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Daily Morning Lesson: February 23, 2026

Part 1: Lesson on the topic of "Continuing the Convention With an Ascent"

Continuing the Convention With an Ascent - Selected Excerpts from the sources

Original lesson date: 05/27/2025

Reader: Dear friends, we are continuing with a series of lessons based on excerpts from the Kabbalists, Continuing the Congress in an ascent. Now we will go to a lesson that took place on May 27th, 2025. 

Reader: Today's lesson is on the subject of Continuing the Congress in ascent. We will read excerpts from the sources, starting with excerpt number two. You can find all of our texts on KabbalahMedia.info, as well as through the Arvut platform, where you can send us questions live. So, the subject for today's lesson is Continuing the Congress in ascent.

Excerpt number two. Rabash says, 

Reading: (00:56) 2. Rabash. Article 6 (1991) “What Is, “The Herdsmen of Abram’s Cattle and the Herdsmen of Lot’s Cattle,” in the Work?

In every beginning a person must start over the acceptance of the kingdom of heaven, it is not enough that yesterday he had faith in the Creator. For this reason, every acceptance of the kingdom of heaven is considered a new discernment. That is, now he receives a part of the vacant space that was devoid of the kingdom of heaven, and admits that empty place and fills it with the kingdom of heaven. It follows that now he sorted out a new thing, which did not exist before he took that empty place and filled it with the kingdom of heaven. This is regarded as elevating a new spark into the Kedusha. Finally, from all the ascents, he always raises sparks.

M. Laitman: Meaning that without the feeling of a descent, we cannot begin a new ascent. And feeling the descent as really a descent is necessary in order that afterward one can depict oneself as being in an ascent. Therefore, the whole path is of ascents and descents. That is how they need to be, and in as much speed as possible that we go through them so then the person progresses more. Meaning that a person needs to be concerned that all the questions, all the descents, should as quickly as possible invert into ascents. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (04:17) How to switch a descent with an ascent, or how to invert a descent into an ascent? What does it mean? 

M. Laitman: A person needs to do that. It depends on his efforts. A descent means that he descends from connection with the Creator. And an ascent means that he comes closer to that. And so we need to constantly think how we can not descend but rise. And by doing so, we switch descents to ascents. 

Student: So, there is a new desire that awakens now in the person. He discovers that this disconnects him from the Creator, that he's not in contact with the Creator anymore. And now he wants to do the work. He wants to renew the connection with the Creator. 

M. Laitman: Let's put it that way, yes.

Student: So what should the person do? How do I renew the connection with the Creator? Is it only through thought? Should I accept it as a kind of awakening that pushes me to connect to the Creator? Is there any action to be taken there? That's what I'm trying to understand. Is there any action you take in order to renew the connection with the Creator? 

M. Laitman: When you start thinking about how it is in connection with the Creator compared to your current state. 

Student: And this thought that came up by which I discovered that I'm disconnected from the Creator, it becomes like a platform for connecting with the Creator. It's not important unto itself, right? 

M. Laitman: Yes. It's important. Why not? It's important like some kind of jumping instrumental machine where you start rising. 

Student: I'll give you an example. I want to see if I understand. So, let's say some thought awakens in me which is completely unrelated to the path. I feel something of this world. I'm completely thrown into this world.

M. Laitman: Completely means that you have no thought or feeling from anything that belongs to the ascent. 

Student: Yes, let's say this is the current situation. And then a moment after, I remember, it doesn't matter why, because of the friends and such, I remember that I want to reestablish the connection with the Creator.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What do I do with that feeling of disconnection? I use it as a kind of, ah, “I was disconnected from the Creator, let's now connect to Him?”

M. Laitman: That could be the case.

Student: And how do I renew that connection? What do I need to do? I need to think about Him, pray to Him, thank Him. What exactly do I do at that moment? 

M. Laitman: Something of that which you said. Something that relates to ascent.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (08:00) What will serve us as fuel in a state of descent? 

