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Daily Morning Lesson: November 5, 2025
Part 1: Recorded lesson – Sep 1, 2020
Excerpts from the sources: “Work with Faith Above Reason”. #10
Reader: Hello dear friends, in the first part of the lesson we will learn from a lesson from September 1st, 2020, The Work In Faith Above Reason, selected excerpts from the sources – we will continue from Excerpt Number Ten.
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Reader: Hello, we are in a lesson on the topic of The Work with Faith Above Reason, we will continue from Excerpt Number Ten. You can ask questions on KabTV – relevant questions may be aired during the lesson. We are again in a lesson on the topic of The Work with Faith Above Reason.
M. Laitman: (00:54) Today, I think we need to talk a little bit more; I see I'm adding, every day, a little bit more, bit by bit. It's nevertheless a big amount of people, it's the last generation, many different people that are joining. We need to make this path as comfortable as possible and close as possible. And something that will be accepted by as many people as possible. Of course, not everyone is worthy of it, to reach faith above reason, themselves, like us, like we are trying to do. But the rest will be drawn by joining in a more passive manner. Nevertheless, the entrance to spirituality, and broad as possible for everyone. We learn faith above reason, we don't understand these words so much, they're a little confusing for us. They confuse us, they seem empty from content and we need to clarify them more and more. This scrutiny needs to be in a more emotional way because there's no other way – because we only have vessels of feeling, a desire within which we reveal this – that's why what we do need to do is to scrutinize it even more.
Faith above reason is that state which we learn that the spiritual vessel operates in such a way. That it makes a decision upon itself not to receive inside the will to receive which is called, within reason. Instead, it builds its relation, its attitude towards the Creator, the feeling of the connection, the feeling of the upper world. The feeling of what spirituality is, what is outside of me, in essence, as I build this above my reason. Meaning, beyond my decision, I make practically a restriction not to receive for myself in a direct way, like the will to receive is, which is made up of the mind and the heart. I don't want to receive it, meaning I don't want to understand and I don't want to feel in a direct manner. Rather, I want to do it all in rejection, by me emerging outside of myself, by me operating above my reason. Specifically, when a person tries to do that he begins to understand that this causes him to have his reason greater, more broader. Whoever wants to go above reason receives an addition of reason, an addition of will to receive, as he feels like wanting more and is knowing more within his vessels of reception. Then, he needs to do even more of an overcoming; and this is through the group, through the fact that he includes himself in the Ten. And, even more, exiting himself, above himself, to connecting to the Creator. When he connects to the group and connects to the upper force, he builds them, that's called, You made Me. Because he doesn't receive and doesn't want to receive what there is – as if there is something outside of a person. Because outside of a person, all there is, is the abstract upper light and what he builds is his spiritual world. This is why the Creator says, You made Me, you have triumphed over Me; meaning you're building everything above your will to receive.
This is how we need to constantly be in this scrutiny: This is within reason and this is above reason. This is inside the will to receive and this is above the will to receive. This is inside of my regular feeling, and this is where I'm building my feeling out of giving. This is how we need to build these two levels – reason and faith above reason. That is reception and bestowal above the force of reception as reason is called, reception and faith is called, bestowal. This is how we need to constantly try and be in these states and build them one after the other, constantly, as much as possible. Until we receive more and more feelings, more and more understandings of what it is considered to be within reason and above reason, within reason and above reason. And to constantly be trying to build ourselves in such a way and this is how we advance. There will be many questions, many discernments, some of them we will answer, some of them we won't since you will have to scrutinize throughout the day, until tomorrow, constantly be in this, to try again and again, go over the morning lessons. Let’s say, now, we're learning work in faith above reason, selected excerpts from Baal HaSulam, from Rabash, from sources. I hope that throughout the day you're going over them. Let's say, now, we're going to start with Excerpt Number Ten.
