrong thing or not making good use of the situation. What should one do in such moments? How should one pray? 

M. Laitman: Bring the words out of the heart, that's what we need. And then the Creator will know how to organize it. 

Question (Women PT 33): (29:48) A question about the importance of a mutual prayer: We have three calls a day. And each time different friends are participating, not all the same, everyone in his own time, and each and every time we write a prayer. How important is it to find a time that all the friends together can write a prayer? Or is it okay like that? 

M. Laitman: There's no doubt that it's important but if there's no other way, then it's also okay that part of the group is participating. 

Question (Women Ukraine 2): (30:41) You answered a friend that the main thing is to exit to the Creator. What does it mean to exit to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: To turn to Him, to turn to Him with your desire, with your request. 

Student: And if the poor does not have a prayer? 

M. Laitman: If there's no request, then not to turn to Him. We need to turn to the Creator  with a request.

Question (Women Moscow 7): (31:17) If a prayer is something that comes from the heart, why there is an organization, or organized prayer? 

M. Laitman: You can. 

Student: How do you do that? 

M. Laitman: You need to work on it with the friends and with the Creator. 

Student: Which means that it's some sort of an example that by that we check that we're in a prayer or we're not in the prayer? And then we build a bridge from this state to where we want to reach? 

M. Laitman: Let it be that way. 

Question (Women MAK 23): (32:00) My mom passed away, and before that, she was in the hospital. And then I asked from the Creator and this time He did not help, and whatever happened, happened. I was always attracted to the Ten. My mom was studying in Kabbalah, but not in a Ten, she was listening to the lesson. What type of a prayer should I raise for my mom that nothing disappears in spirituality? How to connect more in the Ten to feel this connection? 

M. Laitman: To pray for what pains you. 

Student: What does for what pains you mean? 

M. Laitman: This is what you need to pray for. 

Student: What pains in the heart to the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women MAK): (33:12) In this lesson, I suddenly understand that a preparation to the prayer is the most important. It is important when a Ten scrutinizes in honesty the pain in the heart, to feel that poor feeling. It is very important, is it like that? 

M. Laitman: Certainly, precisely, like that is needed. 

Question (Women Moscow 6): (33:52) We scrutinize with you how to pray and then with the world Kli, and we build this deficiency. But it is not always enough to bring this to the Creator, to the spiritual action. Should we ask for it separately? 

M. Laitman: It depends only on your desire. 

Student: What more to ask? 

M. Laitman: You can ask the Creator but it only depends on your desire. 

Question (Women MAK 56): (34:30) It is said in the article, Rabash is describing the building of the prayer in a person. In Part number 6, he describes that a person does calculation, and he doesn't have the feeling of the others and he just turns to ask for himself. Is that when the Creator gives him the opportunity? 

M. Laitman: Prayer is when it comes from the heart of the person. 

Student: This possibility to do this calculation that there is no deficiency, there is only self-benefit?

M. Laitman: If it is felt in the person, himself, then it is his prayer.

Question (Women MAK 104): (35:37) We all pray in the group, every day. We pray correctly, not about us, we pray about the friends, all of the group, all of the Bnei Baruch. But don’t always receive an answer. Who receives the answers? 

M. Laitman: I think that we need to understand that the prayer needs to come and rise from the heart, and then there will be a connection between us and the friends. 

Question (Women Spain): (36:24) We know that the Kabbalists, for a student who is in a physical environment, a new student, how should he act in a spiritual manner? 

M. Laitman: To look at his environment, see where he has come to, what is their nature, what are they praying? What do they want to do, and so on, get to know them. And then try to be between them. 

Question (Women MAK): (37:30) We, in the Ten, pray for connection; a few months ago, there was a breakage and a big prayer had been heard by the Creator, a friend returned to the group. But now there is a separation in the group, to accept her back or not to accept her. 

M. Laitman: I recommend to close your eyes and connect. 

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (38:07) There is a part in the article where he talks about a birth, that a person stands in front of himself, what is this state? 

M. Laitman: We’re not learning this right now. 

Question (Beer Sheva): (38:33) It is written that there are three prayers – one for Moses, which is the faith, one is for David, the great king, and the third is for the poor. Do I need to understand from that, that the prayer of the poor cuts all the prayers, and not just parts of my desires? 

M. Laitman: Yes, exactly. 

Question (Kyiv): (39:12) Should a prayer in the Ten between us be at the same time, like an attack? Or does it need to complete each and every one throughout the day? 

M. Laitman: Like this and like that. 

Question (Women Bulgaria): (39:52) My Ten and I are praying every day, we are asking that the Creator to give each and every one anything he needs for connection, to collect us all together for the Convention. We want everyone will feel that He Is Good And Does Good. And after the Convention, all the politicians will see that the whole world is changing, and everyone is good, and loves, and does good. And a request, that after the Convention, everything will change. 

M. Laitman: I am with you. 

Question (Moscow 1): (40:59) How not to use the poor in order to fulfill myself, which means that the ego will fill the deficiency in the field of the Creator. Which means that I collect all the deficiencies from the friends and then it turns out that I become poor so the Creator will always be with me. How should I take out self-interest for a self-fulfillment? 

M. Laitman: This will gradually come, gradually it will come. 

Question (Women MAK): (41:50) In the Siddur, when we read the prayers—the morning prayer, the afternoon prayer, the evening prayer—I always want to translate it to the Kabbalistic language, with light, not in the corporeal degree. Those prayers are not talking about corporeality, they talk about spirituality, about attainments. I have this habit to find this height, I do not know how to explain it, but is that correct? 

M. Laitman: Yes, that's right, continue. The Creator will guide you, if needed.

Question (Turkiye 7): (42:46) I want to talk about the prayer of King David, as we read the Tehillim, we see that how he is saying, my enemies are surrounding me as dogs who want to bite my flesh. He says that my troubles are more than hairs in my head that I cannot see in front of me. And he is begging the Creator to give him a victory over the enemies who want to destroy him.

And the Creator is saying that I promise you, I will make them ashamed, such that they would not want to come to this world. From shame, the Creator is saying that I will show you with your eyes how your enemies will fail. How can we understand this, how can we feel this? And how can we take upon the victory of King David as Bnei Baruch? 

M. Laitman: I cannot clarify these words, they are very high but we will get there. We will rise up to this excerpt and the rest of the verses. We will get to that connection and the Creator will discover this connection. Just hear, David is the source, we need to all connect with him and then we will be able to reach the Creator. 

All the best and see you tomorrow! 

Announcements: (44:47)

Song: (47:03)