M. Laitman: In a state of ascent we have only an opportunity to direct ourselves in any case to the Creator, who disappeared, who became distant, who is unfelt in us. That is the time that we can gather all the vessels of ours that are empty and distant from the connection with the Creator, and then we can begin to ask, and to pray, and accordingly return to connection.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (09:04) So you say that in a state of descent we can only aim ourselves at the Creator, who's vanishing, who's growing distant, so it's not really a descent then? 

M. Laitman: We call that a descent in relation to the previous state. That is how we can feel it that we are distant from the Creator, that it's hard for us to find words, a language and, how to turn to Him. And then, when we, in any case turn to Him we are then rewarded with His closeness. 

Student: So, how to define a descent? As a gradual distancing from the Creator? 

M. Laitman: Descent is gradual distancing.

Student: When I feel that the Creator is distancing Himself from me? Or rather, I'm growing more distant to Him? What is my work then? 

M. Laitman: Then you have the opportunity to act in ascent. 

Student: What does the ideal descent look like? 

M. Laitman: Descent is distancing. That person loses something. Meaning, beforehand, he was relatively in an ascent, and now he feels that he is truly far from the Creator. 

Student: How do you get closer to the Creator again? 

M. Laitman: We ask. That is called praying.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (11:20) How can we use this sensation of euphoria that comes about after a congress? What’s left of it in order to advance? 

M. Laitman: During the congress we had a certain closeness with the Creator. Because we applied efforts from our connection, all of us, and we were rewarded somewhat, Yes. And from the Creator's closeness toward us, we can now do more actions. We can continue. Just not to descend, but to continue more actions in order to rise more and more.

Student: To continue to extend what actions? 

M. Laitman: Closeness with the Creator. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (12:34) Rabash writes that each time a person begins to accept the burden of the Kingdom of Heaven, he raises new sparks. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: What are those sparks? 

M. Laitman: Those are Reshimot, or records, that a person needs to implement in order to come closer to the Creator in practice.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (13:13) How to make sure, or how to use the descent so that after that I rise in holiness higher than I was prior to the descent? 

M. Laitman: That is a question. From that in which we still do not know exactly how to measure spiritual states, ascents and descents, it is thus hard to say. But in any case, a person should try to measure each ascent and descent so that they will all be on the path that returns them to spirituality. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (14:20) I have another question. Should a person feel before entering Lishma? Can he feel that, “oh, I'm about to enter Lishma?” Or does it come in a way where a person is distracted, and he doesn't know exactly where he is if he's getting close? 

M. Laitman: In any case he still needs to measure in relation to what he has at an ascent in relation to what he has at a descent. What vessels he uses now. He needs to try to measure his state as much as it is in an as alert, aware state as possible. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (15:31) It seems like ascents and descents are a kind of mechanism where a person looks at his past and accordingly decides if he's in an ascent or a descent. Or with respect to the future, he can decide. Or if he looks at the friends, he can by that decide if he's in an ascent or a descent? Meaning a person with his thoughts, he sees there are states… The question is how to use this mechanism, how to rise above the different states, how to view it not through the lens of what I feel, what I think, but from a higher place? How to rise above those states and understand that there is a system here that you're playing in? Living in?  I don't know.

M. Laitman: Use the descents in order to come to a sense that's more realistic. 

Student: It appears that it's not only the rhythm, there's also power, intensity. The power always has to be greater?  We're not impressed by yesterday's descent anymore? So, how to prepare ourselves to states- of greater ascents and greater descents than we've come to before? How to prepare? 

M. Laitman: It all depends on a person. How he feels, measures, and relates to his states. 

Student: How to prepare? 

M. Laitman: That depends on his attitude of  how he measures what he is in. In ascents, in descents, in an order of times, in actions. And each time to try, each time to try to measure his state as a new thing in closeness with the Creator. 

