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Daily Lesson (Morning) July 30, 2024.

Part 2: Rabash. Letter No. 27. Three Lines – 1

Reader: We're studying Rabash's article 27, Three Lines – 1. Rabash's article, Three Lines – 1. It's on page 1618. Article 27, Three Lines - 1.

Reading: (00:55) Letter No. 27

There are two lines, and there is a dispute between them: Each one wants to cancel the other.

Three manners extend from this: 1) One cancels the other. 2) Each one wants to cancel but cannot cancel, so they remain disputed. 3) Peace is made between them.

“Right” is called “wholeness.” In other words, a person depicts to himself that he is the most complete and happiest person in the world because he concludes that he is a simple person who has no advantage over others, but the Creator has chosen only him to serve the King. Although this service is not continuous, but once a month or once a week, when he sees that there aren’t many people who serve the King even once in their lives, this alone gives him vitality. And if he has vitality, he can engage in Torah and Mitzvot [commandments] with joy and increase his good deeds.

However, ascending the degrees also requires walking on the left line, which is Hochma [wisdom], where there is criticism over the acts and the thoughts—whether they are truly in order to serve the King, to bestow contentment upon his Maker, or for himself. At that time, the left wants to cancel the right and go specifically in a manner of criticism. It does not let a person do anything good. It follows that “His wisdom is greater than his deeds.”

However, one should mainly walk on the right line, meaning do good deeds and feel himself as complete, and serving the king. One must believe that everything he does brings contentment to Him.

At the same time, he should dedicate time to walking on the left line, meaning to criticize, but the left should surrender before the right. That is, he walks on the left not because he wants the quality of the left, but in order to improve the right, to show that despite all his criticism and knowledge, he is going above reason, meaning in the “right,” which is called “faith.”

This is called the “middle line,” which decides between the two lines and leans toward the right. This is also called Achoraim [posterior]. Through this unification, one is later rewarded with receiving the quality of Panim [face/anterior] of the degree. At that time there is clothing of Hochma in Hassadim, which cause a Zivug [coupling] Panim be Panim [face-to-face] above, in ZON.

M. Laitman: Questions? About this, in the meantime. Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:01) It says in the article that the left should surrender to the right. Meaning that he, one who takes the left is not because he wants the left but because he wants to make the right better. What does that mean? 

M. Laitman: To make the right stronger. That's it. Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (06:37) It's written in the end that there's a coupling face-to-face, Panim de Panim and it seems that once the middle line determines between the right and left, it's like there's a fourth line. It's like the third line only determines and then the coupling face-to-face, that's a third line, or it comes after?

M. Laitman: No, no, no. What does it mean, the middle line? That it decides between... 

Student: Between left and right. It takes them all to the right. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Coupling face-to-face. So the question is, is this coupling, is that the fourth line? 

M. Laitman: No, it's the middle line.

Student: Okay, so that's the wholeness.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (07:41) Why doesn't the right have the powers to correct the left? Why can’t the right correct the left and the left only makes the right better, but it stays corrupted. 

M. Laitman: The left that joins the right seemingly annuls before the right. Right?

Student: Annuls, but it... 

M. Laitman: But that 's as if it strengthens the right. 

Student: Yes, and then there's the middle line and more greatness but the left remains corrupted, it’s like a correction that isn't sufficient?

M. Laitman: Is this what everyone thinks?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:37) I think the left serves the right. Even if it's there, it's always as a basis, as a foundation that holds that degree and it can't completely annul because then it'll all fall down. It has to remain there and be felt in a person, but to be subdued to the right. 

M. Laitman: You said it well. Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (09:14) There are two things here. One, it determines between two lines and that's called posterior. So, I see that my state is bad, that's the left, I have criticism, It's not good. I go through a state called, above reason that I say it came from the Creator and if it came from Him, so that's the best. 

M. Laitman: So?

Student: I see bad, but I go above it. That's called posterior, meaning in a state of darkness. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: That's the first stage. Then he writes, by this unification, after I performed it, then I get the face of the degree, that Hochma can clothe in Hassadim. Then upon that darkness, they get light and that's called, coupling of ZON face to face.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: Can we discuss that wonderful state where it all becomes light? 

