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Lesson on the topic of "Work with Faith Above Reason" (15.11.2020)

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Daily Morning Lesson: December 11, 2025 

Part 1: Recorded lesson - Nov 15, 2020

Excerpts from the sources: “Work with Faith Above Reason”. #15

Reader: Hello friends, in the first part of the lesson, we will watch a recorded lesson from November 15th, 2020, on the subject of “Work with Faith Above Reason,” excerpts from the resources, starting with item 15. 

Reader: We are in a lesson on the topic of “Faith Above Reason.” We'll read selected excerpts, we will continue from excerpt number 15. You can find the study material by clicking the book icon on the Arvut system, and relevant questions through Kab.TV may be aired as well. The topic is “Faith Above Reason.” 

M. Laitman: (00:51) It's not the lesson, it's our entire path, to reach all the degrees of faith above reason, meaning all the degrees of bestowal above our will to receive. That we’ll grow accordingly and help us be higher and higher, above, above, above it. That is the difference between usual, normal faith that each person in the world has, the way they believe, and the faith above reason that we wish to acquire, to attain. Since in faith above reason, we feel the Creator is concealed, He is, as it's written, a concealed God. And it's not that He doesn't want to reveal Himself to us, rather we don't want Him to appear, because then we won't have the ability to go against the concealment, above the concealment. So what we're asking for is to have the strength to be above all the disturbances, not to erase them, but to be above them. Meaning, even though the Creator is concealed and we're going above the concealment, in faith above reason. It's hard to express it in words, but nevertheless gradually we are acquiring tastes in it, understanding. After understanding that we have no connection to the qualities of the Creator, to spirituality, and when the will to receive is revealed each time, we feel more deeply how we are not part of spirituality, and all that's left for us is one thing, one thing to do, and that is to ask the Creator to save us, to raise us above our corporeality. And through the prayer, specifically through the prayer, we receive faith above reason. And the sign for advancing is that each day our will to receive becomes greater, and once again we need to build ourselves above it as much as possible, and in this way we advance. Meaning, on top of the growing will to receive and the growing concealment, growing confusion, helplessness - everything, all those things that I discover daily - and above it I need to rise. And in this way until I attain the first degree of faith above reason, and I understand how to continue advancing in it. So, let us start from excerpt. 

Reader: Excerpt 15, Rabash.

Reading: (04:49) 15. Rabash. Article 12 (1991), “These Candles Are Sacred” - Twice

And the most important is the prayer. That is, one must pray to the Creator to help him go above reason, meaning that the work should be with gladness, as though he has already been rewarded with the reason of Kedusha, and what joy he would feel then. Likewise, he should ask the Creator to give him this power, so he can go above the reason of the body. In other words, although the body does not agree to this work in order to bestow, he asks the Creator to be able to work with gladness, as is suitable for one who serves a great King. He does not ask the Creator to show the greatness of the Creator, and then he will work gladly. Rather, he wants the Creator to give him joy in the work of above reason, that it will be as important to a person as if he already has reason. 

M. Laitman: This is exactly the condition for entering spirituality. Read it again. 

Reader: Once again, Rabash, Excerpt 15.

M. Laitman: Since, by himself, he cannot attain the degree of faith above reason, he cannot be in gladness from being in such a degree. He needs to receive those two discernments from above, to ask, to demand, to pray towards that. And this is what we need. 

Question (PT 29): (08:17) What is the test that we're going above reason? Is it joy? 

M. Laitman: Yes, it's true. 

Question (PT 32): (08:32) We need to imagine to ourselves that we were already rewarded until we enter that state, because we basically don't know what it is. 

M. Laitman: Like it or not, we always portray the state we wish to reach. Without that, without making that portrayal to some extent, even if it's wrong, we have no choice, we have to do it. Either in the flavors, or visually, or emotionally, somehow. But we always must portray the next state, together with the prayer, where we ask the Creator to depict it to us, give us the direction, give us the impulse for it. But that's correct.