M. Laitman: (07:49) We will try to, throughout the day, go over these excerpts. If you don't manage to do so, if you only go over two or three of them, that's also good. Even if you engage in one of them several times a day until you understand. There are some that read an excerpt and even part of an excerpt, and it's so attractive. It's so grabbing that it doesn't let you run away to other excerpts, that too is good, that's good, remain in that!
Meaning the main thing is for you to feel that it draws you, it sucks you in. Because this construction that we're doing in our faith above reason is truly that spiritual Kli, that Partzuf, that relation between us and the Creator which, through that, we will see that we are in a true state, in the world of truth, as we call it, in a spiritual world; and this is how we will succeed. Therefore, the main thing is don't look for questions right away – how to ask – but rather try to write them, maybe if so, but you should know that this all needs to be clarified during your internal work; as you are scrutinizing what we read and talk about. Now, we will start from Excerpt Number Ten:
Reader: Quote Number Ten, this is from the selected excerpts on The Work with Faith Above Reason.
Reading: (09:38) 10. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 13, “A Pomegranate”
There is emptiness only in a place where there is no existence, as in “The earth hangs on nothing.”
M. Laitman: Where there's no ego there, there's no desire to receive, to understand, to feel, to see. But rather, he has it, clearly and even more and more each time this ego opens up. But he is trying to rise above it, and specifically by his ego growing more and more and him trying to build the spiritual work – his attitude towards friends and to the Creator in a way that's above his ego – then, by this, he advances. And builds a greater Kli until this Kli will have sufficient volume and sufficient discernments by which he will be able to start to feel there, the new world, the upper world. This is like a baby who grows. He still doesn't understand or feel, of course, and doesn't grasp. He doesn't even have a sense of vision and hearing and taste, he doesn't have a great feel of it yet until that awakens and is built in him as well. This is how we, too, by us returning, also repeating mechanically in this return to the Ten. Through talking about it, through the different senses where these things are happening, we are constantly trying to bring ourselves back to the state like it was in one soul. So the matter of emptiness, only in a place where there is existence—where there's no existence, where our ego is. Yes?
Reading: (11:40) 10. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 13, “A Pomegranate”
You find that what is the measure of the filling of the empty place?
M. Laitman: That I will feel that emptiness, first of all; and how can I fill this place with a new sight, a new perception, a new understanding, in mind and heart which is renewing?
Reading: (12:03) 10. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 13, “A Pomegranate”
The answer is, according to one’s elevation of oneself above reason.
M. Laitman: Meaning, as much as I have within my reason and I live, I'm in my reason, but I want to fill myself above that in a new feeling and a new understanding which are not in the same style that I'm living. But in a style of bestowal through faith; I want to receive here some new inclination, some new feeling, some sensor that will open up in me that wasn't there before. And I will build in me an ability to perceive in a new way something that's outside of me.
Reading: (12:50) 10. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 13, “A Pomegranate”
This means that the emptiness should be filled with exaltedness,
M. Laitman: Meaning, I have some empty place and I want to fill it through this exaltedness, through the greatness of bestowal. Because the Creator is the quality of bestowal, by me exiting and rising above myself.
Reading: (13:12) 10. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 13, “A Pomegranate”
Meaning with above reason, and to ask of the Creator to give him that strength. This will mean that all the emptiness was created, meaning it comes to a person to feel this way—that he is empty—only in order to fill it with the Romemut of the Creator. In other words, one is to take everything above reason.
M. Laitman: Meaning, that to start with I feel that all my feelings, all that feeling of emptiness that I have from something that is called, spirituality, yes, I don't know what that spirituality is yet. But I, somewhat, want to awaken myself to this or I'm between the friends and I see that they're yearning and wanting. And I will receive from them, too, this deficiency for spirituality which I don't know what it is. I want to fill my longing for spirituality, not by me feeling it now in a regular way. But, rather, I understand that spirituality can be revealed only in a spiritual way. Meaning, spirituality is bestowal so only in bestowal from me, outside of myself, as I want to feel it by me emerging out of myself from my will to receive to a desire to bestow to others. Then, in this inclination, I will feel the new world which will be faith above reason.
