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Daily Lesson (Morning) December 31, 2024.

Part 2: Rabash. 5. The Meaning of Sins Becoming as Merits.

Reader: We are reading in the Writings of Rabash Volume 3, Article 5, “The Meaning of Sins Becoming as Merits.” Again, The Writings of Rabash, Article 5, “The Meaning of Sins Becoming as Merits.”

5. The Meaning of Sins Becoming as Merits

Reading: (00:29) We can understand the meaning of sins becoming as merits, that if a person has a question, which is certainly a great iniquity because this question might cause him to fall into the Klipa [shell/peel] called “pondering the beginning.” If he repents from fear, meaning strengthens himself and is not impressed by this thought, then they become to him as mistakes. That is, it is not a sin but a mistake. In other words, it would be better had no foreign thought come to him, but now that it came, he did not have a choice but to strengthen himself with acceptance of the burden of the kingdom of heaven.

Also, there is repentance from love, when he receives the burden of faith anew because of love, meaning he accepts the work with love. That is, he is happy that the Creator has given him this foreign thought by which he can observe this Mitzva [commandment].

This is similar to a flame that is tied to the wick. The foreign thought is considered the wick, which wants to install a flaw in his work. That is, the foreign thought makes him think that from the perspective of the mind and reason, he has nothing to do in His work. And when he gets the foreign thought, he says that he does not want to make any excuses, but everything that the reason says is correct except he is walking on the path of faith, which is above reason.

It follows that the flame of faith is tied to the wick of the foreign thought. Thus, only now can he observe the Mitzva of faith properly. It follows that the questions have become to him as merits, since otherwise he would not be able to accept any merits from faith.

This is called “rejoicing in suffering.” Although he suffers from the foreign thoughts that afflict him and cause him to slander and gossip and speak badly about His work, he is nonetheless happy about it for only now, at such a time, he can observe in a manner of faith above reason. This is called “the joy of Mitzva.”

“It is forbidden to raise one’s hands without a prayer and litany.” Also, we should understand the meaning of “why he reveals sins.” The scrutiny of the quality of “mind,” he should first be ready for battle, meaning he must have weapons prepared for this, so he can win the battle. If he is not prepared for it, he must not do any scrutinies that will reveal the sin, meaning that it will be revealed that he is not ready to take upon himself the quality of “mind.” Thus, he must prepare himself, for if the body does not want to accept the “mind,” he should immediately extend over it a prayer that the Creator will help him accept the burden of the kingdom of heaven.

This is the meaning of “It is forbidden to raise one’s hand.” “Hands” are attainment and reception. Raising the hands is when he pulls himself without prayer from being a receiver, whether in mind or in heart, so there will be no hold to the Sitra Achra [other side]. Rather, as soon as he sees that he cannot walk in this path, he will pray.

In other words, if he cannot overcome with labor, he will overcome with prayer. But if he is not ready for prayer, he must not make scrutiny. 

M. Laitman: Well, manage the discussion. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (07:40) How can a person be ready for prayer his whole life at any moment? How can he be so ready for it?

M. Laitman: I don't know, but it just happens this way that a person has many more deficiencies, thoughts, desires, requests than you think. He's constantly checking. He becomes kind of must check, examine his state, his situation, the inner systems he has, and how he feels in them, and which of them become worse than, let's say, his average. So this is how he examines. And it doesn't give him rest.

Student: So he has to be constantly alert to check his state compared to the state he should reach?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: In relation to the friends, in relation to the path? 

M. Laitman: Yes, yes.

Student: It seems that in the last lessons, not last week, more, but also a few months ago, you've been directing us more and more to internal work. And previously it wasn't like that. Maybe always, but especially because of the Congress of Lishman.

M. Laitman: Well, actually, this has always been my goal.

Student: There's work with the Ten, which is also internal work, obviously, but there's work that a person has to check with himself, maybe in relation to the Creator.

M. Laitman: So?

Student: where should we concentrate more specifically on this?

