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Daily Lesson (Afternoon) November 18, 2024                                                                    

Part 1: Rabash. Abraham Gave All that He Had, Record 354

Abraham Gave All that He Had

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Reading : (00:33) A good lesson in the Midrash, in the portion “The Life of Sarah,” about the verse, “And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.” Rabbi Yehuda said, “This is Gevura [strength/judgment].” Rabbi Nehemiah says, “This is a blessing.”

We should understand the following:

1) How can it be said that one gives Gevura to another? This is not something that can be passed on from hand to hand.

2) What is the dispute that one says specifically Gevura and the other says “blessing”? In what are they disputed?

We should interpret that both meant the same thing, and both are the words of the living God. That is, he passed on to him that he will walk in the way of Gevura, as it is written, “And he swore by the fear of Isaac his father.” That is, through the quality of Gevura, this is the meaning of “all that he had,” that Abraham gave him the way by which to walk. And that which he had to complete, by this he was rewarded with the blessing, meaning “and the Lord blessed him.”

In other words, through reinforcement in Torah and work, he was rewarded with repentance from love, when sins became as merits. It follows that his work created a full fruit.

Accordingly, we can understand what our sages said, “Rabbi Shmuel Bar Nachmani said, ‘Rabbi Yonatan said, ‘Why is it written, ‘For You are our father, for Abraham did not know us and Israel did not recognize us. You, Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer.’’’”

In the future, the Creator will say to Abraham, “Your children sinned against Me.” He said to Him, “Master of the world, let them be abolished over the sanctity of Your name.”

He said to Jacob, “It is painful to raise children, can I ask for mercy on them?” He said to him, “Your sons have sinned.” He said to Him, “Master of the world, let them be abolished over the sanctity of Your name.” He said, “There is no reasoning in the elderly, and no counsel in youths.”

He said to Isaac, “Your sons have sinned.” He said to Him, “Master of the world, my sons and not Your sons? When they gave precedence to ‘We will do’ over ‘We will hear,’ You called them ‘My son, My firstborn,’ now they are my sons and not Yours?’ And also, how much did they sin? How many are man’s years, 70 years? Take off twenty for which You do not punish, and they are left with fifty. Subtract twenty-five, which comprise the nights, and they are left with twenty-five. Subtract twelve and a half of prayer, eating, and the toilet, and there remain twelve and a half. If You bear them all, very well. But if not, half is on me and half is on You. And if You wish to say that they are all on me, then I offered my soul before You.” They started and said, “For you are our father” (Shabbat [Sabbath] 89b).

The meaning of “abolishing” is the transgressions. Therefore, it will not be to the full extent, since a time of transgressions still remains. Yet, through the quality of Gevura he will have the strength to extend this force onto Israel so the sins will become merits.

It follows that all the blessings come through reinforcement in the Torah. Therefore, if we hold on to the learners of the Torah and become strengthened by them, so they can draw the power of Gevura, we will have the full measure of the blessings and we will be able to extend blessings on the whole of Israel, Amen.

We see that all that Isaac took upon himself was the Torah, as it is written, “twelve and a half of prayer, eating, and the toilet,” but not the prayer. The rule is that if there are no learners of the Torah, there will not even be anyone who will pray.

It is as the allegory about the king who lowered all the princesses by one rank until common soldiers were left with no rank at all. Hence, if we want them to be in the next world and for our sons to pray over us, we must keep the learners of Torah.

Question (Women MAK): (07:25) What is the connection between the qualities of the Creator and the qualities of the creature creation in man? 

M. Laitman: The qualities of the Creator are the qualities of bestowal, of love, qualities of creation. The created being is the way man is created, an egotist, thinking only for his own sake, not wishing to come closer to the others. So, you have to think real good. What does the Creator strive to, and what does the person aspire to? And how can they, in this movement, help each other? 

Student: How do we realize the quality of Isaac in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: What kind of quality is that in the Ten? 

Student: The quality of Isaac, Gevura.  So, the correct use of the desire to receive, for bestowal. How is it realized correctly in the Ten, this quality of Isaac? 

M. Laitman: It's basically pretty simple. If a person wishes the best wishes to his friend, to his neighbor, to the one he studies with, the one he works with.

Student: What is bestowal from the desire to receive to each friend? What should I give to a friend and to the whole Ten from my desire to receive? 

M. Laitman: In your desire to receive, you have to come closer to your women friends and offer them to walk towards the Creator together in such a manner that you will have no doubts that you are going down the right path. I'm listening.