Question (ITA 4): (09:38) The correct prayer is that I will reach the next spiritual degree, that I can go above reason, or the prayer towards the friends? 

M. Laitman: No, that together with the friends, I want to go above reason. I want to receive or accept the spiritual degree of bestowal, mutual bestowal between us, and to the Creator, and we want only this to happen. We interpret it with all the words that we can understand. It doesn't matter if we are making a mistake or not, it always happens like this when we are searching. It's good, it's part of the path.

Question (French): (10:36) In the article he talks about reason of Kedusha. What is that? 

M. Laitman: The reason of the Kedusha, Daat of Kedusha, means that I am in the quality of bestowal. I am in the quality of bestowal. 

Question (Kyiv 1): (11:07) I ask for the friends that we will have a quality of above reason between us and the Creator. I don't need to ask the Creator to give this to me, so what does it mean to ask the Creator? 

M. Laitman: If I feel that a special force is controlling all of reality, all of creation, all people, everything, then what is my state as a result? That I feel that I am also under His influence, under His control, His authority. I have no free choice, I will exist in the nature of the Creator automatically, let's say. He’s in control and I have nothing left to do. Imagine - still, vegetative and animate, they exist under the authority of nature. They have no free choice, even when it seems to us that animals do something, the desire to run away, to eat, it's all according to the laws of nature that live in them. Also on us, we can't see, we can say the same - the way we exist, whatever we do, it doesn't matter. We have problems, we have no free choice, there is no free choice. In truth, no person has any action, we can say, that came from within a person himself. Rather, it's all aimed at us from above, by the general system. So there are no crimes, there are no righteous people, there’s nothing. Everyone is a beast. When does a person have the material, the freedom to do actions for himself? Only when he begins to want to enter spirituality, he is shown how much he is incapable of anything. He is given… We feel, we constantly feel that we can't do anything that is in order to bestow, anything that is giving to everyone, bestowing to everyone - nothing. Meaning, other than our nature to receive, that dwells and controls us, we can't do anything. That's how they teach us who we are. And so through various actions, organization in the group, in the study, drawing the reforming light, in this way, we try to reach the action, an action of bestowal. When we try, let's say, are awarded with rising to an action of bestowal, we begin to feel that we came out of our will to receive, out of that bubble. And to the extent that we can be above the will to receive, both connected to the will to receive and connected to the will to bestow, existing between heaven and earth as it were, then we are free. Now we begin to feel freedom. What is the dominion of one - the will to receive, what is the dominion of the will to bestow, and how we can move between the two. This is our path. Now we're trying to reach faith, the force of bestowal, above reason, above the force of reception, so we would feel in the control of these two forces, not only one. When only one force controls us, the will to receive, we can't even feel that he is in control, because this is our nature, that's how we were born. And there's nothing else; I have nothing to compare it to. And so without the ability to compare to something, you can't say that you have this, or you don't. You only have one thing. So our first action, first degree, first state is to obtain the state of bestowal, the second force, the force of faith, the force of Bina, that exists above the force of reason. And between these two forces we'll begin to live. We'll constantly fall to a greater, deeper will to receive, and each time try to rise to the connection between us and the prayer, to a higher will to bestow - deeper and higher, deeper and higher, in this ever-growing amplitude. These are our states - ascents and descents.

Student: So I don't ask the Creator to give it to me for free, I want to put myself under the rule of bestowal? 