M. Laitman: Between where I am with myself and where I am with my group.

Student: Yes.

M. Laitman: It depends on the person, on how much the Creator awakens him, on how accustomed he is to receiving the invitation to the work from above. Meaning, to the extent that he feels within him this awakening and attributes it, that awakening, to the Creator. And out of that, how he returns to himself. And by this, awakens all his work toward the solution.

Student: Every person, where he is obviously, but is there something in general that we can say about our whole world group that now, towards the Congress, demands more discernments or more inner work?

M. Laitman: Yes. Of course, all our learning, our lessons, both in the morning and in general, is aimed entirely toward preparation for the Congress.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (13:17) How can I be sensitive to the state that the Creator is awakening you towards, that he's inviting you to this work? He's constantly giving you some treatment to come back in his direction. How can I be more sensitive to this? 

M. Laitman: First of all, I have to think about it. I think about it all the time. The Creator operates constantly. It's a force that has no rest. So, what operates on me is his constant will. And I accept this desire, and I want to be in contact with this desire. I to my beloved, and my beloved to me.

Student: The Creator works endlessly. It's a force that doesn't rest.

M. Laitman: Correct.

Student: How can I be like him, no break, no rest, just to be sensitive to the way he's working on me?

M. Laitman: That's not so much of a problem as it seems to us. If we are within the feeling of our time, then it turns out that at one time we're up, another time we're down, and in all kinds of directions. And with my friends, I can lose everything. And in general, it's not to find myself in all this. So, what's important for us is to nevertheless concentrate our work on several axes, directions, and to see the changes and the ability to change in us only in them.

Student: And what's the central axis? 

M. Laitman: It's not so important here whether it's the central axis or not. Because we are in a system that is entirely closed. And, as we already heard many times, we can't grasp it, that the whole system, all of it, is in incompleteness to the extent that each of us is incomplete. And if we, if we try to maintain ourselves in a complete system, then we will discover it. This is what we need to do. We don't need to correct anything in reality except for our own relation, our own attitude. And therefore, we need to do only this.

Student: How can you hold on to imperfection and perfection of the system at the same time?

M. Laitman: I work with each of these two states when I need to. And whatever part of it, the imperfection and the perfection are, they complement one another.

Student: The friend asked about the Congress. He also mentioned that in two months we have a Congress. We're really expecting it. We want some big inner spiritual change. But we also started talking a bit about the content, and there are a lot of different paths. Let's take the path of Arvut. Let's take Lishma. Let's strengthen the foundations of society. And everything is always right. There's always a place for all of it. You, that you feel the center of our group, of the world Kli. What should we emphasize in this Congress? What should we focus on? The main thing.

M. Laitman: The main thing in our Kli, in our vessel, I think it is, as we said many times, that the most important is to see through our connection, the purpose of creation, and how we, in this line from the present state to the final state, the purpose of creation. We are all in the process. And I hope we will come to the Congress in a way that everyone is ready for this role.

Student: I still don't understand what should be the main topic that you see. The plan of creation, we offer each connection, revelation, that's clear. But still, to be more precise. 

M. Laitman: More precise, a person cannot. A person is unable to accept, to digest, to process the purpose of creation and to be incorporated in it or to absorb it. So many words, but I have nothing to add.

Student:  What should we prepare ourselves towards?

M. Laitman: You should prepare yourselves for the end of correction of your work. You need to prepare yourselves to receiving nature as one.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (23:42) Continuing the questions. We had |Unity Day, now we are having the Congress, there are a lot of changes. Huge changes around us physically in the world. There is a lot of rain outside. I was born in the village. I know after rain, everything starts growing. There's something in our source here that we're doing that we have to make better in order for those sprouts to sprout. And we know that there's sprouts that wait for years until they're able to sprout. So, what can we make better in our source or our preparation to the Congress that there'll be a general sprouting between all the friends here and in the world? It's about time we do it. What can we make better? What should we do? 

M. Laitman: The connection between us on all kinds of levels. On the personal level, bigger, and bigger, and bigger, to the infinite level.

