The transcript has been transcribed and edited from English simultaneous interpretation, thus there may be potential semantic inaccuracies within it.
Daily Lesson (Morning) January 6, 2025.
Part 2: Rabash. 192. Foundations.
Rabash. 192. Foundations
Reading: (00:19) “If He brought us near Mt. Sinai and did not give us the Torah, we would be content.”
The interpreters asked, “Without the Torah, how can it be said that we would be content? After all, the Creator created the world for the Torah, as our sages said about the verse, ‘If My covenant were not day and night, I would not set the ordinances of heaven and earth’” (Avoda Zara 3a).
We should ask according to what our sages said, “I have created the evil inclination; I have created the Torah as a spice” (Kiddushin 30b). If their filth was removed at the time of Mt. Sinai, meaning that the evil inclination was removed from them, then they no longer need the Torah.
The Torah that was given to them then was from a higher quality, as an essence, and not as a means. That is, they need the Torah not because the Torah is the goal. Rather, the Torah came to help us achieve something else, which cannot be obtained without the Torah.
However, in its higher quality, the Torah is a goal. It follows that the majority of the Torah is as a means for the evil inclination, but there are a chosen few in the generation who are rewarded with the Torah as an essence.
Concerning “Teach me the whole of the Torah on one leg,” he said, “That which you hate, do not do unto your neighbor” (Shabbat 33a). It is as Rabbi Akiva said, “Love your neighbor as yourself is the great rule of the Torah.” The people of Israel were rewarded with this love, as our sages said about the verse, “And the people camped … as one man with one heart.”
It follows that the giving of the Torah was as a gift, meaning an essence, and not as 613 Eitin [Aramaic: counsels], called Mitzvot [commandments].
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (03:29) If I understand correctly, he says the Torah is both the means for correction and also the reward. So, the means for correction, it's clear: we study, the light changes us and makes us more like him. What is that state called reward that he's describing in the Torah?
M. Laitman: This is what we discover. The Torah, or the upper lights, or in a simpler way, in a form that is revealed to us through actions.
Student: He says there's some degree called essence, the essence of Torah.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: What's that? How can you perceive that?
M. Laitman: The essence, we can perceive it, the way I think of it, is the upper light that is clothed in the Torah.
Student: And we can grasp it somehow?
M. Laitman: Apparently so.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (05:02) I have a sick child, and he's sick because I don't know how to keep the laws of hygiene and how to take care of him all together. I wasn't born with that tendency, I don't know how to take care of him, and he's very sick. That I do see. I see his suffering. And you're saying that I can go and learn the Torah, 20, 30 years, and then maybe I'll know how to take care of my child. The doctor, he says, if I learn how to be a doctor, I'll die until I learn. How do I take my child, and now give him to the doctor to care for him? Because there has been permission given to the doctor to heal, and I'll wait 30 years. My child is sick now, I'm only harming him.
M. Laitman: I heard enough. You should ask that sage, this wise man who told you to turn to the Torah, and where through the Torah you can find the remedy.
Student: I didn't understand. How I'd take my child and put him under the authority of the doctor, now. I don't want to learn how to take care of him. I want the doctor to take care of him.
M. Laitman: Okay. So, take him to this Sage.
Student: How do we do that? I want to know how I take him. I'm not doing anything for myself because I'm one big mistake. My child will now be with the doctor under care.
M. Laitman: Yes. Take him.
Student: How do we do that? How do I take my child and put him under the doctor's care?
M. Laitman: That I can't explain to you. Each one understands that if there's some expert, let's say in medicine, so you can take any sick person to him and he will heal him.
Student: I simply say, I'm taking my child now to the doctor. And that's called, in practice, in reality, I'm taking my child to the doctor.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Woman Turkiye 8): (07:56) The Torah comes to help us attain something else that cannot be attained without the Torah. What is the other thing that the Torah helps us achieve?
M. Laitman: The light. The light of the Torah. It can heal everything a person suffers from.
Question (Woman Latin 24): (08:29) What is the Torah as an essence and not a means?
M. Laitman: The Torah is the upper light that is clothed in the actions which are called Mitzvot, commandments. And through those actions, a person is awarded to the light that is clothed in those commandments. That's it.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (09:25) He says that in the stance of Mount Sinai, we were already in love your friend as yourself. The actual, true state.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Are there records from that state? Is there some possibility of restoring it or recreating it, going back to it? How do we connect to that state?