Student: Another little thing. How can you use the environment so that it gives you a kind of cushion, a kind of security, insurance, that it can envelop you in such states? How to use the environment? 

M. Laitman: You said it correctly.

Student: My question is, what actions should I take towards the environment so that then I can tell for sure that they're behind me? 

M. Laitman: What's most important is annulment- self-annulment, and incorporation with friends, and measuring. Each one is important, and that he will want to be together with them above himself as he was a moment ago, and accordingly to continue. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (19:27) You gave us a piece of practical advice. In order to go through the different states as fast as possible we need to think constantly about what it means to be in contact with the Creator. So, what is that thought - how to be in contact with the Creator? 

M. Laitman: That I'm on the path, that my efforts and steps are toward the Creator, that I'm coming closer to Him. 

Student: And how is that expressed in our work in the Ten? How should I act upon it? Ultimately, the Creator arranged my connection with the friends. So, how to take these states as fast as possible, together with the friends, and not allow ourselves to enter a descent but to constantly go forward? We're saying that we need to grow stronger and advance, and we received some very special force this Congress. We don't want to put it off to one side, we want to continue with it. 

M. Laitman: So you have material that you read together, that you discuss together. With that try to take steps accordingly. Another step somewhat, another step somewhat, and accordingly, you'll come closer. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (20:56) What kind of picture should we paint to ourselves in the connection with the Ten which will be the closest connection with the Creator? What kind of image do we imagine to paint there- where we know that we're always getting closer? 

M. Laitman: Closeness with the Creator means it's in the state when you are in a distancing, in a descent, when you lose some connection. Let’s say, with your friends that’s you in such states, find forces inside yourself for ascent.

Student: How important is our collective prayer in the Ten? 

M. Laitman: Certainly, prayer is what is most beneficial. If it's a prayer for the Ten that went through a certain fall, a certain distancing, then that is very beneficial. 

Student: I'm not saying that my Ten is now falling. I want to advance. I don't want to wait for the fall. I want to continue with that power. What kind of prayer should we establish, should we form in order to continue stronger, more connected? We don't want to wait for a fall. Or maybe it must happen. 

M. Laitman: No, that doesn't need to be. It's not that I divide in advance my day, where half of it is in ascent, another half is in descent, or something else. No. We always think only about the ascents. But we understand that between them, descents will also come to us. And that's how we progress. 

Question (PT 31): (23:10) Will the descent always be accompanied by an intolerable sensation? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: Can we reach a state where we are happy in the descents? 

M. Laitman: I don't think that we can be happy, but we can hold ourselves in a state where we understand the necessity of that, and that we try, in the state of descent, to elevate ourselves to connection with the Creator.

Question (W PT 6): (24:03) What helps a person emerge from the descent? 

M. Laitman: Most that can be is connection with friends, where each one holds the other, and in such a way, together, we start rising. 

Question (PT 31): (24:30) How can the Ten help one go through the states of descent quicker?

M. Laitman: Only through that in which we work together. 

Question (W Rehovot 1): (24:44) How can a person make an effort while being in a state of descent? 

M. Laitman: During a state of descent, where we feel the descent, we can begin discussing ascents. And we understand that that is what we lack. As much as we can depict to ourselves the state of ascent, more and more. So, according to that, we can exit the descent and enter into an ascent.

Question (Latin 26): (25:54) What questions addressed to the Creator help us emerge from a descent and advance to the next state? 

M. Laitman: Actions of connection.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (26:12) And there are situations where you see that you're growing more distant. You see yourself growing more distant, descending. But also, you don't have the power to ask to get closer. So, what do you do in those states? 

M. Laitman: A practical state is that we feel that we are in a descent, and that we can no longer tolerate it. So from that state, we start crying to the Creator, help us. And then we become rewarded with an ascent. 

Student: And when you don't have the power to even cry for help? You see that you're falling down, that you're descending, but you don't have the power to ask. 

M. Laitman: So, you have a group. Without a group, a person is lost.

Student: Where's the group here at that moment? 