Student: This infinite level, that's something distant. We want to feel the initial feeling of the world of truth. And I'm speaking about me personally. It seems that when I come here, the heart doesn't feel. I walk in here and I'm clogged. I look at the friends. I'm sure they feel more than me, but the heart is blocked.

M. Laitman: You need to stop working on it. 

Student: I can’t. The Creator gave me this heart and He can change it. 

M. Laitman: With your request.

Student: We know this. What can a person…

M. Laitman: I have nothing to say about this. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (26:16) You always tell us that we need to attack. Also in the article, he writes that every moment we have to be ready for battle. What does it mean to be ready for battle?

M. Laitman: To insist on our principle, which is through the correct desire directed toward the Creator. We enter with it into the desire of the Creator. And then we discover in it this whole formula from the purpose of creation to the end of creation.

Student: In this work, we constantly need to discover the sensitivity to the changes between us.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: How can we raise this sensitivity? And the changes that we're constantly going through here. The Creator is doing this from us, from the current state to the desired state. How do we raise the sensitivity between us and the work so we can truly reach this final point, as the friends here said, that we'll come to the Congress in the best way we can.

M. Laitman: What does the Creator want from us?  

Student: He wants us to be united in one desire. We were also talking about it in the Ten yesterday, to feel that we're the Creator's workers, that everything we're doing here is with one common intention, to give Him contentment.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: How do we aim ourselves to that one common intention? There's no “I,” there's friends, there's Creator. Also, The Unity Day, I felt there's no me, there were friends. I didn't want to feel myself. How can we reach a state that there is no “I?” I come here, I want to bring my soul. How do we do it every day? That's the constant war, this attack, and to be ready for that final battle.

M. Laitman: You don't need words for it. What you said is enough. If we take the two or three sentences you said in the end and arrange the relation between us and the Creator correctly, according to these sentences, this is enough. This is all our work. As a result, we have a place where we discover the Creator's reaction, His answer, and that by this we will reach His goal.

Student: May we all succeed and really reach the Congress together and united.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (30:04) You were speaking about wholeness. You said that we see the system in lack of wholeness, and the Creator gives us a new access where we have to recognize change. And if we try to hold ourselves in this whole system, we don't have to correct anything but our intention to see this wholeness. You also said how it belongs to the whole process of creation. So, should we constantly work in seeing the wholeness, justifying the wholeness, taking what's revealed to us as lack of wholeness, as something to work with, where we have to ignite the flame on as we read? Is that what you mean towards the Congress? 

M. Laitman: Yes. Why not?

Student: How do you ignite the flame on this wick of lack of wholeness that is revealed? Because our place of work is always that lack of wholeness that we see. And we always have to feel, and justify, and see His wholeness of the system. How do you ignite that flame?

M. Laitman: You ignite the flame with a feeling of imperfection and with the right demand to reach the final perfection. So, you have a feeling that is correct for today, and a feeling that should purportedly, according to your description, be in the end. And between the two, you have a system that is broken, and a system that should come to connection. Please, do this internally, as much as possible. And so we, our whole life, and in all the states will be constantly in a transition between now and tomorrow. 

Student: So, now is the lack of wholeness, and then it's the wholeness?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (33:01) He writes about the flame which is faith, and the wick, which is the foreign thought, let's say the world to receive. So, there's nothing in between. There is your desire, your ego, and you have above reason, faith above reason. There's nothing in between, right? 

M. Laitman: Keep going, keep going. 

Student: The whole thing about the wick and the flame, the flame is a force that a person gets to go above reason. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, where? It depends on what? On a person just asking for this force? That's a whole matter of above reason? 

M. Laitman: Probably so. 

Student: So, it's only using the wick correctly? 

M. Laitman: Not using it. You said receiving the strength.

Student: Yes, but that depends on the way I use it, the way I recognize it. How do I use it?

M. Laitman: Now, you're going back, sort of.  What should be the operation by which I come to?

Student: Faith.