Reading: (14:59) 10. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 13, “A Pomegranate”
This is the meaning of the verse, “God has made it that He will be feared.” This means that these thoughts of emptiness come to a person in order for one to have a need to take upon himself faith above reason.
M. Laitman: Meaning the fact that we're feeling this inner emptiness, this inner despair, this inner lack for something that we don't know what it is. Specifically that feeling is a very good feeling, it's that feeling of that empty space that needs to be filled with bestowal. With going outside of myself, in rising above himself, and the more I'm wrapped with friends that are also yearning so that spirit will take us in such a way to the heavens, meaning to bestowal.
Reading: (16:03) 10. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 13, “A Pomegranate”
And for this we need the help of the Creator.
M. Laitman: After we make all kinds of efforts and we want and want, sometimes I get an understanding that I need help from above here to turn to Him and that's the Providence which operates on me in such a way. Sometimes, this Providence comes in such a way that I feel that it comes from the society, that society is giving me, all of a sudden, a clue for this and support for me to turn to the Creator. Sometimes, this comes to us from the whole society together, where we're all in such a state and we feel one another in this certain emptiness and that we need to turn to the Creator because we have no choice. But somehow, nevertheless, there is special care from above which either awakens a person in his individual way or awakens through the group. But it's worthwhile, of course, for us to connect to one another and, One will help his friend, by supporting and raising ourselves to faith above reason – to general bestowal to the Creator above all this general emptiness of ours.
Reading: (17:20) 10. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 13, “A Pomegranate”
It follows that at that time, one must ask the Creator to give him the power to believe above reason. It turns out that it is precisely then that one needs the Creator to help him, since the exterior mind lets him understand the opposite.
M. Laitman: A person feels like if he will remain this way without additional forces, without additional perception above his ego. Without the understanding of—understanding how to do some action in order to bestow, he won't come out of this. He will fall, soon, again and again and again into his ego. And won't be able to come out of that hole; therefore, he understands that there is, here, help from the environment and an address to the Creator.
Reading: (18:23) 10. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 13, “A Pomegranate”
Hence, at that time, one has no other choice but to ask the Creator to help him.
It is said about this, “One’s desire overcomes him every day; and were it not for the Creator, he would not overcome it.”
M. Laitman: One's inclination increases over a person each day, more and more each time, and a person feels that he can't rise above his desire. It's like the desire is constantly catching up with him, or passing him and bringing him back, again. There are several ways and we will learn those. The main result here is that he comes to a state where he understands that alone he can't leave. And the turn to the Creator is called that he's turning to the group – not necessarily that he needs to talk to them – but he understands that without attributing himself to the Ten, he cannot bring the request to the Creator. As the request needs to be such that the Creator doesn't care for less than Ten, He doesn't take care of anyone who's less than Ten. He has to have before Him a desire that is worthy of becoming a spiritual Partzuf, a spiritual structure. Then if a person doesn't discover this necessity then nothing works out for him. If he discovers it, certainly, if he doesn't turn this way to the Creator – Ten – then he cannot rise to faith above reason, to the force of Bina and bestowal within his group. This will be above the ego.
Reader: Again, Item Ten.
Reading: (20:40) 10. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 13, “A Pomegranate”
There is emptiness only in a place where there is no existence, as in “The earth hangs on nothing.” You find that what is the measure of the filling of the empty place? The answer is, according to one’s elevation of oneself above reason.
This means that the emptiness should be filled with exaltedness, meaning with above reason,
M. Laitman: To the extent in which bestowal is more important than reception, the extent in which the Ten is more important than me. That's considered, Putting the land above the blockage. Meaning I want to build this desire as much as possible, not on the ground – on the desire in order to receive of mine. But in order to bestow, to raise Malchut to Bina—that's called, Blimah, which is, I want to work from Bina and onwards and not from Malchut.
