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Daily Lesson, (Morning) April 29, 2024.
Part 3: Rabash. Record 915. I and Not a Messenger.
Reading Article: (00:18) Rabash. Record 915. I and Not a Messenger.
As the ARI wrote, prior to the redemption, Israel were in forty-nine gates of Tuma’a [impurity] until He was revealed to them and redeemed them. That is, they were rewarded with “I and not a messenger.”
Baal HaSulam said that before the redemption they thought that there are messengers, so redemption means that they were rewarded with “I and not a messenger,” that there is none else besides Him. It follows that before the redemption they also believed that the Creator was helping, but there are messengers, while redemption means that they were rewarded with “I and not a messenger.”
Reading Article Again: (01:23)
As the ARI wrote, prior to the redemption, Israel were in forty-nine gates of Tuma’a [impurity] until He was revealed to them and redeemed them. That is, they were rewarded with “I and not a messenger.”
Baal HaSulam said that before the redemption they thought that there are messengers, so redemption means that they were rewarded with “I and not a messenger,” that there is none else besides Him. It follows that before the redemption they also believed that the Creator was helping, but there are messengers, while redemption means that they were rewarded with “I and not a messenger.”
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (03:30) What does messengers mean? Does it mean we thought there were different forces, when in fact there is only one force?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Before redemption, we need to come to the realization of, There Is None Else Besides Him, and that this work is to constantly scrutinize where we are in relation with None Else Besides Him?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (04:38) The messenger awakens the left-line in me, hatred and such things, and I, when I understand I'm on the left side, I have to want the right line, correct?
M. Laitman: You can say that.
Student: When I'm in that state, the plane helps me if I nullify myself and play out the right line, and if I can't, then I ask?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And so that's only, that's my work, the work is on my part, I have to thank the Creator for sending these messengers and awakening hatred?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: That's the work?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:42) What is our work with the messengers? We have the friends, the Rav, the Creator is full of clothings. Why, I am not a messenger, is such an important sentence?
M. Laitman: That you can see in what's revealed before you that this force really comes from the Creator Himself.
Student: In Passover we talk about many messengers, there is Moses and Aaron, and the Creator says come to Pharaoh. How to correctly work? Because we appreciate these messengers, we see them as important?
M. Laitman: Of course, who is the most important messenger?
Student: Moses, isn't it, or Pharaoh?
M. Laitman: The evil inclination; that is the true messenger.
Student: How do we both consider the Creator? He wants us to put him above the messenger, but by that we cancel the messengers. What's the duality here?
M. Laitman: Well, think about it. Until we discover that it was I, and not a messenger.
Student: Which means what?
M. Laitman: That all the messengers, whatever seems to you, it's all the Creator Himself.
Student: But I have to aim myself to reach, I am not a messenger, or not, to not cancel out the messengers, because they too are important?
M. Laitman: You decide, you decide.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:34) I want to also continue this topic. The messengers, we discover them each time anew. Sometimes, like the friend said, it's my evil, sometimes it's the group, sometimes a friend that asks the questions. Everyone says, whoever wants the Creator, come to me, so how do I know to choose the right environment, the right group, the right messenger each time? It seems like the messenger is right. Also the one who jumps to the Red Sea says that, says, follow me to the Creator. How do I choose what's actually the Creator, or someone who just has something in his stomach, in his belly? How do you identify that?
M. Laitman: I guess it gets depicted correctly in each one.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (09:34) What determines that the people of Israel will feel the Creator again, that only He can save Israel, following on the previous discussion?
M. Laitman: That depends on prayer. On the prayer of the nation of Israel that will cry out, really, through all the heavens, till the Creator.
Student: But there's no recognition in order to ask?
M. Laitman: That comes from despair; the final despair.
Student: But we haven't reached despair. There's a feeling that it doesn't change, that nothing helps enough for us to awaken?
M. Laitman: How is it written that Israel would run?
Reader: (11:04) From, “Zohar for All.”
When Israel camped at the sea, they saw the masses of soldiers and camps from above and below, and they all came to charge Israel.
Israel began to pray out of their plight, and while Israel saw a plight, a distress from all directions, the sea with its raging waters, was upon them. And after all of those camps of the Egyptians, and above them, there were a few inciters who began to cry up to the Creator.
M. Laitman: You don't have, does it continue there?
Reader continues: (12:29) Then it is written, the Lord says to Moses, why will you cry out to me? And to me, meaning the measure of ZA, because all relies on Atik. When Atik [...] was revealed, and there is a desire in all the upper worlds, then the light of all has shined. The wisdom of the Egyptians was on the left line, with regards to the great alligator that sits in its waters.
And this Hochma has a root in Bina of AA that came out of its head. But for the tearing of the Red Sea, and to drown the Egyptians, to begin with, their high root in Kedusha had to be canceled, in AA and that was not possible, except through the great light of Atik [...], which is the root of everything.
And thus, ZA said, why will you cry out to me? Everything relies on Atik, as his great light can cancel the root of the Egyptians in Bina of AA as the candle is canceled before a torch. And then the light of all will shine, because the light of Atik is the light of everything, and everything is nullified in its light. And therefore, the high root of the Egyptians was canceled for the time being.
Then, when all shone together, because the light of Atik, even though it has covered Hassadim, yet it includes within it also Hochma, because the Hochma of AA is received from him by necessity. Therefore, the Hassadim of Atik are more important than Hochma of AA, and it is considered to include it, and Hochma and Hassadim shine in him together. And therefore, the sea made the upper laws of drowning the Egyptians and saving Israel, as both the upper and the lower were given to it.
And therefore, it is said that living sons and nourishment, all is difficult before the Creator as the tearing of the Red Sea, because the tearing of the Red Sea relies on Atik.
One deer exists in the land and the Creator does much for her. When she cries, the Creator hears her plight and accepts her voice. And when the world needs mercy over water, she makes voices and the Creator hears her voice.
And thus, the Creator has mercy on the world, as it is written, as a deer will long on channels of water. And when she has to give birth, she is blocked from all sides and she puts her head between her knees and cries and makes voices. And the Creator has mercy on her and summons to her one serpent who bites her pubis and opens her up and tears up that place and she gives birth immediately.
And in that matter, she will not ask or try the Creator. And the Creator saves Israel from the hand of Egypt and Israel saw that Egypt has died. The Creator showed them the minister that is appointed over the Egyptians that he passed in the river of DiNur, which was in the upper sea of Malchut.
What is the reason it died? Isn't there no death in the angels? That it was moved from its governance, which is considered as death.
M. Laitman: So, let's hope that we go through all these states correctly and quickly and reach freedom.
Song: (18:40)