Student: What else do we have to receive in the Ten from each other, the correct reception? 

M. Laitman: Support. Correct direction of our thoughts and our desires. 

Question (Women MAK 98): (11:32) In the text it says, being merited with an answer from love. What does it mean? 

M. Laitman: It's when a person is asking the Creator to bestow the forces upon him to treat the Creator with love. 

Question (Tbilisi): (12:19) Where from and in what way does a person get the energy to bestow? 

M. Laitman: It's received from above, according to the way a person strives to become closer to the Creator, to the aspiration. 

Student: And the Creator gives this energy? 

M. Laitman: The Creator gives this energy to a person so that the person would have the energy to rise towards the Creator. 

Student: So, first I need the desire, and then from this desire I ask for the energy.

Is this how it works? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Kyiv): (13:15) It’s interesting. There's a clarification here about how much time a person spends. It says, subtract the time for the night, for the prayer. So it clarifies how much a person can give to the Creator. What do these conditions and these time periods mean?  What does it mean to give fully to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: It means that he's always intended to act for the sake of the Creator. That's it. 

Student: Can this happen with kabbalists that there's no descent, no break, and he's constantly in one intention? 

M. Laitman: If he tries to stick to this intention, then he has no descents. 

Question (Petah Tikva 35): (14:27) What does overcoming in the Torah, strengthening in the Torah, mean? 

M. Laitman: When you're going to play cards. It says, you receive from above, from the Creator all the goals, all of the ideas, all of the states, all of the efforts. 

Student: How do you advance with them further? 

M. Laitman: So, everything I receive from a kabbalist, I realize as we shall do and we shall hear. 

Question (Petah Tikva 29): (15:46) Here it says, “Therefore, if we hold on to the learners of the Torah and become strengthened by them, so they can draw the power of Gevura, we will have the full measure of the blessings and we will be able to extend blessings on the whole of Israel.”  What does it mean to draw the power of Gevurah? 

M. Laitman: We have to strive to have the forces to walk, to advance against the ego. That's it.

Student: So, there's no such separate thing, Gevurah? 

M. Laitman: Answer inaudible.

Question (Women MAK 23): (16:38) What does it mean to strengthen in the Torah, in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: It means that you want to be connected with your friends in the Ten and support each other in your movement towards the goal.

Student: Another question. What happens between us in this turn when the transgressions become as merits? 

M. Laitman: You feel that the attitude of the Creator changes towards you.

Student: And what was in the past, something we saw as bad, do we start to see it as being for the good? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women MAK 43): (17:43) if I cannot turn the Gevurah to bestowal, shall we break up this desire to correct it gradually? 

M. Laitman: How are you supposed to break it? 

Student: If I break up this desire, I can know where my intention is not for bestowal. Then I can strengthen the Gevurah and rise above this desire to receive and turn it to for bestowal. 

M. Laitman: You can try, and then you'll tell me during one of the lessons what came out of it.

Student: And Isaac in his desires took part of the responsibility for the sins. How can I take responsibility and stay in the state of Katnut? 

M. Laitman: You are not capable of that yet, but you will be soon. 

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (18:58) At the end it says it's for the qualities of the Torah. These three forefathers are Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Only in this prayer we can be the sons of Israel, the sons of the Creator, to realize the past, present and future in one moment. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women MAK 114): (19:52) Does the trial of faith ever end when you come to blind faith? When there's a feeling that there's nothing you can give to the Creator, how do you advance? 

M. Laitman: Don't worry. You will get a chance to receive what to receive and what to give. The second question.

Student: Another question. How can we feel as one Ten? How can we feel each one as the whole Ten? How do we get to this? 

M. Laitman: It's not soon. 

Question (Tbilisi): (20:55) Yesterday I asked about the importance of prayer, and today I have huge gratitude to the Creator for our great beloved Rav. I'm sorry, I know you don't like it when we thank you like this. But has it ever happened in Kabbalah that Rav had so many students that the Creator trusted Rav, a teacher, with so many students? 

M. Laitman: I also don't think there was, but it doesn't mean anything.

Student: We think it means that you are the greatest, and we thank the Creator for such a great teacher. 

M. Laitman: If I'm great in your eyes, then try to execute what I'm giving you as homework. 

Question (Women MAK 51): (22:07) This is a difficult article. This is how I see it. It says there about the old and the young, the children. Is this equality in each one, or should we look at Israel as a whole? 