M. Laitman: I don't think we can reveal that exact same state again, but let's say yes. What is that?
Student: If there is some kind of such record, then we would cultivate it, focus on it, strengthen it. No, I don't know, something.
M. Laitman: We were already in that and it didn't hold us. So, what else should we ask for?
Student: This is the essence, that's what we have to reach.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: The question is what to hold on to. We have the Ten and we're doing work together.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: I want to come to love your friend as yourself, because He says to become as one man in one heart. How do we take this exalted state and lower it to life so it will be achievable, attainable?
M. Laitman: I guess it's possible. I guess it's possible. I guess it's possible that we can reach a connection between us to such an extent and from that connection, we can ascend to that same state that we were when we received the Torah.
Student: So we, in our way, each time place for ourselves some task or mission, let's say we have a convention that's coming soon.
M. Laitman: Yes
Student: How to bring it so that in the convention or on the way to the convention, it can be now for us to have and see before our eyes this standing as one man in one heart?
M. Laitman: That's how we need to be connected. And we won't miss out on anything from the upper light, even a tiny illumination. That's what we need. Also, to make sure that through our actions, we won't lose the essence of our connection.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:52) He wrote in the article here that the Torah is actually the means to correct the evil inclination. And it's only the means. There's also the Torah that's called the essence of Torah.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: After a person corrected the evil inclination, what does he need the Torah for? What's the work with the Torah?
M. Laitman: The Torah includes inside it all of the upper light that bestows upon the corrupted vessels and corrects them. That's one thing. The second, through the Torah, we can pass the upper force from one to the other, from a group to a group, from a nation to a nation.
Student: What is the giving of the Torah?
M. Laitman: The giving of the Torah is that we're passing it, we're giving these conditions or laws in a way that each one can use them, and get that impression from them, and continue them.
Student: How do we pass the Torah from one to another?
M. Laitman: Through the connection, through the adhesion between them.
Student: Meaning, there's no action of actually passing it along, but there's a result of the connection.
M. Laitman: Well, let's say that.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:55) While we're on the way to the convention, we shouldn't miss the essence of connection. What is the essence?
M. Laitman: The essence of the connection is that we are connected together and we're holding on to the Creator between us in our connection. And we want our connection to be in a height, a special height, such a height that we won't be able to stop, that we're going to constantly discover and want more abilities to rise more and more. Okay, guys, what's up with you? Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (16:14) You said something that demands scrutiny. What is it to pass the Torah from one group to another, from one nation to the next?
M. Laitman: That truly isn't simple, but we need to also learn how to do that, how to pass the light that reforms from one group to the other.
Student: And so, from what groups, between which groups can we pass this?
M. Laitman: That includes that study, that's what we call, that we're studying who's near to who, and the connections between them, and how we can pass between one group to the other group, from the nation to the other nations, from people to people.
Student: Rav is talking about the expansion of the Torah in the whole world?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And this will come at some stage when?
M. Laitman: It should be in the very near state, otherwise we won't be able to approach the Torah, to touch it.
Student: Do we have to have the intention during the study, in development, that we want to pass this to the whole world?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: We don't yet have Torah, obviously, like Rabash is writing here, that is the essence of Torah. Can we assume what it is to pass the Torah as a correction to others, or the essence of Torah? What is it that we have to pass to them?
M. Laitman: The essence of the Torah, I don't know how we can pass that, but the Torah as a correction, we can.
Student: Okay, so today we know how to work in dissemination, to bring forth the method of correction as a doctrine, as some kind of study material. What is to pass to them the method of correction internally, I'm assuming that's what Rav meant?
M. Laitman: I think we're talking about the connection between us, that light can pass freely between one group to the other group, between one person to the next, and by that we can reach the correction of the connections between people, between men, between women, nations, and so on.
Student: Another thing, Rav said that it demands connection, so…
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Connection from the group that has the method of correction to a group that doesn't have it yet, or both groups need to have some connection. What connection needs to be here for it to pass?
M. Laitman: There has to be a connection between everyone to everyone, as two groups, as much as possible to connect, and as much as the upper light can bestow upon them and cancel their borders between them in a way that they're connecting between one another,
Student: There needs to be an agreement between the groups.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (20:29) Until we reach Lishma, we won't have the ability to pass along the Torah?