M. Laitman: Not everything becomes light, but to a certain extent. 

Student: To that extent that I was on the left, I saw something bad, I saw it corrupted, then the light came and showed me mercy inside the wisdom. It showed me what I'm lacking, the mercy showed me it’s good and that light shines in what’s already there.

M. Laitman: Yes. You can say so, now what’s the question?

Student: What happens there? How do you reach that quicker? 

M. Laitman: How to come to it more quickly? Prayer. There's nothing else. Prayer. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:21) I also wanted to ask about that. Rabash tells us how to go from wholeness into criticism and to combine them. So, where is the prayer for the friends in those three lines? 

M. Laitman: Yes. Sorry, what's the question?

Student: Where is prayer for the friends in those three lines? Wholeness, criticism, and the combination.

M. Laitman: Wholeness, criticism, and the combination between them. That's where the prayer is. Yes?

Student: In the combination?

M. Laitman: In the combination. Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:15) The definition of the right line, what he says not only in this article, in a lot of articles, but also students ask and I don't know what to tell them. He says that serving isn't constant, but once a month or once a week, when he sees that not many will serve the King, not even once in their life, from that alone he gets livelihood. And if he has that livelihood, he can engage in the Torah and gladness and do good deeds. If I love the King, I have to be happy that there are a lot of people on the path to Him and not that I'm separated and serving Him, and there aren't many people in life. What kind of right line is that?

M. Laitman: Toward whom is this line? 

Student: Shouldn't it be towards the Creator? The wholeness has to be towards the Creator from the right motive. Like we read in the previous article, I don't want his gifts, I want Him, I want to serve Him, I want to love Him.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And I'll be happy that many people want Him and come to Him, and now there's just a few and I'm between the only ones who get to serve Him, and the rest are just there, below. So what is the right line here? There's something I can't decipher here but he keeps giving this example of this being separate.

M. Laitman: What to answer him? Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:05) There are all kinds of states that a person goes through. Regularly you want everyone to serve the King, but in a state when you're in distress and you can't see that greatness and you're low, so you're searching for something to justify the Creator above reason. In that state you say, wow, even if I'm rewarded to do something good so the King's happy with me. It's a means to lift yourself from difficulty. The other state that the friend is speaking about where you have more forces and you say, I don't want myself, I want everybody to come in. It's two states.

M. Laitman: Nice. There's more? Please.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:57) What he read before that is the previous paragraph that's very important, that he says, the right is called wholeness that a person depicts for himself. So everyone can depict something else for themselves, that's okay too, and then he continues, he is the most complete and happiest person in the world because he concludes that he is a simple person who has no advantage over others but the Creator has chosen him to serve the King. Then he said that even though it's not constant, so everyone can depict it to themselves somehow. But the fact that the King, let us be in connection with him to understand creation, that is wholeness.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (15:57) I'm alone and not everybody serves the King, because I'm in exile. I'm under the control of a different King, and there in that exile, the good King of the togetherness gives me an opportunity and concealment to be His servant.

M. Laitman: Okay, yes maybe it’s…

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (16:28) I have the same question like the friend, that's why we're in the same Ten I guess, but I can excuse it only if you observe it as all happening in one person. I see that there are a lot of desires in me, a lot of nations supposedly, and then the Creator. I praise Him for choosing my point in the heart, which is the Adam in me and he gave that point an opportunity to serve Him compared to all other desires that he didn't give them that opportunity, and that's what I'm praising. 

M. Laitman: Okay, nice.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:30) Simply you can say that there are all kinds of lines from the right, It can be right of Klipa or holiness, or just delighted with what he has.

M. Laitman: Well, some say.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (17:50) I think it's a great question that is asked a lot with beginners, that the Torah we're learning is the truth. A person can’t start from a corrected state. I'll go the opposite way, If he would see in the beginning that everybody is serving the King so it would take all the air out of the work. Because to begin with, a person is an egoist, he wants to do himself, he sees himself, so the fact that he's shown that he can serve the King, that's a good start. Then the left line comes and all questions start from there. But if the first point doesn't start, they'll never reach the middle line, you have to start somehow. Then, there's a lot of right and left on the path till you really reach a state where you see that everyone serves the King. But if, to begin with, it would be shown to him so the work is over; he has nothing to ask for, nothing to work for and there's no left without right so, everybody's serving the King, like you said, you can go to sleep.