M. Laitman: It's for the sake of the whole world, all men, women, and children. 

Student: So, it's not the equality in each one of us, the old and children. What does it mean to attract the force of Gevura, and each one has to attract, or is this work not for everybody? 

M. Laitman: Work is spread out between us in accordance to our natural desires, intentions, and qualities. So, everyone has to understand, scrutinize, what exactly is there before him, tasked to him, by the Creator, and gradually get closer to it. 

Student: What does it mean to attract the quality of Gevurah? 

M. Laitman: Pull in the forces that he figures out that he's lacking. 

Question (Women French): (24:23) Does revealing the Creator between us mean revealing the quality of bestowal between us, and treating each other well? 

M. Laitman: No, in the meantime, there's nothing more.

Question (Turkiye 7): (24:56) In the article, it says Isaac took the quality of Torah upon himself. How can a person do that? 

M. Laitman: It's such a big soul that was able to accept all the Torah inside of him. It happens to people. 

Student: Sometimes people can get Torah within very easily, but sometimes it's not that easy. How can we keep Torah in us, within us, and protect it as if Torah is our child? 

M. Laitman: I also don't know how to explain, but slowly, slowly, we are gradually coming closer to it. We're asking the Creator to connect with us in bestowal together, with the friends, with the relatives, with the people close to us. In this way, through the fact that we're thinking about the world together, we come closer between us, connect between us. 

Question (Women Italy): (27:22) The most I can say to the greatness of the Creator. How to always cultivate this enormous greatness? 

M. Laitman: First of all, speak about it between yourselves. Talk about it, and then strive to be in such a state that the Creator would always be in the connection between us, would be always connected to us. So that we would want to be in the connection between us, and the Creator will be in this connection between the whole Ten.

Student: Is our strength? 

M. Laitman: Yes. To the extent to which we raise the importance of the Creator in our eyes, to the same extent we'll be able to receive from Him. 

Question (Women Spain): (29:12) Are all the disagreements in the Ten hoping for the Creator. Is this faith above reason when we have faith in the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Yes, if we come to the perception of the Creator, then we're ready for this, and we don't need anything else. Just to give ourselves to the Creator.

Question (Women Kyiv 7): (29:56) How do we discover interdependence in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: We study out of the connection between us, and after we have scrutinized it, we address all the connections between us, and we ask the Creator to be revealed in this connection between us to all of us. Then He's revealed, and we feel that He's between us, together with us. He's there.

Student: Should this connection be different in quality as fear and trepidation? 

M. Laitman: No, no. It's only loyalty between us in relation to the Creator. 

Question (Women MAK 36): (31:33) What does it mean that my thoughts are correct? 

M. Laitman: What does it mean, correct thoughts? That you want to give with them, and not receive, that you want to collect all your desires, and receive everything you can onto them, and pass it onto the group. These are correct thoughts.

Student: If I understand it correctly, that in general, all my thoughts, if they're with no intention, they're basically incorrect? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Moscow 6): (32:36) Rabash is writing that we spend 12½ hours in the prayer, and food, etc., but not the quality of prayer. What does Rabash mean as a quality of prayer? What is a quality of prayer? 

M. Laitman: I don't know. Ask. Ask, pray, so that He reveals it to you. 

Question (Women Spain): (33:30) What is the meaning of our life?

M. Laitman: The connection is simple. As much as we get according to our request, this will fill up all of our vessels. 

Question (Women Turkiye 7): (33:57) How did you do it, Rav? How did you get this desire in your heart? 

M. Laitman: In connection with the friends, when I want to give them everything I have.

Question (MAK 25): (34:56) I have such a state. For a week, the Creator doesn't allow me to come to the lesson. The lessons are extraordinary. I try to not go to sleep before the lesson, and I fall asleep ten minutes before the lesson. I just cannot attend the full lesson. How do I start my scrutiny here? 

M. Laitman: Pray, pray. 

Student: What am I going to ask? 

M. Laitman: Ask for the Creator to take away your tiredness, to open your eyes, and to let you see where you are.

Question (MAK 11): (35:45) In the article it says: Thanks to strengthening in the Torah and work, he has merited the return from love. What kind of strengthening is that? And what does everyone have to do in order for our friends to receive this strengthening? 

M. Laitman: This means that each one of us, even though we has lots of disturbances, we try to break through them and connect with the Creator in such a way that all the disturbances, all the obstacles would strengthen our connection with the Creator, would stick him to the Creator.

Question (Women Ukraine 2): (37:04) How do I understand what kind of overcoming is the Creator expecting from us specifically? 