M. Laitman: Of course, we want to be under the authority of the force of bestowal, but we don't understand what it is. And it's expressed with us in such ways that's completely opposed, opposite our nature. How can I get rid of myself, rise above myself? What does it mean to rise, to ascend? It means that from everything I've got, everything I feel, this world that I have, that all this is happening down below, and I'm rising above. As if I'm rising with a kite up to the heavens, and I lose all my relationship to corporeal life. We can't afford those things, and if we can afford it, if we're ready for it, we're ready because it's better. It brings us a certain solution, a better life, meaning I'm exchanging my corporeality with the greater corporeality, and I imagine it as spirituality. That's why spirituality is bestowal, it's not easier life. It's not when I imagine to myself what it's like to be in the heavens, and to be independent of everything, above everything. No, I'm actually not above everything. I take upon myself the responsibility to care for everyone, for all of reality, all of humanity, the whole world, to bestow to the Creator through that, where I want to correct all my broken vessels, the broken vessels, so that He would enjoy my work, to the extent that I can bring all of humanity, all the souls, to connection and to Him. That's why we need to imagine spiritual work in a way that, not that I'm hovering above, between the angels, among the angels, rather I'm rising to a more responsible work, greater, more mature work. Otherwise we're imagining it all in our will to receive, and we're getting rid of all the troubles and worries. No, we're taking upon ourselves additional troubles and worries, but of a different kind, a global, divine kind.

Student: According to what you're saying, I now in the middle of the lesson, I detach from my responses, and I just integrate in the friends. I feel them, and of course, it makes me feel good, it's easier, there are no worries. 

M. Laitman: Hang on, just a minute, why are you without any worries? 

Student: Because in that moment, I just feel the friends. 

M. Laitman: This is not the meaning of being integrated in the friends, you're just simply escaping your corporeality. Spirituality is much more difficult, you have to connect everyone, you care about the connection between you, until the Creator is revealed to reach such qualities between us, qualities of love and bestowal, connection, care, in which the Creator is revealed. It's not simple, it's not a simple thing. You have to be so close, tightly close to one another, that's when we will feel what it means to be connected in one soul. 

Student: So, how do you correctly do this work, even now in the lesson? How do you take care of the friends correctly? 

M. Laitman: I want to help them with everything I've got, to be connected in one single force, one intention, so all of us would have one intention, to care for one another, and from that, we will discover there's another Creator, another component called everything. The Creator is not counted as another one among us, He doesn't exist outside of us. The Creator is called Boreh, the Creator from the words Bo-U-Reh, come and see. We come to a state called Bo [come], and then see. If you've reached the state of connection, you reveal the result of the connection. The essence of connection is a special force in nature that exists, even before that, and that force invited this whole creation, and then you reveal it again, you restrict yourself and you connect again to Him. That's how you reveal the Creator.

Question (MAK 2): (22:32) The excerpt begins with saying, the most important thing is the prayer, the request, and it seems like joy is the result of that prayer.

M. Laitman: Joy, gladness has to exist in all the stages. You have to try, I'm not saying it's there, the person who is under the egoistic rule always feels some form of sorrow, but we have to organize, arrange this sorrow, so the sorrow is not sorrow, but it has to be gladness. We reveal a greater will to receive each time, and it's revealed when the Creator shines on us more with His upper light, and when the upper light shines on us, it reveals a greater will to receive in each one of us and all of us together. And so each time we find ourselves with a heavier heart and with a worse ego. But we can, consequently we can begin to rise above it, and that's how we advance. Hence, he who is greater than his friend, his inclination is greater, and we always start from a state where we're unhappy, unsatisfied, and as quickly as possible we need to help each other to detect the state as the correct state for the beginning, for advancing. 

Question (Tel Aviv 1): (24:19) There's a feeling that we are supposed to relate to something that doesn't exist, or that we don't attain.

M. Laitman: What I don't feel in my senses means, it's called it's not existing. 

Student: So we're supposed to treat it as if we attain it even though we don't? 

M. Laitman: I don't want to enter into this philosophy as if, yes, no. You should do as it's written.

Question (Merkaz 1): (24:59) In light of what's written in the end of the excerpt, it is that the Creator will give him joy in the work above reason, that it's important for a person as if he already has reason. But we always have reason. 

M. Laitman: No, as if he will not have reason, we're asking for faith. Read it a few more times and you'll see. He's not asking for reason, he's asking for faith to be above reason. The reason that he had, he's asking to have faith above it. 

Question (PT 31): (25:43) He describes that the body doesn't agree with the work. How can you describe joy when the body doesn't agree with this work? Like the example that Rabash gave, let it suffer. Where is the joy? 

