Rabash. Record 890. The Sorrow of the Shechina – 2 | Kabbalah Media

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Daily Lesson (Afternoon) October 11, 2024

Part 1: Rabash. The Sorrow of the Shechina-2, Record 890.

Reader: Hello everyone, we are going to study from Rabash, Volume 3, Article 890, The Sorrow of the Shechina 2. You can find the study material on Sviva Tova and Arvut and you can send live questions through the website. 

The Sorrow of the Shechina-2 Record 890.

Reading: (00:35) “For a sin we sinned against You with the evil inclination” (from the Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement] prayer).

We should ask, “But all the transgressions come from the evil inclination?” We should interpret that the sin is in saying that there is an evil inclination instead of “There is none else besides Him.” If a person is unworthy, he is thrown out from above. This comes by clothing in the will to receive, called the “evil inclination.”

This is the meaning of “For the inclination of a man’s heart is evil from his youth,” meaning that the Creator created him this way, since the will to receive is the actual Kli [vessel], except it must be correct. By this we can interpret what is written, “He was saddened in his heart.” Man feels that following the inclination gives him sadness, and this is called “the sorrow of the Shechina [Divinity].”

Re-Reading Article: (02:06) The Sorrow of the Shechina-2

M. Laitman: Questions?

Question (Women MAK): (03:44) What is the place where we need to do the correction? 

M. Laitman: The desire that we need to correct, from egoistic to altruistic. 

Student: How to correctly prepare the desire? 

M. Laitman: For this we need to try and convince ourselves that I can work only with the desire to bestow.

Student: Who is the son of the Shechina, and how can we acquire this role correctly? 

M. Laitman: The son of the Shechina is the one that can raise himself from the egoistic desire to the desire to bestow, and he can stay in this. 

Student: How to integrate correctly with the other's desire that we can form it into a vessel? 

M. Laitman: That's not easy. The thing is, what is the other's desire? If it's already corrected in order to bestow then it's something else. If not yet, and he's still in the egoistic state, here we first need to help the person to correct it, and afterwards be connected to this desire and rise with him. 

Question (Women Kyiv 7): (05:47) This verse is saying that the sin is that there is an evil inclination, how should we respond to it? We always say that we have an evil inclination. Is that a sin that we are already doing? 

M. Laitman: From the beginning we are in a connection with our ego, with our evil inclination. And we need first of all, to try hard to understand how we get rid of it, how we rise above it. Therefore, we are doing all the rest. 

Student: So not to say that we have an evil inclination, but it is real, and There Is None Else Besides Him? 

M. Laitman: Because There Is None Else Besides Him except the Creator, it's true, but we are developed with our ego, which is in conflict to the Creator, the opposite. So, we need to acquire a state where we rise above the ego, higher and higher, and at the end of the day we start to work against it. 

Question (Kyiv): (07:36) It is written that the sorrow of the Shechina means that when a person follows his desire, he receives sorrow. What is the sorrow of the Shechina? 

M. Laitman: When I feel that I'm in the ego, and the ego is pressuring me and it's not letting me rise to the Creator. 

Student: So, what is the sorrow of the Shechina? Is it the ego? 

M. Laitman: This is not egoism. It's not the normal ego. It's the ego that operates against the Creator and therefore, to feel it, it means the sorrow of the Shechina. 

Student: What is the Shechina? 

M. Laitman: It's always the clothing of the Creator, in the ego, in the bestowing, in anything I want to develop within me. 

Question (Women MAK 104): (09:12) Can we ask in this time forgiveness from a person through the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Let's ask for forgiveness through a person? I don't know; this is complex work. 

Question (Turkiye 2): (09:38) What does it mean not to be worthy, and how to overcome it? 

M. Laitman: Being unworthy is that with those questions that he has, he cannot rise. That makes him unworthy. That he cannot rise from his ego to the quality of bestowal. 

Question (English 1): (10:32) I feel that this sorrow is very important, but how do we use it as fuel while not dwelling in it, because it's got an egotistical side to it. It wants to revel in itself, and I don't want to remain in sorrow. 

M. Laitman: We need to use just the qualities of bestowal, and then we'll gradually understand how we need to distance ourselves from the qualities of reception, and to come closer to the qualities of bestowal.