M. Laitman: When you get closer, you'll understand. 

Student: What I'm asking is that I feel that it's pressuring me and I feel that I have to execute some kind of an overcoming, but I don't realize which exactly. 

M. Laitman: You have to, with all your strength, ask the Creator for the opportunity, the ability to connect the Creator and the whole creation through yourself in the middle. To your right is the Creator, to the left is the creation, and you connect them together. Try it. 

Student: Another question. I feel that I can ask to the full extent during the morning lesson, but the Creator doesn't let me come, one thing or the other, and then I cannot sleep, and I really want to come back to the morning lesson, and I have no forces to perform this overcoming. 

M. Laitman: What can I do? 

Student: Yes. 

M. Laitman: I don't know, maybe you have to hit yourself. You should do something to get the strength to go against your will. 

Question (Women MAK 97): (39:10) In the article, it speaks about Gevura and about blessing. Is it correct to say that strengthening in Gevura is happening thanks to the pulling in the light of Hochma through the light of Hassidim, and the blessing is the readiness of the Creator to receive this light? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women Kavkaz 1): (39:47) I'm scrutinizing here what kind of reward I am  working for, and in the scream, I ask to receive from the friend, and then I try to think about it, that I associate myself with a friend. It's like this stage when I associate the friend with myself, or should I associate the friend with the Creator? There is such a scrutiny. 

M. Laitman: Yes, there is. Scrutinize it.

Student: And in this moment itself, that I clearly realize that I cannot associate the friend with the Creator, and I ask to receive from Him or through Him, so that He would necessarily be in this picture that I address in my plea to the Creator. To me, from this situation, shall I move outward towards transferring my attention towards the fact that I don't want to see the reality exactly like this, but I want for the Creator to decide how it's supposed to look. 

M. Laitman: You're speaking around the matter. You need to be more goal-oriented.

Student: Exactly, I'm looking how to target myself, aim myself. 

M. Laitman: Try, clarify, scrutinize.

Question (Women Kavkaz 1): (41:48) I feel that a friend is lacking love, a feeling of love of the Creator, and her love to the Creator. Will the love of the Ten in the end of the day be revealed? So, through the attitude of friends, the love will come to the friend?

M. Laitman: It's exactly the way you said. 

Question (Women Kavkaz 1): (42:20) When a friend is me, and it's still Lo Lishma, and when the friend is the Creator, it's Lishma. 

M. Laitman: No, this will be clarified.

Question (Asia): (42:44) The article is very deep, and all these Gevurot and blessings, is it connected to this argument that was between the two? One above, one below? The awakening? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women Turkiye 10): (43:28) Is there only one Torah that never changes, that we accept, or is everyone receiving their own Torah?

M. Laitman: Only one Torah for everybody. 

Question (Women MAK 26): (43:53) How can we sacrifice ourselves to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: I don't answer questions like this. It has to do with a person can harm themselves. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva 33): (44:26) What is the connection between Gevura and blessings? 

M. Laitman: Gevura is the desire to receive, that is directed at connecting with others for bestowal, and blessing is when a person wants to receive, in this desire to receive, and to receive a blessing. Then he'll be connected with others in such a way, as in the desire to bestow. 

Student: Another question. A friend heard that you said that we have to receive support from each other, and direction for the desire and for the thought. How does it manifest itself? How does it express the true support of the friend by the Ten? 

M. Laitman: This is thanks to a person feeling what the Creator is responding to him.

Question (Women MAK 123): (46:14) Why currently are there a lot of souls that are not content with the world, and people who are accustomed with Kabbalah, but cannot move a finger towards the spirituality. They don't have forces. Where do they get the forces, and what does it depend on? 

M. Laitman: This is because they only think about reception and not bestowal. And that's why they are constantly in this sulky state. 

Question (Women Petah Tikva 8): (47:01) The person feels that inside of him there's always this war, and he's trying to pull himself towards the Ten and unity, and there's constantly a voice that is pulling him towards the corporeal thoughts. How can we prevail in such a war? 

M. Laitman: Through prayer. 

Student: We have to be content that part of me is in the corporeal thoughts, and tackle it constantly?

M. Laitman: Always resisting. The evil inclination always shows us that it prevails. It succeeds.

Question (Women Spain): (48:06) Could you please explain how to explain correctly the action of Sarah? It says here, the first words of this article, the very first sentence. I understand that Isaac was a legitimate son. Why did Sarah have to act against the others?