Reading: (21:57) 10. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 13, “A Pomegranate”
And to ask of the Creator to give him that strength. This will mean that all the emptiness was created, meaning it comes to a person to feel this way—that he is empty—only in order to fill it with the Romemut of the Creator. In other words, one is to take everything above reason. This is the meaning of the verse, “God has made it that He will be feared.” This means that these thoughts of emptiness come to a person in order for one to have a need to take upon himself faith above reason. And for this we need the help of the Creator. It follows that at that time, one must ask the Creator to give him the power to believe above reason.
It turns out that it is precisely then that one needs the Creator to help him, since the exterior mind lets him understand the opposite. Hence, at that time, one has no other choice but to ask the Creator to help him.
It is said about this, “One’s desire overcomes him every day; and were it not for the Creator, he would not overcome it.”
Question (Heb 10): (23:47) In a corporeal mechanism, when a person feels emptiness his inclination is to sort of go inwards and curl in like a snail. And you say that the solution is in bestowal?
M. Laitman: First of all, you keep that emptiness, you don't fill the will to receive that is being revealed. But rather you build upon it an address to the group and to the Creator. That's called that you're hanging the land on that breaking, on that level you're building a new floor, a new level of address of reality.
Student: What does it mean to hang it, to stop, what do we stop?
M. Laitman: It's you wanting to like halt that advancement towards spirituality and filling that emptiness with Romemut, with exaltedness, where you specifically respect greatly the emptiness that the Creator reveals in you, the empty vessel. And upon that empty vessel you build the restriction, the Masach, and the Or Hozer and you don't fill it like it is. You build a new relation, a new attitude and turn to the Creator with it, meaning for your relations to be equalizing, here.
Question (ITA 2): (25:43) To be right, is that something that comes only from the ego, the desire to be right?
M. Laitman: The desire to be right, certainly it's the ego demanding that.
Question (ITA 4): (26:18) Why is it a good state when my reason grows every day?
M. Laitman: To give you, every day, the possibility to be more above your new reason that's being revealed and, each day, you build this way yourself in a more and more spiritual degree.
Student: What's the meaning from what we read of, The Creator doing so that He will be feared?
M. Laitman: So you won't want to work with your will to receive but rather you will obligate yourself to work with your desire to bestow. That's considered that you will fear before Him, since He is telling you to work with the desire to bestow. And you need to be afraid not to fall into your desire to receive and to work according to what He tells you. But rather to take each time the desire to receive and build before it an act of bestowal; that's what the will to receive is revealed and is increased each time for.
Question (PT 20): (27:48) How to pray through the Ten, how do I do this?
M. Laitman: I don't know how you do this. I don't give more than what Rabash writes about that since there simply isn't—he wrote everything. We need to help one another as much as possible, we need to help one another. First of all, understand that we are all in the desire to receive, to understand that what's revealed to us, some longing for spirituality is awakened in us from the Creator. That this longing is very small and it comes and goes, so we need to help one another collect all those desires together. And through envy, lust, and honor, all kinds of things that are written, that they take a person out of this world meaning they take us out of our world to a spiritual degree – a higher degree. That all that the wisdom of Kabbalah talks about is about rising in a degree and not taking a person out of this world as if we're putting him to death so he'll go and die.
The words of the sages are always in praise of how to reach spiritual life, so we need to connect ourselves in the small desires, in our yearnings, that we have to try, even without talking. But this is going to incorporate in us and to be in Ten as one so that each will be impressed by the others. And only then, only then, he will have the force to rise above his personal desire since it's made up of other desires. Then, he will be able to work with himself, as he himself is the Malchut and he has the first nine. And in those upper nine, he has, of course, the ability and force to work with the Malchut and less than that, he doesn't have that strength. Therefore, we need to truly yearn to have a strong society, and for me to be impressed by them, for them to be great in my eyes. And then I will have the strength to rise above and overcome my ego that's being revealed right now. This is how I can uplift myself each time, from me, from Malchut, to the first nine, from Malchut, to the first nine. And each time I work like this in the first nine, it's considered that I'm working in vessels of bestowal.
Question (Kyiv 1): (30:47) You said, I want to work above the Bina? What does that mean?