M. Laitman: In the same place as the suffering, in the feeling. Where else can suffering or joy reside? 

Student: If the body agrees, it's not the correct joy? 

M. Laitman: No. I nevertheless work to demand faith. I want to rise above my feeling, my mind, and to be in the power and the force of bestowal. That's it. And if I come to determine these two feelings, the feeling that I have nothing, together with that that I have the ability to bestow to everyone, this is in that case, a spiritual degree. Gladness from bestowal, and together with that I don't have sorrow from not filling my vessels of reception. On the contrary, I feel that I'm rising above them. It's an opportunity for me to rise to bestowal. 

Student: Sorry, but what does it mean to rejoice in the suffering? It's not clear.

M. Laitman: It's true. I remember I also didn't get it. And Rabash would point at himself and say, “Let it suffer. Let it suffer.” Meaning, his ego, which is now demanding something and not receiving it, it suffers. Okay, let it suffer. A person is always divided in two, a will to receive, and a will to bestow. And he always has a satisfied part and an unsatisfied part. One pulls him down, and with one he's rising up. One is under the restriction and concealment, and the second one is moving towards the revelation of the Creator, adhesion. 

Student: So now I'm happy because here I've won against the will to receive? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (PT 4): (28:41) It seems from the excerpt that the greatness of the Creator takes me down to the reason. So, what's the difference between asking for faith or greatness?

M. Laitman: The greatness of the Creator doesn't bring you into reason because you attain it above reason. 

Student: I understood from the excerpt that you can't ask for the greatness of the Creator then. 

M. Laitman: Because then you'll work because He's great in your vessels of reception. It will not be spirituality. You will work for your own benefit. You will never reach the quality of bestowal.

Student: Sure. So what is the greatness of the Creator above reason? 

M. Laitman: You portray the greatness of the Creator, although you don't attain it in your vessels of reception, you attain it in your vessels of bestowal. It will come, when vessels of bestowal will come. After a few more efforts, you will discover the vessels of bestowal and in them you will reveal the greatness of the Creator in bestowal, meaning in reflected light. To the extent you can rise above your will to receive, above the restriction and the screen, and you want to bestow in reflected light to the host, you imagine, portray the greatness of the host without investigating Him in your vessels of reception, but only in bestowal, in equivalence with Him. Then, according to the degree of equivalence, you begin to discover it and begin to feel it. 

Student: That means that we are building Him? 

M. Laitman: Yes, that's exactly right. Because what does it mean to investigate Him, to feel Him? You are building inside of you, from your own vessels, your own corrected vessels, the image of the Creator; so you are exploring with these vessels and in them you are finding the Creator. That's why it says, “You have made Me.” Clear? 

Question (USA Northeast): (31:03) Should we always be adding a new intention on top? Should we hold on to faith above reason? So do we have to always add on top of the feeling in whatever state? To be able to be above reason, in thought of the friends and the society? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Turkiye 2): (31:35) Is being in agreement with the body, same as the agreement between faith above reason? 

M. Laitman: How can it be, I don't know. This is a special philosophy. When I'm in agreement with my body, what my body wants, and if I go and do that, what my body wants, this is called faith above reason? First of all, it's not faith, it's reception, and within the reason of the body. 

Question (Bulgaria): (32:31) When we work in joy and the body feels no resistance, but at the same time, I can't raise prayer to the Creator from the heart, who's given me the power to work in joy? 

M. Laitman: Only through the group, to receive it from above, from the Creator. Don't worry, you'll always have the strength if you connect to the Creator through the group, in all states. 

Question (Heb 10): (33:09) The difference between a Kabbalist and a masochist is that the Kabbalist enjoys the suffering because he relates it to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: No, he doesn't relate it to himself, but he relates it to the ego the Creator created, and he sees suffering and the will to receive in him as something that doesn't belong to him. Rather, it's the Creator's force, and he's looking at himself like a beast, like an animal. In this beast, the force of reception is revealed, the ego. Not that in this beast, the force of bestowal will be revealed. He sees himself as neutral, as not belonging to this, or to that. 