M. Laitman: It's not in a person's feelings. A person has no feeling of the group. It's as if everything is dead. And that's how it is. The judge only has… he judges according to his flaws. 

Student: And how does the group help me at that moment? 

M. Laitman: A group needs to make research anew each time about each and every friend. What state does he appear to be in? And from that, they sometimes discuss, not in his presence, how to relate to him. Sometimes, it's on the contrary- precisely in his presence they speak. And as such at the end of it all they come closer together. 

Student: How can a person find within himself the power to ascend? 

M. Laitman: Only from that in which he feels that if he will not replace the direction of his spiritual state- so then he's lost. Therefore, he asks the Creator to help him and to save him. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (30:18) I heard you answering the friend. He asked you regarding raising new sparks, and you said that these are the records that need to be resolved. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, how to resolve them? What is the action? How to actualize these records? 

M. Laitman: A person needs to see what state he really is in, in relation to what there was in relation to the Creator, in relation to what the Creator presents before him. Accordingly, he sees that he has an opportunity before him to rise, to adhere. And thus, he comes closer to a prayer.

Student: The records, is that the feeling of the shattering that I need to attach back to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: You can say yes. It's not precise, but... 

Student: Okay, so it's individual. Each one feels this reality differently, of the records that awaken within him, that are revealed. So, what do I need to do? In that, when I feel if it's a descent or... 

M. Laitman: The best stage is that you open your heart to the Creator, ask from Him to elevate you, to show you the path of coming closer. 

Student: Okay, so the reality that awakens in me these records that awaken within me, you say that I need to ask the Creator to show me the path by which to get close to Him? Okay, so my question is, what to ask for with respect to this state that I feel? 

M. Laitman: It is according to what you discover. It is according to what you discover in your records.

Student: And if there is something that keeps repeating? 

M. Laitman: That doesn't matter. It returns. It's still not enough. You still haven't brought the Creator enough of your decisions. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (33:26) When a person depicts for himself a state of ascent, what exactly should he depict? 

M. Laitman: That once it was clear to him where he was, that he was in a certain connection with the Creator. And he thought that he has no more descents before him, only ascents. And now he sees that that's not the case. 

Student: But you said to depict a state of an ascent. What you just explained is that I look at my past and my current state. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So I'm asking, a person in a descent- what does it mean that he's depicting an ascent? What is he drawing before him? 

M. Laitman: He draws that he is in a connection with the Creator. And he understands the Creator's actions on him. That the Creator wants to bring him closer. And that is what is before him, this opportunity. 

Student: What exactly does it mean to depict a connection with the Creator? What are you depicting for yourself? 

M. Laitman: Seemingly, then he starts depicting to himself the extent to which in thought, speech, and action. What he discovers in the Creator is what he will have. 

Student: When a person is in a state of descent how does he still hold on to some kind of awakening and doesn't completely hide? 

M. Laitman: That's what he has friends for, a group.

Student: So, the state of the ascent, the group depicts for him? What does it have to come from his own exertion to depict that state of ascent? 

M. Laitman: That doesn't matter. 

Student: So, how can he rise? How do you rise? You rise, or the group raises you? 

M. Laitman: The group, the Creator, me, myself, what does it matter? The main thing is that I demand a change of state. I demand more closeness with the Creator.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (36:03) A person close to the Creator, what changes in a person that comes closer to the Creator? And what does he change? 

M. Laitman: That in thought and in desire, he is more similar to the Creator. 

Student: Which means?

M. Laitman: That he is not opposite to similarity, but he is similar. 

Student: But, in what are you similar? How is it expressed being similar to the Creator? 

M. Laitman: That is that I feel His actions as all being, as all acting on this group that I belong to in order to bring them closer to correction.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (37:10) He writes that a person has to start from new and that it shouldn't be sufficient the faith he had yesterday, that he needs to accept a new faith. Why not to agree with what we had yesterday? 