M. Laitman: There's nothing for us more above Bina because all that we work with is the force of Malchut which is, well, Zeir Anpin and Malchut, let's say, so it'll be easier for you to depict it. Where we join that to the force of Bina, and as much as we join this to the force of Bina to the force of Bina, then we work from Bina upwards to Keter.
Student: What does it mean to further and further respect?
M. Laitman: The more the will to receive is revealed in me in the Malchut, and the more I feel those disturbances and so, with those disturbances, I can associate myself more to the force of bestowal. Therefore, anyone who's greater than his friend in bestowal, why? Because his inclination is greater than him.
Student: You said also, like a formula, that I restrict myself first and then integrate with the friends and then yearn for bestowal. I noticed that just to restrict myself, just, is difficult. It's easier to just yearn for the friends to begin with.
M. Laitman: That's also good, do it like that, do it then.
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Reading: (35:15) 11. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 14. “What Is the Exaltedness of the Creator?”
The Romemut [exaltedness/sublimity] of the Creator means that one should ask the Creator for the strength to go above reason. This means that there are two interpretations to the Romemut of the Creator:
1. To not be filled with knowledge, which is intellect with which one can answer one’s questions. Rather, he wants the Creator to answer his questions. It is called Romemut because all the wisdom comes from above and not from man, meaning that man can answer his own questions.
Anything that one can answer is regarded as answering everything with the external mind. This means that the will to receive understands that it is worthwhile to observe Torah and Mitzvot [commandments]. However, if the above reason compels one to work, it is called “against the opinion of the will to receive.”
2. The greatness of the Creator means that one becomes needy of the Creator to grant his wishes. Therefore:
1. One should go above reason. Then one sees that he is empty and becomes needy of the Creator.
2. Only the Creator can give him the strength to be able to go above reason. In other words, what the Creator gives is called “The Romemut of the Creator.”
Reader: We'll read again. Excerpt 11, this is from Baal HaSulam, Shamati 14: What is the Exaltedness of the Creator?
M. Laitman: I also want to say something, friends. You probably have the sources in front of you, the text.
Reader: Yes, everyone has the text and there is the book icon on the Galaxy menu.
M. Laitman: Wonderful, other than that it could be that they can print this out. Because this material is very fundamental and important. These are not general bits of information that we learned and we're learning, also, now, sometimes, in the wisdom of Kabbalah, in perception of reality, in all kinds of things; and how the general Kli is constructed. But this is actually guidance on how to, you know, daily advance for us. This is why it's worthwhile for this to be printed out for you on a piece of paper and wherever you go, you can either—today there is no paper, it's on your phone, yes? Wherever you go, you can look at it and it will be before you. Try, try to constantly repeat these verses until they will be close to you. Because, at first, we don't understand what's written; later, it sounds like some of it we hear and some not, and as it's written and vice versa, on the contrary, you want to invert them and arrange them, rearrange them. I remember how much I tried to rewrite them differently and to emphasize this versus that until I understood these excerpts in a complete manner. Please try to work with them so they will always be before you.
Reader: Again, Excerpt Number 11.
Reading: (39:35) 11. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 14. “What Is the Exaltedness of the Creator?”
The Romemut [exaltedness/sublimity] of the Creator means that one should ask the Creator for the strength to go above reason. This means that there are two interpretations to the Romemut of the Creator:
1. To not be filled with knowledge, which is intellect with which one can answer one’s questions. Rather, he wants the Creator to answer his questions.
M. Laitman: Meaning, with the force of bestowal, that's considered that the Creator will answer his questions. Not the knowledge that the Creator will now shine for me and I will see the world from one end to the other, no. That the Creator fills his lights, meaning that the bestowal will fill the empty spaces in me where I want to receive, to understand, to feel, really. Just like my will to receive demands, I want it to be filled with the force of bestowal, with the force of Bina.
Reading: (40:48) 11. Baal HaSulam. Shamati 14. “What Is the Exaltedness of the Creator?”