Student: Can you give an example to a friend in this work? 

M. Laitman: I don't know, try. 

Question (ITA 4): (34:24) I am an athlete. When I invest in practice, in training, it gives me results, it's giving me the power to reach a more difficult result. Why is it so opposite in spirituality? Not only I don't get a result, I even have to imagine the result. Why does it work that way in spirituality? 

M. Laitman: You are saying something correct and incorrect. It depends on the kind of result you're expecting to get from spirituality. In sports, if you are exercising, the more you exercise, although you get tired and you need afterwards to rest, nevertheless you're growing stronger. Here in the wisdom of Kabbalah, the more exercise you're doing, your ego, when you want to do these exercises to rise above your ego, your ego grows weaker. You become weaker, but later you recuperate, you recover. These things are similar to sports, but still in sports you see all the states that are coming as good, and here you see them both as good and as bad. You want to subjugate your ego, and in sports it's the opposite. You want it to grow. Think about it. You can even talk about it in the Ten. 

Reader: Excerpt number 16 from Baal HaSulam. 

Reading: (36:09) 16. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 96. “What Is Waste of Barn and Winery, in the Work?”

The purpose of the work is in the literal and nature, since in this work he no longer has room to fall lower down, since he is already placed on the ground. This is so because he does not need greatness because to him it is always like something new. That is, he always works as though he had just begun to work.

M. Laitman: It's a sign that we are in the work of above reason. It's written; they should be as new in your eyes. Each day, or several times a day, or every moment even, I feel as if I'm starting from scratch, as if I have had nothing, and I know nothing of spirituality and what to do and how to do it. I always look for how to do something. Meaning, these are actually signs that we are renewing ourselves and climbing the ladder. 

Reading: (37:20) And he works in the form of accepting the burden of the kingdom of heaven above reason. The basis, upon which he built the order of the work, was in the lowest manner, and all of it was truly above reason. Only one who is truly naïve can be so low as to proceed without any basis on which to establish his faith, literally with no support. 

M. Laitman: That's what we're demanded of. So does that mean that we are wise? We’re  investigating, we're advancing in a healthy way with a clear vision, as it's written, a wise person has his eyes in his head. 

Reading: (38:22) Additionally, he accepts this work with great joy, as though he had had real knowledge and vision on which to establish the certainty of faith.

M. Laitman: I wake up every morning, and several times a day when I recover and I return to the thought of spiritual work, and I see I have nothing, and again I have to remember, where is it, why, what forces, how can I do something? And this is happening several times a day, at least daily. So where, when will I get anything if everything disappears? 

Reading: (39:08) And to that exact measure of above reason, to that very measure as though he had reason. Hence, if he persists in this way, he can never fall. Rather, he can always be in gladness, by believing that he is serving a great King. 

M. Laitman: If we don't forget that there is None Else Besides Him, and the Creator is 100 percent in control of each and every state that we have, and there isn't a moment that we're not in His field, when He is filling all of reality, this force of bestowal, just general force of bestowal. Then we have no room for any negative feeling, any negative thoughts. Rather we are inside the force of the Good Who Does Good, who created the creatures inside of Him, in order to bring them as well to that state. We are in that, and we are specifically in that development. It needs to be realized, that we discover this force and connect with it together. 

Question (PT 4): (40:54) We can agree with everything, but in the end, I don't come to a prayer. I don't see a prayer on the horizon. 

M. Laitman: Where on the horizon do you need to see it? Where should it come from? 

Student: With all the states, with everything, that we need to be joyful, but the prayer doesn't emerge. 

M. Laitman: What does it mean that it doesn't come out? Shouldn't you do it? 

Student: Yes, but to be in gladness, to believe it's all the Creator, to see it all within reason.