M. Laitman: It's as if it was yesterday, meaning time has passed. Everything has inverted. A new day starts. He has a new record, a new Reshimo, and he's a new person. 

Student: But if he takes a new discernment, then now he feels the Creator sent him a new state?

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: If he takes it, so there's these connections from the Creator there, darkness, distance. Why should he turn there? Why not to prefer the adhesion he already had? 

M. Laitman: I don't understand. 

Student: The Creator awakens a person with new states, new records.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: If a person chooses to work with them, so he necessarily enters darkness. 

M. Laitman: Why? 

Student: Because usually it's the Creator sends thoughts of himself, shows him that he's far from the friends, far from the group. He has to start working with it. That's the work. He has to renew his connection. But if he starts working in it, he enters some darkness. He disconnects from the Creator. He enters the work. But he also has states where he remembered the connection he did have, those points of adhesion, and he can hold on to them. What to prefer? I'm asking what to prefer. 

M. Laitman: I don't really understand that state. He needs to ask the Creator to give him understanding and strength to correctly change his state. Or to ask for the change of his state from the Creator. 

Student: Sometimes, there's a feeling that if we go into a difficult place, it's the ego pushing you to those places, when you can actually go to places that are easier to work in. 

M. Laitman: You need to measure what is closer to you.

Student: What does that mean?

M. Laitman: What forces can now bring you closer to the Creator? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (40:20) Rabash writes about the vacant space. What is this vacant space? 

M. Laitman: The vacant space is that a person feels that he is in such an atmosphere that there is a force there. But it's a force that lacks direction, that it lacks a program, a plan. So, a person does not know how exactly he can progress onward.

Student: It sounds like this is the place for our work. 

M. Laitman: That is also a place for work, yes. 

Student: So, where does this vacant space come from? Was it already created when the Creator created the worlds? Where does this vacant space come from? 

M. Laitman: The vacant space comes from our will to receive that feels itself disconnected from the Creator. No one feels it. That is called the vacant space. 

Student: So, we hear from you we have different kinds of orientation in this vacant space. We have the Reshimot, we have the friends, we have the Rav, we have the books. We have certain conditions in this vacant space. What is our compass to orient ourselves in every situation? 

M. Laitman: The friends, the group that I need to be connected with them, and that we scrutinize how we can further progress from that point until the purpose of creation. 

Student: The friends give me the orientation how to keep moving in this space? 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (43:44) About what the friend mentioned about that vacant space. He says that a person fills that space with the Kingdom of Heaven. And it says that he has now scrutinized something new. Our main work is scrutiny, the action of scrutinizing. So, I wanted to ask, then when is it called that a person scrutinizes? And not, I'm thinking about things, but it doesn't feel like an actual scrutiny. It sounds like something much stronger. What is a scrutiny?

M. Laitman: Scrutiny is that I scrutinize between two or more options what suits me. 

Student: And what am I scrutinizing? What should a person, a scrutinizer, inquire? 

M. Laitman: That is what you need to scrutinize. Out of all the options before you, through the implementation of what possibility do you reach your goal? 

Student: So I need to put, when I enter a scrutiny I have to have a goal before me to remember it?

M. Laitman: So, how do you enter a scrutiny without that? 

Student: So, if I'm thinking of certain things, the Creator, the friends, but it's a thought so is that not called a scrutiny, right? 

M. Laitman: That you are in a few different thoughts, and you want to scrutinize between them with what thought you go to the goal. That is called a scrutiny.

Student: Every scrutiny is something new comes out, innovation comes out of every scrutiny. 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: There are actions also, a friend mentioned that we repeat them. It's like a routine. Here, they were going to meet every Ten, they have their Zoom meetings. How to extract from every action that we do together an innovation? How do you find that innovation? And not just put a check mark that we did an action.

M. Laitman: It is through that in which we scrutinize what is before us. And we check, we point to, and we do something with that. 