M. Laitman: I think so.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (20:58) I want to ask about what you explained to the friend. It sounds like altogether lately you're talking in a more general way about the correction of the world, and less, I don't know, about the Tens, or even within Bnei Baruch. Is there something that's happened?
M. Laitman: No. No. But we need to understand that one depends on the other.
Student: Depends on what?
M. Laitman: As much as we are drawn to the connection between us, an internal deep connection that connects us in the center of reality, there we can also correct ourselves again and reach that force that dwells upon us, that holds us.
Student: Now, if I heard correctly, you said that the Torah needs to be passed to the world soon. Otherwise, I didn't understand the continuation. There's a certain urgency that I didn't get.
M. Laitman: We need to try and pass the Torah as much as possible, quicker, and bring it closer to everyone. That's it.
Student: Is there a special urgency today that wasn't before?
M. Laitman: Special urgency is... It's not that it comes to us from being in a better or worse state, but it's a special urgency because it depends on the state of the nation. We today can't understand what the Torah is serving us. We can't. And that's a problem.
Student: What does that mean, that we're not capable of digesting what the Torah is giving us?
M. Laitman: In the force of the Torah, there's a lot more... It can bring us much more forces, and explanations, and means compared to what we think that we can receive from it.
Student: What are we missing to be able to digest it or get it?
M. Laitman: We're missing to receive the Torah. We're missing to give gratitude to the Creator. I don't have words.
Student: So what we're missing is gratitude.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: For what? Gratitude for what?
M. Laitman: I'd say appreciation. Appreciation of the Torah, how great it is, strong, important, infinite. All the discernments that we can discover in us, as much as the intensity of the Torah is greater than the corruptions in us.
Student: Last question if possible. You said to the friend that there needs to be a connection between everyone and everyone between the two groups. You talked about two groups.
M. Laitman No, I don't remember.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (26:38) For many years we are actually going through corrections, we're engaged in corrections. When does the stage come when we are ready to open our door for the Creator? Where the Torah stops being just a means, and there's a willingness to open, to make an opening, a true connection with Him.
M. Laitman: I'm not in control of time or states. I can't tell you what state we have to get to in order to be able to perform these actions, those actions, that this is what the Torah is speaking about.
Student: What changes in a person that he's willing to do a transition?
M. Laitman: Between what to what?
Student: Between to truly move to the quality of the Creator, to a connection with Him, because it's a completely opposite frame on one hand. On the other hand, he's constantly around it.
M. Laitman: Yes, that's clear that it's around that. I think that we need to demand, each one from their friend, between us, that it will really be one body. And each one will feel that they must, not for themselves but for the sake of the friends that he's performing corrections with. That he owes them and they owe him, and each one needs to hold everyone else in the degree of bestowal. I have nothing else to add, but it has to be serious and from within, from within the desire.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (29:26) I want to try to continue what the friend asked earlier about this matter of the force of the Torah.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Humanity has many problems in the period that we're living in. All kinds of troubles that humanity is constantly bringing forth. Solutions of all kinds. I don't know, AI, alternative power sources, I don't know. Man is trying to invent all kinds of solutions for the problems. The solution of Torah, or coming closer to the Creator, or a connection between people is not even in the top 20 list of what people are thinking, what humanity is thinking.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: What would cause humanity to somehow start looking in that place at all?
M. Laitman: So we need again and again to go back to all the books of Kabbalah with such a question, and pick on them. I have nothing else to say.
Student: It's as if some change needs to take place. It's not even a priority change. It's something perceptional.
M. Laitman: I understand.
Student: So what could bring humanity, or a group of people that, let's say, that the point of the heart didn't awaken in them. Because that's the thing. Because if the point of the heart awakened, I think the question is simpler. Because if the point of the heart awakens in humanity, let's say the Creator decided, tomorrow I'm going to ignite the point of the heart in all of humanity, they're okay. They'll start looking for it themselves, just like we also looked and found it. We were brought here without our will, so we'll bring everyone. But is that the method? Are we like waiting for the Creator to awaken everyone?