M. Laitman: I don't know all those words. I know only one thing - everything we attain in spirituality comes to us because we are turning to the Creator, and He is arranging it. Nothing besides that. The question is only, in what state should we be, so we could turn to Him and He would help. So, the inclination towards connection in the Ten, that's a must, addressing the Creator since the force of correction will only come from Him. And another thing, which is patience. Constantly activate the connection between us, and from that, the prayer of many, as we call it, to the Creator. 

Student: So, you can say there is an inclination to connect, but to the Creator, I can't see what else to do to reach this prayer?

M. Laitman: Start talking about it between you. How much did you speak about the need to pray to the Creator, and that only in this you depend. Start talking, and each will help his friend. So, then envy, lust honor of our foundations will help us build the prayer. The people of the great Knesset, the great assembly, created the prayer for us. You can read what it says in the Sidur, in the prayer book. You can read Psalms, which is accepted in the entire world. You can see it in all languages. Everyone is reading Psalms. You don't have a nation of those that grew up together in all the religions who don't know Psalms. Go ahead. You have words, if not your words, you have written words. 

Reader: 17 from Rabash. 

Reading: (44:14) 17. Rabash. Assorted Notes. Article 21. “Sanctification of the Month” - Twice

A person must take upon himself the burden of the kingdom of heaven on the lowest quality, and say about it that to him, even that state, the lowest that can be, meaning one that is entirely above reason, when he has no support from the mind or the feeling, so he can build its foundations on it, and at that time, he is seemingly standing between heaven and earth and has no support, for then everything is above reason, then a person says that the Creator sent him this state, where he is in utter lowliness, since the Creator wants him to take upon himself the burden of the kingdom of heaven in this manner of lowliness. At that time, because he believes above reason, he takes upon himself that the situation he is in now comes to him from the Creator, meaning that the Creator wants him to see the lowest possible state that can be in the world. And yet, he must say that he believes in the Creator in all manners. This is considered that he has made an unconditional surrender. 

Reader: Again, excerpt 17, Rabash.

Question (UK): (47:39) Is it the request to work with joy because we don't feel the greatness of the Creator in the center of the Ten? 

M. Laitman: No, the request to work in the Ten is because we wish to resemble the Creator, and we can resemble Him only in the connection. And the complete connection is something you can carry out only in the Ten. That's it. 

Student: He asks whether the request to work in joy is because we don't have the greatness of the Creator.

M. Laitman: Gladness is not because you have it or you don't. Gladness is a result of accepting what the Creator is giving me as the correct thing for my advancement, in order to reach bestowal to the Creator. 

Question (ITA 2): (49:18) What does it mean, accepting the burden of the kingdom of heaven? 

M. Laitman: Receiving the kingdom of heaven means that I take upon myself the authority or the control of the Creator. Let's put it this way. I take upon myself the dominion of the Creator, that there's an upper force that is nevertheless in control of me, is twisting me and turning me, is confusing me. It's all coming from Him. In general, anything and everything that exists in me, in my desires, my thoughts, my brain, my heart, it all comes from the Creator. If I carry this thought all the time, possibly even with this feeling, this means that you are taking upon yourself the burden of the kingdom of heaven, meaning the Creator is first.

Question (Zafon 2): (50:36) How to build a correct prayer in the work? 

M. Laitman: I'm telling you; you need to connect in the Ten, and in the Ten, start reading perhaps some excerpts, maybe we'll do it. Tell them, they should prepare for us next time, various excerpts, verses for prayers, general ones, not too specific. And then we'll see if we can keep these prayers or not, or maybe we'll compose the prayers not according to what's written there, but according to what we think. We'll do it. 

Question (ITA 4): (52:02) You said before something that is horrible, you said that the Creator is 100 percent in all our feelings. That scares our egoistic nature a lot, we feel like we have to hide somewhere. So the question is... 

M. Laitman: Hang on, hang on, hang on, I don't understand. I remember once reading somewhere that it says that there's None Else Besides Him. Did you also read it once? Tell me. 

Student: Yes.