Student: Do you have advice how to scrutinize, how to enter a scrutiny? 

M. Laitman: How to scrutinize is simple. It's not simple, but it's clear what we need to do. As if we're having some kind of election here. How many hands are up and how many are down, and according to that, we scrutinize.

Student: A convention is a scrutiny? Something new comes out of it? 

M. Laitman: Congress is a place for scrutiny. Even before the Congress, we receive some material, afterward, we ask and discuss it, and through that, what is before you becomes clearer. 

Student: You also recognize to read and repeat things. Now, sometimes I find myself that I read, okay, I go over the text. There's not always an innovation. There's not always something that as if I didn't read, but during the reading I went through a scrutiny. Is there a difference between like reading, or reading with a scrutiny? 

M. Laitman: Seemingly, yes. That is clear to us from our lives. 

Student: It's desirable to scrutinize, right, and not just read.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (49:25) The path is from ascents and descents, and the quicker the descents change to ascents in that way, a person advances quicker? So, what's the benefit from having ups and downs, whether they're a lot, or from the scrutinies within those ascents and descents? Earlier, we used the word to weigh. So, where's the benefit? In the scrutiny, or the fact that there are ups and downs? 

M. Laitman: We need to still scrutinize that. Even in ascents and descents themselves, without the outcomes of that, we have from that an accumulation of states, forces from which we construct our path, how we later execute the action at the end. Therefore, it is hard to say about that now. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (51:21) When we say descent or ascent in relation to coming closer to the Creator, it could be that we're defining it completely opposite. Let's say yesterday, or in the congress, I felt good, we sang, we danced, we ate. Today, only a yearning to the Creator is left; not anything else. As if it was there, we talked about Him, we felt Him, and suddenly today, only the yearning is left. Maybe that's the ascent. Or we say those who long to the day of the Creator, that it's darkness and not light, we might be exchanging it. I'm asking. 

M. Laitman: I cannot answer that now. 

Reader: Would you want me to read another excerpt? 

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Reader: Number three by Rabash. 

Reading: (52:23) 3. Rabash. Article 22 (1985) “The Whole of the Torah Is One Holy Name”

Any overcoming in the work is called “walking in the work of the Creator,” since each penny joins into a great amount.” That is, all the times we overcome accumulate to a certain measure required to become a Kli for the reception of the abundance.

Overcoming means taking a part of a vessel of reception and adding it to the vessels of bestowal. It is like the Masach [screen], which we must place on the Aviut [coarseness]. It follows that if one has no will to receive, one has nothing on which to place a Masach. For this reason, when the evil inclination brings us foreign thoughts, this is the time to take these thoughts and raise them above reason.

This is something one can do with everything one’s soul desires. He should not say that now he has received rejection from the work. Rather, he should say that he was given thoughts and desires from above so as to have room to admit them into Kedusha [holiness].

M. Laitman: Any questions in relation to this excerpt? 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (54:31) What does it mean to overcome?

M. Laitman: Overcoming means that upon all the disturbances one has, though scrutinizing a spiritual state, one has disturbances, and he overcomes them and wants to scrutinize the truth. That is the work, yes. 

Student: At what force does he overcome? 

M. Laitman: He overcomes in the force that he has, and he intends that he will request more from above, that he will gain additional forces or additional strength.

Student: And what's the condition that he is given that? 

M. Laitman: The condition that he is given that is that he indeed wants to progress to a scrutiny of those same forces now acting on him. 

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (56:41) He writes that when the evil inclination brings in some foreign thoughts, it's time to take those thoughts and raise them above reason. How do you take a thought and transfer it? What do you do here? I don't understand.

M. Laitman: You discover that you have foreign thoughts which drag you in all kinds of directions. In order to scrutinize them, you need to take some device in your hand through which you scrutinize these thoughts as to whether or not they are correct. Accordingly, you either discard them and you come out purer, or you take them, either a few of them or a part of them, or a few of them or all of them, and as such, you progress.