Question (Asia): (11:39) A normal person agrees that to receive for himself is not good. It doesn't sound right.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women MAK 104): (12:04) This period of time, with the private self-calculation, or is it a mutual prayer? What should we do to raise a mutual prayer? In what measurement does it need to be so we can change those phenomena? 

M. Laitman: We need to feel each other. It's not so simple. It's not yet, for now. 

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (13:15) How do I ask for forgiveness? It's very tempting.

M. Laitman: Only by connection with the friends. Each will help his friend. You need to be in connection with the friends that want to acquire the quality of bestowal. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (13:51) When a person is worthy or not worthy, does it depend on the person? 

M. Laitman: Yes. He can ask to pass him to a more worthy state. It all depends on his request towards the Creator.

Student: So, the main thing is to ask to be worthy.  A person knows what it is to be worthy? He knows what he's asking? 

M. Laitman: To be worthy that he's in this quality of bestowal, and he feels the Creator according to the quality of bestowal that he acquired. That's a person who already starts to rise in the degrees of bestowal.

Question (Women MAK 25): (14:53) What does it mean when a person is worthy, he is brought to this step, and now he is taking him down from it? What does it mean? 

M. Laitman: Well, so what? It all happens.

Student: Is it something useful on the path? 

M. Laitman: Not necessarily so.

Student: Can we avoid it, so it won't happen? 

M. Laitman: The actions are very simple. We need to evaluate and appreciate our state, and not disregard it. 

Question (Tbilisi): (15:48) Tonight is a very special evening. Can I ask for forgiveness from the Creator for I did not yet correct all the friends within me? Is that a correct request?

M. Laitman: Yes, that's a good request. 

Student: We, the Tbilisi Group, are wishing you Utterance day, and to be written in the Book of Life, and ask from the Creator that all your students next year will give contentment to the Creator. By that we can give you contentment. It's all for you. 

M. Laitman: Thank you.

Question (Women Kavkaz 1): (16:54) Can a person be postponed from Kabbalah because his qualities are not corrected? 

M. Laitman: No. 

Student: What should we do in order not to fall and to stay on the path? 

M. Laitman: In every state, even if you're falling, you need to seek how to rise. Request to the Creator.  Prayer. 

Student: And if you're already in the wisdom of Kabbalah, you need to move forward in any state, right? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (MAK 24): (17:48) We acknowledge that we cannot get rid of the evil inclination, and our mission is to force him to move us to the state of bestowal? 

M. Laitman: I don't know if you need that. You need to ask the Creator, and not from the evil inclination. And then it will succeed.

Question (MAK 39): (18:20) Does love your friend as yourself belong to Lo Lishma, not for her sake? Because it turns out, no matter how you twist it, it's always for your benefit. It turns out that I ask for the friend, and the friend is close to the Creator. Is that how it works? 

M. Laitman: For the time being, let go of it, write it down, and come back to it again.

Question (Women MAK 88): (19:16) What are the words, and he will sadden in his heart? 

M. Laitman: Because a person feels he's going after his heart, and this causes him sadness. This is called the sadness of the sorrow of the Shechina. He's constantly walking with this sensation of sorrow, feeling of sorrow, because that's how he feels the Shechina. 

Question (Women MAK 104): (20:37) We want to acquire a higher development degree, and to fulfill the friends. We don't only think about the Ten, we think about the whole world, the whole of the world. How do we pass all this to the world, or does it happen by the Creator's desire? 

M. Laitman: Take it out whatever way you can. Take it out. Turn to the Creator, and praise His deeds, what you've reached, what's ahead of you, etc. 

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (21:25) How can we, on Yom Kippur, make sure that we clean our heart from all the calculations, and from everything we carry with us the whole year? 

M. Laitman: Think only about that. Only that. 

Student: And what type of change should we ask? 

M. Laitman: The change in which the heart will be good. 

Question (Asia): (22:06) In which vessel does he feel the sorrow of the Shechina, in the will to receive, and if he feels the sorrow of the Shechina, why doesn't he do anything about it? 

M. Laitman: He feels the sorrow of the Shechina, and now he needs to find actions by which he delights the Shechina. 

Question (Women Ukraine 2): (22:52) A person needs to agree with the sorrow that he feels, and above that, to find something that gives joy to the Shechina. What makes joy? 

M. Laitman: Delighting the Shechina means to delight the whole world, but first and foremost, through your friends which means to raise the mood.