M. Laitman: Okay. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:22) When is a person is rewarded with he has two lines, everything's okay but when you turn to the others, they suffer, so, what's his work worth? 

M. Laitman: You have to justify. The righteous is one who justifies.

Student: I justify. I see that the Creator's taking care of them, but they're suffering. What does it give all work of man if reality around them is broken? 

M. Laitman: You have to discover that a person is in a good state, proper, but for some reason, he is in concealment and this is why he feels that he is suffering. 

Student: But it doesn't comfort them. What comfort is there in this? Where is the comfort of the public?

M. Laitman: What is the comfort of the public? 

Student: That they will justify the Creator, that they will feel good, that they will come close to Him. I can now identify with the Creator but where are the collective?

M. Laitman: Yes. Okay.

Student: Is our work even beneficial in anything for this public?

M. Laitman: This pertains to what we are asking, what we are discussing. There is no answer to it. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (21:13) I think that in this state, a person has to look at the public and to ask if they believe in the Creator? if they are happy in being in the Creator's world? And they will discover that a person doesn't have complaints. Meaning, even if it seems that they are suffering, he prefers it.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Like we learn on ourselves, that he prefers to be an egoist and suffer, but to be happy with it. That is why you can't help him in any way, because he loves his state, and from there to start thinking how he could really bring a person closer to his state, that they will feel good and justify the Creator. 

M. Laitman: This is difficult. 

Yes. What do you want to ask all the time? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:20) An answer to the friend, that this state of separateness, you can value the desire that you got over all billions, but you got it for them. The more we appreciate it, we can pass it on to them. 

M. Laitman: Okay.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (22:50) Why, in order to open the left, do you have to give gratitude first?

M. Laitman: So you will be certain that you will not fail with the left.

Student: Why, if you only open the left without, holy adheres to holy’, why is it dangerous and not good? 

M. Laitman: Because you might remain in it and not get out; you won't have the strength.

Student: How, when a person does a correction on himself in relation to his close environment, he corrects circles, like broader circles. How does that work? That's completely concealed from a person.

M. Laitman: It's the surrounding lights that help him maintain himself with respect to the big vessels.

Student: A person who gets to a state where prayer awakens in him, let's say that he can't conceal, a prayer from the heart, but it awakens without gratitude that comes first. It just wakes up, something happens, he remembers something, prayer awakens and he must cry out to the Creator. So, in that state, he has to force himself to reach gratitude first? 

M. Laitman: He can't, that's what he says. 

Student: So, what do you do? 

M. Laitman: You don't do anything, it's the Creator who did this to him.

Student: But he can't be in the left before gratitude, we already decided that.

M. Laitman: Who decided.

Student: Rabash writes that everywhere, he has to be in gratitude, so what does he do in that state when there's an inner cry and it's clear that it's true and he can advance with it? 

M. Laitman: If a person builds himself, then he must always must see to it that he has in his hands, the right secured.

Student: That solves all problems in that time?

M. Laitman: Basically, yes.

Student: That's the sign he can now open the left.

M. Laitman: Through incorporation with the right. 

Student: That all problems are solved, and now he knows that above reason because in reason he feels wholeness, everything is solved, everything is okay, and now above reason he has to open a deficiency.

M. Laitman: Put it this way.

Student: That's a deficiency of the friend, it's not his own. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (W Unity): (26:06) We connect through the right or through the middle? 

M. Laitman: Whatever we have. 

Question (W Turkey 1): (26:26) If a person doesn't spend enough time on the left, can he still subdue it towards the right?

M. Laitman: Again, sorry.

Student: There's a paragraph that says that a person also has to be on the left. So, she's asking, if he doesn't spend enough time on the left, can he still subdue it towards the right? 

M. Laitman: Probably yes. 

Question (Holland): (27:19) What is this faith above reason, let's say, turning to faith? And we also have, let's say, they call it the middle line, and there the decision takes place. What is the difference, let's say, in going in faith above reason and making the decision in the middle line, between the Achoraim and the Panim?

M. Laitman: The fact that we want to incorporate the right in the left and the left in the right and by this come to the middle line, to wholeness, so to speak, we only want this, but in truth, it's not that simple. We have to go through many states. 

Question (W Turkey 7): (28:45) In the article it said that he should have time to also walk the left. Can you explain, does a person spend time on the left in order to develop the right? Is that the purpose to be on the left?