Student: What is this instrument that scrutinizes whether a thought is correct or not? 

M. Laitman: That is your scrutiny. 

Student: According to what do I weigh every thought? 

M. Laitman: According to what do I weigh every thought? It is according to the extent to which I can… that the solution that I found is to annul above my reason. 

Student: I don't understand what I do with a foreign thought. A thought comes, I scrutinize it, it's opposite from the Creator, it's foreign. So, it's like something stubborn. How do I take it out of me?  

M. Laitman: That you now know that the thought you now have is a foreign thought, that you will not be able to reach the purpose with it. So, then you do not use it. And if, in any case, you do take that thought and you continue scrutinizing something through it, that is considered as you building a new state.

Student: Does a person have the ability to control his thoughts? 

M. Laitman: Yes. As much as that is true or not, that is a question. And to take that thought, and to use it onward, one can do that.

Student: I don't understand what the correct way to use a foreign thought is. After I scrutinize it, I see it's foreign. What do I do with it? 

M. Laitman: If it is scrutinized, so then you're already not inside it, you've scrutinized it.

Student: It's the opposite, but it's still a thought that's in me. 

M. Laitman: No, that's not considered that it's been scrutinized. If it's been scrutinized, you can no longer use it.

Student: So what is actually the process of the scrutiny that I'm chewing it until there's no need for that thought, that it disappears? 

M. Laitman: The process of scrutiny is considered… you have been scrutinized, and I'm now confident that on that path, you will receive no answer, no realistic answer. 

Student: And what's the matter of above reason here if you're actually doing a scrutiny about that thought? It's like you neutralize it. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, what's an action to go above reason? What does the above reason have to do with it? It sounds like it's all in reason.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, it's not clear. Where do you scrutinize, where does the action of scrutiny happen, in reason? 

M. Laitman: Yes, you have nothing other than that. 

Student: So, why should I go above reason? I'm scrutinizing, I understand I don't need this foreign thought, it's all me doing.

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: So, what is above reason? 

M. Laitman: That it is in an opposite form to reason. 

Student: So, there's nothing here, there's no need to go above reason, because I scrutinize everything in reason, until complete control on my thought?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: So, what is above reason? What does it mean to take a foreign thought and rise above reason? 

M. Laitman: That you take a thought that is foreign to you, that you elevate it higher than all of your thoughts, and then you use it as if it is dead, as if it is true, Emet, true.

Question (Petah Tikva Center): (01:03:37) There are thoughts that I can myself overcome, for myself, or with the environment, from the experience, but I don't need help from the Creator here. 

M. Laitman: Yes.

Student: And sometimes there's thoughts that come, and I say, wait a minute, maybe it's worth using this foreign thought and somehow bring the Creator in here. Because if not that, it's just another thing I did on my own.

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: How to do it? To let the thought take over me, to go even more into the descent, that's not clear. How to reach a state that I need the help of the Creator?

M. Laitman: If you with this new thought can scrutinize the state, so that is considered you being within reason. In order to scrutinize something above reason, you need to receive upon yourself a condition that above reason is more important to you than within reason. 

Student: And let's say that I'm willing to accept that above reason is more important?

M. Laitman: Yes. 

Student: How does it bring me to work with this thought now? Because I know that I can overcome the thought, let's say, but I don't want to overcome on my own. I want above reason, not in reason. So, what should I do for it to really be above reason? 

M. Laitman: You need, in your scrutiny, to understand what is within reason and what is above reason. These two levels. Scrutinize those two levels, and then it should be clear to you why you take a decision that is above your reason.

Student: So, in every state, even if it's very clear, or the opposite, the more it's clear, there's more of an opportunity that the above reason will be more important. 

Reader: Let's now share our impressions from the lesson, and what do we take from it for implementation in the Ten? 

Reader: We will move to the next part of the lesson. Before that, let's sing a song together.

Song: (01:13:50)