Question (Women Italy): (23:29) What are the most common obstacles we encounter in trying to reverse the inclination of the heart? 

M. Laitman: That is for each and every person in each case on his own.

Question (Women MAK 36): (24:06) If a person doesn't feel worthy with his qualities he cannot rise, and he enters a very low state. The base of this state is that he does not believe that anyone can help him. No matter how much he is asking, he cannot feel the hope that someone will help him from above. How can he agree, and how can he find what to do? 

M. Laitman: He needs with his eyes shut, to try and rise upwards towards the quality of bestowal.

Student: How does he do it? Through the group? 

M. Laitman: Through the group. He won't be able to do it alone. 

Question (Women MAK 110): (25:16) You said once that if people don't forgive you, the Creator also won't forgive you. So how can we ask to be sorry?

M. Laitman: That's the work in the heart, and also in a direct manner with words in every way. Necessarily so, you need to purify yourself before the others, and clean yourself, and you'll be able to be that way before the Creator as well. 

Student: Let's say, I ask for forgiveness from people, but they don't even understand what I'm asking forgiveness for. 

M. Laitman: I don't know, maybe they do know and understand. You need to find connections between you in which, with complete certainty, you're for sure in a state that you're harming. 

Question (Hadera 1): (26:27) When a person prays, he wants to change the present or the future, but when he asks for forgiveness, forgiveness belongs to the past, and we can't change the past, and Kabbalah is writing about forgiveness. So, what is the purpose of forgiveness? 

M. Laitman: Forgiveness is considered for a person and for the Creator, where a person asks the Creator to forgive him for all he did in his ego. 

Re-Reading Article (27:34): The Sorrow of the Shechina-2

Question (Women Hebrew 13): (29:28) A person before his death asked me not to forgive someone. Should I acknowledge it, or he is dead and that's it? Not to acknowledge.

M. Laitman: Don’t relate to such requests. 

Question (Petah Tikva 8): (30:31) In regard to what we read, the person is sad because he sees that the inclination controls him, or because he cannot justify the Creator?

M. Laitman: He needs to move himself from sadness into action, and then he'll reach a state in which specifically this sadness brings him to overcome the evil inclination. 

Student: What is the action that he needs to bring himself from sadness? 

M. Laitman: To understand that sadness comes to a person because he has not acted enough, that he needs, with all his might, to try and raise himself from those qualities, attributes that he's in, that bring him sadness, and to rise to the force of good that he has, so that with this he will have contentment, both for himself and for the Creator. 

Student: To exit the feeling of sadness, or to the feeling of the one who gives it to him? Is that an action? 

M. Laitman: Yes. And this will bring him to this action.

Question (Women MAK 97): (32:40) It is written in the article that the vessel of receiving is the main vessel. Can we say that the vessel of bestowal is a temporary vessel that disappears with adhesion with the Creator? 

M. Laitman: No, this needs more refinement. I can't answer this at the moment. 

Question (Women MAK 19): (33:13) Can we say that the sadness is the actual sadness that the Creator is hiding His face?

M. Laitman: That still needs to be scrutinized. Sorrow does not point to anything yet.

Student: You just answered a friend that this is a place for an action. So, in this case the action is a prayer with the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva 6): (33:56) I heard before that a person asks the Creator to forgive him for everything he did in his ego. What does it mean that the Creator will forgive me? 

M. Laitman: That's part of our prayers, that all that I have done in the evil inclination, I want to erase. I want to rise from this to a new state, and this is how we ask for that which we have done in the evil inclination. 

Student: I want to rise above my ego? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, for what do I ask the Creator to forgive me? So, I'll rise above my ego, and I'll rise above my ego. What's that got to do with the Creator forgiving me? 

M. Laitman: Because I put myself inside this ego, and now I'm asking the Creator to help me rise from it. After the recognition of evil, I can ask. 

Question (Kyiv): (35:35) There is a degree to bestow in order to receive, and then, by this receiving, we can use it in order to bestow. Can we say it's receiving in order to bestow? 

M. Laitman: No, we'll scrutinize this further. 

Question (Women Kyiv 7): (36:08) We wanted to ask for forgiveness from you. We ask forgiveness that we did not make enough efforts, and we don't support you enough.

M. Laiitman: I forgive you, and hope for our mutual forgiveness. You forgive me, and I'll forgive you.

Question (Kyiv): (36:41) When you get thrown from the degree, how do we combine it correctly with the Creator in our efforts? 