M. Laitman: The left line is in order to strengthen the right, In order to increase the right, magnify it. You cannot do this without the left. 

Okay?

Student: Can I ask one more thing, please? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: She wants to continue. In the letter it says that we have to annul ourselves in front of the others and the Creator, but sometimes, not sometimes most of the times, even though I look like I am annulling in front of my friend, but within I realize that I am not annulling and I cannot start a day with a new page, and love doesn't cover all the crimes. Crimes are more than love, so what should I do? 

M. Laitman: Increase the love, so it covers all the crimes. Are you listening? That's the way it is.

Question (Haifa 3): (32:05) Is the point in the heart on the right line?

M. Laitman: No, on the middle line.

Student: Because the point in the heart is basically the basis of the right line? 

M. Laitman: Yes, but you need to draw the upper light upon it, so that it will make it into the part of the right line.

Student: And then the middle line is created?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Kiev 3): (32:58) What does it mean to raise the deficiencies of the friends to the Creator if in my vessels I feel only myself, and what I see in the friends is also me so is it their deficiency or mine? 

M. Laitman: In your prayer you have to include the friends, and raise them with your deficiencies to the Creator. 

Student: Can it be a situation where I will realistically feel their deficiencies of the friends without taking it through me, or will it always be something that is mine? 

M. Laitman: Always.

Student: Meaning, the way I see and feel the deficiencies of the friends, if I elevate it to the Creator, this is called, raising the friends' deficiencies to the Creator?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Latin 1): (34:09) It is written, but to rise in degrees, we have to walk on the left line too, which is Hochma, where there is already criticism on the actions and the thoughts if they are really in order to serve the King. In relation to the thought, we say that the end of the act is in the preliminary thought. Now, many times a person wants to kind of put out his soul, because he feels some trouble, how to continue until we come to the real prayer and not confuse himself?

M. Laitman: Keep going, and keep going, and keep going, and you will see that from above you are being directed towards the true prayer. 

Question (PT 6): (35:05) I'm afraid of going into the left, I feel that I'm too weak on the right so going into the left, you can't, couldn't you just stay in the right? If the Creator gives you something from the left, then you somehow deal with it.

M. Laitman: Enter it with your friends together, and don't be afraid. 

Student: To enter the left with the friends?

M. Laitman: Yes 

Question (PT 22): (35:45) In this question, when a person feels complete darkness, he doesn't have right or left, everything is dark, he doesn't have a prayer, what does he do? 

M. Laitman: Search for the middle line.

Student: And if he just wants to run away? 

M. Laitman: No, search for the middle line. That's the true state.

Student: Where does he search for it?

M. Laitman: In himself, in his state. But he scrutinizes what is the right, what is the left, and then just as Baal HaSulam writes, and the middle line will be scrutinized.

Student: But everything is dark where does he search in the darkness?

M. Laitman: He'll find it. Suddenly, he'll feel that it's shining on him.

Student: Is it an exercise from the Creator?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (36:51) He writes in the paragraph before the last that the left is in order to improve the right, meaning to show that although he has all the criticism and knowledge, he is going above reason. So it looks like the Creator insists on us being adhered above reason and not within reason. 

M. Laitman: Of course, you can’t be adhered within reason. 

Student: So why? If a person feels as if he is adhered to the Creator, he feels good, he feels close to the Creator within reason. So, he's describing it as a sin. 

M. Laitman: Right, because it's a lie.

Student: And then the solution is what?

M. Laitman: The solution is to let go of his state, and to search for a way to be in the left and afterwards to correct it and then he can ascend through the middle line.

Student: So, the process, because in the letter we read before, he says that a person goes under the flood of preventions that the Creator sends him. So, the Creator, if I understand correctly, gives him an opportunity to use these preventions with the left line that the Creator sends, and a person ignores it, he feels he is adhered to the Creator and he doesn't feel any preventions; that's foolishness, and then, the solution is that a person has to awaken the left hand by himself, right? Is this a process? 

M. Laitman: Yes. Yes.

M. Laitman: So do we have anything else except for this article?

Question (Petah Tikva Center): Yes, we have the third part of the lesson, the importance of participation in social activities. So we'll move to the next part of the lesson.