It is called Romemut because all the wisdom comes from above and not from man, meaning that man can answer his own questions.
Anything that one can answer is regarded as answering everything with the external mind. This means that the will to receive understands that it is worthwhile to observe Torah and Mitzvot [commandments]. However, if the above reason compels one to work, it is called “against the opinion of the will to receive.”
2. The greatness of the Creator means that one becomes needy of the Creator to grant his wishes. Therefore:
1. One should go above reason. Then one sees that he is empty and becomes needy of the Creator.
2. Only the Creator can give him the strength to be able to go above reason. In other words, what the Creator gives is called “The Romemut of the Creator.”
M. Laitman: Well, maybe we could say it this way: Where I turn to a great person and I don't ask him to give me some knowledge or information. I ask, from him to give me certain qualities by which I could reach that state, where I ask the Creator, the Exaltedness of the Creator, the Romemut. Meaning the force of Bina, bestowal, the force of emerging above myself, that's what I ask. And specifically, I put a Masach and a restriction since I don't want to receive from Him a ready-made thing. No, give me the possibility to reach it on my own, to attain it on my own, to grow and become like You, to reach adhesion, to reach Dvekut and equivalence of form. I need those qualities and not the knowledge that you receive from those qualities. I want to enjoy being similar to You, and not receiving, already, by being similar all kinds of information or knowledge. That's what we need to try and ask for and want; I want to be in qualities like the Creator – that's called, To return to the degree of the Creator – return all the way to the Lord your God. But not that I receive some knowledge and it's impossible, first of all, but even the inclination towards that comes to us in order for us to rise above it.
Reader: There's an opportunity to ask questions now.
M. Laitman: Okay, so don't be shy, ask all kinds of questions, we're in a situation, just like we're coming to school, to first grade. And we're starting to get accustomed to sitting down, and hearing, and asking, and writing. You know how all this happens where there's a new style of study, a new relation here, and we need to acquire it slowly, slowly, okay?
Question (USA Northeast): (45:07) What is the emptiness?
M. Laitman: The emptiness is that I'm feeling that I'm lacking, I'm missing the knowledge of the Creator, the knowledge of life, the knowledge of the world. That I want to fill my will to receive, that feeling which is direct within my will to receive is called, emptiness. So, I can't fill it with knowledge, with information, no: The Creator didn't create the Kli and restrict it so that we will give back to Him what was already in Him. But rather we need this emptiness to use it in order to resemble the Creator. As I want to first of all acquire his quality, the quality of bestowal. So, I use my emptiness as a catapult as, as an assistive force, and I ask not to fill the emptiness but rather to be above the emptiness. To sustain it, may keep it so it will not disappear. I respect this emptiness which the Creator is bringing me in order to build above it the force of faith above reason, the force of bestowal. Therefore, I never fill myself with that which I want, but rather I raise the greatness of the Creator and want to be similar to Him above that empty space. Then it's called that, I'm sitting with the Host and I want to bestow to the Host even though I really want to receive the nourishments that He put in front of me. But I don't fill my stomach with his treats, but rather I want to fill myself only with my tendency towards the Host, where my bestowal towards the host will be like my filling.
And then it turns out that I am doing a clash against my desire to fill myself, and a Zivug, a coupling with the Host, with the connection with the Creator, with the Host, so that I will fill Him and for me to feel that I'm filling Him only under the condition that I fill myself. And in those measures I'm willing to fill myself, and in that I will feel that I'm filling the host. We've talked about this with you many times.
Question (Toronto 2): (47:56) Let's assume that a person has no doubts in that the Creator guides and rules the world. Meaning the general force of nature, the all-encompassing force of nature. We also need to understand that going by faith above reason is just a tool, a device to reach the Creator?