M. Laitman: A person needs to agree with what he receives from the Creator, and to try, together with his friends, to correct this state. 

Question (Hadera 1): (37:15) What has more sorrow with Shechina, from us, or from the lack of the rising of the Creator? 

M. Laitman: One belongs to the other. The lack of exaltedness of the Creator is more.

Question (Women Almaty): (37:41) A person is being thrown from the degrees because he did not evaluate what the Creator gave him. He did not appreciate it, but there is an option not to fall from the degree. What type of qualities does a person need in order not to fall? 

M. Laitman: The qualities of bestowal and connection with others, and it could be also love for the group. 

Student: It turns out that if he's being thrown, he's being lowered from his degree. Does it mean that there is one quality, or it's the whole of his ego? 

M. Laitman: It can be, in its totality.

Student: And it's maybe the pride that the Creator gave him, and he cannot overcome it.

M. Laitman: It could be that as well. 

Student: And it turns out that we need to ask for forgiveness from the Creator, that we are too proud, and then the Creator will forgive us, and next time we won't fall? 

M. Laitman: It could be. 

Question (Women MAK): (39:03) What deficiency in the work of the Ten makes the Creator sad? 

M. Laitman: When a person forgets about it, and begins to be prideful of his possibilities, forces, etc. 

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (39:44) What's the tradition of Kapparot?

M. Laitman: You need to read it. I can't explain that in a few words.

Student: If a person hurt me and lied to me, and I have lots of anger, what type of cleanse do I need to do with the Creator, because I cannot avoid anger? 

M. Laitman: Forgive.

Question (Women MAK 26): (40:19) What is the main thing in the action of forgiveness? 

M. Laitman: It can be by using either your bad quality, or by asking for forgiveness. That can help. 

Student: To ask for correction? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: To ask for forgiveness is to ask for correction. So, what role is the feeling of blame? I don't understand how to use the feeling of blame. I feel blamed that the Creator created me this way.

M. Laitman: A person needs to ask for forgiveness for the state he finds himself in. 

Question (Women Haifa 1): (41:27) Does the Ten need to give me a feeling of confidence, that we advance correctly, and everyone is doing what they should do, or every time I should be challenged? 

M. Laitman: We need to try each time to justify the whole world beside ourselves, and then, to look and see what else remains for us to do.

Question (Women Hebrew 13): (42:24) I'm asking for my sister that lost her child, and she cannot forgive, and she was always close to me. She doesn't listen to me, and she gets further away from me, and I don't know how to bring her close again. How should I help her forgive? 

M. Laitman: Try to unite with her with an open heart, and both of you together will rise from all the states that you had. 

Question (Moscow 7): (43:15) We know that the Creator loves us in infinite love. When we ask for forgiveness on this day, what is the benefit of raising a prayer that He will forgive us if He loves us endlessly? Is this that we forgive ourselves, or is there something else here? 

M. Laitman: So that we will be able to forgive each and everyone. All for everyone.

Student: I'll give an example. We, as a Ten, are asking for the Creator to forgive us, because we didn't use all the opportunities He gave us in the past year. Anyhow, we didn't use all the opportunities, and when we turn to Him, what type of results are we looking for? 

M. Laitman: By Him raising you up according to the place that you want to be in.

Student: Is that a revelation of evil? 

M. Laitman: Yes, that's a recognition of evil. 

Question (Women MAK 51): (44:49) When the Creator throws a person from his degree, he  loses faith. Can you call the state that a person goes through a spiritual death? 

M. Laitman: It's a spiritual reality, not death.

Student: Does the recognition of this state, can a prayer from a broken heart raise a person to a higher degree and strengthen him on the path, or does he need to rebuild the degrees again? 

M. Laitman: No. 

Question (Women French): (45:44) You said to forgive each other. Is there any flavor, any point to ask forgiveness from each other in the Ten? And what kind of a feeling should we acquire after that?

M. Laitman: The emotional state we need to reach is to truly be in a common heart with the friends, and then we will feel that heart that's in the Creator. 

Student: Is there any benefit that each and every friend will ask from each other in the Ten for forgiveness?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Women Spain): (46:59) In the article, all the sins come by the evil inclination. What are the sins that do not come from the ego? 