M. Laitman: To the right request, to faith. So?

Student: It's as if we're always living through this wick, and what we're lacking now is just to make the flame happen. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, what we're lacking is going above reason. Meaning, I recognize the garbage in me, and I choose to go above it.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Is that the right way to look at it? 

M. Laitman: Yes, you can explain it this way. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (35:04) What you just explained in going above reason, I heard you say that it's a reward, something you are rewarded with. Here, yes, how can I go in faith above reason? I can't. I will always fall into reason if I'm not rewarded. So, how do you go above reason?

M. Laitman: I don't know. Speak to the friends, with the friends.

Student: We're talking about it. In the end, it's the scrutiny that a person feels. He should feel this reward within him.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And? 

M. Laitman: We just read, and we'll soon read complete articles that are connected to it. And we need to do, to implement these articles within us, to turn ourselves internally a little more according to the article that organizes us, and continue. According to the next article, we turn ourselves a little more, maybe in a slightly different direction, and continue. This is basically the operations we need to receive, to do. 

Student: So, the reward comes after endless little steps, that in the end, somehow something happens that a person is rewarded. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, just stick to the writings?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And from there, the reward will come?

M. Laitman: Yes. But with respect to, Ein Sof, to infinity, it's not infinite steps, because in our few steps, infinite operations are already included.

Student: So, every step there are infinite inner states that a person goes through at the same time? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And is he supposed to understand those things?

M. Laitman: No.

Student: So, he just flows with it in the Ten and reaches the right prayer? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (38:00) The last two scrutinies, that's what Rabash is speaking about, the rubbing of the hearts. You just described the work in the Ten with Rabash articles. I feel that in this system we got a gift, which is Rabash articles. He left us something here. You just described the work with his articles, that I guess also the deficiency of the right prayer is in there. Is that the rubbing of the hearts between us, the friction to revolve around Rabash? Even the questions we're speaking about here, what we're saying, it's as if Rabash, even the friend's questions, I feel that it's Rabash's words. Everything that's happening here, he prepared something for us. And you are in contact with him, and you are still in contact with him. So, I want to ask, what does he want to tell us? How can we help? How can we give him contentment? 

M. Laitman: He simply wants to take you and lead you to the Creator, bring you to the Creator so you will feel that you have the ability to understand how the Creator speaks to you with the style of a mother with her baby. It doesn't matter, but that you are already able to be in an internal connection with the Creator through the Rabash. The truth is, I don’t know who to ask.

Question (PT 6): (41:15) The important congress will hurt my necessities. Is that a good sign?

M. Laitman: I didn't understand. 

Student: To come to the congress will hurt my necessities. Is that a good sign, or should we not do that? 

M. Laitman: Why is it hurting the necessity?

Student: Because things are expensive, tickets are expensive. And I don't know, maybe because it's so important, so it's so hard to come to it. But that's the state. The question is, if it's a good sign, is it good that it's like that? Not that I'll have like foreign thoughts, or complain to the Creator, or gossip about the Creator, but just to go above reason, even if it hurts my necessities. 

M. Laitman: It seems to me like you're exaggerating your necessity. You understand? 

Student: For me, for example, also in these months, it’s the best time to make a living. If it was a different time, it would be easier to make a decision. Is it right to think this way? Or should I just come and that's it? Is it right to think that way? Or are also friends that live at the ends of the world, that for them to come, it's a year of a salary for them. So, it's more of a general question. Each one for himself? Or is there a calculation a person can make?

M. Laitman: No, we can make it so that there will be other places besides this one, like mirror congresses besides this congress, and that you will convene there. Convene there.

Student: Yes, but this is a world congress once a year.

M. Laitman: So what?

Student: It's a congress where everybody comes to Israel physically. And everyone connects their other congresses, that we have nearer congresses that are more local. 

M. Laitman: I think that with the right preparation, to be at the congress not in Israel, it's much preferable than to be at a congress in Israel. It's not the place that determines.