M. Laitman: I don't know. I don't answer things like this. 

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (49:00) Loyalty of the soul is the highest point of free will of a person, advancement in prayer for the Ten?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Spain): (49:31) The gift from the Creator is always for the sake of the soul? 

M. Laitman: From His side? Yes, of course. Of course, from His side, it's for bestowal. 

Question (Women Italy): (49:52) Asking the Boreh with all my strength means understanding that everything that happened in me is his work, so I get closer to Him? Or what does it mean? 

M. Laitman: This is correct.

Question (Women Spain): (50:56) You gave a very beautiful answer. You were saying that we have to be in the middle between the Creator and created beings. And now, in our country there is a lot of suffering. How can we perform this action, this work, to ask for Hassidim, for mercy? Or do we have to raise the Hissaron and the pain that is between us? Or do we simply unite and be a conduit for the light? 

M. Laitman: The latter was correct, uniting between us. From this unity, to find a channel of connection at and give to the Creator and the whole creation, using through this channel. Our desire is to receive the quality of bestowal from the Creator.

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (52:31) We were just talking about that the person basically has to ask, with all his might from the Creator, to change him, to give him the correct intention. And if I'm asking with all my might, and I feel that I'm doing everything possible, but I don't receive the reaction that I wish I would have received. How do we explain it? What do we do with it? 

M. Laitman: The Creator doesn't desire a connection with you for now. 

Student: So how do we explain it? It's very hard to perceive.

M. Laitman: It's not an answer but continue and clarify that I want a connection with the Creator face to face, and only when he is revealed to me in such a way, I'll know what to tell him. 

Student: The thing is, this is what I'm demanding, and it does not reveal. So, what else do I need to do to get the correct demand? 

M. Laitman: This is what I told you, this is what you need to ask for. 

Student: Is it more in quantity or in quality? 

M. Laitman: Both. 

Student: So, in any case, I have to hope that the reaction will come from this. 

M. Laitman: Yes, look how many friends we have, men and women, ask from each other, one from the other, and in different ways, different combinations, connections between us, until everyone connects into one force, and we all together demand the Creator to help us.

Question (Women MAK 30): (54:48) What does the state of Gevura mean in the Ten for us, and what kind of qualities do we have to build in us to correspond with the state of Gevura?

M. Laitman: Gevura means overcoming obstacles, when you have your egotistical desires before you, and you want to overcome them. In Hebrew, it's called Lehit Gaber, to overcome them. 

Question (Novosibirsk): (55:30) In what cases does the Ten expect a friend to add something specifically in the work? 

M. Laitman: In all cases. 

Student: I have a feeling that we have a personal example in the prayer, and a person has to want to start adding up himself. So, there's like a taboo, of sorts, when we feel that the friend is not putting enough effort, then it's a flaw inside of us. So, where is this tumbler where the Ten truly can perform, execute a scrutiny and address the friend? It feels like we're not supposed to do that. 

M. Laitman: You will succeed. Just every day, everyone has to awaken their friends to make more and more effort. More and more and more. 

Question (Women Kavkaz 1): (56:51) When half of my heart does not belong to me, and I want to pray to the Creator from the full heart, how do I receive this full heart? Is it according to my annulment before my friend? Or is it when I see the middle one, I see when the Creator is doing good to me and not to the friend, and the full heart is when I see that the friend is also being treated good by the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Sort it out yourself. I can't help you in this respect, but you need to sort it out. 

Question (Women MAK 36): (57:48) Today there were a lot of questions regarding the internal war and resistance of the body towards the work. When you don't have strength, it's hard to go to the lessons and do something. But when you start praying and asking and adding, it turns out that the Creator takes all the forces away completely and turns off the body, literally, and in any place it can occur. I simply turn off. That's what happens to me, and in this turned off state I cannot pray or beat myself as you were replying to a friend, but I return back to some lowly point.

M. Laitman: So, you have to cry, cry. 

Student: Simply to cry? 

M. Laitman: For you it's not simple, I understand, but you have to do it.

Question (Women MAK 26): (59:04) in the last paragraph he says, “Hence, if we want them to be in the next world and for our sons to pray over us, we must keep the learners of Torah.” It sounds like the epitome of the whole article. Can we pray for the others? And why is it important for the ones who study Torah? Why do they want the people to pray? 

M. Laitman: We will go through this, for now it's enough what we went through. 

That's it. I bid you farewell until tomorrow. Be well. Don't neglect the materials. Constantly study and clarify and work through it. Goodbye. 

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