M. Laitman: Certainly, the act of bestowal above reason, faith above reason, bestowal above the will to receive is the action by which we make ourselves similar to the Creator. And bring ourselves back to the concept of an Adam, being similar to Him, and this is how we build our Kli. As we are all similar to the Creator in this way, we all build one Kli which is our end of correction. After we correct ourselves and reach the end of correction, then we will open before us something that we cannot talk about, right now, because it's a Kli that we have no…we are not built to understand what that is. But we just need to understand that the end of correction is where we will come to acquiring all the qualities by which we will continue. By me being in that direct tendency towards the end of correction, then I will be able to talk in such a way that it's not final there. That after that, we have something special; but we first have to correct ourselves. Otherwise, how will we feel, understand, connect to such a degree? Is that clear?
Question (Croatia): (50:21) Let's say that I see a flaw in my Ten, and this creates in me this deficiency to make it whole, to fix it in some way. So, how do I do it? What does it mean to do it from the level of Bina, up, and not from the level of Malchut? To fix it according to my version?
M. Laitman: No, no, no, I wouldn't say that; to begin with, you need to try to accept the Ten as something whole. Not to correct yourself or correct the Ten. To accept this whole thing as complete, as whole. You need to work above that, don't start picking into what I should correct, what I shouldn't correct, how to correct what is myself. Just try to integrate with the Ten, and for that, you need no criticism on them – they are simply whole, even though I don't see it as such. But I nullify and integrate with them because this is how I enter and make contact with the Creator through the Ten like Rabash writes. And then I can gain the force of correction. Read again what Rabash says about this.
Question (Bulgaria): (52:03) Is the restriction that we do connected with that empty space?
M. Laitman: Of course when we want to make a restriction over the empty space that becomes revealed, but it's not that we don't wish to feel it, that empty space. But rather we want to go above it, we want to not work with it by trying to fulfill it with what it wants. I don't fill the empty space that I would like to fulfill, I, rather, rise above the empty space so as to work with a force to bestow to the Creator.
Question (Turkiye 2): (53:12) What should be the basis for analyzing our studies? Should it be designed to receive more information?
M. Laitman: The basis of our scrutiny, of our progress, of our work, needs to be built on the empty space that appears. That, I want, in my ego, I want to feel, to advance, to be greater, to rise, I envy some great Kabbalists or anything. My ego arises, that's one; now, what do I do with that, secondly? What do I do with this force the Creator awakens in me? So, I need to prepare this force for the greatest, most effective, most beneficial work that can be in life, and that's resembling the Creator. When the Creator awakens this emptiness in me, it's in order for me to resemble Him, and resembling Him means bestowing like He does. Wanting to receive is just something you don't want to waste your life on, it's futile. Resembling the Creator in our life is what's worthwhile to do, and so, what action can bring me that? Only the action of bestowal and then I try to understand, so how do I reach bestowal? I don't want that, so this is called, above my reason.
What does it mean to bestow: I have friends, with them, I can reach something where I can restrict myself to connect with them. I can make myself little to be a part of them, and so on. And in this practical fashion, if you make these actions that Rabash writes about, you're going to see a very practical method for how to realize faith above reason. There's nothing more than that in the wisdom of Kabbalah for now. Until we correct all the emptiness, the vessel that is restricted in the first restriction.
Question (Turkiye 3): (55:59) You said that the person must constantly develop new understandings and perceptions in the study. Does one have to constantly develop new levels for these situations?
M. Laitman: If a person tries to always be above his force of reception and inclined towards the group and the Creator, this means that he builds himself on a new level each time.
Question (Moscow 7): (56:49) From Shamati 14, Baal HaSulam writes here about the greatness of the Creator being that the Creator becomes necessary for a person. How can you express that necessity and grow it?
M. Laitman: That I understand, and I also understand through my group, that if the Creator won't help me integrate with the group and help all of us together reach correction, then we're all lost. Then I was born a beast and I'll die as one without bestowing to others, and to myself, and the Creator.
Student: We always talk about the fact that we must grow the exaltedness of the Creator between us. And Baal HaSulam writes, here, that the greatness of the Creator is given by the Creator, Himself.