M. Laitman: We'll live and we'll see. I have nothing to add.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (31:54) About passing the Torah to all of humanity, if I examine my attitude towards people, then it's clear where I am. And it's clear that in order to receive a new attitude that's more corrected towards them, I need to correct myself in them. And it's felt like if we connect and annul before one another, achieve a certain force to relate towards people with love and bestowal, which is the force of the Creator. It's not in us. Now the question is, are we capable of connecting? We're talking about connections towards the convention. We're talking about reaching Lishma. Are we capable of making this connection without defining a goal that we're doing this in order to pass this Torah to all of humanity?
M. Laitman: We still need to search in all the writings of Baal HaSulam and Rabash. What else can we do?
Student: In relation to what?
M. Laitman: Revealing ourselves, coming closer to the Creator. There are a lot of questions on the way.
Student: It's not understood. You talked now about passing the Torah to humanity. When I read the writings, I'm very impressed that the vision of all the Kabbalists and teachers is the correction of all humanity, that that's the will of the Creator.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: But to approach this, I understand that it's through the connection between us. It's not like each of us goes out and does something. We work on the correction of our qualities, and then engage constantly in this inner act of connection.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: On the other hand, when we concentrate on this correction, can we do it without defining this goal, without saying this is the goal that we want to correct humanity?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Meaning, we need to concentrate on our correction even without thinking at the moment of our goal being outwards.
M. Laitman: No. Our correction is how it comes from us outward, and covers all nations.
Student: Meaning, the reason for the connection, all the work between us, the intention should be that we want to achieve this force of love, to be able to pass this along to people.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: So that goal, I can only say it in words. I can read it in the book. But to determine it in such a way in my heart, that will lead us to actions with the friends, how do we do it?
M. Laitman: Think about it. Think of your friends. Talk to them, and try to adapt the method of correction to groups, to their connections, to whatever you have.
Student: What does that mean, to adapt the method of correction to that?
M. Laitman: I don't know, you're repeating to me.
Student: I want to understand what you're saying, yes.
M. Laitman: I have nothing to add.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (36:04) On behalf of the system, it's clear that we don't deserve to receive the Torah if it's not in order to pass it on.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And when you were speaking about two groups sometimes I hear that you're saying that we just have to concentrate on the connection between us, that we're the highest level in the pyramid, and if we're not connected correctly, we're blocking the light. And if we correct our connection, the light will just pass through. And sometimes you speak in terms of explaining the method, adapting it, more about dissemination or let's say corporeal matters. So which of those observations is right?
M. Laitman: It seems to me that neither one of them.
Student: So what is the right way to understand this?
M. Laitman: Simply stop understanding. Let's say that this path of understanding and operating ourselves, working on connection, correction, that's not our path, that's not our way. It's not the same way that we need to reach connection and dissemination.
Student: What are we doing incorrectly or that we don't understand?
M. Laitman: We need to try and do everything the way it's written and then it will be revealed to us where we went wrong.
Student: What are we doing today that isn't according to?
M. Laitman: I'm not going to check that for you, your work. I'm just telling you that all of that is not leading us to the goal.
Student: Just to summarize, we just have to check our work in front of the writings and...
M. Laitman: Yes. All right.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (39:13) Every day we come to the lesson with the intention to take something in order to give. That there will be something to give to the world, to people. It feels like there's light flowing out of you. But I come out of the lesson and... How to connect in the speed of light? Even quicker, the speed of love or something. I don't know how to say it, sorry, but... The light moves too quick. Can't even take anything in order to give.
M. Laitman: We'll continue and understand.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (40:38) I wrote from what you said, to demand each one from the friend that will be one body. That each one will demand of the friends that he's performing corrections with, that he owes them and they owe him. And each one must hold the other to the degree of his soul, that it'll be serious from within the desire. How can we hold that demand?
M. Laitman: We'll demand and then see. The action itself will correct us. The action
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (41:43) Can a person pass on something he didn't receive yet? Can he give what's not in him?
M. Laitman: No.
Student: You are our Rav, you are our teacher, and you are an attainment.
M. Laitman: Well?
Student: Can you explain in words what you've attained, what attainment is?
M. Laitman: No. Impossible.
Student: So to understand that, there has to be someone attaining that there will be a vessel for it.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: So when you're sending us again to read Baal HaSulam and Rabash, so we've read, I don't know, many times. What should change in us and the approach and the way we approach these writings?
M. Laitman: Demand. There needs to be a demand that is as finite, as refined as possible.
Student: Demand for what?