M. Laitman: So we see, and then what's up with you? We're done. The Creator is in control of everything. Even now when you're speaking, it's not you who's speaking, it's the Creator speaking through you. 

Student: Yes, but the question is this, if I may, for what purpose does the Creator do that? Why does He want the total control to be His? What's His goal here? 

M. Laitman: Put yourself in the place of the Creator. You are the only force that exists in the world. You want to create more creatures that would exist separately from Him. What can He do if He's a single force? You'll see that He has no choice, and He will have to build, construct reality the way He constructed it. It's not that He doesn't have any other options, or He has more options. Nature is one. If He wants to construct, to create something other than itself, there is no other thing that can exist but us, and specifically in the way that we exist, it's all moving from the beginning of creation till the end of creation. If you think how everything exists from one force, if that force wants anything else to exist, it has no other choice out of His necessary nature to build what He built and how He built it. 

Question (Ashkelon 2): (54:59) Without being in joy, it's impossible to come out of the nature of the will to receive? 

M. Laitman: You can't, but you can receive joy and gladness from the group. If you're not connected to the group, you'll be in sadness, and if you are, you'll have the force of joy and confidence. 

Question (Spain 2): (56:16) The state of lowliness, is it the lowest possible state that we can come to as a Ten? 

M. Laitman: Yes, lowliness is something you also attain only in the Ten. Everything is measured according to your relationship with the Ten. A person by himself is not considered, cannot measure anything. It's not spiritual. Spiritual is when I measure something relative to the Ten. We need to simply, forcefully determine it. Decide on it, that we only live in the Ten. 

Question (Focus Group): (57:31) When we come to the state of joy as a result of the work above reason, it seems like the will to receive, after one time it felt this pleasure to always want to work above reason to get to this feeling. 

M. Laitman: But in order to work above reason, you have to rise above the will to receive. He needs to be in bestowal. 

Student: Yes, but after he worked in bestowal in the beginning, felt joy. It's a sense of joy, right? 

M. Laitman: It's a pleasure from bestowal. Pleasure from bestowal. This is possible. This is allowed. You can do it. Start giving out everything you have. Enjoy what you're doing. Go ahead. It's not a transgression. 

Question (Heb 10): (58:39) It says that the Creator wants to show me that I am lowly. What does it mean, that I depend on Him? 

M. Laitman: It doesn't say that you depend on Him, although this is also the case. Lowly, means that you accept what the Creator gives you in the correct way for your advancement, first of all. There are many conditions for lowliness. First of all, what I got now is the most correct form for advancing from this state to adhesion. 

Student: Even when I don't think so? 

M. Laitman: Of course, you won't think so. If you check according to what feels right, and you're not in the method of correction. 

Question (Unity 4): (59:50) Why do I need to pray for the friends if they are more advanced in spiritually, they're more successful, etc.? How is this correct to work in this situation? 

M. Laitman: You have to be connected to them, annul before them as Rabash writes in his articles about the group. Then you will see from there what you have to do and how to pray. So, repeat those articles.

Question (Kyiv 1): (01:00:29) The attempt to work above reason, to integrate in the friends, to bestow to the Creator. In what moment do we need to begin to feel Him, to understand Him? Because there's a feeling like we're always going to work above reason. We don't even need the reason. 

M. Laitman: We'll always be like that, and as much as we receive, we'll always go above what we receive. And each time, the knowledge that we receive and the revelation of what we receive, we receive it in order to go above it. So, Bina would be in our eyes, more than Hochma . We want to reach it, specifically. This is the meaning of rising with our Malchut to a higher degree.

Student: It's as though we receive this knowledge, this feeling. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Nikolaev-Sochi): (01:01:36) As a result, I just want to detach from the gladness  too, and from bestowing, and from the sorrow, and the will to receive, and just become an observer purely from the side, looking at what's happening to me? And the reception, bestowal, wherever I'm taken, all these thoughts? 

M. Laitman: Yes, but to disconnect from sorrow, from joy, is incorrect. You have to work with it, but it will come. Keep going.