M. Laitman: To pray and to ask, but in order to pray and ask that the Creator will give the greatness of the Creator, you have to have the impression that you need that greatness, and that's from the group. This is called, One shall help his friend. In the group, we awaken each other and all of us together, and then we connect and yell to the Creator, and then He hears.
Question (USA LA): (58:45) It sounds like I need to be caring for being within reason or that I have reason. If I can discern that there's reason and reason that's worthwhile and reason that causes damage?
M. Laitman: No, my whole reason causes me not damage but a state from which I need to ascend to rise, that's how it is.
Question (Tbilisi): (59:30) The desire to resemble the Creator, we don't have such, sadly. It advances us to certain states that we just understand that this is the truth and that's how it is, and also the group. How to acquire such a desire to resemble Him? Is that possible?
M. Laitman: This will come later, the desire to resemble the Creator will come afterwards. In the meantime, you need to understand that progress comes from Him. And through the group, you all need to turn to Him, and so, try to really make the calculation: How much do you turn to the Creator during the day, how much do you try? And accordingly, make sure you're connected with Him as much as possible.
Question (Baltia 1): (01:00:35) If we can ask about this excerpt, it's written here that a person needs to go in faith above reason, and then he sees that he's empty. And then he becomes needy of the Creator. And then he writes, but only the Creator can give him that force so that he will be able to go above reason. I don't understand how it's possible to be in faith above reason if you're not empty, and then you actually don't need the Creator? But he writes here that only the Creator can give that force. So, I need to be first in faith above reason in order to be empty? Or vice versa, where the emptiness brings me to that address to the Creator, to come above that.
M. Laitman: You don't understand, and I'm not going to answer you, I'm not going to. First of all, you all want to receive answers in your mind, and you're not going to get any answers in your intellect. There, you only need to understand what you're supposed to do, that's it. This is what it says: That which the Creator has done, we should do. And understanding, as you're asking, that's completely incorrect, it's a wrong approach. And I'm not going to answer you – and in general, I'm telling all of the Baltia group in this opportunity – stop being so immersed in your own minds. Activate your emotion a little bit, and then through the feeling, you'll understand more.
Question (MAK VG 3): (01:02:20) Is it right to search for answers to our questions in the Zohar?
M. Laitman: No, we are not looking for answers to our questions in the books, especially in the Zohar. I said it many times, the Zohar was given to us only in order to get strength, impression from it, not understanding. We're still very far from it, from unlocking the book of Zohar.
Question (French): (01:03:10) What type of desire and intention do we need to ask the Creator for to bring us to above reason?
M. Laitman: The desire to bestow, no more than that; the desire to bestow to the friends, to the group, and the Creator, Himself. The Creator is basically the sum, the sum total of the whole group. If I achieve complete connection with the group, there I find the Creator that lies within. The Creator is the concept of the sum total, the whole totality.
Student: Faith above reason, is it connected to some form of prayer?
M. Laitman: Of course, by prayer – prayer means turning to the Creator, in general. Any plea to receive spiritual strength, strength of bestowal is called, a prayer.
Question (Tel Aviv 2): (01:04:45) Is there shame in this process, in this whole process?
M. Laitman: No, there is no shame at all in the whole spiritual process, shame is something that appears on high spiritual degrees. Does a baby feel shame, does a little child feel shame? The more a person grows and he has his own character similar to the Creator, and then he feels how much he is and isn't similar to the Creator, how much he misses opportunities to reach equivalence with the Creator, that's where shame begins. Before that, there's no shame, Go to the craftsman who made me. He made me the way I am, so how do I make myself in, of course, getting strength from the Creator. But when I start to participate, that's where shame begins. That's why it says that shame is ready for the higher souls.
Student: At what stage does the request to the Creator enter, to fill that emptiness?
M. Laitman: This emptiness, we don't fulfill it as an emptiness, we actually, thanks to the emptiness, we build a spiritual degree. The emptiness never disappears or never is fulfilled, we actually maintain it. On top of it, we build our soul.
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Reader: Dear friends, we will now move to a live lesson with Rav. Before that, we'll sing a song together.
Song: (01:06:49)