M. Laitman: To understand what you're reading.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (43:11) You explained the way to give the Torah from a person to a person, a group to a group, a nation to a nation.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: If we connect us, the group of Bnei Baruch, is this giving the Torah to humanity, to the big group called humanity?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And that's dissemination of the method of the wisdom of Kabbalah?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: What's the weight of external dissemination compared to that, meaning explaining media and so on?
M. Laitman: I don't know what to tell you. We use all the means there are to explain the connection between the internal and external states. And sometimes it fits us and suits what we're doing, and sometimes not.
Student: Sometimes I hear from friends that, just like now we heard from Rav, if we connect between us, from the connection, the Torah will spread to everybody. From that, you'll get an inner explanation, internality.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Because that is enough, that we don't need more than that.
M. Laitman: No.
Student: Is that right? We don't need more than that?
M. Laitman: Let's say it's correct.
Student: So if we say it's correct, what is the weight of the external dissemination? For what? Let's connect between us, study all day, read, and the light will spread.
M. Laitman: In order for us to try to adapt ourselves to the external people, we need to think that way.
Student: Most of those external people will receive the Torah from the connection between us, the Torah of truth.
M. Laitman: Under the condition that they themselves will be connected.
Student: What does this mean, of external explanation, writing, filming, searching for ways, tricks, how to pass the message, for what?
M. Laitman: It changes you.
Student: So the dissemination is for the benefit of the disseminator?
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And how does it change me? And what does it change me? When I disseminate externally, how does it change me? What does it do to me?
M. Laitman: It adapts him to external circles.
Student: And the main Torah and dissemination is from the connection between us.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (46:38) I want to ask about the state of Mount Sinai. He wrote that he reached Mount Sinai and they’ll be connected as one man with one heart. Is that right?
M. Laitman: It could be. You're saying that you read it that way.
Student: He writes that he brought us to Mount Sinai and then gave us the Torah. And he also continues saying that they didn't need the Torah as means, they were already connected. So on what basis were they connected?
M. Laitman: They were connected based on passing the message from one to another.
Student: And then they got to Mount Sinai. I heard from you once that it's when hatred exploded between them and they needed something stronger.
M. Laitman: That's one of the interpretations. Yes.
Student: And today can we go through that same process?
M. Laitman: Today we need to seek which connection between us we need to perform so it will draw us to more internal connections between us.
Student: So, according to the method it's the same process. First we have to reach a connection even though it might not be on the basis of… will not be pure…
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: But it draws the light. So the hatred is revealed. We need it. There's a need for a stronger force to connect us.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: And that is also right for external circles?
M. Laitman: No.
Student: That there needs to be some kind of connection between them?
M. Laitman: No. I don't think so. We'll see. It will be revealed.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (49:00) You mentioned that we need to know how to give gratitude and appreciate the Torah that we receive. I don't do it much but I want to say thank you for the devotion for the purpose of creation and correction that you're giving us. The importance of it. It raises us higher. Thank you.
Question (Petah Tikva Center): (49:41) You explained to the friend that external dissemination or doing it because it changes the disseminator. It adapts them to the external public and that's the value of it, but the main thing is to do the work between us and from here the light will expand.
M. Laitman: Yes.
Student: Also Baal HaSulam went to a lot of trouble to disseminate externally. He wrote all his writings, articles, The Writings of the Last Generation. You yourself invested decades from the beginning of the 80s when you got to Rabash. You disseminated externally. You wandered around the world to disseminate externally. So first of all, would we even be here if you wouldn't disseminate externally?
M. Laitman: I don't think so. I didn't intend for me to have a big group, and that I will talk like this every day, and broadcast on TVs. No, not that.
Student: So it's not only the inner change of the disseminator. There's a change in the world because of this action.
M. Laitman: It's probably so.
Student: So again, I want to ask about the importance. What exactly is the importance of external dissemination? Where is that compared to the dissemination nation that we do internally. How does this system work? How do these things work?
M. Laitman: I don't know how to explain it. I don't know how to explain it. It seems to me that it's simply, it comes from the desire of the Creator, in his ways. We'll attain it, and then no. Okay.
Reader: We will go to study between the friends, and we're going to read TES together. But before that, we got a lot in the lesson. Let's summarize together and speak between us what we got in the lesson. And what was the main essence that we got from the lessons?