M. Laitman: There are no such transgressions or sins that come from anything but the ego. Give me an example.

Student: I'm asking because the article said that we should ask, but all the transgression comes from the evil inclination. So, therefore, what do I have if everything comes from the ego? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Women Moscow 6): (48:07) How do we feel the true state in a sharp way and a clear way? 

M. Laitman: Open the heart. 

Question (Women MAK 56): (48:26) You said that a person needs to ask for forgiveness for the state that he is in. If I understand correctly, all the bad states are not from the Creator, however, it's from our bad thoughts about others. Should we ask forgiveness for that? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (MAK 24): (49:00) Yesterday, in the morning lesson, we studied about degrees, the development of love, unconditional love. Can we look at the wall between the evil inclination, and come to endless, unconditional love? 

M. Laitman: Yes, it's possible. 

Question (Women MAK 42): (49:30) What is the difference between the acknow-

ledgement of my sins and my true intention to oppose the acknowledgement that I receive from the friends? 

M. Laitman: It depends on the degree of recognition of evil. 

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (49:55) We learned that there is none else besides Him, and He gives us all the thoughts, the actions, and even in this article it says that the person needs to be in none else besides Him. How can we identify the point of the sin? Where do I ask for forgiveness? What is my responsibility? 

M. Laitman: You're right, that's something that we yet need to reveal. 

Student: So, do we ask to reveal that? 

M. Laitman: Yes, to ask to reveal that. 

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (50:38) I feel the opposite. I feel that I'm always not in the right, always in the blame, and it makes me kick myself. How do I rise above this feeling of all these states? 

M. Laitman: Connect with the friends. I see no other possibility. They will help you emerge from this self-blame that you have. 

Question (Women Moscow 6): (51:25) How correctly do we need to go through this day when there is no broadcast? How do we use this time for connection?

M. Laitman: Read, you don't need anything else more than that. Read about how you're discovering a new depth. 

Student: To read together or each one for himself? 

M. Laitman: You can also do it individually. It's possible. 

Student: Which means that there is no suggestion to come together in the Ten. 

M. Laitman: Not necessarily so. 

Question (Women Ukraine 2): (52:15) What does it mean when a person did not work enough? 

M. Laitman: He didn't invest enough effort. We’ve read many materials about this. 

Student: Which means that maybe a person couldn't do. Maybe that's also the Creator's desire. 

M. Laitman: There's no point in getting confused. Otherwise, altogether a person doesn't exist. 

Question (Women Hebrew 2): (53:19) Is there a chance that this year the people of Israel will ask for forgiveness for the connection between a man and his friend? 

M. Laitman: I don't know. It depends on the nation, not on me.

Student: So, what is our role? 

M. Laitman: Our role is to ask for connection between us all, and between us all and the Creator. 

Question (Asia): (54:12) How does it work out that the feeling of the good that does good is being felt in the ego? How does it work? 

M. Laitman: That is something we'll have to study and investigate and understand. Also, I'm together with you on this.

Question (Novosibirsk): (54:59) If a person cannot turn to the Creator by himself, should he turn to the friends? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Karmiel): (55:12) Let's say a person has a state that bothers him for a long time. Can a person forgive himself, and can he do it today? 

M. Laitman: We're usually not talking about a person forgiving himself, but he's forgiving others.

Student: I simply ask about the internal state. There's an internal state that I feel inside. 

Can we release it somehow? 

M. Laitman: Yes, you can. 

Question (Hadera 1): (55:55) A person needs to ask when he talks to another person, or he should ask within himself. 

M. Laitman: Just ask for me to understand.

Question (Women MAK 19): (56:28) The Creator is always happy when we acknowledge his greatness. By that, will we acknowledge our evil inclination? Can I say that my life is dependent on integration with the group?

M. Laitman: Of course.

Student: Can I ask for myself, or for the whole of Israel? 

M. Laitman: Both ways.

Question (Women Petah Tikva 33): (57:11) When I ask for forgiveness from a friend, I ask for forgiveness, or I truly ask for forgiveness in detail? 

M. Laitman: Both ways. It depends on the relations between you, the extent in which you know your evil inclination. 

Question (MAK 37): (57:57) How can we help the friends that fall from the degree? What should be our actions in order to hold them, or to raise them? 

M. Laitman: Embrace them, connect with them, and then together, rise.

So, for the time being, we will conclude, until tomorrow. Good luck. You have many materials. Read constantly. All the best. 

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